A/N: Sorry for the long update, I haven't been in a writing mood lately. It didn't help that this chapter was rather slow either. I changed the summary after discovering that we can have longer summaries than we could before.

Also: I'd like to give this story a cover, but I draw traditionally, and I don't have a working scanner. So, I'm asking you guys. If you are willing to give this story a cover, PM me. I can give you Sarah's physical traits and how I would prefer it looked like. I prefer that the drawing is drawn digitally, or at least gone over after scanning it. Honestly, I don't expect to get any responses for this, but it doesn't hurt to try. -shrugs-

Well, enjoy chapter seven~

"Say, Light, what's it like being Kira?" I questioned the mass murderer from my spot on his floor, which is where I have remained for the past two hours. Light was sleeping in his bed - well, trying to sleep. I wasn't exactly helping him any.

I continued on when I didn't get an answer. "Do you get guilty at all? Must be stressful… Juggling the life of a genius and a murderer can really wear one down."

Light shifted under the comforter of his bed, his face twisting into an frustrated expression. "Sarah, I need to sleep. I'm not answering any questions about being Kira because you're also an acquaintance of L, as I've said for the fifth time tonight."

"They say impatience and irritation can force people to talk, even if they don't want to. Not to mention you didn't give me any blankets or pillows. What kind of host are you, disrespecting your guest like this?"

His eyes opened halfway to glare at me. I stared back innocently, sitting criss-cross on his bedroom floor. "Well?"

Light sighed deeply and turned the opposite direction of me. "Again, as I've said for the sixth time tonight, I keep spare blankets and pillows in the closet. I can't help that you don't feel like feeling around the room to find the closet."

I crossed my arms. "Well, since you're the one who can see the closet, maybe it would be a lot easier if you got up and got them for me."

The comforter was kicked off his body as Light finally gave up. "I'll get you a blanket and some pillows. Happy?"

"Only took you two hours," I muttered dryly and stretched my legs out, keeping myself supported with my elbows.

Two blankets and a pillow were thrown to me after Light opened the closet. Honestly, he acts like getting these sort of things is torture. I just needed some blankets to sleep with. Oh well, what more do you expect from Kira of all people?

The mass murderer settled himself back on his bed, his eyes closed as he tried to keep his composure. Tan fingers found his temple and began to lightly massage it. "Now go to sleep, alright?"

"Of course. Kira's word is law," I chirped and wrapped myself up in the blanket before adding in a lower voice, "Not really. You know you're kind of nuts for doing something like this?"

He paused, as if trying to decide if disclosing information like that is safe. "…I'm doing the world a favor. The society we live in is rotten and impure, so I'm cleansing it." Light turned over, pulling the covers back over himself.

"Hn," I mused and tilted my head away from Light. "L's doing the same thing. And guess what? He's not murdering anyone."

"L's way takes too long. Plus just locking them up in prison isn't proper justice. Scum like them don't deserve to live." Light tilted his head over his shoulder to eye me. "Any other questions?" His tone was bitter and dripping with sarcasm.

"Do you plan on killing L?" I asked quietly, mockingly. I managed to keep my gaze even and innocent, but he even knew at this point that I enjoyed getting under his skin. Perhaps even more than I liked getting under L's.

His eyes narrowed. "That's something you can figure out yourself. Who is the detective working to capture Kira? The one who is working on bringing the being that is trying to help the world to unneeded justice? Answer those questions and you can figure it out."

Before I could reply, a white shinigami phased through the ceiling - the same white shinigami from the surveillance cameras earlier.

Ryuk craned his neck its direction, his crooked smile widening. "Rem!"

Light's eyes widened in surprise, even fear. I can't say I blamed him. The shinigami was eyeing him with murderous eyes. What could he have done to set a god of death off?

"Light Yagami…" Rem began lowly, glaring at him with her gold eyes. "Misa has given up her ownership of the death note."

