Alternate

A/N: WARNING: This chapter may get kinda graphic so be careful!

Chapter VIII Him

Japan was quite an interesting place. There were so many people and so many things to look at that one would naturally forget where they were going and end up in the wrong place. Sometimes they would find their way back but other times they would disappear and wind up in the underground market for sex and drugs. Not a lot of people look for these places. They just want to stay out of trouble. A very strange looking man walked down those very broken down streets. Abandoned buildings flanked his left and right and the sound of the wind had become his only companion. The residents watched him walk down the street in his eery silence. Most stayed inside their broken houses and apartments while others stepped out onto the street when his back was to them. The man did not let this distract him as he waited for someone to get brave.

A young delinquent stepped out in front of him. The boy probably was no older than seventeen but held a short two inch knife in his right hand as if it were an extension of his own hand. The knife was perfect in his hands as he stood in front of the neighborhood intruder. The boy dashed towards him and the man had to give the kid credit, he was fast...not fast enough. With in a few seconds the boy was disarmed and the knife was in the strange mans right hand. In one quick movement, the man brought the knife to the boys neck and slashed across and down and into his chest where his heart was. Everything was done in one movement and there was no time to pay attention to surroundings. A loud screeching scream pierced the air as the mother of the boy ran to her fallen son. His blood covered the front of her body as she screamed and cried over his dead body.

“I'll let you join him” The mother had no time to react as she soon fell face forward onto the pavement. Her body crossing over her sons. The man had smashed her head in on the floor before repeatedly stabbing the back of her head. Blood stained the street and the man continued walking. A crooked, cruel smile planted on his face as blood ran down his cheeks from his victims. Blood stained his clothes, soaking them through but he did not care. He was enjoying himself.

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Light was not speaking to L. He did not even feel like looking at the detective when he entered the hotel room. He felt the air tense when he entered and saw his father watching him closely. Light just ignored it. He went to the bedroom and dropped his book bag to the floor as he began undressing and getting ready to take a shower. He ignored Nekura all day and when he was alone, he still ignored the ghost. After a while Nekura just let him be but he could not shake the feeling that Light was hurt and L was the cause of such hurt. Nekura let it be. It was not his place to interfere. He hoped.

L did not fail to notice Light's absence from the investigation. They had agreed not too long ago that Light was to join them when he returned from school, but...L screwed up. He knew he screwed up and he would have to fix it. The tense air around the room was beginning to feel intoxicating and it was starting to wear on L's nerves as time passed.

“We will end the investigation here for today. We will begin again tomorrow.” L got up and was about to leave when Soichiro stopped him.

“L, what exactly is going on? You are not just keeping Light here for his own safety...there's something else.” L glanced back at Light's father. The man had grabbed L by the arm to attempt to keep him from leaving. After twisting his arm skillfully out of Soichiro's grasp, L did not say a word to the older Yagami as he made his way to Light's bedroom. He was already in his pajamas, sitting against the window reading a book. L sat next to him in silence....

“What did you need to talk to me about?” Light's voice had a hint of sadness in it. Even though L did not believe that there was a higher power...he was thanking it for the moment.

“It's not that I don't agree...it's just that there is someone who could harm you just because you are with me...I know that sounds corny but it is true.” Raito had put his book down and chose to stare off at the opposite wall. His mind mulling over what L had said before giving an answer.

“Why don't you stop this person if they are so dangerous.” Light heard a sigh come from L and he turned towards the sound.

“I did once. With the help from Naomi of course. I don't know if the news got as far as Japan, but have you heard of the Wara Ningyo murders?” Light stared at him for a moment, thinking through past murder investigations until he shook his head no. “It might have been told to you as the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.” Light's eyes widened slightly as his back stiffened when he remembered the crime scene photos scattered across his fathers computer screen.

“Yes....” L sighed again before continuing.

