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[Chapter 3: Explanations]
"What the hell is going on?" Veronica stood up and saw her friends' expressions. Courtney was smiling gleefully and eyes full of excitement. Oh no. Arisa was gaping with her eyes widened. Like that wasn't normal. Maddie's expression was...nothing. She was just staring blankly at a big screen that was playing some random show called Sakura TV, along with Arisa and Courtney. Ariel groaned and yelled something in gibberish as she tried to escape from 'the bush'.
"Uh, what the heck is wrong with them?" Ariel asked and stood beside Veronica.
"Many things." Veronica muttered under her breath, and gave Ariel a small shrug. Ariel went around her, struggling to keep herself from getting tangled with these freakishly bushy bush, and slapped Courtney at the back. She still didn't change her expression. Instead, she chuckled darkly and a dark aura gloomed around her. A lot of things were going through her crazy mind.
"Hey!" Ariel shouted. Several people stared at them and gave them weird looks, wondering what were these teenagers doing in the middle of a bush. Well they're teenagers. Screw it.
"We...should probably get out of this bush, I don't want to rip my new pants. These thorns are just dying to poke me." Veronica said dramatically.
Ariel frowned. "That sounded wrong." Veronica just shrugged. Arisa breathed in through her nose and began slapping herself. Mothers that were passing by covered their children's eyes, some were laughing, and some were frightened. Ariel and Veronica looked at each other in horror and tried to stop her. "Would someone please tell us what is wrong with you guys?!" Veronica snapped and shook Arisa's shoulders.
"Hmm..." Maddie mused, gaining the three girls attention, "I think we're in Japan. Where Kira lives."
"What?!" Veronica and Ariel exclaimed. "Who's Kir- oh wait never mind. He's the killer of the anime Courtney always blabbed about." Veronica rolled her eyes. "But he's an anime character! The more reasonable question here is how we got in Japan."
Maddie moved slightly and felt something down on her feet. She crouched down and saw the pistol she had pointed to that demented kid. Her laptop was beside it and on top of it was her DN: Another Note book. She grunted as she hid the pistol behind her, like what cops do, and picked up her laptop and book. She stood back up.
"Let's get out of this bush." Maddie muttered. "And would someone slap Courtney?"
The five girls kept on walking down a street and eventually ended up being in a cafe. While they were walking they had argued about how they got to Japan. Veronica had said that maybe they were just dreaming. Or at least she was dreaming. Courtney had said something about L and her meeting and being together, that they were destined for each other. With that Veronica narrowed her eyes and she'd said, "You sicken me."
"Shut up!"
Before the two could argue, Ariel had stepped in. "Maybe we're angels that went down like visitors from heaven, hallelujah!" She'd said in a deep, booming voice.
Awkward silence.
"I wanna buy a hot chocolate." Courtney muttered. They sat in a more isolated seat inside the cafe.
"We can't. We don't have any Yen." Ariel said. Courtney shrugged. She grinned and she felt an evil laugh coming. "Kekekekekkeke....we're in the Death Note universe! Muahahahaha!"
The cafe became silent. Several customers looked at them. Others moved away.
"Will you shut up you idiot?" Veronica hushed. She ignored Courtney's dirty look. "And we're a little overdressed. It's not that cold outside." She eyed Maddie's clothes. "Well at least the four of us are."
Arisa cleared her throat for attention. "According to what Ryuzaki had said, and if this is not just a crazy dream, then we are in the beginning of their battle."
Veronica groaned. "Who the hell is Ryuzaki?!"
"If we're gonna stay here for a while, we must call L Ryuzaki. That's one of his aliases." Maddie put her hand under her chin and stared blankly on the table.
"Yeah, and we must not call him by his real name." Arisa said. "And L is not his real name." She quickly added.
Veronica and Ariel looked at each other. "What is his real name?" Ariel asked slowly.
"We can't talk about that in here." Maddie said in a slightly hard voice.
Courtney looked at her in confusion. "Why not?"
It was like Arisa read Maddie's mind. "There might be cameras around here." Maddie nodded in agreement.
"Okay then. Since Ariel and Veronica are not really familiar with this anime, we should tell them everything. Let's just walk around." Courtney suggested with her grin not leaving her mouth. Everyone agreed and they left the café.
They didn't start talking since people were still close around them. Courtney was skipping happily on the sidewalk while Veronica was trying to stop her. They walked and walked and ended up being in a park. Few kids and adults were there, but paid no attention to the five teens. They sat on a bench and told Ariel and Veronica about Death Note.
