A/N: This is sort of just a oneshot sort of thing. My brother came up with the idea when he was randomly suggesting things. But it turned out he's amazingly creative.
THREE CHEERS FOR MY OLDER BROTHER: GENE!!!
Oh, and Light isn't Kira in this. Just so you know.
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note in anyway. I do not own this idea, my brother does. Lol.
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Running in Circles
Light Yagami sat comfortably at his desk, studying some cases the task force had been working on lately. Although he was physically comfortable, he was utterly stressed by the lack of sense these cases made to him. One prisoner drew a pentagram on the wall in his own blood, another wrote some sort of note, which, if you read on the side, it said, "L do you know." Another man ran all the way to the bathrooms and died of a heart attack on the floor. He didn't understand. He started grumbling to himself.
"How does this benefit them? Writing a note, I suppose I could see where they're coming from, but there's no coincidence. It shouldn't just randomly say, 'L do you know,' on the side. And why draw a pentagram, is the man trying to symbolize something? And who would want to die in a bathroom? What's the point of all this?"
He had no idea where to begin explaining to Ryuzaki that this was all pointless. Why would criminals act so strangely?
Maybe discussing it with Ryuzaki, the smartest man in the world, would help out a lot.
The brunette grabbed his coat and turned out his light. He quietly left the house, making sure that he wouldn't wake anyone up at two a.m. in the morning. But he was sure that Ryuzaki would be awake.
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Japanese Task Force: Current HQ; Fiji Hotel Room 46
Ryuzaki ate a piece of strawberry shortcake, watching with delight as Mikami wrote names down in Ryuzaki's Death Note while Ryuzaki ate. He basked in the malice drowning Mikami's voice as he muttered to himself.
"Delete, delete, delete, DELETE!!!" Mikami yelled, watching the news, waiting for more and more criminals to join the others on the screen.
'This is it. This is how we're going to make a crimeless world...' Ryuzaki thought to himself while chewing on a strawberry.
"Delete...delete.... delete..." Mikami purred as another three criminals made their way onto the screen.
"You're doing a great job Mikami. I'm very glad I have you as my sidekick... of some sort," Ryuzaki praised Mikami.
"Thank you, God! I'm so grateful!" Mikami said as gratuitously as he was.
'This is great... a world of no injustice...' Ryuzaki laughed darkly.
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SPK
'It's almost as if I'm hunting after my own team...' Near thought comically. He nearly smiled, but refrained from doing so.
"How many names have you written down, Gevanni?" Near asked curiously, determined to cleanse the world this way.
"87, I believe," the young SPK member replied.
"Good work, Gevanni, I'll take over for the night. Go get some rest," Near suggested. He would cleanse the world constantly, along with the Task Force and the Mafia who all killed people in the different countries in which the teams split up.
Near grabbed his favorite writing pen, and studied the laptop in front of him, memorizing all the names and faces on the page, and wrote them down quickly.
'Soon enough, the world will be clean enough for everyone to live comfortably.'
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Mafia Base: The Bar Wing AKA Hooker Mania
'I'll write down more names than Near if it's the last thing I do....' Mello thought competitively as Matt looked for pages and pages online for criminal profiles, even hacking police databases every once in a while.
"Relax, Mells," Matt said, noticing Mello's stressed state, "As soon as all these criminals are gone, you can rest."
"Shut up, Matt, just keep looking for criminals' files."
Matt chuckled at Mello's impatience and hacked yet another police databases.
"OH shit my computer froze!" Matt yelled.
"YOU'RE FUCKING KIDDING ME!" Mello shouted.
"Just kidding," Matt laughed, turning his laptop towards Mello again.
Mello backhanded the gamer and continued writing names.
"You know, you're going to get arthritis far too early with all this writing."
Mello growled in response, and Matt just laughed again.
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Fiji Hotel Lobby
Light walked wearily into the lobby, but was still somewhat anxious to get Ryuzaki's opinion. He walked up the stairs quickly, not caring for waiting for the elevator. When he reached room 46, he stopped abruptly and knocked on the door.
Meanwhile, on the inside of the door, Mikami quickly hid the Death Note in his bag, not bothering to look in Ryuzaki's shinigami's direction. The creature, Ryuk was his name, frightened him greatly.
