Here's the next chapter guys. I've been really busy with school since last Saturday and i couldn't type out anything but the workload's decreased since the Christmas Break is almost here (!). I typed this all up today really fast so i apologize in advance for any mistakes. I'm told i have the tendency to accidently type connecting words and pronouns in french since it's my first language, and micro word won't correct them for some reason. Enjoy!

reply to review asking if there will be future pairings:

I think the only thing i can say is maybe. I don't want to take L out of his character, especially when he has such a great character. He doesn't seem like the type for romance. I'm thinking of putting him in a pairing anyway but so far i want to see how it goes like this. There will be pairings if the story feels like it.

Chapter 6

When I reached the car, Matsuda and Roger were bursting to ask me what had happened.

"There's someone else. Someone else who knows L's identity. We don't know who it is, but he's coming back to the house pretty soon. All I know for now is that L has a plan. I plan to come back here in a while and see if I can help him out. For now, we need to go see Mello's hostage", I climbed into the car and gestured for Roger to drive.

The black car sped down the road, Roger understanding my sense of urgency. I needed to do this fast. I had to get back to the house with L's captor before the other person did. If my guess was right, L would literally be sold if I didn't. He wanted to me to do something to help, if only I could figure out what it was.

I grabbed my purse and took out my laptop. The one I had brought with me was a Mac book pro. To be honest I couldn't resist, it was the most beautiful piece of technology I had ever had. Matsuda watched, interested, as I ran my hands over it before opening it, like it were made of the softest fur. When I opened it, I ran my hands over the keys and touchpad before starting it and waiting for it to load. It was so nice to touch my laptop again after the days of interrogation. I knew I was being strange, but I was an addict to technology. How easy computers were, so simple minded and straightforward, unlike most people who spent every moment of their life keeping secrets.

"You…um…like laptops?" he asked, finally.

I almost laughed at his awkward vocabulary, "I was brought up by a network analyst and a software engineer. I'm prone to think there are few people in the world who would die without their laptops but I'm one of them."

When it showed my screen background, a scene of a castle overlooking mountains, I immediately opened safari and typed in the address of the house we had just been in. After a little searching, I found it on Google maps and clicked in street view. Just as I had suspected, it was very different looking. This imaging had been updated only weeks ago, yet the house looked so much more different. On street view, the house had magnolias in the front. There were flower baskets hanging off the top of the porch and a hint of white lace curtains. The house I had come from didn't have any curtains, and the flowers in the garden didn't seem like they were watered for ages. The gang was only staying in the house for a while. They would be taking L somewhere. I needed to stop them from leaving the house.

When we reached the hotel Roger took me to the room L, Matsuda and I had. Mello was waiting inside, gun pointed to the captive's head. When the man saw us, he seemed outwardly relieved.

"Good, you're back. Please, we can sort this out, this boy is outta his mind…he's gonna shoot me…" we could hear the evident fear in his voice and I supposed that meant Mello had been talking to him. I went over and sat in the chair opposite to him.

"We can negotiate that. Answer all my questions and I'll let you go as long as it's in my power", I smiled there. It was a false promise that I could tell confidently. I had no power what-so-ever on him. It was all L's decision. L would put him in jail and I could tell him I had mentioned 'as long as it's in my power'. Fortunately, he seemed satisfied with the idea of getting away from Mello and didn't pay any close attention.

"Whatever, I'll tell you anything you want just take him away. I don't have any reason to stop that bastard Con from getting captured", his shoulders relaxed a little.

"What are you planning to do with L?"

He smirked, I felt a tinge of irritation but kept my pleasant smile.

"We were planning to sell him, his identity, and the proof of it".

Typical. The next question would answer much more.

"How did you know how to find out L's identity? How did you know Roger was related to him?"

"We didn't know in the beginning. But then a man named Watari came after us. We thought he was just another agent sent to expose us, so we found him, in Japan, and hacked into his laptop to find out how much he knew. This was about three days ago. Then we found another file. It was highly protected and even typed out in a code. The security on it was so high we couldn't even load it onto a jump drive. I'm not sure what our tech-guy did cause I didn't like him very much and kept my distance from hi, but he opened it. He took photographs of the file and we took it back to Britain to analyze. It could've been something extremely valuable if it had that level of protection on it."

