Chapter Six: Before Birth

Everybody thinks I'm weird. Creepy, creepy little 'Ryuzaki'. They can't even call me by my real name, thanks to the stupid rules of this place. If I don't want an alias, I shouldn't have to have one. Beyond Birthday suits me just fine as a name. Not grammatically correct, not even truthfully correct, but the only name I ever really wanted to be called by. All this talk of 'Ryuzaki', that's not me.

At least I have L and Aisha. Aisha thinks I'm weird, but at least she doesn't avoid me like the plague. Really, what did I ever do? Aisha just thinks I'm strange, but not scary. Aisha… ha. That's not even her real name. I know everyone's name, except…

I see names. I've always been able to see names, since the day I was born. Even when I didn't know how to read them, they were there. The same with the numbers. I knew how to read the numbers, even though they didn't seem to be anything that any human would come up with. It took a long time to figure out what they meant, though. My grandpa died when I was six, and I finally realized that the numbers counted down. Grandpa's number hit 'zero', and he died. Apparently zero is the same no matter what language you speak. I could always tell, after that. I knew that my parents were going to die just before I turned ten. The numbers never lied to me. I told them not to go, but they said they were just going to drive to the store, and they'd be home in half an hour. Fifteen minutes later, some lady came to get me, because my parents had died in a car wreck.

Wammy's House was a thrill for me. In a house where everyone went by aliases, knowing everyone's real name was a special pleasure. Throwing out tidbits of knowledge for L to follow around in circles, knowing that he'd never guess the truth of what I could do. But L… He's the only one whose name I can't see. I can't see my own, and I don't know when the world will die, but why is he the only exception to my vision? It's irritating past human comprehension! L, the enigma. L, the leader. What am I?

B. B is for "backup". B is for the backup they will need if the original and the alternate fall. But… that's actually okay. I'm really okay with it. Not knowing L's name bugs me, but he's interesting to talk to. He's a good… friend? I guess I'm like him in that regard too. I've never had 'friends', so I don't know what it's like. But somehow, I get the sense that things are going to go downhill very fast.

The numbers never lie, after all…

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I just wanted to do some perspective for Aisha and Beyond's thoughts, since for all practical purposes no one really knows a lot about them. L says in Another Note that he never met B personally, but he lies A LOT. That could just be another lie.

Three chapters for you, because I don't know when I'll get to update next.

Love!
Li