I Bite My Thumb At Thee
Again a disclaimer stating that Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi and Death Note to Ohba Tsugumi.
Chapter 6 – Running Amok
I am the Lord thy God.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy God in vain
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
5. Honour thy father and thy mother
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness
10. Thou shalt not covet
- The Ten Commandments
For the good of both the teen and the Kira Investigation, it would be best if Yagami Light and Nara Shikamaru never met; if he was killed by Kira, that would make the investigation that bit harder, not that Kira would ever be told.
He loved this weather.
The delicate warmth of the sun.
The blooming of the flowers.
As feminine as that sounded, Shikamaru loved it all.
His fingers dug into the fresh blades of grass, enjoying the spiky yet soft texture.
He was already a junior.
Damn he was old.
He could still remember those days when he was completely carefree.
Wait – that still hadn't changed much.
But still, he was starting to care for some very unnecessary things; like university for one.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"When I grow up?"
"Yeah, when you graduate school. You're gonna have to go to university, yeah?"
It seemed that everyone else around him knew what they wanted to be.
"I'm gonna give botany a shot. But I still want to take over our family flower shop. You… seemed concerned. Is it because you can't decide on a dream? You can't live your life not wanting to be anything, Shika. There must be something you want to do."
"My dream? I want to be a chef. I've always wanted to be chef. I love food and eating. There was time when I wanted to be a food critic. But I love all food."
"I… really want to be one of those police who train police dogs; a K-9 you know?"
"Me? I would like to just live p-peacefully and happily. But my family wants me take over the company, so I want to study business. It may not be my dream, but I am h-happy doing it to make my family happy."
"My dream is being with my bugs. Although I know the basics of my bugs, I would like to study parasitology to deepen my understanding of them."
"I want to practice medicine. Although I haven't exactly decided on what sort of medical professional I aspire to be."
"I haven't exactly decided on a specific profession, but it will be something to do with the law and justice."
"I WILL BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPY! OWWW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR SAKURA?"
"Shikamaru-kun! I'm so glad you asked meeeee! Once I graduate, I would like to be a stunt man! Yosh, that is my goal!"
"Having a crisis Shikamaru? Can't decide what you want to be… I had that problem. But now, I want to devote myself to the Hyuugas. I will do everything I can to help the company prosper."
"Don't worry Shikamaru. He's cool about it now, but Neji used to fret all the time about it. Don't glare at me Neji. Anyways, I want to follow my dreams of being a professional archer. I'm the junior champion now, and hopefully I can make it into the big leagues."
Damn.
What did he want to be?
Once upon a time, he aspired to be a detective.
But that dream came down in shambles after he realised that detectives couldn't do much.
Sure they could catch criminals and help in clean the world, but how many criminals could a detective catch in their career?
No matter how many they could catch, more crims would always be appearing.
Justice could never prevail to all of them.
Yet he was helping L catch Kira – the irony.
The clouds were drifting across the sky so carefree.
"Sometimes I wish I was a cloud… just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me."
"Ah, Yagami-kun!"
"It's you. Is there anything I can do for you?"
'Confess to me you're Kira so I can stop this stupid charade and return to my previous life.'
"I was wondering if you would like to play a tennis match with me. I realised that I may have come across as being a bit rude in the ceremony yesterday." 'Which I only came to realise after replaying the video twenty times. It is appalling how ignorant one can be of their own behaviour sometimes.'
"Sure. And I look forward to getting to know you a little better, Ryuuga-san."
"The, shall we get going, Yagami-kun?"
The two leisurely walked down to the tennis courts, of which all were already taken.
"It seems that we will have to wait for a free court, Yagami-kun."
"Well, let's take a seat. You know, I'm very good at tennis."
"Don't worry. I was the British junior champion."
"Are you British?"
"I lived in England for about 5 years."
"Interesting. You know, I've been thinking about what you said yesterday."
"About Kira?"
"Yeah."
"What was the result of your thinking, Yagami-kun?"
"That I would like to know more about your opinions."
