I do not own Elfen Lied or Death Note. They meet up with some of the characters from Death Note in this one. I hope you enjoy.
"Together We Fall."
Yuki
(A few minutes earlier)
It attacked her senses like a rabid dog. Someone had woken up. There were a few coming her way, slowly. Her kind. She could sense them. It was an ability that all Diclonius possessed. They could sense where one another was.
They could even talk telepathically, Luna had explained to her. Though Yuki didn't posess that ability. She was a defective specimen, after all.
'There are more than one of you?' the Emmett girl had questioned, breaking her out of her thoughts again. She had just watched Kayla get mad about her spilling orange juice on her pants. 'Accidentally' she might add. It wasn't on accident...
'Yes, there are more than one of me. Luna, and a few select others. Our kind was practically obliterated during the Diclonius War. We, Luna and I, were created by the hands of the very humans that destroyed us.'
'Sounds complicated'
'More than you know...' And it had been like that for awhile. Yuki was never alone. Having the Emmett girl there to speak with her. They had come to terms with what had happened, having a few years to sort things out. Yuki still refused to talk, mostly because her voice still felt gone. Like she didn't want to talk. She didn't want to hurt the humans that lived in this house.
But she knew if she ever left, that she wouldn't be able to live by herself.
Yuki focused on those entities, getting up from the dining room chair and taking off out the door. She followed and followed.
Soon enough she came face to face with the one person she'd wished she could see many times over. Luna. Her sister. She stood right there on the other end of the alleyway. She was conversing with another girl. She had long white hair with horns spouting out of her head. Her face looked like Yuki's, they could probably pass as twins.
She knew who that was, back when they were fighting off the scientists they had made a few friends. One of which was Miranda. One could consider her a relative of a sort, being created directly from Yuki's genes. She was stronger, though she still had some of the defects Yuki did. Like the inability to speak on a telepathic level, for example.
Yuki walked forward, alerting Luna of her presence. The taller girl broke out into a smile while Miranda looked over in curiosity. Surely she didn't recognize Yuki, with her hair being different and all.
"Yuki!" Luna yelled, running up to her small sister. Recognition passed through Miranda's face and soon enough she was smiling as well. Luna embraced Yuki, holding her closely.
Yuki felt warmth bubble up in her chest for the first time in years, she was home.
Luna
(2 Year Later)
Luna was walking back from the grocery store with Ella. The girl loved to help out around the house, since Mika and Kai didn't really require any house rent to be paid. Ella seemed grateful for that, since her and her sister didn't have much money.
Their families weren't exactly well off like Mika and Kai's were. When Mika's parents died, they left a hefty sum of money for their kids. And to top it off they'd gotten money from Luna when they left all them years ago. She remembers Ella talking about them being from an Ojibwe tribe from Minnesota awhile back, so they did get some help with her college funds. Kayla though, she just worked part time at a grocery store and refused to get her GED. Luna didn't really get along with Kayla, their personalities clashed all the time.
"What do you think we should make for dinner tonight Luna?" Ella asked, her voice was soft. She wasn't a really outspoken person, and really liked to go kind of unnoticed. Though she loved helping people, she had a kind heart indeed.
"It doesn't matter...we have stuff for Chicken Alfredo...that's my favorite." Luna answered as she drooled slightly at the thought of the dish. Ella giggled and nodded her head in agreement.
"Yes, I like it too. It sounds like a good idea."
Kai
Kai had just gotten done texting Mika on her cellphone. She was on her way back, since her classes had just finished. He was pleased to see that Yuki had gotten better, although not much but it was noticeable.
"Maannn, I'm starving bro! Where's Ella and Luna with the food?" Amy whined, her voice wasn't high like a normal girls, nor was it low like a mans. She was currently leaned back on Kai's gaming chair, she set the controller down and was rubbing her stomach.
"Not sure." Kai mumbled, looking down at a 'Game-informer' magazine. He liked to read them, to get the news on the upcoming games.
"Better be soon! I'll end up eating your beef jerky." She teased, she knew Kai didn't like his beef jerky being touched. Yuki was sitting in the far corner of the room, and turned her head curiously at the sound of the snack. Though sometimes it would go missing for unknown reasons. He knew that none of the other people in the household liked it, since it was teriyaki flavored.
"No! Don't do that. I'll text Luna right now." Kai grumbled, "Jeez, didn't have to go that far..." It was then that the door was kicked open loudly, he snapped his head in the direction.
"Hey! Kai!" Kayla yelled, she looked angrily down at him. She threw something plastic at Kai's head, hitting him in the ear.
"What?" He rubbed his ear, "Jeez, is it that time of the month?"
"What did you say!"
"Nothing." He answered all too quickly, "What did you need?"
"You ate my sunflower seeds!" She pointed accusingly. Kai looked down at the plastic thing that was thrown at him. It was an empty bag of sunflower seeds.
