Authoress Note: 100. 100. We're at a magical number here folks, a MAGIC number. You know what that means? We're at the 100-point mark! AAAAAAH! (nod nod) Yush, yush. This is very good. All right! So you guys liked the last chapter. Well, I have some news for you, I've recently posted a fan-art of the Life Script notebook on my deviantart account. So if you'd like to check it out, my username is the same there as it is here. So feel free to go poke around at it. I like its design but I hate that some of the words got cut off at the bottom of it. I just want to give you guys a great big hand for bringing the story to 100 reviews, I'm really grateful to everyone because I didn't think my story would go off great and you, the reviewers, have shown that yes, yes, it is a great story. So thank you so much for your care and support of the story.
Also, on another note. This next chapter's kind of going to focus on Ryuk and Keegan's relationship. Meaning: Date Numbah Two. xD So just a forewarning before everyone thinks that there's going to be any major action, maybe not a whole lot but just a little bit. Heehee.
Reviewer Acknowledgements: Line up please, line up!
CONGRATS GUYS! WE MADE IT TO REVIEW #100!
Mageofice88: Crongrats to our 100th review! YAY! Let's give 'em a big hand on this! WHOO! Thanks so much on the 100th review!
Syrupdrip: YAY! You're back, again! I missed you; usually it's yours and Sahxyel's reviews that tend to be the longest so I was wondering where my other best critiquer was. I thought you got lost…in the Shinigami Realm. Haha. I think everyone loved Keegan and Ryuk's misadventures in the Shinigami Realm. Ooh! Early Saturday Morning new cartoon show! Lol. I've noticed that I made Ryuk a little too…feeling of emotions in his human form. I'm gonna fix that up a little bit in this chapter, just because I didn't sense his usual behavior. Also, they were cooped up in the house and he wasn't riding his stolen Nightrod. Haha. Don't worry, we're getting closer to having Light come to America soon because that way Kuro and the SPK can get him at the same time. So don't worry. I'm working towards that. So yes! It is exciting with the many possibilities. Thanks!
KakaIru-luver: I browsed through your works, they're pretty good. You're better at drawing people than I am. I just do chibis and comic characters. Oh! The Life script fan art of the notebook is up on my Deviantart account, you should check it out if you want to. Aw, don't worry. You can do it, I have faith. Thank you for dedicating a time for a fan art to the story. I'm giving you 5 gold stars because this is the first fan art of the story that someone is willing to make. Yay! Thanks.
PiScEs-BlOsSoM69: I think everyone dislikes Takada, mainly because she killed Mello and just…look at her face. If anything she should be the one dressing like Misa as the skanky whore. Sorry, had to get that out there, just because. Aw, don't say Ryuk 'got some'. That would imply they had smexors. Which…I don't know if it can happen. (shifty eyes) I have to concur with the other reviewers on that one. Still thinking about it.
Thanks though.
Sahxyel: I'm still trying to decide what Mikami's going to do in this situation. I'm sure I'll feature him having his doubts soon but at the same time he might still think that this is all a sick joke and think that Kuro bringing those people back to life could be is God is testing him. Of course…I'm still thinking of what to do yet. Not ready on that part. I'm glad you liked the trip they took the Shinigami Realm. I wasn't sure how I was going to get them there at first then I decided to be vague about it because I imagine Keegan floating in the air by herself would scare people. So…I did a transition instead to make it faster. I'm not sure ALL shinigamis are stupid, but I'm sure they don't have a lot of common sense. I mean, Ryuk's pretty damn smart but I see your point in that. Muahaha. Thanks.
tHePuNkPriiNceZs: Ah, well. She loves him, how can she not be worried about what happens to him? It was probably the most well thought up lie Keegan had ever concocted I believe. She's got a great imagination. xD Thanks.
