InuYasha Fan Fiction / Death Note Fan Fiction ❯ Ghosts In My Head ❯ These Ghastly Eyes ( Chapter 2 )

Ghosts In My Head

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Chapter 2:

These Ghastly Eyes

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She cringed when that insomniac kept staring at her with those endless voids of eyes. She didn't like it when people was staring at her any longer than necessary, but the hooded girl usually just shrugged it off, used to having the people looking at her lazy, punk kind of way attire, but still… He was staring at her.

Kagome grumbled under her breath from the back seat of the car, as she lowering herself from the car's rearview mirror, to order to dodge the eyes of the old chuckling driver. His name is Watari, that's what L said. Unlike most people that don't find them interesting and thought they were boring, she thought otherwise. She actually find them fascinating, despite that her own grandfather was very senile, and like to hear their life stories every so often, even if it's a same story over and over.

She sighed, wishing that she could sit in the front seat, but unfortunately, L had tricked her into thinking that L would sit in the front but turned out L just wanted to obverse her and her habits and because of that, she ended up sitting next to L. Speaking of which, he was still crouching (which she now called it 'knee hug' because it looked more like a hug than crouching, really) instead of sitting and his excuse? "I found that my concentration was 40 percent higher in this style instead what you normally sit."

Riiight… And he was nibbling on his thumbnail when he was speaking! She didn't want to ask any more questions, deciding that it's better to be quiet and be far away from him as possible, letting her own observing and coming up with a theory of the characters to do the job.

She peeked out to L from the corner of her eyes to found that L was still staring at her. Started to sweats from that intense of his stare, her mind screamed, 'Come on, old man Watari, be there already!!' Why was their ride to the crime scene taking so long?! They should be there by now… Either that or the old man was driving way slower than her uncle did and personally, her uncle drives like a madman would.

Right on the moment as her mind stopped rotating around the gear, they finally got to the crowded parking lot, away from the large building, which the crime scene`s in. Kagome's finally able to let out the sigh of relief. She did not want to feel the intense of that freaky stare again. "Ah, here we are, sir and ma'am." The old man Watari smiled as he stood outside, opening L's door, he had gone out first but Kagome, being what she was, decided to go out herself without needing the old man's help.

Kagome made the noise from the back of her throat and went through the noisy crowds (which was blocked by polices, of course, but they eventually recognized her as SVU Chief's niece and allowed her and her two accompanies to go in.) and enter in the building, followed by the duo. She and the other two made their way to the elevator to go down in the basement parking lots, where the crime scene was located.

L was holding the files that he took from Kagome earlier while in the car, "I thought you usually work on SUV; not homicide." Kagome shrugged, "Ever since the Homicide Chief Yagami and several others detectives (1) had left to pursued Kira, we're busier than ever because most of their cases just fall on our shoulders instead of theirs. Lazy bums." She sighed as they entered the crime scene, which was blocked by the yellow ropes, and the area it was in was filled with police officers and several annoying paparazzi.

"If the paparazzi are here, then the victims must be famous of some kind…" L trailed off as Kagome ducked underneath the yellow ropes. "Good eyes. The both victims were well-known American actresses. Their names are Rachael Mull and Jade Plum. But I think that is their alias name… I think." The hooded girl grunted as she walked up to the dark-haired woman in long overcoat. "Sango!" She called out to that woman.

The woman turned around, looking surprised, "Oh, Kagome. Didn't expect you to be here! …The victims' bodies are over there, by the pole." The woman, named Sango, told her, smiling as her long high ponytail swing lazily as she pointed to the way. "Sure." Kagome nodded and turned around to face to L and Watari, "I'm sorry but I need to be alone when I observe the victims' bodies. Please excuse me." Kagome said and leave them with Sango.

L blinked and glanced at Watari questioningly. Sango noticed and smiled, "Sorry about that. She's that kind of girl who likes to be left alone when she's working. But she didn't mean you couldn't take a look from afar. That's one of her loopholes." She chuckled softly, waved to them to follow her.

Once again, the yellow rope blocked them, but it was close enough to see Kagome looking down to the bodies; one without a head, another without arms and legs. She kneeled right next to the bodies, but away from the puddles of blood and avoid touching the bodies to not to disturb the evidences. She seemed to be muttering about something.

Kagome grunted as her eyes glowed electric blue as the ghost of the headless body appeared in front of her as the ghost was dragging the ghost of the limbless one on the ground behind it. 'That was… disturbing.' She thought, as her skin's getting paler than it usually was. The limbless ghost started to groan out their killer's name, "Logan… Why…?" Kagome decided she would much rather to solve this case without cheating so she quickly closed her eyes and the ghosts were gone from her sight.

