Please note, the flashbacks with Watari, I don't know if any of them happened in the manga/anime.
I don't really like this chapter...And I don't even know why...
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"Greetings My name is Tensei" He did a slight bow.
Bei glared, Mello spat out the piece of chocolate in his mouth, and Matt sighed.
The reason for Matt's sigh was that he was thinking why it had to happen when he was only on level 55.
Bei twitched, when Tensei came back up from his bow and planted a fake smile on his face.
Tensei had real smiles, but seeing as he didn't particularly like these bunch of loser nobodies who think they have what it takes to become the new L, he was going to be L.
"What the heck are you doing here?!" Bei screamed.
Tensei smiled. "I came to give you some aid on this particular-"
"Well we sure as hell don't want it!" Mello shouted.
"I see, I am disliked as well.... but anyways, some news I think I might have an idea of how to stop it..."
Bei stared at him, Mello looked like he wanted to kill him, and Matt continued playing his video game.
"Go on, you son of a b-i-t-c-h" Bei spelled out the last word, she also snapped her fingers for every letter.
"I think I deserved that, so I am going to take that insult, you sow"
Bei frowned. "What did you call me?"
"I called you a sow"
"Explanation" Bei looked at Mello.
"Don't look at me" Mello said.
Bei looked at Matt.
"A female pig" Matt said, now on level 57.
"I thought as much..." Bei said, she looked at Tensei. "We don't want your help" She pushed him out the door, but before she could shut the door, Tensei said something.
-In a hallway-
Saru eventually snapped out of her deep thought when she came across the answer to her solution. "Music! I will just think of a song, then act based on that!" Saru raised her fist in pure happiness.
Saru looked around. "Where am I?" She looked at a sign saying We are sorry, but there is a no entrance fee, you need to pay Roger, or Quilish 10 cents for reading this sign."Who's Quilish?"
Saru turned around. "Hah, like I'm gonna pay 10 cents for readin' a sign..." Saru walked back the way she came from.
-In Matts room-
"What the heck did you say?" Bei asked in astonishment.
"I said, that Saru is going to become a part of this assignment, and if you wouldn't like to have her involved then hurry up and stop her from reading a certain note." Tensei said.
"Alright, but feel free to kick yourself out" She smiled. "Wait, how did you know there was a note in Saru's room?"
Tensei smiled. "Figure it out, yourself."
Bei glared at him. "Well..." Bei walked towards the door, keeping her eye on Tensei. "I'm" She took another step towards the door. "Just" She walked around Tensei. "Gonna" She took a step backwards out the door. "Go" She continued walking backwards. "Check" She motioned to Mello and Matt, to follow her, Mello walked out first, Matt had to sigh and put down his game then follow. "On Saru...Now...T. T. F. N...remember...to lock the door....behind you" She disappeared around the corner.
Tensei smiled, then placed a note on the door outside of Matt's room, he then shut and locked the door behind him.
-In Saru's room-
Saru eventually gave up and eventually found her way back to her room. She opened the, less than eager to open, door, walked into the room, which was also less than eager to have this particular person inside, it much rather liked that nice looking boy, it believed the boy left a note, it said something along the lines of "make sure you're at the cafeteria around 3 in the morning or at night." Strange isn't it? Why couldn't this nice looking boy live here instead of this weird looking girl...
Saru sat down at the computer, she was about to log on when she noticed her bouncy ball, which she specifically remembered it landing in the woods somewhere, and also a note, she was about to read said note when Bei, Mello, and Matt ran into the room.
"Drop what you're doing!" Bei screamed, dive bombing for the note, accidentally causing the bouncy ball, once again to fall out the window, but this time it did not hit a shiny smooth surface but instead something green, the ball's thoughts on the matter was that if it had hands it would most likely love to kill the girl who owned it. "Woah it's a mess in here....no organization skills?"
Saru glared.
"Wait, where'd the note go?" Bei asked as she realized she didn't have it, neither did the desk, or the floor, but the window at that moment would have liked to have said that the piece of paper asked it to tell them that it went for some fresh air.
It was approximately 8:00 at night, the second day from the yet to arrive incident at the cafeteria.
-In in Tensei's room, you can find Tensei sitting by the windowsill, and Linda drawing, her 45th drawing of the same flower that day.
Tensei saw the note land gracefully to the floor. "My my, Linda, looks like Ms. Jing doesn't want Saru to help..." He looked at Linda, who was drawing a flower.
"Yeah... Oh well, when do you think they will find out?" Linda asked.
"Hmm...I give them after number 6...."
"Huh, who's 6?"
