Hey all! I know that it's been a while, and that the last story I put up was a little odd, even for me, so I decided to start an actual story now that I have a puter again!

I know, I'm switching story lines a lot here, and I've decided to attempt my first cross over fic. There's only one real cross over char here, tho, which is why I've decided to put this one in death note.

Well, all, tell me what you think!

Disclaimer- I own a Death note. I don't own the show, though, and the one I have didn't even come with it's own shinigami. DX

Chapter one- Rotting your brain

Matsumoto sat on her back, watching the anime on the television again. She'd finished with the story a while ago, but there was something about the over intelligent L that caught her interest. She was stuck in the real world, where the dark guys all turned out to be evil as hell, and all of the good guys were either brainless or so drastically flawed that looks couldn't cover it. L was adorable. He was thought out, he wasn't without flaw, which so many of the shows failed to point out.

She'd actually gotten quite into the show, watching it daily till it was completed. She'd lost all interest in the show after his death, but didn't stop watching the show anyway.

Life in the real world was so boring. She watched as the character on the tv bit his thumbnail again, narrowing his eyes at the man on the other end of the screen. Light.

She sat up, sighing. She was an important person. She wasn't supposed to be sitting there, bored out of her mind watching television and wishing that she could be there instead. She looked down at herself with a sigh. If she did disappear the only ones that would really notice are Hitsugaya and Kira. Kira probably wouldn't notice till he needed help, which was becoming less and less often, and almost always cured with Sake.

"I'm home!" Matsumoto sat up and looked at Inoue as she walked in. "You're obsessed with that show, you know that?" She smiled, sitting on the floor next to Matsumoto with a can of soda in one hand and a bottle of chocolate sauce in the other. Matsumoto laughed, looking down at the combination. "I've tried that, go get a spoon. You can't shake it up, it'll fizz over." Inoue frowned, looking at her. "Rangiku-san, I know that somethings been bothering you. What's going on?"

Rangiku sat and looked at the television, frowning. "I'm bored here." Inoue frowned. "You wanna play a game or something?" Matsumoto frowned. "Not like that. Ever since Gin left me it's been harder on me than I could have thought. I didn't realize, with how often I'm surrounded by people, that I could get lonely like this." She sighed, looking over at her companion, noticing the frown on her face. "It's easier to get attached to the guys on the television. They don't try and kill you after the romance is gone. They just stay there, if they get on your nerves you can just turn them off. It's so much easier..."

Orohime frowned. "I know what you mean. It's easier to be in love with someone who can't say no, who doesn't make you so nervous..." Rangiku felt a sudden wave of guild at the situation and frowned. "Let's head out. We need to cheer up a little."

After the night was spent, Hitsugaya crashed out in the living room, Orohime was drunken enough to actually lull him into her state and Matsumoto left immediately after the cloths started to fly. She wandered the streets, feeling a slight pain in her chest as she walked. If it was a heart attack then at least she could get Gin off her mind. And L. She smiled a little at the thought. Maybe someone wrote her name in a death note. She laughed a little harder as she walked, the pain ebbing a little. She looked down at her hand, her fingers suddenly tingling. The Gigai was faulted, something was happening.

It was only a second till she was on the phone with Urahara. "I need help, I think this gigai is having a heart attack, and I can't get out of it!"

"Rangiku-san?! Where are you?"

"About twenty feet from your front door." Urahara ran out and frowned at her, slumping to her knees, sweat pouring off of her. "What's happening? Urahara, if the gigai dies while I'm in it, I can get out afterwards, right?" He didn't answer, just kept trying to pull the gigai off of her with the spirit splitting gloves. "I don't know! This hasn't happened! I've never had a gigai have a heart attack before!" She looked up, surprised. It was actually a heart attack?!

"I don't want to die... I take it back!" She uttered, feeling her limbs loosing feeling. She reached out and grabbed Urahara, pulling him into a hard, frightened hug. "I don't want to die, I don't want to..." Her head was spinning so fast that the vertigo had started to blur her vision. Urahara just sat there, gripped onto her, almost as frightened as she was. "I'm sorry, I don't know what to do..."

She knew that she'd lost consciousness. Her head spun as she regained herself a little. When her eyes opened she was nowhere near prepared for what she saw. Rock walls beneath a barren purple sky fell quickly past, and she knew she was falling. Her arms reached out for anything they could reach, but there was nothing to grasp but sky. The jutting rocks surrounded her for what seemed forever before she felt something approaching from below. She closed her eyes, ready to hit the ground and splatter, but the wind around her kept going. She opened her eyes just as the area around her closed in. She'd fallen through a hole and turned looking down. She slowed her mind, grasping at one thought. She turned and tried to grasp the air, trying to use her chakra to slow her descent. It worked, but just slightly. She looked down, trying to continue the slowing, but she knew she was running out of time. There was a disbanding group just below her and she sighed relieved when they were gone. She hit the ground just hard enough to roll her over a few times before splaying to her back. She heard voices, felt a hand at her neck, and gritted her teeth, trying to open her eyes, the exhaustion from the use of chakra was more than she could have imagined. Her weary eyes looked into obsidian ones and she chuckled as she grinned. "L..." She looked over at the other voice, thinking maybe her hallucination was almost over. She looked into a face that was more gorgeous than she was prepared for. "Light?" Her eyes rolled back in her head as she fell into unconsciousness.

