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Fever Dreams	By : sashocirrione Category: Death Note > Yaoi-Male/Male > L/Light Views: 2733 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER 3, PART 1
Dr. Yamane shifted slightly in his chair and looked at the scene before him. He'd never had such an odd experience in his life. For months, he'd been on standby for a possible medical emergency, paid by an employer he knew nothing about. He had simply been told that he'd need to drop everything and go somewhere if the emergency happened. He was also told that he absolutely must not ask any questions during the emergency except ones relating to medical matters, and he should never tell anyone about what he saw.
In the meantime, he kept his usual employment and was paid a weekly amount that more than doubled his normal salary. Now, that emergency had happened, and he'd halfway expected to be treating gunshot wounds for the yakuza. The amount of secrecy and money involved had made him think his mysterious employer was probably involved with organized crime. Not that he could do anything about it. If it had been the yakuza, and he'd tried to refuse or ask questions, his entire family would have been in danger.
But, everything he'd been presented with tonight had been a surprise. First, there was the skyscraper with extremely high security, even though it seemed mostly empty and unused. Then, instead of being confronted with a true medical emergency, he'd merely been asked to treat two young men with fevers. Even though they'd both been delirious, even the highest fever wasn't too dangerous. Still, Dr. Yamane did worry for some time about the one who was hallucinating, the one who asked to be called Ryuzaki. Dr. Yamane checked his temperature more frequently, always relieved when it hadn't gone up. Ryuzaki was really convinced that Kira was trying to kill him.
But, Kira killed criminals, not ordinary citizens. Even though none of this looked like what Dr. Yamane expected from the yakuza, maybe he really was dealing with organized crime. Plus, there was the chain with a handcuff on each end that linked the two young men together. Could they be escaped convicts? No, this didn't look like anything the police normally used. Perhaps these two were prisoners of the yakuza in some way, though if that were true then it was a mystery why they didn't at least ask Dr. Yamane to help them escape.
The handful of other people who were present in the building came into the bedroom from time to time, and none of them looked at all like criminals, nor did there seem to be any animosity between them and the "prisoners." In fact, there seemed to be a kind of general deference toward Ryuzaki, as if he were the one normally in charge. Also, the other people were enormously unruffled by Ryuzaki's ranting, as if they were used to it, and they even acted like they took it seriously. One young man, called Matsuda, even sat by the bed for a time and explained to Ryuzaki that the monster, Rem, wasn't planning to kill him because it already would have happened if that were the case. In the end, Dr. Yamane had concluded that he was perhaps dealing with an eccentric, crazy millionaire who was kinky and did not want any normal doctors to see him chained to his boyfriend.
Ryuzaki was such a handful that Dr. Yamane did not pay as much attention to the other feverish young man, Light. He did note that Light seemed to settle down more after a time, and at one point while Ryuzaki was sleeping Light disappeared completely under the covers for several minutes. When he came out, he seemed confused and restless but much less delirious. Perhaps hiding from "the monster" under the covers had calmed him down.
Then, after a long wait when things were quieter than normal, Ryuzaki suddenly attacked him and had to be sedated. The syringe Dr. Yamane had prepared was somehow missing, but he was quickly able to prepare another. Right after, there was an incredibly loud, weird sound coming from under the covers, a fingernails-down-the-chalkboard sound like the tortured shriek of twisting, ripping metal. Light sat up straight in bed and let out a terrible, haunting scream. Dr Yamane was instantly at his side of the bed, taking his temperature, but it was fine. Then Light had asked to be allowed to go out of the room and walk around a bit. His fever was low enough that Dr. Yamane had no problem with it. He saw Light briefly again a short while later, as Light and his father talked, and Light's father gave him permission to go home. Well, whatever the clients wanted. Surely, if Light weren't supposed to leave even when he got better, Dr. Yamane would be told of it. But, then, it wasn't too long until all hell broke loose.
CHAPTER 3, PART 2
Rem repeated once more in her mind the instructions that Light Yagami had given her, trying to keep all the details clear. She entered an equipment room that looked like an endless mess of shelves and electronic equipment and wires and little screens. She tapped into the video feed of the main investigation room, where the death note was sitting on a table. Only Aizawa was there. She waited until he went to the restroom, then flipped some switches, entered some commands into a computer, and then manually hooked up some of the wires in a different configuration.