I suddenly got a chill. There was a voice in my head…and I wanted it gone. I told myself that it could never happen. That the virus I had installed into opening it without consent and a password had worked. He went on.

"So our tech-dude worked on it for hours and finally said he gave up. But our boss wouldn't let him. He said the moment he gave up was the moment he would die. He was scared to death so he kept working on it. When he finally unraveled the code it was written in, we all knew it was a jackpot. You wouldn't believe it, it had everything.

"L's real name,

"His location at certain times

"His past

"Even predictions of what would happen in his life in the future."

I almost collapsed. I managed to sit down slowly and look like I was processing the information. I couldn't believe I had been so stupid…

Watari had taken my laptop when I was interrogated by L. He must've opened the file and bypassed my virus. The file that I had typed out with all the times, dates and information I remembered from death note…

He put in some type of code…and he hadn't shown L. I knew he hadn't shown L. There was no way L would agree to work with me if he ever saw it. Watari would've kept the file to ask me about it later.

And now I didn't even know where he was.

That's why it was all happening. These events that weren't a part of the original series. In the anime, Watari had probably found and taken care of these men as part of a job. Before L ever knew they existed. Because I was here, they found the file…it was all because of me.

"We found the same man, Watari, when we entered the place. He shot down seven of us but we managed to get him. He's alive by the way, in the suitcase Con has right now."

I snapped back to reality at that. Now Watari's life was on the line as well. And L probably didn't know that. I had to get there quickly.

Roger looked at me strangely when I asked to go back to the house where L was. The wildness I felt was showing in my eyes, I could feel it. But there was nothing to do about it now. Matsuda came with me again. We rushed out to the car which was still running, and started as soon as I got in.

We arrived and parked in the other crescent. Matsuda and I ran out of the car onto the sidewalk and rushed over to the house, Roger stayed in the car. I had borrowed his shoes so my feet wouldn't kill me. We had just disappeared in the back when another car pulled up into the driveway.

I had a plan. I needed to release Watari.

"Matsuda, find a way in. I don't really care how dramatic is it and how much attention we'll get but just find a way in while they're in the driveway and can't hear us."

He stared at me dumbly for a few seconds.

"Break the damn window you idiot", I fumed. It was unlike me, but there was little time. He went red with embarrassment but complied, taking out his gun and smashing the window with it. It was an old house with no re-enforced glass, so it broke easily.

I stepped in, not caring about the glass pieces, and ran to the living room where L was tied up. He turned and looked at me curiously, but I held a finger to my mouth for a second and then rushed upstairs. When I turned around I saw Matsuda looking at me questioningly.

"Stay hidden for a while in a place you can hear what's said in the living room. Don't let anyone find you", I whispered harshly from the overview on the second floor in the house. Then I looked through the bedrooms. There were four of them. I figured it wouldn't take too long to locate such a large item, and I was right. It was in the wardrobe in the third bedroom. The suitcase.

I wondered why a store would make a suitcase this big. It was almost as big as me. I looked around for something heavy and found an iron. I smashed it into the lock of the suitcase as it snapped open with the sound of broken metal. I pried it open with the back end of a pen, and then with my hands. When it finally opened, I saw Watari placed curled up inside.

His eyes were open and he was blinking. His mouth was taped shut and his hands were tied with duct tape. I undid the duct tape and he took the tape off his mouth.

"You!" he looked at me with anger. Of course. He though I was working with the men who kidnapped L.

"I would sit here and give you the entire story but L is down there and they're about to sell him." I said quickly. Understanding came into his eyes, but the suspicion still remained.

"How did you know all of that? The information on the file?"

It was the question I had been dreading. Finally here. I needed to answer it if I wanted Watari's help. I wondered what kind of story I could make up, and then decided to settle on the best one.

The truth.

