Me: Chapter 2 is up!
Light: And that's good because…?
L: Because Night-san can now think of the next chapter. When she doesn't write her ideas down she can be gloomy.
Light: Night-san?
Me: Yeah, midnightschredder is far too long, so I prefer Night.
L: Night does not own DN or songs that might be sung in this story.
Light was typing away on his computer while the others were simply going through files they had collected. Nothing odd at the first sign although Light thought different about it. The odd thing for him was the empty chair next to him and the person who was missing. He sighed. L had not been himself the past days.
"Light-kun, is something wrong?" Light immediately recognized Matsuda's voice.
"No, I'm fine." Light simply answered. One of the doors that leaded to the room swung open. A person with raven black hair stepped in.
"Ryuzaki, we were just going through this files. Nothing odd yet." Aizawa told the incoming person. L stopped and looked at his team.
"Thank you for the hard work. If you don't mind, I'll go out for a bit." L told them not turning his gaze away. The men in front of him gave him a nod and he left.
"L going out?" Mogi said confused. Matsuda shrugged and they went back to work.
L was walking across the street, ignoring the people who were staring at him. His hands were in his pockets and his thought were by gami-knows-where. From his view he was just walking in total darkness with no sounds except his own footsteps on the hard ground. Suddenly the silence was broken by a beautiful sound. The sound formed words that contained the music in them as well. The strange thing was… there was no music at all. It was singing, pure and lovely but yet so cold and painful. He could hear it so clear.
"Your cruel devise
Your blood, like ice
One look could kill
My pain, your thrill…
I wanna love you but I better not touch
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you but I want it too much
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison!
Your poison running through my veins
Your poison
I don't wanna break these chains.
Your mouth, so hot
Your web, I'm caught
Your skin, so wet
Black lace, on sweat…
I hear you calling and it's needles and pins
I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
Don't wanna touch you but you're under my skin
I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison!"
In the total darkness a figure appeared. It was obviously a women. Her hair was shoulder length and dark chocolate brown, almost black. Her skin was pale although not as pale as L's. She wore dark blue jeans which hugged her lower body tight, a strawberry red shirt and a black vest with hood and short sleeves. She had black-white sneakers on. Her eyes were closed as her as her hair swung casually behind her. When she opened them L saw the only strange thing about her. Her eyes were yellow golden instead of a normal human eye color. She noticed L and both stopped, staring at each other.
"You have a beautiful voice." L finally said. The girl smiled warmly at him.
"My name is Yuki." She said waiting for L to response.
"Ryuzaki. Nice to meet you Yuki-san." L said.
"Ryuzaki-kun, can I ask you something?" Yuki asked him. L thought about it and nodded. He lead them to the park. All the way to the place was silent. No one dared to say something. L's thoughts were racing through his mind. What could she possible want from him? Could he just trust her and follow her? No, she was following him. He didn't feel the slightest suspicion around her. Why? He woke up from his thoughts as they stopped in front of a park bench. L doubted for a second but sat down in his usual position. He blinked in surprise when he saw Yuki sitting on the ground with her feet pressed together. At least he was not the only one sitting in an odd way.
"What is it?" he asked after another moment of silence. Yuki gave him a questioning look.
"Oh, my question! I… uhm… this is a little difficult to ask because you don't even know me but… I…" Yuki tried. L looked at her intensely wondering what it could be she had to ask. He heard her taking a deep breath.
"Can I help you solving the vampire case?" she said all too quickly. L's eyes widened a bit as thoughts shot through his head like bullets. It was possible she knew of the vampire case although it was a small possibility, but it was impossible she could even knew HE was the one who was investigating. Was she bluffing? What was she thinking?
"I've practiced investigating for years and also based my study on it. I think I could really help you out." She continued. What was she saying? Was this serious? He didn't know and that meant her was speechless.
"So, how about it… detective L." she said almost darkly. L tensed up by hearing his name.
"How do you…" L couldn't finish his line.
