InuYasha Fan Fiction / Death Note Fan Fiction ❯ Ghosts In My Head ❯ Those Scary Monsters ( Chapter 6 )

Ghosts In My Head

Chapter 6:

Those Scary Monsters

Dedication To: The Amazing Sakumachan and Passionate Crow Rat for being my dearest friends, for dealing with me and encouraging me to keep on going and of course, to all of those whom had been patient with me to update.

Now rated M, for the violence and language. Probably will contain gores and blood too.

“No, no! Go AWAY…Scary monsters…”

“Fuck off!” She grunted as she struggled against her father's hold before using head to break his nose, caused him to released her to grasped his bleeding nose. “Kagome! Please! I can…-” He barely said before the angry hooded girl tossed a punch into his aged cheek. Kagome jumped back, dodged his swiping hand as she crossly told him, “The dead STAY dead! And screw you!”

“I wanna to go back home…”

“It's okay, sweetie, I'll get you home.”

With those words, she bolted away from the man kneeling onto the alleyway's wet cemented ground with several scratches on her face. Her hood flew off as she ran against the bitter wind; the freezing raindrops fell onto her, dampening her hooded sweater and her sweatpants. Her shoes smashed with the puddles of dirtied water, her pale skin being a raw pink from the cold.

“No! NO! I wanna to go back! Those monsters are scarier than the `dark place'! Please, Daddy! Take me back!”

“And leave you dead? No.”

“Daddy-!”

“I hate you so much, Ryu! I HATE you so MUCH!” She managed to grunt out before her weary legs collapsed under her body, unable to take any more abuses. “Why can't you just leave me alone…? Leave me dead? Are you really that obsessed, you fucking old man?” Kagome choked back, trying to keep those barely-there foods into her stomach, her tears, could be easily mistake as the raindrops as they were falling off from her face and from under her eyes, fell onto the large puddle of the rainwater.

“I wanna to go back…”

“I wanna to go back to the netherworld, where I belongs and away from you.”

All of the detectives looked on curiously as Kagome came in, heavily soaked to the bones and the bloody scratches were on her face, some looked astonishingly at her wounds, her wet attires leaving behind some puddles as she slowly went up in her assigned room in the hotel. L awkwardly walked up to her and asked, “…Kagome? What happened to you?”

Kagome, barely seen from the top step of the stair, spoke no word and she still continued on to her room. L and Light frowned at the lack of her reply and Light decided to take a shot, “Kagome, what's happened? Are you alright?”

Still no reply from her and the detectives looked into the monitor screen to show the hall where Kagome opened a door and went in her room and looked on other monitor that showed her room, she chose to enter the bathroom as she opened the door and entered it and closed the door behind her. There was no camera for her bathroom, as L chooses to allow them to have their privacy. “This is odd of Miss Higurashi, indeed. What do you think of that, sir?” his butler, Watari, pondered as he allowed L to plucked a cupcake from his tray.

“Yes, it's pretty odd of her. And I'm curious about her wounds. Had she got into a fight?” L mused, unaware of Light still looking at the screen of her empty room, frowning at the thought of the secrets she hid from them and remembered the fact that her supposedly dead father was still alive.

Several days later…

Kagome hadn't been… herself as of late. She had been cooped up in her room ever since they first saw her with scratches. She hadn't gone out even once so Light thought of an idea. He went up in her room and was permitted in her room, “Hey, Kagome.” He spotted her in her messy bed, under the covering. He sat on the empty spot on her crumpled bed and patted her legs to get her attention, “Kagome… I don't know what had happen to you but I'm guessing it's none of my business but that's not what I'm here for.”

“You haven't been out lately… so I thought maybe we can actually go out for lunch together.” He suggested. Light frowned as he received no reply from her. “Kagome?” Light patted her again, persisting her for a bit. He kept bothering her for several minutes until Kagome grew fed up with his patting on her covered legs, “Fine! What's time and where?!”

Kagome, as she had faced away from him and toward the wall in her bed, got up and glared at Light, the blanket fell off from her torso, revealing her white tank top. It was the first time he ever seen her without her typical hooded sweatshirt so he was mildly impressed with her appearance. Of course the bandages on her face had thrown him off a bit.

“Well, at the local WacDonald, an half of an hour from now. I'll wait for you.” Light smiled at her baffled form as he stood up. She merely grunted in his reply. Light walked out of the room and closed the door. After made sure his back was turned to the hallway camera, he grinned madly in his victory. He's so going to gloat this to that pathetic L!

