A/N – Happy Valentine's Day readers

Also I do not own Death Note

Just wanted to say that I have changed the time line so things will be slightly off dates from the cannon (minus the year jumping). Also even though this does not effect this chapter I want to let you know that I am aging up Matt, Mello, and Near (Matt and Mello are 18, and Near is 14).

To clarify; L is currently 22, Lisa is 17, Zoë/ Lexie is 17 and Light is 17 (as of this chapter).

Also I think I will have a Beta sooner rather than later, also I have a new friend assisting with editing

As it is the 14th of the month I can proudly present

Particulars of Perpetual Boredom

Prologue II

Pain was the first thing I felt. I grimaced, slowly opening my eyes, harsh light barring down upon me. It took me three more tries before I succeeded in opening them completely. I looked around seeing no one. I was in a bedroom, with a window to my left, that's where the light was coming from.

It was empty except for the bed I lay in, and a cabinet on the side.

I slowly sat up, a wave of nausea hitting me. I endured it though, and attempted standing. It didn't last long, seeing that I almost hit the floor. I managed to get up again after that, but only thanks to the help of the wall.

I then slowly hobbled my way out of the room. I wasn't sure where I was going but I knew I needed to move, for psychological reasons. The idea of sitting in bed waiting didn't appeal to me.

I made it down the hallway alright but once I hit a two step drop, I lost my coordination. That's when my face started making its way towards the ground, for some reason all I could think is this felt like a moment of déjà vu.

Instead of feeling the ground to my face stead I felt some pressure around my torso. I opened my eyes to see a teenager, a few years older than me, holding me up.

"Thank you" I said.

"Are you okay?" the teen asked, he had large dark eyes that had equally dark hair falling in-between them.

"Yes" I said, and he helped me down the last two steps to a chair. It turns out we were in some kind of kitchen.

There was silence for a minute before he pushed a piece of cake towards me. I happily complied too eating it.

"Thank you" I said in the middle of chewing. It probably was the best thing I had ever eaten.

"You're welcome miss?"

He wanted a name; unfortunately I didn't have one to give him.

"I don't have a name right now" I said between bites. "I got disowned whenever the last time I was conscious. How long has it been anyways?"

"38 hours"

"Figures" I mutter, then dive back into the cake.

"Do you know where you are?"

"I was in England last time I was awake, but I guess I could be anywhere if it's been 38 hours."

"You're relatively calm"

"What do you mean by that?"

He paused for a second "Most people would be worried that they got kidnapped or something seeing that they woke up in the middle of nowhere"

"I'm not most people"

He smiled a bit "Apparently not"

I liked the smile; I haven't seen a smile in a very long time. Unfortunately I was about to ruin it "I have cancer".

Like clockwork the smile disappeared. "What kind, and how far along?"

"Twelve Malignant tumors up here" I pointed to my skull. "Estimated time of death now to two months."

"What has your neurologist said?" he asked calmly.

"Basically to go home and die, but you see that's a bit of an issue seeing that I also got disowned so there's nowhere to go"

"Can I ask what your plans are?"

"You can but there's no answers as of yet. So I'm just going to try winging it and stuff, maybe look for a few more smiles on the road."

"How about treatment?"

"Maybe but I still have to look for someone willing to try"

"You aren't acting like your dying, how to I know you're not lying to me?"

"You don't, but I can grantee that I'm probably in denial over it"

"That's a normal reaction to such events"

"I'm aware of such"

"I know that this might not be convenient timing, but do you know who I am?"

I looked over at him. He was pale, paler than me, which was hard to find. He had to be a few inched taller than me, even though he sat in a crouched position, and stood over at a hunched position. He had dark shaggy hair coming to his chin that was spiky at the top; you could tell that it was soft. His body muscle to fat ratio was in his favor, and he had huge prominate dark circles under his eyes, indication of a severe lack of sleep.

"No I have never seen you before, if I had I think I would remember, I have an eidetic memory, but I wouldn't need it to remember you, you have a quite memorable look to you."

"Is that so?"

"Yes it is"

There was another pause.

"You're in an orphanage for those with high intellect, in order to create a group of detectives to help, and support L. Have you heard of this individual?"

"The one who pops up in the news all the time, and is considered the best of the best, yeah I've heard of him."

"You don't seem to be trying to deny the truth in the matter I'm speaking of"

"You don't seem the type to lie to a broken girl, and even if you where lying you wouldn't be trying to create just an unbelievable lie in the first place."