"My opinions… oh look. There is a free court. The players are leaving."
"Fine. You can serve first Ryuuga."
"Thankyou. I shall. So whoever wins six games first is the winner. Is that alright with you?"
"Sure."
This was actually just a simple tennis game.
All that he knew was that Kira hated to lose.
The outcome of this match could not determine or prove anything.
The best this match could do was to begin a 'friendship', which L could take advantage of.
The said tennis match was also providing some very much needed exercise.
After a long and intense match between the two, amassing a huge crowd from the university, Yagami Light was declared the winner 6-4.
Having become 'friendlier' with each other through the tennis match, the pair decided to head in to a café.
"This is my favourite table in the café. No one can hear what we are talking about."
"Light-kun, what is that you need such secrecy for?"
"I just wanted to continue our conversation at the tennis courts. What do you think of Kira?" said Light casually as he sipped the creamy foam of the coffee.
"I have already told you what I think of Kira."
"That he's evil." he stated, setting down his coffee cup quite gracefully.
"Yes. And insane." added on L as he added sweetened milk and sugar cubes into his own concoction.
"Is there anything else?"
"Nothing that I would like to disclose to someone who does not share my opinions."
"Ryuuga, it's not that I don't understand your point of view. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I am siding with you."
"If that is the case, Light-kun, I wouldn't mind sharing some of my opinions with you." 'Hopefully you might let something slip.' "So, Light-kun, you may ask whatever you want to know, and I will try my hardest to answer them to my knowledge."
"Thanks. I was just wondering who –"
"I think is Kira. Well, so far, we have deduced that Kira is in Japan."
"And so does the rest of the Kantou region."
"On top of that, we know that he is or was a high school student."
"How –"
"I am truly sorry that I keep cutting you off, but allow me to finish talking before you ask questions."
"Sure."
"Yes, well…" paused L as he looked around the café.
"Don't worry, like I said before, if we speak quietly enough, no one can hear what's going on."
"Okay, we also know that Kira is able to manipulate the actions of someone before he kills them."
"Manipulating someone's actions? What the hell is Kira?"
"I wonder too. Probably a psychomaniac with a tendency for blasphemy." muttered out L, his sharp eyes inspecting for even a minor change in expression.
He got nothing.
Yagami Light was too good at concealing his emotions behind a sturdy façade.
"Ryuuga, why do you sit like that? Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"I enjoy sitting like this. It works the muscles in my legs."
He was risking his identity by just sitting like he was.
Sure, no one had ever seen him besides Watari and the investigation force, but that didn't mean no one knew about his habits.
Especially after going through the BB case.
Beyond Birthday had somehow managed to gather enough information about him, to copy him quite convincingly.
L would have never believed it to be possible until he saw the footage himself.
"Ryuuga, are you listening to me?"
"Of course I am, Light-kun."
"If you say so."
"Excuse me, Light-kun, it seems that my phone is ringing."
"Ah, I think mine is too."
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Light-kun!"
"My father?"
"So he had a heart attack."
"Yes."
"Do you think it was Kira?"
"I don't know. Yagami-san isn't dead."
"But assuming that Yagami Light is Kira, and his old man was the victim…"
"It is not likely that this was the work of Kira."
"Can Kira even not fully kill someone?"
"I don't know the answer to that either. However, what I do know is that all his previous victims died due to a heart attack."
"What if Kira can kill by some other method than a heart attack?"
"Another method… then that would explain Raye Penber's case."
"And perhaps Misora Naomi, and her death."
"Yes, Shikamaru-kun, you're a genius."
"Uh, you too Ryuuzaki. So let's just say that Kira is killing Yagami-san slowly or something like that, which induced the heart attack. But if that was the case, exactly what has Kira to gain?"
"Unless he realised that I was L, and was leading the investigation against him."
"Gaining sympathy from L after his father was half-killed, and then joining the investigation – no one would suspect a thing."
"That would definitely be true given that he knew my identity – which I do not think he knows."
"Tch, damn, too troublesome. Maybe it was just a coincidence. I mean, Yagami-san has been working hard. Maybe it was just all the stress."
