Chapter Nine
Disclaimer: Sif I'd own Death Note v.v
A/N: Yeah I know the chapter's been a little disappointing I'm sorry v.v" Oh yeah, for those who think that L is way too OOC, I know v.v, but like I said in the summary; it's my first Death note fic and I'm trying... and btw, Tookie, I'm not going to reply to your argument but; if you're implying that I should put down this fiction, it means you're implying that I should quit doing something I enjoy. What a way to put out enjoyment in doing something.
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Steph:... where's Light?
L: I don't know. You go look for him.
Steph: Fine I will! (walks out of the room, failing to hear the cries from the closet)
L: (kicks the closet)
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"L?" the boy looked up at him and then walked off, sat on the floor with one knee brought to his chest and emptied the contents. Puzzles? L didn't answer but rubbed his foot against the other. "I'm Near."
"You're supposed to be my successor." L pointed lazily as he dragged his feet to the couch, "Why are you here?" Near said nothing as he placed some pieces of his puzzle together,
"You came back from the dead?"
"That's not possible." L said boringly,
"You humans lie a lot." said Sin, chuckling as sitting on the ceiling.
"So Kira didn't kill you properly." stated Near expressionless.
"Don't say that as if you wanted me dead, please." L said, staring unblinkingly at the boy. 'You've always been the one I look up to; I would never want you dead,' the white-haired thought. Sin flew down behind the boy and looked closely at his hair.
"He didn't bleach it... maybe he's old... an old man in a young man's body...ooooh..." Sin said, attempting to annoy L, as he always did when Sai wasn't around. L fixed his dark eyes firmly on Near however as the boy spoke quietly,
"Sorry. I'm here because I think a ...friend... of mine is going to cause you some problems."
"What do you mean?" L shuffled to the sparkly clean kitchen and got a box of doughnuts, placed them on a tray along with other sweets.
"His name is Mello. If I have failed then he'd be the one to success as L."
"I see. What does this have to do with me?" L questioned placing the tray on a coffee table and dragged it to Near's side. He plopped himself in front of Near, staring at the nearly complete puzzle.
"He wants to catch Kira. Knowing him, he wants to catch him before you to prove himself that he's... better than me and you." L popped in a sugar cube. "He would do whatever he thinks is right to capture Kira."
"You don't know where Mello is." stated L, bringing his thumb to his lips, "He would do anything?"
"I didn't say I didn't know where he is." Near glanced at the tray and took a couple of chocolate coated pocky sticks. "I've just visited him this morning."
"I'm already so close to capturing Kira right now. I don't need your help." Mello snorted as he glared at Near whom stared at the blank computer screen.
"What did you do to be so close?" Near sat by the couch. "You let your emotions take the better of you, the more madder you get, the more drastic things you do."
"How the hell would you know that?" demanded Mello, fumed.
"The last exam at the orphanage, you were very angry because you were second on the list and then you threw a chair out the window."
"...how did you know that?!"
"I was under the window."
"You little sneak!"
"No. I was there thinking. I always think there." Mellow growled at Near's calmness.
"Get. Out." Mello pointed a finger at the door.
"..."
"Now." Near picked up his bag and walked out the door. Mello noticed a large block of chocolate sitting by the couch.
Near walked down the steps, passing by a couple of people. He brushed past one and said quietly, "Hello Matt." the person stopped. The two others, one carrying a large sack over his shoulders paused in movement.
"Y-You?" Matt questioned, in surprise. He glanced at the two behind him, "You two go ahead." they nodded and left. "What are you doing here?" he pulled out a cigarette.
"I came to see Mello."
"I see." The two remained silent until,
"I'm going." Near turned and lightly stepped down the stairs,
"Hey, wait." Near turned and felt Matt slip something in his hand. "This is for the time you helped me with last year's exam." The smell of smoke and cigarettes still lingered as Near opened the piece of paper. The brows on the fifteen year old ever so slightly creased.
Near handed the piece of paper to L who took it with two fingers and looked at it. On it was the address of the Hotel and... his already wide eyes widened til they reached their limit.
"I don't think the sack on the man's shoulders was a sack full of chocolate." stated Near softly, completing the puzzle.
"He kidnapped Saika."
"Yup." L suddenly felt his veins run cold and glanced for Sin. But the said shinigami wasn't in sight. Had he gone to Saika?
Mean while...
"Yeah, I know some friends who'd like to join. Should I contact them now?"
"No, not yet. I want to get some information out of this girl first. You two leave. Except Matt." There was a sound of footsteps turning distant, and a sound of a door closing. Sai's eye lids twitched slightly as she lay on what felt like a couch, her hands and feet bound. "Get up."
THUMP.
'Is he kicking the couch? How crude...' she thought grumpily.
THUMP.
"I said get up!"
THUMP THUMP—
"Doesn't your foot hurt, Mello?"
"Shut up Matt!"
THUMP!
"MY FOOT!" Mello screamed.
"ALRIGHT I'M UP!" Saika screamed back. "What do you want?" she demanded, and stopped. She looked him up and down, "YOU LOOK NO OLDER THAN FIFTEEN!"
"So?" he snapped.
"How dare you!" she sat up straighter, "Untie me right now! This is a shit prank you kids are playing--"
"Did someone say prank?" Mello glared down at her, folding his arms. He smirked. "Let's get straight to business then. Death Note." He watched her reaction, but there was none.
"What Note?" she asked, puzzled.
"Death Note," he snarled, "Don't pretend you don't know what it is."
"Is Death Note some popular thing you kids like?" she demanded, "This is ridiculous--"
"MATT! GET JEM IN HERE AND TELL HIM TO TIE HER TO A FRIGGIN CHAIR!" Matt opened the door and a man in a ruffled looking suit came in. He cracked his knuckles,
"Tie her to that chair." Matt pointed.
