Time Runs forever in Circles Those who part will someday meet again.

They had arrived here in Japan last night. Just him and Egil although this morning both he and Egil talked about it and both had multiple things that they had to do at different areas. So they had agreed to meet up later tonight to go clubbing while here in Japan. Right now though it was just him. He was walking along and paused seeing a movie set wrapping up and breaking down.

Sitting by himself watching the crew packing up things was a young man with golden hair the top half of his eyes were a deep indigo blue the bottom half were golden and flowed into each other making his eyes look very unique in color. He was small at about five foot six inches. Delicate his ears pierced several times. He was wearing a pair of form fitting light brown jeans designer men's ankle boots a light crimson shirt with a light green button up shirt over of half unbuttoned. His hair was short and messy around his head and he had a matching bracelet. He turned his head and looked at the him. Blinking and looking a bit wide eyed at him.

This one before him looked hard. He wasn't a fighter and he stared because this guy looked well hard. His long light crimson hair or as many might call it 'pink' was pulled up behind his head to spike behind him held in place with a metal band secured with leather strips metal beads off of the ends. Along the right side of his face was an odd flame like tattoo starting at his hair line and curving down along his eye to wrap down towards his ear. His eyes were the same pale crimson. He wore earrings flat metal plates with some sort of odd design on them the likes of which he head never seen before. The man was wearing a leather top sleeveless with a duel silver zipper a dog color in silver attached wrapped around his neck. Black skin tight jeans with black silk embossing and heavy combat boots that laced and strapped up his shins to his knees. The toes were steal toe but that was hidden inside the boot itself the back steal plate at the heal was not though. Around his wrists were leather bracers and on his right hand going around his finger was an odd ring with a hound on it that covered the full length of his finger coming to a point at the end. Around his left bicep was an odd tribal tattoo the markings detailing the runic symbols of death and time interlaced. His tongue was pierced three times two bar-bells one ring at the tip. Starting on his right shoulder and going down the length of his arm was intricate markings denoting balance....or judgement.

'Meza' took a deep breath as the man looked at him quietly not saying a word hand in his pocket the one without the odd ring he had noticed and then noted he wasn't looking so much at Seiharu which was a relief to him until he realized this odd man was looking across the set at Destin Fitzroy....and his gaze was intense....was he some sort of threat to Destin?

"Ano...." Seiharu breathed and those sharp eyes moved suddenly to look at him. "Did...you need help finding something?" he asked.

"No." The 'pink' haired man said simply. He was looking at Destin because he was lost in thought remembering his own youth for one and the other....that being friends with Destin meant he had no problem doing things to try to help prove things. Although his efforts there were in vain his father....had went ballistic as Destin had made a point of laying with his dear friend in order to prove to a man who didn't believe it that he was this way and he wasn't broken. Sometimes he wondered....if in the end it cost him a dear friend. Someone very important to him then and.....even still now he had never forgotten him.

He had been talking with his manager, who had been insisting on trying to set up an interview with a radio show when he felt the intense gaze on his back. He straightened up and turned, towel around his neck, a pair of baggy black jogging pants and a over-sized white T shirt donned his frame, and completing his look were has favorite pair of black and red ball shoes. When he turned, the large cross earring clanked against the necklaces he was wearing.

His intense blue eyes that at first seemed annoyed, quickly softened and a smile spread across his features as he walked over to Avan and hugged him tightly, lifting him up off the ground and held him there to ask, "Ava! Why in the hell are you so far away from home?" He sat Avan down though and smiled at him happily. "It's really nice to see you again though."

Ava at the warm welcome could not help but feel a surge of relief. But he smiled and laughed as Destin lifted him up into the air after hugging him squeezing him as he asked why was he so far from home and then set him down to tell him it was nice to see him again. He chuckled and smiled. "It is nice to see you again as Well Destin." he said one of the few who ever called him Destin or Des back in America. Very rarely did he call him 'Roy' that was more of when they were working on a job together for his father when he was there. And that was because he was under a heavy weight until a very powerful Red-head rocked his father's world.

