Kira Revolution
Consequences
Me : I'm turning even sadder as the chapters go on ...
Alone.
Among her cold sheets.
The window shills tightly shut, no light breaking through.
Silence. Frightening silence that was only interrupted by the loud perpetual sound of bells.
'It's been two days now ... I can hear them ... the bells...'
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Alice walked to the lobby, her hands pressing on her abdomen tightly, as the severe pain was killing her. She frowned and bit her lip, refusing to give in to showing this ache and act normal, as she went in and her gaze swiveled from one investigator to another. Only Light, his father, Mogi and Matsuda were inside, supposedly because Aizawa could have gone for a stroll with his friend from the police, the queer Ide. The investigators nodded in aknowledgement of her entrance, and Matsuda rosed up with a welcoming smile.
"Good morning, Arisu-chan !" he cheered and raised his hand "How was your sleep ?"
"Kind of uncomfortable, but I'll be fine." She avoided meeting with Light's glare, and both of them prefered to shield their eyes behind their bangs, and she turned to the monitors for a change of mood, a slight smile playing on her lips at the sight of L sitting there, knees raised to his chest and calculating, as always.
L glanced to her indifferently, when she approached him and stood there next to him with arms crossed. "Good morning, Alice. I didn't expect you to come here."
She turned to him curiously and he explained, "Since you, Light and Misa-san aren't suspects anymore, there is no need for you to stay here. Of course," His intense gaze glanced back to Light, noticing that the young man was listening much too curiously to their conversation. "Light there offered his assistance to the investigation, and Misa eventually left either way since she'd only be a burden to us all, but you."
He tensed these last two words, and quickly glanced to the laptop so as to avoid her eyes. "You have nothing to do here. You can go to your mother, finish your school and lead an easy life away from the danger of Kira. Why do you stay ?"
'Because of you.' Alice pried her eyes from him and muttered thoughtfully, "Well, it's my lifetime dream to be here, so..."
L's midnight bangs covered his eyes and his nails dug into his knees, fighting with the urge to take her out of the room. 'She's either missing the point or she refuses to get it. She has to go, she has to get as far away from Light as possible.' "But aren't you afraid ?" he asked with an alarming tone.
Her nails dug into her exposed skin, the way her arms were crossed. "No. After all I've lived during these months, I have nothing else to be afraid of." Her voice went harsh, when she slantly looked back to the team of investigators. "Not even Kira." 'I think I know where he's getting with this. He's the one afraid. He wants me to leave and be safe... But I can't go now...'
L turned his back at her, and Alice averted her eyes to him seriously . 'Just how good an actor he is ...'
An electrical jolt coursed threw her the moment Light's hand patted her shoulder and she somehow managed not to give him a punch on the guts.
"Perhaps L is right, Alice." he said with an all too innocent voice. "You should be getting home by now. This is no place for a young girl like you to stay."
'He's faking it.' L thought, refusing to his urge to backflip a kick to Light's jaw. Light's eyes were gleaming cunningly as he starred into her cold glare.
'Raitto-kun...Light Yagami...Kira...' Even her thoughts were colored in spite at this contact between them. 'How long can you keep pretending ? Just how good an actor you are ?'
Suddenly, her stomach throbbed for a split second, painfully enough to make her bent down and grasp her abdomen tightly.
"Alice ! Are you alright ?!" Matsuda shouted, and stood up just like the others. L swirled his chair back and Light shouted worriedly, "Alice ! Hey, what's wrong ?"
Alice grasped her mouth shut as she had this sick feeling she'd puke. She turned around quickly and dashed outside, saying through a muffled voice "Nothing !", and went to the nearest bathroom. There, she slammed up the toilet lid and bent down, disgusted at herself vomiting.
Once over, she sighed and slipped to the cold floor, closing her eyes to relax and whipping her lips with paper. Her stomach was still unbearably aching, but thankfully, not as much as before.
Nothing echoed within the narrow bathroom walls, other than the continuous buzzing of her vertigo. And of course , the bells.
Alice leaned her head to the side , and tried not to think.
