Disclaimer:

Layla: Hey, Katsumi come out of your black hole of depression right now!

KH: -looks up from hole she had crawled into- No! I'm too sad.

Layla: Oh whatever, but someone has to do disclaimer. Otherwise… you'll get sued.

KH: -looks up and in slightly detached voice says- Can't get sued. Need to go to lit school. No money. No internet. No school. No college. No income. No life. No happiness….

Layla: Ok… As you can see Kat here is feeling a little… depressed, tired, overworked and… what was the last word?

KH: underappreciated. Severly underappreciated.

Layla:… Undrappreciated. So I being the caring fictional character I am will deliever the disclaimer so that KH dosen't feel any worse than she does. Katsumi dosen't own Death Note in any way shape or form. Oh my Kira, I have an IDEA!

Light Yagami: Hey, when did I get dragged into this?

Layla: I don't own a Death Note and neither does KH, but LIGHTY DOES!

Light: Oh my God, shut up!

L: Very interesting…

Light: Damn… I can't kill a ghost. Wait, Ryuuzaki you can see them?

L: -swallows-

~Torn~

Ch.7

"Sera... Sera... Oh, Sera..." A voice said, jerking me awake form my slumber. I lifted one eye open meekly and stared at Layla - the person who had woken me up in the middle of the night on a Saturday... who was now the object of my homicidal tendencies. I closed my eyes again rolling over to my side.

"Sera!" Layla yelled. I nearly winced. "You know... if I were Ryuuzaki she'd wake up in an... There she is!" Layla cried as I jerked upward.

"Layla... This is the second time this week that I've had to wake up in the middle of the night because of you. What is so important that it can't wait until the sun is up?" I asked, rising my volume until I was nearly screaming.

"Its time to start..." Layla paused for effect. "Your training." My eye twitched.

"My... training?" I asked, eye twitching at abnormal rates. "My training that couldn't have waited until it was daylight!"

"Sera, Sera, Sera... You see, we could have done this the normal way, waited until day, had a nice breakfast and then done this, but sadly... Thats just too boring. When its 2 a.m. , it tends to be more funner." Layla explained patting my head. She looked at my death glare at scrunched her nose.

Diana, who was watching the whole thing, noticed the change in Layla's expression. "What is it?"

"The force... it's weak with this one."

Layla doged on of my kicks.

"Lets just start this, already... By the way, why are we doing this." I asked. Layla grinned evilly.

"Because... I said so. Now, lets review. Diana?" Layla said.

"Yes?"

"Can you get me the white board we st... I mean, took without permission from, like, Walmart?" Layla asked.

"Oh sure." Diana said, opening my sock drawer and pulling out a white board, the handing it to Layla.

I really gave them too much freedom.

Layla took the white board and opened a mark before drawing a stick figure and tapping it. "This Sera, is you. You used to be normal and not able too see us until..." Layla drew a (bad) picture of an airplane and draw an arrow of a stick figure boarding it. "You got onto a plane and it went down. When it went down." Layla drew a photo of a stick figure lying down with X's for eyes. "You suddenly gained the ability to see us - the dead people of the world. Now this isn't jsut a coincidence. You became a necromancer. Now, do you know what necromancer is? … Or did your getting all hot for Ryuuzaki wipe that from you... Ow!" Layla replied as I kicked her. "Fine. FIne. We do this the normal way. A necromancer is someone who can see the dead and raise the dead. Happy, now?"

I looked at Layla. I knew I could see the dead, but... but... raise them? How was that... How could... But I'm just... I stared down at my hands , folded in my lap. These hands... They could restore life. They could bring back people. I could... I could... fix lives. I looked up at Layla who was nodding and jotting something down in a notebook.

"What are you doing?" I asked, peering over.

"Day One. Just broke the news of Sera. Is staring at her hands in a very psychotic way. Looks crazy, but... she does have a crazy case of bedhead... Yeah, thats probably it." Layla mumbled to herself. I smacker her.

"Violence... Violence..." Diana said, shaking her head. I rolled my eyes as Layla laughed.

"All right. All right. Whatever. Let's just do this." I told them. Layla and Diana nodded.], exchanging a look.

"For our first lesson..."

L stared at the monitor in front of him, typing furiously abut the Kira case. The tape lie next to him on the table. L glanced over at it, dying to play it again. To put it together. TO figure out exactly who the mystery ghost was.

He turned to the left and stared at the other members of the Task Force. Matsuda was asleep in his chair, slumping over like he was dead. Aizawa was muttering something under his breath. Sochiro was half-dead. The other members didn't fare much better... most of them looked delusional or asleep. L looked at the tape, than back at them.

They weren't going to be much help if they were half-dead... Besides I need to review the tape again.

"You can take tonight." L said in his monotone as he stared at screen. In and instant, Matsuda sat up.

"Really?"

"Yes. You aren't going to be much help if your asleep half the time. Go home and get some rest." L told them, putting a strawberry in his mouth.

"Thanks, Ryuuzaki!" Matsuda, said getting up and running out of the room... along with most of the Task Force.

Soichiro hesitated, staying behind a bit. "Ryuuzaki... Are you sure?"

L nodded. "Quite positive, really. I don't want you dead while working."

Soichiro looked the the detective again BEFORE LEAVING.

Once the door shut, L nearly broke his cool demoner and sighed of relief. Alone... Finnaly.

His fingers crept towards the tape. Itching to press play and hear everything all over again.

"... Do you understand now?" Layla asked after that long explanation.

"Uh... no."

Diana groaned. "Dude! This is the third time we've explained to this to you. Seriously, how braindead re you at 2 a.m?"

I rolled my eyes. "Its Two A.M... What do you think?"