When he walked down to the room where he knew the others would be in, including L, he walked up to L's seated form and told him, “I hope you don't mind but I'm taking Kagome out. She hadn't been outside for some time now.” L had a cookie in his mouth, cracked in his surprise, the large part of it fell off and onto his laps and the small part of it was in his mouth, “What?” He muffled said out as he slowly looked up to Light's seemly innocent look, “Why?”

He blinked, “I just told you, I'm taking her out because she hadn't been outside in some time.”

“Oh.”

Light's father nodded, overhearing their conversation, as he came up to the duo, “I supposed that would the best action for her right now. Beside, when is the last time you had been out yourself, son?”

“Yeah.” Light nodded, agreeing with Soichiro, pretending to not to notice L's awkward glares as he jammed a spoon into his overly sweet tea with half a cookie still in his mouth. Light thought it was a bit funny. “So where are you taking her to?” L said, a bit muffled because of the cookie in his mouth. “Nearby WacDonald, if that's alright with you, Ryuzaki.”

“…I took you to a sophisticated restaurant type of person, not a fast food goer.” L mused out loud as he absentmindedly swirled the spoon in his tea, staring at a void area in a blank TV screen. “Well, this is for Kagome, not me. I highly doubt she's fond of those sorts of places. Plus, InuYasha had got Misa with him somewhere so it's better time to get her spirit up. Maybe I could find out what had happened to her days ago.”

Soichiro nodded, “Seemed logical to me. What do you think, Ryuzaki?” He glanced at him, distracted. “…Fine… But both of you got a curfew. Be back at… say, 2:30. Is that fair to you?”

Light blanched at the fact that he got a curfew of all the things but give in and agreed to the fact. Soichiro seemed a bit amused that both of his son and the detective seemed to have a fondness over the lazy girl. He doesn't like the fact that his son chose to have a crush on a girl that seemed so unmotivated but at least he actually does like someone for once. Soichiro sighed inwardly, knowing that his son was a bit of the player.

But if Kagome is the one for Light then that's fine with him. She's a better girl than anyone else; because he knew he could depend on her to take care of his son.

“Light, come on before I decide to ditch ya.” Kagome popped out of the staircase, her hands in the hoodie pocket, the bandages randomly scattered across her face. Her face was pulled back in her hood again. “Ah. There you are. Okay, I'll be going now; we'll be back before the curfew!” Light called out as he ran toward Kagome, who was leaving out of the door.

They placed on their shoes then they left the building together.

They left behind a slightly fuming L, who was eating his sweets rather moodily, and an amused Soichiro into his thoughts.

“Hey, sorry for dragging you out, Kagome. But you can't stay in your bed forever, you know.” Light apologized to Kagome, who was walking next to him on a busy sidewalk, ignoring Ryuk who was hectically laughing at his failed attempts to charm Kagome to him. Kagome, pretending to be unaware of Ryuk behind them, shrugged it off, “Don't worry about it, Light.” He hummed to himself, both walked together into silence until they got to the fast food diner. Light, being a gentleman he was, opened the door for Kagome to enter and went inside after her.

They stood in the line and waited patiently until they could order their foods and then they got a table together. Kagome then chomped into a burger and chewed it, ignoring Light's eyes starting at her, leaving his own foods untouched. It wasn't long until she finished eating and drank all of her soda and finally looked up to him, “What?”

Light, surprised that Kagome had caught him staring at her, then went ahead eating his own meals that was quickly growing cold. He soon finished and spotted Kagome watching something out of the window rather…alluring. Light then shook his head quickly, ridding himself of that scene Kagome had just made or at least tried to. He wasn't here to fall in love, damn it!

“So…” Light coughed to get her attention, “What do you think about Kira, Kagome? You really didn't tell us of your true opinion of him.” He wanted to see her view really does side with. Kagome just merely shrugged, “I dunno what to think. Either he's a righteous serial killer nutcase or he may well be a god. Both worked both ways, ya know.” Kagome then excused herself to order another soda before she came back with a new drink in her hand. “Yes, I could see that but what do you really think of him?”