"Most likely. But there is still the slight chance that it was Kira."
"If it was Kira, life just got so much more complicated."
"Please continue."
"I recall Matsuda-san and the others mentioning Yagami Light, meaning that he is acquainted to them. If Kira decides that he is sick of being chased by our task force, tch, then he can easily kill off the entire group."
"Sans you and me."
"Yeah, but still. There is a limit to what the two of us can do; I mean, you asked for the help of the Japanese police for a reason right?"
"Yes. This is quite disastrous. However, on the brighter side, with the sacrifice of the task members, we would have proved that Yagami Light is Kira; no other suspect of ours would have known the entire team."
"Ryuuzaki, that is not a good option."
"I know, Shikamaru-kun, I was just trying to stay positive."
"But what kind of son would kill his own father, even if he was Kira?"
"There are plenty of murder cases around the world where sons have conspired to kill their own father."
"But still…"
"Nonetheless, I understand your point."
"Well, it's not like we can determine whether Yagami-san's heart attack was by Kira or not, so let's just drop that subject for now, yeh?"
"If you wish so, Shikamaru-kun."
"Yeh. How was he at the hospital?"
"Yagami-san or Light-kun?"
"Yagami Light."
"I believed it to be quite sickening, especially with the thought that Yagami Light was Kira. He was abnormally sweet and seemed like such a good and loving son."
"That would have been highly amusing, seeing Kira so opposite to his normal self, full of worry and all that other shit."
"Shikamaru-kun, I think you may be a closet sadist."
"Tch, being anything secretly is too troublesome."
"Then how troublesome might it be for Kira?"
"Unimaginably so."
"But regardless, my suspicion in Yagami Light being Kira has risen – to perhaps 9%."
"Well, I have a feeling that it's only going to keep rising."
"I hope so too."
"Ryuuzaki, what are you going to do from here though?"
"I have, over the past couple of days, partially 'befriended' him… and he shows interest in the Kira investigation group, particularly after I mentioned the possibility of Kira being able to kill someone via another method than a heart-attack."
"Then basically, Yagami Light is Kira."
"In simpler words, yes. But we still require a lot more evidence of it other than gut feeling and some odd behaviour from Light-kun every now and then."
"Tch, I hope you're not getting attached to him."
"Attached? I plan to arrest him as soon as possible."
"I hope so… so that I can return to my previous life."
"That is what I wish for myself too; not having to expose myself in public. It makes me feel kind of… naked. In a sense. On that note, Shikamaru-kun, how is your life?"
"I'm alive I guess."
"How is school?"
"Boring."
"I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time, Shikamaru-kun. Do you mind if I ask you now?"
"Nah, go on."
"How is it that you are so behind in your school work?"
"You mean my ranking in the grade?"
"Yes."
"I just can't be bothered. I do my assignments and stuff, well, every now and then, but during a test, I just can't be stuffed to pick up the pen. So I sleep."
"Ah, I see… no not really."
Nara Shikamaru, along with L, was convinced that Yagami Light was Kira.
However, whilst the rest of the task force saw Kira as an evil being, Shikamaru believed Kira to be an evil manifestation.
Something of an evil spirit that granted its host the power to kill.
Perhaps he was reading too much manga – damn Naruto and Kiba.
"Tch, my phone is ringing but I can't be bothered to get it. I should go get it right? It could be something important… am, am I talking to myself? Man I must be crazy."
And with a sigh, the teen dragged his lazy ass across the room to retrieve his ringing mobile.
"Hello? Ryuuzaki? Wait, I need to go the TV. Okay. Dad, can you turn to the Sakura TV channel?"
"Sakura TV? Sure, son. You don't mind do you Yoshino? It's not like we were watching anything interesting."
As Nara Shikaku flicked to the said TV channel, the Nara family, along with the rest of Japan, came across a very strange broadcast, which claimed to be currently held hostage by Kira.
