Authoress Note: YAY! YAY! 23! We're at 23 reviews people with 10 chapters and this one making 11. Give yourselves a hand guys (applauds before her hands get sore)! Ow, anyways I'd like to thank my reviewers again for your great input and loyalty to the story. Let's look at the line-up here:
(Another newcomer!) Michi-nin: I'm glad to have you into the reviewer group. Nice to see some new faces. I hope you'll stick around and become a regular reviewer like the rest have. I did get the riddle wrong, but it's better to leave it that way to confuse Light even more. Thanks.
Syrupdrip: I hope that your exams went well. Good luck! Ah yes. The infamous 'new rule' popping up in The Life Script. I figure that The Life Script probably won't have more than 20 rules. But they'll all appear in the Life Script slowly and at certain times. Unlike a Death Note, The Life Script can actually 'feel' a person's emotions. So the book is kind of alive in a sense because it can read the potency of a user's emotions. I'm gonna make the next chapter dedicated to Ryuk explaining more about the Life Script, at least what he's heard. Also, here's the chapter where Light gets suspicious of Ryuk's AWOL status. Thank you.
PiScEs-BlOsSoM69: Ah, yes. I do find that Keegan does kick ass when it comes to trying to mentally-eff with somebody really. I mean Keegan's not just intellectually smart, she's street smart too (she figured out real quick right away that Ryuk's crack was apples). Haha. I like her interaction with Ryuk too. Considering that Ryuk has to be on her side for the sake of not being neglected. Yes, we all have those moments spacing out with video games. I tend to do that a lot with the Ratchet and Clank series. It's my favorite game series because the creators made the original Spyro games for the Playstation (the original). Haha. Thanks.
Sahxyel: I know, I wish my story WAS made into a manga. Or a Doujinishi at least. That'd be a one of my dreams. (sighs happily) I'd pay money to see Light's expression other than in my head. I really would. Manga or Anime style would definitely emphasize how 'epic fail' his expression would be or a 'wtf' expression would be even better. I don't care. I just want to see THAT expression if anything. Haha. And here's the chapter where you get to see Light actually try and interrogate Ryuk.
Muahaha!
Enjoy Chapter 11 folks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note. Death Note belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takashi Obata.
Disclaimer 2: The idea of the Life Script belongs to me. Please do not steal. Thank you. Any Original characters, Keegan Phelps (no relation to Michael Phelps), belong to me. Thanks.
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"You've been gone for quite some time." Light's expression didn't seem pleased when Ryuk suddenly decided to drop in on his bed and mess up the sheets because he didn't have anything better to do. The hard stare from this other human didn't make Ryuk uncomfortable in the least. Whatever was on Light's mind, Ryuk wasn't going to satisfy his curiosity. Keegan had been taking good care of him, so it didn't matter.
"Yeah? What about it? You usually don't seem to be so bothered any other time I'm not around." Ryuk sneered, his tone unpleasant and nastier than it usually had been.
"You told me you had heard about Kuro from the last time we spoke." Light was pacing the room, he seemed disgruntled and not in the greatest of moods. Just like Ryuk was when he got here. He didn't want to leave Keegan alone because she had just bought him a new bag of apples, but she had advised him to drop in so as to not seem suspicious if Light hadn't seen him in a while. To Ryuk, Light was now an enemy in his eyes as far as he was concerned. Light never really cared much about Ryuk's craving for apples, but Keegan was all over that aspect faster than Light was. She made sure he was well fed.
"Yeah? I've been wandering around for a while. Not much else to do since you're part of the big picture now. It's fun to watch though. You know, I think that the day after your new challenger's second message came, you looked a little more pissed than usual." Was Ryuk mocking him?
Light glared at the shinigami and pulled out his Death Note. "This is supposed to be helping me become God of the New World. All you've been doing it watching from the sidelines. Fess up Ryuk, where have you been?"
Ryuk shook his head. "You could say since you've been working as 'L' I've been playing games with the other Shinigami." Blunt, outright lie. It was necessary to lie at all costs when it came to hiding where he was. His need for apples was being sated by somebody else other than Light and Ryuk didn't need to stick around him anymore.
"Games?" Light sounded skeptical. Ryuk never 'hung-out'. "Don't give me that, where have you been?"
