"Alright, let's work on the next problem: nine x parentheses four x plus three equals what?"

"UUGGGHHH... another one?! We just did like 60 of them already!" whined Misa.

"This is your last problem for now Misa. When you've completed that, you may take a brief break," replied Ryuzaki.

"You know, it's funny how you used the word 'brief,'" Misa pointed out.

"Well, we could just continue right after this math problem if you'd like..."

"Fine, whatever," Misa grumbled.

"Alright then, let's proceed. If you need any assistance, just let me know."

Misa tapped the end of her pencil towards her lips, she examined the problem than began to write out an solution. After a few minutes, she was finished.

"How's this?" she asked.

"Hmm...yes... that's correct, five x minus three," said Ryuzaki as he tugged his thumb with his lip. Misa noticed that this was yet another one of his strange habits.

"Yay!" she cheered, leaping out of her chair.

"You seem to be grasping these equations a little, don't you think?"

"Yeah, a little!"

"Okay then, let's take a break." Ryuzaki then reached into his pocket and took out a small panda shaped chocolate cookie wrapped in plastic, he began to rip the cookie into pieces, eating one piece at a time.

"You really shouldn't be eating food in the library you know," hounded Misa. Misa wasn't one to always follow rules, but Ryuzaki's diet just really grossed her out.

"Misa, you should really try speaking more quietly, there are other people in here and they need to focus. I suggest whispering if you need to say something."

"I know what you're trying to pull. You're playing the; 'I'm going to change the subject so I

don't have to listen to you' game! And just to let you know, it's not cute," pouted Misa.

"Hm, I've never heard of such a game. It has quite an awfully long title though..." said Ryuzaki.

What is with this guy exactly, is he just trying to poke fun at Misa by pushing her buttons, or was he actually serious? Usually with people it's easy to tell, although Ryuzaki of course was not like other people. Misa then decided to just drop the subject because she knew she would be defeated (even though she wasn't quite sure if he was playing a game or not). The two of them just sat there in silence for the next few minutes until Misa decided to speak up again.

"Hey, Ryuzaki... What's your last name?"

"Hm? Why do you ask?"

"Well, you call me by my last name, yet I have no idea what your's is. Besides, we don't know each other all that well so it's best to address each other by our last names," stated Misa.

"Yes, I'm well aware of that," replied Ryuzaki. He sounded as if he was in a conversation with a nagging parent that continously repeated themselves. Misa let out a small growl, that to her luck, Ryuzaki didn't pick up. They barely know each other yet Ryuzaki already came off as more irritating than a small child. Well, at least to Misa. Who knows how he treats other people.

"Well yeah, so shouldn't you tell me yours?" Misa grumbled, resting her head on her hand.

"I must apologize, that is private information Amane-san," said Ryuzaki as he placed another piece of cookie into his mouth. 'Private information!? It's just his last name!? Who does he think he is!?'

"What are you? Some kind of spy? What's your deal!?"

"No, I am simply a tutor, for the most part," stated Ryuzaki.

Misa gave Ryuzaki a confused look.

"Huh? What do you mean 'For the most part?'" Ryuzaki leaned closer towards Misa, placing his free hand towards his mouth. His words then came out as nothing more than whispers.

"I do a little detective work on the side, I am also known as 'L'" Misa's eyes widened. She didn't know much about detective stuff, but she was familiar with L. Everyone in the entire country of Japan knew who L was, he was almost like a celebrity. L has solved some of the most difficult and horrendous cases. Like five years ago, a man named 'Hito Watanabe' was charged for first degree murder of many women and children. Before he was caught, he was nicknamed 'Red' because he would also leave a bouquet of red roses next to his victims. The Japanese police were having such a difficult time trying to catch the killer, so they eventually asked L for help. L was then able to help solve the case six months later. That's one of L's cases that Misa saw when she watching the news. She ended up remembering it because of how interesting it was, plus this 'L' character really intrigued her. He was someone who hid behind a computer, and disguised his voice. No one knew what he looked or even really sounded like. Misa even had some respect for this mysterious detective, although she still wishes that perhaps there could be some divine God that just rid the world of criminals within a matter of time, but like that would ever happen. Of course if it did, Misa always pictured that 'God' as Yagami-san.

