Welcome again! I finally got this chapter our, I was having some trouble but now my mind has a stable plot line again for about three more chapters to come. Makes me play, 'We are the Champions by Queen.' LOL!

Right anyways hope you like this chapter – Misa makes a new friend!

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note.

Reviewers:

Yukiandzero4ev: Thanks for the story favorite add! Happy Face!!

Mooncry: Since I didn't know too much about it – I didn't know he did that sort of thing so thank you for pointing that out to me so I could use it in this chapter! You can spoil me with information all you want I need to know to make this good. Much Thanks.

Tashio: Stop reading my mind…Nailed my plot line on the head, well not really except for the 'napped part but yeah – LOL! Oh geez, I have something else planned too some twists but don't worry not like the bad ending twists just little story twists.

Tavana: Good deal then for next chapter to come!

Toya1225: Thanks so much for the compliment! I'm glad it wasn't bad – writing this story puts me on an edge actually since I have no idea how BB was like. If it hadn't been for Mooncry helping me I'd think I'd slam my head against the wall a couple more times.

Samurai Wolf: Yeah it's the point for him to be the scary factor in the story now, evil villain plotting evil schemes and such – LOL! Thanks for not being mad – Lemons make me blushtastic too much.

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CaeliaDanan: Yes he's back to be evil!

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Previously:

"He won't go away Lawliet!" She cried out furious, and continued to wipe the back of her hand along her bruised mouth. "I hate him so much!"

Lawliet frowned, seeing her like this, he knew this would happen. Her seeing BB caused a severe trauma in her mind because BB looked so much like him her mind and heart could barely take it.

"I hate him too," Lawliet said bitterly, "For putting you through this pain."

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Ch 10: A Hidden Message

It was infuriating, this riddle which was sent to his computer by an unknown email he couldn't track but L knew it was from BB from his bottom signature taunting him off the tip of the page. L sat in his usual thinking position flipping through endless articles and websites of each face that was mailed to him. Matt had came to visit, he held a hand on the back of L's chair while looming over his shoulder reading quickly through each add just as annoyed as L.

The day was coming to an end and neither had the slightest idea of what the riddle meant. BB sent L a picture of 12 faces and on top he asked, 'which one will I kill next Lawliet? I'm waiting – Yawn so bored!' Mello sat across from L wanting to bang his head on the table, as he read through the countless of notes of location, names, age, and family members. There was no similarity anywhere it was almost as if he had purposely sent them an unsolvable case just to mess with Lawliet's mind.

Misa soon strode in, smelly sweet of cherries as her hair showed hints of being wet. She had them tied back into her normal pigtails, and wore L's clothing seeking his warmth in the morning but he wasn't around so she improvised. She didn't bother the boys seeing L tap constantly on his keys while nibbling on his thumb in a trance. Mello kept running a hand through his bangs and brushing them back making a soft grunt of displeased as he shifted through the words on the notepad. Mello was the only one who took notice of her presence giving her a smile as if to make fun of her about her activates with Lawliet.

Misa turned her head away from him opening the cabinet next to the fridge to pull out some ramen noodles. She set it down on the counter, so she could grab a plate slip it under the noodle box, and place it in the microwave. Misa set the timer, turning it on, and went to check up on how Lawliet was doing. Since she didn't want to bother an overly stressed Lawliet she dragged Matt aside and asked him to tell her the situation.

"BB contacted L and sent him riddles that were having trouble solving surprisingly." Matt replied, and Misa swallowed so BB wasn't even going to let them have a break to relax after his mayhem. Matt as if sensing her thoughts spoke up, "BB goes on his own schedules he doesn't care for others. Whatever he did to you it was only to fuel his idea of fun. BB wants a challenge, and L is probably the only one who's ever met that achievement."

Misa understood that but she couldn't help but wonder what made BB kill to begin with – was it the Shinigami eyes that lead him to killing? Were those blood red numbers so fascinating that he decided to toy with them? Or did he have a dark past that made him snap? Misa didn't know but she wished she did perhaps that would make her more useful in this case. She wished she could do something to help Lawliet out. All she could do is being his support.