"Your logic is correct"

"So does that mean your L?"

"That's classified."

I took another bit of the cake.

"Where do you get this anyways? I would love to learn to make something this good before I die"

"That's classified."

I looked up towards him and started laughing. Not in despair, not in madness, but in good humor. The sound felt so relieving to come out of my lips.

Chapter II

November 14th 2013 12:23 pm

Lexie had delayed her trip by a few days, deciding to take her finals then. So she now had officially graduated MIT summa cum laude, with her masters in computer science. She wasn't going to a formal graduation though mainly for the same reasons I was leaving Boston, there wasn't anything left.

So now I was waiting for her taxi to arrive. Due to his warning, I had told her to hide her name so she now under the alias Zoë Summers. I told her, it might have fit her, better than her real name Alexandria Roberts. She agreed, and went on in excitement about the idea of spending a week as someone else. I told her she was exactly the same person minus the fact she is now safer from the killer, now commonly called Kira. There again I am not quite sure why he felt the need for hiding an identity but I figured it was extra protection and it's not like it really mattered, especially me who wasn't going by my birth surname anyways.

That was something else to add to the list of information on this Kira. He has only killed with criminals he has ascertained the name off. So the means he probably doesn't have access to classified information or least not those of foreign countries.

With that being stated, as long as the only way Kira can kill is by that of heart attack, he has only killed well known criminals with at least knowing their names. Seeing that neither of us have conveniently murdered anyone, and the only crimes I'm aware of us being guilty of is practicing medicine without a license and hacking illegally into private property, I think we were safe. Anyways it's not like anyone was aware of that anyways.

But he was aware I was in Japan, so it probably was just making it clear to any of his associates that we needed to be careful. That meant he was attending to strike, the main question was when, and with what.

Before I could ponder this more, there was a knock at the door. Knowing who it was, I braced myself preparing for the worst. I wasn't a touchy feely person, but she was.

I opened it to be attacked by the force of a 5'2 midget jumping on me and embracing me in a bear hug.

"Hi Zoë" I stated, sighing at her antics.

"LISA!" She quickly let go before dragging in a suitcase, it had to be the same seize of her. Knowing her it was full of computer equipment, and one change of clothes.

"Okay I'm here let's go!" as soon as she dragged her suitcase in she was dragging me out, and pulling me along, quickly out of the hotel and back into the same cab she had probably used to get from the airport to here.

"Can't this wait till later?" I mean she had only been in the country an hour at best.

"NO!"she said sharply and from there we when to what could only be described as her heaven on earth. Oddly enough the store was named the Super Potato. Having three floors entirely dedicated to games it was perfect for what Zoë was looking for.

I myself wasn't much of a gamer. Sure I played with her, and it was in fact that start of how I learned Japanese by being forced to learn the language when playing in only Japanese; but it wasn't something that I was drawn too.

Zoë on the other hand…..

"YOSH LETS DO THIS!"So that's how I left a midget loose on the public, with an almost unlimited amount of passion and cash to buy as many games as possible. Let's hope it's worth it.

3 hours and 28 minutes later

"Yatta! I can't until we get back! Let's pull an all nighter! By the way what do you think we should play first?"

After spending nearly ten grand, and when she was content with her selection of games, she was still continuing her rampage. By the time we got back to the hotel I figured it was time to remind her.

"What about out deal?" business was business, what else can I say.

Sigh "you're not fun Lisa"

"Now that's a lie, you like hacking nearly as much as you like gaming, maybe even more"

She smirked, the truly evil side of her coming out "Your right about that"

"So get started"

"Fine"

And we each started our perspective business.

It took her fourteen hours and seventeen minutes but she lived up to my expectations.

"Done!" she called.

I made my way over; she had covered half the room with chords and monitors, essentially creating a computer with the power of a super computer fit for the year 2013. She told me she would need the AC turned on to the max, even in the dead of the winter; she didn't want anything over heating. I complied, getting anything she needed, unless it pertained to video games.

I looked over she was in the main frame.

"Can you download the information, leave the message and then get out of there?"

"Don't want to linger Lisa? That's unlike you."

"Let's just say he has his own computer genius, which could possibly be better than you"

"BETTER THAN ME?" Zoë screamed putting her hands in the air before rapidly downloading. "I don't think so!"

She transferred the documents about the Kira case over to an external hard drive and then left the message I had wrote with an additional one of her own.

"I am the best! DO YOU HEAR ME COMPUTER GENIUS PERSON?!"-Z :P

She then promptly left; it had only taken her twenty four minutes to download about 200 gigabits of data.

