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The Sugar Cube Fort	By : sashocirrione Category: Death Note > Het-Male/Female Views: 2334 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER 15: TOO MUCH INFORMATION
No! Misa was trying to take all the blame and punishment herself, leaving Light free. The investigators wouldn't believe such a stupid lie, would they?
L said, "I doubt it is possible to control someone with the notebook and leave them alive. But, if we assume Misa is telling the truth about that, then we currently have no way of knowing whether Light is the puppet and Misa the master, or whether it is the other way around."
Misa said, "It's me. I swear it's me. I'm the one who is always so interested in Light. He doesn't show much interest in return. Of course he's my puppet."
L said, "In order for me to believe such a thing, Misa would need to tell us how to control without killing, and we'd have to prove the method works by testing on a suitable target, and then we would still need to sort out whether Misa or Light is the one in control."
Aizawa said, "Ryuzaki, it's obvious these two are both Kira. Misa is lying."
L said, "I agree. However, I will give Misa a week to come up with some proof of her story. During that time, there are a few other things we need to sort out as well, such as finding the location of the second notebook and being absolutely sure there is no additional Kira out there."
Ryuk chuckled and said, "It looks like you've got a week to live, Light. Unless you can figure out a way to get the investigators to accept Misa's story or somehow physically escape. And if you run I don't think Rem will let you get far."
L said, "We will need to imprison both of them here and watch them at all hours. Before Misa is confined, she will need to be searched thoroughly in case she has any scraps on her. I'll summon Wedy to do that, but until Wedy arrives I need two men watching her at all times. Remember, she knows everyone's name except my own name and Watari's name, so if she has any hidden scraps she could kill in just a moment of inattention."
L got out his cellphone and had a short conversation with Wedy, then put it away and said, "She was already waiting to be summoned. It should only be about ten minutes. In the meantime, two of you should take Light to one of the prison cells downstairs."
Aizawa still had a strong grip on Light's arm. He glanced at Soichiro and gave a quick nod. Soichiro began approaching Light. Light looked extremely angry and a bit scared. He said, "Misa, they can't kill us as long as we have our memories and they haven't found the other death note yet. They will keep hoping to get the location."
Matsuda said, "There's no way she's in charge of him."
As Soichiro and Aizawa began pushing Light toward the elevator, Light turned his head to look at Rem and said, "You goddamn perverted shinigami. How many humans are you going to fall in love with?"
Soichiro and Aizawa stopped moving, while all the investigators except L and Light looked either confused or shocked. An evil little smirk spread across Light's face.
"Yes, that's right" Light said, "the only reason Rem switched sides is because L is fucking her."
In a completely unfazed voice, L said, "Technically, that's not true, since Rem is physically incapable of having sex. But, yes, we have participated in activities that I think of as sexual experiments."
At that statement, Mogi, Aizawa, Soichiro and Matsuda all looked shocked beyond belief. Soichiro and Aizawa even let go of Light's arms, their own arms dropping to their sides.
L said, "Don't get distracted from your duties. We need to keep Light and Misa under control."
L casually took a sip of his coffee, as if he were completely unconcerned about the admission he'd just made. Soichiro and Aizawa took a hold of Light's arms again, and Mogi and Matsuda made sure they were watching Misa. All four men had disbelief, astonishment and revulsion battling for control of their facial expressions.
Misa blindly turned her head from side to side as if she thought she could somehow look right through the blindfold and see. She said, "Rem? Is that true? You betrayed me so these guys could catch Kira? I thought... I thought you loved me."
"No," Rem said, "it isn't like that. Everything I've told the investigators has been for your sake. You were going to get killed if I hadn't made a deal with L. It had nothing to do with sexual things."
Misa's face was turning red with rage. This was it. From now on, Misa would hate Rem. Rem tried to brace herself for the onslaught. Her long crying session the previous night had worked out some of those emotions, made her braver and more stoic about the situation, but it was still hard. Rem kept holding the thought in her mind that she was protecting Misa. Even if Misa didn't understand it, it was better for Misa to be safe and hate Rem than to die or to be alive entirely at Light's mercy.
