Chapter Title: Unfaithful
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Mogi and Aizawa. I'm also trying to throw in some Gevanni and Matsuda.
-A-
Aizawa grinned to himself as he finished writing twenty more names in the notebook. "I've only been getting names from one specific newspaper. And if they realize this, and investigate me, they'll stop suspecting me because they won't find a single copy of this newspaper anywhere," he said darkly.
'Well, Near? What are you going to do about it now?'
"But I will have to hide the Death Note," he said, closing it and looking at the cover.
He paused and thought for a moment.
"Who could I give it to?"
-77-
Agent 77, still half-asleep, knocked the alarm clock off of his table. "Damn, I hate waking up early," he said bitterly, rolling out of bed.
He saw yesterday's newspaper. "The criminals who died were all mentioned in this newspaper. I wonder if other papers had the same criminals on them... if that's the case, then we could use that to our advantage. N already told me that he had his group investigating the Task Force, so if we look for the last four copies of newspapers in the residences of the suspects, then I'm pretty sure we've found our guy. What's this paper called, by the way?"
He looked for the front page and picked up his phone. "Emerald Tiger," he said.
-N-
Near was slouched over, thinking about what he could use to help him with the case. "What about other media? No news programs have aired with all the same criminals," Rester said.
Near continued with his tower of poker chips, "I know. You're right. I'm waiting for 77 to contact me. I think I have an idea," he said.
A green 7 appears on the screen. "It's him," Near said.
"77?"
"Yes. N? I think I may have found something," 77 said.
Near smirked. "What did you find?"
"The previous twenty criminals that have died were all mentioned in one newspaper, and no others. The twenty that died a few hours ago are all mentioned in this morning's edition. In a few other papers, only about twelve or thirteen criminals were there. And in this one, it lists all twenty. The newspaper I read this from is --"
"Emerald Tiger," they both say in unison.
"Hey N, how'd you know?"
Near narrowed his eyes. "I had Gevanni look through every newspaper in the past week, and he came to the same conclusion. I figured that if you and Gevanni came up with the same idea, then it had to be true. We'll pay special attention to the newspapers the suspects have in their homes."
"So if they have the last four editions of Emerald Tiger, then the chance that they're the new Kira will be... about eighty percent," Near said.
-A-
Zinro laughed to himself quietly as he watched Aizawa tear the Emerald Tiger newspapers up. "This isn't enough though. I'll have to burn them," he said, pulling a lighter of his pocket.
"Hey Shuichi, don't you think the smell of ashes will alert them? I mean, won't they notice?" the death god asked, sitting on Aizawa's couch. "I don't think so. But I guess I'd better not burn anything in here."
"So how was it last night with your friend, Kanzo?" he asked, almost pouting.
"It was okay. There wasn't anything too... active, if you know what I mean. Why do you ask?" Aizawa asked, looking at Zinro and blinking innocently.
He looked away, "No reason, I'd just like to know."
-M-
Mogi woke up, still feeling tired from the night before. "So, Near suspects us again. Oh well, I know we're all in the clear," he said to himself calmly.
He got up and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
"Or could I be wrong? I overheard Near say that Aizawa seemed the most suspicious... but... No. It can't be Aizawa. Not in a million years."
"Okay, let me think about this," he said, pulling his short off over his head. "If the new Kira knew Near was suspecting him, he would kill him. But after Near told Aizawa that, he could just keep himself from killing him, to keep suspicion away from him. That actually makes me suspect him myself," he said, dropping his shorts to the floor.
Completely naked in front of his mirror, he sighed. "Now I'm suspecting him too. And after what we did last night... could he be trying to seduce me so I don't suspect him?"
Mogi shook his head. 'I can't think that way. Nobody kisses like that for no reason. I'm just paranoid. This is the reason I'm quiet all the time,' he though, hopping into the shower.
-77-
77 stepped outside, feeling the cool breeze on his face. Pushing his brown hair out of his face, he headed to his favorite restaurant, the Weiner King.
