A/N: I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON AND I AM SO SORRY! No excuses, no nothing...just...oh my god...I am so awful. I ended spending more time drawing and being on deviantART, that I ended up writing less and I was stuck with THE WORST WRITER'S BLOCK every single time I tried to continue a story. I'm sorry, guys! DX Please forgive me. I hope this chapter came out alright and I really feel just awful for making you all wait so long. n.n

As time went on, our search for Kira was starting to seem like a wild goose chase. There were still no leads whatsoever and everyone was getting tired of searching at this point. No matter what we couldn't seem to be able to find even one thing that linked the killings together... That is...until Souichiro Yagami seemed to finally have come up with a solution. After seeing the connection, I almost couldn't believe I'd missed it. It was so obvious...

We started doing research on a company called Yotsuba and we were eventually able to find out who had been doing the killings. This was it. This is was where all that hard work finally paid off. I was actually starting to get a little excited over this as I used to be. Things were finally moving forward. We had our culprit, we had a perfect plan...even after Matsuda went and messed things up, we still had a way of fixing things. Nothing could stop us now.

However, after we caught the killer...it would seem he died of a heart attack before we could even take him in or question him any more than we already had... I felt a feeling of utter hopelessness... It would seem that catching Kira wasn't that easy... The only thing that was accomplished was the removal of those dreaded handcuffs...

Soon after everything happened, we held on to this "Death Note" that the killer had been using to carry out his murders and made sure to examine it closely. Around that time, we also became acquainted with a shinigami. It was strange...but I suppose it was just something I'd have to deal with. However, even after that, we still couldn't find much out about who the real Kira was...rather...no actual proof that it ws Light so far... Although...he had been acting...different ever since we got the Death Note...

Yes...now that I think about it...he isn't quite the same, now... He seems to actually tolerate Miss Amane a little more now and doesn't deny her being his girlfriend anymore... On top of that, he's become a little more hostile towards me. A simple hello to him could sometimes result in a sneer or a glare from him... At some points, he'd smile at me and would seem act like the friend he claimed to be...but when I looked into his eyes...it looked like it was all nothing more than an act...

I suddenly started to hate the idea of ever wanting to be friends with Light Yagami...I started to resent him more...every time I looked at him...I couldn't see anything more than some spoiled brat who thought he was above me... I saw nothing more than Kira. There was no way this could have been a coincidence... I bet he's using Miss Amane again...and he's only putting on acts to fool everyone... But he's a bigger fool than I thought if he expects to trick me that easily. No way was I going to let him in...

However...no matter what I believed...no matter how much I wanted to just catch him already...there was no actual evidence to prove that Light was indeed Kira once again...

More time went by without much to go by...more lives were lost as I had to sit there... unable to help any of them all because I couldn't do my job as a detective well enough to catch Light. And then one specific date popped up...it was Halloween. Misa had come by with, yet another, revealing outfit, this one apparently meant to look like a bat... I'd already had a headache and hearing her whine and complain to Light about how she was "bored" and how badly she "just wanted to go do something," I couldn't handle it. I told them to just leave for the day and that we would continue working the next day. After that, I went up to our room where I laid in bed and shut out the world.

As I finally started to drift off into a deep sleep, I was startled by something large falling on me. On instinct, I immediately struggled to get away from it. When I realized it was a person, I kicked with all my might and managed to send them flying to the other side of the room where they hit the wall and fell to the floor. I got out of bed and walked over to the person only to see Beyond Birthday, sitting there and rubbing the back of his head.

"Fuck, Lawliet, was that necessary!?" he yelled.

"What were you expecting?" I replied in a dull tone. "You attacked me and I simply gave a natural response."

"Bullshit! I did not attack you, I hugged you, damn it!"

"You give very strange hugs then..." I frowned.

"Why the hell are you being so cold to me, L?" B stood up. "I came here just to see you on your fucking birthday and...a-and all you do is kick me into fucking wall and then talk to me like some unwanted parasite!"

"Perhaps you are just an unwanted parasite..."

"Cut your shit!"

For some reason I felt a small smile start to form. I couldn't help it, I suppose... Although arguing wasn't ideal...I missed having contact with Beyond. "I'm sorry," I said simply.

"That's better..." he replied as he returned the smile. "Now tell me what's wrong."

I simply shrugged as my smile left. I walked over to my bed again before sitting down. "I just don't feel well, I suppose..."

Beyond frowned before coming over to the other side of the bed and sitting next to me. "It's because you're all alone today, isn't it..."

"...I don't see why today should be any different than any other da-"

"Shut up, L. We both know how lonely you get on your birthday..."

I sighed and looked down. "It doesn't matter..."

"Like hell it doesn't..."

"You're here, aren't you? So it does not matter..."

I felt his arm on my shoulder as he held me close to him. He started to slowly rub my head and I couldn't help but close my eyes and lean into his touch as he did it.

"Lawliet...I'm afraid...we won't be able to see each other after you catch Kira like we planned..." As he said it, Beyond's voice cracked slightly. It almost firghtened me...to hear something like that from him and even more, to hear him sound so upset.

"...why not..." I muttered.

There was a moment of silence before I heard Beyond speak again. "...you're going to die in five days..."