A familiar sight caught Ryuzaki's eye. Misa and Light walked thru the door with a small tinkling of the bell. They made their way thru the crowded store. Misa was hanging on lights left arm smiling at the patrons as they recognized her. Ryuzaki barely lifted his head.
"Who is this?" asked never seen L talk to anyone in public, much less a girl. He has hit on Misa a few times so he figured he wasn't celibate or anything. Also, she was odd looking so light just thought it suited him.
"this is my-" Ryuzaki started.
"Don't you DARE" growled Myou through a piece of cake.
Ryuzaki just smiled. "Friend, this is my new friend, Myou. Myou, this is Light Yagami and-"
"Misa amane! It's a pleasure to meet you Ma'am." interrupted Myou.
I would appreciate it if you would stop doing that." Ryuzaki said, slightly annoyed.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I interrupt you?" she retorted sarcastically resting her head in her hand. With one look Ryuzaki got the message. Payback!
Then came Misa's voice, "oh! I didn't know you were on a date Ryuzaki, we should go light."
Crap, there goes that word again. What makes these people think were on a 'date'
"were not going Misa. We do have a time limit, remember?"
interjected light. They had to get back to work on the case soon so all the time they had was to do a bit of shopping to clear their minds, only about twenty minutes.
"Yes, we do." said Ryuzaki. "But I was going to invite her over, to help with our 'research', especially because I found this in her pack."
With two fingers he lifted a book off the seat next to him. With a fork in his mouth he continued, "It looks like she is a mythology buff and has a book just for Shinigami. It's a topic I've been quite interested in lately."
"She what?" spouted light trying to act more excited than uneasy. Ryuk started laughing behind Light.
"Hehehe… she's not human. You're really screwed now light. Hehehehe." He sneered. Myou glanced up at Ryuk hearing his voice. "Oh, and she can see me by the way."
'She what?' he thought. 'How on earth can she see Ryuk? What does he mean she's not human? He'd better explain himself later.'
"Hey, that's mine! You have no right." complained Myou. She crossed her arms in a huff.
"Yes, but would you like to come over and discus the topic?" Ryuzaki said.
"This is the only way I'm getting my book back, isn't it?" she asked. She could see it by the look on his face.
"Correct." He replied and got up, book in hand and casually walked out of the store.
"Hey… hey! Get back here! That's mine!" she called after him.
Without a word he waved it over his head to taunt the blonde behind him. He was also texting Watari to pick him up at the end of the street.
She started running after the slouched man and was surprised that he could run as fast as he could. But she was a smart goddess and would keep up but use her real speed to bring him down. He saw the irony in being chased when he was normally the one in pursuit.
A black limousine pulled up and Watari opened the door just in time to see his young friend getting tackled by a girl into the vehicle yelling, "Now give back my BOOK!"
Watari took this as a threat but that assumption was let go when Ryuzaki started laughing lightly at the female's vain struggles. He waited until their bodies were completely in the vehicle to shut the door.
Back in the store Light and Misa picked up the leftovers and put them in to-go boxes and headed out. They would get back to HQ in one of Misa's limos.
After they picked themselves off the floor of the vehicle Myou sat on the rear right seat in anger, her attempts to get the tome in vain. "Why do you want the book so badly?" she asked a reading Ryuzaki.
"Why are you so earnest to keep it away from me?" he asked turning a page, "is it some form of diary?"
"N-no. It's just special to me. Although I do have some notes in it." she said. In reality what he was holding was an extra field guide of the different Shinigami and other paranormal things like demons and ghosts.
His question went unanswered. He saw through his skimming of the text that it not only covered the Shinigami, but other spirits that can be considered evil or turned evil, and how to prevent such conversions from happening. This was not a normal library book or even a more uncommon text that you would get online, but a guide on things no normal person would get. This would be the same as reading a book on quantum physics without learning any basics of physics itself.
"Where did you get this?" he asked puzzling over a graphic in the book.
Her discomfort at the question was noticeable, but she did end up answering him, "a… mentor gave it to me. We were in the same class."
"I see."
After that the rest of the ride was spent in silence. Myou was contemplating telling him the truth. He was bound to figure it out and she would have to tell him eventually in order to fully protect him. In her guide held her real identity, and the fact that Myou was just a pseudonym. In fact she did not have a name.
But the facts that she could see Ryuk, she knew who Ryuzaki really was, and who Kira was too, would all have to be explained at a later time. She had to get to know him, she decided, and learn the best way to break the overwhelming news to him.
They stopped in front of the tower. Watari with a small bow opened the door for them. L got out first, to Myou's surprise. At first she thought him rude but he then turned and extended a hand to her.
"oh… thank you." She said taking the hand in front of her. He pulled up to help her but she wa not ready for his strength. He looks so… frail on the outside she expected just a light touch of him being polite. She stood upright pretty fast and, in another awkward moment, she was about 6cm from the pale man's face... him still holding her hand high above their heads. she tried to get out of the close proclivity of their faces but ended up almost falling. In another cautious move he caught her around the waist with his left arm. He broght her close to keep her from hitting asphalt but ended up furthering the flushing of her face.
She finally managed to ge out of the impromptu embrace without falling all over herself. She still had to get used to these human legs. "th-thank you Ryuzaki." She said quietly.
"its proper etiquette. A man is supposed to help a lady out of a vehicle," He responded, face unchanged. Well unchanged besides the very light dusting of pink on his cheeks. She would never have caught it if she hadn't had that close up view just seconds before. Behind them walked a smiling Watari. He was happy to see his young friend have an interest in something other than crime.
Inside the tower few people sat at monitors and in front of paperwork. The first one to notice the three enter the building was a man named Matsuda. He looked fairly young and was a pretty happy guy.
"hey Ryuzaki, we have some news on the latest killings and-" he stopped and saw the girl next to L. she looked other-worldly to him, with as pale as she was. She also had on a school uniform that she was clearly to old to wear. On the other hand it fit her well and her innocence made it seem perfect for her, "so, who might this be?"
"this is Myou, she's going to be helping us with the case." he says walking over to his seat at the monitors.
"does she know who you are?" Matsuda asked.
She looked around in feigned confusion. She knew perfectly who he was. Even his real name other than L. she was not about to blow any cover she had left just yet.
"not yet, Myou, could you come over here for a moment." He said motioning to her. Myou walked over and sat in another rolling chair next to him. He then noticed her own strange way of sitting. She sat on her legs. He didn't notice it earlier because the booths table was in the way. "have you seen the news in the past few months or heard the broad casts about or from L?"
"that's you isn't it. the man who is working on the Kira case." She guessed. He nodded. "cool! I have admired your work from afar for a while. I'm happy I met you in person. If there is anything I can do to help the case, just let me know, okay?"
"that's actually why I brought you here. In our investigation we have found multiple mentions of the word Shinigami. I was hoping you were going to tell me what you knew of them." He looked up from some papers in front of him to gage her response.
"well can't you just look it up. I'm sure other books are out there. Why ask me?" she said leaning back in the chair.
"well that's the thing. I've asked around, I've looked it up online, and researched bookshop and library inventory all over the world and only got something akin to the grim reaper. Not the plural Shinigami that's mentioned. I have had nothing to explane how the mass murders are committed, until you came along with this text." He said pulling the small book out of his deep right pocket. He flipped through the pages until something caught his eye. The word Myougami. His eyes widend.
That's why shes so forign to nearly everything. She is new to not only this country but… this world if his assumption was correct.
She was a Myougami…
