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An Unexpected Trip
Chapter 1: Leaving
My first Death Note fanfic!
Umm, I'm gonna say a little about this because I couldn't fit this in the summary.
This is based the day after Misa kissed L on the cheek in episode 20, so Light and Misa don't know they're Kira and the Second Kira.
I only added that to avoid confusion as to why there's a piece of that scene in there. And that scene is word-for-freaking-word, too. I listened to it in English like 27 times and finally got it... So anyway, please R&R!
"As for Misa Amane, I've turned to her because I know that her love for you is boundless." L said, turning to her slightly.
"Do you really mean it?" He nodded. "Oh no! I think I've totally misunderstood you all this time! I even called you a pervert! But you actually DO understand how I feel, don't you?" Misa said happily, clasping her hands together, eyes sparkling at him.
"Yes," L replied. "Misa is undisputedly the most perfect and worthy person for Light."
"YAAAAY!" She ran over and pecked his cheek. "You're such a sweetie! Thank you, Ryuzaki!"
"I could actually fall for you..." He said, fingers brushing against his cheek.
"Let's not go that far..." She said, a slightly sour look on her face and she wrapped her arms around Light. "But you can maybe be a friend of mine! Would that be okay?"
"Yes. So now I've gained yet another friend..."
"Of course! Any friend of Light's is a friend of mine!" She grabbed his hand as well as her boyfriends. "Let's all be friends together!" She said, spinning both boys around in a circle.
The next morning, Amane Misa awoke with a smile on her face. Her work phone was ringing again, so she picked it up.
"Good mooooorning!" She said happily into the phone.
"Misa-Misa, you had a photo shoot a half-hour ago and you weren't there!"
"It only," She looked at her clock. "THREE THIRTY?!"
"Yes, now why are you still asleep?!"
"Misa doesn't know!"
"Oh well. Your next shoot is next Monday, so be there. Or I'll ruin your career." Her manager hung up with a distinct bitterness in her voice.
"Well good morning to you too, bitch..." Misa said, putting her phone down and standing up, walking to her closet and throwing open the doors.
"Hmm..." She ended up choosing on a shirt that had a pattern slightly like a kilt and a black shirt with a furry coat over it. A few minutes of makeup and hair later, she was done and walking down to where L and Light were working downstairs.
"Any new leads on Yotsuba?" She asked, hugging Light from behind.
"No," L said, nibbling his thumb. "However, I feel like I've been out of it lately, so I'm not completely certain that I'm right."
"Maybe it's the fact you never sleep!" Misa said.
"I don't think so." He replied, putting a piece of cake in his mouth and chewing contently.
"Oh! Why don't you go on vacation!" Misa said happily.
"Vacation?"
"Yeah! Get out of the city, get some fresh air, maybe sleep a li-"
"Now that you mention it, I know someone who I could go stay with who lives in the mountains and could help me clear my head and pay more attention to the case. However, she lives a while from here..."
"Who?" Light asked.
"No one in particular." He replied. Watari handed him another cup of coffee and a huge plate of sugar cubes and small cups of cream.
"But you just said they might be able to help!"
"I know what I said." He plunked about ten cubes of sugar into the coffee and stirred it with a small silver spoon.
"So, can Misa and Light come too?" Misa asked.
"Well, seeing as how I'm still handcuffed to Light-kun, he has no choice. You can come if you want, although I have no idea why you would want to come to a small house in the mountains with me and Light-kun."
"Misa TOTALLY wants come too! She's gonna pack right now!" She stood up from her chair and ran up the stairs.
"So, who's this person we're going to talk to?" Light asked again after Misa was gone.
"Don't think that the absence of Misa-san is going to make me tell you. You'll meet her when we get there. I suggest you pack now."
"I think you forgot we're still handcuffed together!" Light said, annoyed.
"That's right..." L bit at his thumb again. "Let's go. You can pack and then I will." They stood up and ascended the stairs.
Light let L pack first, seeing as how he thought he only wore one pair of clothes. But actually, he wore lots of clothes, they all just looked exactly the same.
When they were in Light's room, Misa came barging in with a big smile on her face and a suitcase in each hand.
"I don't think we'll be there for more than two weeks, Miss Amane." L said between bites of strawberry shortcake.
"Misa knows! This is for week one," She held up her right hand. "And this one's for week two!" She held her left hand up. That suitcase looked bigger and took more effort for her to lift.
"Umm... What could you possibly have in there?" Light asked, setting another pair of pants in his suitcase.
"So how's it going, Light?" She asked, ignoring his question completely. "Are you done packing yet? Where's your suitcase Ryuzaki-kun? D-do you only wear one pair of cloth-"
"He wears other clothes, but they all look the same," Light answered. "And Watari already got his suitcase."
"I suggest you give him yours, Misa-san." L said, putting a strawberry in his mouth.
"Where should Misa put them?"
"I'll take them from you to put in the car." She spun around to see Watari at the door, another whole cake on a platter in his hands.
