~Help me realize what is happening,

Before I'm gone.~

Beyond's POV

Ryuukin Yamada. That girl was crazy. Everything about her was odd. Her personality, her choice of clothes, her plans, but mostly her strength and dreams.

She has a room next to mine, and I always hear her sleep talking. Most of it makes little sense, but tonight she wouldn't stop screaming. According to Naomi, Ryuukin wouldn't wake up. Nothing calmed her, except when I came in. Of course, she woke up.

She explained that certain people's presences cause different reactions to her, although she wasn't sure why. Strange that me, a murderer, calmed her, but that was not exactly my first thought. No, I said my first thought aloud, unfortunately.

"Well Ryuukin, your really soft aren't you? Act hardcore, really a softy." I couldn't help it, but I did feel bad when she cried. I hadn't meant anything by that, why was she crying. "G-g-get out. G-get out, N-N-NOW!" She yelled.

I knew better than to disobey. The rule was obey or be shocked, and I really didn't want to be shocked in the middle of the night. I returned to my room, and threw myself at the bed.

I'm such and idiot! Why did I say that? I didn't mean it. I figured Ryuukin had been through alot, but I didn't know what it was. At first I thought she had been abused or maybe she was abandoned, but that didn't fit. She's to confusing.

God, she was hard to read, but the girl could get a person's life story by looking in their eyes. She's an outstanding fighter, but she hates violence. Her intellegence surpasses even L's, but she always acts like an idiot. She's very pretty, but hides her face behind a cat mask. I can't see her name either, which is strange, but everyone has a name, right?

Ryuu's POV

Stupid Beyond, he doesn't know what I've been through. And Tikoga, she says she's always been there...ALWAYS. She says she's watched me since I was a baby, so...so maybe she knows about my curse! I'll ask her! Well when I see her.

I force myself out of bed and get dressed. I've got to get TNT to school. Not dynamite, Twitch and Terra. They started calling themselves the TNT twins. They were already ready and I rushed them out of the house. There was no way I was going to face Beyond today.

Besides, I was also going to meet Light today. We made an excuse for hanging out together, the Kira Case. He recogized me, while I was in school. We're in the same class and we sit next to each other. He knew I knew about the hijacking incident, so he was trying to be nice.

I dropped the twins off at kindergarden and ran to meet Light. Once I got there he was watching me." Your late." "Yeah, I know. I had to drop my brother and sister off at school." I said. "Oh, sorry. I didn't know." He said apoligetically.

The whole afternoon was spent more like a date, at least what I assumed was date-like, than any discussions about Kira. We went to the park, walked around a little, and talked. Afterwards, I showed Light my favorite sweet shop and we got a couple doughnuts.

Light looked kind of upset when I said I had to leave, but he didn't try to stop me. The whole time I was trying to ignore Ryuk, but the shinigami was burning holes through me. I really hated it. I said goodbye to Light and walked of.

Taking a shortcut would be good now, so I cut through an alley. Big mistake. There was a group of thugs in the alley, four men, all about 6 foot 5 inches. I ignored them and continued walking. One of them, made the mistake of grabbing my arm.

Instinctively, I swung around and hit him in the jaw. The man let go in suprise and stumbled backwards. The other thugs moved in closer, all coming at me at once. One swung at me, but I dodged and leapt at the wall nearest me.

I lunged for the nearest man, one with red hair, and brought my fist down on the back of his neck. I must have hit his spine because he collapsed instantly. A shaggy haired man came forward next. He tried taking out my legs, but I jumped back, got low to the ground, and slipped behind him.

I used the same trick on this guy as I did on the other guy and recieved the same results. An earthy-haired man charged me from behind. He got one hit in, but that didn't even phase me. This time I launched my self of a wall and into the man he slumped to the ground after his head collided with the opposite wall.

I thought it was over until I remembered there was one more thug somewhere. Running through the basics I checked everywhere left, right, above, below, behind. Sure enough he was behind me, with a knife to boot. The thug charged me and I sidestepped, but he grabbed my arm. Turning to face me, he raised the knife.

As he brought the knife down, I pulled back. Instead of plunging into my chest, the knife collided with the left side of my face. The pain was incredible, a burning and stinging feeling as metal met skin.

Didn't scream, I couldn't. My eye was soaked in blood, I couldn't feel my eye. Shaking, I brought my free hand to my bloody eye. It was...gone...my eye was gone. The man shreiked and let go of me. There were gleaming silver talons wrapped around his throat.

"Tikoga..." I murmured. Tikoga slammed the man into a dumpster and shut the lid. She looked, smaller. "Tikoga...my eye...I-I want to make the deal. The eye of a dragon, is that fine?" I asked, recieving a nod.

Light's POV

Ryuk's snickering was worrying me. Ever since Ryuukin left he's been like that, and since he could see how long she would live for, I was worried that she was going to die.

I followed the direction she went and found her sitting in an alley. As I came around, I gasped. She was shaking violently and holding both her hands over a bloody gash. I reached for her hands, to move them, but she pulled away."Ryuukin, let me see. Show me how bad it is." I said, reaching for her again.

This time she didn't resist, but she looked terrified. As I moved her hand the first thing I noticed was her eye. It wasn't the beautiful electric blue as her other eye. Now, it was golden and reptilian. "R-Ryuukin...What...?" I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Before I could question her, two children ran up to her. The boy bandadged her injury while the other tried to calm her. When they were done they lead Ryuukin away.

"How...interesting..."Ryuk muttered.

L's POV

Naomi explained that Beyond-san never returned to their head quarters. I was slightly disappointed, since I had hoped to meet him face to face. She said he may be able to come the next time.

For now, I would continue with the case. If I remember, though, Yagami san had said something about his son taking entrance exams for college soon. Since the boy was my only suspect so far, I may be going as well.

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