Light pushed himself up quickly. He looked even more nervous, as if talking could land his name in her death note right now. But the fear wasn't exactly evident anymore - just impatience and irritation.

Rem went on, her gaze clouding with sadness. "I offered to remove her restraints and let her go free…"

I stifled a snort. Had I been in that situation, Envy would have made a joke out of it. Perhaps acted like she pitied me just to make me feel worse. Strangely, I like her twisted personality. She's almost like the female counterpart of Ryuk.

Rem's voice shook me from my thoughts. "But she only shook her head from side to side. She must have thought the existence of shinigami and special powers would cause problems for you." Her eyes hardened with hatred for the most powerful human on Earth right now. "And when she reached her psychological limit, she asked me to kill her so she wouldn't be forced to talk."

She pointed an accusing finger at the brunette. "It was all so that you would love her."

"…" Light was holding himself up with his palms, glaring at Rem through caramel locks of hair. For once he was speechless.

"…Even though she asked me, I couldn't kill Misa. And I couldn't continue watching. There was only one way to save her from that suffering…" She paused to read Light's expression - obviously annoyed but too nervous to talk at the same time.

Satisfied, she continued, "Give up the death note and all memories related to it. Memories of killing with the death note and of Light Yagami as Kira would be lost. She won't be able to betray any secrets. And while she won't be able to see me or Ryuk… Her undying love you will remain. I told this to Misa. I asked her if she wanted to do this, and she smiled and nodded before losing consciousness."

Even I couldn't find something to say. It was too good, too interesting. The battle between L and Kira, the shinigami and the rules, all the emotions and the cruelness of it all… It was like a soap opera. A sick, twisted soap opera that I have front row seats to. Even have a role in it if I see it fit for me to.

While I've only known Light and L for a day… I can't help but feel a rush of adrenaline at knowing these people are the people on everyone's minds. Kira: the person who's murdering criminals all around the globe. For some, a savior. For some, a serial killer. L: the person who's working on bringing Kira to justice. For some, a hero. For some, Kira's Judas.

Knowing I've met both of these people… It's almost like meeting your favorite celebrity. It's wrong, but that's honestly how I feel. Hey, at least I'm not getting adrenaline rushes from committing murder like my psychotic brother did.

Light swallowed and smiled up at the white shinigami, an arrogant glint in his eyes. "Well done, Rem. I also believed this was the only way. I was trying to figure out how to get that message to you and Misa." He spoke as if he was praising a puppy that could eat him alive at any moment - calmly and carefully. "With her memories erased, it's not impossible for Misa to be released."

Rem's gold eyes were thoughtful. "Light Yagami… You don't have a way to get the name of this L person, but I knew this was what you would want most at this time. And so I offered it to Misa on one condition…" She pointed a bony, white finger right in Light's face. "…If you don't save Misa, I'll kill you."

"Aaaand scene!" I clapped enthusiastically. "Great job, both of you."

Rem eyed me with curiosity and amusement, while Light just rolled his eyes and tilted his head the other direction. "Sarah Birthday? You can see me?"

"Yep, that's right." I propped the pillow up against the wall and leaned into it. "I'm not going to get into how…"

"You have the ancient soul-seeing eyes of the shinigami, correct?" Rem questioned and turned towards me.

I eyed Light. He was frozen, just simply watching Rem from the corner of his eye until it was his turn to speak again. Not that he was in any rush. This thing was threatening to kill him, after all.

"Yeah…" I looked up at her curiously; she's the first shinigami I've met besides brain-dead Envy that recognized them. "Do you know about them?"

Rem nodded slightly. "Yes. Shinigami used soul-seeing eyes back before humans came into existence. The color of an animal is more vibrant the more life they have left in them, while ones near death were more dull in color."

My eyes contemplated the ceiling at this. It's true - some souls were duller than others were. I've never really paid attention to it before because I didn't see it as an issue. I glanced at Light. His soul was a bright, vibrant blue - looks like he's got a lot of living left to do. Just what the world needs.

