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Plans

Still in her nurses outfit, Hide proceeded over to the storehouse she and Beyond shared no more than a week ago over in West L.A..It was some time in the afternoon when she reached the place. But instead of going though the front door, it was locked up so no one could get inside, she walked over to the side. All around the building it was blocked off by tall iron gates with sharp points at the top. Hide examined a certain spot before she found the little, hardly noticeable, slits on one of the bars. With them, it was not that difficult to climb on the gate to get across to the other side.

Beyond made them...

Being careful where she placed herself, she climbed over the gate. Once she reached the back off the building she opened the, now, unlocked door and went inside. The door wasn't always unlocked. Outside, right next to the door, was an obviously shattered window. Beyond had busted the window open with his elbow so that they had a place to stay, causing him to seriously cut his arm up, but he didn't seem to mind at all. Then she later had to patched up the window, along with his arm. "..."

Inside of the storehouse it was indeed dusty from being abandoned for how ever many years. But it still stood fine and still had electricity going through it for some reason. It also wasn't that big of a storehouse, it was probable because of that reason why they no longer used it anymore. It belonged to a company, they knew that much. There where still a ton boxes and other items laying around which have of course been left behind or forgotten. None contained food however. It had a working refrigerator, bathroom, and working lights. Which was lucky for them.

Hide closed the door and quickly took off her nurses outfit, putting it away in one of the boxes and taking out her clothes, she changed into her regular blouse and jeans. Walking to the bathroom, she then took off her blond wig to reveal her natural, short, raven hair. Inside the bathroom she washed off her make-up, which made her look older than she really was, and took off her green colored contacts that covered her purple indigo eyes.

Feeling a little more natural and loose she came out of the bathroom and started climbing on top of the boxes a few feet away. All of the boxes where sturdy enough to hold her and Beyonds weight so she had no fear of them breaking or tumbling down before her. The boxes where all on one side so they were all pilled up on top of each other, each containing many different items. Hide continued on climbing a little ways. Her destination wasn't to go to the very top, but to go to the third layer of boxes over to the forth box that didn't have another one on top of it. Inside that one box was a simple key. When Hide had finally found the key through all of the junk that was inside she slid down from the boxes and ran up to the second floor.

On the second floor, under the bed Beyond would sleep in, was a small safe and inside that safe was money. Money that she and Beyond had been saving for two reasons: 1. being that they could get the things that they needed like food, clothes, etc. and 2. was that when Beyond was long gone, Hide had something to live on for the time being. She took out the safe, unlocked it, took out the money, and started counting. It was obvious just by looking at the money that they had been saved a lot. A quarter of it was from her and the rest was from Beyond. One day she asked how he got all his money, but he never did tell her how or where it all came from, he just told her that to be glad they had this money at all. So she ended up dropping it.

How she got the money was from years of saving. Since she saw that Beyond was gathering money, she figured that she should do so well, since most of that money was to take care of her. But of course that money came to other uses after the years went on. Most times she would come across some money on the streets when she could go out, but the major source of her money was from the orphanage Beyond use to live in. She would either pose as on of the orphans when the man in charge would give them money every Friday, the day they were allowed to go out, or steal it from those who saved there money. And all that time she never did get caught because most of the children blamed some other kid for all of there disappearing money.

But anyway.

Hide continued counting to herself "322....60....323....172.... That looks like all of it, $5,923... So much money," she whispered as she settled down on the edge of Beyonds bed. She had 60 $50s, 57 $20s, 60 $10s, 172 $5s, and 323 $1s. There were so many things she could do with all that money. But she had to choose wisely.

She knew she couldn't live on this money forever. She need to get money. To earn it. Something she could be good at...the last thing she knew she wanted was a job! She didn't want to be told what to do... she wanted to be her own boss.

"I can run a business..."

sigh

Hide put the money away and lied down on the bed. Earning money... was the least of her worries. Like Beyond said to her, there was something else she had to do. It was what he raised her to do, even without knowing it at first, to follow in his footsteps.

Beyond had told her time and time again, that he was the backup, the copy of the detective known as L. She saw that he didn't mind at all, until someone he knew, A, committed suicide for being unable to handle the pressure of living up to L. And as the years went on she could see that Beyond was beginning to change. The way he sat, the way he ate, everything about him changed. And when she came to realize that he was trying to be more like L, she started to hate the one known as L. He was doing this to him.

Once she turned 15 Beyond told her that he no longer wanted to be L's copy, no longer wanted to be just another one of L's copies expected to fail, no longer wanted become L. No. He wanted to surpass the centuries greatest detective.

She listened.

It was at that moment when Beyond told her, if L has a successor, then B will have an even better successor. If he learned from L, then she will learn from B. But his successor will be better than all of them, she will be better than all of them.

She understood.

With all of that said and done. He pushed her to her limits. Keeping her awake for days studying, challenging her in every way know to man, strengthening her mind, teaching her everything he knew and beyond. She was utterly exhausted by the end of each day, staying awake made it worse. And all the time, she didn't complain in front of him. If he told her to do it she did it. No matter how much she wanted him to stop putting so much pressure on her. It went on for about a few month when Beyond finally realized what he was doing to her. It was when he walked in on her to find that she had collapsed into tears and when she saw him she rushed to continue working, acting as if nothing had happened.

Seeing her in that state reminded him of her back when she was a child. And he did what he use to do to make her stop crying, hold her until she fell asleep. And after that, Beyond wasn't so hard on her. He couldn't make her suffer the way every other child in Wammy's have. She was already a genius for her age, even if it wasn't because of him. She never felt much pressure from then on. But when they came to Los Angeles, that's when she had do as he did.

Meaning murder.

From Believe Bridesmaid to Quarter Queen to Backyard Bottomslash, she had assist him in carrying out every one of his murders. And during that time he expected her know what he was trying to accomplish. She had a feeling that surpassing L by creating an unsolvable case wasn't the only thing he was trying to do. Then finally, when he made her lock the room from the outside of the third victims apartment, she figured it all out. She figured out what he was going to do and how the last victim was. He knew she found out what he was going to do when she returned to him.

That's when he told her. She would challenge the successor of L. Proving how they are not fit to be given the L name.

He also explained to her that he had a feeling, that L would not live long. Even though he never met L, he knew he would die a few years from now. L would then have a successor to take his place. And when L's successor comes forth, she would make her move. Challenging L's Successor to a case. A case created by the B's successor. Just as B had challenged L...

But... Beyond had failed. Hide had witnessed it herself.

Sitting against the wall, a few feet away from the room Naomi Misora's was in in case the killer would end up going in there, was Hide as Beyond had instructed. Jumping at the sound of a load howl coming from room 1313, where Naomi Misora was, she got up. And, to her surprise, Misora ran down the stairs. And Hide knew where she was going. She knew Misora had figured it out.

And she knew that she couldn't stop her.

Hide quickly shook her head to erase the thoughts of seeing Beyond all black and red when he was being taken to the ambulance car. She didn't want to think about it. When she saw him, tears ran down her face without her knowing. And she could have sworn Beyond had seen her moments before he was taken away.

Hide just closed her eyes and tried to relax and in doing, she suddenly got tired. Her own bed was on the other side of the room but she was too tired to move away now. And when she moved herself up to lay her head down on the pillow, a familiar scent filled her with memories and made her all the more tired. It was still, faintly, there.

"Beyond..." she murmured to herself as she started to drift off to sleep. The days, the weeks, the months, and even the years would be full of problems for her solve. But, for now, she just wanted to melt in memories.... and fade away in sleep.