A/N: I'm back! Yes and so is our intrepid duo in the wizarding world! Thanks to eveyone who reveiwed!
Well warnings for this chapter are extreme crack and use of chicken-lizards. On with the show!

Death Wartz

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The store they had just walked into was packed with creatures of every shape, color, and size. Owls whooted happily (or angrilly depending on the owl), giving Light a sense of deja vu, L had better not want a owl after what happened at headquarters. Besides the owls the shop had cages upon cages of other animals, half of which Light couldn't recognize as anything he'd seen before. Thankfully, being as they were the only customers in the store the store keep decided to come chat with them.

"Looking for anything specific young sirs?" He asked happily, always be nice to potential customers.
"No, I am just looking for a pet to take with me to Hogwarts, but am not intrested in a owl, toad, rat, or cat." L stated nonchalantly

"Perhaps I should show you some of our most intresting then?" More like most expensive Light thought but kept it to himself. L nodded.
"Yes, that would be a great help."

Following the man to one of the first cages on their right Light had to blink to make sure what he was seeing was real,
in the cage was what appeared to be a chicken/lizard hybrid, long scaly body supported on two chicken-like legs,
with feathers jutting out in tuffs at seemingly random places. Two wings sprouted from it's back flapping about as it justled around the small enclosure.

"This," The store keep started, "is a cockatrice, believed by muggles in medival times to be able to kill a person by looking, touching, or even breathing on them, of course this isn't true it is but a simple species accidentily created in medival times by a unlucky wizard who sneezed while casting a spell." He finished with a laugh. The thing was still too creepy for Light though, and knowing his luck it would wake them every morning like the half-rooster it was. L, seemingly sharing his thoughts on the thing, shook his head.

"Intresting, but I don't think so." The store keep didn't look disheartned in the least, instead he moved on to another cage close by. Light's eye's widened, the bottom of the cage was kept on fire, seemingly by magic (he wouldn't be surprised.) Inside was a four-legged insect like thing with filmy wings and a head like a dragons.
"This is a pyrausta, it lives in the fire and will die without it. Only a few have ever been caught, but it was enough to breed them. They do not eat anything and require no care but a maintnence of the fire they live in." L leaned in to get a closer look, thumb at his mouth "Fascinating, but it may prove a hazard at a school, I doubt the headmaster would appreciate me burning Hogwarts down"
"I suppose so, something less fiery then."

Moving on to another cage Light sighed this one was almost sure to be crazier than the last. He was surprised when they came to a singing bird, it's feathers were various metallic shades with a matching long vibrant tail.
"Now this, this is a very special bird, known as the Ardarna bird. It's singing is believed to cure any affliction,
after each song it's feathers change hues and it sleeps with it's eye wide open. The bird is a harmless creature,
exept for it's bodily waste tends to paralyze if touched, but thats fairly avoidable,
and it eats just about anything thrown it's way. This one also happens to be trained to deliver letters, just like any standard owl." The guys face broke into a even bigger grin when he saw that L liked the bird, afforementioned detective leaning in as close as he could to examine it.

"How much?" He asked suddenly looking back up. Light was glad it wasn't him paying for the dang thing,
from the guys smile he had a hunch it would bankrupt him, L on the other hand was loaded, limo's and mountians of sweets to prove it. And L just so happened to have exchanged a large sum of money for the wizarding worlds currency from those creepy little goblin things at the bank.
"Heh, well, it being so rare and all, 78 galleons, 12 sickles, 6 knuts." Light's jaw almost hit the floor.
L, on the other hand didn't even flinch, pulling out a the large bag he kept his money in he akwardly counted out all of the needed currency dropping it on the counter beside him and the store keep picked the cage up carefully,
smiling like a kid on Christmas.

"That should be it." L noted tossing the last knut into the rather large pile.
Taking the bird happily and thanking the man. The man could probally would have started to do a happy dance if they didn't get out of here quick. Light turned to L as they exited the shop, wincing as a loud "WOOOOO HOOOOOO!" split through the air. Quickly recovering Light asked

"What are you going to name it?" L stopped "I don't know." L looked down to the bird cooing happily from the cage in his arms.
L looked quite akward at the moment; his wand stuffed hastilly into his front pocket, robes dangling over his shoulder, along with a bag full of books, now carrying a bird cage.