'Shuichi Aizawa has to be Kira after what N told me,' he thought immediately. 'I have to find him before N does. All this time I've worked side-by-side with this little MAGGOT. I want to beat N. I will find the new Kira, and I will kill bring him to justice. But before that, I'll convince the new Kira to kill N for me, so I won't be suspected at all. Not only because it won't be me who killed him, but because nobody will suspect me because his coworkers must think we're such good friends. He has no idea how much I hate him,' 77 thought to himself, narrowing his green eyes and laughing through his teeth.
"I'm in the mood for a chili dog today," he said to himself, upon opening the door to the restaurant.
-A-
Aizawa dialed Mogi's number.
After some time, his coworker finally answered. "Hiiii Moooogi, what are you dooooin'?" he said, flirty.
"I just got out of the shower. Are you feeling okay? You sound funny..." Mogi said.
"I feel fine, Mogi. Listen, I wanted to know if you were going to do anything today..." Aizawa began.
"Actually, I'm not. Why?"
Aizawa turned pink. "Well, I was wondering if you'd like to come to the movies with me?" he said, almost as if it were a question rather than a statement.
He could hear Mogi chuckling on the other end. "Sure, I'll come along," he answered.
"Cool, what time do you want to meet up?"
Mogi thought for a bit. "Hmm... how about seven? Or whenever you want to. Just call me ahead of time, so I can get ready," Mogi replied nervously.
Aizawa smiled to himself. "Okay, I'll come get you at seven thirty. How's that sound?"
"That's great. I'll see you later, Aizawa," Mogi said.
"Byyyye Mogiiii," Aizawa said, hanging up while blushing.
-Z-
Later that evening, Zinro stood atop the highest building he could find and watched the city below. "Shuichi... how I wish I could be a human... maybe then, you could see me as more than just a god of death. I also wish I could prevent your death. In three hours, you are going to die."
A single tear rolled down his face and he shut his eyes. "But... I can interfere with that, die, and my lifespan will be added to yours. Is it worth it? For one to die for who they love the most?" he asked himself, looking up at the dark sky.
"Right now, you're at the theatre with the man named Kanzo Mogi. He's still got a long life ahead of him," he says quietly.
-L-
Halle Bullock, or if one chooses to call her by her alias, Halle Lidner, disguised as a maid, followed Hideki Ide into his apartment. 'He sure seems boring. There's no way in Hell that Ide could be Kira. No chance of it,' she thought to herself.
Suddenly, Ide throws away a rather large wad of paper. Lidner's eyes widened. 'Could it be?' she thought to herself, lowering her eyes and waiting until Ide opened his door and walked inside. 'If this is what I think it is...'
Lidner made herself look busy sweeping until the coast was clear. 'Then Ide must have some kind of connection to Kira,' she thought, looking at the trash can as Ide's door closed. 'Now's my chance.'
She hurried over, and pulled the paper out. She opens it, and there it is. The section of the newspaper that had the criminals listed in it. And the name of the paper was...
"Emerald Tiger..." she said to herself, shocked.
-T-
"What a day. I'm glad it's over. At least until tomorrow, anyway," Matsuda said, throwing himself on a couch, finally able to relax after a long day of slacking off.
"Matsuda..."
"What was that? Who's there?" he asked, sitting up.
"Matsuda..."
"I'm warning you!" he said, drawing his gun.
"Matsuda... behind you," the voice said.
-R-
Rester could barely keep himself from turning red. "Near... are they holding hands? Isn't Shuichi Aizawa... married?!" he asked Near, spying on Aizawa and Mogi walking into a theatre.
Near couldn't help but giggle.
The older man frowned and looked at the boy. "Sir, I don't think we should be laughing about this. This means that those two men could be working together!" Rester exclaimed. Near stopped laughing and looked at the theatre.
"Commander Rester, please, don't think I'm not taking this case seriously," Near began, "but I need to tell you that I thought those two were more than coworkers when we first met with them."
'And this makes me suspect Mr Aizawa even more...'
-Z-
"Ten more minutes," Zinro said to himself, standing outside of the theatre. "I've written all of the rules of the notebook on a sheet of paper and put it in the Death Note that Shuichi has hidden."
'Shuichi...'
He watched as Aizawa and Mogi made their way out of the theatre, laughing happily. Staying behind them, he followed them into an alleyway. Aizawa leaned against a dumpster and Mogi wrapped his arms around his companion's waist.
