Kagome looked at BB with a worried gaze as he sat crouched in the spinny chair L had always occupied while scooping some jam from a fresh jar using only his fingers. She spoke into the ear phone that connected her to L.
"Ryuzaki, I don't like this." She stated with uncertain feelings despite the fact that she was the one who had forced the idea onto both him and BB.
"It was your idea in the first place Go-go. There's no time for a change of mind or heart." BB stated simply. She cringed when he automatically knew what she was thinking about.
"I know that! But...it's just that...you've got so much more energy and you're more hyper then L. I'm afraid that Light will see this. Ryuzaki never gets a sugar rush. Ever. Everybody sees how much sugar he eats too and you have to copy that." She tried to make him take this situation a little more seriously.
"Fret not, Go-go, I have much self-control over myself thank you. There will be nothing to worry about. As for the sweets, I'm more then capable of handling that." He smirked, taking a nutty bar and shoving it down his throat. She held the ear piece loosely as she heard Ryuzaki talk to her.
"We've already gone through everything that's needed to be discussed. Unless you want me to be in the room with you I suggest you allow fate to run its course." Kagome sighed and painfully closed her eyes.
"But I do wish you were in the room with me, just not about to die." She looked at BB, who had thrown the empty jar on the floor and was now spinning around on the chair laughing and giggling to his heart's content. "Could you possibly be any more immature?!"
"Darling, that is one bet I know you don't want to make." She groaned in aggravation and held a hand to her warming forehead while he continued his laughter. He just couldn't handle himself, at least, she didn't think he could.
"Everything's going to be alright. Soon enough you won't have to deal with him anymore. To be honest, I'm not very comfortable with this myself." Ryuzaki confessed to the young and talented miko.
"Why is that?" She asked him.
"I don't like the idea of B taking my place in death." He had pulled that one out yet again! She was getting tired of it but she tolerated it, nonetheless, merely because he showed his feelings and emotions about the subject, about something for once.
"Well as long as you're alive I'd die for you to keep on going. No suicide either okay? I don't want my death to be in vain." She joked but the man on the other line stayed silent. "Ryuzaki?"
"Kagome, this is no joking matter. More then anything I wish that I could be the one sitting next to you awaiting my own death. I've always hated an unnecessary death."
"But Lind L. Taylor-" He cut her off.
"Was on death row and was bound to die either way, it didn't matter the cause of death he was still going to meet it. Though I wish I was the one sitting in the chair at the very moment talking to you in person rather then over this, I'm not. I'm in our room, alone viewing the whole scene right now on my laptop." Kagome gasped and looked around with a small grin.
"Where are you?" She asked refering to the camera that hung silently somewhere, unnoticed but noticing everything else.
"Upper right hand corner of the ceiling. You should be able to see the glint of the lense." Please look at me, Kagome. He lead her to the camera and she found it, a small little thing that sparkled when she moved at a certain angle. She smiled and waved at it and gave a little giggle.
"I see you too." He said to her with affection hidden beneath his usual blanket of bleakness. She laughed lightly. "The team should be coming in at any minute. Prepare B, please. Make sure he's in character." She nodded and loooked to BB with a surprise. He sat in L's trademark position, knees to his chest and his thumb at his lips with a dullness in his eyes and a frown upon his face. He looked completely blank, just as L should. The empty jar rolled underneath the desk and halted with a small clank beneath the metal piece of furniture.
"Wow, I think he's already prepared himself, Ryuzaki." She took out a small black box from her pocket and tossed it to the replacement. "Here put these on." BB opened the case and stared in shock.
"Black contact lenses? The last I recall, Lolly-pop had blue eyes did he not? Eyes so dark yet so blue they just pull you into their ocean like trance and never let go. Almost as though you were in a hypnotic state of mind, you're drowning in the emotionless and unforgiving pools judging you and your every move made waiting for his reply, silently begging for his approval." Kagome nodded curtly and sighed through her nose after B had put her mind into work and focusing on L's rather enchanting eyes. She knew that Ryuzaki had blue eyes, why he picked black lenses, she didn't. Simple as that.