"Do you feel better about yourself?"

"Yes much better"

"Okay then I'm going to work now"

"Bye"

And with that we parted our perspective ways.

November 18th 2013 4:56 pm

A few days past. Nothing had come from him but I knew at anytime he would make his next move. Until then Zoë was gaming to her heart's content and I was continuing my usual pattern with Hunt, after pouring through L's notes. The surgery was due to happen on the twenty-second of November. With that the team having organized a plan, and have conducted practice procedures it bits and pieces, they were currently about to start their final full out practice before they were to sleep a lot and start the actual surgery.

There wasn't much I could do during this time but observe and wait for any possible signs of an issue. It was amazing watching them all even in a practice room. This was some of the best and brightest in the world.

Even if they were amazing, they weren't gods, and after the first four hours Hunt needed coffee, but what he wanted was Starbucks. So that left me in the middle of Tokyo, waiting in the human traffic trying to Hunt his coffee. The worst part is I don't get paid for this kind of stuff, I muttered to myself. There again I was set for life, maybe that's my problem.

I was about to cross the street when the large television turned on with a message that caught my attention.

"My Name is Lind L Taylor, otherwise known as L"

So he had moved again, but not only that, he had decided to go public with the case. That was unlike him. There again this case was unlike the others, a person who kills with heart attacks.

I looked at the decoy. He looked probably what the normal person would guess a top detective to look like, groomed, mid life, in a suit. Normal people were so…..boring.

Taylor continued going on about the ICPO, and stating obvious facts.

"Kira what you're doing right now, is evil."

Well this is it; I guess we will see if this is real or if it's just a fabrication of the mind. If there was anything to make Kira want to kill, it would be that line.

I watched carefully looking around the person for any sign of a weapon, anything that could explain the death.

Ten seconds passed, nothing.

Twenty seconds passed, nothing.

Thirty seconds passed, nothing. Oh come on, where are you Kira?

Lind continued talking.

Thirty five, six, seven, eight, nine. Forty.

That when Taylor stopped speaking, he took a deep breath, before letting out a grunt; he was in pain. He leaned forward, his hands going to his crest, and gargles of pain escaped his lips, and he bent over farther. I looked around, no bullets, no signs of anything, just Taylor experiencing symptoms that could only be described as one thing, a heart attack.

He pushed up, taking a final strained breath before he died. Just like that with in fifty seconds of the original threat he was dead.

Kira was real. People can kill from heart attacks without being there themselves. How was this happening?

L would have taken my advice; this was only airing in Japan, possibly only airing in the Kanto region or better yet Tokyo. If that was the case Kira was 1 of 13 million, which was a lot better the 7 billion we started with.

Kira was young, Kira was more than likely male. That cut the population by half down to 7 million, taking about 10 percent of that and now you were down to 700,000. Taking two percent from that for IQ you had 14,000 and taking about another two percent from that for personality type and you are down to 280, roughly. That mean's Kira was more than likely 1 of 280 people in this city.

With that I smiled, it was only a matter of time.

The body was then moved by two agents just they had reached it the screen flickering before a single roman character L appeared.

"I had to test it out just in case" he was filtering his voice, but even still you could feel the satisfaction coming from it.

"Kira it seems you can kill people without being there in person, I wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't just witnessed it"

Proof meant everything, it meant this was real.

"Listen to me Kira, if you did indeed kill Lind L Taylor, the man you just saw die on television, I want to tell you he was an inmate who was scheduled to be executed today. That was not me. The police arrested him in absolute secrecy, so you wouldn't be able to hear about it on TV, or on the internet. It doesn't seem that you have access to information about these types of criminal. But I assure you L is real, I do exist. Now, try to kill me."

You idiot, if you die I am not responsible for this. There again how would the killer suspect that he was L. Kira needed a name and a face, or at least that was L's information led to. L's face probably had only been seen by a few people, and fewer had probably seen his name. I didn't even know what it was; in fact the only one who probably did was Watari and L himself.

He continued to batter Kira on, and of course nothing had happened. The people surrounding me started to comment though, some cheering on L, others Kira, others saying the whole thing was insane.

"Well I guess there aren't some people you can't kill, you have given me a useful hint, Let me return the favor"

That's when he confirmed everything I had suggested, Kira was in Japan, his first kill was the hostage situation, and it was only an experiment.

