Chapter 2

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"Ah! Mademoiselle Liddell! Shall I grab your coat for you?" A french accent greeted the pale beauty as she arrived at Gustav's, a michelin-star, french restaurant in Aoyama. A tall, handsome host helped pull her coat off her shoulders, revealing a beautiful floor-length gown. It's white fabric naturally draped over her body, hugging her curves closely. A deep v-neck went to just above her navel as the halter top showed off her flawless back. Her hair was slicked back and cascaded behind her, tickling her lower back. A light blue shawl was draped across her elbows as she was led to her favorite table, a small and private area near the back, but with views to the outside nightlife.

She watched the street below as she waited to grace the little sheep with her presence. Minutes passed until another waiter showed up, giving her a green apple sangria. She sipped it delicately before taking an apple slice from the rim and biting into it.

Crunch. Slurp.

A few more minutes passed before a cough interrupted her focus on the people below. She turned to face the host again as a young man stood behind him.

"Mademoiselle Liddell, I present Monsieur Yagami."

He cleans up nice for a sheep. There was no doubt in Alice's mind that Yagami was an attractive male. Though his suit was secondhand and he was glaring daggers at the sly wolf, he was starting to appear in some not-so-innocent thoughts in her mind.

She smiled gently at both men, keeping up appearances, "Thank you, Leon. Please order the usual."

The host bowed and walked away, catching one of the waiters on his way back to the entrance to place the order.

Yagami decided to act high and mighty, preferring to stand tall and stiffly in front of her.

Her smile turned sinister, "Why don't you sit down, little sheep." Her voice was as sweet as honey laced with poison. A true succubus in the night.

He glared at her again and grinded his teeth before sitting down opposite of her. She took a long, slow sip of her sangria before flicking her eyes back down at the street.

"How come vermin decides to walk the streets as though they own the world?"

She glanced back up at him, challenging him for a reply. A test. What is this sheep's potential?

His glare lessened before he relaxed, attempting to blend in with the rest of the restaurant inhabitants.

"Because a rat only chooses to focus on eating and breeding. Since they cannot see outside of their personal perception, they believe they own everything that's there, ignoring everything else."

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She was beautiful. A sin wrapped in a sin, like satan's prime succubus mixed with one of god's angels. If Light was so focused on getting out of there alive, he would have been more charmed by the wolf. After he answered her, a cheshire grin lit up on her face, causing bubble of aroused madness to burst in his stomach.

A cheshire grin. Like Alice in Wonderland, embracing her own madness. The host said her last name was Liddell and given the letter A from the message, I'm guessing her name is Alice. Maybe I can kill her then. No, it's an alias. No one would logically be named Alice Liddell in this era.

"Alice Liddell."

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"Good, thought you were a little slow there, trying to figure it out."

The man in front of her growled slightly before replying, "I'm also aware that it's an alias."

She grinned sinisterly and clapped her hands in a mocking manner, "Ooooh, the little sheep is strutting big. Be careful, you might trip if you're not watching where you're going." Her voice turned bitter, while she was still smiling.

She relaxed out of her grin, her face turning stern, "What made you decide to come here?"

Yagami leaned forward, taking a sip of water from a glass in front of him.

"If I wasn't a wolf, then I wanted to see a real one with my own eyes."

He's lying. A manipulative and handsome prey. My favorite.

She took another sip from her glass, "You're lying. You are concerned about the evidence I have against you. Even if the police can't see your shinigami, your words and notebook would be enough to try you in court."

She grimaced, "The name Kira is such an underdeveloped name and an underdeveloped sheep can't believe to be a wolf if he is not shown how to prey on those he believes are below him. I am here to show you how to pounce on your prey, to become so much more than you are now."

He shaked slightly with rage, "What gives you the right to say that? What makes you the wolf? So far, I have seen nothing from you that could show me that."

She smiled fondly, looking out at the people walking below.

"Do you remember the Inmate Suicide Pact incident that has re-occurred over the past two years?"

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Everything clicked in Light's mind. Memories of the news castings came rushing through his head.

"Over one hundred inmates have died simultaneously in a continental suicide pact. At 4:00pm, prisoners from the U.S. to Japan brutally stabbed themselves to death…"

"A new trend for life-sentenced criminals, a suicide pact is taking the world by storm. Over 50 inmates took their lives today…"

HOW THE FUCK DID SHE PULL THAT OFF?! I thought it was just a social pact that all life-sentenced inmates wanted to follow, to avoid living the rest of their lives in jail!

She looked back at Light and her mouth pulled into a thin line, "I've worked hard to go unnoticed and you pose a threat to my system. If someone discovers the notebook, then they'll go looking into my business. And wolves don't like to be caged." She growled the last part out.

"L is already on your case. He's hosted a meeting with the Japanese police and has probably devised a plan to narrow down your whereabouts. Being the generous person I am, I'm offering to consult you on how not to get caught."