"Dude, I don't even like sunflower seeds." He deadpanned, looking up at the woman. He noticed Yuki sneak out the door behind Kayla. 'What's she up to?' He wondered,
"Are you even listening!" She yelled in his face, snapping her fingers in front of him.
"Er..no?"
"AAUUGH!" She threw her arms up in defeat and stomped out of the room angrily. Kai face-palmed and stood up. His phone buzzed and he opened it up.
"They are almost here..." He relayed the message to Amy, she nodded and turned the game back on. Kai walked out of the room and into the living area. 'I'm kind of hungry as well...might as well get a snack.' He turned the corner to the kitchen and stopped in his tracks. Kai's mouth dropped open and his eyes widened.
"Yuki?" She turned her head in his direction swiftly and she had a large piece of jerky hanging out of her mouth. In Yuki's hands was the bag of his favorite snack. "So you're the one that has been eating my jerky." He tried to look upset but the girl blinked innocently at him. "And here I was thinking it was Amy." He sighed, not able to get angry at the girl. "I take it you're the one that ate Kayla's sunflower seeds too, huh?" Kai swore he saw a hint of panic arise in her eyes and chuckled. "Don't worry I won't tell."
Kai was relieved when Yuki finally started to respond to her surroundings after Luna came back. She would even nod a yes or no if you asked questions. Though he still has yet to hear her talk, she probably wasn't ready yet.
It was a positive improvement, he was happy enough for that much.
"I'm home!" He heard Luna yell from the front door, she kicked her shoes off sloppily and walked in with a bag of groceries. "We are making Chicken Alfredo tonight." Kai looked over at the woman, he liked Luna and Ella's cooking. "Oh Yuki, you know Kai doesn't like his beef jerky being touched." Yuki nodded solemnly, probably not wanting to give the bag back.
"It's okay, she can have that bag. I have more in my closet." He answered, letting the girl have it. Yuki still had short black hair, the same that it's been these passed years. She also dressed in more boyish clothing, though Kai didn't know why. Sometimes even wearing a suit, like on days when they threw a party for Mika when she attained her Bachelor's degree. Kai thought it amusing when girls would walk up to her and try flirting, as they didn't know that Yuki was a girl. Even when they found out her name, since Yuki is a unisex name they didn't know better either. He chuckled at the thought.
"You going to help us cook? Or are you going to stand there and stare at Yuki?" Luna asked, she giggled. "Now now, wait until she gets better. Then you can ask her to marry you, Kai. That would be so wonderful~." She sighed as she started putting the chopped up chicken in the pan.
"E-Er...it's not that..I was just relieving some memories." He answered, looking at Luna. Yuki just stared blankly at the two, still munching on the bag of meat.
"Oooh, what kinds of memories? What did you two do while I was gone?" Luna giggled girlishly, Ella turned bright red.
"L-Luna!" Ella stuttered, she was clearly embarrassed about what was just suggested. She turned around and started working on the biscuits.
"OI! Shut up in there! I'm trying to watch television!" Kayla yelled angrily. Kai just sighed and shook his head.
"What's so important that you need to watch? Dr Phil? If that's the case, I'm sorry oh great one." Luna added sarcastically, grumbling under her breath. Living in a house full of women had it's ups and downs. Kai had a steady source of great food and the house was always clean. But he also had to put up with the constant PMSing and screaming around the house. Not that he minded, he had gotten quite used to it.
"You tryin to start somethin!" He heard from behind him. It was Kayla's most said line, she had probably gotten up in an angry fit and ran over here.
'Oh great...here it comes.' Those two always find something to argue about. Even little things. Like this.
"And what if I am? Pipsqueak?" Luna mocked, walking away from the kitchen and forgetting about the chicken on the pan. Kai sighed and walked into the kitchen and started to move the chicken around, so that it wouldn't burn. Now he wasn't the best cook, but he at least knew how to cook chicken.
"Who the hell are you calling short! I'm not fucking short you asshole!" Kayla raged, she stomped her foot and pulled her fist up to hit Luna. Luna punched her in the face before she could do anything, making her stumbled back from the blow. "Y-you...You bitch!" She walked back up and grabbed Luna's hair. Yes, it had grown out since she'd gotten back so it was the only thing she could get a hold on now.
"I'm getting sick of your damn attitude, kid! Learn your place!" Luna was getting furious as she pushed the girl off, some of her hair getting ripped out in the process. Kai just shook his head not wanting to get in the middle of the fight. Ella seemed to be shaking, she had stopped cutting biscuits and was just standing there.
'I don't mind Kayla...actually I kind of enjoy her company when she's not mad...but she can get so angry.' Kai wondered if anything happened during her childhood to make her that way. He knew that she didn't regret saving Ella, if anything she was proud of herself and saw to it as a victory. He turned the burner down and looked over at Ella. She seemed sad,
"You okay?" He asked quietly, not wanting to disturb the fight that had broken out. It consisted mostly of them punching at each other and yelling. He could hear some chairs being knocked around and a few vases broke as well. Yuki just stood there staring, she seemed shocked by it too. Now Luna and Kayla often fought, though it never escalated this far. Everything must have just blown up from them holding back all these months.
