'Goodnight, my love. Your Mommy is kneeling beside you.'
Rei stirred in her sleep, holding on tighter to the other white fluffy pillow that she had fallen asleep holding. Since she hadn't gone to sleep in the bed without having no idea she was being put there, the other times since she had been living in the apartment, she would fall asleep on the floor with a pillow under her head, or on the couch.
'Goodnight, my love. To dreamland the sandman with guide you.'
The girl lay there, dreaming subconsciously about how her mother would come home and sing to her when she had long gone to sleep waiting for her. Before this, the older woman would also sing this while she was pregnant with her, and when she would cry in the middle of the night when a baby.
'Come now you sleepy head…Close your eyes go to bed.'
Opening her eyes slowly, this was unusual, because for some time now she would wake up instantly, the sleep getting thrown off her as fast as it could. Feeling calm and slightly warm inside despite the unnatural coldness that seeped off of her, she let go of the pillow she had been hugging and got off the bed.
Walking to the door, she reached out to the doorknob and turned it, opening the door without even bothering to change her clothes, figuring that they were warmer than the regular clothes that were supplied. "..My love." She sung to herself as she closed her eyes, preparing herself for the light that would soon invade them, even though she never had a problem with it before.
Opening her eyes, her breath caught in her throat as she found L looking up at her from his laptop and Light looking over his cup of coffee at her, looking slightly ticked. At the moment she had one of those feelings when you just know they were talking about you, they just won't let you have the satisfaction of knowing for sure.
Blinking in surprise, she noticed right away that Light thought being there was a waste of time and that they should be working. Rei mentally told him to suck it up as she crossed the room and went into the kitchen, watching as L just looked back down at the laptop, but Light kept his gaze fixed on her until there was a wall between them.
Letting out a breath of air she didn't know she was holding in, she went to a package of chocolate frosted mini donuts that Watari had kindly brought her up. Stopping in front of the counter, she struggled with the tab to open it for a good five minutes before it finally ripped away.
Throwing the cardboard she had ripped off the box in her failed attempts, she went and got a glass out of the cupboard, filling it with milk she got from the fridge. Not really in the mood for her insides to be even colder, she went to the microwave and warmed up the glass she had poured.
After a couple minutes of that, she finally brought out the cup and picked up the box, planning on eating it on the couch across from the two. In her head Rei was humming the soothing melody of the song her mother sang to her before pushing open the slightly ajar door.
When she had gotten close to the door, she had begun to hear crashes and things clattering to the ground, but when she finally saw what was making the noise, she about dropped her food.
The humming stopped and her blue eyes widened, stomach clenching as she saw the red couch the two had been sitting on was flipped backwards, the coffee table turned over, a lamp on the floor. It took her a few seconds to adjust her gaze so she saw the culprits of the mess.
A heaving from exhaustion Light had the front of L's (who was just staring at him with bruises forming on his face) shirt clenched in a fist, his other fist pulled back and about to hit the weak looking detective again. Slowly, as if moving would make Light hit him, she set her food on the carpeted floor and quickly ran over to them. Luckily, it seemed like Light had asked L something and was waiting for a response, or else he would have already hit him while she had paused.
Not noticing her presence, Light still waited for L to speak until his fist was grabbed in a iron grip, pulled back; which made his whole body get jerked to the side, and kneed very hard in the gut. Gasping out as the air was knocked out of him and by the coldness of her touch, Light looked up to see an extremely pissed Rei.
Not wanting to touch the boy more than necessary, she let go of his now weak gripped fist and let it fall down to the ground along with Light who was kneeling on the ground gripping his stomach.
Back still against the wall, L watched this all happen, his wide eyes staring down at the now gasping Light. Looking up at Rei, he found that she was still looking down at the boy, seething.
"I told you not to…" She said through clenched teeth, her eyes narrowed as her words dripped with venom from hatred that L had to wonder where she pulled from. Inside, Rei was angry at Light for multiple reasons.
1. He killed L.
2. The idiot made her get out of a really good mood.
3. He didn't have the right to hit someone who apparently refused to hit him back at the moment.
"Rei-chan…" L said, his voice as calm as ever. Looking up with wide eyes at this, she took a step back as if afraid. "Why did he hit you?" she asked, her voice shaking slightly. L was silent for a few moments, looking her directly in the eyes. "Because I told him I was going to bring you with us when we apprehend Kira tonight." L stated.
" 'Tonight'?!" Rei exclaimed breathlessly, realizing she hadn't really thought about it coming up soon. L had been waiting for a reaction, but he realized she was only surprised about it being tonight. "Rei-chan, do you…" L started, pausing as he gathered his thoughts again. "Do you know what's going to happen?"
-2-2-2-2-2—2-2-2-2-2—2-2-2-2-2—
Climbing into the helicopter through the doorway to sit next to Watari who had his legs hanging out the side, grabbing a gun that was being handed up to him by L who then walked around and climbed into the pilot seat, next to Light who hadn't been to happy since he got up from being kneed in the stomach.