How had she gotten into this state ? The pathetic state of feeling so defenseless, while around you, enemies crawled up to you with clutches wide open and ready to devour you. And though she knew that for once in her almost seventeen year old life, she had someone to depend on, cling on, the sound of bells made everything so unclear. Just a faze of mist where she couldn't see the light.
A soft knock pounded on the door.
"Alice ?"
The soft familar voice alarmed her pleasantly, and she hurried to flush the toilet and open the door, to meet with L's apprehensive look. He didn't say anything, just stared at her with hands tucked in his pockets. She furrowed her eyebrows and whispered, "I'm alright now..."
L nodded. "I want to talk to you. Alone." Alice scowled backwards and muttered,
"Not that easy."
"Your Shinigami, I pressume ?" The familiarity with which he asked this didn't strike her at all unusual, after all, he knew about Shinigami through Rem. She nodded, but he turned his back to her, walking to the lift. "It doesn't matter. I'd like to meet him."
Alice followed him silently inside the lift, and spent the solemn seconds between them, wondering what he wanted to tell her. 'Is there anything I should've told him ?' She deliberated as they stepped in her room and was forced to sit on the edge of the bed. 'Or... could it be that Light did something ? Or a lead to expose Light as Kira ?...'
Her cold eyes turned oddly apprehensive when he said, "Is there something you should tell me ?" His voice was laced with bold concern. Alice shook her head. L stood right next to her, looking down to her with caring eyes. "Are you feeling alright now ? How long has it been since you started having this pain ?"
It was rather obvious where he was getting with this. "Two days ago." she uttered quietly , and glanced up to him. "And I...my you-know-what...period, I mean... should have already come by now..."
"Alice...you know what this means."
Alice immediately jerked up to her feet and brought her fists to her chest defensively. "L, if you want to, I'll even do an abortion ! If you want this, just say it, I'll-"
"No." L cupped her cheeks and brought her closer to him, holding her tightly and patting her head gently. "I'd never want it. I'd never put you through such thing." She wrapped her arms around his waist, clinging to him the more she could as she muffled a whisper,
"Everything will get better, right ?"
Silence followed and she sensed his hand stop stroking her. His silence terrified her and she pulled away to look in his eyes worriedly.
"Promise me."
L shrugged and inhaled deeply. "Probably." Then he turned his back to her, giving her the time to look down with a frown and think, 'Liar.'
"By the way, Alice." The girl quickly snapped out of her thoughts at her provocation. When she looked at him, she met with the back of that man, becoming once more nothing but a riddle. "I want to know something about the Death Note." The statement took her aback, but unable to react fast, he cut her off with the continue of his demand. His head was tilted backwards, eyes locked on the white ceiling, as he spoke. "Are there any rules claiming that if the person using the note fails to consecutively write names of people to be killed within thriteen days of each other, then the user will die ? And that if you make this note unusable by tearing it up or burning it, all the humans who have touched the note 'till then will die ?"
Why was he asking her this...? Was this some trap of his...? Did he not trust her...? Maybe...?
She shook her head. "No, there are no such things."
A frown graced her lips as he turned his head towards her, wondering, curious and dubious. "Is this the truth ?" he asked and she nodded. When he turned back again, his frighteningly even voice was nothing compared to the words that came with it. "I hope you're honest. I can easily suspect that you've sided with Light again and you're giving me false information."
For one minute there... For only one instant... Oh, how much she wanted to slap him...!
Her eyes dilated in this second, and in that faze he put her in, so many regrettable thoughts crossed her mind. No, she couldn't believe that nagging voice. This annoying little person inside that doubted, doubted everything about that man... Her eyes narrowed on him and at the way he didn't turn around, the lust for sending a slap to his face grew wilder than before... "I have a question too." she said quietly, secretly fuming that she couldn't hold any grudge for him in her voice. Again, he didn't turn. She stared at him with so much tension, that she was curious to know, how the Hell didn't her eyes scorch him, while her hands were balled to tight fists. "L... Do you love me ?"
No response... But after a while, he turned around and looked to her. The sight he met with was that of a strong girl who searched for an answer.
