Disclaimer: Don't own what ever it is I'm writing now. *sigh*
Hey readers,
Mitsukai-chan here! I just moved to a little place called Orchard Park, New York all the way From Toledo, Ohio (if you're there then shout out to you people, you rock!!) which is a five hour drive. I'm not fitting in too well… again. I'm bored and I miss my psychotic friends.
I apologize for not updating in so long, I do not have internet where I live right now so I suck. I am in Ohio right now updating from my aunts house.
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Chapter 8
"Sakurako, are you sure you're ok?" Selena asked adjusting her glasses and looking Sakura over for any injuries as well as attempting to take her pulse and temperature.
"I-I'm fine, I-I'm just worried about Near." Sakura said looking up towards Mello who was carrying Near over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Sakura sighed, he really needed to learn to be more gentle.
"Sakura so loves Near." Kayasi said winking at Sakura teasingly.
"M-Matt." Sakura whispered, Kayasi instantly turned beet red and turned back to Onyx.
"Hey, I thought she was supposed to be the nice one!" Kayasi said flipping her decent length orange hair.
"She is." Onyx replied smirking, "It just goes to show how horrible the rest of us are if she's the nice one."
"H-Hey!" Sakura piped up resentfully, "I-It wasn't that mean was it? I-I'm sorry Kayasi."
"Ah, don't apologize, we've all got each other's backs in the long run, right?" Kayasi beamed looking around as most of the others gave her a funny look or avoided her gaze guiltily.
"Right?" She repeated her voice sounding mildly frantic.
"Right." Sakura smiled pleasantly at Kayasi who looked at her for a moment before turning her frantic gaze to the rest of the kids.
"Well…" Onyx started looking to Pairi for help, both Pairi and Panini shrugged and Onyx turned her gaze on Angel. Angel sighed.
"We'll probably never see each other again after we leave the Whammy's House, and some of us will be required to cut all of our ties with other people," Angel paused and glanced at Sakura before sucking in a deep breath, "Like me, Her-erm Helen, Mello, Near, Panini, Pairi, Keira, Lily, and maybe Sakura too, she hasn't had her test yet."
"What?" Sakura asked turning towards Angel and looking at her with the wide disbelieving eyes of a child.
"Those of us in the running to become L have the highest IQ and reasoning abilities, if we don't make L, we're likely to be assigned a letter and act as one of L's erm, assistants, I guess." Angel awkwardly tried to explain, "The letters range from C to Z obviously L is the top ranking."
"Mello, you may put me down, this is a rather awkward position." Near said opening his eyes and looking at Mello.
"N-Near!" Sakura exclaimed before hugging the now standing Near and almost knocking him off his feet.
"Sakura." Near answered hugging her back gently.
"Fucking hell! Near has emotions again!" Matt yelled pointing at the two and receiving a sharp and surprising glare from Near. Sakura backed away and blushed chewing on her bottom lip.
"Oh no, Near is pissed, I'm so scared." Mello teased lightly smacking him on the head.
"Mello's just jealous." Near said apathetically, twirling a lock of white hair with a triumphant twinkle in his eyes.
"You little bastard!! You know what? I don't give a fuck!!!! C'mon Matt!" Mello grabbed Matt by the back of his shirt and dragged him along behind him, Matt waved to the rest of the group as he was dragged off by the fuming Mello.
"Oh come on Mello let Matt go!" Onyx yelled after them playfully draping an arm around Near and leaning on him.
"Smooth Mello, Real smooth." Kayasi sighed rolling her eyes.
"A-Anyway, what are we going to do about Light Yagami?" Sakura asked trying to take every ones minds off of Mello's PMSing and onto a more important topic.
"Exactly!" Helen proclaimed like that one word would be the answer to everything, "What are we gonna do about that?" Helen/Hera asked putting a hand to her chin thoughtfully.