“I knew BB and the whole reason to the murders was to out smart me...you already know the outcome to that. I am just afraid he will find a way out and start all over again.” As if on cue, L's cell phone rang. “Yes”

“L, I just received a phone call from the warden at the California State Penitentiary. BB somehow created a crude knife using materials from his bed and managed to kill eight body guards. At this moment they are looking for him all throughout California. I have a feeling he will be where ever you will be. I do not doubt that he might be here in Japan and not in the States.”

“Thank you Watari. Contact the task force members and inform them on the situation. Take whatever precautions you feel necessary.”

“What about Raito-kun” L glanced at the young boy next to him. He had resumed reading his book, L knew better than to believe that.

“I'll inform him myself. I will fill you in on the precautions that I will have him take.”

“Of course.” There was a click from the other end of the phone where Watari's voice had been.

“Is everything alright Ryuuzaki?” L looked at Light fully as he ran through the situation at hand. He settled on something he wanted to do for a while now. He leaned over and kissed Light.

The first thing Light thought was how soft L's lips were against his own before beginning to kiss back. Taking that as a go ahead L pushed against Light, forcing the boy to slide across the glass of the window and onto the carpeted floor. Light turned his body so he would be lying flat on his back, his legs slightly spread to allow L press against him. As L pressed completely against him, Light wrapped his legs around the detectives waist and entangling his fingers in the older mans soft, dark hair. Their kiss deepened and L proceeded to run a hand down Light's clothed chest until he ran into the hem of Light's pajama shirt. Slipping his hand underneath the garment, L pulled it upwards, dislodging Light's hands from his hair and back so he could take the shirt off completely.

Light shivered as cold air hit his heated chest. It felt like he could not breath as every muscle twitched under L's touch. Every now and then Light would arch is back when L massaged a particular soft spot on Light's upper body. Light soon got tired of feeling L's shirt ghost over his skin every time the detective lifted himself away from Light's body. So, Light shift a little under the older male, making him lift up slightly and thinking that the younger boy was getting uncomfortable. Light grabbed the bottom of L's long-sleeved white shirt and pulled it over his head. This caused L to lose balance as his arms were swept from underneath him. Rolling his body to the right, L avoided landing on top of Light but Light rolled over and was soon straddling L's hips. Light giggled slightly before leaning down and kissing L passionately. L wrapped his arms around Light's waist pulling him closer and deeper into the kiss. Light giggled into L's mouth before grinding into the older mans hips. Both gasped at the sensation, L out of pleasure and Light out of shock of how well he could feel L's hardening erection.

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Chief Soichiro Yagami had seen everything in his years of being a cop and detective. He'd seen everything from fat guys in bikini's having sex to dismembered bodies in numerous bags or suitcases. Never, in all his years serving the Tokyo Police department and the NPA had he faced a scene like the one before him. He was currently standing in the epicenter of the Tokyo slums. Crime scene tape took up nearly half the street as bloody footsteps lead up it. The two victims lay on the floor, a mother and son, a little ways down the street. The son was slashed and stabbed while the mother had been bashed and stabbed. About thirteen feet away from their cold, rigid bodies was another victim. This one Soichiro knew for a long time. The man's name was Con, half Japanese and half American, but went by the nick name Shinrui. He had been in and out of Prison number twenty-three since he arrived at Tokyo at the age of fourteen. Shinrui lay in the middle of the street, the skin of his chest pulled back and his internal organ pulled out and displayed on the road. Of course there was a white sheet covering him that was now stained completely red and slightly tinted; from what Soichiro had seen, the man's rib cage had been pulled back perfectly, only cracking the bones and not breaking them. In other words, Shinrui was dissected in front a neighborhood full of people.

Soichiro tried just as hard as the rest of the detectives and police to get a description of the murderer but no one had stuck around long enough to get a real good look at him. After Shinrui had been dissected, everyone made a run for it.

“C-Chief! I...I...I think we have...a-another one!” Soichiro turned and looked at Matsuda. He was at the end of the street where the tape ended, but instead of being inside the tape he was outside it looking down the next street. “A...A whole l-lot more!” Soichiro walked to the end of the street with two other officers. When they crossed the tape and turned right onto the next street, a massacre lay before them.