She woke in a hospital room. She kept her eyes closed and listened to what was going on around her. "She fell out of the sky! I don't know what happened, but apparently she'd fallen off of an airplane that was going overhead. We can't figure out how she survived."

"I guess Kira liked her..." Her eyes shot open. Kira? Wasn't there two faces she'd seen when she came too? Light and L...

She sat up, her stomach growling and looked over. "Kira?" They looked over, one actually dropped her clip board. "You're alive?!"

L sat in the chair, a sweet sugar cube melting in his mouth. He was watching the television waiting for a word from Watari when he noticed something in one of the monitors. A note attached to the door. "Matsuda, can you get the note from the front door, please?"

Matsuda retreived the note and handed it to L. "Ryuuzaki, it's to Watari."

"Watari?" L hit the button on the microphone. "Yes sir?"

"A note just arrived for you. It was taped to the front door." L was definitely curious, but not enough so to do anything except lay it on the table. "I'll read it when I get a chance to, sir." L nodded and looked over at the door's monitor. He frowned, reaching over and rewound the tape a little. He noticed a blur and the note dissapear and hit play. He watched as a familiar face ran up and looked around, leaning back on the door. She turned and placed her hands on the door, looking up towards the camera and frowned before running off. "Watari, I'll bring it down to you. I want to know what this is." Watari's voice ran in. "Alright, sir."

It was about ten minutes later that L reached the door, envelope in hand. He knocked at the door softly and waited a moment before it creaked slowly open. L handed the note over and frowned, walking into the room and jumped up into one of the chairs, his hands on his knees at his chest, thumb on his lip. "The one who dropped this off to you was the woman who fell off of the plane earlier." Watari looked up and nodded. "Just after your test, right?" L nodded. "I know you're against that, and I'm sorry, but this is most interesting." His eyes couldn't be separated from the piece of paper in the older man's hands. Watari opened the envelope after shrugging off a small smile at the younger one's intrigue.

Watari read the note silently before speaking. "Sir, there's another envelope in there for you. This one is an explanation. She says she knows who Kira is, and can get proof, but she needs to be in the investigation. She put the note in my name so that no one would take it thinking it was for you."

L picked up the envelope, looking it over carefully before drawing out the other. It had a giant American cursive L on the front and he frowned before opening it.

'L,

My name is Matsumoto Rangiku. I know who Kira is, and so do you. I know how he kills and know exactly what to do to get the evidence you need. There's a restaurant just down the street. Zen-Cha tea. Meet me there at seven tonight. Trust me, it's safe.

Rangiku

ps They have excellent teramisu.'

L frowned. She knew how to get the evidence? He'd tried for a while to get this one, and it was throughly interesting to think that she could beat him. And besides, Tiramisu didn't sound like a bad change.

He sat in the chair at six fifty-eight. The waitress frowned when he walked in and looked almost terrified when he said he'd be meeting someone. He looked over the listing of the desserts and stuck his thumb to his lip to hide the smile at the menu.

Matsumoto walked in and smiled at the woman behind the counter. "Rangiku-san!" the woman nearly squealed and Matsumoto grinned. "Hey, here to meet someone. Can I get a Vanilla chai and the shrimp okinomiyaki?" Rangiku looked over and smiled. He was just as adorable in real life. She tried to hide her chuckle, thinking she was still hallucinating. "Ryuuga! How you been?" She smiled as she sat, surprising the woman at the counter. She leaned down close, giggling at the surprised look on the young man's face. "I know your nicknames. I won't give you away. Now, the reason we're here is this."

"I can get you the proof that you need." L frowned. "With how hard I've been working on this case, with everything that's happened and all of my resources, how could you get the proof before I do?" Rangiku sighed, the image of his face becoming lifeless flashing before her eyes. He noticed the sudden flash of terror and watched, more interested than before in this woman. "I know what happened to you, what's-, what going to happen. It's an interesting little web of lies and deceit from someone who's just as intelligent as you. If you don't let me help you he's going to have you killed." Her eyes filled with tears at the thought. It was sad on television, but it was horrific now that he was real. She couldn't pull her eyes away from his.

