Noah's POV

"Stop laughing." I hiss at Lucas, my face bright red with embarrassment. I had woken up over an hour ago when a different nurse from the one before gently shook me awake, she was tall, half American, with short blonde hair; she introduced herself as Amaterasu. She insisted on giving me a sponge bath even though I told her that I was completely capable of bathing by myself, but she was very persistent and handsy she had me completely naked when Matsuda came back because he forgot his coat and when he left his face was redder than mine, well at least he knows I'm not a girl now. After thirty minutes and feeling sufficiently violated Amaterasu dressed me and left the room with a wink. Which leads me to right now trying to calm down my hysterical friend.

"You should have seen the look on his face." Lucas gasps "It was like all his dreams went down the drain, I think he had a crush on you. And that woman! You looked like you were about to be butchered." He dissolves into laughter once more.

"Shut up Women are scary." I mutter hugging my knees to my chest with my good arm. I glance over at him and for the first time I noticed the school bag on his bed.

"Oh did our stuff come with us?" I tilt my head my bangs sweeping over my eyes and I brush them out of the way absentmindedly.

"What? Oh yeah, here." He reaches on the side of the bed that I couldn't see and tosses my yellow bag at me. It landed with a heavy thud and I poke at it curiously and after a few moments I open it. In place of my textbooks there was just blank books, also some old notebooks some candy wrappers and a envelope? I look at Lucas and lift it up with a confused look on my face.

"Did you withdraw my savings account?" I ask.

"No, mine was also emptied." he replied running a hand through his dark hair.

"All fifteen thousand?" My green eyes widen, it was all the money that was left to him after his parents died he was unable to spend it after they passed, as it was the only thing that wasn't snatched up by greedy relatives, it was the last link he had to them.

"Yeah, and I checked out the suitcases that apparently were found by us and they have all our clothes, passports, and even travel plans." He looks at me his own hazel eyes narrowed. "My last name is Lopez now." He snorts then gives me a look." You know what this means right?"

Oh God.

"You mean-" I started but stopped not wanting to say it out loud as if not saying it would make it less true.

"Yes, this wasn't an accident someone put us here." the room was quiet for a few heartbeats. Someone or something put us here took us away from our lives and stuck us in a fictional world, it was hard to wrap my mind around. But mostly I was scared what had the power to do that?

"Maybe-" I begin to speak my frankly stupid theory about how there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this when Lucas interrupts me.

"Dammit Noah!Would you get over this whole need to deny everything? Just accept the fact that we have been transported to this fucking place! It would save us a lot of time if you stop acting like a child!" Lucas practically yells at me and my mouth closes in shock, for as long as I known him, Lucas has never yelled at me or even gotten angry. I wanted to snap back but I stop and observe the tense line of his body how it trembles slightly, I take note of his fist clenched tight in the hospital's sheet, and his bangs hiding his face. He was having just as a hard time accepting this as me; Lucas was incredibly logical, and this went against everything he thought possible was here anyway and unlike me he has never been one to deny what is so obvious, its a war in his mind.

"Noah I'm sorry." He looks up at me from his bangs eyes filled with regret.

"You have no reason to apologize, it's me who should" He tries to interrupt but I put up a hand to stop him. "Its true Lucas, what you said, I have been acting like a child about this. I'm covering my ears and closing my eyes hoping that this will all go away; and I need to stop it." I cross the room stiffly my body unused to moving after laying still for over a month, and push Lucas over and down curling around his body. " I'm just so scared." I confess head on his chest, his left hand automatically comes to rest in my hair. "What are we going to do? What is my sister going to do?" I could feel guilt wash over me in a wave for not thinking about her sooner.

"I can't pretend to know Duckling." He says using the slightly irritating nickname he gave me when we first met. " Things are going to change and fast I can't promise much, but I can promise that I will not leave you. I know we have different views about Death Note but while we will argue about them til we're blue in the face but I will never leave you or harm you in order to tip the scales in Light's favor. The purity of the world isn't as important to me as you." My body relaxes as he addresses what I was unconsciously afraid of. " As for your sister she'll be fine, she is one of the toughest girls I've ever met. Remember when I tried to kiss her cheek?."

"Yeah she knocked you flat on your back." I snort in remembrance of the stupefied look on his face. Lucas chuckles and brings his right arm around my body and pulls me tightly to his side.

"See? Everything is going to be okay."

I knew he was lying but I felt reassured anyway.


Its crazy how something that seems so extraordinary a month ago can get so dull. Weeks passed by in a blur of Matsuda visits, Lucas flirting with anything that moved, avoiding sponge baths from Amaterasu, and physical therapy. I couldn't leave the hospital and I did my best to convince the staff that my amnesia was gone. The feeling of absolute boredom was tinged more and more with a dark tension as the days grew closer to Lucas' discharge when it arrived I still wasn't ready for it.

"Where are you going to go?" Matsuda asks he was sitting on the floor crosslegged a magazine in his lap, a normal sight for us now.

