InuYasha Fan Fiction / Death Note Fan Fiction ❯ Ghosts In My Head ❯ The Secrets She Hides ( Chapter 5 )

Ghosts In My Head

Chapter 5:

The Secrets She Hides

Dedication To: Whispering Kage and Passionate Crow Rat for being my wonderful and favorite inspirations!!! Thank you so much for being so random! And also angeltsuki for putting up with me and helped me out with some tough spots! Of course, also for all of the readers for waiting patiently (if patiently was a right word, lol) for me to update this.

This morning…

She was taking a nap again on that couch, which he wanted so much to lay down on. Light grumbled. He was tempted to either sleep with her or kick her off the couch. He was so tired, so damn tired. He glared at her, debating if he should or not. He looked out of the corners of his cinnamon brown to see L sitting, knee hugging, in an office chair, currently spinning around, as he's sucking on a red lollipop (1*). Light really didn't want to keep around standing anymore, too tired even to insult L for his weirdness. He had been up all night last night, taking the lives from those he deemed undeserving, writing in his Death Note in hidden spot in the building he had found. It took some time but he finally calculated what area, no matter how small, would be best to hide from those annoying cameras.

Ever since the Sakura TV incident, he decided it was about time to bring back his death note from under the dirt, even though one of the Yotsuba members still have Misa's Death Note.

His decision made, "Kagome. Get off the couch. It's my turn." But Kagome still hadn't stir, still seemingly sleeping peacefully. Her left arm was behind her hooded head, supporting her as a pillow, and her other arm is right on her flat stomach, where her baggy shirt pulled up to revealed her pale skin and her attractive belly button. Although Light did wish she could at least gain some more weight so he wouldn't have to see the slight signs of the ribs poking into her belly.

He grumbled in annoyance as he reached down to shake her shoulders to wake her up, however that soon proved to be a wrong decision to make. Kagome, still asleep, flinched and instantly grabbed his hands and Light nearly yelped by the tightness of her grips. She jumped up on the couch with her sock-clad feet, still holding his hands, and flipped him over the other side of it. L heard the loud noise and looked up with the sucker in his mouth; surprised to see Kagome flipped Light over due to her weight. She shouldn't lift anything beyond her own weight, at least not supposed to be for her health.

"Woah!" He landed with loud impact on the carpet, winced in pain. However, it wasn't over just yet. Kagome jumped onto him, her feet on his stomach, her nimble hands grabbed a hold on his collar of his sweater. L stood up from his spinning chair, either with the intent to stop her or let her continue to see what she will do to him. The door opened and a familiar voice shouted, "Kagome, that's enough! It's okay!"

It was her uncle, Kyo, who shouted as he ran out to shake Kagome's shoulders, waking her up this time. "Hmm… What?" Kagome shook her head and blinked her eyes, found herself standing on poor Light's body. "Eh? …I guess I should say sorry…" She murmured to him, stepping off from his stomach and lent her hand to him. He winced, however accepting her offer to pull him up. "What's just happened?" Light asked as he walked around the couch to lay down in it to rest.

"Oh… Umm…" Kagome wasn't so sure how to explain it so she looked at her uncle, pleading for him to explain. "It's complicated… really. She was trained to protect herself. You know that the Special Victim Units is dangerous area to work in, right? So I had her to train herself so she'll be okay." Kyo quickly explained, took a quick glance at his niece's grateful look, but both knew he was only telling half a truth. L noticed and started to get suspicion that there's may be more to Higurashi than they're letting on but left silent. He knew that Light might have known something that he didn't but he knew if he asks him, Light might get become suspicion of L's motives too.

Now that he thought about it, she did best three men without much of sweat a long while ago when Kagome was saving Misa from them. He did read the reports about her, which wasn't much. Kagome had a squeaky clean record, both in school records and in police records. He was amazed that she managed to graduate from high school from the age of thirteen but was curious as of why there was barely any activity in the gap of time between her graduating and attending the university five years afterward. It was possible she was assisting her uncle in the SVU during then but in her records, she was only just started when she was in her late seventeen. It was almost like she had fell off the face of the planet between in the five years gap.