"Wait, how are you doing both? Do the schools know about this? What-"

"I do tutoring as a kind of 'stress reliever' for myself. Cases can be quite a handful. And no, they do not know. I think they would be pretty shocked if they found out, and I'd rather not deal with their reactions. Plus, I'm sure if I told them about it, my whole identity as L would probably be leaked."

"Why don't you want the public to know about you?" Misa questioned.

Ryuzaki just shrugged.

"I'm not too fond of dealing with the public. I feel a lot more secure if I'm behind a computer screen with a disguised voice," Ryuzaki admitted.

"Well, with the tutoring... that's not so bad. What's wrong for giving out your name for that?" Ryuzaki let out a light chuckle.

"I guess I'm just way too use to staying behind the stage curtain rather than coming out. I know it's a bit silly, but oh well. Only one other person know's my true identity."

"And who would that be?"

"I'd rather not say..."

"Fine, whatever," Misa pouted. "How'd you even get this job anyway!? Didn't they want your name and stuff?"

"Yes, but according to them they were so astounded by my deductive skills that they ended up accepting my offer anyway." 'Could this man get any more arrogant? I can't believe this guy is L!' Ryuzaki then glanced towards the library clock, then returned his attention towards Misa once again.

"Okay Amane, break time's over. Let's get back to work! Chop! chop!" commanded Ryuzaki as he preformed a few quite claps.

"Whhhyyyy? We've been studying foreveeerrr..." Misa whined.

"Aren't you a little too old to be whining Amane?"

"Well look who's talking! All you eat is sweets, and you can't even stand up straight! Now that's a bit childish if you ask me!" retorted Misa as she crossed her arms.

"You do have a point there. I eat a lot of sugar due to all the energy it provides, and I've taken quite a liking to it over the years... as for my posture, that happened due to the way I normally sit, which I already explained to you why I sit the way I do. I've attempted to to fix my posture but it really just hurts my back. Plus I can't stand the way my back cracks... anyway, we're getting a bit off topic here, we must work on your English, that is the subject you're most struggling with after all."

"Fine..." Misa huffed.

"So what is it that your class is working on?"

"Well, right now were going over some vocab," Misa explained with dread in her voice. She grabbed her bag from under the table and pulled out a piece of paper from one of her folders, handing it to Ryuzaki.

"I see. How about we go through then?"

"Yeah, okay."

"Aright, I'll say a word in Japanese, then you respond by saying that word in English, how does that sound?" Misa nodded in response.

"Alright, first one; hon."

"Uhh... book?"

"Correct."

"Next one; onaka ga suita."

"Ummm... angry?"

"No. Next one; iken."

"Uhhh... I have no idea..."

"Sooooooo how many did I get right?"

"One... out of twenty..."

"Oh, uh... At least I got one right..." Misa let out a nervous laugh.

"I'll tell you what. I'll let you go if you can get at least half of the answers correct. I would usually require more but since you seem really unfamiliar, I'll go a little easy on you. I want you to look over the vocabulary as many times as you need. And be sure to go study the pronunciation as well, that's very important. Did your class go through that?"

"Uhh... yeah a little... man, why does English have to be so tough..."

After what felt like a century of studying vocabulary, Ryuzaki finally let Misa go. She was in such a hurry to go that she practically sprinted out the door.

"Phew! Glad that's over with!" Misa then took note of her hunger when her stomach began to grumble and went to find a close restaurant. She hadn't eaten since noon and it was now just a little past 6 pm. Misa then headed towards a nearby 'McDoodles.' It wasn't exactly her favorite place to eat, I mean after all, the food they served there was a bit on the fatty side. But when

you're utterly starving and you're too lazy to cook, you can't afford to be too picky. Misa then walked up to the ordering counter and was greeted by a beautiful young woman with a pixie cut that looked to be the age of 16 or 17.

"Hello and welcome to McDoodles. What can I get you today?

"Umm... I'll have a double burger with extra lettuce, a medium order of fries, and a diet coke please," Misa requested.

