Recap from Last Chapter:
"I am L."
'Ooo~ the shows starting!'
The task force was surprised by how L looked. I guess I would be too since most people would think L is some tightwad in a suit and was older probably and less weird, well weird to them, I find his weirdness...cute.
"I'm Yagami of the NPA."
"Uh, Matsuda."
"I'm Aizawa."
"Mogi."
"Ukita."
'Really you would think these guys would be smarter.'
"I'm very sorry we're late currently the 5 of us are-"
"Bang!"
"What the hell was that?" said Aizawa.
I kinda regret showing up to this part because I'm trying not to burst out in giggles from what he did. It's just too funny.
"If I were Kira, you'd be dead, Mr. Soichiro Yagami of the NPA," spoke L.
"Kira needs a face and a name in order to commit murder, but I'm sure you've already figured that much out, haven't you? Please do not give out your names so carelessly, instead let's value our lives." and with that said he headed to the couches in the other room.
'And with that L made his oh so big impression on the task force and I'm just one step closer to talking to him. I'm just shaking in excitement.'
I temporarily ignored the task force so that I could move in the vents to get a view of the other room. I finally got to a vent that I could see them clearly but they wouldn't see me when I sneak out of the vent.
They were all seated and L was already starting to pour himself some tea.
"Um, excuse me, L?"
"From now on I'll have to ask that you stop calling me L, its Ryuzaki now, just to be safe," he told the task force.
Matsuda continued, "Uh, ok Ryuzaki, if we know that he needs a name and a face to kill couldn't we cut down on the number of victims by keeping criminals names from the news?"
L was stirring his tea as he responded, "If we do that we'll only be putting the general public at risk."
"The general public?" questioned Ukita."Why?"said Aizawa.
L stopped stirring and looked up, "Kira is childish and he hates losing."
"But how do you-", cut off Matsuda,"Just what do you mean?"
'Oh here it comes~"
"Well," L looked down, "I am also childish and I hate to lose, that's how I know."
'So, cute!~ Must...resist...hugging...adorableness, bad Mizuki, bad!'
"Ryuzaki, would you mind being a little more specific for us?" asked .
"Early on in the investigation, I tried to provoke Kira with that broadcast, up until then we thought that Kira would only go after criminals. But as we all witnessed, he didn't hesitate to kill my stand in. Also as soon as I said we knew he was in the Kanto region, in defiance, he made sure his next victims came from within Japan, as if to say, what are you gonna do about it?" L paused to drink the rest of his tea, then continued,"He's met each of my challenges head on and he's never missed an opportunity to return the favor. Now, what do you think would happen if we tried to use media restrictions to hide criminals from someone like that?"
"I guess-" then L cut off Matsuda, "If you choose to withhold the names of your worst criminals then I'll kill petty criminals or the innocent. I'm holding the whole world hostage, so who's it gonna be? I'm not the evil one here, but all those who oppose me by hiding criminals, you are truly evil," L breathed deeply, then sighed," Thats exactly how Kira thinks. In any case, let's look for another way we can use the media to draw him out."
'I have to admit that is exactly how Light thinks, but things are starting to get fun. 2 geniuses against each other and 1 assassin who in on 1 genius' side but neither know that. Yet'
I tuned back into their conversation. "How about something like this, 'The death of FBI agents infuriates the U.S. Latest killings anger the international policing community, nations agree to send 1,500 investigators to Japan, for Kira, this will be way beyond what he faced with the FBI, he'll see everyone as a potential threat. Psychologically he'll start to feel cornered and that will cause him to take some kind of drastic action."
As all of the task force started talking about the plan excitingly, I just shook my head.
'He won't fall for that and I'm not just saying that because I know what happens. L is trying to pull the same trick that he did with the Lind L. Taylor broadcast and Light won't fall for the same trick twice. This plan of his was born to fail.'
"Well before we celebrate, I'll tell you the rest of my thoughts on the Kira case," said L as everyone nodded at him.
"Kira works alone. He had access to all our classified information." contemplated L.
"What evidence do you have that he's working alone?" asked Aizawa. "Hold on Aizawa, let's listen to his entire theory before asking questions," interrupted .
"We know he needs a name and a face to kill and to some extent, he can control the victims' time of death and their actions before dying. We already know that much, please keep that in mind", he opened a marker,"and listen carefully to what I have to say next."
And then L went off and told the task force of his theory that Kira was one of the people being investigated by the FBI and he could have only been one of the people investigated between December 14 and December 19.
As he was telling them his theory, I was getting out of the vents and was getting ready to show myself to them.
"These are files provided by the FBI and they contain additional information you might find useful for obvious reasons, you're not permitted to take these out of this room but-" Matsuda cut off L.
"Amazing! There might only be 5 of us, but with this much information, we should be able to cover a lot of ground."
"We'll split into 2 teams, 1 team traces the FBI agents, the other looks at the heart attack victims," said Aizawa. "There weren't that many people who had access to information from headquarters and of those the FBI only investigated a small groups in the first 5 days."
"So, does anyone have any questions?" asked L.
'Ooo~, he sounds grumpy, hehe silly Matsuda, your not suppose to cut off L when he's talking cause then he gets all grumpy.'
"Actually Ryuzaki, I do have one question for you, and it pertains to what you said to us earlier about how you hate to lose. Does the fact that you've shown us your face mean that you've lost? By just being here, are you admitting defeat to Kira?" asked .
