Darkness Within your Light

I’m so sorry this is so late, finals in school is killing me, also I have a massive writer’s block, aaaand I’ve been trying to write my own novel(woot I have three chapters-cries-…then I had to bloody erase all those chapters because I hated them!)

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“Hello Ryuk”

Raito’s face was twisted up into a scowl as he stared up into the laughing face of the shinigami that started this whole mess in the first place.

“Awww are you still mad Raito-o? Seriously you need to loosen up and let go of that stick up your ass.”

‘Says the person who had a psychotic breakdown after seeing an apple destroyed?’

“Right Ryuk I’ll get right on that… about the same time you get over your love for apples.”
Ryuk just laughed as he twirled around the air before coming to a sudden stop. It seems that he had just noticed L.

“Uhh… hey Raito-o? What’s the panda detective doing here?”

‘…Panda detective? I just might be able to forgive that idiot after all?’

“Oh I get it you’re his bitch now aren’t ya?”

‘… I take it back.’

Raito glared at the laughing shinigami and turned his head to stare at L when he heard him muffled his own laughter.

L gave him an apology look before having his face go blank.
Ryuk had stopped laughing and was now staring down at L. It seemed that he sensed that L was about to get down to business.

“So your name is Ryuk correct?”

Ryuk just floated in the air, giving off the air of someone who didn’t care what was happening in front of him. Unfortunately for him Raito and L were more observant then that. Ryuk was definitely paying attention to everything L was doing and saying.

“Yes it is, and you are L Lawliet aren’t ya. Ehahaha you certainty kept Raito-boy on his toes I’ll give you that.”

“Thank you, now I believe I’m under the impression that you were the shinigami that first dropped the DeathNote that Raito-kun picked up.”

“Right again!”

“Are you aware of the current events that are taking place?”

“Ummm well kind of, I know that Raito-boy here is no longer human, not quite sure how he managed that but if anyone could achieve that he could. I know that he has some kind of weird notebook, it isn’t quite a DeathNote I can tell you that, but really other then that I don’t know much…Oh I do know that Rem has become some human’s pet again, hehe I’m not sure if this is a step up or a step down for her… that woman Misa was a situation of her own. Buwhahahahah!!”

To say that Raito was confused would be a massive understatement.

“Ryuk…why the hell are you being so cooperated?!”

Ryuk just sent Raito a ‘Duh’ look.

“Well Raito-o I’m not stupid you know.”

For a second Raito almost believed him, almost.

“I mean I know that this L character is a lot richer then you are… can you imagine how many apples he could buy me in bribes?! Do you!? I mean… whole orchards….”

Raito just sent him a disbelieving look, he looked at L to see his reaction, and he was a bit surprise to see a shrewd look on his face as he gazed up to the drooling shinigami.

“Sooo…Ryuk-san, I’m wondering how much you know about this new DeathNote user of Rem’s. Depending on your answer I can have…let’s see… three five mile long 3 mile wide apple orchards privately bought within the hour.”

A sharp look rose in Ryuk’s eye as he gazed down into L’s blank eyes.

“…make them Red Delicious and we have ourselves a deal.”

“Agreed.”

Ryuk did a little disturbing victory dance in the air that more than resembled his withdrawal symptoms.

“Right then, well I don’t know quite as much as you might hope, I do know that the new Kira-wannabe is a complete nut job, even more so then Raito-o over there. I also know that he has a bunch of buddies with him that are also complete idiots. I believe that they are using a small learning area? Or something like that-“

Raito was getting frustrated; Ryuk seemed not to know anything that they didn’t already know.

“-Oh I did see that the new loony Kira has a new Notebook that he’s already carrying around… he seems to be obsessed with it. Enough so that he even gave that airhead Misa his Deathnote so that she could continue his killings for him since he’s too busy trying to figure out that white book of his.”
…wait what?!

“It is a bit different though…I mean it’s not a Deathnote or anything, at least that’s what I’ve figured out because the people whose names that he’s written down aren’t dying. Hehe it’s funny to see him so frustrated. He doesn’t know what he has either. But from what I can tell he knows it’s supernatural in origin. From what I’ve seen while observing him from the shinigami realm is that the moment he writes a letter down it disappears from the paper. Hahah it seems that this new notebook doesn’t like it’s new owner…hey now that I think about it…this notebook looks a lot like that weird notebook Raito-o was carrying…hmmm…”

So many different things were whirling inside Raito’s head. A dozen questions formed from what he just heard.

