A/N: Whoa, so many reviews!! 85 now? Thanks ESF and Misery's Prescription and Chioni!! And thank you again, Hallows07!! I owe these last two chapters to you! ^^
And did only Hallows07 realize the very small inexpertly done crossover? Aww man. -_- Haha, just kidding!!! ^.^ It's enough that people are actually reading this story!!
Disclaimer:
Kiyomi: Seriously, did you have to make Yomi's behavior in Chpt. 33 so much to mine? And why am I after Rokya, Richard, and Loaf?!! Anyway, neither of us own Death Note!!
Note: This is actually the first friend I have to do the disclaimer. ^^
"Ryuuzaki, this is insane."
"Strange, I remember Raito-kun saying the same thing an hour or two ago-"
Yomi put her head in her hands. "Ryuuzaki, we're going to die!!!!!"
"Well, if you push yourself out of the compartment while it's up in the air then, yes, you will die, or suffer a serious injury that will probably result in permanen-"
"That's not funny, Ryuuzaki!!!!"
"I never said it was."
Getting irritated by this, Kiyo yelled "Oh just shut up."
It had been half an hour since L had announced that they were going to the London Eye, and Yomi was not liking the idea. Not at all. Especially since the seven were going to be in the last compartment, which would, of course, stop at the very top.
"Can they actually fit seven people in one compartment?" Kiyo asked dubiously.
Raito turned to her. "Of course. I think the limit is fifteen people." Raito was not exactly fond of the idea as well, but if he complained about it, L would probably use it as an excuse to raise his Kira percentage.
Mello grinned. "It'll be freaking awesome..."
"No offense, Mello, but I'm not really looking forward to riding in the same compartment as you..."
"Who would?" Matt asked.
"..."
"...I really don't know."
Kiyo rolled her eyes. The prospect of the whole thing didn't sound bad to her, except that Mello was going to be with her in there, and if you consider that it's Mello, it makes it big difference.
"Hey, we're almost there." Matt said from his gameboy.
The other six, well, five since Near wasn't paying attention to anyone, glanced out of the windows.
"Matt..."
"Hm?"
"How can you tell that it's there when you haven't looked up from your gameboy once?"
Matt tapped his head. "Super psychic powers. Don't question it."
"..."
"...okay...." Kiyo turned her attention to the ferris wheel. Holy crap, it really is big...
Which makes the process of going on it even more daunting...Yomi muttered grimly.
You got a point there. Especially with Mello...
A few minutes later, they were standing in line, which was very, very long. Raito hurriedly put his arm around Kiyo.
"Uh...Raito-kun, what are you doing?"
Raito clenched his teeth. "I'm sorry, but I have to do this otherwise people..." He gestured to the chain linking him and L together. "...might get the wrong idea..."
Kiyo rolled her eyes again. "Great..."
L was about to make another comment, but one look from Raito threatening to tell Yomi "something" effectively silenced the detective.
Girls waiting in line turned to smile and Raito and give Kiyo death glares. Totally unfazed by their death glares, Kiyo casually rolled her eyes, wishing she could give them the finger. I am not doing this of my own free will...
Near came out of nowhere and grabbed Kiyo's other hand. "Near?"
"I do not wish to be left behind." He murmured softly.
Kiyo nodded understandingly. Teenager or not, Near was small, and the crowd was big.
"Oh my god, is that your child?!!" One of the girls screeched at Kiyo and Raito.
"WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!" All three yelled in consternation, and on Kiyo's and Near's part, horror.
L raised an eyebrow. "Talk about deja vu..." Yomi face-palmed.
Kiyo gawked at them. "Do I look like a thirty year old to you or something?!!!!!"
The girls wilted. "Uh...no..."
Raito scowled. "He is NOT our child!!!"
The girls brightened. "But you three look so cute together..."
Kiyo was on the verge of puking. Cute?!!!!!! Excuse me??!!!! CUTE??!!!!!!!
Near gave him the most fiercest death glare he could. "I'm thirteen years old..." That was the second time he had been accused as a teenager's child today, and that was two too many times.
You could almost see the girls wither away. "Oh...excuse us..."
Mello and L held back snickers, but both withered as Kiyo and Near turned their ultimate death glares on them.
Kiyo shrugged Raito's arm off. "It seems people are all getting wrong ideas from any angle, Raito-kun."
"Agreed." L said hastily, "We should give Kiyo-chan a break in order to avoid further misunderstanding and humiliation. To make sure people will not get that particular incorrect idea..." he put an arm around Yomi. "...I will do this!"
