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Chapter 33 - Shinigami

This was the day that Light was supposed to come to the hotel. Chanel was extremely eager for him to come. Not only because this gave her more of a chance to get into the mind of Kira, but the fact that she knew Ryuk was going to be there. She very well knew she couldn't do anything to him while the task force was around, but she could mess with him, silently. She found herself slightly fidgeting in her seat. Why is Light taking so long, she thought. Hurry it up already. Chanel sighed and glanced over at Yagami-san. She saw the worried look that was painted on his face. He was worried for his son. It was as clear as day. She thought back to the previous night.

Ryuuzaki had explained to the task force about the plan with Light. He was not to know of anything about the fact that there was a second Kira. He was to watch the first tape that Kira sent to the station, and come up with his own theory. There was one thing in particular that Ryuuzaki had said that night that Yagami-san was mostly worried about. If Light concluded that there was a second Kira on his own he would be mostly cleared, if not the suspicion that he is Kira would raise. Chanel then rested her head on the back of her hand, and closed her eyes. Then there was a sudden knock at the door.

Everyone in the room jumped, except for Ryuuzaki. "Come in," he said, already knowing that it was Light on the other side of the door. Light then walked in. "Thank you, Light," Ryuuzaki said crossing the room, and shaking Light's hand. "Not at all," Light said, "After all I want to catch Kira as much as you do, Ryuuga." "I'll have to ask you to call me Ryuuzaki here." "I'm Matsui." "I'm Aihara." "And I'm Asahi." "Yes of course," Light said understanding that the entire task force just gave him their aliases. Then Light turned to Chanel whom was standing behind the task force. "We've met before. Ms. Tailor was it?" "Yes," Chanel said with a cold stare that made Light turn from her. "So perhaps I should call myself Light Asahi?" He said turning to Ryuuzaki.

Chanel examined the area for a specific shinigami, but the only shinigami in the room was Roki. He'll show up later, I'm sure, Chanel thought. He's worried to face me, but he just like Roki; he wouldn't want to miss out on the 'fun'. "Yes, please do," Ryuuzaki said. "To keep things simple from now on I'll call you Light. Okay let's get down to work. You can start by looking over all the information we've collected. I'd also like you to examine these videos. They were sent to the T.v station but were never aired. For security reasons your not permitted to take notes, and all materials must remain here." "I understand." "We'll begin now." Ryuuzaki started the video. Chanel glanced over at Yagami-san. She saw that he was staring at Light but his mind seemed to be else where. Chanel sighed. "So what do you think will happen next," Roki said floating beside Chanel.

Chanel then glanced at Roki, sighed once more, and stepped back from everyone else. "Well Light is going to try to get out of commenting on the video," Chanel said in such a low voice that Roki almost couldn't hear her. "It's his safest bet. Though Ryuuzaki is going to make him come up with his own theory. This is basically a test that to see whether or not he might be Kira percentage will be raised, or deducted." "I see, this is going to be interesting," Roki said with hoarse laughter. "Now please stop asking me questions when I'm with others. You know it's too risky." "You're the one who chose to answer me." Chanel just glared at the shinigami. "Hey save your anger for Ryuk." Then Chanel turned away and walked back to the others.

"So what do you make of this, Light," Ruuzaki said. "Have you come to any conclusions." Chanel smirked at this. "It's hard to say but there might be another person with Kira's power." Light said getting up from his seat. "With Kira's power?" Yagami-san asked. "But what do you mean by that Light?" "At the very least I can say that this tape was not created by the Kira we're familiar with. It's extremely out of character for him to use these kinds of victims for his killings; and since we've established that he needs a name and a face to kill it makes you wander how he was able to kill that detective and two officers outside the television station." "I-it's the same." "That's exactly how L- I mean Ryuuzaki said it."

Chanel glanced over to Yagami-san, and saw the smile that grew on his face. "Well it seems he's happy. His son has been almost cleared, right," Roki asked. Chanel made a slight nod of his head. He's almost cleared, but I'm sure Ryuuzaki will be able to lock up this psycho. Chanel thought. "I think your absolutely right. We also think that this is the work of a second Kira." "Wait a minute. So you knew about this all along Ryuuga- sorry, Ryuuzaki. Which means this was all a test?" Light said folding his arms. Chanel rolled her eyes. "It wasn't my intention to test you. The truth is that if I were the only one who thought that there was a second Kira it wouldn't be too convincing, but the fact that we came up with the same conclusion makes the theory that more believable. As expected you did not disappoint us. You've been a great help. It's decided then. First we must focus on stopping this copycat. From what we've seen he sympathizes with the real Kira, but clearly lacks his sophistication. I think he might be willing to obey the original. If so we could lure him into a trap by sending our own message as the real Kira."