"I-I'm fine..." Ella answered silently, going back to doing what she was doing. She was trying to hide her face from Kai, that much he knew. He sighed.
'I should try to calm them two down...at least. Otherwise Mika will have my head if this house is ruined.'
"Watch the chicken." He mumbled, turning around to walk up to the two. Kayla pushed Luna off of her and stood up abruptly, she seemed to growl like an animal. Luna got up as well and started to walk up to the woman, she looked pissed.
"Shut up! I bet your sister is that way because of you!" She yelled angrily, Luna stopped walking. "It's probably all your fault!"
"Kayla." Kai warned, he was still standing a good distance away from the two. He knew that what she said was a low blow, something like that would definitely hurt Luna's feelings. Something that shouldn't be said, kind of like if Luna were to tease Kayla about her scar. But she wouldn't do that.
"No!" Kayla growled, looking at the now upset Luna. "It probably is her fault! Look at her!" She looked in Yuki's direction. "It's not like I care anyways! She's a freak!" Yuki just stared at her, it didn't even seem like she had gotten angry at Kayla.
"That's enough!" Kai yelled, "It's not Yuki's fault she's like that. And I doubt it's Luna's fault." He explained, looking at Kayla. She seemed to only get more upset.
"I-It's all her fault!" Kayla was getting hysterical, her eye welled up with tears. The other eye was unable to produce tears at all.
"What?" He was confused, was she crying? Oh man, he was never good at comforting girls when they cried. It always turned out for the worst.
"She's all you care about!" Kayla pointed at Yuki accusingly, "You don't even-" She cut herself off, not wanting to say anymore. Kayla was crying as she turned around and started to make her way to the basement door. Yuki tilted her head, following right behind her. Right before she was going to open the door, Yuki grabbed her hand. "W-What do you want? Leave me alone!" She flicked her hand, trying to get the girl to go away. But Yuki didn't let go, she just stared up at the girl sadly.
"Y-Yuki...?" Kai was wondering what was going through the girls head, Luna just stood there looking curious as well. Yuki squeezed Kayla's hand and blinked a few times.
"W...what's wrong with you..." Kayla's voice was shaky, she looked guiltily down at the young girl. "I'm sorry..." She choked out, covering her face with her free hand. "I-I didn't...I." Yuki just pulled her in for a hug. Kai was shocked, she had never hugged anyone. Even before they had disappeared, Yuki never hugged anyone. He looked over into the kitchen, Ella seemed to be smiling at the scene. She looked relieved that they weren't fighting anymore.
Ella
She was looking over from the kitchen. Yuki had hugged Kayla. It was nice to see that Yuki was finally recovering, thanks to Luna. Though she'd never expect her to hug anyone. Ella was aware of Kayla's feelings for Kai and she was probably just jealous. She couldn't help it, and Kayla has a hard time letting him know about her feelings. Just a bit rough around the edges, but once you get to know her she's very sweet. She smiled lightly, turning back around to continue cooking.
"I'm sorry.." Luna said aloud, hoping Kayla heard. She looked over at Luna and nodded.
"Me too, I...I'm just confused is all."
"Confused?" Luna sounded curious, Ella wondered if Kayla would say anything about how she felt. Doubtful, but it was a definite possibility.
"It's nothing..." She patted Yuki's head and started to walk to the bathroom. Yuki pulled out a bag of sunflower seeds. Not knowing where she got it, Ella decided to voice her concern from the kitchen.
"Umm...Yuki, where did you get those seeds?" She asked, looking away from the stove. Yuki just blinked a few times and hid them behind her back. Luna bust out laughing, though Ella didn't know why. Kai seemed to think for a moment before laughing with her. "What?" Ella was confused, what was so funny?
"Y-You shouldn't spoil your dinner with those stolen seeds." Luna was still laughing and walked into the kitchen with Ella.
"Those are Kayla's seeds?" Ella seemed to realize why they were laughing. Yuki had taken Kayla's seeds from her back pocket when she hugged her. Yuki opened them and walked into the living room, ignoring her sister's laughing.
"Ahh...I taught her well..." Luna sighed wiping a tear from her eye, seemingly calmed down.
"How is that a good thing?" Ella replied hastily, concern lacing her voice.
Luna
(The next day.)
She was sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast with Ella and Mika. Everyone else didn't have class till the afternoon, but both the girls would have to get up quite early to get things done before they left. Luna was just an early riser, as was Yuki. Though Luna doubted Yuki even slept that often.
'Speaking of Yuki...' She looked over at the girl as she emerged from Mika's room that they shared. Everyone packed together in the little house, though it was comfortable so no one minded. The bags under Yuki's eyes seemed slightly darker today than any other day.