"You know how to pilot a helicopter?" he stated nervously as he watched L flip a few switches. Rei tried not to listen as she grabbed a seatbelt that was hanging on the metal wall of the aircraft. Wrapping it around herself and buckling it in, she watched as the propellers turned quickly above them. "Please relax. I know not of the reasoning for him bringing you, but since you are here you must relax."
Looking at Watari, who looked slightly unapproachable in what he was wearing at the moment, Rei nodded, relaxing her shoulders and grabbing onto a metal bar that was there for safety and for her to hold onto.
L's voice cut through the air. "Get ready everyone." He said in a monotonous tone before suddenly the whole craft shifted and they were hovering in the air.
-3-3-3-3-3—3-3-3-3-3—3-3-3-3-3—
The door to the side of the helicopter opened as Rei realized that this is the part in the story that Watari shoots out Higuchi's tires. On cue, Watari pulled down the black ski mask over his face, stepped down, and took aim. Earlier when they were just overseeing everything, the helicopter jostled when Light had tried to take command of the aircraft, making it quickly jerk to the right.
At that time, the buckle holding in the seatbelt slapped against the hard metal. Even now, Rei had no idea that her safety belt was about to break completely. Leaning out, having her short hair blow in the wind caused by the propellers, she watched Watari shoot, and continued to watch as Higuchi's car spun out of control. Holding onto the metal bar that one would use to help themselves up, she felt slightly safer so she leaned out farther, but the stress on the broken metal was to much, and her safety harness broke free, leaving her to fall out into the air, her grip on the metal bar slipping entirely.
Before she could even let out a startled scream, her outreaching hand was caught by Watari in a death grip. His right arm preoccupied in trying to keep Rei from falling, his left hand was still on the trigger, expertly trained on Higuchi.
Rei had no idea what was happening inside the helicopter, but now hanging on to Watari outside, she realized that Higuchi was about to shoot himself. Watari noticed her newfound surprise and followed her gaze to Higuchi. Pulling the trigger he had been holding, the gun was shot from the desperate man's hand and when the older man dropped the gun and went to help Rei back into the helicopter, his grip suddenly weakened, dropping the girl down on the dark street.
Yelping slightly at the sudden impact and with putting weight on her foot, she staggered to her feet, finding that L had given the orders to quickly but cautiously arrest Higuchi. She realized that his order had come a lot faster this time, but she also thought that that was her own fault.
Standing there helplessly in the street, the helicopter started to come down from where it was hovering. Not really wanting to go back in yet, she watched as Higuchi was dragged from the car and got tape over his eyes and was fixed with a headset. He said something and Senior Yagami started heading back towards the car.
Something inside of Rei snapped. 'No, don't let him get it. Don't let him get it! Everything will end if he does!' something inside her mind screamed, making her take a hesitant step forward. 'DON'T LET HIM GET IT!'
Rei found herself running desperately towards the ring of cars, and, most importantly, towards Higuchi's car. "Don't touch it! If you touch it, Light will die!" she was screaming. Soichiro hesitated after he had reached in pulling back out to see Rei running right for him, screaming about his son dying if he touched whatever was in there. The girl stopped in front of him, staring at the black bag in his hands.
"If you touch that notebook, Light will die!" Rei said, looking into his eyes with such desperate intensity that he froze. Obviously L was demanding to speak to Rei because Soichiro twitch slightly before lifting up his hand and handing her his headset. Fumbling with it for a second, she stick it in her ear, pushing it in so she could hear his voice.
"Rei-san, please explain what is happening." L said calmly over the speaker. His calm sounding voice made her uneven breathing start to calm, but her gaze still didn't move away from the middle of the briefcase where she knew the Death Note was. "H-he can't touch it…If he does, Light will die! If Light dies, then I don't know if I can save anyone!" Rei said, feeling like she was on the brink of crying.
She hadn't noticed it, but thinking of the innocent Light dying made her stomach clench, not to mention if Light dies and Kira prevails, then L wouldn't be safe anymore. There was a long pause over the headset. "Okay, hand the headset to Yagami-san please." He finally said, Rei having to reply.
Taking off the headset and having it in one hand, she held out her other hand out to Yagami senior expectantly. The older man looked from her hand to her face. "Give it here." She said her voice straight as she watched his features changed from confused to worry.
Seeming to have read his mind, Rei said "I didn't say that me touching it would cause him to die, did I?" she said, a small sly smile spreading across her face. Blinking in shock, Soichiro complied hesitantly. Rei could just imagine what L was saying now as he watched him give her the bag. "Trade." She said as he gave her the back, her giving him the headset. Quickly reaching in and pulling out the Death Note, she felt a prickly sensation go up her spine when in the corner of her eye she spotted something white move across her line of vision.
Looking up, trying to compose herself, her eyes widened as she saw Rem now standing right next to her. The shinigami was staring right above her head, her one uncovered eye sending chills down her spine as she realized what she was looking at. What was weird about it was that she seemed to actually be looking. "Girl, you are imposible." The female shinigami said to her, making Rei freeze up.