Misa said, "I didn't know you were so superficial, Rem. Jealous was a better shinigami than you. He loved me for real, and he had the courage to do what you're too cowardly to do. What is it? Am I not pretty enough? Is L your type because he's so bony and weird and gross? You should have thought about my feelings first. What made you think you could fuck L?"
Light was being led onto the elevator. Just as the doors were closing, Light said, "Rem, don't you care for Misa? You could still save us. Break us out and bring the death note. Rip off Misa's blindf-"
Aizawa rammed his elbow into Light's gut and the rest of the sentence was lost as Light grunted and doubled over in pain. A second later, the elevator doors closed, taking Light, Aizawa and Soichiro away.
Misa said, "Rem, you should have killed me when I asked you to. Then you could have killed all the investigators afterwards. I would have been happy to die for Light. But now you think you know what's best for me. I don't care if you save me or not, but you have to save Light or I'll hate you forever."
Ryuk said, "Rem, it looks like you're in a tough situation. I told you feelings would get you in trouble. Why don't you just ignore what these humans want and let events unfold naturally? That's the most entertaining way to approach all this."
Rem sighed. L watched Rem intently, and followed her gaze to a blank space in front of the wall.
L said, "Rem, is Ryuk over there? Can we talk to him?"
Ryuk said, "Light might still get loose, and I guess he has a better chance to do that if these guys can't see me or talk to me."
Rem said, "Ryuk is hoping that it could help Light if he remains secretive. However, if you bring him apples he might loosen up."
L got onto his microphone and asked Watari to bring all the apples he could, and to order several additional bushels for subsequent days.
Ryuk's mouth hung open. He said, "Bushels? Light always rationed my apples so carefully. Well, maybe it wouldn't be too bad to talk with these guys. Light probably won't talk to me anyway and I'm getting really tired of this stupid girl."
Misa flinched and said, "Hey, Misa heard that!"
Mogi and Matsuda looked puzzled. Within a minute, Watari was there with over a dozen apples. Ryuk downed them one at a time, consuming each in about three bites, even the core. L, Mogi and Matsuda gazed at the sight in astonishment. To them, it must look as if the apples were eating themselves.
Towards the end of this performance, Soichiro and Aizawa returned. L already had several camera angles of Light's cell displayed on the monitors at the front of the room. When Ryuk finished the last apple he sighed contentedly, then pulled out his very own death note from the holder at his waist and went around the room, tapping each person's shoulder except Misa. The investigators reacted less strongly than they had with Midora, but they were still clearly unsettled.
L just kept sipping his coffee, keeping his eyes on Ryuk. After observing for a time, he said, "Interesting."
Ryuk said, "I'm not going to say anything that might help or hurt Light."
At that moment, the elevator doors opened and Wedy walked in. L gave her some instructions about how to search Misa and also told her she'd be in charge of thoroughly examining everything in the basin that had been removed from Light. Wedy made a face to indicate her distaste, but she led Misa away to the examination room. Rem chose to stay. It had been nice to see Light humiliated by his own strip search, but Rem didn't want to have that kind of memory of Misa.
The investigators stood around awkwardly for a while, glancing at each other and at L. L was almost entirely absorbed in watching Light in his cell on the monitors, but he also had some gumdrops of various colors that he kept rearranging on the counter in front of him. Soichiro was sweating buckets and he really didn't look at all well.
Finally, Mogi said, "Ryuzaki, Rem wants Misa to be let go, right?"
L spun his chair around to face the investigators. He said, "Yes. According to the shinigami, Misa does not have long to live, and Rem wants Misa's remaining time to be happy. Rem is unable to tell me how long, but if she's telling the truth, then assuming a normal Japanese life expectancy it is unlikely to be more than 15 years. If we refuse to deal with the shinigami, she will kill at least a couple of us, or she will do other things that are just as bad or worse."
Aizawa's fists were clenching and unclenching by his sides. He said, "Misa killed Ukita! She killed him! And you propose to just let her go?"
L said, "This should not be about personal feelings of revenge. It is more important to close the case. But I agree that it is unacceptable to let someone who has murdered so many people go free."
Rem said, "Ryuzaki, what will you do to Misa after this week has passed?"
