Disclaimer : Death Note isn't mine. I'm sure you've known it.
Warning : Gender bend. Ooc. AR. Bloody scene.
There's a body flat on the cold, concrete, floor. Thick red liquid pooled in cracks of concrete, formed a pair of butterfly wings that stretched below a slender body, as if arranged in such a way to describe the beauty of the carved reliefs, aside from the messy mutilate body that had been barely recognized.
Pedestrians who spent the night from either a party, or just got home from work, or who just strolled, stared in horror toward that scattered fragile body parts, ended their peaceful moment with a cry of fear.
Faint moon light is now replaced by glare spotlights from polices that called by one of the pedestrians. Flashes from the lens of the cameras rushed without forgiveness. The body is more clearly visible. Terrifying shreds like's done by wild animals adorn the young woman's body. Her brown eyes widened in horror and fear and still toward the jewels of the night. Her breasts were gone, tears on her stomach slit to her womanhood. Her fingers cut off, scattered around the body. Her hair hung like a halo, but seemed haunted because tainted with blood.
When observed closely, cut on her neck looked neat, wasn't separate from her body because the skin behind her neck still connect. Her leg broke 180 degrees, while other was out of shape.
Crowds of curious people overcrowded for that very terrifying sight, sounds of cameras shouted, the poor pedestrian who found the body was crying in horror. Polices put yellow ribbons, while tried to hold back nausea that hit them.
Putting aside all of that, a man sat on a bench within a few meters from the scene, his eyes swept the crowd, expressionless. Even when one of the unlucky pedestrians that find the body was sat beside him, he didn't budge.
"So scary, huh?" the pedestrian said, made him distracted.
The pedestrian's a girl, she wiped her eyes as she smiled nervously, her face still showed her shock. "Ah, sorry, it's rude to all of a sudden start talking like this, but..."
"It's okay." cut the man, smiling. "I understand that people prefer talking to someone else after seeing things like that."
The girl was silent staring at the man beside her. He was quite strange man, wearing a thin shirt at this beginning of winter, also dressed in jeans, not wearing a coat or anything. His black hair flashed a bit because of light from the park lamps. Though faint, she stared at the man's face, his face handsome enough - if there are no eye bags.
Both the girl's brow wrinkled slightly at the sight of his eyes. The eyes color extremely rare and didn't even exist, but it looked beautiful under the light, like a ruby.
"What?" A question from the man surprised her.
The girl smiled, shook her head. "Nothing. Are you a tourist? It's first time I ever seen eyes like yours."
"Pretty much." He replied, smiled a little, made her face slightly flushed.
"Ah... um... and-so..." She stammered, forgot of her fears and now being replaced of feeling embarrassed. "Ah! I haven't told my name. What a fool I am." She hit her own head. "I'm Sayu. Sayu Yagami. What's your name, if you don't mind telling me?" She said, smiled nervously as she held out a hand.
He shook hand with her, his smile still visible. His red eyes implied a false friendliness. "Ryuuzaki. Nice to meet you."
CHAPTER 04
FIND OUT
"Why you don't let me to see my sister?" snapped a brunette man. A pair of jet black eyes expressionless starred at monitors, her fingers wrapped around the handle of a cup. "Because you're still a suspect, Kira."
"I told you fucking many times I'm not-"
"Kira? Yes, yes. I've heard it dozens of times." Her tone calm but contain sarcasm. "Moreover, Yagami-san and Matsuda-san had been to the location now. And remind you, Yagami-kun, Yagami-chan only discovered the body, so she will just be asked for testimony by the police."
Light's hand massaged his forehead. "Still… Ryuuzaki. I worry about her. She saw the body directly. Sayu who saw dead rats has been nearly passed out, now she has seen the mutilate body of a dead human..."
L didn't say anything. She continued to watch the footage of Misa's room. Though first quite interesting, but eventually she gets bored too to saw Misa that only read magazines, watch tv, and other general activities.
