Info. And Chapter 1

Name: Sora Yume

Alias: S

Age:22

Family: none

Others: Owner of a Death Note. Was at Whammy's Orphanage until the age of twelve with L before she ran away for reasons that only she knows. Presumed dead for ten years, when in reality she was living in L.A. and then Japan under the name Yatsuki Okida.

"Tsuki-chan?" A red skinned Shinigami asked. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"Of course, Envy." A brown eyed, brown haired young woman responded.

"You could get hurt doing this." Envy said, concerned.

Yatsuki ("Tsuki-chan") shrugged. "So? What're a few broken bones? As long as I have fun getting them."

Envy sighed at the 22-year-old, who was presently going to attempt to slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag. He knew by know that trying to talk her out of it was pointless by now. "Lighten up, wouldja." Yatsuki told him. "There are worse things I could be doing." She said, putting a helmet over her shoulder length hair. "Give me a push."

Envy reluctantly nudged her enough to send her down the stairs. Her laughter filled the house, followed by a rather loud THUD and even more laughter.

Before she could hop back up the stairs, someone knocked on her door. She hopped over to it and opened it, revealing her neighbor, Light Yagami. She gave him a large grin. "Waddup?" she asked, hopping to the side so he could come in.

He looked her up and down. She was still in the sleeping bag and the helmet she was wearing was slightly askew. He wondered what she was up to this time. "We were wondering if you would like to come over for dinner tonight." He said.

Yatsuki sighed. "What case does your dad need help with now?"

Light sweat dropped. True, that was the usual reason for the family to invite her over in the past, but can't neighbors eat together? Especially when one of those neighbors is a single 22-year-old who always orders takeout and rarely eats a good meal?

"Not when your dad is involved." She said, jokingly, when Light voiced these questions. "So seriously. What's the occasion?"

"Well, apparently my dad talks about you at work. His new boss wants to meet the girl who has helped so much. Maybe offer you a job."

Yatsuki sighed. "I don't need another job. I've already got two."

"You just want out of the responsibility of being a full blown detective." Light accused.

Yatsuki grinned. "You know me too well. But I already have two jobs. I don't need a third."

"Mom and dad say that you have too much time on your hands to even have one job."

"Work from home."

"Come on, Tsuki-chan. If not for dad, come over so mom will stop worrying about your eating habits."

"All right. Give me fifteen minutes."

Light nodded before leaving. "Tsuki-chan?" Envy asked from where he was standing on the stairs. He had heard everything and didn't like the idea of her going to Kira's house. It's bad enough that she lives next door… in his mind, anyway. When she cocked her head to the side, a habit she had developed that showed she was listening, he continued. "I don't think you should."

"Relax. You worry too much."

"And you worry too less. Someone has to make up for that."

She laughed. "True. But I haven't done anything to make him mad. I'm not a criminal."

She managed to get out of the sleeping bag (after falling face first to the floor) and dressed in camo pants and used a man's under shirt as a tank top. When she got to the door, Saiyu, Light's little sister, answered it. "Tsuki-chan!" She exclaimed with a grin. "What's with the red mark on your forehead?"

"The sleeping bag has it out for me." She responded.

Saiyu, knowing better than to question further for fear of finding out something relatively strange and possibly disturbing, stepped aside and let her in the house. Yatsuki took a large whiff of the smell coming from the kitchen. "I don't know what your mom is making, but it smells good." She said.

Saiyu smiled. "It's that English dish you like so much. It's called Sheperd's pie, right?"

Yatsuki's eyes glittered in childlike excitement. "Does she need a taste tester?" she asked.

Saiyu laughed as she lead her into the kitchen. "Hey! Tsuki's here!" she said.

"Ah, the life of the party." Mrs. Yagami joked.

"Hello, Mrs. Yagami. Thank you for having me over. It smells great." Yatsuki said. "And I do like to think of myself as the life of any party I go to."

She chuckled. "Of course you are. Have a seat. I sent Light to the store and Soichiro isn't home yet."

"I heard that his boss wants to meet me. Will he be here to?"

"I'm not sure. He's a very busy man."

"I can imagine."

"Tsuki-chan! Come watch Hideki Ryuuga's latest movie with me!" Saiyu called from the family room.

"I'll be there in a minute!" Yatsuki called.

"Saiyu sure looks up to you." Mrs. Yagami said as Yatsuki stood up from the kitchen table.

"Can't imagine why." Yatsuki said, walking away. "I'm nothing special."

"That's a matter of opinion."

Yatsuki turned and gave Mrs. Yagami a sad smile. "I guess."

It was a few minutes later that Light got home, followed shortly by his father and another man with messy black hair and onyx eyes. Yatsuki did a double take. 'B?' she wondered. 'No. Impossible. He's in jail.'

The two of them made eye contact and his eyes grew wider than they already were. 'S?' he wondered to himself before going back to his usual persona.

"Yatsuki, this is my boss, Ryuuzaki. Ryuuzaki, this is Yatsuki Okida." Mr. Yagami introduced.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Yatsuki said with a smile and a hand shake.

"The pleasure's all mine." Ryuuzaki replied.

"Do you mind if I call you Ryu-kun? Ryuuzaki's too long." She asked with a smile.

"If you would like."

Mr. Yagami smiled and whispered to Ryuuzaki, "If she gives you a nickname, it means she likes you."

