Shinigami Yagami Raito

Summary: The moment Yagami Raito killed his first victim with the Death Note, he died. Only problem; he never noticed that.

Pairing/s: None.

Warnings: Totally different story. Raito out of character, Ryuuku different, many things different.

Disclaimer: Don't own Death Note. If I had owned Death Note, L would never have died, and neither would Raito.

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Chapter Three

Ryuuku looked on as his young partner continued with his homework.

"You know, you don't need to do that," the Shinigami said.

"I need to keep up the façade," Raito said. "And it makes me calm."

"Makes you calm?"

"Yeah," the teen said. "Besides, I don't really have any interests."

"You're boring."

"I know that already."

"When are you going to kill the brat?"

"Tomorrow."

"How?"

"You'll see, Ryuuku. You'll see."

"I will?"

"Yes; you are in that plan," Raito said and smiled at the older Shinigami before returning to his books. It took Ryuuku a few moments to realize what his young partner had said.

"I'm what?!"

-

Next day

Hirako Kato was having a good day. So far he had threatened three people and gained 7 000 yen of the whole ordeal. Next victim was Yagami Raito; the teen had pissed him off long enough. A good beating, and the teen would be scared shitless. Kato snickered to himself and nearly jumped in delight as he saw Raito heading to the roof of the school. Perfect! Students rarely went to the roof, so they would not be interrupted. He knew that for a fact; he had beaten up a lot of people up there.

He ran after the teen and was surprised when Raito was nowhere to be seen. He growled and ran up the flights of stairs to the roof. He did not stop to wonder how quick Raito had to be to get up to the roof that quickly.

Raito was standing a bit away from the opening, looking at him as he slammed the door open. The teen took a deep breath to recover a bit from the running he had just done, and then smirked evilly. Raito did not move.

"This is yer last chance to take everythin' back!" Kato said. "Or I'll kill ya!"

Raito arched an eyebrow.

"Are ya mocking me, ya little shit?!" He took up a pocket-knife, waving it around.

"Look behind you, Kato." The teen's smile was frightening.

The other teen sneered and glanced back. Only to jump away in surprise and a bit of fright. A man in a black trench-coat stood there with spiky hair, pale face and yellow-red eyes. The man grinned and said with a wave:

"Hi there."

Kato looked at Raito and nearly screamed. The teen had the same yellow-red eyes as the man and his face was paler than usual. His brown hair had turned into a pure white colour.

"What the hell?" Kato mumbled. He was backing towards the edge of the roof as Raito and the man came closer.

"He looks scared, Raito," the man said.

"He should be, Ryuuku," Raito replied. "After all, he's looking at two dead people."

"What?" Kato said. "Ya're dead? What the hell's goin' on?!"

"You better run," Raito said with a grin on his face. "We aren't humans."

The man, Ryuuku, came closer and said:

"He looks kinda pale. Are you going to kill him the way Kira does, Raito?"

"No, then they will suspect me since I don't like him," Raito said. "No, he's going… flying."

"Flying? Are ya outta yer fuckin' mind?! I ain't goin' flyin' anywhere!"

"Oh, but you are. Time's up."

Kato was about to reply when he stopped. His eyes widened and his mouth went slack. He turned around and looked down to the ground below, dropping the pocket-knife as he did. He slowly climbed up to the low wall and without a word he jumped. Raito gained back how he used to look like and pretended to be panicked. He ran to the roof's side, where Kato had jumped and looked on as the nuisance died. Ryuuku chuckled and spelled himself away again after having picked up the knife. No need to leave such evidence for everyone to see.

-

Soichiro was rubbing his eyes. They had not gotten very far with this case, and several people claimed to be Kira. That slowed their process and made him frustrated; they had no idea what they were doing. They just wanted to show off, or gain some money because of a bet their friends had done. Suddenly his private phone rang and the man answered:

"Soichiro speaking."

The few men that was inside the room looked up briefly and then turned back. But they looked up again as Soichiro said:

"Dear, calm down. Sachiko, calm down! What is it?"

He rose up from his chair and listened. Matsuda looked at his boss worriedly as the man's expression started to change. Soichiro put a hand over his mouth, his eyes widening.

"What are you saying?" he whispered. "What do you mean, Raito all hysterical?"

Raito. They perked up at him; they knew Raito was the name of their boss' son but Raito and hysterical in the same sentence was weird to hear.