"Well, I know what the death note's power is. Just tell us about the characters." Ariel said.
Courtney looked around to see if anyone was watching or listening. Then she whispered them L's name. "L. Lawliet is L's real name. And don't ever tell anyone or else he'd end up being killed early-ish."
"We won't."
"So, who is Kira?" Veronica asked in a hushed voice.
"Kira is Light Yagami." Maddie whispered in reply. "Here, I'll show you two his picture. But I'm not really sure if my laptop would work here..."
Then suddenly, Jenny appeared in front of them. Veronica, Ariel and Arisa yelped.
"Hello there."
"YOU! You were the one who sent us here!" Veronica snapped and pointed angrily at the kid. Jenny pursed her lips. "If I were you I wouldn't talk loudly to me or point. You'd look like a fool considering you five are the only ones who can see me."
"Why is that?"
"Well, when this girl," the girl looked at Courtney, "opened the bottle, anyone who was within ten feet around the bottle would be able to see me."
"..."
"That's stupid." Maddie muttered. Ariel slapped her back. They don't know what this girl could or would do to them if one of them insulted her, but Jenny ignored Maddie.
"We are called Yousei. We're kind of like Shinigamis." Jenny said.
"So, you're s-saying Shinigamis do exist?" Arisa stuttered. She hoped not.
"What's a shinigami?" Veronica asked.
"Death Gods. They don't exist in your world, but they do here, since you five are now in the Death Note universe." Jenny continued.
Maddie sighed exasperatedly. "Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Listen, can you boost the signal of my laptop so we can go to the Internet?"
Jenny scoffed. "Fine." She waved her 'magic wand'. There was a 'clink' sound on the laptop and the internet got connected.
Maddie was just gonna thank her but the girl disappeared. She shrugged and typed on Google Light Yagami.
Ariel sweat dropped. "Where's that girl now?"
Veronica waved her hand dismissively. "Who cares? She creeps me out." Then she looked at Maddie's laptop and whistled.
"Kira is pretty hot, huh?" Veronica commented. Courtney nodded in agreement.
"Let's find Ryuzaki and tell him we know who Kira is!" Ariel blurted out in excitement. Veronica nodded eagerly. "Yeah! And we have Maddie's laptop to prove it!"
Arisa, Maddie and Courtney became silent. "What?" Asked Ariel.
"I'd just keep my mouth shut. If we tell Ryuzaki who's Kira then the whole thing would be boring." Maddie mumbled.
"Yeah, but if we don't tell him right now innocent people would die." Courtney pointed out.
"Then I guess we should just go up to him and help him catch Kira. We could drop hints every now and then." Arisa suggested.
Veronica groaned. "But I don't want to help! Too much work!"
Ariel grinned. "Well I wanna help. We're gonna be detectives!"
"And since we're gonna help L, we'll need aliases! I'm gonna be...hmm... Cassandra!" Courtney exclaimed.
Veronica scowled. She wanted that name. "Very well, then I'll be...Violet! Or Vanessa!"
"Just pick one. It doesn't have to be fancy." Maddie muttered.
"Fine! I'll be Vanessa from now on!" Veronica huffed.
"Ashley for me." Ariel said.
Arisa thought about it for a moment. "I guess I'll be Asura. I had always wished that was my name." She smiled sheepishly.
"We'll call Maddie...MacKenzie!" Courtney exclaimed. She was still excited about being in Japan, close to where L is.
"Will you stop bouncing, Courtney?" Maddie almost snapped.
Courtney crossed her arms across her chest and grinned. "Like you're not excited to be here!"
"I am!" Arisa said with a grin.
"There's one problem." Ariel frowned.
"Oh great!" Veronica threw her arms up in the air. "'Cause everything was going so well before." She said sarcastically.
Ariel sighed exasperatedly and hung her head. "We have nowhere to live."
"This is pretty good..." Veronica mused. She plopped down on a couch and closed her eyes.
"Pretty good? I think it's great." Courtney sat down beside Veronica and sighed. "But damn, why does that little Jenny girl kept on disappearing whenever she gave us something? We haven't thanked her yet!"
"She's a weird kid. Wait she's not a kid at all. What did she say she is again, Yusi?" Ariel wondered.
"Yousei. It's Japanese for 'fairy'." Arisa explained.
Jenny had appeared again after Ariel had told the girls they have nowhere to live. She had gave them enough money to buy for clothing and food. She had also gave them a key for their new apartment. It has two bedrooms and the apartment was good enough for the girls.
