Chapter 3: Ally
Light dropped through the ceiling and landed in the middle of Suraj's bed. Suraj didn't notice as he was writing names of criminals in the notebook. Light glanced at the TV. Twenty-Four Hour News, eh? Light thought. Along with the internet. He uses the same methods I did. We think alike. And Twenty-Four Hour News is cast worldwide. It's a good source. Light cleared his throat. Suraj looked over his shoulder and almost fell off his chair. His mouth opened as if to say something, and his eyes widened in fear. "Relax. No need to be so scared. Listen," Light said. "I'll make you a deal. Stop being afraid of me and I'll tell you something that you'll find cool."
Suraj closed his mouth and returned his eyes to normal. "What are you?" he asked, his voice slightly shaky.
"A Shinigami," replied Light nonchalantly. "A God of Death. I see you have my notebook."
"I found it," said Suraj, "and judging by the way it works, Kira did his killings with a notebook very much like this. And correct me if I'm wrong, but there are more notebooks and they all act the same way."
"Well, aren't we bright," said Light. "Yes, there are more notebooks. And Kira did kill like this."
"I believe in Kira's views and I picked the Death Note up. Therefore, I am going to be the next Kira. The people of the world already know who Kira was and now they know another Kira's appeared. But nobody knows who this new Kira is. I'm going to finish what Kira started."
I may as well reveal I was Kira, Light thought. Then he'll trust me completely. "You know who Kira was? Light Yagami wasn't it?" Suraj nodded. "The police almost caught him and he died." Suraj nodded again. "Well, guess what? I was Kira, which means I was formally Light Yagami."
"Y-You were Kira?" asked Suraj. "So then, Kira never died! But the police think you're dead! Which means," he said, thinking. "Which means that they don't know you've returned from the dead. Interesting."
"What criminals are you killing?" asked Light.
"Criminals all over the world. You see, the police and L will catch onto me quickly if I only kill criminals in England. So, I spread the killings. I kill in America, in Japan, India, France etc. The police and L will be blind. I know I'll be safe then."
"Smart," commented Light. "I'll give you a piece of information which I think will be useful to you. I was working with L to capture Kira - I only did this to deceive him and throw him off me. I was his prime suspect. I succeeded in killing L but I was unable to kill one of his successors. He had two. I only killed one. The other one is the L you're talking about now. Also, he calls himself L, N and Near - the three greatest detectives in the world. They're all him."
"Thanks," said Suraj. "That's useful information to me. Anything else?"
"Some things I found out about the Death Note: You can write 'Heart attack' as the cause of death and write a person's name in front of it. You can also write the time of death. In other words, you can write the criminal's name, write 'Heart attack' and then write what time they die - the same works for writing 'Accident'. Also, it has to be physically possible for a human to carry out that action. And you can write the time of death generally anyway."
"So, in other words, you used these methods to avoid suspicion, correct?"
"Yeah," Light replied. "You're smart."
"Thanks," Suraj commented. "I'll need to write a few more names into the Death Note and test these theories. They should be in the newspaper tomorrow morning." Once that was done, Light told Suraj about the Shinigami eyes and everything else Ryuk and Rem had told him. Light told him about hiding a scrap of the notebook's pages in case Suraj needed to quickly have access and kill someone. Suraj's watch was duly decided upon and Light told him how to make the secret compartment. Suraj had altered it a bit. Instead of having to pull the crown of the watch four times in less than a second, he made it so he only had to pull the crown four times, with no time limit. Tomorrow, they would hide the actual notebook. Like Light suggested, Suraj hid a pin in the secret compartment in his watch, in case he didn't have access to a pen.
Suraj sat in class, thinking about the best place to hide the notebook. Perhaps hiding it in another book? That would be ideal. He faintly heard one of his classmates asking for some paper as they had forgotten their book at home. He didn't hear the teacher's reply but she had caught his attention. As she walked to the student, Suraj noticed a little black notebook, almost identical to the Death Note he had at home. The only difference was it didn't have a title. A Death Note! Suraj thought frantically. Oh, crap! I need to get that notebook.
"Oh, another Death Note? I wonder who dropped that," Light commented.
Light would know who dropped it, if he went back to the Shinigami Realm. Oh, I can't think about that right now. I need to get that notebook. He looked over his shoulder and swore inside his head. His friend was using the notebook. He couldn't kill his friend. Yes, I can. I have to. If the existence of a notebook was revealed to the public, it would cause chaos. I have to take that notebook and kill Connor. Connor Smith was scribbling away in the notebook. He looked at the board and then glanced down at his watch. Light's idea came in handy. He must have known something like this would happen. Lunch. I'm going to have to write the name in at lunch. He glanced at the teacher. I'll have to kill her too. Before a Shinigami appears before them both.
Suraj racked his brain for a cause of death that would not be suspicious. He decided on a car accident for the teacher, whilst she was going for her lunch break. And Connor would have to be killed on the way home, in an accident. Damn. Teacher's probably got family. Connor's parents and little brother... I can't kill them. No, it doesn't matter. They've touched and seen the Death Note, if not used it. He asked the teacher to go to the bathroom and once inside, he began breathing heavily.
"Light, do you know who dropped the second notebook?" he asked the Shinigami, splashing water on his face to cool himself down.
"No, but I've got a good idea," replied the Shinigami. "He didn't follow my orders. I'll talk to him. Try and get the notebook." Light flew through the ceiling to God knows where.
"I need to get her name before killing her, but I can write his name." Suraj pulled on the crown of his watch four times. In blood, he wrote:
Connor Smith
Accident
At 3:25 p.m. on March 29, 2013, walks on the way home from school and is accidently run over by a careless driver. On the way to the hospital, he dies.
It would have to do. It was 10:30 a.m. now, and the teacher's lunch was around 12:20, the same time as the students. Hopefully, Suraj could get her name before she left at 12:20. He flipped the scrap of the Death Note, sterilised the pin with hot water, dried it and closed the compartment. Suraj then grabbed a tissue, wet it and began clearing the blood off his finger. When that was done, he straightened his school tie, opened the door and went into the History lesson as if nothing was wrong.
Suraj finally got the name of his History teacher within an hour. It was Hannah Thomas. How he had got the name was simple. He had gone to the office and asked for her name, simple as that. His excuse was, "Oh, my parents wanted to speak to her. I don't know why though." The woman at the office was so gullible. She had smiled sweetly and given the name straight out. Then, Suraj had rushed to the bathroom. He only had forty minutes before Miss Thomas would go on her lunch break. On the Death Note scrap, he wrote:
Hannah Thomas
Accident
At 12:35 p.m. on March 29, 2013, she drives in her car to lunch. However, a dog blocks her path in the road, and she swerves. She hits the wall and her car goes up in flames, setting herself on fire and burning to death at 12:37 p.m.
Then, at lunch, Suraj had snuck into Connor's bag and taken the notebook. He stored it in his locker, where no one would be able to get in. He was sure he would see Miss Thomas in the newspaper the next morning. He could see the headline now: Local teacher dies in car accident. At the end of the day, Suraj took the notebook out of his locker and put it in his bag. Without waiting for friends to walk with him, he left the school. He had to hide the new notebook and the old one. An idea formed in his mind but he didn't think about it just yet. It had to evolve.
A/N: Thanks for reading. I enjoy writing this and I thought the story needed some action so included this bit in. There's not much more to say, except review! I'll post again soon! Look forward to reading the next chapter! I know I look forward to writing it! Once again... REVIEW!
