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Having hurriedly disposed of his hated 'disguise', Ray collapsed onto one of the many sofas in their exceedingly large room. He put his feet up on the end of the sofa, rested his hands behind his head, relaxed his body, and gazed lazily at the ornately carved ceiling.
Ahh…- he sighed - the bliss of relaxation…
For the last few days of his life, he had been constantly moving, constantly thinking, constantly trying to fit in and understand the world around him. Sometimes it was just nice to relax, and enjoy the occasional patches of calmness that managed to slip into his otherwise hectic life. Calmness. That was what he had missed. Much like the rain, it washed away all his troubles – as if all the strings that had been holding him down had been cut off, leaving him to float through the air.
He stretched his arms out, feeling the air dance round him and the thick oxygen coat his arms in a cosy layer of warmth. He relaxed; closed his eyes; let out his remaining breath. L and BB had gone to another room to discuss the conditions of Beyond's release and Watari had followed while keeping a careful eye on the ex-inmate. Already understanding B's character, Ray guessed they would still be deliberating the terms until late in the afternoon. Which left him by himself.
He rolled over onto his side, but had forgotten his was on a sofa, so rolled straight onto the hard wooden floor. He mentally face-palmed, but was glad there was no-one to see his mistake. Of course, there were cameras and microphones littered around the room, but Ray was pretty sure no-one would be watching, not when there such little time and the Kira case happening in the background.
Deciding it would be too much effort to get back onto the sofa, Ray started drifting off to sleep on the floor, unconcerned with the painful way the floor pressed his bones together. Oh well. I can deal with pain- he thought. His mind started to wonder as sleep drew upon him and his body grew limp. His consciousness gradually slipped away, his mind no longer focusing.
"BOO!"
Muscles suddenly tensed, Ray kicked his legs in the direction of the noise, hitting the floor hard with his forearms in order to propel himself off the ground. As he came up, he brought his arms up in front of his face, but stretched out so that he could deal with any attackers before they got too close. His eyes flickered around the room. He could see no-one. "Whoever you are, I warn you, it's never good if you hide from me."
Then a familiar voice spoke. "Calm down, Ray. I just came to say hello."
Ray dropped his guard and regained his normal slouched posture. "Tuig. Don't, and when I say don't I really do meant don't, sneak up on me." He turned around to find the Shinigami standing behind him.
Tuig chuckled, the laughter peeling out of his throat. "I can see why Ryuk finds humans so entertaining – threatening people when you don't have anything to threaten them with…"
"Shut it. Who's this Ryuk guy?"
Tuig just stared at Ray, an amused smile creeping its way across his face. He brought a clawed hand up to his mouth, made the classic 'human' zipping gesture, and threw away the imaginary key he had used.
Ray glared at the shinigami "When I said shut it, I didn't meant don't answer my questions."
Tuig, his smile still broadly sitting on his face, laughed a little before replying "Ryuk? Like me, he's a shinigami – and a great one at that… Has a magnificent sense of humour… You might know the human he stays with though – Light Yagami."
"So I was right? Light Yagami is Kira?"
Tuig nodded "I was going to tell you originally, but it seemed more fun to let you work it out. Not that it took you particularly long to do so."
"So how does he kill people? He's always the goody two shoes in the taskforce, never stepping one foot out of place, let alone going off and killing people. I mean, I know it has something to do with a 'death note'"- he made quotation marks in the air with his hands- "but you could at least give me a clue?"
"Clues are boring. I'll leave the problem of the 'death note'"- this time the shinigami made the air quotation marks, but in a way that mocked Ray- "in your hands…"
"Really?" Ray said exasperatedly. H e wasn't in the mood for the shinigami playing around – Tuig had disturbed his calm-time.
"Yup, that's all! Ah, wait, there's one thing that I actually came here to tell you - because you are aberrare, you, L and Beyond cannot die. "
Ray's eyes widened. "What?"
"Try it. Jump off a building or something. It's true. If you died, the worlds would fall apart, so it simply isn't possible. Why else do you think you've managed to survive this long, or how Beyond could survive the flames that should have killed him? Anyway, I've gotta go."
Tuig's wings uncurled from his back, and he flapped them gently so that he was hovering just above the ground. He flew to the window where despite Ray's protests he slid through the glass and disappeared into the cities' skyline.
"Aw man! Now I'm not gonna be able to have my calm time!"
He went to the door, pulling it open with too much force so that it slammed open. He stepped out into the corridor, plodding over to where the lifts were. He selected the top button, and walked in.
Watari tapped the detective in front of him on the shoulder "L, it would seem Ray has left the room."
L looked intently at the bodyguard "Where is he headed?"
Watari furrowed his eyebrows, showing a mixture of concern and confusion on his face "It looks like he's going to the roof."
L now turned to look at the laptop to the right of him "There is nothing on the roof, apart from the balcony at the top."
"That is why I thought you should know."
"Have you checked the CCTV footage?"
Watari placed another laptop next to the one L had been looking at "Yes. That is another problem."
He clicked play on the files, and watched L's face grow absorbed in the video he was watching. Beyond, who had moved his chair round so that he could see the taped also watched as Ray started attacking the air, and then began to have a conversation with the room.
"Whoever you are, I warn you, it's never good if you hide from me."
"Is there another person there?" L asked.
"No. I checked the infra red cameras, and Ray is the only one there."
"Tuig. Don't, and when I say don't I really do meant don't, sneak up on me."
"And they thought I was mad…" Beyond grinned.
"Shut it. Who's this Ryuk guy?"
"When I said shut it, I didn't meant don't answer my questions."
"So I was right? Light Yagami is Kira?"
"Oh?" L said, face completely calm, but Watari knew he felt differently. He could see the intrigue escaping his mask, as well as the way L was leaning forward at a dangerous angle – so much so that Watari thought he might fall off his chair.
