When Stephen walked through the doors of the Luna Azure he was greeted by about thirty framilar and friendly faces. He found his seat at the empty table in the middle of resturant where his guests would be seating. To he right of him was Paolo talking to Vincient and others. Behide him sat Carmelo and the others from the garage. Finally to his right sat Anthony. As Stephen checked his watch the time read 6:40. "Only tewnty minutes until they arrive." he thought to himself. As Stephen sat there he ordered a round of wine for everyone and called their attention.

"I would like to thank everyone here including our great chef for hosting this. As you are aware we will be inducting at least one person tonight into our little family, so lets welcome them with open arms. I propose a toast to are members to be."

After getting his Skyline fixed Manako drove to Luna Azure. he looked at his watch 6:50 I'm a little early. As he drove up to the restaurant he noticed there was valet. This is going to be nice Manako thought to himself and smiled. As he pulled up the valet looked at his car with disgust. As Manako got out the valet ran over and with disgust in their voice "May I take your car, Sir?" Manako looked at the valet before handing him the keys said "Here you go. I don't want to see one scratch on this car."

Then Manako walked into the restaurant. As he walked in, all eyes glared at him. He began walking to the little podium for guests. when he got there a nicely dressed man looked at him and said "Sorry sir the restaurant has been reserved please come back again when your dressed in something more appropriate."

Manako looked at the guy with a confused look.

Cole had to admit, he was nervous. The whole time leading up to this very moment he had been second guessing himself and was tempted to just bolt. But he said it himself, running doesn't solve your problems. At 6:57, he pulled his R35 into the private parking area, not wanting to take his chances with a valet, and made his way to the restaurant. He was dressed up much more than he normally would, and this was one of the few times where he was really glad mom made him read this "How to be a Gentlemen" book (yes, that book actually exists) back in the day.
Once he got in the building, he saw dozens of well dressed, well groomed, older gentlemen who he presumed were Stephano's Men. He took a deep breathe and continued forward until he spotted Manako. 'Finally someone I recognize.' He walked over and stood next to him.

Stephen watched as Manako entered the Luna Azure from his chair. As he entered the side conversations ceased and all eyes where put on him. As one of the waiters harassed Manako about trival matters, Stephen stood up in protest and drew his C96 on the waiter.

"Listen here boy this man is a guest of mine and if you wish to further get on his case were going to have a problem, understand!"

The waiter froze unable to speak. All the man could do was uncontroably shake and pray that he wouldn't be killed. He then mustered enough courage to produce a nod. With that guesture Stephen withdrew the C96 from the man's head and the waiter rushed behind the counter. As this happen however Cole entered. He quickly walked over to Manako and seemed nervous. Stephen then greeted them.

"Hey sorry about that display back there. Its nothing personally against him, but you know about these "new guys"? I am right?"

The entire resturant except Cole and Manako started to laugh. They seemed lost trying to figure out the sick joke.

"You'll understand later alright. Anyway you two must be hungry, so lets eat."

He motioned them to take their preassigned seats at the middle table, but before they were seated Stephen spoke again.

"Sorry but this has to be done. I can't be taking any chances you know?

Stephen started to chuckle but as before the other two seemed to miss the joke. Vincient then proceeded to pat them down for any weapons.

Manako lifted up his arms so he could be searched. While being search the guard felt something and pulled out a laminated picture of a young woman. "Hey dude please put that back. That's very important to me." Manako said with concern.

Then the guy asked while smiling "Why? Is it a wire or something?" Then the guy took out a pair of scissors about to cut it. When suddenly Manako out of anger punched the guy in the face knocking him out. Then Manako yelled out of anger "NEXT TIME I TELL YOU TO PUT SOMETHING BACK AND I SAY ITS IMPORTANT AND YOU DON'T DO IT I'M RIPPING YOUR HEAD OFF AND SENDING IT TO YOUR MOTHER FOR CHRISTMAS. GOT ME DUMBASS." after his out burst Manako noticed guns and eyes pointing at him.

Watching Vincient attempt to cut Manako's photo aggravated Stephen to a level that few have seen and none have survived. As he was punched Stephen wanted to congradulate Manako but refraned. He rose his voice to the crowd though.

"LOWER THOSE WEAPONS, NOW! Lets show our guests some respect!"

He then turned to Manako and asked he was alright and offered his condolences. Looking down at Vincient he pulled him up and punched him in the face and Vincient hit the ground a second time.

"You figlio d'un cane! I thought you had some sense of class. Now get up, come with me! Paolo, Anthony lets go. If you excuss me Mr. Sora."
"Boss, boss! What are you doing? Where the hell are you taking me! JESUS CHRIST you piece of shit I hope to see you bur..."
"Paolo shut him up!"

Paolo punched Vincient in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. Vincient was then dragged behind the resturant and a single silenced gunshot was heard. Three out of the four men who exited return into resturant. Paolo steps into the bathroom to wash himself clean of the act comitted. Stephen returns to Cole and Manako.

