What A Horrible Night To have a Curse

Part two of the No tomorrow trio.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DEATH NOTE…just way to much free time spent plotting how to get a hold of the rights to it….

A/N: SORRY..this was supposed to be out…forever ago along with a couple other stories, but life happened and this wound up finally getting written on the way to Alaska…yeeeaaaah. Well anyways, Enjoy you guys, and to new readers, this is part two so please go to my profile (click the penname!) and read No Tomorrow, that's part one. Two years after NT happens :p

Music: What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse-The Black Dahlia Murder, Inner Vision-Slipknot, and Dance, Dance-Fall Out Boy

Warning: Swearing, Yaoi (guy on guy sex) which will not be pointed out before it happens, and possible gore (murder hello) for the entire story.

~LAWLIET~

I bit my thumb, reading the case file over for what felt like the hundredth time. Near insisted that it wasn't open and shut, the way Light and I had viewed it since day one. It was simple really, a dead girl and an angry boyfriend with something to hide, you'd have to be an idiot not to see it.

Light and I had both been shocked and feared for my three protégés sanity when they'd begged for our help on it. We'd asked them why and received as answer skeptical looks. Mello had grabbed it from Near, stuck the file in our faces and shouted, "How the FUCK do you not see it?"

In the time sense I realized that I had become so accustomed to the monotony of simple cases that I couldn't see the obvious falsity of it. This case was meant to baffle lesser detectives, but be painfully obvious to capture the eye of L and be falsely concluded.

Light had been the one to say it, someone was using a well fabricated case to make sure L failed. They hadn't counted on anyone seeing that the boyfriend had been framed, especially not after he gave full confession.

I was hopelessly frustrated, once I had looked at it with a different perspective I had seen the gaps in our conclusion and a bit of prodding had made the entire thing unravel.

I growled slightly, reading the autopsy and twisting words in my head to try and force new meanings out of all the information before me. I had never had trouble like this with a case and was usually on location by now however it was a rather..delicate matter.

The murder had happened in a house in the Kanto region of Japan….four blocks from the Yagami home. Light and I both knew that not including Soiricho was not an option so we were extremely wary.

We could have Near front the entire operation but even with all three boys' heads together they were still likely to miss something that was necessary for Light or myself to piece together what had happened.

I took a sip of my now cold coffee and tried to mash some more information out of the report so we would not have to enter the whirlpool of misfortune that was sure to be Japan.

Focused as I was I didn't notice Light was there until his arms slid around me and he rested his chin on my shoulder, "Hey." He murmured, giving me the moment I needed to pull myself out of the case and focus on him.

"Light-kun…this case refuses to unknot itself even after six cheesecakes!" I looked at him, waiting for him to realize the horror of this and huffed at him when he simply laughed. He looked at me with his honey orbs, his hair needed trimmed again as the fringe fell in front of his eyes and his soft fingers touched my face.

"Lawliet, I had Watari set up things to go to Japan in two days." He smiled at me slightly, questioning me with his eyes and I sighed, "Yes…I was thinking that we must go. Even if only to oversee the boys.."

Light nodded at reached around me to close the file, "There's nothing more we can do about it right now and we would leave today but Matt's got a hack he has to finish before we can go."

I raised an eyebrow, "Mail is an adept hacker, I doubt anything could take him nearly three full days." He looked at me and shook his head.

"L, it's nearly midnight and he got the request less than an hour ago. He says he'll hurry but it still won't be done until at least noon and I asked that we leave later still, we all need a break." He pressed his palm flat against my face and looked at me seriously, biting his lip a bit.

I realized then how long it had been since we'd had time to be together and as my last thoughts disentangled themselves from the case the desire for him that I'd been repressing for several months now flared.

"Light…" I murmured gently, raising my hand to touch his as I nuzzled his palm gently sighing, "We need to speak to the boys before we leave…" I looked at him and he nodded, his eyes half-lidded.

I stood and took his hand, "Let's get it out of the way so you and I can spend the next few days in bed." He smiled at me, eyes raking me and I shivered slightly as we headed for the main room where I crouched on a chair and he stood behind me with a hand resting on my back.

Matt was laying with a tablet he'd designed laying propped on his knees and his head in Mello's lap muttering slightly with his goggles pushed up and an unlit cigarette dangling between his lips. Mello was holding a file in one hand, his head thrown back and a chocolate bar dangling from his other hand that he snapped a piece off of and grumbled at Matt to move a bit.

Near looked up at us expectantly, one hand twirling his hair and the other busy parading a robot toward a set of dominoes that I knew would fall in the shape of a perfectly three-dimensional icosahedron.

Light cleared his throat, always the polite one, and the three of them put down what they were doing and gave us, or more accurately me, their attention. I looked around at all of them and picked up a sugar cube, rolling it between my fingers as I began.

"You are all aware of what happened in the resolution of the Kira investigation, as well as why we have studiously ignored any case that required our physical presence in Japan."

I popped the sugar in my mouth, "However due to an unforeseen twist we must go now, Light probably told you, but we're taking the jet in two days time. There is a 87% probability that our direct liaison with the Japanese police will be Director Yagami and at least a 58% chance that we will have to work face to face with a special taskforce as I did on the Kira case."

I looked at Light to continue and he smiled back at me, "Obviously that'll be a problem, since my father cannot be left out of the investigation of a murder that happened so close to his home. It is likely that other members of the kira taskforce will be on this case and all of them witnessed what they believed was mine and L's death."

I nodded at the boys and took over again, "As we are clearly alive and not apparitions of a protoplasmic nature they cannot be allowed to see us. The lot of them demanded Light's execution and it was only through an oversight on my part that we both survived, an oversight that I am grateful for of course, but an accident nonetheless. This means that one or more of you will have to operate as me, those who worked the case are aware that L had successors and will not question it, they may be concerned about your ages but Watari can handle that. The real danger is if one of them happens to catch a glimpse of us or begins to suspect that you are receiving any outside direction as they are all very adept investigators. Do not underestimate any of them, even a man name Matsuda should he be present."

Light smiled, "Touta Matsuda, a first class fool who acts like an immature idiot and had complete faith in me, was the one who I'm pretty sure would've taken me out in the end."

Mello bit into his chocolate thoughtfully, "Alright, so we have to run a perfect front, presenting every idea as our own, but not be so defensive about it being ours that it becomes obvious it isn'y while chasing a killer that has proven a challenged for all of our combined brains?"

Matt chuckled, "Oh this will be fun." And Near silently looked at me before observing in his usual tone, "We will have to be vigilant of our own words as well." I nodded, if one of them mentioned Light, whom they weren't supposed to know anything about, it would ruin things.

Light looked around at us and yawned, "It's late, I'm tired. You know what to do so let's just get some rest alright?"

Mello nodded and winked at him, "Yeah…I think we could all use some sleep, right Mattie?"

The red-head smirked and nodded, "Ohhhh yeah, I haven't gotten any.." I coughed loudly and they all realized that Near's cheeks were bright red, an unusual occurrence and he murmured, "Yes…I have a call to make." He stood and shuffled out to incredulous looks.

The blonde across from me choked slightly and then he and Matt burst out laughing while I stood and took Light's hand, leaving them chortling together on the couch.

A/N: does anyone else want to go and slash the tires on an ice cream truck…just cause the music is annoying? No…okay :3 Smex in the next one..yeaaaahh

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