LA! It was a nice day! Mother gave me as a present two little cherry trees and a pot with lavender! I love flowers so MUCH! And can't wait to see my cherry trees blossoming! Ok, enough of my babbling... Let's get on witht the chapter. Once again, this one isn't as eventful, but tomorrow's... I love the character introduced in tomorrow's. But ENOUGH! Here is today's! Hope you like it!
Several hours later, I had said it all. Every detail I knew about Creators had been laid out for them to know, and they looked at me with amazed looks on their faces.
"Man…" Matt began, and took a pack of cigarettes from one of his pockets. He took a cigarette out and lit it, then took a puff. "That feels better."
"Aren't you supposed to be an apprentice doctor? Cigarette smoke is bad for pregnant women." I teased him, nervous. Would they be repelled by me?
"No problem, girl. The wind is blowing the smoke to the opposite side. You're safe." He didn't even look at me.
"This is completely unbelievable." Liam said in awe. "Are you really…"
"Yes." I interrupted in a slightly cranky way. "It's all true. I'm not human. I don't even belong in this realm."
Liam gave me a huge smile.
"That's great!" he exclaimed. "I feel as if one of my stories had become flesh and bone." I couldn't believe it… He was positively beaming!
"NO ONE is to know about this, you heard?" I asked angrily. "This is a MAYOR SECRET!"
"We got it, we got it." Matt said, ruffling my hair. "You're safe with us, kiddo."
"You can't call me kiddo any more, Matt. I'm at least a hundred and fifty years older than you." I winked at him. I was relieved they were taking it well.
"I wonder how the kid will come out." Matt said, taking his Game Boy out and turning it on. "He's going to be an interesting one."
The direction of the wind changed and blew the smoke from Matt's cigarette on my face. I took it from his mouth and crushed it under my heel ignoring his complaints. I smiled at him sweetly.
"He's going to be a great kid. I know it. I'll give him my very best." I sighed. "I guess I'll have to actually pay attention to what my brain says from now on." I winked at Liam, who wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
I looked at the stars above and thanked them for giving me such good friends. At last, I began to feel at home again.
My duties had changed. I still did the shopping and acted as a waitress for the detectives in the Kira case, but now I also sang to them and played music for them when they were tired. L hadn't bought me the piano, since we couldn't move it around from hotel to hotel. Still, he bought me an electric guitar and a violin. I had mastered them quickly, and enjoyed playing for the detectives, who were a good audience. They enjoyed what I played. Ryuuzaki showed no emotion at all when I played. In fact, he didn't even look at me. However, I guessed he liked it because he kept asking me to play or to sing, and he bought me the instruments. That showed SOME interest at least, didn't it? It thrilled me. My small crush on him was growing.
I didn't pay much attention to the Kira case. Whenever I thought of all the people he had killed I got so mad it scared me. Once again, it must be the Creator blood.
I went inside the kitchen and prepared some tea. I also got the cake I'd baked that morning at Aizawa-san's house. Since this was a hotel suite, we had a small kitchen, but to ask for an oven would be too much. Aizawa-san and his wife lent me theirs. She thought I was a foreign exchange student that loved baking cakes, though. She had no real idea of who I was, or my connections to the great detective.
I put the kettle and the cake on a tray and went out. In the living room, I found a completely new face.
"Ah, Nilla! Come here." Yagami-san motioned to me with a smile. "I want you to meet someone."
Matsuda-san took the tray from me and I walked to Yagami-san, who with a parental air put a hand on my shoulder and introduced me to the new person.
"This is my son, Light. He'll be helping us with the investigation from now on."
I looked at Light. He was cute, extremely cute. But his eyes were so cold it was scary.
"Hello, Yagami-kun. I'm Nilla." I said, outstretching my hand. He took it.
"I'm Yagami Light. Pleased to meet you."
I was confused. I didn't know why the guy made me so nervous. His eyes were emotionless, sure, but so were Ryuuzaki's. However, L's were emotionless in a blank sort of way. Light's were in a calculating sort of way.
"Ryuuzaki calculates a lot too. He's L, the greatest detective in the world, remember?" an inner voice asked as I poured the tea and cut the cake.. "Light's eyes seem to be more honest than L's, in a way. Shouldn't that be a good thing?"
I didn't answer the inner voice, I just kept staring at Yagami Light in confusion. There was… something about him. I could feel it, but I couldn't reason it.