"They're from Ryuzaki himself so it was, again, his choice of color. You need to put them in so no one can see your shinigami eyes, especially the second Kira if they have the ability to see others who have them." BB nodded and reluctantly put the contact lenses on carefully. "It's for you own safety, B." Rolling his artificially black eyes, BB laughed humorlessly.
"Safety huh? How ironic, all consequences considered. I'll be able to find the first and second Kira as soon as they walk in the room. I won't be able to see their life spans if they have a Death Note so that should work out jolly good." Kagome nodded.
"Uh, yeah, sure." She agreed, shocked by the clone of L. Now that he had dark eyes that could peer right through your soul, he was the very reflection of Ryuzaki. But of course while looking in the mirror, everything you see is your exact opposite. "Another thing, be sure to call me by my alias please, it's Dunatsica." BB looked at her with wide eyes that questioned her choice of coverage. He perked an eyebrow.
"Dunatsica? Is that right?" She sighed and was about to answer but he cut her off. "Yet another one of Lolly's brilliantly and magnificently coordinated ideas no doubt. How very original." He sipped at the coffee in his cup that his old teacher, Watari, had brought him. BB was only ever taught by Watari, only the best for the student that showed the most potential.
"Go-go I know both you and Lolly are uncomfortable with this situation but please you must realize that this is what I want. I want to die. I've never used a Death Note so I know I won't end up in Limbo but most likely I'll end up in Hell for my past sins." He grabbed her arm and pulled her over to him, taking out the ear piece and holding it an arm's length away from her, knowing that they were being watched but the cameras didn't have the proper equipment to produce sound to the watcher, L.
"Let go of me, BB!" She demanded in an angered shout, uselessly tugging herself from his grip with a grunt.
"Before I die, there's something I wanted to tell you." Kagome's heart stopped in nervousness. What could he possibley have to tell her in this fashion? Whatever it was, it had to be important if he, Beyond Birthday of all people, was forced to speak in a mere whisper.
"Wh-what? Alright, I'm listening." She said with mild interest.
"I wanted to tell you L's real name." Her eyes widened and she gulped in fear. L didn't want anyone to know his real name against his wishes and she was about to find out.
"I don't think Ryuzaki would be very pleased with that." Was her only line of defense against the attack that was about to be made. BB whispered back with hatred, clear as crystal, tinted in his voice.
"I don't care. He has shoved me in the mud with his bare toes over and over again. This is the very least I can do to get back at him, trust me Kagome." He pulled her closer until her ear was at his mouth, next to his smirking lips he told her the secret that cost more then the very world itself.
As he started out, Kagome got scared and yelled while trying to pull away from him again.
"No, BB, I don't want to know! It's wrong and it isn't fair to Ryuzaki-sama! Let go!" But Beyond Birthday ignored her, letting her go after her heard her slip with the sama. Yet perhaps it wasn't that he ignored her pleads, but more of he was being patient with her, he was good at that after everything he had been through and caused. Some would call him an expert.
Very hushed and quiet, BB spoke the two words that made Kagome's heart beat just a little bit faster. "L Lawliet." She gasped and her pupils became smaller as she stared at the clock ahead of her in horror. She let out a whimper but quickly regained herself and shoved BB away from her.
"B!" She shouted at him as if he had just given her the worst insult possible. She grabbed the ear piece that lay motionless and soundless between his fingers and dug it into her ear. "Ryuzaki, are you still there?" She wanted to make sure he didn't hang up on her and that BB hadn't hung up on him whether it be on accident or intentional.
"I'm here." She nodded once and put her hand over her rapidly beating heart as a way of calming down.
"Okay good. He just put the lenses in and I think I see the team coming in now." She looked at the computer monitor with squinted eyes. "And Light's with them too. I can see the shinigami, Ryuk." She looked over at BB who held no expression whatsoever. "BB, are you alright? You don't have to do this, I can make up a lie." Kami knows I can do that. She didn't feel good throwing away another's life either. Now she felt what Ryuzaki had felt only an hour ago. BB looked at her with a blank expression, only to quickly smile wildly and happily with a genuine joy sparking his features, making his appearence nothing short of pyschotic pleasure and amusement.