Light had said Watari was the only one who watched video feeds at this time of night, and now that Rem had looped the feed according to Light's instructions, Watari would see the same few sweeps of the camera repeated over and over. It would seem the death note was still sitting on a table in an empty room. Rem had at least a few minutes before Watari might notice something wrong, maybe much longer if he wasn't currently watching surveillance video, or if he was focusing on Light and L in the bed.
When Aizawa returned to the investigation room, the death note was sitting on the floor, as if it had fallen off the table. Aizawa picked it up and was about to place it back when Rem suddenly swooped down to stand in front of him. With her wings spread wide, and using her most menacing voice, she said, "Give that back to me."
Startled, Aizawa held it out, and Rem took it. A blank expression immediately came into Aizawa's face. He paused and looked as if he were trying to remember something. He was looking right through Rem, completely blind to her. Then he shrugged and casually reached through Rem's body, picking up his coffee cup and taking a drink.
The next one was Watari. Because of his role as the main watcher of surveillance video, he had to be put out of commission as fast as possible. Now that Rem owned the death note again, it was invisible to all who couldn't see her and she could phase it through walls just like she could with her own body. She launched herself upwards, going to Watari's control room as fast as possible and dropping the death note directly on his lap. Now he was the owner. Watari looked up at Rem, startled. She said, "That is mine. Give it back to me."
Watari said, "I would like an explanation of how it came to be here. I was under the impression it was still downstairs."
Rem said, "If you don't return it to me, I'll kill you right now."
Watari became a bit pale, but he pulled a cellphone from his pocket and said, "I would like to discuss this with Ryuzaki first, if I may."
Rem whipped out her other death note and, holding it open in such a way that Watari could see her as she wrote, began writing his real name, slowly and deliberately. Three letters before she reached the end, Watari said, "Take it back now, and be done with it."
Rem took the death note from him, and Watari instantly got that same blind look Aizawa had gotten a minute earlier, gazing through her rather than at her. Rem quickly left, going back to the room with L and Light. It was easy to get into the doctor's bag and withdraw the hypodermic syringe full of fast-acting sedatives that he had prepared in case L's paranoia became dangerous. L went into a complete panic at seeing her so close, but he wasn't aware enough to realize she was getting into the doctor's bag. While the doctor was occupied at quieting L, Rem hid the syringe behind her body so L couldn't see she was carrying anything and exited the room.
Since the syringe was a physical thing, part of the human world, she had to actually use doors as she sought out Watari. There was a slight chance Watari might notice either the self-opening doors or the floating syringe on surveillance video, but he was probably watching the rooms and hallways that actually held people. The important thing was to knock out Watari so he would not see the remaining investigators making deals with an invisible presence, as the death note became briefly visible each time it became part of the human world and then returned to invisibility as ownership returned to Rem.
When Rem entered the control room, easing open the door so carefully that it made no sound, Watari had his back to her and he was using a cellphone, saying, "Yes, yes, it's a loop in the security video of the main investigation room. I can't break it from here, it's not digital, rather it's a physical reconnection. I'll have to go downstairs and see how things have been hooked up in the equipment room. Listen, you're not entirely making sense. I think your fever is affecting you too much. You should go back to sleep. I'll get Mogi to help."
At that moment, Rem snuck up behind Watari and plunged the needle into his arm. In only a couple of seconds, he was slumping, and she caught him, lowering him gently to the floor. After crushing his cellphone into little bits, she dragged his unconscious form out of the control room and down the hallway, and then locked him in a small conference room, one without any computers or other communication equipment. Rem destroyed all the cameras and bugs in that room. Then she sought out the others. Soichiro, Mogi and Matsuda were all easy. She had to wait for each one to be alone, which ended up meaning ambushing each one in the bathroom. As Light had said, they had no reason to think her threat to kill could be a bluff, and since shinigami were not obligated to explain about the ownership deal, the investigators had no idea she was actually planning on erasing parts of their memories.
Now, it was time for the riskiest part of the plan. Getting L to receive and then give up ownership. Rem lurked in the bedroom, now invisible to everyone except L, and waited for the right moment. The investigators were still checking in on L and Light at regular intervals, and the doctor was there too. Since L was delirious, it wouldn't be too risky if someone saw him talking to thin air, but the death note would become visible while it was possessed by a human, and Rem did not want anyone to remember seeing a notebook. Finally, there came a point when nobody was there except L and Light, when the doctor had excused himself to use the restroom. Light was asleep, so he wouldn't notice anything. Not that it would matter. Rem approached L and then dropped the death note directly into his hands.