It was really strange, in his opinion. Not to mention, she was able to protect herself almost too well, despite the fact she shouldn't be in the shape to do so. He knew she wasn't Kira, since it was really obvious she wasn't, but there was something off about her, like she knew things even way before they could learn the facts and wasn't much of a believer in something. L had tried to encourage her to believe in his rational in justice but she didn't seem to be interested in anything, almost like she was waiting for him or Kira to win her over.

It was really infuriating, since he really hated to see what would happen if Kira actually won her over instead of him. Especially now that she was really knowledgeable in things that school wouldn't teach, such as strategies and traps. All he could do now was to hope that Kagome would be smart enough to choose him over Kira and wait to see what'll happen in the future. Maybe he'd get a chance to discover the secrets that Kagome seemed to hiding.

"Sorry, Light." Kagome murmured over him, looking bit sheepishly, "Hey, Unc, how do you know I was about to beat up Light especially that you weren't here from the start?" Kagome asked, realizing that fact. Kyo blinked in surprised and pointed to the infuriating camera, "The video camera."

"Oh. Then why are you even here? You don't work here." She asked him, walking to her uncle, who is close to the door, away from an exhausted and abused Light. Kyo pulled up the bag, which the trio, surprisingly, hadn't noticed; he carried with him and dropped them in Kagome's arms, "To make sure you'll eat, that's why."

"…I forgot to eat again, haven't I?" She sighed, looking embarrassed of her forgetting to eat. "Yeah. InuYasha and I really don't want to see you waste away, just because you keep forgetting to feed yourself. I swear to the Gods, Kagome, I still don't know why your stomach didn't tell you. Maybe I should take you to a doctor or something." Kyo scolded at his niece, the worry lines appeared in his aged handsome face.

He left out of the door with Kagome following him with the bag, which held the foods from some random fast food place, and the last things that L and Light heard was the really bold comment Kagome had said, "And you really need to get laid, Uncle." That nearly sent Light cough hectically, trying to not to laugh and L seemed to be really amused at both Kagome's bold comment and Light's hectic coughing.

Kagome nearly got burned from her uncle, knowingly she had, as usual, pressed the wrong buttons. But she couldn't help it; it was really funny to see her uncle being really embarrassed by something mildly offensive. It was the truth though. He does need some break for himself though. She was forced to eat all of what was in the bag by her uncle, not by force (since she was too old to do so) or as a punishment, but out of the concern of her health lacking foods and nourishments. Grant, she did drink a lot of fluids so she'll be okay enough to not to go to the hospital and was healthy enough to be fine for while… if she continue to eat without forgetting to feed herself, that is.

"Hm?" She looked up from her table to see a snickering InuYasha to enter into the kitchen and exclaimed, "Great job with that line, Kagome! I've never seen Kyo so red before!" Kagome looked amused, "Heh." She went straight back to her eating. "So hey, would you tell me what the heck that weird black fog was from a week ago?"

She swallowed her foods and gave him a look that she's not going to tell him with all of the cameras around, especially in the building they were in. "I really have no idea, Yasha. Ask me some other time when I'm not eating. It's hard for me to think when I'm eating." She said, however she knew InuYasha understood what she was REALLY trying to tell him. Her small sign of a body language hint to him: I'll tell you when we're not in here, doofus.

From in the monitor room, L sat in front of all of the videos, perked up in curiously by one of the videos with Kagome was sending him the signs that was completely opposite of what she was saying. It was barely noticeable but it's there. So she did know something after all.

Swallowing her foods before asking him a question, "So… How is it going with Misa?" He gave her a deadpanned look and commenting, "Why do you think I actually like her?!" Kagome, in turn, gave him the similar look at him, "…You may be an actor but you ain't that good. It was really obvious, you doofus."