"You could be using me all this time to take information about Light." she explained. "All I know about you is that you're a liar. How do you expect me to trust you that easily ? I may be a girl, and maybe I am the type of those foolish girls who lose their mind when in my situation but..." Her clenched knuckles became tighter as her glare rose up at him. "I'm not stupid."
L's widened eyes were locked on her in that queer disbelief... That peculiar curiousness... but both eyes and voice softened, strands of hair covering those riddlish black orbs... "You're right." he said quietly. "That was irresponsible of me."
'Irresponsible...?'
"And I'm sorry..."
'Sorry...?' Alice wanted to pull back, not knowing what made her so doubtful, as he approached her. "Sorry for what ?" she demanded and was now close enough, for him to hold her hands in his, his cold skin so familiar to her own.
There was a ghost of a smile on his lips, so consoling, so soft... "For not trusting you..." he whispered. "You're right, I'm a liar. But what happened two days ago, everything I told you, it was all real." There were no words for her to say, and she was completely startled when he cupped her cheeks and let his smile play with fascination. "This is what I love about you the most." he said calmly and pulled back, amused by her wondering expression that changed to a half-hearted smirk, when he responded. "You're strong, smart. And you know how to be tough."
He quickly released her and walked off, letting her enjoy that feeling, that emotion that fluttered in her heart.
'I want to believe... that I can trust him. Yes, I can...'
"So." He looked to her with a blank face. "Can I see your Death Note ?"
Alice's thoughts were erased after this, suddenly. "M-My Death Note ?"
Never before has she thought about it. During her days chasing after the Yotsuba Kira, she'd never grown concerned over it : instead, she despised it and even had it buried in the least likely place L would search in, her underwear drawer. No decent man would search there, after all. Against all previous odds, she hated the damned notebook and just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible, but was holding back in the thought of losing her only and final weapon against Kira. And the first real friend she ever had.
"It's..."
L blinked. "In your underwear drawer ?"
She was fazed. "Uh, yeah." Alice followed behind him into the walk-in closet and watched him rummaging through the drawer and letting garments fall on the floor. She crossed her arms and leaned against the side of the door, frowning and mumbling, "You're such a pervert..."
Having the notebook between his fingers, L looked to her, oblivious. "I wouldn't say so. I'd say I'm just a normal young man." Alice arched an eyebrow and followed him back into the room.
She sat next to him on the bed and starred in disgust, as he flipped over the pages. It was something that had came to disappear... and now her crimes were flowing to the surface once again. She winced, as in pain, at the sight of at least fifty names scribbled down on the delicate pages.
"Interesting." said L with genuine interest. "It's thirty people. All of them your classmates ?" he asked and turned to her. Alice shook her head pensively,
"No, there were others too. Everyone who treated me badly."
L gazed at her for a while, then retreated to reading the names again. "Haku Yuchiki, huh..." He mused and read the other names, "Nisekunshi Meiko... Saikoro Hina, Shunji Karei..." Thankfully, L closed the notebook and let it lay on the bed, freeing Alice from the sight of her sins. She waited for him to speak, say something, anything, but he only looked to the opposite wall with his thumb pressed to his lips.
"Hello, Shinigami."
Alice narrowed her eyes and turned to Shado who had just made his appearance in the room. He seemed rather disturbed by L being there, and retreated to the corner with his arms crossed. Alice could barely resist but feel sorry for the Death God : having next to him the one who dared to take away from him the girl he protected wasn't the most pleasant thing of the world...
Shado grumbled something incomprehensible from his corner, only to receive a scowl from Alice's part, assuming that it wasn't the best word to say...
"I'm pleased to meet you." L added, oblivious to the creature's hostility.
Shado snorted. "Pleasure's mine... when I kill you." Alice's mouth fell agape. What was he, a psycho fanboy or something ?
L nibbled his nail in thought, and turned to Alice, who was glaring at Shado all this time. "I think he won't introduce himself so why don't you tell me his name ?"
"He's Shado. Shado, you know L, now stop playing obstinate or get your ass outta here."
Even L lowered his thumb from his lips and looked to her with surprise dancing in his eyes, after this cruel saying to the Shinigami, who was looking at her as though he'd just been snapped out of his slumber.