"Thank you, Watari. Now Misa-san, give him the suitcases." Misa held up her hands and Watari took both cases and left the room.
"Mmm..." L said, chewing the cake. "Oh, did you want some?" He said between bites, pointing his fork at Misa.
"Misa has told you," She said, crossing her arms. "Sweets make you fat. I always stay away from them."
"And I always say that thinking burns the most calories."
"You're calling Misa stupid again! Light! Your stupid friend is calling me stupid!" She complained, beating her fists on L's chest repeatedly.
"Baka-Baka-Baka-Baka-Baka!" She said over and over. L stood there and watched, expression not changing.
"Alright," Light said, closing his suitcase. "I'm done packing."
"I'll take your suitcase," Watari said. "Please wait downstairs while I put the suitcase in the trunk and come get you." The three nodded and walked down the stairs.
Once they were downstairs, Misa sat on one of the couches and L and Light sat at the computers and tried to work. L munched on some sort of Teddy-Graham type thing and Light clicking through windows of people who had died in the past three weeks, trying to pinpoint people who could be connected to Yotsuba.
After a few minutes, Watari appeared.
"Please come with me." The group stood up and walked outside "Headquarters" and into an expensive looking car. Misa and Light both took window seats and Ryuzaki sat in the middle of the two.
"What. Are you doing?"
"Sitting down." He said, biting at his thumb.
"Can't you sit in the front?"
"No." A vein throbbed in Misa's forehead.
"Sit. In. The. Front."
"I'm afraid Ryuzaki won't be sitting in the front. You will have to deal with him until we get to our destination." Watari said. Misa scoffed and looked out the window.
After seeing that they were leaving city limits, Misa asked,
"We ARE going someplace in Japan, right?"
"Yes. But I'm afraid she lives about a day from here." L said.
"A DAY?!"
"Yes. Don't worry about it. You just have to sit here for a while. You can sleep if you want. I'll have cake for anyone who wants it at our first rest stop."
"I'm just gonna think about stuff," Misa said. "And Misa DOESN'T like or want cake."
"Suit yourself." He said, biting his thumb. Misa stared out the window and watched the scenery fly by. There were several buildings and homes, but as they got further out, there were less and less signs of society.
"Where ARE we?" She asked after a couple hours.
"About an hour outside Fukushima. The person you're going to see lives around two hours west of Hanamaki. We'll be there by morning." Watari answered.
"Thanks Watari-san." Misa looked at the mountains in the distance. Misa wishes she could take vacation, just me and Light. She thought. We'd have so much fun together! And we wouldn't have to worry about stupid Ryuzaki-kun accusing us of being the Kiras.
She glanced at said detective. He was eating a chocolate-covered doughnut, licking at the glaze before taking a few bites and then drowning it in coffee. He then repeated the process with another doughnut. And then another. And another.
Until he noticed she was staring at him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did you want one?" He said, holding it up.
"Umm... Sure, I guess." She took it and started chewing on it. Raspberry jelly filled her mouth.
"Mmm! These are really good Ryuzaki-kun!"
"I know," His eyes flicked to Light. "Do you want one Light-kun?"
"I'm good." Light replied with a smile.
"Suit yourself, more for us." He said, turning back to Misa.
"But wait! Misa's gonna get fat!"
"I'll give you a Sudoku puzzle or something to get your brain working." L said, the rest of the doughnut disappearing behind his lips.
"Okay!" She said, finishing her third doughnut and reaching into... and empty box?!
"Ryuzaki-kun!" She said. "You had NINE?!"
"Yes. Watari brought another box, we'll be fine." He reached up front and Misa realized what was up there and why he couldn't sit there. The passenger seat of the car was being taken up by bountiful amounts of sweets and cakes and coffee.
"That's really why Ryuzaki-kun can't sit in the front?!"
"Hmm..." He said, biting a doughnut. Misa grabbed the box and put it on the other side of her.
"Please give those back, Misa."
"No! Misa won't give them back until you sit up there!" Instead of doing something about the situation at hand, L simply reached over her lap and took another doughnut, licking at the frosting thoughtfully.
"You are INFURIATING!" To be completely honest, L didn't know that Misa knew the meaning of the word "infuriating" or how to use it properly in a sentence, so this surprised him.
"Whatever you say, Misa-san." He replied.
"AUGH! Light! Make your friend MOVE!"
"I can't control his actions. Just give him the doughnuts and stop arguing with him. You can argue when you two are alone, but frankly, it's annoying. So stop."
Contrary to his answer, Yagami Light was having a MARVELOUS time listening to Misa and L argue. It was an interesting change of pace from Misa's "Misa-Misa" preppy attitude. L was also acting slightly different, whether the detective knew it or not. A condescending attitude was NOT something he was normally attributed with.
"Fine. Misa will stop arguing," Misa said, holding out the doughnuts to a happy-looking L. "Here. You can have these back Ryuzaki-kun." She blushed a little bit as he eagerly took the box from her hands and bit another doughnut.