CHAPTER 3, PART 3
L's eyes were on that monster, Rem, as she approached. He could tell she was up to something, but there was nothing he could do. He shivered and pulled the covers up a bit further. He'd been burning hot just a minute ago, but now he was cold, and his entire head felt like it had been stuffed with cotton. His arms and legs were weak, and every time he moved them it seemed to take a great effort. Where was that doctor? Dr. Yamane should be protecting everyone from the shinigami. L had tried to tell him, over and over, but he just didn't seem to take the problem seriously. L started wondering about the doctor. Was he part of some plan too? Maybe he was conspiring with Rem and Kira to kill them all. He'd forced L to swallow stuff he said was medicine, but maybe it was really poison, or it was something meant to addle L's senses so he couldn't figure out who Kira was.
Yes, that was it. It made so much sense now that L started thinking this way. That was why Dr. Yamane ignored everything about the shinigami. On the roof, Light had hinted that some plan was already in motion. Dr. Yamane must be part of that plan, and that's why the doctor was deliberately pretending to know nothing about Rem. L reached around, feeling in the bed for his cellphone. Where had it gone? He had to call Watari, tell him that Dr. Yamane was poisoning him. Watari would fire him, bring in a different doctor, and get L's stomach pumped of all the poison. That was L's only chance to survive. He couldn't feel the cellphone anywhere. He flailed in a panic, his arms incredibly drained and weak. Each movement sent a spike of nausea through him. Then, suddenly, he was grasping something. He looked down to the thing in his hands, trying to comprehend. It was the death note!
L tried to think. How could this thing possibly be here? It was supposed to be in the main investigation room. Maybe he'd brought it up here himself for safekeeping? Maybe he didn't trust anybody else to watch over it? No, that didn't make sense. He couldn't remember doing anything like that. As L's mind foggily turned over various possibilities, he suddenly felt an incredible lethargy, an intense tiredness. Yes, he would go to sleep. But, there was something about Dr. Yamane, something important he desperately needed to remember.
While L pondered that, he became aware that Rem was speaking to him. Too many things were happening at once, it was hard to concentrate. Everything had such a surreal feeling. Yes, that was it! All this felt too unreal, it must be a nightmare. L reached with one hand, watching it move ever so slowly across in front of him and then pinch his arm. The sensation of the pinch sent tingles and shivers radiating from that spot throughout his body, but it only hurt just slightly.
Suddenly, L's body went from cold and shivering to burning hot. He pushed the covers down. They were suffocating him, killing him. Maybe that was Dr. Yamane's plan. He had been giving him some kind of medicine that would make him feel too cold, and then L would be forced to pull the covers up so high they cut off his breathing. L needed to find that cellphone and tell this to Watari. He began feeling around, and once more noticed the death note within his grasp. At that moment, he felt the shinigami's ice-cold hands on his face, turning his face toward her.
Rem said, "That is mine. Give it back to me."
L nodded. That made sense. He held out the notebook, saw the shinigami reaching out to receive it. In the next moment, he felt sleep trying to overtake him again. L fought it, trying to keep his eyes open. There was something very important about Dr. Yamane. He needed to warn Watari...
Just then, L saw the doctor himself entering the room again. He let out a scream and tried to leap from the bed, but he was so weak that he only managed to slide halfway out, ending with his head resting on the floor, his legs still in the bed. He felt the chain yank, and Light was pulled against him, shifting sleepily against his feet and calves. The movement against L's hypersensitive skin sent tingles through him, and then he was remembering the pleasure they'd shared on the roof, Light feeling him and sucking on him and then moving inside him as the rain pounded down all around, battering at them.
Then L felt hands on his face and body, and he leaned hungrily into them. The fingers were so cool and soothing against his fevered flesh. L reached out with his mouth to the nearest fingers, nipping at them, trying to draw them into his mouth and suck. The fingers evaded him, and he was being pushed back into the bed, being forcibly settled onto the pillow by those cool fingers and strong arms. L moaned and tried to rub against those touches. He looked to the face above him. Dr. Yamane!