"That was pretty harsh..." L whispered, fascinated, and Alice crossed her arms.
"He's used to it."
Groaning for the millionth time, Shado went to the TV across the room's couch and started watching another 'Poirot' movie, for perhaps the fifth time in a row. The two glanced to him but quickly turned their gazes to one another, wondering.
"I'm so sorry, he's so childish..." Alice whispered apologetically.
L gave a her a faint smile. "It's alright, I'm childish too." Alice was about to smile, but froze when he added matter-of-factly, "I'd do like this too if someone stole you from me."
A remorseful feeling burdening her, she looked down to the floor, weighing the facts and wondering if L'd really act like this, if...
Bells. Bells echoing stronger, louder, in her mind.
Reflexively, her hand clutched on her heart and she shut her eyes to dispel the fear gradually growing inside her.
'No... Not again...'
Alice turned slowly to L, and froze. His face seemed paler than usual and his eyes were widened, though both are rather unlikely, and his body was quivering slightly. It was... discouraging...
Alice reached up a hand and touched his, so that he abruptly looked to her despondently. "L...?" she did quietly, and held his hand tightly.
L remained looking at her blankly, until he gingerly took her hand off his and walked out of the room.
Having watched the whole scene, Shado scoffed, irritated. "Huh, he doesn't appreciate you enough, that bastard."
He snorted theatrically, and grinned at this unexpected gesture of the detective, but scrubbed it off as soon as he met with the despondent figure of the girl. She was still sitting at the edge of the bed, with her gaze fixed on the floor and her fist to her chest, as her purple bangs framed her face.
Shado writhed from his seat on the couch and glanced back at her. "Arisu-chan...?"
Alice's lips parted open and a frown replaced her stunned expression, as she told him firmly,
"Shado, you have to tell me."
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"Ryuuzaki, did you want to see me ?" asked Chief Yagami as he approached the detective.
L was sitting on his chair, looking up at the switched off monitors. "Yes. Please, make yourself comfortable." Only his laptop was turned on, its buzzing sound echoing throughout the empty lobby, left open at an indecipherable strange program he had been working on.
The Chief looked around, but prefered to stay standing, since there were no other chairs that could enable him a more straight to face conversation with him.
"Thank you, but I'll pass."
"Right." L sounded lost in thought and he still wouldn't turn to look at the Chief in the eyes, aggrevating the man.
He clutched his fists and grumbled seriously, "So what did you want to tell me ?"
There was a long pause that was only spoiled by L's even utterance,
"Alice is pregnant."
Who knows if the silence that followed this statement was a silence of shock or a silence of loss for the right words.... Finally, Chief Yagami burst into a furious yell, "What did you say ?! Light and Alice will have a child ?! How can this be ?!"
L waited for him to finish shouting, then swirled on his chair to look at him in the eyes. Eyes sincere, despite their shroud of mystery. So sincere that even Soichiro Yagami stepped back.
L said evenly, "You can relax, Yagami-san. It's not Light's."
Soichiro's lips trembled, and once he had the right words in mind, asked, "Then whose...?" He stared deep in L's indifferent eyes and the detective inhaled heavily.
"It's mine."
There was a pause and then Chief Yagami clenched his fists and growled in anger. "What did you say ?!" he yelled, enraged.
L nodded. "It's the truth."
The Chief stuttered for a second, trying to pick up the words to express the burning feelings boiling inside him. "I don't believe it !" he growled and prepared to go on a rant. "She's just a girl, not even a full-fledged adult and you- ?! And with what right ?! Light and Alice are together and you...! How dare you come tell me this so simply ! And-"
"Chief Yagami, please stop and let me explain a few things." L requested, oblivious to the outburst, and Soichiro held back his anger. He was silently fuming as L starred at him impassively.
"You must listen carefully." he said and let this sink in. "Light and Alice have broken up a long time ago. You needn't worry about her cheating on him. You should be more aware that he's now legitimately with Misa Amane."
Soichiro backed off at this and his lips hung open to contradict, but L interrupted him once more. "Now what's really significant is that Alice stays alive. If something happens to me soon enough, Yagami-san, I want you to take care of her and make sure she's alright. Keep her away from harm as much as you can."