"What should I name you?" He asked as if the bird could answer back.
"You should name it something you like Ryuzaki, something you won't forget." L looked thoughtfull "Hmm, I like strawberries, I won't forget that so," He looked back at the bird "How about Strawberry?" The bird let out another bright tune and L nodded.
"Strawberry it is then." Light stared, shaking his head

"That's not what I meant." He sighed

"Hey watch it Potter!" Light blinked over to were the blonde boy from earlier was yelling at some black haired kid along with two other kids, a girl with brown bushy hair and a ginger haired lanky boy. "Watch yourself Malfoy!" The red head yelled back. Malfoy looked back towards were L and Light stood and suddenly smirked.
"Hey Ryuzaki! Mass murderer man! Why don't you come meet some of your new peers!" L blinked, but started walking towards the commotion, effectively dragging Light with him.

"Hello" He greeted politely as Light stumbled up beside him.
"Give me some warning next time!" Light yelled recovering from his moment of ungracefulness. L simply nodded. Light looked at the cause of his discomfort (No not L, the BLONDE one) and asked "What do you want?" Malfoy looked scared for a split second, who wouldn't when a suspected mass murder was yelling at you a few feet away? "Who the bloody hell are you?" The red head interupted.
Malfoy's look of fear was replaced with a snide smirk

"This Ronald Weasly, is Ryuzaki, and the man he's chained to is a suspected mass murderer, "killing thousands of men already" was it?" The ginger kid paled

"Mass murderer?" Light sighed in irritation.
"Yes, mass murderer. My name's Light by the way." He stated, though no-one cared pass the "mass murderer" part.
"Well just because he's suspected doesn't mean he really is. My names Harry, this is Ron and Hermione"
The black haired boy stated calmly. Did he perhaps know any "innocent" mass murderers? (*cough*Black*cough*)

Light looked at Harry and grinned, manically. Efficiently scaring away any good thought the teens around him could have had.
"He's like a dementor" Ron whispered to Hermione "Did you just call me demented?" Light raged scaring the poor boy even more when he took a threatining step forward.
"N-no! I didn't I swear!" L took this moment to interfere "Any violent actions towards the students of the school will result in the percentage being raised Light-kun"
He warned. That immediatly snapped Light out of it and, huffing slightly, he took a step back again. The metioned studends staring blankly, what percentage?

"So what are you doing with school supplies Mister Ryuuzaki?" The bushy haired one, Hermione asked

"Just Ryuzaki is fine. I'm going to Hogwarts as a student. For nine years owls have stalked me wherever I go, so I decided to come and see if anything taught there can aid me in catching the mass murderers I'm after"
He stated looking quite bored.
"As a student? You're too old!" Weasly yelled L simply shrugged.
"Well as long as you're not in Slytherin I guess you're okay." He added as a afterthought "What's wrong with Slytherin?" Light questioned, what the hell was Slytherin is what he should have asked, but he didn't want to seem too clueless. Even though he was, it just wasn't godly. Wait what?

"It's the worst house in Hogwarts, churns out more dark wizards than any other to boot." Ron stated like it was the most obvious thing ever.
"Actually It's the best house," Malfoy argued "only accepts pure-bloods, with few exeptions, the most powerful wizards come out of Slytherin."

A long debate ensued

"But the evilness out weighs the pure-bloodness!" Ron yelled, ignoring the fact pure-bloodness was not a real word.
"But the power out weighs the evilness!" one of Malfoy's goons yelled back. Goyle, was it?
"But You-Know-Who came out of Slytherin! That just proves how evil it is!" Light's ears perked up He didn't know who. Who was You-Know-Who?
"Who's You-Know-Who?" Ignoring how stupid that sounded out loud. He was curious "The Dark Lord, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, The-" Ron was cut of by Harry simply stating

"His name is Voldemort." Ron screeched, reminding Light all too much of those damned owls.

"You said his name! You said He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's name!" Ron said, stateing the obvious.
"Oh shut up Weasly, it not like you're going to die, at least, not today." Malfoy yelled.
"Okay so the Dark lord is evil I take it?" Light stated, L had been unnaturaly quiet so far.
"Yes! He kills muggles! Believes the world should be run by wizards and that muggles should be our slaves"
Light fidgeted, he was a muggle, only reason he was here was he was chained to a wizard, hopefully L didn't reveal this fact, or else he would lose his upperhand of fear with Malfoy. Couldn't have that now could we?

