Chapter Four
Disclaimer: Nope, I don't own Death Note...(mumbles: yet)
A/N: Thanks to Haku, foreverforsaken, Krysta and ryuusei13, chapter four is up! BWAHAHAH I'm just so good with cliff hangers aren't I? (evil grin)...
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"I...I don't know if you want me to be here, nor that you want to see me again," Saika said slowly and nervously, "But I--" She stopped, "Ryuuzaki?!" L fell to his knees, clutching the surface of his heart that suddenly felt like exploding into bits.
Someone was strangling his heart, trying to rip it out... L writhed on the marble stone floor, he felt warm hands take his cold ones, and he could hear a faint voice crying to him,
"What's the matter with you? Ryuuzaki!" Sai exclaimed with eyes wide and a panicky look,
"Don't...trust anyone..." L gasped, feeling as if his chest had been ripped inside out, his eyes rolled back to see Yagami Light standing by the stairs... that wicked, sadistic smile on his face told L everything. 'So I was right...', his eyes stared back at Saika who placed a hand on his white cheek, tears falling from her eyes,
"I'm sorry." she whispered, "I'm so sorry."
'Humans have funny emotions. Some make you cry, some make you mad. And some give you that shit feeling they call love.' Thought Sin with disgust,
"I'm...sorry." he strained the last words, trying to make them as loud as his weak strength could allow him, he forced his hand to his neck shakily and took out a silver key on a chain necklace, "I'm sorry--" to his very last surprise of his life, he felt something sweet and warm against his lips, and his heart beat its last. Sai placed a shaking hand on L's eyes, closing them as she parted from him,
"There's nothing to forgive;" she whispered, tears falling on his face, "I was too late." she burst into more tears, breaking down upon Ryuuzaki's lifeless body.
She pulled him into her arms, sobbing, her shoulders shaking, "W-Why?" she cried, people whom were gathered around watched with quiet sadness. The investigation team watched from the cameras. And Yagami Light...well, he walked through the crowd and kneeled beside Saika and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm very sorry for his death." he spoke gently. But behind his eyes, he was grinning. Grinning like the Devil himself. "Were you... his girlfriend?"
"I..." she choked, not looking at him, "Y-Yeah..."
"Kira." he murmured darkly, "I know he did this!"
"You..." Saika looked at him, her eyes red, "You were investigating with Ryuu...Ryuuzaki?" He nodded, "You were his friend?" He nodded again.
'He actually made friends.' Sin cackled, but only in thought. He really didn't want to upset his Death Note holder any more than she was over a dead body.
Saika slightly smiled in thought; 'he must've been glad then.' she thought sadly,
"Sai...?" Sai slightly turned her head, and he knew she was all ears as she wiped her eyes with the other boy's hanky, "Bring Ryuuzaki back to our hotel and hurry; souls whom left their bodies don't last in the living world." Sin floated through the ceiling, extending his wings.
"Please... what is your name?" she asked, choking,
"Yagami Light." he answered quietly,
"I... I need Ryuuzaki taken back to my place... I have a few things to say to him... before he... before he.." her voice shook again and tears flooded her sight, "Before he is buried and out of my sight for eternity." 'Very dramatic, this one', Light thought bitterly,
"I understand. Where do you—I mean, I know we just met, but... if you could tell me where you live, I'll... drive you and...Ryuuzaki's body there." he said slightly awkwardly.
"You're really a nice gentlemen..." 'Well, I can't carry Ryuuzaki', she thought sadly, "I'd really appreciate it."
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"Which hotel?" Light asked, turning a corner,
"I don't remember the name well, but it's right there." Sai pointed at the hotel near a cake store. 'How convenient', thought Light as he stopped the car. Ryuuzaki was wrapped in a blanket, Light pulled him out of the transport and carried him into the lobby, the manager stared with his eyebrows raised,
"Kind of forgot him at the bar." said Light laughing and looking apologetic. Sai nodded and hurried to the lift. "You live right at the top?" he asked her, and she nodded once again, "I forgot, what's your name?"
"Don't trust anyone..." A whisper in a cold breeze blew gently against her neck, almost making her shiver. Just like how she felt when Ryuuzaki first spoke to her in their first meeting...
"My name is Misaki." she murmured, opening the door. 'Looks like she's just arrived... there's a bag full of clothes on the bed... so when she just arrived she dumped her stuff here and ran to see Ryuuzaki. Without rest, so that will explain the bags under her eyes and tiresome looks.' Light thought before placing Ryuuzaki on the bed as 'Misaki' removed the beg and other clothes lying around. "Sorry about the mess." she sniffed.
