Alright, the long-awaited 3rd chapter is now up and running! Forgive me for it taking so long, but our keyboard wasn't working. Then my computer wouldn't let me on fanfiction for two months! It was truly horrible, but I'm on now! Lets hope I haven't jinxed myself. Forgive me if there are still some errors.

At the beginning, there's a bit with Luna and her father, but her father plays an important role in the story later on, so make sure you pay attention.

Now I would so very deeply like to thank my first two reviewers for brightening my day! Keep those reviews coming...I feed of them!

Author: Sethrine

Title: Too Close For Comfort

Chapter Title: Nervous Anticipation

Chapter Summary: Another couple of days have gone by and Luna's more worried about other things, such as the new job her cousin is having her try out for. What she didn't expect was his boss, and she certainly didn't expect the detective on the other side of the screen...

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Death Note kind, yall!

~Though some may be seen on two different sides

Not one can help when their two worlds collide~

Beep...beep...beep...bee-

"Ok, I'm up, I'm up!" Luna shouted at her alarm clock while attempting to stop the device's annoying beeps by hitting the sleep button. Thought took several tries before she successfully shut off the annoying sound, Luna was finally successful, sighing and siting up in her bed.

"Hey, Papa, are you up?" she asked loudly, knowing that he already was. No matter what day of the week or how early she had something planned, her father seemed to already be awake and ready for the day.

"Kitchen," was answered after a second, and instantly Luna's mind thought of coffee.

She pulled the comforter and sheets from her body and stood on weak legs, lifting her arms above her head and stretching as far as she could, her back arching in the process. After regaining some limberness in her arms and legs, Luna slowly made her way out of the bedroom, down the staircase, and into the kitchen where she could smell the aroma of eggs and sausage being cooked.

"Hey, Sleepy Head," her father greeted warmly, poking his head out from the kitchen, "You want something? I've got breakfast cooking if you're hungry...."

Luna sat at the small table in the dinning room while laying her head against its smooth surface and groaning with a slight drawl, "Coffee…"

Her father smiled brightly and said in a scruffy voice, "I thought so. Just give me a minute, and I'll have it ready for you."

Clanking and small curses could be heard as her father scurried about the kitchen, Luna unable to hide the small, amused giggles that bubbled to the surface. He popped out of the kitchen a few minutes later with a cup of coffee in one hand and two plates filled with various breakfast items balanced in the other.

"Here you go, Pumpkin," he whispered, carefully placing both the cup and one of the plates in front of his daughter.

"Thank you, Papa," she replied as she looked up and spotted her breakfast before her, giving a lazy grin while picking up her fork.

He smiled once more as he watched his daughter take a few bites of her food before taking a sip of her coffee and sighing in satisfaction, finding a spot to sit beside her with his own food.

"Are you nervous?" her father asked suddenly, causing Luna to frown slightly. She set her fork down and held her coffee cup with both hands, gazing into the steaming, vanilla flavored liquid.

"A little, I guess. I'm just not sure how they're all going to accept me with me being so young…"

"You're not too young…"

"Papa, I'm seventeen. Everyone there has to be nearly seven or even eight years older than me, not to mention more experienced. I may be good, but I'm not that good."

"Don't worry so much," her father warned, "You're a very bright young woman, Luna, and it doesn't take a fool to see it. Skies can even help you if you need it. Speaking of Skies, where is that fairy? I haven't heard her all morning."

Luna's eyes lit up as she realized that she, too, had not seen nor heard her fairy since she had woken up."Hmm, I'm not sure. She said she had something to do and disappeared last night before I went to bed."

As if on cue, the fairy Guardian emerged seemingly out of nowhere with a look of anger and uncertainty on her face. Her Guardian was usually calm and collected around her, so it was strange to see such emotions just displayed on the dark fairy's face.

"Hey, Papa, she's here beside me, and she looks upset," Luna whispered, knowing her father could only hear Skies and could not see her. It had to do something with family ties through blood-relation, she was sure of that much, but otherwise, neither she nor Skies could explain why her father could actually hear her Guardian.

"What's going on, Skies? You seem upset."

