Chapter 5
"Shinigami"
A/N: To listen to the artist that I have deemed as Ben's favorite artist at the moment go to /benhasbrains.
Also... a little side note, did you honestly think that I would make some things so obvious?
Don't think of anything in my story as obvious.. I know I told some of you some things and I might have lied a little. hehe.
Ben was serene as he watched bright red range and blue flames engulf old paper covered in older ink. He had read another letter...
The last letter in the journal....
It was encased in an envelope with an official seal in the shape of an old English L. On the back it had a capital
B also in old English and in small letters beneath it it said this is for you Ben.
The letter told him that kira himself would kill L.... his father.... in a matter of days.
Do not panic Ben, you are only an infant at this moment. There is nothing that you will be able to do to stop him. I know my time is up, but yours is just beginning. There is a monster out there called a shinigami. They are very scary creatures. I want you to kill everyone who knows them. They deserve to die.
You know someone by the name of Light Yagami don't you? He deserves to die more then anyone. I know it is a unhealthy thought to sentence someone to death, but it is necessary. Light is a murderer. He is my murderer.. There is someone else you need to punish as well. I'll let you decide who that is. By the time you read this I will be long gone. I wish I could be there. To witness both of their death's. As a matter of fact I will be watching... but not from either heaven or hell.
I have sinned.... Ben.....
I did some bad things....
You have to make up for it.
Now burn everything that you have read. Light cannot see what you have read, nor what I have written.
Watch the flames... as I have watched them so many times.
~L...
Ben squinted at the L that was signed. It was messy and smeared. It was hard to tell that it was a letter L.
…..as I have watched them so many times... What do you mean by that, Father?
Ben did as L had asked and just stared intently at the flames that were smothering the hand written letters.
He did feel something. An unknown power. Something that he had never felt before... but somehow it didn't feel
right. He stared for what seemed like hours at blue and red flames. Finally, they began to smolder.
He suddenly felt a surge of anxiety.
Light Yagami.... Light.... it's you.... you are kira. My life should have been lost by now. Had it not been for my father's intellect, I would be dead. I need to... find who I am.... in order to defeat the evil. Where would I begin? How would I even begin to..
A loud knock was heard on the door.
"Ben? It's Light."
Ben froze. He felt the beads of sweat that had formed on his forehead and palms.
Calm yourself. You have the advantage here.
"Yes, come in, Light." Ben forced his voice and emotions to back to it's ordinary low.
Light entered the room casually. Ben watched him from the corner of his eye, he was pretending to not take any interest in Light while checking an web site on his laptop.
At first it seemed as if Light was unsure as to what to do. Then, he spoke.
"Ben, I know that our first encounter was not necessarily a good one, and it wasn't all your fault, I will admit."
Ben's eyes never left the screen.
So he's prideful...
"I wanted to ask you if we could be friends."
Ben raised an eyebrow.
Father, are you absolutely positive?
"I think that sounds like an excellent idea." Ben murmured.
He obviously wants to build our friendship so that I will eventually tell him my true name... but I can't do that... it's not that I won't... I can't... that somehow bothers and comforts me at the same time.
"Was that sarcasm?" Light's voice was coated with annoyance.
"That depends on if your original question was sincere."
"What makes you think it wasn't sincere?"
Ben turned from his PC and stared Light in the eyes for two extremely long seconds.
"Oh, nothing... you can never be too cautious. I do believe you."
Light was still visibly frustrated.
Is this kid messing with me again?
"Well, I really hope you are being truthful, Benjamin."
Ben almost flinched at Light calling him by his full name. He didn't speak. Both he and Light knew that the other was lying. Light was now feeling uneasy. He left the room with the uneasiness dragging on his legs. His bed seemed as if it was the only place that would rid him of the feeling at the moment.
He laid prostrate on the cool sheets and let himself think.
Does he have a real name that he's been hiding from his family? Or worse, does his family know of his suspicions of me and he's just hiding it?"
"Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk..."
You know, don't you Ryuk....
An Unknown Location 11:21 PM
December 21, 2006
An evil voice laughs while he's being held captive by thick heavy chains... He speaks wildly in a psychotic tone.
He starts out softly.
"I am going to die.... in three days!" He sounds happy and excited. "All of this is thanks to you..... kiiraa."
The final word of his sentence was released with a low snarl.
"Light Yagami.... hyuk hyuk... hyu hahaha... HYAAHAHAHAHAA!!"
A wild crazy noise comes echoing down dark hallways. It dies down into short cackling and wheezing.
Suddenly, there is a electronic voice.
"PRISONER 024QS22B! CALM YOURSELF!" The voice comes from a small speaker placed at the top corner of the dark room in which the prisoner was kept.
Prisoner 024QS22B just snickers.
"I will be avenged."
Coleman Household 6:35 AM 10/6/22
Light hadn't slept much that night. He felt he had to set his priorities on finding his rivals name. That's all he needed. He was remembering the stress he felt when he first became kira. He didn't like it. Misa hadn't noticed Light's distress. Light wasn't about to tell her either. She no longer had the shinigami eyes due to Rem's death. Light had remained as her husband due to a recently formed organization called the AKE or the Anti-Kira Enforcement. It was difficult to find the members of this organization due to their secrecy. They once came close to suspecting Light, when he had killed someone of the organization thinking that that person was the only one. The AKE had found copied files from the kira case and now suspected Misa of being kira. This immediately put small suspicions on Light as well. This was not that big of a trouble because most of the AKE flailed in comparison to Ryuzaki.
How To Use It
A Shinigami may only trade their eyes with the owner of their deathnote.
