::Open RP - A's Garden::

[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

It was a lovely day, really.

Even if the weather had been less than ideal, A would have gone to the garden. The plants needed to be tended, after all, and right now he's kneeling by the catnip bed, pulling out the few weeds that have dared to encroach on his territories.

Now that he has a computer with an internet connection, A is Discovering music, and he's singing, very badly, as he weeds.


"Everyday seems a little longer
Every way love's a little stronger
Come what may
Do you ever long for, true love from me"


He can't carry a tune, but there's an odd hiccuping tone to his voice that's a clear attempt to mimic Buddy Holly.

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[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"There were three murders," Naomi began, and proceeded to explain about the setup with the wara ningyo, nails, and thumbturn locks, the excessive cleaning of each scene, the obscured "clues," etc., and how she'd been enlisted, gone to Insist Street, and found B under the bed.

"He was calling himself Rue Ryuzaki at the time."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"... that's a bit creepy," Matt says. To B using 'Ryuzaki'; hiding under beds and wiping lightbulb sockets aren't as using L's alias.

Well. Maybe the hiding under beds part. Matt shudders, and lights another cigarette as soon as he finishes the first.

"How did he explain that? Just say he was investigating?"

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"He said he was hired by the victim's family. In fact, it turned out he'd gotten himself hired by all three families. How he managed that I'm still not sure."

She explained then how in retrospect he had impersonated L, though one would only be aware of this if they'd seen the real one - the posture, the sitting position, the preoccupation with sweets. Then the "uncovering" of the clues he'd planted, the random attack, etc. All up to the day they'd been waiting in apartments nine floors apart. Then how he'd let slip the knowledge she knew capoeira, and how that had fit in to send her running down nine flights of stairs to 404 -

"Then I put him out and arrested him."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Holy shit. He set himself on fire? That's worse than Mello."

Not that he's comparing his best friend to B, or anything. But Jesus fucking Christ - is he the only Wammy's graduate who doesn't think exposing yourself to lethal amounts of fire is a perfectly good tactical move?

"He's not burned, though. Does he come from an earlier point in the timeline or something?"

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so. He remembers me, and he wasn't exactly happy to see me when I came here. He said he was killed by Kira, though I don't remember hearing about it - it might have happened later. He also claimed he lost the burns when he arrived. For whatever his word's worth."

It was more plausible than extensive cosmetic surgery in a prison hospital, though.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"The Kira thing makes sense. I normally wouldn't trust a thing he says, but it's not like the story was kept out of the press..."

He shrugs. (He does that a lot.)

"Sucks that proving it was him involved having to stop him from burning to death, though," Matt adds, a little darkly.

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"Mm."

Naomi had sometimes felt a certain ambivalence regarding B from time to time, but it was a lot simpler to be ambivalent about him when he was out of the picture, no longer a threat.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt nods, scratching behind Koopa's ears.

"It can't have been all that great, finding him here. Kira, too."

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"Not really, no."

She sometimes rethought her initial decision not to kick Light in the face on sight. All in all, she doubted the consequences would have been that great. Too bad she'd already decided to be civilized.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Beats being dead, though." He thinks about this for a moment. "Probably. Not like I remember much about it. But hey, I'd take drama over fucking 'mu' any day."

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"'Mu?' Is it any relation to Zen Buddhism?"

Naomi couldn't remember dying at all, just an overwhelming feeling that she ought to.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Something like that, I guess. I wonder if shinigami have religions."

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"They might have a better view of how spiritual things work."

Whether they used that view was another matter.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"I've only met one, and it was here. The one Mello told me about sounded a bit... stupid, really."

Mello thought most people were stupid, of course, especially considering they'd be raised among geniuses.

"But hey, I guess they must know about - different realms and shit. So you're probably right."

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"I ran into one here. He said he was Kira's shinigami."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt laughs, after a moment, stubbing his cigarette out.

"Wow. This place gets better and better."

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

"He calls himself Ryuk, and he says he wrote Light Yagami's name in a Death Note himself, once he was caught."