Light watched as 'Misaki' pulled the blanket wrapped around Ryuuzaki and placed it neatly on him again, making it look as if he were sleeping peacefully.
"Thank you very much...Light-kun."
"I'll avenge him." Light said quietly, "I will kill Kira..." he clenched his fists,
"Finish Ryuuzaki's job." 'Misaki' swallowed, and her shoulders began to tremble. She was too grieved to even stiffen as Light had pulled her into an embrace.
"I will." he said, in a determined voice... he smirked at the door.
'He's staring at me. No wait, he's staring at the door.' Sin thought as he flew away from the door. '...Just one security camera.' Sin floated eye to eye level with the camera lens and stared right into it. 'Hn..'
Meanwhile, in the surveillance room, one of the screens showing where Saika's room was smashed.
"Shit!" the security guard yelped and fell over the side, off his chair he was dozing in at the same time his hand hit the rickety desk, causing his steaming hot coffee to tip and spill over his eyes. "AAARGH!! SHIIIT!"
Back to Saika...
"Thank you." she whispered as they pulled away from each other.
"This is my number. You can call me if you need anything." Light scribbled down something on paper and placed it on the table. He waved goodbye and left, after glancing at Ryuuzaki's 'empty shell' before disappearing out of the doorway. Saika breathed and closed the door. She placed her hands over her face and sank to the floor,
"I was too late Sin." she sighed sadly,
"Yeah."
"... why did you tell me to bring Ryuuzaki's body back here?" she asked, quietly.
"We can bring him back."
"From the dead?" she whispered, horrified. Sin pointed lazily to Ryuuzaki's body,
"That body needs a soul. When Ryuuzaki was killed, his spirit or whatever you humans call it leaves its shell and wanders around for a while. Then it disappears forever."
"I can't mess around with the dead." she stated firmly.
"You have a shinigami—a God of DEATH following you. You're holding onto a book of DEATH. You're standing next to the dead, I see, so you can't possibly be doing anything with the dead." Sin stated flatly, in a way giving a hint that being around with the dead is an 'insult' to him (gee I wonder why).
"I'm not using the Death Note and you're the one--"
"You only have about ten minutes to argue with me, and after those ten minutes Ryuuzaki will spiritually have left this world."
Those words stuck to Saika like glue.
"I..." Saika glanced at Ryuuzaki's empty shell. "How?" she asked.
"Play a simple game."
"A simple...what?"
"You have to come with me to the shinigami realm and play a game. If you win, you win a life which means L will live again. If you lose..." Sin made a shrug, "I don't know what the loser stakes are. You see, you have to play against the King of the Death Gods."
"I have to WHAT?" she exclaimed, stumbling over a rug. "Shinigami King?"
"If you want to save him. You have to challenge the old fart—I mean King." 'Been spending too much time with that Ryuk' thought Sin, darkly.
"The only way to save him is to challenge a game..." Saika clenched her fists. "And there's a possibility that I won't be returning alive." she murmured to herself. "No," she shook her head, "I won't let that get in my way!" she growled,
"You're talking to yourself." Sin pointed,
"I challenge your King to whatever game it is I have to win." she said firmly, "To save L." Saika noticed a snickering smile form on the white mask on Sin's face.
"You humans do anything for the sake of love."
"I didn't say I loved him." grumbled Saika, before gasping; Sin picked her up by the shoulders and swooped out—Sai screamed as they went through the ceiling. She didn't feel any hit with solid roof though. She breathed as Sin carried her higher and higher. Her eyes widened with fear as grey, black swirling clouds circled around them as they reached the Shinigami Realm.
"Looks like the King accepted your challenge; otherwise you wouldn't have been able to enter."
"THIS is where you came from? There's...barely anything!" Sai exclaimed with mixed fear and anxiety. "A dead wasteland..."
"Very boring. Now you understand why some of us come to your world."
"Why are we humans so interesting to you shinigami?" asked Sai, suspiciously,
"Well for one thing... you're all fun to play with."
"Hey, Sin brought a human!" Saika gasped as a bone faced shinigami pointed from below (Sin was still flying with Sai). Soon, every death god was watching them. Some decided to follow.
"Um... Sin?" whispered Sai,
"They don't hurt you. Not with me anyway."
"Sin, you forgot the rules, you idiot rookie. No humans allowed; do you know what happens to them? Hyahahaha!" Sai covered her face in fear as a demon faced looking death god shot towards them, mocking a crash; he flew right at them but disappeared out of the way in an instant. Sin ignored him. Saika cleared her vision and the largest shinigami was sitting on a bone made of bones as big as the biggest dinosaurs.
