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Well, last chapter L was finally in the story! continuing on from that point, I hope you enjoy the chapter.

If you don't want a spoiler then completely ignore this sentence, someone asked: 'who will amity be paired with L or Light or Ao?' well the answer is... L, and that's all I'm going to say about it...

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Shinigami Speech"

"Japanese speech"


Chapter 7- The pen friend from Japan

Amity nearly fell off her bed at his words, "I want you to help me, Amity."

"Help you?" Amity repeated stunned, "How could I possibly help you?"

"Black is headed to Hogwarts, that is something the ministry is sure of, I need someone inside of Hogwarts keeping me informed of what is going on, on the inside so to speak."

"Why?..."

"As you already pointed out my name doesn't mean much in the wizarding world, I can't rally the aurors like I can muggle police forces around the world, so I will need help gathering information and the like... I will admit this case isn't top priority but this will be a case where patience is important, I think this case will cover a lot of time and I will have other things to work on... I will be honest I don't often get involved with the magic side of the world, I might be magical myself but things get complicated when Magic is involved... I just need someone to keep me informed of what goes on at Hogwarts and any new news about Black... So will you help me, Amity?"

"Yeah, of course, I will... I owe you one for just telling me all of this stuff... but why me? and when you said things don't add up about Black's case... do you think he didn't do it?"

"For a start, I'm about 50/50 if Black did do anything or not... and I'd rather be sure before letting the ministry take him back to the Dementors, and as for why you? well you're the target, supposedly anyway, so it makes sense to inform you that you are indeed his target, everything will be revolving around you for this case... and the ministry might not think you can handle this information but I believe you can, I've heard all about the philosophers stone and the chamber of secrets, and this proves you can handle much more than they think you can... children and teenagers can adapt much more easily than an adult can to different stimuli and they are much stronger than many think, I have already seen children and women be strong in many horrible situations, you can see this everywhere, and when push comes to shove they can generally handle the same as everyone else can, but the magical world does not often see it this way... many in the magical realm still think of women as weaker than them, more suited to domestic life than fighting dark wizards or running ministry departments and often women have to train and study much harder than men to get jobs in the auror department, law department and similar jobs... The magical world is quite far behind the muggle one (well magical china and Japan are very far ahead of muggles and most magicals but they're in the minority). The ministry might think that you are a weak little girl but I think you will be extremely useful in getting to the bottom of this case."

Amity forced the embarrassed yet flattered blush from her face, "I think you might be overestimating me..."

"No, I don't think I am, I am a 100% positive you will be a lot of help in this case," L said, "Not only are you the smartest in your year (by quite a margin) you can also use martial arts and do not use magic to solve all of your problems (like many do in the magical world) you are clearly not afraid to put your life on the line when you need to, and are obviously extremely loyal, but only to those worthy of your loyalty (which is a trait I think is very important) and you are obviously neutral when it comes to magic... if you know about blood runes, it proves you aren't afraid to use magic deemed as dark if you need to, and in your internet history you have visited a lot of websites about spotting lies which will come in very handy. Plus not many people in the magical world know about L or would be willing or able to keep such a secret."

Amity's fox ears twitched as her face began to burn, and decided to distract herself, "So you think dark magic's okay then?"

"yes... personally I think magic is just magic and its all about how you use it and the intent behind the magic that is important."

Amity stared, her mouth dropped open at her computer screen.

"What?" L asked confused, as the silence got slightly awkward.

"I thought I was the only one who thought that!" She blurted out.

Her face turned even brighter red when he seemed to chuckle slightly.

Something occurred to her, as she concentrated on getting rid of the ears and tail, "How would I contact you at Hogwarts... I can't exactly take my computer with me, and an Owl obviously wouldn't work..."

"I've already thought of that... all will be revealed on the 31st."

"That's cutting it a bit fine... especially because a friend of mine is coming to stay on August first, his father's just killed himself and his mother thought it would be a good idea to get him out of the house for a while, so I said he could stay here..."

