Chapter Title: Killer Notebooks
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Sexy stuff, swearing, violence, death, SPOILERS.
Pairings: Mogi and Aizawa.
Summary: After Kira is apprehended, what happens to Mogi? What happens to Aizawa? Who's the new killer?
-M-
Mogi just sat up on his bed staring at his television, silent. Mogi couldn't get any sleep. Maybe he had to get out. Maybe he had to do something else. But whatever it was, he couldn't quite put a grasp on it. Even though Kira had been killed, if felt as if the war wasn't over.
He hadn't been able to sleep well for a week. It was too silent at home. It was too lonely.
But then he had an idea. Maybe he wasn't sleeping well because he was alone. But who would there to be to spend time with? Misa had committed suicide on Valentine's Day, most likely because of Light's death, Aizawa was probably at home with his family, and Matsuda... well, let's just try to leave Matsuda out of this.
Mogi pushed those thoughts out of his mind and shut his eyes. "I don't know why I feel so alone. I feel like I've got nothing to live for anymore. I need to feel useful," he said as he shut his eyes.
-A-
Aizawa just glared at himself in the mirror. Bloodshot eyes were what caught his attention the most. "I've been given a Death Note. But why? Why me?"
"I can't make myself kill people with that thing. Should I get rid of it?"
Aizawa walked over to the cabinet where he had the notebook hidden. He opened it and took the Death Note out. "If a human has their name written in the Death Note, that person dies," he said in his own words, recalling the first rule from Light's Death Note.
"I have no reason to test it out, because I'm sure of its capabilities. But..."
He opens the notebook. "Something is calling out to me."
Zinro laughed behind him. "Of course it is. Humans are naturally drawn to the power of the note. All humans who have touched it are compelled to use it at least once."
Aizawa looked back at the death god. "Light Yagami. Kira." The man clenched his fists together, and he laughed quietly.
"Light was too stupid to keep himself from being caught." A sinister grin grew on his stubbly face. He looked in the mirror again, looking back into his own eyes, which had become yellow. "I'll learn from his mistakes, and I'll take over this world."
"And I think I know who's the first to go." Aizawa pulled a blue pen out of his shirt pocket and set the Death Note by the sink.
"Nate River".
Just as Aizawa was going to write the name, he stopped himself. "Come to think of it, only a few people know his real name. Light and Mikami are dead, and the only ones who should know his name are Mogi, Ide, Matsuda, and I. The members of the SPK don't count. It would be easy to find out who killed him. Maybe I should wait a while."
"So Zinro, if I made that deal with you, I'd be giving up half of my lifespan?" Aizawa asked the death god. Zinro nods without saying anything. "I don't think that's worth it. I should instead find somebody to kill Near for me. I should make a plan."
-M-
The next morning, Mogi awoke with a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach. "I feel like today will be a bad day," he said groggily.
"Maybe I should call in," he said to himself, looking out through his window. It was raining hard.
He picked up his cellular and dialed Aizawa's number.
"Hello? Mogi?"
"Yeah, hey Aizawa. I was wondering if I could call in. I'm not feeling too well today."
"Sure thing. What's wrong? Are you feeling okay?"
"Well, not really. My stomach feels bubbly, and my heart is beating really fast."
"Do you need me to drive you to the doctor?"
Mogi blushed and thought for a bit. 'Is Aizawa serious?' "Well, that would help. Could you? I mean, I don't want to be a bother..."
"Sure! I'll be right over."
Mogi smiled to himself. "Okay. I'll be here then."
-M-
Hanging up the phone, Aizawa stared at the blank wall of his office. 'Kanzo Mogi. He's not really a threat. Not like Near. But should I kill him? What about Matsuda? I know for sure Matsuda won't be missed. That worthless idiot.'
Aizawa reclined in his chair and looked at the notebook. Seven names in one day. "No. I can't kill him. At least, not while he isn't a threat." But deep down, he knew there was another reason why he couldn't kill him.
