I didn't sleep after Noah told me what he was planning to do. I sat up all night staring at my friend twist and turn from terrors he refused to inform me about. I wasn't lying when I said I loved him but I wasn't being entirely being truthful when I said no harm will come to him. Noah has always been delicate-emotionally and physically but also so rash and impulsive. He says he only plans on making sure Misa doesn't become the second Kira but the chances of him stopping there was slim. I will protect him as much as I can but if he puts himself on Light's radar as he was bound to do if he continued, there wouldn't be much I could do.
I walk over to his bed and run my hands through his sweaty bangs pulling them off of his forehead.
"Why can't you see my side? You always said you didn't believe L was justice." I whisper softly cupping his cheek a small smile appears on his face as he nuzzles my hand. My heart clenches and I drop my hand and take a step back. It was time.
I opened the bedside table that separated our beds and carefully felt inside until my hand wraps around a small glass cylinder. I quickly pull it out and remove the plastic casing around the needle it gleamed in the small amount of light that was filtering through the curtain. I kneel next to Noah gently pulling his arm out. Lightly I touch the anterior of his elbow searching for a vein and quickly finding it from how fast his heart was previously beating. I inject the needle into his vein, Noah doesn't even flinch. I stand keeping the used syringe in the palm of my hand and exit our room.
The sun had just risen but there was still people milling about I tossed the syringe into a random dumpster. Maybe it was wrong of me to drug him but I couldn't chance him figuring out what to day is and ruining my plans. Besides it was only Midazolam, a drug usually used before surgery and I knew he wasn't allergic. I had nicked it a few months back from the hospital just in case. He needed the sleep anyway.
I made it to the bus stop just in time giving the bus driver an apologetic smile before sitting on the first available seat. Excitement pools in my stomach as the bus gets closer to the destination. Daikoku Private Academy, a semi-elite high school where the one and only Light Yagami attended. Today in exactly four hours he will find a notebook that will change the fate of the entire world. He would battle the world's greatest detective and win only to fall a few short years later by the hands of L's inferior successors. A tragic fate for a hero. But with my intervention he wouldn't die running like a coward, I'll adjust his flaws, prevent his most idiotic mistakes, and make Kira more fearsome than ever.
I could have this over within five minutes if I just gave Light, L's true name, I didn't care if it would be anticlimactic. The problem was I couldn't say his name. I tried it the first night I left the hospital but nothing came out I couldn't even mouth it. Which leads to one of two conclusions, whoever or whatever put us here didn't want to be over that quickly or they were on L's side. My money is on the former.
When I get off of the bus I had about thirty minutes until the Death Note would fall to earth and an hour before Light gets his hands on it. I arrived at the empty courtyard and decided to sit on the bench across from where the point of entry would happen and wait alone When Light approaches the book I would follow him until he goes to his house and uses it for the first time on the man who holding the Daycare center hostage. I will then knock on the door tell Light's mother than I was Light's friend from school and I was returning notes he had let me borrow and began my plan. Well that was the idea until a cheery voice called out my name.
"Lucas!" I look over in surprise to see Amaterasu waving a few feet away a large pile of boxes near her feet.
"Oh what are you doing here?" I ask walking towards her.
"I work as the school's nurse part time here." She replies her brown eyes emitting warmth, she looked generally happy to see me which was odd seeing how she seemed fixated on Noah. But hey she wasn't bad looking. My eyes trail down her long pale legs exposed by the short blue summer dress.
"Hey eyes up here." My eyes flicker to hers and she gives me a wink.
"Sorry I was just surprised that you look even more attractive out of scrubs." I grin when a light blush appeared on her cheeks.
"If you're amazed now I don't think you could handle seeing me out of this dress." She replies cheekily and I was pleasantly taken aback I did like my men/women with a little bite in them. It was too bad I didn't have the time to pursue a relationship.
"How about you show me how macho you are and help me carry these boxes to my car?" She asks pushing her bangs from her face giving me a flirty smile. I glance at my watch eyes widening slightly I turn slightly and see that yes a black notebook was now nestled in a patch of grass.
