Mizu: HOLY SHIT WE'RE FINALLY BACK!
Ameko: Zzzz Zzzz
Mizu: I know you're not sleeping...
Ameko: Dammit
Mizu: Anyway! School's a bitch! I have literally three tests to take this eek but I couldn't leave you all thinking I was dead!
Ameko: *cough* notreallyshe'salsowatchinganime *cough*
Mizu: Well sorry! I had to watch Mirai Nikki before it got spoiled and WOWWWWW! THAT ENDING LEFT ME IN TEARS!
Ameko: Yukki x Yuno FTW!
Mizu: Anyway enough of that shit let's move on!
Ameko: *gets riot sheild* REVIEWS!
Pikamewgirl: Yay! And I was never a giant fan of that movie... oh well we all have our own favorites (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*
KainVixenheim: YES! HIGHFIVE *highfive* I didn't have the time to get addicted sadly o(╥﹏╥)o Jack truly is the best character to ever come out of dreamworks. You wrote a ROTG fanfic? What's it about? And I indeed saw Big Hero 6, I was the only one to guess the villan when I was watching it, and I freaked the hell out when Immortals started playing because FoB FTW!
NightOfShinnigami: NOPE! I'M ALIVE! Que that Black Butler 1 Ending Song!
god of all: Well here I am my lovely little friends!
ChrisYagami: Oh yeah, thank you :) But if you're lost on ideas you could just go online to find inspiration. And I actually am going to take my AOT story down for a rewrite and post it when this series is done... Yeah... But I'm not giving up on it! I'm just going to revise it and make it better!
Nifawiwa: I know... .·´¯`(-▂-)´¯`·. Indeed. He sits right next to Kaneki Ken and Ciel Phantomhive in my giant box of PROTECT THE INNOCENT And I'm so glad you're still supporting me all this way Nifa! Thank you! AND YOU LIFE RISE OF THE GUARDIANS! HELL YEAH! *highfive* AND I LOVE HTTYD AS WELL! WOO! Everyone always writes it off as some kind of Avengers for kids BUT ITS SO MUCH MORE THEN THAT! And I want them to make a sequel too...
MickeyLOLgirl: First off, I love your profile pic, Minene is the best, and what would happen if we went that long? ... I don't want to talk about it... *twitches* AND HERE YOU GO! YOUR ADDICTION IS HERE!
SomethingAwesome-VeryAmazing: No problem. It needed to be said after all. I know right? If she were to go to jail it would never be for something as stupid as that... It'd be for murder or some shit... Robo-sheep! xD I'm totally going to use that... And perhaps that might happen! After all, Near does have emotions... they're just really...really... really... truly buried underneath the skin. Thank you! I hope you enjoy this chapter Awesome-kun!
candyisyummy83: xD Luckily for you this chapter isn't TOO sad... It'l cheer you up I think! And I believe you need some love for bearing through the Order Of The Phoenix *hands over a little square of chocolate* *pats head* use it well young padawan...
fairytailasaurus: O.o why thank you very much! Personally I haven't seen Merlin, too busy rewatching FMA Brotherhood! And I'm glad you liked the chapter!
Kairi4ever15: Indeed it did... Maybe he was too embaressed to make one while she was there? I dunno...
Mizu: AND WITH THAT LET'S GET ONTO THE CHAPTER!
Ameko: ENJOY BISHES! *noms on jam*
I now know why Ryuk wanted to screw with the human world so much...
Boredom literally kills.
"Near. Isn't there ANYTHING I could do?" I begged the snowy detective desperately as I lay flopped against the cold floor.
"Akio. I believe I told you that we needed to wait and see if Gevanni is under the notebook's control. It's only been four days..." He replied monotonously.
I groaned. "But you know that I can't stand waiting around for something to happen! At least when I was working with L I was actually helping him!"
Near shifted his cold grey stare to me, piqued with curiosity. "What was it that you did? When you were working with my predecessor?" I smiled in triumph at another small victory of getting him to show even the tiniest traces of emotions.
"I helped him set up a firewall that Kira couldn't hack and I usually dealt with different technology related things. It was a lot of fun!" I grinned, remembering the fun times I had with the dark haired detective.
My grin was wiped clear off my face as something changed in Near's gaze, something mournful. "And... How did he die?"
I stiffened. I couldn't give away anything. "He was... killed by Kira... The task force says that it was a second shinigami that was with us but I knew that Kira had somehow tricked it into killing L for him... He died silently, knowing that he was right. I think that he didn't have too many regrets seeing as he died in the arms of the one he loved" I purposefully slipped in the part about Mizuki.
"What?" Near couldn't believe what I had last said.
I coyly smiled, thinking about his utter disbelief. "L and my big sister were actually a couple"
I could almost see the time bomb ticking in Near's little head.
As the bomb exploded he sighed and turned back to his toys. "I highly doubt that's true. L was never akin to such attachments"
"Oh really?" A smirk settled on my face and I took out my phone.
Switching to the pictures I found the old image I took of L and Mizuki curled up together and sleeping in bed when L had a nightmare all those years ago.
"Wrap your head around this Nate!" I dropped his real name seeing as we were alone. I held the picture for him to see and I swear I saw his eyes dilate even though he looked as if he had no pupils.