"yes well, regardless, from this point on you should refer to me as... Hideki Ryuuga (well Ryuuga Hideki)... and you speak Japanese don't you? from now on speak to me in Japanese only."

"Hai... Nande?" Amity replied, extremely confused.

"Like I said all will be revealed... Speak to you soon, and... Sayonara Potter Amity."

And with that, the L vanished from the screen. Amity let out a semi-irritated, semi-awed sigh, and went to switch her web-cam off at the wall.

"Well that was interesting..." Ao said.

"Yeah... and now I have to worry about L not spotting me talking to you as well as Draco, my family and everyone else."

She sat back down on her bed with a huff, Eru jumped into her lap and she patted him absent-mindedly as she stared at the computer screen now showing her search results for Sirius Black.

"Even he thinks Magic complicates things..."

"Yeah... you both have a very good point with that..."

"Why don't you just use the death Note to kill Black?" Ao asked after a slight pause.

"L-Ryuuga made some good points, what if the Black case wasn't as clear cut as the ministry thought? then I'd have killed him for no reason... besides if I kill him then Ryuuga will have no need to contact me anymore..."

"You're still a fan aren't you?... or...no... I don't believe this... do you have a crush on him?!"

"WHAT?!" she yelped jumping up from her bed, Eru was displaced roughly from her lap onto the floor as she whipped round to glare at the shinigami floating by her door, "I do not have a crush on him!"

"Are you sure? I saw a lot blushing!... and I thought you liked that dragon kid!"

"I don't have a crush on either of them!" Amity snapped her face, hair and eyes turning redder by the second.

"Yeah, I believe you", Ao said with sceptical tone to his gravely voice.

"I don't! and... are you jealous?!" Amity asked incredulously.

"Of course not! I'm merely worried about you, you're far too young to be thinking about boys like that!"

"I'm not thinking about them like anything, for a start! and I am not too young! I can start dating whenever the hell I want to!" Her fox ears and massive tail sprouting back out again in her embarrassment as her control slipped.

"Not if I have anything to say about it!"

"This is not the time to be an overbearing older brother figure!"

"I can be an overbearing older brother figure whenever I feel like it!"

"URGH! sometimes you're so childish!" She growled in annoyance, giving up on the argument as she stormed out of her room and down to the kitchen to get some lunch.

Ao folded his arms across his chest as he let out an angry huff, the back of his neck prickled, he glanced behind him and Eru was staring at him again.

"And what are you looking at?!" He snapped.

Eru seemed to give him a look, but Ao didn't waste his time trying to discern the demon cats thoughts and grabbed one of Amity's blood rune books and sprawled across her bed to read.


Amity would be lying if she said she wasn't counting down the days to her birthday, not only was it her birthday and she had presents to look forward to but L was supposed to be talking to her again. She might not have a crush on the detective but she was excited to talk to him again. She and Ao seemed to have an unspoken agreement not to mention the argument at all.

She woke up early on the Saturday that her birthday had fallen on, surprisingly early considering she had been up until 1 o'clock in the morning working on her homework and reading. It was 5 AM when she woke up and she quickly discerned the cause as the four owls knocking on her window; well three owls knocking on her window as the fourth one was unconscious and carried by the first two.

She groggily got up to open the window. As soon as she had done so they swooped in through the window and landed with a soft thump on her bed, Eru growled from his spot at the foot of her bed, as it was his space they were invading.

"Oh, stop being to territorial," she muttered fondly.

Eru's ears twitched and he curled back up, evidently deciding to go back to sleep.

Amity glanced at Ao who was still sleeping, lying across the top of her wardrobe, his long tail hanging down, its tufted tip twitching. She turned back to the owls as she obviously hadn't woken the Shinigami.