"I guess I shouldn't be surprised. You literally took the words out of my own mouth." Light said. "Oh and Light. I would like you to play the part of the real Kira." Chanel smirked at this. Then suddenly Roki broke out in hoarse laughter. Chanel gave him a quizzled, but then turned back to Light and Ryuuzaki. "Huh? Me as Kira?" Light asked. "Yes. You're the only one that I could imagine pulling something like this off. Anyway we don't have anytime to waist. Do you think you can script a message in time for it to be aired on this evenings news." Then suddenly Chanel saw Ryuk sneak up behind Light, and mimic the same laugh Roki had done only seconds ago. Then Chanel gave him a death glare, which he noticed. Which caused him to flinch a little but then he just ignored her.

Roki then flew over to him. "Hey it's been awhile hasn't it, Ryuk," Roki said. "Yeah it has, hasn' t it?" "You know your in serious trouble with little sister, right." "How mad is she?" Ryuk asked refusing to even glance at Chanel. Roki then broke out in hoarse laughter again. "Take a look for yourself." Ryuk then glanced at Chanel whom was still giving him a death glare. Then Ryuk turned away. S-she really is that mad. So have any of the seals been broken?" "Well I know the first has, the one of awareness, or something. The one that gives her back all her memories, and the ability to see us, though that was only because I broke it for her. I'm not sure if any of them have been broken on their own. It's a possibility that some have, you know Sorrow has a lot of power, and those seals can't hold her forever." "Yeah. I just hope that her powers stay sealed until she's not angry with me anymore." "I think she might be mad at you until this Kira stuff is over. Let's just hope your that lucky."

Light had noticed her glaring and looked behind him. Why is she glaring at me, Light thought. The only one behind me is Ryuk. Can she see him? No what am I thinking; she can't see him. The only way she could see him was if she touched the death note. She's glaring at me, but why? "Chanel," Ryuuzaki said louder this time. "Huh?" Chanel said snapping back to reality. "Could, you please prepare a synthetic voice for the video?" "Yes of course." Chanel said going over to her equipment to make the synthetic voice.

A little more than an hour later Chanel had completed the sythetic voice and Light was about done with the script. "Ryuuzaki is this okay?" Light said handing the piece of paper over to Ryuuzaki. "I think I managed to make it believable." "I think you've done an excellent job with this. However if you don't admit the part the part that says 'your free to kill L', then I'm going to end up dead." Light laughed at this. "Sorry, I got away playing the part. I figured if I were him I demand that you be killed. I was improvising feel free to change it to whatever you like." Chanel looked at Light and shook her head at him. "Sounds good," Ryuuzaki said. "Chanel you are finished with the preparations for the video, correct." "Yeah," Chanel said. Then Ryuuzaki went over to all the equipment and began preparing the video. The video was completed in a little less than an hour.

"Okay Aihara the script is ready. I'll leave the rest to you," Ryuuzaki said handing the tape to Aizawa. "Alright," he said taking the tape and heading out the door. About an hour later the eleven o' clock news began and the whole task force was watching. "And now a shocking announcement." said the anchorman. "In response to the frightening Kira video aired on Sakura T.V only a few days ago, an anonymous individual has contacted us claiming to be the real Kira. In short he has demanded of this network and several others that we air the message you are now about to see. I would also like to mention that the N.P.A has granted us permission to air this video. Is this te real Kira; no one knows for sure, but we can only hope that this video can provide us with some much needed answers."

Then the video began. It went to a sparking screen with the name Kira at the center, in french script font. "I am Kira," the synthetic voice said. "The true Kira; the one who was broadcasted on Sakura T.v a few days ago is fraud, a pretender. The purpose of this message is to communicate my will to this imposter. I have chosen to be lenient with him for the time being, only because I believe he has chosen to cooperate with me in the creation of the new world. But I want to make this absolutely clear the taking of innocent lives is against my will. If this person claiming to be me is truely sympathetic to my cause, and wants to bw of some help, I ask two things of him. That he stops killing aimlessly, and agree to abide by my basic principles."

Chanel went into thought in the middle of the video. I wonder who this second Kira is, and what he or she is like, she thought. I would definitely like to meet this second Kira. Two hours later it was one o' clock in the morning and Chanel was sitting in the livingroom with Ryuuzaki. She just couldn't sleep, she was too busy thinking about all this Kira nonsense. Chanel sighed and leaned her head back. "You should get some sleep," Ryuuzaki said not looking up from his laptop. "I couldn't go to sleep if I wanted to." Chanel said looking up at him. "Insomnia is it," he asked. "No I just have a lot of things on my mind." "I see." Then Ryuuzaki closed his laptop, and made his way over the couch Chanel was seated at.

