Individia
Naomi Misora had returned to her apartment immediately after being dismissed from L's hotel. Raye was sitting on, or more accurately, being swallowed by the plush of the chair in his and Naomi's flat. He looked distracted, or at least more distracted than usual, as if he was in deep thought about one thing or another.
"Raye, is something wrong?" Naomi asked nervously.
He snapped out of his thoughts and stared at Naomi blankly for a second before his eyes widened slightly and he said, "No, no of course not, love."
Naomi unconsciously moved so that her weight focused on her left hip, as she gave her fiancée a disbelieving glance, raised eyebrow and all.
Once noticing Naomi's stare, he sighed, defeated. "I can't hide anything from you, can I?" he asked rhetorically. "So, I'm sure you know of the Kira case."
Raye couldn't have figured out what I'm doing here, Naomi thought with trepidation, though her posture gave nothing away regarding her thoughts.
"The job I was given here was to follow one of the potential suspects in the Kira case." Naomi felt her face go slack, and her posture became once more balanced. "I was forced to give him my name, which Kira needs along with-"
"A face," Naomi finished. "Who were you following?" she demanded, her fist clenching tightly, nails surely creating crescents on her palm.
"I can't tell you, you know how it works. Confidentiality…"
"Tell me, who were you following?" she repeated harshly, dread filling her stomach.
Raye took a long look at his love's face, and sighed. He should have realized that there was no way to avoid telling her, she was much too stubborn and persistent, after all. "Light Yagami," he replied meekly.
Light Yagami. Naomi's whole life had suddenly train wrecked. Light Yagami, the one who was most likely to be Kira; the one L suspected most. "Raye, come with me." She didn't even turn to make sure he was following her before she grabbed her black coat and stormed down the stairs of the building they resided in.
The door to room 1309 slammed open, almost denting the poor, off-white walls behind it. "Ah, Ms. Misora, good to see you aga-"
"Ryuzaki, what is going on, and why has someone hired FBI agents to tail Kira suspects?" Naomi asked in outrage, though attempted to mask the truly strong feeling behind her anger. She had immediately gone to L, as she suspected he knew why the agents were here, if he hadn't sent them in himself.
"I cannot tail all of Kira suspects myself," L said, as though it should have been obvious to the stressing woman. "But in this case, it was not I who told the FBI to investigate suspects. In fact, it was the police."
"Yes… I was hired by L, who is working with the police. Naomi, who is this, and why did you bring me here with you?"
"Indeed, Ms. Misora. Why did you bring him here?"
With all the grace of a corpse, Naomi collapsed into a chair and shook her head. "Raye's name has been discovered by Light Yagami." In a dead tone she continued, "If he dies in the next few days, Light Yagami is Kira."
Raye looked nervously between the two, a half smile stuck on his face as he tried to process the change. "If I die…! Naomi-"
"Please, don't speak, Raye!" Naomi said sharply, her words catching in her throat, revealing how upset she was, regardless of the bangs covering her face.
L's lips were pressed tightly together in thought. "Beyond, Watari, please return to this room," he said loudly, to make sure that the two would hear.
Naomi was bent almost in half, hair obscuring her expression, though all in the room could see through her slouched posture how defeated she felt.
"So, if you are not in charge of the police, then who is?" Raye asked trying to keep the atmosphere from becoming any more depressing than it already had. By this time he had been brought up to speed, and knew that 'Ryuzaki' was actually L.
L looked up briefly from the cake he was examining to stare at the FBI agent. "One of my successors, Near. He is quite a bright boy." L viciously and mercilessly stabbed the cake in front of him and began to chew on it obnoxiously. "We have to examine all angles, you know," he continued with his mouth full.
B remarked testily, "Didn't you ever learn to eat like a civilized being?"
"I do believe the saying is 'the pot is not allowed to call the kettle black'," L retorted, eyeing B eat his strawberry jam in an obviously uncultured fashion.
"And that is called irony, my dear detective," B deadpanned.
"Wait, successors?" Raye backtracked. L exchanged an uncomfortable look with Watari who had an unreadable expression on his saggy face.
B snirked- that would be the only word for what he did- and said, "It's not a big secret. The overseers are just worried that L will die ahead of their schedule and so they created a house to train orphans into L-successor-material."
"Ah." Raye scratched the back of his neck nervously. "You know, the way you paused, I thought it was going to be some sort of murder cult."
B's smirk grew larger, if that was possible, and he sent a loaded look at L, who deliberately faced forwards and didn't spare a glance towards his successor.
Sensing the indescribable atmosphere between the males, like only a woman can, Naomi quickly stepped in, shaking off her depression as well as she could. "Just stop. Is there any way to save Raye, if Light is indeed Kira?"
Even Beyond became silent at this.
"No," was all L said.
Early-ish chapter? I wanted to wait until Light's birthday, but I simply couldn't. (Today is Halle's birthday, so I'll just pretend this was totally planned.) This chapter was written off the top of my head, with no draft (I usually have one, for reasons unknown, but most likely because of Desiree), and this idea simply wouldn't leave me alone.
Now, I have some serious (random) questions...
1) If the name of a pregnant woman was written in the Death Note, would she die? Does her unborn child count as a human, or is it not living until it is named? (One of the rules in the Death Note is that when a person is killed, it cannot affect the lifespan of another human not written in the notebook)
2) If it is possible for Shinigami to be killed, yet they cannot have sexual intercourse, how are new shinigami created? Or will the shinigami eventually die out?
3) If a person's name is legally changed or if they are married, does the name that one can see with the Shinigami eyes change, or will their original name always stay the same.
4) Lastly (not at all serious), how does L go to the bathroom? Does he perch on the toilet seat, or does he allow his deductive ability to drop? ._.
Anyway, as for pairings the vote so far is
L x Naomi: 3
B x Misa: 1
and Light x his narcissistic self: 2
In other news, Desiree and I were having a serious (yeah right) conversation about the Death Note movie in America (which I heard about on Tumblr) we did not like the supposed cast, and so we began to create our own.
Light: Tom Felton
Misa: Elle Fanning
L: Kit Harrington
Aizawa: Tom Hiddleston
If you do not know who these people are, look them up, and please for the sake of Desiree and I's sanity, don't laugh *Awkward laugh*
Hello, Mr. Space. This is getting ridiculously long, so to thank the readers, a new section must be started.
Thanks to
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and AnonYmouS/AnonYmosS for reviewing to all my chapters! (") The "box inside a box" incident actually happened to my friend. His sister, as a prank, got him a large box for his birthday, and inside it were little boxes up until a miniscule ring box was revealed in a huge bunch of tissue paper. I don't think he has ever quite forgiven his sister for that. It was a rather adorable ring, though. I am very glad you think that I am properly portraying the characters. Thank you, also, for voting on shippings. I almost spit out my drink when you said that Light could not have had a better partner. That was an amazing comment, thank you. (P. S. May "forever single" day never come to you, and let you always be blessed with valentines!)
On a completely unrelated note, Desiree and I are going to Massachusetts to visit her grandparents, and we will most likely show up at Anime Boston (is that what they call it?) so if you are planning on attending that, REJOICE, you may see us!
This is getting ridiculously long. I do not own Death Note, and I most likely never will.
