"B" L said looking at his brother ignoring the gasps coming from the task force as they easily figured out that the serial killer was in fact L's twin brother, it wasn't hard to figure out, anyone with a single brain cell could figure out they were twins. They were identical the only difference being Beyond had red eyes to L's black, Beyond wore black compared to L's white t-shirt and faded blue jeans. His twin loved strawberry jam whilst L ate sugary things like cakes and sweets. Whilst they might be identical. That, their intelligence and love for Light, that was where the similarities ended, "What are you doing in Japan? You're on house arrest".
"Well my dear Lawlipop, I was, but then I got bored and then thought it would be so much more fun if I were with you and Kira," Beyond said, "It wasn't like it was hard to get out of the country after all the information on my crime disappeared from the internet,".
"What did N and M do?" Light asked smiling at his best friend, Beyond was trying to make the task force members fear him because he was a known and free serial killer and it would probably work if Beyond was anything to fear.
"Oh, don't you know," Beyond said his mood instantly souring, "I'm telling you, Kira, they are not angels, they teamed up against me! I thought they hated each other but oh no, they were more than happy to get along just to put superglue onto my favourite strawberry red chair in the kitchen. I didn't know, I was innocently getting myself a jar of unopened strawberry jam this fine morning and sat down on my chair, I didn't know what those bastards had done until I went to get off and couldn't move. And that wasn't it that little video gamer menace came into took one look at my helpless situation and took an actual photo before leaving me to struggle to get out of that chair,".
Light started at his best friend, trying to hold back the need to laugh as he pulled his phone out of his pocket, "I'm sorry that they did that to you. I'll make sure they're punished for what they did".
Video Gamer God: (18:47 pm)
For scientific reasons, if you happen to have a photograph of Beyond super glued to his chair please send it over.
Video Gamer Apprentice: (9:48 am)
Video Gamer Apprentice has sent a photo
Video Gamer Apprentice has sent a photo
Light had never clicked on something so fast in his entire life as he did when Matt sent the first photo. Just like Beyond had said, he was sat on his favourite red chair with an empty jar of strawberry jam in his hand with his arms crossed and Beyond was pouting, his bottom lip was thrust out in an actual pout. It wasn't until Light opened the second image that a small laugh escaped his lips, Matt had captured a masterpiece in the form of Beyond, finally pulling himself from the chair ripping the butt area of his jeans and boxers before running off to his room. The photo itself was Beyond climbing the stairs which his butt on view framed by the ripped area of his jeans and boxers.
"You're not going to punish them, are you?" Beyond said looking at the smirk on his best friend's face, "That terror sent you that picture he took,".
"Well, pictures and nope!" Light said cheerfully as he pocketed his phone and grinned at Beyond. Beyond opened his mouth to continue complaining, but Matsuda interrupted them. He was the first person from the task force to regain their ability to speak whilst the others continued to stare at Beyond and L.
"You're… uh… your twins," Matsuda said and Beyond grinned, skipping to L and threw his arm over his brother's shoulder.
"You're a smart one, cutie," Beyond said, "L and I are twins,".
"Your twin brother is a serial killer," Chief Yagami said, no wonder L and Kira were insane and immoral, they grew up with a murderer.
"Hehe, yep! The names B, I would tell you my actual name, but then I would have to kill you," Beyond grinned, taking pleasure as the task force member's face paled, "Just kidding".
"Mr. Yagami, would you please state the exact circumstances which occurred to B which led him to go down the path he did?" Light said, he might accept that his father will never understand his life, his father will never be a part of his life anymore but there was no way in hell Light was going to let his father criticise Beyond for being a serial killer when he knew nothing about Beyond's life which lead for this to happen.
Chief Yagami opened his mouth to argue but Beyond wasn't going to let his best friend get into an argument, so instead, he moved away from L and went over to the cutie, throwing his arm over his shoulder and grinned.
"So now I'm here can we go see the sights, I heard there's a Strawberry Jam museum in town and I can't wait to sink my teeth into it," He said, raising his eyebrows suggestively at Matsuda who went bright red.
"B, you can't call shops which sell Strawberry Jam museums," Light said rolling his eyes, "Anyway, you can come with myself and Matsuda tomorrow to Aoyama,".
"Aoyama?".
"Yeah, it's a well-known area for its international fashion houses, cafes, and restaurants plus we're Merikh searching" Light shrugged, he knew B would come with him regardless, the alternative would be to stay with L in the hotel room and that was just a recipe for disaster.
"You want to let a serial killer onto the streets of Tokyo," Chief Yagami said fuming, he didn't know why he was still surprised whenever L or Kira did or said something irresponsible, this serial killer should be locked up not let free on Aoyama and it's not like he could trust Matsuda to monitor him, that new detective was as incompetent as it came, Chief Yagami still wasn't sure how he became a detective in the first place.
"Yes, he will be with myself and Matsuda, so he'll be fine," Light said rolling his eyes, "And tell me, Chief Yagami, isn't that the reason why we are all here now? Because there is a worse mass murderer on the loose in Tokyo then B ever was,".
With that Chief Yagami shut up whilst Light explained the plan to his best friend and L watched amused, you would always see a different side to his husband when B, Near, Matt or Mello were involved. If Chief Yagami believed he could successfully pick a fight with Light Lawliet, mother to Mello and Near, best friend and 100% of Beyond's impulse control, then the chief was going to get a rude awakening.
