The Detective and the Moon [Death Note Fanfic]

Chapter 16 - The Omega

Chapter 16 – The Omega

Taiyou had left for the night, and Watari had also gone to bed as well as Ame, Kumo and Hetoshi. Only Tsuki and L were sitting up a little later than the rest. It was silent in the building, aside from the usual hum of technology in the background. L was in his own room, and Tsuki was in her own, but they were both doing the exact same thing.

They sat at the end of their beds, eyes unfocused, staring at the floor whilst they almost sighed every few minutes and contemplated their fate. Tsuki was almost certain that she would die together with Eclipse, and L was worried about losing the one person he felt like he was on the same page as.

L had only really known Watari for his whole life, and now that he had gotten even slightly close to someone else, he felt like it was unfair for them to go what they thought was going to be their grave. The young man hadn't felt anything like this before, and as unfamiliar as it was to him, he knew it was something he didn't want to let go.

He sighed while at the same time Tsuki looked over to Hisuiro's tank. She had bought the python when he was a baby as soon as she moved out of Taiyou's place and into her own house. She had wanted a dog, but with her being away so much, she wouldn't have been able to look after it, so she had gotten a snake instead, so if she was away for a week, it wouldn't starve to death.

She was so glad that she had taken him out of the house before it got destroyed, because she knew that if that python was been killed, she would have tracked down the Aka Sora with nothing but her instinct, and probably tortured and brutally slaughtered every last one of them with her bare hands for killing her beloved pet.

L was almost infuriated at how worried he was about this whole situation, which tended to make him more confused as he was very much not used to feeling this like this. Not this strongly, either. And definitely not towards and over another human being, let alone a woman.

But Tsuki how found a way to tear down his wall of apathy and make his feelings truly emerge for the first time in his life. Of course he was used to feeling the normal things (Well, normal for him), such as confusion or faint frustration, such as when he was having a bit of trouble solving a case and occasionally a speck of fear. Other than that, most emotions were strange and weird feelings to him.

In other words, he was feeling veryweird right now. He was smart enough to figure out that somewhere deep down, his heart had begun to care for Tsuki and did not wish any harm on her during the time they had known each other, and they had just seemed to escalate over the past few weeks, especially with them living in the same building. He wasn't quite sure why, but the close proximity had only made it harder for him to try and concentrate on the case with her around.

A sudden wave of conviction rushed through him along with a lot of adrenalin as he prepared himself for something very unfamiliar, nigh non-existent for him. He was going to act on impulse and tell Tsuki how he felt. Even though he didn't really have much of an idea how to do that, he had gotten most of his knowledge of social interaction from movies and TV shows, even though he didn't realise that things never happened the same way in reality.

He stood up, a determined look in his dark eyes and pale-skinned hands in loose fists at his sides, his back straight and chin up, and marched out his bedroom door and walked up the stairs to and down the hall to where Tsuki was. As he made his way there, he was trying to think of the best way to tell her how he felt, recalling various scenes from movies that he had watched and made up a quick game plan.

Meanwhile, behind the closed door, Tsuki looked up from the floor as she heard loud footsteps coming down the hall. Obviously it wasn't Kumo, he was too well trained to let his movement be heard, no matter what was going through his head, maybe Ame was coming to tell her that she had to live through this or something stupid and emotionally frivolous like that.