First off I just want to say thank you to everyone for being patient with me and waiting for this chapter longer than I'd planned but obviously due to the issues I've been dealing with over the last 2 months, I just didn't have it in me to write.
However tonight, I decided to finish this chapter and post it, I hope it's been worth the wait.
And to Eva1700, i can't remember if i replied to your review or not, sorry if i didn't, my head was all over the place at the time but i just wanted to say thank you for your kind words :)
WARNINGS: Spoilers for the book 'Death Note, Another Note: The LA BB Murder Cases' and slightly graphic mentions of different forms of suicide towards the end, you've been warned!
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note in anyway.
Chapter 2
1st January, 2007.
Light picked up his pace as he walked to the police station, the cold winter air biting at his skin and slightly numbing his body. Of all the days he had offered to run an errand for his mother by dropping off a change of clothes to his father, who never seemed to be at home recently.
In tow of course was the always present Ryuk. He never left his side unlike the human lookalike counterpart BB.
BB had only popped back up this morning after disappearing for 3 days, when Light questioned him on his whereabouts, the young shinigami merely replied,
"Here and there."
As the station came into sight, Light took out his phone and called his dad's, only for it to go straight to voice mail.
'That's unusual for dad...I wonder if he's in a meeting right now.'
As he pocketed his phone, Light glanced over at B to see him, quite literally, getting stuck in to his jar of strawberry jam. The 17 year old held back a look of distaste as he watched the ex criminal stick his hand in the jar to scoop more jam out, not appearing to have a care in the world as he brought his hand to his mouth to continue eating.
"Are you not worried that someone may see a floating jam jar?"
BB paused his munching and looked at Light.
"No."
"Well you can't take that inside with you, so you either wait out here or you get rid of it."
Red eyes locked onto brown and narrowed at the comment.
"...I'll wait out here."
Light sighed and muttered a few words under his breath and he quickly crossed the street and entered the station with Ryuk still floating behind him. As he walked up to the front desk, he noticed a young women was already there being turned away.
"As I've told you already, there's no one at task head quarters right now."
'There's no one at head quarters? Dad's cell is turned off...what's going on?'
The women didn't appear to be taking no for an answer.
"Can't you contact them somehow?! I have information regarding to the 'Kira' investigation!"
Light's eyes went wide for a split second when he heard the name 'Kira' before he regained his composure and started to walk up to the desk as the receptionist went to try and ring head quarters once more.
"Hi I'm detectives Soichiro Yagami's son, Light Yagami. I've brought my father a change of clothes but it doesn't look like he's in, could I leave them here?"
Light took a quick glance at the women next to him as the receptionist went on about an old case he had helped solve, he answered the man when needed but didn't really pay much attention to him until he asked him if he'd be helping with the 'Kira' case.
"Sure, if all goes well, maybe I'll find Kira before L does."
Once again he glanced over as the women went tense and wide eyed at the mention of L, clearly not believing that a teenager would come out with such a bold statement.
"As I thought, there's no one at head quarters, you're going to have to trust me on this ma'am. I'll give them your message as soon as I see them, I promise."
The women turned back to the other receptionist. "That's not good enough! I have to tell them in person!"
"Excuse me; my father is actually in charge of the Kira investigation. If you'd like, I can pass the message onto him? His cell phone is off right now but I should be able to contact him soon. A number of FBI agents were just killed and a lot of detectives quit the case because they're afraid of Kira, so he's pretty busy right now."
"Err Light...It's probably better if you don't discuss this with..."
Light looked over, his face calm despite his irritation at the interruption, and cut the man off.
"True, but it's practically common knowledge at this point."
Turning back to the women who still stared at him, he continued and ignored both receptionists as he locked his eyes with hers.
"And besides, I feel like I can trust her, you can almost see it in her eyes; she's a wise and careful person. You heard about what happened and must have figured out that the police had a leak of some kind and that's why you want to tell them in person. You thought this through...well, am I right?"
Light held back a small smirk when the dark haired women's eyes widen slightly.
'This is too easy.'