"Am not!" His face was red, L noted, as Kagome simply ignored it and went back to eating. "Whatever you said, InuTurd."

"Oi! Quit calling me that!" L looked on curiously on his screen. Do they have a history together of some sort? He could ask Kagome about it, if it's necessary. After all, InuYasha did prove himself to be useful at time. First time, Kagome had sent him to keep an eye on one of the surviving Yotsuda men under a perfect disguise as a businessman. Surprisingly, he managed to get information that proved to be very important for their Kira investigations and without having them to acknowledge that he even exists. L was impressed enough that he had ask him to follow Light's trails to see if he is the Kira.

However, it was without much success, mainly because InuYasha had said that if Kira used some sort of weapon that kill without leaving behind evidences, Light wouldn't do it in the publics. L, despite being unsuccessful, was still determined to believe that Light is the Kira.

Kagome finished devouring all of her food. Now she absently took notice that she did feel full for the first time in a long time, and tossed away the bag and plastic items that were in the bag with the food containers. Then she left the room, commenting that she needed to go outside to skateboard, despite the bitter winter outside. InuYasha could only sigh and rolled his amber eyes, telling her to be careful as he was debating himself if he should go see Misa or whatnot tomorrow.

InuYasha immediately stopped and mentally cursed. Kagome was right. He did like Misa, more than a friend should. He grumbled out his loss then stood up from his chair and left to his room on the upper floor to brood on his newfound dilemma before once again, went out to go with Kagome. 'Well… That was ridiculous.' L thought, half-expecting for them to reveal something he didn't know, but knew that Kagome was way too smart to do so in the building filled with cameras.

L's voided eyes glanced at another screen, the one in Light's room, thinking he would be resting on his bed from the abuses he had taken when Kagome had tossed him, but alas, he wasn't there. Perking up curiously, he scanned all of the videos to see Light but none had him. 'That's odd. I don't remember him signing out and whatnot. Perhaps Misa would know.' He sat up from his chair; his back typically hunched and was about to leave the office to find the said girl when Watari appeared. The old man looked at him curiously as he placed down the tray full with entirely too-much-sugars-in-it sweets on the desk, "Where are you going, sir?"

"…Looking for Light. Do you know where he has gone?"

"No, I don't know where he is. Maybe… If you rewind the video… you'll know if he had ever left the building rather looking the citywide for him before you do anything." L nodded and went back to his seat and did as he was supposed to.

"So wait… Why would your dad be here of all things? I thought that the dead were supposed to stay dead… You said so… Right?" InuYasha said, walking along side with his friend on the skateboard on the busy sidewalk. Since he was in the public he made sure to wear the realistic short strawberry blonde wig to hide his long silvery grey hair and bright emerald green eye contacts to covered his amber-brown eyes, but only to come out hazel-like colored due to the merging of the amber-brown and the emerald green, and wore the thick-rimmed black sunglasses. He wore typical casual clothes; a long-sleeved grey sweater with some sort of a logo on the front, the pair of ripped blue jeans, and the tennis shoes that looked really brand new. Despite him trying to look like a complete loser, many schoolgirls and young women alike giggled at him and flirted with him. Even several guys flirted with him, which freaked him out and made him ran away, dragging Kagome with him.

Of course, he ended up having Kagome to poked fun at him. Sure she's a lazy girl but that doesn't mean she doesn't like watching someone suffer. She wasn't cold or stoic or even fake like both L and Light are sometime, she just doesn't act like that. InuYasha knew better.

She's just secretive, that is all.

"…Sometimes the dead came back even if they are not wanted, InuYasha." Kagome murmured quietly, after choosing to walk rather than her preferred transportation, the said transportation was tucked under her armpit. "…Kagome?" He looked at his old friend, the realization and shock drawn on his face as she stopped in her track and stared at someone. He followed her line of sight and spotted someone he would never want to see again.