Yomi glared at him. "When we get to the top, I am so pushing you off!!!!"
"That's comforting to know."
Near blew an inaudible sigh of relief. At least now he couldn't be mistaken for anyone's child...
"Oh, are you two dating?" Another girl behind them asked Yomi and L excitedly.
"Yes." L said, at the very exact time Yomi said "NO."
They looked at each other, glowering. "Of course we're not dating!!" Yomi said just as L said "Of course we're dating."
"Um..." The poor girl raised an eyebrow. "So...you're already married or something?!"
Yomi opened her mouth in horror, while Kiyo tried not to crack up along with Mello, Raito, and even Matt. Near couldn't help it and cracked a smile.
This time, L managed to speak first, since Yomi was just opening her mouth wordlessly in complete and utter mortification.
"Well, Yomi has just agreed that she loves me, but is wanting to take it slow so we-" Yomi casually stepped, er, stomped, on L's foot very gently, er, forcefully, "-OW!!!!!"
By this time, Mello and Raito were both cracking up in silent giggles, Matt had bent his head very low over his gameboy in order to hide his smirk, Kiyo had face-palmed but was smiling at the same time, and Near bit his lip, trying to control his amusement.
"Actually," Yomi said very cheerfully and loudly to the girl, "Ryuuzaki really wants to get in my pants," It was L's turn to open his mouth in horror while the other five, including Near, struggled to keep straight faces, "But he's very busy with work and didn't have his chance until today. He's really eager, aren't you, Ryuuzaki?"
Yomi smiled innocently. L gave her his ultimate death glare, which only made her smile wider.
"Um...okay..." The innocent girl that had nothing to do with this slowly shrank away.
Mello and Matt, being the young teenagers they were, finally broke down in uncontrolled laughter, clutching each other for support.
Kiyo just shook her head at the triumphant Yomi, biting her lip to hide her smile. Raito, still chuckling, put his arm around Kiyo's shoulder.
Kiyo's smile disappeared. "Raito-kun?"
Raito smiled apologetically. "Sorry, Kiyo-chan, but I don't think L would want to continue his 'act' with Yomi-chan after that..." The said detective was giving the cracking up Matt and Mello a very strong death glare which made the two laugh harder.
Kiyo nodded, the amusement of Yomi's comeback overwhelming her disapproval of Raito. I suppose it's worth it... Kiyo looked down at Near, who was still holding her hand. "Near?"
Near looked at her face for several seconds and suddenly burst into a wide smile, not showing any of his teeth, but a smile nevertheless. Kiyo blinked, startled. Like L, Near had hardly smiled, and it was astonishing to see him look so...happy...
Near hesitated, thinking something was wrong. Kiyo hastily smiled as well. "That was funny, wasn't it?"
Near nodded, smiling again once more.
Meanwhile, Matt and Mello were still roaring with laughter. By this time, L had given up and was now sulking.
Mello grabbed Matt's arm to keep himself from collapsing in mirth, chuckling wildly, and Matt was bending slightly down due to Mello's weight and his own laughter.
"AHAHAHAHAHA, SHE GOT YOU GOOD, RYUUZAKI!!!!!" L sulked more.
"AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"
Raito looked at them in a mixture of amusement and wariness. "Wow, how many times do they crack up like this?"
"Not often." Near answered.
Unfortunately, they were about to come to the misunderstanding that would cause the most havoc.
Mello and Matt were still grabbing each other, laughing, when another girl behind them asked a question.
"Are you two a couple or something?"
Mello and Matt stopped laughing.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"These misunderstandings are getting more and more entertaining..." Near commented.
"..."
Mello and Matt gawked at the girl. "Um...I'm a guy..." Mello said, a dangerous look coming on his face.
Unfortunately, the girl did not take the hint and said the answer that was probably, in the other sixs' opinion, the worst to say.
"Really? Then you're gay?"
Near took out a hand and began putting down fingers, silently counting.
5
4
3
2
1
0
"..."
3 seconds later...
"AAAAAHH!!!!!!!"
"What the fuck?!!"
An enormous amount of water had suddenly poured down onto the crowd standing behind the seven, drenching everyone, especially the girl who had that...misunderstanding...
"MELLO-KUN...."
"How should I know how that happened?!!" Mello demanded indignantly, remarkably dry after what just happened.
Kiyo bent down to Near, who was dripping wet. "Near, are you alright-"
Near sniffed at his sleeve. "It's not water."
"Huh?!!"
"It's alcohol." And no, he did not mean the alcohol you drink...
"..."
"..."
"..."
