Beyond sat in the entrance exams for Touou university. He sat with his knees up, as usual, but wore his dark suit, along with some false glasses and heavy makeup to cover his scars. Light was near the front, quickly going through the test. Beyond was going through it just as quickly, without much effort on his part. For a top university, this test was rather simple. Though, Beyond wasn't able to judge the difficulty properly, given his….history. At Wammy's, he would have taken this test at age six. He was now nineteen. He had only been testing for about ten minutes, and he was already about a third of the way through.

"Student 162, please sit properly." He heard a moderator say.

Beyond looked in the direction of the voice, and stiffened. Student 162 was wearing baggy jeans, a white long sleeve shirt, and had the messiest black hair he'd ever seen. He sat -squatted, really- on the bench, and was staring at Light. L is here, too...dammit. Beyond thought. He could only tear his eyes away from his rival when he was also told to sit properly. He grumbled and complied. However, when he looked back to L, L was looking straight back with a knowing smirk on his face. Beyond grimaced and turned back to his test. Great, now L knew he was there. Perfect. Beyond just tried to finish the test, though his rate was slightly diminished with the new distraction. It took him thirty minutes to finish it, at which point he flipped it over and leaned back in his seat. Now he had to wait for three hours and thirty minutes to be released. He spent that time observing Light. He finished five minutes after Beyond, and seemed quite bored. Well, it was clear that he was going to have one of the top scores with that attitude. Other than that one instance, however, Beyond had nothing more to make note of. He was bored out of his skull for the remaining time.

The bell rang, signifying the end of the test. Beyond stood up and walked out the door. He hurriedly got out of range of the school, as he really didn't feel like talking to L. Now he had to wait a month for the acceptance letter, and from then until April fifth to give the valedictorian speech. He trudged to his warehouse, not all that happy about the wait. No matter how much he hated it, he still had to wait, and nothing would change that. At least this way he would get to know his suspect.

It was finally April fifth. Beyond smirked and chuckled, walking into the school's auditorium for the ceremony. As he had known, he got a perfect score. He also tied with L and Light, as suspected. They would all three end up on stage to give an acceptance speech. As everyone sat in the same auditorium they had taken the tests in, three names were called.

"Light Yagami, Rue Ryuzaki, and Hideki Ryuuga." They called.

At the last name, a large wave of chatter swelled up. So, apparently L was using the name of a famous idol as his alias. So basically, if Light tried to kill him with that name, he might accidentally kill the idol. Interesting.

As he stood at the podium between L and Light, he listened to some of the students' conversations. One he found amusing. Between three girls. One, Kyoko, had commented on how she liked Ryuuga (or, as he knew, L). One of her friends called her weird, saying that anyone in their right mind would go for Light. The third commented on how she would rather go for himself, as she felt Light was too 'perfect looking', and thus was bound to have some issues. If only you knew.

Another conversation between two boys centered on the first impression the three made. They stated how Light looked like a sheltered genius, his intelligence cultivated like a plant in a greenhouse. They said that L looked like a natural genius, who made little to no effort to maintain his intelligence. They then discussed what Beyond was, finally settling on a mix between the two. Natural, like L, but that natural genius was also cultivated to be even better. Well, they aren't wrong. He thought.

Finally, the paper was passed to him by Light, and he read it off, eyes barely looking at the page. He had already memorized it, simply by reading it as Light had been speaking. After he had finished, he handed it to L, who took it gingerly between his thumb and forefinger and always. Beyond would sometimes hold things like that, but not all the time. Most of the time it was only specific things. Like cell phones. However, he could never hold eating utensils the same way. He waited until L was done speaking before returning to the present. L shook hands with Light, and both were rather friendly with the other.

"Oh, by the way, I'm L." L whispered to Light.

Both Light and Beyond froze. Neither had been expecting that, but for different reasons. Beyond was perplexed as to why L would choose to reveal himself to Kira so soon. He had known that L would do that eventually, but not so quickly. Light relaxed, obvious effort being put into the action. He told L he respected his work, and all three went back to sit. They stayed through the rest of the welcoming speech, but Beyond wasn't paying any attention whatsoever. He was busy trying to find out L's plan with doing such a thing. He knew why L had revealed himself, just not so soon. L wanted to make Kira slip up, but usually he was more patient with things like this. Beyond's eyes lit up in realization. L was being impatient. He was frustrated with the case and not being able to solve it. He had a suspect, but Light clearly hadn't slipped up while he was under surveillance. He had no evidence, and was desperate to solve the case as quickly as possible. He smirked, and narrowly avoided laughing. L had met his match! It was too funny, Beyond could do so much more than L like this. He wasn't tied down in the least by laws, while L could only toe the line. Beyond could also see that Light had to be Kira, while L only had statistics and his intuition. Beyond would beat L this time, and no one could truly stop him.

He was jolted out of his fantasies by a sudden wave of applause. It took a moment for him to realize that the ceremony was over. He stood up and walked out, looking forward to getting back home and away from people in general. He wasn't anywhere near as much of a shut-in as L, but he still didn't like being surrounded by people. He felt someone poke his back and whirled around with a scowl on his face. It only deepened when he saw that the offender was L.

"What?" He snapped, unable to keep the malice from his voice.

L simply looked at him, unfazed by the obvious hatred. "Why are you here, Beyond?" He asked.

He laughed. "You should already know that."

L had to suppress a shudder at the sound. Not much could faze him, but Beyond's laugh made him uncomfortable. "You're hunting Kira."

Beyond nodded. "I am."

L stared at him. "There is no reason why I shouldn't arrest you right now."

Beyond smiled. "But you won't. You need as many people on this case as possible."

"Yes, but while I do need help, you will refuse to do so."

"Fair enough. I'd much rather beat you to the end."

L thought for a moment. "Very well. While the Kira case is active, you will not be pursued. That is the only thing I will provide you. Everything else you will do for yourself. Once the Kira case has concluded, however, is another story."

Beyond grinned. "I accept." He turned away. "Have a nice day, L."

Beyond walked away, leaving L behind him. L turned away as well, and saw Light leaving the school.

"Light!"

Light turned and greeted him. This was going to be an interesting competition. Not only did he have to beat Kira, he had to beat Beyond, as well. He had to resist smirking. The race is on.

A/N: Hi again! As I'm sure you've all realized by now, my writing is pretty fast paced. I really wish I was capable of drawing things out and making them interesting, but even with trying this is all I can get. :/

This will probably be over in a few more chapters, with my style. Although I will continue writing other things, from stupid one shots to a potential sequel. For the moment, though, I have no clue what I'd do for a sequel. Suggestions would be nice, though. I could possibly draw inspiration from them. :3