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It is the second chapter all! I hope anyone who read this enjoyed my little treat. It only gets better from hear as the mystery slowly unravels itself and what White Candle's intentions really are. So keep reading and I really love hearing comments! I often reply to them, sending off messages! I have known now though that I have been using the wrong term. I am sorry all… but it is pronounced Shinigami… -.- I am sorely disappointed in myself…


Chapter Two

Ren spent most of the day searching the room top to bottom, but the only thing useful he found the whole time he was there was the fake notebook. This discouraged him. Twice he looked in the closet, three times he searched the bed, and then he scanned all around the desk more then he could possibly count in one minute!

As the more he searched the more he grew frustrated, but when glancing back at the desk he stopped and stared at the top right drawer. It dawned on him that when he was a child and wanted to hide his "secret stuff" he would hide it in his drawer under a thin slate of wood. That is when the thought hit him. "What if he made a secret space under the drawer that held the notebook inside?"

Maxwell glanced up from the bed and shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "That would explain that the fact we couldn't find the notebook every other place. Ryuzaki might have thought the same way you did as well as I- Light was a criminal mastermind, so hypothetically he would hide the notebook somewhere hard and in a void where you would think anyone with his intelligence would hide it. But yet that intelligence of his hid it somewhere most practical and obvious that we never considered it. Quite guineas actually."

Ren smirked to himself as he bent down looking under the drawer. "Just as I thought, I did this trick all the time. Since my father worked in the police business he told the family everything about certain cases and what the criminals did. I thought one of them were brilliant. So making an under slate of wood to put under the drawer, I hooked it to a system that would set it on fire if anyone tried to open it. So there would be no evidence… if I were anything like Light he would have done the same… so the only way to do this is to…" reaching back he began to fiddle with the thing that would trigger the mechanism and smiled as he disarmed it. "There we are!" then taking the pencil he slid it open and smiled before it turned straight into a frown. "It is gone… well that was all for nothing!"

Maxwell looked as he knew that would happen, but he always was optimistic so he thought on giving it a shot. But the facts proved his assumption was right on target. "Then Misa must have it."

Ren stopped to think about it scanning all the information he consumed all those months while secretly working on the Kira case before they closed it all off. His eyes then seemed to glitter and shine as he started laughing out loud. " Light must have known he was going to die! With two Shinigami there was so many possibilities nothing could stop him from being killed! So to save the notebook he gave it to Misa! And then he told her to leave, which…."

Maxwell sighed. "It's plain and simple, which means the answer is staring us right in the face. Ryuzaki knew that as well." He lifted his knees up to his chest then grabbed onto the toe point of his shoes fiddling with them pulling them back then pushing them forward as he spoke. " Shinigami know when people are to die. That means that if Light used the notebook and saw the Shinigami he must of heard when he was going to so he acted quickly with a straight mind- even if it meant giving up his power." As he glanced up his amber eyes seemed to darken and gleam with a certain shadow as information swelled inside him linking to one set possibility that could be about 15 true. "Misa and Light were to be married, so she refused to take it…. Light had to then force it upon her. But what wife would want to kill her husband, so she gave it to the previous owner to protect him, the Shinigami, at least she thought giving it to the Shinigami would protect her. Instead the weapon was in the hands of the killer, and just as he planned her killed him. Just by writing Light Yagami's name in the Death Note."

Ren stared amazed. This kids intelligence is amazing; he thinks of everything and comes up with one precise answer. I am surprised he isn't' the successor of L yet. "So the Shinigami had that planned from the beginning?"

"I would be surprised if he wasn't really. Anyway if it wasn't as I think then everything would have happened differently and all those possibilities are 1." Maxwell then went back deep into thought as he lifted his thumbs grazing it over his bottom lip tell his teeth lightly nibbled on the nail.

"That is a nasty little habit kid."

"And not like the things you adults do aren't? One kid decides to bite their nail while thinking and you adults like to screw yourselves with yourself for pleasure because you're to sad to find your own." He then glanced over at Ren looking at his astonished look before sighing. "It helps me think." He said more plainly.

"I would have you know one thing I don't do that? Only the fat perverted men or the hormone consumed jocks." He had to chuckle to himself of the comment, but Maxwell didn't think it was funny.

He then interrupted the conversation that went in the different direction to bring back the one they were discussing earlier. "Light Yagami had a cell phone right?" Ren nodded simple. "If you check the crime lab, then maybe possible you can take it and use that charger over there to call Misa's cell phone."

"The case is closed."

"Steal it, simple as that?"