The sounds of automatic doors open got attention from two geniuses. They turned, saw Matsuda entered with a thick brown envelope.
"What about Sayu, Matsuda-san?" Light asked, worried.
Matsuda smiled wearily, he then handed the envelope to L. "Sayu-chan is fine now. When I got there and commander, she is very calm, actually."
That raised a question mark on Light. "Calm? There's no way she could calm after saw the body of a murder victim. She ought to heavy shock."
Matsuda scratch behind his head. "She was, she said she was shocked, but after she talked with someone there, her shock just disappeared."
"Talked?"
The young police nodded.
"You don't know, Yagami-kun? Majority of people can get through safely the shock due to talk about it." L's low voice sounded cold.
Light winced to hear L's voice. "I know, but usually Sayu couldn't calm if that's not me."
The silence pushed.
Matsuda's restless because of the tension felt in the silence, decided to break it. "Anou... Ryuuzaki. You're not at the scene, right?" he asked, feel nervous.
L lifted her cup to drink. "No, I wasn't."
"If she's there, I'd be beside Sayu." Light's forehead twitched. "She didn't let me to go there."
Matsuda sighed. "Oh..."
"Why do you ask, Matsuda-san?" Light asked, confused.
The policeman scratched his back of head. "Ah... Sayu-chan said she talked with a person named Ryuuzaki."
An eyebrow rose. "There's many people that named 'Ryuuzaki' in Japan." Light said.
Matsuda laughed nervously. "Ahahaha... I know, but the picture that Sayu-chan described about that person is a lot like Ryuuzaki."
"Ha?"
"Ah! Surely this man from that time!" Matsuda exclaimed, with a pose like Conan did.
Light's eyebrows linked in serious. "Who?"
Matsuda's grin widened. "Er... so… I've met a man that so alike with Ryuuzaki."
"Like Ryuuzaki? How?"
Matsuda nodded. "Yep! He was really similar to Ryuuzaki physically unless he's actually really a man."
Now Light look interested.
"Well... at first I thought he was Ryuuzaki, I even almost called him with that name, if not because I saw his weird colored eyes." The policeman said. "The color of his eyes… it's first time I've ever seen, it's seems he's a foreign tourist."
L looked bored towards the monitor, drinking tea in peace, not interested in Matsuda's ravings that - according to her - not important.
"Indeed, what the color of his eyes?" Light asked, feel very interested. He wouldn't have thought that there's someone that is similar to the strange woman that sit beside him.
"Red. Like blood."
The sound of glass shatter followed Matsuda's answer. The police and Light turned toward the sound, found shards of the cup that L's held on the floor.
L eyes wide, her hands trembling. She tried to calm herself, before turning to Matsuda. "Did he dressed just like me too?" She asked, sounding calm despite fears tucked inside.
Matsuda was surprised to feel the anxiety from the famous detective. "If I remember clearly, he wore a thin shirt and jeans just like you, but it's a black shirt." He said, decided not to ask anything.
"Souka…" L then turned back toward the monitor. "Thank you, Matsuda-san."
Now Light felt there was something odd about the detective who is usually quiet. "Why do you-"
The sound of handcuffs cutting off Light's speech. L handed the end of the handcuffs that had been wrapped around her hands into Matsuda's.
"Bring Yagami-kun to the place where Yagami-chan is. I trust you to watch him." L said coldly.
Matsuda's and Light's eyes widened in surprise. "You allow him to see Sayu-chan?" Matsuda shouted happily.
L didn't say anything, her face faced the monitor.
"Thank you, Ryuuzaki!" Matsuda shouted, while pulled Light go.
Light's eyes still stared in disbelief and suspicion at L, until they're out of the room.
L didn't budge in quite investigation room, she remained seated as usual on her chair. The sound from the speaker broke the silence, Watari's voice that contacted from the surveillance room echoed in this room.
"It's OK to let them go, Ryuuzaki?" Watari asked, sound gently but implied of his worry.
