Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or the characters there in. The plot isn't mine as well. I do not own nor am I related to the creators of One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari). However, I have altered and added a few scenes to give a bit more Death Note 'feel' into the story.
So, uhm… If you have no idea what the ringtone used for the death calls is you should probably go check it out. You can go to my profile, the link should be there. And have it open on a tab or something. And then, when a scene comes up in the fic where the tone plays, play it as well. It enhances the creepiness factor!
Warnings: Character deaths, a little(?) gore, cussing, and (possibly) eventual LxLight.
EDIT: I deleted the first upload of this story because I wasn't exactly satisfied with what I had and was a bit disappointed so if you reviewed and it disappeared, that's because I deleted the original. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Chapter 1: You have One New Message
You have received one message.
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August 18, 2010
7:46 pm
Yagami Light's Apartment
"I'm telling you I'm serious!" a dark brown haired teenager said as she flailed her arms around in mid-air, probably hoping that her friends would just take her seriously for once if she did. "He just can't look through holes! He's terrified of 'em! Even if you promised him a million yen, he'd still refuse to look through them!"
A raven-haired man who had sharp, striking brown eyes behind rectangular glasses chuckled, popping a piece of cabbage into his mouth as he said, "That's interesting, Sayu. But why?"
Sayu faltered for a moment before she shrugged and said, "What? Why he's afraid? I'm not exactly sure why but," she stopped, looking as if she didn't want to disclose too much information before she shook her head as if doing so would clear her head from the previous thoughts that plagued it. "No, how would I know?"
Mikami playfully snorted. "You're his sister. How can you not know? Oh hey, check it. Yoh, Light. Light!" Mikami called out. If he noticed the slight hesitation on Sayu's part, he made no comment about it.
Light snapped out of his self-imposed daze before turning his caramel brown eyes towards the other man. He had been busy trying to get the stupid stove lit. He absolutely refused to look underneath the damn thing.
They were hanging out and had brought the stove out for some hot servings of yakiniku at Light's place. They could have eaten out, but Sayu had a curfew.
"Can't you just peek and see if the stove's lit? Seriously, are you that scared?" Mikami inquired, eyebrow raised and a knowing smirk intact.
Light sneered at him. Jerk. "No, I'm not. Sayu's just blowing things out of proportion again."
"Hey!" was Sayu's undignified screech, "Don't you remember your last physical?! You absolutely refused to look through the hole of that eye machine thing!" She pointed a menacing finger at her older brother. "You were so freaked out you didn't even get your eyes checked! You kept saying you were afraid of what you might see in there!"
"Hmm." Light hummed as he finally peeked underneath the pan to check if it was lit. He hated eyeholes. Ever since…
Poofsh! The stove suddenly decided that it was the right time to start working and burst into hot orange-red flames.
Snip, snip…
a woman cutting her toe nails outside the house underneath a full moon…
a caramel brown eye peeking through a hole in one of the sliding tatami doors in a traditional Japanese house that led to a darkly lit room…
Snip, snip…
FLASH!
Light whipped his head to where the flash came from so fast that he was almost sure that he snapped his neck.
Sayu giggled, "Absolutely priceless, Brother!" She took a glance at the camera and pouted, "And I still can't get over how photogenic you are. Even with your eyes so wide and mouth agape you look absolutely sexy!"
Light's mouth opened and closed like a fish out of the water before he made to grab at the camera, "Sayu!"
The siblings proceeded to wrestle for the camera.
"You know," Mikami started a few seconds later, his gaze thoughtful and serious, "I got this one friend and he lives in this apartment where the guy who lived there before committed suicide."
Light and Sayu stopped abruptly stopped their impromptu wrestling and they both sat up and listened to Mikami. They listened so intently that they didn't hear the soft sounds of the front door opening and closing.
"So a while back, he was washing his hair in the shower, when suddenly he felt that something was behind him. He freaked out and when he was about to spin around and look…"
Light leaned in and bit his lower lip, and was so engrossed in listening that he hardly felt something land on his right shoulder.
"There," Mikami continued, his sharp gaze resting on Light's, "On his bare shoulder was an abnormally thin arm…"
Sayu gasped, but Light knew something felt odd. He felt a menacing presence behind his back that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up on end. That was when Light noticed the added weight on his shoulder.
It almost felt like…
An arm!
Light whipped around so fast he was sure he snapped his back.
And there, right behind him, was a pale young woman who wore nothing but deep black clothes.
"ARGH! Holy SHIT!" Light screamed.
THWACK!
…Only to get a good hit upside the head.
