A browned leaf falls silently on the broken pavement. A drop of blood hit's the cold concrete, falling from the lifeless body that was once known as Kouru Kaida. The sound of sirens signal throughout the panicked city. Everything in slow-motion. As the ambulance pulls over, the doors burst open. Out runs a man, young in his twenties. He makes his way, running around the many cars scattered and in flames in a heap. The man arrives at two cars, where he stares in despair. There in his sight is a body, stuck between two cars. Drenched in blood. He stares in loss, as two men from the ambulance bring a stretcher to him. Everything slower than ever. The man runs to the body, and puts his hands on her face, gently slapping her, calling out 'Wake up' as tears form in his eyes. The men with the stretcher call out, "Ryuzaki, we have-". Stopping, the two men stare at the body. "Kaoru, please! Kaoru wake up, you have to wake up now!" Ryuzaki screams. The men walk over to Ryuzaki, and place there hands on his shoulder. "She isn't going to wake up, sir." The two men move the cars, making the lifeless body fall into a puddle of blood. Ryuzaki picks up the body, and puts her onto the stretcher, letting the men take her to the hospital.
"I know she was important to all of us, including Ryuzaki, the most. Kaoru was our best spy, our best 'right hand man', and our second best detective." Mr. Yagami walked away from the black coffin, as Ryuzaki got up and walked towards. As they passed, he whispered to Mr. Yagami, "Please, do not say her real name." Mr. Yagami nods, and sits next to his wife. Ryuzaki stood in front of the coffin, tracing the side with his finger. He looked over to the small crowd of people.
"None of you knew this," he began, "but she was not only my partner in this investigation, and my childhood friend, she was also my lover." He choked out the words, as Naomi raced to him. She held him in close, comforting him. She quietly walks him outside of the funeral, and off into the field next to it.
"It's okay L, I know she was most important to you." Naomi whispers, taking Ryuzaki into her arms like a mother to a child. Ryuzaki clutched her shirt, and cried for the first time. Naomi rubbed the back of Ryuzaki's head, ruffling his spiky black hair, and she too, began to cry. After a few minutes of mourning, it began to rain, and the two of them went back inside.