Kagome slurped her drink, “Are we even sure that Kira is a male? It could be well be a woman, ya know. But then again, there're two Kira that we had known of.” Light hummed as he absentmindedly took a sip of his own beverage. “True…Say, had we find new evidence of this second Kira? He hadn't been active as of late.” It was true. Light had been doing all of the works and a Yotsuba member who supposedly has Misa's Death Note had basically just drop off the face of the planet. He had no idea what had happened to him so he would need to look in it later.

“No, I don't think so. But knowing you and Ryuzaki, you'll probably find it sooner or later.” Kagome murmured out, sipping her cold drink. Light smirked at her kind-of praising. “Ah, yes, what do you think of Ryuzaki?”

“…That's a tough question.” Kagome grunted out, her blue eyes staring deep into his own cinnamon orbs, “He's very good at his job, but…” Kagome then scratched her chin, a rare habit for her when she's unsure of how to answer a question, even if she did or did not know the answer. “L-I means Ryuzaki…He's a little…odd… But then again, I could say the same about both of us too, you know.” She's definitely did not know how to answer that question.

Light frowned at her unsure responses and decided to change the subject, “Well, do you like his belief of justice? Personally, I like how Kira thinks, even if they're a bit too… farfetched, I supposed you could say.” Kagome hummed, realizing at he was trying to do to her. He's trying to get her to see the goods in Kira's reasoning. She always knew that he was Kira but like the most genius, she wasn't sure of her decisions until the last minutes. But that doesn't mean she had rejected him already.

In fact, both of L and Kira's logic are very attractive to her and she still wasn't sure which one is better. “I dunno, I like them both… Stupid answer, I know, but there are even bad outcomes of Ryuzaki's logic too, you know.” Light blinked at that; he hadn't really thought about that much. Kagome kept on, “No matter how much justice he had done, there are still murderers and rapists and all of those bad folks out there in this world, are still evading justice. So basically, no matter how much good he had done, there're still gotta be cruelties. And Kira… Even though he might be worst than devil himself, he's scaring people to stay good, you know?

“So that's why it's a bit hard for me to decide.” Kagome deemed there is something interesting outside and merely watched out of the window. Light pondered, `Hm… So she can't decide then.' He checked his wristwatch and was surprised at how the time had flies, “Shoot! I need to get you back at the headquarter. Ryuzaki had a curfew for us.” Kagome then turned to stare at him, deadpanned, “Curfew? What are we, little kids? …I'm so gotta kick his tiny, pale ass for this.” Kagome grumbled out, mostly to herself as she stood up from her seat, taking her beverage with her, but Light chuckled lightly at her antics as he followed her actions as well.

Just as they had left the WacDonald and was nearing the headquarter, someone had appeared from behind them and brutally attacked Light from behind with something flat and hard. Kagome's eye widened when she heard the sickened smacking sound and saw her companion had fallen down on the gray sidewalk next to her, “Light?!” She kneeled next to him and checked him, realizing that he was bleeding from the back of his head but he was still somewhat okay. Instantly, she looked back to the attacker and growled at who it was. “Ryu, you sonofthebitch!”

There was nobody on the normally busy street, other than them.

“Why so harsh, Kame-chan?” The almost identical male seemed very confused as of why his own beloved daughter was angry with him; the wooden plank was dropped from his hand. “You're such a dense bastard, didja know that?! I told ya once and I told ya the thousand times! FUCK OFF!” She heard Light moaning and knew that she had to get him out of the way from her father's wrath.

“Still rebellious, aren't you, Kame-chan?” Ryu tsked at her as if he was scorning her, his eyes narrowed on the male that was with his daughter, seeing him as a threat already. He then reached down into his trench coat's pocket and was about to draw out a weapon, but Kagome had seen that action. She then quickly jumped and slammed her knee into his face.

Kagome then spun around and brutally slammed her foreleg into his head; her hood flew off from such an action, causing her glorious black hair to whiplashed her face a little. Light managed to get up, clenching his still bleeding head, and saw her fly kicking a man in his head. `What is with those people that are better fighter than I do?!' He idly thought, referring to L and Kagome.

Ryu struggled backward, “My Kame… Are you still angry that I had killed you?”

“Fuck that! You were the one that pulled me back from the netherworld. So yeah, I'm still fucking pissed! Do you honestly think living with those damned Eyes were cool? They're driving me nuts!” Kagome thoughtlessly hollered at him as she was about to tossed a fist into his stomach but was stopped when the male quickly grabbed her fist and twisted her around so she would face away from him with her hand up in the air.