Ren pondered the thought for amount before seeing Maxwell's intentions. "That is a great idea!" he yelled enthused. "I get your whole plan. Misa was in love with Light, but it was all one sided. So in a great rush she called him all the time to make him love her as much as she did him. We use his cell she picks up thinking it's a miracle and we trace the call and find her!"

"Exactly!" Maxwell seemed to smile actually genuinely now. For the longest time in his life he was shunned and ridiculed for his intelligence before he met Ryuzaki, then after his death he was alone again, but not for long. Just as finding Ryuzaki he found L. "Maybe Nadia has found something?"

Nadia smirked standing in the doorframe leaning against it, the whole time she had been listening making no sound, which was impressive. No one has ever slipped unnoticed under Maxwell's nose or from Ren's. "In fact I have, and we don't need the crime lab to reach Misa. The phones still work here, and I have the phone bills that have Misa Amane's phone number." She flashed the few sheets of papers and Ren and Maxwell's faces seemed to brighten at the news.

Then Ren smirked smiling proudly. "Looks like we have a young lady to find."


"A notebook?" I brushed my fingers over the leather cover marveling it as I flipped the pages open. It seemed quite old from the dirt and water stained pages, but all it was was a plain not some magic object. I lipped through more pages then stopped before staring at one name that had been written in the book. "Alice Cooper… she died… just the way it is written in this book at the exact time!"

"I know." I could hear her giggles come out almost flirtatiously as she brushed her fingers through my hair bidding me not to throw the book away with hot whispers in my ear. "It's the magic of the note book."

At first I was skeptic about the whole thing. How could a simple notebook be magic? Her fingers tickled around my shoulders then smoothed down my neck before settling over my heart. Those small movements brought shivers to run through my body.

"Put the name Taylor Becket inside and specify the way she will die, then put the time. You will see then the power of the notebook." I felt her lips brush my ear as she whispered against it. "Do it!"

I reached up taking the pencil from her hand, and then slowly I pressed the pencil to the paper the graphite scraping the name Taylor Becket.


Ren stood in the kitchen pacing back and forth as he listening to the ringing drone on and on repeatedly. Then it clicked and the female voice came through:

"Hey you reached Sachiko's phone; please leave a message!"

Ren sighed a little perturbed, here they had been discussing for almost two hours and when the come on a solution she doesn't pick up! He had no choice, he had to leave a message. "Misa Amane, my name is Ren Yuki and I am calling concerning Light Yagami's death. I would very much like to talk to you. Please call back at this number (221) 898-1434. Thank you?"

Hanging up the phone he crossed his arms. "She didn't pick up and I doubt she will call back." Then almost suddenly after that comment his cellular phone began to ring. "Maybe I was mistaken?" he said with a smirk as he reached down digging his phone out of his pocket answer it. "Hello this is Ren?"

"How did you find this number?" her voice was cautious and cared.

"Oh Miss Amane! I am at the Yagami's abandoned residence; it appears they left everything behind. We are looking for something important."

"You want to know how my Light died? Am I right?"

"No we already know how. It was the notebook."

"Your wrong!" she yelled into the phone. "Matsuda did it! Matsuda killed my dear Light!" Ren stopped then dropped the phone from his grasp. Maxwell saw his surprise then ran and grabbed the phone before it could hit the ground and close. He could hear Misa's labored breathing from her just recent outburst. "That bastard Matsuda…"

"Misa-chan." She stopped hearing a new voice. "Will you come to Yagami-san home?"

"Why?" she questioned as she blew her nose into the phone.

"We will need you. You knew a lot about Light and-"

"No! I will not! And never call this number again!"

All Maxwell heard after that was the click and then the deafening tone as she hung up. Growling to himself he handed the phone over. "We need to go to a Matsuda. He has the not book?"

Ren walked over to the window staring down at the ground below feeling their gazes on him. He kenw he would have to explain. "Matsuda is my friend, he is like a brother. He, the Chief, and everyone on that case closed it. I never knew why, but now I do. They wanted to keep the truth from the public and that included me."

Nadia frowned walking towards him. His posture, his face, and his voice showed and the distrust, the pain, and the heartbreak he was feeling. "Ren if you can't-"

"No… I can do this. They wanted to lie about it all… I am going to open this case back up and show it to the world by bring down White Candle!"

"Then we should get going." Nadia said with a warm smile.


Next Chapter Will Be Coming Soon

January 26, 2007

Hey all, I know this chapter came late and I am really sorry, but yesterday I only got on the computer late before I could submit it. Again I am sorry about my misspelled word of Shinigami, but in my defense I corrected it in this chapter. Also I know that L's name is probably not Ryuzaki because I haven't learned his name so I am calling him that. Please all! Please who read this leave a comment! I am begging you! Take meh comment virginity! XD