Ewiituntmay: Heeey! New story, yaay! Okay, I just had this idea and I can't help but write it down, because it just wouldn't leave me alone! So then I decided I'd put it up here and see what you think of it. If you like this story let me know and I'll continue it...as best as I can...I would like to hear from you if you have any ideas on where this story should go ^-^ especially considering I'm not entirely sure where this story is going either D: If not...it's cool. Anyway, enough babbling. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note or Characters!
Chapter One
Hey, you can call me Mercury, I am your current psychic! Hehehe, I am currently seventeen years old, have shoulder length black hair, my bangs are dyed a lovely turquoise color, I have emerald green eyes and am somewhat pale, though for the past two weeks of running from a certain facility I have been getting a tan. I cannot say I am unhappy about my skin coloration, though were you to ask about my current mental state it would be an entirely different story.
I am a psychic sponge, I know you're like "What? What the hell is a 'psychic sponge'?" What I mean by psychic sponge is that I can imitate and retain any other psychic's ability! So far I have quite a few, but am able to retain quite a few more. Usually anyway.
Right now I have the mental power of a jellybean. I mean don't get me wrong, I can slightly pick up stray thoughts that are thrown at me, but that's about it. I can't do many of the things I normally can and it's starting to piss me off. Anyway hopefully everything will be explained in the story.
I looked around quickly, my eyes scanning the darkness around us, Aiyu stood quietly clinging to my left arm, she looked around quietly as well. She tried to be calm, but I knew she was scared. She looked up at me and made a small sound, I glanced down at her and gave her a small smile, trying to be reassuring. She knew the smile was mostly forced, but she always seemed to relax anyway, knowing that as long as I was around she would be safe. That was the only reason I had decided to let her come with me when I escaped the lab.
There was a street around the next corner, it was pretty quiet though, being around eleven at night almost everyone was already home in this neighborhood. Almost everyone, there were a few stragglers who were hurrying home before it got too late. I scanned the area around us again before I started moving forward, once I rounded the corner I could see a silhouette standing across the road from us, they didn't seem to notice us yet so I stayed still, wanting to make sure it wasn't one of the men who were after us.
I watched him carefully for all of three seconds, trying to pick up any of his thoughts (which was almost impossible from this distance), until Aiyu pulled on my arm and pointed at the guy, other than that she didn't move, explain or do anything else. Aiyu was too quiet sometimes, what with being a mute, I could understand being verbally quiet. The harder thing was her mental quiet, she never really thought much unless it was important, or the very rare times she could, or would, let her mind wander.
I sighed and started to leave the small alley, hoping that no one would try to talk to us. Don't get me wrong, I had picked up fluent Japanese easily enough within the first few minutes of landing here, but the fact that it was just me and Aiyu, made it look kind of suspicious. I was only seventeen, going on eighteen though I did look about twenty or so, and Aiyu was already six, though she could easily pass for four. I just didn't feel like explaining myself to anyone.
Just as a car pulled up to the man across the street three men appeared behind us. I turned quickly and pushed Aiyu behind me, she let go of my arm without a word and stayed behind me. I could feel the adrenaline already starting to lance through my body, so within a split second my body was ready for the fight I knew was coming.
One guy lunged at me and I easily dodged him, the second tried to kick at me, and the third tried to punch me both moving at the same time, their moves in sync like a well oiled machine. I knew they weren't going to be easy to fight, mostly because of Aiyu, if I simply fought them she would be left open to any of the ones who weren't trying to keep me busy. I would fight tooth and nail to protect her, and at the same time I would have to surrender if they ever laid they hands on her and I was unable to safely get her out of their hands.
I felt her tug on the back of my shirt, urging me to turn or run, it didn't matter which, I backed up with her and only turned when I heard the driver's door on the car slam shut. I whirled around quickly, unsure of whether it was another of his men, or even Mr. Davis himself. I could hear my heart pounding almost painfully fast in my chest with the adrenaline and suspense. I relaxed only slightly when I could see that it was an elderly man, and only a slightly bit more when I realized he wasn't one of Davis' men.
Aiyu tugged on my arm again and I glanced down at her, she was staring at both the elderly man, and the man he'd come to pick up, who had come around the car to see what was going on with us. I watched them carefully until I could pick up their thoughts, they weren't about to hurt us, even were they to get their hands on us. Especially not the older man, who was none other than the Quillsh Wammy, owner of the Wammy's House orphanage. I could pick up though that he was currently going by the name Watari, as a precaution.
It took me all of a split second to realize all of this, I pushed Aiyu closer to the car and away from the men coming out of the alley, turning my back on the two men by the car, they meant no harm. The other men however were coming closer to me, one now had a familiar object in his hands and was about to place it to his lips.
My eyes widened slightly at the recognition, I turned to Aiyu and quickly placed my hands over her ears as an extremely shrill dog whistle began to sound. Aiyu, despite both our hands covering her ears nearly collapsed, I grit my teeth hard and tried to drown out the sound with thoughts, anything that would let me ignore the piercing sound.
Fortunately I was able to pull the thoughts from the guy Watari came to pick up, since he was closest to me and Aiyu, I didn't see the look of surprised that no doubt crossed his face as his memories were pulled out of him…well not out of him, just laying them out easily in his mind as I surrounded myself with them.
When the man with the whistle paused to take a breath I let go of Aiyu and bounded over to him, punching him in the face and quickly grabbing the whistle from his hands. Once I had the whistle in hand I back-flipped back to where Aiyu was kneeling. Before the men could register what was happening now I dropped the whistle to the ground and stomped on it, effectively smashing it to a useless pile of plastic.