"Thank you." Light, and even Misa, detected a bit of pride in the usually monotonic detective's voice. He was being an asshole over his personal victory about the doughnuts, and doing a shitty job of trying cover it up.
"Is something wrong?" He asked.
"Oh, nOthing... Misa said, accenting the 'o'.
"Alright then." He said, returning to the doughnut in front of him.
Outside Misa's window, the bright sun was just about to finish slipping under that horizon. Watari pulled the car into a parking lot and said,
"We'll be sleeping here tonight." Light got out of the car and pulled on the chain connecting he and L.
"We only have three hours of driving left, so a motel can't be that bad for one night." L replied, climbing through the car and standing next to Light. Misa jumped out from the other side and hooked her arms around one of Light's.
"Ooh! Misa wants to sleep with Light-kun tonight!"
"That might not be possible considering the cuffs." L said, gnawing on his thumb, pushing it to the corner of his mouth. Misa grimaced.
"Then unhook the chains!"
"Light-kun is still under suspicion of being Kira, that won't be possible."
"Can't you lengthen them or something?!"
"No."
"You irritate Misa." Once again, a word L didn't think Misa knew; although both words she had used were both words to express annoyance...
"I'm sure I do." That vein in Misa's forehead was about to pop.
"Let's just go inside." Light said, pulling at the chain and forcing L to start walking, Misa following.
About ten minutes later, Misa, L and Light were sitting on one bed in the room. The other bed had been pushed closer and allowed Light and Misa to share while also letting L get up and work through the night.
"Ryuzaki-kun shouldn't work. He should sleep!" Misa said.
"Sleep is good for you." Light agreed.
"I have to get some work done." L said, motioning to Watari to give him is laptop. He turned it on and immediately pulled up several windows and documents about Yotsuba, Kira and anything else even remotely possible for the case, including a single file from the BB Murder case.
"What's the "BB Murder Case"?" Misa asked, pointing to the file.
"Just a case that could possible be connected to this one." He lied. There HAD to be a connection here. Beyond Birthday (BB for short) had the crimson red eyes of the Shinigami, L knew it. However, Light and Misa showed no signs of having these eyes, as he probably would've been killed if either did.
Although, there was a three percent chance that if Kira and the Second Kira were Yagami Light and Amane Misa, one of them had the eyes and knew his name, but the other stopped them from killing him or prevented something. Perhaps stealing Misa-san's cell phone that day was a good idea... He thought. Of course, it also labeled him, by anyone who saw the motion, a pervert, but it probably saved his life.
"Oh. But it looks like he had Kira's power too." Reading? L couldn't believe it. First big words and now reading? Maybe Misa wasn't as stupid as he had first imagined. However, there was only a fifty-five percent chance of that being true, even if it WAS over 50%.
"Yes. It was the most perplexing cases I have ever worked on. However, the current case had surpassed the line of difficulty this case posed a long time ago." He said, closing out of the window and looking at a few pictures of Yotsuba members, biting his thumb and pretending to be deep in thought. His thought processes WERE working twenty-seven percent better since he had left the bustling streets and polluted air of Tokyo, however the small town the group was staying in was close to a factory and that was mucking up the air pretty well.
"Misa's going to go to sleep now!" She said, swan-diving into bed next to Light. The man was already almost asleep himself and he forced himself not to kill her. "Good night, Ryuzaki-kun!"
"Good night, Misa-san." He said, clicking a few keys on the laptop. Misa cuddled close to Light and was asleep in seconds.
L continued to look up things on his computer for a few minutes. Sitting in his usual position, he closed down each window until all that was left was a list of Yotsuba workers, including the seven he was most cautious of. The security cameras Weddy had placed in the building were still running, although there was a speck of dust on one of the cameras and it was driving him crazy.
A meeting was taking place in a different room of the building, and the only thing they appeared to be talking about was financial overruns or something like that. He closed the window, not caring about anything like that. Nibbling on his thumb he looked back towards his friends. Misa had her arms tightly wrapped around Light's chest and Light's face was a bit blue, probably from oxygen deprivation. He closed the silver top of the computer and leaned back in his chair, putting his feet down and hearing his knees crack under the relieving pressure.
"Ow..." He mumbled quietly, trying not to wake his friends. He turned to Watari, frowning when he saw that the man was asleep. Well, he's old. The detective thought. Even he needs to sleep sometimes. He looked across the room. The mattress of the empty bed seemed to call to him. He stood, trying not to let the chains rattle to much.
Sitting on the bed, he pulled the comforter off and onto the floor, laying down on the sheets, keeping his oversized jeans and white shirt on. His eyes closed and sleep overcame him almost instantly.
Chapter 1! I'm pretty happy about how this turned out! :D please R&R! I only finished Death Note like last week so I might be a little OOC, so please tell me if I am! -Chiharu Kamida