Rating: T
Disclaimer: Do not own Death Note or any of the characters associated with it except for the main character.
Summery: Kidnapped and taken away from her affluent, boorish father, Mina confides in a detective that will change her life forever.
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Chapter 12
"I wish you would just tell me what is going on" Mina groaned. Annoyed and impatient as always. "And is it really necessary for me to be wearing this ridiculous blindfold?"
"Yes, Miss Mina, it is essential"
"Watari? Do you always have to speak on behalf of Ryusaki? I mean, why can't he just say it himself? I know he's here-WAHh!" The car lurched, causing Mina to almost fall off her chair.
"Are you sure?" Watari questioned.
"Who else is making that insufferable munching sound?!" Ryusaki coughed out a chuckle in the front seat next to Watari, with a half empty packet of chips in his lap.
"By the way…" Ryusaki spoke.
"Oh! So now you talk!"
"Been missing something lately?"
"…." Mina stopped and thought for a second. What was he talking about?
"Hold out your hand…" Ryusaki reached into his front pocket, retrieved the ring and lent over the front seat. Mina felt a cool object fall into her palm. She would have touched it with her fingers, but the blindfold was thatflimsy she could see just below her noes. And sure enough, she had missed something!
"My ring! Well, I never noticed that was missing…" she mumbled to herself, touching the symbol at the top and sliding it onto her pinkie.
"So where are you taking me?"
"You'll see…" said Watari.
"Again! Why are you doing all the talking?"
"You'll see…" Ryusaki spoke this time. Mina exhaled, releasing some frustration. She had noidea what the hell they were up to. She sat there, unaware of her surrounding, and feeling awkwardly uneasily.
"We're here" Mina heard Ryusaki open his door. Watari also. As soon as Mina was helped out of the car, by god knows who, she was allowed to take the blindfold off.
"WHOA!" she almost died of shock when she saw the huge bold letters in front of her C-H-A-N-E-L. "Oh…no…" she shook her head.
"What? You don't like shopping?" Ryusaki stood next to her. Mina turned to him, her eyes wide, a smile slowly creeping up from the sides of her mouth. "I shouldn't have asked" he mumbled and looked away. Mina decided that she would make him regret bringing her here. After all, she was a big shopper, only because her dad was a money tree. Plus, you know, tax deductions… so she was brought up to buy expensive crap. Not that it bothered her, she just hoped that Ryusaki had come prepared. Otherwise, he was in for one hell of a day...
Mina came out of the store new and refreshed, stretching her arms out into the afternoon sun. Ryusaki, dawdling behind her, carrying the burden of his decision…her shopping bags. He huffed, trying to both keep up with Mina and suck on his lollipop at the same time.
"What?" she asked, trying to sound innocent. "I told you I need pyjamas!" Ryusaki settled and took the lollipop out of his mouth.
"You spent $200 on a pair of shorts, singlet and fluffy bunny slippers"
"Hehehe" she chuckled smugly. "I know!" then she marched off into the next store.
"$400 in Chanel, $259 in Sobo, $200 in Peter Alexander…please let this day be over" he moaned. The stress was crippling him (not that he could cripple himself any more) but still, he felt the agony getting to him. He jumped in shock when Mina jumped out of nowhere in front of him.
"Haha, scared ja!" she poked him in the arm. He frowned at her, she was acting a little stranger then usual. Jumpy, happy, and always crinkling her eyes in a suspicious manner.
"What are you up to?" he asked, but her attention was diverted from something in the distance.
"Oh my god...is that?" Ryusaki turned around to see what she was talking about, his eyes darting from side to side. "AH! It is! It's…it's…EASY WAY!!!!!!"
"Wha-?" Rusaki stood there frozen as Mina ran off towards the blue stall on the other side of the mall. Ryusaki cowered under the sun and hurried off behind her. When he got there, he realised what she was talking about. It was a tea bar. But why the hell is she so excited about a tea bar?
"Not really healthy for you I must admit, but it's Easy Way! Who cares!HERE" she poked a straw through the plastic lid and shoved it in his mouth.
"Hmmm…" Ryusaki raised his eyebrows. Surprisingly, it tasted good. The slight taste of green tea put him off at first but the sugar at the bottom was enough to get him addicted. Soon enough he had finished his small serve, and actually went up for another one. This time with extra rainbow jelly's. It was only until after he ordered his second serving did he realise that Mina was gone. He scanned the area silently, and when he didn't see her around, he was surprisingly calm about the situation. He pulled out his mobile, people stared at him oddly, even the lady behind the counter stopped and stared. He ignored them, and with the touch of a button Watari's voice was on the other side of the receiver.
