SIMPLE, YET HARD

The bell rang and Sunako headed towards to park. Children cried and plants withered. Some people screamed in terror and ran away. Which was why, when she arrived to the north entrance of Hibiya Park, it was near deserted. But she paid no attention to this revelation. It made her feel more at ease with no one around. She didn't even know what she was going to say to him when he came.

She ended up being rather early, so she sat on a bench and waited for him. Several minutes passed by and Sunako began to feel anxious, so she took out John and began to polish him. Looking around, she began to wonder if he was even going to show.

A moment after she began to panic, he rounded the corner, chained to Light as usual, and Misa as well.

"Sunako-chan!" Misa called, smiling. Sunako grabbed her things and joined them.

"Hello," she greeted. Misa shivered after a moment.

"Sunako-chan, since when were you so…scary?"

"This is normal for her," Ryouga answered. "You get used to it after a while."

"Oh? Ryuuzaki-san was scared too?"

"I've dealt with much worse than a Gothic Lolita."

"OK, but why does she have a skull? I never noticed it before," Light asked.

Ryouga blinked and looked at John. "Is that thing real?"

Sunako nodded. "I got John after Josephine, a few weeks after the event."

Ryouga nodded. "Bought him online?"

"Actually, a friend of mine was a biology teacher and he offered to give John to me sine he was getting new skeletons."

"I still think it's scary," Misa muttered.

They headed over to the bench. "So, Ryuuzaki-san, do you have anything to say to Sunako-chan?"

"I've no idea what you mean," he said, pressing his thumb to his lower lip and looking towards the exit.

Sunako groaned and continued polishing John.

Misa frowned and exchanged a look with Light. Light shrugged and nudged him while Misa and Sunako headed a little ways away.

"You can't ignore it the whole time. You two gotta talk this out," Misa said.

"I don't see why I should be the one to apologize," Sunako said. "I didn't want any tutoring in the first place."

"What you have to understand about Ryuuzaki-san is that he hates to loose. I guess he thought that if he let your grades slide, then he'd be forfeiting to a challenge. He wasn't trying to do it to be mean or anything like that."

"I know," Sunako said, glancing over at him. "I just don't like anything that has to do with math."

"I hate math too, Sunako. And though I'm sure that I'm not as smart as you, I know that Ryuuzaki really cares. He feels down because you ended up beating him on two accounts at the same time."

"He's not the kind to give up and neither am I."

"Actually, from what I've seen, you are. You gave up on math because you don't understand it. Just give him a chance to help you."

"He's got better things to do, right?" Sunako asked hopefully. "His job looks rather time consuming."

"I'll admit that that's true. But he really likes you. All you have to do is apologize, right?"

"It's a lot harder than you think. I know that someone has to say it, but I don't want to be the one to admit the fault."

"But you are the one at fault," Misa said. "Sunako, all he wanted to do was help and you shot that down. Then you pretty much defeated one of the strongest men I've seen. He's been feeling down, concentrating only on his job nonstop! Something's gotta give."

Sunako stopped polishing John and looked at Misa. "I guess you're right. But I don't like it."

"Man! You're stubborn! Ryuuzaki-san's really got his hands full," Misa said. Then she clapped her hands. "If you do well, there's a chance that Ryuuzaki might tell you a little more about his job and maybe even let you join!"

Sunako sighed. She did want to know what it was exactly that Ryouga did. She wondered from time to time if he was the son of a Yakuza gang leader or a spy. She even suspected one time that he was L himself. But did she have to get better at Math to find out? "I guess that means I have to work hard on my math, doesn't it?"

"You can do it Sunako-chan!"

Sunako nodded and stood, heading over to them. Misa followed, wondering what was going to happen next. She kept her fingers crossed.

"Ryouga-san," Sunako addressed. Ryouga and Light looked at her. "Gomenesai."

Light and Ryouga looked past Sunako and at Misa, she gave them a victory sign. Ryouga stood and patted Sunako's head. "S'alright," he said. Misa couldn't help but coo and Light looked a little disappointed.

Sunako smiled. "I got to go now or else my housemates will get grumpy with the lack of food." With that, she left, waving at them before turning the corner.

L nodded one hand in his pocket and his thumb still pressed against his lip. "She can be cute if she tries."

"Baka! That was when you were supposed to kiss her!" Light shouted. L looked at him.

"It was?"

"It doesn't matter, Light-kun. They looked adorable just then."

"He was still supposed to kiss her."

"Light-kun, give it a rest," L said. "We gotta get back to HQ as it is."

"You need your sweets?"

L smiled; his eyes wide. "Yes."