"Come in, the door is unlocked," Ryuzaki called to Light.
Light opened the door as quickly as he could and shut it behind him, running up toward Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki simply smiled. Mikami glared.
'What a little pest,' Mikami thought.
"Ryuzaki, I just don't understand this case," Light said. He explained what he didn't get, and Ryuzaki nodded the whole time.
"Light, maybe you just need to rest. Give it some time, you're overworking yourself," Ryuzaki persuaded. One of the three boys working with him are sending him a far too obvious message, he would need to contact them immediately.
"Maybe you're right. I might just need some rest."
"You can sleep on my sofa if you'd like."
"That'd be great, I'm not sure if I can handle going all the way home this tired."
Ryuzaki smirked and chuckled under his breath as Light removed his jacket and began resting on the sofa.
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A Few Days Later....
Japanese Task Force: Current HQ; Fiji Hotel Room 46
9 P.M.
"Ryuzaki! A new note has been delivered by a prisoner! On the side it spells out... Shinigami...?" Light said excitedly.
All the Task Force members in the room looked at Ryuzaki worriedly, all concerned that Ryuzaki's secret would be out. They too, would like for the world to be cleansed.
Ryuzaki put a thumb to his lips and bit on his nail, intensely gazing at the blank TV screen.
'Damn. What the hell are those kids doing?! Don't they know how obvious their messages are?! And I haven't even been able to contact them....'
The rest of the Task Force members scattered about the room looking at 'evidence' that Ryuzaki had found.
'I'll have to find out what's going on, and fast!' Ryuzaki thought frantically.
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Mafia Base: Matt's game and junkfood room
"Heheh! This is gonna be sooo classic," Matt chuckled.
Even Mello cracked a smile while writing down names, saying, "I can't wait to see how pissed he'll be!"
The two boys laughed, planning on waiting another week for the end of the message.
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SPK: Near's bedroom
'L do you know... Shinigami....'
Near grunted quietly while lying on his soft bed.
'Matt and Mello, what are you two planning?'
Near stood and left his bedroom, planning to give Gevanni another break from writing names.
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One Week Later...
Japanese Task Force: Current HQ; Building Purchased by Ryuzaki, Room 1
11 A.M.
"Ryuzaki! You'll never believe what just came up on my lap top!!! Another note! I haven't read it, but I'm sure it'll be something interesting and useful!" Light said enthusiastically.
'No.... the end of the message, I'll just have to make something up....'
"Light, may I view that note before you do? I'd like to see what I can make of it compared to the other notes, and then have your opinion."
"Sure thing," Light said, obediently handing his laptop to Ryuzaki. The rest of the Task Force members letting out their panicked breaths.
"Are you guys okay?" Light asked, noticing their breathing. All nodded.
Ryuzaki cautiously opened the file. He was ready to delete it by 'accident' if it were anything that might lead to someone catching onto the Task Force, the Mafia, and the SPK's plans.
He repeated the message in his mind, and closed his eyes, waiting for the file to pop up.
'L, Do you know, Shinigami....'
He opened his eyes slowly, nervously...
And his eyes widened.
'LOVE APPLES??!?!?!?'
He threw his head back in stress.
The rest of the Task Force members looked confusedly at the message.
"Can I see?" Light asked eagerly as Ryuk laughed hysterically.
Ryuzaki gave his laptop back to him and continued staring off into space.
'I'm going to get those two....' Ryuzaki thought, knowing this was something only Matt would think of, and something only Mello would follow through with.
'And he wonders why Near's my favorite.'
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SPK: Near's bedroom
Near typed away on his laptop, not having much to record, but merely exploring the internet with no real interest. Suddenly, an e-mail popped up, it was from L.
And it was labeled, "WTF ARE THEY THINKING?!!?"
Near smiled. It seemed so ludicrous that Ryuzaki would label an e-mail like that. He opened it.
Near,
Before you read this, repeat the first part of the message Matt and Mello undoubtedly sent through criminals' dying notes.
"L, Do you know, Shinigami..." Near said aloud before continuing the message.
Then open the attachment and tell me how much you despise those two after you read it.
Hear from you soon,
L
Near opened the attachment immediately, looking away and repeating the beginning of the message.
"L, Do you know, Shinigami..." He said quietly.
He looked at the screen, and glared furiously.