"You know what I don't get? Is why Jenny brought us here in Japan for absolutely no reason!" Veronica exclaimed.
Courtney straightened up and waved a finger to Veronica. "Nuh-huh! Everything happens for a reason."
Veronica narrowed her eyes. "Oh yeah? What's the reason then? And do not say that she brought us here because you and L were meant for each other. He's like, eight years older than you!" She shuddered visibly at the thought. "I mean, if you guys went out, and I'm not saying you will, it might look like he's molesting you or something since he's 24 and you're 16."
Ariel burst out laughing. Arisa giggled and Maddie chuckled.
"Well there's always Matt or Mello. So if it didn't work between L and I, I can still go for the both of them." Courtney smirked and slipped into one of her daydreams.
Ariel stopped laughing and wiped her tears. "Speaking of Mello, can we buy some marshmallows? My stomach has been craving for some."
Courtney giggled and patted her stomach. "Yeah, I'm starving."
"Let's use the money Jenny gave us to buy some food and some clothes." Maddie suggested in her usual monotonous voice. "And only buy the clothes we really need. We don't need to be fashionable." She gave Veronica a look, who just smiled innocently.
"We need a job, too." Courtney added.
Veronica looked at her in horror. "No way! We're already gonna help L catch Kira! Now we need a job?!"
Courtney rolled her eyes. "Yes, drama queen. We need a job so we'd have money to buy clothes and other nice stuff. And more importantly, food."
"So let's split up; me, Courtney and Veronica will buy some clothes and Maddie and Arisa would buy some food. That way it will be much more quicker." Ariel said.
"No. It's Courtney, Veronica and I." Courtney corrected.
"Whatever." Ariel muttered.
"And don't forget our aliases." Maddie reminded them.
"I hate to burst anyone bubbles but-" Veronica started saying but was interrupted by Courtney.
"No you don't. You love bursting other people's bubbles."
Veronica growled and glanced at the rest. "Can I just smack her?!"
Ariel sighed. "Whatever. Just continue what you wanted to say."
Veronica gave Courtney a look before continuing. "None of us knows how to speak Japanese except for Arisa. And we don't know our way around here."
"I can help you with that!" A squeaky voice was heard.
Veronica and Ariel started screaming. Then Arisa started screaming, too. Courtney screamed for a short moment but stopped when she saw Jenny. She and Maddie shook their heads and sighed. Courtney slapped the girls backs and they stopped.
The three glanced at Jenny and sighed in relief. Jenny looked like she was in shock because for a second there she got terrified when they started screaming.
"Why do you keep scaring us like that?! Can't you just knocked on the door, we'd let you in, and call it a day, huh?! Instead of just popping at random places and giving us heart attacks! You're worse than Kira and his death note!" Veronica tried to calm herself down.
Jenny scowled. "Hey! I'm no Kira. Whatever, I'll just give you girls a map."
The five stared at the girl blankly. And stared some more. One, two, three-
"What are you all staring at?"
Courtney cleared her throat. "You brought us here where death notes and shinigamis exist, you used your girly magic wand and gave us a place to live in and you gave us money. And now you're just giving us a map? Can't you just use your wand to give us knowledge to this place so we won't fight over a map?"
"Hey, who said anything about fighting over a map?" Ariel protested.
"There's a 99.9% percent we'd fight over it." Maddie said. "Or at least Courtney and Veronica'd fight over it."
Veronica and Courtney nodded. Finally they agreed on something!
"Well if you're gonna help this L guy then you need to work together. And c'mon! How hard could it be? You're just gonna read a map." Jenny said.
Veronica scoffed. "Fine. What about our language problem?"
Jenny smiled. "Don't worry, all the people from death note would be able to speak English. Well, chow!" With that she disappeared, leaving the map behind.
"Disappeared again. Anywho, let's try and fit here in Japan, find that asshole L so we can help him catch another asshole and finally go back to my home sweet home." Veronica said. Courtney and Arisa gasped. "You...called L...an asshole?!"
Ariel and Maddie sweat dropped. "Uh-oh..."
"What happened? Are you two okay?!"
Four days had passed since the five girls were thrown into the Death Note universe. They still don't know where L is so they couldn't help him. They also hadn't seen Jenny for four days either. Criminals had been dying as usual. And now, Arisa and Veronica were in a hospital.
"You girls must be their friends?" Asked a man with a mustache and glasses. He looked like he was in mid-forties. He was sitting beside the two and on the other side of him was another man that looked like he was in mid-twenties.