"Oh..my..." Sai swallowed, "...God." Sin dropped her on a rock before the King and landed beside her. The King was masked with a large bone mask, he had a large staff made of skulls and grey, hardened, rotted yet dried flesh making out his limbs (I have no idea what the actual King Shinigami looks like in the actual anime/manga so I'm making the description up, sorry). "I-I..."
"I am the Shinigami King. So...you're the human who challenged me? You're a fool to believe Sin's words." Sin twitched a wing. "You want to save another human, girl?"
"I-I..." Shinigami around them cackled;
"She can't even speak!"
"Hahaha, this is interesting..."
"Ryuk's missing out!"
"Bitch, speak!"
"I want to save someone!" Saika shouted over the voices. They made her mad. Fear mixed with anger... created encouragement.
"Who?" growled the King lazily clicking a bony finger, "This 'someone'?" A puff of grey smoke and—
"Saika?"
"ARGH!"
More shinigami's laughed, clutching their ribs (literally); Sai had jumped away from the ghost of the one she was supposed to save. L stared unblinkingly at Sai who had fallen off the rock and climbed back on. There were reasons to why she was shocked and frightened; L had no pupils. L was floating like a hanged man so his head was tilted to the side. And L was grey/blue transparent.
"L?" she asked, her voice trembling, "What on earth...?"
"What's going on... Sai?" his voice sounded distant.
"This girl is going to gamble for your life's return."
"Gamble?" repeated Sai and glanced at Sin who half shrugged.
"Sai what are you doing?"
"You don't even know his real name."
"I don't know his name but..." Saika stared at the now transparent key on a chained necklace, clutched in L's fist, "it doesn't mean I don't know him at all!" shouted Saika, turning from the disturbed-looking L to the King. "I'll do what it takes to bring him back! Tell me what the hell the game is so I can get this over and done with!" Saika jumped when two large skulls were dropped before her feet. They landed on their sides.
"Make your call. If they call on their sides, or if they land upright, or upside down. (I'm just making up the game as I go along here so please bear with me and don't get confused on the way!)"
"Like heads or tails but with more choices...and with bones." muttered Sai with disgust.
"Don't do this Sai... get out of here while you can." murmured L, his voice fainter.
"Better hurry, he's going to disappear veeeery soon..." the other shinigami sniggered. "But you can back out now. Now or never."
"I started something, I'm going to finish it." Saika spat fiercely, "What are the stakes? If I win, I get out of here free with Ryuuzaki alive and well in the human world. If I lose?"
"You will become one of us."
"Don't."
"Alright. I call heads—I-I mean, I call both heads up." the shinigami cackled. Saika remained firm.
"I call sides."
Seeing as the skulls were too big for her to carry, the King did the honour and dropped them again. They landed on their sides. Sai's heart twisted with fear as everyone laughed louder, "BEST TWO OUT OF THREE." she shouted, angrily.
"Saika..." Saika turned to see L's body half gone. She began to panic,
"Hang on L, hang on." she whispered turning back, 'heads are always lucky with me in heads or tails.' she thought determinedly. "I CALL HEADS UP." she shouted over the laughter. Everyone quietened,
"Heh, I call sides."
THUD. They landed... upside down.
"Draw." said Sin darkly. Saika breathed heavily and clenched her fists,
"Heads up." she said, her eyes fixed on the skulls.
"You're making the same mistakes... I call sides."
THUD. They landed heads up. Saika smirked,
"Really?" she asked, politely. "Next go, you can call. Your highness."
"Don't get too cocky, human." the King chuckled sinisterly.
"It's the only thing I can do in the face of fear." she muttered under her breath,
"Saika." her heart twisted when she saw L's body gone, except for his head.
"I call heads upside down."
"I call...sides."
THUD.
"They landed on sides..."
"Next one decides everything." Said Sin glancing at L's floating head.
"Sides." 'My gut is telling me to do it random. Maybe I should listen to it? Listening to it got me here! Damn it!'
"Hurry up Sai, he's almost gone." said Sin darkly.
"One upside down...one upright." Everyone stared.
"That's impossible."
"It's impossible to believe Death Gods exist." pointed Saika.
THUD.
"...No way." Saika's eyes widened, her heart beating fast, she fell to her knees. "N-No way..."
Sin crouched down...
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Oh man... did she win? Did the Old Fart win? Does Sai have to become one of them and stick to the dead wastelands and accompany Sin? Is L lost forever? I hope the gambling against the king wasn't a bad idea, please review and tell me what you think! P.S sorry if the chapter was a little long!