"I do not think I can trust your 'new friend' at all, Luna, for reasons that you know and will soon find out."

Luna's father gave a quizzical look as Luna frowned a little more, though he made no notion to question what the two were talking about. Luna knew that Skies was speaking of one, Light Yagami, having been on-edge and more alert than ever since the confrontation. Luna didn't blame her; that man was very intimidating and almost suspicious in her eyes.

"I don't trust him, either, yet there's something about him.... I can't quite figure it out. It's been irritating me ever since that day we talked. What's going on now? What did you find out about him? I'm only assuming that last night you were gathering information on him..."

"You will find out on your own soon enough. Now, I suggest you make haste of your breakfast. We have only twenty-five minutes before…"

"Twenty-five minutes! I haven't even taken a shower yet!" Luna wailed, now fully awake. She quickly gobbled down the rest of her breakfast and gulped the rest of her coffee before rushing back up the stairs to get ready for her busy day. Her father laughed heartily while grabbing the cleared dishes.

"Hurry up, Pumpkin! You don't want to be late!"

~*~*~*~*~*~

"It seems you will make it on time after all," Skies drawled as Luna slowed her pace just slightly, glaring at her Guardian almost heatedly.

"Yeah, no thanks to you," Luna muttered before pulling her coat closer to her body, the wind having picked up a bit. It wasn't too terribly cold out, though she liked to keep her coat with her, just in case she really needed it.

"At least I tried to help. I did not know that your hair clip was so fragile to touch."

"Yeah, yeah, that's what you said last time when you broke my glass angel."

"How was I to know it would be so slippery!?"

"Duh! It's made of glass, you stupid Pixie! You could at least have asked me to move it for you!"

"'Stupid pixie'!? Well, I will have you know that your ass was already in bed and I did not want to wake you up to move something as simple as a…Luna, look out!"

Startled, Luna turned to see a black car screeching to a halt before her, people all about shouting exclamations of worry and fear. She looked down to see that the license plate barely grazed her leg, then looked back up into the face of a frightened young man. Her breath caught in her throat at such a simple yet scary look, knowing she probably looked the same.

"I-I'm so s-sorry," Luna stuttered while bowing slightly before running off across the street. She looked back a few times, fully worried that she had startled the man beyond comprehension. I wasn't until the black car was once again on it's way, this time more slowly than before, that she let out a relieved breath.

"And that is why I was sent to protect you," Skies whispered, swiping at an invisible spot on her dress as if impressed with herself.

Luna looked over at her shoulder where her fairy currently resided, a smile forming on her face knowingly. "I'm guessing you stopped the car? Please, remind me to never doubt you again..."

Skies gave a light nod and a smile of her own as Luna let out a heavy sigh.

The rest of the walk was silent as Luna continued to walk down the busy streets of Japan before she reached the police station she knew her cousin worked at. Luna gave a heavy sigh before entering the building, her nerves seeming to get the better of her at this point in time. She first went up to the receptionist desk, and, after finding out that where she needed to be was on the third floor, took the elevator by herself.

"Stay calm," Skies whispered, "I am sure you will do fine."

Luna pressed the button that led to the third floor before whispering as if to herself, "I'm so nervous! I hope I don't mess this up."

Skies eyed her human questioningly, wondering why her response sounded so off. It was then that she spotted a camera hidden in the top right corner behind them, something that didn't seem all that obvious to those entering.

"Ah, you seem to have found the camera device before I. Very good, Luna. I am very impressed with you."

Luna smiled lightly with the compliment and held her head a little higher.

The doors to the elevator finally opened after what seemed like forever, but the young blonde woman was reluctant to step out, still not quite comfortable with herself.

"Go on, Luna; I'm right beside you," Skies encouraged, patting her human lightly with her porcelain colored skin.

With that final push from her Guardian, she stepped out of the elevator and on to the brightly lit floor, taking in her surroundings. Most of the walls were light, earthy colors that looked warm yet serious at the same time. People bustled about here and there into roomy spaces with tables and chairs to find the information they needed for certain cases and whatever else they were working on at the time. Luna faintly wondered where exactly she was supposed to go until she heard someone call her name.