`What? She was dead? What is this about her eyes?' Light, although he was in pain, was very curious as of her secrets that may be coming out right about now.

“Why not, my little canary? Are Eyes of the Beholders not enough?” Ryu seemed to take pleasure into seeing Kagome being hanged up in the air, struggling as hell. “Are you nuts?! Sure I don't mind seeing ghosts and shinigami but I DO NOT want to hear them at nights! Plus, you're dead! Can't you just accept that?!” Kagome then tossed a backward kick into his crotch, causing him withered down in pain, letting freed of Kagome. Kagome then walked backward and stood in front of kneeling Light, whom still clenching his still bleeding head, to protect him from her father.

“Kagome…? What's going on?” Light whispered out. Kagome just told him this, “It's none of your business, Light. It's a family issue.” She didn't even look down to him, keeping an eye on the withering male. “Heh, Kame… I just wanted your help, what's wrong with that?” Ryu soon ceased his action and stood up straight. “Help with what, Ryu?” She spited back, eyeing him warily. “Why, bringing back our family, of course!”

“Again…Are you completely cracker in head?! No bloody way in hell!”

“Why not?”

“I'm not putting them going through to what I've been through! I've been dead twice and of course I know what's hell truly is!” There was a large truck coming by and Kagome just lunged at him and pushed him into the vehicle's path. Light gasped, thinking that there'll be a death taking place right there in front of his own eyes but as if the driver never had even seen Ryu at all and just kept driving on by, just drove right over his body. Ryu just… evaporated into the black gust of the wind.

“That sonofthebitch…” Kagome grumbled out to herself, “He just can't stay dead.” Kagome quickly ran to Light and helped him up, “Come on, let's just get you outta of here. We need to get a look at your head.” She allowed him to use her shoulder as his crutch. “Eh… Kagome…What's going on here? How could he…”

Kagome just merely led him to the headquarter and spoke no word. She's certainly seemed fuming. He realized she wouldn't talk so he simply lost in his thought as she helped him limp all the way to the headquarter, `So those Eyes of hers… They allowed her to see ghosts and shinigami? Shit! That means she knows who I really am!'

`But if she does know then why doesn't she say anything about it?' Then the comprehension dawned onto him, `Ah, so she's just come along the ride between L and I. Kagome does not know which side to pick so she's waiting for someone to win her over… Go figure.' The mechanic door opened up quickly as soon they stepped in the view of the hidden camera instilled above the door. Both of them went inside.

It was three 'o clock, an half hour late.

“Light! W-what's happened?!” His father saw him bleeding from his head, however slower than it first were as they came inside the lobby room. Kagome's lips thinned firmly as she realized that she may have to tell them what had happened, figuring that Light would tell them the truth anyway but he beat her to it, “A thug came by and thought I might have something of value and had beat me upside of my head with a wooden object.” Kagome was surprised that he would lie for her, thought he might want to know her secrets.

Yes, that is true but Light also believe that in order to win her…heart, he would need to cover for her as well.

L narrowed his voided eyes at the pair, finding this a bit odd, but allowed Light to continue on, “But even though I got hurt, Kagome had fought him off before he could get far. He dropped the weapon and ran. So Kagome just helped me to get here and here we are.” Light chuckled weakly but soon yelped a little when his father, Soichiro, insisted to check his wound. “Gee, head wounds are usually bad, compare to other part of the body.” He muttered on, worrying about his son's well-being, and looked on Kagome and nodded to her in grace, “Thank you, Kagome. You probably just saved his life, thank you.” Soichiro seemed very relieved.

Kagome bowed a bit, “Don't worry about it, Yagami-san.” He smiled at her then he took his son to a room so he could wrap that head wound and most likely to take him to a hospital to make sure it wasn't bad as it seemed to be. Kagome spoke of nothing to L as she merely went up to her own room. L opened his mouth to say something to her but shut it when he thought better of it. “Watari, do you find this odd?”

His butler looked at him, “Hmm… When you think about it… yes. A thug attacking in a board daylight?” Watari placed down the silver tray on a table as he reflected more on the incident, “But then again, anything is possible.”

“…Do you think that she might be hiding something from us, Watari?” He plucked out a plate of chocolate strawberry cheese cake and he ate a small piece of it with a fork, one at a time, “Everybody got a secret or two so of course it would make sense that she has some of her own, Mr, L.” Watari smiled at him as he was focus on eating his cake, “I supposed so,” L mused, “But I am still anticipated to find them out.”