Rem continued on. "Back then, shinigami actually had to go to the human realm and suck the color out of the souls using our eyes. This added on to our lifespan. Because animals didn't have set names, death notes were pointless. They didn't come into existence until humans came, who were much more creative than animals, able to create names for one another…"

Envy snorted from the corner of the room she was sitting it. "You know more than I do, that's for sure."

I ignored Envy and dragged my eyes back down to the ivory shinigami. "If you can just get life from animals, why bother with people?" I asked, folding my arms behind my head.

"Animals don't live as long as humans do, so naturally we would kill the creatures with the most lifespan. We started killing them by draining their souls, but our eyes and technology adapted to easier methods of killing your kind. Before humans came around, adding on to our lifespan was quite exhausting. It was truly survival of the fittest." Rem's golden eyes were mystified and full of thought. "Interesing that you have them… I honestly didn't know we were capable of giving those to humans."

I motioned towards the skeletal figure of Envy. "She gave them to me because I'm blind… And something about the other humans with death notes being too boring... Sorry, Bright-Light." I smirked inwardly at the nickname I had come up with and brushed some hair out of my blue eyes.

"Ah, yes… As I was saying…" Rem averted her attention back to the caramel-haired Kira. "Light Yagami, I will kill you if you don't get Misa free. That I promise you."

Light cleared his throat quietly. "I can already pretty much guess what L will do next; it shouldn't really be a problem…" He paused for a moment before looking back up, glaring with certain and confident eyes at his own shinigami. "I guess this is goodbye, Ryuk…"

Ryuk's gold eyes widened with surprise. "Huh?"

Light pushed himself up off his bed and stretched before reaching down and grabbing a casual black jacket and pants off the floor.

"I have a plan…" He eyed me for a brief moment before looking back at Rem. "I'll get the answers I need on the way."

The caramel-haired Kira strolled over to the desk and pulled out the top drawer. He took a pencil out of his pencil holder on his desk, sticking it under the same drawer and gently pressing up, revealing a secret compartment. I watched him curiously as he retrieved two black books from the drawer and covered them up with the clothes in his arms. He caught me watching and sighed. "Sarah, you're staying here."

"That's a shame," I muttered dryly. "What's the reason this time?"

Light slipped the coat on over his black sleep shirt, tucking the notebooks away into an interior pocket. "The obvious one - you're an acquaintance of L." He motioned for Rem and Ryuk to follow him as he started for the door, stepping over me as if I was just a book lying on the floor. "By the time we come back, you'll probably be asleep… Just stay in my room and don't wander around, alright?"

"Aye-aye, captain…" I said quietly in reply, saluting towards him as he walked out the door.

Ryuk and Rem exchanged glances before shrugged simultaneously and phasing through the wall together. I waited a solid five or so minutes, just to make sure they were gone. After assuring myself they were out of the house, I rolled over onto my back, eyeing a purple entity in the pitch black nothingness. I hissed towards it. "Envy!"

She was laying on Light's bed, half of her body hanging of the end, her gold eyes staring at nothing in particular. At the sound of my voice, however, they snapped up at me expectantly. "It's about time you spoke up. Lemme guess. You want to follow them?"

I felt my mouth stretch into an amused grin. "You know me so well, Envy. Do you think we can find them?"

The god of death stretched before sitting up normally. "Shouldn't be too hard if we fly."

I frowned. "Do I look like I have wings?"

"Relax, you can ride on my back."

"You look like you'd fall apart if I touched you," I muttered before pushing myself up. "Okay, anything is better than nothing."

"You'd better open the window or something." She motioned towards the small window beside Light's desk. "You can't phase through things like I can."

"I can't see," I deadpanned. "Maybe you don't know me as well as I thought you do."