"Since when do you care Light? You're sounding more and more paranoid with each breath you take. You're starting to get scared aren't you? Aren't you?" Ryuk hissed as he bore those sharp jagged teeth. Light was starting to make him regret coming here just to even bother checking it.
Light held up his Death Note to Ryuk. "You gave this to me Ryuk. These notebooks kill people, what kind of Death Note brings people back to life? It has to be a death note! There's no other book."
"Exactly." Ryuk grinned. "Like I said, you're scared now. Somebody with this special Death Note isn't fond of you then. I mean, it's like a battle of Good vs Evil. You forget Light, it doesn't matter. I'm not on your side. So regardless of whether I tell you or not, you won't really know. Either that or you're too damn paranoid to actually believe what I told you about where I've been."
Ryuk had a point; Light couldn't force the information out of him. He couldn't trick Ryuk because Ryuk didn't have anything to lose like Rem had. "Well then Ryuk, guess that means no apples for you at all then. I can choke the information out of you like I have done before."
"True, but I'm not really in the mood for them right now. I munched out before I got here you see. Farmer's market I dropped in on." He snickered. He had Light there.
Light's silence was kind of signaling defeat. "…Fine. Go. But know this Ryuk. I'll be watching you."
"If you can figure out where to watch me from." Ryuk wagged a finger at him. "Oh, just for laughs why don't you try killing that criminal again? I mean if Kuro can bring people back, you can surely kill people again. Heh hehe. See ya later." That said, Ryuk left quickly. Hurrying back to Keegan to give her the news and get his reward for being a 'good little shinigami'.
Light stared at his Death Note in hand and then thought about Toshihiro Takata from earlier today. He grit his teeth and he felt the adrenaline rush kick in as he pulled out his pen and wrote the name down again in the notebook. It didn't take long before suddenly the pen flew out of his hand and stuck into the wall while the name on the page suddenly began giving off red sparks and it disappeared. "What?!" He whispered. "H-How can that be? The name…the notebook rejected it. Why?"
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When Ryuk had returned, Keegan didn't present him with apples just yet, she was holding out The Life Script to him to the page where Toshihiro Takata's name was written. The name was glowing. "Hey, what's the name glowing mean?"
"Ohhh…" Ryuk said, taking the notebook in his hands with a laugh. "Light tried to kill this guy again, didn't work because you brought him back to life. One of the rules in the Life Script. Remember?"
Keegan nodded in interest, pointing to the fridge. "They're in there. Help yourself." She told him. "But save some for later." She left him alone in the kitchen by himself before there was pounding on her door and rapid excited Spanish behind it.
Ryuk took an armful of apples and floated up the stairs so that whomever Keegan let in didn't watch him eating the apples. She hurried to hide the Life Script under the couch cushions before Keegan opened the door to find TJ crying in front of her. He was dark skinned for a Latino boy but that wasn't the point. He had tears rolling down his face as he kept crying in Spanish. "Aye dios mio!" He sobbed. "Rico! Rico! He lives! He lives! We were called to the funeral home and there he was crying and wailing in the little casket. "Milagro! Milagro!" He was clutching Keegan into a tight hug while sobbing into her shoulder.
She didn't need him seeing the Life Script, but she had it hidden under the couch cushions so it was okay. She was just happy to see that TJ for once didn't seem to be having a bad day. "It's a miracle, I tell you. God sent down a sign and-"
"Since when did you start praising God?" Keegan chuckled, knowing full well she had done the deed of bringing the baby back to life.
"Oh shut up, I go to church." TJ insisted. "Tito Juarez goes to church occasionally unlike you."
She shook her head offering him the box of tissues in the kitchen while he dabbed at his face. "I heard on the news that your family seemed ecstatic and were lighting every candle in their house. Your aunt broke out the rosaries they explained." Keegan sighed. "Wish my faith was that sustaining." She did wish, but when Keegan thought about it she knew that wasn't a good idea. Her Agnostic nature was part of who she was.
"You should come and see him mira, he's all smiling and squealing. Nina's still crying. Oh damn you should have seen Carlos' face when the cops were taking him to the precinct again and she walked by with that baby. Damn was that punto' mind fu-"
"Hey! That language, not acceptable in this house." Keegan scolded. "You know better."
