I felt my body being moved from side to side. I sluggishly swiped at whatever was moving me saying sleepily, "Cut it out!"
"You'll be late for school if you don't wake up," whoever it was replied.
"I don't care," I muttered, curling back up to sleep.
Suddenly, the covers were ripped off me and I felt extremely cold. I growled and sat up, glaring at whoever was disrupting my sleep. Then my expression changed.
"Ryuzaki? What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Don't you remember? You live with me now."
I blinked a couple times in confusion. I lived with him...? Without warning, I remembered everything from yesterday.
"Oh!"
"Remember now?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Yeah," I answered.
He held out a card to me. "This is a key card to this room. Make sure you don't lose it." He suddenly came close to my face again. "If you lose it and Kira finds it, I could very well die."
Even though I knew that was extremely unlikely, I felt responsible for whatever happened to that card.
"Oh, and you won't be able to get back in here, which will be very inconvenient to you and myself."
Of course...
I took the card and stuffed it into my school book bag that I brought with me wherever I went. It would be unlikely for me to lose it in there. After all, I still had my Death Note and cell phone from Light. I felt bubbling hatred for a moment, but it quickly subsided. Now was not the time to react to even the mention of him.
"Thanks," I said. "I'll be heading off now."
"Oh, one more thing."
I turned around and looked at Ryuzaki. He held out another card. I took it and stared at it, puzzled.
"What's this?" I asked.
"It's a bus pass. You can use it whenever you want. It'll be more convenient for you to use as well," he explained.
"Where did you get my picture?" I asked, noticing that my face was looking back at me from the card. I had no pictures of myself that I was aware of.
"It's your school picture."
"Oh, I see," I replied, remembering picture day. "Well, I'll see you after school I guess."
"Don't you have matches at that time?" he questioned.
"Not today. My matches start at 7 this evening."
"Ah, I see."
I left the bedroom and used the key card at the door.
Maybe I should have thanked him for the bus pass...
[~~~]
I munched on the lunch Watari made for me. I wasn't surprised to find that he was extremely good at cooking since he made so many desserts for Ryuzaki.
"Now that I think about it, I've never asked why you dropped your Death Note, Gami."
"I suppose," he replied. "Can I try that?" He pointed to my favourite kind of sausage. I couldn't remember what it was called, but it was medium sized and tasted like honey. You could get them in a large package with all of them connected, so you'd have to cut the ends to eat one.
"Yeah, sure," I answered, handing him one.
He took it and started munching on it. His eyes suddenly lit up and he was grinning from ear to ear.
"This is delicious!" he exclaimed.
I laughed, and then realized something. He had never asked for food before, so why now?
"Gami, do you need food to survive?" I asked.
"Hm? No. Death Gods use their Death Notes to survive. When we write a human name into our Death Note, we add their life to our own. Basically, we use humans' lives to restore our own so we don't die."
"Oh, I see," I replied. "So, then why did you drop your Death Note?"
He shrugged. "I was getting bored up there in the Death God Realm. There really isn't much to do, so I figured if I dropped my Death Note into the Human Realm that something interesting would happen and I'd learn new things."
"Has it been what you expected?" I prodded.
"Nope," he replied bluntly. "I wasn't sure what to expect, so I didn't expect anything."
"Are you having fun here?"
He looked over at me. "I suppose so. Meeting you and living along side you has been very interesting. I didn't realize that some humans didn't have homes and that they could hate their parents. Like, I did watch the Human Realm sometimes from my own, but not as often as some others did," he explained. "Then meeting a very important detective from the police force, living with him, as well as following you to your matches and meeting Ryuk and Kira was pretty cool too, but I could have gone without seeing him again."
"What? You mean Ryuk?"
He nodded. "I've seen him around before. I don't really like him."
"Why's that?" I asked.
"I'm not really sure myself. There's just something about him I don't like."
"Hmm..." I replied in thought. "I think I know what you're talking about."
He gave me a curious look. "Really?"
"Yes. I've felt the same with some people. It was more like a gut feeling though; like there was something about that person that wasn't right."
"Yeah! That's the same thing I get when it comes to Ryuk! So it's a called a 'gut feeling'?"
"Mhm."
"Interesting..." he replied. He seemed to go into thought about that for a while.
All of a sudden, a shrill ringing sound abruptly disturbed the short silence between us. I dug through my bag and pulled out the cell phone Kira gave me. I opened it.
"Hello?"
"It's Kira."
"You want something?"
"Yes. I need you to come to the park nearest to where you are."
"Why's that?"
"A criminal out on parole is hanging around the area."
"How'd you figure that out?" I asked sceptically.
"I have ways. Anyway, I won't tell you his name. I'll only give you a description."
I was about to agree to the terms when I remembered that I couldn't reveal I had Death God Eyes to him. If he knew that, I'd be more valuable to him than I was now! I didn't want that.
"No name? Even you should know that I can't kill without a name."
"You can with Death God Eyes. Do you know what those are?"
"Yes, but I'm not about to give up half my life for them."
"Do you want to be killed for you crime of breaking and entering?"
I paused. He couldn't kill me when I had a fake name, but he didn't know the name I gave him was fake. He also didn't know I was being watched over by the police and staying with his enemy, L. I had no choice but to become valuable to him in order to not be found out by him.
"Alright, fine. I'll make the contract with Gami."
"Good. His description is tall, shaggy black hair, jeans, he has stubble, and he's wearing a black leather jacket. He's currently sitting on one of the park benches smoking a cigarette."
Then I heard the sound of hit phone cutting off from mine. I sighed. I figured I was going to have to kill for him sooner or later, but I really didn't want to become more valuable in the process.
I'll kill someone other than the criminal afterwards, I decided. It'll help calm me down.
I hated helping this guy.
[~~~]
I walked up and down the area, looking around. So far, I didn't see anyone that he described. Was he in a different location? But soon enough, I spotted someone with the same description, and yes, he was very tall. He was starting to get into a car, and I had just barely discovered his name: Arata Sato.
Arata Sato
Accident
Head on collision. He doesn't die right away but suffers up until he reaches the hospital. By then, he has lost too much blood and dies.
I smirked. This was different than Kira's MO, which would be perfect revenge. They'd search for a meaning in this death when there wasn't one, except that there was another Kira. However, the only difference is that there is none. There's only me, and it's completely obvious that I'm just a normal homeless girl that just happens to have albino traits who is also living with Ryuzaki. That's... suspicious. I crossed all of it out before the 6 minutes and 40 seconds was up.
I'll kill someone else by random instead.
I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Arata Sato fell to the ground. I scowled and turned to leave, but was interrupted by Ryuk.
"Watching me for Light?" I accused.
"No. I am neither his ally or enemy," he replied. "But he did say he wouldn't give me any apples if I didn't watch you."
"So what did you see then?"
"Nothing much. You were scribbling in your notebook, then you stopped, and then he fell to the ground and died."
"Hm.. Alright."
I walked passed Ryuk and headed for the bus station.
Now... who should I kill along the way?