"Did you even get any sleep last night Yuki?" Luna asked worriedly, looking up at the young girl. Now she may be 18 years old now, but Luna still treated Yuki like her little sister. Nothing could change that. Yuki shook her head 'no' at Luna's question.
"You need to sleep. Did you know that Kai had hallucinations once from staying up and playing his Assassins Creed game for 3 days straight?" Mika added, still eating her toast and eggs. Yuki seemed amused at that thought, her eyes light up and she smiled lightly. "I know right? I thought it was funny." She looked up at the ceiling chewing her food, remembering the event. "I remember him complaining about shadows moving through the walls, and people whispering things to him. I told him to get his butt to sleep, and what do you know? He got better." Ella giggled at the story.
Yuki went into the kitchen and opened the cupboard, coming back with a bag of beef jerky.
"Nuh uh! No beef jerky this early in the morning. Go get something healthier." Luna scolded like an old woman, shaking her finger to add effect. Yuki looked down at the bag with a defeated look on her face, walking back into the kitchen and putting it back. She then opened the fridge and grabbed a cold slice of pizza and looking back at Luna. You could practically see Yuki saying 'This has meat, cheese, vegetables, and grain. It's healthy! Right?'
"That's not healthy either Yuki, you know that." Mika laughed at her antics, getting up to put her dish away. Yuki just put it back and settled with a bagel. She sat down next to Ella, right across from Luna. Her hair was a complete mess today, sticking up in every way possible. Luna would have commented on how she looked like a shorter version of L (because of her hair), but she knew better. Every-time she mentioned Death Note, Yuki would get sad and go lock herself in her room.
'I know why she acts like that too...'
'Because of what happened?'
'Yea...I'm lucky I went to the place I did. I was able to do good things for the people there. Though Yuki didn't...she didn't even want to interfere. She probably didn't even know what to do anyways, it all seemed so overwhelming. I actually had time to adapt to my environment before interacting with them.'
'She was only 12, you couldn't blame her. You can't expect so much out of someone so young.'
'I know...if only she were older, she could have made more of an impact. You think?'
'I'm sure...She may be academically smart, but she lacks with the life skills and just about everything else.'
'You're right.'
"Luna?" Ella was looking at her oddly.
"Oh. Hah? I was zoning out, I'm sorry."
"I do that too." She giggled, "What do you plan on doing today?"
"Not much I suppose. I was thinking about going on a walk with Yuki...then maybe coming back to clean up a bit. Why do you ask?"
"N-nothing, I was just curious." She smiled and got up to put her dish away as well. Mika was in the bathroom getting ready, and Ella was probably going to get her homework and books ready. Same routine every day, Luna knew this. Yuki was looking at her curiously, her head tilted slightly with a bagel halfway in her mouth.
"Oh. I wanted to talk, that's all." Luna answered, smiling at Yuki. She nodded in understanding.
(Later That Day, Around Noon)
"Alright Yuki, I'm ready to go on our-" She stopped mid-sentence and noticed that Yuki was still in her black tank top and some camouflage pajama pants. "You're not even ready! And look at your hair." She noted how Yuki never tended to her hair anymore, it always looked like a rats nest. She just looked up at the woman, turned around and grabbed a random sweater and put it on. It was Kai's sweater, so it was quite large on her. Luna sighed,
"You're hopeless..." She shook her head. Luna had taken all that time to do her hair and she was even in a cute outfit! But Yuki just didn't seem to care much about what she looked like. Which was fine though. At least she had put on a sweater, since it was the beginning of March. "Alright come on..." Yuki nodded and followed her out the door.
After about a half an hour of walking, Luna came across the convenience store that Kai works at. Luna walked behind the store, making sure no one was watching and looked back at Yuki.
"Now I know you probably haven't used them in awhile..but follow me." She looked back at Yuki, then launched herself on top of the building with her vectors. Oh the joys of being a diclonius. You can get places one normally could not, take this for example. Well, you could get up here. But you would have to go through the back, and risk getting caught by the manager. Luna heard Yuki's feet fall onto the pavement of the building. She then started off towards the door to the stairs. It looked like a small shed on top of the store, but it was there so that it would allow access to the roof.
"Up we go." She jumped on top of the small 'shack-like' building, sitting down in the middle of it. Yuki followed, sitting near the edge. She then looked at Luna curiously, probably wondering why she needed to come someplace so private.
"I needed to ask you about something...and I was wondering if you could just...you know talk?" Luna asked, looking up at Yuki seriously. Yuki looked sadly at Luna, then looked down at her feet.
'She doesn't want to talk...I know she can. But she refuses.'
'Do you think it's because talking got her into that mess?'
'That mess?'
'When she was in an alternate dimension...if she hadn't let her mouth run, she wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place.'
'Oooh..'