"This is exciting!" Kagome flinched at his morbid point of view. Thinking that his own death was exciting, or some sort of amusement or entertainment to him at all, she shivered as it somehow managed to remind her of the disgusting and vile hanyou, Naraku, just the very thought of it made her blood run cold and then burn like Hell fire. Kagome took everything in her system to cool down, including her yoga breathing that she had practiced with her mother, Kaede, Miroku, and even Kikyo.
"Um, if you say so." She felt bad for him, she really did. He must have had some kind of scared emotion hiding in there somewhere. Besides, no one ever said it was today that he was going to die. "Hey, BB, what's today's date?" She asked the criminal, wondering if this really would be the day of his death.
"November third. Still two days left." He whispered the last part nonchalantly. Kagome's breath was caught in her throat. Two days until Ryuzaki would've died...
"Two days?" She asked. BB looked at her and nodded twice with a mental smirk, not feeling like upsetting her any further.
"Two days for what, Kagome?" Ryuzaki asked on the other line. Kagome blinked an unborn tear away and shook her head, waving it off as nothing.
"Um, two days until the fifth. It's Buyo's birthday on that day. He's my cat." Ryuzaki stayed silent. She already had the instinct that he knew what she was talking about and cursed herself for not saying 'oh it's nothing' or even 'i wanted to go shopping in two days' but she knew he could decipher why she really said two days.
"Then I suppose it's a good thing you remembered two days earlier, isn't it?" He said, actually talking about how they had started just today rather then a week from now as they had oringinally intended.
"Absolutely. I wouldn't want to be too late and miss out on everything we could've done for the um, the party." Kagome said refering to their growing relationship. L nodded and allowed Kagome to go as he saw Soichiro and Aizawa enter the room.
"I'll let you go. Meet me back in our room once you have all finished. Stay with B for half an hour after everyone has left and wait for him to dismiss you. Understood?" She looked at the camera and nodded.
"Yeah, I got it." She shut the ear piece off and stuffed it in the pocket of her tight blue jeans. Aizawa was the first one to step into the room and the first to look at "L", not not taking notice that this was a completely, utterly, different man..
"Ryuzaki, we couldn't find any information on the recent killings." BB struggled to not smile or burst into his sinister, greatly practiced cackles. Luckily, he was a good actor. Ah, to be called Ryuzaki once again...memories that never remain forgotten.
"What a shame. Well, I suppose you can go through the new files. Fifty-six new deaths in the last day all in seperate parts of the same state. Aizawa, I want you and Light to partner up and go through the lastest Japanese murders. Matsuda and Soichiro can examine the deaths in the western California regions." Everyone nodded, everyone except for Light.
"But Ryuzaki, we're always on task together. That's what we agreed to so I could prove to you that I truly am not Kira." BB looked over at the scholar with eyes unwavering and expression unfaltering. No life span. Gotcha.
"Not this time, Light. Dunatsica and I have important matters to discuss so in the mean time you can assisst Aizawa. He's got a good reputation and he's not annoying in the slightest. Be thankful, I could've paired you up with Matsuda. Now get out of my sight, thank you." Light was taken aback at Ryuzaki's new form of rudeness. Kagome looked on with a smirk. BB knew that Aizawa didn't like Light any longer and was now on L's side. She couldn't help but chuckle at the slight, immature groan the man let out in disappointment as Light sat down next to him.
"Sorry, Light." Kagome said in an involuntary sing song voice. Light held a hand up and shook his head.
"Not at all Higurashi-sama." He looked at her with malice and she spoke to him.
"Keep your attitude to yourself," She walked over to him and whispered in his ear. "Kira." Light bit his tongue in frustration at the tight spot he put himself in. "I haven't told him yet, so your life is in my hands." She pulled out her cell phone with the picture of Ryuk. "Literally." She stepped back and looked at the adolescent murderer with disgust. "Get to work, now!"
