The first was a boy with a smile so warm it burned. Then there was the boy with a heart of ice. The last was a girl that desparately wished that the darkness would rise up and swallow her whole. Continued from episode 8. Rated M for dark and disturbing content.

ON HIATUS / "Entertain a clown and you become a part of the circus." -Uta/OC- Sadistic tendencies, cannibalism, blood, and a few meticulously crafted masks. Those things are always fun. However bloody the mix, however strangled the path, the end result is still the same. Clowns always have the last laugh.

He was the carcinogenic force hell-bent on breaking her, the solid wall enamoured by a very different kind of monster. Their intertwining fates collapse into misfortune, one after another, like dominoes falling down. Izaya/OC/Shizuo. (EPILOGUE UP)

In a certain building isolated from society lies 26 children in the midst of a project. To be specific, the Athena Plan. Each child has a story within a story. Each story has its own route. Each route has its own destiny. Each destiny is inescapable. This is the story of the Athena Plan, and each child has a story of their own to tell to the ignorant world.

It was the most beautiful song she had ever heard, and it kept the silence at bay. She hoped the music would never die... (Sequel of 'Silêncio' - Written for Zankyou no Terror 1st Anniversary)

One night Nine finds Twelve alone on the building rooftop. Apparently Nine isn't the only one plagued by memories.

L was supposed to die. But after unforeseen forces cause him to live a life void of anyone and everything he knew, he finds himself bored and unable to shake the feeling that his life is now meaningless. Until someone comes into his life that seems to change that. Could possibly be rated M in the future.

"Kissing is an act of affection. Affection makes people feel better. Though it doesn't actually do anything about the physical pain. I get the basic idea of it."

So far, he has always been the one to take that first step. Now it's her turn to meet him halfway.

Five symptoms of Jem Carstairs's "illness," and how Tessa soothes them all.

At a young age, Nate was misdiagnosed. Mihael wants nothing to do with the boy who screams and bangs his head on the wall. But slowly, through a poetry journal Roger forces him to keep, Mello begins to see that Near may need more help than he lets on...