Jillian Jiggs: o.o I hope that entire story crack didn't give you an overdose if it exploded everywhere. Good god woman, calm yourself. (gives a chill pill) You? Going to the shinigami realm? Well…that depends, are you going there on a field trip or to find a shinigami to drag back to earth and be your lover? Oohh…possibilities. Haha, I know right? For the carpet? Damn. He's lucky he still has the steam cleaner or it wouldn't come out. The significance of the Death Notes bleeding the ink profusely is to symbolize painful rejection of the names in the book because of the Life Script. The ink used to write the names down is like both vomit and blood from the Death Note at the same time because after chucking cookies so much you'd start throwing up blood too I imagine. Poor Misa, I'd crap bricks if my book started spouting 'blood' ink.
Enjoy Chapter 23 guys!
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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) and others, belong to me. Thanks.
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It was around 2:00 a.m and Ryuk lay wide-awake on the couch playing a video game at this ungodly hour of the evening. Keegan had long since gone to sleep. Of course…her choice of where to sleep was a bit uncomfortable. She was practically on the edge of the couch, curled up against him while Ryuk was tapping the buttons on the controller as he played Soul Calibur 3. Their trip to the Shingami Realm had troubled him a lot and he didn't really like thinking about it. Especially after the fact when they returned, Keegan broke down and told him she loved him after their argument. It became clear to Ryuk that he was thoroughly confused. Love? What was love to him?
He didn't understand its concept except when it involved apples. Love? With Keegan? Well…this was certainly different. No, this was certainly a sign that something was wrong with him. What was he doing here? What exactly was he doing in an actual 'relationship' with a human? Did that imply that he loved her too? Was that even possible? Was he even capable of loving?
Keegan made a muffled noise in her sleep and snuggled closer to Ryuk for warmth, which wouldn't be received since this human form was just a façade, it wasn't anything else. Shinigamis were naturally cold creatures so why…did Keegan feel so warm?
He paused the game and looked down at her in her sleep. "…Sometimes I wonder if you're crazy…" Ryuk mumbled, lifting his hand up to rest atop her head. "How you managed to get me to this point I'll never know. You've got it all Keegan. You've got the whole world in your hands because of that notebook, you've got Light on his toes and you're driving him up a goddamn wall, and to top it all off you're a mad genius who doesn't even realize it."
She didn't answer him, but that was the way he preferred it. She wasn't running her mouth at him in annoyance or agitation or even crying. Sometimes he liked it when she was asleep. Keegan seemed so at peace with the world around her and he even wondered if she really was asleep sometimes.
At that moment he had an idea in his head and got up off the couch to see to it this task was carried out.
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The wind was brisk on his face while the engine revved on the motorcycle. Ryuk was cutting through dark alleyways and cutting late night drivers off on the roads with his bike while Keegan sat in front still nestled into a sort of sleeping position against his chest all bundled up in the warmth of the Harley Davidson jacket. She was rudely awakened by the sound of a car honking its horn at Ryuk after he cut off another vehicle, looking around rapidly while she saw the scenery blurring by. "RYUK!" She snarled, obviously displeased at this horrible prank he had probably pulled.
By the time Keegan's brain had registered that they were out on the open road…at some ungodly hour in the morning, Ryuk had stopped the bike just in time at a red light. He seemed to be grinning from ear to ear, his brows raising mischievously. "Hey there sleepy head."
"What the hell are we doing out at 2 o'clock in the frickin' morning?!" She snapped. "Are you crazy? My aunt's gonna think you kidnapped me!"
"Relax. I'm just taking a drive. It's no big deal." Ryuk assured, grin still there.
"Ryuk you take me home right now or I'm gonna-"
He cut her off and pointed at the light. "Can't talk now, I'm driving. I can't have any distractions. So shut up and sit back." He pulled her back into the comfort of his chest and listened to her grumble.
"My aunt's gonna kill us." She sighed. "Where are we going, now?"
"I don't know. I just felt like driving." Ryuk said, the engine on the motorcycle revved and they must have cut through a few more alleyways because Keegan recognized this part of the neighborhood as being on the other side of town. "Seriously, where are we going?" She asked.
"I don't know. I told you." Ryuk answered.
"Okay…Are we there yet?" She decided to play an all too familiar game of 'are we there yet?'
"Keegan, don't start. I told you-"
"Well we gotta stop at some point!" She exclaimed. "It's the middle of the night."
