Karma (Death Note)

Chapter 27: Frustrations and Confessions

"So you're saying that that Hideki Ryuga guy that was with Light is actually L?" I asked as I changed out of my wet clothes.

"That's right..." Ryuk chuckled.

"Like the real L?"

"These eyes don't tell lies." That is true. Welp, now I just feel stupid...

Ok, let me just recap what happened.

I went home so that I finally get to kill some bastards after so long. And yes, I completely disregarded the fact that I have to go to class but they're going to have to excuse me for today cause I just caught myself a case of the Kira Syndrome.

Speaking of the Kira Syndrome, Ryuk told me everything about the whole Kira thing on the way, from Light's quirks (especially when writing) to his greatest conquests (including the reason why this notebook is different). His plans sound amazing, I'm actually a little jealous of Ryuk, he's lucky enough to have the front row seat to everything in this play of tragedy. Whatever, it's fine if I have to seat in the back, as long I get to be in the premiere.

However, there was one thing that I really didn't like about the plan that he has right now.

"He plans on making the Death Note's existence known, is that right?" A small trace of frustration managed to slither its way into my voice.

"Unless there's a change in plans that's what's supposed to happen." Ryuk said with a shrug.

"Ryuk, humans want to know everything about everything cause we're scared of everything we don't understand." I picked up the Death Note and held it in front of him.

"You and this are two of the things that are incomprehensible to the human mind, if humans find out about your existence. They will do everything in their power to find out everything about you."

"What's so bad about that? Besides, we shinigami don't really know much about ourselves nor out Death Notes. What makes you think that humans would make any difference?"

"It's true that humans are foolish, but it's even more foolish to think you can't be outsmarted by one." I mean seriously, have you taken a look around yourself? You are everyday surrounded by social manipulators and you haven't even taken to account a human manipulating a shinigami?

"Plus the fact that if L does find out about the Death Note's existence, it'll harder for people like me and Kira to move, I mean it's already hard enough that L knows that we need a name and a face in order to kill." I sighed in frustration.

I pass by him and plopped the notebook on my desk.

"So we're not going to give the Death Note back to Light?" Ryuk asked as he loomed behind me.

"Oh he'll get it back, just not in the way he planned it to be..." I said turning to the shinigami, letting a grin spread on my face.

I sat on the desk then pulled out the pages that I've been hiding and then placed them at the right side of the notebook, then I started to write down names and their causes of death. God, I forgot the feeling of writing in the Death Note (or at least the page).

Then my writing began to slow down, I stopped writing completely after the fourth person's cause of death.

"Ryuk?" The shinigami in question perked up at the sound of his name.

"The rules of the Death Note says that those who use the Death Note may never go to heaven nor hell. Though you did say that people don't go to any of those places, instead they go to the... 'Nothingness' was it?" I turned to him and he simply nodded.

"Do you think... That after all of this Kira crap is done, you'll be satisfied?"

Ryuk was silent for a few seconds, probably thinking about how to reply.

"Sure but with my lifespan, it probably won't be that long before I get bored again..." He answered with a laid back tone.

A chuckle escaped my lips.

"Me too. I also think that after all of this is done, I'd just get bored again..."

I turned away from the shinigami and stared blankly at the Death Note to my left.

"You know, the whole reason to why I decided to continue writing in that notebook is far from the reason why I first decided to write in it..."