SORRY FOR THE WAIT PPLS! Ive ben sick and have had school to do and all. So with out further ado, Chapter 4!

L walked along the yellow brick road just as the Shinigami had told him to do. He couldnt help but comtemplate along the way, where ever the hell he might be.

"Such strange creatures..." he commented.

"I've never heard about such a place. Where exactly does this Kira live?"

"Over there" L heard a unfamiliar voice speak.

"Who said that?" He looked around him and found no body to whom the voice belonged to. All he saw was a scarecrow pointing left.

" I must be hearing things," L said.

"Or it could be there" said the voice again. L looked around again but still found nobody. He did notice though, that the scarecrow was pointing to the right this time!

"D-did that scarecrow just talk?" L questioned to himself. L then realized what he had just said. L knew inanimate objects were not capable of speech.

"Of course, scarecrows dont tal-

"Or it might be there" the scarecrow said now poiting both ways.

"You DID talk!" L shouted. It took L a minute to recover from the shock of the scarcrow being able to talk before he realized he wasnt in a world of logic anymore. He was in a strange world full of witches, and shinigami and flying houses. "Then, do you know where the Kira is?"

The scarecrow nodded and then shook his head.

"Do you or dont you know?"

"Im not sure, I don't have a brain." The scarecrow said a tad solemnly.

"How can you talk if you dont have a brain?"

"I'm not sure" the brainless scarecrow said again.

"Well, maybe if you come with me, you can see the Kira and he might give you a brain." L said simply.

"YAY!!" The scarecrow jumped with glee. "I can finally have a brain and maybe I'll figure out who Kira is!"

L slapped his own forehead.

"I'm Matsuda" he said taking out his hand made of straw.

"I'm L, and this is Mello" he said looking at his pet dog. "Alright, now all we have to do is take this way!" Matsuda said taking L by the arms and taking him towards a lush, green, forest.

"Are you sure?!"

"Yes, I'm postive!!"

L was scared of where this talking, brainless Matsuda might lead him next.

L, Matsuda and Mello kept walking along the forest for what seemed like hours until L said he had to sit down for a minute. He said upon a log stump, and Mello jumped on his lap.

Matsuda sat clumsily beside them, and began to enjoy the scenary when L heard something. Something that sounded like a person mumbling.

"Did you hear that?"

"Yeah, where is it coming from?"

They looked around and Matsuda spotted a tin man with white hair.

The tin man mummbled "oil..."

"He said 'oil'!" Mastuda said noticing a large oil can near the tin humanoid.

"Don't be silly Matsuda, tin men dont-" he caught himself. Last time he said that he was proven wrong by a talking, rather mindless scarecrow.

Matsuda whoever payed no attention to L, instead he oiled the tin man's mouth so he could speak.

"Thank you..." he said rather coldly.

Mello barked at the tin man.

"Stupid mutt" the tin man mummbled.

"What's wrong with you? We just saved you and you call my dog stupid, do you even have a heart?" L asked the the rude, tin man.

"Exactly. I don't have a heart..."

"Oh, well that's no problem!" Matsuda said oiling up the tin man's knees and elbows. "We were on our way to see the Kira so he can give me a brain!"

"Well I would like to have a heart, I need to keep my blood pumping so I can stop using that damn oil can"

"Ok, just don't be rude anymore and you can join us to meet the Kira," L took out his hand to indicate a deal.

"Very well, I'll try my best not to." The tin man shook L's hand in agreement.

"I'm Matsuda, and that's L and Mellow. Who are you?"

"I'm Near."

I apologize to any Matsuda or Near fangirls. Matsuda is kind of an comic relif, so I made him the scarecrow. I do find Near kinda cold, so I thought he'd be perfect to play the tin man. Thank you! R&R pleases!!!