Chapter 5

Beyond and I were sitting on swings at a nearby park, enjoying the cool air of the evening. I had a sucker in my mouth, crunching on it loudly. I wonder what B's past was like..he must know L personally because of the pictures that he has of them, but where they were torn I couldn't see L's real name. If I had his name, I could hunt him down and kill him. But; that's too risky. Maybe I should find him and become friends with him then kill him? Well damn, I'm crazy. I wonder if people find out the true me if I'll be sent to a mental hospital... I ranted in my mind until Beyond woke me from my reverie by pushing my swing high up in the air.

I flinched because I wasn't paying attention and fell off in mid-air. I landed on the grass with a thud. "Ouch, that hurt." I mumbled under my breath and got up. My clothes weren't covered with dust or dirt, but I still dusted them off anyways and faced my Master.

"You weren't paying attention, were you?" Beyond asked and patted my head, stroking my hair lightly.

"Of course not," I told him as I looked up at his face, staring at those beautiful red eyes of his.

"Well at least I didn't hurt you." He told me and used his thumb to wipe a speck of dirt off of my face. "You wouldn't even care if I did get hurt!" I laughed a bit and playfully shoved him away.

"Your probably right. But I would feel bad if I hurt you." B admitted.

"Really?" I asked hopefully. He sounded like he really meant it.

"Yeah, because it would be pet abuse." I kept a straight face and glared at him as he laughed. His laugh was like an insane person's. But he is insane so... whatever, you get the point.

He quit laughing as he seen me walk closer to him. I rose a fist, acting like I was going to punch him. Beyond's face showed panic for only a mere second, or it was my imagination. Haha, fell for the bait. I rose a leg and kicked him in the stomach, making him topple over, clutching his stomach.

Beyond quickly got back to his feet and stared at me. My eyes widened, and I knew at that moment I had to run. I ran out of the park before BB could start running after me. I heard footsteps close behind, so I bolted across the road.

*Smack!*

Beyond Birthday POV:

Lamia took off running after she seen me get back to my feet. "Ow, she can kick pretty well." I groaned and rubbed my sore stomach. I followed her to the edge of the road then stopped whenever I heard the screech of breaks, and a loud thud.

My red gaze turned to see what the owner of the sound was. I spotted what looked like Lamia had been hit by a taxi, and her figure was laying on the hood of the yellow car; blood trickling from her mouth. I felt my heart skip a beat whenever I seen her, and I ran quickly over to where she was at. The driver of the cab had stepped out and was holding Lamia's head up and asking her if she was okay.

Just whenever I opened my mouth to cuss the person out and grab Lamia, I saw her hand slither into her boot and grab her ninjato. I stayed where I was and smirked, going to enjoy the show. She jumped to her feet and held the blade against the man's throat, pinning him against the yellow car-hood.

"Of course I'm okay, but your not. Time for your punishment!" I heard her normaly quiet and sweet voice hiss and I saw the sadistic glint in her emerald green eyes as she stabbed the man in the chest. She kicked him off of the car and from my distance it looked like he was the one that was hit because of the puddle of blood forming around his body.

Lamia licked the ninjato; frowning slightly at the taste of his blood, and put the ninjato away. She reached into the man's coat pocket and snatched his wallet, then turned and met my curious gaze. She tried to walk over to me but limped, and then she put her hands on her knees and winced in pain. Normally I would think it was funny if someone was in pain, but it made my heart ache for some reason whenever I seen my companion wounded. I quickly walked over to her and tilted her head up so that she was looking at me.

"Be more careful, Lamia. You don't want to hurt yourself anymore than that. Here, let me help you." I offered and held my arms open, but she shook her head.

"I'm-" she paused as she coughed horribly and blood splattered on the ground in front of her. "I'm fine Beyond. We need to go back to your apartment before we cause a commotion." I knew what she meant, because there were more cars going to pass by the scene in a few moments. The only good thing was that we were on a backstreet, and anyone that didn't know the taxi driver would think he was the one that got hit and the driver took off running to escape punishment.

To Lamia's dismay, I put one arm under her legs and wrapped the other around her back as I picked her up. "We need to get out of here," I said as I looked into her wide green eyes. She relaxed in my arms and allowed me to carry her back to safety without complaining.

When we arrived back at the apartment, I held her up with one arm, leaning her against my hip (because she wasn't that heavy) and opened the door, kicking it shut behind us. I gently laid her on the couch and ran to the bathroom to get things to clean her up with.

"Try to stay still." I commanded and dipped a cloth in a bowl of warm water, and wiped the blood from her cheeks and mouth.

I then wiped away as much as I could from the skin that was visible, not wanting to make her uncomfortable by taking her clothes off and cleaning the wounds under them.

"Thank you.." She said and smiled slightly. "Can you leave while I do the rest?"

I nodded and left the living room, going into my room while she cleansed the rest of her injuries.

Normal POV:

I healed up pretty fast over the course of the next few weeks, with the help of Beyond of course. I couldn't thank him enough for being so kind and caring while I couldn't move well. All that was wrong with me was a lot of gashes and cuts on my sides and back, a sprained ankle, and possibly a fractured rib or two. The coughing up blood explained that I had fractured a couple of ribs. Other than the slight pain in my ribs if I moved too quickly, I was back to normal.

Right now I was leaving the candy store, being careful about my surroundings because Beyond wasn't with me and I sure didn't want to go to the hospital if another incident happened. I had spent all of the money from that one man's wallet on candy and stuff, as well as a new cellphone. He surprisingly had several hundred dollars on him at the time.

I stopped at the park that was close to the apartment and called Misa. More than likely she was worried sick about me because I haven't contacted her in over a month.

"Hello? Misa-Misa speaking!" The cheery blonde's voice squeaked through the phone.

"Hi Misa, it's Lamia." I said in a normal tone of voice.

"Lamia-chan! Misa has missed you so much, why don't you come back home?" I mentally face-palmed because I didn't want to go back unless Beyond was going with me. He was what I considered a friend to me and I didn't want to leave him.

"Eh, it's nice getting away from everyone you know? Besides, I've made a new friend, and I don't plan on leaving him yet."

"He?" Misa questioned sounding curious. Shit. Now she's gonna think I have a boyfriend.

"The guy that was in that one picture with me. How did you get that picture anyways?"

"It was online on some website. They said some pretty interesting things about you two on there recently." I could just hear the smirk in her voice.

"What kind of things?"

"Oh not much. Just that you two were caught playing in a park together!"

"That is true Misa, but I assure you nothing is going on between me and my friend. I have to go." I hung up before she could squeal in my ear again, and went to Beyond's apartment quickly, sticking a sucker in my mouth to eat on the way there.