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The boy back to Ryuuk. "Ryuuk, how do you know this Shinigami?" Ryuuk started laughing nervously. "What do you mean? There aren't that many Shinigami in our realm, it's quite easy to know each other."
The boy raised an eyebrow at the Shinigami. "How?" He asked again, clearly becoming impatient.
"Well Light...He's sort of my brother."
Both Light's and Kikiyomi's eyes widened at this. Kikiyomi turned around to Azazul, who was standing tall as always. "You have a brother, Azazul?" she asked him. He nodded slowly, his frown never leaving. "It is true. We are indeed brothers."
"How is that possible?" Light asked Azazul. The Shinigami let out a small chuckle before turning to Kikiyomi. "You are right," he said to her, "for Kira, he really is a disappointment." He turned back to Light with an aggravated sigh. "In the Shinigami realm, we have no blood relatives. It had been this way since the beginning of time.
"Until about twelve-hundred years ago, a new King took reign. This King, unlike the others, spent his time observing the way the humans interacted with each other. He noticed how the humans treated their family differently to the rest of their world. He thought that if the Shinigami had families, they would treat the other Shinigami better.
"With this in mind, he started forming families between the newly created Shinigami. Each family was based off shared visual aspects. Ryuuk's and my family is called Zetsumei. It is based from our elongated limbs, black colored clothing and pasty white skin."
He looked to Ryuuk. "I assume Ryuuk said nothing of this?" He asked Light. Light watched Ryuuk from the corner of his eye as he said, "Not a word."
"I figured as much." Azazul told him. "He never was one for detailed explanations. He almost fell asleep while I was explaining the rules of the Death Note to him, and Shinigami do not sleep."
"Wait a minute." Light started. "Why would you need to explain the rules to him? Shouldn't all Shinigami know the rules?" "It is true that Shinigami are told the rules of the Death Note, but not all of them. There are some that only Ryuuk and I know, and some that only I myself know."
Light cocked his eyebrow slightly. "How would you know rules that no one else does?"
Feeling left out of the conversation, Kikiyomi butt in. "It's because he created the Death Note." Shocked, Light turned to Ryuuk for confirmation. "Is he the creator of the Death Note?"
Ryuuk nodded in response. "He sure is. Bloody selfish bastard didn't even give me one. I had to get mine from the king." Suddenly, Azazul's hand connected with the back of his brother's head.
"Shinigami are not to defile the name of their superiors." He said. Ryuuk started laughing at Azazul. "Oh please Zazu," Azazul visibly winced at the nickname. "Just because you're older than me doesn't make you superior over me. If anything, I'm superior over you."
"And how, per say, did you come to this ridiculous conclusion?" Azazul asked. "Well," Ryuuk started, "I have killed far more humans in my lifetime than you have. You're only alive barely. The people you kill only have a year left on their life-span. You're more worried about 'disturbing the balance' than you are of your own life. I'd say that I am truly superior."
"Ryuuk, I'm going to give you one piece of advice." Azazul said before evaporating, then reappearing behind Ryuuk. He wrapped one of his long arms around his younger brother's neck to hold his head in place. His other hand reached around to Ryuuk's chest, where he dug one of his long nails through the thin skin.
Ryuuk let out a whimper of pain before trying to twist out of the hold, only proving to dig the nail in deeper. He felt Azazul bend forward so that his mouth was near Ryuuk's ear. "Never," he twisted his buried finger, "question my authority."
Then he was behind Kikiyomi again, back straight, as if nothing had happened. The only proof of the previous act was Ryuuk clutching at his chest and glaring at his brother. Kikiyomi looked at Azazul, shocked expression on her face.
He had never done anything so rash in the time that she had known him. He had always been so kind to her, and here he was, assaulting his younger brother. She just couldn't believe he would lose his cool over something so trivial.
Although she shouldn't be shocked. She had only known him for a couple of weeks. All she knew about him was that he was a Shinigami that created a notebook that killed people. With this in mind it wasn't surprising that he would attack his own brother. He was a murderer, even if he wasn't as bad as his younger sibling.
She shook the thoughts away. She didn't want to hate Azazul like she did Kira. Although she didn't trust him, she never had, he was still her friend. She was about to talk but was interrupted by the Shinigami. "I am truly sorry for scaring you, Kikiyomi." She wasn't really scared, just shocked, but let him continue.
"I know it looks bad but from our point of view it is not. Pain is a foreign feeling to the Shinigami, having been dead for many a year. So we welcome the sensation." Azazul explained calmly.
Light became tired of their interactions and once again began walking towards the front gate. "I'm sure we'll come into contact, Kikiyomi." Light told her quietly.
As Ryuuk followed behind him he shouted, "Hey, don't worry about that pain thing. To Zazu, it's like hugging." Kikiyomi nodded in reply. She turned away from their retreating forms, a large smirk across her face. "Come Azazul," she said, "we have some researching to do." Then she began her walk home, Azazul at her heels.
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I t had been a week since Kikiyomi met Kira and his Shinigami, and four days since she had started following them. When she had gotten home on the day that she had 'accidently' run into Kira, she had started researching.
His name was Light Yagami, Azazul told her. After she hacked into his school's mainframe she was able to see his student record. "Azazul, it seems that I misjudged Kira. According to this he is an extremely bright individual. Perfect scores for every year from seven years ago. Hmn... It says that his father is Soichiro Yagami. I wonder if that's chief of police, Soichiro Yagami, the one who looked after my father's suicide investigation."
"That would be quite a twist, would it not?" Azazul stated. "Kira as the chief's son, killing right under his father's nose. It would seem that Light is quite courageous."