His lips lifted up in a sneer, his bright blue eyes narrowed at InuYasha as his nails bit into his fists hard enough to draw blood. "Stay the hell away from my daughter!" The man shouted at shell-shocked InuYasha and launched himself at him with a fist pulled back, just waiting to make contact on InuYasha. "Oi, InuTurd, move!" Kagome pushed him out of the way and she got her skateboard high up the air. The man tried to move out of her way, not wanting to harm her, but it was too late as Kagome slammed her skateboard on his head.

He hissed in pain as he collapsed on the ground, causing nervous murmurs among the people that were walking by. "Come on, InuYasha, let's get outta of here." She tugged his sleeve and deciding that he was too shocked to do anything, she left him behind, not caring if he couldn't find his way back. Kagome did not want to get involved, especially if it included her father.

Light blinked in surprise, his concern of Kagome grew, no matter how much he didn't want to admit it, as he witnessed the whole thing. He frowned, now knowing that Kagome may be hiding something big from them.

He looked up to a laughing shinigami who was slapping his knee, "Ryuk? Do you know something about this?" He kept laughing but look down on the human boy, all Light could make out was, "HAHAH! HE DID! -t believe HAHAH! -actually did-! HAHAH-able!!!" Rest was too difficult to make out. Light quirked his eyebrows, is it just him or Ryuk that the things getting weirder by the minute?

He looked back to see InuYasha, although he couldn't tell if it was him, quickly snapped himself out of his shock and bolted after Kagome, away from Higurashi Ryu.

"Kagome! What the hell is his problem?" InuYasha shouted as he ran next to Kagome. "You keep asking and I'll shove my skateboard up your ass." she replied. Seriously how stupid could he be? They were still in public for kami-sama sake. Even then, they were going back to headquarters. Of course Kagome doubted that InuYasha realized that, being that he still seemed a bit stunned.

When they reached headquarters Watari greeted them. He had noticed them on camera, and L suggested he meet them. "Master L would like for you to meet him in the conference room at five o'clock." Kagome nodded, her chest heaving slightly. She walked with InuYasha in tow toward her room. Her precious skateboard was under her arm, but her grip was tight enough that her fist was white-knuckled.

Light came back to headquarters twenty minutes after them, he seemed slightly out of breath as sweat could be seen on his brow. Watari was also there to greet him on L's request. "Master L requests your presence at this time." Light nodded and followed the old man to the office. His breathing was ragged still, as though he ran, but was still recovering from Kagome's attack this morning.

As they crossed the threshold to the office, L could be seen in his usual position. He was hunched over with his knees to his chest, sipping on what everyone knew was overly sweetened tea. "You didn't sign out." L stated without turning to face him. "Oh, hehehe. I guess I forgot." Light responded rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. L turned to stare look into his eyes. "What would cause you to forget? It couldn't have been the force Kagome dealt on your person; those injuries were mostly dealt to your stomach. Unless it has to do with your spine, but it would be hard to tell." As he was talking he started looking up, as though thinking deeply, but his eyes wandered back to Light's form.

Light forced a sheepish, awkward smile on his face. He knew that because of this it only made him more of a suspect for Kira. He was just thankful he left the Death Note in his room in his pillowcase. He left with a piece of paper under his watch, but he didn't use it. So there shouldn't have been any deaths on his account.

"There were four heart attacks as a cause of death in your absence. But they were all people who had high cholesterol or diabetes. So it didn't seem like an uncommon death, still it will be taken into account. I looked through their police records. One was just released from prison, he was charged with raping under-aged girls. Another was charged with gang association, but has had a clean record since his release. Whereas the other two were charged with murder that occurred 15 years ago." L stated staring at Light to see his reaction.

However Light seemed confused, as though he had no knowledge of this. L took that into account being that hearing about other deaths related to heart attacks, he had never seemed so confused.

"Then they must not have been caused by Kira. They all seem like a natural cause of death." Light responded.

"I figured as much, I just thought you should know. However I would like to know where you went." L spoke as he took another sip from his tea.

