III

I turned and walked straight back outside into the crowd of people, my mind reeling. I had barely gotten a few feet before Blu had latched herself to my arm.

"Just hear me out for a second. Suze. Suzy. Suzy. Suuuuuuuuzzzzzzyyyy."

We must've looked ridiculous. A tall blue haired girl hanging off a short red haired girls arm. The short girl dragging her through the streets like she weighed nothing.

A moment of silence passed before Blu brought out the big guns.

"Susan Boyle, if you don't stop this second I'll spit on your new shoes!"

I stopped and wrestled Blu off of my arm before she could get any closer to my shoes.

"Would you like to explain what the hell is happening then?"

"I was gonna explain that to you. Why did you walk out?" She replied, brushing the dust from her clothes.

I paused for a second,"the author made me do it. She doesn't really know where she is going with this story," Blu stared at me like I was crazy.

"Okay then," Blu cleared her throat and beamed at me, "welcome to Death Note!"

…

'what'

"Why aren't you saying anything," Blu said the smile slowly fading from her face.

I raised my hand and pressed it to her forehead. I then pressed my hand to my forehead.

'Maybe we're sick. Or like a shared hallucination? Is that even a thing?'

The longer I replayed Blu's words in my head the less ridiculous it sounded. I was somehow in Japan. That guy from earlier had basically told me I was dead. I had met a talking cat.

Blu was still babbling excitedly as I took my phone out and looked at the date. The year was the same as when I had looked at it earlier, but the month had changed.

December 19th 2003.

Death Note started in the same year didn't it?

"Why the hell are we in an anime?!"

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"So you, an omnipotent spirit, sent me to a fictional world to help save L because you're tired of your favourite characters dying. But you the omnipotent being, for some reason, cannot save her own favourite character without outside help," I said for the only purpose of explaining it to you.

"That's pretty much it," Blu-Eli or whatever her real name is- shifted in her chair and looked down into the cup of coffee. She definitely hadn't told me everything.

"What about the cat then? And that weird angel guy that threw the cat at me"

"Oh, Jiji? Jiji's here as like moral support I guess. And Dan's the angel guy. I blackmailed him into helping me."

"Okaaaaay...um so can I go home now?" I asked hesitantly. My best friend was literally a God. I wasn't going to get on her bad side.

Blu blinked at me in surprise.

"Home?" She asked, like the idea of me not wanting to help had never crossed her mind. She laughed nervously and clutched at the red mug with both hands, "about that…"

"One blueberry muffin and two chocolate milkshakes," The waiter waltzed up to the table and placed down our order before dashing off to take another tables order.

I stared at her, expecting her to carry on and when she just stared back at me I kicked her in the shin.

"OW! What the fu-"

"Explain," I crossed my arms over my chest and leaned back into the seat.

"...you can't go back. At least not until you save L or live through the whole manga."

"I hate you. Can we just hurry up with the story. I feel like we've been talking for years,"