"Or 7"
Linda rolled her eyes.
"Bei Jing"
"Is?"
"6"
"I see..."
"Do you?"
"Not really...so who's number 3?"
"Are the preparations ready?"
"...Um yeah..."
"Then I'll tell you, Near, he's too pretty for his own good" Tensei smiled evilly.
Linda looked confused. "Is that your only reason?"
"No, he figured it out, he figured out that I was the kidnapper..."
"How?"
"Simple, he's next door...The planting device is over there" He pointed to the plant.
"I didn't know you had a plant."
"I don't"
"Oh..."
"So he knows your plan?"
"No, I debugged my room, I planted that device..."
"Why?"
"It's called being careful, that and I can't trust these kids that think they will become the next L"
"Somebody's full of himself"
Tensei looked at her. "Why can't I? Look at me, I'm glowing" Tensei did the hair flip.
Linda rolled her eyes. "Yeah..right..."
Tensei glared. "You're just jealous"
"No, just trying to finish my drawing..."
-In Saru's room-
"Hey! What's this!" Bei was exploring the inner sanctum of the room that is Saru's.
"Don't touch that!" Saru grabbed that out of Bei's hand.
"You know, I could show you where your bouncy ball went..." Bei said, with a serious face.
"Really?"
"Yeah, Come here" Bei pointed with her thumb. "Ya see"
"No"
Bei grabbed the back of Saru's head and shoved it through the open window.
"Bei!" Mello shouted, grabbing Bei and Saru away from the window.
"Tell Saru the number one rule..." Bei said.
"Always let your group see, and explore your room" Matt said.
"Okay the second number one rule" Bei said.
"What's that?" Mello asked.
"Don't get on my nerves!" Bei said.
"But I always do that..."
"You're the exception to that rule, Mello" She made the hand signs and the lip movements of 'I Heart You' to Mello.
"You do?"
"Yes, you're like the brother I never wanted...and now that I know you, I think I made the right decision on not wanting any siblings..."
-In Near's Room.
L was spinning in his wheelie chair.
Near was also in the room, he was playing with "action figures", they looked strangely like girl's barbie dolls.
Near sighed. "L-sama, will you please stop spinning, it's distracting"
"How?" L continued spinning.
"The constant moving of the chair that probably should be in the dump, is causing it to squeak, and I am trying to solve how to catch the criminal in action."
L continued spinning. "Does it bother you now?" The squeaking got louder.
"Yes"
"Now?" The squeaking got even louder.
"Yes"
L stopped moving the chair, but the squeaking continued to get louder.
"L-sama, please stop that noise"
"I did..."
"What?" Near turned around. "Then where is that noise coming from?"
L shrugged. "Dunno, but I'm hungry" He made a dokubob, and shoved it in front of Near.
"No...thanks..." Near's eyes went cross-eyed as he eyed the dokubob that was in front of him.
"Very well, more for me..."
Near got up and went to the window, because the squeaking seemed to be coming from the window, Near opened the window, and in flew an arrow with a note attached to it.
The arrow flew landed right in front of L, L raised an eyebrow.
"Well, the kidnapper seems to be busy..." L said as he read the note, his style.
Dear, L and Near.
Near, You've been a pleasurable next door neighbor, I'd watch out number 3.
L, if you want to stop me, come to the cafeteria at your choice of 3 in the morning or 3 in the afternoon.
Enjoy.
Yukaihan'nin
"Is there a back?" Near asked, twirling his hair in a thoughtful expression.
"No..." L said dejectedly.
"Oh, wait number 3?" Just as Near asked that, another arrow came through the window, again landing in front of L.
L sighed. "What now?"
I forgot, Near your invited to come watch the show...
"That's kind of scary..." L said. "Where'd the notes come from?"
Near looked out the window. "I can't see past the grime on the window"
"Isn't the window open though?" L asked.
"Yes" Near said.
"Then how-" L stopped talking as they both heard the creak of the door, next to them, open then close.
L and Near looked at each other, then Near hurriedly put his ear to the wall.
"I'm back"
"What's with the arrow?"
"What arrow?"
"The one in your hand"
"Oh... It was needed, but not anymore..."
"Right in my flower?"
"What flower?"
"This one"
"I don't own any plants...They're prettier than me..."
"You do know eavesdropping is illegal..." L's voice interrupted Near's eavesdropping.
"Whatever is necasary..."
"If you say so..." L ate another dokubob. "I bet he can hear whatever we're saying as well"
"Probably...so what time are we going to go to his "show?"
"Hmmm 3 in the afternoon..."
"I was thinking 3 in the morning..."