She had to fight off a sudden giggle at the thought that dawned on her. She really did fall in love with an anime character. L watched her actions, the spiraling emotions that half seemed to be seriously inappropriate. "I die and you giggle..." She shook her head. "It's not like that. I can't seem to keep my mind about me today. I'm pretty sure that I'm still hallucinating." L's eyes widened. "I'm sitting here talking to you. That's a pretty sure sign that I'm insane." L nodded, looking down as the woman placed a large pot of tea with a cup before him. "Green tea here's pretty good, but I thought you'd enjoy the chai more. It's a bit sweeter." L frowned. "How did you know that I like sweets like this?"

"And the shortcakes you keep nearby. And the sugar cubes you suck on. I know a lot about you, but not as much as..." She looked down. "Ryuuga, I need to save you. I can't let you die like that. The last thing you see is him smiling down at you. The last human contact you have was drying off his feet. He caused you so much anger, so many hardships, and it doesn't end with you. He kills almost all of them." L frowned. "All of who?" She noticed the slight whisper in his voice, now barely taking her seriously. "Mello, Matt, all but Near and three other members of the SPK die. I can't have that on my conscience. I have to stop Kira, Light Yagami." L's eyes were practically dried open by this. "How do you know about them?"

"Ryuuzaki, Ryuuga, L, I know damned near everything about this case, including what he'll do next. His ultimate goal is to kill you. After he does that he takes over your name and it's three years before they find out. He gets Matt killed, after all, he's against Kira, who's a god by then, and Mello dies just after. He kills them all. I can't let that happen. I have to stop him." L watched her as she looked down at the pot of chai that was being placed before her. "Why do you have such an interest in this case? If you know what happens, why don't you just take the power yourself and be regarded as a god yourself?"

"This may sound odd, seeing as this is the first time you've seen me, but I've watched you for a while. Just before I got here I was out for the day, trying to freak out less over the fact that I was falling for you." L sat up straight, his eyes focused on hers. "Excuse me?"

"Told you it may sound odd." He nodded, sipping the tea before looking over at the sugar packets and opening six. "So, how do you suggest that I get the evidence?"

"How's Ray Penbar?" She looked up and he frowned. "How did you know? That hasn't been released yet..."

"I know everything about this case. What's happened, what hasn't happened yet, Every detail. If he's already been caught, then next is..." Rangiku tried to keep her head about her as she thought through what would happen next. "Oh, in about a week you'll get a phone call. His fiancé, someone you've worked with will have died. I know you've just gotten into the new building, but you need to keep a line there at all times. Set up a bug with a camera in the police lobby..." She looked down, her eyes twinkling. L stared. "Why would I do that?" She frowned. "The last person to see her was Yagami Light. Unfortunately the people in the police station didn't remember that they were there at the same time. If you set up a camera, you can-"

"No." She looked at him, her eyes bewildered before he closed his eyes. "I can't wait for someone else to die like this." She frowned. "One death, or hundreds? The longer you wait the worse it'll be."

"You know you just made yourself more dangerous to the case, right?" She looked up, surprised as the okinomiyaki hit her table. "What?"

"If she dies now, and you've told me about it before hand then that makes you much more suspicious." She frowned, looking down at her plate. "I hadn't thought about that..."

L stood, sighing, shaking his head. "I can't have you on my team if you can't even think through such menial things." She frowned. "I have my cell. Somehow it works here..." She looked down at her side and sighed. She grabbed a napkin and a pen. "Here's my number. Call me by this name if Kira's around." L sighed, looking up at her. "And you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Light Yagami is Kira?"

She nodded, looking down at her plate, hating her sudden lack of appetite. "I do. Please, call me." He sighed and nodded, walking out.

"Wow." The woman that worked there came over to her and sighed. "I never would have thought that a girl like you would be interested in a guy like... that..." Rangiku smiled. "Neither would I, but I do seem to get attracted to the guys that have no interest in me." The woman at the counter shook her head. "He's crazy. Why him?"

She thought, the face of her last love fluttering into his head. "He is the opposite, yet exactly the same as someone from long ago..." She reached down, pulling out her wallet and showed the woman a picture of her and Gin from years prior. "Wow! He's kinda cute!"

"He wants to kill me. He turned gay or something." She sighed, leaving the woman behind the counter completely in shock. "What?" Rangiku nodded, sighing. "He ran off with a guy, and they tried to kill me."

"Hon, you have really screwed up luck." Rangiku at this thought burst into laughter. "I really do." She went to stand when the woman at the counter spoke again. "I don't know how I got here, I have nowhere to stay, I don't know anyone here I can trust except him." She looked out the door as the white shirt left her view. "Hon, let me help you out here a little, 'kay?"

Chapter one!

It gets better, I promise. You all know me, I'm a story slut. Please read and review!