"Why should we?" Ryuk grinned.
"Because I have to pee." Keegan confessed, then again she was lying.
Oh no. Seriously? Right now? She just ruined this fun trip and now he would have to make a pit stop. "Ugh…Hang on." He sighed; they drove for another two minutes before he pulled the motorbike up to some late night coffee shop and let her get off. She handed him his jacket back when she got off the bike. "I'll be quick, I promise."
"Do you seriously have to go or did you just use that as an excuse?" Ryuk asked with a growl. "Keegan, you ruined the moment."
"Don't you usually do that anyways?" Her brow cocked with a smirk before she entered the coffee shop. "You're lucky I have my wallet on me. I'll get you an apple cider."
"Hey-" The door closed before he could protest against her doing so and Ryuk was left sitting alone on his bike. "Why'd she have to go and do that?" He sighed. 'She's starting to get to me even more now. Damn it, why'd she have to go and tell me she loved me?'
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There were a few late night stragglers when Keegan had walked into the coffee shop, pulling out her wallet from the pocket of her sweatpants and walking up to the counter. They had several different types of apple cider, but Keegan found a new taste that she thought Ryuk might like. "I'll take the Apple Chai tea. Small." She ordered, paid, and stopped short to look out at Ryuk on his bike.
He seemed to be staring in contemplation and Keegan even wondered now if that was the right thing to say to him: that she loved him. Was it love? Well…it kind of felt like it. He made her angry, he did little things that annoyed her, and she cared a lot about him. Yeah, that sounded about right. Maybe she'd bothered Ryuk about that when she said it. The thought of losing someone else close to her seemed unbearable and Keegan didn't want to think about Ryuk dying.
"Miss Phelps…" Someone called behind her. Keegan turned to look at some businesswoman drinking a hot cup off coffee and working on something on a laptop. Keegan recognized her as Miss Lidner, the blonde lady that was with that SPK group Ryuk had told her about.
"Oh! Hi, I'm sorry. I didn't see you there, how are you?" Keegan asked politely, not that it mattered. She was just trying to be courteous.
Halle Lidner closed her laptop and shrugged. "I've been better, Miss Phelps. Any more trouble with the ex-boyfriend?"
Keegan frowned at that subject. "I don't talk about him anymore, ma'am. He's out of my life for good…I'm starting fresh." She looked out at Ryuk again on the motorcycle and smiled.
"Oh?" Miss Lidner asked, looking over at Ryuk as well. "Is that your new boyfriend?"
'She called him my boyfriend…aw.' Keegan thought to herself. "Yeah, he's a sweet guy. Little rough around the edges but, I'm working him out. He's not like my ex…he's…so different."
Miss Lidner looked at Ryuk suspiciously. "And he took you out at 2 in the morning…because…?"
"He's a goofball." Keegan giggled. "I was sleeping and he woke me up and took me here. I got him to stop because I said I had to use the bathroom."
"In actuality you lied." Miss Lidner chuckled.
"He knows, I just wanted to stop in here and get him something. He loves apples and apple flavored stuff." Keegan held up the apple chai tea. "I think he'll like this. I hear it's good."
"What's his name?" Miss Lidner asked, still looking at Ryuk funny.
"Ryuk." She said without realizing it. "Oh! I mean, Roy. I said Ryuk because he did this stupid thing where he tried to translate his American name into Japanese and it came out as Ryuk." Keegan laughed. "I called him that for weeks before he got sick of it."
"When did you meet him?"
Keegan stared at the floor with a small smile. "Months ago. This was before my ex-boyfriend came and tried to attack me and kill my friend."
"So…you've been seeing him longer than that?"
Keegan shrugged. "Who knows…maybe I've known him my whole life." Keegan said with admiration of him. "Well, I've got to get going. It was nice seeing you again. Thanks for checking up on me." 'Not.' Keegan thought as she exited the building.
There he was, there was her so-called boyfriend, sitting astride on his stolen motorcycle with his jacket draped over his arms. Keegan held the drink out to him. "Here, it's an apple tea. It's really good. I had a sip." She showed mild concern while he sat out here in the chilly night air without his jacket on. "Aren't you cold?"
