Bloody Birthday
A/N: Disclaimer I do not own Beyond Birthday, or Death Note.
Diamond was sitting on the roof of an abandoned old apartment, peering down at the empty street. Her red eyes were scanning the ground to look for the man who had brought her home.
She was caked in blood, and the rain that was pouring down, made the blood drip from her fingertips. A raven perched on her shoulder with blood caked on the beak. It cawed in her ear, and she looked down. She finally saw the man who took her in. She nods at the raven, and it jumps off her shoulder to greet the raven haired man.
The raven perched on the man's shoulder, and the man reached up and stroked the bird's wet feathers. He looked up and saw the girl he had taken in after her family was killed in a tragic accident. He smiled up at the black silhouette of Diamond, and went into the building.
Diamond was coming up behind the raven haired man with a bloodied knife. He turned around and saw her holding out the knife to him. He took the knife from her, and rinsed it off. The blood that was washed off ran into the sink, making the water inside it a pale red. He set the knife down, and hugged the ebony haired girl. She had the same shinigami eyes he did, but she couldn't see his real name or when he will die.
Diamond knew that, and for that she was thankful. She never hugged him back, but stared at the air behind him. She couldn't speak because of that fateful night. She refused to start speaking because of the man who had murdered her family. She slipped into a flashback as soon as the man had let go of her.
There was a little girl around eleven years old lying in the grass while it was raining. The water beat down on her tear streaked face. She closed her red eyes against the hard rain. She was covered in blood that wasn't her own, but her parents'.
She felt a weight on her chest, and opened her red eyes. She saw a raven curled up on her chest keeping company. All she wanted to do was be like that raven, and just fall asleep. Soon, she closed her eyes, and she fell asleep despite the hard pounding rain.
She dreamed of nothing but blood on her hands. She saw her parents being murdered by the man who she couldn't see very well. She screamed, but no sound would come out of her mouth. Why couldn't she speak? She felt her fear rise up like bile rising in her throat.
She woke up screaming and sat bolt upright, and the raven flew off her chest in protest and being woken up, and flung from where it was sleeping.
"Shh…you're awake…there's no reason to be scared." said a male's voice.
Diamonds could barely hear it as she was coming back to reality. She looked up and saw a man with red eyes like her own. He also had raven hair that was a shade lighter than her own.
She wanted to speak, but her voice wouldn't let her, so she resigned herself to keeping quiet.
"My name is Beyond. I can see that your name is Diamond. Am I right?" The raven haired man asked.
Diamond could only nod as her voice was caught in her throat. She stared at the raven haired man who looked to be about seventeen. He held out his hand to her and she still stared at him. She hesitated in taking his hand, but he took her hand instead, and had her stand up as he pulled her up
"Come. I'll take you back with me." He said with a smile.
Diamond looked at Beyond with a strange look, but then she gave him a smile, and took his hand. She followed him back to where he lived to raise her.
Diamond swayed as she came back from the flashback. She grabbed the counter to keep from falling. She closed her eyes and tried to rid herself of the horrible nightmare.
Beyond had noticed how she looked like she was going to pass out. He knew that she had one of her flashbacks and was trying to get rid of the emotions that came with it. He drew her in his arms and hugged her and tried to give her the comfort that she needed, but he knew he couldn't get rid of all the fear that she had stored from all that long ago. He pulled away and saw that she had closed her red eyes.
Diamond sighed as he pulled away from her. She turned as her body trembled through the fear of the flashback. She knew that Beyond had cared for her, but he couldn't give her the comfort that she so badly needed. The only thing that could give her what she needed was the blood of another on her hands. She couldn't bring herself to kill the man who had saved her, but she took the knife that he had cleaned off and stuck it in her belt. Normally she would wait until he gave her an order to kill someone, but this time was different. She needed this, and she would have it. She snuck out of the window and her raven followed her outside.
Beyond reached for the knife he had cleaned, but it wasn't there. He spun around to see if the ebony haired girl he had taken in. He looked around the house frantically for the red eyed girl, but he couldn't find her. Where could she have gone?
She wasn't in her room, and she wasn't anywhere in the abandoned building. One thing came to Beyond's mind, and that was that she had taken to getting comfort the only way she knew how to get it for herself. She was going to kill to get her comfort.
"Shit…" He said aloud. He ran out of the door and into the pouring rain. If only he could give her the comfort she needed!
