THIS IS A REPOST, DUE TO EDITING NEEDED IN THE PLOT.

Basic summary: After Shukaku's extraction, Matsuda gets Shukaku. Chaos ensues, as the story-line gets deeper.

Oh yeah, and I'm using Raito, not "Light".

Well, this was utterly confusing. What was the scenario? Matsuda was currently trying to comprehend it himself. "Who are you!?" Matsuda asked, confused. He was almost ready to raise his and and say "Yeah, I'm insane." Her he was, sitting in some undiscovered part of his mind, which he was still wondering how he could even be in his mind, in front of a large, and by saying that meaning extremely large, tanuki in a desert scene.

I already told you. I'm Shukaku Of The Sand; A big demon that wants to kill you already. Nice to meet you. Shukaku murmured, grinning evilly.

"Yeaahhh... But... How the heck did you get in my head?" Matsuda asked, scratching his head momentarily, still sitting in front of the massive creature in his mind. But his eyes kept flickering to the large claws and massive creature's tail.

I'm actually not that sure. First, I was extracted from my previous container Gaara. Then, I'm sent here. Go figure. Shukaku murmured.

"...You're gonna make me seem like an insane fool, aren't you?" He asked, after staring at the monsters eyes.

Ex-act-ly! It grinned with a wicked grin as he was brought back to reality by a slap on the face.

"Hey!!" He shouted, but then realized it was himself. L, Raito, Aizawa, Soichiro amd Mogi were all looking at him strangely.

"Matsuda... Why did you just slap yourself on the face? Even more, why were you talking to yourself earlier?" Raito asked, staring at him with a strange expression on his face.

"Its not me slapping myself!! Its Shukaku!" Matsuda shouted before his hand involentary slapped himself across the face again. "Would you stop that already!?" Shukaku just grinned evilly, mocking him before saying,

Oh, I'm sorry, did that hurt? And he continued to slap himself. L eventually got tired of the nonsense so he sighed, saying,

"Would any of you mind restraining him?" And, since Soichiro was just as tired of the nonsense as L was, he pinned Matsuda's arms behind him.

"Now, who is Shukaku?" L asked, looking suspiciously at Matsuda.

"He's a really, really big tanuki demon, and he's really mean too!!" Matsuda whined, getting the impulse to slap himself again. His arm fought against Soichiro, eventually breaking free and slapping himself once more.

"Wait, did you say... Demon?" Raito asked, obviously wondering if Matsuda had gone insane with pressure.

"Yeah! I said demon. And did I mention he's big too?" Matsuda said, now sitting on his hands to keep himself from slapping himself. Sadly, that didn't work.

--One thirty AM--

Matsuda continued to roam the hotel room silently, unable to sleep. Shukaku continued to taunt him and would grin evilly every time he tried to sleep, snarling lowly that immediately jolted Matsuda awake. A knock on the door shook him out of his thoughts as he opened the door. Aizawa was standing there.

"Matsuda, haven't you gotten any sleep?" Aizawa asked, yawning slightly. Matsuda envied him for being able to sleep as he sadly shook his head. "Why not?"

"Shukaku keeps me awake..." Matsuda yawned, rubbing his eyes. Aw, poor Matsu-kun. Are you tired? Why don't you go to sleep? Shukaku said, mocking a concerned tone before entering a cackling fit.

"I can't sleep with your constant pestering. Sheesh." Matsuda then remembered that he was talking aloud as he quickly added, "I was talking to Shukaku!! Honest!!"

"Matsuda, this nonsense has been going on long enough. There is no demon in your head, so get to bed!" Aizawa let a gawking Matsuda to his bed, were he lay awake before trying to close his eyes. Unlike what he'd usually been doing, Shukaku sung him a sweet lullaby, masking his voice to that of a young womans voice. His eyes, heavy with exhaustion, drooped before he was out like a flickering light. Just as Aizawa was about to leave, a rustling noise made its way to his ears. He turned to see Matsuda's form upright. As he flickered on the light, he saw that there was a hateful look in his eyes, half of his face covered in sand and the sand (that came from the earth; Episode 219-20ish Gaara says he can create sand from the earths particles simply by condensing them) slithering slowly around his body. The demon-possessed male grinned, speaking in a low voice that sounded almost like, if he had ever heard such, Satan himself.

"And you said I wasn't real?" Aizawa screamed. No, he didn't scream. He shrieked like a little girl and fled with his tail between his legs. Shukaku laughed before he walked over to Matsuda's bed, and falling asleep since he was not used to supporting himself and a slumbering container. Though Matsuda woke up an hour after that due to dreams of torture and horror created by Shukaku.

