Near sat in his room, various action figures and other things in seemingly messy piles around the room. Rester, his
second in command , walked in, nearly steping on a pile of army men. He leaned down to pick it up
"Commander Rester, Please leave that alone...It's part of a crime sindicate in South America I'm also investigating..."
"Right..." He said shaking his head, "Um, Near...it's late, don't you think you should get some rest?"
"Most likely..." he said setting up more action figures, "But as I'm rather busy, sleeping would interupt my thinking
patterns."
"I see..."
"Tell Lidner to pick up the Taskforce Members when they arrive. Mr. Matsuda will not be with them."
"How do you know?"
"Three reasons, Commander. Number one: his wife will be giving birth with a few days, so he'll feel the need to stay
with her to look after her and the baby. Number two: He dislikes working with me do to his belief that I had something
to do with the reason Mikami didn't check his Death Note. And Number three, Watari called and informed me of his
decision. He'll remain in Japan as our correspondant."
Rester gave a small nodd, "Ah. Too bad. I like Matsuda. He's enthusiastic about his work."
"Indeed," Near said, " As I was saying, when they arrive, asign them each one suspect to follow out of the list I provided."
"Yes Sir," he said, nodding, heading for the door.
"Rester?"
"Yes, sir?"
"Thank you for your concern..."
Rester shrugged, "It's no big deal...Goodnight."
"You too," he said as the door creaked shut.
Scout and Ryuk walked down a set of stairs that led to a vortex of sorts. Ryuk lifted her up by the waist and placed her on his
back, "Time to go home."
Scout nodded, "How long have we been up here? My watch doesn't work here."
"Ryuk shrugged, "I dunno...an hour or two, human world time."
Before Scout could respond one way or another, Ryuk spread his wings and dived off the cliff into the Vortex. Scout held on
as the White light from earlier enveloped them. Scout once again felt herself slip away. All of her memories and thoughts
fading away.
"Ryuk..." Scout said, forgetting it right after she spoke it.
"Just hold on, it'll be over in a minute," a voice reassured her. Scout closed her eyes, the nothingness closing in on her. Suddenly
it was gone, feircly cold high altitude air greeted her, she shuddered as all her memories returned, and her body getting cold.
"That's the second time that's happened..." Scout said.
"The memory thing? Yeah, happens to everyone their first time," Ryuk said, "Once you get enough practice it goes away."
Scout held onto him tighter, her fingers losing their feeling.
"I d-don't intend o-on g-g-getting use t-to it..." she said, shivering.
"Ah, it's not that bad..." Ryuk insisted.
"-R-Ryuk, I c-c-can't feel m-my a-arms..." she said
"What do you mean?"
Scout's grip sliped, she scrambled numbly with her fingers and legs trying to grab hold of Him. Ryuk caught her by the back of her
pajama shirt.
"Okay...maybe we're a bit high..."
"A-choo!" Scout
Ryuk adjusted his grip until he was holding her as he was before. He headed downwards, flapping his wings. The temperature grew
warmer as they decended, They phased through the roof, landing in her bedroom. He set her down. Scout nearly fell, her legs and
arms tingling as feeling returned. She burried herself in her comforter, snuggling into the matress.
"I've got 3 more hours until I have to wake up for scho-A-CHOO!" She said.
"Uh...sweet dreams..." Ryuk said.
"A-CHOO!"
Aizawa, sat in his seat, staring out the window. Ide was asleep and snoring in his seat between him and Mogi, who was reading a
magazine he'd bought at the airport.
"I wish he'd shut up..." Aizawa muttered. Mogi reached into his pocket nd pulled out a round, green ball, placing it in Ide's mouth,
effectivly stopping his snoring.
"Lucky tennis ball," he said when Aizawa looked at him questioningly, "From my high school chapionship game...first tim it's come in
handy in 13 years."
"Well, Aizawa said, better late than never...We're gonna need all the luck we can get."