"Luna? Hey, Luna, over here!"

Luna turned to her right and spotted a young man with deep brown hair that reached his shoulders. He was wearing a dark grey suit with a tie and was smiling and waving at her, his movements overly enthusiastic.

"Matsuda!" she nearly screamed as she ran up to her cousin to lock him in a warm embrace, causing some people to stop in confusion and bewilderment at her suddenness.

"Oh, Matsuda, I've missed you so much!" she exclaimed as she pulled away, earning a sheepish grin from her family member. "How've you been?"

"Well, I've just been so busy, ya know, he he! Been on this one case for a while now... Tired, but other than that, pretty good. What about you?"

"Well, I guess I've been dong pretty good as of lately. I have exams in another week or so, and I've been so busy studying while I was at work; everyone asks me how I can handle all this stress. It's really funny, at least, in my opinion. I had never really though about it much to myself actually."

Matsuda smiled lightly at Luna, extending his hand in the opposite direction. "Well, we better get going. Don't want to keep anyone waiting, now do we?"

"I guess you're right. Let's go," she said with confidence, following Matsuda to what she believed was one of only a few interrogation rooms on that level. (1) She could see through the two-sided mirror on the outside of the room that two people were already in there, one of them cloaked in a trench coat and hat and having a laptop right in front of him. The other, who was dressed in a simple dark grey suit and looked to be a much older, more respectable man was now walking out of the room to greet them.

"Ah, Matsuda, I see your cousin has arrived," the man said in a deep, kind voice, something Luna, for some strange reason not even known to herself, had not expected.

"Oh, yes! Sorry about that! Luna, this is my boss, (2)Yagami, Soichiro; Boss, this is my cousin, Deril, Luna."

Skies' eyes widened when she heard the last name of Matsuda's boss, and her human tensed beneath her. If what this man said of his name was true, then that meant he was-

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Yagami," Luna whispered, shocked to hear that the last name of the man before her was the same as his. He bowed back in greeting, his greying mustache turning up slightly when he smiled.

"Nice to meet you, as well. I've heard so much about you from Matsuda. So, are you ready, Luna?" Mr. Yagami asked, Luna's nerves yet again getting the better of her at the simple question. Skies, who had been quietly listening in the whole time, could feel her human's fear radiating off her small form.

"Do not be so afraid or worried of what is going to happen," she whispered reassuringly, "I will be right here when you need me."

Luna nodded her head and whispered lightly, "Can Matsuda come in with me?"

"I'm afraid I cannot allow it due to the possibility of Matsuda coaxing your judgment. It's just protocol."

"But I'd never…" Matsuda began quickly to defend himself, stopping when his cousin interrupted.

"That's fine," Luna said a little shakily, "I just wanted to know."

She turned to the door of the interrogation room, looking over her shoulder while giving a semi-fake smile and saying, "Wish me luck!" before entering the room.

She had figured that Mr. Yagami was the one that would ask her the questions, but when the door shut behind her instead of the older man following her, she was a little worried and confused at the same time. The cloaked figured that sat across the table made no notion to stand, but opened the laptop instead and turned it in her direction, causing her eyes to widen at what she saw on the screen.

The background was a pale, unbelievably white backdrop, but that wasn't what astounded her into speechlessness. It was the single black capitalized letter in the Old English font found on most any computer in the middle of the completely white screen that had her full attention.

Seriously? This...this really couldn't be right, could it? Because, if she were correct in her assumption, then the person behind the screen was none other than-

"L..."

A sudden, raspy, higher pitched voice that was obviously computerized echoed throughout the room, shaking the blonde out of her revery. She stared at the screen for a moment, now registering the fact that her name had just been said aloud.

"Y-yes?"

"Please, have a seat."

Alright! Yet another chapter up, with much work, might I add...

(1) – I'm not sure exactly how to describe the building, so I just added my own personal things to it that I thought were necessary. Forgive me if I'm wrong on any of it.

(2) - I used the last name/first name thing that the Japanese use, or, so think...

Again, thank you all for reading! Please review; I would greatly appreciate it!