Villains Ch 5 Sensei

A/N: Cross-posted on Fanfiction.net

I don't own Death Note, NBC's Heroes, Marvel Comics or DC comics.

Just a fic dedicated to two of my favorite shows.

This is a fusion fic of Death Note mostly with NBC's Heroes but a bit of other comics as well.

Pairings: mainly Light x L, BB/Light, Light/Mikami, background references to Mello x Near, Misa x Rem, Matsuda x Naomi, Higuchi x Namikawa, one-sided BB/L, and possibly others.

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"I don't have much time" said Near, "I'm risking a rift just by coming here..." I have no choice but to use him... but with any luck they'll wipe each other out. Near thought as he put his plan into action. "You once told me about the early years, how lost you felt—Trust me, THIS is what you've been looking for."

Light looked skeptical.

"When I call, you must tell me where we meet. You're the only one who can do it!" Near pressed, he knew the best way to manipulate Kira was to play to his ego... "Be the one we need. Save the supermodel, save the world!"

"A supermodel? Wait, Near! I don't understand!"

"Beyond Birthday. Go to him. He'll know what to do."

Now how could Near know about THAT? Could it be that he's telling the truth?

"Near!"

He was gone.

The train was moving again and he was receiving odd looks for his outburst. Light awkwardly returned to his seat.

"Do you believe him?" asked Ryuk.

"I don't know. But something like this… it's too dangerous to ignore..."

Save the world, huh? Meaning that if he ignored the message then he potentially put the world in jeopardy...

Light shuddered... Why, oh WHY, did it have to be Beyond Birthday?

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Five years ago, Light Yagami (13 years old)

"Apple stand, to your left... Steal me one."

"I'm not hungry." Light lied as his stomach did barrel rolls.

"Well I am. I want an apple."

"I'm not a thief."

"Nope just a killer, I see. So the moral high ground is yours..."

Light put distance between himself and the temptation of the apple stand.

"Then how were you planning on eating? Hmm?"

"I'll get by somehow!"

"You're an idiot."

"That's the first time anyone has EVER insulted my intelligence."

"Hyuk. Then it's long overdue…"

Light ignored the symbiote.

"Oh I get it, this is your way of punishing yourself is it? Just let yourself starve to death?"

Light just stared sullenly at the ground.

"You might be okay with that, but I'm not. Not as long as I'm sharing this body."

"Then leave."

"And have to break in a whole new host? Hyuk. No thanks."

Ryuk tried again to steer his human away from self-destruction.

"Come on, Light. You're better than this. I see what you're really thinking…. Go on. Do it! Quit acting like a scared little brat begging to be punished and be what you are meant to be."

"Oh, and what do you think that is?"

"A warrior."

Light scoffed at that.

"…a warrior worthy of my people in their prime," Ryuk pressed. "Believe me. You'd make a great Warlord."

Light wasn't quite sure how to take that. "Uh… thanks?"

"Hyuk. You're welcome. Now a warrior dies a glorious death on the battlefield, not starving to death in the streets… So get out there and find me dinner."

Light rolled his eyes.

Just then Light saw a man steal a woman's purse unnoticed by the ignorant sheep surrounding him.

"Hey!"

"Now see, that's smart! There's somebody who will be eating tonight." Ryuk grumbled bitterly.

The man slowly turned around to glare at Light with shocking red eyes.

"You saw me?"

Light gaped at the stranger.

"Nobody sees me!"

"Wha— You… you're like me!" Light realized when it seemed the crowd around them was indeed oblivious to the raven haired man. He must have powers too.

The stranger's eyes widened in recognition… he started to panic. "No… it's YOU! You stay away from me!"

"Wait, who are you?"

"I'm nobody! I'm Rue Ryuuzaki—now get away from me!"

"No, wait PLEASE!"

Rue Ryuuzaki a.k.a. Beyond Birthday ran, Light tired and exhausted as he was, gave chase with Ryuk laughing all the while.

Now most people would have the sense to realize that chasing and cornering a scared and desperate man does not lead to good first impressions, but Light was also desperate... and he was used to getting what he wanted...

Yes, Light was well aware by now that he was a spoiled brat and, and yes, as Ryuk often reminded him, without Ryuk he wouldn't have lasted a week on the streets…

When Light rounded the corner, Beyond let loose several throwing knives, one of which hit it's mark… only for it to be pushed out of him and the wound healed by a certain apple-eating alien.

When this happened, Light had to concentrate with all his might on PLEASANT THOUGHTS to avoid killing the one person who might actually know what's going on with him… Still Light was pretty sure that when he got angry... SOMEONE died nearby...

Light caught up to Beyond and with one hand the boy pinned him against the wall.

"I don't want to hurt you! I just want help!" As much as it hurt his pride to ask anyone for anything let alone a complete stranger for help, he knew he couldn't go on like this... "Look! Something's happening to me! I can't control it!"

Beyond looked, at best, apathetic...

"I'm scared..."

The raven-haired man glared up at him with those stunning red eyes. "Good. You should be." He looked above Light's head... "Light huh?"

Light's eyes widened. He had never told him his name...

"Your parents must have had a real sense of humor."

"Huh, not really..."

"Suits you. The human atomic bomb—that's you… just one bad day..."

Light shivered. "That's why I need to get this under control!" he pleaded, "Can't you teach me...?"

"There's no such thing. No teaching. No Sunday school for the special. What I can do, you can't learn — you wake up in the morning, it's there. If you've got thin soup, then that's your supper."

Soup.

His stomach tied in knots and he suddenly felt so weak.

He really was starving.

