Red Maple Leaf
Chapter 4 : Leaving and Forgetting
Disclaimer : I decided to put up another disclaimer because I felt like it XD. Have a problem with that? Well at long last I do not own Death Note, but I do own L though.
L: No you don't.
Linh: YES I DO! DON'T QUESTION ME L! /I pressed a big red button/
L: Did you just shock me?
LINH: On with the story don't want to upset the reader, do you now L?
L: /shakes his head fearfully while Linh laughed evilly/
At my apartment, there was a paper taped to the door. Going up to it and snatching it off the door I read,
Dear Kasumi chan I'm sorry to say that I have currently notice that you are unemployed, and I'm obligated to send you an eviction notice. Seeing that when you are paid you miss a month or so of rent. I can't predict how you would be able to pay rent without a job. I'm sorry. You are also housing a feline, which in the renting clause specifically says, no pets allowed. I'm sorry but you are going to be evicted in one week. Please be ready to move out on the specified date. Thank you Good bye.
Ugh, why does when ever something bad happened to me it always ends up going to my landlord? I pryed out every cardboard box I had, and started stuffing random things inside each box, than writing the item's name on the outside four walls of the inflated brownish/yellow cardboard box.
Meow Meow,
I looked down at Poke, who was rubbing up against the anklet I got last Christmas from my last grandma, but than she died last march. It wrapped it's tail around my leg and it twirled it's way around me, snaking it body around and around. "Do you want something to eat?" I asked sweetly. Putting down my sharpie, I trotted to the kitchen with the little fuzz ball cuddling in my arm and chest. I filled his water bowl and food than settled him down. He seemed content, and totally ignored me as he ate. "Hmm, I wish I was like you Poke, no worries, and have someone bring food to me, like I do for you." I sighed, standing up to go finish labeling the unfinished box of random stuff.
That night I couldn't sleep either, all the stress of life. I sighed than turned over onto my side, making Poke almost fall off the side of the bed. "Sorry Poke," I sighed scoping him up into my arms, I hugged him to me as he slept. Hmm, I wonder if people got paid to be a detective. I mean Don has ton of money and all he does is use his head while sitting in luxury with a butler to bring him sweets when ever he wants. Sighing I smiled, that was the life. I'll ask Don tomorrow I thought. For get tomorrow I'll ask him right now! I thought hyperly. I hope he doesn't get mad that I'm coming so early in the morning. I scooped Poke up into my arms, it meowed unhappily from being woken up from it's nap.
"Poke were going out to a far away journey." I smiled. I took my jacket - which I discarded on the counter when I came home - and slipped it on. It was only two am so the streets were even emptier than yesterday's morning. And plus it was creepy how every small thing made a huge shadow in the dim street lights." You know this would be a perfect time for Don's henchmen to come rob me." I said whimpering into Poke. Wait Don is not Don, he's really the guy um. R? No N. Ugh what ever I'll remember later. Poke meowed at every thing that moved, so that was a little disturbing because he meowed every five seconds.
The hotel was as empty as ever, there were very few cars in the parking lot. There was however a very old looking car parked in front of the hotel spinning doors. The car was old, and black and shiny; it kind of resembled a beetle. It had an old taste to it that I would have never liked. All in all it wasn't designed to fit my taste.
I ignored it, and went strait to the heavy spinning doors guarding the large hotel lobby. Just as I was about to step onto the door's platform, it spun the other way around making me stumble forwards. I caught myself though before I totally slipped on to who ever stepped onto the door's platform first. There stood a bent figure, hi hands in his pocket a blank stare plastered into his blank face.
"Hello Don," I chimed brightly making a quick wave of my free hand.
His eyes moved from me to Poke than back to me.
"Good morning, Kasumi-san, and Poke I presume." He said deeply, taking another look at my cat. I looked up at the sky.
"I guess you could call it morning," I murmured taking in the still pitch dark sky." Hey what are you doing outside of your hotel room? You never seem to leave that place."
"Hmm, I'm leaving." He sighed.
"Like leaving to another hotel room? Or…"
"Leaving Japan." He said bordly.
I immediately tensed, and as if Poke sensed my tension it started to meow a long meow.
As if on cue Trench Coat-san came out of the elevator that had just made a sharp ding. In his hands leveled the black laptop from before and a big bulky black box, that looked kind of like a CD player but it had no slot to put a CD in, only tiny color coded holes for other wires, which I presume was also color coded. Wait why was I thinking about the color codes of that thing?
"Hello, Kasumi chan," Trench Coat-san said with a saddened expression on his face. "I'm sorry to have met you in the current situation." He gave a quick apologetic look before continuing towards the parking lot. So the black car was theirs, predictable, that a car like that belonged to them.