Matt watched as Misa shook her head retreating over to the cabinet to start making tea of Lawliet and Matt decided to do the same for his best friend except he would need hot chocolate. Misa warned him not to open the bag too hard as she managed to clean this house before leaving that one time. He laughed, telling her not to worry but Misa growled knowing he couldn't be trusting.

"I can't figure this out. There is just no connection to any of these people, none." Lawliet grit out furious that he couldn't solve something. He could always solve a case so why was he struggling so hard? He glanced back to see Misa yelling at Matt for scaring her because apparently he made her spill something. Could it be that his emotions were getting the best of him and not letting him properly think this out? "No, it just can't be…"L murmured since he was driven to worse emotional rides while battling Light Yagami.

"L, maybe you're just thinking too hard, BB may just be doing this as a joke to rile you up. Or to gain some lost attention since he knows you're with Misa now." Mello suggested, standing up from his chair when he smelt hot chocolate and headed to where Misa and Matt were. Matt handed Mello his cup and Mello thanked him but inched away when Matt asked for a thank you kiss. Misa giggled, and padded across the ground over next to L to his left.

"Mello's right you know, you've probably been up on this ever since he first sent it to you, haven't you?" Misa asked, and L didn't reply so she nodded. "I figured as much." She set the tea down beside him and leant down to kiss his forehead but he turned to meet her for a quick lip lock.

"Thank you Misa." He replied, after they separated, and reached for his tea sipping it but paused. He looked up at Misa with a pouting expression, shaking his tea as if it was unsatisfying to him. "Sugar cubes please." Misa rolled her eyes, and snatched the tea cup away.

"I only do this because I love you." Misa said, heading back not only to get his sugar cubes but also her ramen which was making a racket from the microwaves beeps of being done. Lawliet smirked, but when he turned his view back to the screen it faded into a thin line.

"BB would never leave clues without an answer, it's not like him to not to. There is an answer hidden here and he's probably laughing this very second knowing I'm having trouble with it."Lawliet concluded he reached for his cakes he already set up to his right and placed one into his mouth swallowing it whole.

"That's something I don't doubt. When I used to be with Light he used to randomly start laughing it sounded mechanical and I often wondered if he was crazy." Misa set her ramen cup on the table and poor L didn't realize it wasn't his tea and tried to take a sip out of it and burnt his mouth. Lawliet winced and raised the cup to see it was Misa lunch. He looked inside to see stringy noodles and squished his nose in disgust pushing the thing away from him.

Misa returned this time with his tea and Lawliet quickly drank half of it down to relive the pain. She scratched her head when she noticed her ramen was missing until she spotted it pushed to the far edge of the other side of the table. Misa twitched glaring down at the person who was obviously responsible and grabbed her ramen table while silently cursing him.

"L from what we know between Misa and BB's Shinigami eyes is there anything that BB's eyes do differently apart from hers?" Matt wondered, and Misa also wondered the same. When she made contact with BB, Misa slightly shivered at the thought but tried to think back at something strange she saw in his eyes.

When Misa uses her Shinigami she knows that her eyes turn a glowing red immediately but BB's eyes kind of lingered a bit with his eye color than faded into a deep crimson glow that made her feel edgy to be in his presence. Lawliet glanced at Misa who was looked just as lost as Matt did and decided to give out what his previous notes told him.

"Apparently his couldn't kill with his victims unless the person was close to dying." Lawliet spoke hoping Misa would add on to say that hers did the same but Misa looked shocked.

"That isn't right, the Shinigami eyes can't kill people…Also he's bound to restraint that doesn't make sense it sounds as if it's something the…." Misa's eyes narrowed dangerously and everyone gulped at the sudden change of her aura. "Something like the Shinigami King was involved with – I mean he can't kill a person unless their close to –"Misa paused, her eyes widening now as she realized the answer to the riddle they were trying to solve.

She skid over to the table and L was shocked when she tore the laptop away from his hands. Her head dropped, bangs covering over her facial features so they couldn't see her scanning her eyes over the pictures. "I see…So that was his plan all along." Misa breathed out, her body slightly trembling. Lawliet placed a hand slowly on her right hand that was on the touch pad making Misa flinch away from him.

"Misa…?" Misa held that right hand up to her chest rubbing it, as if trying to calm the visible nerves in her body.