--With Raito--

"Ryuuk." Raito's voice was discrete as he lay on his bed, looking up at the ceiling.

"Yeh?" Ryuuk replied, munching on another apple.

"Would you happen to know a death god named Shukaku?" Ryuuk, caught in surprise and shock, spit out his apple immediately and panicked slightly. He had been hoping that that Matsuda guy had been joking.

"I don't know about death god, but I definately know a bijuu named Shukaku. He has quite a meanstreak, and even meaner containers." Ryuuk replied.

"Bi...juu?" Raito asked, looking to Ryuuk in a most confused matter.

"Yeh. Tailed demons. Though they are mainly sealed away nowadays. They were once free to control the land as they wished, though people feared their power and wanted the power that was able to be harnessed by them. To harness their power, they created living weapons to be only a home for these demons to use them in battle. Called them Jinchuuriki... Yeah. Thats it." Ryuuk explained, regaining his composture.

"Hmm... Where did Shukaku come from?" The brunette boy asked, going to his desk, turning on the television and getting out his death note.

"Last I heard he was back a thousand years from now. In a container called Gaara. A nasty one, he is." The Shinigami replied, munching on his apples once more. "Must've died. Or been extracted. Though they end up the same way."

"Hm.." Raito mumbled, continuing his killing.

--Next Day--

"This is not good..." L murmured to himself, adding some sugar cubes to his coffee. Matsuda entered the room, yawning excessively as his eyelids drooped.

"Is Kira killing more criminals than usual...?" Matsuda asked, walking over to a couch.

"No. Its not that. Its you." L replied, stirring his coffee a bit more before sipping it. "Needs more sugar," He noted thoughtfully, setting the cup down and adding a few more sugar cubes.

"What about me?" The raven haired male replied, yawning again as he slightly leaned against the couch.

"Shukaku is apparantly real, and he can take over your body and do more than we would've expected." The twenty-five year old detective added, stirring the coffee and then plucking a donut into his fingers, eating it daintily in a way that only L could. "Aizawa was most likely fortunate to have chosen to ran. Who knows what Shukaku would've done."

Matsuda was speechless. He then tripped over the couch and whiplashed his head against the glass table, shouting in surprise as the table was broken in half, glass piercing his back as it scattered. A blinding pain shot through his head as his body became paralyzed for that moment, as he shuddered when feeling something wet and sticky dampen his hair and shoulder blades. "Shi..." He whispered, clutching his head.

"Matsuda!!" Mogi shouted, running over to him and trying to help him up. Matsuda had tried to sit up, but whimpered softly at the thudding and stinging feeling in his head. Blood slid from his stained hair onto his hand, the one that was clutching his head down to the collar of his business suit. But at that moment, something strange happened. A strange red glow illuminated the back of his head, him quickly slumping onto the couch as he shuddered. Mogi, still standing there and only with little protest from Matsuda, was able to part his hair and open up his shirt a bit to take a look at the damage. A large, opened scar ran from the middle of his shoulder blades to the area where the cross-section of the ridge of his nose was, but strangely was being healed by the strange red glow. However, blood still seeped happily from the scar, soaking his collar as Matsuda whimpered again.

"Get an ambulence. Though the scar is somehow healing by itself, its not healing quick enough to seal all of it and he's loosing alot of blood." Raito murmured, analyzing the wound by looking over Mogi's shoulder. Aizawa, still concerned no matter how scared he was, helped Mogi pick Matsuda up by slinging both his arms around their necks and, as fast as they could without causing discomfort to the shivering, pale male, made their way down to the lobby where an ambulence would take him into good hands.

"Shukaku... I-it hurts..." Matsuda whispered, shuddering at the uncomfortable feeling of the blood sliding down his back as Shukaku continued to try and seal the wound.

Just hold on a bit more. I have to seal this wound a bit more, stay awake as much as you can... Shukaku snarled, panting several times in between.

"But I'm so... tired..." Matsuda whimpered, his eyes drooping as the pain began to leave him...

"Stay up as much as you can, please Matsuda!" He cracked open his eye to look up to Aizawa, whom looked down at him with a worried expression on his face.

"...Urrggh..." Matsuda slurred, his body and mind beginning to go numb with each passing minute... Second... Millisecond. S...Shukaku... Why do I feel so numb...?Matsuda asked, shuddering again involuntarily.