"She's made a run for it"
"Are you sure she didn't just go into a store?"
"She's been acting like an energetic puppy all day, Watari, I was on the brink of strangling her"
"I'll call you back when I get the exact location from the GPS" there was a click and then static.
Mina stopped, she was out of breath. She'd made it four blocks without stopping, but she had to keep going. She had a chance to escape and she took it. She had no idea where the hell she was going, she would have thought of that before, but she knew that if she did she would have stopped and thought about it. By then she would have lost her chance to run for it. She was glad she did though. Things would have become too complicated. I was always one to run away from things, I guess. She thought to herself. She looked up at the suddenly dark sky.
"Ohcrap." She said as rain started to pour down on her. She began to run again, across the empty road towards some unknown building. So far, her plan was disastrous. For some reason she knew that it wasn't going to work. L would find out where was sooner or later. She assumed that he would. He was, of course, supposed to be one of the top detectives around. Mina was thinking so much she almost tripped and fell head first onto the pavement, that is, if it wasn't for a strong pair of arms that grabbed onto her.
"Almost took me down with you then" a voice chuckled.
"Ahh! I'm really sorry!" she said nervously, her voice jumping tones for a moment. She tried to pull away from the man, but she found herself stuck. "Uhm…" she started to stress that the man hadn't let her go already.
"Wow, it must be my lucky day!" he said, and Mina looked up at him for the first time.
"Excuse me, could you please let me go?" she said as politely as she could, trying to keep her voice low and calm. "What's the rush?" he said, grinning, unsettling Mina greatly. His smile was devious. His clothes, the dark leather jacket, the skull shaped belt around his pants. Even the tattoo on his neck told Mina everything she needed to know. And she knew she was in trouble.
"Let me go now!" she said more aggressively. Trying her best to pull away from his strong grip. But he wouldn't let go. She felt the panic raise up inside her. She looked around frantically in the rain, it was totally dark, even the street lights were on. But there was no one around. She saw a dark figure further up the street. But he or she was too far away to help. She was hopeless. Disastrousisn't even close to how she would describe this break out plan of hers to be. Completely ill-starred is one way to describe it. But what the hell was she doing, standing there thinking about how stupid she is, when some guy for all she knew was going to pick her up and cart her to a dark ally way somewhere and do god knows what to her!
"Just let me go!" she kept struggling.
"Or what?!" the man chuckled. "What is little Miss Mina Resquire going to do to me?"
"W-what?"she
stopped, completely frozen. "What did you say?" she began hitting
his chest violently. The man's smile faded.
"You are nothing
like what my friends described. Attitude anyway…" he laughed
again. "Come on…" he pulled on her arm and seriously, it was
like being pulled by a car.
"OW!
That hurt you ungrateful twit! I have extra sensitive skin!"
"I
noticed" he turned his head and winked at her. She could have
smashed his face in then and there if she wasn't so scared
shitless, and also if her other arm could reach up that high.
"HELP! Somebody help!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Shut up!" he smacked her hard to the face. But that didn't stop her from screaming. "Shut up you stupid little-ugh!" Mina braced herself for another blow, but she felt her wrist slip free all of a sudden. She opened her eyes. The man that was just before holding onto her with great determination was now on the ground, squirming hopelessly in pain. Silently, he stopped. And Mina knew he was dead. All of a sudden Mina felt more aware of everything around her. She felt frightened, she wanted to run but couldn't. Her hands went up to her mouth.
"Mina!" she heard her name being called in the distance "Mina! Are you alright?!" it became closer, but she wasn't so sure who it was, not with the constant pounding of the rain around her. It's not like she could turn. She just stood there, staring at the lifeless body before her. "Mina! Speak to me!" two strong hands around her shoulders shook her out of her trance.
"I-" her lips barley uttered.
"It's alright" a calm, familiar voice spoke to her.
"Raito…" she looked up at him. Why was he here?
"Come on, let's get you out of here…" he guided her out of the rain and down the street.
Ryusaki took another sip from his large Easy Way beverage, he held onto it with both hands, careful not to spill anything onto the car's leather seats. He drank and watched carefully at the same time as Light and Mina walked through the rain down the street. Watari sat next to him in the driver's seat, also watching the pair walk off.
"It's your lucky day Ryusaki-san" he spoke. L looked at him gloomily. "What is it?" Watari asked, confused by the sudden emotive side from Ryusaki.
"Nothing…" he slurped through the straw grumpily.
A/N: Sorry, when I was editing I decided I'd change the entire chapter! Hope you enjoyed it though. Haha EasyWay...I have a membership card -