Light did as told with a huff and walked back over to grab the stack of papers BB had been holding out. "Thank you, Light." BB said.
"For what?" He asked with annoyance clear in his tone as his reddish brown eyes narrowed at the L imposer.
"For not being such a sore loser." Light blinked once then shook it off. He took a seat next to Aizawa, who held a lingering grimace. Kagome looked down at BB.
"So what did you see?" He looked up to her with one black lense sitting on his finger purposefully, showing off one of his rose red shinigami eyes.
"Not a life span." He said with a smile and his British accent visible again. She smiled and scoffed at his mismatched eyes. It was kind of cute and this really tugged at her heart knowing that she had stubbornly and willingly set him up for his own death. It was what he wanted though so she made no comments and no objections on the subject.
"Put that back on before you get caught, baka." He rolled his eyes in artificial annoyance and carefully put the black lense back on his eye. They both heard numerous sighs from Light but paid him no heed. By night fall everyone went back into their suites for a good night's sleep, leaving Kagome and BB alone.
"Higurashi-sama." BB scoffed. "Where the hell did he get that?" Kagome laughed and said it was Ryuzaki's idea. "Pfft, of course he would force that on young Kira."
"Now you're sure you didn't see his lifespan?" BB groaned childishly and turned to her, taking out both contact lenses and putting them back in the contact case.
"Kagome you've seen Ryuk, and I've got the shinigami eyes. I don't think that there's any other proof weneed but the courthouse, however, needs so much more. They need the living evidence because they're so selfish. Most people don't believe in the supernatural and that's where most of, if not all of, our evidence is. I'm sorry Kagome but unless we get a confession from the little delinquent we're powerless against the greedy little grubs of the court and so forth." Kagome hung her head in disappointment and the thought of failure.
"I guess you're right. Hey, it's been a half hour. I've gotta go back to Ryuzaki now." BB nodded and returned his gaze to the computer.
"Get a good night's rest, Kagome, I'll be here in the morning." He began hitting the keys on the computer pad to take down all of the information gathered today, which wasn't very much but he had found numerous connections and foreshadowings and had twisted and manipulated them into something that we like to call the truth. Kagome turned on her heel and muttered her goodnight to him as she went into the elevator. She pressed 'up' and soon enough she was on her floor that she previously resided in, now taking residence in Ryuzaki's secretive room on the top floor. Kagome went into her old room, taking off her clothes of the day and into a pair of red and black plaid pajama pants and a white tank top.
She went back to the elevator and hit the button for the top floor, where she met up with a dead end. She punched in the code on the number pad installed in the wall that would pop out of it and the automatic door slid open with a swipe. She walked in swiftly and went straight to the room she shared with Ryuzaki.
Kagome plopped on the bed with her arms spread out and her hair a mess of midnight tangles. She saw L looking at her from the corner of her eye. "Don't be a stranger, get over here." She said with a smile. Ryuzaki did as told and sat on the bed in his usual stance.
"So did you have a productive day?" She giggled sarcastically. She felt bad shortly after because he was forced to stay in this one room at all times. Sure it had a mini fridge, a bathroom, and a window for sunlight and fresh air, but it wasn't the same as going outside and trying to move around. Not that he ever did in the first place but that was his own choice. It's entirely different when the choice is made for you.
"Did you?" He spat back with no emotion to be detected. She winced from the bitterness that his comment held but tried not to show that she held no concern for it.
"Weren't you watching the whole time, Ryuzaki?" She flipped over to lay on her belly with a smile and rested her chin on her knuckles, trying to get him the way he usually acted when it was just the two of them.
"B told you my real name." He stated casually, but Kagome could tell it bothered him deeply just by the look in his eyes. Since she was a priestess she could see anyone's emotions no matter how well they hid them. "And tell me the truth, though I know that he has already shortly after you left. Just to confirm it, tell me what he told you." She gulped and looked away at the carpeted floor. She bit her quivering bottom lip and licked it before she spoke.
