A Quiet Day Off[Open]

[Fujimori Tohru]

Today was one of those quiet days. You know, no worries, no hassle of any sort. Just a peaceful, blissful day at the cafe. A day where Tohru could actually take a break from work and school and just relax while enjoying his mocha. On the television and radios were news of the recent Kira events, which he could care less about. Yes, he believed it was noble what this 'Kira' person was doing. However, at the same time, no one should be able to use an ability that should only be posessed by God, to kill off criminals, no matter the intention.

Then again, he was making the police out to be complete and utter fools of the situation, which was somewhat amusing to him. Or perhaps, amusing to Prometheus. Then he thought about having such power. Oh, the power to wipe out just about anyone simply by a face and a name. Such thoughts seemed so..."Tempting, isn't it?" came a voice from inside the boy's head. This made Tohru sigh a bit, frowning to himself. His darker self, Prometheus had emerged to converse with him. And boy, did he hate it. "I thought we had an agreement that you wouldn't bother me today..." Prometheus cackled darkly before replying. "Are you kidding me? Do you mean to tell me someone like you wouldn't be as corrupt as me if you had that kind of power? Simply get a face and a name and POW! One more death to add to tomorrow obituary!"

Tohru sighed at such a thought. In a sense, Prometheus was right. However, he couldn't really see himself giving in to such a thing. So he decided to ignore Prometheus for now, and continue drinking his mocha.

[Ryuk]

(Okay, this is my first post, so hopefully I did okay, if not, let me know and I'll change it.)

Ryuk stood stolidly as the young man sipped his mocha. It was one of the few days he chose to stray from the Death Note's owner's side, and it was proving to be rather boring. As the nearby TV droned quietly on about the latest killings, Ryuk allowed the briefest smile to play upon his lips. Things were definitely escalating however, in addition he also had the thrilling feeling that there would soon be complications, and anything akin to a problem meant fun.

He absentmindedly stroked the notebook at his waist, recalling how long it would be before he needed to kill another human to lengthen his own lifespan. Suddenly, it dawned upon him. In all his time on earth, he had barely killed enough to survive. He was so enthralled with the recent events that he had endangered his own life. Glancing worriedly around, he sought out a victim.

“It'll be best to make it an accident,”he muttered to himself. “If it's a heart attack, it will stand out from Kira's other killings. The innocents need to die differently.”

As he surveyed the cafe, lifespans and names flashed before his eyes.

“Hrmm, nope. Not him either. She won't do, and neither will any of them.” Ryuk's frustration grew as he deliberated about who would sustain him, until he reached an unexpected prospect.

“”Hyuk, hyuk, well that's an interesting day to die, I wouldn't want to interfere with that one. Odd though, his name is so faint, as if he can't decide who he is. I wonder how he'd react if the waiter dropped dead next to him...”

With that, Ryuk slid the Death Note up into his hand and began to write. Five minutes later, Mr. Kuzigawa slipped and broke his neck, directly in front of Tohru Fujimori's table.

[myo]

OOC: I may as well have my first RP post here as well o.o

IC:
Zachary, who hates crowds of people, was going to his favorite cafe. It never had a load of people and he trusted the people in there enough. As he opened the door the waiter fell and broke his neck next to a table. Zachary's eyes widened but not out of fear. Could it be that Kira is in this very place? Might I actually be able to sit next to him?! He thought excitedly as he searched the place for the likely kira.

It was annoying to him that, though he had seen the waiter die, none of the people acted differently. When they heard the crash it seemed like all of them had a similar reaction. Zachary knew that kira wouldn't just walk up to him and say he was kira but wasn't there a way for him to determine who was on his side? Of course not.. I wish, though.. Zachary thought as a ambulance had gotten to the place. He hadn't flinched. All he had done was wonder if kira had been in there and by doing that he could be a prime suspect of this killing.

"I have the worst luck.." Muttered Zachary.

