I felt my eyebrow begin to twitch as I listened to the realtor tell me about the house. It wasn't that he had an annoying voice or what he said that was irking me. It was the way he said it.

"Are you sure that you want to live alone ma'am? No roommates? I mean, lady such as yourself could be in danger if you stay alone."

My eyebrow was slowly inching upwards as I gave him the look of complete and utter superiority. He didn't flinch, but his eyes showed he was uncomfortable. He obviously had the idea that he was better than I was because he was male.

"I will be just fine Mr. Takahashi. I have six years of martial arts and I have developed my own fighting style. I also have a black belt in karate and two other forms of fighting, both offensive and defensive. If I have any trouble I have no doubt that I can take care of it. Easily."

He looked at me for a moment in shock before continuing to lead me through the sixteenth house I had toured.

"Did you see the look on his face?", guffawed Maro from behind me, "It was absolutely hilarious!"

I winced as she once again shrieked in my ear and tried to listen to Mr. Takahashi as he explained the repair work that had needed to be done and how that would affect the price of the house. I let myself zone out as he began to explain about the builder of the house and how he knew him personally and began to concentrate on who I would help. I wanted Kira dead so that left L. But I didn't want to help L either, at least directly.

If I helped Kira I could manipulate him directly and pressure him enough that he made mistakes that L would pick up on, but then I would be Kira's cohort and I would likely get convicted as well. Not to mention the fact that Light was another one of those guys that looked at women as something to be used rather than worked with.

L on the other hand was at least open to working with a female as was proved by the fact that he had once worked with Naomi Misora in the past. He was also a notorious liar and believed himself to be correct one hundred percent of the time. An idea I would naturally have to prove incorrect.

Of the two however L seemed the better option, but perhaps I could manipulate both of them to work for my advantage. I would be on L's side officially in order to fulfill Maros requirement that I choose a side. She never said that the representative of justice that I chose had to know I was on their side after all. I grinned.

I refocused on who was shrinking beneath my apparently evil smile. He named his price. I shook my head and we began to barter.

By the time we were through I had bought the house, for less than half the original price. I smiled at who was filling out paper work as fast as his hand could scribble it. The ability to act scary had its advantages.

I signed where I was supposed to and he rushed as smoothly as he could out the door and back to his office where he would never speak of his encounter with me to anyone unless he absolutely had to.

I looked once again around the house. The cream colored walls stared back at me along with the surprisingly soft beige carpet. I pulled off my shoes and brought my bags in from where I had hidden them at the back of the house. It took me two trips to bring all six of my bags up the stairs and into the room I had bought the house for.

It was an upstairs bedroom. Perfectly normal from the outside but when I opened the door I was welcomed by a cherry red carpet and a set of dark navy blue walls with enough electrical plugs to support an army.

"So what's your decision? L or Kira Jessie-san?"

"L" I replied as I began to set the room up for the technology it would host along with my bed and my few personal belongings.

"So when do we meet 'im?"

"We don't. Not in person at least. The same with Kira. I'll be communicating with both of them using the name Justice and the image of a set of scales on a computer that will be placed in L and Kira's current location by you, if you'll do it."

"Fine with me as long as ya make it so I'm not caught, ya know?"

"I can. So long as floating laptops aren't seen by civilians as they hover through the air, and you don't get caught by Ryuk."

"I sound uneducated, but I am smart enough not to get caught, ya know?"

I opened the laptop I had assembled myself and began to program the basics onto the computer. It asked me to set the date.

"Maro, what is today?"

"By your time? December seventh."

"Good. L should be figuring out that Kira needs a name and a face to kill. He should also discover that Kira is a student soon, leaving him suspicious of the current task force. I don't think I can save Raye Penber, but I can give him a last chance to say goodbye to his fiancé and Naomi a chance to say goodbye to him."

"You're going to enjoy this aren't you? Messing with peoples lives."

"Yes, but this is more for logical order than twisting people over and around and back again. Raye Penber gives L an essential clue and I can't stop Kira from controlling him without being discovered myself."

"You're strange, ya know?" I smiled.

"I know."

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