“Ryuk…first of all did you say that Misa was with this new Kira?”

“Yep, oh and I guess I can give you his name…for two more orchards?”

“Let me guess…his names Mikami Teru?”

Ryuk sent L a startled look of disappointment.

“Awww you already knew?! Darn it!”

L turned his head to the side in acknowledgement; his eyes were sparkling with achievement.

“Well I guess we have a hundred percent certainty that this New Kira is Mikami now, and it looks like Misa has also claimed her title of Second Kira once more.”
Raito nodded in agreement.

But another question kept pestering him.

“Ryuk…how did you know what my Notebook looked like? If you saw Mikami with the notebook how did you figure out it was mine?”

For a second, it looked like Ryuk was embarrassed but it was gone in a flash.

“Oh that…well I may have split my share of spying between the new Kira and you.”

“Wait you’ve been spying on us?! For how long?!”

“Oh since that incident with you family…this new form of yours interested me, so I’ve looked down on you two from time to time…heh I never really took you for the submission type Raito-o but I should have figured it out, you know with you being all girly and all.”

Oh Raito was so going to kill this bastard of a shinigami if it was the last thing he did. Maybe he could disguise someone as an apple tree or something and threaten to kill it…then Ryuk would try to save it and because of his demented love for all things red and juicy he would turn into dust.

Ah such a wonderful fantasy.

“You Ryuk are one sick fuck.”

“Bwhahahaah that’s rich coming from you Raito-boy!”

Finally it seemed that L was growing tired from the pointless conversation and wanted to get back to business.

“So Ryuk I was wondering something, does Rem or the New Kira know of your spying on them?”

“Nope from what I can tell they are too busy having their heads shoved up their butts to pay attention. All they ever think about is killing, maiming, ruling over the world, destroying the world by using the government human’s bombes against it, screwing each other…”

“Wait what was that last one?!”

“Oh the screwing each other? Well it seems that Mikami dude has some weird fetishes for Misa-“

“That’s not what I meant! I meant the part about the bombes!!”

“Oh…well but that’s not half as interesting as the time I spied Misa and glasses-dude trying out a new bondage lift-“

“Shut up Ryuk and tell us about the bombes!”

Ryuk just sent both of them a look of amusement, both Raito and L had equally looks of disgust and horror on their faces from the visual imagines that were running rampage in their heads. A sad drawback from having a highly intelligent, an over active mind.

“Alright you pansies, well from what I’ve gathered it seems that Mikami and a few selected group are planning something, most of the people at that place are just cannon fodder, you know junkies and fanatics. Useless except to use as hysteria mass. There are a group of five including glasses and Barbie doll that seem to have brains though, most of these plans sound like they would take years before they would be ready to put into action though, so no worries there. There is this one guy though, don’t know what he looks like because the weirdo is always wearing this hood over his head and it covers almost all of his face. I know his name though…but I can’t make things too easy on you, where would be the fun in that?! Bwhahahaahah”

Despite how much he really wanted to hurt Ryuk Raito couldn’t help but feel really impressed with him as well.

Right now L and him knew a lot more than they did before, and it would end up being very helpful in apprehending the New Kira and his followers.

“So what about this guy has you freaked out Ryuk?”

“Well he doesn’t weird me out pre say…but some of the ideas that he has…well the way he talks makes it sound like he already knows things…things he shouldn’t know. Almost like he’s predicting the future or something. It’s creepy and for me to say that you know I mean it!”

“Huh…”

Raito let his wings flap a bit before taking flight till he was right beside Ryuk, giving him a look before looking back at the baffled L.

It seemed that Ryuk got his meaning because he suddenly started to fly upward out of hearing range of the black haired detective.

Raito followed him, trying to ignore the startled yells of L.

When they were high enough that Raito was sure L couldn’t hear him he stopped flying and turned to Ryuk.

“Ryuk I have to know truthfully how much you really now about what’s going on.”

