Sugar Cube (L)

[Mello]

Beyond Birthday chuckled to himself as he sat in a crouch on the floor of his new apartment with a copy of the morning paper on his knee. He was sure that L would pick up on his clue; he'd made it even more obvious than those from the LA murders.

He'd chosen Japan since he was sure that would be where L was, investigating Kira. And of course, L was bound to be reading the newspapers very carefully.

His clue was innocent sounding enough. In the lonely hearts section... he hoped he wouldn't be pestered with people who were actually interested in his ad.

Loyal intellectual seeks man for meet-ups and to share good times. Likes old fashioned manga, sugar and the easy life. Looking for a companion between the age of 20 and 30, preferably dark hair. Let's get together.

Come on, even an idiot would work that one out. If L didn't notice the blatant hints about both of them, surely he would realise that every sentence began with the letter L.

[L]

L paused in his perusal of the classified section, putting his teacup down and bringing the paper closer to read. What on earth...

After reading the ad over a few times, he scoffed. Loyal?

L had always been suspicious of B's Kira-induced death. The burning to death thing was a little too coincidental for his tastes.

So Beyond was on the loose, and had been for a few years. Who knew for sure what the mimic was up to during that time, but now it was obvious he wanted out of hiding.

Rather convenient timing, especially since L was also rising from the dead, so to speak. L supposed he could oblige the sociopath, just this once. He picked up one of his newer cells and dialed the number at the bottom of the ad.

[Mello]

B's face split into a grin as his phone rang. He let it ring for a while, answering on the sixth ring.

"Hello, Ryuzaki here." he said in a perfect mockery of L's voice.

[L]

L mentally rolled his eyes.

"Hello Beyond."

[Mello]

B practically beamed.
"Hello."

[L]

"I take it you have a reason to be contacting me after eluding authorities for so long?"

[Mello]

"I wanted to say hi."

[L]

"............"

[Mello]

To add to the mood, B began to hum 'hickory dickory dock.'

[L]

L gritted his teeth. He usually left interrogation of these types to Watari, who could scare them into answering with his good cop, bad cop routine.

"Beyond."

[Mello]

"Yes?"

[L]

"If you have nothing else to say, then I'm hanging up," L threatened. Of course he wouldn't, since he needed to get information out of the little bugger, but considering how...dependent...Beyond seemed to be on his acknowledgment, L thought it'd be effective.

[Mello]

"That isn't very nice. Aren't you happy to hear from me?"

[L]

"Yes, because it validated my suspicions, and no, because you annoy me."

[Mello]

"Hmmph." he said in a sad voice.