"Oh shut up, Light. I know my face isn't that scary, Geez." Takada Kiyomi said as she shrugged off the black blazer she sported.
Light laughed as he threw Kiyomi a teasing grin, "Oh? Is it now?"
"Whoa. Whoa. Hold up, Light. That's my girlfriend. Back off." Mikami said light-heartedly.
"Hey, I'm not doing anything." Light said, hands in the air in a gesture of surrender, "What are you wearing anyway?"
"This?" Kiyomi motioned to her get-up, "Someone died. A girl from my old high school."
"Oh," Light blinked, "Sorry."
"Kiyomi-san should have brought some drinks!" Sayu exclaimed, as if not hearing the news of someone dying.
"Yes, Sayu-chan." Kiyomi breathed as she leveled a kind smile at the young girl, "But I can't go shop for drinks with these clothes."
Kiyomi blinked, "Are you even old enough to drink?"
"I don't mean beer!" Sayu screeched, and almost like an after-thought, she said, "Brother doesn't drink much anyway."
"I'll go out and buy some then." She nodded and turned to Light, "Care to accompany me, Light?"
"Huh?" Light started, pre-occupied with flipping the meet in the stove, "Why me? Mikami's your boyfriend."
"So? C'mon! Don't be such a priss. I haven't spoken to you in a while!" Kiyomi insisted.
"… Fine. I'm not paying, however."
"Good enough." Kiyomi said as she asked Sayu to show her to a room where she can change.
Light and Kiyomi stood a respectable distance away from each other as they strolled towards a near-by 24-hour Convenience Store both lost in their respective thoughts.
Something was deeply bothering Light. His nerves tingled and his mind reeled. Something was terribly not right. Everything was writhing around his consciousness. There was this foreboding and ominous feeling coiling around his gut. As if something was going to happen in the near future. Something unpleasant.
Something awful.
He shook the annoying thoughts away.
"So, uh… Do you know how she died?" Light questioned, and he felt a shiver run down his spine.
Oh, sure, Light. Bringing that topic up will surely make you feel better, he though bitterly to himself.
"Mizuki?" Kiyomi questioned as she tucked a stry piece of hair behind her ear, "She was out diving with a few friends. Got separated from the group and when they found her she was dead; drowned from the looks of it." She shrugged. "I hear that suffocation hurts a lot more than you think. When they found her, they said she looked terrible."
Ting!
They both stopped as they listened to the ring echo throughout the peaceful night atmosphere. It was clearly a cell phone ringtone.
La do mi do la ti re ti…
The eerie ringtone successfully made the hairs behind their neck stand on end.
"Aren't you gonna answer that?" he asked when he saw Takada make no move to answer her phone.
Takada raised one dark eyebrow, "Aren't you? That creepy ringtone certainly isn't mine."
Light threw Kiyomi an incredulous expression before he reached into his pocket to retrieve his cell phone. He flipped it open, "No, seriously. It isn't mine."
Takada blinked as she rummaged inside her bag for her cellphone, "What the- I-It's mine. But I'm sure that was not my ringtone."
"Who's it from?" Light inquired casually, stifling the nerves that were going haywire inside him.
"Huh? That's funny. How would this happen?" Kiyomi said as she pressed a few more buttons on her phone, "This number, it's mine. Can a cell phone call itself?"
'Okay,' Light thought as his eyebrows furrowed in confusion, 'Weird'. "There's really one way to find out, actually."
"Hmm." Takada hummed as she pressed 'Open'. Light leaned in and listened.
"You have one message." The technical lady voice announced from the phone, "Message One. Recorded: August 20, 2010, 11:12 pm."
Kiyomi shot Light a flabbergasted expression, convinced that this was clearly some sort of elaborate prank.
It was still the 18th of August.
They both forgot all about that, however, when the voice message played.
"… ssszzzttt… Oh my… It's starting to rain… sszzzzttt… …."
Both were then extremely startled by the shrill sharp ear-splitting scream that followed soon after. It was so loud and sudden that it had pierced through the late night silence.
Definitely fucking weird.
"What the fuck…" Takada must have been very rattled for her to actually start swearing like that, thought Light. Takada pressed replay and still the same message played.
"The 20th? But isn't that the day after tomorrow?" Light inquired as they started walking again, although a bit dazedly. "And wasn't that your voice?"
"What? My voice? That's… Oh, please Light. Don't be silly! I mean, listen to yourself! How can that possibly be mine?" Kiyomi forced out a smile but it slightly shook at the corners.
Light shrugged, "It might be Mikami pulling a prank on you, you know?"