"I understand." Yuki looked up at her in question, she could see her asking 'You understand?'
"When I fell off of that building 5 years ago, I was thrown into an alternate dimension as well." She explained, looking at the girl. She looked surprised at this news. "I'm sorry for not telling you sooner, that is why I was asking you where Ichigo was when we first met. Remember?" Yuki nodded yes. "What happened to me was the same, though I fell into Bleach my favorite manga. I was able to see what you did in Death Note when I read the manga in that dimension." She stopped, seeing Yuki look extremely saddened at the mention of her, once favorite, series. "You can't keep blaming yourself for that..."
"Anyway...the main reason I told you to come with me was because I had to tell you something." Luna continued, staring up at the clouds in the sky. The wind whipped by her hair, making it fall over her shoulders.
Yuki was looking at her in confusion.
"Do you remember Hannah and Miranda?" Luna asked, hoping she did remember them. Yuki nodded a 'yes'. Hannah and Miranda were modified versions of Yuki. Made from her DNA and everything. So, basically, they were a later generation of the modified diclonius that Yuki and Luna were.
They had encountered them all those years back, freeing them from their captors. This worked in their favor, gaining their friendship and loyalty.
"Well, they were the ones that caught our bodies that day. That was the reason we didn't die." Luna explained to the small girl, looking back down at her. "They saved our lives."
Yuki blinked a few times and nodded, smiling slightly. She probably was wondering about that for years now, how they'd survived.
Luna had woken up in the same mental hospital that held Yuki's body for years. She just didn't know it, so Yuki didn't come looking for Luna's body. Little did Luna know, there was a reason their bodies were rejecting their souls like this.
"I'd always wondered..." She mumbled, "Why our bodies rejected our souls like that, sending us to a parallel universe."
Yuki seemed to think about it for a moment as well, she probably hadn't thought about it that way. Luna was good at coming up with theories and whatnot.
"If you could go back, would you change anything? Would you help your friends?" Luna decided to ask, getting a shocked expression from Yuki.
She seemed indecisive about it, not knowing how to even respond to it. Luna didn't blame her, suddenly thinking about it after all these years.
"If I were there with you...I would help you make things right..." She mumbled, not sure if the small girl heard her.
Yuki panicked, trying to crawl backwards. Though she knew not why. Why was she crawling backwards like that? Away from Luna. She saw that Yuki was about to fall off of the small section that they were on and she got scared.
"W-Watch out!" She lunged forward and grabbed Yuki, planning on stopping their fall with her vectors. But something weird happened. Everything turned white, Luna couldn't see anything. There was a high pitched ringing in her ears and the only other sense she had was that Yuki was in her arms. It seemed as though they were falling forever. Luna's stomach dropped as they kept speeding up, heading down towards who knows where.
'What's going on!' She questioned herself. Yuki squeezed Luna's arm, probably getting scared. It felt like her whole body was being ripped in half. Being ripped apart into tiny little pieces. The pain was almost overwhelming.
Luna heard a whimper from Yuki, alerting her that she felt it as well.
"Y-Yuki? You there!" She yelled as they were falling, her head felt like there was extreme pressure put on it. Almost like she were under water, the feeling you get when you dive down too deep. Luna's ears popped and she started to panic. She could still feel Yuki, but she couldn't see her. Yuki yelped, and she could feel her shaking in fear.
Then 'CRASH!' they heard a loud noise like lightning hitting the ground, thunder. It was then that Luna's senses seemed to come to her all at once. She could see Yuki in front of her, and there was a cold wind whipping her hair around as she descended to the ground. It looked like she was falling toward a town. Large buildings were everywhere as they fell faster and faster.
It wasn't long until they started veering off course, almost as if they were being pulled somewhere. Luna felt her chest well up with an odd sensation, her arms were ripped from Yuki's as they flew next to each other.
It almost didn't seem real. Were they dreaming? Was this all some sort of sick hallucination?
Two girls were out for a stroll along the cement, parked cars lined the side of the busy street. One shorter girl had black hair, much like Yuki's. She was sitting in a wheelchair, almost lifelessly. The other was taller and was talking animatedly, her hair was long and black. If she didn't know any better, it looked like Yuki and Luna.
Luna felt like she was being sucked closer and closer to the taller girl. She peered to her right, seeing Yuki look at the small girl with a horrified expression on her face. Almost like she recognized something.
Then it dawned on her.
This was the body she inhabited while she was in a parallel universe all those years ago.
Upon realizing this, Luna's vision went black.
"Nngh..." Luna groaned, sitting up. She was on the side of the cement, a small crowd of people surrounded her. They spoke quietly, asking if she was alright. She looked to her side, noticing Yuki doing the same. She had regained consciousness and was looking around questioningly.
"W-were fine! Nothing to see here." Luna laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head and standing up. She held her hand out to Yuki, who gladly accepted it.
