Chapter 2

Yoshikage Kira Wants A Quiet Workday

Yoshikage Kira prided himself on being a calm man. Whenever he was stuck in a bad situation, he knew that the only thing he needed to do was calm himself down and think things through. After all, luck was on his side. An opportunity would always present itself.

The moment he saw Josuke Higashikata right there in his workplace, by his cubicle no less, however, tested him.

His eyes widened as he watched the teen standing beside his boss. H-How? How did they figure it out? He felt his hands moving upwards, but thankfully, the stack of paper he was holding stopped them from going all the way to his mouth.

It made no sense. He hadn't killed anyone since Aya; he was just living a normal, quiet life with his new wife and her overly-inquisitive son— Wait, was that it?

He dismissed the thought. No. Hayato suspected something was off, but there was no way the little boy could have done something that would have led to Josuke Higashikata showing up at his work.

He had made no mistakes: he destroyed the body of the man whose face he now wore, and he blew up anything else that could connect him to his new life. But, then, how on earth could they have figured out that he was pretending to be Kosaku Kawajiri?

Damn it!

This was bad. This was very, very bad.

He felt his fingernails beginning to grow once more. No doubt Jotaro Kujo was nearby, just waiting to stop time and step in, along with those two shitheads who helped foil him the last time, Koichi Hirose and Okuyasu Nijimura. If it hadn't been for those two, he wouldn't have had to abandon his old life, and leave his old home behind.

That house had been his family's property for generations. It was where he grew up. He quite liked the place.

His breathing began to quicken, as he desperately searched for a way out. With no Aya Tsuji around anymore, there was nowhere else he could go with this identity compromised. He could not have his face changed again.

If only Aya hadn't forced him to kill her. He could have used the aesthetician's services in this situation.

Either way, it did not matter how they managed to track him down. All that mattered was his escape. An opportunity would present itself. For now, he would just have to play dumb; not let the teenager know that he was on to them.

Which would be difficult to do, considering the beads of sweat now on his forehead.

That was when he remembered the stack of papers he was holding, and realized that the teenager had not noticed him yet.

This was it! This was his innate luck manifesting itself! This was the opportunity he had been searching for!

He drew out Killer Queen as stealthily as he could. All that could be seen of his Stand was the ghostly apparition of its right hand hovering barely an inch over Kira's own. He placed a bomb on the paper, and withdrew his Stand again.

The only thing he would have to do is get just the tiniest bit closer. Then, when he was close enough to the teenager, he would throw the stack of the paper at him, and detonate Killer Queen's bomb the instant the pages touched his enemy. He could already imagine the teenager's screams as he was reduced to nothing.

He still had not figured out how he would deal with Jotaro, Koichi, or the idiot yet, but it was a good start.

That was when Josuke turned and saw him.

No!

All he had to do was get a bit closer. That would put him close enough to throw the paper, while still being far enough to keep him out of Crazy Diamond's range.

"And there he is," Kira saw his boss for the last few weeks say. He didn't like the man, but he would never express those opinions out loud, for fear of disturbing his quiet life. His boss motioned towards him. "Josuke Higashikata, I would like to introduce you to one of our long-time employees, Kosaku Kawajiri."

This could not be. Josuke had seen him and identified him. With the help of his boss, no less. He was so close. How?

Then Kira heard his boss say something that he never expected in a million years he would hear.

"Kawajiri, this is Josuke Higashikata. He's a student we've hired for the summer. From now on, he'll be working directly under you."

Wait…

What?

Were Kira's ears working properly? Did he really just hear that?

If Josuke wasn't here because of him… then did that mean his identity was still safe? That he could still live his quiet life?

Now that he thought about it, he remembered his boss mentioning yesterday that he was planning to hire a student he had just interviewed, so it shouldn't have been too surprising. Still, his boss never said that student was Josuke freaking Higashikata. That did mean there was nothing wrong though, and his quiet life was not in the peril he had originally imagined.

He almost let out an internal sigh of relief, when he realized the meaning of the second half of his boss' statement.

Josuke would be working directly under him. He would have to interact with him daily.

