Chapter 28

Red. The red liquid that flowed around me was like the color of his eyes. The body of that girl who made me jealous was laying limp on the ground in front of me. Though she made me jealous, I would never admit it.

I jumped up, wide awake even though it was very early in the morning. Only a few ours until the sun rises. I reached under my pillow and grabbed my pistol, as well as my ninjato. That dream of me killing that girl (no names mentioned) will become real, because I will go to the place that I killed her in my dream.

Hopefully she will be there; and I had a feeling she would. Quickly getting ready, I decided on what sort of punishment I should give her. I wonder if she is about to die anyways. I'll have to check as soon as I see her walk into the alley that I'll hide in. I'll make her punishment slow and painful since I've never been caught before, and it shouldn't matter if I do anyways because L wouldn't let them arrest me. Well, unless he tells them to...

I climbed out of my window, since we were only on the second story if the hotel, and I jumped onto the roof that covered the entrance of the building. Then I slid off, and hurried to the place where I will kill that girl.

There's the fire escape I hid on in my dream, so I'll just do everything the same way as the dream. That bitch better hurry before my bloodlust gets the best of me and I'll end up killing someone that doesn't deserve to die.

I didn't have to wait long. The girl whose name I don't care to know walks under the fire escape. I bunched up my muscles, and squinted my eye to calculate my landing. I sprang onto her, knocking her to the ground.

She squeaked in surprise and pain whenever I slammed the heel of my boot onto her back. I squated down to talk to her.

Lifting her chin up with a forefinger, I forced her to look at me. "Do you know what is going on right now? Tell me what you think is about to happen to you."

She tried to readjust her glasses, but I smacked her hand away harshly. "Answer me!" I spat.

"L-Lamia?" She stuttered as she looked at me.

"Hmm?"

"Why are you trying to kill me? You seemed like such a good person..."

"I'm not trying to kill you, I am killing you." I placed two pale fingers on her neck right next to her windpipe.

The girl rolled away from me and stood up, preparing to run.

"Wait until Belphegor-san learns the truth about you, you sick, sadistic bitch!" She screamed at me.

I let her run a little, then I pulled out my gun. I aimed at her leg and shot. She cried out in pain and toppled over, clutching her leg. I walked slowly up to her. Then I kicked her down to the ground, holding her down with a foot.

"First off, Belphegor isn't even his real name. It's Beyond Birthday. Also, he would not care if you or anyone else told him that I kill people, because he normally helps me. Another thing before you die. Hideki Ryuga is who I guard with my life. Anyone that may put him in danger will be exterminated by me or Beyond," I said every word with no expression at all, unless my eye showed anger. "Any last words before you get what you deserve?" I asked.

"W-Why me? I only wanted to talk to Bel-" she was cut off with a punch to the face.

"It's Beyond!" I told her harshly. "Now please tell me why I shouldn't kill you."

"I only wanted to talk to Beyond and Hideki, and become friends with them or even more." I glared at her when we she said "even more."

"I don't see why you get so mad if anyone talks to them." The girl mumbled and I ignored her.

"Why were you coming here?" I honestly wanted to know why.

"I was going to go to a friend's house..."

This girl...she's so normal. She crushes on people and has friends that care about her. Something is changing my mind about killing her; it's telling me to let her go and live the rest if her life.

I held the gun next to her heart, that way she'll bleed to death and suffer.

I need to hurry and finish this before I start to think twice about killing her again. Think about the blood, the oh so delicious blood if a pure college student that has never did anything bad.

I stuck my finger into the bullet-hole on her lower leg and lifted it up to my mouth to taste her blood. Her brown eyes widened in fright. She seemed so frightened that she didn't even scream in agony whenever I touched the gaping hole on her leg.

"That's right, be frightened of me. Once you are dead, I will feast on your blood." My bloodlust came back once I tasted the fresh blood once again.

Steadying the gun, I placed a finger on the trigger. "Beyond is mine, and I'll make sure no one takes him from me." I told her and pulled the trigger.

The echo of the shot rang through the alley. The girl was still breathing, but ever so slightly. A ragged cough shook her body and blood poored out of her mouth and onto the ground. I placed two fingers on her neck, next to her windpipe, and I jabbed them under the skin and popped the windpipe out of place. That made her stop breathing within a few seconds, and she died.

After I wiped my mouth off because I was done drinking, I spun around when I heard laughter. That shinigami was standing, no, more like floating there.

"Hehehehehe," he laughed. "I noticed you have the eyes of a shinigami. Is that how you choose your victims?"

"Before we talk any further, I want to know what I should call you."

"Just call me Ryuk." Ryuk answered.

"Well, yes Ryuk, I do have the eyes of a shinigami. But I guess you could call it eye now since I lost my left one in a fight. I punish criminals; or whoever I deem worthy of me killing. For example, that girl right there." I said and pointed to the disfigured body of the girl.

"Are you aware that if Kira finds out about you, you could be killed?" Ryuk asked.

I smirked at him. "I do not care. As long as I am alive, Light Yagami will not lay a damned finger on L or Beyond."

"You're a smart one. You know who Kira is. But will you tell anyone who Kira really is?"

I shook my head and grinned, my blood stained lips twitching upward into a grin. "Of course not, Ryuk. Light is helping kill criminals that I could never get to. But, if he tries to kill L or B...well, that's a different story."

The next day we went back to school. The news of the girl's death shocked the class, and they were scared that they would be killed next. The girl's friend started sobbing in the middle of class, and started asking why her friend deserved to die. Some people thought it was Kira that killed her, because there was a theory that Kira could kill in different ways then a heart-attack.

Whenever I went back to the hotel yesterday, I made sure that I stopped to get pastries so I didn't look suspicious. There is no way L or anyone else should know that I killed that girl, because I broke every bug that L had placed on my clothing.

My new plan is to become close with Light so that he will trust me. Then I will eliminate him to save criminals for me to kill. I figured as I tapped my pen against my notepad. I decided to start drawing since I was bored. Neither Beyond or L is in this class of mine, so I had nothing to do and there is no way that I'd listen to the teacher's boring lectures.

When the teacher told us we could have a few minutes to ourselves before class ended, I sat up in my seat and looked at my picture, which was of a black cat. Someone leaned over and looked at the picture, too. When I looked up I seen a teen that looked like a smart ass. She had short dark brown hair and brown eyes, and dressed properly like a student here should. I glanced above her head. Takada was the first thing I seen before I gathered my things and left the class for lunch.