Feeling her eyes returned to normal, she sighed and resumed observing the bodies and evidences once more. 'No doubt about it. It was definitely a person that is an expert at cutting apart the body cleanly. Perhaps a surgeon or a butcher? With the name, Logan, of course...' The hooded girl looked closely at the puddles of blood and discovered that somebody accidentally step in a pool of blood and left a footprint there.

'It's a heeled boot of some kind. Size 7, perhaps? Pretty small for a guy… Unless Logan's a female? It's possible, after all, for a female to have male's name… Let's see, I wondered if this place had a video recorder that caught all of that, or at least small part of it?' Kagome thought, as she stood up, her hands in her front pocket as she looked up to look for the video recorder of some kind.

"Sango! Does this place have a video camera?" She called out to the older woman, startling her as the insomniac and the old man looked at the hooded girl behind the yellow rope. The female detective ducked under the rope and walked toward her. She nodded, "Yea, but it didn't catch anything, other than couple of people walking by. And it's a little old so it misses something sometime." The hooded girl shrugged as if she didn't care, "Just let me see it."

"Sure. I'll get the other two." Sango nodded and ran off to received L and Watari. "Yeah… You do that…" Kagome grumbled. 'What a drag… I can't believe I have to baby-sit those two… What I have done to deserve this?' She thought and sighed as she waited for Sango to lead them away to the security video room.

As they arrived, Kagome was the one who told the security person to get the hell out as soon after he showed her the videos from today and the past several days. The security person grumbled about her being rude as he left the room. The older female detective laughed out loud, obviously finding this funny. Kagome glazed over the video, seems to be seeking for clues as she zoomed in pretty much of everything, including the faces of people from before the death of two victims and afterward.

"See? I told you there was nothing there." Sango commented but Kagome ignored her comments anyway. Her eyes quickly traced over of everything in the video as she relaxed in her seat she had stolen from the security guy. Kagome shot up in her seat as she looked like she found something. She immediately type in something in the computer and zoom in something on the video.

L made the noise in back of his throat as he practically hang over Kagome's shoulder, watching her zoomed in the video onto something. It was some kind of a tiny mark left behind on the one of the large gray poles, looked like a faint boot mark left on it, like somebody had kicked it. Obviously, the video camera must have skipped this one.

"Sango, would you mind to take a look at that pole?" Kagome asked, not looking away from the monitor. The said woman blinked and nodded after she took a look at that monitor, "Sure!" With the flick of her overcoat, she was gone out of the door. "Ryuzaki, would you mind take a look at anything that seems strange in this computer for me? I need to look around for the suspect… With the feet size of 7, should be a woman with a male name, and with the hands of doctor…" She muttered out the last part but L heard it clearly. 'Good job, Higurashi-san. You got it before even I could. I believe you could easily surpass me sooner than later…' The insomniac thought as his eyes glazed over the screen from Kagome, as he did as she told him to do.

She solved the case. It was the female plastic surgeon that goes by the alias, Lisa Mill, but her real name is Logan Milla and she is the oldest sister of the two murdered actresses. The actresses' names are real but they twisted around their family name to order to protect their privacy.

The boot mark left on the pole seemed to be come from an expensive kind of boots, that only those with real money can afford it; such as doctors and surgeon. Because of that, Kagome easily spotted only two suspects with their same kind of boots on, but one wasn't a doctor or such, only a wife of a rich businessman, so she wasn't guilty. That left Logan Milla.

Kagome also found the makeup and wigs materials in her black leather briefcase she had stolen/borrowed from, which explained why they didn't found her on the video. The doctor just put on the wig and makeup and look like somebody else and is somebody else. That was enough to fool everyone, but not Kagome.

The suspect didn't look to have any reason to kill her sister, but all of the evidences pointed to her. Kagome believed that Logan Milla had killed her sisters simply out of jealously, because the actresses have all of the fames when Logan did all of works to make them pretty and paid for all of things and had not receive any credits. Kagome supposed that was enough to get them killed.

The hooded girl sighed from behind the pole, hiding from the paparazzi, the medias, and polices. She didn't want fame, though, so she managed to dodge every nosy eyes and ears to keep herself in the shadow as the other detectives takes all of the credits that should belong to her. Kagome didn't care anyway.

"You know… Even they know who I was, though they don't know my face. But why's not you?" L asked from next to her. Kagome shrugged, "I have my reasons, Ryuzaki." She pushed off her back from the pole and walked away, leaving L behind. The old man Watari that was next to L and asked him, "So are we going to recruit her after all?" L stealthily smiled, "Of course."