"I was just looking for a place to take Misa for dinner. I haven't taken her out in a while and she's been whining about it." Light quickly thought up. He did pass a few restaurants following Kagome and InuYasha.

L nodded slightly. It would seem that Light had no knowledge of Misa spending time with InuYasha as well. He would know not interfere with that, it was trivial to him. Kagome however was not.

When they reached her room Kagome tossed InuYasha a look that clearly spoke the words that couldn't come from her mouth. We can't talk here, you moron. InuYasha just pouted as he took his disguise off. Kagome rolled her eyes at his antics. Sometimes he acted just like Shippo when he couldn't do anything.

Speaking of which, she realized she should text him, and tell him to make sure the security around their home was airtight. As she was doing this, InuYasha was thinking about Misa. He saw a few nice looking restaurants while Kagome and he were walking. "You should take Misa out to the Red Dragon." Kagome said, as she was texting Shippo with her still pink-ugly cell phone. She noticed InuYasha's thinking with her side vision. If anything she'd rather he'd be with someone than have her crazy cousin still chase him. "The Red Dragon?" he asked. "It's the really nice, really expensive restaurant we passed. It's only a few blocks south from here." She supplied. InuYasha just nodded, he was still a bit shell-shocked from seeing Kagome's father.

"Yeah. By the way, did Misa know what you have been up to?"

"You mean does Misa know that I had wanted to ask her out? No. She's still yearns for Light though… but she seems to be breaking away from him…" InuYasha sighed sadly, as Kagome thought on the nearly solved dilemma, 'This went a lot better than I thought. But he said that Misa was still in love with Light… Should I leave it alone or interfere in this affair?'

She glanced in his way, seeing him smiled softly. 'Nah… I'll interfere later. I got some more things to worry about… like Ryu… I need to get outta of here… I need to go home…' Kagome thought, her chest tightens nearly in panic. Sure, she did sent a text, a warning, to her brat kid, Shippo, and her darling baby girl, Shiroi, but she, as their mother, adoptive or not, couldn't help but want to check on them either way.

"I'll need to get out of here." She murmured out loud, causing InuYasha to blanch, "B-but we just got here! The bastard is still out there!" L blinked in surprise, as he watched a particular monitor like a hawk, as it seemed to almost reveal a secret. He listened closely to the sound system as he clicked on a mouse of a computer to turn up the volume.

"InuYasha, shut the hell up. I need to go home. I got two kids to worry about and despite that I did tell them, I would like to check on them anyway." Kagome spoke out, choosing her words wisely as she knew L was listening to them, however she knew InuYasha was really stupid and tended to act before he think.

"B-but! What about the teme?! He's still out there. He's probably plotting to kidnap you!" He exclaimed, his hair ruffled up in worry. Kagome sighed, her mind conquering up many possible scenarios what would happen if she leaves or if she didn't. The former won out as Ryu could possibly harm them, if to just to spite her or out of jealousy.

She quickly left without hearing anymore of her friend's many warning comments. "Kagome…!" InuYasha spouted out as he watched in despair and dismay when she went out of the door once again. L watched in interest, his brain running in a hundred miles per an hour, as he wondered what possible secrets Kagome holds. "This is getting interesting, my dear detective… Just what are you up to?" L whispered, as his body twitched in anticipation as he desired to discover the mystery that this lazy detective could possible hold.

Light looked up on his ceiling as that very same idea had been in his mind before and continued to bother him so. He frowned, knowing that these ideas still needs a much needed improvement, as he glanced down on a pad of yellow lined papers and pen, just barely out of view of where he knew the camera would be.

He sighed, his hands clenching the pen. No, he wouldn't kill anybody just yet. Firstly, if he wished to attend to his goal to make his world a perfect utopia, he would need a help, of some sort. He needs a distraction, to turn a head of a certain annoying pest of a detective, so he could make a certain someone to see his views and come to his side at last.