She recognised the unconscious owl as the Weasley family owl; named Errol, and one of the owls who had been carrying Errol was her own family owl that her Aunt Petunia had bought last year to keep in contact so that Amity didn't have to keep borrowing the school owls, her name was Sun Shang Xiang (Sun for short); after a character in a PlayStation game called Dynasty Warriors, plus an important Chinese historical figure. Sun was a gorgeous- but quite large- snowy owl. The third and fourth owls she didn't recognise but one of them was carrying a Hogwarts letter so she knew where that was from at least.

She hurried to retrieve the package and letter from Errol first and hurried to get the poor owl over to Sun's cage so he could have a drink and something to eat, it woke up and looked gratefully at her. Only when she had finished with Errol did she turn back to the others. Sun Shang Xiang, who had vanished two days ago, looked extremely pleased with herself and gave her hand an affectionate nip as Amity removed the parcel from her leg, she took off from her bed and flew into her cage. The other two owls were waiting patiently for her to get to them.

Amity went and placed the parcels she had already removed on her desk for later, it was a short trip... her room was pretty cramped if she was honest, but she did quite like it like that. She had an average sized window in the middle of the back wall with a small Japanese style desk in front of it, that she knelt on the floor to use; this was where she did her homework and any painting or drawing she decided to do, her bed was next to this desk (about 60 centimetres away), it was quite low to the ground with a standard wooden frame and head board (it was about the same height as the desk actually, because her and Dudley had cut the legs down from a normal height to one she was more happy with, although she had no idea why it bugged her to be higher off the ground), at the foot of her bed was her school trunk; which still had all of her school things in as she didn't see the point of unpacking, next to her school trunk- flat against the wall- was her chest of drawers which had the owl cage stood on top of it (the cage was really big actually, it nearly reached her ceiling and had lots of room, with a deep tray at the bottom so it was easy to clean any mess, it had a fake tree branch half way up it for Sun to stand on and the food and water bowls were stuck to the end of the branch, the door was actually the whole front of the cage which she usually left open as Sun wouldn't mess up her room if left unattended), at a right angle to her chest of drawers- and owl cage- was a book shelf and her wardrobe; with Ao's favourite sleeping spot on top of it, the door was directly beside the wardrobe and in the corner of the room, and about a metre and a half in front of the door was her last piece of furniture her full sized desk with her computer sat on top of it, and the desk chair in front of it. There were other bits and pieces around the room, such as her bag (which was stood next to her little desk), more books which no longer fit on her book shelf that were now stood in piles around the room and she also had quite a few soft toys piled up around the room and on her bed. Her room was painted cyan with a plain white ceiling however in places she had painted directly onto the walls with some Japanese Hokusai inspired pictures and in some places some abstract art (meaning she had chucked paint at the walls when she was in a bad mood). Her floor was covered in dark wood however she had a large black, fluffy rug stretching across the space in front of her little desk and her bed.

Amity sighed as she went to switch the light on, she flicked the switch and her light flickered slightly before it truly woke up, she blinked away the slight pain in her eyes as she waited for them to adjust to the brightness, it was really light in her room as she had picked out a white lampshade purely for the purpose of casting as much light as possible.

She returned to the two owls still waiting for her, and removed the large parcel from the biggest owl she had ever seen, it looked a lot smaller in the dark, it was an extremely dark coloured owl and it seemed to nod its head at her before it flew back out through the open window, the package had no obvious indication of who it was from and she frowned at it slightly before placing it on the desk with the others. The last remaining owl puffed its little chest out as she went to remove its package, looking extremely proud of itself, she removed the parcel and Hogwarts letter from the owl and it looked imperiously at the other owls still in the room before it took flight and vanished out the window.

She decided to open the package from Errol first, considering the poor thing seemed to nearly kill itself getting it here, it was wrapped untidily in brown paper but underneath the brown paper there was a golden present and a birthday card. She opened the card and a letter and a newspaper cutting fell out, the newspaper cutting was showing the Weasley family under a title stating: "Ministry of Magic employee scoops grand prize" there was a picture that showed all of the Weasleys stood waving in front of a pyramid, she picked out her friend Ron from the group easily, he had his arm around his sister Ginny and his pet rat scabbers was on his shoulder. She hated his rat, he always gave her a bad vibe and when she had stayed at the Weasley's last summer she swore it had been staring at her and Ginny as they got ready in the morning, Ao had strangely insisted she chuck it out of the room before she got changed, and he had always said there was something really off with the rat but he wasn't allowed to tell her anything by their laws, the same as he can't tell her people's names if she doesn't know them, but she was determined to keep a close eye on the rat after that.