TJ frowned. "Hey, hey. I hate Carlos. I hated Carlos from the moment Auntie Nina introduced him to the family. We all knew he was no good."
"He's not Rico's dad is he?" Keegan asked with worry.
"Nah, that gringo Paul is. He pays child support though. Nina and he were stupid drunk when she got knocked up. Rico goes to see his daddy tomorrow so that he can see his kid's alive and well." TJ was laughing.
"Well TJ, I'm glad to see that you're in a better mood than you were before." Keegan patted him on the back. "Go home to your folks, I've got some homework to do for school okay. Better get working on those college applications soon TJ." Keegan advised strongly. "You don't want to be a bum and not go to college do you?"
"Hey, I take offense to that. You're insulting my people."
"You let me call you Brown Bear…"
There was awkward silence from the young Hispanic man before he whined. "But it's an endearing term…You saying I won't go to college is just mean."
"Well, you did quote I was the 'meanest white girl' you've ever known." She reminded him of a few days ago about his porn. "Go home and get some sleep. I'll stop by to see the baby tomorrow. Okay, go."
"But what about my money…"
"Go." Keegan pointed at the door. "I'll give it to you tomorrow." That said she pushed him out the door and closed it. Ryuk poked his head out from the banister by the stairs.
"He gone?"
"Yeah."
"He's got a funny accent."
"He's Uraguayan."
"Which is…?"
"South America. Ryuk, I don't have time for personal questions. You saw Mr. Yagami. How did it go?"
Ryuk was chomping on the cores of several apples before he answered. "Well, he was pretty damn livid when I went to see him. Badgering me with questions of where I've been."
"Oh yeah." She lifted up the cushion and pulled out the Life Script. "He probably asked you questions about how I was doing my work?"
"He's definitely a little worried. I questioned is he was scared or not. Light wouldn't say whether he was or not. I confirmed that he was paranoid though." He was sitting on the arm of her couch again. "You know, your emails are fun to filter through." Ryuk chuckled, glancing at Keegan as she turned to the stairs to go retrieve her laptop.
She stopped dead in her tracks. "…What did you say?" She asked.
"I mean, the fact that your still talking to your ex-boyfriend says a lot." His back was to her as he continued munching on his apples contently as Keegan was glowering at his back.
"What gives you the right to read my emails?"
"You left it open. I figure what's the harm it could do. Jus tell me one thing Keegan…He wants to get back together doesn't he?" He asked, humor in his tone.
She clutched the Life Script to her chest, looking down at the floor in embarrassment. "Unfortunately. I don't have time for him right now, not when I'm fighting Mr. Yagami."
"So you miss him?"
"Shut up, why do you care?"
"I don't. I just find it funny how you humans, when you're not in relationships with each other you still stay good friends. I never understood the concept of friends. I find them pointless." Ryuk was licking his fingers, rather grotesquely is Keegan could add.
"Well…I really don't want to be friends with Joe right now." Keegan mumbled. "I don't want a relationship with him at this time. The world's in danger, I won't involve him, and when I told him we should break up I meant it. I didn't mean 'let's have a long distance relationship'."
They shared silence again. "…Do you miss him sometimes?" Ryuk asked, though he didn't want to it jut kind of slipped out.
"Not really. I mean he was the one who was excited about going to Ireland. He wanted me to go with him. I didn't want to go. Simple as that. Part of me thinks I missed out, yet I think I did the right thing. I get to take care of TJ…I get to save the world…I get to take care of you."
Ryuks pun his body around. "Taking care of me is entertaining?" He asked, grinning mischievously. "You feel that you have to be my mommy now?"
Keegan didn't answer him. "I want you to tell me…why did you take the Life Script? Why haven't you asked for it back?" She squeezed the notebook tighter. "You let me have this for a reason…even if you didn't mean to."
"Well…I've only heard several things about the Life Script, but I heard…Jeez, and is this a pretty stupid reason why it was created."
"So, tell."
"I heard The Life Script was a love token made for a human by a shinigami."
Authoress Note: Well, I leave you there with that interesting cliffhanger. Hope you all enjoyed that, stay tuned for Chapter 12!