Sachiko smiled at the two at the table while she started making dinner. B sighed, "This is a lot of homework…"
Sayu giggled, "That's because I'm going ahead of the class. I get it more when you teach me. You simplify it for me, so I can understand it, rather than use the actual terms. The terms confuse me, but when you stop and teach me everything like this, I understand it way better."
He smiled at her honesty, "I wish everyone was as honest as you."
The door opened and Light walked into the home, "I'm home."
Sachiko called from the kitchen, "Good, you have a visitor!"
Light came around the corner and stared at B helping Sayu, with a furrowed brow, it looked like he was helping her with a history paper. He laughed at sat down at the table, "Roped into tutoring again?"
B looked up, "I don't mind it." Sachiko smiled. "I could help you, too." B gave him a sly smile.
Light smirked, "No. I'm capable of doing my own work." Sayu knit her eyebrows together staring at Light.
Beyond pointed to her paper, "Screw your brother. Not everyone gets everything the first time. Don't worry."
Sachiko laughed, "Dinner is almost done. Get washed up kids. Homework to the living room." B smiled at Sayu as she grabbed her book and ran to the living room with it. He grabbed his bag and stood up, and started for the door, "And, where do you think you're going, young man?"
B stopped and smiled softly, "It's rude to stay for dinner that you aren't invited too."
Sachiko sighed, "Raito just got home…"
B looked down, "I was just lonely, I didn't care whose company I kept."
She gave a small frown, "Well, stay. You could probably do for a good meal and I'm sure Sayu would be heart broken if her teacher left."
Light came out of the bathroom while finishing rolling up his sleeves, "You're not leaving are you?"
B gave a weak smile, "I guess not. For some reason, or another, your mother seems to think I need to stay."
Light glanced at his mother, "Well. I was actually going to ask if you'd stay. If it's alright with mom, it's not like you have anywhere to go."
B set his bag down by the door, "I already told your mother no. But, I appreciate it, you've done enough for me, Raito…"
Sachiko started setting the table with dinner plates full of food, "You best just eat it while it's hot."
Light smiled at him, "Trust me, there's no winning with her."
B rolled his eyes, "Mothers..." Light chuckled and helped his mom carry the rest to the table.
The Japanese police force sat in a dull room with a computer screen lit with a single letter, "L".
L finished speaking with them and shut his computer and let out a long sigh. "You didn't tell them about Beyond?" Watari raised his eyebrows as he asked.
L shifted his dark eyes to Watari, "It's not case related… That, and, as of right now… It's just a game of hide and go seek. The world isn't that big…" L dropped sugar into his tea before popping one of the sugar cubes into his mouth, "I feel like he's right under my nose… He wouldn't run after challenging me… No, he would want to fight me head on again. He's devious Watari, but alone, he might have… We need to find this Kira fast… Perhaps, it is case related. I will, however, leave the police task force out of it… This is between me and him."
Watari narrowed his eyes, rarely did L ever irritate him, but this childish game… "This childish game between you two is getting people killed! He needs to be brought to justice!"
L shifted a dull stare to Watari, "I may stand for justice, I may even represent it, but mistake this not, I have no true conviction to the idea… It's the puzzle. I crave the challenge of the puzzle." L stared at his computer screen again and narrowed his eyes, "He's blending well… No one has even reported suspicious individuals… He's being careful… What are you hiding from me?"
B smiled and waved to the family as he was leaving. He walked three blocks before he heard Sayu calling to him, "B! Wait! You forgot your coat!"
He stopped and smiled at her, "You didn't have to worry about that, if I needed it I could have always come back for it."
Sayu frowned, "But… What if it got cold? Or rained? I would be sad if you got sick because you left your coat, and I didn't return it to you."
He chuckled and messed her hair up, "Well… Thanks." He took his coat from her and put it on.
Sayu looked down, "Do you like my brother?"
He paused, "As in? I mean sure, I like him well enough, he's my only friend. Aside from you!" He poked her cheek and laughed.
Sayu smiled brightly, "You consider me a friend?!"
B blinked a couple times in surprise, "Of course. Should I not?"
Sayu sighed and looked down, "All of Raito's friends call me a nuisance."
B gave her a sad sigh, "I don't think that. I like you, Sayu. Yes, I would consider us friends." He patted her head and smiled before turning to leave, "Goodnight, Sayu."
She smiled brightly, "Night, B! See you tomorrow?"
He stopped and smiled at her, "Where do you want to meet?"