Parasite #1: (10:02 am)
Beyond's disappeared
Only Parental Figure: (19:03 pm)
I know
He's here
Parasite #1: (10:04 am)
Is that wise?
Only Parental Figure: (19:05 pm)
Probably not, but it would be worse to leave him unsupervised
He might be useful
Parasite #1: (10:06 am)
How?
Merikh kills from a distance
You can't exactly google him on the dark web
Only Parental Figure: (19:07 pm)
Mello B is useful in other ways.
He can also be bribed easier than L
Parasite #1: (10:08 am)
Do you trust him?
Only Parental Figure: (19:09 pm)
With my life
Parasite #1: (10:10 am)
He's a serial killer
Only Parental Figure: (19:11 pm)
Exactly
It means Beyond would be willing to do anything, even commit murder to help me
A mentally stable person has boundaries and would only go so far
Parasite #1: (10:13 am)
So would L
Everyone knows how much he is in love with you
L would cross any boundaries to keep you happy
Only Parental Figure: (19:15 pm)
Who said that L was mentally stable?
Parasite #1: (10:16 am)
Fair
…
Be careful Mum
Only Parental Figure: (19:18 pm)
I promise Mello
Mother: (19:21 pm)
Beyond is in Tokyo with myself and L.
Be gentle with Mello, he seems worried
Child #1: (10:22 am)
He's not the only one Mum
If anything happens to you either at B's hands, someone on the task force, or Merikh. Mello, Matt, and I will be in Japan faster than you can say Mello's Dramatic Ass.
Mother: (19:24 pm)
What am I to fear when I know I have you, Mello, Matt, and L looking out for me?
Child #1: (10:45 am)
I love you, Mum. I know I struggle to say it to you, but I really do and I'm sure Mello does as well. I'm not sure what we would have been like if you had been there when we came to Wammy's.
Mother: (19:46 pm)
I love you too Nate
Light and Beyond arrived an hour before they were due to meet Matsuda to scout the whole area of Aoyama first looking for possible exits and whether anyone suspicious was already here hoping to find Merikh earlier but unfortunately the only people around were the business owners setting up shop. Soon after they found Matsuda walking around Aoyama aimlessly, searching for someone, Light could only assume was them.
"Matsui, you need to be careful you could draw attention to yourself like that," Light said, walking over to the detective, "especially you-know-who,".
"Oh right, I didn't think about that" Matsuda said rubbing the back of his neck from embarrassment.
"Don't worry Matsui" Beyond said wrapping his arm around Matsuda's, "I'll look out for you".
"Um… thanks" Matsuda blushed, pulling his arm free from Beyond's and moved to the other side of Light. Light rolled his eyes whilst Beyond pouted. Behold the scariest serial killer known to humankind – Beyond Birthday, the strawberry jam loving maniac and full-time pouter.
"… so, how did you two meet?" Matsuda asked after they wandered around Aoyama together, Light's eyes scanned the crowds of people whilst Beyond's eyes stayed glued to people's names and lifespans.
"We grew up together" Light responded but didn't elaborate on that.
"We grew up in the same orphanage and became best of friends," Beyond said smiling, he could remember the day Light turned up at Wammy's like it was yesterday, the brown-haired genius had arrived with L and Wammy and introduced himself as Kira before telling Beyond to leave him alone but that had been about an hour later when Beyond revealed he did in fact know Kira's actual name and Kira had decked him one.
"Oh, I'm sorry if my asking brought up some unwanted memories," Matsuda apologised as he mentally slapped himself.
"Listen Matsui, those years at the orphanage were the best ones of our lives considering what happened beforehand. My brother and I went through hell at the hands of our parents, my bestie ran away from home because all his family ever cared about was his intelligence and not the actual person underneath" Beyond snapped. That shut Matsuda up as they continued walking, but still, there was still no sign of Merikh or the second Merikh. They walked up and down Aoyama trying to look as inconspicuous as possible which was hard when your best friend constantly had his finger stuck in a jar of jam but at least it was peaceful no more questions from Matsuda and even Beyond was keeping quiet, well that was until he finally broke the silence an hour later.
"Umm… Lightie,".
"Don't call me that here" Light snapped as he sharply pointed his head is Matsuda's general direction. It had been risky enough telling Matsuda he had run away from home now Beyond using his actual name. It wouldn't take an idiot to figure out that Kira was the long-lost son of Chief Yagami who had run away when he was seven years old.
"That's the thing" Beyond started nodding his head over to Matsuda, "we've somehow lost Mr. Cutie".
Light whipped his head around looking to where Matsuda should have been but just like Beyond had said – Matsuda was gone.
It was frustrating. Beyond and Light had been walking around for hours looking for either the Second Merikh or Matsuda, and they couldn't find anything or anyone acting/ looking suspicious. Beyond was bored out of his mind and was close to dragging his best friend and beloved brother-in-law to the nearest supermarket to buy strawberry jam considering he had already eaten through the five jars he had brought with him then focusing their attention on finding Mr. Cutie, it shouldn't be hard after all, he could see everyone's name and lifespan floating criminally above their heads so finding Touta Matsuda should, in theory, be easy, that was if he hadn't felt Aoyama already but if he had Beyond was sure his brother would have called Light at least to tell him of Matsuda's return. Beyond was ripped from his spiraling thoughts when a young blonde-haired girl grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him into the center of a small nest of trees, clinging to him and grinning like a madman.
"I found you, Merikh!" the blonde-haired girl said.