L screamed again and began thrashing. He looked around the room, trying to see someone who would help, but there was nobody except Kira and this traitorous doctor who was trying to kill him.
L said, "Watari! Matsuda! Someone help me! This doctor is going to hold the pillow over my face and kill me!"
Now L began fighting in earnest. His limbs were weak and shaking, and his exertion was making the nausea rise again, but he knew this was his last chance. He would die unless he managed to subdue the doctor and get help. He held nothing back, viciously kicking, scratching and biting. But, the doctor was still prevailing. L sobbed in frustration and anger. Kira was awake and looking down on him too. The two of them would kill him together. L managed to squirm free of the doctor's grasp and get on top of Kira. Kira was wide-eyed and looked completely startled, unable to move. Yes, L would kill him, at least. L began laughing dementedly and winding the chain around Kira's neck. He would strangle him.
Then L felt a strong pinch in his butt and looked back, in time to see Dr. Yamane stepping back with a syringe in his hand. Suddenly, the cotton inside L's head was multiplying at an enormous rate, pushing everything out. L's thoughts were gone, his vision fading, and he felt himself slumping.
CHAPTER 3, PART 4
Light had been woken from a sound sleep by a scream and a yank of the chain. He sat up and saw Dr. Yamane rushing to L's side of the bed, pulling him up from his position halfway on the floor and putting him back in. Had L fallen out of bed? Then Light's eyes widened in disbelief as he saw what L did next. It looked like L was trying to make out with Dr. Yamane. The doctor was trying to put L to bed, but L was clinging to the doctor's arms, moaning, trying to lick, and shifting his hips back and forth in a humping motion.
Then L screamed again, tried to fight the doctor, and began ranting about the doctor trying to kill him. In the next moment, L was suddenly straddling Light. Light looked up in shock. L laughed. It was a sick, crazy laugh, like the kind produced by a villain in a horror movie, and L's eyes were more dilated than ever, immense pools of blackness, glittering with a feverish insanity. L's pale skin was now bright red, red as a lobster. Light was only able to keep still because of Dr. Yamane signaling him to play dumb while approaching from behind with that needle. L started looping the chain around Light's neck, the links digging in painfully. Then the doctor finally inserted that needle and L fell into unconsciousness.
Light helped Dr. Yamane pick up L's limp form and arrange it on the other side of the bed. Light shivered. He was feeling better, but all that adrenaline had brought his wooziness back. It had been truly terrifying to see L like that. But, he was safe now. L wouldn't hurt him.
Just as Light thought everything was settled down and he could probably go back to sleep, there was suddenly a horrible metallic screech from under the covers. Before he could react to that, something else under the covers, on the other side, touched his leg and he was screaming, just like in the helicopter, as all those horrible memories twisted their way into his brain like malignant parasites, forcing him into a realization that he'd killed a few thousand people and was being hunted by law enforcement agencies around the world.
Dr. Yamane was at his side of the bed instantly, but Light knew now he had to avoid getting the same treatment that L had just got. Light needed to stay conscious, or he might get caught with the death note.
Light said, "I'm sorry about that scream, the noise just startled me."
Dr. Yamane said nothing. He simply raised an ear thermometer to Light's ear, taking a reading.
Light pulled out the length of chain from under the covers, showing where Rem had ripped it open. Light had one handcuff and the partial chain attached. Dr. Yamane looked astonished, but he still said nothing. L had probably paid him not to ask questions.
"I see," Light said, "the chain must have caught on something and broke. That's what caused the sound. How is my fever?"
Dr. Yamane said, "Your fever was never dangerous, and now it is quite mild."
Light said, "I feel much better, but it's stuffy in here. I'd like to get dressed and go downstairs for some air and a little walking."
Dr. Yamane hesitated for a moment, but then he nodded. Light smiled. It was almost too easy to fool and manipulate people other than L. Light pulled one of the blankets free, and draped it over himself as if modestly trying to hide his near-nudity, but what he was really hiding was the death note. Then he walked over to the wardrobe and got dressed, hiding the death note under his shirt and pushing the handcuff as far up his arm as he could, coiling the chain inside that sleeve, hidden from view.