Amity was quite glad that the Weasley's had won something for once, they were all very nice people but were quite poor.

Ron's letter said:

'Dear Amity,

Happy birthday! It's amazing here in Egypt. Bill's taken us around all the tombs and you wouldn't believe the curses those old Egyptian wizards put on them. Mum wouldn't let Ginny come in the last one. There were all these mutant skeletons in there; of Muggles who'd broken in and grown extra heads and stuff.

I couldn't believe it when Dad won the Daily Prophet Draw. Seven hundred galleons! Most of it's gone on this trip, but they're going to buy me a new wand for next year.

We'll be back about a week before term starts and we'll be going up to London to get my wand and our new books. Any chance of meeting you there?

Try and come to London,

Ron

P.S. Percy's Head Boy. He got the letter last week.'

Amity now turned back to her present and unwrapped it. Inside was what looked like a miniature glass spinning top. There was another note from Ron beneath it.

'Amity this is a Pocket Sneakoscope. If there's someone untrustworthy around, it's supposed to light up and spin. Bill says it's rubbish sold for wizard tourists and isn't reliable, because it kept lighting up at dinner last night. But he didn't realize Fred and George had put beetles in his soup.

Bye- Ron'

Amity put the Sneakoscope on her little desk where it stood reflecting her desk-tidy full of pens, pencils, rubbers and sharpeners. She then picked up the parcel that Sun Shang Xiang had brought and opened it.

Inside this as well there was a wrapped present, a card, and a letter, but this time it was from Hermione.

'Dear Amity,

I'm on holiday in France at the moment and I didn't know how I was going to send this to you- what if they'd opened it at customs?- but then Sun (sorry I forget the rest of her name) turned up! I think she wanted to make sure you got presents from your other friends this birthday. I bought your present by owl-order; there was an advertisement in the Daily Prophet (I've been getting it delivered; it's so good to keep up with what's going on in the wizarding world), Did you see that picture of Ron and his family a week ago? I bet he's learning loads. I'm really jealous; the ancient Egyptian wizards were fascinating.

There's some interesting local history of witchcraft here, too. I've rewritten my whole History of Magic essay to include some of the things I've found out, I hope it's not too long; it's two rolls of parchment more than Professor Binns asked for.

Ron says he's going to be in London in the last week of the holidays. Can you make it? If not, I'll see you on the Hogwarts Express on September first!

Love from Hermione

P.S. Ron says Percy's Head Boy. I'll bet Percy's really pleased, Ron doesn't seem too happy about it...'

Amity had been hoping for a book with spells in that she hadn't heard of before, but wasn't too disappointed to find a broom servicing kit.

She finally got to the parcel the Hogwarts owl had brought, and she was surprised to find that Hagrid had sent her a biting book, needless to say Eru was not happy with this book and pounced on it, snarling, his purple eyes flashing angrily. Seeing that Eru had it covered she hurried to her chest of drawers and yanked out a thick belt with a skull buckle, she went back over to the book and Eru leaped nimbly out of the way at the same instance that she lunged for the book, she buckled it shut quickly and growled at it before she chucked at the wall, it seemed to whimper slightly before it went still. She got the distinct impression that Sun and Errol were looking at her amusedly. She cast the book one last wary look before going to read the card that came with it.

Dear Amity,

Happy Birthday!

Think you might find this useful for next year. Won't say no more here. Tell you when I see you. Hope you're having a good time.

All the best,

Hagrid

Now there was only the letter from Hogwarts left, and the mystery package.

She instantly noticed the Hogwarts letter was heavier than useful.