"It sure is raining hard," Mogi said, kissing Aizawa on the neck. "Yeah, we should get in the car, or something. Ooh, Mogi, do that again," he said, turning pink with delight.
'Five minutes...'
"Kanzo Mogi... I love you," Aizawa said, putting his hand to his companion's face. Mogi blushed and kissed Aizawa on the lips, then pulled away. "I love you too, Shuichi," Mogi replied, playing with Aizawa's ear.
'Four minutes...'
Zinro pulled out a piece of the Death Note and prepared himself. He knew what was going to happen now.
Suddenly, a drunk man appeared. "Fuckin' dirty pillow-bitin' queers! World's better off without ya!"
Aizawa and Mogi froze and looked at the man, who brandished a gun and held it to Mogi's head. "Which one o' ya wants your head blown off first?" he asked, with a cold grin on his face.
"Rotten ignorant cunt," Aizawa muttered, as his eyes narrowed.
-N-
"Near, what should we do?" Rester asked, biting his lip in frustration.
"We don't do anything. Not yet. If that man dies, then Mr Aizawa..." Near trailed off, but kept watching.
'If that man dies... Aizawa has to have killed him in self defense...'
-A-
Mogi stepped away from Aizawa and put his hands up in the air. Of all the nights he didn't carry a gun... why tonight?
"Bastard," Mogi said, gritting his teeth.
At that moment, the death god appeared behind the man. "Shuichi, you were supposed to die in sixty seconds, but I'm going to kill this man here to save you," Zinro said, as he wrote the man's first name on a piece of the Death Note.
'What is Zinro doing?' Aizawa wondered.
"I'm going to burn this slip of paper as soon as I write the man's name down. I have written all of the rules of the Death Note on another paper, and I put it in the notebook," Zinro said, writing the last name. Aizawa nodded, and tried to speak, but no words could come out.
"Aizawa!" Mogi cried, as the deranged gunman pointed the gun at Aizawa. "You'll be the fir--" he stopped suddenly, and then put the gun to his forehead.
-N-
"That man just shot himself in the head, Commander. You know what that means," Near said.
"It doesn't prove anything! If anything, it means that man was just a drunk motherfucker! Maybe he was a closeted homosexual and he couldn't take anymore!" Rester answered furiously.
"Besides, Aizawa wouldn't have the chance to write that man's name in anything! Not only that Near, he never had a notebook present! How could you accuse him of that?" Rester was starting to get pissed off.
'This kid just wants to put the blame on somebody because he has no other leads. I'm sure Lidner and Gevanni have much more concrete evidence than this,' Rester thought to himself, grinding his teeth.
Near sighed. "Okay, you're right. Let's go back and talk to Lidner and Gevanni," he said.
-A-
Aizawa was covered with the man's blood, and was in shock. "Aizawa! Aizawa!" Mogi shouted, trying to bring him back into reality, but he only fainted and fell to the floor, unconscious, only seeing Zinro disappear.
-T-
"Matsuda, it's me. We met a few weeks ago. Gevanni," Gevanni said, opening the bathroom door and stepping out.
"Gevanni? That weird guy that Near was with that one day? What the hell is going on!" Matsuda demanded, grabbing the other man by the collar.
"I'm investigating you, of course. That means I'm allowed to give you a cavity search whenever I want to," Gevanni said, smiling. Matsuda frowned. "What? Investigating? What for?"
"To be honest, I think you're Kira," Gevanni said bluntly.
-L-
"Sir, I think I've found solid evidence. Come immediately," she said, shutting her cellular, and stepping out of her car.
"Ide? Kira? I can't believe it. But this proves it," she said, shaking her head and walking into the building.
-N-
After a while, the SPK, save for Gevanni, was assembled in the main office. "Lidner, show us what you found," Near said, getting to work on his poker chip castle. "This is it, he threw this out right before going into his apartment," she said, handing him the wad of paper.
"This is unbelievable. The section from the newspaper we're looking for," Rester said.
"This will prove it once we search the Matsuda, Mogi, and Aizawa residences. Until then, Ide is Kira," Near said.