"A boy took suicide in front of Raito?" Soichiro repeated his wife's words and they froze. "Sachiko, is Raito alright? Yes, I know you said he was hysterical but has he calmed down? No? Damn. Sachiko, let me speak to him. No… Sachiko, just put him on the phone."

Soichiro walked out from the room, and his breath caught as he heard Raito's voice after Sachiko had called on their son. It even sounded hysterical, and rough like his son had been crying. A moment later Raito came to the phone.

"Son, what's wrong?"

"Kato," Raito said. "He jumped from the school, and I saw as he landed. Dad, there was so much blood and---"

"Calm down, Raito," Soichiro said. "They let you go off early from school?"

"Yes…"

"Alright, that was a wise decision. How about you do and rest for the day? I promise I'll try coming home for dinner, and you can call me anytime if you need to talk."

"Okay…" Raito hated hearing his father's caring voice. Why could he not have sounded like that before?? Why only when he had witnessed a 'suicide'? If he had been like this before, Raito would never even have picked up the Death Note! Although the note brought him something better than his parents, so somehow he was glad his father was the way he was.

"Go to bed then, okay?" Soichiro said, breaking the teen from his thoughts.

"Okay," Raito whispered and let his mother take the phone. He walked up the stairs, into his room and locked the door. He leaned against it and wiped the tears he had cried. He heard it was usually called crocodile tears. Ryuuku looked up from the magazine and said:

"You're a good actor."

"You have to be one if you are me," Raito said. "Well, since I have the rest of the day off, how about some video-games? No sound though; mother thinks I'm resting."

-

A few days later

"Raito?"

The teen looked back slightly at Ryuuku, showing he was listening.

"I don't know if you already know, but someone is following you."

Raito stopped for a moment. He heard footsteps stop as well. His hearing had gotten better since he died he had noticed, as well as his vision in the dark. The brunette sighed and continued to walk. Ryuuku continued as well and said:

"It's annoying you know. I know he can't see me, but I don't like being followed."

"Don't worry, Ryuuku. I'll make sure he won't follow us for long, or suspect anything out of the ordinary."

'Is it L?' Raito thought. 'Am I the only one being followed, or are more being followed?'

-

"Ryuuku, is there a way to see a person's name just looking at them?"

Ryuuku looked over at Raito and said:

"You haven't activated your eyes?"

"Eyes?"

"Shinigami can see people's names with their eyes. Here, lemme activate them for you."

The Shinigami stepped up and placed his hands on the teen's head. Raito peered up at Ryuuku as the man poked around. Suddenly the teen's vision blurred and then returned to normal.

"There," Ryuuku said and stepped back a little bit. "Darn, your eyes are yellow-red like mine now. But that's easily fixed."

The Shinigami changed the eyes back to normal with a few muttered words and Raito blinked.

"Done?" he asked.

"Yep!"

"I don't feel different."

"Take a look at someone that's not me."

Raito stepped up to the window and looked outside. He saw a woman with her child and gasped.

"I can see their names!" he said. "And… what's underneath?"

"Their lifespan. You know that Shinigami gain life by taking humans' lives?"

"Yeah."

"We look at their lifespan, simple as that. Maybe we kill them ten years before they're supposed to die, and then we gain ten years of life."

"Oh…"

"That's how we work, both low-levels and high-levels although we high-levels have a rather long life without the note, and we can always get more from our bosses. So, you're gonna find out the guy's name now?"

"Yeah. And I need to send another note to L."

"That about the clues?"

"Yes. I'm thinking about something else too, so I really give them clues."

"You're walking on a fine line here," Ryuuku warned.

"Yeah, but it makes me feel more alive than ever."

"But… you're dead."

"I know."

"I see no sense in your logic," Ryuuku concluded.

"I know; me neither."

-

"L, there is another suicide note."

L turned around and walked to the computer.

"Send it to me," the man said.

Watari did so and the note showed up. This time L knew what to look after and frowned.

"Shinigami?" he said, frowning. He sat silent for a long time before continuing, "Shinigami… what are you trying to tell me, Kira?"

-

Raito tapped his pen onto the desk and was in deep thought. Ryuuku was flipping through a book and had left his young partner alone.

Ray Penbar. That was the man's name. Raito had no idea how long he was going to continue with his stalking but it was getting onto both of the Shinigamis' nerves.

What was he going to do? Threatening? No, that never works. Just make them investigate you more. Killing? Out of the question; he would not kill anyone innocent and Ray Penbar was just doing his job. Scaring the crap out of him? Yeah, but not until Raito was sure he was investigating someone else.

"Ryuuku…"

"Yeah?"