“Chief,” Matsuda swallowed before continuing, “what is this?”

“Something that seems to be far worse than Kira right now” The street was littered with at least eight or nine bodies. Most either dissected or slash and stabbed.

“Chief Yagami! We have a big problem! Get over here fast!” Soichiro turned and ran under the tape and over to an alley that was blocked off with tape. When he arrived he gasped at the site. Lying on the floor of the alley were three detectives and four cops. All seven faces, skin and all, had been cut off but their I.D.'s lay strewn across the floor.

“Excuse me for a moment” Soichiro walked away from the scene and away from listening ears before taking his cell phone and dialing L's cell number.

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Light gasped as L pulled off both their pants along with their boxers. He began to breath harder in anticipation as L kissed down his chest, not bothering to draw attention to Light's hardening nipples. L continued downwards before momentarily lapping at Light's belly button and continuing to the base of the young man's needy cock. L kissed the tip and the base softly several times before getting to his knees to pick up Light.

L placed one arm under Light's knees and one around the young Yagami's back. Light instinctively wrapped his arms around L's neck as the detective picked him up off the floor and carried him over to the bed sitting not too far away. L then placed Light gently on the mattress and left the room. He grabbed his phone, not sparing it a glance. If he had, he would have seen that he had one missed call from Soichiro.

L placed the phone down on the table next to the bed as he eased himself on top of Light. Light laughed lightly as he spread his legs to accommodate L as the older man began to massage his passage and easing one finger in. Hissing in pain Light arched his back to get away from the pain.

“Sh...Light relax. You need to try and relax.” Light took a deep breath and forced his body to relax to something it was not accustom to, but it listened. L felt Light's inner muscles relax enough to move the finger in and out. He kept at it like that until he heard Light gasp and moan when he hit a particular spot. L began to prod the sensitive spot until Light was thrusting his hips against L's finger. L added another finger and repeated the same prodding action before adding a third. L continued to stretch Light a few more minutes before reaching for the bedside table and opening the drawer. He leaned over to get a better look into the drawer until he found what he was looking for. L pulled out a small bottle that Light eyed before looking at L and raising an eyebrow. “What?”

“And when did you feel like you were going to have sex with me?” Light could not keep the grin off his face as he watched L actually think about the question.

“A few days ago when you were getting dressed.”

“Pervert” The look on L's face made Light laugh. L, the greatest detective in the world, looked puzzled.

“Pervert?” Light laughed a little more before wrapping his arms around L's neck and pulling him down for a kiss.........then the phone rang or...er....vibrated. “Damn”

“Aren't you going to answer it?” L looked down at Light then at the phone.”I think it can wait.”

“Are you sure?” L looked at the phone again and heaved an aggravated sigh.

“Okay” L got off of Light and slightly leaned over to grab the phone off the table and answered it. “Yes?”

“Ryuuzaki, it's me” L grew tense.

“What is wrong Chief Yagami?” L knew Light's father would never call him unless it was a dire emergency. Something was wrong.

“I'm in the slums of Tokyo investigating a double homicide, but instead, we found multiple people dead.”

“How many?” Light watched as L grew more tense the more his father told L the situation.

“Eighteen. The two victims we were called in for, nine more victims in the next street, three detectives, and four cops. Do you think that it might be Kira? Do you think he found a way to kill other than heart attacks?”

“No. It does not sound like Kira at all. The method of killing sounds familiar to me though. Are there any witnesses?”

“That's the thing Ryuuzaki, we cannot find anyone in the current crime scene block or the next few blacks. It is like they all disappeared.”

“Chief Yagami, are you familiar with the LA BB Murder Cases?”