"He did tell me what your true name is. He told me..." She leaned in close to Ryuzaki and whispered lightly. "L Lawliet." Ryuzaki's unblinking gaze didn't falter once. He had known and was not at all surprised that she had correctly told him his real name.
"Just as I had suspected. This is no surprise in any way, shape, or form, Kagome. But I do ask of you to continue calling me by my usual alias, Ryuzaki." Kagome nodded.
"L, I'm really sorry he-" He interrupted her.
"Ryuzaki. It doesn't matter and I don't care. I know you didn't want to hear him say it but curiousity gets the better of all of us does it not? I saw you hesitate before making up your mind, you didn't want to hear him say it, hear him say my real name, my true identity. And I thank you for respecting my privacy and I know I can trust you with this information as it is life threatening to me." She knew he was lying. Straight through his sugar coated teeth as well. He gave off a distrustful tone in his monotone, but Kagome just smiled and grabbed his hand and held it to her heart, letting him feel it's quick paced vibrations as it pounded through her very skin and rang through her ears.
"You can trust me with anything, L, anything at all. I will give up my very own life if only to save yours, I will give you every penny I have if it will give you another day on this world of children's stories. I'll give you what ever you want." She said with a hopeful smile and a tear in her eye. "Just please, please don't get mad at me." She ducked her head into his shoulder and began to cry. Kagome tightly and mercilessly clenched his shirt in her balled hands and she let out a forlornly sob of confusion and hurt.
She looked up at him and saw a gentle kindness fill his eyes with a rich navy blue instead of the ever mundane black appearence. She inched closer to him until her mouth was on his. She felt the soft pressure of his lips become harder as he kissed her back. A tear slid down her cheek as she kissed him harder and harder. Her hands went to his face and his arms wrapped around her waist as the situation became even more intense.
L, Please don't leave me. She mentally begged him. Please! She pushed herself away from him but he kept his arms around her waist and hugged her closely.
"Kagome, what was that all about?" She sniffled a bit and let in a raspy gasp as she struggled to find the right words.
"I...I-I didn't want you to think of me as less then distrustful. I want you to see me as I am, and that's completely trustworthy. I'm sorry for B's actions. I want you to know that it wasn't my choice to hear your real name he forced it on me." Ryuzaki put a finger against her lips to silence her.
"I never said you were not capable of gaining or losing my trust. You already have it so don't worry about losing it. I know it wasn't a decision for you to make and I saw you struggling to get away from him, but I know we all suffer from a ubiquitous curiousity so there was some part of you that wanted to hear it. I don't blame you for feeling that curiousity so I'm not mad at you. Why would you think that?" Kagome wiped a tear away with her wrist and sniffled.
"I could feel it in your aura. You don't trust something or someone so it was only natural for me to think that it was me because BB told me your real name." Ryuzaki looked at her profile while she looked down at the floor in shame. He gentley took hold of her upper arm and pulled her to him. His arms wrapped themselves around her slender body in an emotional embrace. His eyes were closed as he took in the feeling of her body so close to his.
"I would never be angered with you, Kagome, don't you know that?" He felt her head shake from side to side through his shirt and held her tighter to him. "Well now you do. If you ever forget that please don't hesitate to come to me and ask me. And remember this." He lightly pushed her away but held onto her shoulders. His head tilted as he started leaning forward. She cocked her head slightly in the opposite way. He pressed his lips against hers in a sweet kiss that soon turned into a more passionate open-mouth kissing marathon.
Somewhere along the way Kagome had ended up underneath L wearing only her tank top and underwear and he in his old blue jeans.
"Ryuzaki-sama, I think it would be best if we stopped while we're ahead." She offered breathlessly. He nodded and crawled off of her. She sat up and ran her hands through her hair while taking in a deep breath. "Oh my god we keep getting sidetracked. BB couldn't see Light's life span, so this means he has a Death Note and that's how he's been killing the criminals. He needs a name and a face, like you said, and he can control the date of death, time of death, and cause of death." She got up and picked her tank top up off of the floor and tugged it over her head.