"Mello was right; he made this riddle so that you couldn't solve it. He made it's a challenge to me…He made it so I couldn't escape from him now that he knows about me… He wants me just as much as he wants you dead…Lawliet…" Misa backed up away from the laptop over to the wall, breathing heavily now. All the fear returning that was buried deep down within the thresholds of her mind. Lawliet quickly got up to her and tried to fan her with a towel as if trying to calm her down. Lawliet tapped her shoulder and placed a kiss on her cheek watching her smile bitterly.

"Misa, what are you talking about?" Lawliet asked, directing her to look at him rather than at BB's riddle.

"With his Shinigami eyes he can see," Misa swallowed, a trail of sweat dripping down her forehead as she licked her lips, "He can see when a person is about to die, and that means we can see things something you guys can't. Those people on that page they do have some similarities Lawliet. Most of them have a healthy blood number on their head…Except for one." She closed her eyes and opened them to reveal her Shinigami eyes pointing at the screen at the second column, first to the left, to a man named Chang, Miko. "He is going to die in less than four hours, and he is the one BB is after."

Matt and Mello rushed over to the screen examining the picture, they couldn't see the numbers like she could and it appeared that she was right. BB wanted her involved in the case weather L liked it or not he would have to take her for the ride. They both glanced toward Lawliet to see his firsts tightened, he looked furious. It was obvious he wanted Misa now and instead of having her be safe he had to bring her along. After all he should know that in order to win, sometimes you have to take risks. Lawliet stared at Misa, tears dripping down her cheeks as she held her hands over her mouth shaking her head. "It appears as almost as if destiny is laughing at me at each turn…" Misa said, and L told her it wasn't true, and she gave him a sad smile. "I hope not…"

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The four of them headed off toward Chang, Miko's house, Matt was driving them in new car he had finally made up after doing some part time working. Mello tried to his best to lighten the situation by coming up with a ridiculous name for the guy similar as L used to come up with to cover the man's identity.

"How about Chainsaw Massacre like the movie, the guy's probably cut up by now for all we know?" Misa said, and Misa felt her stomach churn as she wasn't a fan of horror flicks. Surprisingly L wacked Mello behind the head, something that was usually her job and Misa couldn't help but laugh.

"Stop it Mello, your scaring Misa." He told him, and Mello whined that she was laughing so it wasn't fair that he hit her. Misa rolled her eyes at the comment.

"I was laughing at Lawliet hitting you, Mihael Keehl." She said his real name to make him angry and try to strangle her earning another bonk from an annoyed Lawliet.

"Don't touch her either Mello." He warned, and Mello glared at Misa who gave him a peace sign. Lawliet shifted his gaze on her and she twitched placing her hand down and smiled at him wryly. "Misa stay by my side when we get there okay?" Misa nodded, that was her plan anyways to cling onto L like a brand new toy that way she wouldn't accidently grab hold of BB in the confusion. Than Lawliet pulled himself forward as far as his seat belt would let him and tried to grab Matt's attention for a split second. "How long before we arrive."

"Ten more minutes L." Mat replied, and L embraced the side of Matt's seat as he took a sharp turn. "Maybe less if I speed up." Misa growled, and shook her head.

"Not a chance, it's your fault that we only have one hour left! You had to go get caught up in a race and we got pulled aside by a cop!" Misa yelled, and Matt let go of the wheel to turn around to inform her that nobody messes with his baby. Lawliet had to reach out and hold the steering wheel to keep them from crashing by his idiotic move. "Well apparently a cop can." Misa retorted and Matt narrowed his eyes at her.

"Don't talk about Mello like that." Matt replied, and Misa sweat dropped while Mello fumed.

"Don't name your stupid car after me!!" Mello shouted, trying to strangle Matt. Lawliet sighed, watched as the three continue to bicker over petty things. Didn't they realize they were about to go against BB?

"Children please…Daddy is driving the car." Lawliet spoke loudly and they all hushed realizing that Matt wasn't driving the car anymore.

"You let go of the wheel, you IDIOT, we could have all died!" Misa yelled stirring up another fight and Matt began to call her a banshee while Mello agreed with Misa about Matt being a total idiot. Lawliet sighed again, deciding he couldn't take much more of this. He let his other person take over for some much needed rest. Misa would understand, hopefully.

