Woo! Finally got to work on chapter 2! O.o Eh, the rhyming... Anyway-
Thanks to ExplodingPotatoes for your review! hahaha It just really seemed like something that L would say to any name other than his own, or one that he suggested. L's just like that xD
It's a well-known fact among my friends that S (or the girl S is based on, at any rate) and I (K) love a certain cartoon show that now only plays in re-runs. We basically just watch it to hear one certain character talk, but I digress.
We were watching the episode in which L and Light create a reply video to the 2nd Kira's message that was broadcast on Sakura TV. So my friend and I started talking about what we'd do on a Kira Reply Video (as we call it). And so this story was born. (Oh, by the way, the episode I'm referring to is number 12, "Love". Most of the beginning dialogue is directly taken from that episode. And I don't own Death Note or any of the characters besides K and S.)
Enjoy the madness ^.^
-II. Your Moosey Fate-
The Kira Investigation Team had just finished watching the second video from the fake Kira. And Ryuzaki (a.k.a. L) had had his scary little outburst and began questioning the existence of shinigami.
"Listen to yourself!" Light said. "Of course shinigami don't exist!"
His own shinigami, Ryuk, chuckled from where he was floating behind him.
Kimiko (a.k.a. K) shrugged a little. "You may be right," she said to Light. "But, Ryuzaki, didn't you say that Kira already sent you a message suggesting that shinigami were real?"
(Kimiko had given up on "forgetting" to call L Ryuzaki, since it seemed not to be bothering him too much anymore. Now it was just Ryuzaki like everyone else. She thought it rather boring, but oh, well.)
"Yeah," Suki (a.k.a. S) said, nodding. "Through those prisoners he killed?"
"Yes, he did," Ryuzaki said, looking at them.
"So, based on that fact, perhaps we're dealing with the same person after all?" Yagami said. "That would definitely explain why we're hearing the same words."
"I don't think so," Light said. "If this was the same person, it's highly unlikely he would've responded to our video in the first place."
Light was, of course, referring to the video they'd made in reply to the 2nd Kira's first message, making it seem like it was from the real Kira.
"And why would he agree to let L live after going to all the trouble of getting him to appear on TV?"
Ryuzaki's pupils returned to their normal size as he gave Light a questioning look.
"The real Kira wants him dead, so it doesn't make sense."
"Maybe there's some other connection between the real one and this new guy," Aizawa suggested.
Ryuzaki pinched the bridge of his nose between two fingers, sighing.
"They could've already met, and decided to use the word 'shinigami' as a way to confuse us."
"No, I'd say that's unlikely," Ryuzaki said, standing from the floor and setting his chair back upright again.
"I agree," Kimiko said, nodding.
"It's like Light said," Suki said. "If the two Kira's were connected, I don't think the fake would be so willing to give up on his plan to kill L."
"Which suggests that the copycat must have his own agenda," Kimiko said.
"And is acting independently of the first," Ryuzaki said. "I believe his actual motivation is to meet the original."
"I think you're all right," Light said. "It seems he's acting out of his own interest in Kira." He folded his arms over his chest. "The word 'shinigami' could very well be some reference to their killing power. Saying 'We can confirm our identities by showing our shinigami to each other' probably means that they'd cofirm their identities by somehow demonstrating their ability to kill."
"Yes, that's it!" Suki said, snapping her fingers.
"Based on their messages," Ryuzaki said, "we can assume that the word 'shinigami' must hold some other meaning that only the real Kira and the 2nd Kira are aware of."
"Now...we just need to convince this copycat to tell us what that is," Kimiko mused, already thinking of plans.
"So would you respond and force him to be more specific?" Light asked. "We have to be careful how we handle this. We can't make it too obvious that we're asking. Otherwise, he'll know we're not Kira.
"Hmm," Ryuzaki hummed. "I would say that, for now, it might be better to just leave it up to the two Kiras...but..."
"But?" Kimiko asked.
He looked at her. "I'm curious -and a little nervous- about what the 2nd Kira may do if he doesn't receive a reply from the real Kira right away."
"You think the fake one might send another message, revealing something else about their killing powers to pressure Kira into a meeting?" she asked.
"Precisely," Ryuzaki replied.
"But wouldn't that just help us?" Suki asked.
"It may and it may not," Ryuzaki said. "So far, everything has seemed to be in a code of some sort. Another message from the fake Kira may only prove to confuse us more. And that's something we certainly do not need." He looked at Suki and Kimiko. "Could I entrust you two to make another reply to the fake Kira?"
"Huh?" the two asked.
"Why not have Light do it again?" Kimiko asked.
"Yeah, it seemed like the message he did really fooled the 2nd Kira," Suki said.
"Yes, I am well aware of that," Ryuzaki said. "But weren't you two saying just last night how you're not feeling like you're contributing enough, and that you feel bored at times?"
They both grinned.
"Well, that was before we discovered Netflix Instant Play," Kimiko said.
"Mm-hmm!" Suki said, nodding in agreement.
Ryuzaki sighed. "At any rate... Can you two handle it?"
The girls looked at each other, shrugged, then looked back at Ryuzaki.
"Sure we can," Suki said.
"Just leave it to us!" Kimiko said, giving him a thumbs-up.
"Then I suggest that the two of you get started right away," Ryuzaki said.
"Roger!" And the two scampered off to their room to begin scripting the next reply message to the fake Kira.
