I. Plot
July 15th, 2003. 2 years before the Kira investigation started.
The car smashed into a wall. L was startled by the sound of an explosion… He opened the blinds to stare outside, and a car was flaming, crashed straight into a wall just beside the hotel L was staying in. "Watari, continue working on the Weapon Arms Case… I'm going to see what happened…" L spoke. Watari handed L his usual when he went out. A mask and a dough kebob.
L started out to where the car was, when he saw a man grab a phone from the pocket of the person inside the car. On his hand was a tattoo. The tattoo was kanji, standing for "death". L was about to chase him, when he saw the car getting worse. Soon the body wouldn't be identifiable. L ran and saw the body. It was only possible to tell the woman was a red head, and that she was a woman. L brushed his hand over her face, which was cold. "This isn't right…" L said. L grabbed her wallet and pulled out the ID. Strangely, the wallet and all its contents hadn't been destroyed…
L ran back to the hotel and sprinted up the steps. "Watari! Bring up the data on this woman!" L exclaimed out of breath. Watari took the ID from L. On it said Tory Nison. The information on her came up instantly. "She's 25 years old, working for a company called "Index"… Hmmm, Index doesn't come up in the database…" Watari said.
"This is very strange…" L said, speaking to himself, but loud enough Watari could hear.
"What's going on L…?" Watari said.
"The woman down there was burned to a crisp, but none of her possessions or anything in the car we're touched. Also, she was hot like she should be if she was just burned by a car explosion. Her skin was cold, and details could be made out… It doesn't add up why someone would go to the trouble of burning her then…" L got it then. "They were going to allow her to crash like she had, but she was doing something. Her hand was raised like this…" L raised his arm to his ear and curled his fingers. "She had a phone in her hand, which meant she was talking to someone. This company, Index, isn't probably a good company, and probably isn't even truly called Index. Tory must have been talking to someone on the phone, and the group figured it out, than killed her with fire straight away instead of waiting for her car to explode, which was also them. One man had taken the phone after the car crash…" L fully understood now.
"L, you know what's going on, correct?" Watari asked, and his facial expression told anyone he was confused.
"This group, Index, tapped the woman's phone. She was a new employee, age 25. Probably just 2 or 3 years out of college. They told her about the company, some lie about what they we're doing, but she figured out the truth of the company tonight, and tried reporting it to the police. But this group, Index, got to her first. They placed a charge in her car, and they implanted an auto drive into the wheel, as well as into the gas pedal. But she was talking to the authorities. They had one of the men stab her. I know this because there were three rips in her shirt. He then doused her in gasoline and then lit a match, threw it into the car, and ran. This all happened at the light back about half a block. The woman was on fire, but the man then used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out. She was already dead, but if someone noticed the fire before the car crash, it would be giving away to many suspicions that it was a murder rather than an accident. Most likely the man put alcohol down her throat to make it seem like she was drinking…" L said. He sighed. The man who had taken the phone had seen him without the mask for a moment. L's identity was breached…