Big hello to my new follower My Mind Is Blank, thank you so much for your support you gave me the encouragement to start chapter twelve ^.^ I am also going to try and shorten the chapters a little bit here on out for you all just so there isn't such a mass to read in one hit.
I pulled the car over and got out in front of a club that was famous for massages with happy endings. Somewhere from here 'til the next thirty miles was Lawliet and I was going to find him. I looked down at the map and looked at the various dots, each dot was a different coloring to separate the different buildings the tracking device had been. I had to assume it was a phone or something similar. The club was the first dot on my map and so I had to start here. Being a gay man and having no interest in women meant entering a club like this was going to be the epitome of uncomfortable, I was going to have to be sly about this I was going to have to work my way into the building without being noticed and hope for the best. I swallowed hard and just as I took my first steps the phone in my pocket started to ring. I quickly pulled it out and answered it
"Light" I said looking up at the building trying to work out if there were another way in
"It seems you and I are yet to meet Light Yagami"
I froze that voice it sounded just like Lawliet with an essence of psychotic. It had to be B.
"Where are you and what have you done to L?" I asked firmly
He began laughing, I wasn't sure what he found most funny but his laugh was something I would never forget, pure evil, crazy ,you could hear the masochist inside of him.
"I haven't done anything to L, not yet anyway but if you don't follow my instructions I will slice his fucking throat open and drink the blood that pours from him and then I will kill those boys of yours right in front of you and then I will kill you and bathe in the crimson beauty that is your life source"
"Listen here you psychopathic freak I will hunt you down and tear you from limb to limb you have no fucking idea who you are messing with, If you do as much as touch a hair on Lawliet or those kids I will make sure you suffer, you will beg me to end your pathetic God forsaken life" I replied growling through clenched teeth
I was mad, I was pissed off and I was hell bent on revenge. If it was a war that he wanted I was going to give him a war and he was going to wish he had choose someone else to piss off.
"God forsaken? You spend your days fucking a man and you are calling me God forsaken, well that is something to laugh about, Light Yagami you are what I would call the pot, you are the pot calling the kettle black, you're the only one who is tainted here Light Yagami, you and that disgusting creature I call my brother oh and Light Yagami …I can see you" and then the psychopathic laugh.
I paused; my pulse pounded hard against my throat, sweat formed on my forehead and ran off the back of my neck and cascaded down my back. I turned around quickly and shifted my glance from one building to the next trying to see if I could see him somewhere.
"For an intelligent man you really are fucking stupid, do you honestly think I would make myself visible to you? Now you listen very closely, and pay attention. I am willing to release L and disappear forever I will even go as far as guaranteeing both L and the children's safety, in exchange for your life, really I don't give fuck who ends up dead but I can see you are willing to risk your neck to save him so I will give you a deal. You have forty eight hours to find me, I will give you clues and if you are as smart as this piece of shit brother here has told me you are then you will have no problems tracking me down. If you do not find me in that forty eight hour time gap I will cut his fucking throat and feast on his blood and the only thing you will have left of him is his fucking head on a stake. Do you understand?"
"Give me your clue you fucked up monster" I growled again
"Follow the red brick road Light Yagami, follow the red brick road and you will get your next clue, your time starts now"
He phone went silent, he had hung up. Of course I was willing to trade places with Lawliet, even if it meant I would be killed. After all he had done for me I could think of nothing more than to put my life up to save his. I didn't have the first clue what the red brick road was I had never heard of it before but I had less than forty eight hours to figure it out.
"Follow the red brick road"
I repeated to myself and tried to think. I had to think like a madman, if I were him I would have made the clue cryptic, it wouldn't be such an obvious answer. I would come to the conclusion that it was not physically speaking a red brick road; it had to be a street or something popularly known. He wouldn't have given me a clue that was impossible because if he were truly watching me he would have got pleasure in watching me being frantic and trying to come up with a logical answer. I heard stories about Osaka in the turn of the century it had been a place only the bravest men dared to visit. It was primarily ruled by two drug lords who had both been from separate families and it was a war to control Osaka. There was a bloodbath every day and soon enough so many of their lackeys had been killed that the war had come to point where the two drug lords had come head to head in combat, the history books had said that the roads had been paved with red after both drug lords had killed each other. That had to be, it would be the type of sick story that would probably give B a hard-on. If I had started to think more like B I was sure I was going to find Lawliet, it wasn't exactly hard, I had been a killer once and I too had a messed up psychotic mind I had got to a point where I didn't care who died just as long as someone did and that is how B thought. I had no idea where in Osaka this story had come from but I knew it would be land marked somehow, I raced to my car and got in it and started the engine. I pulled the phone out from my pocket and dialed the house. Matt answered on the second ring
"Dad?" He asked
"Yeah Matt, it's me, I need to ask you to find something out for me, in the turn of the century there was a massive war in Osaka over drugs, both drug lords ended up dead and it had been said that the roads had been paved with red, I need to know where this exactly happened"
"That's easy it is where Tennoji Gardens is now , the pavement was dug up and replaced with artificial grass sometime during the twenty first century, but the back of the gardens, which is off limits is still the same road. It's more or less used as a reminder of how Osaka was compared to what it is like now"
"Is everything OK there?" I asked him
"Yes everything is fine Mello and Near are still sleeping, everything is OK Dad"
"OK thank you Matt, we will be home soon. I promise"
I hung up the phone and put my floor to the accelerator. Tennoji Gardens was only three blocks away from the club; it was hard to believe that such a beautiful place would be housed in with places of filth. I hadn't been to Tennoji Gardens since I was a kid but it wasn't a place that you could easily forget, it was tranquil, serene and peaceful. You could hear the native birds in the trees and you could relax to the sound of running water from the intricate fountains. If both L and I got out of this alive, this would be the perfect place for us to get married.