-M-
Aizawa arrived in front of Mogi's apartment door. After knocking, the door opened. "Hey there. Mind if I come in?"
"No, come in."
Mogi closed the door and walked into the kitchen. "Would you like some coffee, or something? It's the least I could do to repay you."
"No, it's alright. So what else is going on? Fever? Vomiting?" Aizawa asked, leaning against the wall.
Mogi turned around and looked at the other man. 'Why is he so concerned?' "Just some dizziness. But I've had to use the bathroom a few times."
Aizawa nodded and looked down at the carpet. This was the first time that he had seen his coworker without that boring suit on. He had to admit, he liked him better this way. Messy hair, loose shirt, those shorts he was wearing... and the way he smelled.
Pushing those thoughts aside, he cleared his throat. "It sounds like the stomach flu. Did you eat anything strange? Eat anything old?" Aizawa asked, looking at Mogi with an experimental look.
Mogi shook his head. "Not that I recall. But I heard that a bug was going around. Maybe I caught it."
Nodding again, Aizawa let out a sigh. "Okay then, we should get going. Are you all set?"
Mogi looked at himself, and just nodded. The other man turned around and grinned to himself. 'I could kill him and get away with it easily if I made it look like he died from an illness. But... I can't kill him for some reason,' Aizawa thought to himself.
"Are you okay? You're really quiet," Mogi said, standing right behind Aizawa. The older man looked back at his companion, and shook his head.
"Yeah, I was just thinking about something. Come on, let's go."
-M-
"This has got to be the most boring day of my life," Zinro said to himself, sitting in the back seat of Aizawa's car. "Hey Shuichi, what's the deal with this guy?"
Aizawa ignored the death god and kept his eyes on the road. "Oh, that's right. You can't talk to me when there's other humans around. Are you going to kill him? Do you want me to? You know I will if you ask me to."
The bearded man looked at Mogi, but found himself to be nervous. "Hey listen, Mogi. I wanted to ask you something."
Mogi looked away from his window and focused on his coworker. "What's up?"
"Well, I was wondering -- I mean, what would you think if --"
'No, I can't ask him what he would think if I had a Death Note. If I do, he'll become suspicious, and then I might have to kill him just so I don't blow my cover,' Aizawa thought to himself.
"Mogi, I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me sometime. Not like a date or anything, but I've been really bored lately."
The death god laughed behind him. "How about it?"
Mogi shrugged. "I don't know what to say. I mean, I've been bored to death myself, but I don't want to come between you and your family," Mogi responded, looking out his window again. Though, his heart couldn't help but beat faster at the offer. 'What is Aizawa up to?' he wondered.
"Shuichi, you sure have a way with words," the death god said, laughing maniacally. 'Shit, what do I say now?'
"I can just say I'm visiting an old friend, which won't be far from the truth. Come on."
Mogi could just die of a heart attack.
"Okay. I'll think about it," he agreed without looking away from the window, for he was turning beet red.
-A-
At the hospital, Aizawa was busy making plans in the waiting room. He thought it would look weird if he went into the doctor's office with Mogi, after all.
'So, if I end up having to kill Near, I might have to use somebody to do it for me. I have to convince somebody to kill him. But who? Maybe I'm thinking too hard, there has to be an easier way. Wait, I know what I could do, and it'll be easy if I play my cards right.'
Aizawa looked at his watch. It had only been ten minutes since Mogi went in to see the doctor. "Maybe twenty more minutes, and he'll be out," Aizawa said to himself.
'I guess I could use Mogi somehow. Let's see, if I can find somebody with feelings for him, I could make him or her believe Mogi has a thing for Near, therefore, he or she would naturally want to get rid of him. That would definitely work in my favor, since we'd have a common enemy.'
Looking at his watch again, he was beginning to feel impatient.
'And then I could kill him or her by blaming Near's death on him. Or her. And of course, my actions would be justified. But how would I get him or her to kill Near? With the Death Note? Or by murder? I could always convince him or her to do the eye deal too.'