"Where are we?" Luna whispered to Yuki, who only stared off into space. She seemed to be thinking about something. But what? "We need to get somewhere..."
Yuki wobbled over to the wheelchair and sat down in it, as if she wanted to rest. That fall must have taken a lot out of her.
She dug around in the bag that was wrapped around her shoulder. It was a purse. She then noticed a wallet laying at the top as she unzipped it. Luna took it out and opened the wallet, seeing a picture of herself. Or what looked like herself.
"H-holy...shit." She whispered, grabbing Yuki's wheelchair and dragging her off to secluded alleyway. They had little privacy out there.
"Yuki, l-look." She handed it to that girl, who seemed to already know what was going on. Why can't she just talk? It would be much easier!
Inside of the wallet, was an ID. She looked like herself, sure. But the name and eyes looked different. Instead of Luna's large red ones, there was normal sized soft brown eyes staring up at her from the card. Her name clearly printed on the side. 'Ashley Emmett.'
"T-then … we are back to where you were before?" Yuki nodded a 'yes' confirming her suspicions. They were back in the world where the Death Note existed. It was dangerous territory, being here.
And she just had to wish she was here, didn't she. Just fucking brilliant.
"We need to find out where we are..." Luna mumbled, looking around. "If I can remember correctly, you could use your vectors in your body. So can I use mine?"
Yuki seemed unsure, but nodded again. Yes.
"But not for long..." She looked up at the highest building in sight. "Lets go up there and get a good view of the city. We can find out where to go after that."
She just had to suggest going to high places. Luna loved being up high. The cool wind always made her feel good. So they launched themselves atop a roof and started off toward that one building that stood out. Luna hopped faster than Yuki, being more athletic.
Once they got closer, she used her vectors to grab windows as she climbed up the building extremely swiftly. Yuki lagging behind, due to the smaller amount of strength behind her vectors.
"Auuugh. That was-" Luna started to cough, kneeling down as she got to the middle of the high building they had agreed to go up. It wasn't long until Yuki was doing the same, coughing rapidly. Holding her throat. They both sat still for a moment as she felt a small amount of blood trickle from her nose.
"That's right...I had forgotten." Luna voiced, seeing Yuki's nose bleeding too. "When we use our vectors in this world, it's followed by bloody noses, regurgitation and more often..." She held her hand to her head. "Migraines..."
"Where are we?" Luna asked, looking around at her surroundings. They were atop the building peering down around the town. It looked like New York. The city they'd been in before they arrived. How convenient. She knew her way around here well.
Yuki was peering up at the sky, her face showed sadness. Luna knew she didn't want to be here again and sighed.
"I'm sorry...I just." Yuki looked over at her and raised her black eye brow as if saying 'why are you apologizing, this isn't your fault...'
Luna was standing up, looking at the sky for a moment. It looked like it was going to rain. The clouds were extremely dark. It wouldn't be a good idea to be out here during a thunderstorm, so they would have to hurry in looking around.
She felt a tug at her sleeve. Yuki pointed at the door and looked down into the street.
"We should go down the stairs and find a way to the street?" Yuki nodded and started walking toward the door. 'It's funny how I can understand what she's trying to tell me, and she doesn't even have to say anything.' Luna followed not too far behind. She was becoming cold anyways, the wind was picking up and it was sprinkling. It was probably going to rain soon, so they did need to get inside for shelter.
Luna vowed not to use her vectors unless deemed absolutely necessary. What else would happen if they stressed these human bodies they were in? The last thing they needed was to die. So that meant they had to use the inside of the building to find their way back down to the street.
Once inside, they made their way down the stairs and into the building. It seemed pretty empty, there wasn't a person in sight as they walked through the hallways of the large skyscraper they were in.
"I think we should take the stairs, we probably aren't supposed to be in here. It would ensure that we won't get caught by using the elevators..." Luna whispered to Yuki, she nodded in understanding and headed to the staircase. For some reason the stairs were located in a different place than where the stairs to the roof was located. The reason being unknown to the two, they just continued on.
"Why is it so quiet...? It's almost scary..." She mumbled, Yuki seemed to agree as well. They went down half the flight of stairs, deciding to take a break. Since Yuki isn't that physically fit, she needed to rest after doing so much. They heard foot steps coming from under them, people were taking the stairs?
"Shit!" Luna cursed under her breath, "This way." She grabbed Yuki's arm and opened the door to the floor, walking into the hallway. They could hear the buzzing of electrical equipment, signaling to them that there was activity on this floor.
'Just our luck.' She thought as someone rounded the corner. He was a younger looking man, though he was probably just as old as Luna. He was tall and had darker hair, he looked shocked to see the two girls there.
"You aren't supposed to be up here!" He pointed and started to walk briskly in their direction.
"Shit!" Luna said, but Yuki darted off in the opposite direction before she could say 'Run!'. Yuki leading the way, she could only follow her. "Where do we go?" She asked in between breaths, running from the man.
