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Page 3: Introductions/Revelations
Oka and Linda stood at the gates to Wammy's House, as they swung open. Ryuk landed softly on one of the gateposts as they walked toward the main building at the end of a vast courtyard. "Hyuk, looks like cameras. If they go inside I won't be able to talk to them without them acting funny..." He flew up behind them, looming. Linda shuddered suddenly. Oka looked at her. "What is it?" "I dunno... feel like I'm being watched..." Ryuuk tried to stifle it but laughed suddenly, and the girls spun around. Oh great, hyuk, here it comes... Oka's eyes widened and she covered Linda's mouth. "Mmmf?!" Ryuk quickly said "Hyuk hyuk. Hullo. I'm Ryuuk, the Shinigami who owns that Notebook you've got in your suitcase." They said nothing so he continued. Light was rotting in limbo so he didn't see why he couldn't talk more now... "That Death Note is Kira's in case you haven't guessed already. Or more truthfully... hyuk hyuk... it was." Oka said quietly; "Ryuk, I had hardly prepared something to say in the happening of something so supernatural." Hyuk, she talks like that L guy. "This is not an appropriate place. to talk. Someone might see y-" Ryuuk raised a black leathery hand. "Nope. No one can see or hear except those who touch the Notebook." Oka looked around and said. "Just follow, Ryuuk." He shrugged and glided behind them as they entered the orphanage. Roger stared at them with weary eyes. He really wished he could teach in a college or university. How did he always get stuck with children and teenagers? Loud and excessive and annoying...
Oka and Linda spoke briefly to Roger and explained about Ella's death. Roger said they were free to come back to school and live here. Oka and Linda headed into one of the washrooms and locked the door. Ryuuk walked through the door itself as if it were nothing. Now Linda freaked out. "W-w-w-w-what are you?!" She said rather loudly. "A Shinigami, hyuk." Oka sighed, looked at the menacing ghost before her. "A god of death? Was... was Kira a God of Death as well then?" Ryuk laughed more and decided that finally he could tell someone about Light. It was such an interesting story and all...
"No," Ryuk said. "Light Yagami, a human like you, played Kira. He used the Death Note to kill people and change the world... and stuff like that." Oka tilted her head. "But I heard L became really interested in the Kira case..." Ryuuk grinned. "Light Yagami met L in person, through some very good planning and a couple lucky breaks, hyuk. In the end though, Light Yagami killed L and became the new L." Oka gasped this time. "So Kira is L?!" Ryuk waved his hand. "Nope. Light was L and Kira for a long time, but--" Ryuk paused. This was the L School, so revealing Near's name probably wasn't a good idea. "L's heir, this Near guy, came and defeated Light about 3 years ago. I was there when it happened." The two girls had sat down, awestruck. "So Near is L?" The death god shrugged. "I don't know how the humans did it after I went back to my world, but based on how I saw things work when I was with Light, I guess they would have picked Near. He was pretty smart, that one." Linda piped up. "What happened to Kira then? Don't tell me he went into hiding." Ryuk paused once again, unsure how to go about answering that. "Light Yagami died. He was shot." That was mostly the truth. "Kira was... defeated by Near..." The two girls hadn't known him very well. He kept to himself. But Mello had always been raving about how mad Near made him. Oka thought they were the strangest kind of friends. "I gotta explain though," Ryuuk said, doing what he had done with Light, "That when you die, you won't be goin' to what you call Heaven." Oka's eyes widened. Linda suddenly looked scared. "We're going to hell?!" they said in unison. "Nope. You're gonna be stuck in limbo. Mu."
Again in unison the two girls said "We're not gonna die!" Ryuk barreled ahead. "Also, I have an option for a human who uses the Notebook. Half of your life for the Shinigami's eyes. You can see a person's name just by looking at them." He laughed. "You can see their lifespan too, but only Shinigami can convert it to human years. I can see both your lifespans right now... I can convert it right now into days... even minutes, hyuk." Oka gulped. "I bet you can't tell though." Ryuuk shrugged. "The Shinigamis have a lot of rules. Believe me, I've heard more complaints from Kira about the rules, than anyone else. Hyuk hyuk." The two looked at each other. Somehow they knew; one of them would one day need to make this trade. If this Notebook truly was Kira's, then they had a legacy that they were almost obligated to follow. Oka's mouth curled upward in a nervous smile. "This sounds like fun." She admitted. Linda shifted awkwardly on the floor and said "I think so too." Ryuuk was just thankful neither of them had screamed. He hated that.
"I'll be hanging around to watch the fun, hyuk. Not like much is going in the Shinigami Realm." Linda, an established artist by trade, asked him to tell him about his world later. She was sure no one had ever drawn a place that. "Hyuk! Sure... But you humans still have apples right?" Oka wasn't listening to the two now.
"Two orphans... L students... becoming Kira." Could they do it? With this Shinigami here, it was logical to assume that they were in a position similar to Kira's. But to defeat L... Light Yagami was likely much smarter than Oka, or Linda. But together, she felt the two could do what he done. And likely in a way that would entertain Ryuuk too. She felt the smile return. She had a plan. A plan that got her so excited, she almost felt scared. The power.
The power of death was intoxicating. And Oka, in that moment, was stone drunk with it.