"Him, not that, him." Angel corrected her sharply, She may not like Light but that didn't make him any less human. However if they could prove he was Kira then she'd have no problem with dehumanizing him a little.
"L handcuffed the dude to himself." Kayasi remarked smirking victoriously tempting the others with her small tidbit of information.
"What!?" The majority of the girls shrieked crowding around the red head.
"Spill your guts before we do!" Helen/Hera yelled earning her a scolding stare from Angel. Angel shook her head when Helen/Hera met her eyes and Helen/Hera lowered her head apologetically.
"L's got black hair that looks like he just woke up, right?" Kayasi asked smirking at the group, "And wears loose jeans and a three quarters sleeve white shirt, right?"
The girls squealed (A/N except Sakura, Panini Pairi, and Near obviously.) and nodded vigorously.
"Then he's got some queer chained to him and that's probably our Kira. Dude, I swear to god, his hair is like so perfect that it's inhuman, I'm jealous, and he's got that wanna-be-banana-republic-model look. (A/N I kidnapped that from the Matt's rant comic, I'm sorry if any one's angry with me.)" Kayasi continued to rant about how gay Light was until they heard voices approaching and grew silent exchanging 'oh shit' looks.
"Near?" Sakura held onto his sleeve, he could feel her beginning to tremble at the sound of two unfamiliar men's voices and grabbed her hand to try to comfort her somehow.
The girls and Near held their breath hoping that the other people would choose an alternate route or turn around and go the other way.
"Near?" they all heard an unfamiliar to most familiar to some voice call out from a little bit behind the bend ahead of them.
Near didn't answer, he looked back and forth before sighing and covering as much of his face as he could with the collar and very top off his still wet shirt as he could and standing between Sakura and the people coming towards them.
"Oh, I think that he's being shy, come along Light-kun." The girls eyes went wide when they heard more muttering from the other side of the end before L emerged with a blind folded Light following close behind the slouched over man.
"Near, It's alright, I have taken necessary precautions." L said grinning lopsidedly at the children. Near let out a breath he'd been holding and stepped to the side allowing Sakura to peek at L and Light walking close together along the thin path.
"Have you made friends?" L asked smiling at the rest of them. Near nodded and L's eyes fell on Sakura's hand in his.
"Hmm, interesting," L said popping his thumb into his mouth and speaking in his normal dead-pan, "Near seems to have developed an attachment, isn't that great Light-kun?"
"Yeah, and it'd be even greater if I could see anything!" Light fumed putting a hand on his hip femininely, "I'm going to run into a damn tree. Or one of the god damned kids."
"But I must blindfold you Light-kun, if I didn't my successors may all start to drop dead and that would be unfortunate, now wouldn't it?" L smiled around his thumb then put his index fingers to his lips in a shushing motion. Then motioned for the teens to watch Light.
"Damn it all L, I told you I'm not Kira!" L continued to smile at the teens.
"I never said you were Kira Light-kun." L said innocently but immediately contradicted his statement by mouthing "he is" playfully.
Light said something in Japanese that made L blush faintly, it was only there for an instant but the teens all caught it… well everyone but Helen/Hera who's currently walking in circles around Light, stepping over the chain when she has to, and examining his face closely.
"Light Yagami should mind his language, at least three of us speak fluent japanese." Near said squeezing Sakura's hand when she looked at him with confusion that refused to fade.
"I speak Japanese." Keira said almost matching Near's monotone.
"Please refrain from speaking that way in front of my Mioutou (little sister)." Selena said putting a hand on Sakura's shoulder and smiling at her, Sakura looked at her still confused.
"Wh-what the hell L?! What kind of classes do they take?!" Light demanded swatting at L and missed instead ending up hitting Helen/Hera in the head. Helen/Hera wound up tripping on the chain and falling none to gracefully on her bum smacking her head against a tree in the process.
Angel took a deep breath and walked over to Helen and helped the now glaring teen up.
