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Bold = Japanese
Italics = Thoughts
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I waited, and watched. I watched Kira and had hateful dreams of him, but Beyond Birthday kept me sane. Funny. An insane man kept me sane.
I visited him every three days, bringing him jam in those plastic jam packets so the guards to the prison wouldn't find them. I told him everything, I spilt my life to him and even that I was not from this world. I told him I was in love with L, and also that I was very attracted to him.
Not that he looked like L, but his exotic and courageous personality. And his intelligence, in my opinion, exactly matched L's, except that it was different intelligence types.
His was creative and intuitive as well as analytical, and complex. L's was analytical, based on facts more than intuitive thinking, and strategic. Each had their own strengths, and faults.
"Candice!" I snapped out of my thoughts, and looked over at Beyond, who had finished the jam I gave him. "Yeah, Beyond. Sorry. Lost in my own thoughts." He raised his eyebrow curiously.
"I called you like ten times, how lost were you?" I smiled. "If you must know, I was thinking about you, and L." His smirk faded, and shrugged. "You're too young to be thinking about that stuff." I rolled my eyes. "I'm only four years younger than you." He smirked again.
"Four years too young." I smiled, though I knew he was going to die before I became his age, I knew that he would become a shinigami. I hadn't told him this detail, however, he would find out soon enough. I nodded.
"How did you like the jam?" He smiled. "I like it a lot, thank you." I smiled back at him. "You're welcome. I'd make it myself, but I've been particularly busy." His smile turned into a smirk and he raised an eyebrow slightly.
"You've always mentioned this "job" which your always "busy" with. Aren't you going to at least give me the slightest hint of what it is?" I shrugged. "I've told you everything about myself except that, I should leave you with a mystery, shouldn't I?" He laughed, and he shook his head.
"I guess you're right. I just worry about you, ya know?" I quirked my eyebrow. "You shouldn't worry about anything, especially me. I know how to take care of myself." He gave me big bloody red puppy eyes. I sighed.
"If you must know, my job is to get myself on the task force." His eyes widened, but not in the puppy fashion, in confusion and worry. "What, why?! You'll just put yourself out there for Kira." I shrugged.
"I'm not scared of Kira. If I wanted to, I could kill him right now. But that would be messing with timelines, and when people are supposed to die. If they don't die, their souls will rot, won't they?"
Beyond's eyes drifted downward, and then he looked above my head. "You can see my lifespan." It wasn't a question, I knew he could. "I won't tell you when-"
"I didn't ask you to tell me, silly Beyond." I laughed, and then stood up. "I'm sorry, I'm going to be busy for a couple of weeks, so I'm going to have to cancel our weekly visit for next week." Beyond looked sad, but nodded. I reached for the door and I barely caught Beyond's words.
"Just be careful."
I nodded, and then went through the door. "He just cares about you, you know." A told me, as we walked down the street towards the bus stop, and I nodded. "I know." I stepped onto the bus, lost in my thoughts. I hadn't really thought about it, really. I just went on my intuition.
"What, why?! You'll just put yourself out there for Kira."
I thought about what Beyond said to me, he was right. I was just another shield to protect his identity, even though Light will eventually kill him... Wait. He didn't die at the hands of Kira in this one, no, he killed himself. To save himself. He killed himself.
"Hey, look who's at the back of the bus." I snapped out of my thoughts, and looked to the back of the bus. I was glad that the bus's lights were in need of repair, for my eyes widened when I saw a familiar face in the back.
Watari.
Otherwise known at Quillish Wammy. He was alone at the back of the bus, with a box of some sort of pastries on his lap. I walked slowly to the back of the bus, and I sat down next to him.
Pulling my legs up to my chest the way that L does, though if Watari noticed, I didn't know. I looked down at what I was wearing, black tights and an oversized sweatshirt with a panda on the front.
It was comfortable, and though not exactly the best thing to wear outside, (because I basically looked like a homeless person), it was the most comfortable thing in my wardrobe. I glanced over at the pastries in Watari's box, there was six of them, doughnuts. I smiled at Watari.
"Sir, how much did you pay for those doughnuts? If you don't mind me asking." He glanced over at me and smiled softly over at me. "90 yen." I whipped out fifteen yen, and held it out.
"Would you mind if I bought one from you?" He looked at the money, and then back to me. "Not at all." He took the money and opened up the box, I picked the one that had strawberries all over it. Probably L's favorite.
"Arigatou. Sometimes I'm just so busy that I forget to eat, you know?" I said, after a couple of bites out of the deliciously sweet doughnut. "Yes, I know someone similar." I looked over at him, innocent curiosity in my eyes.
"Really? So the doughnuts aren't for you?" I asked, and he shook his head. I looked down at the doughnut in my hand. "I figured, since you weren't eating them already, if I bought doughnuts for myself I would already be eating them on the bus. But since you sold me one of them, I'm guessing you're close to him?" He turned his head towards me, if he was surprised by my deduction then he hid it quite well.
"Impressive deduction for someone your age, but how did you know the person who I was going to deliver the doughnuts to was a male?" Damn it, that wasn't good. I slipped up on that, didn't I?
Ugh. This wasn't good. I continued to eat the doughnut without answering Watari. When I was done, I licked my fingers.
"Easy, I know who you're delivering them to." Watari directed his full attention to me, making sure I wasn't a threat to L, I was sure. "Of course, he doesn't know who I am, unfortunately. But I will assure you, Quillish, that I am not here to harm him or you or the other three. I'm here to help him, I'm quite an admirer of him." I looked straight into Watari's wise eyes, and smiled.
"Please, tell him of my offer, and I will see you soon to receive his answer. I wish that he accepts it, for I would like to see his insight on the current case, it confuses me to no end." Watari looked at me with what I could only guess was wonder. "What do you know of him?" He asked me, and I looked at him with a mysterious smirk.