The door opens, and out comes Mogi. "Hey, you're back. So what's up?" Aizawa asked, standing up.
"Well, I'm fine now. I just had a twenty-four hour flu. I'm fine," Mogi said, smiling.
Aizawa smiled back. 'He's really cute. Too bad I have to kill him. Or do I have to? Wait, what am I thinking? Thinking of him like this?' Aizawa thought.
-M-
Later that night, Mogi and Aizawa enter a restaurant. "I'm glad you decided to come out with me, Mogi. I really appreciate it." Mogi nods and blushes a bit. "Thank you, Aizawa."
"Where would you like to sit?"
Mogi only shrugs. 'It's so obvious that he's shy,' Aizawa thought to himself.
-N-
Near sat crouched on the floor, staring up at the screen. "Twelve more people have died from heart attacks? What does this mean? Light Yagami, Misa Amane, and Teru Mikami all died thirty days ago. Not only that, but other users of the notebook are dead as well. What's going on here?" he said quietly.
"Commander Rester," Near began, making a tower out of poker chips, "if I die, then somebody in the Task Force has to be Kira."
-M-
"So Mogi, do you have a girlfriend? Boyfriend?" Aizawa asked, wiping his mouth with a napkin. Mogi looked up at him, raising an eyebrow.
"No, I've found that relationships aren't worth keeping. Especially if you're with somebody who goes both ways. I gave up a long time ago on things like that," Mogi replied, without showing any emotion.
Aizawa said nothing. 'Is this a personal attack against me? I think it's better to tell him that I'm not a fence-sitter'.
"Well, I'm no fence-jumper. I personally have a distaste for them myself."
-77-
Agent 77 picked up the phone. "Hello? Who is this?"
"77? Is that you? This is N."
"Oh, it's you. I'm assuming you need help with the Kira Case, am I right?"
"Yes, 77. You know me too well. Tell me, have you kept your skills sharp? I'd like to cooperate with you. The person who we discovered to be Kira has died, as well as the Second and Third Kira, but there are still criminals dying of heart attacks. I met the First Kira, and we found him dead later that day."
77 sighs, "So he saw your face? N, if you die, then that means the new Kira is among the remaining members of the Task Force who met with you."
"I know, that's why I'd like you to help me. There's a chance that there's another Death Note out there somewhere."
Agent 77 stood up. "Another Death Note?"
-A-
After dinner, Aizawa and Mogi left the restaurant, and got into the car. "Mogi -- I have to tell you something."
"Okay. Shoot."
"Promise me that you won't react badly."
Silence.
Mogi looks at older man thoughtfully.
"I promise. I could never get upset with you, Aizawa."
Aizawa smiled slightly. "It's really hard for me to say. I just hope I don't ruin what we already have. Mogi, I --"...
There was hesitation, and more silence.
"Mogi, I like you. A lot."
He didn't know whether to be confused or to cry out in joy, but his heart was racing. "Aizawa? You... like me?"
Aizawa nods and looks out his window.
"How long have you felt like this? Tell me. I won't be upset," Mogi said, putting his hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Since the Kira Investigation started. And every day that I'd sit next to you, I would just get so excited. I knew it was bad that I was slacking off, but being near you... it makes me feel really good," Aizawa said, taking a deep breath.
"But," Mogi started, "what about your wife?" Aizawa chuckled. "Mogi, I could never love such a loud-mouthed woman. I haven't found a woman attractive since high school. I only married her to please my parents because I'm an only child."
"Mogi, I just want to do all these different things with you, but it must be so weird for you. I should have told you sooner... or not at all," Aizawa said quietly, looking down at carpet of his car.
"Aizawa, look at me," Mogi said. Aizawa did so, and Mogi put his hands to his coworker's face. "I like you too. And feelings like that... they hurt to keep inside."
-N-
Near hung up the phone after talking with Agent 77. "Well, I guess Kira might be able to be brought to justice if 77 and I work together."
'But I still don't see how I could have been missing anything. Unless this is a totally different Kira, because this has nothing to do with the First, Second, or Third Kira. Nothing matches up.'
