Chapter 3:

L pushed the laptop from himself and turned to the blonde model with a small grin sweetly accenting his lips. L tented his fingers and began to discuss his plans. "Well, Misa, you're quite charming."

Misa smiled, giddy and flattered from L's kind words. Her cheeks began to tint her white, vampire-like skin with pink. "Oh, thank you, Ryuzaki!"

"You're also very agreeable, friendly and outgoing. These are all to your advantage."

"Oh, Ryu~ You're too kind!"

L handed Misa a small microphone. "I want you to put this in your bra."

"My what?..."

"Your bra. So the suspects don't see it…"

"Pervert! I can keep this thing elsewhere, you know!"

L rolled his eyes and patted her golden head. "I'm not a pervert, Misa. This is just so we can hear what the suspect is saying in regards to your questions. Today, at 7:00, I've scheduled a date for you and a suspect of the Kira investigation. I want you to wear the microphone to the date, okay?"

Misa puffed her cheeks in a childlike manner and nodded with reluctance. She then grabbed his white shirt and pulled herself closer, looking into his eyes. "Yes, but will you be there in case they hurt me?! Also, how did you even arrange this?"

L petted her hair again, rolling his wide eyes and nodding. " I'm only using inductive reasoning for this situation. The man in question is Light Yagami, chief Yagami's son. I will make sure to ensure your protection. I've ordered one of the task force members to assist you. "

Misa huffed and pouted. "B-but I don't know them as well as you, Ryuzaki! I want to go with you!" Fear left a light taste in her voice as she begged for L to assist her.

"Misa - you've only known me for a month. You're in good hands with them."

By 6:30, Misa was dressed to depress, as usual. Her dress was like a blanket of darkness over her golden-pale body. Her legs were covered in spider-web and bat decorated tights, her lips were blood red, and her purse looked like a vampire bat that was hanging off of her. It wasn't even Halloween.

She walked over to L, who was crouching down on the sofa, investigating. The corvid haired man was too focused on his work to even acknowledge her until she wrapped her arms around him and gave him a peck on his cheek, marking a wine-red print on his face. L gasped from the sudden attention and turned to her, touching his cheek and blushing.

"I'm ready!" she managed to choke out, leaving her fears in the back of her mind.

"I called a cab to pick you up. It's coming in 15 minutes."

"I'm also very scared, Ryuzaki. Please come with me? You'd be investigating either way."

"I changed the assistant to Raye Penber."

"Whatever. Are you coming or not, Ryuzaki? Don't leave me alone with strangers!"

"No, if you need me, I'll hear it from the microphone I gave you. Do you have it still?" He asked, trailing his gaze down to her chest.

"Hey!" Misa huffed out, grabbing his face to lift up his head. L grabbed her hand and looked back at her face with his pale lips forming a slight smirk.

"Well, Miss Amane, do you have it?"

"Yes! And don't look down there, okay?!"

L didn't respond to her request, instead, he chose to form his own requests. "Misa, if you feel as if you are in danger, I want you to say "cherry pie", okay?"

Misa nodded in agreement and left the room to get in the cab.

By 7:00, she got to her date. Raye pointed to the suspect in question. She saw a young man with light brown hair and a khaki suit waiting at a bench. Upon further inspection, he looked familiar - like the boy who is in her psychology class! He was very handsome.

"Are you sure it's him?!" she asked, baffled by their choice in suspects.

The steadfast man nodded. "His behaviour and schedules are in line with the evidence and information we have. He could be it." He gestured for her to approach him. "Make sure to ask questions about the case, Misa. We're counting on you."

Misa sat next to the young man who was seemingly alone. She smiled and gave him a nudge. His eyes widened and he turned to her, confused. "Misa? What are you doing here?"

"Hey, Light! I just saw you and thought I'd say hi. We share psychology, right?"

"Yes."

"Hm, funny that no one in that class is talking about this new case. It's mysterious, really."

"What case?"

"The "Kira case". It's on the news. 4 criminals had heart attacks today… You know about it?"

"That has nothing to do with psychology."

"Yeah too! Criminals are crazy, Light!"

"It isn't relevant to the course. Anyway, yes, I've head of it."

"Well, it scares me a little! What if you get killed from pirating mp3 songs, huh?" she laughed off.

"It isn't a valid enough crime to pirate songs, Misa. Kira is killing real criminals. Murderers, rapists, armed robbers… You catch my drift, don't you?" Light retorted in a mildly condescending tone of voice, as if she were a preschooler.

"Yeah! I think it's great that all of these dangerous people are dying off, huh? Makes the world a safer place…" At this point, she wasn't sure if she was going along with this for the case or because Light was so smart and handsome, like a prince.

"Yeah, I agree." He leaned back on the bench, clasping his hands behind his head.

"I mean there will be less homicides, and that's good. Besides, it's karma, isn't it, Light?"

Light just nodded his head and took a deep breath. "Yes. But it's still homicide."

"Yeah, but is it wrong?"

"... No, but it's illegal."

"What if they're already on death row?"

"Hm?"

"Well, there was a serial killer on the loose a month ago. Lind D. Tailor… He's on death row now. Do you think Kira will kill him, too?"

"Let's see."

After 30 more minutes of conversation, Light decided to end the interaction and Misa headed back to Raye, waiting for the cab. Misa looked up at the man's face and, as if she were commenting on the weather, she stated "I told Light the name of my family's murderer."

Raye's face flinched, doing a double take. "Bold of you to do so… why's that?"

"If I hear that Lind suddenly died of a heart attack, wouldn't that tell us something?"

Raye nodded as he saw the taxi pull up. "Let's watch and see, Miss Amane. It certainly would be a story I'll be telling Naomi."

"Tell her! Make me a legend!" she giggled as she walked off to enter the taxi, waving Raye a goodbye.

Misa finally arrived back to L, who was currently residing in the same hotel as her. She gave his door a knock and heard him say that it's unlocked. She walked in to see him as usual, crouching, eating cake and staring at his laptop.

"I'm home, Ryuzaki!"

"You're not home, you're in a hotel."

Misa sighed and rolled her eyes. "It's my temporary home."

"No, your temporary home is room 606. This is my temporary home, Miss Amane."

"Whatever, it's close enough!"

L poured her a cup of tea and patted the seat next to him, summoning Misa to hither. "Anyway, how did it go?"

"I came up with something."