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you know the drill

pull up a chair, crack open a drink,and watch it come

Chappy 5

…Ryouko?

"Why are you here?" Chibi said after wiping the crumbs on her hands from the cookie. L had sat down on the chair, his legs brought up closely to his chest. Chibi was already used to her brother's quirks.

She had asked him before why he sat like that. His response of course was because if he didn't sit like that his thinking ability would decrease by forty percent, or something of the sort. Chibi didn't really believe it, until she tried it once, and sure enough it helped her with one of the many ninja tests, and had also earned many stares from fellow classmates. The only problem was that it was a strain on the back. L had done it his entire life; his back was already used to it.

So, L sat his usual way.

And stared.

"I thought I had explained that earlier or does your shadow clone have the same attention span as a goldfish?" the detective propped another piece of cheesecake into his mouth.

'Okay maybe I should've asked a better question' the teen thought. "You know what I mean!"

"Please be more specific next time," he said. The fork was left into his mouth as he looked up to the ceiling to contemplate. "Does this mean you accept?"

"Yes! Ryuzaki, I thought you said this was important. Tell me what exactly is going on?" Chibi wanted to know what was being done, what will be going on, and when it will be going on. If what L said was true, that some ninjas were in the whole heart attacks conspiracy, then this was a case that has to be dealt with now rather than later. L took the fork out of his mouth and used it to get a piece of the cheesecake but, he did not lift it up. He looked back at the teen.

"You're going to work with two others," he said, placing the piece on cheesecake into his mouth. Chibi raised one eyebrow, "Just two? I thought you said you formed a group." L shifted his gaze, for it had moved towards his dessert, and once again looked at her.

"Yes, I have, which consists of you, and two others, thus forming a group."

Chibi mentally hit her head. She had forgotten how conversations with L were. She had to talk to him properly. And what proper way than shaking your brother back and forth by the shoulders in order for him to understand you're serious?

"L!!"

The detective merely shook on cue when pushed, seeming disinterested. "I thought you would grow out of this habit," he said while being shaken.

"As you can see I have not" Chibi said but nonetheless stopped shaking her brother. L resumed sitting in his position and took another sweet from the others, acting as if he, the greatest detective on earth, had not just been shaken back and forth.

"Another ninja died today, making the total of heart attacks twenty-four" L said.

"…do you think there's a possibility of someone using a forbidden justsu?" Chibi suggested. After all that seemed the most possible thing to explain why people were clutching their chest and falling left and right. For a moment L stared blankly at Chibi as if he did not know what she had just said. Then he shook his head side to side.

"I do not believe that whoever is behind this is using your type of skills to do these kinds of killings. Since you have agreed to work with me I can now disclose this information to you…" L began, only to be interrupted.

"Even if I didn't work with you, you'd still give the information" Chibi said crossing her arms. L gave Chibi a reprimanding look, he was not amused. Chibi lowered her head, "sorry, continue."

"The first victims were two, both male, and they were from the same city, which I only conclude that the one who caused the heart attacks also lived there and that these petty criminals where just experiments. I believe at first that the one who was behind these murders was human, or rather just a normal person. But soon after, something happened that alerted this person of the existence of ninjas. The question is, why would this murderer target ninjas seeing as they have not done anything to him or her." Somewhere in his explanation his thumb found its way to L's lips, "There's no drug being inserted either…" the detective said, mostly to himself. He seemed to have forgotten that Chibi was still in the room. But that was because Chibi was also doing her own calculations, muttering to herself.

"Twenty-four dead, including the ninjas; twenty out of the twenty-four were mass criminals, the ninjas included, who where wanted criminals through-out the ninja countries; out of the remaining four two where petty thieves and the other two…." Chibi made a face at this point. She looked up at L who had the fork back in his mouth.

"Who were the remaining two that you didn't categorized?" she asked, finally remembering that L had not properly said what those two victims had in common that separated them from the others. L, after finishing the whole cheesecake, put the fork down and then used the now free hand to grab a cup of tea. The teen just looked at L as he added cube after cube of sugar into his tea.

"I think it's time you met the other two who will accompany you" he said taking a sip, still finding that it lacked sugar. If Chibi didn't know L better, she'd say that he was avoiding answering her that question. Fine, she reasoned that sooner or later she'll get the answer, and she would make sure it would be sooner rather than way later. Instead she settled for a different question

"So remind me again why I am going to be in a group of three people instead of my own army"

"I never thought my sister would want an army to rule over. Perhaps being here has turned you into a power hungry ninja"

Chibi just shrugged. In response, L got up from his sitting position to his usual crouch.

"Come, I will explain along the way" he said as he headed for the door. Chibi followed suit. The detective opened the door and walked through. On the other side, two ninja guards were waiting on both sides of the door. When they saw L, they bowed down.

"Ryuzaki-san, are you finding everything to your liking?" the one to L's right said. Before he answered, the other added "Would you like more sweets sent to your room?"

