Shinigami eyes (Death note)

chapter 9

Have you ever been tased before? No? Well it fricking hurts! Waking up two hours later and you can still find yourself in immense pain. My side killed. I groaned and cracked my eyes open, looking around to where I was. It looked like I was lying on the couch at Task Force headquarters.

"Hey Ryuzaki, she's awake!" Matsuda called somewhere near me. I knew all of the task force members by name as I made it my business to keep a record of everyone involved in the Kira case, even if I didn't have specific files on them in my computer.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me with a friendly smile as I sat up, holding my aching side as well as my head, already knowing a major headache was forming.

"Like shit!" I snap at him with angry, pain filled eyes and he takes two steps back in intimidation. He puts his hands up in surrendor.

"Hey no need to get angry. I wasn't the one to tase you." He says nervously. I rub the back of my head, knowing I probably look awful and don't care.

"Oh? Then pray tell who because I'm going to kick their ass!" I hiss at him, eyes flashing dangerously and he backs up once more. There's a sigh behind him and L turns around his chair, looking at me.

"Now now Kaya no need to go scaring Matusda. He didn't do anything, he wasn't even there." He says. I bristle and slam my first against the cushion seat in anger.

"I don't care who the hell was there and who wasn't." I hiss. "I'll kill you all." I say darkly. The air in the room is tense and the only ones who don't seem the least bit intimidated by it is L, me, and...Light? Light was here? Well hell, there goes my cover.

"Well killing us all might seem like a good idea at the time Kaya Shuzumi but in the end you would wind up in Jail for life with a bunch of first degree murders hanging over your head." L says and I scoff at him. We both knew that wouldn't happen, mostly because I technically had a license to kill (cheesy, I know) and could easily get away with it but I also knew that that would destroy my cover, I didn't want to kill my only living family member, and even though I hated to admit It, I really didn't want to kill Light either. Stupid Kira.

"What do you even want with me? So I was in a fight at my school, big deal. I didn't even start it." I say stubbornly.

"Well yes but you displayed some very amazing fighting skills for someone your age." He says and also the unspoken point. You're also a girl.

"So? Martial arts training since I was a kid." I say with a scoff. I knew that L wanted me to cooperate with whatever his scheme was but after he had someone tase I didn't feel like cooperating at all. If I didn't know L as well as I did, I wouldn't have seen the small, almost nonexistent frown on his face.

"What about your eyes? After several accounts many people claimed your eyes were glowing red." He says. He was clearing my name. Time to break down. I fiddle with my hands and my eyes build with water and I turn away quickly as if to say 'don't look at me i'm about to cry' when I really want you too.

"Yes well... people seem to like making fun of me." I say softly, voice quivering a little.

"That doesn't explain almost fifty eye witness accounts." Matsuda says but his voice is soft and sympathetic. I turned to him with an angry look but tears are falling freely from my eyes.

"My eyes are freaking red okay? Do you not see the color?! I don't know why they're this color, they just are! What so now you're going to make fun of my eyes too?" I snap but my voice is pained and hurt. And as if to add to my credulity, Light comes over and sits down next to me and places an arm over my shoulder.

"Can't you just let her go now, Ryuzaki? She's tired and just got shocked by a tazer." Light says sympathetically, and I wasn't sure as too whether it was real or faked. Probably faked knowing it was Light, but there was something so real about it.