"I think we just have to wait him out."

"Che, annoying."

"I know but we'll make it up later."

-

One week later

Ray Penbar was walking towards the subway, yawning as he looked at the time. If he hurried, he would get back earlier than expected. Naomi had promised she would wait with the food but he did not want to make her wait too long.

"Ray Penbar-san?"

The man turned around to the voice and saw a teen looking at him from underneath a hood. He froze. Deadly, yellow-red eyes stared at him and a smile formed on the teen's lips. He found himself rooted to the spot at the frightening smile.

"Do not make any sudden movements," the teen said. "Do you know who I am?"

"N-no," Ray replied, gripping his bag tightly.

"What a pity. Well, the media and the police call me Kira."

Ray stiffened as his eyes widened. The teen's smile shifted from frightening to soft and he said:

"Care to follow me?"

He began walking, and almost automatically Ray followed. The teen was dressed in a black trench-coat and a black jumper with a hood underneath. The trench-coat swished around his ankles, hiding his black jeans and black shoes. Everything with Kira went in black.

To be honest, the FBI-agent was scared shitless. He was walking next to a killer for heaven's sake! Kira however did not seem to be nervous at all. He walked up back to the streets and steered them to a café. He sat down and Ray followed, putting his bag with his laptop between his legs.

"Who are you?" Ray asked.

"I thought I told you," the teen replied.

"Guess you did… what do you want with me?"

"Nothing much," Kira replied as he traced an invisible pattern on the table. A waiter came up to them. The teen turned to the waiter and said, "I'll have green tea and apple pie. Would you like something, Penbar-san?"

"Coffee," he said, Kira ordered it and the waiter disappeared. The teen turned back and removed the hood. Ray stared.

Kira's hair was purely white and spiky. It was shining silver in the sunlight. His skin was light-tanned, and he was slender. He rested his chin in his hand and smiled to the man.

"You're staring at my hair," Kira commented.

"That's you natural hair-colour?"

"Yes and no," Kira said with a laugh. "Perhaps, perhaps not."

Their orders came and they were silent for a while. The man got more and more nervous while Kira sipped his tea and looked around the place like he was not the world's most wanted killer.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Ray finally asked.

"I don't really know," Kira said thoughtfully, chewing on a piece of apple. "I guess I don't like being watched."

"What?" Ray said.

"You were ordered by L, right?" the teen asked. "To check on some people, to see if they had any weird habits."

"That's my job anyway."

"You watched me, unintentionally of course but I still didn't like it," Kira said with a smile. He was lying a bit there, but did not want to give the man any leads. "I just wanted to tell you something."

Ray did not like the smile at all.

"Tell me what?" he asked nonetheless.

"I have an arrangement I would like to do with you," the teen said. "You will keep silent about me for two months. You will tell no one about this, about me, how I look or how I act. You can't even tell you were at this café. Agreed so far?"

Ray nodded, hoping he would get away from his place alive.

"Don't give such a frightened look," Kira said, pouting. "I'm not going to kill you even if you didn't agree with me; I'm not that horrible."

Ray did not know if he wanted to believe the teen. Suddenly a man with black, long hair and dressed similar to Kira sat down next to the teen. He had the same eyes like the teen. Ray stiffened. The man himself did not seem to notice the other man; instead he looked at Kira and waited for the teen to speak.

"Ryuuku, didn't I tell you to walk the shops?" Kira asked, irritated.

"That was too boring," Ryuuku whined.

"Really, you're insufferable."

"Is that apple I smell?!" the black-haired man said excitedly, not even caring that Kira had kinda insulted him.

"Who is that?" Ray asked Kira.

"This is Ryuuku. He's a Shinigami."

"Shinigami?"

Kira just smiled a bit and then turned to Ryuuku. He was looking at the pie longingly. The white-haired teen raised an eyebrow and then sighed. He pushed the plate over and Ryuuku nearly threw himself over the pie.

"So, where was I?" Kira asked as he turned back to Ray.

-

"You're really playing it dangerous," Ryuuku pointed out as the two Shinigamis watched Ray Penbar walk away.

"I have two months before the arrangement drops," Raito said, drumming his fingers against the table. "During that time, I'm going to drive them nuts. But for now, we were going to do shopping right? How about we take some of that pie home for you as well; you seem to like it."

Tbc…

Chapter three done.

Chapter four; More notes, more clues and more dead people. Raito meets someone who admires Kira (I guess you all can guess who). May take a while to get out, sorry for that.

Until later,

Ja,

Tiro