L picked up a green gumdrop, popped it in his mouth and said, "I was thinking that she should be put in a high-security insane asylum. A very nice one, with plenty of space, lots of individual attention with a high worker-to-patient ratio, and even some escorted excursions to the outside world. Misa would have a pleasant life, and yet she'd still be imprisoned. Of course, to keep a celebrity in such a place for years, we'd have to stage a very public breakdown. I already have some ideas about how we can do that."
L gazed into his coffee as if it were the most important thing in the world, then placed the cup just under the counter, and with one sweeping motion, pushed all the gumdrops off the counter and into his coffee.
"Besides," L said, "from studying Misa's character, I believe she is in danger of harming herself. Even if we could let her go entirely free, it might lead to much greater misery on her part, which I'm sure is something the shinigami does not want."
Rem sighed. This did sound like the best option. After losing Light, Misa would need a lot of counseling and psychiatric care before she'd have any chance of being happy again. In fact, this is probably what Misa had needed all along. She didn't need the power to kill with pen and paper. She needed a shrink, and badly. Additionally, Misa would be under watch against self-harm. Rem felt as if Misa had been just on the edge of slitting her wrists for so very long. Now, with Light gone, Misa might try something drastic.
Rem said, "I agree that this is the best for Misa. However, it needs to be a truly nice place, where she will receive as much care as possible."
Soichiro said, "Deciding Misa's punishment, that's not for us. Even if the shinigami does kill us in revenge, we should hand over both Kiras to Interpol and let them decide the punishment. It's the right thing to do. All those victims of Kira, are we going to shove them aside just to save ourselves?"
L said, "Ordinarily, I would agree, but events have happened that will make it impossible to hand over either of them to the authorities. Whatever happens to Light and Misa from now on will be our choice. I expect we will probably have to execute Light, but we'll have to do it ourselves. That's another reason why I gave us a week. We need time to decide."
Aizawa said, "What do you mean?"
L stared down into his coffee with a despondent look on his face, his eyes as round and dark as the beverage before him. He said, "Ever since the video the second Kira made claiming that Kira can pass on the ability, there have been numerous attempts by all sorts of organizations, including ones within the most powerful and democratic nations on earth, to make it clear that they want to obtain Kira's power. I am sure that if we handed over any Kira to the authorities, an execution would be faked and the person would be spirited away to be tortured and studied in some secret lab."
L took a sip of his coffee and continued, saying, "Then, if that Kira remembered the notebook, all of us and our families would be captured and tortured in an attempt to make us hand it over, and even if we had already destroyed it, we'd be tortured for years before they believed us. In fact, even if we handed a memory-free Kira to them, and they never realized that Kira's power was concentrated in a notebook, there would still be a strong chance the same thing would happen. If they had any suspicion we had a live Kira in custody long enough to possibly learn the secret, we would never be safe. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because the police saw Higuchi die as we were trying to capture him."
Matsuda said, "They... they would do that? Aren't they the good guys?"
L said, "You'd be surprised at some of the things that go on inside organizations such as the CIA. Every powerful nation has sponsored some terribly immoral actions, and, even beyond the safety of ourselves and our families, we need to protect the world from the secret of the notebooks."
Soichiro's hands were trembling. He said, "I don't require any more proof. Light is Kira, and if we do need to kill him, I don't know how I'll stand waiting out the week. Please... just-"
Soichiro's voice broke in a sob. He said, "Please kill him now. It's tearing me apart."
L got up from his chair and walked to Soichiro's side. He awkwardly patted Soichiro's back, as if he had no idea what to do with an upset person.
L said, "If you are afraid you might do something to yourself, I understand. We can lock you up like before if you want. But Light is correct about one thing. Both their lives need to be preserved until we locate the second notebook. Also, we need to be absolutely sure there isn't a third notebook and that they haven't set up some other person to act as Kira. Letting Misa think there is still a tiny chance we'll believe her story is mostly a ploy to keep her from erasing her memories too soon."
Rem said, "I am almost completely certain there is no third death note among humans. But it is possible there might be some plan to cause another person to find and use Misa's death note if she doesn't retrieve it. I have no idea where it is hidden."
Ryuk chuckled and said, "I know where it is, but I think it would be much more interesting to watch these guys try to find it. But, even though I'm not on your side, I am going to solve one of your problems for you."
L asked, "What?"