"Helen?" Angel whispered. Helen nodded and tore her arm free of Angels grip angrily.
"How many of them are there?" Light asked trying to look around, "and what did I just hit?"
"Let's see there are, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11 Teenagers all girls but one," L answered counting the kids off on his fingers, "and you just hit Helen in the forehead."
"Dumb ass." Helen growled shoving Light on her way over to Sakura
"What the hell is going on here!?" Light yelled stumbling around blindly.
"Shh, Raito-kun, be quiet now." L soothed putting a hand on Light's back to steady him.
"Raito-kun?" Sakura asked turning her gaze to Near questioningly.
"-kun is an honorific that shows endearment and Raito is his real name, I believe Light is an English nickname." Near clarified
"Wait a minute!" Lily yelled over all the excitement, "Wouldn't you have had to have passed Matt and Mello before you got to us?"
Pairi nodded and then signed something to Onyx who nodded vigorously.
"Yeah! They would've come back and told us!!" Onyx exclaimed looking at everyone.
"What have you done with Matt?" Helen Demanded glaring at Light. Angel looked at her nervously. Helen stepped towards Light menacingly. L and Angel exchanged a fleeting look and Angel nodded.
"Yes we saw them," L said quickly refocusing Helen's attention on himself, "I said hello to Mello and he told me to fuck off. Matt was being dragged by his shirt and explained Mello's state in one word, Near."
"Then one of the kids hit the other and told him that Near would be fine without their fucking help." Light finished waving his arms around pathetically in an attempt to figure out where he was.
"Raito-kun stop moving please, you look unintelligible." L said tugging the chain.
"Hey!" Light yelped as he lost his balance and stumbled again.
"Is anyone else at the lake?" L sighed massaging his temple.
Many different variations of no and a few headshakes came from the teens and L smiled.
"Well run along, I want to un-blindfold Raito-kun as soon as possible." L said waving them along.
As they passed L, Sakura and Near were at the end of the procession and L grabbed Sakura's arm scaring her into a small shriek.
"I don't believe we've met." L said grinning lopsidedly at her in a sad attempt to soothe her with his limited social skills.
"I'm Sakura." Sakura said frantically trying to pull her arm out of L's grasp. L released her and she retreated to hold onto Near's arm for protection.
"This is the girl I told you about," Near said glancing at her expressionlessly, "She's shy. Please refrain from touching her suddenly or loud noises, they frighten her."
"I see, Nice to meet you Sakura-chan." L said extending his un-handcuffed hand towards to her. Sakura apprehensively took it and gently shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, L." Sakura said smiling softly at him.
"Remove your hand if you do not wish to lose it." Helen said glaring daggers at the older man.
"Helen, It's alright, he's not doing anything wrong." Sakura said to Helen who was still glaring at L.
"He's being a creep." Helen growled breaking the handshake and standing between L and Sakura.
"L, did you just… take her pulse?" Near asked blinking in confusion. L nodded and Helen glared at him again before grabbing Sakura's wrist and stalking off. Near followed quickly behind them.
"That little girl…" L trailed off looking at light, "Raito-kun, after we visit the lake I'd like to discuss something with you in private."
Light nodded and followed L down the path clinging to his arm for guidance.
"Tell anyone about this and I swear you'll pay." Light hissed tripping over a protruding tree root and clinging to L's arm tighter. L chuckled and continued to walk towards the lake with Light on his arm.
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So sorry for the short chapter but I can explain. There was this really big part in here about BB but I took it out because to be honest, it was stupid. (BB got added to the filter XD I was so excited) I love BB X3. I've been off for a while and I'm sorry if my hinted LxLight offended anyone but I couldn't resist. It was either LxLight or MelloxMatt and I went with LxLight because of personal preference. If I offend anyone please let me know, I hate to offend people in any way. Flame if you feel necessary, they will be accepted with open arms.
Review please!
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Mitsukai-chan