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Tricks
L couldn't help but wonder how this girl was so stupid most of the time, then suddenly perform an act of great intelligence as if it were a natural occurrence. She didn't even seem to notice them. He, on the other hand, was disturbed by such a switch in character; it was downright unnatural. For example, how she knew that Raye Penbar's fiance went missing without him telling her so. Too peculiar of an act to be simply ignored.
"I was just eavesdropping on your phone conversation!" the girl had whined when he shuffled close enough to shatter her personal bubble and force her to stare into the pure black eyes outlined with bags from lack of sleep.
"Impossible Miss Terra, for the volume was too low to hear from a distance of two feet, and you were lounging vulgarly on my chair an approximate distance of seven point three feet away."
"I thought you people used the metric system over here. Wouldn't it be metres?" The stupidity again, perhaps he should just tell her to stick with the eerie
"It is, I'm just using your system of measurement to help you understand that you were too far away to eavesdrop, therefore deeming your alibi not plausible."
"Stop using big words, you asshole!" He watched her stomp her feet and wave her hands with exagerrated motion, then point at him and continue speaking, interrupting his thought. "And why should I need a good reason? You never give me one when you do something, and I said already that I wanted to help on the case. Her death could've been prevented if you ju-"
His eyes widened slightly. "Death? Miss Terra, I only said Naomi Misora went missing. For what reason would you have concluded that she is deceased?"
This seemed to get a reaction out of the girl, and she became suddenly nervous. "Oh, uh, well, obviously Kira killed the FBI agents, like you said at the meeting, and so he probably thought that she knew something as well, maybe even something really bad that could ruin him, so he offed her to make sure. Duh." There was more to that, he could tell just by the way she was acting, but it did make sense, although he had already came to that conclusion, so he decided not to probe further.
"Very well" L said, "your answer is satisfying enough for now." Several possibilities ran through his head before he chose to speak again. "As a matter of fact" he bit softly on his thumb, pacing the words so she would squirm wondering what he'd do next, "it's been very crude of me to not take you up on that offer. Tomorrow, we're going to be doing some investigating, and I would prefer if you used these skills you say that can help to aid it."
Thrill emitted from the girl. "You mean it? Oh, yay! About time, I'll show you that I'm the best assistant ever, thank you, thank you! Group hug!" Terra ran towards him in unusually fast and messed up way that it put the detective in a state of petrified shock, allowing the girl to attempt to wrap her arms around him and squeeze. She stopped when he gave no response and she noticed his blank face and his flinching. "Hello?" Terra's hand moved upwards then downwards in front of his face, triggering not even a blink. "Holy shit, I broke him."
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Terra couldn't sleep well that night, and for once it wasn't because of the constant watching or the pecking noise made when L typed on his laptop. No, it was adrenaline keeping her up with the many possibilities of what tomorrow would hold and the chances to use knowledge from the anime to prove she was a good detective. Scenarios whizzed through her head of doing something spectacular and being recognized.
"Look L, after checking Yagami's son's computer, his web history shows he has been hacking into the police system!"
"Wow" he said, "I would have never guessed that Kira would've made such a stupid mistake. Good thing you pointed that out, now we can arrest him."
Two cops came into the room and put Light in handcuffs. "Damn it!" the culprit said, "I should've never underestimated you, female! Now I have to serve a life in prison and repent my actions and get prison tattoos." His head went down in shame, then back up at her. "But remember, I don't regret a single bit of it, otherwise I would have never got to see such a cute detective's assistant. If only I had told you my feelings before." He approached her and kissed her hand sweetly.
"It is a shame Light, I had always thought you were attractive as well, but our love is not meant to be now that I am working with a world-famous detective."
L placed his arm around her awkwardly. "That's right Kira, you can't have her. She chose to be with me in the end, because it is justice."
"Drats! I won't forget you Terra, come visit me soon!" Light was dragged away by the police.
"Now that we're alone again." She smiled shyly at the older man.
"Miss Terra."
"Yes, now that we are, I would like permission to put you in an embrace with myself." His other arm went around her, and their faces suddenly were close.
"Oh, L" She said, looking up at his face.
"Terra."
"Kiss me if you would, Mr. Detective."
"Miss Terra."
"Oh, aren't you in a hurry? Don't be so frisky, or I'll have to hancuff us together so you won't be doing this with other men."
Their lips started getting closer together, closing the distance, then the sweet passion they've been dreaming of, though his lips were rougher than expected-
"Miss Terra." His voice seemed even more impatient now.
She lifted her face up from her pillow and glared at the man. "What do you want? I was having a nice dream."
"It was annoying hearing you say such vulgar things in your sleep and then have to watch you make out with a hotel pillow."
"Oh, that's what it was?" She looked down and saw the wet spot where her face was just moments before. "Well, that'd explain a lot." She got out of bed and started searching through her bag for clothes.
"Are you not concerned as to what I heard?" His look was as hard to decipher as ever.
"Not really" she shrugged. "Hey, I was having a good time. I'm more concerned about the fact that you were watching the whole time. What, was that a good three hour sleep I got in? Bit pedophobic if you ask me." She grabbed a shirt and some pants then walked to the bathroom to change. "The pillow was a good kisser too, in case you want a shot, although it's a very particular lover."
L was still not amused. That guy needed to beaten over the head with the Stick of Good Humour. And soon too, she couldn't bear spending all her time around an antisocial, scowl-faced person.
After dressing herself, quickly brushing her hair, and putting on a pair of shoes, she asked "So, what are we doing?"