Not noticing that the elder Yagami was now looking at her with surprise and helplessness, Rei wondered what Rem meant. "W-what do you mean?" she asked, making everyone who was close enough wonder who she was talking to.
"You have no name and lifespan, yet you still continue to live? You are impossible."
Rei's breathing hitched.
"…rei-chan….Rei-chan..Rei-chan!" said a voice that she slowly became aware of.
"Rei-chan, what is going on?" L asking her from the earpiece that elder Yagami had put in after not knowing what else to do. "I broke the chain." She said under her breath as she continued to stare at Rem. "The chain?" L asked her. "Yeah…everyone but Light can touch the Death Note now. The chain of events has broken." She answered, tearing her eyes away from her observer and looking over at the helicopter.
-4-4-4-4-4—4-4-4-4-4—4-4-4-4-4—
The entire trip back to the headquarters in the helicopter was silent. Watari was always silent, so that wasn't very surprising, Light was quiet because he had just been told that if he would touch something, he would die, and L was quiet…well…no one really knew why he was quiet because he hadn't looked back or said a word since the last question he had asked Rei. Rei, by the way, was holding the Death Note behind her back, her back pressed against the metal of the aircraft as if Light was going to come flying back there and rip it out of her hands.
When they landed, the door to the side of the helicopter opened again. Feeling something bad grow in the pit of her stomach as she inched closer to the opening, she was immediately grabbed and gagged. Thankfully they didn't put a blindfold on her, but that didn't help her much as she tried to get out of the two men's grasp. A few minutes of this, she realized that her attempts of wiggling free were futile. The arms that were keeping her captive never even budged, no matter how hard she tried to get out of them. After not being used to human contact, the arms were defiantly not welcome, and made her stomach twist and turn in disgust.
Feeling her skin crawl as her attempts to get away faded, her breath came out in gasps around the gag. The Death Note had dropped from her hands when she was first grabbed, and as she turned her head to look for it, her eyes widened as she saw Rem folding in her wings and looking right at her. The shinigami's Death Note was out and open, a makeshift looking writing tool in her grasp. Rei stiffened and she forgot she was supposed to be fighting the two men who seemed puzzled as to why she stopped, so they stopped in their tracks.
The white shinigami began writing something on the paper, and after what seemed like and eternity, looked back up at the frozen girl, turning and disappearing behind the wall that circled the stairs that led down into the building. Turning her head again in a desperate attempt to possibly warn someone, she spotted L who was standing in front of the helicopter, starring right at her, Light standing beside him awkwardly as he watched Watari pick up the Death Note in what seemed to be a pair of tongs.
Get dragged away once again, the fight that had diminished quickly rose back up from inside the girl as she dug her heels into the ground and tried to maneuver her arms so she could slip away. One of the guys said something to the other, and the one who had spoken suddenly grabbed her head, making it quickly stop moving, and the other stuck something into her neck. Eyes widening in surprise as her head began to seem foggy, she realized she was about to get knocked out.
The hands that were on either side of her head let go, and even when her limbs failed her, she worked up the energy to turn her head and look at L one last time. 'Don't let him touch it…' she mentally told him, her closing eyes silently pleading until her body went limp and the two men easily got her inside the building.
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Chaptah 10 END!
Oh noooes! Where are they taking Rei? Who's name did Rem write in her notebook? Will Light touch the Death Note? Why am I asking questions?
FIND OUT, NEEXT TIIIME!
Haha, okay, I was all over the place in this chapter. I've wanted to do the helicopter scene for sooo freaking long, that all my ideas for it ran together. The falling out of the helicopter came first, and then I thought, 'What if she jumped out and ran to him, screaming for him not to touch it or Light will die? That will definitely get his attention…' and then, since I couldn't write it right away because I was only on chapter 3, I had all these ideas of her being all cool and when she finally touches it and Yagami Senior asked why she touched it, her response being, "I didn't say that I couldn't touch it, did I? I broke the chain-" blah blah blah. Anywho, since I've all those ideas, this chapter is pretty out there, and more than likely confusing.
P.S. For those of you who are thinking, 'What the hell is up with Rei being cold all the time? Wear a sweater, you freak.' Uhhhm… That will come up in later chapters. It's really hard to explain right now, given the circumstances I put her in at the end of this chapter…
Thanks a lot reviewers!:
White Alchemist Taya- Oh, no, I would never let her give up. She will be force to save them! No is not an option. –glares at unconscious Rei-
Ni Lemur
The Carnivorous Muffin- Pssh. She can handle it. I seriously wanted her to punch Matsuda's lights out, but I restrained myself. –feels proud of herself-
Darkangel24700
Kurai-Kyuuketsuki
Compato- -has evil doer costume on that has the leters M-P on the chest- Oh, you know it. Start the theme music!
Lady Renyel of Arella
Kchan1