When the detectives were gone for the night, I took Ryuuzaki a plateful of strawberries and some Earl Grey tea. He was working in the computer, checking and rechecking evidence.
"Ryuuzaki, what's the deal with Light?" I asked, sitting on a chair beside his.
"I suspect he may be Kira. However, I don't have enough evidence to prove it." He didn't even look at me as he worked.
"Then why is he working with you?" I asked, surprised. "He could learn vital information about you, and, in the end…" I paused. It was too horrible to even think about it. I looked at the dark-haired man in front of me, pictured him lying dead and cold… a shiver ran down my spine. He was looking at me now, but his eyes were like mirrors that didn't let me in.
I impulsively took his hand and squeezed it.
"I'll take care of you." I vowed. "I'll do my best to protect you."
He gave me one of his blank looks.
"There is no way you can do that, and you know it."
I opened my mouth and closed it, but no sound came out. I was like a fish, unable to say anything of relevance.
"I appreciate the thought, but you surely realise there is no way you can go against Kira. Thank you, anyway." He turned back to the computer, and I just stared at him for a moment.
"I may not be able to go against Kira, but I assure you I…" My voice broke. Why did I care so much?
Then, I stood up without a word and went out. I went out of the hotel suite and walked up to the roof. The moon wasn't full, and the sky roared with thunder, but I felt at peace with the cool air hitting my face.
I was sad and hurt. Ryuuzaki was too blunt, and I was too childish, taking everything to heart. Why couldn't I begin to grow up?
I lay down on the roof, looking at the dark cloudy sky. I thought about leaving, about running away. Where would I go? What would I do? What kind of people would I meet? It was an interesting thought. I began to weave a fabric of fantasies that developed before my very eyes. However, every dream led back to one important point. Every path I walked, every place I visited, it all came back to Ryuuzaki.
I didn't know a single thing about him. I didn't know anything about his past, his present, his future. He was completely shrouded in a black cloak of mystery, standing at the top of a mountain I could not climb. Why did I care so much about him? Where was the logic behind my thoughts and actions? I smiled to myself, calm again, the sadness gone. There probably was no logic, there most certainly was no reason. Still, I was here, and so was he. I would do my best to follow, even if I could not be beside him. Even the great L must be discouraged sometimes, and in need of a friend. I would be with him, right there waiting, ready to offer him everything I had and everything I was. After all, he wanted to save the world from the grasp of Kira, didn't he?
The rain began to fall. It stroked my body gently, and I enjoyed the sensations it caused. After a few minutes, I sighed and stood up, I didn't want to catch a cold. Looking to the door, I saw him.
"Ryuuzaki! What are you doing here?" I exclaimed in surprise.
"I sometimes like to watch the moon. However, I can't see it tonight." He answered, looking up at the sky. Y smiled, and took his arm gently.
"You're soaked. Come on, we cannot have the great L catching a cold, or can we?"
I pulled him back inside the building and into the suite. He seemed to be completely lost in thought, unaware of what was going around him. I led him into the bathroom and he sat on the toilet like a normal person, not pulling his legs up. I sighed and grabbed a towel, then began to dry his hair. It worried me that the shirt was cold and wet, clinging to his body.
"Ryuuzaki… I need to take your shirt off. Is that all right with you?"
He just stared at me, and then whispered a single word:
"Yes."
I gulped and pulled his shirt off gently, then began to dry off his neck, chest, arms, and still, he looked off into space. Soon, he was dry except for his pants. I wasn't about to touch those. I thought about what to do when suddenly, I realized how cold I was.
"Ryuuzaki-kun, I'm going to change my clothes. I'm freezing. You'd better take a hot shower and get out of those wet pants. I'll have tea and cake ready for when you come out, ok?" I said in a nice voice.
He seemed to snap out of his trance and became his old, usual self.
"Thank you, Nilla-san."
I went out of the bathroom, a towel in my hand and my heart pounding. Whoa. That had been a close one. And he really looked good without a shirt. I smiled to myself and went to my room. I dried myself off and out on my warm pyjamas. Then, I went to the kitchen to make the tea and get the slice of cake. When that was done, I made myself a sandwich. Unlike him, I couldn't survive on cake. I left the tea ready for him and went to bed, while the sky was filled with thunder. I listened to it. Combined with the rain pounding on my window, it was like a lullaby to me. I soon fell asleep.