"Well I don't exactly know right now Touta." Lucas replies lap full of papers that the doctor gave him a few hours ago, he was in his normal attire of a button up shirt and a pair of nice jeans, I note enviously. I still had to wear a hospital gown.

"I didn't expect that we would need insurance so soon after arriving, so all the hospital bills are going to have to be paid out of pocket not to mention Noah's therapy. We are flat broke." I could hear small almost unnoticeable tremor in his voice.

"Lucas we don't have to you know." I say softly, while I only had about a thousand but we could still pay enough to keep us from too much legal trouble.

"Of course we do money is meant to be spent is it not?" He laughs it off and I give a slight frown, I hated when he suppressed his emotions it wasn't healthy .

"I think I'll go to a shelter and finish my application and training then join the police force here in the Kanto region. Thanks for the recommendation by the way Touta." As soon as Matsuda found out that Lucas almost finished with training and already had a degree at 18 he was very adamant about Lucas joining him. Which Lucas gladly accepted with a slight smirk on his face, effectively ruining my plan to not get anymore involved with the Death Note storyline.

"You can't do that!" Matsuda gasps.

"I have no choice." Lucas sighs not looking up from his discharge papers.

"Yes you do! You can stay with me!" Matsuda suggests excitedly we both stare Matsuda like he had grown a second head.

"No, I couldn't." Lucas replies.

Matsuda nods his head looking up at Lucas with eager brown eyes. " I've been wanting roommates for a awhile now, I grew up with alot of siblings and always had roommates in college. It gets really lonely by myself, plus if we are going to be working in the same place we could just carpool so you wouldn't have to get a car or anything!"

I would have instantly said yes there was such a yearning in his chocolate eyes.

"I don't know."

"Please?" Matsuda begs magazine tossed to the side. "I don't have much room, you and Noah would have to share but it's big enough for us both and fairly cheap too!"

Lucas heaves a sigh "I would have to talk to Noah about if first if you don't mind." I shoot him a weird look, why was he being so weird about this? But Lucas doesn't even look at me he just piles the paper together.

"I'll be outside if you need anything." Matsuda leaves with a wave and one last glance at Lucas.

"So is there any reason why you are being so stubborn?" I ask slightly upset, Matsuda has come to be a friend in these past few weeks and I could tell Lucas was up to something

"I've been making hints that Matsuda should take us in for a few days, the last step was to make him think it was all his idea. Its a safety plan people are less likely to back out on something if they are the ones who initiated it." He states sticking all the papers in a folder.

"So you manipulated him." I said flatly, Lucas shrugs his shoulders and threw me a carefree grin.

"Call it what you want we now have a place to stay after." I sigh but let it go after all this will be the last time I'll see him for a few days.

"Call Touta back in we can hang out for the next few hours." He suggest pulling out the hospital's game of Monopoly.


I managed to hold back my tears as Matsuda and Lucas bid me goodbye Lucas with a kiss on the forehead, and Matsuda with a hug but no matter how hard I told myself he wasn't abandoning me that he was coming back tears still fell. We have been inseparable for two years, I moved in with him right after his parents died and mine, well I don't want to think about them. I yank my knees to my chest and let my tears fall down promising myself that I would try to rein in my crybaby tendencies.

Thud.

"What?" I lift my head up as something cool lands on my bare foot. When I saw exactly what it was on my I shot out of my bed.

"No!." I gasp in horror because right there laying innocently on the white sheets was a Death Note.

"Boo!" I scream jumping back onto my bed when I hear a deep voice coming from the the shadow near where I was standing.

"I know what you are and I don't want what you're offering." I say trying to come out as commanding but sounding more scared than anything my body was trembling.

"You see I'm not offering you anything kid, I owe someone quite a bit and I get off scot free if you take this book and use it." He steps out of the shadows and my eyes widen further. In the show they seemed almost cute in a weird way, but the shinigami in front of me was was the stuff of nightmares. Its flesh seem to be melting off in gray slabs as if it someone reanimated a corpse, It had large bony wings, and both of its eyeballs were popped out of its head floating in midair. Another thing they didn't tell you was the stench and how bad it was, it smelt like a graveyard, full of death, sadness, dust, and blood; it encompassed the whole room. I wanted to vomit.

"W-who do you owe? And why do they want me to have it?" I stammer scooting up the bed as it starts getting closer to me.

"Sorry kid can't tell ya that." it says sticking his pinky into its ear.

"Well I'm not taking it! I'm not going to use it! So you can just go. I'm not a killer." I cross my arms over my chest kicking the Death Note to the floor.

It grinned widely showing its rotted gum "lets do it the hard way then."


A/N

I guess this is the length each chapter is going to be I hope you don't mind I'll try my hardest to make it longer. Friday is my birthday I turn 18! So the chapter may be a day late or so. My goal is to try to post one every three or four days. Thank you all for your reviews now on the the pairing poll!

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