London, England

Blythe walked into work. He was wearing a black blazer, torn faded jeans, a black t-shirt with a white skull on it and on his right arm he wore a black & white striped arm warmer. It was raining outside so he also wore a Slipknot beanie hat. He waved to all the people in the office and walked over to his desk. He plonked his 'Black Parade' messenger bag on the desk and flopped back into his chair. "Good morning B. How's the weather out there" laughed a male voice. Blythe looked up at one of his co-workers and friend, Mike Lenard. "It's cold and wet but that's the Great British weather for you" he laughed back and took off his beanie.

"Hey since its Friday are you gonna be coming down to the pub after work?" Mike asked

"Oh I dunno Mike"

"Come on it'll be fun. Its Friday let your scruffy hair down once in a while" he said ruffling Blythe's hair

"Alright I'll come to the pub just stop messing my hair" laughed Blythe batting Mike's hand away

"Oh by the way I mailed you the PDF file with the list of tests that need to be done"

"Oh cheers mate I'll get right on it"

"You should, since the big boys upstairs screwed up our work load has tripled in size" Blythe shook his head and turned on his computer. "Well I'll let you work your magic since I know you're the best in the business" said Mike and walked off. Blythe smiled; there was no denying he was the best in 'the business'. The login screen appeared on the computer.

USERNAME: B. Burton
PASSWORD: ********

Blythe worked primarily as a computer & internet tester and professional hacker. This in a nutshell meant he was legally allowed to hack into other computers undetected to check security, bugs and glitches, anything really. That was his job but as well as that he also assisted the company in other IT and technological factors. He had even designed the software that the company used. He was valuable to the company his vast charisma and high intelligence meant he did most of the negotiating and meetings with clients and other businesses. I wonder if L has found out about me hacking into the military's computers he wondered. I hacked 5 at once he has probably worked out that I wanted to be detected and is waiting for me to make my next move. Blythe knew that L wouldn't make a move yet it was too early. The ball was still in Blythe's court. Well, I'll make my move when I'm ready L just you hang in there. Blythe smirked to himself as he ran through the tests. He suddenly noticed he was feeling a bit uncomfortable. Then he realised he still had his wet blazer on. He laughed quietly to himself. "I'm the smartest person in this office and yet I don't even remember to take off my blazer"

Somewhere in Japan

"Watari, has there been anymore reports of hackings?" asked Near fixing his headset

"No, nothings happened. It looks like it was just a fluke"

"No it's too early to assume that. I have a theory that this person wanted to be detected to get my attention"

"What makes you think that?" Watari asked. Near picked up a model plane & some toy soldiers and started to play with them.

"Doesn't it strike you as slightly odd that somebody would bust into all those countries and do nothing? This is just my hypothesis but I think that this person has no interest at all with these countries military. I think he is trying to find me but it is still too early to say"

"How can you be sure its you he's looking for though?"

"As I just said it's still too early to say but this is something that I've come up with so far. A normal terrorist wouldn't have gone into military information just to take a peek, he would've used it and taken action by now and a normal hacker would've had a purpose for going into it. Also a normal hacker unless he was a rookie would've tried to be undetected. This person clearly wasn't bothered about whether he was detected or not."

"I see what you're getting at now L. I'll inform you if there are any changes"

Near didn't say anything he just switched off the computer screen. "So Mr Hacker if my theory is correct and you want to find me what will your next move be?" He knocked one of the toy soldiers over who was holding a radar dish. "I'll just have to wait and see" Near smiled slightly. He felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

London, England

Blythe was tearing through all the tests he had to do when his phone rang. "Hello, Blythe Burton" he answered

"Hi B its Lisa from upstairs" said a jolly, dainty voice

"Hi Lisa, what can I do for you?"

