Good afternoon!
I have been DYING to get this chapter out, so I couldn't help but post it so soon!
The case is starting to get more and more interesting for both sides, and we'll just have to wait and find out what happens next :D

Disclaimer: Death Note belongs to Tsugimi Ohba & Takeshi Obata, but the OC's are mine!



Chapter 2 – An Address


Watari walked in the hotel room with a small trolley, that had three shelves with plate after plate after plate of different cakes and various other sweets. Ryuzaki noticed his presence but kept typing on his computer until the man was standing right next to him. He turned to inspect the selection and lifted off a plate with a piece of cake that had strawberries on top. He quite liked strawberries.

"It is time for me to go Ryuzaki. I will have everything set up in forty five minutes and I will contact you then." the older man said, looking down at the man who looked more like a child whilst eating the cake.

He nodded once and Watari walked to the closest where he had everything set up, and took it all out, putting the hat on his head, the full-length leather coat over his arm and holding the briefcase in his hand. He walked to the door and opened it, before giving Ryuzaki a small bow of goodbye and shut the door behind him.

The elevator was only over the other side of the hall and he pressed the button with the arrow pointing down and waited for the doors to open. He went to the level for the underground parking lot, and the elevator stopped a few times to let people on and off. He got in his car, started it up and was off.

It took him all of a little less than half an hour to drive to the appropriate building and went through the security check and the shocked security guard waved him through before he parked in yet another underground lot and made sure his face was completely covered before getting out and putting on the large leather coat and grabbing the briefcase before shutting the door and locking the black car and walked towards the elevator.

He was going to go to the first floor for the time being, so he pressed the appropriate button and waited a moment until the doors opened and a few heads turned to see who it was. Simultaneously, eyes widened and the place went quiet for a few whispers as more people turned to look at the man only known as 'Watari', the only person who could get in contact with the world's number one detective, L.

Most of the people were all dressed up in their police officer garb, and some were dressed in normal civilian clothing. A pretty blonde woman walked up to him, adjusted her glasses and the light reflected off them before she smiled happily at him.

"Right this way." she said and began to walk towards the back of the building.

She knocked on the door which had 'Chief Superintendent' written on it, and waited for the person inside to grant them entry before opening the door, and moving out of the way for him to step through first. The dark-skinned man sitting at the desk stood up in shock, and walked over to him.

"Thank you very much for coming. I didn't even expect a response this soon." he said as he bowed to the man. "I'm Chief Superintendent Hiroshi Ataru, and this is my Superintendent Kotone Fuyuko. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Watari smiled even though the man wouldn't be able to see it. "You may call me Watari. Where should I set up?" he asked simply and lifted the briefcase up to hold his other hand underneath it.

"Well, actually I'd recommend that you should go to the Sora Ops office. That is where the main investigation is running." the Chief said and scratched the back of his head, feeling a little awkward and nervous.

"Ah, I see." he replied while contemplating why the name 'Sora Ops' sounded so familiar.

"I'm going over there now, if you'd like to follow behind me." Hiroshi offered, since he knew that maybe not even Watari would know where it is right now.

"That would be fine." Watari answered kindly. He would have to ring Ryuzaki on the way and let him know.

As he was walking back to the car, which conveniently was parked only three spaces away from the Chief's, he tried to recall where he had heard the name 'Sora Ops' from. They sounded like some sort of specialised and secretive unit, of course, he couldn't help but think that maybe L had worked with them before.

Hiroshi started his car and Watari did the same, and they pulled out and drove for at least ten minutes before they stopped at a red light, and he took that chance to contact Ryuzaki. It only took a minute for the young man to answer, since he recognised the number, and Watari informed him of the situation quickly before the light went green. He hung up and waited a few more moments before the traffic light changed and continued to follow behind the Chief's car for another twenty minutes.

When they stopped out the front of what looked like an apartment, he was a little confused, but followed the other man to the front door and waited as he pressed the intercom button. The door unlocked and they opened it and walked in.

Everyone here reacted exactly the same as the people at the police station, with wide eyes and the occasional dropped jaw. It was pretty normal, so it didn't bother him much any more and it continued as they went to elevator and went up to the fourth floor. They both strolled up to two huge doors and pressed another buzzer button and the door opened a moment later to reveal a small woman with black clothes and a black mask with a white crescent moon painted on it.