She looked over her shoulder and straight at him with a pure determination blazing in her eyes. "We need to find that damned note book, L, before he gets either one of our real names." He nodded absently, thinking of ways to retrieve the lethal tool. He could find only one that would be the most useful in locating it, but getting it would be difficult.
"Kagome, how long do your truth spells have an affect for?" She thought to herself, thinking about the many other times she's used the spell on people and demons alike.
Each of them lasted at different time spans, there was no exact time limit to them, it depended on the object of the spell.
"There isn't really an exact or precise time limit to any of them, Ryuzaki. Besides if I put it over Light then that would not only give away my secret, which is one of our greatest allies, but if we asked him where the Death Note was he would find a way to hide it again. To make things more complex, it's a note book so he's more then likely carrying pieces and pages of it with him." Ryuzaki agreed.
"Yes, indeed but Kagome I wasn't suggesting you cast it over Light. I reccomend that you redo the same thing you did the the shinigami Ryuk, in which case we would be able to tell us the whereabouts of the Death Note. It's also very possible that he will not tell Light, since shinigami are neutral creatures. This is all a game to him, his bored so he will do everything in his power to keep the game going as one piece catches up with another."
Kagome crossed her arms over her chest and thought about it. She could just cast it over Light and ask him if he were Kira and who the second Kira was, but that seemed far too simple, and she couldn't get it on camera because that would give away her position as a miko that only Ryuk, BB, and Ryuzaki knew about, as far as she was aware of. With much frustration and annoyance buzzing around her head she replied to Ryuzaki's suggestion.
"Fine, we'll interview the shinigami but there's no one hundred percent garuntee that he won't tell Light." She huffed in much aggravation. Kagome was pissed for one reason or another, but she didn't know why. It wasn't that L had come up with a better plan then her. Maybe it was just that the idea was so simple and held no complications that she didn't think of it, even when she had only done it the other night!
Kagome waved it off as just her nerves getting the best of her. She needed solid proof for the humans of the court. How to get it was the tricky part, but she had a feeling that a little help from Ryuk was definitely the key to the gold, the proof that they needed.
With InuYasha...
InuYasha lay on his bed looking out of the window. The moon was full and glowing with innocence and it reminded him far too greatly of Kagome. Then that Misa character tainted his memory. She seemed like one of the kind of girls Kagome used to hang out with. They all disgusted him, even Misa disgusted him. What was realy odd about the young modeling actress was that she completely wreaked of death and cherry perfume. The stench made his nostrils burn and his stomach lurch. He disliked everything about Amane, just like he disliked everything about this supposed "Hideki Ryuga" guy.
Kagome really took a liking into him, which made both InuYasha and Sesshomaru burn with a passion. A growl ran through his flaring nostrils, one so ferocious that he himself had nearly expected hellish steam to come rushing out. His claws grew on a will of their own, as he had gained control over some of his demonic specialties throughout the years and played with the air surrounding them. He felt his time approaching quickly, ever since he had met that forsaken Amane thing he had the gut instinct that she would be the cause of his demise.
"I know she's going to kill me. I just don't know when." He clenched his fist, his knuckles turning an yellowish white, imagining and picturing that it was that stupid Ryuga guy's neck that he held in his infuriated fist. InuYasha let out another frustrated growl and threw his fist against the mattress, not feeling like having to pay for the wall damage again. Sesshomaru had given him complete and total iscolation since the incident at the Task Force Headquarters. He had given his younger brother the exact order to bring Kagome back right away as soon as he finds her, and what does the baka do? He goes and chats with Kagome about how they defeated Naraku, how he lost his title, how it's been so god forsakenly long! No, Sesshomaru would never allow InuYasha to forget his mistake and the price they both had to pay.
Did InuYasha even care? Somewhat, yes but he did not care for his older half-brother's payment. All InuYasha cared about was how he was going to get Kagome to forgive him, and how he could find a way to off Misa.