Whooo! I am in a typin' mood XD! That and I'm getting to some fun parts of the story that I've been dying to type since I first came up with this story. Anywho, just outta curiosity and despite my neglecting of my older stories, who thinks I should write a Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE fanfic? Because I've got an idea but I just wanted to check with the reader's n.n
Well anywho! Read and review!
And I don't own FullMetal and I don't own Death Note (switched them around…aren't I cleaver X3)
January 28, 2010. The day had finally come and everyone in both the SPK and the task force were preparing for the meeting at one o'clock. Apathy had agreed to do things Nears' way until the appropriate time, but in order for the slightly altered plan to work, Apathy would have to accompany Lidner to escort Misa to the hotel. This would be done by him wearing a disguise, more simply put, he would be wearing a black hoody that hid his –once again—masked face. The sin would stay there and speak with Misa until the right time when he would bring her to Dikoku Wharf. There he would confront Light Yagami and deal with him the way he chooses.
Lidner pulled up to the hotel and gave Apathy the room key and number. The sin got out and opened the back door for Misa to get out, keeping his face hidden the whole time. Misa gave him questioning glares but followed him into the hotel. When they got to the room Misa asked,
"So just who the heck are you?"
"I'm your escort for this evening." Apathy replied opening the door and stepping to the side, "Don't worry, you will be meeting up with Light Yagami an hour and a half."
"Really!? I'll be able to see Light!?" Misa said more cheerfully.
"Yes." Apathy nodded. Misa smiled from ear to ear, she then walked into the room, followed a second later by the sin. After Apathy closed the door, he walked over to the living room like area –the room was a suite so it was quite big—and stood near one of the large windows. Misa sat down on the large sofa, just as she did so though, her cell phone rang. She picked it up and cheered,
"I don't know why, but I'm in a deluxe suite at the Teito Hotel. Must be their way of apologizing or something. It's great!" she said she then listened then said, "Okay!" she then hung up. "That was Light; he was calling to see how I was."
"Is that so? How nice for you." Apathy said. Misa once again gave him a rather annoyed and suspicious look.
"What's with you anyway? Why won't you show your face or something? And why is your voice all muffly?" Misa questioned. Figuring it didn't really matter now if she knew his face or not, Apathy lowered his hood. Misa jumped up out of her seat, "Whaaa!? What's with that creepy mask!? Why does it look like Ryuuzaki?!"
"This mask is merely a representation." Apathy answered removing the mask. Misa screamed and ran for the door; it was locked. "Don't jump to conclusions Misa Amane, I am not who you think I am."
"Y-you're Ryuuzaki! I thought…I thought you were dead!" Misa shouted.
"Sit down…Misa Amane." Apathy said, his tone was none existent but the look in his eyes gave Misa the shivers. She sat back down on the sofa, but at the furthest end away from Apathy.
"What do you want, Mr. Dead Man?" she asked.
"I told you already, I am not L. My name is Apathy, and I am here to give you the opportunity to escape your punishment."
"Punishment? You mean…you know about…"
"Who was it that killed L? Kira was it not? I do not have the time or the need to explain my origins to you other then that I've come here to aide you and Light." Apathy said, he of course was sweet talking and he had no intention of helping them the way he was sure she was thinking.
"So, what are you saying? You want to help Light?"
"Both of you, I am able to take you both someplace where the police will no longer be a threat. You'll be able to do as you please." Apathy continued.
"But…Kira hasn't created his perfect world yet." Misa said looking a little sad.
"There is no hope for this world, but the place I speak of will be perfect. No crime or hatred."
Misa appeared to be thinking about it, even if she said no; she really didn't have much choice in the matter. Apathy waited, he'd occasionally glance at the clock. 'Not yet…just a little longer.' He thought, 'Light…Misa…you will feel the sting of your sins. You both with be sacrificed for a better world. See how you like it when you're at the opposite end of justice.'
An hour had past and Misa still hadn't decided. Apathy had sat down on one of the easy chairs and had his knees tucked up near his chin. This seemed to creep out Misa a bit, but the sin really couldn't care less. He'd periodically chew on the tip of his thumb while waiting; this was done more out of habit then anything else. After another ten minutes, Apathy got up and put his mask back on and put his hood up. Misa looked at him questioningly.
"I've given you more then enough time to consider my offer. Now I'm going to have to use force, you're coming with me to meet Light. If you try to resist, I will rip your heart out and feed it to the dogs."