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Another gurgling sound filled the warehouse as another victim fell to the floor, her throat carved out and left to bleed to death. A hunched over man with shaggy, unkempt black hair, blood red eyes, and pale skin stood over her dying body. His once white three-quarter long sleeved shirt and baggy faded blue jeans were caked in blood. His bare feet covered in the substance as well as his face, hands, hair, just about every inch of his body was soaked in blood. He had pushed the woman off an old dining table he found in one of the street alley's. She was the fifty second victim that he was experimenting on and he did not care if she was not close to dying. In fact, from what he saw, she had another ten years before her scheduled death and she was no older than eighteen years old at the moment. Behind him was the table and about fifty feet away, hidden in complete darkness, was a makeshift cage that held at least thirty more people. The man turned to the cage and made a move towards it. He had set everything up like a makeshift morgue except the bodies he was using were still alive. He approved the cage a gazed inside it. The people inside were fast asleep, they had long stopped trying to get out of the prison. His gaze fell on an eight year old boy whose life was to end in five hours. The man opened the cage and picked the boy up and walked out of the cage. He placed the child down on the floor before closing the gate and locking it. He then took the boy to the blood soaked table, stripped him of his clothes, strapped him to the table, and shook the boy awake. The boy stared up at him at first then looked down at his naked body. His head snapped back up at the man, his eyes wide and teary with fear. The man turned on the overhead light and the two lamps next to it. The cage was dimly lit from the brightness of the lamps.

“Hello, I am Beyond Birthday. Welcome to hell” Beyond proceeded to drag a knife down the child's left arm, opening it up to reveal its contents. All the while, the boy screamed.

“MOMMY!!!!” The woman in question was still in the cage and awoke to her son's screams. She looked around until she saw him on the table with Beyond cutting open her son's leg.

“JORDAN!!! NO!! STOP IT! MONSTER!!!!” Beyond froze. He turned to the woman. At the moment all the occupants in the cage were now awake and cowering in a corner. Beyond left the boy on the table crying. He approached the cage once more, unlocked the gate, opened it, and proceeded to drag the woman out by the hair. He closed the gate and locked it before dragging her over to a hanging chain that he dropped from the ceiling earlier on as she struggled against his hold. Beyond had welded a pair of handcuffs to the end of the chain. The cuffs themselves were caked in blood, but it was dried blood because he had not used them since the twenty-third victim.

Beyond grabbed one wrist and yanked it above the woman's head and secured on cuff to it before grabbing the other one and doing the action. The woman struggled against the restraint as Beyond walked back over to the table that contained her son, too bad her back was to him so she could not see the look of fear on his face. Beyond grabbed a sharper knife off a small table he procured off the streets, a skinning knife. He then bent down and grabbed something off the floor and placed it under the boys head so he could see his mother a lot better. The object Beyond had placed under the boys head was slimy, balmy even, and it made the boy want to see what it was. Beyond Birthday had placed a dismembered, slowly rotting arm to hold the boy's head up. The boy screamed some more and called for his mother over and over again. Beyond snickered.

“Watch what happens when you call me a monster and interfere with my curiosity.”

Beyond walked over to the mother and began to cut off her clothes. Once she was completely naked, he ran hand over her skin. It was smooth and silky and perfect for what he was planning to do with it. Perfect for another experiment. Beyond stepped away from her shaking form. He watched tears fall from her eyes and he looked her body over to figure out where to start. He finally figured out where to start and brought the skinning knife to her right arm and brought it down her entire arm. She screamed as he began to peel away the skin from muscle and tendon, as he skinned her alive. The boy watched in horror. Tears fell from his eyes as he screamed for Beyond to stop.

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“Ryuuzaki”

“Yes Chief Yagami”

“Watari should be sending you crime scene photos. I think we might need Light.”

“How many?”

“Eighty-two. Plus the eighteen from three days ago...that makes the death toll to a hundred.”

“....”

“Ryuuzaki?”

“This is not good”

Hey, I hope BB's introduction to the story was good. For all of you that have read the novel, please review and tell me how I did. I finished a while ago but it has taken me sooooo long to write this chapter because I didn't know how to introduce BB. So like always, review. My panda and ferret muses want some!