"I don't know.." I trail off.
"Please! I had a TA help me carry them this far but he had to leave." She pleads giving me puppy eyes that had me caving.
"Okay." I agreed, certain that I would be back in time.
I was wrong. Amaterasu had apparently parked not in the staff parking but a block down, she claimed it was easier to get home since she didn't have to worry about the teen drivers. She had me arrange and rearrange the heavy boxes until it was exactly how she wanted it in her small car. I was just about to excuse myself when she asked why I was here in the first place.
"Oh, I needed some extra income I was hoping to become an English tutor." I lie smoothly.
"I was once a tutor, granted I wasn't very good at it-"
"I'm sorry but I really must get going." I interrupt already walking away knowing I had about five minutes to make it back to the school.
"Lucas, wait!" I stop and look at her impatiently.
"You don't have to do it you know? Nothing is set in stone and a snake can always change it's skin." Her eyes bore into mine and for a brief moment I felt like I was the size of a fly.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you should get out of the sun." I say walking away quickly promising to revisit her cryptic words and odd behavior at a less pressing time.
"Damn." I curse when I arrived back at the courtyard the notebook was already gone which obviously meant Light was too.
It's alright I tell myself repeatedly, I had a backup plan just in case something like this happened. An advantage to working with the police is the database which holds every active police officer's bases information including their address.
I knew I had to be quick or Light would have already killed his first victim. I ran fast the wind whipping at my short hair and I forgot how calming running could be I use to do it all the time before my parents died. I shook my head that was not something I needed to be thinking about right now. I heard my phone ring and I frown but reach in my pocket grabbing it and flipping it open.
"Hello?" I huff out Still running.
"Hey its Touta." There was an edge to his voice that I wasn't use to.
"Whats wrong?"
"I don't know! I tried waking Noah up and he wouldn't answer but when I kept at it he sorta groaned and vomited everywhere and he hasn't really stopped." Touta's voice rose in panic with each word.
"Fuck." I whisper.
"What?" Touta asks.
"Nothing, I'm trying to think." I reply quickly and pulling the phone away from my mouth.
I stop running, taking a rest on a nearby curb running my free hand through my sweaty hair. Fuck, what did I do? I was sure he wouldn't have any adverse side effects but he always had to prove me wrong, didn't he? It'll be fine, throwing up was a good sign as long as Touta kept Noah hydrated between bouts of vomiting he should be fine and I won't have to abandon my mission.
"Touta just make sure he is drinking water whenever he stops he should be fine, its probably food poisoning."
"Are you sure? Shouldn't I take him to the hospital" Matsuda asked skeptically.
"I'm sure we really can't afford another trip anyway." I lied.
"Well okay just please come back as soon as possible."
"I'll try." I reply hanging up and beginning to run again only to be blocked not even five minutes later by a seemingly random train that didn't seem to end. I glance at my watch and let out an irritated breath Light was most likely at his prep school already. But I had one more chance before this became a missed opportunity. I pull off my shirt it was soaked in sweat and honestly gross, the black tank top underneath would suffice.
Since I had a good hour or so I decided to just stroll to the store letting my heartbeat calm and to puzzle over my earlier meeting with Amaterasu. Did she know something? It was odd to say the least that she would be at the school today. Sure her claim of being a part time nurse might have held some validity if she was actually wearing scrubs, she was obviously in a hurry she wouldn't have changed out of them it would have wasted time, My eyes widen and I stop in the middle of the sidewalk much to the annoyance of the people around me but I pay them no mind because the courtyard was empty when I had arrived to the school. I began to walk again eyes unseeing to lost in thought. I'm extremely sure it was empty and there would be no way for her and the supposed TA to have entered and laid the boxes down without me noticing. Yes she was definitely suspicious but something in my gut told me that she wasn't the one who brought us here. I needed to keep an eye on her.