Dear Miss Potter,

Please note that the new school year will begin on September the first. The Hogwarts Express will leave from King's Cross station, platform nine and three-quarters, at eleven o'clock.

Third years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade on certain weekends. Please give the enclosed permission form to your parent or guardian to sign.

A list of books for next year is enclosed. Yours sincerely,

Professor M. McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

She looked at the permission slip and put it aside on her desk to take downstairs later.

Now all that was left was the mystery package, she was wary of this one; a strange owl bringing a package from someone she evidently didn't know. She grabbed her wand from under her pillow and cast a couple of handy diagnostic charms on the package. Well, nothing flagged up as wrong.

She gingerly picked up the package and peeled back the wrappings, this was also wrapped in brown paper but underneath that there was a pretty large box covered in- what she recognised as- traditional Japanese furoshiki (cloth) wrappings, the cloth was electric blue with a gold and bronze bamboo pattern decorating it.

She gently untied it- feeling quite confused- using this kind of wrapping is supposed to be good manners to your friends but none of her friends who knew this would send her present by owl. Once the wrappings were free she found herself looking at a shiny, smooth, black box; with gold kanji written on the lid, the characters read: 'Yūkō' meaning 'Friendship.'

Now she was even more confused, evidently it was meant for her and hadn't been delivered to the wrong place, 'Yūkō' could also be read vaguely as Amity- it was a pun on her name- the package was evidently delivered as a sign of friendship yet also addressed to her.

She lifted off the lid of the box, it was padded with thick, purple cloth and there were three things in the box, yet the only thing she recognised was a pair of glasses. There was a note tied to the frame, which said in quite a lazy style of handwriting: "These will work the same as your contacts, and fix your near-sightedness, they are fitted to your specific prescription...but there is a couple of things different about them..."

Now she had an idea who these were from, who else would be able to get their hands on her prescription, and who would pun her name so badly, or be so vague...

"L, you conniving bas***d..." She muttered irritably, "Could have just said this stuff was from you..."

She picked the glasses up; as she had no idea what everything else was. They had white lacquered frames and she suspected there was either Aluminium or Titanium underneath the lacquer because no one would waste their time lacquering plastic and they didn't weigh enough to be any other metals. They were square shaped but with rounded corners; they only had a rim along the top of the glasses; the bottom of them was rimless. She pulled the note off and put the glasses on her face, they fit surprisingly comfortably and felt almost weightless on her face.

"So I see you got my gift."

An all black L, on a white background flashed over one of the lenses on the glasses.

She fell off her bed in shock and was pleasantly surprised her new glasses didn't fall off. Maybe there was some sort of spell on them...

"Is scaring me going to become a habit?!" She snapped, as she pulled herself into a sitting position on her rug.

"No," L said simply, "This is how we are going to communicate whilst at Hogwarts... To everyone else the glasses will look no different, they won't be able to hear me but they will be able to hear you, however as our conversation be in Japanese so there will be no issue. I mentioned when we last spoke that Japan was much further ahead of the muggle and magical worlds, this is the result of that, all that I sent you is technology from modern day magical Japan, as well as correcting your near-sightedness (which I get the distinct impression you often just ignore instead of using contacts) these glasses can be used as communication if set up to a computer or another set of glasses (in this case both) so I will be able to show you any information I find and you will be able to show me any information you find- seeing through each others eyes as it were- this will only be activated if one of us says 'Hajimeru' and it will end when we say 'Teishi'. You won't be able to speak through them or activate the visual features without physically calling me first, the glasses are an extension of the phones capabilities. These glasses can also connect to the magical version of the internet so you can search with speech and it will flash up on the left lens like it is now... obviously you can't use the glasses in a test, so you'll have to use your contacts."

Amity summed this up with one word, "Sugoi!"

L appeared to be awaiting her to say something more as he was silent.

"How is this possible though? and what are the other things in the box you sent?" She eventually asked.

