Hello all! Another chapter's here! Celebrate! *Throws confetti into the air* No? Oh, well. Anyway, I've made some religous terms known here. Thanks. Yeah...watch out for those. I'm going to be throwing ALOT of them in this fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note. Just any characters you don't know.
In the Kana Side Apartment complex room 1313…was empty. The residents thought it was strange. That the room 1313 who their superintendent had being spending most of his time with was gone. It was also very strange that the superintendent decided to take his daughter on a trip to England the same time.
All in all the residents gossiped about living so near a handicapped person. How did they know this? Resident 1312 had gone to the super when a particularly loud scream woke them one night. Mr. Ballad assured them that nothing was wrong.
He explained that one of the residents in room 1313 had survived a fire a couple of years earlier and still had serious injuries. They all sympathized with the burnt man despite never meeting him personally.
He didn't come out of the room much at all, and when he did he was so covered with hoodies and other things that no one ever saw the burns themselves. But they didn't blame him for hiding those burns must look dreadful.
Meanwhile in London, England James Ballad and his daughter Lisa were enjoying a nice weekend getaway to a 'superintendent convention'. Well, they would if such a thing existed.
You see, this 'normal' single man and daughter were in fact participating in a plot that would have any normal person calling the police.
They were plotting a er…'kidnapping'. Well, it really wasn't a kidnapping if the kid came willingly, which they were hoping he would. A 'close friend' by the name of Beyond Birthday had finally asked them for help.
After nearly a week of hanging around that crazy man they could finally do something worthwhile. James Ballad thought it was outrageous. But, if it meant being able to study the estranged mind that belonged to Beyond then…it was very worthwhile.
He was a man of discovery. And he had never seen nor heard of any type of mental disease that exhibited the same symptoms that Beyond had. Beyond was special, maybe even with a new type of mental disorder.
The man truly believed himself to be of some otherworldly decent. He hadn't been told much; just what he's overheard. Beyond kept his mental condition quite a secret.
It annoyed James to no end. Lisa couldn't care less, as long as she had her dad, she didn't care at all. So, James tried to recall what he overheard. Maybe if he thought about it longer he could make sense of it.
He recalled going into 1313, he had a skeleton key that fit all doors it was HIS building after all. And he could hear Hizaki, another 'friend' of Beyond's, talking. Hizaki was a strange man; he never really had much to say at all.
And he often looked at Beyond like he was staring at some god, or king maybe. James summed it up to devotion, a type of brainwashing done by Beyond himself. That was fine, he didn't care about Hizaki.
The man started out loudly not realizing that he was there. " Beyond-sama, I still don't quite understand…the new morning star? I thought YOU were the morning star?" He could hear B sighing in aggravation.
"Hizaki, I've told you nearly a hundred times, I AM his bright and morning star. But he replaced me with a child. I will admit this child certainly looks holy. He acts it as well, never doing anything wrong. But he won't overpower me, no. I'll kill the brat before that."
Hizaki spoke yet again, confusion still evident in his deep voice. " Then…you do plan to kill that kid?" B answered. "No. Certainly not…I won't make HIS mistake, I'll allow this child to live. But I'm certain that he's easy to manipulate. I'll talk to him, coax him away from L. He'll fall apart at the thought of his 'precious child' being smitten with me instead." He had spit out the words "Precious Child" like a curse.
His voice was shaking slightly throughout his speech obvious insanity lacing itself in his already cracked voice. James had snuck away after that. He now knew at least something about the 'Locked room murderer'.
He had studied every type of thing he could, to find out what Beyond had been talking about. To his surprise it had been one of those Christians singing a type of hymn to attract 'sinners' to listen. They had said the words 'Morning star'!
He chased them down asking them everything he could about those words. They said that Morning Star was one of the many names given to Christ.
So, Beyond was comparing himself and some child-offspring of the detective L's to Jesus Christ? That certainly didn't make any sense what so ever. He attributed it to insanity, and planned on studying him some more to understand what this new type was.