"Sorry about that. Good help is hard to find these days. Now if we can continue this without anymore problems we can proceed with dinner."

Cole didn't anticipate being patted down, but no matter, he had nothing to hide. The scene with Manako was somewhat bizarre, it almost seemed like the man patting him had something out for orientals and simply decided to give him a hard time. It never really occurred to Cole what was happening until he heard the gunshot, and although he didn't show it, it startled the hell out of him. Instantly he was beginning to think Brian and Mira had a point.

Nonetheless, Cole outwardly shook it off as Stephano arrived, though he couldn't help but feel for the man that just received a bullet to the brain. "Good help is and always has been hard to find, Mr. Dieseli. You chose the best help you could find in the two of us though, I assure you." Cole put forward his confident voice. He followed Stephano to the primary table and waited until the mobster sat until he took his own place

As the three walked to the table and sat down at their preassigned seats Stephen turned to Mr. Peyton. He opened his mouth and finally replied to Mr. Peyton statement.

"Mr. Peyton you are correct. I was a pain trying to find the both of you. Those street races make me feel uneasy, but thats probally just me being from a different age I guess. Now unless you have any further questions lets eat. I hope that small display didn't hurt, this is the best Italian food in the state."

As much as Brian had tried to convince Cole to not get mixed up with the mob as much Cole had resisted and Brian had formed his won plan. If the kid didn't want to listen Brian could at least do what he was good at. Follow him, sneak around, get information and carry a gun...everything he had been doing as a job for years.

So he found himself following Cole in a good distance in a rental car. If there was once thing Brian was really good at aside from racing it was being invisible.

A few minutes after Cole arrived at the Italian restaurant Brian stepped across the street. He was dressed in black pants, a shirt and tie because he expected the restaurant to be 'ties only' judging by the man's attire at the race.

He chose to go around to the back through the side alley when he spotted some blood stains on the ground. Irritated he stopped and looked around but couldn't see anybody. Maybe there had been a fight.

A little nervous he proceeded to the back door and found it open. From there he made his way in until he could see the tables from the bathrooms.

Cole tried his best to put his casual tone forward, and to keep that frog in his throat contained. "You'll get used to it after a few years, Mr. Dieseli." He lightly chuckled jokingly. Doing his best to remember proper dinner etiquette, he put his napkin neatly on his lap and waited for the first course, which he presumed would be a salad of some sort.

After Manako sat down, he then noticed all the italian food and it looked delicious. His mouth began to water. Then Manako said "All this food looks so good." he licked his lips as a bowl of noodles was placed in front of him. Manako instinctively began shoveling down the noodles and making noise.

She stopped seeing the name of the restaurant. 'Luna Azure'. She chuckled letting her mind go back to when her father used to have her in his lap as he talked with his friend or how she used to call him. 'Uncle Stephano,' coming from a Italian family she knew the Italian language very well and every time uncle Stephano stopped by the house to have a chat with her dad she'll always run and open her arms, her cute little voice welcoming her uncle in his native language.

She snapped out of her thoughts and walked until she was inside the restaurant listening to the wonderful music, her silver heels making a 'click' sound on the white tile floor of the elegant restaurant. Several glances were directed towards her and how not to look at the young member of the Toretto family.

She wore a strapless black cocktail dress defining her figure and showing her perfect legs, her black and shiny hair stopped at her waist, and her ears were decorated by a pair of diamond earrings, her face with very little make up and her lips covered by some pink lip gloss that made her even more beautiful than she already was.

All the guests in the room turned their attention directly to Mia and with a big smile in her lips she approached to the man in front of her. “Ciao zio Stefano,” she greeted her uncle with perfect Italian giving him a hug. She then leaned and whisper to him “I need your help...” the smile never erasing from her lips.

OOC: Thank you Stephano! =)

Paolo stood in front of the bathroom sink staring into the mirror. He always felt sick after murdering a man no matter how many times he did it. He twisted the handle and let the cold water fill his cupped hands. He splashed it into is face and continued staring into the mirror. After about a minute he reached for a washcloth and dried his face. Stepping out of the bathroom to saw a man he had never seen before standing in front of him. He patted him on the shoulder and asked.

"Hey you, no offense, but who the hell are you? Never seen you here before."

As the first course of dinner was served Paolo still hadn't returned to his seat which worried Stephen. The occupants of the resturant didn't take notice and began eating and striking up light hearted conversation. As the first course of salade was finished and the second course of linginue and red clam sauce was brought out the tables around Stephen ceased their trival discussions and listened to Manako's display of manners. Since none had every been to Japan except Stephen, Japanese dinning custom's appeared rude and out of place. Stephen turned to Manako.

"Mr. Sora excuss me, but my people are unaware of the customs of Japan when it comes to food. I hope you don't mind but please do try to make less noise here. Don't hate me Mr. Sora, you'll thank me later. Trust me."

As everyone renegaged in conversation Mia Toretto walked into the resturant. The room fell silent as she walked towards the middle of the resturant. Stephen looked up and remembered that face. He eagerly left his seat and walked towards Mia. As she hugged him Stephano spoke.