"Know? I just said I was practicing investigating for years, didn't I?" she explained. Could it be that she was so good that she found out? No, impossible. He had been hiding for years and always distorted his voice. There was no way she knew him.
"Impossible. You can't know me and I've never told you." He said in his always calm voice. Yuki chuckled.
"You just did." She got him there. Maybe she was bluffing and he just confirmed what was supposed to be coincidence.
"You didn't know before you approached me, did you?" L concluded while resting his head on his knees staring at the ground.
"I did know." She said in a sigh. "And you confirmed it so I'm now 100% sure." Percentages? He liked her way of thinking.
"You seem rather young. Are you even adult?" L asked changing the subject. She shot him an almost hurt look.
"I am adult. In fact! I'm already 20." She told him.
"I see." L said hiding a surprised tone in his voice. Slowly the sky above them colored grey.
"How about my proposal, L?" she asked again. L brought his thumb to his mouth and played with his lip.
"I think I could use some help. Alright, but that means I have to bring you to the headquarter. I can't just do that so I'll have to blind you." He said thinking out loud. She jumped up in joy and clapped her hands.
"That's fine." She said happily. L reached in his pocket and grabbed a black cloth. Yuki covered her eyes and attached the two points together. L checked if she could see a thing and started to walk.
"L? L! I can't walk by myself you know. You're meant to help me." She said putting her hands on her hips. L turned around and walked back to her.
"I forgot. Please call me Ryuzaki with others around, Yuki-san." He said. He stopped next to her.
"Please hold my arm." He said keeping his hands in his pockets. He was still surprised that she wasn't complaining about the odd way he was walking or sitting. Yuki reached carefully in the distance 'til she found L's arm. She grabbed it with both of her arms as he led the way.
"Do you like singing, Yuki-san?" L asked after a moment of silence.
"Yes. You can say so much with just music and the right words, it's amazing. Sometimes I can explain myself better by singing." She explained.
"I see." L simply answered. The HQ wasn't far away, they were there in a few minutes. Once they were inside, L stopped and untied the cloth around Yuki's head. Yuki released his arm and looked around in amaze.
"This place is huge! So this is where you do all the investigation things around the Kira case?" She said enjoying the lots of space around her. She knew about that case as well? Who was this girl?"
"Yes. If you will please follow me now." L said without giving her another look. She tilted her head and followed him into another room. From behind L's back she could see a few men working.
"Ryuzaki, welcome back." They were greeted by an almost overjoyed man with black hair. The black hair hung loose around his head making it almost look girly, although his face and body showed the opposite. The men then noticed Yuki standing behind L.
"You've brought someone?" He asked curiously. The other men gathered next to the men with a slight shocked expression on their faces. Apperently is was rare for someone to bring a stranger.
"Ryuzaki, can you explain this to us?" A men with weird brown-like hair asked in a hard tone. Yuki studied him and immediately got the feeling of disliking him. Sure he was handsome and obviously almost an adult, but he had a shadow covering himself. She woke up from her thoughts as L spoke up.
"Yes." He turned towards Yuki. "These people are Touta Matsuda, Shuichi Aizawa, Kanzo Mogi, Soichiro Yagami and Light Yagami. They are also helping me to solve this case. Everyone, I would like you to meet Yuki. She's our latest member."
"H-How do you know her?" Aizawa asked confused.
"I don't." L said in a sigh. "She came to me and I brought her here. She was blinded so she still doesn't knows where she is."
"This doesn't seems like you at all, Ryuzaki." Light said still in his hard tone. L simply ignored him and instead walked over to his chair in front of his computer and sat down in his odd position. The others shot Yuki a quick doubting glance and went back to work, except for Matsuda.
"I don't think i'm fully acctepted." She said in a quiet voice. Matsuda smiled at her.
"Don't take it personel just do your best and they'll start accepting you, I'm sure of that." He told her. She smiled warmly at him and started researching all the newspapers from the past few days.
Me: That was it.
Light: …
L: Yuki means snow. Why snow?
Me: How should I know?
L and Light: Right…