"Oh, right. Sorry." Envy floated over to where the window must be and pushed it open with ease. She is an eight-foot tall god of death, after all. Opening windows is easier than breathing. "It's open. We have to hurry or else they'll get too far ahead."

"Uh, okay…" I stood up and put my arms out, feeling the area around me to make sure I don't bump into anything.

After carefully trailing my hands over Light's desk and computer chair, I was standing at the window sill. Envy had phased through the wall so that she was floating outside, waiting for me to climb on. Her head craned backwards to look at me. "Just climb on. Oh yeah, and don't let go. My reflexes aren't good so I can't catch you if you fall."

"Thanks for the advice, Envy," I mumbled before slowly easing myself out so that I was perching on the windowsill, staring at the rotting, skeletal back in front of me.

I hesitated. Although I couldn't see how high I up I was, I knew the house at least had two floors. I figured that a fall from that height could be enough to break an arm - or worse. If I don't get this right, I could be seriously injured. Not to mention Kira would get mad that I fell out his window. That would be a huge inconvenience for him.

Also not to mention he's got shinigami buddies that could kill me if he said it could help this Misa girl… I gulped and grabbed the sides of the window to keep from teetering. I have to get this right.

"Sarah, what are you waiting for? Hurry up!" Envy said impatiently, looking back at me with her four eyes.

"Shut up, if you fall you don't break anything!" I snapped, slowly inching myself out further. I nearly fell all the way, which made me gasp, before grabbing the house behind me to steady myself again.

"I can't fall, I can float," Envy said smugly.

"My point exactly…" I swallowed down my fear. Okay. You can do this. I couldn't stand going slow anymore; it was making things worse. So I took a different approach. I leaped off of the window sill and landed in an awkward straddling position on Envy's back.

My heart was thudding in my chest, and I was panting heavily, even though I barely did anything. As I tried to allow myself to relax, pieces connected in my head. "Wait a second… Won't it look like I'm floating through the air because they can't see you?""

"Oh yeah," Envy said blankly in reply. "Guess it's good that it's three o'clock at night, right?"

"We're in Tokyo, Envy. This city is so big that time isn't an issue. People are awake no matter what the hour," I muttered. "What are we going to do?"

"I see Rem!" Envy interrupted me and pointed up at the night sky.

"What? Where?" I followed her finger. It's true - a shinigami was flying off over a nearby forest. And it was an ivory white, which is similar to the color the female shinigami is.

"Where she flew out of is in flying distance from here. Normally I wouldn't be interested, but this whole Kira thing really has me amused. It's like watching TV for humans," Envy confessed.

"We can talk about that later," I hissed and lowered myself against her back, trying to ignore the fact Envy and I shared the same feelings about the Kira case.

Despite my feelings about being seen, curiousity overcame me and urge me forward. "Hurry, before someone sees us!"

And with that, Envy dove down before gliding up, her tattered wings flapping beside me. I clenched my eyes shut and tightened my grip on her back, my hands grabbing clothed, yellowed bones so I wouldn't go flying as she dove down again. She was flying awfully fast, which is good considering I don't want to be caught floating in mid-air. Hopefully anyone who happened to see me just thought they were seeing things or were crazy.

Before I knew it, Envy informed me that they had landed in a fairly dense forest. Light and Ryuk were in eyesight, but she was intelligent enough to land behind a cluster of bushes so I wouldn't get caught.

Still, I didn't even want to take the chance, so I whispered up at Envy. "What's going on?"

"Light's digging, and Ryuk's just standing there and watching," she drawled absently, as if the shinigami was too caught up in observing them to give me a more thorough answer.

"Digging?" I hissed irritably at the fact I didn't get enough information. "Why?"

"I dunno, want me to go over and ask him?" Envy answered dryly before adding on, "Hold on, he's doing something…"

A few more seconds passed before Envy spoke again. "He's burying a death note!"