"Stop!" He yelled, it seemed as though he was gaining on the two. Yuki rounded the corner and headed to the end of the hallway, hoping that there were at least some elevators.
"Keep going keep going!" Luna urged on, trying to run faster but her legs were hurting. Yuki's eyes widened for reasons Luna didn't understand until that is, she dodged a large man trying to tackle her from the side. It seemed as though the man knew they were headed in that direction. He was older than the other guy, his hair lighter. Instead of tackling Yuki, he jumped atop Luna taking her to the ground.
"Got one!" He pulled out some cuffs and started to restrain her. Yuki looked back, shocked. She didn't seem to be paying attention as she came up to a door, running into it and pushing it open in the process. Yuki squealed loudly as she tripped over something she looked forward and fell face first onto the tile. Yuki's arms outstretched in front of her as her forehead made a 'squeak!' noise as it hit the floor. Luna bust out laughing.
"Y-You're such a klutz!" She yelled at her sister, she was pretty far ahead of her. The guy that was restraining her made a weird face. Probably curious as to why Luna was even laughing in a situation like this. He pushed the girl toward the room that Yuki was laying in and came to a stop in the doorway. Luna could hear Yuki groan from the floor, her hands coming under her and pushing herself upright. She was still sitting as she looked around at the room she was in.
"Commander Rester, what seems to be the problem?" Both the girls heads snapped in the direction of the sound immediately recognizing that voice.
'T-the fuck? Near?' Luna thought, she was panicking. She knew that Yuki had a history with this universe, had she known that they landed here she would have found a way to avoid it. Yuki was looking in his direction with shock written all over her face. 'I just hope to god she doesn't have a breakdown!'
"These people were found wandering the building." He explained from behind Luna, so it had been Rester that tackled Luna. Gevanni was the one standing right behind him, he walked up to Yuki and pulled out his cuffs. Yuki stumbled backwards, crawling toward the nearest window. She didn't seem to even want to get near those metal things.
"Leave it. You don't need to do that." Luna spoke up, hoping they would leave Yuki alone.
"What if he attacks?" Gevanni voiced, looking back at the woman. 'He?' Luna wanted to laugh, they thought Yuki was a male.
"Oh He won't, trust me." Luna spat, looking angrily at him. He just shook his head and started to walk toward Yuki again. She was scooting backward, heading closer to where Near was sitting. He was on the floor with loads of his damn toys littering the floor facing the other direction.
Yuki grabbed the nearest thing and hurled it at Gevanni. It happened to be a toy truck, hitting the man right in the middle of the forehead. Luna started to laugh again, even harder than last time. It echoed throughout the room, the members of the team just looked at her weirdly.
"G-Good shot, Yuki!" She sputtered out in between her laughs. Nears head snapped in the direction of the girls, recognizing the name. "You hit Gevanni right in the forehead! D-Did you see that?" Tears started to come out of her eyes, she didn't know why but she found it extremely amusing. They were in between two sets of metal stairs, and farther back was a whole bunch of computers. All of the attention in the room seemed to be set on what was going on right now, though Luna noticed that one fat dude was missing.
'He was probably the person coming up the stairs on our way down...Damn guy...'
"Yuki?" He asked, looking at the black-haired girl. She just stared at him blankly, and didn't answer. "Yuki Emmett." He repeated, but she didn't answer.
'Shit. Maybe I shouldn't have said her name...now he's recognized her. Fuck, what have I done?' Luna lowered her head, Yuki still looked shocked.
"Do you need me to restrain him?" Lidner asked from the corner of the room, walking in their direction. Gevanni was rubbing his sore forehead, where a red mark was forming.
'Ha...that was funny.'
"That won't be necessary." Near answered, still observing the girl. "Now, Yuki. I had thought you were put in a mental hospital." He mumbled, Luna got confused.
"Mental hospital?" Luna questioned the boy, 'Why would...oh wait.'
"Mello had seen her try to commit suicide. Which I'm sure you remember, Ashley." He responded, not taking his eyes off the silent girl.
'That's right, now I remember the last part of the manga. Yuki had tried to hang herself, wanting to come home. Wait...he'd gotten that from Mello? But...'
"I thought you guys wouldn't work together." Luna blurted out, she realized her mistake a little too late. He looked over at her with an interested look.
"Under normal circumstances, yes. Might I ask how you knew of this?"
"I uhhh...was a friend of Mello's?" Luna looked over at the rest of the people in the room. They were still looking at the girls oddly, probably curious as to how they even got into the building in the first place. Little did she know, Ashley was a friend of Mello's. This would later strengthen her story and reasons for knowing certain things.
'Oh...you have no idea...' Luna was curious as to what was going on. Mello and Near were working together? Unless they had agreed to exchange information occasionally, she wasn't sure. Though she wondered if it was because of Yuki's comment on how childish it was to care only about their competition. She didn't know.