Then, Light made his way downstairs, followed by Rem, who used that time to give him a summary of everything she'd done while he was without his memories. He found Aizawa and Mogi in the main investigation room, Aizawa on a computer. Light logged in as Soichiro. He would soon erase all the login information, but it was best to be sneaky. Light accessed the user data and saw Aizawa was the only other one on the computers at the moment. Light checked to see what Aizawa was working on. It was innocuous enough to leave it alone for now. Then, he hacked into every program that monitored the system for viruses, suspicious activities or data tampering and shut them all down.
Next, he started a massive erasure of everything except Aizawa's file, overwriting all the data with randomly generated gibberish so it could never be recovered. He even did this to the secret back-up data that L didn't think he knew about. Now, there was nothing in the computer system at all, except Aizawa's file, the operating system itself, and loads of gibberish. As long as Aizawa was able to work normally, it should be even harder to conclude that the massive computer shutdown precisely coincided with the time that Light Yagami had been on the computer. Everyone except L had spent some time logged in during the past few hours. Any of them, or none of them, may have been responsible.
As the last flourish, Light downloaded a particularly devastating virus and put it on the system, with a timer trigger. In slightly less than an hour, it would begin to erase everything again, including even Aizawa's current file. With luck, this would add to the confusion about just when the data erasure had occurred, and it would also erase the operating system as much as possible before absolutely everything ceased working and the virus itself couldn't even operate. This would help protect against the possibility of L having recorded something secretly by encoding it into the operating system itself. Although, even if L had done that, there might be nothing there about killer notebooks or shinigami, because L only learned that information a few days ago.
Then Light sought out his father, who turned out to be checking in with L at that moment. When Light walked into the room, Soichiro said, "There you are! Dr. Yamane said you were feeling better."
"Yes," Light said, "in fact, I was thinking of going home. Ryuzaki was going so crazy that the doctor had to sedate him, and I'd just feel more comfortable in my own bed."
"Of course," Soichiro said, "Ryuzaki did say you were cleared, until he started ranting like this. I don't think there's any reason for you to stay."
Soichiro looked puzzled for a moment, as if he were trying to remember why L had said Light was cleared, but he quickly shook off his puzzlement.
Soichiro continued, "I've still got a couple of hours of work, and then I'll join you. Should I call them and tell them to get ready for your homecoming?"
"No," Light said, "I'd rather surprise them."
With that, Light had further reduced the possibility that L would be able to tell he hadn't gone straight home. It was important to make L suspicious, but not to give him much to work with. There was a fine line between the right amount and too much.
Light went to the parking garage underneath the investigation building, took his father's car, and drove to a nearby shopping center that was bordered with high-rise apartment complexes on every side. Light expected that L might have a tracker on the car, so he could follow its movements. That would be just like him. Light went to a gift shop and quickly purchased two small gifts for his mother and sister. It was a very normal thing to do, just what would be expected after being entirely cut off from them for months.
Light went into the parking lot and instructed Rem to find an apartment complex that didn't have a doorman, and then to disable any camera that showed who went in and out. Rem was shortly back and let him into the building. Light picked a random floor, and then as he walked down it, he told Rem to check all the apartments until she found one that was both empty and had a computer. In just a few minutes, Rem had let him in such an apartment. Light momentarily smirked as he thought how easy it would be to be a thief, if you had a willing shinigami. Nobody expected doors to be opened from the inside.
Light hacked into NPA computers. As he thought, there was nothing on Kira or Higuchi's capture. L had certainly told the police to keep such things out of their computers. But Light knew a way around that. At the time of Higuchi's arrest, the police were not supposed to be helping to catch Kira. Every single officer who took part in that blockade disobeyed orders to do so. As such, they would have received reprimands at that time, reprimands that had probably been overturned by now since L and the task force were healing their relationship with the police. Light searched through the records and found 49 officers meeting that description. He now had their faces and names. He began printing them up.
Rem said, "Aren't you going to kill these men?"
Light said, "No, that would create too much suspicion. I know a few of these overheard Higuchi saying that he killed people by writing their names in a magic notebook. It's not critical to keep that kind of hearsay away from L, but it will help if we can force all of them into receiving and giving up ownership."
Rem said, "I'm not sure how far that will work."
Light said, "When I lost my memory, I didn't just forget about my own death note and Misa's death note and you and Ryuk. I also forgot all conversations I'd had with Misa concerning those matters."
Rem said, "What if they won't give up ownership? What if I get stuck with one of them? I'm not sure if I can kill that person to set myself free, because that would be killing someone as part of a plan to save Misa, and so it might kill me."
