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Chapter 21
The Time To Strike
Yumi had gone behind L's back for the first time, and used one of the few times that he left the room as a chance to search his computer.
She broke his code lock on the case file and looked through the information, she was uneasy with the feeling of betrayal she was getting as she worked, but she couldn't just act like she didn't care about his plan.
One of the first things that stood out were his thoughts on the motive for the crime. He had found that all the victims had the same blood type. Yumi shuttered at the thought of how that fit into the case, but she was also impressed that he could dig that deeply for the connection.
After he had found the blood connection- shudder- L had searched through hospital records and found that several donations of that blood type had been made to a local medical facility.
The donar was unknown and the blood had already been drawn and packaged.
Yumi didn't like where this was going.
It was easy to figure out the connection from there. Also the records of the donations were kept in the hospital, Wedy had broken into the back room and found the file. A large sum of money had been paid to the donor, and that was the connection.
The culprit was abducting people and draining their blood. Yumi had to take several deep breaths to avoid being sick, the fact that anyone could do that for money was unfathomable to her.
The shower turned off in the other room. Yumi had about five minutes before L came back in and found her. She erased her records of the search and reset the code locks on the computer then she got up and left the building.
Leaving the building wasn't necessary, but Yumi needed fresh air to avoid being sick from the thought of what the victims were going through.
She walked down the street and through a few alleys, she didn't know where she was going, but if she stopped she would more then likely start to cry. She felt helpless, and she hated not being able to help the victims.
This was so wrong how could any person in the world do that to someone else... for money?
Yumi stopped moving and sat in the grass, she had somehow made her way to a small park and she leaned her head against a tree.
How...? ...Why...? ...Why would someone...?
Yumi closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself down. If she had been a victim, what would she be thinking now? She stopped that train of thought fast.
She lay with her head against the tree for a long time, the air was cold and the sky was filled with rain clouds. She decided to go back, L wouldn't worry, but she still shouldn't stay away for too long. With a sigh she placed her hands on the ground beside her and began to lift herself up, she opened her eyes as she stood...
... and froze. No, not froze, for a split second her mind didn't comprehend what she was seeing, then she screamed. In her sudden, unnecessary, panic she had lost her hold on the ground and fell back against the tree.
A few years ago she would not have reacted in that way, but it had been a while. She blinked and rubbed her eyes a few times but the result didn't change. In front of her, bending almost double to see at her eye level, was Kyu.
Yumi waited a minute for her breathing to return to normal, then addressed the shinigami.
"K-Kyu, what are you...?" she tried but her brain stopped working.
"It's been a long time, are you alright?" Kyu asked.
"Y-yes, I'm fine what are you doing here?" she finished her sentence that time.
"I came to tell you, something, something important." Kyu said, standing up as straight as he could without his head phasing through a low branch.
"To tell me something?" Yumi asked not comprehending.
"Yes." Kyu didn't seem to notice the look on Yumi's face.
"You, came here, after ten years, to tell me something? You could have scared me to death just now and you just want to say something?" Yumi tried not to raise her voice, failing that she looked around to make sure that no one was watching her.
"Are you still angry with me?" Kyu asked.
At first Yumi couldn't tell what he meant. Then it all came back, the fight in the square, the only reason that she had left him. And the only reason she had met L. The fight that changed her whole life.
"No, I'm not mad." she said, now she was speaking to him as her friend, he had been there to help her in the beginning of her life and she hadn't thanked him yet.
"Well, then I need to tell you that..." he was cut off as the rain began to pour down. It was a huge storm and Yumi was shocked at how fast it had started.
"I should get going, see you later Kyu!" Yumi had forgotten about the important fact that Kyu had come to tell her, because her thoughts had turned to L. She had been gone a while.
Yumi ran off before Kyu could finish his sentence.
Yumi wasn't lost. She knew where the hideout was, she was just misplaced. Like when she left her clothes in other hideouts, she knew they were there, she just couldn't get to them.
Do to her misplacement Yumi was soaked by the time she had returned to the hideout.
L was on the computer just like Yumi had expected. And he didn't seem too upset about her sudden absence.
Though when she walked in the door to the work room, L did turn around to face her wet form. She was shivering and trying not to look like a soaked cat standing in the doorway.
L didn't hesitate. He knew that Yumi had left her clothes in the last hideout. He pulled his white shirt over his head and tossed it across the room to land on the bed that stood between them.
The shirt landed on the corner of the bed closest to the door, and Yumi knew what he meant.
He didn't really have to say anything in that situation, she got the message on her own. L turned back to the computer.
Yumi was mature enough to understand the difference between a man taking off his shirt and a woman doing so, she knew it was ok for him and he was just being a good friend by helping her to dry off. But in spite of her knowledge, Yumi had to pull the shirt on in under a second to hide the bright pink she had turned.
Once she had his shirt on she pulled hers out from under it and walked to the bathroom to hang it up.
In the bathroom she dropped to her knees. She hadn't expected anything like that to happen, so it took her several minutes to calm down enough to stand. She hung up her shirt and walked back to the computer, to help L.
Something was wrong with her brain, she knew it because the entire time they were working she had to focus all her energy on not staring at him. After ten minutes she was ready to put her wet shirt back on if that meant that she could give his back.
Of course she said nothing about this, it was better not to question his generosity.
They worked late into the night, that only made things worse because he was so pale. The light color of his skin made his bare chest stand out in the dark. Yumi was ready to knock herself out by the time it was acceptable to say she was tiered.
She went to bed still in L's shirt, and rolled away from him as he worked but the computer and the beds were in the same room, so in the end she wound up laying on her back watching him out of the corner of her eye.
Through all of the annoying urges that filled up the night, Yumi found no time to think of anything else. That meant that she had no chance to wonder what Kyu's message had been.
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author's note: sorry it's short. Thanks for reading! And reviewing of course! Kyu's back! Ok I'm done for tonight, bye, and thanks again!