And it would be fun to see if a insane man could manipulate someone. If he could…then that would be a breakthrough on discovering what exactly was wrong with Beyond Birthday.
It had been 3 days. And the Ballads were finally back home in Japan. Exhausted they spoke lightly to some of the residents who were in the main lobby before retiring to their rooms.
Later on that night Beyond and Hizaki returned as well. Carrying an extra load that they certainly didn't have when leaving.
Resident 1312 swore that he saw the blonde man and covered man walking a small child back to their room. It was late and honestly he wondered if the child was Hizaki's or the burnt man's. He'd hang around tomorrow and ask Hizaki when he came down to get breakfast.
Most of the residents knew the blonde man. He didn't talk much, had a very gruff and deep voice, and exited the room only to buy things for his comrade…er…the believed to be comrade.
Some of the women gossiped that Hizaki and the man were gay lovers, something that Lisa Ballad herself let slip to the curious woman in 1212.
Others swore that Hizaki was simply a caring friend who had let the scarred man live with him seeing as how he lost his family in the fire.
1312 swore that the latter was true. But hey, if some guy wants to 'shack-up' with a crispy nugget then…he honestly didn't believe that someone actually would…but there's some strange things in the world.
For now, he was going to go to bed. He had to set his clock for an extra hour early…after all, he did want to ask whose child that was.
The Kira task force was having a fairly calm day. L had gotten the stitches removed the day before and was practically in the happiest mood they had ever seen on a person before.
He hummed English songs to himself, and sat in his normal odd position. Something that he hadn't been able to do for a week which had them all ready to strangle him over his whiney-ness. He ate piles of cake and tea-laced sugar. The day was calm, something that they were all thankful for.
Especially Light Yagami. He was sick of L, and having him 'normal' again was a relief. At least until he was gone for good, then he'd be even more relieved.
The phone rang. The dense atmosphere you would believe to happen never did. L continued to slurp his sugary-mass that happened to taste only slightly like tea, Matsuda was exasperated trying to figure out a riddle that Sochiro had given him while the few other members snickered at their co-worker's stupidness.
Watari answered the phone thinking nothing of it; after all, what could possibly be wrong at this hour of the night? "Yes?" He answered, thinking that Kira had killed yet nearly another jail-ful of prisoners. Only to be shocked when he heard his old friend's worn out voice sounding very frantic.
"Quillish!" Watari stiffened. If Roger was using THAT name then…"Yes? What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. The team looked up, it wasn't like Watari to be worried.
"Yes, calm down. I'm sure that Me…" He stopped obviously being interrupted. "It's not Mello? The who on earth would…" The person on the other line said something and Watari gasped. He nodded solemnly before hanging the phone up.
He gazed at Ryuzaki, his eyes were surprisingly crestfallen, he finally spoke his voice sounding much older then it had been. "Ryuzaki…I'm afraid that was Roger."
L looked confused. "Roger? At this hour?" Watari paused thinking of a way to say this without letting the others know anything personal. " He found your son's bed empty. He's still searching but so far it seems like he's ran away."
Ryuzaki's eyes widened after a few moments, as he understood the man's words. " Ran away…that's not like him…why on earth?" Watari shook his head, "I haven't the foggiest."
Light craned his neck slightly to see L's face. He looked…guilty. Sochiro saw it too. That guilty look, it almost seemed like L had witnessed the same thing before. Sochiro knew that if that call had been about HIS son he would be frantic to find his little boy.
Matsuda even seemed to understand the seriousness of what happened. "R-ryuzaki?" He questioned lightly. L looked back up, obviously his mind had been somewhere else.
"Sorry." He apologized lightly, his voice not completely there. "This is a personal matter, so don't worry. He isn't the type to run away, I'm sure Roger will find him soon. That man overreacts to everything maybe I should ask someone else to watch him when I'm gone." He murmered more to himself then to the task force. They all nodded or responded in some way most telling him that they're sure he'll be found soon.
And so the Kira case began getting revised again, L throwing himself into his work more then normal.
Alrighty! So...please R & R! Thank you for reading. ^^
