Chapter 5
Light
I am conversing with the one person I have been against since the start. L, Ryuzaki, Ryuga. L, Coil, Deneuve. And now, Lawliet. My only true….Friend, you might call him. But I still have my pride, and will not let anyone know how I think of him. Or is he more than just a friend…? Either way, it didn't matter now. We are both dead and gone from the living world, but still chained together. Why? The Kira case is resolved- They had their killers, the notebooks were found, and I am dead. Not a pleasant thing to think about, and I remembered Ryuk's face looming over my own as I breathed my last.
"How do you know that I was killed by a shinigami?" I ask, curious. How does he figure it out, I wonder.
"It is relatively simple. Light-kun has bullet wounds and blood on your clothes, but not enough blood to bleed to death. There was a shinigami, who had to have a Death Note. Light-kun's shinigami, if I am correct to assume. The white one, with the purple hair?" L asks, confident. I laugh, because he is wrong. The world's best detective, wrong.
"No, I was killed by a different shinigami. That one was Misa Amane's. I had a separate one, named Ryuk. He was very dark, and wore mostly black." Somehow, I get a picture of him in my hand. I didn't know that you could do that! Maybe Mu was more powerful than I thought. L looks confused as well. His face betrays him, he does not know how I did that. Neither do I, to be honest. "Here he is. This is a picture of him." I hold it up, showing L the Rogue Shinigami.
"Light-kun, that is your shinigami? I thought that Light-kun's shinigami would be more like Light-kun." What did he think that Ryuk would look like, another college student? "Why did Light-kun make the suicide notes say 'L, do you know? Shinigami only eat apples.' What was Light-kun's basis for this?"
"Oh, I remember that. Ryuk was addicted to apples, and ate them constantly. He also was the one who I asked to find the 64 cameras and wire taps hidden in my room."
Looks like I've stumped L. "How did Light-kun find out? The door was checked for any hidden ways of telling who was in Light-kun's room."
"There were two that they missed, Ryuga." He flinches, obviously hurt by the name. Bad memories, good memories, melancholy memories? Either way, I explain to him the pencil lead and the slight pushing down of the door handle. L looks impressed, and he nods his head, thinking. "By the way, what's up with the name 'Ryuga' and you? You chose it as one of your identities, but it seems to make you remember something." It confuses me. L, being hurt by a name and the mention of someone from a murder case?
"It is nothing. Why does Light-kun ask so many questions about me, I wonder? Does he have feelings for me?" He asks in his cold, questioning manner. L, the detective, the most childish, annoying, and inhuman person I knew in my short life. 24 years. One year less than the most irritating mastermind in the world. The three most irritating masterminds in the world.
"No, I don't, Lawliet. Why, does the greatest detective in the world have feelings for Kira? That would be very interesting," I muse. How will he react to this, I wonder? Would it provoke him, make him blush, make him hit me? Or would he keep up his steadily crumbling façade of calm?
He does the second option, to my surprise. His pale-as-white skin turning a vibrant red. Red, white, black. "Light-kun is very curious about me." He slightly stutters through the sentence, his blush deepening. Lawliet is either a class-A actor or does actually have feelings for me. If he actually has feelings for me, how will I react? I honestly don't know.
I've always had mixed feelings about the detective, but I don't know if he ever interested me in that way. "I'm the only one who can hear you, correct?" I say, smirking. His blush deepens to a crimson, accentuating the black pools he calls eyes, actually conveying human emotion. Does he truly care for me? That is the question on my mind as I lean forward and give him a peck on the cheek. His bright red blush somehow deepens in color, making him turn his head down and subconsciously touch the point where my lips made contact with his cheek.
"Does...does Light-kun truly like me?" He says. More than two years without human contact, anyone would let their guard down like that. But I never had expected that L himself would actually have human emotions. Besides calmness, and the cold and collected logical side of anger and revenge.
"Maybe," I say with a half smile. Suddenly, I feel someone grabbing the chain, and it's not L. He looks surprised as well, and the blush starts to fade from his cheeks. What's going on? Suddenly, someone wraps the chain around my neck. Two times they wrap it around, just tight enough to give them a leash of sorts. A familiar looking face with red eyes looks at me, and smiles a smile that isn't entirely sane. The familiar face looks at L, and says the following:
"Hello, Rue Ryuzaki. Remember me?"