"You little bitch!" The men stalked closer but stopped when to almost everyone's surprise, Watari and the other man stepped in front of me and Aiyu. The other man, I could now sense, was the L Lawliet, the world's greatest detective.
"What's going on here?" Watari asked, his voice calm, despite the obvious anger in it. It wasn't every day you seen two hypersensitive 'children' being attacked by three men in business suits. I looked up at the two famous men standing protectively in front of us. I wasn't sure what to make of this situation, I had always been the one protecting everybody, therefore I wasn't used to having someone trying to protect me.
Mercury…these men won't hurt us…I can sense their hearts…they are really nice, and they're generous. We should go with them, they can protect us from Mr. Davis.
Aiyu tugged on my arm again, she was looking up at me. I looked down at her, then back at the two men, L was watching the men and Watari was looking back at us, as if asking me to tell him why there were men trying to fight me. I searched both minds carefully and quickly, I knew Aiyu was right, she usually was when it came to things like this. I also knew that the three men would continue to chase us, Unless I can lay a false trail and lead them to it. Or just leave a trail for them to follow then have it cut off sharply, then they'll have no idea where to start looking for us again.
As I thought these things through, at a much faster pace than regular people, I noticed that L had turned to stare at me unabashedly. I was too caught up to return the stare or do much of anything. I decided that I would send Aiyu with them and then meet up with them later…assuming they're willing to take her and such…
I was pretty sure they would though, or at least that Watari wouldn't mind too much. So I looked up at them and noticed they were both looking at me strangely, the three men were coming closer, silently so as not to alarm Watari and L. Without a word to either of them I rushed passed them and straight into the closest man, he tumbled backward and the gun he was about to pull out lay a few feet away from either of us, the second and third guys were also pulling out similar guns, tranquilizers…
I scrambled over to the discarded gun and quickly stood and moved out of the way of the two darts that were aimed at me. I lifted the gun and aimed it at a point between the three guys, I shot one dart into the man who was still on the ground and returned to the middle point.
"Don't even think about it." the two men froze, unwilling to even try to shoot at me while I had a gun in my possession, knowing full well I'd shoot them both before I was affected by the two they'd shoot at me, unlike them I had both Aiyu and the other two to help me out. I could feel the surprised stares of Watari and L as I held the gun steady, at the two remaining men.
There were only two darts left in the gun, since each gun only held three darts a piece, but it wouldn't do any good for the reinforcements who were closing in on us and fast. I was thinking as fast as I could, then without hesitation I shot the two darts which effectively found their targets. I tossed the gun to the side and walked over to Aiyu and the others, I sighed as I got closer, then dipped my head slightly at the embarrassment I felt at asking them for anything.
"Um…I know this is a lot to ask, especially since you have no idea who either of us are, but I need you to take her and get her out of here as soon as possible." I indicated Aiyu who blinked up at me in surprise, the other two were surprised as well but both were good at hiding it, facially. Aiyu came over to me and clung tightly to my arm, tugging it anxiously.
"Calm down ... There are more men coming and you need to be safe … I have to lead them to a false trail, or cut them off … because they'll keep looking for us… Enough. You need to get away from here as soon as possible and if they can take you, I know you'll be safe and I will be able to get away from the guys easily enough … Do you trust me?"
Aiyu's silence and my rambling must have confused the others, but in reality Aiyu was yelling at me fiercely, mentally of course. I sighed and asked the last question and she froze, tears starting to form in her eyes, she nodded silently. I looked back up at the other two, "So? Can…you take her? …Will you take her?"
I noticed that I was holding my breath and released it silently, I could feel the other men getting closer and if they didn't get Aiyu out of here now I wouldn't be able to lead them anywhere. Aiyu turned to looked at them, her tears still clinging to her thick black eyelashes.
Watari looked over at L, both looked back at me and Aiyu, then L nodded slowly, as if contemplating the wisdom of doing this…well it'd be better to say that he was contemplating the wisdom of taking this girl whom he had no knowledge of, for there was obviously something different about us, something that separated us from normal children.
Watari took a step forward and held his hand out to Aiyu, "Would you like to come with us?"
Aiyu looked back at me, her tears finally falling, I nodded once and gave her the same forced reassuring smile I had given to her approximately nine minutes ago. She turned back to Watari, shyly looking up through her lashes as she reached out and grabbed his hand. His hand wrapped gently around hers and she took a step closer to him and the car, and safety. Then turned back to me her head tilted in a questioning manner.
Will you come get me when its safe?
"Of course I will, you know that." I sighed as I seen the curious expressions cross Watari and L's faces, I looked up at Watari soberly, "She can't talk…she's mute… …I'll contact you as soon as I can."
I didn't wait for questions or comments I waved at Aiyu then turned back to the alley we had just come out of, then hearing the guys getting closer I looked up at the sides of the two buildings on either side of me then quickly scrambled up one much more agilely than a normal teenager. Once on the fire escapes I headed the direction the men were coming from and almost instantly had their attention, they all scrambled around trying to follow beneath me.
(Third Person P.O.V.)
L, Watari and the little girl, Aiyu watched as the other girl turned and headed back toward the alley, looked up at the sides of the buildings and then climbed up to the fire escape quickly and efficiently, as though she did such things on a daily basis. They could hear shouts and noises coming from the ground as several men tried to turn and follow her.
Before L or Watari could search the men or go after the other girl, Aiyu tugged on Watari's arm and pointed back at the car urging the two to hurry and leave before the men woke up and such. With very little choice the three quickly got in the car and headed to the headquarters for L's current case, the Kira case.
A/N: Okay, so it was a random thought, please let me know what you think and if I should continue.
