Someone told me that you can't see the death date of a Death Note owner... I forgot that little fact xD
But Beyond has the Shinigami Eyes since he was born and not given by a Shinigami and they can see the death dates from every human. So I just go with it and B can see every death date of every human no matter what like a Shinigami can.
Light thought his life could only go upwards from now on. He had a friend he could trust, he wasn't a Kira suspect anymore and L had no other leads to get further with the case. At the moment he sat with the rest of the Task Force at Headquarters trying to find a new lead. Light did his best to help them, but he knew there were no clues they could find of course. Everything went perfect and although L didn't show it, Light knew he was pretty stressed about the case having no progress at all.
'Ryuzaki,' Watari's voice sounded from a speaker. 'The approval for your next plan just arrived.'
L pushed a button and replied to Watari. 'Thank you, Watari. Prepare everything I have told you to do earlier.'
Light blinked in confusion at their conversation. He had no idea that L had a plan. He watched his father, Matsuda and Aizawa and saw they were just as perplexed as he was.
L has a plan? I thought there were no leads whatsoever!
'What is the meaning of this, Ryuzaki? We know nothing about a plan,' Soichiro questioned.
L nodded. 'I withheld my next plan from all of you, because I wanted to wait on approval before inform you about it.'
The detective turned around in his chair so he faced his team. 'I know Light is cleared from suspicion, but something keeps telling me there's something wrong with that reasoning. Since I've never been wrong in my entire career as L, I want to have a second opinion and test the rules of the Death Note. With rules I mean the 13 day rule.'
'But what if the rule turns out to be true? You'll die, Ryuzaki. This plan is not going to work,' Light said. Of course L had thought of this detail and his plead didn't work.
'That's why I asked for permission to use a criminal that's already on death row. I'm going to let him write the name of another criminal sentenced to death. Then we're going to keep an eye on the criminal that has written. To make sure no one else can mess with the test and write this criminal's name I won't tell who it is. If he dies after exactly 13 days the rule is true and that will prove my intuition was wrong about Light and he'll be fully cleared from suspicion.'
L turned his dark eyes on Light and seemed to try to look right through him. 'But if the criminal doesn't die after 13 days... Light will be the first Kira suspect again.'
No... NO! This is not how it's supposed to go! L won't tell me the name of the criminal so he'll live after those days! I will be suspect number one again...
…
It's time to end this once and for all.
B knew there was something terribly wrong the moment Light came to visit him. Normally the young man was calm and composed. Now B could see little cracks in the mask that he always wore.
'What's wrong?' he asked worried. 'Did something happened at Headquarters today?'
'L is going to test the 13 day rule with criminals on death row and I can't get the name of him so after those days he'll live and I'll be the first suspect again!'
Light had rambled it so fast B needed a moment to take in the new information. After he understood what made Light panic he thought it was a good moment to calm his friend down.
He walked over to Light and led the slightly panicked man over the couch and sat down next to him himself. He kept a hold on one of Light shoulders.
'Light, you need to calm down and then we have to think about what we're gonna do about this.'
He nodded and took a deep breathe. 'I think we have to go into attack. It's time to just get rid of the whole Task Force and L with them. After that we can do what we want to do and don't think about getting caught.'
He's right. It's time to remove those obstacles from our path. L isn't going to give up soon.
'When do you want to go in attack?' B asked.
'I think it's best to do it tomorrow night. That will give us enough time to prepare. I'll make something up to my dad and make sure he won't be present while we attack. I stay in the work room with L, Matsuda and Aizawa. You'll have to break in again unseen like last time. When you're ready come to the work room and knock out Matsuda and Aizawa. I'll deal with them later with the Death Note. Then you have the time to do with L whatever you want to do, like we promised.'
B was silent and thought about Light's plan. It sounded good... except for one thing.
'I don't want you to be present that night as well. I think it's better if you stay home and I go to the Headquarters. I'll call you the moment it's your turn to write the others name with the Death Note.'
It will be better this way...
Light frowned. 'No! I'm going to be there too. Why would I sit back at home while you do everything on your own? We're a team!'
B shook his head vigorously. 'I want you to stay out of the attack.'
Suddenly Light grabbed him by his chin to hold his head still and his glare pierced almost holes through his eyes. Light was pissed that was sure.
'Why are you doing so difficult! Why do you want me to stay out of it?'
B held his mouth until Light shook his head. 'Tell me, damnit!'
'I don't want anything to happen to you,' B said softly.
Light let him go instantly and his glare softened as B continued to talk. 'I don't want to lose another friend so quickly so I want you to stay home that night.'
Light sighed. 'I'm sorry, but I just can't. I'm not going to let you go on your own. We're in this together.'
B wanted to argue, but he shut his mouth when Light added: 'And I told you that no matter what happens we'll stay together. I promised you I won't leave you alone and I'm not breaking that promise.'
'… Fine,' B agreed eventually.
So for which team are you? Team L or Team B & Light? :)
Only 3 chapters before Second chance ends!