As Kira looked at his dumb, goofy hair, the shithead bowed. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Kawajiri. I look forward to your guidance in my new position."

Again, this was bad. This was very, very bad. He had to get out of this somehow.

The boy's actions caught Kira off guard. Who knew he was capable of showing actual manners. And now that he looked over the boy's suit, who knew he was capable of cleaning himself up enough to be presentable in an office.

"Uh… I…" he said, turning his head to his boss, still reeling from the shock. He was about to tell him that he didn't think working with a student would be the best idea, when he caught himself.

It was a risk he couldn't take. Josuke might get suspicious if he was adamant about not taking on this responsibility. He was walking a fine line as it was. There was no doubt his whole life would come crashing down if he made Josuke feel that something was off in the slightest.

"Now, Kawajiri," his boss said. "Get the boy doing something as quickly as possible. I want him to be a productive member of the office by the end of the week. You have something you're doing; have him help."

He once again turned his eyes to the teenager who had taken everything from him.

"I… uh… Of course, sir," he said.

His boss walked away, leaving Kira standing there, and leaving him to deal with the teenager standing in front of his cubicle.

"Mr. Kawajiri, is there anything I can do to help?" Josuke asked.

"Yes," Kira said with a smile. "If you could take these documents and hand them to Mr. Osaka. He will have to sign off on them before I can do anything more."

"Of course, sir," Josuke said as he accepted the papers, grabbing them with both hands.

Kira's smile twisted into a grin the second he let go. "Killer Queen!" Those two words never sounded so good.

Josuke's eyes widened with realization, but it was already too late. It was a beautiful sight, as he pitifully tried to take out his Stand as Kira denoted the bomb. Crazy Diamond may have been fast, but it wasn't fast enough. The last thing Kira saw on Josuke's face before he was disintegrated was a pained look of shock and anguish.

He had done it! Josuke Higashikata was dead!

"Uh… Mr. Kawajiri, is there anything I can assist you with?" The teenager's voice knocked him out of his fantasies and back into the real world.

Kira shook his head as he looked at the still-very-much-alive Josuke. "Not at the moment, I am afraid. I will need to check our schedule to find you something to work on, Higashikata."

He briskly walked past Josuke and entered his cubicle, desperate, but not so desperate that the boy would guess anything was off, to avoid having to face him anymore. He laid the stack of papers on his desk and sat down, moving his hands out of Josuke's sight just as his fingernails grew a little bit longer.

"Very well, Mr. Kawajiri." From the way his voice fluctuated, Kira could tell Josuke had taken another bow. "… Is there anything I could do in the meantime?"

"I would suggest you use this time to get acquainted with the other members of this office," Kira said. "While you will primarily be working under me…" Unfortunately. "… you will need to occasionally interact with the other employees here. It would be best you know who they are and where to find them."

"Of course, Mr. Kawajiri," Josuke said, bowing a third time, before he left Kira's cubicle.

Finally alone, he contemplated going to talk to his boss in private about having the responsibility foisted on some other unlucky employee, but only for a second. He couldn't do that either. His boss would almost certainly think something was wrong. Kosaku Kawajiri hadn't been the type of employee to make demands (much like Kira, in fact). His boss would probably try to pry into his affairs, disrupting his quiet life even more.

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed that the only option was, horribly enough, to just accept what had been handed to him, and to go along with it for now. Much like his 'wife' and 'son', it seemed that he would have to deal with Josuke as part of his new life. All that meant was that he would have to be extra careful about what he said and did around Josuke.

Once Kira heard Josuke talking in one of the cubicles at the other end of office, he let out an internal groan and started counting down the days until the summer's end.

It was his only option, but it would still be a nightmare.

A/N: Hope you liked the chapter. I don't have much to say but that I hope your excited for this ride. Thanks to everybody that has read, followed, commented on, or reviewed this story's first chapter. Believe me, hijinks are going to ensue, calls are going to be close, and situations are going to be bizarre.

Again, shout outs to all the people who looked over and read this chapter before I posted it for the rest of you.