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Chapter 37-
"The United States will no longer oppose Kira."
"Those cowards!" They might not have been in the same place at the time of the President of the United States' worldwide announcement, but L, Near, Nil, Matt, and Light, even as fake as it was, all had the same reaction.
"Where the heck do you think you are going?" Matt was trying to hold Mello down as the young man headed for the exit.
"I have some unfinished business with someone." He had a hunch that Near somehow knew something about Kira's uninvited break in. He looked over at Mellie who was lying unconscious in the bed next to him. She had a bullet wound through her hand, a broken leg from where a beam had crushed it, and a cut the length of his pinky just above her hairline. This was his fault. He was too careless with his own life and the people's around him. They both could have died in that explosion.
"Mello…." Mellie's weak voice broke through to the struggling men. Both of them stopped moving immediately, not for sure whether they heard her or not. As they looked at her she began to stir and without opening her eyes she frowned in pain. "Ahhhh!" She moaned. "MELLO!" She panicked and clenched her fists.
Both men ran to her bedside. "It's alright, we're here." Matt assured.
"Matt?" She wouldn't open her eyes; she was in so much pain. She kept them tightly shut. "Is Mello ok, did he make it out?" Tears rolled out of the corners of her eyes.
"I'm right here." He said matter-of-factly. Mellie's hand flailed out and captured Mello's. He tried to pull away but she kept a firm grip on his hand.
"Oh my god, I'm so glad." She smiled through the pain as she opened her eyes to look at him and then scowled. "Now I can friggin kill you." She pulled on his arm and whipped her other arm up towards him as he lost his balance and fell over her torso. She grabbed his hair and pulled.
"AHHHHHHH! GET THIS CRAZY BITCH OFF ME!!" Matt grabbed Mellie's hand and wrenched her fingers open.
"Let go please." Matt chided trying not to laugh. As soon as he got Mello dislodged from her grip Mello took several quick steps away and felt to make sure all of his hair was still there. He also took the time to inspect the rest of his injuries. He could feel pain radiating from the left side of his face and when he glanced down at his shoulder he saw that he had been severely burned. He could also feel several aches and pains riddled throughout his body. He could only imagine the cuts and bruises that hid beneath his clothing.
"I'LL kill him!" Mellie screamed. That caught Mello's attention.
"Hey, what's going on here?" The mafia member who was acting as doctor for them walked into the room.
"Not much Shin." Matt chuckled. "Mellie is just out for blood."
Mellie stood up and limped toward Mello. "ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Mello yelled.
"At the moment." She clenched her teeth. Before she could reach him Shin and Matt grabbed her by each arm and escorted her back to the bed. "Where's my gun!"
Matt and Shin looked at each other nervously. "Uh Mello, maybe you should go for a while." Shin was already administering pain medication into Mellie's arm.
Mello got out of there while there was still a chance. He got as far as the main room of the building they were in and thought better of going to see Near in his state. He would wait a week or two to heal up some. "I can't let my guard down again."
L frowned as he watched Sakura TV. Apparently Kira had sent his little worshippers out to exterminate the SPK. They were raiding the sky rise building while Demegawa circled it in a helicopter. He knew Near was inside. This was no doubt a plan by Kira to draw Near out so that he could kill him. And with the camera there it was all too possible that he might succeed.
Several L's blotted out the monitors in Nears headquarters as Light's voice filtered out into the room. "What's the matter Near? Do you think this is some plan by Mello to finish off the members of the SPK? No, surely it couldn't be that the SPK's security is so lax that even a normal citizen could find out where it was located?"
Near broke the head off of a robot toy that he had previously been playing with. As mature as Near acted on the outside, on the inside he was still a little boy just wanting to play with his toys. 'Dammit, he's lying through his teeth.'
"Near, you've got no choice. You better evacuate." Light faked sincerity.
Near pouted as he twirled a white lock of hair in his fingers. "You've got a lot of nerve saying that when your Kira."
"What? Are you still going on about that nonsense?"
Near started setting his robots in a row in front of him. "Well, think about it. With all the anti-Kira groups around why are we being targeted? And right after I start suspecting you." Near was twirling his hair again. "A little convenient, don't you think?"
"You are wrong Near." Lia stated simply. "It was already proven that Light is not Kira. His father confirmed this while on his death bed."
"Members of the task force, please listen." Near said as if Lia had never spoken. "Kira is likely amongst you, even as we speak he is in that room. I'm simply asking you to think about this carefully."
Near signed Light off as he took in his predicament. The mob outside was ravenous. "Truly pathetic people."
"Agreed." Someone from the darkened doorway stated.
"And who might you be?" Anthony Rester, Near's assistant asked with a drawn gun.
"I am N."
"N?" He asked with doubt. "How can you be N? This is N?" He gestured to Near.
"That is interesting." Nil said finally coming into the light. "Ok if it would make matters simpler for you, you may address me as Nil."
Near turned with a frown. "Nil, huh?"
"Yes, I assume that you are Near." She stated. "You may lower your gun. I am not here to harm anyone. In fact I am here to assist you."
Rester looked at her suspiciously. "And what do you plan on doing?"
"Here." She threw a police outfit towards Near and one into the arms of Rester.
"I was informed that you were killed by Kira." Near said looking at the outfit with a sense of realization.
"Yes, well, I can assure you that I am alive, and I can also assure you that you are right in your assumption of who the real Kira is."
"Hmmm." Near grabbed the garments and began putting them on. "I wonder, if you are alive, is L also."
This was news to Nil. "L is dead?"
"As far as we can tell."
"Well, this is a fun chat and everything, but we have to get out of here." Rester was restless. (No pun intended)
"Of course." Nil turned to leave.
"What about you?" Rester asked noticing that she wasn't wearing a police uniform.
She turned back with a smirk. "I have a message that needs sending."
Money began falling from the top of the building, catching the attention of the Kira supporters. They all stopped trying to break into the building and started shoveling the money out of the air and off the ground and putting it in any pockets they could find. "Pathetic."
"This is it." Outside they could see the police force clearing a path through the crowd. "Let's be off."
They all exited the building in the midst of the police force. As they were on their way out Nil saw a camera person standing at the entrance. "May I make a statement?" Nil asked.
"Uh, of course." The reporter said happy to get a story.
Nil stepped in front of the camera. "Hello. I am Nil." She smirked at the camera cockily. "Kira, I call you out. Kill me if you dare, but know this. I know who you are and where you are." She paused to let it soak in. "And as for your previous misconception that I am dead, well, this is your wake up call." She brushed a strand of hair out of her face. "I am very much alive, and I intend to see to it that you come to a very abrupt end." As soon as she was finished she rushed out of the building with the remaining police and disappeared.
"Th…that couldn't have been her." Lia was holding onto one of the monitors like it was a lifeline. "I was at her funeral. I was there; I saw her body lying in that coffin."
Light scowled. "Why didn't she come back to the task force?" This was bad for him. It just strengthened the fact that he was Kira. He could feel the gazes of the task force on his back.
"Obviously this is some kind of hoax." Aizawa said. "We were all there. She is gone."
"But who else could that have been?" Matsuda argued.
Nil and Near had a good long conversation about Kira as soon as they were safely in a new headquarters. She shared all of the information that she could with the albino looking man child. She also informed him that she could not stay with him but would stay in contact.
"Very well." Near said as he played with a toy car. "We will be in touch."
(-B Mellie's angry, Lia's confused, and Nil is a cocky bitch. I love them all. :D B-)