Kiyomi laughed, "Teru? Now, why would he do that anyway?"
"… I don't know." Light said, and he can't help but notice the undercurrent of something terribly wrong in the air. But he shook it off and continued walking.
A hunched raven-haired man who wore a white long-sleeved shirt and faded baggy jeans leaned over a corpse of a young woman. His breath was visible enough in the cold sterile room as he pulled on white latex gloves.
He pried the corpse's mouth open before he peered down inside it but was interrupted by a deep tenor voice that echoed slightly in the room.
"And what might you be up to?" the police chief said as he strolled leisurely inside the room, his hands inside his coat pockets to keep it from freezing.
L backed away from the corpse and slowly removed the gloves from his hands, "Nothing much." He replaced the cover that had been covering the corpse from the world.
"The police will be taking that body in to custody." The chief said as he neared the corpse, "The cause of death is unclear to us."
L turned and made to exit the morgue but was stopped yet again, "So, Mr. Detective. What was the name of your friend again? Mihael Keehl, was it?"
L only glanced back to give the police chief an impassive glare before turning and leaving the scene.
Yagami Soichiro stared at where the young man had been standing before glancing down at the corpse after removing the cloth that covered it.
And wasn't really surprise to see a red jawbreaker inside the open mouth.
August 20, 2010
5:30 pm
To-Oh Daigaku
"In most reported cases, when children are abused they manifest certain symptoms that…"
Light tuned his psychology professor out as he stared out of the window longingly. His days were boring and repetitive and he was looking forward to spending the afternoon off probably with Sayu afterwards. His sister was staying with him for a week as his father hadn't been home much again and Sayu didn't have any company at their original home.
"… First off, they will resort to violence often over the most trivial of matters. They will exhibit aggressiveness that…"
Light surreptitiously glanced sideways at Kiyomi who was busy texting with someone on her phone. From the giddy smile on her face Light could only assume it was from Mikami.
"… will then choose a weaker target or someone who they see in a daily basis as an outlet for all their built-up pressure…" the professor continued to ramble on.
"Date afterwards?" He inquired.
Kiyomi glanced at Light shortly before returning to her phone, punching a few more mushy words, "Of course! It has been two days since I last saw him! He has been busy lately, being a law student and all."
"Hmmm…" Light hummed.
"Excuse me! Miss To-Oh!" the professor called.
Kiyomi, momentarily taken aback, pointed at herself, "… Me?"
"Yes, you! Tell me, what's theme of this lecture?"
"Uhm…" Kiyomi hesitantly stood as she wracked her memory for something to answer, "Well, the abused becomes the abuser… I guess."
Light blinked before returning to his notes in a daze.
"Hmm… In a nutshell, yes." The professor said, blinking at the vague answer. However, before he could make a follow up question, the bell rang. He sighed and rubbed his forehead, "Alright, we shall continue the lecture next week. See you then."
The other students then proceeded to stand up and gather their things.
"I've got a date, Light. So I'll be going ahead then!" Kiyomi said as she got up.
"Yeah, sure. Have fun." Light said as he closed his notebook, not really listening to Takada.
"I will. Gotta run, bye!"
Snip… snip…
a caramel brown eye peeking through a hole in one of the walls in the house that led to a darkly lit room…
Snip, snip…
Light was dozing off on his couch when the slight tinkling of his phone on the coffee table woke him up. He let out a small yawn before getting up and reaching for his phone.
He looked at the small screen on his phone and the name 'Kiyomi' glared at him before he sighed and flipped it open, "Kiyomi?" and then he heard a bell-like sound. Wasn't that the alarm bell when a train was approaching?
Klang klang klang klang klang!
Light shook his head to clear his mind, "… Where are you right now?"
Light heard Kiyomi chuckle,"D'awww. Are you worried for me, Light? Haha. That's new. By the way, can you come with me to this store that has this 10% sale tomorrow? I need a new set of clothes and I need a guy's opinion."
Light frowned, "If you need a guy's opinion, why not let Mikami come with you?"
Kiyomi huffed, "No can do, Mister Yagami, it's a surprise!"
Light sighed, "I don't know why I put up with you. But oh well. Sure."
Snap!
Light raised his eyebrow at the suspicious sound that emitted from the phone. It sounded like cable wires snapping. Light frowned, his forehead creasing as his heart suddenly began beating faster and he could not help but feel dread crawl its way in his nerves.
"Kiyomi?" he asked hesitantly, "Remember that strange message you received two days ago?"