"Well Mr. Princeton wants you to come up to his office when you're ready"

"Ok I'll be up in a minuet"

"Okie dokie. I'll tell him you're coming up. See you in a minuet"

"Bye" Blythe slowly got up from his chair and started to walk towards the lifts. "Oi! Where you off to?" Mike bust in

"Nowhere fun. The boss man wants to see me" Blythe moaned. "No doubt he's gonna ship me off to another bloody meeting in another bloody country"

"I think it's so unfair. You always get to travel abroad to do business and we have to stay in London" whined a young woman with short curly black hair

"Trust me Mel it's not as fun as it sounds" Blythe reassured her before heading out to the lifts even though it was clear she didn't believe him. Mr. Princeton's office was only one floor up but Blythe enjoyed taking the lift because that meant that his boss had to wait for him. That's how I roll thought Blythe. *DING* Blythe walked casually into his bosses office. "Hi Lisa" he said to a cute little blonde woman sitting behind a large desk. She was wearing a tight black sweater over a plain white shirt and a black mini skirt. "Hi B. Go right on in" she said sweetly. Blythe casually strut in and closed the door. His skull t-shirt and torn jeans look was a mega contrast to his boss's swish suit. "Ahhh Blythe glad you could make it. Please sit down" he said. The two of them sat in their chairs. Mr. Princeton sat down straight away but Blythe always sat with his knees to his chest. "First of all Blythe I would like to apologise to you for not listening to you. As I'm sure you are aware since these last blunders a lot of people have lost faith in our organization."

"That can easily be brought back. I'm already 63% through all the tests and it's not even lunch time and the 'mop-up' won't take me very long to do" Blythe assured him

"That's just what I'm talking about Blythe. You are the companies top worker there so far hasn't been a job you couldn't do. You've already saved my company money by helping the tech teams when something goes wrong with anything."

"It's pretty simple really. You can figure it out with intuition. Anyway you already pay me more money than any other employee because I assist other departments." Shrugged Blythe. Mr. Princeton got right down to the point after that. "Blythe how would you like to be in charge of the whole of our Relations sector?"

"What?"

"You heard me. Your charisma and cunning is bigger then everyone here's put together. We need someone who will be able to keep up good relationships with the public, the investors and our partners both in the UK and abroad. Of course you will get a pay rise, more vacation time as well. What do you say?" Blythe thought about it. If I have power over the relations overbroad I'll need to travel a lot more that can work out in my favour if I search for L abroad then he won't be able to find me as easily. He smiled. "Alright but I wanna keep working in the same office I am at the moment and I wanna keep some of the staff that are already working in the Relations department. I won't be able to handle all these responsibilities myself" he lied

"Done. Now I need you to fly over to Amsterdam next week to fix up this mess with Zenra."

Somewhere in Japan

"L" Near dropped his Action Man figure and scrambled to his headset

"What is it Watari?"

"More countries military have been broken into"

"Which ones?"

"This time it's Spain and Australia"

"Has anything been done?"

"Nope. It's the same as last time"

"So he's not actually doing anything to the military and he doesn't have a particular pattern in doing things. Watari I think this is just to remind me that he's still at large. I have a feeling that something will happen soon but I'm not sure what"

The next week Near was still thinking about what this mysterious hacker wanted. He turned on the news and was horrified to see the news channels had somehow managed to find out about the hackings into the military. Near scrambled to his headset. "Watari! I told you not to let the media know about this"

"I didn't L. I don't know how the Medias found out about this only you and I know about it"

"No only you, I and the hacker know about it. This is his move and now the balls in my court" he started twirling his white hair.
"The information was sent to the American, Russian, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish and Australian press via an anonymous sender. The news has caused whole nations to panic." said the news reporter on the television. "Watari I need you to get me the packages that the information was sent in. We need to examine them for physical evidence"

"Understood. I'll do what I can".

"Ok Mr Hacker you have my attention now. Your move." Near said to himself. Near felt he'd need to call in some more hands for this case though or maybe there was nobody else meant to be on this case. Maybe this was a game just meant for the two of them. Either way let the game begin!

A/N: I know that this story is starting off pretty slow and boring but it will get better.

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