"So, Miss Emmett." Near asked, Yuki flinched at the name.
'L used to call her that...' Luna remembered.
"Where have you been all this time?" He asked her, playing with the ends of his hair. Yuki just sat there and stared, she didn't even respond.
"She hasn't spoken in 4 years." Luna mumbled, looking at the young girl. "I doubt you could get her to speak now." Yuki looked curiously over at Luna, then looked back at Near.
"How unfortunate." He picked up some weird looking doll that looked oddly like Mello.
'That's so...freaky...He'd better not take my statement as a challenge...that jerk...' Luna shivered, she had never liked Near. Always found him kind of creepy.
"I had always found it odd, how L never kept any information on his databases about you." He looked up at Yuki, who just looked curiously at him.
"What are you trying to get at?" Luna was getting irritated. She had her hands cuffed behind her back, and she was getting stared at by so many people. She felt humiliated and wanted to get rid of those blasted things.
"He cared so much about your safety, yet you couldn't even attempt to save him?" Those words probably felt like a slap to the face to Yuki. No. Worse. She looked extremely hurt that he even said that. "You had stated you knew that it was going to happen. Which led me to think that you probably knew how he was going to die. But you made no move to stop it, did you?" Luna felt her face start to heat up, and she wanted to kill the bastard.
'How dare he say that to her! He doesn't even know what kind of shit she had to go through!' She screeched in her head.
"Yes. That's correct, because you even admitted it yourself. You let him die."
"Shut up!" Everyone looked in her direction, shocked. Luna jumped at the sudden sound.
'Was that Yuki?'
"You have no idea what I went through you fucking asshole!" She yelled in his face, Near seemed pleased with her reaction. Luna hadn't heard Yuki's voice in years, it was nice to hear. But not under these circumstances.
'Had he been planning this?' He probably was, it was just in his nature to trick people into giving him more information. Much like L, he'd always thought and believed he could be like L. That much she knew about Near.
Yuki
"Yes. That's correct, because you even admitted it yourself. You let him die." Yuki heard Near say, he was seated right in front of her playing with his hair. 'I didn't let him die! I tried! I really tried! How could he say that!'
"Shut up!" Yuki yelled, her anger couldn't be contained at this point. She could feel her heart racing and her eyes narrowed dangerously. "You have no idea what I went through you fucking asshole!" She screamed some more, only for her to see him seemed almost pleased at the fact that she had blown up.
"If I'm not mistaken, you said so yourself that day in Roger's office. You weren't good enough." Near continued a smirk playing on his face. It was as if he didn't even hear her. Yuki growled menacingly at the boy.
"You're nothing like L." She spat, making him drop his smirk. Yuki was pleased with that reaction, "You're only a wannabe, you never will be like L. Never." She finished angrily, though she knew those words weren't true. One day he would become a great detective, she just wanted to piss off the boy.
"Ooh, girls got you there you over sized Q-tip." Yuki heard Luna say from the doorway.
"Q-tip...?" Gevanni blurted, looking at Luna curiously. He probably didn't get it.
"Oh my apologies, Cotton Swab. That sound better?" She started to giggle.
'Can she ever take anything seriously.' Yuki shook her head,
"Sometimes I wonder who's older..." Yuki mumbled silently.
"Hey I heard that!"
"On to more important matters..." Near interrupted, looking at Luna as well.
"I'm sorry for ruining your serious moment, Mr Sheep." She probably couldn't tell, but Yuki saw that Near was getting irritated with Luna's jokes about his wardrobe. Though Yuki would contribute if she could think of any, she liked seeing him irritated.
'Well he did kind of bring it upon himself...by being a jerk.'
"Enough." Lidner was getting fed up with their childish antics, "We have a Kira case to solve!"
'So serious...'
"You remind me of an owl." Luna continued, referring to Nears eyes. He just blinked in response, probably wondering if the girl was even mentally stable. Yes, they were the same as L's. Yuki cringed at the thought of L, she was still sensitive about the topic. She had always thought L's eyes reminded her of the creature, the same went for Near.
"Anyways...do you have any questions?" He seemed upset that he couldn't get back at Yuki for telling him off about 'not being able to be like L'. It was kind of the spur of the moment anger that made her say that, and she kind of felt guilty about it.
'Then again...'
"Yes..." Yuki mumbled looking up at the ceiling, seemingly deep in thought. "Mr Owl..." Yuki had originally thought of just commenting on his big eyes, but her sister blurted in out of nowhere.
"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?" An awkward silence passed before she started to laugh loudly, her eyes wide with amusement. Lidner and Commander Rester face-palmed, while Luna continued laughing like a hyena. Near just gave Yuki an 'Are you serious' look, probably because Yuki looked amused by Luna's antics.
'What has the world come to?' The Emmett girl's voice rang through Yuki's head. To which she agreed.
And there you have it. You caught a glimpse of Luna's compulsive attitude.