Ryuk said, "I'm going to kill Light, just as soon as his week runs out. He's my kill. Don't think of taking him from me."
There was a stunned silence in the room as everyone absorbed that information. Soichiro hung his head and began sobbing quietly.
L walked back to his chair and said, "So, then, is everyone agreed? Misa will go to an insane asylum, Ryuk will kill Light, and we have one week to find the other notebook?"
Aizawa let out a disgusted sigh, and Soichiro clenched his fists, but everyone in the room gave their assent. Soichiro asked to be locked up again, so L had Watari escort him to a cell downstairs, one larger and more comfortable than Light's cell, with a private bathroom, and far enough away from Light that Soichiro wouldn't be tormented by the sight or sound of his murdering son.
Watari arrived back soon with a cart loaded down with coffee, tea, doughnuts and croissants for everyone. The exhausted investigators, all of whom except Aizawa had been up all night, crowded around the cart and began taking items from it. A few moments later, Wedy arrived and explained that Misa had been fully searched and then secured in a relatively comfortable cell where she couldn't possibly harm herself. Wedy took a cup of coffee while L made sure the monitors showed views of Light, Misa and Soichiro in their respective holding cells.
After a few minutes of idle chatter among the co-workers, unwinding from all the stressful events, Matsuda walked over to L and said, "Uh, Ryuzaki, is it really true... you did those things with Rem? It wasn't just something you said as a trick? I mean, how is that... it doesn't seem..."
L said, "Yes, but it wasn't a plan or anything. The first time was a complete accident. If you hadn't asked Rem to stay out of your rooms that night, maybe it would have been you."
Matsuda looked as if he'd swallowed something extremely unpleasant and was trying to decide whether to vomit or not.
Oblivious to the distress behind him, L continued, "And then, after that, it was one of several ways I was studying the shinigami. Plus, a shinigami can do really amazing things by manipulating the inside of a human body. It was difficult to resist. I mean, they were really intense, toe-curling, eye-crossing orgasms."
Wedy choked and spewed her coffee halfway across the room. She took in a huge gasp and choked again. Mogi came over to her and thumped her back. After a series of strained gasps, her breathing went back to normal and she refilled her coffee cup.
Matsuda said, "Then... then... is that how you fell out of your chair?"
"Yes," L said calmly, as if he were talking about the weather. "Rem needed a way of getting me on the floor so she could attack my neck without being seen."
Matsuda continued, "And... Misa-Misa... she..."
L said, "Apparently, she's been with two shinigami in a sexual way."
Another tremendous choking sound came from Wedy, and thick black coffee poured from her nose. She went into a coughing and sneezing fit, taking plenty of napkins to wipe her face. Then she began walking briskly toward the elevator, probably to seek out the bathroom and clean up for real.
Rem decided not to clarify about Misa. She wasn't going to say they hadn't really done anything and that Jealous had never even been in the same room with Misa. Talking about her relationship with Misa was painful, Jealous even more so, and these humans already knew too many private details.
Besides, Rem thought, it was all the same anyway. She'd always been a spectator, never a participant. From her perspective, what she'd done with L and what she'd done with Misa were completely equivalent. Sexual things were merely something to watch.
Matsuda looked up at the monitor that showed Light sitting on a cot in his cell. He said, "And Light too?"
L said, "I set a test for him to see if he knew about that sort of thing, and he failed it. So, unless he was acting, he hasn't done anything sexual with a shinigami."
Mogi said, "Matsuda, this is really too much information. Stop asking him about it."
Matsuda blushed, went back to the food cart, picked up a doughnut and began nervously nibbling it.
Aizawa looked up at the monitors showing Light, Misa and Soichiro in their respective cells. He sighed in an extremely tired way and said, "This looks all too familiar. We're back to watching the three of them in captivity."
"Yes," L said, "but this time, we know two of them are Kira, and we also know things will be resolved one way or another within a week. Now, we just need to create a plan to find that second notebook."
A/N (Author's Note):
I really enjoyed freaking out everyone in this chapter, but I especially enjoyed it with Wedy.
Poor Wedy! Fanfics mostly ignore her, but I think she has great potential as a character. If only she'd been shown in canon a little more, perhaps fanfic writers would have more to work with.
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