The others, not including Mello, watched in horror as a man lit a cigarette, still dripping in the alcohol. L shrugged and turned around. "Well, it's not my problem..."
"RYUUZAKI..." Raito began.
"Oh, what do you know, our ride's here!!" Mello said cheerfully as one of the glass boxes descended.
"Let's just go..." L nodded and pulled the rest into the compartment.
"And that is why you don't smoke!!! Ever!!!" Yomi declared as screams could be heard behind them.
Matt raised an eyebrow, his eyes confused behind his goggles. "And why were you only looking at me when you said that?"
Raito rolled his eyes, not removing his arm from Kiyo's shoulder. "You'd think Ryuuzaki has a higher chance of being Kira with that behavior right there..."
They started to move up. "Raito-kun, I was not displaying murderous intentions, merely urgency to get away from a big scene."
"Yeah right..."
Kiyo shook her head. "Mello, I can't believe you just did that..." From their lofty view, the seven could now see several huge fire trucks rushing to the scene.
"For the last time, it wasn't me!!" Mello cried.
L frowned. "Mello-kun, who else would have done that, especially since Near had gotten soaked in alcohol as well?"
"Fire's not my style!!" Oh really? thought Kiyo. "If it was me, I would have dropped manure on them or something..."
Kiyo shot up. "Wait a minute, Mello, you didn't do it?!!"
"For the third freaking time, I didn't!!!!"
Raito snorted in disbelief as the compartment moved higher. Yomi squirmed when she looked down. They were pretty high up, and it wasn't even the top yet...
Yet another disaster started.
L's eyes lit up as he noticed Yomi. "Could Yomi-chan be afraid of heights?"
A foot, or shoe, rather, slammed into his face, knocking the detective to the other side of the compartment. "Shut up!!!!"
"WHOA!" Matt yelled as the compartment rocked from the sudden action. "Watch it!!!"
"Aaah!!" Kiyo quickly put her hands on the glass to avoid a collision with it. Being in a rocking compartment 200 feet up in the air was not a very happy sensation.
Near tightened his grip on Kiyo's hand as they both slid to the other side. "Wah!!!!!"
"Urgh!!!!!!" Raito and Matt crashed into them, causing the compartment to rock wilder.
"Shit, Ryuuzaki, do something!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"So Yomi-chan is sc-OW!!!!!!!!" L flew to the other side of the compartment.
In a bus far, far below, a teenager nudged the boy in front of her. "Hey, Anthony, look at that compartment swinging like that."
The young thirteen year old shuddered. "I'd hate to be one of those poor people in there...to tell you the truth, I'm kinda glad the band didn't have enough money for us to go on there...An international trip to London is enough."
"Doesn't this remind you of Harry Potter? Being in London and everything?" Em teased lightly.
"Of course it doesn't, nothing can match the awesomeness of Harry Potter." Anthony snorted as an Asian boy with a mark on his cheek suddenly pointed.
"Is it me or is that guy on fire over there?"
Em shook her head. "Johnny, you're seeing things..." The bus pulled them away from the huge ferris wheel.
Meanwhile...
"Yomi, stop doing that!!! It isn't helping!!!!"
"Raito-kun, please GET OFF ME!!!!!!!"
"I'm trying, I'M TRYING!!!!! Mello, stop moving around!!!!!!!"
"I can't help it, this piece of shit keeps slamming my face in the glass!!!"
"Language!!!!"
"Who are you, my MOTHER?!!!!!!"
This went on for sometime as they ascended, and slowly, the compartment gained its balance, though it did give an occasional rock. Even Near relaxed in relief. "Kiyo-san?"
"Near?"
"I wanted to ask you something."
"What is it?" L, Mello, Matt, and Raito looked up curiously.
"If Mello wasn't responsible for the alcohol incident, who do you think was?"
Kiyo gritted her teeth. "If he didn't, I can only think of one person..."
"Who?"
"An old classmate of mine..."
Near decided not to continue the conversation, though Matt and Mello did look very curious.
Shaking Rokya off her mind, Kiyo looked down at the spectacular view before them. If you blocked out the whole scenario below and forgot the disaster that just happened, it was pretty amazing.
"No wonder all the compartments are made of glass...it's beautiful..." Yomi said, awed. It didn't look like she was the first one to be stunned either, the glass was smudged with hundreds of fingerprints and tiny scratches.
Raito nodded in agreement, resisting the urge to wrap his arm around Kiyo's shoulder. Even Matt put away his gameboy to look.
"Wow..."
"Fucking wow is right..." Mello said, pulling a chocolate bar out of nowhere.