"LOVE APPLES??!?!?!?!??!?!?!" he shouted, feeling completely out of place showing so much emotion.
He immediately opened a new message window and adressed it to L, labeling it, "THOSE JERKS!"
L,
Wow, I don't think I have ever been more angry with them in my entire life. Even when Mello tried to drown me when I was seven. But holy GOD I hate them!
-Near
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Mafia Base: Mello's bedroom
Mello and Matt were now reading what they thought to be the most hilarious e-mails in the world.
Mello and Matt,
You boys had better get to work and quit fooling around! That was a huge risk and you'd better not do it again!
-L
Mello and Matt,
Do you REALIZE how much of a risk you've been taking the past two weeks?! Light could have found out! You'd better not EVER do that again!
-Near
These were their messages in return:
L,
Geez, L, don't get your panty-hoes in a bunch. We won't do it again. We promise, *wink wink*
-M&M
Near,
Don't tell us what to do you little sheep!
-M&M
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Two Days Later...
Japanese Task Force: HQ, Room 1
4:32 A.M.
Ryuzaki quietly and stressfully watched tapes of criminals being killed, all of which he already knew about. He had to atleast try to pose as an FBI agent of some sort. Though his mind was somewhere else.
'How could they do that? That was probably the scariest moment of my entire young life!'
Meanwhile, Light was across the room staring blankly at Mikami's bag.
'He's always lugging it around for no good reason. Maybe he's Kira, and he keeps dead bodies in there or something. Or maybe a sample of all of his victims' blood,' Light thought curiously.
He looked cautiously over at Ryuzaki. He was studying the tapes intently, most likely thinking about something else. He wouldn't notice Light at all.
So Light, just as cautiously as before, reached over and unzipped Mikami's bag. He opened it up and peeked inside, feeling guilty for snooping around. But he saw something that caught his eye, so he reached in and grabbed it. It was a notebook, dark brown, with the words "Death Note" scrawled across the front in an unknown font.
'Death Note... as in a notebook of death? You've gotta be kidding me. I knew there was something weird about Mikami...'
Light opened the notebook and began reading.
'How to use it: The human whose name is written in this notebook shall die.' Light almost chuckled aloud, but he wouldn't let Ryuzaki hear him, so he continued reading.
'This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The note shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of the human world.' Light was mesmerized in reading all of this. He continued eagerly, and luckily, Ryuzaki was to busy hating on Matt and Mello to watch him.
'The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, i.e. a god of death. The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell. The human who becomes the owner of the Death Note can, for a price, receive the eyes of the shinigami, which enable him/her to see a human's name and remaining lifespan. The cost is half of the owner's life span. If one person owning a Death Note sees another person who owns a Death Note, that person will not see the other's life span.'
Light began flipping through the pages of the notebook. Mikami had written tons of names, names in which he recognized as criminals from the news of the past weeks.
"Mikami is Kira..." he muttered quiet enough for him, and Ryuk to hear.
"Hi there..." Ryuk said quietly.
Light looked behind him and gasped in fear, he clasped a hand over his mouth.
Ryuk smiled wider, if possible, but didn't laugh because he knew Ryuzaki wasn't supposed to hear them.
Light took the notebook and stuffed it in his jacket, and he walked out the door after closing Mikami's bag, telling Ryuzaki he was calling it a night.
He quickly left the building, Ryuk following him, and began walking around the block so he could talk to Ryuk.
"You're... you're what they call a Shinigami, right? You're what... what everyone's so confused about...."
Ryuk laughed.
"No one's confused. Not really anyway."
'If this is the real deal... I'll just have to see if Mikami is really Kira...'
"Look, I know this isn't my notebook," Light said, turning a corner, "but I do fight for justice. And I want to make that eye deal."
Light stopped and Ryuk flew in front of him.
"Gotcha, this won't hurt a bit," Ryuk said taking out his eyes and putting them into Light's waiting already-filled sockets.
Soon it was already over, and Light had ruby-red eyes.
"... I can't see your name and lifespan."
"That's not possible. No human can see a shinigami's name and lifespan. So just call me Ryuk."
"Okay... Ryuk..."
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A/N: Okay yeah, I tried to make this a one shot, but there's just too much to cover lol.
See you next chapter... which will probably be the last...
-Amaya