"I'm a shinigami, I don't feel temperatures very often." Ryuk assured. "Besides, I'm waiting for you to put it back on so we can start driving again."
"Ryuk…is something bothering you? I mean, normal people don't go out at 2 in the morning for a drive." Keegan said before she slapped her hand to her forehead. "Wait, what am I saying? You and I aren't normal people."
"Exactly." He said, taking a drink from the cup of tea. "Hey, not bad. Its apple flavored you said?"
"Apple Chai tea. I think you'd like it better if it was cold." Keegan chuckled. "You like it when stuff is cold don't you?"
"Not recently." Ryuk shrugged. "I mean, it's a little strange but, I know I can handle just about anything you throw at me." He laughed.
She couldn't help but smile at him when he confidently proclaimed that he could handle 'anything'. "Anything?"
"Yeah." He assured, drinking more of the apple tea. "So, where do you wanna go?"
"I don't know. I was looking up where big apple orchards were on the computer yesterday. I found some but now that I found them I don't know that I want to let you go." She sighed sadly. "I'll miss you too much if I do."
"Who says I still wanna go?" Ryuk snorted, "You're crazy if you think I'm leaving you by yourself so Joe can come after you again."
"You've really hated him right from the start haven't you?"
"You got me, I want to kill him with a Death Note. But I can't. You'd lose me if I did." He informed.
"What?" She said incredulously.
"The Death Note would kill me if I killed Joe. But if I saved you with the Life Script, you and I would both be safe. No harm done." He explained. "That's how both notebooks work."
Keegan frowned. "Well, that's stupid. If you guys have Death Notes how do you protect the people you care about?"
"Exactly. It's rare when shinigamis fall in love." He said, not really looking at Keegan when he said this. She could only guess he was just a little unsure still about when she told him she loved him.
"…Ryuk-"
"Yeah?" He lifted his head up to look at her.
"You don't think I'm stupid for…you know…" She awkwardly shifted her foot at the ground with her lips pursed.
Aw. Now she probably felt bad for making HIM feel awkward. Why couldn't he have just avoided the drama of this and just say it was fine? Why did he have to be an ass and not say anything? "No." Ryuk answered, tossing his cup in the trash. "You're an abnormal human Keegan. Even if you never touched the Life Script…you still would have known I was there that night."
She smiled at his remark towards the night they first met and laughed softly. "Yeah, I probably would have too. My dad always used to say I was special."
"Pfft. No kiddin'." Ryuk laughed. "It's like you were born that way or something."
She shrugged. "I've always been the weird one, in class, in high school, in life…" She sighed. "My aunt thinks I'm strange to some degree but she loves and understands me. Say…why did you ever come to the human world in the first place Ryuk?"
He grinned. "Truth?"
"Yeah." Keegan said.
"I was bored." He laughed. "That's all there was to it. I was bored. Nothing else." He got back on the bike and tossed the jacket at her. "You comin' or what?"
She held the leather in her hands before she threw it on and hopped on the vehicle in front of him. "Yeah, sure. So, where exactly are we going? I have to sleep at some point."
"I don't." Ryuk snorted. "We've got all night." He revved up the engine. "So, you know the town pretty well. Where to?"
"Uh…not this side of town exactly. Like I said, we were in Cincinatti and got lost in the ghetto?" Keegan reminded.
"Oh yeah…good point. We should…"
"Go home then. We can watch a funny move. Non-80s related."
"Finally, some decent film we can watch without having comment on the bad graphics and fake blood." The bike took off into the night and he spun the bike around in a circle to turn it back in the other direction. Of course, for Keegan's taste Ryuk might have been a tad over the speed limit.
"WAH SLOW DOWN!"
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Miss Lidner watched from afar afterwards while the two conversed, of course she couldn't hear what they were saying, but it seemed to be a rather tender sort of thing before they drove off. She picked up her cell phone while getting into the unmarked car in the area and closed the door when she was inside. Gevanni was driving while Near was in the back.