"So how does he kill people? He's always the goody two shoes in the taskforce, never stepping one foot out of place, let alone going off and killing people. I mean, I know it has something to do with a death note but you could at least give me a clue?"
"Really?"
"What?"
Watari stopped the tape. "After that, all he does is ask this 'Tuig' character to wait, talks to his self a bit more, and that's when he headed to the roof."
"Watari, please find Ray and bring him here. Do not tell him we have seen these tapes, but make sure he doesn't escape."
"Right." Watari nodded and paced out of the room.
"Beyond, I would like to hear your opinion on this matter."
BB looked faintly surprised. "Me? Hah, I'm honoured. The way I see it, Ray has the power Kira has, but in a different form, which is how he knows – or believes – Light Yagami to be Kira."
L nodded, and slid one the many laptops that had gathered in the room in front of Beyond. "Please watch this. It was aired on Sakura TV in Japan. We believe it to have been sent by a second Kira. Also, please observe this diary extract also sent to the station."
As Beyond watched the video, L studied his face. He didn't do so in order to watch B's reaction to the video, he just did so to give the unoccupied part of his brain something to do while the majority of it worked through the facts presented to him.
The second Kira sent tapes to Sakura TV talking of shinigamis: Gods of Death. Due to the large number of witnesses that there would be if these gods were visible, L calculated that the shinigami would be invisible, and could only be viewed by certain people. After having watched the CCTV of Ray talking to an invisible being that, assuming it wasn't just a figment of the boy's imagination, had just disappeared out a window, into the sky. Very godlike.
But it wasn't that alone that pointed to Ray being suspect in the investigation. It was the fact that he had said so certainly that Light Yagami was Kira, as well as the fact that he had talked about a 'death note'.
What was this 'note' he talked about? The diary extract had talked about 'exchanging notes' pointed towards the idea of a 'death note' being able to kill people. And, what a surprise, had it not been Light Yagami that had wanted to go to Aoyama, the place where the 'notes' were 'exchanged'.
L was brought away from his train of thought by Beyond, who had finished watching the tape and reading the diary extract. "A shinigami. That's who Ray was talking to."
"Correct. I came to the same conclusion myself, however far-fetched it may seem. However, that does mean Watari may have some difficulty apprehending Ray."
He reached for the key on the other laptop that would open up a voice call to Watari, but didn't have to make the call: Watari ran into the room, almost breathless, a state that L had not often seen the man in before. "What is the matter Watari?"
"Ray… He's… Jumped." Watari staggered out the words.
L quickly stood up from his chair, making his way for the door and Beyond followed en suite. "We'll need to see the body."
"I've already seen to that. The hotel guards are bringing it in as we speak." Watari said.
With that, L and BB left.
"Masumi, Masumi, Masumi!"
Masumi reluctantly brought her eyes up from her book. "What is it, Misa?"
The model beamed. "I've decided…. To give you a makeover!"
Masumi returned her eyes to the book. "That, my friend, is not going to happen."
"Aw, Massy… Can I call you that? Massy? It suits you!" Misa bounced up and down, looking as if she were trying to get rid of some excess energy.
"No. Not Massy, not makeover."
"Okaayy… In that case, let me do your makeup, or I'll kick you out!" Misa said, still with an innocent smile.
"Really? That's mean."
"I'll go get my stuff…. You are going to love this!" Misa giggled, while skipping out the room. She returned minutes later with a suitcase, which Masumi soon found contained an infinite amount of beauty products. "You go sit on that chair, by the window, and I'll start doing your hair!"
Masumi groaned. Then she moved over to the chair – there was no way she could get out of the makeover if she wanted to keep on Misa's good side. She sensed Misa could actually be quite scary if she didn't like you.
"Yey! Let's start!"
As Misa began styling her hair, Masumi gazed absentmindedly out the window, wondering how she had managed to end up in the most expensive hotel in New York, having her hair styled by a model. Humph. If only Ray could see this…
After half an hour of tedious waiting, Misa was finished with her hair, and so moved round to start on her makeup. That was when Masumi saw it.
It was pretty surprising for her. It also made her wonder what it was. Then, it made her realise what it was. Then, it made her panic. "Shoot – Misa, what! No, damn damn damn damn damn. It can't! But it- No no no no no-"
Misa was slightly frightened by the sudden outburst from Masumi. "What's up? What was it?"
"That- it- Ray! He just fell straight- straight out of the sky! Past the window! He's- Is he dead?"
"You're saying Ray jumped off the roof, and fell past our window?"
"Yes." Masumi, face contorted, whispered.
Ray flew past the floors of the hotel, feeling the wind in his hair and the sun on his cheeks. Even if he wasn't immortal and died when he hit the ground, the feeling he had got as he fell had been worth it. Admittedly, he had always been into extreme sports, not that he had ever got to do them much, but the adrenaline rush always made him go for it whenever he got the chance. Jump a building and possibly die? Hell yeah.
As the ground came up towards him, he pulled himself into a ball, using the wind in order to turn him round. When his feet were at the bottom of the ball, he turned his feet round, so that he would land in a crouching position. The floor grew closer dangerously fast, until it engulfed him.
The hotel guards ran for the front of the hotel. "You say there's a jumper?"
"Yeah, Frank. We've gotta bring 'im in. Well, bring the body in." The elder attendant grimaced. Never in his years of working at the hotel had he ever had a jumper. The people who stayed at the hotel would commit suicide in a much more classy way if they wanted to do so– not the commoners' way of jumping off the building.
As they went out of the entrance, they saw a black shape coming down from the sky. It crashed into the ground in a crouching position, then, to the surprise of everyone watching, it straighten its legs and stood up.
"That was fun." Ray smiled.
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