Light said, "With the story I'll give you to tell them, there's no way it won't work. This is a story you can't use on the investigators, but these cops won't know any better."
Then Light told Rem that if the simple "give it back or I'll kill you" didn't work, she should tell them they had passed a test of bravery, she'd selected them to be the next Kira, and that if they would slaughter all their loved ones and fifty additional innocent people, they would then have Kira's power. Nobody would take up that offer.
Light finished printing up work schedules for all the selected officers, along with maps showing their homes and where they worked. He put everything into a large folder and said, "When you've finished with that task, I want you to burn all the evidence. However, we first need to get Aiber and Wedy. I don't know where they are, but you can find anyone you've seen before by using viewing portal in the shinigami realm, so that shouldn't be a problem."
"Yes," Rem said, "that shouldn't take long."
Light said, "After you've erased the memories of those two, you need to return to headquarters and do what I told you to do with all the cameras in the rooms that are frequently used, and completely disable the sprinklers in the room with the lockers of physical evidence and start a fire there. After that, go to Misa's place and get her to give up ownership and tell you the place she's buried her death note, and have her destroy any scraps."
Rem said, "Why can't you do that in person? What if Misa doesn't believe you sent me?"
Light said, "She will believe I told you, because she is very eager to follow orders from me. Also, I can't go there in person because Misa will remember I visited, though not for what reason, and when she talks about it, it will draw suspicion to her as well as me."
Rem said, "I will do it that way."
Light said, "Then, do the ownership deal with those forty-nine officers, and come back to my home. If I'm still there, do the ownership deal with me again. That way, I'll appear more suspicious to L, since he's good at reading personalities, and I'll also have my memories in case he makes an unexpected move I need to counter."
Rem said, "I still don't see how this will work."
Light said, "The only thing that could go wrong is if someone won't give up ownership. Aiber is the biggest risk, since he may realize he's being conned, but I don't think he's willing to risk his life to retain ownership of a death note. Just like the others, he shouldn't have any hint you're going to erase his memories in the process. And, if one of the forty-nine officers retains ownership despite the fake high price you've put on it, then L and myself will investigate just like before, but this time you must watch constantly for bugs and hidden cameras and people following, and make the person aware of these, and threaten to turn them in unless they give up ownership. That way, it should be impossible for L to ever get his hands on a death note again."
Light paused. "But, I think almost anyone would piss themselves in fear and give up ownership immediately, and even if they get far enough to hear of the fake deal, that should put off even the most adamant Kira supporter. Plus, these are guys who risked getting fired to catch Kira. None of them will want to be Kira."
Light got up from the chair and stretched. He was still feeling flushed and a bit dizzy. That was good, because it would make his mother and sister fuss over him and want to keep him home, and that would give him a partial alibi. Not a good enough alibi for L, but enough of one to keep suspicion from getting too high. He didn't need all the investigators turning firmly against him.
But, it would be best to make things as certain as possible. He couldn't rely on the memory-damaged version of himself. That version might panic and return to headquarters too soon, losing any opportunity to regain ownership of the death note. Light got out his cellphone and called home, talking to a very excited mother and sister at once, telling them he was sorry he hadn't even phoned once in months but everything was okay now and he'd be home and he promised he'd stay the entire night. As Light got off the phone, he smirked. It was so odd to be playing mind games even with himself, manipulating his other self into a corner. Light knew he hated breaking his promises. He would stay home until Rem came with the death note or L came to arrest him.
Then Light said, "Rem, when you see Ryuk, make sure you tell him what I told you earlier so he'll let me live out my natural lifespan. If I died, especially of a heart attack, it may seem that Misa caused it. It would cause suspicion to fall on her."
Rem said, "Yes, I'm sure Ryuk will give in when I threaten to follow him around for years singing the same song over and over until the point when your life would have ended. Ryuk only needs to see you die. It doesn't matter when."
Light smiled. "It's fortunate that even though shinigami can't hurt each other, they can annoy."
Light carefully used a cloth to erase his fingerprints from the computer keyboard and from where he'd rested his hands on the desk. On his way out, he did the same with the apartment doorknob and with buttons on the elevator. Soon, he was home. He waited outside for a few moments while Rem went inside and checked, just in case L had installed hidden cameras or microphones in the house again. Unlikely, but you never could tell what L might try. Light had learned to anticipate the unexpected.