"Touche..."

Layla sighed. "Okay, Okay. Lets just get this over with. Sera, you as a necromancer can see us... But thats not all you can do! You can sense us as well. Now I want you to concentrate... and hard. Where exactly do you feel another ghost?"

I sighed. We'd been trying this for an hour and all I'd gotten was nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. I don't know why Layla kept trying this. I was obviously failing. Still... I shut my eyes and concentrated.

Come on, Sera... Another ghost. You can do this.

I mentally searched for someone... And than I felt it. Felt Layla beside me. I... I don't know how to describe the feeling, but its an overwhelming miz of certainty, chills and... familarality. Suddenly, I attuned to Diana across the room. I tried harder, pressing. Suddenly, I felt my... range grow. Nothing in Sayu's room, nothing in Uncle Soichiro and Aunt Sachiko's room. Then I felt it.

With a pang, I felt something in Light's room, but... It felt strange. Not like a ghost, but... Something else. Something evil. Chills and sweat broke out all over me. I dind't want to feel this anymore.

I opened my eyes, expecting the feeling to go away. Instead, it stayed.

"Did you feel anything?" Layla asked. I nodded.

"i felt you guys and... something in Light's room." I said.

"What? Light has another talker ghost? Oh, its on." Layla said firmly.

"No not like a ghost more like... something else."

"Something else... as in?"

"As in... something evil."

Layla shrugged. "I read somewhere that spirits vary. Its probably an evil one. Well, anyways congrats! Your now attuned to your ghost hunting ability." I gaped.

"So... you mean … I get this all the time?" i asked.

"24/7 Now I realize it may not be the best thing of all, but... Would you rather get sneaked up on one when you could just feel it behind you." Diana said. I sighed. True.

"You are right..."

"... As always."

"... But I'm going to check up on Light. I don't want him to be like... killed or anything." I said, getting up and starting for Light's room.

"Seraphine?" He heard his own voice asked.

"Yes?" Seraphine's voice asked.

"You and Light are cousins, right?" He asked.

"Yes..."

"Have you two been working on any projects for school together lately? I thought I should know in case you already know things I'm tutoring you on."

Here L heard a laugh... It didn't sound like Seraphine's and he didn't recall her laughing... Maybe it was a classmate... But they were practically all alone.

"Not really. Light's a recluse. He hardly leaves his room anymore."

"Is that so?" He asked on that tape. Then he heard soemthing...

"Don't say anything else, Sera. He's recording this." An unknown girls voice asked.

L replayed the tape as he jotted down notes at a pace only L could match. It had been a couple minutes since they'd left and so far, L had no clue as to who the spirit was. He'd ruled out Seraphine's mother. He'd already checked her family history... It didn't look like she had sister.

Then it came to him.

"Layla Ericson,"

The name Seraphine had used at the park, about a week ago. He moved to the computer, typing it in at a fast pace. The page loaded up in two seconds.

Name: Layla Ericson

Status: Missing, last seen in a small village in Russia, body of young girl found at scene, unidentified, but possibly her.

L looked over at the photo. A young blond girl's picture was loaded up. She looked around fourteen in the photo. Her green eyes looked happy, but they shot anger and hatred through L's body at an abnormal rate.

It clicked. That feeling in his gut telling him he was right, suddenly hoped up, surging and energizing him like no cake, coffee or candy could. He was right. He knew it.

Then, L, suddenly got it.

I've interacted with Seraphine, who can hear and see spirits. This one warned her against me... I could be being watched. The spirit - Layla could be reporting back to Seraphine... Kira did have a keen sense of my next move...

She was Kira. He knew it.

I creaked over to Light's room, feeling the bad energy coursing through me from the ghost, the demon, the whatever that was in there. I swallowed, suddenly getting nervous - very nervous. If it was evi, it could hurt anyone... I gulped, my courage suddenly dimishing to -100.

I slwly opened the door. Light was slumped over in his chair, asleep. He looked like he had been working on something - an open black notebook lay on his desk, Light's scrally handwriting sticking up at me. A pen lay on the floor. I smiled to myself... Light had obviously been working hard.

I had almost forgotten about the bad energy when a wave of it crashed over me again... from Light's bed. I tip-toed over ther, careful not to wake Light. I stuck my hand out to touch it almost, but felt nothing... Nothing at all... I could see nothing too. But, I still felt it! What was it? I mean, it had to be there, waves of it was crashng over me - almost drowning me in an ocean of bad energy. It had to! But... wait..

I'd only learned this about... fifteen minutes ago. I could be wrong. Maybe Light was just secretly a bad person. We all have secrets... SOme of us more than others.

At that thought a picture of my father flashed up in my head.

I don't remember much about before the crash. Names, faces, realtionships. Yes, but... It was so much give and take it wasn't even funny. I could scarely remember whether i felt fear, hatred or love towards someone, but at my fathers face... I felt immeniant fear wash over me, cold and hard.

I shook my head again, trying to block it out. I was tired that was probably it... Nothing else... If Layla did this again, I swear I would...

My thought was cut off as the front door slammed shut. My face paled as I stepped outside and ran to my room quietly.

Uncle Soichiro... What are you doing here?

"I thought we were going to teach her astral projection!" Diana whined to Layla. Layla shook her head.

"We were, Di... Don't get me wrong its just that she need to get more... tuned to her natural abilites before we start training her." Layla said. Diana quieted taking this all in.

"So... tomorrow?"

Layla contemplated this before shrugging. "Eh... Screw natural abilites. Tomorrow."

Ah! I feel like there hasn't been much fluff lately in the recent chapters! Whatever... When it comes to me, it'll come to me. Now readers... people... please

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