L was staring sideways at him with a discernible pensive tone in his voice. The Chief stuttered a bit, stunned and confused altogether, and clenched his fists in a manner to stay calm. L could easily see the reasons behind this behavior. He was probably weighing the facts and deciding on whether he should accept them being real.
"Ryuuzaki... I ..."
He was still picking up on the right thing to say, when he said seriously, "Though I don't agree with it as a whole, I won't let anything happen to this girl."
There was this honest promise L was waiting for. L stared at him, and after a while, turned his back to him.
"Thank you very much."
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The room was painted in the beautiful colours of sunset, as the last brims of sunrays slipped inside. Just like every afternoon, this one was silent. Everything was drown in silence, except for the loud sound inside her mind.
Alice stood by the window and looked outside, her hand keeping the curtains away. She was lost in thought, calculating, not being able to find solace. Shado felt worthless as he watched her, feeling he could do nothing to help her, like all previous help he had offered her was just nothing compared to the help he had to give her now.
"Shado..." she said quietly but firmly "Is it against the rules to tell me my lifespan ?"
The Shinigami widened his eyes. "Your lifespan ? You think Mr. Smarty will try to kill you ? Why would you want to know it ?"
"Just tell me."
His eyes narrowed to slits, but he shook away his stun quickly as he gazed to a spot above her head. "Well, it is against the rules, but anyway, I've already infringed so many rules just being here. Do you think it'd matter to me if I violated this one ?"
He gave her a mocking look but was disappointed when she didn't even scowl at him, just kept looking outside with a far off gaze. Shado sighed and glanced above her head again. "Don't worry, I can assure you, you won't die soon."
"I won't die soon..." she repeated in a whisper. Shado blinked as she crossed her arms and leaned against the wall, not taking her eyes off the outside world. 'If I won't die soon... then who will ?'
A rush of upset coursed through his decayed heart and the Shinigami trembled at the first-felt feeling. "Arisu-chan... Why the sudden questions ? You've never cared about your lifespan before."
Though distant, she was able to hear his voice in the loud sound. He wanted an answer ? But would he be able to understand her ? Should she really tell him what tormented her night since the most happy day of her life ? She closed her eyes slowly and reopened them towards him seriously.
"It's because of the bells."
...........No comments , I guess... (Except that I'm sorry for being late, laptop problems ! :( ...)
I believe this shows many hidden things, for instance, Alice having killed Haku Yuchiki. Just go back to chapter 7 !
Hehe, when L asks "why do you stay ?" I feel like saying, someone feels he's not wanted and wants to make sure that he's not right ! XD Oh, my dear panda ! :P And when Alice says "Not even Kira !", ahahah, I am like "WOO, THAT HURT, EH LIGHT ?!" :D
So, next chapter will be actually TWO chapters ! O.O Yeah, it will your regular chapter 26 and an extra which many of you (michi-nin to say one name :P) will enjoy since it's one of the few extras about Alice's life. Time to see the secrets about the years this girl was just a wee little kid. Prepare yourselves ! :D Oh and....I won't be here to greet you and stuff, Mello, Near, L and Matt will take my place since...I won't be able to even speak...-sob-
Anywayzz , please tell me what you think ! ^^
simsbabii : Ehehe...-nervous- Well, uh, yeah, I was very uneasy about the previous chapter, so uh, yes, thanks for sticking around ! :3 Take a choco-cookie basket ! :D
happy-smiling-cookie : I'm glad you liked the chapter and if you really print my story (which I'm really happy to hear), would you mind sending me a copy ? :D Oh about Light... mwahaha, you'll have to wait and see cuz Lightbulb hasn't said his last word yet ! :D (Not that I'm happy about it...) Her confession of guilt was very sweet, ne ? :3 I like reading that scene and imagining it, it really gets to me ! :3 And you should see my reaction whenever I read L's proposal...XD Wahahahaha ! XD So here's the update (which I hope you liked !) and take a cold chocolate drink with extra cream on top ! :D I feel generous today ! XP
---EleganXD