Doll Parts- Chapter One
AU- Death Note
Warning: Shounen-ai ahead (eventually...)– if you don't like the love, select the "Back" above.
Disclaimer- As expected, I own nothing, not even this computer...
The forest had changed much since I was thirteen, this was all new foreign land. The map proved as useful as stationery and with five hours of walking into the labyrinth of trees, I hadn't known the forest contained a small pond until I was already in it's clearing. The open sunlight cast over the surface and left the faint moving water to shimmer. Yet, the promise of clean, needed water did not beckon me more so than the other occupant of the water.
She was lovely– fair, untainted skin with long blond hair that captured the streaming sunlight, much like the air in my throat. Unfortunately, I could only see her back and the dark robe dragging just beneath the surface water, dancing around long legs. I feel a blush creep to my cheeks and ears in thought of the intimacy of her..bathing? I shrugged off the awe and gape I hadn't known I wore and called out to her before facing the graver danger of watching her continue. "Miss, are you from a near village?" I yelled over the distance.
I wasn't nearly as shocked by her beauty with elegant features and bright eyes filling with surprise as I was by what was revealed amid her charming reply: "What the-...Get the fuck away from here, you perverted bastard, before I rip your dick in half!"
"Im sure you're aware of the new string of missing children." the lord began, his high-seated pedestal not quite reaching his ego. To shame. Before I can answer with a quaint 'No shit', he continues. "Now, Im not one to believe the rumors of 'Oni' being behind the disappearances, though its fine for you commoners to believe such lore, it's more important the true reason behind the crisis is discovered and resolved. Which is why Im sending you out of the barrier."
"W-what?" I croaked, not only because I had tuned-out most everything the lord had said...ever, but also in disbelief. Excitement immediately sailed through me.
"You will go the morrow. Pack only as required for safety and health. The tracker, Mikami, will accompany you." With that, he gave a brief nod to the danger-weathered boy next to his ego podium. The boy smiled with a look of anticipation, responsibilities must be ecstacy for him. It's easy enough to ignore the odd man with my own sense of anticipation...
"..-eed?" the young lord interrupted my thoughts, staring forcefully at me as if to impose compliance with a glace.
"What?" I ask again, putting to good use my expansive vocabulary.
"Do you agree to the task?" the lord repeats, more forcibly this time. Honestly, I had no complaints, save the fact that I had no idea what to expect from the outside world. The barrier had been erected seven years ago, the genius of a preteen lord. I had heard much of it–it's former glory and the disasters that had, not long ago, ridden it unlivable. On that thought, questions flooded my mind.
"I thought it was impossible for us to leave...and if you're sending someone, why send me?" I asked, only vaguely suspicious. Trusting his decisions was hard when he was practically a peer, despite his noble heritage. The tracker then seemed as though he was bordering the need to throttle me.
"Don't trouble the lord with such frivolous questions! You would do well to agree to the terms then hold silent!" the obvious genius advised amid his bark, much like the bark of the loyal hound he personified. I couldn't help but imagine the young tracker with the tail and ears of a dog, and maybe he would even sit by his master's fee-
"-ction with the outside world." the lord had said, even finding the time to have calmed his pet tracker.
"What?" Again, evidence of my education shining through.
The lord sighed, growing annoyed with both members of his audience, especially with the tracker's evident desire to advance, grumbling to himself darkly. How dare I annoy his precious lord? "I said," he emphasized slowly, probably hoping he wouldn't have to repeat himself once more, "it is said that you have a connection to the outside world."
I released a charismatic "Huh?" before allowing my brain to process, raking my brain for meaning before replying with a clever, "I guess." Which was conveniently cued after the lords second annoyed sigh.
"Regardless, that would prove useful to such a mission. Also, Im generous enough to allow you the possibility of discovering more about yourself." the lord announced in the weak triumph it was worth. Such a martyr, really! Unfortunately for him, I am ever the demanding.
"Say I don't find anything about myself, what will I get out of this then?" I ask almost brashly. Mikami? grumbles and Im sure I have been murdered various ways within his mind.
The lord stares in silence for long, awkward moments, then shifting uncomfortably within his chair. "Seeing as it would be a tragedy should this continue, I will allow your reasonable request only if you succeed." How noble.
"The wall...
1. Oni means demon, which I like to use more than the latter.
2. As we are all aware, Matt is an orphan and remains to be so. Fitting, no?
3. The second part is a flashback.
If it seems confusing, most things will be cleared up in further chapters. If character's seem OOC, well, it's a different universe. Things change. Truthfully, I don't know much about Mikami, save that he calls Light "God" and he's a bit of a nut job, getting a hard on for punishment, judgement and what-not. If his manners irk you now, do let me know. Also, if it seemed sarcastic, it was.