The old man just smiled, well knowing that his master was very stubborn. That's one of the qualities that make a very good detective, after all.

Some days later…

Misa was a bit angry that someone had attacked her darling Light and at the same time she nearly cried when she saw him with a white thick bandage around his head when he came home from the hospital for his check out. But it didn't take her long to find out that her passion for her boyfriend had waded and her `crush' on the silvered haired cutie grew. It made Misa a bit sad but is sort of happy that she found it hot that she had a crush on two boys. She told her hero this and Kagome just merely shook her head in amusement.

But Kagome had asked her this, “Which one do you think truly care about you, Misa?” Of course that was when they are in a shopping mall; Misa always dragged her with her for shopping. Even if Kagome didn't want anything, Misa could always ask Kagome of her opinion on what clothing that looks best on Misa. Kagome is surprisingly good with fashion statement so Misa knew that she could always depend on her, if just for the fashion sense.

Misa thought more of that question. She knew she was a bit dumb, although she always denied it to herself, but even she wasn't sure of what the answer is. “Umm…Why is the question important, Kaggie-chan?”

“Because it is. I want my Misa to have a best future possible with a good husband.” Kagome answered her and Misa was surprised at how much Kagome does care about her. Misa took some more time to think about it and her shopping was over as soon it began.

“InuYasha?”

Kagaome hummed to herself before she commented on that, “Is that what your heart saying to you, Misa?” The blonde then thought more of it before answering, “Yes… Because as much as I love Light-kun, I know he would never love me back… No matter how hard I tried. But Inu-kun…He was so nice to me… So gentle…He never once tried to force Misa to do something I do not want to do…” She admitted of this fact to Kagome as they were entering Misa's room to pack in her newly brought clothes after they got in the headquarter.

Kagome had to stop herself from laughing out after hearing InuYasha was being a bit cheesy but knew that they would be good to each other.

“Yeah, I think you two would be good together.” Kagome sighed as she assisted her to pack in some clothes. Misa then pouted, “But what about Light? I love him too!”

“I know but…never mind. I don't want you to get mad at me.” Kagome shook her head. Misa knew what her hero's answer would be and shut up, realizing that the lazy female only want the best for her.

Several days later…

Misa had gone to Kagome's room and found her gone, “Kaggie-chan? Are you playing hide-and-seek on Misa?” She asked out loud, thinking that Kagome's probably lurking somewhere in the building, “Kag-chan?!” She entered the room and spotted a folded paper onto the still crumbled bed and picked it up. She read it and gasped out loud. Misa then immediately bolted down to the lobby room, to where she knew the other detectives would be in with the paper in her hand.

“Light-kun, Ryuzaki-kun, Inu-kun! Kaggie-chan is gone!” Misa wailed in despair, waving around the paper eccentrically. Light blinked, wondering what's going on with the girl this time, “What do you means, Misa?” He walked over to her and spotted the paper. He then took it and read it himself. His cinnamon eyes widened at what the paper told him.

InuYasha instantly frowned from his seat on a chair, realizing what's going on with Kagome and looked away, saddened. L noticed the movement but spoke nothing of it yet as he too was interested of what the paper had said to warrant such a behavior from both Misa and Light. L, his back hunched as usual, walked over to Light and his finger slowly pulled out the paper from Light's hands by the edge.

He then turned it around and examined it himself. It said;

Yo, I'm writing this because I'll be gone to take care some…personal businesses. Am not so sure whether if I'll be back so I'll be saying goodbyes just in case. Sorry for everything this might have cause. But I'm sure that all of you idiots could take care of the Kira issues and close it yourselves. You don't really need me anyway.

Take care, my moronic friends.

-Kagome Higurashi

PS. Like I said before up in the letter, I REALLY don't know if I'll be back. Probably would be dead… Maybe I shouldn't say that. Sorry. Misa, good luck with your…relationships, by the way.

“…Whatever does she means `personal businesses'?” L thought out loud, “Do you know something of this, Taisho-san?” All of the detectives and Misa included looked over to InuYasha. He nervously gulped, “I'm really sorry but you should be asking Kagome, not me. It's none of my business.”