"Huh? Pffft. Geez, Light. You're still going on about that? Please. I already told you it was probably some sort of prank."
"Kiyomi." Light said as he held unto his phone like a lifeline, "You received that message the day your classmate died. What if-.."
"What if her ghost is out to get me now? Hahaha! Light, please. Loosen up, will ya? I'm fine, okay? I'm just on the way home from my date with Teru."
Light's gaze swung and landed on the digital clock sitting innocently on the table and he felt his blood boil, "Kiyomi, it's 11:10! Don't you know it's dangerous to be walking around alone at a time like this?! Where is Mikami, anyway?!"
Kiyomi laughed, "Light, I'm touched that you care about me and all but this has to stop, alright? Chill! I told Mikami to go home. He has this exam tomorrow and I don't want him late for it. And I kinda… don't want him seeing my apartment right now. Ugh. I really should start cleaning the place. It reeks."
Light frowned deeper, "Kiyomi. Listen. That phone message, wasn't it on the 20th? At 12 past eleven? That's one minute from now."
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"Kiyomi. Listen. That phone message, wasn't it on the 20th? At 12 past eleven? That's one minute from now."
Kiyomi sighed. Light could seriously be very paranoid, she thought, I mean… that was just a stupid, insignificant voice message from an equally stupid insignificant bored individual who had no life. "Geez, Light. C'mon! Stop doing that! I'll be alright, okay? That message was probably some form of stupid glitch. Nothing—"
Snap! Klang! Klang! Snap!
Kiyomi stopped walking and turned towards the fence that aligned the bridge that stood on top of a railway. For some unknown reason, the wires were snapping one by one. Kiyomi felt the hairs on her back stand on end as she realized that something-
Something was watching her.
"Kiyomi?" Klang! Klang! Klang! "You there?!" Snap! "Szzzttt… -yomi!... –there?...sszztt…ello?"
Kiyomi sighed, "Look. Light. This railroad crossing is drowning you out." She said as she looked around her, trying to find those eyes that followed her every move.
Klang! Klang!
Snap!
"What?! I can't hear you!"
Drip! Drip!
And then she felt it. There was a single droplet of rain on her hand. She looked up and she whined. Great.
"Oh my… It's starting to rain…"
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"Look. Light. This railroad crossing is drowning you out."
Light frowned. "Kiyomi! Hello? Are you there?!"
Klang klang klang! The train signal was getting louder.
Snap! Snap!
"What?! I can't hear you!"
Light frowned. Of course, you can't hear me. You're in a crossing for god's sake!
"Oh my… It's starting to rain…"
Light froze. Everything seemed to stop around him. That, he thought, that was the message that day… He remembered, both of them, walking towards the store. Hearing that message. In the same tone. In Kiyomi's voice.
…"Oh my… It's starting to rain…"…
Light sat there, frozen and unable to do anything even though he knew what was about to happen next.
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Fushuuk!... Shuukkk!
Kiyomi froze as she heard the unusual sound behind her. A shiver ran down her spine as she felt herself grow cold. Something was behind her. She was sure of it.
Fssshhuk! Fshuuk!
Whatever was following her with that strange sound was directly behind her. Or was coming at her. She turned ever so slowly to look behind her.
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"Kiyomi?" Light questioned as his feelings whirled into a never-ending maelstrom. This was not happening!
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Kiyomi turned full way now. And her heart skipped a beat before she let out a shrill ear-splitting scream that reverberated across the night air. She felt herself being pulled towards the crossing's barricade, just where the wires had been snapping into two. The wires gave away from the force of her body colliding unto it and she fell to her death...
…Right in the way of the incoming train with a loud sickening 'thump!'
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Light would have winced when he heard the scream but he was too shocked and terrified to do anything but gape.
"Kiyomi! FUCK, DAMMIT! Kiyomi!" Light yelled. He yelled so hard that Sayu had barged into his room, confused and scared.
"Brother? What's wrong?"
If only he knew.
"Kiyomi!" Light screamed at the top of his lungs, his fists clenching around the cellphone held in his hands. "Kiyomi!"
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In the dark cold night, just a few meters away from a bloody convulsing body, was a severed bloody right arm, clutching at a cellphone, punching in a series of numbers unto the keypad before pressing 'Send'.
A/N:
Hello! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Death Call! Please, please, please review? I would really like to know if you liked the story or not! Constructive criticism would be a big help, too! I'm pretty sure there are lots of grammatical errors within the story so I would be glad if you took the time to point them out and stuff!
Reviews are like my fuel and my motivation and shit. I practically gobble them up!
Please?
Rai :)