"So, Miss Phelps talked to you?" Near asked, curling his finger through that one lock of hair by his ear constantly.
"Yes, she seems to be doing well. Not really anything suspicious about her activity here but she did get a new boyfriend."
Near perked up. "Boyfriend? Did her former boyfriend go to prison?"
"Yes, but she's seeing someone else. Drives a Nightrod VRSC. I imagine he's probably very well off with how he handles it."
"We never saw him at her house though when we were there." Near said, curious of how this came to be. "Did she tell you anything about him? Does she even know about the charges against her former boyfriend not going through?"
Miss Lidner nodded. "Yes, she seems happy with him. But then again what boyfriend in their right mind takes their girlfriend out to a coffee shop at 2 in the morning?" She shook her head with a laugh. "The man's kind of pale, and he's definitely got a thing for Harley Davidson wear. He was letting her wear his jacket when the took off on the bike." She had to stop though when the last question sank in though. "WHAT?!"
"Did they say where they were going?"
"I briefly heard back to her house."
"I believe we'll be giving Miss Phelps a call sometime very soon. We need another interview and to warn her. A new case came up and Mr. Aizawa sent another email as of last night. Mr. Yagami arrived at work yesterday furious over something but he didn't want to talk about it."
"We'll have to see about Mr. Aizawa's email though." Gevanni called from the driver's seat. "I have a feeling we'll be having an unexpected message from the Task Force some time this evening."
"Yes, I'd expect that. Kuro's not been doing much lately at this time and she's all ready gotten Kira into an unexpected frenzy." Near mumbled. "I wonder what she'll do next?"
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It had been a while since solid apples had been in his mouth, and Ryuk wondered why he was even letting himself try these new apple dishes Keegan started making for him from day one. He supposed it was all right but the old original juicy red apple did the trick just fine. They'd stopped at a gas station with a 24-hour convenience store because Keegan had warned him that he was getting low on gas.
"You're lucky they even had apples inside."
There wasn't a soul around, so it was safe for Ryuk to eat his apples in shinigami form. "Yeah, what's it to you?" He spewed apple crumbs at her and Keegan flicked them off her. She had to give his jacket back while he was in shinigami form. "Can you not chew with your mouth open?"
"What's it to you Keegan? They're my apples." He chomped noisily.
"Which I bought for you." Keegan reminded, tapping her foot against the pavement. "You know it's about 3 a.m now. There's not much we can do on the way home. So what do we do?"
"We do just about everything I want to do usually Keegan, we've never actually ventured out on the town except that one day on my bike. So I think it's your turn to decide."
"Well, I want ice cream." Keegan said right away. "Have you ever had ice cream before Ryuk?"
Ryuk shrugged. "Not really. You know better than that. I like apples."
"You might like apple sorbet then if not ice cream." Keegan suggested instead. "Hey, Caufile's Bakery's open really late because little old Mr. Caufile's a night owl and the place does good business. Owned it for over 50 some years now. It's closer to my house and we could go there."
"You know, the human world's pretty boring to me Keegan, how do you manage to live here?" He asked, watching Keegan pump the last drops of gas into his motorcycle.
"I don't know Ryuk, how do you live in the shinigami realm?" She laughed. "It's a wasteland."
"No really? Remind me four or five more times all ready." He growled before he finished off the last apple core.
At that moment, Keegan's cell phone began ringing and Keegan flipped it open to answer it. "Hello?"
"Miss Phelps, good to see you're still awake. Bit late for you to be out at this time wouldn't you say?" Near asked.
Keegan frowned. "Oh. Hi. It's you guys again. Look, I'm kind of in the middle of something with my boyfriend. I'm guessing Miss Lidner all ready told you about that though." She rolled her eyes. "What do you want?" She asked boredly.
"I just need a question answered Miss Phelps…" Near informed.
Keegan looked over at Ryuk and gestured for him to listen. "Yeah?"
"Are you aware that your former boyfriend was able to get off on the charges thrown against him?"
Keegan nearly dropped her phone and scrambled to pick it up. "WHAT?!"
Ryuk snarled in fury. "That does it…" He growled. "That fucking does it!"
