MYDEADLYLOVER: finally, I can start making an ending for this fanfic, thanks to my friend, eijicute (subscribe to her youtube videos, beautiful people!) who helped a lot in formulating the ending over lunch one time at school. I've gotta work on a SasoriXoc in return though so thank her, guys! Thank her! Haha.. anyway, I'll be making this chapter long (or maybe the next one) since I want to finish this fanfic by chapter 13. The number means a lot on this fanfic.
-----Chapter 12----
----Untitled----
It has been a week since the Yotsuba perpetrator, Higuchi Kyosuke , was caught and the powers of Kira discovered. Everything happened so fast in front of Lira's eyes that she doesn't know how to describe it if ever she was asked to. Not that normal people you pass by at the streets would be asking her to elaborate on the elaborate capture staged by the anti-Kira task force.
Apparently, Kira's powers came from something called a 'Death Note' wherein you write the names of people you want to kill. And also, if you touch it, you will be seeing a 'Shinigami' who originally owned the notebook. For Lira, it was like a child's insane imagination. It was all too absurd to come true and it was really hard to believe on a single word of it if you are an educated person. But all of Lira's doubts about that 'magical' notebook was gone when one night, being alone with L at the headquarters suddenly grabbed her hand and allowed her to touched the black notebook. As Lira's initial shock of having been forced by L to do something wore off, she averted her eyes into the open space to see that it was not empty anymore.
There stood a pure white shinigami staring at her straight in the eyes. Lira juped off from her seat in fear and cowered next to L who placed a hand on her shoulder as if to comfort her. After getting over her initial shock, Lira stared right into those terrifying eyes.
"Y – you're a shinigami?" Lira asked in a trembling voice that she had tried to suppress.
"Yes," the white creature replied.
"So you know when I'll be dying, am I correct?" Lira asked.
"Yes," the shinigami replied again.
"Can you tell me," Lira asked tentatively.
"No, it's against the rules," the shinigami stated.
"What rules, exactly?" Lira pressed.
"They are the rules that we shinigami follow in our realm."
"So you're not from our world."
"Yes. It is very seldom that a shinigami would come down to this world."
"Then, why did you come here?"
"I dropped my Death Note," the shinigami said, gesturing towards the black notebook that Lira held in her hands.
"Is it by accident? Do you know how many lives this notebook had claimed? They were all criminals, yes, but this kind of justice is just not right!" Lira burst out and L held her to keep her from launching herself or throwing her knives into thin air.
"I am aware that the Death Note claimed many lives during its existence in the human world. However, what is written there is not my doing. It's done by the previous owner of the notebook. When this notebook fell onto the human world, it's this world's property and not mine," the shinigami explained. "As for the question if I dropped it by accident or not, I wonder about that myself," it added as an afterthought.
"You wonder?" Lira asked dumbstruck.
"Yes." The shinigami nodded.
"Thank you, you can now go. I just wanted you to meet Lira, that's all," L said, waving a dismissing hand. The shinigami bowed a little to his direction and disappeared through a wall.
"A kind fellow, isn't she?" L asked as Lira just stared into the space where the shinigami had disappeared.
"What he did is so not right!" Lira said after a few seconds.
"I agree but I think creatures such as a shinigami have different values than we humans have. Besides, Kira was the one responsible for all these things. Ren, the shinigami is simply following Kira," L stated, putting an arm around Lira. The woman snuggled closer to the detectives chest and they remained like that for some time until Lira's phone rang. Lira started at the sound and hurried to the coffee table to answer it. Later on, Lira looked at L with a faint grin on her face.
"There's a ball I should be attending today and I completely forgot about it. I – I'll go and prepare now," Lira said, knocking herself mentally in the head for forgetting something that important. The shinigami actually as part of the blame. Lira would never thought that such a mythical creature could actually exist in the modern world.
"Alright then, but don't stay out too late," L called out after her as she went up the stairs to dress up and get ready for the ball.
After a long process of choosing which dress was best to wear, putting on makeup and fixing her hair, Lira came down from her room to find L in the same position where she left him.
"Aren't you going to get some rest?" she asked the detective who was still sitting on the sofa.
"You know that I only get some sleep once a week," L replied looking at her with those eyes that have been darkened from lack of sleep. His eyes widened when he saw what Lira was wearing. She wore a royal blue cocktail dress with plunging neckline that showed her figure very well.
"That looks good on you," the detective complimented.
"Thanks," Lira blushed, her face suddenly heating up.
"You better go now or the ball will start without you. I'll have Watari drive you there," L said, standing up and walking in his usual hunched manner towards Lira. Stopping in front of the girl, L reached out and cupped her chin, bringing her face close to his and kissing her lightly on the lips, making her blush some more.
"You take care, OK?" L said as he turned around and walked towards the couch.
The party was just starting when Lira arrived at the function. It was an annual ball organized by the university for freshmen to meet their seniors formally and as a professor, Lira was required to attend it to help keep the event in order. Lira was met at the door my her co-faculty member by the name of Tadayoshi [1]. He's been making advances to Lira since the day he met her but Lira was just too into L to actually pay attention to him.
"You're late, Valentine-san," Tadayoshi said, holding a glass of champagne and offering it to Lira.
"I almost forgot about this party, you know, Tadayoshi-san," Lira said accepting the glass.
"That's not like you to forget something like this," Tadayosshi commented, sipping on his glass.
"I had a visitor back home," Lira lied, gazing into the crowd of dancing students. "The party's in full swing, eh?" Lira commented, sipping at her champagne.