When Rem returned and gave the all-clear, Light told her to get to work as fast as possible and gave up ownership.
Light found himself walking up to his front door, gifts for his mother and sister in his hands. He had only just started to knock when the door opened and he was enveloped in two very enthusiastic hugs at once. They dragged him inside, sat him down on the couch, and wanted to know everything all at once. Light knew he couldn't tell them anything about the investigation, so he repeated the same cover story he'd used in his letter at the start of his confinement: that he'd moved in with Misa and he knew his dad would never approve so he hadn't left any contact information. Light now added the twist that he'd broken up with Misa and now thought his dad would forgive him, so he'd come home.
It was almost true. He had been thinking a lot about breaking up with Misa, especially since that... event... and he was sure he'd do it soon. It wasn't right to be two-timing her with L. Not that Light had done anything with Misa. He hadn't even given her any encouragement for months, but it seemed she just wouldn't let go. He'd have to actually come out and say he was done with her. He wouldn't tell her about L, of course. That simply wasn't any of her business.
His mother and sister soon noticed he was sick, and then they were practically spoon-feeding him soup and some herbal tea that was supposed to help. They were so excited to see him, their jabber almost never stopped. Especially Sayu, since she was quite a talker anyway. Light just nodded, and answered once in a while, and started wondering about a few things. Like, the chain that was still wrapped around his arm. He could feel it, and he remembered discussing its breaking with Dr. Yamane, but he didn't remember the actual breaking process. Perhaps L had decided to let him go but didn't remember where the keys were? It seemed to Light that he would have remembered something like that, but he had been pretty feverish. It must have slipped his mind.
After what seemed like quite a long time, Light was yawning, and then the yawns kept coming back, and his mother was helping him up the stairs and putting him in bed, giving a few clucks of disapproval when he said he was so tired he wanted to sleep in his clothes. Then he was asleep, having dreams that constantly switched back and forth between pleasant and extremely confusing, until finally one confusing dream suddenly went very weird and turned into a nightmare, and then a cold hand was shaking him awake. Light opened his eyes to see Rem standing above him and realized he'd gone to sleep as his innocent self and woken up as Kira. This was the first time he'd regained his memories without screaming, which was a good thing, since that would make it easier to sneak out.
Light locked the door to his room. It was unlikely they'd try to bother him now when it was so late, but it was best to be sure they didn't notice he was gone and ruin his partial alibi.
The, Light opened the door to his little balcony, walked out on it, looked around to be certain there was nobody within view, and said, "Now, you need to carry me. We'll go to where Misa's death note is buried."
Rem grabbed Light's arms and took off, quickly climbing so high that the darkness would make him invisible to anyone below. Soon, they arrived at a forested area and Light began to dig. It wasn't raining any more, but the ground was still soft. It was not long until he had it dug up. He placed it on a large rock and set it on fire.
Rem said, "You don't want two death notes, just in case?"
Light said, "Remember, for Misa's sake we need to keep death notes away from the investigators. I can't take the chance that Ryuk might give this to another person. Besides, I can't afford to have Ryuk attached to me while I'm in confinement. His apple addiction makes it too easy to catch me."
Then Light used the same box and plastic bag and reburied his remaining death note in a location just a few trees away.
Rem said, "If you do not touch it for long enough, you'll lose ownership."
Light said, "I've figured that into my plan. I think I won't need this ever again, but for now, since I have my memories, L will be able to tell I'm hiding things, and that's important. It won't prove anything, but it means that he'll definitely focus on me rather than Misa. Also, it is possible he may bring Misa in for questioning. Don't panic if he does that. Misa will be completely clean and innocent, and he won't be able to hold her long, especially since she's now become quite a celebrity."
When Light got home, he changed into pajamas and woke his mother up to clean his dirty clothes. He didn't need L taking them to forensics and analyzing the mud on them to find what location he'd been to. Besides, Light's mother seeing him yet again would be all the more evidence that he'd truly been home all night.
Light crawled into his bed and sighed, trying to think over everything he'd done, trying to see some flaw in it. All it would take was one little thing, one thing that would turn the suspicion too high. It was a very fine line. Light went back and forth over everything several times, but he couldn't discover any problems. Light then closed his eyes and went to sleep, secure in the knowledge that no shinigami would kill him, and L would want to keep an eye on him forever.
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