Disclaimer: Yulan does not own Death Note (although it would be great to own one) . Yulan only wants to express her ideas about the whole piece, and to write about her favourites.
Chapter 2: Meetings
When Rain opened her eyes, what she could see was a tall figure under the sunlight. The possible shape of the face of the creature was far beyond the appearance of human. "What seriously are you?" Telling her in her mind not to be scared, she asked.
"You are asking me? From your face, I can tell that you know what are you holding in your hand, so why pretend that you don't know what kind of creature am I?"
"Shinigami..." Now that she got used to see things under sunlight, Rain could see the inhuman face with the red eyes. The shinigami in front of her looked liked a rag doll in pale skin, and strangely, she seemed to know it. "I guess you are going to stay around me, right?" She asked unsurely.
"Only when it belongs to you," Misa answered and pointed at the notebook. "People probably don't know this except-"
Then she looked at the face of the girl again and was frozen. The name floating on the girl's head was beyond her imagination. However, she said nothing about it, hoping the girl would tell her the truth by herself. "I shall explain about everything you want to know later. Where are you going?"
"To find a place to settle," Rain stood up and wiped away the dust from her clothes. "I have just left my shelter. Shinigami, you name is?"
"Call me Misa. Human, do you wish to tell me how should I call you?"
"Rain." She picked up the bags and started to walk again.
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Meeting a stranger is how the fate bring relationships to people.
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Rain had finally settled in an apartment where an ex-member of CIA was living. "Thank you, Miss Bullock, I'll find somewhere to go soon before bothering you too much," She said as the woman was tidying the guest room for her.
"Nevermind with that," Halle Bullock replied. "I have a spare room without being used anyway. But you are really being brave, knocking on the doors all day long to find a place to stay."
After settling in the house, Rain turned on her laptop computer and checked. Without surprise, the news were flooded with heart attack cases. The headlines were once again flooded with the word "Kira".
"You know quite a lot about Kira, don't you. Not being frightened when I appeared, and recognizing the death note before testing it, something like that," Misa suddenly said behind the girl. "But I bet you have never experienced the days when Kira was there."
Rain chose to ignore the shinigami and searched in the news. "No ordinary people can know L's true name without looking at him with the shinigami eyes...L had been staying away from people except for visits to the Wammy's House, and ordinary people cannot identify him as L even when meeting him. Could it be..."
"Oh, you've read the news today?" Halle placed a bottle of water on the table and said. "Kira is back, as what the people said in the news."
"You've investigated the Kira case?" From Halle's voice, Rain caught some deeper meanings. Her mind ran through the notes she had memorized before. A photo that she had seen in the numerous files, the only female member of the SPK. "Could it be you who was named Halle Lidner, a personal guard of Kiyomi Takada?"
"How'd you know?" The woman looked calm still.
"I have my own sources." Rain turned to her packs and took out a few teabags. "I had thought of working alone against Kira, but it would be better if there is an experienced person to help me. My companions whom I left and I are all keen to catch Kira to avenge for a certain person."
"Who is that person?" Halle asked curiously.
"I need to confirm that you are really the one that I knew in my sources." Rain's unique teacup with skull paintings was taken out from the packs and put onto the table. A name that only the SPK members and the Japanese police officers would know. "Do you know Near?"
Halle's face went pale. "Who are you, knowing my previouis alias and Near?"
"Near is dead, Miss Lidner," Rain put the teabags, a total of three, into the teacup. She added hot water into it, and replied calmly. "I am one of his successors, who will catch Kira."
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Who says that Death Gods must be inhuman and boring?
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Misa looked at the bandages when Rain was looking at the computer screen again. "Why do you have so many rows of bandages in the bag?" She asked.
"They are to cover my eye." Rain replied without looking back, sipping her extraordinary bitter tea. "I have some problems with my eye."
"What kind of problem it is?" Misa got interested. "Eye defect or any other kinds of health problems?"
"I kept seeing numbers with that eye." Rain turned away from the screen and removed the bandages. The other eye was normal in its look, but Misa could tell how special it was. "Names and numbers, floating on top of the people I see. At first, I did not know what the numbers mean. But then, I realized.
I had seen many people with numbers since I opened my eyes. After getting into the orphanage at the age of 5, I started memorising the numbers. After some of the people died, I calculated and realized a harsh fact: what I see are the death dates of people.
I was too scared to see the numbers again, so I covered my eye." Rain pointed at the bandages. "I have had a more peaceful time without the numbers since then."
"You are really interesting." Misa's red eyes seemed to be glowing. "A teenager who knew about Death Note before owning it, having a pair of natural shinigami eyes, and (are you sure about that, youngster?) one of the successors of Near. Very interesting."
"You're equally interesting too," Rain replied and raised an eyebrow. "I recalled seeing a person named Misa Amane in my notes, and she looked just like you, despite the face you have now."
Misa's reaction was to make a funny face, and what Rain saw was something that could scare normal children to scream. "Stop doing that, you will look horrible." She said plainly.
To Be Continued...