-A-
The next morning, Aizawa and Mogi were brought into questioning. "Tell me, Aizawa. What exactly happened?" Matsuda asked.
Aizawa sighed. 'I can't believe I'm being questioned by this idiot,' he though to himself. "Well, Mogi and I had just walked out of the theatre, and that's when the guy jumped us. He had a gun on him. He was about to shoot me, but in the end, he only shot himself in the head. I... passed out after that," he said.
"Did he say anything to you?"
The bearded man shook his head. "I didn't understand a word he said," Aizawa said, lying through his teeth. 'What would it matter if I lied? He said nothing of importance anyway,' Aizawa thought.
Matsuda grinned. "Okay, then I guess that's reason enough to let you guys out. Mogi said the same thing. I hope your head gets better Aizawa," Matsuda said, patting Aizawa on the back.
"Were you investigated last night, Matsuda?" Aizawa asked before he stood up. Matsuda nodded. "Uh-huh, but nothing really happened. Gevanni ended up getting a phone call asking for him to return to Headquarters before he could get anywhere, and he had to leave," he replied.
Aizawa smiled weakly, then stood up. "I just hope nothing like what happened last night ever happens to me again," he said.
He stepped out of the building and saw Mogi standing by the car. "We've been given two days off, Mogi. I guess they figure we're pretty shaken up. It's okay though. Gives us time to hang out, I guess," Aizawa said, staring into Mogi's eyes.
'Could he be Kira?' Mogi wondered, faking a smile, and opening his car door. "Come on Aizawa, let's go," Mogi said, getting into the car.
Aizawa raised his eyebrow. "Go? Go where?" he asked, getting into the passenger side.
"On a proper date," Mogi said, smiling.
-77-
As soon as 77 pulled an orange popsicle out of the freezer, his phone rang. "Ugh, it must be N. I wonder what else he wants," he muttered, picking up the phone.
"N?"
"Yes. 77, I have a lot of new information that I think you'll find interesting," Near said.
-M-
"No, I'm fine. I swear. You don't have to worry. I'm with Mogi. What? It's not like that, we're on a case. I said I'm fine. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Okay. I love you too," Aizawa said, while talking to his wife on his phone.
"Sheesh, what a bother, that woman," Aizawa muttered, sticking his phone into his pocket.
"Aizawa, I have to ask you... are you..." Mogi began, "are you Kira?" Aizawa blinked. "Huh? What makes you think I'm Kira?"
"I don't know, I just figured since you told Near that if Kira was among us, he would keep him alive just to keep suspicion away from him. Also, the guy that assaulted us last night, and how he died at the most perfect time... I almost don't know what to think," Mogi said, frowning.
Aizawa's eyes narrowed. "Well Mogi, if you're going to think of me like that, I'm just going to stop talking to you. I don't want to spend my time with somebody unfaithful. You can just drop me off here. I'll walk home," Aizawa said bitterly.
'And yet... I'm the one who's unfaithful,' he thought. 'But if I keep acting like this, he might fall for it. I almost wish I never used that damn notebook.'
Mogi pulled over, without saying anything.
"It's typical of you to stay quiet when somebody wants an answer, Mogi. I'll see you at work. Goodbye," Aizawa said, stepping out of the car.
"And I thought it might actually work between us, Mogi. I guess not. It never works out for me in the end," Aizawa said finally, closing the door.
-AUTHOR'S NOTE-
About Lidner's real last name... Bullook sounds a little stupid, and I've never heard that name before, so I changed it to Bullock, which sounds better to me.
Gevanni, Lidner, Rester, Matsu, Ide, ETC might be shown more in later chapters. And I know, I'm a total cunt for killing Zinro so early. I just got tired of him being there. But I had to make him seem awesome at least once, you know?
As for Agent 77... just imagine him looking like Matt. I never described him beyond having brown hair, and whenever I keep thinking of how he should look, the end result looks like Matt.
I'm also having identity issues with 77. I don't know whether I should make him be Near's friend (which to me sounds dorky), or to make him his rival who wants him dead (which reminds me of Mello's conflict with Near). I guess I need to work on him some more.
And Aizawa and Mogi... don't worry, they're just having a little lover's spat.
I know, this is a really long author's note... see you next time!!