Misa was very shocked by the sins' words'. It scared her how his tone was so empty and yet the way he said what he did made her shiver. Apathy walked over, but Misa quickly got up and moved away.
"You don't want to help us!" she screamed.
"I told you, I'll take you both away from here. As for what happens to you in the new world, I can't guarantee your safety." Apathy said taking a few more steps towards Misa. Misa though kept backing away.
"Get away from me you freak!" Misa lashed out, but Apathy caught her hand before she even realized it, "Huh?"
"I told you…don't resist. I am very strong and have several reasons to kill you right here and now."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because, Father has plans for you and your precious Light, and that's why you're still alive." Apathy answered, he then pulled on her arm. Misa was jerked towards him, but before she could protest he struck her behind the neck and knocked out.
"Humans are…truly disgraceful creatures." Apathy muttered slinging Misa over his shoulder and walking towards the large window. He had been surveying the surrounding buildings earlier anticipating this particular event happening. With a swift and powerful side kick, Apathy broke the window and climbed onto the ledge. They were on the twentieth floor, so it was a long way down, Apathy braced himself then jumped. Despite his appearance, he was a very good jumper. The sin landed safely on the roof of the neighboring building, if any human would have done that, their legs would have shattered upon impact. Apathys' though had a strange black layer of them. The sin looked down and tilted his head. 'Greeds' shield…' he thought, 'Father must have done something…' Apathy then continued on his way. At his rate he would reach Dikoku Wharf in fifteen minutes, which was just enough time.
--
Mikami burst into the room, a slightly crazed but triumphant smile on his face. Light starred at him, a very slight smile playing at the corners of his lips.
'Well done, Mikami…' he thought.
"Your wish is my command, God." Mikami said grinning and starring at Light. Lights' slight smile turned into a displeased frown.
'Fool…Don't look at me. No, he's only doing that because he knows that everybody will soon fall dead.' Light thought. He had planned that Mikami write the names of everyone in the room, save for himself, into the Death Note.
"How many seconds has it been since you wrote the first name down?" Light asked.
"35, 36, 37…" Mikami started to count while tapping his wrist watch with a gleefully crazed look. Everyone in the room watched, "36, 37, 38." Mikami continued.
Everyone save for Near had fearful looks on their faces now. An evilly triumphant smile spread across Lights' face as Mikami said, "39."
"I win, Near." Light said.
"40!" forty seconds had past and everyone waited, but nothing happened. Near seemed unfazed but everyone else looked shocked.
"I told you…nobody would die." Near said. Mikami seemed to be the most surprised.
"Why? Why won't they die?" he questioned, "G-God…I-I did as you told me." He suddenly said to Light, who gave him a very irritated look. He too couldn't figure out why the Death Note didn't work.
"Rester, Gevanni. Get Mikami." Near ordered. The two SPK members rushed over and slapped handcuffs on the now terrified and confused Kira supporter. "Gevanni, the note book." Near then said. Gevanni picked up the Death Note Mikami had dropped and brought it over to Near who then said,
"The first four names are unmistakably the real names of the SPK members, and the only name that is missing from this list is Light Yagami. Mikami called you 'God' and said he did as you told him to. This proves it."
Light tried to evade this by saying that this all was a trap and that he didn't know Mikami. It was at that moment that Apathy arrived; he set the still unconscious Misa down just outside the door and peeked into the room. Behind the mask, a sadistic smirk was straining across the sins' face. He arrived just in time to see Light lose everything. This was probably more a characteristic of his brother Envy but, Apathy was genuinely enjoying the sight of this humans' loss. He watched as the task force members tried to handcuff Light but he brushed them off and staggered away.
'Now!' Apathy thought kicking open the door. Light looked up, his eyes' going very wide with a mixture of shock and pure horror. Near glanced over at the door then at the sin who walked in, he looked rather annoyed, he'd wanted to talk some more but apparently this was the moment the homunculus had been talking about.
"Light Yagami…it's been a while." Apathy said. Light backed away, "Is something wrong?"
"Y-you're…"
"Oh that's right," Apathy said in a dull tone, "I forgot I'm still wearing this aren't I?" the sin then lowered his hood and removed the mask. Light was rendered speechless, as was every member of the task force.
"R-Ryuuzaki?" Matsuda said taking a step forward. Apathy removed the hoody he was wearing and tossed it to the side. His normal dress seemed to surprise the task force as well as his appearance.
"How?" Light questioned, "It's…not possible."
