The Choice
By: AnimeNutsy
Disclaimer: Okay...I think I've been forgetting to put in disclaimers, so I've hads to go back in, edit, and put one it. So, yeah. I own nothing but the clothes on my back, and Raito and L belong to Ohba and the other dude (lol. i forget their name all the time).
A/N: Thanks are in order, for the three that reviewed my fanfic. Those three are:
Rem10124
Ketsueki-Yue
Sacred Pheonix Of Nephthys
Thanks heaps, guys!
Warnings: Death scenes, language, spoiler for L's true name.
Part 2
Raito stood, rooted to the spot, staring at the man he had thought dead and gone. But, here Ryuuzaki stood, with those piercing eyes and smiling lips. Raito was thinking up every possible reason why his arch nemesis was standing on his front doorstep.
"Okay, get a grip, Yagami Raito. A dead person is not standing on your doorstep. You're just hallucinating, that's all." Raito told himself, clearly shaken up by the detective's sudden reappearance.
"I assure you that you aren't hallucinating, Raito-kun. Yes, I did die. It was very strange. One minute, I'm dead, and the next…poof! I'm back with the living. And I'm getting very thirsty. I'm coming in, now." Ryuuzaki told the younger boy, and pushed his way past Raito, and made his way into the living room.
Raito quickly glanced around outside, to make sure that no one had seen the detective, before he closed the door and stormed into the living room and glared at the detective, who had made himself at home, perched on a chair, in the peculiar way he liked to sit.
"Okay, so…you're alive, that much is clear. But it can't be…you died in my arms!" Raito told the detective, but Ryuuzaki wasn't responding, he was looking around at the surroundings. "Will you at least look at me? Ryuuzaki!" Raito shouted, and the older man faced Raito at last.
"I remember this place from when I had surveillance cameras set up. I believe you had a different television." Ryuuzaki said, as he began to nibble on his thumb. Raito's composure fell apart, as he stalked up to Ryuuzaki and grabbed a handful of the man's shirt. "L! Do you mind telling me what the hell is going on?" He shouted, his face twisted into an angry mask. "Careful, Kira. You wouldn't want to give the game away in front of the cameras, would you?" Ryuuzaki asked, and smirked when Raito let go of him and gave him a look. "Cameras?" Raito asked, not bothering to deny that he was Kira. "Mm-hm. When I had the cameras taken away…I might have accidentally left some lying around somewhere." Ryuuzaki replied, grinning.
"Assuming that I believe you…have you told my father? And what about the rest of the investigation team? Have you told them? I guess not, because that would be a breach of the privacy act. You could go to jail." Raito told the detective, with a smile of victory planted on his face.
"What's the matter, Kira? Are you getting a little worried that someone might have seen you doing something that you shouldn't have been?" Ryuuzaki asked, and stood up and walked towards the kitchen, with Raito following.
"How many times have I told you? I'm not Kira!" Raito pleaded, putting on the best innocent voice he had. "I may have begun to believe that, a long time ago. But that day…when you held me in your arms as I died…those weren't the eyes of a friend. They were the eyes of Kira." Ryuuzaki spoke, his voice barely a whisper, as bad memories threatened to overcome him.
"What are you doing now?" Raito asked, as the detective searched around the canisters in the kitchen. "Making myself some coffee, seeing as how you haven't offered to make me one." Ryuuzaki replied, as he found the coffee, and put a generous amount into a cup which he had found in one of the cupboards.
"Kira-kun…where's the sugar?" Ryuuzaki asked. "For the umpteenth time…I am not Kira!" Raito snarled, and folded his arms. "And I am so sorry to inform you that you will not find a smidgen of sugar in this house." Raito added, with a sly look directed at the detective.
"What? No sugar? None at all? Ryuuzaki asked, eyes wide. "Nope. This house is sugar-free." Raito replied, snickering. Ryuuzaki sighed, and left the nasty remark he was about to make die in his throat. Instead, he left the cup where it was and made his way to the front door.
He looked back at Raito as he opened the door. "You can try to kill me if you wish. But then you'd have to know my true name. And I do believe that the Shinigami Rem took that to her sandy grave." Ryuuzaki said, and chuckled when he saw Raito's hateful glare.
"I'll see you at the investigation headquarters. I believe I have some catching up to do with the rest of the team. See you later, Kira-kun." Ryuuzaki waved mockingly, and left the house and disappeared from view.
"Damn you to hell, Ryuuzaki! Damn you, Damn you, Damn you!" Raito shouted out, and he suddenly heard laughing coming from behind him. He turned around, to find Ryuk floating in midair and cackling away.
"Bwahahahahahaha! I sure picked a beauty when I picked you, Raito! You and L are a class act! Bwahahahaha!" Ryuk spoke, and the laughter filled the empty house, and that's when Raito knew. He knew that L was back, and he had opened a whole new playing field.
"Well done, L. Well done. But if you want to play with me, then it's game on, bitch." Raito said, and walked into the living room and sat down on the sofa, and began to dream up his plans to put L in his grave for good.
TBC
A/N: I'm going to be calling L Ryuuzaki and I might switch back and forth during my chapters, as the situation demands.