She giggled, "Um, how about the coffeehouse downtown? I'll buy you some coffee, you know where it is?"
He nodded and waved, "It's a date then… Uh… Not like that… I'm a little old for you." He laughed nervously.
She laughed loudly, "I get what you meant. See you then!" She waved and started jogging back to her house. B smiled and walked the opposite direction before a high pitched scream caught his attention. "Help! Someone help me! B!"
His expression went grim and he dropped his bag and sprinted to the origin of the screams. "Sayu?!" He ran passed an alleyway but then stopped dead in his tracks when he heard struggling. He rounded the corner and walked quickly, with a murderous smile, "Not a good night for you…" He snapped one of the men's necks with a flash and a quick twists of his hands from the base of his skull.
As the body fell, Sayu fell with him. She scrambled up and hid behind B. He tucked her behind him and stared daggers into the other two. Sayu trembled, "What now, there's two of them… Should we run?"
B stifled a laugh, "Go. Go home. I'll see you tomorrow." Sayu touched his shoulder and he yanked it from her touch, "Go, Sayu!" She gave a terrified expression and she ran down the street to her house.
"Too bad you won't make it out of this alley." One man sneered.
B smiled, "You're lucky, my knife is down the street. Otherwise, you'd be dead already."
They both darted at him simultaneously. He gave a flash of a murderous smile and his eyes flashed as he ducked underneath them and landed a hard kick on the back one of them. He took an unfamiliar fighting stance to the men and swayed slightly. "Neither of you will hurt anyone else. Ever again."
The man who received the blow hissed, "What the hell was that?!"
B grinned, "Capoeira… Brazilian dance fighting… It makes it easy for a little guy, like me, to dodge and attack multiple, larger opponents." He nodded to them, "I don't have all night…"
Sayu ran into the house, face pale, and sputtering out words, "B… Guys… Huh…"
Light stood up and stood in front of Sayu, "Breathe, what? Calm down."
"Three guys tried to drag me into an alley and B stayed behind!" She panted heavily.
Light looked at his mom and ran out the door before she could say anything. Sayu stayed behind with her mom. Light ran down the street and stopped when he heard a loud crash. He ran towards the sound. Light stopped in front of the alleyway and yelled out, "Hey!"
Both men looked up away from B one of them took a hard kick to the chest stumbling him backwards and onto the ground, B narrowed his eyes and grabbed a large piece of glass and lodged it into his femoral artery, through his lightweight pants. "Fuck! Fuck this! This guys crazy!" The last one started to run away and B stood up and chased after him.
Light ran up to the man on the ground and felt for a pulse. "Holy hell…"
The other slumped against the wall, "Hey, kid… Call for help, that man's a freaking murderer…"
Light narrowed his eyes remembering his sister's words, "There is no mercy for scum like you… You'll lay here and die, slowly, painfully." Light clenched his jaw in frustration and leaned against the wall with his phone out, "I'll call after you die… Rotten souls like you, rot this world."
After a few moments of ignoring the man's pleas Light heard footsteps and a dragging sound, he held his phone up to his ear ready to call if he needed too. His eyes landed on B dragging the man back, covered in blood. B's expression was hollow and uncaring. "Raito… Why are you here?"
Light sighed, "You'll have to stay for this one."
B looked at the bodies and dropped the third down in the center, "No. They're rapists… They deserved to die… Go home, Raito… I'll take care of this, it'll look like they've killed each other."
Light glared at B, "You're a danger to yourself."
B looked up and glared back, "No. I'm a danger to the underground society, the one who thinks it can get away with whatever it pleases. I have never harmed an innocent person. I'll never start." He closed his eyes and walked passed Light.
"I have a proposition for you. It was my mom's idea… She hates that you live on the streets. So, she's proposed to get an apartment for us." Light narrowed his eyes as B continued to walk away from him.
B stopped, "I'm an awful roommate. Did you kill the man on the news yesterday?"
Light hesitated before hanging his head, "Not now, B."
"That wasn't L."
"I'm aware."
"L is guilty of many things… But not being a contaminated soul. But, nonetheless, he is rotten. He's numb and can no longer feel." B picked his bag up from the ground.
Light suspiciously eyed B, "How do you know?"
B looked back at him, "Few people can say they've ever met L… I can say, he was once my friend."
x-BB is Free. BB is Awake. BB-x
"I was raised in the valley, there was shadows and death,
Got out alive but with scars I can't forget,
This kid back in school, subdued and shy
An orphan and a brother and unseen by most eyes"