October is always a rather hectic month for me. There's Halloween to prepare for, midterms, registering for classes for the spring, and for some reason a plethora of babysitting jobs. I'm trying to get back on track so hopefully updates will be a bit more regular.

Sakura: Well, the girls may think they're helping, but I'm sure to L they'll just be causing him trouble and a headache.

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"Why's Light looking at those naked girls?" Hiroko asked, poking her head over the edge of the couch that L and Soichiro occupied.

"G-Girls!" Soichiro nearly jumped out of his skin as Naoko sheepishly came around the side of the couch. "You two should be studying. What are you doing out here?"

Hiroko flipped over the back of the couch and wedged herself between L and Soichiro. "We're tired of just studying! We want to go outside and play. It's boring having to stay in here all the time. Right, Naoko?"

Naoko nodded her head, standing nervously beside Soichiro. "Can't we go outside for just a bit, Ryuzaki-san?"

"That's out of the question." L answered, his eyes never leaving the screen, though he did shove Hiroko with his elbow when the child got to close to him. "Girls, did you ever notice any strange behavior when you were living with the Yagami's?"

"Nope." Hiroko piped up. "They're all very nice and would never hurt anyone!"

"There you two are." Watari walked briskly into the room. "I'm sorry, Ryuzaki. Girls, come with me."

Hiroko sighed and reluctantly slid off the couch, obediently following the old man. Naoko gave Soichiro a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Everything will be okay, Soichiro-san." She said before rushing after her twin.

As soon as she entered the room, Naoko knew something was wrong. Hiroko was sitting tensely on the couch while Watari sat in his usual chair, a large manila folder on the table in front of him. Cautiously, Naoko went over to the couch and sat by Hiroko. "What's wrong, Watari-san?"

Watari sighed. "Girls, Ryuzaki requested that I retrieve your files from your previous schools since Soichiro refused. You two have gone to quite a few schools." He said as he opened the folder.

"That's because all those kids were really mean!" Hiroko protested. "We didn't do anything wrong!"

"You are not in trouble, Hiroko, Naoko." Watari assured, seeing the panicked looks on the twin's faces. "I am merely curious how when you were five, Naoko, you managed to throw an eight year old boy up into a tree."

"I didn't touch him." Naoko said softly. "He was being mean to me. He pushed me and kept calling me a freak. I got upset and blacked out for a few minutes. When I woke up, he was up in the tree screaming."

"You aren't going to tell Ryuzaki, are you?" Hiroko asked, desperation clear in her voice. "I don't want him to think I'm a freak."

"How are you two able to do these things?" Watari asked as he continued flipping through the thick file. "It says here that you, Hiroko, found a little boy that had been lost for a few weeks when you were only four. You threw the boy into the tree, Naoko, and this is only what's on the top of the file."

Naoko and Hiroko looked nervously at each other. "Will you promise not to tell the others?"

Watari glanced at the folder and sighed. "Ryuzaki only wanted the basic information. He never said anything about things like this. One question, though, girls, have you two ever killed anyone?"

"No!" Both shouted in unison. "Those times we hurt those bullies were an accident but we never killed anyone!" Hiroko continued.

"We're not Kira." Naoko added, knowing what Watari was getting at.

"I suppose you wouldn't be." Watari said softly as he took the papers about the strange events out of the folder and slipped them into his coat pocket to dispose of later. "If you were, you would've killed L by now. Now, how are you two able to do these things?"

The two looked at each other before Naoko began speaking. "We've always been able to. Mommy told us it was because of her and her family. We're special, that's what Mommy always said. She was teaching us how to control our powers, but the bad man killed her before she could finish."

"What about the rest of her family?" Watari pressed. "Are they special too?"

"Yeah." Hiroko answered. "At least, that's what Mommy told us. They're all dead. Mommy said our family is cursed. She told us how everyone in her family dies young, especially those that had twins."

Watari frowned. "How young?"

"Well, Mommy said no one in her family has ever reached thirty." Naoko said softly. "Mommy was twenty-nine…"

"Watari, Ryuzaki wants to speak with you." Matsuda poked his head into the room. His smile faltered when he noticed how upset the two girls were. "Everything okay?"

Hiroko and Naoko both quickly put on their brightest smiles. "We're fine, Matsuda." Hiroko assured, remembering the words her mother had drilled into the two of them.

"Never let anyone too close. In the end, they'll hurt you and leave you, especially once they find out what you can do. Always smile, even if you want to cry. Never let anyone know what you're really feeling. It's the only way for people like us to survive."

The two hadn't been able to help crying in front of the others after their mothers death. It was difficult to shake their mother's words, though, even though they really wanted to trust Ryuzaki and the others. The only reason either had conceded the information to Watari was because he already had the evidence in front of him and he was no ordinary adult. He would've known if they had lied.

Watari stood up and walked to the door. He paused at the doorway and glanced over at the two girls. "If you two finish your homework, I'll talk to Ryuzaki about allowing the two of you to go outside a bit. It's not good for children to stay cooped up all the time."

"Thank you, Watari!" Both girls shouted in unison before diving into their work. As soon as Watari and Matsuda had closed the door behind them, Naoko glanced over at Hiroko. "Do you think Watari-san hates us now?"

Hiroko shook her head as she finished off her first sheet of math homework. "I know Mommy's always told us that we shouldn't trust people, but I think Watari and the others are different. I think we can trust them."

"You don't think they'll hate us?" Naoko asked. "Mommy said people hate people like us."

Hiroko rolled her eyes. "Please, Ryuzaki would have no right to hate us. I think he's even weirder than the two of us put together."

The two girls looked at each other before bursting into laughter.