"Supervising the installation of cameras being placed in the Yagami household." She should really start timing how long it takes him to think of a response and then answer; he has to have beaten the Guinness record by 868532.295729524 seconds.
"Aw, that sounds boring. I thought we were going to do something exciting and dangerous. What's there to supervise?"
"We need to tell the installers where the best place to put a camera is."
"Whoop-de-freaking-doo." She twirled her finger.
L ignored her comment and packed up his laptop, then handed it to Watari, who had been silently listening to their conversation. "Miss Terra, this is the Yagami household. Someone in that house may be the mass murderer Kira. If I am correct" this next part seemed to be speaking out loud to himself more than speaking to her, "things will get very interesting."
By the time the car, a limo would be too suspicious, arrived at the house, people were already at work. One greeted them and they walked inside, receiving glances doing so. Was it because of how L stood out? Maybe she shouldn't have worn black.
She was hardly in the door when L was telling which cameras should go in the kitchen. Watari apparently left to instruct some workers about the hallway cameras, and Terra just stood there feeling out of place. She followed L around until he told her to go do something more productive with her time, which made her remember where she was.
Light's house.
Light Yagami's house.
Freaking hot Kira's house.
She had to keep herself from squealing. She started walking around touching everything: this was his chair he sat in during meals, that was the carpet he walks on, these are the stairs he climbs every day to get to his room. Then finding herself touching it, the door handle to his room.
"Hey" a man holding a very heavy-looking piece of equipment said, "you shouldn't be touchin' that."
"Why not?"
"Look at the piece of paper in the doorway, the person checks his room." The man spoke English, there was a relief.
She looked, and there it was, just like in the manga.
"He's right." Terra jumped up, having not heard L approach and get behind her. "Let's go inside." He reached out past her and grabbed the door handle, was about to turn it.
"Wait!"
"Yes, T?" His face was blatant enough to tell he still wasn't used to calling her that.
"Um, the paper's a red herring." She walked over the the other end of the door and pulled a piece of pencil lead from the hinges. "See?"
"Who would'a guessed." the worker was impressed, at least. Not like she had expected anything from L.
The three of them entered the room and she and L looked around while the worker did his job, setting up a camera in the air vent of Light's room.
"Nothing too unusual." L stated, almost disappointed by his tone.
"Or is it?" She smiled an looked at him. "Dun, dun, dun."
No response.
"Fine, I'll show you." She walked over to the desk with an air of confidence and grabbed a pen, twisting it to get the cartridge out.
"Show me what, T?" His head was mere inches above her shoulder, watching with those eyes.
She then opened the first drawer on the right. "This!"
He looked inside. "I believe that's a diary."
She handed it to him, who scanned it absent-mindedly for a brief second before setting it down on the desk next to the dissected pen. He watched as she got on her knees and stuck the cartridge in something and the bottom of the drawer popped up. She handed him it, smiling.
"Well?"
"Light Yagami has a secret compartment to his drawer."
"Yeah, with the murde-" She looked down and saw only the explosives the drawer was hooked up to, and a blank space where the Death Note should have been. "Shoot. He took it with him."
"Took it with him, it being?"
"The, uh, murder weapon."
"The murder weapon?"
"The murder weapon."
L bit his thumb. "I see. How did you know the murder weapon was stored here?"
"Oh." How did she? "I, uh, saw him make this."
"You did?"
This was not going well. "Yeah, I sort of knew him, kind of."
"I see." He left it at that. Instead, the detective called Watari to remove the explosives from Light's drawer.
"Why? He'll know we were here if you do."
"Exactly. If what you say is true and he has the weapon with him, he'll use it before putting it away, therefore showing us on camera." It was genius. She nodded, stupefied for not coming up with a clever solution like that.
Nothing else hidden was found in the bedroom, so they moved onto the next room. The rest of the morning passed like that, with no more surprises and Terra finding herself useless again. Once the installation of the cameras was done, she replaced the lead back into its spot along with the paper.
The detective said nothing in the car, just staring out the window like a child after going somewhere with his parents. She refused to be dampened by his eerie calm, and was excited at the prospect of finally seeing the main character on camera, all sixty-four of them.
This was going to be a fun next few days.
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Light Yagami returned home from school, unaware of being watched. He walked up the stairs, even grabbed the door handle and turned it up as usual, before noticing something strange. It wouldn't go up any higher. He glanced quickly at the paper, which was still in the door, then at the lead, also in the door. Very strange indeed.
He walked inside and set down his backpack on his bed.
"Let's play Mario Golf" Ryuk said, smiling as usual.
Just to make sure, he then checked the top drawer of his desk. The diary was in its place, but the bottom looked a bit shifted. If he was correct, something must no longer be holding the bottom up. For example, a bag of explosives.
Light ignored him and grabbed his jacket, then left his room, replaced the paper, and went outside.
"What's wrong Light?"
"I need you to check my room" Light stared intently at the shinigami. "I think there may be cameras in it."
"Why?" It sounded paranoid in Ryuk's point of view.
"My door handle was not in the position I left it in, but everything else was. Also, the drawer was messed with." He smiled a little bit. "A challenge, huh? You thought I wouldn't notice until it was too late, didn't you L?"
Didn't you?
I can't believe I actually fulfilled my promise and finished this chapter before the weekend was over. It's only Sunday, yessss. Actually, thank 5FIVE5 for updating her story, Death Sentence, otherwise I probably wouldn't have felt competitive to update myself.
I can't help but wonder if the beginning was a bit overboard, with the dream and starting a second straight chapter with an argument. Oh well, it was fun to write. Until my next update, ciao.