She stepped aside, and eyed Watari carefully. She'd expected L's lackey to show up soon enough since she saw the internet page that had the plea for L's help on there. And she wasn't happy about it either. The Sora Ops should deal with this themselves since they were being targeted. Taiyou came out from his office and greeted the Chief Superintendent before greeting Watari.

Taiyou showed him to a spare desk and he connected through to L, and the black letter came up on the screen when the connection had worked. Tsuki was facing away from the computer, talking something over with Ame who noticed that Watari had finished. All of them began to hear the voice of 'L'. Clearly it was edited so their real voice couldn't be distinguished, but their voice nonetheless.

"...I am L..." the voice said simply, getting straight to the point. Ame went to speak, but Tsuki glared at him to tell him to shut his trap. The intimidating woman turned around and leant up against the desk Ame was sitting at.

"I am Taiyou. This is Tsuki, Ame, Kumo and Hoshi. They make up the Sora Ops team. The other man is Chief Superintendent Hiroshi Ataru." Taiyou introduced them and pointed to each person, with symbols for a crescent moon, rain, a cloud and a star on their masks. He bowed respectfully and took his leave, saying that he would return later.

"Please tell me everything you have so far." L requested, wanting to get started right away.

"I kind of figured that this would happen, so I prepared a flash drive with all our information on it." she continued, looking straight into the web cam and Ame took that as his queue to grab the flash drive off her desk and hand it to Watari, all the while Tsuki continued staring straight at the camera as if she was trying to stare down L.

"The thirteen people killed yesterday were all high-ranking police officers that had worked with the Sora Ops before. All of the bodies had the letters 'A.S' painted on them. The last victim also had a letter at his side." she informed and held up the evidence bag holding said letter that was conveniently on Ame's desk.

"It says 'We're coming after you and everyone involved with you'. Also, there is small red kanji for 'Sora' on the bottom right hand corner. I deduced that we could assume that this group goes by the name 'Aka Sora' which would further prove their involvement with us. And so far, that is all the most significant information we have." she finished and moved back over to her desk without a word or glance in anyone else's direction.

She sat in her chair and resisted the urge to groan loudly. She wasn't happy about L being here. As a person who hadn't trusted anyone in her life, suddenly being asked to put faith in someone who spoke through a fucking computer. Unless she could at least see someone's eyes, she could never trust them. It may have just been her paranoid nature speaking, but she just couldn't fathom how Taiyou could allow L into their investigation.

They had Kumo, a technology and gadget specialist who could hack into basically anything. Hoshi, who was a real hands-on type and could probably break into a casino's vault within five minutes. Ame, who was great at espionage, reconnaissance, and setting up Kumo's devices anywhere necessary. And Tsuki herself, who was their all-round agent and the second-in-charge. She was able to get in, do her job and get out completely undetected, not to mention her being incredibly intelligent, analytical as well as being a human lie detector.

All of them were trained to be almost like ninja, barely using guns unless necessary because they were so loud, instead using kunai, daggers and hand-to-hand combat to take down and capture their enemies. Were they not enough to solve this case? Doing this kind of thing was their speciality. Why did they need the help of a person who 'supposedly' existed and only communicated through a microphone?!

Hoshi and Ame seemed to be quite happy to work with him, and Kumo would love all the access that L would be able to give him to lots of files and databases that he would usually have to spend an hour or more hacking into. The Chief Superintendent was still in shock about it, and Taiyou was so damn perceptive that he probably knew that L would get involved as soon as the press released it.

Tsuki was snapped out of her thoughts by Kumo's voice calling her over to him. She got up and walked over, leaning on his chair and looking at the screen.

"We just got a tip in from someone saying they saw the kanji for 'Sora' written on a huge warehouse in the industrial area about half an hour from here." he said, finally glad to have gotten some new information. Since Taiyou wasn't there, it was up to Tsuki to decide what to do. Everyone looked at her silently, waiting for her decision.

"I would recommend checking out the warehouse." L's voice spoke suddenly through the computer.