Light quickly wrote three words and pause for a brief moment before he quickly started writing from where he had left off. To Sakura TV…

After quickly hitching a ride from somebody she knew that had owed her a favor or two, she made sure to check her phone to see if she got any reply from one of her kids. Hey, ma! K, we'll lock up now. And we'll stay in! Btw, Gramp came back from his business trip! Just thought u wanna know Shippo had texted back and the hooded girl sighed in a small relief from the backseat of a silver van. "Yo, Kagome, we're almost there, wanna tell me why I was supposed to give you a ride again?" A male driver questioned her, keeping his eyes on the road.

"It's… a family thing. It's complicated… Please keep your mouth shut after I get off, about this, okay? Muso? You do understand what I'm saying, right?" Kagome requested. The vehicle took a turn and the dark haired male driver rolled his shoulders, commented, "Alright, it's the at least I could do for you, after saving my ass from the execution and clearing my name."

After a moment of a silent, the automobile pulled to a stop and did a parallel parking between couple of smaller, sleeker cars, in front of a large, long stair with the larger building and smaller shrine next to it. "Later, Muso, tell your bros I said hi." Kagome grunted as she got out. "Sure will! Later, Kag!" Muso shouted out, just before she slammed close the sliding door, and saw her waving to him by the side door across from him before she left to quickly climb up the stair of doom.

"Gee… This girl will be death of me." Muso muttered before he revved his beloved vehicle and got out of the parallel parking and rode out on the black road. He looked up on the view mirror and gasped out as the blue-eyed, black-haired male glaring at him from the mirror, sitting so casually, playing with a small sharp, shining blade in his hand. "How did the bloody hell did you get in my car?! Get out!" Muso shouted out in his vehicle, almost having his van spinning out of his control. Suddenly, he started gasping for the air, as his lungs seemed to refuse to take in any oxygen.

He whimpered, still gasping, as the blue-eyed male narrowed his eyes at him as he somehow appeared in the seat across from him, his small blade nicking on his neck, drawing a small amount of blood. "Drive to a bridge, you bastard. But I want you to answer me one question."

Somehow, his lungs started to absorb back in the oxygen as he nodded quickly. Muso gasped loudly, inhaling the air as the stranger is dangerously close to him. "What are you with my daughter?" Muso is confused, "Who?!" He doesn't know that man at all… Suddenly, it clicked into his brain. The blue eyes, the black hair, and the fair skin… He looked too much like Kagome. "Huh?! You mean Kagome?"

"Yes, my dearest daughter, Kagome. So now, answer me the question!" His blade started to draw in more blood as it started to dig into his flesh upon his neck. Okay, maybe this is an overprotective father and he might get out of this alive and start packing in his things and get out of town… Right? He knew Kagome was a good (actually, she's pretty hot in his opinion) person, but he also knew that she could be a curse. Dammit! He should have known he shouldn't have asked for help and let himself die of an ungrateful death without having his name be clear!

"Ugh! She's just a friend and nothing more! I just owed her a favor or two!" Muso quickly replied, whimpering again. "…I doubt it's a correct answer, seeing you just had a hard-on for my daughter, did you not?" What?! Yeah, so what? He just thought she's pretty hot but he's wasn't going to touch her in anyway! Muso gave him that excuse, and then the stranger shook his head. Once again, his lungs collapsed and he started gasping for air. "Wrong answer. Now go drive yourself to a bridge, drive off the road, and drown yourself in a river." He commanded him and suddenly disappeared into a faint black fog. Muso whimpered, as his body seemed to obey his orders, all the while still gasping for air.

It was not just his day.

She climbed up the stair with ease and spotted her old man smiling at him, tipping her off his top hat, "Hiyo, my granddaughter." She smiled minutely at him, "Grandpa, long time no see. You're doing alright on your trips?" The old man placed back his hat and smoothed out his neat suit, "Yes, I'm doing fine. However, your children had locked me out for some reason." He doesn't seem too angry, only a joyful smile and laughing old eyes. "Aa, they do that sometime. I'll let you in." Kagome mumbled as she searched for her keys and found them in her back pocket, "There they are…"

She clicked open the door and allow him in. The old man stepped in and took off his leather shoes and she did the same. "So I heard about my son's return. Would you mind telling me what's going on?"

