=Chapter 10=

Day 3 Continued - Sick

How heavy fell the rain, from haunting grey clouds. The frantic rush of the vehicles on the roads, and the pushing and shoving of the strangers on the sidewalks. The bobbing of umbrellas, mixed this the constant pounding of the icy rain.

Einjeru's right hand gripped her silky black umbrella, as she walked through the crowds. L walked by her left and slightly behind her. Only did Einjeru realised L was not by her side, was when she heard a light sniff behind her.

"Ryuzaki-Chan! Come under the umbrella with me!"

"I'm fine, thank you." L kept looking down at the ground, his wet through skin sticking to his soaking clothes.

"Ryuzaki! You're soaking. Just come under the umbrella."

"…No thank you." There was that intense aura surrounding her again. But, unlike before, she did not become quiet, she erupted.

"RYUZAKI-CHAN! Come here now!" She tightly grabbed his hand, and dragged him to her side.

L's body limped towards Einjeru, as his head lightly bumped her shoulder. His cheeks were bright red with embarrassment and fury of her shouting at him, while freezing rain drops fell from his body. Her hand was incredibly warm and soft, the warmth almost made him held her hand a little tighter. The blush on his cheeks somehow grew, while he kept his head low, making rain drops fall from his ebony locks onto his cheeks and nose.

Only a few minutes later, did they find themselves back at HQ. Both of them came through the door at the same. Ryuzaki slipped his shoes off and went straight to his chair. While Einjeru took her shoes off and put the umbrella in the corner of the room.

Walking into the bathroom, Einjeru grabbed a plain white towel and give it to Ryuzaki.

"Dry yourself off, Ryuzaki-Chan."

She walked back to her shopping and began to unpack, while Ryuzaki only placed the towel on top of his head and continued watching news reports on Kira.

She sat down on the sofa left of L, and began to watch the television screen. L rubbed the towel lightly on his head, and soon placed it on the floor next to him. Einjeru sighed at him, knowing that the towel would leave a wet patch on the carpet.

L continued listening to the news reader, listening to who has been killed and where. L quietly sniffed under his breath, not wanting to turn anymore attention to himself. His eyes became a blank stare once again, while something began it occur. His forehead began to lightly pound and warm up a degree. Many dizzy spells began to challenge him, to lose his concentration. While his forehead began to burn incredibly quickly, his body began to shiver with coldness. Doubt began to fill his mind, that this would go unnoticed. He began to shiver uncontrollably, but soon gritted his teeth, and began to look intently at the screen. Einjeru's eyes gaze at Ryuzaki for second, wondering why he looked so intense.

There was a powerful feeling at the bridge of his nose. His thumb and index finger rubbed it gently, then returned to his knee. The feeling began to really irritate his sinuses by now. His breathing began to quicken, and tilted his head back a little.

"Heh…heh…..Hepchoo!" He softly sneezed into his chest. Reality hit him back, like the violent dizzy spells he was having. He had no time to try and stop himself from sneezing, which was when he heard someone suddenly getting up from their chair. Only one word pulsed through his head, 'Shit…'

There she was, her face was inches way from his. Her Emerald and brown eyes burned with rage. But instead of blowing up, she muttered,

"Stay here." And walked to the bathroom. A few seconds later, she came back with a rectangle-shaped box. The red bold writing read out 'Thermometer'.

"You're sick." She stated as she perched on the coffee table.

"I'm perfectly well." He whispered, his voice so congested it was embarrassing.

"Well then, tell me this. How could the pigment in your skin has got paler by approximately 50%, and the blush on your cheeks 30%?" She observed, reading the instructions for the thermometer. The blush on Ryuzaki's cheeks deepened.

"Put this in your under your tongue." She gave the thermometer to Ryuzaki, who hesitantly put it under his tongue. Einjeru watched as the red liquid climbed the silver tube, it was 40C. Ryuzaki gave back the thermometer.

She sighed placing a soft, cold hand delicately onto L's forehead, his eyes closed from sheer relief.

"See what happens when you don't listen to me? You get a head cold." She smiled, bringing her hand back.

"Heh…hepchoo!" He sneezed.

"Bless you…Do you have any pyjamas?"

"…In Watari's room."

" 'Kay!" She rushed to Watari's room and looked through the drawers. She found a light blue pair of pyjamas, and went back to Ryuzaki.

She put the pyjamas on the side of L's chair, before picking up his towel, and beginning to lightly rub his locks. After his hair became mostly dry, Einjeru took a deep breath and began undressing L.

She started gently pulling his muscled arms out of his white shirt. Then, she began the task of getting the long-sleeved shirt over his head. As soon as his shirt was fully off, bright red streaks of blush came to Einjeru's cheeks. She gazed at the tone abs that were his stomach. Ryuzaki was staring into space, he was trying not to move to much, as the pounding headaches were killing him. Quickly putting the top half of his pyjamas on, she couldn't bear the thought of doing the bottom half. So, she stood up and said to Ryuzaki,

"You finish getting changed in the bathroom. I'll get your bed ready." Ryuzaki did as he was told and went into the bathroom. Einjeru took 4 blankets and 2 pillow out of the cupboard, and walked back to the living room. Einjeru used her sofa, and start to make Ryuzaki's bed. First, she put one of the blankets onto the sofa itself. Then made covers of the next two blankets, while she kept the last one. She was finishing plumping the pillows, when L walked back in. Grabbing the spare blanket, she wrapped the soft linen cover around L's head and secured in across his chest.