"Why? What if it's a trap, or just some punks playing a prank?" Tsuki questioned, even though she was pretty sure that L would have a good reason for suggesting that. She had already decided to go and check it out anyway, but she couldn't deny that no one would question her reasoning if she had L agreeing with her.

"We haven't heard from the group at all since the murders yesterday. I would think that they are either trying to antagonise us by letting us know they are still around, or they might have put something in the warehouse that they want us to see." L replied, even though they could tell by Tsuki's tone that she had already made up her mind and that she probably wanted to know why he thought they should go.

"That's what I was thinking...Ame, we're going." she said and walked over to a large metal cupboard that was in the corner of the room, just behind Ame's desk. He had already opened it to reveal a storage space for weapons.

"Kumo, get a few of those small cameras and motion sensors for us to set up inside and around the warehouse in case they decide to use it again." she said while her and Ame took weapon after weapon from the cupboard and concealed them in belts, pockets, and holsters.

Tsuki grabbed her leg holsters and a few kunai and put her booted foot up on Ame's desk and put the first one on and repeated it with the other leg. She placed each kunai in the part provided and turned back around to grab her wakizashi and strap it to her back so that the handle could be concealed by a jacket and put her gun on her belt.

She quickly went and grabbed her full-length cloak from the back of her chair and put it on as Ame did the same. Kumo was waiting to give them their headsets - which they used to keep in contact with – and they both put them on and tested them quickly before he gave them a small box containing the cameras and motion sensors.

"Let's go." Tsuki said and they both walked out the large doors down the hall and down to the parking lot.

Ame insisted on driving, much to Kumo's amusement and Tsuki's annoyance, and they started off in the direction of the industrial estate with Kumo directing them. Half an hour later, they arrived making sure to pull up a few hundred metres away from the place. Since it was day time they had to be extra careful in approaching the place and they looked around for any signs of anyone being around as they stalked closer to the warehouse.

When they got close enough, they could see the large red symbol on one of the walls. Ame got out a digital camera, and he started taking photos when they got closer. After he was satisfied, he put the camera away somewhere and they tried to look for the best entry into the warehouse.

The back window had been smashed and the green-eyed man told Tsuki to stop moving which she had hoped for him to do. This place was perfect for a trap and they had to check it out completely before even thinking about going inside. There were a few boxes spread here and there around the place, and Tsuki told Ame to step back so she could look inside. Luckily, there was nothing inside any of them and she cautiously kicked them inside to look underneath them.

Again, there was nothing to worry about so they both continued inspecting the place with a fine toothed comb while telling Kumo and everyone else back at headquarters what was happening. After another few minutes of checking everything out, they deemed it safe enough to go inside.

There was a padlock on the door, but it wasn't actually clicked into place properly and Ame thought that it might be a good idea to try and throw kunai at it to knock it off the door, in case that moving it triggered a trap of some sort. Tsuki agreed and allowed Ame the honours. She thought that this was a perfect chance for him to take the lead and get more experience which was why she brought him along, so she had been subtly allowing him to make most of the decisions and she was impressed so far.

His instinct was developed very well for someone who had only joined the Sora Ops 8 months ago. She watched him while he figured out what angle to use to push the padlock off the door and decided on one a moment later and threw the kunai. It hit the padlock on the right spot and it was pushed off the door by the kinetic energy and both Ame and Tsuki instinctively took a defensive stance, waiting for something to happen.

Ame moved back to stand next to Tsuki and she nodded once at him to let him know he made a good decision and he smirked under his mask. She brought up the possibility that whatever trap that may be set up might be on a time delay to make you drop your guard after nothing happens when the padlock is removed, so they should quickly check for any signs of thin wires being attached to the padlock and the door itself to make sure that there wasn't any chance of a trap being set.

They both checked out everything they could before being satisfied and Tsuki deemed it safe enough to try opening the door, but doing it from a distance with a string attached to the door. Ame kept watch out for anyone while the black-haired woman tied a long piece of string that she had in a pocket of her pants to the door where the padlock was sitting only minutes ago.

Both of them moved back a few mores metres so they were roughly 15 metres away and Tsuki's string was completely run out. With a deep breath from both of them, she pulled on the string and opened up the door, again taking a defensive stance unconsciously.