"Yes. Though I hesitate with Matsuda, but I can trust Yagami-san." L's voice sounded softly. "You've heard it too, right, Watari?"
No sound from the speakers for a moment. "Yes."
L's lips move into a smile, bangs covered her eyes. "He's still alive."
"Yes."
"He surely will come to kill me."
"..."
"He's definitely that doing all of this."
"Ryuuzaki ..."
"Don't, Watari." L's whimpered. "Please, don't call me with that name now." Her arms hugged her knees tighter and tighter.
"...All right..."
"Watari, do you think I'm weird?"
"Depends on what could be called weird."
"He's most dangerous killer, equivalent to Kira." Tears were now streaming down on her cheek. "It's surely strange, isn't it, that I was very pleased when I discovered he's still alive." Expression of happiness, frustration, and fear were really visible on her face.
"L..."
"Watari, may I ask a favor to you?"
"...What is it, L?"
"Please... call me with my name... my real name..."
Silence pushed for a moment.
"...Lawliet..."
A smile filled with tears of frustration still evident. "Thank you, Mister Quillish..."
"SAYU!"
A brown-haired girl turned, her eyes shined when saw two men that walked into her house. "Onii-chan!" she shouted, ran to hug the brunette man.
Light took off his arms that against her, his expression suggesting his concern. "Are you okay, Sayu?"
Sayu nodded. "I'm fine, nii-chan." She then pulled Light to the couch. "Ne, ne, nii-chan! I met someone that's really interesting, you know!"
Soichiro, Matsuda, and Sachiko decided to leave them both alone.
Light smiled, amused at his childish sister's attitude. "Oh? Who?"
"I saw a man that as smart as you!" The brown-haired girl exclaimed, excitedly. "I'm really shocked! Never think that there's any person who genius like you in this world!"
"Why do you even surprised? Many people are geniuses in the world, there's even more genius than me." Light raised an eyebrow. 'Well... for example, that L.'
Sayu pursed her lips. "But, your genius brain is really goddamn. In Japan there is just no one can match yours, right?"
"Language." Light chuckled. "And then? What else about the man that can make my sister fall? Surely he drop-dead gorgeous."
Sayu's face flushed slightly at Light's remark. "I'm not fall to him!" she yelled, pouted. "Although he's pretty cute..." she murmured softly.
Teasing grin appeared on his lips. "What? I'm quite catch that. Can you repeat?"
Sayu's face getting red and redder. "Ah...! That's enough, mou…! Anyway, he's very alike with you!"
Light's eyebrows lifted. "Like how?"
"I don't know well, really. Physically, you're very different, but there is something very similar with you two."
"Our ingenuity, perhaps?"
"It was... but I feel there's more."
Light silently stared at Sayu, he remembered again the talk in investigation room.
What or who can make a person that calm and cool as L looked nervous like that? Is it because the man that described by Matsuda? And, more importantly...
Light sigh in frustration, one hand supporting his forehead, felt distress. What the hell that himself had done to L so that the detective becomes colder to him more than ever?
He could feel frustration from the polices at the scene. A smile tugged at his lips as he left.
They never will find any clues. He arranged the murder so perfectly, without any trace behind unless something that he left that only L can understand.
A dark pleasure grew within him, he enjoyed it and feel the turmoil of waiting.
He stared at a man that he stalked from the previous scene, a famous actor of this country, his red eyes read the writing on the man's head, and he grinned, felt lucky.
Never thought he would find another target in a short time.
He observed him. The actor was still young, younger than Lawli and older than him.
Lawliet ...
The girl that will become his.
A chuckle quietly out of his mouth. He really wanted to see Lawli's reaction when she discovered the motive of this murders? He really wanted to see it.
He grinned slyly, slipped into the darkness, moved like wild animals who find their prey. Walk quietly to the actor who was smoke leisurely.
No one noticed when the man that stood lean against the bridge rail before, had disappeared, left only a cigarette that fell to the concrete floor.
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To be Continued...
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