[Fujimori Tohru]

Tohru peered off to the side to see the waiter slip before him. He attempted to lean in so he could catch him, only too little, too late. It seemed that he had broken his neck by the fall, and was dead, right on the spot. This lead Tohru to narrow his eyes slightly. Could this be Kira's doing? No. No, so far, Kira had only been killing off people by means of a heart attack, no matter how absurd it seemed. But still, for a random person to suddenly die right before him seemed a little too convenient. Or inconvenient, depending on how one looked at it.

It was upon thinking that, that he felt a sudden chill in the air. As though there was a ghastly presence nearby. Something was definitely not right. But in spite of that, today was his day off, so, he figured he'd control any sudden reactions and go on about his business instead. He had to keep his composure, otherwise others might look at him and think he was Kira. Another absurd thought.

That was when Prometheus began to speak up once again. "Bwahaha! Now that's more like it! How does it feel having someone die right by your feet?" Tohru frowned at this and turned back to his mocha, eyes staring straight ahead. "Do shut up.", he whispered. "How do you think I feel? I'm more than slightly disturbed, and very concerned at the same time." Prometheus cackled on the inside. "You think it's that Kira fellow?" "Hardly. Kira's attacks have all revolved around heart attacks. This one is a little too natural, not to mention intentionally done. In other words, I think this is Death's own work with a twist." Tohru could hear Prometheus laughing in the back of his head again. "When you're sharp, you're sharp, kid." Tohru rolled his eyes as he sipped his mocha again. So much for a quiet day off..., he thought.

[Ryuk]

Chuckling as the still warm corpse lay on the ground, Ryuk allowed himself a moment to drift lazily around the cafe observing various reactions. Most looked passively as he fell, the children slightly fearful, but the admonishment from their parents quickly led them to accept the events. His gaze was inexplicably drawn back to that boy, Tohru, however, who appeared to be muttering to himself, almost argumentatively.

“Odd.”Ryuk thought. “I wonder what his problem is?”

Continuing his search, he came to look at a young boy near the door.

“Zachary Knupp? Hmm, he looks so calm yet so excited, almost like Raito when he first met me. He looks pretty smart. Hyuk, hyuk, this could be fun!”

Moving hastily towards the kitchen, Ryuk began a short-lived quest to find an apple. Upon finding a plump red one, he lifted it up, and promptly stuck it in his mouth.

“I wonder if this will work,”he thought to himself.

He glided swiftly to Zachary's side and positioned himself in front of him. Holding perfectly still, Ryuk slowly brought his hand up to his mouth and began to extract the apple. Bit by bit, the apple became visible to mortal eyes, and once he was sure it was completely visible, Ryuk devoured it voraciously. Appearance and disappearance, all within the span of a few moments. Savoring its juicy taste, Ryuk lifted his head menacingly and grinned. Of all the people in the cafe, two stood out distinctly, and that made it all the more fun for Ryuk.

[myo]

The man was on dead for sure. It was impossible.. Though, what he saw next was impossible and it still happened. A apple all by itself in the air.. "What the f**k?" Zachary muttered as even more surprisingly it ate itself? How does a apple eat itself? It doesn't. Even if it could a apple wouldn't.. Would it? Deciding it was a trick Zachary, who would be later glad everyone was too busy with the dead guy, began to throw his arms toward the area the apple had been. He either missed something or it wasn't there. "Just to be sure.." He muttered as he went into the kitchen and held it right next to his face. If somebody thought they were going to trick him that easily they were wrong. Holding it tightly so that if somebody tried to take it he would feel he waited a little impatient. If this thing didn't hurry up and eat it he would eat it himself.

{Sorry ^^; Really short post..}

[Fujimori Tohru]

Tohru let out a sigh, and decided he was going to leave for the day. Well...he was going to leave. The thing that stopped him was right before him was another boy who apparently was dealing with...a floating apple? Preposterous! That sort of thing never happens in life unless it were a trick! The boy sat himself back down and brushed a bit of his lochs from his eyes.

