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Last chapter seemed to have focused more on Beyond and Hood. Yes, we do need more chapters like that otherwise this story wouldn't be going anywhere!
I also think that we've left some of the other characters in the dark for too long as well. There's Zero, which we know nothing about... There is Xanthus but she has had more dialogue than Z. There's Kay but we've all had enough of her! So that leaves A!
We know what L's like... But there will be some L action in soon... Hopefully ;D lol, I'm sure there will be.
But, I don't think anyone would ever get sick of good 'ol B!
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Wow.. That disclaimer seemed to have nothing to do with Disclaiming Death Note... Then again, none of my disclaimers do! XDD LOL
Chapter 15: Snow
Beyond had informed Hood to collect each and every bone that was scattered across the cold wooden floorboards of his room as punishment for learning about his secret... One of his secrets.
He was not going to allow himself to help her in any way. It was all for his own amusement anyway. He found it quite hilarious to watch her cringe and screw up her face, (as if she had been sucking on a lemon) each time she lifted up another and another bone from the ground.
The way she picked it up was quite particular and similar to the way L holds everything; in between the tips of his thumb and forefinger. She had this movement under her belt quite quickly and could almost imitate it as well as L, B noted carefully.
He'd always had an eye for detail.
'Ha ha.' Was Beyond's sarcastic laugh which he had forced to keep in his mind.
Hood was down to the last few bones (which looked like ribs) spread out on the floor.
She grimaced and squatted while picking up the piece gingerly between her two fingers and dropping it in the pile of bones stacked inside the box. The bone clattered against the others and the blonde felt herself cringe.
'Note to self: Disinfect hands! Don't want to get sick!' Her brain screamed.
Beyond watched patiently as she began to pick up the few remaining bones.
She was crouched; her knees pressed right against her chest. Quite similar to how L does it. She would only dare to pick things up between her thumb and forefinger as if it were diseased; just like L. Her facial features nearly had some sort of resemblance too.. Well, actually it was just her pale skin; not nearly as pale and see through as L's, as Beyond could not see her dark blue veins pulsating rich, red blood through her weak, frail system... Underneath her eyes were dark pink bags. They were most definitely not even close to being as swollen and dark as L's, but she had them.
Beyond shook his head as he realised he was staring; glad that Hood had not noticed otherwise she may get the wrong idea.
"Hood!"
The girl clenched her eyes. It had been nearly a full two weeks, yet that name had not grown on her, even in the slightest.
"What." She groaned. "I'm almost finished." She muttered soon after.
"Sitting like that will hurt your back."
The blonde gave him a side glance. "Why do you care..." She spoke under her breath, almost too quiet for Beyond's ears, but he heard it.
'I don't.' He replied in his mind. 'I just don't want you poorly imitating L. I don't want to see it.'
"Because you are my new pet." He smirked.
Hood's release on what she thought was a jaw bone dropped to the floor. The bone did not break but her barriers did. She felt her heart beat completely stop in its tracks as her eyes widened and she began to feel a cold sweat begin to ooze down her forehead and make her palms clammy. Each and every hair on her body had raised and stood on end.
Quite obviously, she did not like the sound of that.
"What?" She breathed.
"You heard me."He replied. "You're my pet. Wasn't it part of the deal that you'd accept it and I'd let you leave?"
"Well you haven't let go of me yet."
"You'll still get to see the light of day again... Unless you find it more comfortable in my wardrobe..."
The girl shuddered, remembering the 10 'Wara Ningyo' nailed inside.
"No thanks... Master." She added rudely.
Beyond raised an eyebrow as the corner of his lip twisted upwards into a deep smirk.
"Master?" He repeated, seeming to be measuring it on his tongue. His eyes rolled upwards as his smirk turned into a grin which could have given the Cheshire Cat a run for its money. "I quite like the sound of that..."
Hood's eyes narrowed. "If you think I'm going to call you that from now on... You're nuts."
Beyond's rough laugh erupted in the space of the room. "You're right... I am nuts..."
The blond rolled her eyes angrily and spotted something behind his desk. She stood from her crouch and began to wander towards it.
Beyond watched quietly as she bent down to retrieve whatever her eyes had layed upon.
Her nimble hands placed themselves upon something smooth as quite rounded. She could not see quite what it was until she began to pull the object towards herself.
A loud gasp burst from he lungs and she felt her hands go numb. What she was holding was yet another skull. The skull of a dog. Could this be that other pet that belonged to Beyond?