"Yes, we are. I'm Cassandra, she's MacKenzie and she's Ashley." Courtney said, once again using their aliases.
"My name is Shijuro Asahi." He showed the girls his I.D.
"I'm Tora Matsui." He showed them his I.D, too.
The girls knew they were using aliases. They already knew who they are the moment they saw them..
"Don't worry, Asahi-san, none of us here is Kira." Ariel whispered. Since they had been in Japan for a few days, Arisa had told them to use Japanese honorifics.
The two men's eyes widened and they glanced at each other. "Why would you say something like that?" Asked 'Tora' nervously.
Courtney looked around to see if anyone was listening. "We know you're Soichiro Yagami-san from the NPA." She had lowered her voice. Then she smiled. "We have so much respect for you and your son, Light Yagami-san. He'd been in the newspapers before and I admire him so much." The other girls smiled, too. 'Nicely played,' Maddie thought.
The Chief couldn't help but smile, too. "Yes, well thank you. With Kira around we've been using aliases to protect ourselves. And this man beside me is Matsuda."
'I guess we could trust them', Matsuda thought. "Hi, it's nice to meet you." He said with a sheepish smile.
"Nice to meet you, too." Courtney turned to the Chief. "So, what happened?"
"Well, there were two men harassing these girls not far away from where we work. Fortunately, Matsuda and I came just in time. But the men had escaped before we could arrest them. There were no serious injuries, but we'd like to be sure so we brought them here."
"Don't worry, we're okay now. Just some scratches." Arisa said with a smile.
"Are you sure, Asura-san?" Asked Matsuda. She nodded and looked down when her face became red.
Maddie cleared her throat. "So Yagami-san, any luck finding Kira?" This was their chance! If the Chief and Matsuda had been using aliases, then it means that they had already met L.
He shook his head. "No, it's still the same as before."
"Man, I wish I could meet L. Then I'd help him no matter what!" Courtney said.
"Hey! Don't forget me! I'd help him, too. I wanna be there at Kira's execution." Ariel exclaimed.
While the girls were talking, Matsuda had whispered something to the man beside him. "Hey Chief, they seemed to be a big fan of Ryuzaki. Do you think they'd be interest in helping us?"
"I don't know. We'd be putting their lives in danger. And I'm not sure if Ryuzaki would approve to this." The Chief whispered back.
Maddie looked at Courtney and tilted her head to the left. Courtney nodded and sighed almost inaudibly.
"Yagami-san, since you're a police, would you be interested in allowing us to help you guys in the Kira investigation?"
The two men stared at the girl. Had she'd been listening to what they had said to each other?
"Uh...I'm not really sure about that..." The Chief hesitated. 'Okay, moving on to my next act,' Courtney thought.
She broke down on her knees and looked up to the Chief. She clasped her hands together. "Please! Please, please! We really wanna help! I'm begging you!" She wailed. Ariel had to bit the inside of her cheek to prevent herself from laughing. It was good that there was no people around. It was kind of eerie in the hospital.
Veronica's eyes widened. She kicked Courtney on the leg. "Cassandra, have some dignity!" She met Maddie's and Ariel's eyes for a brief moment. "Uh, I mean," she turned to the Chief and did what Courtney did.
"We really, really wanna catch Kira! What he had been doing was wrong! Even though he'd been murdering bad people, it's still murder!" Then Veronica looked up to him with her Bambi eyes. Pretty disturbing if you ask me.
The Chief glanced at Maddie and Ariel. They were both smiling innocently. And so was Arisa. "Alright, fine. Tomorrow you can visit the headquarters at around noon. Matsuda and I will meet you girls at the front. But working with us is dangerous, especially when Kira is around. Are you girls sure you want to do this?"
"Yes!"
"100 percent!"
"No doubt!"
The Chief sighed. "Okay, then." Matsuda scratched his head and smiled sheepishly again. "That's great, then!"
Out of the two men's sights, Maddie and Courtney met each others gaze. Maddie smirked victoriously while Courtney grinned.
'Score!'
A/N: Wow... I don't know what had gotten to me yesterday. Once I got on the computer I just typed, typed, ad typed some more.
Phew. The girls had finally settled in. That means they get to meet L and help him. Yay. And don't forget they get to bug him.
The 'visitors from heaven, hallelujah' thing was from Transformers. XD And for their aliases, it's pretty easy to remember who they are because the first letters were the same as their real names first letter, so I don't have to get confuse or anything.
Review please! :D