"It won't be to long now before I will be able to sentence you to death. As you can image I am very interested in how you are able to commit this murders without being present but I don't mind having to wait a little bit longer. You can answer all of my questions when I catch you, lets meet again soon Kira."

The broadcast then promptly ended.

Well that was that. I proceeded to get the coffee; the mystery of how one murders with heart attacks could wait until after the surgery.

November 18th 2013 11:12 pm

After grabbing the coffee and watching the practice run I left heading back to the hotel and as expected Zoë was continuing to play her games.

I sat on the floor next to her, pulling out some coffee and apple tarts that I bought on the way back. With that I pulled out my laptop and checked my email. I had an email from an unidentified correspondent. I knew instantaneously who it was from.

"You know there are easier ways of contacting me than hacking into my computer"-L

I wrote my response "Perhaps, but I think this way was not only more fun, but also more effective. You probably are not happy though that I have someone who can hack your system. Before you ask, I did not disclose any classified information." –E

I sent the email and decided to humor Zoë to a round of the game of her choosing. She chose the latest Mario game. Afterwards I found a reply.

"What is the depth of your interest in the Kira case? How much do you wish to participate? And what is your motive?" –L

That paused me for a minute; he was proposing me joining him. Did I really care that much? The last few days I had been playing with it in my head, but was I simply interested in catching Kira, or simply the method of how Kira kills?

I contemplated for a bit before responding.

"I am not sure. The only thing I know is that I want to find out how he kills with heart attacks, and if there is a reverse effect possible." –E

I wasn't sure what I wanted. There again I think that was psychologically normal for most people under the age of thirty. And I wasn't going to be rash about the situation. Anyways I still was going to be helping Hunt until December, and then I still needed to apply to college if I was ever going to get my MD.

With that I decided that my next logical move was to figure out which college I wanted to go too. I had three locations I could go, Boston, Cambridge if Hunt decided to go there, or Tokyo regardless whatever Hunt decided the Kira case would be in Tokyo but there again was that what I wanted to do?

Okay now that was a stupid question if I wasn't interested then I would have never gotten myself involved in the first place.

My research from a few days ago showed me that the best school in the area was probably either Tokyo University or To-Oh, so as long as I could pass the entrance exam I should be fine. I did after all have an incredible résumé after ever thing I did with Hunt.

I looked at both Universities, both offered programs in English as well as Japanese, and both had programs for premed but To-oh had a special program that had an empathize on neurology and research.

Well that was a simple decision if I chose to attend school in Tokyo.

Boston obviously had Harvard which had an impeccable medical program, then there was MIT, but that didn't suit my needs as it did Zoë's. Then if I choose to go to England they only places there that I had any ties would be Cambridge if Hunt took his job there or Winchester.

There were colleges in both places I could apply for. With that being said there was five different options for schooling I could do, so I decided to apply for all of them.

It took a few hours to pull up everything from testing scores, to previous letters of recommendation from my high school years, to getting all my grades in order, as well as an admissions essay so all there was left was to get Hunt to write an updated letter.

Seeing that it was three in the morning I was about to call it quits when I noticed a new message.

"Until you ask differently I will continue to periodically update you until then is there anything you can make out of this? Six new bodies were found. Before death they all exhibited bizarre behavior, any ideas?" - L

Beneath the message were three pictures.

The first was of a pentagram, it seemed to have been drawn with blood, and had been dry for at least an hour by the time the photograph was taken. It was simple not intricate.

The second showed a body that was by a toilet, underneath was a caption about the victim's final moments. There had been accounts of the criminal escaping running into the bathroom locking the door and screaming, until two minutes later, when the door was knocked down and the criminal was found dead.

The third and final photograph showed a letter. It was written in Japanese, it was simple, and seemed meaningless. It stated the victim was afraid about Kira. It said nothing about the victims personal life.

All six victims were apparently Japanese therefore it made sense that the one in the third photograph could write in Japanese. As for the pentagram, what did that mean?

I quickly looked up pentagrams in Japanese folklore and religion, the only thing that it seemed to indicate was the Wu Xing or five elements. Was that a clue? If it wasn't a clue what could it be? A distraction? But if it was a distraction how did Kira manage to do that? Unless….

"Has there been any proof that Kira can control in detail time of death or other circumstances about the death? My thoughts are that if so this could be an experiment, but if that's true then Kira would know this information would not be made public therefore the only way he could gain access to the information is by access to police records. I think the pentagon is probably useless unless you can think of some connection between the five Japanese elements to Kira. Personally I don't know enough about the culture to answer that. The reason I bring this up is I think it might be a distraction. Also were all of these victims killed by heart attacks?" –E

A response came quickly.