"Ah, there he is!" Beyond sang. "He was a good reliable boy in his time." The psychotic teen mused. "Sometimes I find myself missing him... That's a rather strange feeling... I've never missed anybody or anything before..."
The blonde found that quite believable, as she had already began to believe he was a bit of a sociopath.
Beyond laughed. "Maybe that's because he helped me track down the other animals I found on the street!"
'Yep.' She tried to shake off all feeling of nervousness that was building inside of her. To her dismay, it would not leave.
She dropped the dogs' skull into the box and pressed the lid upon it.
"Ok, do you think it's time to bury it yet?" She asked, receiving a nod from the teen.
...
The two exited the large oaken double doors of Wammy's into the yard.
The air was cool and even caused the blonde to shiver. Beyond made no reaction to the cool air and he was wearing less then she was. Thinking about that, the blonde suddenly remembered the strange jacket that was left for her. On its behind was a large red Chinese dragon sewed on, covered the length of her back.
She wrapped her arms around her chest in a vain effort to keep warm while following Beyond to wherever he might be taking her.
He was leading her right across the football field, past the swing they had fought over when they first met and eventually past the tree right at the back where she first caught a glimpse of Zero and Xanthus.
The blonde scowled at remembered Xanthus. The stalker. The one who had tormented her in secret. Why? Was there no reason? Hood barely knew her, the same with Xanthus.
Dark blue orbs followed from the sky and downwards at a floating white flake. The flake fluttered gracefully through the windy air and eventually took landing in Beyond's ebony hair.
Snow. So cold yet so beautiful. Each flake is individual, just like a fingerprint.
Beyond had led her into a clearing inside what seemed to be a forest of trees. Hood hadn't even noticed how far they had gone on account of being lost in her own thoughts.
Beyond's shoulders had caught a few more pieces of snow, as had his hair since she had snapped back into reality. She wondered how many had landed on her.
Beyond noticed the snow flakes on his shoulders after he realised what the blonde was staring at. He brushed them off and they limply fell to the frosted grass beneath their shoes.
He'd brought a spade with him and Hood had brought along the box of bones.
"We are going to bury all of the animals here. If we ever leave this orphanage, we are to unsheathe it from its earthy grave and take it with us."
Us. Did that mean Hood was forced to spend the rest of her life with him? She wasn't sure if she liked the sound of that.
The blonde nodded at her 'master's' orders.
"We don't want anybody to find it... Like Roger. Like L." He growled.
Beyond fell to his knees and began to shovel into the cold, wet, and solid earth with his small spade. Watching for a few seconds, Hood turned her head and tried to figure out which way they had came to get here in the clearing.
Beyond noticed this. "Haylee." He said, successfully grabbing her attention.
The blonde made an internal growl at him. She had no clue as to how he knew her name and he was not willing to tell her, which pissed her off even more. He made it obvious that it had something to do with his eyes, but what?
"Yes, Beyond?"
"The others will be coming out soon. Class will be over in less then 10 minutes so you better get down on all fours and help me make this hole deep enough for it not to be discovered."
Sighing, she fell onto her knees and dug her fingers into the cool earth, pulling out large clumps of dirt and throwing them besides the forming hole.
Beyond had worked with more vigour than she had. He didn't care that he was losing his breath from the speed and depth he was digging at; he just kept going.
...
"Is it deep enough yet?" Hood asked after several minutes of pulling dirt clumps out and scraping her fingers against hardened clay inside the earth.
Beyond nearly couldn't resist making a 'That's what she said' joke but forced himself not to. "Why don't you stick your head in and find out for yourself?" He offered.
The blonde glared at him and picked up the box besides her and dropped it inside the hole. She quickly began to drop those clumps of dirt back on it and Beyond knocked his dirt pile in and they filled the hole with ease.
Patting down the now soft dirt so it will harden quicker, the two realised how much snow had built up around them and their newly filled hole. Beyond decided to take this to his advantage and began to layer the thick white frost over it. The only disadvantage, he realised, was that they both had to cover their tracks, now. And that was going to be a big job.
... Finished. This chapter was quite easy to write, though.
Nothing scary happened, but I'm going to make something that interests you guys in what I hope to be the next chapter.
I actually hope you enjoy reading this more than I had, but hey, I actually put some detail in, at least :D lol!
I noticed that my writing was becoming more and more flawed as chapters went on, so I decided to make up for it and hope it doesn't happen again XDD
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