chapter 9
disclaimer: I do not own death note
Vanilla looked herself over once more, she was about to meet up with the greatest detective in the world (she was still a little jealous) and she didn't want to look like she had just rolled out of bed. She had two small braids that wrapped around the rest of her hair to the back where they were joined by a pink lotus flower hair-clip. The rest of her hair was down and wavy.
She was wearing a tank-top that said 'I do not care' but instead of 'do not' there was a big picture of a donut with pink frosting and sprinkles. She had blue jean shorts that were frayed at the bottom and her usual black high tops. She also had some brown sunglasses and some light pink lipstick.
Satisfied with her outfit, she picked up her keys, swung her backpack over her shoulder and left her apartment. It was a kind of long walk to were she was meeting L but she didn't hurry, after all it was only 8, she had a whole hour. She wandered peacefully through the beautiful park. She came here to Heiwanotaki park often, it was a secluded park on the edge of Tokyo that only a handful of people knew about. Vanilla liked it because there were trees everywhere that provided shade in the summer, and people didn't come here often.
She had explored quite a bit and found a few overgrown paths that led out of the park into the woods a little bit. one of them that she had found led to a small clearing with a waterfall, Vanilla had guessed it was about 11 feet tall, falling into a crystal clear creek were the water would pool into one area before falling over the edge into another, much smaller waterfall. On some of the hottest days in summer she would swim there. In some of the deepest parts, the pool was deep enough that she couldn't touch her feet to the bottom without diving underwater.
She lost track of time while wandering around and had to run to make it on time. she headed to the center of the park were she was supposed to meet L. She neared the meeting spot only a minute and a half late. She walked around the fountain and towards the bench. She saw a man sitting there, well, crouching, but whatever. He was wearing a long sleeved white t-shirt and baggy pants. He had messy black hair and dark circles under his eyes.
'is this L?' she thought as she approached the bench. 'he's familiar, now were have I seen him before...' she stopped in front of the bench when the man looked up. Vanilla saw a flash of surprise in his eyes but it was gone a moment later.
"L" she said, not being able to think of anything better to say.
"are you dragon?" He pulled a lollipop out of his pocket. Vanilla nodded, she was at a loss for words and was slightly creeped out by the lack of emotion in his wide eyed stare. She could usually tell people's emotions at least a little bit from their eyes fairly easily, but this was different. She sat down on the bench next to him.
"umm...hi?"
"hello"
L didn't seem to notice the awkwardness that Vanilla did. They ended up talking about the kira case longer than she had thought possible, there was actually a ton of stuff she had missed bud she didn't let L know that.
"your skills are quite impressive. You could be a great help in solving this case" L said thoughtfully.
"uh, thanks"
"would you be willing to risk showing your face to the rest of the task force in order to help?"
"yeah, I did say I would help" L stood up and started walking away. "were are you going?"
"we're going to headquarters"
"we?"
"you wanted to help, right?"
"yeah" she ran to catch up to him.
"so, were is headquarters, L?"
"a hotel. And please call me Ryuzaki"
"ok"
That was a kind of lame ending for a chapter but whatever.