"Where is Light?" Near asked, throat dry

"Light is inside the house," R's voice came, "However, you do not perceive it the same as us, and he doesn't perceive it the same as you,"

"What are they saying?" Beyond moved closer to him

"They say Light's inside," the boy replied, "But we can't see him."

"I can," B reminded

"Because your eyes are otherworldly," Left said, even though B could not hear him

Near nodded and relayed the message. The raven head hummed, "Light can't see us, can't he?"

The twins shook their heads.

"I figured as much," Beyond ruffled his hair, stood up and began to pull Near to his feet

"Wh-wha…"

"We're going in and saving Lightbulb"

A simultaneous "WHAT?!" came from the albino and the twins. Beyond just looked at them, daring them to challenge his authority.

"You, mister, are one thing," R pointed to B, and while he couldn't hear them, he knew she was talking to him, "But Near is a kid. His only link to the otherworld is his hearing. Do you know how he might go insane once he goes inside?"

B raised an eyebrow, "Relay, please?"

Near did as asked, and B snorted, "What's the difference, I can see them, why do think he'll be the only one to go insane?"

"You've seen differently from others for as long as you can remember," It was Left this time, "This is the first time Near has heard…this that he shouldn't be hearing"

Beyond turned to the four-year-old, "Near?"

The addressed child relayed the message and the raven head asked him to speak his part. He cleared his throat, "It's true. When I was in my room, I started hearing things. Voices…angry voices," he said, looking at his trembling hands, "Then…the woman"

"The hanging one?"

"Yes"

Silence

"I didn't like it," Near admitted, "She sounded so angry. She…wanted to kill everyone."

Beyond lowered his head. Near was four. He didn't deserve this.

"Alright," he said, crouching down to Near's level, "Stay here, I'll try to get Light myself."

The albino nodded and wiped away the small tears that were forming at the corners of his eyes. Then, a tinkling, and he whipped his head around him fast.

"L?"

That was R's voice

"R…do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"The…'

Another tinkling

'That! Did you hear that?!"

"Yeah…I did…"

"R, L, what's going on?" Near asked

"Someone's coming," L replied, "Someone who's not a part of these kids around here. Someone from far away."

Footsteps. Beyond and Near turned their heads to the side and saw A and Matt coming their way, A with a very worried expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" the raven head looked at the phone that his roommate was handing him

"Nothing," A admitted, "Just..a little worried about my sister"

Beyond Birthday's expression turned to mild shock as he picked up the phone and put it next to his left ear, "Hello?"

"Beyond?"

The boy choked on his spit and pulled the phone away from his ear for a moment, "Bloody hell, A! She's not involved with this!"

"But she knows plenty about…parallel and overlapping visions. She was very interested in it, and she confirmed it earlier," the blonde reasoned

"A, she's your own sister," Beyond yelled, "Don't deliberately endanger her safety!"

"And yet, you're the one who's fretting so much," A crossed his arms, "She said she'd risk the danger, and I trust my sister. Why do you look like you're more worried than I am?"

B found it hard to come up with a proper response, so he just settled for looking away and putting the phone back to his ear again, "Allaine?"

"'Bloody hell' indeed, Beyond. Calm down, he told me that it was dangerous before he relayed what happened,"

"You heard that?"

"You were shouting, how could I not?"

"Fair point"

The girl on the other line chuckled before continuing, "Part of the problem here are planes, Beyond. Our world and theirs, I think you know what I mean. So one's visions are either of the real time – real world, or…beyond what you see"

A snort and then a laugh on the other end and Beyond scowled before whispering, "Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered to tell you my name."

"If I remember correctly, because you wanted it to be fair. I had no reason to keep an alias since I was already adopted and not in the Wammy's House, so you know my real name. You told me yours secretly to make it fair game"

"Alright, move on"

"Another is autosuggestion of the sixth sense"

"A, that's a movie"

"A holder, if you will, I don't know what to call it. What happens is that when you are told or if you think about something, it happens. It is what you see. Remember when you went to Roger's office? A said the corridor looped before, and when you focused and believed that Roger's office should be right where it was, you reached it."

Beyond blinked, the pieces clicked together, considering that A and Matt believed that Light wasn't sitting inside the house when he pointed to the knocked down door, and they could see him, "I see"

"But…there might be other things on the move right now. It is Hallows' Eve after all, I can't discount that. I'll have to see this for myself."

"Wa-wait, Allaine, you can't - !"

"Sorry, B, I'm already halfway there."

Click.

"Shi – A, no!"

Beyond look at the phone in his hands, the girl had just cut off the line. Even worse was that she was on her way to the Wammy's House. Her brother approached the raven head, "B, what is it?"

Sigh.

"She's on her way, man."

L sat on his seat, very still as Watari – Quillish Wammy – parked the car on the side of the road. Something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong. They should have been in the Wammy's House by now, so why are they still on the road, despite having taken the route that led straight to the orphanage? Light had called him about having an emergency because strange things were happening in the orphanage, and the child sounded like he was near crying. They had tried to contact Roger, but to no avail.

His brow furrowed.

Something was very, very wrong.

Beyond Birthday scrambled inside the house and knock every door down, shouting a small boy's name as he went.

Light Yagami stopped in his tracks as he walked past the second floor's rooms. There was crying coming from somewhere, and he focused his ears on the sound. It was coming from a nearby room. He walked towards it and turned the knob, which was strangely and thankfully, open. He scanned the area for the noise and his eyes landed on the wooden box on the center.

He walked closer. No, it wasn't a box. It was…

He gulped. It was a coffin. Made for a small child, and there was constant banging coming from inside of it. He slowly made his way back when he heard the cry of 'help' coming from inside of the coffin. The voice was familiar…

He rushed towards the coffin, grabbed the nearest flat object and pried the lid open. Mello sprang up and encircled his arms around him, and Light hugged him back, shocked. The five year old was terrified, he knew.