"Ah I'm here because my Partner and I have things to pick up and do here and we thought we'd see Japan since there's talk of our group joining with one over here." He said shaking his head. "Things sorta went crazy after the old man lost his 'thorne' and I took over those fools loyal to him broke things up and recently I've managed with the help of Virus and Trip of the Syx's start to rebuild everything the Siren's joined as well although Operetta is a handleful to deal with." He sighed. "Right now we're focusing on rebuilding everything the corrupt government has torn apart there. It's taking time and we thought we'd tour Japan and see if we couldn't get some ideas on how to strengthen things back home." Ava sighed softly as he looked at Destin.

"Honestly though I'm not sure I won't disappoint Virus and Trip in the end. When I merged what was left of the Mafia with there group they stepped back to be second to me...putting me in charge there I deal with basically everything these days." He smiled a bit sadly. "Honestly if they knew how much I screwed things up in the past they might not have even insisted...." Ava said being as hard on himself as normal. He shook his head though. "Listen to me...I'm rambling about business. Look at you...acting...from what I hear you my friend are a Very high demand Actor, and very popular on and off set."

Seiharu blinked and looked between them watching the exchange Destin actually looked excited to see this one he called Ava as if just his being there brightened up everything for Destin. Made him wonder who he was he knew Destin had a rough time in America but he had no idea that Avan was someone who looked out for him and he for Avan...that they had become the best of friends. Or for that matter when it came time that Destin had thought about leaving to come here....Avan gave him his blessings and told him to go ahead and do what felt right. That it wouldn't change there friendship as far as Avan was concerned.

Destin just snorted and ruffled Avan's hair. "you're worrying for no damn reason...from what I've heard, Virus and Trip are very smart. If they didn't believe in you, they wouldn't have let you take back over..." he told Avan lowly as he chuckled at Avan's comments.

"The only reason I even ended up like this is because I'm popular with women. if I didn't have looks, I'd just be some street punk like I used to be...hell, honestly, I still am when I think about it," he said as he smiled at Avan. "As far as I'm concerned, I'm the same guy you knew in America. the only difference now is that I have eternity to be a pain in Banji's ass..." he said and chuckled about his own comment.

Ava nodded. "Yeah those two are a handful for sure.....but...honestly I would not have it any other way." He said. He liked Virus and Trip being themselves and they were good people they had there quirks just like Ava himself did but that was what made things work.

Avan laughed and shook his head. "Oh I'm sure your popular with more then just the female fan's Des. You don't give yourself enough credit." He said shoving his free hand back in his pocket then at the mention of busting Banji's ass Avan couldn't help it he started laughing. "Oh geeze Are you two still running circles around each other?" He asked looking at him.

Still a punk, he shook his head. "Des you are far too hard on yourself. 'Street Punk' even back in America you had more style and class then just a street punk. The old man was royal pain in my ass for a long time and not in a good way....but if he knew anything it was someone who had the talent and skills for more then just rolling around in the blood and mud. You had a head for the business on you. He often asked you what you thought before making the final call even on the rare occasion's when he'd ask me." Ava looked at him this tall Human who had been a walking power house.

"What I'm most concerned about? When you left the most you left behind was friends but that would never change. Any time you came back to America you know I'd welcome you....but have you found happiness true happiness here Destin?" He asked.

Seiharu was sitting there off to the side having picked up his script for the next movie to start going over his lines pulling out his reading glasses. Destin was talking to a friend and honestly he wasn't the sort to but in and get under foot from the looks of things they were old friends and it was nice to see he had someone who was a good friend from his time in America and actually cared about him.

He snorted at the comment about being popular with more than the women. "Even if it's men and women, I'm still only as popular as I am because of my looks. TV shows, movies, radio shows...the list goes on and on, but the entire reason they're interested in me is because if my looks..." he said, waving Avan's words off, as if he didn't work hard on everything he did.

He did chuckle at the mention of him and Banji still running circles around one another. "Banji just seemed to follow me after a while. I came here and stayed, but he jumped between here and America for a long time...like he couldn't settle down in one place for some reason he'll likely never tell me about," he explained and snorted though. "Looking at us, we work just the same as we used to...even when we first met we fought like two school boys...and now we fight like an old married couple," he said, laughing a little at the thought of him and Banji being on a job together.

