Darkness Within your Light

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“What I want to know before trying to figure out how the hell Mikami got into our room and took the LifeNote is…how the hell did he get your cell-phone number?!”

L seemed nonchalant about all this but Raito could tell it was deeply affecting him with how they had been once again been easily found. L prided himself on his ability to stay hidden from the public view, so to be easily found not once but twice was more then enough to cause the usual level-headed man to lose composure.

He was chewing on his thumb with frustration with just about enough pressure to break the skin. Raito wanted to reach over and pull the poor abused piece of flesh from L’s unforgiving mouth but he knew that with L in this kind of mood his own fingers might become victims instead. So he held his peace and just continued to keep an eye out in case he had to ask Watari for the first-aid kit.

“Good question Raito-kun.”

“L who else had your cell-phone number?”

“Just you and Watari and the rest of the task force. The task force was directly told to only use it in a life-or-death situation and to never give it away to another person.”

“…you even gave it to Matsuda?”

The wide eye stare that L gave Raito said it all.

“…ah shit.”

“Yep, hey Watari if you would can you please contact Matsuda and see if he had accidently or purposely gave away L’s cell-phone number to anyone, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had done it purposely after what L did to him.”

“I said I was sorry!”

“No you didn’t and it’s not me you should be apologizing too.”

“Well excuse me that I haven’t really had time to track down a moron and apologize to him for trying to kill my father figure and my lover!”

“It was an accident.”

“I know!... I know that and I admit I may have gone overboard a little.”

“Just a little?”

“Ok a lot! Happy now?!”

“Ecstatic.”

L just huffed and crossed his arms.

‘Is he pouting? Oh my…he is! Aww he has no idea how adorable that is. I better not tell him that though, knowing him he’d never do it again if I tell him that.’

“So L…when are you going to tell me what Mikami told you on the phone?”

L looked hesitant as if he didn’t want to say anything but knew that he needed too.

“Well Raito-kun from what I gathered in that phone call it would seem that Mikami believes that I am Kira.”
Raito felt stunned, he hadn’t even thought of that possible conclusion.

“Wait-what!?”

Before Raito could continue with his disbelieving stupor the door opened to a huffing Watari, it looked like he had run back from where he had made the phone call. Watari seemed to have lost all composure, he started to stutter and diverted his eyes from the two young men in front of him.

“I’m so sorry, I had no idea I-“

“Watari please stop and tell us what’s going on.”

Watari seemed to compose himself after L spoke.

“Well after the New Kira got our old location we were in such a panic that we didn’t really inform the rest of the team of the situation that well. I mean we gave them the basics but basically all we did was tell them to go home. That includes Misa.”

Raito suddenly felt himself go pale.

“Oh shit…I had forgotten about her.”

He could tell that L was also kicking himself in the head. They had been so involved with what had been happening between them that they had honestly forgotten about the second Kira.

“Yes I also had indeed forgotten about the young women as well. It seems that she had gone back to her apartment while being very upset and angry. It seemed that she was worried about where you were Raito-san. So much in fact that she hunted down the rest of the investigation team, it seems that she wanted to find out were we were hiding. I had not informed young Amane-san of danger we were in. I believe that she was left with the impression that we had kidnapped you. The rest of the team wouldn’t give her your number you had left them with…but Matsuda…”

“Let me guess Watari-she charmed him up.”

“I believe that’s the jest of it. It seems that Amane-san had come crying to him about how Raito-san was missing and that she was going to kill herself if she didn’t see you soon. It seemed that he was too afraid to tell her about what he had done so instead he had given her your number. I’m also sad to say that he had also told her about your relationship. She was-well let’s just say that it was good that Matsuda saw the danger he was in and ran for it or we would be one investigator short.”

“After that she went missing, I’ve called the rest of the team to search for her but we haven’t been able to come up with any leads. The last place she was seen was somewhere around this area by one of her fans. I believe…about two miles out.”

Raito felt his inside freeze. If Misa knew about the two of them her psychotic love for him could well turn deadly even without the Deathnote power.

L seemed deep in thought, when a thought came to Raito.

“Watari-san I don’t doubt that you are very careful about L’s secrecy but it still confuses me…why did you give Mikami the notebook? Surly you saw that it had been written in?”

Watari looked confused.

“Of course I looked inside. I wouldn’t be that careless. I know that L has a habit of writing important information down when he is thinking. But when I picked up the notebook it was totally blank.”

“The cover as well as the inside? Nothing at all was written in it?”

“The cover was just plain white without any distinguish features. I made sure to look carefully through it before I handed it over. There wasn’t anything inside, it was a completely brand new unused notebook.”

“That’s not possible.”

“I agree with Raito-kun, Watari I know that there is no way that the notebook was empty. I had seen with my own eyes that there was blood in that book.”

“B-Blood?! Why on earth-?!”

So while L was calmly explaining the existence LifeNote and its importance to Watari Raito started to brainstorm.

‘Why would the Lifenote be empty? And for that matter what happened to the rules and the names?’

Raito leaned his back on the headboard as L’s soft voice smoothed his chaotic thoughts, letting his mind clear up and for his logical calculated mind to take over.

‘Hmm…maybe-just maybe Zaki had something to do with that. I’m still not sure how the lifenote ended up on the floor when it should have still been with my shinigami form but maybe Zaki was able to feel someone other then me or L touch the notebook. In that case he might have felt the need to hide what the Lifenote really was. If that’s the case then Mikami might still believe that the LifeNote is still a normal notebook. Hmmm…that’s the only possibility that I can think of that sounds logical. But still the real question right now is why does Mikami think L is Kira?’