"I think it's alright. We should be able to enter now, but be very careful." Tsuki said quietly with her eyes narrowed at the warehouse.

Ame nodded in response and they both drew a kunai each in preparation that there was people waiting for them inside. They silently stalked up to the building, making sure to take a quick glance around to see if anyone was around, and Tsuki offered to go in first when they were a few steps away from the door.

With another deep breath, she took a running start and literally back-flipped until she was in the very middle of the warehouse. She looked around for signs of people and when she couldn't see anyone, she gestured for Ame to come in as well. He crept inside and looked around as well, and then they both immediately started browsing the place for any clue of why they were led here.

The green-eyed man took one side and Tsuki took the other and they gazed around for anything that might help them get a lead in the case. After a few minutes, they met back in the middle and discussed their options with Kumo, Hoshi and surprisingly, L, who had a few inputs even though they kept speaking to a minimum. Tsuki resisted the urge to sigh or groan loudly and tilted her head back to look at the ceiling, and saw a small white piece of paper hanging only a metre above their heads.

She inwardly groaned at her stupidity and pulled on a pair of surgical gloves while Ame stared at her, wondering what the hell she was doing, and she jumped up to grab the string that the letter was hanging from, and allow her body weight falling back to the ground to snap the string where it was tied. It seemed like somebody tied it to something and threw it over the metal frame on the roof and tied both ends of the string to where it was attached on the letter. Smart idea, and it did take them a while to find it as well.

Ame's eyes widened at the sight of the letter, and Kumo wondered what was going on since both of them had stopped talking.

"Tsuki just found a letter. It was hanging down from the roof." Ame said with a slightly awed tone. That was why she was second in command. Nothing went overlooked.

"What does it say?" Kumo asked with his hollow and tinny sounding voice coming through the speaker on their headsets.

"I'm not going to open it here. We'll bring it back to headquarters and then open it there." Tsuki said and brought out a zip-lock bag from another pocket for evidence usage. She gently placed the letter in there and closed it up and put it in a larger inner pocket of her cloak.

They looked around for another few minutes before setting up the small cameras and motion sensors in various places, which took roughly half an hour before they were ready to go.

Both of them walked back to the car, still keeping a close eye out for any people around and made the thirty minute long drive back to headquarters while they discussed several things about the case, and about them picking up lunch, which was Hoshi's suggestion. Therefore the thirty minute long drive became forty-five to fifty minutes as they stopped off to go through the drive through of a fast-food restaurant, much to Tsuki's chagrin.

She ordered the healthiest looking thing off the menu, even though she didn't really want to eat from a fast-food restaurant when they had a moderately stocked kitchen back at the office for when they were there for more than eight hours at a time and were too busy to go out and get food (even though none of them had any problem sending out some of the grunts to buy food for them).

When they finally got back to headquarters, they got the usual curious look from everyone as they walked past, since everyone knew that they had just been on some sort of mission. They continued up to the fourth floor to find that Taiyou had returned and the Chief Superintendent was gone and Kumo and Hoshi were informing Taiyou of what happened while he was gone.

Tsuki hated it when he was around. Not because she was in charge when he wasn't, but because he wasn't about to put himself in her shoes and make decisions that would allow her to do everything she felt necessary to get a job done properly. She hated feeling restricted, but normally she just did whatever she wanted anyway. They had a lot of respect for one another and their abilities, but their ideas and strategies clashed.

When she shut the door behind her, Taiyou turned to her with anger written on his face. She felt like rolling her eyes and sticking her tongue at him like a child, but suppressed the urge.

"Tsuki, why did you make the reckless decision to go and check out the warehouse? It would have perfect for a trap, and you took another agent with you!" he scolded and gritted his teeth when her usually blank expression changed into boredom.

"Because otherwise we wouldn't have found this." she replied simply with a bored tone, just to piss him off a little more and pulled out the letter from her cloak pocket.

Without stopping she walked over to the large cupboard that held their weapons and got out face masks that they used on the field when the risk of gas was there. She threw one to everyone in the room as they all got up and walked over to the middle table just in front of the desk that Watari was still sitting at, and put them on. Taiyou glared at her, but kept quiet since he had a feeling this would be a big lead.