Kagome sighed, grumbling that the family wouldn't keep their mouths shut. "Kikyo told you?"

"Yes. Crooked she may be, she's still my granddaughter and family in some way. …On the second thought, I do believe that I would like to be left out of the information. I do plan to retire peacefully soon after all." The old man sighed as he flopped down on the couch lazily and tiredly. Kagome sat down on the loveseat, away from the couch and clicked on the television. "My son… He doesn't deserve to be in this family… If I had known that he had went to so far to have done what he had done, I would take him away from his mother and raise him myself. Yui is one deceiving wench, that one. I'm just grateful that Kyo came out beautifully. Perhaps he's the strongest one, compare to Ryu…"

"Gramp, you're rambling again." Kagome interrupted him, having heard this before. "…Would you go get the kids for me? I hadn't seen them for a while." He sighed, forgetting, once again, of the cameras inside of the house. "They already know. They'll come. By the way, Gramp? When the exactly did I died?"

At that, the old man was left silent as the sounds of excited footfalls stampeded on the floor above, reaching the staircase, followed by the loud barking. Kagome sighed and waited for the kids to come.

She told Shippo and Shiroi how to take care of their grandfather properly while he was still there before he leaves for yet another business trip and warned them to do not ask him to buy them anything, as they already had their own money from her. Even if he insisted to do so (although she knew he would probably ending up buying them things anyway, since he did not spend enough time with them). Kagome sighed and kissed a forehead of a tearful little girl, ruffled the head full of rusty colored hairs that belonged to a pouting boy and patted the head of a giant white, panting dog, she left and went down the stair steps, leaving behind the trio once again.

The hooded girl sighed, knowing that she shouldn't walk out in the dark by herself, but she already said 'what the hell' to herself. She would like to see what would happen if that bastard ever show up. As if she would ever go with him. She walked only five blocks before someone showed up so noisily, shouting at her. "AHH! What the hell are you doing out there in the dark?! Kagome!!!"

Oh, just fricking great…

The letter finally got send, somehow managing to escape the ever-watchful mechanical eyes of L. Impossibly, it seemed, but Light did it. "Part one: complete. Hopefully, they'll know that it's a real deal. Now, I'll need to wait a little longer…"

"Just a little longer, Kagome, only then you'll finally be mine. And you'll only be at my side." He whispered as the odd glint appeared into his eyes. "Then your secrets will be mine to know…"

-Blah! I was planning to end it here but since I hadn't updated it for a good long while, I've decided to make it a little bit longer! Lucky for you!-BP

"Yeah, yeah, yeah… I heard you the first time! Gee!" Kagome complained out as Kikyo glared at her, both standing in the lone ray of light from the lamppost. The hooded girl was really tempted to slap some sense in the frilly-wearing girl with her skateboard but managed to hold back. "Well, I'm saying this again! Get out of the town before Ryu gets you! Go to the United States or something! I'll pay for everything! Just please, please get out of here! Go somewhere far away! Please! I know we're not best of friend, but I still care about you!" Kikyo pleaded, her well-manicured hands cringed on the hooded girl's sleeves.

"And I told you before, you frenchy rip-off (2*)! I can handle him by myself. Beside, this isn't the first time he's tried to use me. So why won't you just back off?" Kagome scowled at her cousin and tried to wedge her way out of the frilly girl's clutches. "But, Kagome! You do realize what'll happen if you do help him, right?" Her brown eyes stared into the other girl's own, pleadingly. "Yes, yes! The shinigami world will crumble and the human world will destroy itself! I know! Agh! Lemme go, you crazy rip-off French girl!" Kagome was getting irritated with her.