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He had the gall to look ashamed. He can wear the sheep's skin much better than the wolf's.

"What do you propose then?"

Alice smiled her cheshire grin, "In order to keep suspicions down, I believe the best course of action is to meet under the guise of dating. Considering you've just graduated high school and heading off to college, it would be odd to meet as an escort or even a fuck buddy. I've already set up the means to create accounts for both of us on a simple, dating website, starting from when you turned eighteen, three months ago. This will allow our relationship to seem like the Kira case has no ties, since it will be two months before the deaths started."

"During our new time together, I will teach you all of L's tricks and how to avoid giving information away. I will also teach you everything about the Death Note, so you don't have to experiment with the rules."

Yagami frowned at her, "How long would the guise of dating have to stay up for and to what extent do we have to pretend?"

She took another sip of her sangria, having her tongue dart out to lick some of the sugar off the rim. She took her time, lightly lapping at it while giving him a sultry gaze. Watching his adam's apple bob up and down nervously is rather hilarious.

"Until L and all of his successors are dead."

She could see the state of arousal in his eyes, her madness fueling his in return. It's addicting.

"He has successors?" Yagami tried to change the subject away from the deal but, no, no, no. Alice doesn't like that.

Her sinister grin was back full swing as she leaned over the table and grabbed his tie, "Do we have a deal?" With each word she tugged him closer until her eyes peered into his.

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He could feel her gaze piercing him, like she was peeling back his skin to see all his flesh. Like she knows everything. She sees my vulnerabilities, my past, my future, and my potential. I will make her my vulnerability. I will make her my past. I will make her my future. And I WILL be her potential wolf.

"I agree."

This time, her eyes crinkled as she smiled, an angel. "Now then, shall we continue on with our date."

She pulled his tie more and lightly brushed her lips over his. Her lips are so soft. Truly a wolf in sheep's clothing. Light tried to push more into the kiss but Alice snapped back, a surprised, guilty look on her face. But she wasn't aiming it at him. Light turned and saw a waiter with a startled expression, holding their dinner.

"I a-apologize for interrupting M-mademoiselle. P-please enjoy your m-meal!" The poor man ran off after placing their food down. Alice chuckled and a small smirk appeared on her lips.

"He must be new. Barely a lamb." She winked at Light and he calmly started to eat, not even acknowledging what he was putting in his mouth. A temptress and master manipulator.

She took a small bit of her food, seeming to enjoy it. The look of content on her face invited him to inspect what they were eating. A sweet salad, with kale, green apple slices, cranberries, blue cheese, walnuts, and raspberry, balsamic vinegar dressing. She seemed to pick around the apples, eating everything else first. A strategist. Does she not like them? No, she was drinking a green apple cocktail. She's saving them for last.

"Do you like apples?"

Her eyes flashed, a smile appearing, "Of course. But only green apples."

"Why?"

She continued to smile as she answered, "How about I tell you a little about me? Maybe it'll help you figure me out."

"You sure you want to give me leverage on you?"

She laughed haughtily, "Little sheep, I'm the one blackmailing you. Why not let you have a little blackmail on me." She winked at Light teasingly.

"Then please, be my guest."

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"When I was just a kid, my parents died. They had a shitty relationship. She forced him into wedlock by getting pregnant and he agreed, because it was believed to be the right thing to do. One year after my birth, they divorced. I was split between the two. My mother, the weaker of the two, lost herself to depression and drugs. She died of an overdose when I was four. When I was six, my father died in a car accident, thanks to a drunk driver.

I passed through multiple orphanages, all filled with vermin. But I didn't know that then. Back then, I was just an innocent child. With an IQ 160.

A child among the 99.997 percentile of adults is rare, but not uncommon. I then found myself in a very special place. An ordinary orphanage for extraordinary children. After moving so much, it felt nice to finally have a home. We took our lessons from masters in their fields. Learned four languages at once, solve mysterious puzzles, and had fun.

And then I learned of L.

He was an orphan like the rest of us, with one exception. He traveled the world in secrecy to solve crimes that no one else could. He was my idol. I wanted to surpass him, become him, and work with him all at once.

So I worked day and night to get the top spot as his successor. They called me 'A' and I thought nothing of it. A child by the name of 'B' became my closest friend and L's second successor. We challenged each and loved each other as friends would.

I then overheard our overseer speaking over the phone with the owner of the orphanage. 'Alternative and Backup and progressing much better then you could have hoped for.'

'A' and 'B' were created to be failures. Soon, our teachers and the staff started to call us by our 'proper' names. Alternative and Backup. Experiments. Not people.

The pressure built up, so I left.

I got a new name, new identity, and a new face.

Can you guess how my mouth tasted after learning the truth?"

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"Sour."

She smiled and clapped mockingly again, "Excellent deduction."