Beyond took the opportunity to break free and kick Light in the head.

"Please!" Light moaned from the ground.

"So polite, so considerate... I see the problem already."

"Then you can help me?"

Beyond crouched just above the fallen boy grabbed him forcefully by the chin and looked him right in the eye. "First let's see if my diagnosis is correct. All your life, you've been living for other people. Their wants, their dreams... Your entire life planned out for you," Beyond now had an odd look in his eye; his gaze softened a bit... "Running away—that was probably the first decision you ever made on your own—and you only did because of these powers of yours things would no longer be going "according to plan..." Am I right?"

Light sputtered "It's not like that I—"

"What are you going to be when you grow up?"

"A police detective," Light said without missing a beat.

"Right..." Beyond leered, "You're a lap dog. A trained poodle."

Light gaped at Beyond... "you just..."

"I don't know if I can help you," Beyond mused aloud, he released his hold on Light and began to walk away, "but I suppose I've always wanted a pet..."

About a half a block later he turned and looked back over his shoulder.

"Well, coming poochie? I haven't got all day!"

Light followed.

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"Poodle must be hungry." Beyond tossed him a jar of jam as he led Light to an "abandoned" loft on the roof of a high rise building.

"But..."

Light knew Ryuuzaki had filched it out of some woman's bag...

Beyond's eyes hardened. "Lesson one. Eat what you are given, or starve."

Light ate.

After starving for so long the jam tasted like heaven...

Suddenly Beyond snatched it away...

"If you eat any more you'll get sick," Beyond admonished. Light looked up in shock. Had he really eaten half the jar? "And that would be a waste of good jam."

Beyond critically eyed his new charge.

"So you have multiple powers too... that's rare you know... Are you another intuitive then?"

"Intuitive? What does that mean?"

"Means you're a pain in my ass, mate."

"What the hell is your problem?" Light was beginning to get fed up with the near constant wave of abuse being directed his way.

"No, the question is what is yours. I'm not the one that's the danger to everyone. That would be you."

"You think I don't know that?"

Beyond could see that the boy was near tears... Beyond sighed. "It's your own damn fault. If you didn't want that power you shouldn't have taken it."

"Taken it? What do you mean? I NEVER WANTED THIS! It just happened!"

Now THAT'S interesting.

"Hmm... Well, sucks to be you then."

"Isn't there some way to make it go away?"

Beyond considered for a minute No... I don't want that power... it's way too unstable.

"I could put a bullet in your head. That would solve both of our problems."

"THEN DO IT!"

"Wha—"

"I told you, I DON'T WANT THIS!"

"No." Another voice ripped from Light's throat.

Beyond was so startled that the jam jar slipped from his grasp and shattered on the floor.

"He's mine!"

"Ryuk!"

"I will not let you die so easily Light Yagami! You are far too much fun."

Beyond recovered quickly "To who am I speaking?"

"That was Ryuk."

"And who's Ryuk, your imaginary friend? You never told me crazy was one of your problems. Otherwise I would never have felt comfortable bringing you up to my humble abode," said Beyond Birthday.

Light sighed. "Ryuk show yourself to him.

"You trust him?"

"No but I don't want him thinking I'm nuts!"

"Far too late for that, my boy."

Ryuk did as Light asked...

"And here I thought I'd seen it all. I never thought to see one of your kind alive."

"You've seen one my kind before?"

Beyond smiled. "It's a secret. You don't trust me. The feeling's mutual. I'm sure you'll respect that."

"Hyuk. Fair enough."

"Now this complicates things... a symbiote. He's naturally amplifying your powers. That's another problem but now that we know the cause we can adjust accordingly..."

***

Beyond sighed in exasperation, "What's your problem, now? I thought we agreed; you need to do this to learn how to control your powers."

The boy failed again to kill the targets he had specified...

"They're just criminals, acceptable targets in your book, right?"

Light looked bitter. "Are we any better?"

"No, but that's not what's bothering you... It's your family, isn't it? That's what's tripping you up."

Light looked away.

"Do you think they give a rat's ass about you? If they knew what you are?"

Light wouldn't meet his gaze.

"It's not just that, what right do I have to— I mean, what if it's a mistake or..."

"They're all guilty of something."

"There are GOOD people out there—"

"People SUCK friend!" Beyond said in a voice that brooked no argument, he stuck his finger in Light's face. "Never forget it."

Light went back to looking through the newspaper clippings that identified various criminals, criminals that were currently sitting in the bar across the way.

"Look. You need to let go of these attachments," Beyond lectured "The quicker you do the better off you'll be. Because you're just going to end up killing everyone you know anyway."

"What attachments? I'm a thirteen year old runaway. And as you're constantly pointing out you could just abandon my sorry ass, run around a corner and I'd never see you again..."

"See, what I mean? Attachments. Because now you're just trying to please me. I'm flattered really. You need to embrace your powers for yourself. Live for yourself. Kill for yourself. Live uncompromising. I yield to no one and nothing. Not even traffic lights."

Light sweat-dropped. "Don't you think that's taking it a little far?"

"No." Beyond deadpanned.

"But I... I don't want to kill anyone!"

"Hyuk, hyuk! Just who are you trying to fool, Light-o?"

Beyond nodded to the eavesdropping Ryuk who was making his presence known in the form of a single tendril coming out of and looking over Light's shoulder. "What he said."

Light sighed. "You two in agreement. Now that's not a good sign."

So Light concentrated and the gangsters dropped dead.

The older killer patted him on the head. "Good boy."

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A/N: Uh, yeah anyone think this is going to end well?