"They seem to be enjoying themselves quite well," Tadayoshi agreed then faced Lira, setting his glass at the tray of a roaming waiter who happened to be passing by.
"Valentine-san, would you like to –," He started but he was cut off by Yagami Light who approached Lira.
"Valentine-sensei, can I have this dance?" He asked, holding out his hand. Lira nodded and gave her empty glass to Tadayoshi.
"Can you hold this for me?" Lira said as she and Light disappeared among the crowd of dancers.
"How have you been, Yagami-kun?" Lira asked as another song began to play in the background.
"I've been doing quite well. How about you and Ryuzaki?" Light replied, leading Lira in their dance.
"We're well. We've finally discovered how that thing works and I've met it's original owner," Lira said, using codes for it's too risky to talk about such information in a public place like that ball.
"Oh, I see. You know, I also know of an information regarding that and it's something that you don't know yourselves," Light said, a smug look spreading on his face.
"What is it, Yagami-kun?" Lira asked, curiosity getting the best of her.
"I know who the original Kira is," Light said, suggestively.
"Eh? Then tell me who it is."
"Do you really want to know?"
"Of course, Yagami-kun. It's essential information."
"But it might hurt you if you know the truth."
"I'm prepared for the consequences."
"Really?"
"Yeah, really. Just spit it, will you, the song's about to end."
"The real Kira is me."
The music seemed so distant to Lira's ears as she let go of her dancing partner, staring at his face with emotions of mixed fear, confusion and depression. It can't be him. He's such a good boy to even kill a person. How can he, Yagami Light, star pupil and dream guy of almost all of the women in Tou-Oh be Kira? That's a joke, right? But Lira's worst thoughts were confirmed as she saw the evil glint in the boy's eyes and the smirk he gave her. Only a shinigami could be that scary. He seemed to exude such dark aura as he just stood there leering at her, waiting for her next move. Lira cannot take the heavy atmosphere that has befallen and ran outside of the function hall.
"That's right, sensei, run for your life," Light whispered as he stalked away from the dance floor.
It had started raining but Lira cannot be bothered. She was so scared. She can't believe what Light had just said. How can he so openly admit that he's Kira when he had denied it over a hundred times when he was quarantined by L for several days. How could he lie with such a pitiful face? And how can he tell the scary truth with such a straight face? How can he just conveniently forget that he's Kira and convince everyone that he's at their side? How can he do those things for so long and evade capture?
The individuals who lose the ownership of the Death Note will also lose their memory of the usage of the Death Note. [2]
That was written on the How to Use section of that damn notebook. Now she knows. Yagami is a smart boy. He knows how to take advantage of situations and she knows that he would take advantage of that particular rule, that smart-ass bastard. Soaked to the bones and shivering from the cold night air mixed with the rain, Lira decided to take shelter under a nearby bus stop that she passed by. She does not know how long she had been running since she was scared as if a thousand demons were chasing after her. She sat down and wondered when the rain would end. She's got to find a way to go home soon or she will die because of the cold air.
L was making a ruckus at the headquarters. It's already 12 midnight and Lira still hasn't come back from the party and it was way past the allotted time of her arrival. Finally, when he couldn't take it anymore, he asked for a car, refused Watari's offer to drive for him and drove into the night to find Lira.
L was not a very good driver at all but since it's already the dead of night, L does not have to worry bumping cars along the way. He drove haphazardly, looking left and right. It's still raining and he was worried that Lira would get sick. He's had Watari call at her co-teachers and everyone said that she left the party early so he drove down the streets leading to the function hall. She can't have gone too far. Not with those stilettos she's wearing.
Finally, he found her sitting alone at a bus stop, her clothes soaked wet.L parked the car in front of the bus stop and alighted, fuming with feelings of mixed anger and worry.
"Baka! Why did you not call us when you left the party! I'm so worried about you!" L shouted and it hurt. It was not usual for the great detective to be shouting. Usually, he would negotiate everything in a calm manner but Lira had always turned things around in his life.
"I – I …" Lira's voice trailed off as tears threatened to flow out of her eyes. She was so scared and now L was shouting at her. Was he that angry at her to actually scold her like that.
"What's wrong?" L asked, approaching Lira as the rain continued pouring down on him, matting his hair, his white shirt almost transparent. Lira cried and collapsed on her knees on the wet sidewalk, not bothering to be wet again by the rain.
"Scary. So scary," Lira wept. L does not care what made her scared. What's more important to him is that he's found her and she's safe now.
"Geez, stop crying, will you? You're killing me," L breathed to Lira's ear as he hugged her. They just sat there with L hugging Lira tightly and Lira, crying with her hands limp on her sides, staring at the rainy night sky.
Angels are closer than you think they are. It could be that old lady on the street or maybe that kid lost at the park. Angels are everywhere if you'll just open your eyes and look closely at the endlessly revolving world around you. [3]
Author's note:
[1] – introducing my new OC, Tadayoshi…he still doesn't have a first name so anyone who can think of something, can put their suggestions forward.
[2] – this is not a restated thesis statement (lol, my English prof's favorite conclusion to every composition) it's copied of a list of the rules from death god (dot) org
[3] – a little something that popped out of my mind. The scene I described a while ago with L hugging Lira reminds me a lot of a pic I saw before on devianart entitled angels are closer.
MYDEADLYLOVER: this is a super late post! Anyway, this is my post-birthday gift to you guys (it's a week late already, haha) ENJOY!