"I'll call this one the B-Kira," Near said, getting to work on painting a new puppet.
-M-
Mogi was ecstatic as Aizawa drove into an alley to not be seen. "Come on, kiss me again, please, I need to feel you closer to me, please," the older man said, pulling Mogi by the collar, while clumsily turning the car off.
-77-
77 pulls an orange flavored popsicle out of his freezer and tears the wrapper off. "I wonder if anything good is on the television..." he said, sitting on his couch and turning the television on.
"So, there's another Kira, huh?" He bites into the popsicle, snapping a chunk off and sucking on it. 'This new Kira has nothing to do with the other ones. And this Death Note that N told me about -- it kills the person whose name is written in it.'
"If N dies, then somebody in the Task Force has something to do with the original Kira. But that's just it, this sentence keeps popping up in both N's and my head. So there has to be a reason for that."
77 pauses and bites another chunk off of the popsicle.
"No, it only means that the original Kira has been stopped, but this is a completely different one. Let's see," 77 grabs the three latest newspapers from beside his couch, and reads them.
"The twelve criminals that N told me about are all mentioned here."
He read more, and then stopped and looked at his popsicle. "If we can get the SPK to investigate each of the remaining members of the Task Force, and one of them dies, then the case might be solved."
77 sighs and finishes the popsicle. "I'm sure this is similar to what the FBI did with the investigation all those years ago. And it worked. Light Yagami was the one that Ray Penber investigated, and both he and his girlfriend died. Of course, nobody has seen Naomi Misora in years, so it can only mean that Light Yagami got rid of her."
He stood up and turned the television off.
"Well, that settles it. I'm going to have N convince the members of the SPK to investigate the Task Force. Only then will we have more clues to work with."
"Because as of now, the only lead we have is IF N dies. And if he doesn't, then we're out of luck until much later."
-A-
"Kanzo," Aizawa said softly into Mogi's ear. The taller man stopped kissing Aizawa's neck, looked up at him, and smiled. "Kanzo," he repeated.
"Yeah?"
Aizawa chuckled softly and stroked his coworker's hair. "Nothing, I just like saying your name."
Just then, Aizawa's phone rang.
"Damn it," the both said in unison, while Aizawa answered his phone.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Mr Aizawa. I hope I'm not interrupting anything. But I'd like you to know that you, Hideki Ide, Tota Matsuda, and Kanzo Mogi are suspected of being the new Kira," Near said, straight to the point.
Aizawa froze and his eyes widened. "Hey, are you okay Aizawa? What is it?" Mogi asked, concerned.
'How did that little brat know?! HOW?! And the worst part is that I know if I kill him, everybody will get the idea that it was somebody that saw his real name that day! Damn him to HELL!' Aizawa shouted in his mind.
"But -- why us?" he asked calmly, hiding his rage.
"I'm only suspecting right now, since you're our only lead. But I want you to know that if I die, then somebody in the Task Force had something to do with it. It will confirm that the person who killed me was somebody among us when we met with Light. I'm sure you remember, Mr Aizawa."
"That's true. But what if you don't die? What if somebody in the Task Force IS the new Kira, but just doesn't kill you so that they'll never be suspected?" Aizawa replied.
"Well, it's odd that you'd say that, Mr Aizawa. The probability that you're Kira is now the greatest. I'm going to have the SPK investigate each of you. I hope that's okay with you," Near said.
'Damn it! Why'd I have to go and open my damn mouth?!'
Aizawa grits his teeth. "Sure, it's fine."
-N-
After hanging up the phone, Near looked at his screen again. "I'm going to assign Rester to Mr Aizawa, Gevanni to Mr Matsuda, Lidner to Mr Ide, and I will be assigned to Mr Mogi."
"But," Rester began, "wouldn't you be putting yourself in danger?"
Near looks up at Commander Rester. "Yes, I would. But I just have to know."
'I have to know...'
-AUTHOR'S NOTE-
There you go! The first chapter.