Diamond was walking the empty streets, looking for her victim that was unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her knife was handy at her side, yearning for the blood it would soon taste. She climbed up the rocky wall of another apartment building and looked across the city; seeing its depressing atmosphere made the pain she was feeling all the more worse. She sighed and waited.
She looked down and saw a pale white man with blonde hair. He almost looked like a ghost. His name was Trent Hargrove and she could see his time ticking away by the seconds. It was his time to die, and she made her move. She climbed nimbly down the slippery wall that could barely hold her. She put her foot in a hole, and the water made it so slippery that she lost her hold on the wall and couldn't find her grip again. For the first time in six years, she finally set her voice free, and yelled the only name that she couldn't see. She yelled the name of the only man that she trusted.
"Beyond!" Diamond screamed.
Beyond saw her fall, and his feet instantly got moving. How could she grab her knife and run off like that to get the numbing comfort of blood on her hands! He ran on the slippery road, his foot slipping on the drenched road. As he was running, he thought he heard her scream his name. He ran right under her as she fell, and caught her fall. His head hit the ground with a crack! and he instantly passed out with the copy cat murderer on top of him.
Beyond dreamed as he was unconscious. He dreamed of his copy cat that he had trained for six years to let her one day kill the monster that had murdered her family, and to finally get her out of his hair.
Beyond was slowly walking in the rain, waiting for a victim to come across. His feet squishing on the wet grass as he walked. He looked down at the ground and saw a little girl with ebony black hair lying on the ground with blood caked all over her body. Her eyes were closed as if sleeping in the rain. He could see her name and the time she had left. Her name was Diamond Savage.
There was a raven curled up on her chest, and it too, slept. He was surprised that they could both sleep with the rain beating down on them. He kneeled down and looked at the girl. She opened her eyes and looked at him. They were a bright red, like his own, but somehow he knew that she couldn't see his name.
"Hey. I'm Beyond Birthday. Do you know who did this?" He asked.
The girl only shook her head. She never did speak to him. Though, that wasn't entirely a bad thing. He didn't exactly want to hear her voice and get attached.
He stood up, and still his eyes never left the little girl. She looked about eleven at the time.
She stood up with him and took his hand. She still didn't speak as they walked away from the murder.
Beyond soon woke up after the dream and saw Diamond looking down at him with her red eyes. Again, he was sent back in time and saw the eleven year old girl who was caked in blood. He reached up and touched Diamond's face.
Diamond almost flinched away when his hand reached up. She thought he was going to slap her for her arrogance, but he only softly touched her cheek. Surprised, she opened her eyes, and looked down at the raven haired man.
His eyes were soft, and he was smiling. She was still surprised when she looked down at him. That was the first time he's ever looked at her like that. In all the six years she's been with him, learning everything he knew, he's never looked at her like he cared. He would always hug her, but the hug would feel cold. This time, the touch was warm, and she felt all of her fear melt away. Though it never lasted long, she wanted that warmth again. She wanted to feel it again, and she could get it from the man that was lying down in front of her.
"You spoke my name…" He said to her.
Beyond couldn't figure out what he was feeling, and he could see the reflection of his warmth in her face. He knew he couldn't feel anything for this girl, because she would soon leave as soon as she killed the murderer of her family. He forced his compassion down and sat up and looked at Diamond. He saw the reflection of warmth melt away from her face as soon as she realized that his warmth was no longer there.
"Why did you go and try to kill without my say so?" Beyond asked with a cold face.
Diamond didn't say a word. She wanted to explain why she had done it, but seeing Beyond like this, made her want to stay quiet. She didn't want to speak again, even though letting her voice free was another warm feeling that she wanted to feel again. It was at that moment, that she saw Beyond looking at her with his cold red eyes, that she wouldn't speak again, until she felt warmth that she felt when he touched her that lightly and gently.
"You've stopped speaking…" Beyond said exasperated.
Diamond was trembling, and thought herself stupid for letting her guard down. She was trying to put her guard back up with Beyond staring at her.
Even though Beyond had raised her and taught her everything he knew, he's never showed any real affection. The hug was just a hug. There was no warmth there at all. She didn't know she was missing any warmth until Beyond had touched her, and when she had spoken for the first time in six years.