I used my chakra to temporarily close off your nervous system. This way, nothing will hurt and its easier for me to concentrate. Shukaku replied, matter-of-factly.

Ah. He replied. A few people looked over to them in the lobby as an ambulence pulled up. The few people that were in the back of the large automobile ran out, and then saw Matsuda.

"Get a stretcher, would you?" One of them ordered the other two, as that one walked up to them.

"Tell me, he fell backwards and hit a glass table?" The man said, gently picking up Matsuda and laying him on the stretcher that had just arrived. The two rushed out quickly to the ambulence as Aizawa replied, "Yeah." The one that had talked with them gave them a curt nod as he left with the ambulence, the horn blaring off into the distance, the red light blending in with the beautiful colors of morning.

Matsuda cracked open an eye, groaning horsely as his vision adjusted to the bright lights. His feeling beginning to return to him, he felt he was laying on a soft surface. His back was stinging and burning insanely, but strangely the back of his head was not.

"Matsuda! You're alright..." Soichiro remarked, Aizawa, Raito and Mogi standing over him. He grunted in reply, wincing slightly at the itchy-burny sensation in his throat. Raito gave him a glass of water as he tried to sit up, only to whimper and fall back over. He opened his mouth as he attempted to tilt his head to drink the water, crying out weakly as another shock of pain shot up his spine. Raito sighed as he helped Matsuda successfully drink the water without spilling on himself. After clearing his throught, Matsuda wearily looked up to the rest of the SPK, uncertainty in his eyes.

They probably think your a monster. Thats all mortals responses to a jinchuuriki, demon-holder, like you. Shukaku replied, looking through Matsuda's eyes. They all flinched seeing that the demon was staring at them. They didn't see any change in the color of Matsuda's eyes, but they felt an unwanted presence fill up the naiive boy's eyes.

"You must think I'm a monster, don't you." Matsuda sounded extremely sad, saying that sentence as a statement more than a question.

"Matsuda, how could we think that?" Raito lied. Even though I'm Kira of all people, that demon still scares me. Even more than Ryuuk. Ryuuk, standing behind him and unseen by everyone else, stared at the Jinchuuriki below him.

"Shukaku... What are you trying to do?" Ryuuk wondered aloud, knowing that no one would hear him.

...Strange... Shukaku murmured, staring behind Raito. Matsuda furrowed his eyes slightly, eyes glistening with curiosity.

"Strange? What do you mean, Shukaku?" He murmured, the others hearing him. Raito's eyes widened slightly when Ryuuk, shocked, said,

"That bastard tanuki! He can see me! He'll tell Matsuda, and Matsuda with his big fat mouth will tell the rest of these idiots!" Ryuuk shouted. Raito then looked to Ryuuk with his eyes, a look saying "Cover his mouth quickly or I'll be killed". Ryuuk moved quickly, covering the boys mouth as to not allow him to say any more.

"Matsuda? What does Shukaku find strange?" Soichiro asked, looking down intently at him. Shukaku powered Matsuda's eyes with Chakra, to the point that Ryuuk became visible to him. Matsuda's eyes widened, struggling to get out of his grip, Shukaku making his teeth to chakra-powered fangs in order to bite Ryuuk. Ryuuk hollered in pain as he whapped Matsuda on the head, Matsuda quickly falling unconscious. Ryuuk then let go, rubbing his bitten finger.

"YOU OWE ME, Bastard." Ryuuk snarled at Raito, whose eyes were focused in a glare at Matsuda. I have to quiet him without killing him. He thought, then putting on his charade and saying,

"Matsuda-san? Matsuda-san??" Matsuda's head rolled to the side, eyes closed.

"Raito-kun, I think he must've fainted from exhaustion and pain exertion..." Aizawa murmured.

"Ah. Well, then we should let him rest... You guys go ahead." Raito added, the other three leaving quietly and him staying. At that moment, Matsuda re-awoke, then looking up at Raito whom wrapped his hand around the injured male's throat. Not enough to suffocate him, but still.

"Now listen closely and listen clearly, Matsuda. If you dare say anything about Ryuuk, I will kill you." Raito snarled lowly, Matsuda's eyes filled with fear.

"You're Kira, aren't you?" Matsuda whispered, shocked.

"You're smarter than I thought. Beware. Speak one word and you'll die." With that, Raito left him alone, Ryuuk stalking after him as Matsuda let his heart slow back to its normal pace.

"I have to be careful around him..." Matsuda told himself warily. Shukaku nodded in response.