"That's right. By showing my face to you now and by sacrificing the lives of 12 FBI agents, I have lost the battle. But I'm not gonna lose the war. This is the first time I've ever put my life on the line. I want to show Kira that we're all willing to risk our lives if thats what it takes, and that justice will prevail no matter what." L gave a small smile at the last part.
'Holy shitfucks, watching L in anime give that smile was cute but in real life you might as well throw me in Antarctica because my face was burning bright red from that cute and adorable smile of his. I just want to hug him so bad. I now regret disguising myself as a guy. I don't know if I'll be able to hold myself back from glomping the adorable panda.'
As I was trying to get hold of my bearings and calm myself, the task force was getting more motivated on working on the Kira case. I took a deep breath and came up from behind L and looked over his shoulder at the table.
"That's a really good theory you got there, but you better hope that's washable marker or the hotel manager is gonna get pissed at you." And like that 6 pairs of eyes snapped towards me.
"Who're you?!" asked/yelled practically everyone. "Sheesh, no need to yell. We're indoors ya know and me? I'm a person", I said with a shrug, but I could see L studying me from the corner of my eye.
"Kitsune," he said. "Ah! So the oh so great L has heard of me," I said with a tone of fake astonishment.
L's eyes narrowed at me,"Of course I have heard of you Kitsune. You are the top #1 assassin, being able to evade even me."
"...That's the most *sniff* nicest thing anyone has ever said to me *sniff* and it just is *sarcasm* so~ much better coming from the great L himself I think I'm gonna cry *fake sob* don't look at me I'm a mess and I'm emotional!"
"What business do you have here and more importantly how did you know I was here?" he asked. Well more like he demanded.
"Well let's just say I have eyes and ears everywhere, especially when it comes to the Kira case. That's how I knew you were here and as to why I'm here, well...I want to help catch Kira," I said nonchalantly as I walked around him.
"Why?" he asked.
"Why what?" I asked him cluelessly even though I knew what he was asking about.
"Why do you wanna help with the Kira case?" he asked this time with a bit of annoyance in his voice, not enough that a normal person could hear, but enough that I could hear. I guess he's annoyed that he had to repeat himself.
"There are many reasons, but the main reason is, he's killing off all my current and past clients. And if he keeps going like this, I'm gonna end up with no money and I do really need the money." I said.
"Oh really? And what's stopping me from just arresting you right now?" he challenged me.
"Oh I can list a lot of those reasons. Like I'm the assassin and even though there are 6 of you and 1 of me, I could still kill you all easily. Also I'm pretty sure none of you have weapons on you right now. Another reason is that I've placed bombs all over the world. They activate every week and only I know the place to type the password and what the password is. If you put me in jail now, lots of places are gonna go boom, and lots of people are gonna end up taking a really long nap." I said with a smile.
He frowned while putting his thumb to his mouth. "What do you need the money for?"
I smiled and turned away from him. "Nope, not telling you. Maybe I'll tell you at one point, maybe I won't," I teased.
L frowned. At this point L and I forgot all about the task force members that were there. well we forgot until someone coughcoughMatsudacoughcough decided to interrupt us, "Uh, Ryuzaki, um who is that?"
"Everyone, this is Kitsune. Kitsune is considered the #1 assassin. There is no one else out there that even comes close to matching his skill level. He first showed up around a year ago," L told the task force.
"Aww, thats so sweet of you. I like you guys. I've already gotten 2 complements, in like what, 5 minutes?" I said with smile that no one could see.
"Why should we let you help us? From what Ryuzaki has told us, you're a killer that's no better than Kira!" yelled Aizawa.
My blood froze. It was as if someone lit me on fire. I slowly turned myself to face Aizawa.
Usually I seem like a nice, happy, carefree person who always jokes around, but when you get me mad, you better run like your ass is on fire and the devil himself was chasing you.
"Don't… Don't you ever fucking say that ever again! I'm nothing like that fucker!" I snarled as I got into Aizawa's face. I had to really hold myself back from stabbing him, then throwing him off this building, but what Aizawa said just made my blood boil.
'I'm nothing like that cold-hearted bastard.'
I could tell that Aizawa was getting uncertain. I could see a bit of fear in his eyes, even though I was shorter by a good 5 inches, I could be scary when I want to be.
I took deep breaths, calming myself down and then I sat down on the couch and tried to relax. I took one last deep breath then I told everyone, "The only similarity that Kira and I share is that we have both killed people, but that is where all similarities stop. He doesn't care if he kills people who are innocent and are in his way and he considers himself above everyone else because of what he does. Unlike Kira, I do have some morals. Honesty, being an assassin wasn't my first career choice you know. I do try and avoid killing innocent people or people who get in my way and unlike Kira, I know killing people-even if they are criminals-doesn't put me above others. I know I'm a monster, and I don't try and delude myself into thinking otherwise."
'It really is true, I am a monster. But if I have to be a monster to help the people who can't help themselves, then I will.'
I could tell from my words I stunned not only the task force, but also L himself. I could tell since his eyes were a little wider than usual.
"You're nothing like I had thought you would be, you are very… strange," said L.
"I'll take that as a compliment," I said as I looked happily at L.
LawlietLovely: SO people what did you think? I really liked this chapter since it actually showed a bit about Mizuki and how she socializes with other people and a couple of things that make her tick. But like she said being an assassin wasn't her first choice of career so what happened in her dark past to make her the way she is. But you should know I'm not gonna reveal anything too major about her past, only gonna start giving hints in the next few chapters so...
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