"Alrighty, here's your number. We will call you as soon as your order is ready." Misa then sat at the nearest table. She only had to wait a few minutes before she was called up to get her food. When she sat down back down to eat, Misa had to contain herself from scarfing down all of her meal at once. Misa then noticed a girl with spiky blonde hair looking towards her direction while sweeping the floor. The girl seemed to have similar fashion tastes to Misa, for she seemed to this gothic aura about her even though most of her attire was her uniform.

'Why is she starting at me? Is she a fan?' Misa wondered. It was then that the girl started walking towards her, not looking nervous at all. In fact, she looked a bit excited.

'Well she doesn't seem to be shy...'

"Misa! Is that you?" the girl chirped.

"Yes, and who are you exactly?" Misa knew that she sounded slightly rude, but she was a bit confused at the moment.

"Don't you remember? It's me, Shiki! We've known each other since middle school. Although the last time I saw you was graduation. Geez it's been such a long time!" Misa just sat there with a dazed look on her face. She was trying to recall this 'Shiki' girl, but couldn't until... BAM! Everything was coming back to her now. Misa was starting to remember many things from her days during when she was in school.

"Wait! I remember now! You're that Shiki, right?" Shiki let out a small chuckle.

"Yep, the very same." Shiki was one of Misa's friends during the good old days. She remembered all the classes they used to skip together, all the concerts and parties they went to, and how much trouble the two of them would get into together.

"I'm really sorry, I honestly thought you might've been one of my crazy stalker fans or something... I'm sorry," Misa apologized.

"Oh no don't worry about it! I completely understand. You are an up and coming model after all," replied Shiki.

"So how have you been?" Misa asked.

"Oh, pretty good. Although I am pretty exhausted from work and school... It's such a pain," she sighed.

"Yeah! tell me about it! College is so hard and boring, and modeling takes a lot of energy..."

"It must be fun being a model though. I mean, all of those adoring fans, and I'm sure there's tons of guy's who'd love to be your boyfriend," beamed Shiki.

"Well yeah... but the guy I really like is completely out of my league..."

"Oh? How so?"

"He's... my professor..." Misa admitted. Shiki instantly burst into laughter, causing Misa's cheek's to burn a bright pink from embarrassment.

"I'm sorry Misa, I shouldn't have laughed like that, but it's as if you're in some kind of Shoujo Manga."

"I suppose..."

"Anyway, enough about that, you mentioned that College was really hard? What's happening with that? The courses I'm taking aren't really hard per say, there's just a lot of work."

"Well, I decided to get a tutor cause of how bad my grades are..." Misa explained.

"So how's that working out for you?"

"I don't know... today was the first session... and he just comes of as extremely weird."

"define 'weird' Misa. Because I've probably dated guy's that are much weirder than your tutor... I know that's not exactly something to brag about but yeah..."

"He's just... it's hard to explain... he just does really odd things like sit funny and eat nothing but sugar... but what really bothers me about him is that he seems so arrogant and I feel that he's picking on me... although I'm not sure if he just comes off that way, or if he really is that way."

"Don't worry Misa, it's only your first session, just give him some time. And if he really isn't a good tutor then you can always get a new one, right?"

"Yeah, I suppose...but he's practically a genius so that would be kinda stupid to let him go..." Shiki's eyes widened and her jaw dropped.

"Wow! Really? Then he should be a really good tutor if he's that smart," Shiki stated. Misa opened her mouth to speak, she wanted to tell Shiki how Ryuzaki was also 'L,' one of the best and well known detectives in the world. But after some thought, she figured it would probably wouldn't be right to expose his identity. Well, some of it anyway.

'Now that I think about it. Why did he tell me that he's L? Does he trust me? I mean with that kind of role, you just don't around telling people that's what you do,' Misa thought.

"Oh! Sorry Misa, I gotta get back to my shift," Shiki announced.

"Right, you don't want to get in trouble. Sorry I kept you."

"No, no. I'm the one who approached you. Anyway, I know were both extremely busy but we should hang out sometime. We could exchange email, if you want."

"Sure, I'd love to!" Misa beamed. The two girls then pulled their out their phones and began to send each other their email.

"Well, I'll see you later Misa!" Misa gave Shiki a warm smile and waved goodbye. When she finished her meal she threw away her remaining trash and put her food tray on top of the trash can. Misa then made her way home after a long day.

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