"That could work, got nothing better to do anyways..."
"At three in the morning?"
"Don't sleep" L was eating another dokubob.
"That's not normal..."
"What is normal?"
"I...I'm going for a walk...to see where I can find the bow..." Near left the room.
"Heh...I confused him..." L smiled and then ate his fifth dokubob.
-In Roger's Office.
Roger was enjoying his new job. I wonder how Quilish is... I suppose I should call him by now, just to see if he is doing alright...
Roger dialed Quilish's number.
"Hello, Roger"
"Quilish, Where are you and L headed off too?"
"Oh we are going to America, but we made a stop along the way to the next plane."
"I see...When will you be in America?"
"How's the children? Mello, Matt, Bei, and the rest aren't causing you trouble are they?"
"...The usual..."
"Really?" Watari sounded surprised. "And here they always told me that they were going to get you for all the times you caught them..."
"Well, Quilish, I tend to give out punishments more than just letting them get away with it..."
"What are you implying, Roger? That I don't take my orphanage seriously?"
"Of course you do...sorry dear friend, I haven't been sleeping too well lately..."
"Oh? Then you should be resting, oh remember as much as punishments go, they are still children" Watari hung up.
"Of course they are, Quilish" Roger put the phone down, and sighed. "Of course they are"
-In the hallway with the sign that says you have to pay it just for reading it...
Watari slipped the phone in his pocket, then opened the door. And Roger wonders where half of the funds we make disappeared to, I used the fundings for this hallway specifically...
Watari went into the room, and sat down in front of the computer screens. "Oh? Somebody already found this place?" Watari asked, as he pressed the playback button on the video camera screen.
"Who's Quilish?....." After several seconds. "Hah, Like I'm gonna pay 10 cents for readin' a sign" Saru said as she turned around and went the way she came.
"Oh, that Saru is a pecular one..." Watari went to work on making the door only open for specific voices.
"What the heck? Mr. Watari I did nothing wrong...it was all Mello's and Matt's fault..." Bei said while giving the puppy eyes.
"Huh? Bei?! You aren't even in this group yet, and your already blaming me?!"
"And Matt"
"Huh?" Matt asked, not paying attention to anything besides his video game.
"Mello and Matt haven't gone as far as to steal all the leftovers, that are for everyone, for Leftover Thursday, the day after you, Ms. Jing, came into my care"
"But, Mr. Watari!"
Watari pressed the pause button. "Oh those kids...that was the only time I had to punish them..." He made sure their voices were recorded into the computer's database. "Who else?" He hit the play button again.
"Near? We are going to go play a soccer game, wanna join?" Mello asked.
"No thanks" Near replied. "I much rather enjoy the inside."
"Whatever" Mello walked away. "Enjoy the damn puzzle..."
"Near's a solitary figure...And Mello swore back then?..." Watarihit the pause button again. "Near still hasn't changed much, even with the addition of Ms. Jing..." Watari hit the play button again.
"Are you sure you should be eating so much sugar, L?" Watari asked a 5 year old L.
L looked up from his sugar tower, "Yes, as long as I think I won't get fat, I won't" L went back to building his sugar tower, occasionally sticking a sugar cube into his mouth.
"L hasn't changed much either... in fact none of them have..." Watari hit the pause button, then hit the play button.
"Ms. Linda? What are you drawing?" Watari asked.
"That tree..." Linda pointed to the tree outside of her window.
"I see..."
The pause button was hit again. "She hasn't changed much either...Now who else is there?...No I got Ms. Gaki's voice..." Watari spent the next hour pondering if he should add anyone else.
-In Saru's room.
"Alright...it's 9:20...What are we going to do now?" Bei asked.
"Well...My guess would to be to wait til 3 in the morning..." Matt said.
"What's at 3?" Saru asked.
"Well, based on the notes, it seems to me that the kidnapper likes attention, so wouldn't it make sense to wait til 3 in the afternoon?" Mello asked.
"What's at 3?" Saru asked.
"Wait, I thought we weren't going to go..." Bei said, sort of in the form of a question.
"Well we need to stop him from kidnapping people..." Matt said.
"When did we assume that the kidnapper is a dude?" Bei asked.
"What's at 3?" Saru asked.
"Wait, why are we discussing this in Saru's room?" Bei asked.
"I dunno..." Matt and Mello said.
"And where'd the note go?!" Bei asked.
Saru starting humming the theme song to Rugrats.
All three of them stare at her.
Saruremembered the door with the weird sign. "Oh yeah! I have something to show you!" Saru yelled, dragging Bei and Matt by the hands.