"Mr. Hibima has consistently referred to Kira as "evil" in his news reports. This was his punishment. I will present you with another victim. My next target is a commentator from NHN, Kumaizumi Seiji who has also condemned me repeatedly. I trust you can now believe that I really am Kira."
"Shikamaru… what the hell is this?"
"I don't know dad, that's exactly why I'm watching it."
"Everyone, please listen to me carefully. I do not want to kill innocent people. I hate evil and love justice. I do not consider the police my enemies, but allies in my fight against evil. My aim is to rid the world of evil and create a just society. I fall of you will join me in this mission, it can be easily accomplished. If you do not try to capture me, no innocent people will die. Even if you do not agree with me, if you refrain from publicising your views in the media or in public, you will be spared. And then, simply wait. In a short time, I will create a world everyone will accept. I will transform this foul world into one of only kind people."
"Bullshit."
"Language, Shikamaru."
"Sorry."
"I repeat, what the hell is this?" asked Shikaku as he faced his son, confusion plain as his scar.
"I have absolutely no idea. A friend of mine called me about the broadcast. No one has any idea what it is."
"Why is Kira killing innocent people? Didn't he only kill criminals?"
"Calm down mum, and he killed that supposedly L guy too, who no one knew was a criminal on death row. Tch, something troublesome is going on."
"And I hope none of us are involved in it." conclude Shikaku, worried for the safety of his loved ones.
"We interrupt to bring you live to the front of the TV station! Look, someone has collapsed. This is live footage from the front of Sakura TV."
"Dad, did someone just get killed?"
What the hell was L doing?
He had just allowed Ukita to walk to his grave.
Wasn't it obvious that Kira was somewhere where he could see the building?
And then, assuming that Yagami Light was Kira, who was in acquaintance with Ukita…
Tch, something very troublesome was going on.
"Dear, did a van just crash into the building?"
Questions, questions, questions – they were all they had.
"What's this? A police car has arrived in front of Sakura TV.' exclaimed on the controversial broadcast.
As soon as the two policemen rushed out of the car intending to continue their way into the building, they were struck down dead.
"Did they just get killed or was that my imagination?"
What the hell had happened?
That seemed to be question on everyone's minds, as the Nara family members looked to each other bewildered by the complicated mess this was becoming.
Did Kira just kill two completely unknown policemen only by a look of their faces?
Even the great L himself, came to the conclusion that Kira could kill only with a face and a name…
Perhaps Kira had leveled up.
Damn those manga.
But regardless, if it was even possible that Kira could kill by only a face…
They were screwed.
Majorly screwed.
Unless this Kira wasn't the same Kira as before – which would explain a lot of things.
For one, if this was the same Kira as before, why didn't he kill off the entire task force, not just Ukita, before making his move? It sure would have made things a lot less complicated.
And, it wasn't like the Kira that they knew, to be holding innocent people hostage.
Shikamaru was sure that Kira believed himself to be everything the video proclaimed him to be; justice, good, right… yet it wasn't very righteous or good to hold the entire TV station hostage, although they may have been quite willing to do so.
This Kira was different to the original Kira.
One who supported the original Kira.
One whose killing powers were superior to those of the original Kira.
One whose intellect was lacking compared to those of the original Kira.
In a nutshell, Kira number two was dumber but stronger.
Damn.
Now they had not one, but TWO Kiras to catch and bring to justice.
If they joined forces – it would be chaotic.
And all Nara Shikamaru wanted to do, was to have a normal life that did not involve risking his life.
Why the hell did he choose to be mixed up in all this shit?
God damn it. His head was starting to hurt.
"Tch, too troublesome."
Chapter 6 comes to a close.
Wow, I've just realised that when I first started this fic, I only had the beginning and the ending in mind... I know, I'm SUCH a good planner xD
On that note, I have partially written the ending... but I think it'll take a while for that to come (:
Oh, I have also decided something quite important?
All updates will be on every second Tuesday.
Hopefully.
Unless it's the holidays, because then I might be able to crank out a chapter every week like I started off doing... but no guarantees.
I'll see you in a fortnight,
xoxo paperdress