"Yes the last 48 victims before this were killed every hour on the hour from November the 14th – 15th. It is possible your theory but what if he was suspecting this information to be made public? An experiment could fit as well as a distraction but that would only be possible if Kira had access to that information. Also have you taken a closer look at the letter? Yes, they were all heart attack victims"- L

I have to say I hadn't thought of the possibility of the information being made public; I didn't seem like the kind of thing to happen. If that was the case it wouldn't help much. The point is though these killings probably were experimental if he had been killing the criminals one by one every hour on the hour. Also that would make it less likely it was a student, unless he was killing them off hour by hour randomly and could set it up a head of time. There again if he was doing that it would throw off the chances that he was a student. It was possible due to the fact the police would have just recently come up with that theory, in that case he is just advertising the idea that he has access to police information. Would that mean he was just over looking things or was he purposely doing things like this to lure in L. It is highly possible he holds an extreme grudge against L, seeing that he humiliated him, to the point he was willing to kill someone who looked seemingly innocent.

There again going back, if he was controlling all of the deaths accordingly, it would be possible experiment, so what does this say about the way he kills.

Well it could at least mean it wasn't a current naturally known way of murder that's for sure. Then also if he was experimenting does that mean he is still learning new things about the way he kills? If that's the case then it would have to be something out of the bounds of the excepted normal….. so does that something have a reverse effect? Also does that something have other bounties that we are unaware of, is there a possibility he can kill without a heart attack and if so what would that mean?

Currently there was no information suggesting of this but still if there was a way to kill differently than that would possibly be Kira's greatest weapon at the moment, he could kill inconspicuously without others suspecting anything.

I stopped myself for a second from that train of thought to get some coffee and ice cream before sitting down again and observing the letter that L wanted me to look at again.

"Lord have mercy"

A religious person? Still Lord was an interesting choice most natural born Japanese would have used Kami-sama.

"Do what I can, I'll either be killed or forgiven"

An odd way of wording it, there again convicts didn't need proper grammar.

"You know it, Killed by Kira I fear of this You"

Practically a signature from Kira himself.

"Know about him he is going to kill me please help"

The last sentence was lined up like the stanzaic structure in a poem not to fit the normal rules of speech but to appear a certain way on the page. I looked at the end no patterns or meanings but if you looked at the beginning it spelled out Lord do you know.

Lord do you know what?

That's when it clicked not Lord, L. It was directly from Kira after all and Lord really made no sense in the first place.

L do you know?

What was Kira trying to say to him?

I spent a while pondering before finally forming my thoughts into words.

"You saw the message, but I don't know what he could be asking you. As for earlier I think it would be wise to check anyone who has access to the Japanese police information but specifically those who fit the criteria I stated earlier; if there was a match that could lead to only 1 or 2 individuals that would be a match. I also think that until it is determined how Kira kills different forms of killing should not be ruled out. If Kira can manipulate those before they die, couldn't he just as easily kill those in other ways other than a heart attack?"

I continued writing stating a few more ideas I had come up with earlier than decided to head to bed, I needed some sleep unlike him. Before than though I added one last thought

"If he was willing to kill a person who appeared to be a detective that means he wouldn't hesitate to kill you, be careful"- E

And with that I promptly passed out.

November 19th 9:45 am

Due to my late night excursions I slept in later than normal, but there again I didn't really live on a set clock. It made sense seeing that I balanced life around Hunt, and Hunt was just as bad as I was with things like that.

The good news is the practice surgery was over and the next two and a half days were a break for all the people involved with the surgery until it actually began. In the mean time that gave me plenty of time to pester Hunt about a letter of recommendation, and to come up with some final decisions.

I decided I was going to head out now but just as I was about to walk out the door I heard Zoë ask "Where are you going?"

"To see Hunt-"

"No Lisa I mean where are you going after Hunt leaves?" she sat down at the table, and I joined her, this wasn't a simple conversation.

"I have a five month internship I was planning on attending, so I would be able to be free by April to go elsewhere."

That was right I had forgotten to ask what Zoë was planning to do, now I had felt bad.

"You saw the college applications?"

She nodded "yeah and good choices but I think personally you should stay here in Tokyo"

That surprised me I was sure she would want me to go back to Boston.

