3. Sleeping and Houses

"So how many things are you allergic to?" Reneey asked again, for the ten billionth time; something that very much annoyed Lyn by now.

"Okay, seriously!" Lyn growled, whacking Reneey upside the head. "I've told you a thousand times! It's a very, very long list, it's not fun to repeat every ten seconds because somebody won't pay proper attention!"

"Huh? What did you say?" Reneey asked, looking up from her iPod, blinking.

Lyn's eye started to twitch. "THAT'S EXACTLY MY POINT!" she thundered, throwing her hands in the air exasperatedly.

Reneey blinked. "You're not pointing to anything at all, Lynni..."

"I'm not trying to point! I'm trying to knock some sense through your freaking skull!"

"Hey! BE NICE TO SKULLKY THE SKULL!" Reneey yelled back -- yes, she had named her skull.

"THEN TURN YOUR FREAKING EARS ON AND LISTEN TO ME ALREADY!"

"I DO LISTEN! IT JUST GOES IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER!"

"THAT'S CALLED NOT LISTENING, RENEEY!"

"HOW IS IT NOT!? SHOW ME PROOF, GODDAMN IT!"

"THE PROOF IS THAT YOU ONLY REMEMBER THINGS YOU CARE ABOUT AND YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T CARE ABOUT STUPID LITTLE THINGS LIKE, I DUNNO, PREVENTING MY DEATH!"

"HEY, I DO CARE ABOUT YOU! AND YOUR DEATH!" Then Reneey blinked and said, "Hey, can I have your laptop when you die?" Of course, this was just Reneey's weird, twisted, demented way of saying 'Don't die out on me.'

Lyn's eye twitched again. "I DON'T EVEN HAVE MY LAPTOP NOW!" she yelled, slapping her forehead.

"WELL, WHEN YOU GET ONE!" Reneey yelled back. "Dude! I don't have Insane Clown Posse on my iPod! What the fuck!?"

"HOW THE CRAP AM I GONNA GET ONE WITH NO MONEY, IDGET!?"

"Convert money? Let's see..." Reneey went fishing in her pockets. "I have..." She took one hand out. "A penny!"

"... Oh, yes, a penny. That'll definitely buy a laptop in Japan. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND!?"

By this time, L had checked with Interpol to find Reneey's file -- but not only was there no "Reneey Umbra" in Japan, but it turned out there was actually no one by that name in the entire world.

Maybe she used an alias? L thought as he bit his thumb.

"WELL, HOW MUCH MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN MONEY DOES LYN ELUMO FUCKING HAVE, THEN!?" Reneey screeched.

"WHY, SO YOU CAN BUM IT OFF ME AND SPEND IT ON MANGAS OR SOMETHING!?"

"..."

Lyn Elumo? Must do a check for that... L pressed a button. "Watari?"

"Yes, Ryuzaki?"

"Run a check with Interpol for files on a Lyn Elumo."

"All right."

"... Oh, fuck off," Reneey pouted.

"Whatever," Lyn growled, crossing her arms and glaring at the nearest building. "Ugh! I hate cities... See, if we'd been in the country, not only would it have been easy to find a paying job, we could've found board, too. Maybe even free board, if we agreed to work with crops..."

"I got banned from working and cleaning and cooking," Reneey muttered.

"Ryuzaki?"

"Yes, Watari?" L asked as he inspected the girls further.

"There's no file on a Lyn Elumo -- none at all."

Perhaps she also uses an alias? "That will be all, Watari."

"All right."

Lyn laughed, her mood switching so quickly that she might have been bipolar. At least, if that wasn't the norm for a teenage girl. "This is true; you'd probably burn the entire field to the ground."

"Do you think we can survive on the street?" Reneey asked.

"Survive, yeah," Lyn muttered darkly. "Even though most of my survival rules apply to the country or the wilderness, not the city." She laughed humorlessly and added, "But seriously, Rea, I've told you how I grew up. I've had a lot of practice at taking care of myself by now. So the hard part would be keeping you from killing yourself and/or random pedestrians. I still don't know how you blew up the microwave..."

"... I swear I didn't know it would go kaboom!" Reneey yelled.

By now, L had the blueprints for the house and was taking a marker, working on where to place the cameras -- all the while eating cake, of course.

"The sad part is that I believe you," Lyn said with a sigh. "But yeah. Any idea where we might go to find a moneychanger of some sort? Preferably one who wouldn't try to con us... because I could seriously do with something to eat. My stomach only just reminded me that I forgot to eat lunch or supper yesterday."

Finally L had gotten all of the cameras marked; now all he needed was to get the blueprints to Watari so that the house could be built, but that would take several days at least, and even L wouldn't let a couple of kids stay on the street. So what would he do?

Hmm... They can stay with Matsuda... Yagami already has a family of his own... So maybe Matsuda... But they can't stay here, here is out of the question... L took another piece of cake and thought it over.

"I skipped breakfast and lunch, but I'm used to it so I don't get hungry... Well, 'til after seven," Reneey muttered.

"Like I do? I'm never hungry," Lyn muttered. "But I just had a peach for breakfast yesterday, and then I had to work in the field with the wood... and yeah. I'm actually hungry for once! Somebody call the Guinness Book of World Records!"