"I suggest you get home Miss Phelps. You're the first person he'd come looking for I assume." Near advised wisely.
Before she could say anything else Agent N hung up and Keegan scowled at the phone before she slapped it shut and shoved it in her pocket. "Damn it!"
"We've got to go, NOW." Ryuk hissed, grabbing her by the arm and making sure she was seated on the bike properly before hopping on it. Back as "Roy" again, he'd have to have a few words with Joe this time. It didn't matter if he'd get punished for protecting Keegan, this was the last straw. He grit his teeth before he zoomed off into the night.
Keegan wasn't too impressed by the amount of speed they were going, before it finally registered in her brain: "Wait. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A LISCENCE!"
Of course, Ryuk only grinned deviously and laughed. "I know! Isn't it great!"
"You idiot!"
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While they were driving Keegan had opened her cell phone to dial 911. "Hi, ah. Yes, this might be a non-emergency but at the same time it could possibly turn into an emergency, I recently recall my ex-boyfriend was released from prison his name is Joseph Kindler. He was recently involved in that hit-and-run murder attempt of my friend Tito "TJ" Juarez. I need a few police officers at my house. If you don't mind. I was just informed he was released today and I think he may try something again. If you could send some help that would be great. Otherwise, yeah."
She hung up after the dispatcher agreed to her request. "They're sending a squad car." She informed.
"Call 'em back. They'll need an ambulance and a coroner while they're at it." Ryuk warned, he skidded the bike to a halt at a stoplight.
"I have to call TJ to warn him." She pressed a speed dial button and listened to it ring before he picked up. "TJ. Lock every door and window in your house. Joe got out early apparently."
She heard angry screaming and rapid Spanish in the background before she could hear movement on the phone. TJ sounded like he was going through his whole house screaming: 'Cholo comin' to shoot me this time!' Keegan winced at the sounds he was making and was met with his father on the phone. Keegan had to tell him about Joe getting out of the charges pressed against him somehow and that his family better be careful because Joe could come to their house or hers.
Ryuk was hearing TJ vaguely screaming in the background about going to Keegan's house with a shotgun and several distant family members who were gangsters and something about a drive by against Joe. Keegan told TJ to shut up though and she hung up. "Does he ever stop talking?"
They skidded the bike to a halt in front of her house where sure enough Joe was pounding on the front door. Ryuk revved the engine loudly for several moments before Joe turned around on Keegan's doorstep and saw them together on the bike. "Keegan, if he moves, I can technically run him over with this bike. You know what's funny?"
"That you'd go to jail and disappear and everyone wouldn't be able to find you?" She said with worry as Joe came closer.
"No, because this isn't me technically killing a human with my bare hands." Ryuk grinned darkly.
"Keegan!" Joe shouted. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Running you down." Ryuk answered for her. "What does it look like?"
"Who the hell are you supposed to be pal?"
Ryuk's grin went away and his persona as Roy suddenly disappeared. So Joe could see Ryuk's shinigami self now. "Remember me?"
Whatever Joe had in his hands he'd dropped it and in the dark Keegan though she saw a black spot grow larger in the center of Joe's pants. "Oh my God…he pissed himself." Keegan whispered.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?! Wh-What are you some demon that hovers around trying to keep me away? Are you tryin' to possess Keegan or something?"
"I told you, I was a premonition…of your Death, remember? You're messing with the balance of life and death in this case. It's my job to get rid of you." Ryuk growled, his eyes getting a red tint to them. "Come on Joe. Why don't you tell me what you came here to really do?" He ordered. "If you don't I'll kill you slowly." Ryuk gnashed his jagged teeth in anger.
"Joe, if you don't get out of here you'll regret it more than you'll regret getting expelled from University for this behavior." Keegan warned.
"You've been cheating on me!" Joe snapped. "What am I supposed to do? Let you go around without me in your life?"
"WE BROKE UP! Does that not register in your brain?! How does that count as 'cheating' if we broke up? I'm not your girlfriend anymore!" Keegan yelled at him. "Why won't you leave me alone?" She asked.
