Chapter eight:

Light makes it back to the Barens house.

Some people are out there and they give him accusing looks or weird looks only mummer as they stay away from.

Light looks around himself at all of this going as he walks towards the house. He turns to the house ignoring them. He stops when the Barens leader comes out of the house making Light stop.

The Barens leader is named Quetzal which means feather in the origin of the Native Americans mainly the Nahuatl. He has red hair that reaches to the middle of the back of his head and frames his face. His eyes are a hazel color and he is wearing a black unzipped vest overtop of his blue t-shirt that is in the middle of sky blue and navy blue with brown kayak pants and black tie up boots that reach a little past his ankles the boots have a zipper on the middle of the side so the zippers are facing each other. His skin is more tan and he looks to me. "Light." He says and Light stands tall. "Is it true? Have you been betraying us for a Feather freedom!?" He demands.

"The Feather freedoms are not who we thought they were." Light says knowing that now there's no way around it. "If you'd only take a chance to get to know them then you'd see that they are actually wonderful people! They are just as scared of us as we are of them."

Quetzal narrows his eyes with a growl. "You've always been soft on them." He says almost spitting in disgust.

"Trust me. If you just got to know them then you'd see for yourself that they are not what we thought." Light tries to reason with the leader as more Barens gather around to watch for now.

"Light. You are a disgrace to the Barens." Quetzal says. "You are no Barens." He states in anger. "You have disgraced your family with such a sick and wrong relationship. Yet you have the idiotic audacity to come back an show your face after your disgrace has been found about?!" He hisses. "Are you just trying to disgrace your name even further?!" He demands.

Light doesn't stand down from his strong stance as he refuses to be weakened not that it was working anyways. "I see no disgrace. I have simply found love. It is no different then the love found here. If I am disgracing my name because I have found love means that all those here who are with another or even love another are all also disgracing their names. There is nothing wrong with love."

A few mummers arise but shush when Quetzal gets ready to speak.

Quetzal growls. "The two are different. Very different. They are not disgracing their names because they are in love with those that are worthy of living unlike who you've decided to go for. Those Feather freedoms are our enemies." He says.

"There is nothing wrong with love. No matter where or who it is with." Light counters. "Would you be saying the same thing if you fell in love with one of the Feather freedoms?"

Quetzal snarls. "I would rather be caught dead killing myself in the slowest and most painful way I can before I even so much as feel anything good to any of those damn Feather freedoms." He spits in disgust.

"Even if you don't accept this it will not stop me." Light says then turns his back to the leader. "I don't care how many of you disown me." He says with no regret since he isn't feeling any. "I am in love and there's nothing wrong about that." With that he leaves not looking back as he is sure Mello is meeting with Near. He heads towards the Feather freedoms territory and steps past the border with no hesitance. He looks around as he remembers that just before he got out of earshot from the Barens house he heard Quetzal say that the Barens were going to go to war to destroy the Feather freedoms. He then is suddenly surrounded making him stop walking. He looks around himself and sees no one he recognized except for Silver. "I do not come baring harm. I have left the Barens." He lets them know. "I swear to you I will not harm anyone. I am on your side." He says.

The Feather freedoms begin to advance.

"We cannot say for sure or not damn Baren." One speaks. This one is a woman with wavy black hair that reaches the middle of her shoulder blades. Her eyes a brown color and her skin just the right mix of tan and pale. She is wearing a mahogany V-neck t-shirt and light brown slightly tightfitting pants with white runners that are dusty probably from walking in the forest.

Before he can say another word he is attacked from behind and he blacks out with the last thing he sees being a bag being placed over his head.

The whole time Light doesn't struggle at all going along quietly even if he has blacked out.

…

L had gone to go talk to Near and he is looking around the Feather Freedom's home. He pauses however upon hearing some kind of commotion and he moves over to a window looking out just in time to see that a patrol has just returned with anyone outside seeming to watch them with some murmuring to each other. He wonders what is going on and decides to go down to see for himself. He makes it but the patrol is already somewhere inside so he heads to the nearest person who happens to be Always. "What's going on?" He questions causing the brunette to turn to him.

"Not fully sure. The patrol brought something back with them. They were dragging it. Couldn't get a good look." Always says.

L glances away wondering just what could the patrol have found only to freeze as he realizes just what it could have been. "Ah ok thanks." He says in his usual tone making sure to not show Always that something is bothering him. He heads inside the building guessing that the patrol went to talk to the Feather freedom's leader Jack. He knows that he can't go straight there as it would look suspicious so he goes to try to find Near since maybe he will be able to help him figure out what it is without getting suspicious at least too fast.