"Watch your language." L reprimanded, not tearing his eyes off of the ground.
The moment of appreciation, however, was disrupted by a loud thumping. Much to the panic and dismay of everyone, even Mello, the compartment began to swing wildly for the second time.
"NOT AGAIN!!!!"
"DAMMIT!!!!!!!"
"AAARGGGHHH!!!!!!!!"
"AAAAAHHH!!!!!!!"
"WHAT CAUSED IT THIS TIME?!!!" L roared over the noise.
Kiyo tried to avoid herself and Near being squashed by Raito. "I think something landed on the compartment!!!!!"
"WHAT THE HELL WAS IT THEN?!!!!" Mello demanded, being to feel sick.
"A bird?!!" Yomi offered before L slammed into her.
"HOW THE FUCK COULD A BIRD CAUSE THIS?!!!!!!!!"
"A very big bird?" Matt suggested as his face was smashed against the window by Mello. It was a mystery how he could talk like that.
"AND WHY WOULD A GIANT BIRD LAND HERE?!!!"
"HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW?!!!!!!!!!"
The compartment suddenly screeched to a halt, still swinging violently.
Yomi started to freak out. "HOLY SHIT, WE'RE AT THE TOP!!!!!!!!" The sight below made all seven dizzy, even L.
Kiyo stopped. Wait a minute... "Mello, are you sure you didn't pour alcohol on everyone?!!!"
"FOR THE LAST TIME, I FUCKING DIDN'T!!!! WHY OF ALL TIMES ARE YOU ASKING ME NOW?!!!"
"BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON WHO COULD!!!!!!" Kiyo yelled back hysterically. She wrenched herself up.
However, she didn't need to look far.
"Hey." The only person who could have accomplished such a feat leaned over the side, grinning wildly at them.
"ROOOOOOOKYAAAAAAA!!!!!!" All winced from Kiyo's shriek, even Rokya, who was outside of the compartment.
"Geez, Yoko, you don't have to be so loud!" Rokya hissed.
"JUST GO AWAY FROM HERE BEFORE I KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Mello raised an eyebrow. "Who the hell are you?"
"Your worst nightmare."
"Haha." Kiyo spat, not sounding amused at all.
Rokya shrugged. "In other words, the person Yoko here really hates."
"Why are you calling her Yoko?" Near asked.
Rokya opened his mouth but suddenly stopped. Kiyo saw his eyes widen at something below. "Rokya?"
The boy frowned, then turned his attention back to the seven. "I'd stay longer, but I have to check something out."
"HUH?!!!!"
"Later." He was suddenly gone.
"..."
"Okay, what the hell was that all about?" Matt asked.
Kiyo shook her head. "I really, really don't know."
L suddenly pointed. "I don't mean to be abrupt, but we have another problem."
The other six all turned. "WHAT NOW?!!!!" L, however, did not need to answer. All mouths dropped open except for Near, L, and Matt.
Rokya had left. But not without leaving a good sized hole in the side of their compartment.
"DAMN YOU ROKYA!!!!!!!!"
"Come on, Em, let me listen." The boy struggled to grab her earphones.
Em yanked away from him. "No, Johnny!!"
"Oh give me a break," the boy snarled as Anthony cracked up in laughter, "that song these nutheads-" he gestured to the rest of their fellow band members, "-are driving me insane!!!"
"Ninety two bottles of beer on the wall, ninety two bottles of beer!! Take one down, get yourself drunk-" The bus driver shot them a disapproving look. "Ninety one bottles of beer on the wall!!! Ninety on-"
Johnny hissed like a cat. "EM..."
"Okay, fine, you can listen." The Asian girl relented, taking out one of her earphones and handing it to the boy.
"Thank you!! Oh, and turn up the volume!!"
"I know, I know-what the hell?"
Johnny and Anthony looked at her curiously. "What's wrong, Em?"
The girl shook her head. "I swear I just saw an older version of Johnny run past us."
"WHAT?!"
"That ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall is doing stuff to your head." Johnny turned the ipod's volume up, managing to successfully drown out the ninety nine bottles of beer song.
Rokya raised an eyebrow. Okay, definitely weird. Ryuk frowned. "Rokya, wasn't that a younger you with a younger looking Kiyo? Do you guys have younger siblings or something?"
Rokya shook his head. "My little brother doesn't look anything like me, and all Kiyo has is an older sister. Definitely weird..."
Ehehe. I couldn't resist adding in myself and my favorite band friend, Anthony, and Johnny, basically a younger Rokya, to the mix!! I really shouldn't have done that though, sorry. ^_^
But did anyone enjoy this?