I blinked in surprise. "Huh? Burying a death note?" I put emphasis on those words to show my disbelief. I snorted quietly. "Kira is burying a death note?"

"I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's what he's doing," Envy replied with a shrug. A pause, before, "He's just standing there, talking to Ryuk now. The death note is covered with dirt already."

"Buried the death note, huh…" I strained my ears to hear what they were saying, but all I heard was Light talking about his watch he apparently got from his dad after he graduated high school.

I'd definitely like to get a hold of that death note he buried… But it can't be that easy, right? Surely it's not that simple, or else Light would have never buried it. What if it's still in possession of one of those shinigami? I zoned off in my thoughts, staring at nothing in particular. Envy said once that a notebook is in possession of human as soon as a notebook touches Earth and a human picks it up. Even if I do dig it up, it'll still be Light's… What if he has some sort of supernatural way to track me? Or what if Ryuk or Rem does? I clutched my thick, raven hair in frustration. This is all so confusing!

"Busy, sister?" A familiar voice spoke behind me, startling me and causing me to fall backwards. My hands flew out instinctively, catching myself before I fell into scattered leaves behind me. Luckily I didn't make much noise, or I'd be dead right now.

I tilted my head backwards to make eye contact with my brother, who was standing above me. "Beyond!" I hissed. "I'm doing something; I can't talk!"

Beyond's eyes trailed up to look at Light. "Kira-sama the second? No wait, this must be the first Kira. L had that Misa girl strapped up like that because the second Kira can supposedly kill with just a face. It's only naturally that you would strap them up like a psychopath…" He trailed off.

The way he talked like that, all intelligent… It's very similar to L. I shrugged.

Well, he was succeeding him at some point. It's only natural that he would think and talk like him... Actually, that could come in handy later...

I shook away my thoughts; that could wait for later. I looked up at Envy. "Are they gone yet?"

Envy blinked her four eyes in surprise; it appeared that she wasn't paying attention either. Her gaze instantly snapped up to the small forest clearing. "Oh… Yeah, they're gone. Sorry."

I hesitated. "Go make sure."

Envy sighed and phased through the bushes. She gazed off to the left. "Yeah, they just walked off."

"We have to beat them back… But this is my only chance…" I muttered to myself. My eyes snapped up. "Beyond, Envy, dig up the death note. Quick, we have to get back before Light does."

"A death note? Impressive, sister," Beyond praised before phasing through the bushes and walking over to where Envy was started to upset the patch of freshly disturbed earth.

I rolled me eyes. "I'm not going to play Kira, so don't get too excited."

"You want the death note for a reason." Beyond looked over his shoulder and smirked. "They can't do anything else besides kill, so what else would you do with it?"

I didn't have a response to that. "...Start digging. Like I said, we have to get back before they do."

I parted the bushes enough for me to watch them more clearly as Envy began to dig more vigorously with Beyond soon joining, dirt flying in random directions. Had anyone else been in the area right now they would see dirt flying with no one causing it. I worried my bottom lip with my teeth, hoping that Light wasn't in eyesight anymore.

Suddenly, Envy stood back up, something in her grasp. "Sarah, we got it!" Envy called. She held up a black death note.

Already?

"Must have been a shallow hole…" I murmured to myself before raising the volume in my voice. "Envy, hold on to it and put the dirt back in the hole."

"What are you planning, sister?" Beyond questioned, amused as he began to return the earth to the indention in the ground.

I pulled my knees against my chest and folded my arms across, resting my head on them. My pale blue eyes were thoughtful and absent. "I don't know yet…"

All I know is I want that death note…

A/N: I realize this chapter was rather slow, but I assure you that this will be important later. Envy flying with Sarah was stretching it a bit, but Sarah would consent to this considering the situation. As far as I know, there isn't anything that says a shinigami can't carry a human on its back. If you find something that proves me otherwise, then I'll figure something out. As for Sarah wanting the death note... for now you'll only have to guess.

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