"Even if Bryon asked my opinion and all of that shit, he never felt guilty for beating me until I couldn't walk...or even kicking me out...like he felt no remorse at all for what he was doing...knowing fully that I had no where else to go, except back to a run down ghetto apartment and thread bare clothes with little to no food..." he siad lowly, almost sounding bitter about how he had ended up first finding himself meeting up with Banji to begin with.

Destin sighed and closed his eyes for a few minutes though. True happiness? He just opened his eyes and turned his head to look back at Seiharu. "If I had to explain it as happiness...then I'd say yes. Thanks to Sei, I've found some of the pieces that had been missing..."

Avan smiled listening to the way he and Banji worked together at first like school kids now like a married couple and it was something to hear. He chuckled never the less as he looked at Destin shaking his head then paused as that Bitterness came up......

Avan sighed softly.....there were things....about Bryon even after Sarubia had arrived and tried to get through to him that just.....didn't last. "I didn't stick around long after he kicked you out. He was pissed because I wouldn't let up on him...it wasn't right what he did to you." Avan said nor for that matter was it right what happened to Avan...when he was found and forced to return home.... Avan now....if a woman came near him....would not allow a woman near him. They could speak to him but they could not under any circumstances touch him....ever.. Bryon would change only so far as to get what he wanted that day, days or weeks however long it took to get it then go back. He had known that. "I remember the day I ran into you and you mentioned leaving America, leaving and not looking back coming here to Japan....I told you to go." Avan said shaking his head and smiling sadly. "That you had to do what felt right but it would never change your being a dear friend to me. And it hadn't, nor has it." He said in the end....Bryon had had Avan chained down to the mercies of the harpies....for longer then he cared to admit or even think about, the day he met up with Destin? Was the day after....he finally got loose rented a place in cash and then spent hours trying to clean everything off bleeding into the shower. Later he met up with Destin and at his words....instead of telling him just told him to go. While he shifted his own time line looped it so that Destin would not know....nor would he let him know now. There was nothing to be done about it. He didn't blame Des.

"I'm happy for you Des. Everyone deserves someone in there life who makes them happy." He said as he was aware he was time shifting two different points in his life effectively erasing them. One was the time he spent with Bryon when his old man finally snapped the other was Toxic poisoning him and Virus having no choice but to bind him to his blood. That made Virus nearly cry for days after every time he'd look at Avan there was this sad haunted look it wasn't what Virus wanted at all....but Avan....Avan after Des had left and he had seen them off....had gotten up the nerve to face his father and at the end of the fight....the Mafia was destroyed and the Deathscythes were formed out of those who were mortified to find out Bryon went that far....

"Looks like I'm a lucky bastard then because I'm a fan of your works and it's for more then just your good looks. Its because I actually know the guy playing the role." Avan said trying to lighten the mood his mood and swing the subject before Destin got too curious about that time period....a time when Avan was only to willing to tell one of his only friends to chase his dreams and go to Japan....heck he even bought him the plane tickets so that he could go and make a better life for himself here.

Destin sighed though, at the past. "I knew what he'd do to me...but I didn't care...I didn't do it because I was harboring some dark lust for you, or because I wanted you to owe me for it...I did it, if I'm being honest, so Bryon would do what he did..." he admitted lowly, perhaps a little guiltily. "I had gotten so sick of being around him and having him treat you that way...that I just couldn't stand it...but, I wanted to badly to come and take you with me...but because he had kicked me out...I had the dogs let loose on me every time I even came near the mansion..." he explained, his fist tightening as he moved his head to look back at Avan now.

"In honesty, I left because I couldn't stand knowing you were in that mansion and I wouldn't ever be able to get to you...I ran away from my problems instead of facing them...and because of that, I ended up nearly dying and being saved by, of all people, Banji...the read head who doesn't give a damn about anyone or anything saved me and gave me a new job...it was shortly after all of that that we met again...and you told me to come here- to come and do what I felt was right, but what I felt was right...was kidnapping you and bringing you here with me...but because I was too poor, I had to take your help instead...even though I could tell that you wanted me to take you with me so badly..." he told Avan and then smiled faintly at his comment about him being a lucky bastard and being happy for him.

"You're one lucky bastard anyway...because you made it all this way and found Virus. You're lucky too because I can get stage passes for you guys..." he said and gave Avan a thumbs up.