"Light, you look as if you've seen a ghost." Apathy said; he paused in his speech though when the sound of Mikami still fumbling with the situation caught his attention. The sin turned towards him, the murderous gleam in his eyes once again. "Near…have you explained what you wanted to explain?" he asked.
"No, I was just getting to it." Near replied still looking annoyed. Everyone save fore the SPK members turned and looked at Near in surprise.
"Wait, you know about this?!" Matsuda demanded.
"Yes." Near replied, "But first before you assume too much, the man you see before you is not L."
Apathys' breathing seemed to have suddenly picked up, his face remaining insipid, but his hands were clenching in an opening and closing manner. His gaze had left Mikami and turned to Light, the look in Lights' eyes' was familiar. Apathy remembered that look from the Gate, or, was it really him remembering? Apathy clenched his fists until they started to bleed a little.
"Now, as I was saying before." Near continued, "You had Mikami use a fake notebook, and had him carry it around in front of us so we'd believe that it was the real thing. You even went as far as to suspect that I would replace the pages in the fake notebook, so that I wouldn't die even if my name was written in it. Things turned out exactly as you had expected, and we replaced the pages in the fake notebook. That indeed was the plan I had in mind as well. I replaced the pages of the notebook that happened to be a fake, and you had Mikami bring the real notebook out for the first time to kill all of us. That was your plan. But when I said, 'I replaced the pages in the notebook,' I meant in the real one as well."
Lights' eyes' widened.
"Meaning that I tampered with both the fake and the real notebook. I replaced only a part of the fake notebook, and I replaced the pages of the real notebook completely." Near continued while taking something from his pajama shirt. "This is the real notebook. Gevanni did it overnight. Whether he was able to replace all of it or not was the key to this plan. He did replace a part of the fake notebook with ease, but it was quite difficult to make a forged copy of the entire real one. Gevanni promised me, however, that it could be done. He used the same pen that Mikami used, copied Mikami's handwriting to perfection, and even made a perfect copy of the cover in addition to the interior pages. Since I had already touched this notebook beforehand…I could see the Shinigami from the moment you entered this warehouse. Mr. Shinigami, nice to meet you, I'm Near."
Ryuk, who had been watching silently the whole time, grinned and replied,
"Hyuk, hyuk, nice to meet you. I'm Ryuk."
"Ryuk, until today I always believed that Shinigami had skulls for faces and carried sickles." Near said.
"Hyuk, well, there are ones like that, too." Ryuk replied. Light watched with shock, he then glanced over at Apathy who was starring directly at him –face placid but eyes burning with the urge to kill—he then turned back to Ryuk.
'He's talking to Ryuk…so he's telling the truth about being able to see him.'
"I looked through this notebook and found some pages that were clipped out. Can it be that people die even if you write names on pages that have been cut out?" Near asked Ryuk.
"Yeah, they'll die." Ryuk answered simply. Light gave him a shocked look.
'Ryuk!'
"Even pieces are effective…I'm sure there must have been many uses for that. I can't even begin to think how many people were killed and deceived because of that." Near said, "Light Yagami. You are Kira."
A shiver ran up Apathys' spine, he took a step towards Light saying,
"Near, I think you've made your point."
"There is more…" Near said but stopped when he saw the look in the sins' eyes', "I have the Death Notes, do as you please." Near had a very displeased look on his face but this was as far as he was going to be able to go without directing the sins' dormant hatred. Apathy turned and started back towards the door, he paused though next to Mikami and looked down at the now whimpering man.
"Insect…" he said before kicking him in the head, he used enough force to dislocate the mans' jaw. This sudden and unexpected attack cased everyone who had one to draw their weapon. The SPK members though lowered theirs a second later when Apathy went to the door and picked up Misa.
"Misa…" Light muttered. Apathy brought her over and set her down, he then turned to Light.
"I may not be L but, I will bring justice to this world by erasing you from it."
Unnoticed by everyone in the room, Father was watching, he clapped his hands and touched the ground, summoning the Gate.
"And so…it truly begins." He muttered with a smile.
To Be Continued
Ahhh…I enjoyed reliving that moment then making it even cooler (in my opinion) by adding Apathys' appearance. Oh yes…I enjoyed that a lot.
L: You honestly enjoyed Light's torment?
Me: Oh yes…after what he did to you…he got off easy in my opinion.
Apathy: I wanted to eat his heart…
Me: XD (hugs Apathy)
L: ….no comment….