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Sliding on her skateboard across the silent park as she listened to her blaring CD player with her eyes closed. But she can actually hear the loud happy squeal, screaming out her name, "Kaggie-chan!!" Her dark eyes popped open as she felt the familiar impact of that death hug just several days ago. "Gah!!" The hooded girl flew off of her skateboard, causing it to fly and crushed onto the solid ground a few feet away from them. Kagome felt the hard impact on her back as she crushed onto the land with the petite body on the top of her.

"Owww…" Kagome groaned, her eyes squeezed shut as the body onto top of her giggled out. 'Oh no. Misa… Shouldva known to not give her my cell phone number…' She weakly thought, groaned at the pain. "Kaggy-chan! Kag-chan! Go-chan! Me-chan! Gome-chan!!" Misa giggled out as she tried out several nicknames for Kagome she had thought of. The hooded girl, still not parted her eyes to see this insane girl, can actually felt the crushing blows that was about to crush her ribs.

"Misa…" She could not find the effort to form her words to that blond girl. "Misa! Get off of her. She's hurt!" The familiar voice hollered out to Misa. Kagome is thanking every god that this person is coming to save her from that hug from the burning hell, 'If I would, I would kiss you, Light.' The hooded girl weakly thought as she felt the hug is coming loose. Misa protested, "But I don't wanna…"

Kagome can hear the voice is currently right next to them, "If you don't, you can't hug her anymore, Misa." Light sighed, knowing it would be fruitless to try to pull this crazy girl away from the hooded girl, seeing how strong she can be, instead tried a soft command on her. Misa gasped, "Oh, okay!" Misa slowly got off of Kagome's aching body.

Several awkward minutes had passed before Kagome could get up. She finally had enough nerves to open her eyes to the pair; Light's sighing at his proclaimed girlfriend's stupidity (Well, Kagome didn't think of her like that, only Light would think like that to her.) and Misa's smiling, shaking nervously and seemed to be wanting to get back Kagome's arms again, despite that her 'boyfriend' is standing right next to them. "Kago-chan!" Misa giggled out and Light winced at the height of her voice.

Kagome rubbed her head, being hit on the ground had left her with a pounding headache. Kagome sighed and looked up to Light's face, silently thanking him. She groaned again because of the pounding pain from her ribs. Light noticed and pulled her over to the stone bench that was thankfully close to them. She tried to thank him but finding it impossible as the pain was coming on strong, but Light seemed to have read her mind, "No problem. You'll get use to it after a while."

Misa giggled as she bounced over to Kagome's side of bench and sat there, grabbing her arm and squeezed it much like a lover would, and despite Kagome was only a hero in her eyes. The boy sighed and silently apologized to the hooded girl, but she shrugged it off. "So, since we haven't much time to talk last time we met, I want to ask you a question." Light stated as he took his spot on the other side of Kagome's after giving her the skateboard that he had picked up just a second ago.

"What is it?" She hadn't meant to be sound cruel like that in rushed tone, but the pain was too much for her and her voice had sounded like it was in pain as well. "Well, is it true that you're the daughter of that Higurashi Ryu, the famous detective? I heard he could easily take the spot behind L himself." Kagome frowned at hearing her deceased father's name that she hadn't heard in a long while. But she answered anyway, "Yeah, what's about him?" Her bored-looking eyes turned calculating as her heavy dark bangs gave her the shadow to conceal her eyes, but the blueness glow of her eyes still revealed them. It turned electric blue once again and Light just noticed it.

"Ah, I'm just curious. It's so nice to meet the daughter of the detective. I actually looked up to him. It's so disappointing that he died." He fraudulent an innocent sad look to hide his surprise as he looked away from her face. Believing that she might have not paid much attention to him, his cinnamon brown eyes changed into evil hawkish eyes. Unfortunately, she did and she glared at him but looked away anyway as she rubbed her pains in her ribs.

The black shinigami roared out laughing and the white shinigami glared at him. "I wonder how in the hell you could find this amusing." The white shinigami told him but the black one just ignored her as he laughed, holding his belly and pounding on his knee. "Idiot." she said as she flew away in the blackening sky.

"No need to talk about him, Yagami-san. Beside, you're a detective's son too, aren't you?" Kagome countered back, signaling to him that she did not want to talk about her father anymore. Light just smiled and nodded, "Ah… That's something I should be proud of."

"Whatever. I just don't plainly care." The hooded girl grunted as she glanced down at the smiling girl that was holding her arm hostage. She sighed, feeling that she can't get mad at her, since she probably already thought of her as her hero. Kagome decided to talk to her about something random to get the pain off her mind.