Misa then suddenly pounced on InuYasha, which in turned got toppled over to the floor from the surprised force and she got him by his collar, “None of your businesses?! She's my hero! And she said she might be dead! Misa don't want her to be dead! Misa love her! Tell us, you stupid idiot!” Misa wailed from her position over InuYasha's deteriorated body. InuYasha rolled his head away from her teary face on the tiled flooring, “I'm really sorry, Misa… But even if I tell all of ya what's going on with Kagome, you might think I'm crazy anyway. It's really pointless.” He confessed, not just to Misa, but also everyone in the room.

InuYasha gently pushed Misa off from him so he could get up from his awkward arrangement over a wooden chair. Light frowned, realizing that it might have something to do with Ryu that had shown up some days ago. He still remembered it clearly, like it had happened yesterday. A phone rang and Watari had gone to picked it up so to checked it out himself.

L narrowed his eyes on him, “Alright then, I don't supposed you would be willingly to tell even a bit of it?” InuYasha frowned, pondering about his suggestion and soon nodded, “Alright, I guess a hint wouldn't hurt. It got something to do with her…dad.”

“Ryu?” Soichiro murmured out in wonder. He used to know that man himself and was a good acquaintance of his.

`So he does know something about Kagome after all.' Light thought to himself, a bit amused, but not happy that there was someone Kagome had trusted enough to tell her secrets to.

L was about to say something but Watari interrupted him, “Sir, turn on the channel 4. There's something you might want to see.”

`Ah, yes. I did write a letter to the Sakura TV.' He remembered, thanking the people above that Light was careful enough to avoid leaving the fingerprints or leaving any evidence that might point to him. L compiled and turned on the television and onto the channel his butler told him to go to.

“We recently received a letter that might be from the Kira himself. At first we believed it might be a hoax, like many others but our… acquaintances were willingly to check it for evidences, knowing that the fact that Kira was too clever to leave any confirmation of his identity. There was none and the words in it does definitely sounded like something that Kira would say… Here is what Kira had written to us…” The female news reporter told them as she held a paper in front of her. She then spoke each word very clearly,

“Hello, this is Kira as all of you had come to call me. I had written this letter to you because I'm searching for one specific person… I do realize that does sound strange but she would be perfect for helping me to build a perfect world. I would not tell you who she is. I'm only here to deliver a message, which is all.

I know you are unwillingly to choose side but however I know how much you are itching to aid me. Don't lie to yourself. Which one would you choose; the ultimate utopia or L? Which one would you choose?

This also applies to all of you as well. You cannot stay neutral forever…There may be a day you would find it necessary to decide. This confirmed my message for now.”

The news reporter finished and looked up from the thin crisp paper, “No one is sure of what Kira's purpose for this message but some would assume Kira is encouraging us to choose his side over L and also for seeking for one person he deemed would be perfect to help him to build a world in his vision… We'll be happy to accept your responses over your calls and tell us of your opinion of this bizarre message…”

The woman continued on but L had quickly turned on the mute and turned to face the other detectives. Matsuda opened his mouth and said, “Huh?!”

L nodded in agreement, too finding this odd. “It seemed that Kira is after someone this time.”

Somewhere else…

Kagome looked at the same television channel in amusement in a motel she was staying at and thought to herself, `It's a pity that I wouldn't be around to see the play to unfold.' Hearing a familiar crackle from behind her and she looked back, seeing the shinigami duo. “Oh, it's you two.” The female white death god, Rem, nodded to the human, “I stole the Death Note from Kyosuke Higuchi but I do recommend killing him soon. He may be a stupid human but he would still be determined to get it back, you know.” Rem wasn't willing to risk herself over that dumb male and write that name, in her notebook, nonetheless, especially when she could tell that he was going to kill someone soon. Kagome looked up and sighed, “If I do it, do you think the old man King will punish me for using it?”

Ryuk chuckled madly, “I don't think so!” Rem agreed with him, “I highly doubt it. You're only doing it to protect him…right?”

Kagome looked away from him to watch the television, “Yes. I promised him that I would never use it for personal use should I get my hands one of the Death Note. I'm not so sure if that counts but…if it keeps Ryu away from me just a little longer then… alright.” They knew that the King are willingly to assist Kagome to stop her father from rampaging any longer in the living plane, even if to slow him down a bit, because it would make a tear in the both the living realm and the dead realm. And even a tiny tear would be a disaster for both of the worlds.

