chapter 11

Disclaimer: I do not own death note.

well, there went my idea of updating every day, it was wishful thinking. anyways, I think I'm just gonna stick to the original plan, update whenever I finish a chapter but no more than one chapter a day, that should work. I'm also gonna try to avoid writing to many filler chapters so the story won't go on forever and I'll actually be able to finish it, because I just got a great idea for another story but I promised myself that I would only work on one story at a time, because I know if a try to write two stories I'll regret it later.


It had been a little over a week since Vanilla had joined the task force. Most of them had gotten used to having her around but Aizawa still didn't like her very much and she really couldn't tell what Ryuzaki thought of her. Light seemed happy to have her around but she occasionally caught him glaring at her from the corner of her eye. She liked being around everyone in the task force, even Aizawa, even though she did find it slightly annoying that he kept glaring at her, she was sure he'd get used to her soon enough. Matsuda was determined to solve a riddle she had told him a few days ago. He had asked everyone else the same riddle and the rest of the task force had already solved it, but refused to tell him the answer as it was amusing to see him trying to figure it out.

"Kurusaki-san, can you please tell me the riddle again?" Matsuda asked for what seemed like the millionth time that day. Vanilla sighed.

"fine. A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper when suddenly he slips and falls. he has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, yet he is not hurt. how can this be?"

"why did you have to choose such a difficult riddle..."

"it's a pretty easy riddle, you just aren't thinking hard enough" Vanilla turned back to the papers in her hands. Matsuda sulked over to a chair, still trying to solve the riddle. It was quiet for a while and then Matsuda, who was pacing back and forth trying to solve the riddle, tripped on his own feet, and lost his balance. Trying to catch himself he grabbed onto the closest thing he could find, which happened to be Light's sleeve. This caused light to lose his balance as well, toppling over and somehow knocking Ryuzaki's cake out of his hands in the process, Ryuzaki dove off his chair in an attempt to catch the cake and knocked over Aizawa. This all happened in the span of about 3 seconds, papers flew everywhere and chairs were tipped over and Mogi was cursing angrily because he ran into the corner of a coffee table. Vanilla looked at the task force, most of whom were now laying on the floor, and shook her head.

"well that was a natural disaster" she said turning back to her work.

~later~

"uh, excuse me, Light? so whats going on here?" Matsuda asked. Vanilla, light and Matsuda were going to aoyama to try to find the second Kira. Light had invited some of his friends to go with them, Vanilla guessed it was so they didn't stand out to much.

"oh, these are some of my friends from school" Light answered Matsuda's question.

"oh uh, nice to meet you" Matsuda said awkwardly.

"this is my cousin Tarou," Light gestured to Matsuda. "and his sister Yumi." He gestured to Vanilla. "It's their first time ever in tokyo and they want to see Aoyama and Roppongi, so I figured the least we could do is show them a good time" Light's friends didn't ask any questions, which slightly surprised Vanilla, seeing as Light had said that she was Matsuda's sister yet they looked nothing alike at all. "oh yeah, Tarou also told me he's looking for a girlfriend, does anyone want to volunteer?" Light added jokingly. Matsuda's face turned bright red.

"hey! I never said that!" Vanilla couldn't help but laugh.

They wandered around Aoyama for a bit, Vanilla bought a new CD and had snuck off once and got an ice cream cone, which confused everyone as no one had seen her leave the group. Vanilla walked ahead of everyone else, humming softly and eating her ice cream, when something caught her eye. Inside what looked like some kind of cafe was a girl with glasses and short black hair. She seemed to be staring right over everyone that passed by. But that wasn't what caused Vanilla to stop. Standing behind the girl was a giant skeletal creature, with what looked like bandages wrapped around it's head, covering one eye. At first she thought it was a strange decoration or something, until it moved, it looked like it was talking to the girl, who gave subtle nod to the creature before looking back out the window. No one else seemed to notice it. Vanilla snapped out of her trance as someone bumped into her, making her ice cream fall off the cone and onto the ground. she looked down at it.

"Oh! Val-uh-Yumi! I'm sorry! I can get you another ice cream cone" Matsuda apologized.

"It's alright, don't worry about it"

"if you say so..."

"c'mon, let's catch up with the rest of the group so we don't get lost" Matsuda nodded and they ran to catch up with Light and the others. Vanilla spared one last glance in the cafe, she swore she could see a small smirk on the girl's face, she stood up and the strange creature followed her.

'strange...'


I was going through the chapter checking for misspellings and apparently i spelled disaster wrong because there was a red squiggly line under it. (why is that so fun to say? red squiggly line, red squiggly line...) sorry. Anyway, I clicked on it and my computer tried to correct it to dishwasher. so if I hadn't been paying attention Vanilla would have said "well that was a natural dishwasher" and you all would have been confused. Auto correct isn't just in texting guys! it's out to get me!

*goes back and checks all chapters of the story for auto corrects*