"Light-kun and I should head back to the inn. I believe we will see eachother again at Hogwarts." L spoke up suddenly. He had crouched on the ground at some point during the conversation and was staring at his his bird intently. Light nodded, he would be glad to get away from the phsyco group in favour of leaving with the phsyco he was already used to. Besides it was getting close to lunch time, and he was hungry.
Hermione, having more manners than anyone else in the group nodded with a quick "It was nice to meet you both." As they started to leave.

After the two were gone however Ron and Malfoy got back into that heated argument over whether Slytherin was the best or worst house. It lasted many long hours and neither side accomplished anything at all. But such was predictable and thus didn't deserve to be written as it was nothing but a "Did not" "Did too" type of argument.

"The "Dark Lord" could possibly be Kira." L mused out loud "But highly unlikely unless he has made any trips to Japan latley, and he does not seem to share Kira's ideals either." he paused ".07 chance." Light simply nodded,
it was best not to argue with L. Coming back to the wall that had opened to allow them access to the alley L took out his wand (For those of you who thought of something other than a stick get your minds out of the gutter) and tapped the memorized sequence easily. Damn L and his photographic memory.

The man behind the counter at the inn/pub was still cleaning the same glass with the same dirty rag as earlier.
L winced, he wasn't going to eat here anytime soon. Striding professionaly up to the counter, or as professionaly someone of his posture could anyway.
"We need a room until the train leaves for Hogwarts." The man didn't even look up "Three galleons, last room on the right." Tossing the money carlessly, so carelessly it flung off the counter and hit Tom in the head causing him to drop the glass which in turn shattered, L turned to go up the stairs to the rooms. By now the entire pub was staring at them, but L being L didn't care. L 1, Tom 0. Light dully wondered if it would escalate into a rivalry while they were here. Tom did have that "plotting revenge" look going on right now.

Walking to the end of the hall the door on the right was already open. L lightly pushed it open with the very tips of his fingers. Ambling in quickly he placed Strawberry down on the table in the room and dropped everything else rather haphazardly next to him. Turning to survey the room; It was rather grey, the old flooring aged beyond recognition, a mirror stood in the corner beside a large canopy bed the table behind him being the only other furnishing. A window stood on the farthest side from the door. All in all it was a fairly plain dust room.

"Should we go get something to eat?" Before Light could answer however his stomach let out a loud growl.
"Yes I believe we should go to a "muggle" store down the street, they seem to have more attention to hygiene than this place." L nodded, he saw what Tom used to clean that glass, what did he do to the plates? He didn't even want to ponder that question.
"I shall also pick up some food for Strawberry while we are there." Light glanced at the bird "What did he say it ate again?" He didn't want the bird to starve to death, paralyzing bird poop could come in handy,
ecspecially on little boys with blonde hair. God he hated that kid.

" The man said "just about anything thrown it's way" so I shall have to experiment." Light rolled his eyes,
the bird would end up a sugar addict too. Great, just great. They departed the inn with a few heated glares from Tom who was now infront of the pile of glass turning it back into a cup again with his wand. But as before L either didn't notice or didn't care. Light was betting it was the latter, L was a very observant person.

"How about that one?" Light looked to where L was pointing, a bright pink sign with curly letters declaring 'Sweet Temptations' and rolled his eye's. Just like L to find the one sweet shop on the street. But he wasn't about to argue, he was hungry after all. He nodded and they ambled their way through the clamouring crowd.
Looks like Light was right, L was getting sweets for Strawberry. The store was as pink on the inside as it was on the out. Cakes lining the front while sweets lined every other wall. He knew they would make a few trips here while staying at the inn.

Sitting down at the table closest to them attracting as little attention as possible they each half-heartedly flipped through the menus. Light was gratefull there was at least some normal food, a few salads and varieties of french frys is what he'd be surviving on until they left for Hogwarts. L on the other hand looked like he was considering buying everything BUT the salads and french frys, instead going for everything with a high enough sugar count to cause a normal person to be grounded with a stomach ache and gain at least ten pounds.
Okay that was a over exageration on Light part, but seriously no wonder the guy never slept, he was stuck on a permanent sugar high.

"What can I get you?" A cheerfull waitress had bounded over to them notepad poised at the ready "Three slices of strawberry cheese cake and one salad, Light-kun?" L looked over to Light to signify he had finished his order, but Light was grounded by the fact that THE L had ordered a salad. It was a sure sign of the coming apocolypse. Wow, Light WAS really over exagerating today.
"The salad is for Strawberry Light-kun." Ah, all was right again, Light could stop thinking about the end of the world.
"Ah yes a salad for me too please." The waitress happily bounded away, was she sugar high too? Wouldn't doubt it in a place like this.