The dead are not allowed back on the living plane alive, especially when one already accepts his death. Of course there are few… exceptions.

But never mind that. “Give me that Death Note before you drop it off in the headquarter.” Kagome commanded to Rem. The white shinigami nodded and received it out of one of her many hidden pouches and handed it over to Kagome. She then went to find a writing utensil so she could write the name in the book.

Kagome found a pen and she made sure that her handwriting was different from her usual style so it wouldn't point out who had wrote it but differ from all of the other handwritings in the notebook. She thought it would be fun to tease L and the others about having them to figuring out who the last calligraphy really belonged to.

She finished writing down Higuchi's name and then shut it and handed it over to Rem. She kept the pen so she can throw it away later. “You can take it there now. And Ryuk…”

He hummed in question, “Hm?” He completely ignored the fact that Rem had already left the motel. “Would you mind to be my messenger for today?”

“Yah?” Ryuk cocked his head to a side, curious. “If you see Ryu, tell him to fuck off, would ya?” The male Death God roared in laughter when she told him this, “And if you see the old man King, tell him to go find me. I might need to talk to him.” Although he was still laughing, Kagome could tell he did not want to do the latter one but he was willing to do it.

“Thank you. You can go back to Light now.” She bowed to him from her grace. “Would do!” Ryuk spread his dark wings and took flight out of the motel room she was in. He was definitely going to miss her after this.

“Good luck, you dumb morons.” Kagome whispered to herself, “Because I don't know if I could really spare you two from the old man King after all.” She was still watching the television, finding a bit of amusement in the people's comments about Kira's letter. Many are agreeable, some not so very much. `Sorry, Light, don't think you can win me so easily, because I might not going to see this to the end after all.'

In the Higurashi shrine…

“Hey…why wouldn't Grampa tell us where mama is at, big brother?” Shiroi frowned as she hugged one of her teddy bears, feeling nervous for some reason. Shippou shrugged as he was too busy on making a miniature car model, a sign that he was trying to work off his uneasiness. “Mama said that he was supposed to leave on a business trip some time ago but he's still here.” The albino girl sighed from her seat on the floor in Shippou's room, next to his chair, her back to the desk. She was feeling too tense to even able to pinpoint the correct timing as she typically could.

The boy hunched over his desk, busy working on each of the tiny detail on the car perfectly and spoke no word. She frowned at the lack of his response but squeezed her bear for the comfort it offered. “Big brother… I'm scared.” She then started crying, “But…why? There is no logic for this!” Shiroi sniffled, trying in vain to hold back her salty tears.

Shippou whimpered quietly, trying his best to ignore his sister's lament because he too feel scared and was trying to focus onto working on his car model. But he failed and gave up. He then dropped off from his seat and sat next to Shiroi. It wasn't long until she decided to hug him with the teddy bear in the way and he too returned the embrace.

The old man stood outside of the room and sighed. He then prayed for Kagome's safe return. Perhaps the Gods would be willingly to spare her from her would-be fate.

Well, I updated! Sorry about the long wait. *look around the glaring audience and the crickets chirped* Umm, yeah… So sorry. But I'll try to get on the next chapter soon!

And speaking of the next chapter, it would be the last chapter before the endings! So please vote on which ending you would like to go first. It's your last chance to make your choice. Go to my profile and check out my voting poll!

*Goodbye, my Enigma

*Fall, You False God

*The God's Victory (Alt. title: The World is Mine)

The endings might be a relatively shorter, compared to all of the chapters before it but I don't really know. I already have the plot of each of the ending written down so we'll see. But wow, only a chapter to go and the three endings before it's actually complete for real…!

Oh, btw, I'm not sure if you had already notice but I did edited all of the chapters (no, they're still not perfect but still, they're easier to read, at least I think so) so please reread it in case you're confused the last time you had read it. If any of you Death Note obsessed fans had found some kind of loopholes in my fanfiction, please don't criticize me for it. I could barely remember everything about Death Note as it is…Beside the plot of this fanfiction is pretty much already set now, even if it had some mistakes in it...

Anyway, that confirmed my author's note for now. So please, please review! They'll help me to write faster! Faster writing meaning sooner update~! Until then, take care, my dear readers!

Beautiful Phantom

(PS. I'm so sorry but Align Center of the ff.net is not my friend today. I will try to fix it as soon as I can.)