Beyond Birthday stood under a shady tree in the park, waiting for Ryuk to return from the Kira Investigation Headquarters. He felt calm, not just because of the soothing wheather or the relaxing sound of the water flowing in the water fountain. He had commited his first murder since the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, which were just a few years ago, to write the letter to L. To Beyond Birthday, there was no better feeling than his knife against some helpless victem's flesh; no better sound than lisitning to the victems screams, there pleads to live. Beyond Birthday smiled at the thought. He wanted to feel and hear these things again. Who's life is about to be mourned, I wonder, he thought to himself. So many lives to choose from, it's a tough decicion. Should I steal one of the children's, who probably have a great, victorious life ahead of them? Or an irratating old man, who's life is as limited as water in the desert? Beyond Birthday's thoughts were soon interuppted by a loud noise, like a mallet against a rug. Ryuk was floating right next to the tree with gigantic black wings. Beyond Birthday smiled.
"Ah, Ryuk. What did our dear friend L think of the letter?" he asked, not caring if other people were looking at him. "He sure was suprised." Ryuk said. " He doesn't know if the message is from you or from Kira." Beyond chuckled. "Really? How so?" he asked. "Well," Ryuk started. " since Kira is the guy he's after, and since the message was kinda like a threat, he thinks it's from Kira." There was a long silence. "But...?" Beyond asked expectantly. "But? I don't know. From what I know of that guy, it's hard to know what he's thinking." Ryuk complained. Beyond Birthday nodded. " That is L for you." he said. Then a thought came to him. "Ryuk, earlier you mentioned something about a Death Note? What exactly is that?"
" I was wondering why you haven't asked about that. A Death Note is my little black notebook of death. It's how a shinigami kills. All you have to do is right a human's name down in it while thinking of their face and they die. You have to think of their face so people with the same name won't die. You can right the cause and time of death of the person too." Ryuk explained. " So, I'm guessing that your Death Note is how Kira killed people?" Beyond inquired. "Yeah." Ryuk answered. " And could you stop saying Kira already? You know that's not his real name, right? It's Light Yagami." Ryuk said, clearly annoyed. Beyond noticed. "Another thing: You said that I'm half shinigami, meaning that one of my parents would have to be a shinigami. But, from what I remember, my parents were both human. My father was killed by a thug and my mother had died in a train crash. Which one of them wasn't my biological parent?" he asked. " Why should I tell you?" Ryuk asked. Beyond sighed. "Fine. You want something in exchange?" he asked. Ryuk nodded. " Then what?" Beyond asked. "An apple." Ryuk replied.
Light Yagami walked throught the busy sidewalk with Misa at his side. Since Light had time off the Kira Case, Misa wanted to spend every second with Light. "Oh Light-kun!" she sighed. "Itsn't this romantic? You finally get to get away from Ryuzaki and spend some time with me! I didn't think he would allow that, since he suspects you of being Kira and me of being the second Kira." Light nodded. "Uh-huh. Sure." he said. Misa stopped walking. "What's wrong?" Light asked. "You're supposed to enjoy this Light!" Misa pouted. " You don't have to do anything involving Kira right now, remember? But every time I look at you it's like you're in your own little world! Stop worrying so much!" Light looked up at the sky. " I'm not worrying. It's just... it's like Ryuzaki doesn't want me around. Like there's something he doesn't want me to see. Something he doesn't want me to know." Light explained. " Well, if he doesn't want you to know something then I wouldn't bug him about it. If he wants to keep something to himself, then why not let him?" Misa asked. " What if it has something to do with the Kira Case?" Light said. " So what if it is?" Misa retorted. " Even if it was, you're not supposed to think about it right now."
Light sighed. Then he noticed someone. He smirked. "I know you're there, you know." Misa looked around, confused. "Um... Light...?" she started to say. Then she saw him. It was one of the police members that were taking part in the Kira Case, Shuichi Aizawa. Seeing him made Misa angry. " Oh my god! Were you just spying on us?" she yelled in rage. Aizawa looked taken aback. " No! I was just on my way to the..." he started. He was inturupted when Misa slapped his arm with her purse. " Ryuzaki didn't tell you to do this, did he?" she inquired. Aizawa hesitated, and that was enough of an answer for Misa. "UGH! I swear I am going to kill him!" she screamed. " Don't let Ryuzaki hear you say that. That might make him increase his thoughts about you..." Aizawa started to say, but Misa was already marching down angrily, screaming to herself. Suprisingly, she forgot about Light.
Aizawa looked angrily at Light. " What?" he asked innocently. " If you didn't say anything about me being here, she wouldn't be off to kill L right now." Aizawa replied.
"Well, I wasn't just going to let you spy on me and Misa like that. It's disturbing you know."
"Hmph."
" Hey, shouldn't we go back to the head quarters to make sure that she really doesn't kill Ryuzaki?"
"Probably. How much damage do you think she'll do?"
"I don't want to find out. C'mon."
And with that, Light and Aizawa headed toward the head quarters.