"So what do you hope to learn at Hogwarts?" Light asked when the silence became to akward. It would have been fine if L wasn't staring straight at him, analyzing his every move. It did get creepy after awhile.
L shrugged "It should be a interesting experience." L put his thumb to his mouth "Of course I'll still be working on the Kira case while there. That reminds me, I must tell Watari to expect Strawberry with case fills and reports." L flipped out his cell phone again, number one speed dial.
"Hello Watari? Yes it is me." He paused listening to the other line "I called to tell you to expect a colorfull bird delivering case reports for me. Leave a window open for it.
You may send things back with it as well. Also I will include what the bird eats, if you'd give it a snack before sending it off." He paused again "Yes, thank you." and hung up.

"You using your bird to send case reports? What if it poops on some random person while traveling? Or worse yet, it poops on a member of the task force? They'll be paralyzed!" L rubbed his thumb across his bottom lip "I'll warn the task force about that before I send something. I'm sure there's a antidote for it aswell anyway"
Light shook his head, L probally didn't care if his bird paralyzed anyone in the name of justice. Yeah that's justice alright.
What goes on in that guys head?

Light was taken out of his musing when the waitress returned, cakes and salads in hand.
"That'll be $26.97." L handed her a fifty dollar bill and waved her off, entranced by his favourite food.
"Keep the change." He stated picking up his fork.
"Thanks!" The bubbly girl bounced off even more cheerfully than before.
Light looked back around the shop, as inevitable when chained to another person, people were staring.
It was very uncomfortable. Taking bites of his salad while being stared at by so many people made him feel like he was sitting there insanely writing in a black note book with over-the-top gestures while laughing rabidly. Wait, again, what?
Why the hell would he do that? Light shook his head, stress must be getting to him.

"Could we go back and eat at the inn?" He asked L, who was on his second peice of cheesecake already, saving the other for Strawberry.
He nodded and they stood up leaving the store without a second glance. L had stuffed the rest of his cake in his mouth, now only carrieing one other piece and a salad. Upon entering the inn they got a even more heated glare from the usually nice Tom, most likely because they had eaten somwhere else. Which L ignored, again. Letting out a pleasant "Hello Tom!" As they passed. L didn't like the barkeep for some unfathomable reson, much like Light disliked Malfoy. Funny how that works.

Entering the room they were shocked to see a tall hooded figure with black robes dragging along the floor. He immediatly turned to them,
face obscured by a skeletal silver mask. Whoever they were quickly drew a wand, and L, having his hands full did the only thing he could think of. He threw the cake in the mans face. Which, apparently, knocked him off gaurd and the hooded guy stumbled backwards, and towards the window.
Uh-oh one more step and CRASH!
Light winced as the cake faced man fell out of the second story window, that had to hurt. They both rushed over and looked out of the shattered pane, apparently the man was fine, he had stood back up and was staring up at the window. Then in a sudden 'Poof!' he was gone.

"Well," L started "That was a waste of perfectly good cake." Light stared. He was about to reply when behind them appeared a very angry Tom, a fairly nasty looking vein bulging out on his neck.
"What the hell are you two doing?" L looked over too him calmly "We just finished throwing cake at a masked man who aimed his wand at us, he fell out the window." How could he say that with a straight face?
when you said it that way it sounded like a complete lie.
"What kind of mask was he wearing?" Tom no longer looked angry, but scared. He believed L?
"Looked like a skull, it was silver." Light supplied. The man looked even more scared "That's it! You two get out! Find a different inn! I will not have you attracting death eaters and breaking glasses anymore! You can have a refund and then get out!" Wow this man was having a spazz attack, you'd think he was a criminal standing ten feet away from Kira. Well one out of two (or was it two out of two?)
ain't bad.

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A/N: Ha ha, poor Tom. Believe it or not Strawberry does have a actuall use. But you'll have to wait to see it. I used wikipedia to find all the weird creatures at the pet store. It was quite fun trying to imagine what a chicken-lizard looked like. Wonder why there was a death eater in their room? How will the Kira case go with L at Hogwarts? How smart is that dang bird really? Thanks for reading!