Ryuk just looked at him, his fish like yellow eyes stared unblinking making Raito almost want to squirm in discomfort, almost being the world because no one ever made Yagami Raito squirm.

After a few moments Ryuk broke eye contact and let out an long drawn out sigh.

“Well Raito…I did want to draw this out a bit more but if I do I know the King will have my head.”

Raito sent him a startled look.

“Wait what do you mean?”

Ryuk lifted one of his long thin arms and started to softy tug on his earring.

“Well it’s like this…I didn’t know much at all when I saw you earlier. I felt a bit off though…like something big happened and I had forgotten about it, it made me very irritable and annoyed so you can thank that for me acting as I did…though I might have did that regardless. Seriously you were just too funny! I mean it really was like you were worried about that family of yours!”

“Back to the point Ryuk!”

“Right right. Ok well the thing was I was confused on how you suddenly got these new powers, I mean the last time I saw you, you were a normal human, a psychotic and narcissistic human with a god complex but a human regardless. So I went back to the Shinigami realm and started to hunt for answers. You should be proud of me Raito-o, I was serious!”

“Right we can give you a pat on the back later, tell me what happened.”

“Party pooper, anyway I couldn’t find anything for a while, I asked around but it seemed that the other shinigami hadn’t noticed a thing, they were all too stupid anyway, so I started to hunt down those of higher rank then me, and let me tell you that was not easy, not one bit! I finally found someone, I can’t remember their name though…hmmm. Anyway this shinigami took me to see the King, I hadn’t seen him in a long time, he had taken a different form then the last time I saw him at my birth.”

“Birth?”

“Ahh…I don’t think we should go into that right now Raito you already have one thing to focus on right now, best to leave that mess for another time.”

“O…kay.”

“Right well where was I? Oh right, well I was taken to see the King, and it was weird you know? He took me to this weird cave; it had all these scribbles on the walls. Anyway the King walked me to this pond, and told me to sit on the edge. He wouldn’t tell me anything else. Only told me to sit and stare at the white water.”

“Wait you said white water?”

“Yeeaaa…what about it?”

Raito shook his head as if to clear it.

“When I-when I was there the water was black.”

Ryuk gave him a look as if he thought he was crazy, hell maybe he was.

“That’s impossible, the water is the very essence of life itself, in all of creation, not only of earth but the universe as a whole… it can’t turn black, to do so would suggest that the end of time and space had happened.”

“…yea that sounds about right.”

“…I think getting some has screwed with your mental status; I think you need to go cold turkey Raito.”

“Oh shut up you black bean pole!”

“And you just proved my point! That was lame!”

“Oh just go fuck off and mate with a tree and have a broad of sprouts!”

“Okay that’s more original.”

Raito snorted and looked down, it seemed that L had gotten tired of yelling after them and had moved over to a tree to sit under, he was also studying the DeathNote with single minded determination that truthfully scared Raito.

“So Ryuk back to this white water.”

“Well I sat there for who knows how long, the King had left me there and I got bored so…I touched the water.”

“…”

“…”

“…you-are-an-idiot.”

A snort of bemusement.

“That’s nothing new.”

“So you touched it, what happened.”

“Well nothing at first, It felt strange though, it didn’t feel like water but it looked like it, it was almost what I imagine touching cloud or fog would feel like, then all of a sudden the substance grew into something else, it became almost gooey-wait no that’s not it. It was like…hmm you know that silver stuff the human use to use in those devices that told their temperatures?”

“You mean mercury?”

“Ya that’s it! It felt like that. Or at least what I imagine it would feel like if I had ever touched the stuff. Anyway it suddenly turned like that and started to swerve into a whorl pool. Then…”

“Then?”

Ryuk looked at him with his strange eyes, Raito couldn’t tell what expression was in them but whatever it was left him with a bad feeling.

“She came out of it.”

Raito frowned.

“She?”

“Yes, she was nothing like I had ever seen, she wasn’t shinigami nor was she human. She was white…so white.”

Suddenly Raito knew, he knew who Ryuk saw.

“Ryuk what was she called?”

Ryuk hesitated for a second before tilting his head to look up into the sky above them.

“She called herself…Mother. Little Mother.”

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Ok hows that for a chapter? I’m kind of muffled, this is almost 10 pages but it’s still very short, hmm.
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