"I still don't know if Hunt is planning to transfer-"

She cut me off "It's not about Hunt it's about you, and I have noticed the way you have been interested the in Kira investigation, I think you should stay here and finish it out"

So I guess I really am an open book.

I smiled at her, I didn't even know that I had wanted her approval but there again she was my closest friend.

"I don't have to move here until March, where is your internship?"

"California"

She told be a bit about the program, it sounded perfect for Zoë and she would be able to work with software and hardware; designing top of the line products that ranged from systems to desktops. Not to mention she would be right in the middle of Los Angles.

That's when we agreed, I would stay in Tokyo, apply to college, and help with the Kira case, she would go to LA do her internship and then afterwards look at possible job opportunities here. She would also be working under her alias, so if I was still working on the case by the time she got back, she wouldn't have to keep changing names. I think it was more like her growing an attachment to the name, but there again I couldn't blame her, a new name means a distance form an unwanted family situation.

With that I left going back to my original goal of looking for Hunt. When I found him he was laying on the couch of his hotel room looking bored out of his mind.

"You get your first day off in months and you don't have anything to do?" I asked him sitting down in a chair across from him.

"Yeah yeah I get it midget, I need a life, there again how are you much better than me" he said giving me a side way glance.

"I'm staying in Tokyo" I told him.

"Going to apply to college like I told you midget?"

"To-oh and Tokyo University, if all goes well I will begin in March, in the mean time I need you to write me a letter of recommendation."

"Will do midget, both schools sound go, Dr. Fujikawa was a To-Oh graduate."

There was a pause of a second before he continued "I am taking the job in England, Tokyo is too crowded for me."

I nodded, even though it was highly irrational I somehow felt that that was going to happen.

There was another pause before he asked "So why Tokyo?"

I thought for a minute not sure how much I should tell him, honestly he didn't know much about my life before the time I entered his ward.

"I want to learn how one would kill with a heart attack and if there was a reverse affect"

"So that's still bugging you aye?"

"Yeah…. It's this sinking feeling I get,"

With that Hunt sat up and looked me dead in the eyes, he was being serious.

"Just be careful Lisa"

I nodded. This morning had been different from what I expected.

November 28th, 12:38 pm

It had been a long time but the surgery was finally over. Even though I wasn't physically able to participate I was ecstatic to watch. It had gone almost flawlessly and now there were two infants that were separated and as healthy as one could be after that type of surgery. There would still need to be a series of minor surgeries to help with physical things such as minor facial reconstruction, and then of course a lot of physical therapy but the babies would be overall fine, happy, and normal.

Hunt had been amazing, helping separate the heads, with no brain damage, and the fact that neither twin lost too much blood is amazing. It had been a painfully long operation but it had been worth watching it for every minute of the sixty- two hours and twenty eight minutes it took. To say the least even though I only watched and made coffee and food runs I was wiped having been up straight almost 72 hours was a lot even for me.

So that's why the last day had been me just sleeping, which was a rarity for me who normally barely got eight hours here or there; I guess it was just the hospital life, or maybe it was just me.

Anyways either way I back to my norm, and was getting steadily bored. Hunt had nothing for me, and in fact I only had a few more days of following him around before he would be heading back to Boston to pack up his apartment. Zoë was also leaving tomorrow to head to California seeing that her internship started the first. And seeing that the university wouldn't be starting to March and the final entrance exam wasn't until February. There really wasn't anything for me except for the Kira investigation, and my research.

There was a pro; Hunt had pulled some strings for me so in January and February I was going to be following Fujikawa around a few times a week, he stated I needed to learn more about the heart if I was going to figure out how Kira killed. I agreed with him.

I had shot off some ideas with him about the heart attacks, and we had brainstormed on his day off, but either way it still was an unknown. Hunt had brought up a valuable point.

"One thing you can do is find a way to prevent the heart attack, or help the person experiencing the heart attack. Maybe if you work backwards you can find your answer?"

So that had left me to muse a bit.

Oddly enough instead of thinking of ways to solve the heart attack issue another thought was bugging me, the hotel thing.

It wasn't like it was a bad place or anything, in fact it was probably one of the better hotels in the area but somehow it seemed odd staying here by myself to study in. I wanted an apartment or at least someone to stay with during the possible years I would be here to study. For whatever reason it didn't seem appealing to stay alone in this hotel room.

So with that I decided to go apartment hunting. I knew it was an odd sensation for me seeing that I had been moving around nonstop not really having a place to call home for my whole life but I decided I wanted a space of my own.