After about a minute of Near suspended in silence he looked back to me. "I never... would have expected this..."
I giggled myself hoarse, falling to my knees and doubling over with tears in my eyes. "HAhAAA! Haheehahaheheeheee! BELIEVE IT!" I shouted with what little air I had left in my lungs.
All the while Near just stared at my phone with a slightly grim expression. After I came down from my laughing high I stared at the angelic sheep while creaking up a few times but all the same confused at why he was looking so intently at the picture.
"What's wrong? Still can't believe it?" I let my taunts fade as Near looked downwards.
I frowned, moving over to his side and poked his shoulder. "Come on Pillsbury dough boy, what's up?" I teased.
It was like I saw Near stop breathing. "Do you have any other images of L?" He requested.
"Uhh I think?" I took the phone from his hands and scrolled my pictures until I came upon one that was him sitting in a chair the same way he always did, with a little piece of chocolate being raised to his mouth. I just took this one because, like today, I was bored out of my mind at the moment. "Here" I passed the phone to Near in confusion.
Near took a long look at this picture with clouded grey eyes before lowering his head and shoving the phone back into my hands silently. "Thank you Akio. I have not seen a picture of L in several years..."
It hit me like a ton of bricks. No, much more then that. It was like a giant missile had penetrated my heart and was stabbing at it with a bag of rusty needles.
Near missed L.
Without even thinking I shifted over in front of him and wrapped my arms around the colorless boy. He seemed frozen and not sure how to react.
"What... are you doing?" He lightly stuttered.
I tightened my embrace around him. "It's called a hug idiot..."
Near broke the silence with a simple "Why?"
Frowning, I rest my head on his shoulder. "You miss him don't you?"
The sheep visibly stiffened. "You miss L..." I clarified.
As Near didn't respond I opened my eyelids and fixated my concentration at his soft white hair until I heard his voice inside my head.
"L... Please come back..." Even in my head Near's voice was in constant monotone but this time it was different. As if his echoing voice was an ocean of unemotional surf with a single stone of heart wrenching depression tossed in, spreading repeating ripples lost in the waves.
"You want him back" The words left my mouth without thinking.
I heard Near sharply intake air. "I-"
"Near. I think that he died knowing that you and Mello would catch Kira... L would be so proud of you" Like a broken window I saw the unemotional mask on Near's features shatter.
Why was I feeling like this? Why was Akio so aware of my internal conflicts? Why was I clutching to her like that fragile orange toy robot L had given me as a child?
The only answer I came up with was one that was filled with impossible circumstances and foolish beliefs. I was shown a picture of L, living, and breathing, for the first time in years, and had fallen into a deep nostalgic sorrow when I thought of my mentor. Perhaps Akio knew more about L then I ever did? After all, she worked with him at the most vulnerable moment in his life so she must have seen him do things I've could never have witnessed.
But well that explained the aching feeling in my chest it didn't explain why I was still locked in Akio's embrace known as a 'hug'.
I raised my buried head from the pale girl's neck and stared at her with unblinking intensity.
"Akio? Why is it that I feel so inclined to be in this form of contact with you?" I asked tactfully.
To my surprise, Akio giggled innocently before answering.
"Near... You really are dense you know that?" I narrowed my eyes at the hauntingly familiar blood red orbs of Beyond Birthday.
She grinned. "You're sad and you miss L and you want someone to hug you! Genius detective my ass! You don't even understand your own emotions!" I tried to say that she was incorrect but the only thing that came out of my mouth was a stutter of failed protest. Akio smirked.
Akio rolled her eyes at me. "Honestly Robo-sheep why don't you just stop trying to analyse everything with numbers and probabilities and just enjoy my hug?" To emphasize this she returned her embrace by pulling me closer and securing her arms tightly around my back and resting upon my shoulders.
I blinked just once before sighing and accepting the display of deep affection. We stayed locked in that position for uncountable minutes. Without even thinking, which was a new function I have not done in a while, I spoke the first thing that came to my mind.
"I have come to grow a strong affection to you Akio..." I could feel Akio's pale limbs stiffen in shock before relaxing and pulling me away from the embrace.
She flashed her signature mischievous smile. "Yuki"
I remained silent. She sighed. "Yuki Kurozuki. That's... That's my real name..." I was puzzled at how she had willingly let her protection from the notebook fall to shambles willingly.
"Why...?" I made out from the sea of questions swirling in my mind like a cyclone.
She poked my cheek childishly and I subconsciously rubbed the pressured point. "Don't think to much into it puff cloud. I know your real name and now that I know you trust me it's time I got us onto fair standing"
I let my lips curl upward into an uncomfortable smile, knowing that was usually meant to indicate a sign of affection. "Thank you for assisting me in this investigation, Yuki Kurozuki"
-End of Chapter 56-
Mizu: Holy shit this chapter turned out good!
Mizu: Oh yeah, sorry for lying about telling you this was a fluffy chapter
Ameko: Liar
Mizu: Like you're any better! You literally kill people!
Ameko: Touche...
Mizu: So glad to get a full length chapter in here. And if you liked this chapter of pure Neuki (I have decided on my ship name ^^) please remember to review!
Ameko/Mizu: BYEEE!