Light started to lead the way out of the building while he continued to reel her in by telling her that she could talk to his father later on. As they walked back out onto the streets, Light took a subtle look around to see where Beyond had gone off too, once spotted still across the street with his back facing them, he walked over with the girl at his side.
BB stood with his back to the station while leaning up again a tree as he finished up the last of his tasty treat. He discarded the jar at his feet, a small pout on his lips at the fact that he had run out. Hearing Light's voice, he turned around just as he and a girl approached him.
The shinigami took a second to look her up and down, taking in her dark outfit and black hair but the moment he looked at the girl's face, a gasp left his lips as he stumbled backwards.
' ...it can't be her!'
His eyes looked up above her head and sure as can be, her name floated above her.
Naomi Misora
As he read down, he couldn't hold in the cackling laughter. Below her name, floating in blood red writing was the date of her death.
01.01.07
'So...Miss Misora will face her untimely death today...how...interesting.'
BB continued to chuckle while Light talked with Naomi, glancing at him every now and then, unsure as to why he was laughing.
Beyond tried to listen in on their conversation about Kira and how he killed but he was too busy re-living his own memories.
Thinking back 2 years ago to his greatest plan to date, a plan so complex, so brilliant that no one but the great L himself would be able to solve...or not solve. The work of a true genius, a case that would only end one way...with the downfall of L.
Proving once and for all that he was not and never had been second best...never was a mere back up! L would lose, B would win. The copy would surpass the original. BB would not and could not be ignored; he would sacrifice himself for the greatest achievement of them all...
By beating and truly defeating L.
At least, that's how it should have been. The dizzying amount of time he had spent preparing for his crimes was all for nothing, destroyed, blown to smithereens. All because L decided to get Naomi on the case, and B, as much of a genius as he was, stupidly underestimated her as he couldn't take his sights off of L.
'If it wasn't for Miss Misora, I would have succeeded and accomplished something that no other person on this planet could do...beating L!'
B tuned back into their conversation as Naomi spoke about a friend who was an FBI agent and she believes that he met Kira but suffered his tragic fate at his hands.
'Of course...Raye Penber was her fiancé. I should have remembered that from researching her files back in LA. No wondered his name rang a bell.'
As Naomi continued to explain her theory on Kira, he once again let out a chuckle and smirked when he noticed the look on Light and Ryuk's faces. Of course they had no idea who she really is and what she's capable of, it did not surprise him however that all her theories were true. It just made the thought of her dying today all the better, the only person besides L himself who could solve this case will soon meet her end, more or less at his own hand if he has it his way.
BB followed behind them, he took one look at Light and could have sworn he saw his eyes flash red with a subtle smirk on his face, no doubt thinking he had won and he would be able to get rid of 'Shoko Maki' quickly.
Both shinigami's watched as Light took out a piece of the death note, acting as if he was taking notes when really he was writing down her 'name' and cause of death.
'Suicide eh? Interesting...although I could come up with a more...inventive way for her to end her own life.'
His mind soon started racing with ideas, each one as gruesome and painful as the next.
'One of the most obvious forms of suicide was the self mutilation of one's own body; I could make her cut every single inch of her skin, going slowly and deeply with every slash of the blade until she slowly bled to death...or perhaps lye? Such a horrible way to die, unlike acids which may burn one layer of tissue before stabilizing, alkaline chemicals such as lye continue to burn through layer after layer of tissue in the stomach and esophagus. She would feel it burning all the way down, vomiting as a reaction but in the end only doing more damage to her throat. Withering in agony as her stomach burns away, choking to death on her own blood...now that sounds fun, maybe even get her to do both?...but wait..."
B's thoughts were interrupted by Ryuk nudging him in the side while laughing, looking towards Light; he let out a laugh as well. Light was a bit walking behind the female detective, checking his watch with a look of disbelief on his face. It was clear that Light now realised that she had given him a fake name when he slowly looked back at the two laughing shinigami's.
"Hey Light, you know that deal I mentioned is still open. It's just like putting on contact lenses, completely painless."