Tokyo had higher property values than most places and was in fact one of the most expensive cities worldwide to live in. A nice seized 1 bed room apartment with a decent location (for me that was pretty much the dead middle of the triangle To-oh, the hospital, and the police station made) was looking at 1 million yen or 10,000 US dollars a month. Nothing I couldn't pay but more than most people could.

Besides for location and security I really didn't care what other amenities it came with I really just wanted to make sure all the bills came in one packet so I didn't have to waste time. Unfortunately for me I did end up wasting a lot of time.

It turns out the people who run apartment housing are probably more annoying than your drug patients that deny they do drugs even thought the screen test says they did. Here is what I am talking about.

I called the number to Kyoshi Rentals and an employee known as Sayuri answered.

"Hello my name is Sayuri how can I help you today?"

"Hi my name is Lisa"

"Lisa are you an American?" Why did that matter?

"Yes, I am calling to se-"

"That's wonderful! I love Americans! Where in America? Have you ever been to New York?" I didn't like this.

"Boston, yes but wh-"

"I LOVE NEW YORK! I have a friend who lives over there and let me tell you" The employee was rambling. After a few minutes I couldn't take it anymore

"Um the apartment?"

"Oh yes we have room's available to move in to by the first of the month which luckily for you is only a few days away! I am so excited about December starting. I might be Shinto but I love Christmas!"

I tried to stop her "Um, what are you pieces? And do you have packages available?"

"I love wrapping presents too! With the color foil and the cute little item!"

"But what does that have to do with apartments?"

"It has everything to do with apartments! We of course decorate to our very best for the holidays-"

At that point I hung up.

This pattern continued each person was a bit different than the others. Some just read what was available on their web site word for word. Some requested all of this contact information for they would tell my anything and others would just ask to call back another time. All of them were extremely unprofessional, I couldn't believe it.

Finally I tried calling the last place on my list that fit what I was looking for Sakura Towers Apartment's.

"Hi how may I help you" asked the employee. Here it goes.

"Hi I am calling to ask a few questions?"

"Sure, what do you want to know?"

"Do you have apartments available?"

"Yes we do, our building is brand new so we still have many openings available"

Wow a straight answer

"Can you packet my rent with my electricity, water, and wifi bills?"

"Yes we can for that we will require a 1000 yen bonus"

"That's fine, how is the security system?"

"State of the art, and has been tested multiple times by professionals, there are cameras all over the building outside and in the halls, and to enter your room requires a finger print, retinal scan, and pass code."

Finally, Finally I had done it.

"How soon can I move it?"

"Don't you want to know our rates?"

"Money isn't an issue, what is earliest I can move in?"

"Tomorrow if you want"

"Done, now where do I deposit the money?"

"Don't you want to pick out a room"

I thought about this for a minute

"Okay could I take a tour later today?"

"Its nine o'clock at night ma'am wouldn't you like to wait to see it in day light?"

I looked at the clock, she was right. Had I really spent all that time wasted?

"How about tomorrow morning at seven?"

"Seven sounds perfect"

"I will see you then?"

That's right she hadn't asked a name yet.

"Lisa"

"I will see you tomorrow than Lisa, I am Yui"

"Then I will see you tomorrow bye Yui"

"Ja na" and then she hung up.

That was a beautiful experience.

"Hey Zoë what time are you going to leave tomorrow?"

Zoë paused her game for a second before answering "ten in the morning, why? What's up?"

"Want to go apartment touring with me tomorrow morning at seven?"

"You're getting a place!"

"That's the plan."

"Then I better pack tonight!"

November 29th 6:59 am

We had just arrived at Sakura Tower's. Zoë and I had checked out and had everything packed and had mailed her games off to California. Hunt was heading back to the states on the second so he would send my books, and remaining items here.

When we pulled up we received an amazing view of two tall matching towers, gleaming sliver, they each had to have 50 stories to them.

"You had better taste than I thought Lisa" Zoë stated.

"Thanks" I muttered, just because I was … busy with other things didn't mean that I didn't have taste.

"Are you Lisa?" A Japanese woman walked up to us.

"Yui?" the woman nodded and with that she began our tour.

It lasted 30 minutes, she first took us to the lobby, and then to some of the amenities like pools, and tennis courts; then finally she asked about size and price.

"I know you said money wasn't an issue but what price range did you have in mind?"

"How is a million yen a month?"I asked, that was the average I saw online.

"That could get you one of our nicer two bedroom apartments how does 2,000 sq feet sound?"