Kikiyomi turned from her place at the PC, computer chair squealing in protest, to glare at Azazul. "Courageous?" She said furiously. "Kira is anything but courageous. He is murdering scum that should be removed from the face of this planet." Azazul stared at her, frown deepening.
"My dear Kikiyomi. I said that Light is quite courageous. Believe it or not, Kira and Light Yagami are two different people. Kikiyomi, you say that he is murdering scum, yet you killed your own parents, and I assume you are planning to dispose of more. How can you be so hypocritical?" He asked her.
"I'm not being hypocritical Azazul, I am doing what needs to be done. Clearly karma doesn't see what Kira is doing, or is just ignoring it. I cannot stand by and watch these people die. My parents were wretched people, just like Kira. Whoever dies now will simply be collateral for the big picture."
She turned back around to study the screen, halting any further conversation.
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Now she and Azazul were in the assembly hall of To-oh university, taking the entrance exam with Kira. She didn't want to go here, this university was child's play compared to the school that she wanted to go to, but sadly she had to do all she could to get close to Kira.
She looked at the question sheet and almost laughed at the questions showed. This was going to be too easy. "Are you sure you can do this?" Azazul asked from behind her. Yes. She wrote next to her answer before erasing it. "Let me rephrase that." He said. "Are you sure you can kill Kira? At first I would not have asked, but now that we know what we do... It may not be an easy task to accomplish." Shut up. Test. For the rest of the exam he left her alone, choosing instead to talk to Ryuuk.
After Kikiyomi completed the exam she left, hoping to avoid Light and any of his questioning. The second day that she'd followed him was when he figured it out. He knew she was following him, and she wanted him to. She wanted him to know that Kikiyomi wasn't your average stalker, that she was smarter than the rest.
Now he would want to know why she was stalking him, and frankly she did not want to talk to him more than she had to. He wouldn't be able to kill her yet; he didn't have her last name, and according to her Shinigami, Ryuuk wouldn't tell him. Azazul told her where he and Ryuuk stood in the whole Kira deal. Ryuuk was just along for the ride, he wouldn't interfere unless he absolutely had to. And Azazul would only do what Kikiyomi needed to defeat Kira.
As she walked out the main doors of the assembly she heard Kira call out to her. Apparently walking to the door like the building was on fire wasn't enough of a hint that she wanted to get away. So, being the clumsy, energetic and way-to-happy Kikiyomi that Kira knew her to be, she turned around with a big smile across her face.
"Light-kun!" She called out to him. As she walked in his direction, she 'accidently' dropped her new shoulder bag. She bent down to pick the contents off the floor but was stopped by someone's hand on her wrist, pulling her up from her crouched position. When she looked up she saw none other than Kira and his Shinigami.
"Ladies should never have to pick things up from the ground." He said to her, a small smile on his face. Stupid Kira and his woman using antics, she thought. She knew what he trying to do, he was trying to win her over and then use her for his evil plot to rule the world. That had to be the reason he was currently picking her books off the ground, didn't it? She would just have to play along. If he was using her, she wouldn't be playing into his trap. If he wasn't then he was acting like totally moronic love sick puppy.
He stood up and gave Kikiyomi back her bag, smile still in place. "Let's take a walk." He said, already walking away before she had time to answer. Once Ryuuk passed her Azazul joined her side. "He's not the patient kind, is he?" Azazul asked her. "Apparently not." She said before running to his side.
"So, What do you want to talk about Light-kun?" She asked him sweetly, mentally ticking off all the ways she could kill him, most of them torturously slow. Her favorite would have to be the one where he's chained to a metal slab in the middle of a science lab, with oh so many sharp utensils at her disposal.
"You can just call me Light, friends don't need to use formalities." He said to her. Well it's a good thing I'm not you're friend then, isn't it? She thought to herself. "Alright Light, what do you want to talk about?" He stopped walking and turned to her. "You seem awfully happy today. What's changed since last time we bumped into each other?"
"I was pretty down last time I met you." She answered. "My mother had another heart attack and died. My dad committed suicide. I was just really upset. But I've gotten better. I've been seeing a counsellor who's really helped."
"Heart attack?" He asked her with a raised eyebrow. "Not the book kind." She said quickly. "Just a normal, recurring heart attack." He started walking again and she followed closely. "I've noticed you've been following me." She laughed quietly. Nah, really? She thought.
"You saw?" She asked meekly. Ryuuk laughed out loud before being slapped upside the head by Azazul. Light nodded then said "I don't care for your reasons, you don't need to explain yourself." She looked up at his face as he walked. "I don't?" She asked in the same meek manner.
"No, you don't. I was suspicious to you and if when we met was any indicator, you were suspicious of me as well." He turned to her and smiled. "Did you find what you were looking for?"
Kikiyomi looked to ground and thought for a bit, watching her fitted leather shoes hit the gravel underneath them. "Yes." She said. "I believe I did." She turned her face to him, huge smile back in place. They both looked forward and walked for another hour, not really saying anything.
After their walk they said their good-byes, exchanged numbers and parted ways. Kikiyomi smirked darkly as she walked away, not knowing that Light was doing the same thing.
'And now we begin' They both thought, each of them finishing step one of their different plans.
A/N: I love Azazul and Ryuuk's relationship. They're so brotherly in a not-so-brotherly way...if that makes any sense -_-'
If you havn't noticed yet, Azazul is very ...protective of Kikiyomi. Even if she hasn't noticed yet XD...Bloody Light and his woman using antics!!
and 5up3r-MaNg0 is right...It kind of is like Kira vs. Kira...for one their both excellent actors.