And to figure out how to make the voice filter make them sound like the "Kira" Light had played.
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"You did send the video in to the station, right?" Ryuzaki asked Kimiko.
"Of course we did," she replied.
Ryuzaki shook his head. "I still don't see why you wouldn't let me review the script or the video before you sent it in."
"What, you don't trust us?" she asked, grinning.
"Are you honestly asking me that question?" he replied, picking up a cup of coffee.
She laughed softly, shaking her head. She looked at the clock as Suki came over to the couch and Light came in the room. Kimiko gasped a little. "The news is starting!" she sang.
She bounded over to the TV and turned it on, sitting in front of it in childlike anticipation.
Suki crossed over to her and sat next to her, leaning back against the coffee table.
Light stepped closer, standing behind the couch Ryuzaki was sitting on.
The commercial break ended and the news station's logo appeared on the screen.
"Breaking news," the anchor said. "We've received another video from the real Kira! The anonymous individual has again asked us, as well as several other stations, to broadcast it. Again, we want to inform you that the NPA has authorized us to show you this message.
We will now play the latest Kira video."
The anchor disappeared, the Kira logo the team had created appearing in his place.
"This is the real Kira, responding to the person who has been pretending to be me," Kimiko's warped voice said from the TV. "I understand that you want us to meet, and that you want proof of my identity. It seems that you are willing to cooperate with me -a good choice on your part. But I feel that I need to warn you of something. Should you be so careless with the words you say in your messages again, you will not only fail in meeting me, but I will see to it that you will meet your..."
Suddenly, Suki's warped voice came from the TV. She was in the background, almost whispering. She sounded...excited about something.
"Moosey fate! Moosey fate!" she chanted hopefully.
Kimiko spoke again. "...Your moosey fate!"
Suki laughed, pleased, and then both girls broke into maniacal laughter.
Light and Ryuzaki stared at the screen, dumbfounded.
The news anchor appeared again. He stared off-screen, clearly watching the video along with the rest of the Kanto region (and probably most of Japan...and possibly other parts of the world as well). He cleared his throat nervously, adjusting his tie. He turned back to face the camera.
"And, uh... We'll be right back after this short break."
An ice cream commerical started playing, and Kimiko and Suki grinned at each other. Kimiko held up her fist, and Suki nodded and bumped her fist against Kimiko's. The two then turned to look at Ryuzaki and Light.
Ryuzaki was still holding his cup, frozen in mid-slurp.
Light just blinked at the screen, unmoved from where he was leaning on the back of the couch. He was the first to break the awkward silence.
"What the hell was that?"
The girls continued grinning.
"That had nothing to do with Kira at all!"
"Of course it did," Suki said in her "duh" tone. "We addressed the issues the 2nd Kira presented."
Light raised an eyebrow at her. "'Your moosey fate'? The hell does that mean?"
"No need to curse so much, Light," Suki said, shrugging. "You need to learn to chill out."
Suki didn't know it, but that was a lot to ask of someone bent on creating and becoming the god of a new world. That phrase had probably left his vocabulary the moment he'd picked up the Death Note.
"It's sort of your own fault, y'know," Kimiko said, pointing at Ryuzaki.
He blinked at her.
"I mean, what did you expect it to be like after watching the entire series of Invader Zim?"
"Invader Zim?" Ryuzaki asked, lowering his cup.
Kimiko stared at him, mouth agape. "You've never heard of Invader Zim? !"
"Uh..." was all he said.
"Boy, have you been missing out!" Kimiko jumped up from the floor, ran over to the couch, grabbed Ryuzaki's hand, and started dragging him away. "Come on! It's time you learned a little something about invading Earth."
Ryuzaki looked at Suki pleadingly, but she just shrugged and waved at him.
He looked at Light. "If I'm not back in a half-hour, call 911."
"Got it," Light said, nodding.
Kimiko closed the door, and her voice faded until they couldn't hear it anymore.
Light turned to Suki, who had now stood from the floor. "So...what does 'moosey fate' mean?"
"Oh, come on!" Suki said, shaking her head. "Everybody knows that mini-moose will take over the world!"
"Uh... Mini-moose?"
"Do I have to educate you, too?"
"No, no, no, no," he said, waving his hands in front of him. He didn't want to meet the same fate as Ryuzaki had.
Hmm, he thought. Maybe Ryuzaki's meeting his "moosey fate" right now... You never can tell with Kimiko. Maybe I should just go call 911 and have some paramedics on standby... I mean, just in case.
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Misa sat on her bed, looking at the TV. She felt very confused.
She turned to her shinigami. "Hey, Rem?"
"Yes?" Rem replied. She turned and looked at the human girl, who had more blankness in her eyes than usual.
Misa blinked at Rem for a few moments. Then she asked her the question uppermost in her mind. "What's a moose?"
I also don't own Invader Zim xD
Yes. My friend and I discovered that the first volume of Invader Zim is on instant on Netflix. We went a little crazy with it, and...yeah.
If you're wondering who said the line the Suki said on the video ("Moosey fate! Moosey fate!"), it was GIR (!), the best character, in our opinion ^.^ You should go look up pics of him if you don't know who he is. HE'S SO KAWAII! (Oh, and Kimiko's lead-in to the line about moosey fate was based on the line Zim says that leads into Gir's line. I've never actually seen the episode where that dialogue takes place, so I was just guessing, heh.)
Any thoughts? Comments? Let me know! More to come soon! ^.^