"Chanel why were you glaring at Light earlier today." Ryuuzaki said coming out of nowhere. "What? I never glared at him." "Yes you were. If was right after I asked him to script a message as Kira. You were giving him a death glare." Chanel thought back for a moment. I was glaring at Ryuk who was standing behind Light, Chanel thought. But since Ryuk can't be seen, Ryuuzaki thinks I was glaring at Light. So if Ryuuzaki noticed this, then so did Light. Oh well I don't care I hope I scared the hell out of him. "Ryuuzaki I wasn't glaring at Light, I was just thinking about something that made me really upset." "I see," Ryuuzaki said. "May I ask, what this thing was that made you so angry?" "It's nothing really. Don't worry about it."

"Chanel if it made you glare like that, I'm assuming it must be something quite terrible." Oh man, what am going to tell him? "Well I was just thinking about this whole Kira business. I mean look not only do we have a one Kira, but two. This whole situation almost got you killed, and your life may still be in danger." "So the thing that made you glare like that, was becuase of my well being. You don't have to worry so much about me, Chanel." "But how can I not? I mean what makes you think I can just be calm thinking that you can be killed at any moment, by some psycho killer." Ryuuzaki sighed. "Chanel I told you already, I hate seeing you so upset."

Then suddenly Chanel thought back to the night before, when Ryuuzaki had held her. Her cheeks then were tinted lightly with pink. "Yeah I know." Then Ryuuzaki looked into her eyes and brushed a few strange strands of hair from her face. Chanel then found herself leaning in close to him, and Ryuuzaki did the same. Then Ryuuzaki pulled away from her, and looked away from her. Chanel blushed madly, but she tried to compose herself. What am I doing I almost kissed Zaki. I mean Ryuuzaki, Ryuuzaki. Oh boy, I'm a mess. "I'm sorry," Ryuuzaki said in almost a whisper. "No it's my fault I should be the one apologizing."

Ryuuzaki and Chanel didn't look at each other for a few minutes. There was an ackward silence in the room. "Ryuuzaki, I feel stupid." Chanel said breaking the eiry silence. "What do you mean?" "I've been holding this grudge against you for so long, about what happened to us. And I realize that it's so stupid. I just need to let it go. So I was wondering if we could be friends again." Ryuuzaki stared at her for a long moment, which made Chanel shift in her seat. "Yes," he said finally. "Being friends would be nice." Chanel found herself smiling. She became so happy that she jumped on him and hugged him tightly. This made Ryuuzaki's eyes widen even more than usual. "I'm sorry," Chanel said getting off of him. "I sometimes get carried away." "I know," he said. "It's fine."

"I think I'll go to bed now." Chanel said. "Alright good night." Chanel then entered her room. Well I think it's time for some well deserved sleep. Chanel thought then plopped onto her bed. I wonder why Ryuuzaki made the disicion to get rid of me all those years ago, just to bring me back and help with this case. Chanel sighed. Also what would happen after the case is over? Will I stay with him or will he just get rid of me again? I shouldn't think of these things now. It'll just make angry, and I decided to just forgive him, but can I really forgive him for something that he didn't apologize for? No, stop it! I forgave him and that's that. I just think that I should get some rest, and forget about this. Then Chanel rolled over on her side, but only seconds later she turned onto her stomach, then her back, and then her side again. Ugh, just great. I can't go to sleep. Damn you insomnia!

End of Chapter 33 - Shinigami

ATTENTION: My readers I ask you to draw Chanel. I want to see how my readers view her. I also wish to see how she looks on paper. I know how she looks in my head but on paper is more visual. Anyway this is going to be a contest. The best picture of her will be posted as my avatar for two months. I'm sorry i don't have an actual prize to give you all, but Jinx and I are making a fic together so the person with the best pic will be featured in our death note fic. Our account will be called Jinx &Cherry. We haven't exactly made the account yet, but I'm sure we'll have it up soon! We might change the name so I'll keep you updated. Anyway the dead line for the contest is 2-4-11. Two days before the aniversary of this fic. I will update on 2-6-11 the aniversary of this fic, and tell you of the winner. anyway I hope alot of you decide to enter. You don't have to be a top notch artist to enter just have fun with it. You can send the pictures to my email. I'll put my email on my profile for you. The rest of the information about the contest will be on my profile so check it out. Thank you!

Yes Insomina gets us all some time. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I'm sorry I haven't updated in a month. I've had so many tests and projects that I've been too tired to update. Anyway thank you for reading and please review! Also take a look at my avatar it's Roki. I drew him myself. It took me forever, and it's just okay. I'm no artist. Anyway hope you take a look. Anyway agian please review! ~Bye