Alibi

(Sensei shushes readers.

"Quiet, everyone. Rhamiel's in the living room. I gave him a video of a bunch of women giving birth. I think he'll be scarred for life." She snickers and takes Madeline's suggestively evil bottle and rewrites, 'medicine' on the container. "He'll never know the difference...")

"Mello, Near, today we're roleplaying."

The boy stood in the far end of the room, shoulders slumped forward. The two children sat on a rug in the middle of the floor, watching him with wide eyes. The girl sat in a chair by the window, beside the old man, watching curiously as well.

"Sabi and I did this all the time, when we were children." He glanced over at the girl. She smiled. "One of you will play the role of the protagonist, and the other will play the role of the antagonist. Do you know what those are, Mello?"

"Why'd you ask me? Near's probably the one who doesn't know! He's just a kid." The blond child crossed his arms, indignantly.

"Protagonists are the good guys, or heros. Antagonists are enemies or opposers." The white haired child retorted, his voice very practiced for his age.

"Yes. That's right. Who will be who, then?" He turned toward the girl. "Why don't you choose, Sabi."

"Mello can be the bad guy." She winked at the little blond. "He's a little rebel."

The blond smiled widely at her.

"Very well. Mello, you've been arrested for two counts of murder and an assault against an officer. Near is a witness. Do you have an alibi, Mello?"

"Umm... I didn't do it?" The blond child guessed, unsure.

"No, Mello. An alibi is a story behind your actions. A reason. A lie. See watch..." The girl stood up and walked over to the boy. "I was framed, sir. Near claims to be a witness, but he was the one who murdered those people. I was the one that witnessed it. I'll admit to resisting the officer, but only because my little brother was alone in the house. I didn't want to leave him there, especially with Near in the house. He watched him kill those people..." The girl played along.

"That's a very good alibi, Sabi." The boy stated. "It may have some faults, but nearly perfect, regardless."

She bowed.

"I've got an alibi for everything L. Everything."

(Sabi's POV) Present day

"Stationed at point one. Ready to take action."

I stood on the edge of the crowd, blending in with the students around me. A tiny microphone jutted from the collar of my shirt, so that I could keep in contact with L.

L was talking with Light. I couldn't hear any of their conversation, but I got the gist of it from watching. Besides, I wasn't here to watch them play games with eachother. I needed to remember that I was on the hunt.

Shiki hovered next to me, just as observant as I was.

Finally...

"Ryuzaki, she's coming. ten o' clock." I whispered.

Misa-misa skipped through the crowd, a gleeful look on her face. Her eyes were fixated on Light, just as we expected. Of course, she was a girl in love. A girl in love with Kira...

She walked up to Light. I watched as she was introduced to L. A perplexed look spread across her face at this.

"Shinigami eyes..." Shiki muttered, next to me.

Of course... She could see L's real name above his head, but he was giving her an alias. It must have been confusing.

"Make a scene." I ordered into the microphone. "And stop gawking at her like that!"

L obeyed, pointing out bluntly that she was Misa-misa and acting completely excited about it. I lost sight of them for a moment, as a crowd gathered. I stepped to the side so that I could see the whole scene again.

"Her phone's in her back pocket." I observed to L. His eyes flickered to the pocket.

While the other's were gasping about the famous girl, L reached down to snatch her cell phone.

"Not that pocket!" I sneered into the little device. "The other one! And you knew that, didn't you? You just wanted to grab her butt! You really are a perv, Ryuzaki." I rolled my eyes. He slipped the phone into his pocket and feigned innocence.

I laughed.

Misa and Light parted. This was my cue.

I vanished into the crowd.

"W, this is S, plans are go. Take your stations, she's heading for the building." I switched the frequency on the mic and gave the orders.

"Understood." Grandpa replied.

I dodged through the crowd and into an empty bathroom, where I'd purposely hidden my hooded trench coat.

"You ready, Shiki?" I smiled widely, completely thrilled by this mission.

"Always."

I tossed him a container of hair gel from my deep trench coat pocket and wrapped the coat around me.

"I can't wait to see the look on Light's face when L tells him about Misa." I shuddered with excitement.

"You're so thrilled about this..." Shiki observed.

"Of course! We're one step closer to catching Kira, and I didn't even have to do anything! My life is perfect right now, Shiki!" I fixed my hood over my face, carefully. "Hey, I was just wondering... Do you have straight teeth, or sharp jagged ones?"

He looked down at his bandaged face.

"I don't think I even have a mouth."

I laughed out loud and bursted out the door.

We carefully navigated to the building where Misa was heading. I entered at once, just to see Misa in the grasps of two masked men.

"What's going on?!" She gasped. "Where's Light?"

"Don't worry, Misa. He's fine." I hid my face in the shadow of my hood and faced her. "You're the one I'd be worried about."

"Why are you doing this?! What's going on!" She screamed.

"Misa Amane, you are under arrest for suspicions of being the second Kira." I pulled out a pair of handcuffs.

"No way! You're kidding me, right?" She looked around at all the men posted, guns pointed at her.

"Not at all." I waved my hand forward. Two more men lunged at her and threw her to the ground. I was by her side in an instant, cuffing her wrists.

"Let me go! LIGHT!!" She shouted and struggled against me.

"Watari!" I commanded, briskly. Without a second thought, he stabbed her arm with a tranquilizing needle.

"Light..." She muttered one more time before losing consciousness.

"VICTORY!" I cheered. "I'm going to celebrate this with an extra slice of strawberry cake tonight." I licked my lips and dismissed the others to take Misa away.

Shiki and I pulled away from the crowd.

"Mission accomplished, Ryuzaki." I reported into the microphone.

"That was awesome, Shiki!" I grinned and high fived the shinigami. "It's been ages since I actually got to arrest a real murderer." A look of ecstasy covered my face.

"You get satisfaction from the strangest things..." Shiki shook his head.

"Only when they involve Kira or L." I shrugged.

"But you take joy in torturing people."

"Only people who use power the wrong way."

"So you'll be fine with what Lawliet plans to do with her?"

"Let's just say... She'll need one heck of an alibi to get herself out of this one..."

(Rhamiel walks from living room, a totally blank expression on his face.

"So, Rhammi, what did you think?" Sensei smirks, evilly.

"I think..." He shakes his head. "That babies are the most beautiful, perfect, wonderful creatures alive!" Excitement covers his entire being. "The way they're born is so... Fascinating!! It's Mother Nature at her finest!"

"It figures he'd end up liking something like that..." Sensei mumbles.

"Sensei-sama, I've made a decision."

"And what might that be, Rhammi-kun?" Sensei teases.

"I want you to give birth to a beautiful, perfect, wonderful child." He states, his hands on his hips.

"Me?" Sensei spits out the random water that she happened to be drinking at the time.

"Yes."

"It's a little more complicated than that... I mean... People have to carry around those things for nine months! They get all fat and bloated and crave salty pickles and stuff like that. It's pretty sick."

"Please Sensei?! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! Babies are sooooooo cute!" Rhamiel begs.

"No way! Even if I did want a baby, I can't just magically impregnate myself. You need two people to do something like that." She shakes her head.

"Two people?" Rhamiel's eyes light up. "Perfect! Sensei, you and I can make a baby together!!" His eyes twinkle.

Sensei faints.

"Sensei? Sensei-sama?")