Reneey giggled, then shook her head, yawning. "So, what now?"

"Ryuzaki?"

"Hmm?" L asked of the blue screen on his computer.

"We have a temporary house for those girls you were talking about."

"... And I wasn't informed of this earlier why?"

"Well, I tried contacting you, but the line wouldn't work."

"Oh, right. I spilled my coffee on it and just now I fixed it. Well, then just give me the blueprints and I'll figure out where to install the cameras."

"All right," Watari replied.

Seriously, the detective job can be a hard thing, even for L.

"But I'm sleepy," Reneey complained as her head hit Lyn's arm.

Lyn stared. "Reneey, it's the middle of the morning!"

"So?"

Finally, L had figured out where to install the camera. Now all that was left was to actually install them -- which he did himself, of course.

"What's your point?" Reneey grumbled.

"My point is that it's broad daylight in the middle of a crowded city sidewalk! How can you be falling asleep on my shoulder!?"

L knew he had to work fast, so he just took a helicopter instead of taking a car. All in all, he liked the helicopter more than the car, anyway. When he reached the inside of the house, he instantly went to work setting up the cameras.

"Hmm.. you're comfy, Lynni," Reneey yawned.

"Gee, thanks," Lyn muttered darkly, rolling her eyes. "Just what I always wanted -- to know that I make a good cushion. Seriously, Rea, what the crap d'you think you're doing?"

"Tired..."

It was a long and painful hour -- well, for Lyn, anyway. But L had already gotten all of the cameras ready, even added a one-way mirror in the living room just because he's that paranoid.

"Now, to get them to come here," he muttered as he went back to the helicopter.

"Okay, seriously, Rea," Lyn finally growled, shaking Reneey's shoulders. "Come on! It's broad daylight and we're standing in the middle of a Japanese sidewalk! And I'm sick and tired of keeping you from falling over into traffic, dadburn it!"

"WELL, THEN GET ME TO A FUCKING ROOM!" Reneey snapped.

"Hey," L said as he approached them again. "I couldn't help but hear that you two don't have a house yet?"

"Yeah, and?" Reneey asked.

Lyn's eyes, however, narrowed. "You mean, you couldn't help eavesdropping..."

"Well, anyway," L said, shrugging. "There's an empty house here, I can pay for the rent and everything..."

"Right now I don't give a shit. Let's go, Lynni," Reneey said tiredly.

Lyn stared for a second, then whacked Reneey upside the head. "Okay, seriously!? Is your brain on vacation, or just momentarily disconnected!? Some dude we don't even know, who frankly looks a little creepy to start with, randomly walks up for the second time today and now wants to put us up in a house!? And you don't find that mildly suspicious!?"

She at least hoped that Reneey's half-asleep brain got the message: Wake up and look at who you're talking to already!

Reneey's sleepy eyes looked at L. Of course, she knew who it was, but right now the only thing she cared about was sleep.

"... What if it's a sheep?"

L had to do a face fall at that, and Lyn whacked herself in the forehead again. "RENEEY! RENEEY UMBRA! AWAKEN YOUR FREAKING SLEEP-DEPRIVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND RECONNECT YOUR BRAIN FOR A SECOND, DADBURN IT!"

"I don't think yelling is going to do the trick," L said, shrugging. "Anyway, is it a yes or a no?"

Reneey woke up, stared at L, and her eyes went wide before going back to normal. "Right, well, I still say yes."

"It works well enough," Lyn said, shrugging. "And I have something else to yell if all else fails. But whatever. I still say this is a stupid idea, Rea..."

"Right, well, follow me, then," L said and they began to walk. Well, more like Lyn dragged a sleepy Reneey across the sidewalk the whole entire time.

"We're here!" L said as he held out the keys and put them in Lyn's hand. "Good night!" And he walked off.

"Stupid, imbecilic, retarded, witless thing to do, this," Lyn sighed exasperatedly as she opened the door and dragged Reneey inside. "So help me, if we get murdered in our sleep or something for this, I'm gonna figure out some way to come back from the dead, bring you back, and then kill you myself," she grumbled as she went. "Holy crap, there's already furniture in this place!? ... Soooo do not trust him..."

Growling her annoyance, Lyn finally just picked Reneey up and dropped her on the couch in what she assumed was the living room. She didn't really feel like exploring the place at the moment, just stood there in the middle of the room with her arms crossed, glaring around suspiciously.

"Hey," Reneey said, yawning.

Lyn's eye twitched. "'Hey.' That's all you have to say? After you freaking made me agree to this and then randomly wake up as soon as we get here!? Never mind that we don't even know where the crap here is and you randomly just decided to listen to creepy dude. I swear, I don't know why I ever listen to you..."

"Just look at the mirror over there; put your finger on it. If there's a gap between your finger and the reflection, then it's a real mirror. If there isn't one, then it's a one-way," Reneey said, yawning. "If it's a one-way, then we can assume there are cameras and wire taps and things and we'll deal with them tomorrow," Reneey said as she turned over and went to sleep.

"Tomorrow? YOU'RE PLANNING ON SLEEPING FOR FOURTEEN HOURS!?"