"Great"

"Do you have a preference which tower you have? Each has very different views, one of the harbor, the other of the park, and city scape."

"It doesn't really matt-"

"She will take the water view" Zoë interjected "and one of the higher floors."

"Right this way then please"

Yui had led us to the twenty eight floor room 28-08. "Right this way please."

The room its self was nice. It was full furnished which was good because I didn't own any furniture. It had dark wooden floors, and off white walls. I only knew a bit about architecture but I knew it was obviously a contemporary minimalist style. There were five rooms. The first was a large living room kitchen area with glass overlooking the Minato bay. The others were a set of bedrooms, with a shared bath in the middle. The final room was a study, equipped with empty book cases and a large television.

"I'll take it"

Yui then magically pulled paper work out of nowhere "would you please sign in these three lines, and then provide contact information, as well as wiring information? Finally you will need to sign this contract on our polices"

I signed the papers before Yui pulled out a laptop and verified the information. Finally she turned around handing me a key.

"Thank you for choosing Sakura Towers, I hope you will enjoy you time here with us."

I nodded "thank you". With that she left promising to check up in a few days to make sure everything was going well.

I looked around putting my duffel bag on my bed. I had finally found a place to call my own.

Five Hours later

It had only taken thirty minutes to hang up all of my clothes and plug my computer into the desk area. Besides for that and putting my work bag by the desk the only other things I had were my iPod and medical kit. I decided to also put my medical kit by my desk and let my iPod charge. Afterwards Zoë and I played one final game.

"Bye Lisa! I will make sure to visit for Christmas okay?"

I nodded, Zoë and to an extent Hunt were the only people that were even close to family. The only other place that might be up there was the people in Winchester but I haven't seen them in a few years. "Bye Zoë take care." We gave each other a hug and then she left.

After she left I decided to start up my research again. I hadn't worked on it much over the last week, and unfortunately Kira had still continued to kill people, and people were still dying with heart failure.

I spent a few hours on that. I hadn't made much progress but I did come up with an idea based on what Hunt said. If I couldn't find out how Kira killed at the moment, then maybe I could at least find a way to help any victim survive an attack. The biggest issue was the way the heart attack occurred. The idea of a valve combusting didn't sit well with me, I had emailed Fujikawa earlier today and he had confirmed at the other bodies were a match.

The other issue is that doctors had a hard enough time saving the lives with those with other types of heart attacks that should have been easier to treat, then how would you save the lives with one with a considerably worst condition.

It was really a circle of issues, one thing lead to another all looping back to the fact that Kira kills in a seemingly impossible way.

That's when it hit me was there any way to prove that Kira was a single entity. I mean sure I had made a profile for a possible single killer, and I would like to think I was correct but what if it was a group?

I decided to ask L. After all he was heading the investigation. He responded within an hour.

"I do believe it is a single entity, the reasoning for this is due to the rash childish reaction that Kira had made during the broadcast. Also there is a new message from Kira, here is a picture"- L

I looked down it was another letter this one said 'Gods of death'.

L do you know gods of death?

"Could this be a way of Kira stating something about his ability to kill? Or perhaps it was something to do about his mental state? Is Kira referring to the concept of he himself being a god of death?"- E

"Perhaps, whatever the reason thought it's all speculative."- L

"Any potential suspects? Do any of the people with access to police information fit the profile I created? Do any fit your profile?"-E

"Yes two"-L

I frowned,

"Would you care to divulge this information?"- E

"Yes but it has to be in person"-L

So that's what he wanted. He wanted to meet me in person. I thought for a moment what could his reasoning be? Did he want a more secure contact method? No if he didn't think this way was safe he wouldn't bother in the first place.

Did he want me to officially join the task force? Was he luring me there so I would be forced into some situation where I would have to consent to fully joining not just being an odd consultant on the side lines? This was a high probability.

The only other thing I could think of was him being nice enough to invite me so I could have some of Wammy's cake, he was aware I was extremely fond of it. The chances of that happening though were minuscule to none.

"Ok, when and where?"- E

"December 8th ten in the morning at the Izumi Hotel, there will be cake"-L

Omake

The broadcast then promptly ended; well that was that. I proceeded to get the coffee; the mystery of the ability to murder with heart attacks could wait until after the surgery.

I took a few steps forward before I felt a shiver up my spine. I looked around not seeing anything strange. Right as I was about to start walking again I heard yelling from two separate people "I AM JUSTICE!"

Well aren't they full of themselves? I continued walking trying to put distance between me and the creepy voices.