"B-but…!" Kagome wrenched out of her grip as she slammed down her skateboard, and went quickly on it, before Kikyo could say anything. "See ya!" The hooded girl sprouted out irritably before she disappeared as she took a turn around a building. "But… Kage-chan… Your heart will always be constantly plagued by demons and deaths alike… Even if your father is either dead or alive…" Her brown eyes swirled in color of blood, her pupils almost nonexistence, "All I want to do is to help you make them all go away…"

The salty water drops fell from her eyes and onto the solid ground, making them black pools against the color of stones. "Kage-chan… So I guess this is a goodbye, once again… I'll never forget you, especially since you had saved me from your father." She whispered to herself, as the winter rain came down bitterly on the earth. The lone girl had no protection of the sort from the rain as her skin became an angry red against the cold.

Her hot tears froze upon on her face as she slowly wandered away to where she had come from.

Kagome soon regretted her outburst at her cousin as she realized the weather forecast was much worst than it was supposed to be. 'Dammit… Why do these things always happened to me? Maybe she's right. Maybe I do need to get out of here…'

"Ryuk!" She shouted out, "Rem!" Both death gods came, one chuckling and noisy and other silent, "Kikyo is still alive, right?" The hooded girl asked them, almost worriedly. "Yes, but just barely. You know what'll happen to those that have already died before, Kagome." The skeleton-like shinigami told her, glaring briefly at the other laughing shinigami. How disrespectful of him…

"She'll be fine, knowing her. She does have Eyes of the Beholder as well." Kagome muttered out, looking down on the ground in her thoughts, distracted. "Yes, but Kikyo wasn't as well adapted like you are, unfortunately. You should be glad you haven't been driven to the blink of insanity like she had. It's only the matter of time before old man King decided to get rid of her for good, for those went through deaths more than necessary, has not deserved the privilege of life, as they already have had too many. You're lucky you're a beloved servant of his." Rem spoke softly, sympathy seen in her golden eyes.

Kagome grunted angrily, "Too bad Ryu(3*) was too stubborn to listen. I wish… He hadn't…" The white shinigami floated down onto the ground, ignoring the disrespectful death god, raised her large hand onto the human's shoulder, "I know, child. It's a pity that your generation was cursed to see death, otherwise you'd be an ordinary human, like you've long to be. But… now… Is it the time to hinder your judgments?"

"Yeah! I prefer to exist than be erased out of existence when the old coot decided to waste all of us because we didn't do our jobs. Hahaheha." Ryuk chuckled, took no notice of Rem's glares. Kagome sighed, "Alright. Rem, go see what you can do with Misa's death note and drop it where Ryuzaki would find it. I would like to see what he can do with the discovery, but do make sure you get rid of any evidence of Misa or Light with that death note and keep the names. Ryuk, shut up and see to Light's death note. Make sure to take account on the amount of names he had in it. That's all for now."

Rem sighed, hoping that it wouldn't backfire as she obeyed her and flew away, followed by the laughing shinigami, leaving Kagome far behind on the ground. "Hm. Who will win? Would it be Light or L? Which one of you will win me?" Kagome murmured to herself, as she watched from her side behind her.

1*-It's related to a cute comic I did about GIMH. Please check it out in my deviantart account if you like.

2*-Thank you, Kittenn1011, for telling me. I've totally forgot about that name. Yeah, I figured that Soleil was wrong, but I'm no good with any other languages other than English, Sign Language, and only basic Japanese (and by basic, I means really little, just enough to keep myself going).

3*-It's rude to say your father's name without any respect and anything that even connect child to the father. Kagome hated her father enough that she wouldn't say him as her father, only his name instead. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Agh! I'm so sorry for the late update! I do have so many excuses I could use but I really doubt you all would like to hear them anyway. But if you do want to know why I couldn't find the time to update anything, please check out my really short story in my notes in my profile.

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Thank you, angeltsuki, for editing it and adding several paragraphs (see if any of you can find them, lol) in it to make it better! And to my other dear friends, Whispering Kage and Passionate Crow Rat for being so random and being such lovable friends to me!!! Thank you all!!!

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