"Because if I can't have you then you shouldn't have anyone." Joe said, his eyes dark and his voice threatening. "Now get off that bike away from that monster and come here!"
Ryuk revved the engine menacingly and snarled. "You better reword what you just said or I'll run you down right here without any questions for you to ask. You die slowly and I get to watch. Technically I'm not touching you, so I don't get in trouble anyways."
"Keegan, you realize that you're helping a monster murder me?" Joe pointed out, his hand going to his chest to make it seem like he was morally hurt. "What's the matter with you? Are you crazy?"
Keegan had to let it sink in for several moments. The way he said it sounded kind of insulting and she didn't like being told she was crazy. Crazy? Because she cared about Ryuk? Because she had feelings for him nobody else had? Keegan grit her teeth and she scowled at Joe. "I always thought there was a bigger reason I broke up with you for, and now I know why." She told him.
"Because you were wrong and stupid?" Joe asked.
Ryuk inched the bike forward several times with a snarl. "You better take those words back…"
"No, because I'm not the one whose crazy Joe. You are. Crazy people try to kill their ex-girlfriend's best friend, crazy people stalk their ex-girlfriends, and crazy people try anything possible to get the charges against them dropped so they can come back to their ex-girlfriend's house and kill her or take her hostage." Keegan informed. "I've never been crazy in my life Joe. And now that you've told me I am. I don't think we ever really had anything."
"YOU STUPID BITCH!"
"That does it!" Ryuk snarled, the engine on the bike rumbled and he drove up on the sidewalk in front of Joe and beeped the horn at him with a snarl. "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BEFORE I MAUL YOU WITH THIS BIKE!" He roared.
Joe stumbled back on his ass while Ryuk positioned the wheel at his crotch. Keegan sitting in the front seat with her brow cocked in a suggestive manner. "Careful. He'll do it too if you don't."
There wasn't much that Joe could do at this point, Ryuk had spared his life twice, but this was cutting it close. He didn't want to let Joe live, but Keegan probably wouldn't want to be looked at as a suspect in a case like this. He didn't want to see Keegan get into trouble for this and he definitely didn't want her going to prison if the authorities thought she was involved in this. How would she stop Light then?
Keegan saw another dark spot on Joe's pants again while he lay there on the ground trembling. Ryuk staring him down with a death glare while Keegan sat there calmly. "If TJ were here right now he'd make sure to shoot you without hesitation."
"I let you live twice, pal. You better heed my advice and get the hell out of here." Ryuk warned once more. "Leave, or I'll kill you this time in front of all these people coming down here, with not an ounce of mercy."
She could hear the sirens now and she elbowed Ryuk to change back into his human form before things looked ugly and the cops thought Keegan was holding him down with this motorcycle.
Joe watched in disbelief as the horrible monster disappeared and was replaced by this rough looking guy revving the engine of his Nightrod at him. "You…you…what-how? Whaaaa?"
When the cops pulled up Keegan turned the engine off the motorcycle and watched as Joe was pulled into police custody, slammed against the hood of the police car, and put in handcuffs. "Jeez, somebody get this guy a pair of pants. He must have pissed himself when the girl and her boyfriend here must have threatened to run him over." One of the cops grumbled.
Moments later TJ had just arrived in his mother's Escalade and gotten out of it. As soon as he saw Joe getting into the police car, he started cursing at him in angry Spanish and pointed at him and made a cutting motion across his throat. "YEAH, YOU!" He pointed at Joe angrily. "You try to get out again, I'm comin' for your ass! I'm comin' for it!" TJ snarled.
Joe of course couldn't believe what he was seeing when he saw that TJ didn't have a scratch on him from hitting him with his car. The Uruguayan youth was shouting in angry Spanish before an officer reprimanded him for his behavior, so he was quiet afterwards. TJ didn't get to question Keegan for anything because his parents drove up afterwards, his mother getting out of the car and yelling at him in Spanish to come home and his father pointing at the car shaking his head.
Keegan and Ryuk were left alone though. The cops told Keegan she didn't need a statement because Joe somehow had someone post bail for him and that was how he got out.
