Kira Kira
Rating: T
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Summary: AU. The mystery: who is Kira? It could be anyone in this universe… Let's see how long it takes ya to figure it out!
Disclaimer: Well, no, I don't own Death Note, although I wish I owned Matsuda. XD
A/N: Squeak! My new pet project! I'm gonna have so much fun on this one! XD I want to experiment on new styles. Everyone's a suspect. Pay attention to the way this is worded as the story moves along. I was careful about it in this chapter, though. It's mainly to introduce the characters that could be Kira. I'm not stumbling in the dark here, though. I've already decided who will be… Anyway, enough of my pointless rambling, and if you read that, you're awesome. See you at the end!
Introduction
The prison guard rushed from cell to cell, as if he could stop the chain reaction of deaths simply by witnessing all of them. By the time the whole hall of those violent enough to be placed in solitary confinement was wiped out, the poor man was crouched in the corner, terrified out of his mind. In his entire life working in the prison, he'd never witnessed anything like it. He imagined that he was next, he would be next…
Light Yagami, age 17, was doing homework in his room as usual when the announcement of the death toll flashed across the small television set. He stared in amazement for a second. Slowly, without tearing his gaze from the TV, his hand reached for his cell phone, movements speeding up when he missed and had to feel around his desk for it.
As usual, his friends didn't really have an educated opinion on the announcements parading across the news channel.
L was eating a huge sundae with sprinkles and chocolate syrup and all that other cavity-inducing food when he found out the subject of the day's news. It came in the form of "Watari" calling him and informing him that the missing criminal he was in the process of tracking down had been found dead of a heart attack on Main Street that morning.
Of course, due to his contacts and the fact that he was L, he already knew abut the killings. He was simply unaware that they were giving away so much information in the media, as well as that he had been wasting his time trying to track down a dead man.
Misa was giving herself a manicure. She didn't even bother looking up at the news bulletin, although she did grin when the man convicted of her parents' murder was listed as dead. This was true justice!
When morning dawned on Wammy's House, there was an important assembly in the dining hall. The orphans stared at the news report, wondering why this concerned them. It was like this "Kira" person had killed L.
Mello's eyes widened at the thought. He immediately assumed the worst: L is dead, and they're saying that this was who killed him!
He voiced this thought quietly to Matt, who shook his head. "If Kira is killing criminals, he probably admires L as much as we do."
Near, meanwhile, was on the other side of the room. His brain whirred immediately with possible explanations. For the most part, he was one of the genius kids that were curious as to why they were being showed this. He came up with two possible results. One was that they wanted the orphans to help with this case.
The other was that L thought one of the children in that very room could be Kira.
Souchiro Yagami and Touta Matsuda found out about the severity of the problem the hard way when they went to work. The detectives were immediately shoved on the crew as Japanese representatives at the Interpol conference.
Matsuda had never heard of L before due to the fact that he was new to the NPA, but when the Chief explained it to him and he heard the confident voice through the computer, the young man was a little nervous. If someone like that would be needing help from the NPA as L later revealed, they must think Kira's a pretty tough guy.
A/N: Review! Review, and let me know my efforts on my new project weren't wasted! I hope you'll keep reading! Later chapters will be longer, I promise. This is just to let you know that Kira will be one of the following: Light, L, Misa, Mello, Matt, Near, Souchiro, or Matsuda.