"Mello," he started softly, "What happened?"

"I don't know," the boy sobbed

Light sighed and carried him outside. By this time, almost every child of the house should have gone out to the grounds and they started heading there, he would question Mello later. Then he heard it, the sound of footsteps and frantic shouting. Shouting his name, that is.

Frightened, he started barreling down the stairs and headed for the main door. Mello was sobbing into his shirt, but he didn't mind. He needed to get out, alive, that is. He was near the said object when something grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him around. He closed his eyes, screamed and fell on the ground on his backside, sobbing along with Mello. He didn't want to open his eyes.

"…Light?"

He slowly looked up and opened his eyes, and was met with familiar red ones. He sniffed, "B?"

"Oh dear God, Light, you scared me," the raven head sighed and hugged the child, "You found Mello?"

"Yeah"

"Where?"

"In a coffin"

B's breath hitched and he slowly stood up, carrying both of them. Light frowned as Beyond was not reaching out to hold the door knob, but was just walking towards it, "B, the door…"

And to his surprise, they went through the door, not hitting it. When he blinked again, he saw the door on the ground, a few parts cut off, and he turn back to look at the hinges. It looked like it was forced open and attacked by an axe. Beyond laughed, "Yeah, plenty of explaining to do."

There was a scream, and they all looked towards the crowd. A was running towards where the scream had come from, with Matt following close behind, and another figure with blonde hair running after them. Beyond froze – Allaine, A's sister.

He rushed off and set both boys in his arms to where Near was ran after them, pushing towards the crowd. Once free and seeing what the commotion was all about, he stopped in his tracks. There, on the ground, lay three children. One had his eyes gouge out, the other with multiple stab marks and the other had a huge chunk of flesh missing from his neck. A had a child pinned to the ground, hands behind his hand, and was thrashing around, with the blonde teenager trying to make him move as minimally as possible. Matt was standing there, terrified and Allaine was near her brother, lifting the lid of the child's eye to look at it properly. She let go after a while and stood back up, dusting off the khakis she was wearing.

Gulping, he approached them, "What happened?"

The blonde girl turned to look at him, her blue eyes – ones very similar to her twin brother's – locking onto his, "Possession. Clawed one kid's eyes out, stabbed another with a sharp rock, and bit the other hard enough and ripped the flesh out," she ran a hand through her hair, "Someone has plenty of explaining to do"

Beyond scowled slightly, "Matt and Mello can attest to that," he turned to the red head and the child flinched, before ducking his head low and making his way towards A's sister and holding her hand, terrified. B's eye twitched for some reason.

"I'm sorry," Matt whispered and Allaine's serious face broke and she smiled before petting his head, "It's okay, Matt. It's alright"

They all knew it wasn't.

Beyond felt someone tug at his sleeve and he turned to see Near, Light and Mello beside him, with the youngest boy the cause for the tugging, "Near, what is it?"

He crouched down as Mello and Matt embraced and sobbed, both relieved and terrified. Near bit his lip, "R and L disappeared," he whispered, "I can't hear them anymore,"

Beyond looked around them, to see any sign of the twin ghosts, but failing, "Yeah, they're gone," he said softly. Near hugged him and he embraced the child back, before Light came up to him, "B…um, I called L."

B was about to question how he knew the ghost before he realized the child was talking about their L. He sighed, "Let me borrow your phone, please."

Cleaning up afterwards was a taxing job to do. They had to set up a couple of funerals for the children in a hurry the very next day as a precaution, and the blood on the grounds were hard to cover up. Several children were traumatized, Near stayed close to B, Matt wouldn't let go of Mello, and by the time L – whom they had instructed to focus on the destination in order to arrive and prevent the road from looping – had arrived, Light would stay beside him at all times. A's sister had to stay until the next morning since it was already dark, and stayed with B, Near and her brother.

The burial was immediately that day. A cloudy and raining November 1, All souls' day.

"I wonder," Near whispered as they stood in front of the caskets that were being lowered, dripping wet with rain, "If L and R left"

"We're right here, Near"

The child turned around to see two figures, a boy and a girl, with striking blue eyes and pale red hair, both in black cloaks, smiling at him. He gaped, "You're alive?"

"No, kid, we're dead," Left whispered and chuckled, "Only, nobody knows that. They can all see us. Suddenly happened, I have no idea why."

Near tugged on B's sleeve, "B, turn around."

The raven head, confused, did so and spluttered incoherently, "H-how?"

Left just shrugged and R held down her laughter.

"You…almost look human…" B managed and he heard someone laugh beside him. He turned, he'd almost forgotten A and his sister were beside him. He stammered, "U…um, these are…"

"We heard Near," A said, smiling, "They're your friends?"

The albino nodded, his hair shaking raindrops down on the ground.

"It's easy to tell them apart from normal humans," Allaine added and B raised an eyebrow, "How?"

"Bend down and look between your legs – not now, B"

Her brother chuckled and she elbowed him, "Long time no see, mister."

"You too," the raven head grinned at her

The twins had made their way beside Near and held hands together, "So, Near, what's next?"

The albino smiled, "We catch your murderer."

- END -

I know it's a pretty weird story with a fairly bland plot, but forgive me, I was winging it. It's...experimental writing, so to speak. Now, there's probably a few things you're wondering. Who the heck is Allaine? Allaine is a character from my oneshot, Hated, A's twin sister who was adopted before A got transferred to Wammy's House. They kept in contact. Since this is an AU, she's in this as well, but with a few changes in their relationships. The reason why I depicted A having a twin is because no one is sure what gender A really is, so I made them fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. If A's a girl, they could easily switch places. Sort of to convenience myself. Eh.