Avan smiled nodded as he listened. "I would have gone with you had you asked me....honestly it was the same for me it wasn't that I was in love with you at all but I do love you as a dear friend. Someone who has long been an important friend to me." He said as he looked at Destin. "Honestly I would have left it all behind and come here to start over again. But if I had....I probably wouldn't have met Virus or Trip. Things would have probably turned out very differently for them....for me." He looked at Destin smiling a bit as he chuckled. "I helped you because you were my best friend and because as much as I would love to run...I knew if I did he would unleash everything he had to track me down. I was his living shame. He would never let me out of his sight for long....then....he left this world not long after you came here to Japan. I suppose I could have sent word and told you....asked you to come back but...part of me honestly wanted to hope that you had gotten a better lot here then you ever did there. And if you had I didn't want to take that away from you asking you to come back." He said looking at him.

"I wanted to believe that in your coming to Japan you had found something better, much better then what would be waiting for you if you came back to America. Especially since with his death the Mafia fell apart. I was holding together the Deathscythes what remained of the Mafia the others became a group called the Styx....and quiet a few 'gang' wars were breaking out after that. Virus and Trip surfaced with a smaller group around that time and worked there way into Styx managed to work there way up earning the respect of nearly everyone in that group took out the leader and renamed it 'Syx' We still battled back and forth over territory but it wasn't like before. Then before I knew it we were meeting and after a brief misunderstanding agreed to a merger. Now Virus and I are here checking things out and I've run into you. Today's turned into a good day."

Ava started laughing but it was bad timing on his part hearing that he was one lucky bastard and ended coughing, which was annoying he still hadn't fully shaken that damn toxin and it wasn't that he  never would, it was that it had only been about a week week and a half since it happened, since he became bound to Virus, since he became a Judge took out the Undine with Virus and Trip.

The Toxin had been in his system for quiet a while before they learned what it did, what he had been poisoned with and that the only way to stop it was for Virus to use his blood to bind Ava to himself, to change the deadly toxin into needing Virus's blood alone to survive. But it left some lingering side effects after. One that was annoying it didn't really harm him and he wasn't in any danger of dying from it but Ava found that if he was holding more then one point in time or influencing more then one point it would cause him to cough, sort of like a bow wave in the time stream that he was holding that was knocking against him and jarring him making him cough where it never had before. It was an annoying side effect. But Avan had spoken to Saigo and Takashii and learned that it wasn't endangering his life what it had done was knocked back his endurance and strength when holding the time energy he had to basically build back up to what he had again. It was like he was a kid again where before as a kid he'd grab the time and eventually it would slip through  his control bits and pieces breaking free until it had righted itself. Now it wasn't that he couldn't hold it it was that he couldn't hold it steady so it bucked against him and made him cough. He needed to once again build up to it. He had it down to holding one point in time but now he was working on two....the down side? Timing like just now coughing when he was laughing.

Avan's thoughts as the coughing settled went to Virus...once he realized that Ava wasn't upset about it truly that he needed Egil to live...the reason was simple it was because it as much as he needed Egil to live Egil needed Avan to love him in return and he did. The little bond between them was nothing more then as Avan put it to him a 'Wedding band' of sorts. Avan had liked the quiet blonde from the beginning he just hadn't figured out how to tell him and thought he didn't have a chance turned out he did. And he certainly didn't mind having Egil to himself now.

Seiharu looked over and lowered the script worried as Avan finally stopped coughing and cleaned his lips before pulling his hand back. Seiharu got up and slipped the script into the satchel hanging off his shoulder walking up to were Destin was concerned about his friend. Vampires didn't get sick right? Normally....but then again...he didn't know what else could cause a vampire to cough like that.

"Stage passes sound like fun and I'm sure Virus would love it." he said looking at him....he was hoping Destin let it go.

"Ano....are you alright?" Seiharu asked concerned about him. He seemed to be a good friend of Destin's and Seiharu treasured his relationship with Destin.

Avan looked at the little Vampire and smiled reassuringly. "I'm fine, it's nothing to worry about." He said dismissing it as he dismissed what happened to him all that time before. Avan refused to allow anyone to worry about him...to allow anyone to weep for him. To allow anyone to blame themselves even a little for anything that happened to him. He'd carry all of his burdens alone. So as to never trouble anyone else.