Raito pondered this for a while as the soft sounds of conversation washed over him.

What also worried him was if Misa had gotten in contact with Mikami then that would mean that she more then likely had her memoires back of being the second Kira, and if the shinigami that was haunting this new Kira was Rem…well then he might just be in a spot of trouble.

‘I wonder how Ryuk is doing? That bastard probably is hiding out in the shinigami world-’

Sudden a thought hit him.

“Shit!”

He could tell that his loud exclamation startled the hell out of the other two in the room but he didn’t care, he was to busy hitting himself in the head.

“How the hell could I have forgotten about that!?”

“Would Raito-kun like to share with the rest of the class just what it was that he had forgotten?”

Raito sent a half-hearted glare in L’s direction but he was already moving.

“L we need to go and get something.”

“Leave Raito-kun? I don’t think that’s very safe at the moment, now that Mikami knows were we live I don’t think it would be safe to step outside at all.”

“That’s the thing L-I don’t think Mikami knows that it’s us. I mean Watari said the notebook was empty right? Then how would he know that that notebook was special? That’s right-he didn’t. He more then likely thinks that it was just a normal notebook and even if he suspects that there might just be something paranormal about it he doesn’t have any proof because the notebook at the moment is just that a notebook. And remember-Watari just happened to ask Mikami to help him. It wasn’t like he could have planned it or anything. This inn is close to were he is probably living remember-he probably frequents this area a lot. So it was just chance that he was here.”

The thoughtful expression on L’s face showed that he was contemplating what Raito was saying, Raito knew that he would agree with him in the end. Everything that Raito had said made absolute sense.

After a few minutes L seemed to come to some conclusion because he nodded his head in an absent minded way while softly nibbling on his thumb, no longer was he biting hard enough to draw blood.

“Ok Raito-kun, I can see how you came to that conclusion and I have to agree with you. Mikami only saw Watari, an elderly gentleman. He shouldn’t have suspected that we were here as well. Though it chills me to think that while we were in the office room he was only a down the hall.”

That also chilled Raito but he didn’t show it. It made him wonder though, he hadn’t seen any shinigami around so that meant that when Mikami was here he hadn’t been tailed with a shinigami. Did that mean he was no longer the owner of the Deathnote? Or was someone else the owner? If Mikami was a puppet and lackey of someone else that person would have to be very smart and devious.

As Raito stared into thoughtful eyes he remembered what he had been going to tell L beforehand.

“L there is a reason why we need to go somewhere. The deathnote that this New Kira has is the second Kira’s notebook if it really is Rem that is hunting him. Remember there are two of them in the world right now, possibly more if we want to think worse case scenario, but did you ever wonder where I put my deathnote?”

Raito could tell that L was stunned into silence by the expression on his face, more then likely kicking himself in the head for not thinking about that.

“I regret to say Raito-kun that that thought hadn’t occurred to me. I had forgotten that you had a deathnote as well as your Lifenote.”

Raito could understand, to L this was the first time dealing with supernatural aspects and because Raito hadn’t been Kira for a while it was hard to associate him with a deathnote. Now that he was the complete opposite of it at least.

“That’s ok, I had forgotten about it as well. I buried it under a tree in a park near where I live. Originally Misa was going to find it and continue her actions as the second Kira.”

“-and then I would suspect her once again of being the second Kira once more and start to monitor her once more causing Rem to kill me am I right Raito-kun?”

Raito flinched.

“Ah yes-but-“

Raito was startled as L began to chuckle.

“Don’t worry Raito-kun, I have to say that it was a brilliant plan and would have of course worked, it did once after all.”

Raito nodded and quickly changed the subject, talking about how he had once planned-and succeeded-to kill L made him feel terrible.

“So before we deal with Mikami and Misa let’s hurry and claim ownership of that deathnote before Rem remembered about it and tells Misa.”

L nodded before leaping out of his chair, he paused and looked at Raito.

“Will your body be alright if we leave it here for a while?”

Raito nodded.

“It should be okay. I think it’s kinda like I’m sleeping. As long as no one tries to wake my body up I should be okay.”

“Then would it be okay if you stay in your shinigami form for a while. We might just need that advantage.”

“Yea I was already going too anyway.”

L walked towards the bed, as Raito watched L tucked in his body and made sure it was comfortable. It was sweet how caring L acted at times.

Watari had already left to prepare the car for the short drive that would take them to the resting place of the DeathNote.

Raito floated behind L as they descending the stairs, L had made sure that the room that Raito’s human body was resting in was tripled locked before he would leave.

Pushing a strange of long rust colored hair from his face Raito looked down at the hunched form below him. L amazed him at times, no not at times. All the time really. Raito was in an internal debate at the moment, he himself didn’t want to become the owner of the deathnote mostly because he was afraid he might just be tempted to use it, which would result in his death. But he also didn’t want L to become the owner, he didn’t want L subjected to the pull of the Deathnote. He knew L was strong and would be able to resist it but-it was hard.

One of them had to become the new owner of the deathnote, but no matter who became the owner the other person was sure to suffer as well.

Raito let out a sigh of frustration and weariness, it seemed that no matter what he did things just kept getting more and more complicated.

The bad feeling had subdued a bit, enough that he was able to focus. It was still there buzzing though in the back of his head. Like a constant reminder. He hoped that Zaki was doing ok, as long as he kept his head down so to speak the LifeNote shouldn’t be a problem.

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