"Ciao mio caro! Mother of Mary it has been some time since I last saw you!

As she leaned closer and asked for help Stephano had only the choice agree.

"Of course, anything for you dear. Now come join us for dinner. There are some people I think you should meet."

OOC: You can thank Cole more than me, but your welcome regardless

The mob boss wasn't joking when he said this was the best Italian eatery in the state. It was friggin' delicious. His attention however was diverted from the food when he noticed the whole dining area fell silent. He turned to look in the general direction that everyone else was looking, and consequently his eyes crashed into a quite pretty brunette. He was about to go back to his business until he realized something; that girl was familiar...very familiar. He looked at her again and dug deep in his brain to pull out who it was.

Then Manako stopped eating and put the bowl down and stood up and bowed. "Sorry Mr. Dieseli force of habit my father owns a noodle shop and I forgot I'm not in Japan anymore." Manako said smiling. then he sat back down and began to eat properly. Then Manako noticed a woman walk in and watched both Stephano and the woman sat down. Then Manako went back to eating.

She took a seat with the help of her uncle and looked around the room, it was full but that didn't intimidate her. Stephano sat next to her she smiled one more time. "Thank you uncle," she took a second look around the room, her gaze stopping a few seats from her, she recognize the kid and she had to supress a groan, if he was here... then Brian must be here too. "Great," she muttered under breath just as the waitress place a plate of delicious pasta in front of her.

"I know uncle it's been a while...last time I saw you was when...well- you know.." she trailed off not wanting to remember the day of her dad's funeral. It was the last day she saw her uncle or spoke to him cutting all communication with family members, because for her the only family was Dominic and nobody else.

OOC: I'll be going out of town in a few minutes and be back on Sunday afternoon, I don't know if I'll have access to the internet...

Brian had no idea there was somebody in the bathroom next to him when he was peeping around the corner into the guest area. So when he heard the water he pretended to go to the bathroom as well but ran into a big, ugly Italian who asked him who the hell he was.

Brian just gave him a bewildered look and answered. "I'm having dinner here. Just need to use the bathroom." Then he brushed by him to avoid any further conversation. Maybe this was one of those restaurant where everybody knew everybody. If so Brian needed to make a quick escape.

Inside the bathroom he looked around for other people and then listened closely whether the man was gone. His gaze fell on the sink where he he spotted some faint sprinkles of red. Strange. being a cop he got a bit suspicious.

"Yes it has been some time since I have last seen you. Your father was a great man and I good friend. Now what is it that you my help with?"

Paolo quickly turned and gazed at the bathroom door. "Who the hell was that?" He thought. Paolo couldn't match the face to a name, but he knew that face seemed farmilar. He reached for the door latch to open it, but stopped himself and proceeded back to the table. Once there he noticed that someone else had joined them at the table. He turned to Stephano and wisphered into his ear.

"Boss, we may have a problem."
"What kind of problem are we talking about here?"
"The kind where we are being spyed on."
"What! Shit is it the police, FBI? Who!"
"I don't know but I am sure I have seen him before. He is by the bathrooms if you want to confront him."
"No, lets wait until this is over, no need to draw concern."
"Alright then."

Paolo then took a seat and looked and Mia.

"I have never seen you before. Who are you don't mind me asking?"

Stephano wasn't suprized in the slightest that some was him was watching him, he already had many others already doing the same. He was only concerned about who they were allined with. He continued eating and thinking about this minor problem.

She smiled to Stephano but knew that if Dom ever got out, well…he was going to be pissed at her, the last thing he wanted for his sister was to get involved in something she didn’t need to get involved with. “Well..is about Dominic,” she didn’t want to go into detail not with all these people around them.

She looked at the man that stopped next to her uncle to whisper something to his ear the only words she heard was ‘spy’ and by the look of Stephano it couldn’t be good. “Sorry, I didn’t introduce myself. I’m Mia Toretto, Stephano or how I call him ‘Uncle Stephano’ was my father’s best friend back in the day,” she sent the man one of her best smiles as she took a sip of her wine scanning the room for any other familiar faces.

“So, how’s aunt Giovanna?” She placed her cup on the table and turned to look at Stephano hoping to remove his mind from that person spying on him and she had a pretty good idea of who might be spying on them.

The fact that the man in the bathroom had approached him right away and that Cole was meeting with the mob had all of Brian's alarm bells going off so he decided that it might be a lot healthier for him to get out of there as soon as possible.

As soon as he knew the coats was clear he sneaked out the way he came in careful that he wouldn't be detected.
Quickly he made his way down the back alley when he spotted the fresh blood again. If he needed to guess somebody had been pout into his place by the friendly men inside.

When he crossed the street to get to the other side he spotted an all too familiar looking Charger on the other side. Immediately he looked back at the restaurant with his mouth open...could this be? Dom was in prison so this had to be Mia because she would never sell the muscle car.