The tall ravenette, who later introduced himself as Jotaro, was now dragging Katsuko to his house, Kakyion and Ahe still in tow. "Why are you taking me to yours? I see no reason." "You're a stand user." Katsuko sighed. She didn't even wanna be here. But now she is. They arrived at Jotaro's house and he just barged in, still dragging Katsuko behind him. A woman in her early 40's came around the corner. "Wonderful seeing you home, Jo-" "Shut up, bitch." Katsuko got a little cold sweat. If she ever talked to her mom like that, she'd already have two broken legs. "Do you always speak to your mom like that?" "Yes now shut up." Katsuko complied.

They got to what Katsuko presumed was the living room. There were three men sitting around a coffee table, all talking. Jotaro dropped the two defeated stand users and said: "I found three users." Everyone looked at him, then to the in unconscious duo, then to Katsuko, who politely waved. "Did they attack you?", questioned one of the men. He was gray-haired worth a scruffy beard and was wearing gloves, along with a broad brim hat. Jotaro pointed to Kakyion and Ahe and said: "Those two did," , he then pointed to Katsuko, "she didn't."  The man looked at her. "You have a stand, right?" Katsuko nodded. Ordus came out and sat down beside the young lady, looking very content. "This is Ordus, they have psychic abilities and flies. That's really it. Oh and they act like a toddler a lot.", said the girl, petting her stand, who cooed happily.

The others introduced themselves as Avdol, Caesar and Joseph. Jotaro's mom was Holly, who was a pleasure to be about. When Joseph inspected the two kids Jotaro and Katsuko beat up, he found these two things in their forheads. Apparently they're called flesh buds and are, how Joseph phrased it, Dio's curse. They had a dismal chance of making it out alive.

While Avdol was explaining to Katsuko who Dio was, Jotaro was attempting to remove Kakyion's flesh bud. "Jotaro don't, it'll-" "Have faith in him, Joseph." Caesar cut him off. The flesh bud began squirming and pierced Jotaro's arm and started to stick one of it's tentacles in it (get yo mind out the drain, you sick fuckz), Jotaro wincing in pain. Kakyion woke up and stared at the teen pulling something from his forehead. "Sit still, or it'll fry your brain" commanded Jotaro, the redhead complying. He did manage to remove it, and Joseph destroyed it. Same process was done with Ahe.

Katsuko was still talking with Avdol when everyone else came over, even Ahe and Kakyion. Katsuko saw them and joked: "They live! Are they, like, vampires or something?" She knew full well it was like, the un-funnniest joke in history, but whatever. Ahe looked her dead in the eye and said as straight-faced as possible: "Not funny didn't laugh."

"…"

"…"

"PFFT-"
The two started laughing and laughed for a bit. The rest of the group just stared at the laughing midgets for a while. "That was incredibly unfunny, Katsuko", said Jotaro looking at her with genuine disappointment, but she didn't care.

They were told that the new people would stay the night in a spare room upstairs. Katsuko complied, asking to get her bag from her hotel room. After she got back and went to their room. She sat down on the floor not too far from Ahe. "Hey, sorry for kicking you in the shins earlier. Must've hurt." Ahe rolled her eyes: "It's ok… anyways, how old are you? I don't feel like you should be going to highschool." Sakura almost instantly started sweating. "Uhmm… I'm definitely too old to go to school", she reluctantly answered, "…I'm 20." Ahe sat there, jaw wide open. "YOU'RE WHAT? YOU LOOK 16!!" Sakura huffed and mumbled something along the lines of 'jeez don't overreact so much' and layed down on the matress provided. She, along with Ahe and Kakyion, then just talked for a while while Ordus went around offering animal crackers.

"Where… where am I…?" "You're dreaming, sire." There was white all around. "Are you here to tell me something…?" "Indeed, I am. Your prior knowledge to this universe has been wiped nearly completely clean, and each night you will find more of your knowledge through these dreams. Though it comes with a price." The voice paused, waiting for Katsuko to respond. "And…?" "You will relive that moment, at 14. You know what I mean." "No. No no no no NO NO NO NO! YOU CANT DO THAT TO ME!", cried the girl. The voice started to say something, but started to fade out and a familiar room coming into view. The blank black walls, the chains on her wrists and neck, that ugly laughter that sounded like a swarm of hornets…
It repeated on loop, over and over and over, and there was nothing Katsuko could do.

The 20 year old jolted awake, sweating. She looked over to see everyone still there and sighed. The sun was already up, and since she didn't plan on sleeping, she decided to go downstairs. Ahe rolled over on her side. "Where're ya goin'?" "Oh. You're awake." "That doesn't answer my question." "Downstairs." They exited the room without waking Kakyion and walked downstairs into the kitchen. They were greeted by an unconscious Holly, a concerned Avdol, a screaming Joseph and a panicked Caesar.

Apparently, Holly had developed a stand, and it was killing her. The only way to help her was to defeat this dude named Dio who's been terrorizing the Joestar bloodline for decades in 50 days. Katsuko sighed. Of course she should've known she'd get roped into some kind of Odyssey at one point or another.

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A/N
Phew! That took a while. As I'm publishing this, I'm feeling very sick and dizzy, so that's all I guess. I can't wait to get into the juicy cool stuff of the "Tower of G(r)ay"!

Third of July, 2020 edit
I fixed Katsuko's name from Sakura in all previous chapter, cuz I renamed her. The story is actually in one of my main focuses now!