"Ahahahaha yeah Light, although I said that my eyes could feel like a curse, sometimes they are a sweet, sweet blessing!"
Both shinigami's continued laughing at the look on Light's face, after a moment's hesitation it was clear he would never give up half of his life, his 'reign'.
As they approached the station for the second time that day, B hovered closer to Light.
"Better find out her real name Light, time's running out."
Light quickly shot a harsh glare at the older boy, clearing telling him to shut up with his eyes.
"You know, I knew who she was the moment I laid eyes on her...and not from reading her name..."
The young teen almost faulted in his steps and glanced once again at B so he knew that he had his full attention.
"And unlike Ryuk, I am willing to give you her name...so long as you give me something in return."
Light's eyes flickered over him as a silent question, 'What?'
BB couldn't stop the smile that spread onto his face, he had thought of the perfect suicide...the perfect revenge.
"I will give you her name once you have written out a new suicide for her to commit. This pretty little thing is to go back to her hotel, lock the door, brake the sprinkler system, pour gasoline all over herself and light a match...thinking of how she lost her fiancé and how in the end, it was me, Beyond Birthday who truly got her as she slowly burns to death."
Light's eyes went wide at the description, Beyond's voice was so full of hate and evil, but it wasn't so much the way she died that bothered him but the fact that it would be so public and L would no doubt find out. As if reading his thoughts, BB spoke up again.
"You underestimate L if you think you can write her death and have him not find her. If you knew him like I do then you might as well go big as he will find out one way or another."
Light glanced at Naomi to make sure she was far enough ahead that she wouldn't hear him quietly talk before he turned to B.
"Are you trying to say that you know who L is?!"
"I know everything there is to know about him."
Light gasped as his eyes went wide.
"...But that Light Yagami, is a story for another day. Now I estimate that we are 3 minutes away from the station, so I'd hurry up and make a decision if I were you."
It only took a few moments for Light to make up his mind, before he took one last glance at Naomi and then pulling out a piece of the death note to quickly write down B's description of the suicide, leaving a space for her name.
BB lent in closer and whispered the dark haired girl's real name into Lights ear, which he quickly wrote down and looked at his watch.
"You're positive that this is her real name?"
Beyond smiled
"I'm a man of my word."
Naomi turned around when she noticed that Light wasn't following behind her.
"Is everything ok?"
"Everything's perfect."
Light once again glanced at his watch.
"Why do you keep looking at your watch?"
"Well...I guess it's because I'm Kira...Naomi Misora."
Both Light and BB felt cruel smirks creep onto their faces as the detective suddenly had a look of horror on her face, her eyes shifted to the left of Light and they widen even more. Just before her eyes glazed over as the 40 seconds were up, she uttered one thing...
"Be..Beyond Birthday!"
BB's smile turned into a real chelsea grin.
"Goodbye...old friend."
All 3 of them watched as Naomi suddenly held a vacant expression then slowly turned around and walked off in the other direction.
Light sighed with relief at how close that came and let out a small chuckle.
"Old friend eh?"
B continued to stare at Naomi's distant figure, nothing taking the grin from his features.
"It's a long story..."
And not even 2 hours later, BB felt that same rush of small power flow through him, it happened whenever someone has died through the death note. The reason why he can't stay in the human world for too long is because he simply doesn't have the energy, and the only way he gets it is through the book, if not then he must return to the shinigami realm for a few days. This of course, Light cannot know of.
As B felt new energy throughout his body, giving him the strength that he needed, he knew this meant that Naomi was dead and he knew it wouldn't take long for L to find out and even less the time for L to be subtly reminded of himself, for the way Naomi committed suicide was exactly the same way that he tried 2 years ago in his plan to beat L.
There you have it...and wow this is just over 6 pages long & took me about 5 hours to write! I hope you all enjoyed it and for those of you who have read 'Death Note, Another Note: The LA BB Murder Cases' then you will most likely get the hints and certain lines taken from the book within this chapter haha
I will try and update asap, until then I always love hearing what you guys think so feel free to drop me a review :)