"The right answer you should be asking, sir, is what I don't know of him." The bus stopped, and I stood up. "Also, I would like to add, that I am twenty-one. Not that younger than him, and he's much smarter than me." I giggled to myself.
"Oh, and by the way, tell him that he should visit B. B'd probably like that, he seemed lonely the last time I spoke with him." I hopped off the bus, and waved to Watari as the bus rode away.
Then, I waited for another bus.
It hadn't been my stop, I just thought it would be a little awkward since I was done talking to Watari, to keep on sitting next to him. And even more awkward if I stayed on the bus, but switched seats.
"That went well, ms. Mysterious." A said, and I rolled my eyes. "I like playing the mysterious card, it's fun. Besides, I need to stay serious and mysterious if I'm going to gain any of L's attention." I stepped onto a new bus, and sat down, quickly pulling my legs to my chest and resting my head on my knees.
I resumed my conversation with A in a whisper, so I didn't attract any attention.
"If I just put my whole self out there, what would that accomplish? L likes a challenge as much as he likes a mystery, and if I'm a mystery as well as an intellectual challenge, I'll be one of the only people he's intrigued and challenged by. I also want to befriend Watari as much as I can, because he will not become a shinigami, or what L will become. He raised L, and for that I owe him. He's also very smart, and kind. He reminds me of someone I knew a while back." A was sitting next to me, and he watched me, worriedly.
"You're drifting off into your memories again, if you keep doing this then you're going to miss our stop. Do you think we could stop by the market and get more apples?" I shrugged, and then nodded.
"Sure." I got up, and went to the market. "Pick the apple bunch you want." I said, and A went to inspect the apples. I looked around the market, no one that I knew from the manga. What did I expect? For Light himself to be walking around the market?
Nope, not that lucky. Especially since I chanced Watari on the bus that day. Why was he even riding the bus? Doesn't he have a car? Damned technical mind. "This one." I turned my attention to the apples, payed for them, and then picked up the sack. As I turned around, and I knocked into someone, and fell back onto my tailbone. I held onto the apples, but whined.
"Ow, that hurt." I looked up at the person who I had bumped into, and my eyes widened. "... You have got to be kidding me." I was staring into the puppy eyes of Matsuda, and he was offering me a hand.
"Oh! Sorry!" I sighed, but shrugged. "It's okay. I'm used to falling, I used to sorta be in the police force." I joked, and he chuckled nervously. I examined his face, and smiled.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" I asked, and he continued his nervous chuckle. "Um, no, I don't think so." I shrugged. "Oh, okay. See you around, cutie." I laughed, as he blushed. I turned around, but he grabbed my arm.
"Um, w-would y-you like to go out for coffee?" I smiled. "Sure!" I said cheerfully, and I followed him to a coffee shop. Though I didn't like Matsuda, he was nice and would be a good friend.
I ordered an extra sugary cinnamon hot chocolate, and he ordered a regular coffee with sugar and cream. We sat down, and I smiled at him across the table.
"So, what's your name?" He asked me, sipping his coffee. "Sugar, or Candy, whichever you prefer." He raised an eyebrow at the obviously fake name, but shook it off.
"My name is Matsuda." He introduced himself, and I grinned. "Nice to meet you." He nodded, and I noticed that he was starting to relax. "Nice to meet you too." I laughed and then pulled my knees to my chest.
"I do have a confession, however, I knew who you were before I "met" you." He was obviously surprised and immediately looked tense and he probably didn't trust me. "I'm sorry I lied and wasn't straight with you from the beginning, I just wasn't sure how you would respond to me being part of the task force too." He calmed down at the last part of my sentence. "The task force?" He questioned, and I nodded.
"Yeah, I work with a crazy egotistical detective that'll soon be joining forces with you guys. Sure, he's hard to get to know, and to get along with, but he's really a nice guy! Oh, and he doesn't know I came to see you, so if you could not mention it to him that'd be cool." I said, fake panicking, inside I was calm and collected.
I knew Matsuda would understand and be his friendly self to me. Why wouldn't he? He was Matsuda after all.
"Oh, um. Wow." I chuckled at his response, and I nodded. "Yeah, I know. Truthfully, I chose to talk to you because I didn't know how mr. Yagami would react to this and stuff, and you seemed like a nice guy." I said cheerfully, and he blushed. "Oh, thanks. So, you're working with a detective?" I nodded, and sipped my hot chocolate.
"Yeah, though, if I'm being completely honest with you. He hasn't even met me. Yet. Which is completely unfair since I know practically everything about him." I said casually, and he blinked a couple times, probably confused. I giggled at his expression.
"Well, anyway, I guess I'll be seeing you a lot more from now on since I'm on your guys' side. Though, my boss has some plans that might leave you wanting to leave the task force, then of course I'll be too busy to talk to you though you seem like an awesome guy." He blushed again, and I giggled again.
He was just too cute, like a little brother. I finished my drink and got up to throw it away. Then I took out a pen and wrote down my cell number on a napkin, then I handed it to Matsuda.
"If you have any questions just ring me up, I'll answer any questions to the best of my ability." I said cheerfully, and he took the number with a slight surprised look on his face. "O-oh, um, thanks, Candy." He said, and I nodded. "No problem. See you around." I left the coffee shop, and A glanced at me from his position by my side to my right.
"Nice going, Sugar. I think he has a crush on you now." I shrugged. "He's more of a brother to me. You know I love L, silly." He chuckled, and nodded. "Yes, I know." I got on another bus. "Headed home?" I smirked and put the apples I had been holding for the entire time, on my lap.
"Home base."
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