I didn't realize until I had my hand on the door of the convenient store that I had made it and well within the time limit. I amused myself with flipping through magazines but quickly stopped when the the cashier gives me a dirty look. It wasn't good perhaps I had gotten here too early I didn't need too much attention drawn to myself. I didn't have to act casual for long when I familiar figure entered the store. For the first time since entering this world I felt my heart race in excitement because right in front of me was the guy I admired for eight years someone who I wrote about in my seventh grade hero essay and cosplayed for years. It was almost surreal. I snapped myself out of my awe when I saw him reach for a magazine eyes on the borderline rape happening outside. knowing this was the moment I had been waiting for. I walk quietly behind him watching as he hesitated briefly.
"Do it." I whisper in his ear and he starts a bit.
"What do you mean." He questions his voice neutral.
"Hurry up you don't have much time." I move closer until my chest is flush with his back my eyes fixed on the open notebook. "Use the Death Note." I feel him tense and I roll my eyes maybe imprinting my memory on one of the first times Light uses the Death Note wasn't such a good idea, well at least surprising him wasn't.
I grab the hand holding the pen and push it to the page. "Write his name or your you rather see that poor girl raped?" I hiss in his ear.
"And write a cause." I add knowing the likelihood of him trying to get it over with in the quickest possible way in order to question me was great but while unlikely there was still a chance that if a heart attack occurred L might look into when he started his investigation. Plus this is the moment it dawned on Light that he did in fact cause the death.
Once the man was ran over Light pushed me back and turned to face me his eyes narrowed as he slips the notebook into his shoulder bag.
"Who are you." I felt a small amount of fanboy pleasure at having his focus directed on me but I squash it down.
"Just call me a ...prophet of sorts." I smirk walking past him knowing he was bound to follow.
"Are you going to tell me who you really are and why you know the way to my house." We had been walking in silence for quite awhile so I didn't blame him for the annoyance in his voice.
"I told you I know these things." I wink and tap my temple.
"You want me to believe you're some kind of… psychic?" He scoffs
"You have a notebook that kills when you write someone's name into it are psychics really that far fetched?" I question in slight disbelief. "But you are correct I am no psychic, I just have some experience with other Death Notes."
"There are more?"
"Yup, quite a few but none of the other holders had as much potential as you do." I flatter him.
"Potential?"
I stop and he turns around cinnamon eyes narrowed clearly showing distrust.
"To judge those who do nothing in this world but cause pain and suffering, to usher in a new era of purity and reign in it as a God!" I thought my mini speech was quite good for something made up on the fly but Light looked unimpressed.
"And what do you plan to gain out of all of this?" He questioned.
"I will be your adviser and help our dream become a reality. Make no mistake I will not be used, I have an arsenal of tricks up my sleeve that will end your life before you can pick up a pen."
"I would expect nothing less but how are you going to 'advise' me what exactly do you know?"
It was late by the time I made back home. Light and I spent hours in his room discussing the rules of the Death Note and what exactly they entailed. I suspected he would be writing down my name right now.
Touta was nowhere in sight when I walked in for a moment I was scared he disobeyed my advice and took him to he the hospital I would be out of luck then, they could very easily find traces of the drug in this blood stream. But my fears were quieted when he emerged from the kitchen mug of steaming tea in one hand.
"How is he doing?" I whisper.
"Better, I kept him hydrated like you said and he even ate some Okayu." He sounded cheerful but his face clearly expressed just how exhausted he was.
"I'm sorry I took so long."
"Its alright! You must have been doing something very important or you would've been here." He gave me a tired smile.
"Why don't you head to bed I'll take care of him from now on."
After a brief goodnight I walked into my shared room and padded softly to the bed on the left where a small figured laid shivering under a thick blanket.
"Hey Noah?" I say softly trying to gain his attention.
"Hmm?" he turned and guilt pooled in my stomach when I saw he was even paler than he usually was.
"How are you feeling?"
"Bad." He answers with a groan his eyes cracking open ever so slightly.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay s'not your fault." Was his soft reply I bit my lip as he fell back to sleep. Yes I was doing something important, creating a world where Noah could live without prejudices or fear whether he approved of it or not.
A/N I love doing Lucas' POV and I have a feeling from now on the chapters will be split between Noah and him.
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