"Where are you guys going?" I asked, my eye's hyperness completely diminished.
"London." Don said blankly.
"Oh,"
--Poke's Pov--
I snuggled onto Kasumi's arm, and relaxed as she met some guy that had a back problem at front door.
I hadn't really established the human languages as good as my cat friends from across the streets, but Kasumi seemed to be saying Hi to the guy, which I guessed whose name was Don. He said hi to Kasumi and I, I'm surprised he knew who I was; most people don't know my name. Than the guy said some stuff I couldn't make out than something about leaving. Than I felt Kasumi's grip on me tightened, which hurt a little. What ever 'leaving' meant, it got Kasumi upset. Who the hell did this Don guy think he was? Making Kasujmi all upset like that, I should kick his ass for just saying 'leaving'.
"Meow" I said angrily from my place on Kasumi's arms.(Which means 'You SOB don't talk to K and make her upset!', if you don't know what SOB means I'm not explaining it to you.)
Than out of no where this old coop with hair greyer than my grandma's came out with a black square shaped scratching post. I thought I had done my job because Kasumi loosened her hold on me after the old coop came out, so I settled down ignoring he conversation until I needed to.
--Kasumi's Point of veiw--
I sucked in a breath of air to keep from quivering, form the shock.
"Why are you guys leaving, If it's me I'll stop being annoying, please stay. You could even stay in my apartment." I said softly, I knew I sounded completely pathetic but oh well, I didn't want my new best friends to leave me. Than I remembered that I was being evicted so they couldn't stay at me apartment. "UGH, wait you can't stay at my apartment because of some problems....Uhhh I have cockroaches.....Yeah that's right I have cockroaches don't give me that look. Sooo you could stay with me at a new apartment that I'll have eventually, I hope. "I said, murmuring the last part.
"No." Don said quietly, making a move to the car, "Kasumi-san, sorry but I don't think we'll be meeting again."
I stood there frozen looking like a retard with a cat in her arms. Poke meowed quite a lot during that little conversation, but I couldn't register anything at all. I felt mad and upset. Don had made his way to the shiny black car by now; he was stepped inside the black car ready to take his usual position of an eagle's crouch.
"WAIT," I screamed, it seamed to work because everyone stopped strait in their tracks, even the hobo across the street who was up extremely early for a hobo. "Hobo man I didn't mean you, you could go back to what ever you were doing!" I yelled across the street. The hobo seemed to moan slightly as he staggered away with a bottle covered with a brown paper bag. I ran up to Don, and the open door wider. He had now gotten into his full sitting position. I settled down Poke on the graveled floor, than simultaneously wrapped my arms around Don's neck.
Smiling sheepishly albid sadly I whispered," I promised you a hug everyday, hug virgin." Letting him go I gave him a quick peck on the cheek, "I'll miss you...L." This time I actually let him close the door all the way and picked up Poke. Smiling sadly I watched the wide eyed Don closed the black shinny door and the engine of the old car vroomed to life into a patterned purr. I'll miss you even if it probably was my fault that you are leaving. I thought sadly, as the car rolled its way out of the lot. My two friends were now gone, I'm now homeless, and jobless and hopelessly depressed. I might as well go hang out with the Hobo, but than he'd probably commit suicide to try and stay away from the psycho that talked too much.
"L why don't you bring her along?" Watari asked keeping his eyes hard on the road.
"I don't need her getting in my way, She's too rational. She acts on whims, and she's to hyper." L said tonelessly.
"L, I don't want to be bold ,but I don't think she would ruin it. Though that's just me, you don't have to do anything you don't want to...Even if it'll make this old man happy.... And it'd make my job a whole lot easier if I had help making cake and doing work for you. "Watari sighed.
"Watari, I'm not falling for the trick. But may I ask... Why are you so fond of her? Why must you try so hard to keep the girl dragging along with us?"
"I wasn't trying to trick you L; I was merely saying it would make me happy. And as for your second question, I think it was answered by Kasumi chan herself. She says that you are a hug virgin, and I can't say I deny. I don't think anyone else at the Whammy house would be so bold as to hug you much less give you... Affectionate movements with their lips." Watari said awkwardly, with a slight hint of an amused chuckle. Watari looked through the rear view mirror to check on his charge's expression to see if he had pressed on to far. Watari saw a hint of confinement imbedded on L's face as he bit down on his thumb.
"So, may I ask shall we go back for Kasumi chan?"
"Hmm, no we shall not. I don't want her getting in my way. "L responded coldly.
Watari frowned slightly before sighing, "As you wish." And the old man kept driving trying to forget the young girl that could have gotten L to be social able. But to no avail.
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