Keegan went inside and slammed the front door behind her, with Ryuk following behind her now invisible to everyone but her once back in his shinigami form. "…Think we should have run him over?" Keegan asked.
Her answer was Ryuk's fist slamming into the bathroom door in the front hallway. "I could have killed him right then and there Keegan…I would have done it too if you'd asked me to."
"Even if you wanted to Ryuk…why didn't you?" She asked, back to him staring at the magnets on the fridge some few feet away. "…Why?"
"Who would stop Light then?" Ryuk hissed. "Certainly not you. And getting you out of prison wouldn't be a clean job Keegan. Then you'd be a suspect on the run…"
"Good point." She said once she thought about it. "Hey…thanks. For the ride tonight. I think it helped me clear my head some."
He was hunched over in the kitchen now, Keegan smiling at the back of his head. "I know what you want Ryuk." She called over to him.
"So…I can just get it myself now?" Ryuk looked at her over his shoulder, she had her hands on her hips with a fond smirk. "Yeah, go ahead."
The fridge door flew open and several apples flew onto the table to which he gathered an armful of them and took them towards the living room.
"Come on, I've got some work to do. I'm going to tie up some loose ends."
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Everyone had gone out for a late lunch, everyone was tired, everyone was sleeping late and at the office, Light and the SPK were working to the bone and cracking down closer and closer to the Kira case…Kuro had yet to message the Task Force until now. When he had returned from grabbing a quick lunch, Aizawa heard an alert noise on the laptop.
At 4:18 in Japan, Aizawa flipped open the Task Force computer to find a blinking black background with the backwards-white K on it. "Huh?"
"Task Force, Mr. Kira…" Kuro said.
Aizawa stared at the screen and looked around suspiciously to see if Light would walk in at any moment.
"Oh…uh. No, It's just Aizawa right now. Everyone else isn't here…unless Kira's listening in. Can I help you with something?"
He was given silence for a few moments before Kuro answered. "Are you alone?"
Aizawa looked around cautiously again. "I think so."
"…Go on. Have you something to say to me?"
"You know L, I presume. Right?" Aizawa asked.
"Agent L of the Task Force? Otherwise known as Mr. Yagami? Yes. I do. Why Mr. Aizawa?"
"Because…I wonder…if you're starting to get to his head." Aizawa replied, unsure of what to think of it. "I've known Agent L since the Kira case first came around, him and his father. So, if you are a miracle worker and who you say you are…you are making the world right…Right?"
"…I have no doubt Mr. Aizawa that you think…Agent L's suspicious behavior makes him a suspect as Kira?"
Aizawa didn't want t admit it to this stranger he did not know by person but he had to. "…I do think it's him. I think it's been him all along."
"Even if the evidence doesn't show it? He still behaves erratically, as though something is off. Mr. Aizawa if you have any doubts about this man…then I think you should follow what your conscience says. If you are brave enough and truthful enough to admit this me, someone you do not know, then you are a very trusting person. What made you so trusting of Agent L, Mr. Aizawa?"
He sounded kind of angry with himself when he responded. "I don't know…the way he so passionately proclaimed he wasn't Kira to the first L. I'm always worried that if lung cancer won't get me…Kira will."
If Aizawa had any worry in his voice to hide, Kuro somehow sensed it. "Mr. Aizawa…"
He looked up at the computer screen with interest as his name was said with some form of moral concern. "Kuro?"
"I will protect you. Should Kira strike at you…you will not fall. Do what needs to be done."
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Authoress Note: I didn't like writing this chapter as much. So I was hoping for the next chapter you guys could help me with. I'd be very grateful to you and I think that I need a little reviewer support as we get to the end of the story. I apologize if Ryuk's behavior seems a little bit more…out of character than normal but I guess the more time he spends around Keegan the more he feels than he usually would. So…if I have some questions pertaining to that pop up I'll be happy to answer but I thought I'd let everybody know anyways. I'm trying as hard as I can to keep his personality in check but the love-dovey side of me wants to escape and I might have to start biting my fingers if they don't get control of themselves. Hmmm..
Anyways guys read and review. Questions always welcomed.