I drove as fast as I could and pulled up to the entrance of the gardens. It was still pitch black and it was going to be hard to see what I was doing since they didn't keep the gardens lit up all night and all early morning. I picked up the gun and the bullets from the passenger seat and got out of the car, slamming and locking the door behind me. I tucked the gun into the waist band of my track suit pants and emptied the bullets into my pocket and I ran. I followed the concrete pathway that had led in long trails around the garden; I had to get to the very back of it in order to get to the red brick road. I had hoped that I was correct in my guess, if I wasn't not only was I wasting precious time but I was also no closer to knowing what the red brick road was. I could feel my lungs stinging, I couldn't even remember the last time that I had ran, at least a long distance. I felt like I was so out of shape, even after some of the vigorous sexual experiences I had with L had done nothing for my athletic abilities, rather a lack of. I used to be much more fit, I played tennis a lot but when it interfered with my studies I hung the racquet up, something I was wishing I had continued.
I puffed and panted as I ran as fast as I could, I could remember the garden paths were always long, they had gone right around the gardens and even though I was running as fast as I could, I had feared that it wasn't fast enough. I pushed myself harder, every single bone in my body was aching but I had to get there. I could feel the pavement beneath my feet suddenly change in texture; it had gone from a smooth flat surface to gravel like consistency. I knew I had to be approaching the back of gardens. I stopped to catch my breath, I pulled the phone out from my pocket and flashed the screen out in front of me to try and light up my way the best it could. I could see a small memorial monument about fifty feet in front of me, I lowered the phone towards the ground, and it had gone from smooth pavement, to gravel
"To brick" I said to myself and smiled. I ran to the memorial and read the plaque that was on the stone
"In memory of old Osaka, no more war, no more violence, no more red brick roads"
This had to be it, right on cue my phone had begun to ring again. I answered it, even though I had trouble speaking because I was so out of breath but I forced it out of me
"Light" I panted with heaviness in my voice
He laughed hysterically at me, I felt my heart sink, what if this wasn't the right place what if this was just to test my intelligence and he was wasting my time?
"What's the matter Light Yagami, out of breath?" he laughed again
"I followed your clue, now what?" I panted out
"This one should be easy for you Light; you won't even have to rely on your ten year old for this one"
How did he know that I had spoken to Matt in particular? he had to have the phones bugged, but was he really that smart?. He didn't come across to me as a guy who was clever, I couldn't think about that now.
"I want you to kill someone Light, with that gun that is tucked in your waist band; I want you to kill a cop in a public place at day break. You will need a cop yourself and then you will execute him point blank so that you will be covered in the innocent officers blood"
I couldn't believe what he was asking
"Light! Don't!" I could hear Lawliet in the background yelling to me
"Shut the fuck up! Fuck don't you just hate brothers, always trying to ruin your fun"
"I wouldn't know I don't have a brother"
I had learned working alongside the police that in hostage situations it was always a good idea to try and build rapport with the kidnapper, try and get on their level and get them to feel some sort of compassion. If I could try and convince B that I knew how he thought and I knew how he felt then maybe I could end this with no blood shed.
"Well then I am sure that if you want your son's to grow up having brothers you will do as you are told" B replied slyly with a laugh in his throat
"Are you a Shinigami?" I asked him
"What?"
"You heard me are you a Shinigami, I know you have Shinigami blood in you B but are you a Shinigami?"
He laughed again hysterically
"Light Yagami your lover boy never mentioned you had a sense of humor, it looks like you have done your research"
"B, are you a Shinigami?" I asked him again
"No, I am not a Shinigami you stupid fucking idiot, I am the byproduct of one. You humans are so fucking stupid, you think that you can do what you like; you think that everything will always work out despite obvious problems. Like my stupid mother who thought she could have sex with a God and not expect to fall pregnant and give birth to two FUCKED UP DEFECTIVE CHILDREN, you see Light you and my mother have something in common you both believe that no matter how different two people are things can still work out, well you are wrong. You and my brother thought your lives were perfect? You think just because your two males it doesn't mean it won't work out, well you are wrong Light Yagami because either way one of you will die, your brain matter will be plastered on my wall and I will wear your skin as a FUCKING COAT"
Then silence, he hung up. At least from that one conversation I had learned several things, One was that B had Shinigami blood in him there for Lawliet most likely had too, Two was that he was excessively pissed off that his mother had believed that love could work out regardless of whom or rather what it was so that told me B had never felt love or been loved which would make him vulnerable to loving gestures or words and three he had said my walls, not the walls which told me that he was keeping Lawliet in his home, it wasn't just some building, it was somewhere he felt safe and confident and four, he had divulged a lot of information to me which meant he never had anyone to talk to or listen to, the more questions I asked him the more he would tell me only because it was someone to talk to. I was starting to piece together B, psychopathic as he was I began to see that there was a complexity about him that had shared with Lawliet, if I could crack the complex shell around Lawliet and get to the gooey center then I was going to be able to do that to B as well. This had started to become interesting.