"I do not like being dragged!" Bei shouted.
Matt just went with the flow.
Mello followed behind them.
-Outside.
Near was looking for a bow, at night.
-In a random hallway.
"I know it was here somewhere!" Saru yelled, as she continued to get the gang lost.
-In Tensei's room.
The door opened, and Linda entered carrying a box. "I'm bac- What are you doing with my sketchbook?!" Linda asked, dropping the box to the floor.
Tensei looked at her, then to the fallen box, then to the ripped pages of what used to be Linda's sketchbook. "I was just thinking..."
Linda started to cry.
Tensei got up and grabbed the box. "It's 9:35, we are going to stay up until 3 in the morning..."
"W-why?" Linda asked, in between sobs.
"For the kidnapping"
"Oh.."
"I'm hungry, I'll bring you back something Linda" Tenseileft the room, but soon reentered with a sad look on his face.
"What is it?"
"Oh just that... the group in charge of solving this assignment just ran by the open door..." Tensei then left again, shutting the door behind him.
-In another random hallway.
"Okay, just admit you're lost?!" Bei yelled, pulling her hand free.
"I am not lost!" Saru yelled back, grabbing her hand back.
Bei looked down. "I am going back to my room!" Bei pulled her hand free again.
Saru tried grabbing it back, but she then realized where she was. "This way, this way!" Saru jumped up and down in pure excitement, she then turned down the hallway to her right.
Bei, looked at Mello, then to Matt, then to the floor, then she sighed, and followed Saru, with her head still looking at the floor.
-In the Cafeteria.
"Arigato" Tensei bowed. "And might I add you are looking lovely today, Ms....?" Tensei pushed his tray to the side.
"Oh Stop Tensei, you shouldn't be flattering me so..." The lunch lady gave him another tray.
"Arigato" Tensei bowed, then grabbed the two trays, and walked away. "Too Easy, must be my handsome features." Tensei smiled and did the hair flip, causing two girls at the table he was passing to sigh and squeal. Tensei left the cafeteria paying them no attention.
-In Tensei's room.
"It's me, open the door." Tensei said in a whisper.
"Kay" Linda said, as she opened the door.
Tensei walked in, giving Linda her tray. "You know what I don't get?"
"What?" Linda rolled her eyes.
"Two things, why the cafeteria is still open, and why you didn't just leave in the time of my absence..."
"I could do that?" Linda said, after receiving no response from Tensei she added. "I like it here..."
Tensei started eating, paying Linda no attention.
"So...We're doing this at 3 in the morning...?" Linda asked,
"That's the general vote...so yeah..." Tensei shrugged.
"Can you wake me up?" Linda asked.
"I wouldn't be able to do this without you"
"So is that a yes?"
"Eat your food, it's getting cold"
"Alright..."
"Yes"
"Yes what?"
"Have a nice nap"
Linda looked confused. "I don't understand you sometimes..."
-At the Right Hallway.
"Here it is" Saru whispered.
"A door.." Bei said.
"A sign.." Mello said.
"Is what you wanted to show us?" Matt asked.
"Yes!" Saru whispered excitedly.
Bei rolled her eyes, and walked up to the door. She read the sign. "What? 10 cents to read the sign? That's dumb..." The door opened at her voice.
Bei looked shocked, but she walked in anyways, the door shut behind her.
"Bei?" Mello walked up to the door. "10 cents? What the hell?" The door opened, and he walked in, the door closed behind him.
Matt walked up to the door. "...Uh" The door opened to his voice, he walked in, it shut behind him.
Saru walked up to it. "What the fuck?! It didn't open for me earlier!" The door opened, rather reluctantly to let her in, it shut behind her.
"Welcome, I'm surprised you found this place..." Watari's voice could be heard.
"Mr. Watari! Whassup Dude?!" Bei yelled, running up to the voice and hugging it.
"Hi Ms. Jing...Mello, Matt, and Ms. Gaki"
Bei beamed, Saru and the rest walked up.
"Now we must wait for L and Near to show up" Watari said. "Please take a seat"
"Where is L?" Mello asked.
"Something about eavesdropping..." Watari said.
"Isn't that illegal?" Matt asked.
"I believe so, but he'll be here momentarily"
They all took seats.
"So Matt...You have yet to tell us how you knew about this" Bei said, arms crossed.
Matt continued to play the video game.
Mello took the game out of his hands. "Stop playing and start talking" Mello said.
"Fine...I'll tell you" Matt smiled. "Eavesdropping"
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I decided I'm not going to do a preview for this one, so just be on the look out for the next chapter! :D
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