Ryu nodded and watched the young woman as she offered to help in the kitchen. When she turned to address Mr. Yagami, the two of them made eye contact again. But something was slightly different. There was a thin white ring around her pupils. She glanced above Ryuuzaki's head and then the ring vanished. She gave him a warm smile and continued what she was saying to Mr. Yagami.

"I'm stuffed." Yatsuki said with a large grin. "That was the best I've eaten in a while."

"Remember that our door and kitchen is always open." Mrs. Yagami told her.

"Yeah. You should come over more often. Like you used to." Saiyu added.

"I'll try."

"Well, I must be going." Ryuuzaki said, standing from his unusual sitting position. Everyone thought this was odd except for Yatsuki. She acted as if it were a normal thing to do.

"I should be going to." Yatsuki said.

"Do you have to?" Saiyu asked

"It's late, Saiyu. I have to get some work done before I go to bed."

"What do you do?" Ryuuzaki asked.

"I build computers and software."

The Yagami's looked at her, mildly surprised. "You never told us that." Light said.

She shrugged. "Never asked. Anyway, thank you for the meal. See you guys tomorrow."

"Miss. Okida?" Ryuuzaki asked as the two of them walked outside.

"Call me Tsuki."

"All right. Where are you from?"

"L.A. California."

"I thought so. You have an American accent. But your name is Japanese."

"My mom had this weird obsession with Japanese culture. Never got around to asking why."

This wasn't completely false. She honestly can't remember her mom. She died giving birth and no one knew who the father was. She was adopted by an old Japanese couple who only lived to see her fifth birthday until they passed away. She was then put in an orphanage until she was found by Mr. Whammy and became the notorious prankster known as S. Of course, she didn't tell Ryuuzaki any of this. He'd probably find out eventually, anyway… then of course he'd be pissed.

"Tsuki-chan?" Ryuuzaki asked, breaking her out of her thoughts. He was standing in front of a door to a limo that was being held open by an old man. When he got her attention, he nodded. "It was nice meeting you."

"Likewise." She responded with a smile. The old man looked at her with what looked like recognition that quickly turned into confusion. She smiled at them and turned to walk to her house.

Once the old man got into the drivers seat, he looked at Ryuuzaki in the rear view mirror. "She bears a striking resemblance to S, doesn't she, L?"

L nodded. "Yes she does, Watari. And her habits are even the same."

"What will you do?" Watari asked, driving away.

"We'll do the same thing as with the Yagami and the Aizawa households."

"I'll arrange it right away."

L sat there, wondering if this woman could be the same person he had been searching ten years for. 'Yatsuki Okida…'

Yatsuki let out a sneeze from where she sat on the work stool in her garage. "A cute boy must be thinking about me." She said with a goofy smile.

"Isn't sneezing when someone is talking about you?" Envy asked her from where he was sitting behind her on the floor.

"Either way you look at it, it involves a cute boy."

He let out a sigh and watched as she went back to building her latest hi-tech laptop. The damn thing wouldn't be able to break if you dropped it from a rooftop and all the programs she will download are ones that she designed herself. Her software is considered the best and is sought out by the FBI and other major investigation forces. The security programs are top notch to the point where they are practically impossible to get around and everything that you download and save will be automatically coded. She doesn't mess around when it comes to her job.

Envy's eyes wondered around the garage that she made her workshop. She had sealed the door shut so no one could get in from outside and the only other way in has a retina scanner. The walls of the garage were sound proofed and the shelves were covered in mechanical parts and tools. There were also a bunch of parts for guns…

"Anything interesting happen while I was gone?" She asked Envy, not taking her eyes off her work but tilting her head slightly to the side to show he had her attention.

"Not really. Why?"

"I think that Mr. Yagami's new boss is L."

"That world famous detective?"

"The one and only."

"I thought he always stayed in whatever room he's operating from."

"That's the common misconception. He actually believes in the hands on approach and is extremely active during his cases. He most likely started that rumor himself to make it easier for him to go out in public without being found out."

"There's more, isn't there." Envy asked. Yatsuki turned around and looked at him questioningly. "You look troubled."

"I think he might have recognized me."

"Maybe he won't remember."

She chuckled bitterly. "It's L. He remembers everything. He's probably already planning something to see if his assumption about me is correct. Probably going to bug my house or something."

"You want me to stay here whenever you're out?" he offered.

"That would be helpful. And you could go do whatever it is you do when I'm home."

Envy nodded. Now that that was settled, Yatsuki turned around and went back to work. "Do you wanna move away?" Envy asked suddenly.

She looked over her a shoulder and gave him an annoyed look for interrupting her work before turning back to it. "I'll admit, it crossed my mind a couple times during dinner."

"What's stopping you?"

She was silent, trying to figure out what it was that was keeping her there, before letting out an aggravated sigh. "I don't know. I just like it here…" She chuckled bitterly again. "It figures. I find someplace I actually like and L shows up. I guessed I stayed a year too long."

"Why didn't we move when L figured out Kira was based in the Kanto region of Japan? Surely you knew he would come here."

"Of course I did… and don't call me Shirly."

"Then why didn't we leave?"

"… I… I don't know. Many factors. Curiosity, attachment, wonder… and a challenge. I love a good challenge."

"That'll get you killed one day."

"Don't I know it."

Silence settled between them.