(A/N: Picture of Luna)
Chapter One
~Model’s and Manga’s~
>William<
"Excuse me, sir", I heard an obnoxious female voice say from behind. I shall just ignore them, perhaps they will leave me alo-
"Ohh~, Will! It seems this young beauty here wants to have a word with you", Grell said loudly, yanking and poking at my arm. As I reluctantly turned around, I saw him give me a cheshire cats' grin. Already annoyed with him, I jabbed him in the stomach with my death scythe.
"Yes", I said, glaring towards the lady and Grell. The lady seemed to be shocked with my reaction.
"UUHH! William, why must you always be so cruel to me", he said, with a faking a sob. I stared at him unamused until he continued talking, "This young miss would like to ask you a question, be polite", Grell yelled with a frustrated tone.
What a bother, even on duty I must converse with such a pitiful species, "Yes, of course", I faced the lady and continued, "How may I be to your service miss." She was a few feet shorter than I, around 15 years old.
"Well, I saw you and immediately thought of how extremely handsome you are," she giggled, "Then I remembered that my father is a photographer and mother works for a popular magazine. I was going to ask you if you could take their card to ask you if you would like to work for them as a model", she handed me two laminated paper cards and a piece of lined paper that looked like it had been ripped out of a notebook carelessly, to make matters worse, it had rushed handwriting on it, including what I assume is the young girls phone number. Sigh. How shameless.
"I appreciate the offer," I said, returning all three items, "But I currently have a job, (as well as dignity), that I would enjoy keeping", I then turned away and continued walking.
“AAHH, you treat me different than her~! Oh, William, you make me feel so special”, the obnoxious red-head yelled. Sigh. It seems as if there is only one way to silence this thing. “Ooff”, was the reaction he had towards me hitting him with my death scythe.
“Do I have to remind you again, Grell”, I sighed, “We must investigate our target, now are you sure that she was in this park? I can’t seem to find her”, I said, adjusting my spectacles.
Grell rolled his eyes, “Who do you think I am?! I can do something as simple as find our target you know”, he retorted. I raised my eyebrow at him, then continued to look for our target. “Over there”, Grell said, pointing at a lady in her forties and a girl who appeared to be her daughter, “That is Anna Rhodes and her daughter….. I think her name was Luna Rhodes.”
I examined the scene in front of me, they both sat on a park bench, the daughter had her knees to her chest, and hid her face with a book. The mother seemed to be trying to converse with her daughter, and she occasionally responded, lifting her face to make eye contact with her mother. I then read the information in the folder, it read that Anna Rhode was 43 years of age, was a single mother, and bore a child named Luna at the age of 24. Anna was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia at 29, and the father of her child died when she turned 30 from a car crash on his way back from buying a ring to propose. I focused my attention back on Anna.
“Oh my, it seems as if our target has been through many things in her lifetime, this might turn out to be quite an interesting case”, Grell said with an amused tone, “Let’s try to listen to what they are saying”, I nodded.
>Luna<
“Mother”, I said, suddenly lifting up my head and examining our surroundings, “I sense someone watching us”, looking for any suspicious looking characters as I lowered my feet back to the ground.
“Darling,” she patted my back, “You worry too much, just enjoy spending time with me, you know I have almost reached my end…”, I sighed, it's true, “Now tell me, what is your book about”, she said kindly, her voice had started to seem weak the last few days, which is one way we knew it was almost her time to say farewell.
I sighed once more, “Yes… This book is about the disease you have and many treatments for-”, she then shook her head, making me look up.
“This book”, she said pointing to a manga I had gotten a week before, when my mother said I needed a break from studying, that I would get stressed out. How ridiculous.
“Ohh, that is a manga… I picked it up last week, it is really interesting. It is about a young boy who lost his parents, and he summoned a demon to help him get revenge on those who brought him such misfortune”, I said.
“Wow, sounds like a supernatural world”, she said, and I shook my head.
“Mother, you can’t be selfish enough to think that humans and animals are the only species to exist..... It is inevitable that there are various other species out there.. like in this manga. There are Angels, Demons, Grim Reapers, and Humans. Black Butler is a good example of having various species”, I said, looking at my mother’s shocked expression, “Well, the humans in the manga don’t exactly know that there are such things, so I guess I can’t blame you for not thinking about it.”
She smiled, “I am glad to have such a wise daughter”, she said, now hugging me. I wasn’t exactly a person who enjoyed things like hugs, so I patted her back awkwardly. She released me a few seconds later, “Then, what is your favorite being right now from your manga.”
“I think the Grim Reapers, they are interesting”, I said.
“What do they do”, my she asked curiously.
“Well, they reap souls with a death scythe, which is usually a tool you find in gardens, they need glasses, for a reason I am still unsure of, but I know that they are vital for Grim Reapers to complete any task... Their job is to follow a list, on that list is a person that is around a month from dieing... they investigate the person to see whether their purpose on this planet is of any importance, if not they reap the soul, meaning that once they are dieing, they collect all of their memories and such in their cinematic record.... I think I recall reading one of the character's saying that they are death gods”, I say, leaving my mother shocked once again.
“This story is quite interesting.… Hmmm, now tell me, who is your favorite character”, she said, shocking me, I haven't decided yet.
“I-I… I think that would be…..”, Damn, I can’t think of… hmm, “Lawrence Anderson perhaps, he is the Grim Reaper who makes all the glasses for the Grim Reapers who have passed a test, I have seen him in the anime when there was a special episode for another Grim Reaper, his name was William T. Spears”, I say.
>William<
“Well, it seems as if that thief really did publish our lives into a manga”, Grell said, while I watched Luna in shock. S-she knows about us… She likes Pops? The brat made an episode about me? Why… “William”, Grell yelled, snapping me back into reality, “You’re not one to day dream, does it have to do with how intelligent this girl is”, Grell asked.
“No, I was thinking about how she is unaware of the purpose we wear our spectacles”, I lie, Hmm, I guess she is quite smart… and it seems she is studying the disease her mother has.
“Aww! Not fair”, Grell said now pouting, confusing me, what is great about both of your parents being dead soon, “William, you must’ve been thinking of something DIRTY~! That was a horrible cover up! Especially since you started to go a gorgeous shade of red”, Grell whined.
“You aren’t making any sense, now speak properly”, I ordered.
“You started blushing when we started talking about her”, Grell teased and whined.
“Of course I did not, I just got annoyed that you interrupted my- sigh, our investigation”, I said, denying what Grell had just said.
“UHH!! Just admit it William! She is adorable, and you are lonely, even I can figure that out”, Grell said, not believing my logical explanation. I looked back at Luna, who no longer had her face covered, I admit, she is good looking, but I am not lonely, I have plenty of work to keep me occupied. I shook my head, signaling that we are done with the ridiculous conversation. “How ignorant”, I heard Grell mumble as I fixed my glasses. Anyway...
Bringing your emotions into your job is a waste of time.
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I used an actual quote that William has said in the last sentence, I'm going to try to do that so it can seem a bit more.... realistic I guess you can say.
I made this chapter short unintentionally, but I guess this is just a taste of what I will be writing... Anyway, I hope you still enjoyed.