She put on a new pair of gloves and gently lifted the letter out from the bag and grabbed a kunai from her leg holster to open it with. One quick movement later, the kunai went back into her leg holster and she pulled out the letter inside the envelope very carefully, hoping that there wasn't anthrax or some other similar thing inside.

No powder came out, and she silently let out the breath she had been holding, and so did everyone else, but much louder. L stayed silent as she worked. She turned back the folded parts of the paper and read out what it said.

"It's an address." Taiyou put in, completely forgotten any earlier anger with Tsuki. This really was a big lead.

"Well, Taiyou. What should we do?" the blue-eyed woman said a little sharply, trying to piss him off again. He was the only person that she antagonised like this, and he knew it.

"I don't think we have a choice but to check it out. But we'll wait for the cover of night since it's a residential area." he replied knowing that Tsuki was just trying to push his buttons. "For the moment, Kumo, find out who the house belongs to, and get every single speck of information on them that you can." the man continued and Kumo nodded once in reply, eyes serious with determination for finally getting something to go off.

"It is time for me to go." Watari said out of the blue, drawing all attention to him as he shut the briefcase. "I will return when you are starting the operation tonight." he got up and walked towards the door before Taiyou stopped him.

"I was getting you a clearance card for those doors when I was out. The operation will begin at 10:30pm tonight." the boss informed him and gave Watari a single nod. "Let's get started everyone."

Tsuki groaned and glowered in her mind and gently massaged her left shoulder absent mindedly.

It was going to be a long night...


When Watari arrived back at the hotel, Ryuzaki was still sitting at his computer and he probably hadn't moved all day. It was a good thing that he was so determined to catch these 'Aka Sora' guys, but he had sacrificed a normal sleep schedule, as well as normal food to be the world's number one detective.

But he was still so proud.

"Good evening Ryuzaki." the older man said as he took off his jacket and hat and hung them up.

"Good evening Watari...I am quite intrigued as to what we will find tonight. I am hoping that it is something we can use." the young man said and took a sip of his sugar, with a side of coffee.

"As do I. But I guess we will have to wait and find out." replied Watari and he walked over to stand next to Ryuzaki's chair.

The black-haired man seemed a little different than usual at the moment, not that he wasn't already quite different, so to speak. He was sitting how he usually does, with his knees bent and pulled up to his chest and his long-fingered, pale-skinned hands resting on top, and his bare feet fiddling around. But there was a unusual expression on his face. He looked a little...pensive, almost.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked, worried about the man who was like a son to him.

"Not exactly...I just find Tsuki rather...interesting. She seems to be more of a mystery than the others. I am not able to access their proper personnel files for the Sora Ops just yet, but I did look up their police files and there is almost nothing on there." Ryuzaki replied, and started to bite his thumb with just enough force to give him a little pain and his other hand went to his computer and pulled up Tsuki's personnel file.

Watari did not reply, instead just looked at the near blank file that was on the screen. There was a name, birth-date and an address there, but it was more than likely that it was all fake. There was absolutely nothing else written there aside from the date that she entered the police force, although that was quite likely to be fake as well.

There was also a photo of a woman who resembled her, but her eyes were not a piercing, icy blue instead being a deep brown and so was her hair that sat just around her shoulders, and her skin was nowhere near as pale. And her expression was not blank, and emotionless as Tsuki's was.

Of course they would have to put some sort of photo on there, but he couldn't help but wonder whether it was actually Tsuki, just with contacts or a wig since her hair was much longer than the photo. Or maybe that it was how she really looked. It would be impossible to tell unless he saw her in person, and he had a feeling that the way this case was going, he might have to resort to that since she seemed very distrustful of him and because more people might have already been killed.

He would have to wait and see what they found at the address that was written on the letter they found in the warehouse...


Yay! Second chapter is done :D
I'll probably try and concentrate on writing more of my Naruto fic, which I haven't done much of since I started writing this, so it might be a while until the next update.
And by the way, I've tried not to refer to L as 'he/his/etc' when it's in Tsuki's perspective for obvious reasons. Just in case you were wondering :)

Let me know what you think!

Chapter glossary -
1. Ame - Rain
2. Hoshi - Star