Beyond stared at the speechless girl for what seemed like forever. He couldn't understand why she had called out when she had fallen, but would never make a sound when stabbed or beaten in her training. Why speak when she was falling off of a building? "Why did you speak before, but not now?" He knew that she wouldn't give him an answer, and he started to lose his patience. "Damn it Diamond why won't you speak!"
He saw his outburst had made the ebony haired girl flinch and stand straight up. He knew then that his outburst was harsh, and she wasn't willing to show that it hurt. He was proud of her for that, but then he started to think that it was his fault that she kept her guard up, and not the murders. Or it could've been both, but either way, he had a hand in her silent tongue.
Diamond had only stood there for a minute, wondering if Beyond was going to say anything more, then she turned and walked away from him. Her voice was trapped in her throat until the warmth that she had felt before came back.
What was going on with Beyond? He started to feel things he had never really felt before. It was like his heart had woken up for the first time since he figured out that he can see when people will die, and their real name. Since he found out about that, he's closed himself off from everyone who he got near because he didn't want to watch someone's life he cared about just tick away by the seconds. Eventually his mind just snapped and he started shortening the lives of everyone he came in contact with. But then, he met Diamond and trained her, and eventually he grew fond of her. He still wanted to kill her after she gets her goal. He remembered when he told her what was going to happen.
"I can teach you everything I know. But there's a catch." Beyond said with a cold glare.
Diamond didn't speak a word. She never did speak. She was clearly waiting for him to say the catch, to see if it was worth staying or not.
"After you kill the murderer of your family, I will be forced to kill you. After all, there can't be two Beyonds." He said with ice in his red eyes. His eyes were supposed to be red; the color of heat, but the red was as cold as the ice in the arctic.
Diamond nodded as she looked at him with her own red eyes. She watched him as he pulled out a knife and told her where the vital arteries are, and the best places to stab someone to make a killing blow without any pain, and the places where the person being killed would die a painful death.
Beyond couldn't believe that he was actually teaching a little girl how to murder, but he didn't care at the time. He just wanted to get her out of his life and out of his world after she killed the murderer.
Diamond left Beyond to sit there as she went to the roof of the abandoned apartment. It was dark out, and the stars were out. The rain had stopped and everything smelled so strongly.
She felt her heart's shield go down, and she let it right then, because no one was looking at her. She felt her eyes well up with tears, and closed her eyes tightly. The water fell out of her eyes and dripped off of her face like a smooth crystal rolling off of a hill. She trembled as she cried and gripped the edge of the apartment building to keep from crying out. She felt that same fear well up in her chest and froze her heart. That coldness spread from her heart to throughout her body, and made her trembling worse.
Beyond opened the door that lead to the roof and saw Diamond crying on the edge of the roof. He tried to be quiet and go back inside, but he kicked a metal pipe, and that made a harsh clanging noise. He spun around to see if she heard, and he saw her staring at him with those red eyes. She wasn't crying anymore, and her gaze was cold and unblinking. She wouldn't look at him, and for some reason that hurt him.
"Diamond, what are you doing up here? I have a job for you."
Diamond just stood there, being silent as if she really were a mute. So, Beyond had a job for her. She wondered what it was he wanted her to do. She finally made her legs move, and she followed him back inside the building. Even his back, she refused to look at. But a job was a job, and it needed done.
"There's a man named Light Yagami. You need to kill him, and get him out of the way, so that L can come after me instead of that Death wannabe." Beyond said.
For years, he has talked about this L. Diamond couldn't understand why Beyond was so obsessed with the detective, but she didn't say anything to him. She never did, and never would. She believed that she would never feel the warmth that had set her voice free. She only nodded and turned away, but Beyond had stopped her.
"Diamond. Don't get yourself killed. Light is very dangerous. Don't tell him your name, or he will kill you."
Diamond only nodded. She didn't care if she died at the moment. At least the fear and pain from her past would leave her. One too many times has she thought of ending it, but the determination of finding her family's killer kept her alive. And…Beyond did also. She turned her back on him to jump off the twenty story building. She's jumped off of it many times before, and knew that there was an awning below her that would catch her fall. She went to jump into the night, but she felt a pair of strong arm wrap around her waist and pull her away from the edge. The touch was familiar, but hardly ever felt. It was the warmth that she had wanted so badly. She felt the warmth spread throughout her body from her waist. The warmth made her want to finally set her voice free again, to make the warmth spread to her heart.