Some very awkward and disturbing things were going on in this cafe, and he wanted know quite badly what exactly it was. Could it be something supernatural? Perhaps some dead person's spirit loitering around and trying to scare people?... Nah. That sounded just about as absurd as the whole Kira case. However, Kira was a lot more real than apples suddenly devouring themselves. Or was that real too? Bah! Who knows anything anymore, Tohru thought to himself.

[numnum]

Snickerdoodle sat on top of a telephone pole, bored out of her little shinigami mind. She could've sworn that she had been sitting there waiting for something to happen. Now the one thing she feared the most was starting to rear its ugly head: Extreme boredom. What if she never found nothing to do? She'd have to go back to the Shinigami Realm and lay around there like a bum! Now way! She'd much rather lay around the human world and lay around like an invisible bum rather than go to the Shinigami Realm and and lay there like a bum with the other death gods. No way in whatever was that going to happen.

But, then did she notice it all. The other shinigami, the waiter dropping dead, the apple...ha! There was some fun. Obviously attracted by this, Snickerdoodle happily picked a poor human sucker from the crowd and followed the guy around. The dude was holding an apple? What the heck, yo? Curious as to see what the boy's reaction to feeling something pull on the apple would be, Snickerdoodle floated over.

Then carefully, oh so carefully, she grabbed the apple...then roughly pulled it down from the boy's hand, with a lot of strength she did. Maybe, he'd even stagger and stumble a bit, may be trip over his own feet!

A grin was already on her face just from the thought of that.

[kinmarr]

Kin slowly wandered through the street taking in the fresh air. Well, that was if you could call it fresh in such a dump of a city. But, never-the-less it beat the stale air-conditioning of the HQ any day of the week. Except in the summer of course, for the heat could be quite unpleasant.

As he strolled by one of the hundreds of cafes he noticed something peculiar. It wasn't everyday that a waiter just died and then a floating apple appeared out of the sky. He knew Japan was a pretty weird place, but he highly doubted that this had anything to do with that fact. In fact, it could be the very thing he was looking for. Not to mention, he had some time to kill anyways.

As he walked into the cafe, he noticed the boy going into the kitchen. He quickly took a seat near the back of the cafe to watch the events unfold. As fun as it sounded to chase a flying apple and all, he would rather stay away from the whole business until he actually knew what the business was. Then he could decide if this was just another wild goose chase or something actually important. Either way, it was quite entertaining.

[myo]

He was waiting ever waiting. Then, right before he gave up, the apple began to pull down. He was pretty weak and he went down fairly easy. This was crazy! How could apples eat themselves and then force themselves to the ground. "I know there is gravity on earth but lord.." Zachary said as he wondered if these were ghost. No, ghost were transparent, unable to touch other things to speak, so it must be something with the power of invisibility or he was extremely wrong about ghost. As the apple went down he brought a his head down to the apple, attempting to smash whatever the thing was hand, and hoped something would happen. " Let me see you!" He whispered forcefully. He had gone here to relax and calm down only to be disturbed by some freakin monster! He would see this thing at any cost. If he saw this monster, maybe even controlled it as if it was a servant ghost, he might be able to help Kira with his job. Even if all Zachary wanted to help he would only complicate things. If only he had known. "Please! Do you know Kira? We could help make him with the new world!" He whispered forcefully again, hoping it could understand him and wasn't angered, while waiting for a reply. Today just really was not his day. At least in some opinions. This could turn out to be the best day of his life.

[numnum]

Snickerdoodle quickly removed her hand when the boy brought his head down. Ha ha...smart. What was this guy's name, anyway? The amused shinigami allowed her pupils to be glowing, red slits against her high yellow eyes. These were her shinigami eyes and with them, she saw this guy's name and lifespan.

"Tch. You have a long life," Snickerdoodle snickered to herself. What was this guy going on about? Kira? Make a new world? What was she, a stupid shinigami? Though, this whole Kira business and a new world sounded like fun to watch.