"Can't do it because you runts are too young?" she mocked as Jem grabbed her and slammed her on the chair in the middle of the room. 'I can't let these guys know about anything.' She thought anxiously, 'I'll stall them as much as I can... but for what?'
"I hacked into some certain files." Mello bit off a chunk of his chocolate. "I found out what the Death Note can do."
"... I still don't know what you're talking about!" Sai spat,
"Controlling when, where and how... when people die, where they die and how they die." 'Oh shit.' Saika swallowed.
"You guys have good imagination." she said bitterly. WHAM. 'He punched me... he punched me... these guys are really serious...' Saika bit her lip and tried to put up with her stinging cheekbone.
Mello turned away and stared out the large window. "My main suspect is Yagami Light... I went through everything and found connections."
"So you kids want to get Kira huh? People are already on that job--"
"People like L?" Mello glared at her reflection in the window. She glared at his back, "Ah. Yes, you're his lover aren't you?"
"Girlfriend. Just girlfriend." she said through gritted teeth. "You came from the orphanage he came from, right? So you two should be on the same side!" Matt cleared his throat. "You three." she corrected with a glare.
"Same side? You could say that. He was my idol. He still is. And now I'm using him to inspire me to best him!" He finished his chocolate,
"So what would you want with this so called Death Note?"
"I'm going to use it against Kira." Mello growled.
"...I see..." 'I came up with the same idea as him. Ew.' She thought disgusted.
"I had your bag checked but as expected you didn't have it with you."
"You checked my bag?" she scowled,
"I know you have the Death Note." Mello snarled, whirling at her, "How the hell did L come back to life? How many people become victims of Kira yet only HE lives again? Shinigami. He had help from one, I know it. And to have a shinigami is to have a Death Note." 'He knows... a lot.' Saika thought bitterly. "The shinigami is probably with L right now..." Mello glared at her, "Very soon it will be in our hands. Don't worry, Saika, we've already sent an invite to L. Meanwhile, Jem can punish you for wasting our time." He stalked out and Matt's eyes followed him before they went back to Sai's apprehensive face.
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L emptied a crumpled envelope that was slid under the door. He lifted the necklace with a little lock on it to his eye level.
"Did that belong to her?" Near merely blinked at him,
"Yes and please don't speak in past tense." L turned the envelope, "There's an address on here. Hn."
"He wants you to meet him."
"He wants me to trade the Death Note for Saika."
"Mello sounds desperate." murmured Near as his tower of dice fell, 'perhaps he really wants to meet L...' "What about the Kira case?"
"..." L paused in movement.
"You can leave her to me." Near stood up. L looked at the necklace once more, and made a hesitating noise as Near took the envelope from him to see the address. He looked at his idol with a funny smile, "I won't fail you." L raised his eyebrows.
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Mello leaned against the wall, glaring at the floor. Matt opened the door and walked in, lighting a cigarette,
"You missed quite a show in there." Matt said casually, plopping himself on a chair. "I doubt those bruises will ever heal, with those abnormal large hands of Jem--"
"Shut up." Mello grumbled and walked to the other side of the room.
"Hey, why are you so afraid of a girl being beaten?" Matt blew the smoke gently and watched it fade; he knew Mello was regretting or afraid of seeing the girl being beaten up... he was too.
"Afraid?" Mello snorted, "Why would I be afraid?"
"You turned away when she was punched, you walk out as soon as you order for her to be punished and you never really hide and sulk."
"What?" spat Mello, "I'm just a little tired!"
"I dare you to go in there and see your idol's girlfriend then." Matt played a smirk,
"Fine then." Mello marched right back into the room where Saika was and forced his eyes onto the heap on the floor... he forced himself to not look away, as Matt was right behind him. (Of course they're still trying to adjust to this sort of torture thing; they're only what, 14-15 years old?)
Meanwhile, somewhere in the shinigami realm, a deeply angered shinigami was watching with a twitching wing.
"Sin..."
"Don't say it." Sin muttered darkly, "Don't say my name."
"Sin..." He continued to watch her, almost broken... in the middle of the unwelcoming large room... he was always watching over her. And he had never seen her in such a situation, "Sin..." Especially where it came to having her call for him.
"Why can't I be human?" he asked himself, glancing at the blackened sky.
"Hey rookie, have you seen Ryuk lately?" Shidou asked in a slightly dazed voice.
"Why can't the lot of you rats call me by name? I've been here for about, a thousand years already." Sin growled.
"Ryuk stole my Death Note..."
"Well get it back yourself."
"I'm not fussed yet, my life span has a while to go... you guys are pals so I thought--"
"Pals my bony ass." mumbled Sin—
"I heard you want to become human."
"... maybe. So?"
"You can become one, if you give me half your span. It's simple see," Shidou lifted a sheet in front of Sin's eyes and he stared at the diagram before him.
"...no. I will not become a mere mortal for some girl." Sin spread his wings and disappeared.
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Well that's all for now, please review, btw, if Mello seems very hyper to you it's only because he's not the 19 year old self plus he's 15. And he looked pretty excited and evil looking in the manga at that age... v.v
Steph: Ouch... personally I thought Sin had feelings for Sai o.0
L:...but you're the author.
Steph:...oh yeah... o.o...
L: ... did you find Light yet?
Steph: Nah. Where did he go...?
L: I think he went out.
Steph: well that explains a lot.
The Closet: (rattles and makes a lot of noise)
Steph and L: O.O MONSTER! (uses a lot of locks and chains to tie up the closet) They'll be definitely more action in the next chapter so please tune in.