Light looked up in the sky, which the sun was starting to go down, 'She was only girl that dared to be away from the crowds, while others just go with the flows. Her eyes seem to be so damn observing under that shadow of that gray hood with her hands in her pocket. She is smarter than she looks, though she is failing on a purpose. She knows more than she seems. And not to mention, she cracked many case, so difficult even for L. What is her secret? I need her to be my ally, no matter what her secret is. I need her to be here with me, when L falls from the grace. Yes, I need her.' Light thought gleefully as the small evil smile took place on his lips.

His lips suddenly switched into an innocent smile, "Well, Misa and I need to be going since it's getting dark. You should go home too, Higurashi-san." He stood up from that hard bench and stretch out his back. Misa looked sad and didn't want to leave Kagome so soon.

She wanted a girlfriend, since she had been surrounded by only with males, but rarely by females far too long. She needs a genuine girl (preferring those that won't steal her boyfriend) to talk to, despite that Kagome may not fit what Misa had wanted, but she'll do. After all, those tomboys are less likely to be interested into the boys, right? That's what Misa thought so.

"Yeah, you're right. It's time for me to go home. Bye, Misa. I'll see you later, 'kay?" The hood girl said out loud as she stood up from her seat, her arm still in Misa's grip. Misa pouted but eventually released her, "Hey! Make sure that you'll call me, okay?" Misa giggled as she bounced out of her seat and to over to Light's side.

"Bye-bye, Go-chan!" She waved goodbye to Kagome as she left them alone as she rode on her skateboard. The hooded one left them a goodbye wave to them without turning back. "I like her!" Misa giggled out as she grabbed her 'beloved's' arm. "I do too. I think she'd make a good friend for you." Light smiled, lying through his teeth. Actually, he'd thought Kagome would make a good queen for him, after he takes over the world when he's finally able to purify all of the evil with the tool of the death.

Now… If he could only figure out her secret… He just found out that her ghastly eyes changed into unnaturally color of blue. Are those Shinigami Eyes? No, that's can't be right. From what he knows, Shinigami Eyes don't glow blue, they usually glow red. Misa proved it. Light was now determined to know more about her.

Both Light and Misa walked to their homes that night.

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That blasted laughing shinigami was following her. "Do you have a death wish or something, Ryuk?" Kagome couldn't help but to said it. The scowl pasted onto her face, as her glaring eyes still hadn't changed to normal from electric blue. "Kuku… You humans are so amusing." Ryuk chuckled as he floated after her.

"You deaths are so freaking annoying." Kagome piped up, as she slides on her skateboard across the road to her home. "Nah. I referred them as happy folks." He grinned, loving that he could pick on the beholder of Ghost Eyes at any time. "Damn you all." She groaned as she climbed the stairway to her home, which is obviously a shrine of some sort. "How come the old man king and Rem are only the sane ones in underworld?" She asked. "I dunno." Ryuk shrugged, the large grin appeared on his thick lips.

Kagome sighed, finding out that there's nobody home in her house. "Great. What a drag… All alone in my home with only the most insane shinigami there is." She searched for her keys in her messenger bag. She found it but dropped it due to the sudden laugh burst out of Ryuk's lips, startled her. "Dammit." Kagome sighed as she bended down to pick up her keys.

The hooded girl opened the door to her home and gone inside, followed by the black shinigami. She quickly took off her shoes and slipped in the gray house slippers and laid her skateboard against the wall near from the door. Kagome sighed and walked over to the living room with the large television in there. Kagome found the remote and turned the T.V. on as she relaxed onto the plushy chair. Kagome surfed around the channels to find a news report show and she did and watched.

Kagome let out a loud curse and suddenly left the room after hopping of her seat.

The news channel showed that the doctor suspect Kagome had caught earlier on had a heart attack and died. Ryuk watched it and let out a loud laugh. "Ryuk," The hooded girl's voice shifted into the living room from another room she was presented in, "Shut the hell up."

Ryuk grinned and obeyed her. "Either Light or Misa did it but I'm betting my apples that it's Light, no doubt about it." Her voice said and the shinigami resumed his roaring laughter once again. "I don't care about justice or anything of sort. But…" Ryuk's laughter was getting louder.

"Which side will I be on?" Kagome said as she walked back to the living room and to her chair and watch the laughing shinigami as she crunched on an apple.

"L or Light? The true Justice or the false Justice? The black Angel or the false God?" She said it like a song as she bitten more of her apple. "Or perhaps… I'll be on my own side?"

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(1)-I wasn't sure if Yagami-san is actually the chief of the police or whatever. But just bear with me if I got it wrong, okay?

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-Had a heart attack- Woah!! I didn't think this story is actually popular!! I was so shaken up with happiness that I even abandon my other fics to order to work on the second chapter. I hope the second chapter is okay, despite with all of grammars errors and plot holes going on around here.

Beautiful Phantom

(EDITED 3.22.10)