I knew I was being stupid. But it was a spur of the moment. If I had more time I could work my magic with words and tell him a story that would account for every single thing. If I had more time I could negotiate with him on it. If I only had more time.

"You won't believe me, but I have to tell you the truth here because I can't think of a good lie", I started out.

"I don't know how this all happened, but L, and the Kira case. I used to have a book that's storyline copied exactly what is happening now. I don't have it anymore, and it's destroyed, but it was everything that is happening now. In the form of a story. A story about a student who came into possession of the powers of Kira. And about the detective L who fought with him to deliver justice. And then this all happened and I was so curious. I wanted to know if it was all real. Just like the story."

I looked at him straight in the eyes and remembered to hold my palms open to show honesty and not hide them. It wasn't the full truth but it would have to do. Maybe he would think it was a book written by a future-teller. He processed it for a while, and then nodded.

"You've made it clear that there is no time to elaborate. Are you sure this book is completely destroyed?"

"Yes", I nodded harshly. Then I explained the situation downstairs to Watari.

"…no one else knows. If we can get rid of these two men, or at least take them hostage, L's identity will be safe", I finished. He nodded again, "there's no other way them. We'll take the direct approach. Take L out of here. I'll ask Matsuda to help me with the other one. You and L need to get out of here."

I nodded an affirmative and we both went downstairs quietly.

The next few seconds weren't remembered very well by me. I remembered Watari yelling, and Matsuda standing next to him holding his gun to shoot. I remembered frantically untying L as the commotion went on behind me. The captors had been taken by surprise. My hands were shaking as I undid the tape and ropes, but I kept a calm look. No one should have known how utterly confused I was. Especially not L. When I was done he sprang to his feet and held my arm in a vise-like grip as we ran out of the house. Even once we were out I kept running. Until the second we reached the black car where Roger, and safety, was waiting.

Roger opened the door for us in the back and we immediately got in.

"I'll take you two to the hotel first and come back for them", he said, understanding what was happening.

I realized then that I had messed up whatever plans L had. It was also a blow to my pride that I didn't find a way to incorporate them.

"Ryuzaki", I began, "I'm incredibly sorry for all the inconvenience I may have caused. I know you had something in mind…" I stopped there. Roger gave me a strange look through the center mirror, as if the hero shouldn't be apologizing to the rescued. Only I knew that it was much more than that.

L however, smiled a small, strange smile.

"Forget about it, May. Lets go back, I think I might finally be able to obtain a few hours of sleep", he settled back into his seat.

"But I ruined everything!" I protested. I wondered why he didn't agree.

"This is done with May. Tomorrow, Light Yagami will be joining us in the investigation. We need to get back on track", he smiled the smile again.

We continued to drive back in the dark, the neon lights of clubs and restaurants being the only brightness, combined with the streetlamps and the small stream of moonlight. Even though we were going fairly fast, I though I saw something then. I saw a young man standing by a park bench off to the side of the road. A young man with chestnut, silk hair that shone as if only the moonlight could reach it. His dark eyes showed hints of amusement and mirth, as if there was someone standing with him, or behind him. His long, slender silhouette made a thin shadow of himself draped over the bench.

In that brief glimpse, I saw his long, thin fingers twirl a silver pen, and in the other hand was a book. A book with a pitch black cover. It was thin, but there was an infinity of pages in it. Pages that could kill.

I almost instinctively knew that if you were to turn that book around, it would say

Death Note

In that moment, the sense of worry I had kept all rushed back to me.

Sorry it's kind of short. Next one should be up sometime soon because of the Christmas Break being close and no schoolwork (except holiday projects). The story is going to include Light now, him and Misa are coming in. I guess you could call it a new arc. This arc was inspired by the movie L, Change the World. It's a really great movie and all death note fans will love it.

Review please! Every morning when i wake up and check my mail on my ipod, i feel really inspired when i have mail with fanfiction reviews. I originally started writing to improve my writing skills (how are they btw?) but i really like thinking of new ideas for chapters now.

I wasn't expecting many before because the story was only two or three chapters long but it's a developing story now, and it needs to be fed with reviews. Not to mention my brain needs to be fed too...