"There is no need for all of this-"

"L-Chan, you are ill. All the facts point to the conclusion that you are sick. Don't even try to deny it, when you look that pale. I understand that you have been ill in the past, and got ahead of it especially when Kira and justice were very important to you."

L stayed silent. I knew that lying to her was never going to work. She was his apprentice after all. He wondered how much her IQ was, seeing how she knew so much about him, in only a few days.

'She is very…observant' He wondered if observant what the word to describe her.

"Hey, L-Chan!"

"Huh?"

"Don't fall asleep yet, I'll make you some tea."

"…Ok."

Einjeru quickly skipped over to the kitchen, and began to make a cup of tea. L, somehow sat down on his usual chair, without passing out from the dizzy spells. Einjeru finally began to put, what was like a million spoonfuls of sugar into his tea, before walking back towards him, and handing him the tea.

"I'm just going to go out for a bit."

"Where?"

"Just to get some fresh air." Before L could reply, Einjeru span on her heels and went out the door. Being curious as L was, he began to think as his tea began to lightly burn his hands. Where was she going? Was something wrong? Or did she really need some 'fresh air'? The likeliness of there being something wrong highly doubtful. He would of perceived it by now. So, why did she suddenly go?

The wanting to know where she was, began to take its weight on Ryuzaki's shoulders. Moving slowly to the computer monitor, his hand found the mouse, which began clicking constantly. Finally locating the HQ Camera system, he start following Einjeru around the building. Einjeru made her way to the fire exit.

'Maybe my conclusion was somewhat right…' L thought. So, he made his way the fire exit, on the top of HQ.

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L shuffled to the roof, by climbing many stairs up and up. Getting to the roof, was very much like torture. Every step, made his head spin, and every step he took seemed to get colder and colder. Finally, after what seemed like hours, he had made it to the roof. Carefully and quietly, he pushed the heavy door and caught a glimpse of Einjeru.

The bitter cold air filled the night, as her chestnut brown hair was whipped in the wind. The moon tried to shine though the grey clouds, with no such luck. Every light, that was scattered around the vast city seemed to shine brightly, much like the stars. Her brown and green eyes were hypnotized by the beauty of the city at night. She didn't notice that someone was watching her. For some reason, she felt like singing, probably cause she was so moved by the view. She lightly licked her dry lips, and took a deep breath in.

"Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man,

with my three wishes clutched in her hand.

The first that she be spared of pain,

that comes from a dark and laughing rain.

When she finds love,

may it always stay true,

This I beg for a second wish I made too.

But wish no more,

My life you can take,

to have her please one day wake.

To have please,

To have her please just one day awake,

To have please just one day awake."

L stood there in the doorway, completely gob smacked by her singing. He had never realised that her singing was so wonderful. He remembered in the Wammy days, that late at night, he would always hear that song being played on the piano, and being sung by a sweet voice. He'd always thought that someone was playing it on the radio or something. Never did he think for once, that it would be her. He wondered how long she had been keeping this a secret.

A freezing wind beat L once again. The air began pulling at his clothes and his blanket, wanting to play with them. That was it. His head couldn't take any more. A hot wave of sweat and fear rushed over him, and sent him crashing though the door. The pulsation in his head increased, giving him the urge to faint. Einjeru quickly turned around hearing the crash not so far behind her. She saw L partly laying on the floor. She rushed over to him, fear began to set in her eyes.

"L-Chan! What's wrong with you?! Why did come up here?!" Her concern for him was only making the banging in his head worse. He firmly gripped her cardigan, that desperate look in his eyes, wanting someone to help him. She could not resist. She began delicately lifting him up, and began moving towards the door.

Everything seemed to have turned white from his point of view. Although he could feel everything such as his heart beat, her heartbeat, her breathing, he could not see anything. Was it because of her? Had he fainted? No, but he did feel upset. Upset because instead of seeing nothingness, all he wanted was to see her pale face.

Soon enough, his vision began slowly coming back to him. He realised that they were almost outside their hotel door. He also become conscious to the fact, that she had been somewhat carrying him, the tips of his feet were dragging on the floor. Einjeru kicked the door open and rushing to the sofa, and sat Ryuzaki down on it. Running back to the door, she quickly locked the door back up, and ran to the bathroom. Grabbing a cold facecloth, she rushed back over to L, and was beginning to make him lay down.

His forehead was burning and pulsing too much for him to bare. He began slipping in and out of consciousness, pleading silently for Einjeru to help him. Soon, he felt himself sinking into the bed, that Einjeru had made to him. He could see the outline of her, tucking in the covers around him, and placing something light and cold on his head. His eyelids became heavy and weak, he let them fall and let himself drift into a deep sleep.

Einjeru sighed as his breathing became light and gentle. She should of kept a closer eye on him, knowing his wanting to understand what was happening around him. She left the facecloth on his burning forehead, and sat on his chair and began scanning the many papers of information on the coffee table. She saw a small notebook and pen on the edge of the table. So, she began to read through the tons of papers, and began to write down who she thought could be Kira, and the likeliness of them being Kira. Soon enough, she, too had fallen asleep.

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P.s. About the song that Einjeru sang, I'll tell you want it's called on the last chapter, and why I used it in the story! :3