"Well in the glasses lenses there are tiny invisible micro-chips, wired up similar to a computer screen but much more complex and there are special spells to transfer the sound from the glasses to the phone... Japan and China (although Japan is more advanced) created a special branch of magic called technomancy, the user basically utilizes science and technology as though as it is an element like water or fire, it encompasses data Manipulation, electricity Manipulation and electronic Communication and much more. To become a technomancer takes years and years of study, it means being able to manipulate any technology around you however it also can involve creating new technology and equipment and combining it with magic such as new computers etcetera, they created their own internet (and a network of satellites all across the globe) a while back but its all currently in Japanese of course... but for an extra fee they can build automatic translators in to their phones and computers, not that you would need it" L explained.

"That's is just so amazing! Do they have information on the net about how to be a technomancer? and what about other branches of magic?" Amity asked excitedly.

"Yes they will have them on there... but make sure you don't try anything out of your depth, and also Japan has much more lax laws about dark magic so be careful how many people you tell what you learn, a lot of the British wizarding community wouldn't think to highly of it... Now let me explain how to work the other devices I've given you..."

Amity was fascinated by everything he told her as he led her through how to first turn on and work her new mobile phone (touch screen! She thought it only existed in star trek) and her new laptop.

It wasn't until the sun had risen at around six thirty, that it occurred to her that L had missed out on something important. She held her new phone in her hand as she spoke; it was extremely streamlined and didn't weigh very much, it was a very shiny black, and had unbreakable and waterproofing charms placed upon it, "How are we going to pull this off... I randomly bought some Japanese tech and I like talking to some random guy?... isn't going to be suspicious?"

"I'm glad you asked, I was waiting for you to think of that, although there was a 35% percent chance I would have had to point it out... well, have you ever had a pen friend? I haven't, but I'm familiar with the concept... the story that you are going to use your proficient lying skills to tell is that: a while back there was a foreign pen friend programme at your primary school and that was how you were first introduced to me..."

"The pen friend programme... yeah I remember that, that part's true at least, I wasn't involved though..."

"Maybe not... but the records at your school now say you were, and none of your old teachers would remember otherwise as it was in your 3rd year, I believe... although I doubt anyone would check it is better to be thorough."

"Okay, Japanese pen friend from primary school, year 3... got that... what else?"

"Well we kept in contact at least twice a year and I worked out you had magic as well, so we became proper friends now we could speak more often through owls and for your birthday I sent you these pieces of tech so we could talk face to face, well properly speak to each other at least..." L said.

"Okay, that's plausible... but I've never mentioned a Hideki Ryuuga to my friends or family... won't that look weird?" Amity asked uncertainly.

"You're not trying to back out of our agreement are you?" L questioned, his computer generated voice was beginning to get on her nerves.

"No! but I'm just worried about getting caught, my friends aren't idiots and whilst I like a bit of thrill in my life... I won't do something recklessly stupid. And can't you turn off the voice editor its grating on my patience and my nerves?"

"Very well, and that was actually a test to see if you would back down." L said, "How is this?"

She was surprised that he agreed to turn the voice editor off and also surprised by how he sounded without it, he had a lazy, bored and quite deep sounding voice that did not reflect his intellect.

"Much better," Amity said, with clarity, "Now for my other question?"

"Well, you can tell your family, the pen friending was set up through a wizarding newspaper recently and you can tell anyone else the story I told you to tell, after all you don't tell your friends everything do you?"

"Well, no... I don't tell them everything... and if they don't believe me?"

"If they are that suspicious of you, then they don't trust you at all... are they then really your friends?... well I can't judge because I have never had a friend... but I assume they're not supposed to be that mistrustful, are they?"

Amity didn't have an answer for that, but she was now concerned about how her friends would react.


That's it for another chapter!

For some reason this chapter seemed rather short when I read it back... which its not really... anyway this chapter was kinda a filler chapter in the end, don't know why... didn't aim for it to be but anyway, hope you enjoyed it, regardless!

See ya soon!