All the students of Wammy's House gathered around the front lawn of the orphanage, anxiously awaiting their idol, L. He came to visit the orphanage every Labor Day, to take the day off.
"So, how are you feeling about L coming? We get to hear about all of his adventures, all those huge, important cases that he had to solve. Sometimes, I hear, whole nations depended on him. That's a lot of pressure," B whispered to A.
"Y…yeah," answered A nervously.
"And you're gonna be doing that someday? Wow. Good luck."
"I'll need it," A muttered to himself.
"Really, I can't believe how incredibly difficult it would be to become L. All that pressure…I mean, what if you're not good enough or something? That would stink."
"Sure would," A replied, steadily growing more and more uncomfortable.
"Hey, look, there he comes now," B said excitedly, pointing at a limousine that was pulling into the grounds.
"Oh, no. I can't face him yet…Oh, God…B, I gotta go." With that, A disappeared into the building behind them.
B smiled as he watched the boy run away, looking forward to telling L about how A doesn't even want to see him and he, B, would help him with whatever he wanted and had waited for hours and how were you by the way and how did your cases go and did you think you might be looking into the Kira case and did you hear about how badly Near had been burned when one of his toys malfunctioned and exploded and oh he hoped he was all right and he took care of him almost every day when he was in the medical office and he was so ashamed and hoped you could forgive him because he accidently slipped up and got a 99 on a test and he'd gotten 100 on everything else and by the way did he mention that A didn't even want to see you and are you sure that he's the right successor for you and he'd be happy to fill his shoes since he already was backup anyway and how was Watari and have you spoken with Roger yet and by the way, A didn't want to see you…
B smiled, showing sharp white teeth. Sometimes, it was just easier, and more rewarding, to be evil.