"Might as well let this guy see me...," Snickerdoodle mumbled, tapping the boy with her Death Note then quickly hiding the book. She looked very normal minus her odd outfit, unhealthy skin color, scary shinigami eyes, wings, and her very large horns.

[myo]

While he was coming back up, thinking he was insane, he closed his eyes so he could calm down rubbing his hands. Then as he felt a little tap he opened his eyes to see some ghost thing. His eyes widening he attempted to let out a yell but he was too surprised by what he saw to do anything. "W-w-what are you?" Zachary asked as he was in extreme fear of this this.. thing. You could tell, since, his moth barely said the words and he was trembling and shaking. The only person who was likely to notice this he had is the guy who the waiter was killed by who, which Zachary should have noticed, had a different reaction than the others as if it was just a glitch in his day. It didn't matter to Zachary now. He was just looking at this thing. Were there lots of these things? Hopefully not, He thought, I don't think I could handle many more meetings like these. It was so creepy looking.. He shivered..

[Ryuk]

Watching as the events unfolded, Ryuk found himself pleasantly surprised. Zachary's reaction had been more than what was hoped for, and the result of the experiment led to far better things. Not only had more people entered the cafe to see what the commotion was, but the young boy's incredulous reaction had caused another shinigami to enter the cafe, causing Ryuk's mind to erupt into gleeful thought. Delighted by the amount of chaos that was ensuing, he began to laugh, until he caught sight of a Death note, touching a human. Ryuk watched the fearful and exultant face enter a state of recognition, and a moment later, realized what it truly meant. This second shinigami was almost as reckless as he was.

"Hyuk, hyuk, this should be good!" Ryuk assured himself. "Hey! You! I know you saw me when you came in, why did you let the kid see you?"Ryuk shouted to the sole being in the cafe that could hear him. "Is he special or something or do you just want to scare him to death? You know you won't gain his lifespan if you do it that way, hyuk hyuk."

Ryuk drew nearer the pair, waving his arms frantically, seeking acknowledgment. Perhaps this would be a little harder than he thought.

[numnum]

Zachary's expression gave a LOT of amusement to Snickerdoodle. She barely even looked more human than anything else compared to other shinigami and this guy was freaked out! Plus fifty ego points for this death god(dess). Now he was asking what she was? To think he would never ask.

Snickerdoodle smirked and glared at the boy with her shinigami eyes, and enlarged her wings just a tad bit. She cleared her throat in hopes the voice she'd been practicing just for an occasion like this would be of good use...after all, that voice could only be used once.

"I am the pair of eyes that see the thoughts that swim in--hey!" Snickerdoodle coughed and whipped around to face the other shinigami in anger and slight scorn.

"You just ruined the best joke I had planned yet!" she called. Then Snickerdoodle thought for a second and calmed down. "Of course I want to scare him! I mean, look at him! He's about a 'boo' away from wetting himself!"

Snickerdoodle said this in a quieter voice so the boy wouldn't hear her but the shinigami would. "Ya don't haveta wave your arms around like that, y'know," Snickerdoodle commented when the other shinigami drew near. Snickerdoodle's eyes were no longer a darker yellow with red glowing slit pupils, but their normal shade of bright yellow and her wings were back to normal size.

[myo]

The shinigami was speaking in a big voice that didn't suit it and when he saw, er, her, stop waving her arms and speak to something else he wondered if possibly.. "I wanna see that one." He said demanding it. If this was true he would be much happier. He could do so much more to help Kira with two of those things. It seemed like this one had been wanting him to be scared for his life and nothing else. Did this thing actually enjoy making humans freak? He wanted to see what they could do. Maybe they were able to grant him three wishes or something like that. "Well. You going to show yourself to me or what?" He said to thin air. This one would enjoy it if he was falling for a trick it had laid out. Otherwise it was good plan for him to see another thing. If they were all like this one it wouldn't be too difficult to coax it out into the open. Maybe too easy.. How many of them were there?