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Once they finally arrived everything seemed to be in order. Nothing about the neighborhood seemed alarmed and there didn't seem to be a sign of disturbance anywhere. Misa went to go hold Lawliet's hand and then she noticed L staring blankly at her and she groaned. It wasn't that she didn't like him it's just she felt better with Lawliet considering he's the one with the most experience when it came to dealing with BB. Nonetheless she still grabbed hold of right hand with her left in order to make sure she was secured safely to him.

The order of how they were lined up was simple, Matt was first being the expert in the group in fighting while L was next followed by Misa and behind her was Mello already bringing out his handgun for behind support. Matt knocked on the door and as he did it slid open against the wall. The room itself was very dark, and only the light from the outside was their guide to where to go.

Misa peered over both L's and Matt shoulders things were scattered and glass on the ground as if a hurricane passed through here. Matt entered, also bringing out his gun and checked around the area before signaling L to come in to survey the damage.

"Why do I get the feeling that he's already been here?" Mello asked, and all three of them scolded him for his stupid joke. "Aw common, he's probably long gone by now." Mello shrugged his shoulders while spinning the gun around in his right index finger.

"Shhh!" Matt commanded, pointing to the stairway in the next room. There could be that chance that he was hiding and waiting for a moment to pop out. That way BB would grab Misa most likely and use her as a hostage escape. He was a video game mastermind, this always happened in every James Bond game. Misa hugged closer to L when Matt gave a signal to Mello to go cover this floor while they went upstairs.

"No," Misa quickly protested in a hushed voice. "We mustn't get separated something could happen!" Mello placed his left hand on her shoulder to relax her but it only made the hairs on the back of her neck stand as she gave a small, 'eep!' Mello laughed, and told her he was sorry and she just glared.

"Don't worry Misa I've been in tons of situations like this before."

"Oh really, how about you name one?" Misa snapped, unbelieving and Mello scratched the back of his neck. "That's what I thought!"

"Misa, he'll be fine." L told her softly and she had no choice but to agree with L, letting Mello head off to go search for intruders. Matt led them up the stairs this time L made sure she was in front of him so if BB came from behind he'd be ready to kick him in the jaw. The second floor split up into two sides.

"L you go left with Misa and I'll go right." Matt instructed but this time L shook his head in disagreement.

"Misa you go with Matt, I'll go to the left alone. Matt is trained in weaponry you'll be safe with him. " Misa gave him a skeptical look while Matt pressed it would be better if the two of them were together considering that he looks so much like L that they might get confused. L understood that but he had figured a loophole around that problem. "Misa activate your Shinigami eyes and if you see me heading towards you, you should be able to tell if it's me or not, Right?"

Misa blinked, activating her Shinigami eyes and slowly watched as blood letter red letters formed over both Matt and L's head. Just like L said his name was written over his head to prove he was the real deal. He leaned over and kissed her than disappeared down the hall leaving Misa in Matt's care.

"Misa if we see L, you have to tell me if it's Lawliet or not, because if it's not him – I'll shoot." Matt whispered and she gave a firm nod. Misa gripped onto the back of Matt's shirt as they ventured through each room. Finally they reached the bedroom and there still wasn't anyone inside. Matt traced over to where the bed was and looked under nothing. However looking back up him caught a glimpse of the bedroom mirror. In smeared blood there was another note. Misa glad to hear that he wasn't in the room opened up the closet but screamed loudly as she was tackled to the ground. Matt gripped his gun and spun around to see what happened.

Misa pushed BB off her, but when she pushed into his chest she felt something sticky slid down her arm and not only that something slimy between her fingers. Misa opened her eyes just a bit to see a severed head of Chang, Miko staring at her. Her hands deep inside his opened stomach. Misa's face contorted into horror and let out a bloodcurdling scream.

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That must suck – to have that happened –eww!! *shivers*

I hope I'm keeping this interesting, I've never wrote an actual mystery based fiction. Follow the clues and discover the goods LOL. More like no goods.

Oh well I'll see you next chapter to conclude the horrors and the message BB wrote! Thanks for Reading and Reviewing!

-Takiasmuse