L shook his head. "No more sweets are needed for now. We are going to the village gates" he said walking past the two ninjas. Chibi started to walk as well when one of the guards called out "Hey wait a minute! Chibi, how did you get into Ryuzaki-san's room?!"

'Crap,' she froze where she stood. She debated on whether to make a run for it, taking L with her, or to stay and see what story her brother makes up. Most of her told her to not run because if she took L along people are going to think that she kidnapped him. Plus L would be mad. So Chibi stayed exactly the way she was, staring at L's back. The detective had not turned around just merely stopped moving as well.

"Well, Chibi?" the one on the left said, "what's your story this time?"

"She's my personal escort" L immediately said. Both guards turned to look at Ryuzaki. "She's to accompany me to the gates."

The guards just gawked at him. The one to the right cleared his throat "Are you sure you don't want another ninja more…suitable?"

Chibi narrowed her eyes "Jealous" she said. The ninja scoffed at her while the other chuckled at Chibi's response.

"Are you implying that not all your ninjas are exceptional? That there are some ninjas are not worth depending on? That you train bad ninjas?" L said as he turned around to look at the guard who said that. He stared at the ninja with his black, onyx eyes.

The guards just shook their heads.

"Come, Chibi-san" Ryuzaki said. Both of them got out of the building and headed for the village's main gates.

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The sun was already past the horizon so the sky was now a casting a fiery red color. Everything was calm as the day slowly transformed into night.

And Chibi was annoyed.

L had not spoken since coming out of the building. She had not said a word either, waiting patiently (very patiently) for her brother to start first. Apparently though, she couldn't wait anymore.

"…Now?" was all she asked. L kept walking. They were almost at the gate.

"The reason I am only having three people go investigate is because this case calls for finesse more so than force. I will tell more when I have all three of you in front of me, that way I won't have to repeat myself" L said. Chibi nodded. They soon arrived at the village's gate. Chibi looked around but found no one.

"Where…" but before she finished her sentence, something moved by the bushes. Chibi turned to find someone standing from their position on the ground. L merely tilted his head to look.

"I apologize for the wait Ryouko, but there was the matter of informing this person of the mission" L said in his stoic tone, while moving his head to indicate the person he was talking about was the ninja teen. Chibi didn't really pay attention at what L said, she was studying the new person who would be her new comrade.

Ryouko was the around the same age as Chibi. She had short, black hair but not "wind-blown" like Chibi's. This new teen wore a pair of glasses as well, but her's were not round like Chibi's. She wore a black attire contrast to Chibi's green clothing.

And…Ryouko did not automatically respond when she was called so. Chibi wondered about that.

"Ryouko, I would like you to meet the ninja who will be joining you; Chibi-san," he shifted his body to indicate Chibi, "Chibi-san, this is Ryouko, a skilled person in guns." Chibi did not fail to notice the sudden formalities L was using. So she had to use them as well.

"Nice to meet you, Ryouko" Chibi said, slightly tilting her head. Again, it seemed Ryouko had to think before she responded.

"Same here" she said. Ryouko quickly looked over Chibi.

"I have to say Ryuzaki, I didn't believe you when you said you were going to enlist the help of a ninja" she said.

"I wouldn't say something I didn't mean" L said biting his thumb. He did so because he saw Chibi spacing out.

"Something wrong Chibi-san?" he asked in a not so interested voice. The ninja shifted her gaze on Ryouko and then at her brother. There was still one thing that was bugging her.

"No"

Liar

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Click…Click……Click…………

Ping!

…Click

For hours, he has been searching, but nothing, not even a picture was found. Light leaned back and sighed.

"Has Light-kun figured out who this person is?" the blond said. Light narrowed his eyes but his back was facing Misa so she couldn't see him. Light wanted to yell every time he heard her annoying voice. He forced himself to sound composed.

"Not yet Misa," Light said as he stretched to seem cool and calm. He looked around and found himself dreading being where he is.

They were staying in a rundown apartment building that had been neglected by everyone in the city. The city had many buildings of the sort and so Light positioned many people in different old apartments like the one he was in to have a better chance of finding something out about this one person that their Leader so desperately wanted gone. There was little chance of police finding them out.

Before they arrived, Light had dug his and Misa's notebook nearby so when they leave the city he would be able to pick both of them up.

"…my poor notebook," a bored Shinigami whined.

If only he could've buried Ryuk with the notebook as well…

Misa smiled at Ryuk, "Have an apple Ryuk!" and she gave the puppy a bone.

Light wanted to hit his head multiple times on the only working thing in the building, that being the computer, in hopes of getting amnesia. But then the Leader would find no use of him and just kill him for fun.

"The Leader is creating the perfect world"

"Yeah, the perfect world for us!"

Light raised an eye brow. The voices were coming from the men guarding his room's door. 'How naïve' Light thought shaking his head.

As long as there were people like that hooded man, there would be no perfect world.

This coming from the person who wanted a perfect world, oh the irony.

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To be Continued

A/N:well…………yeah……I think this may be a filler ;