Because I have gotten soo many reviews (and I will continue to get them, riiiight?), I update my story!! And as a random fact, in my JV meet today, I came in first in the hurdles, WOOT! Random fact! It also made me update because I am really happy, yippee!

Disclaimer: What am I supposed to put here? A disclaimer? Saying that I don't own Death Note? Ah, but I do own Riku! I love Riku.

All in the Past

L was in panic mode. If he has ever been in panic mode, this is it. No other time, has he been biting his thumb, subconsciously, until it started bleeding. No other time has he paced in the same spot for so long. This mode of panic started shortly after he came home, and has yet to be stopped. But then again, he's never had a daughter lost before.

Yes, L was panicking so much because, try as he might, he could not figure out where his daughter, Riku, might be. He didn't expect her to stay at home, but he did expect her to tell someone where she was, but she didn't. It was a conundrum.

A knock on the door. L wondered if he imagined it. Like, he so desperately wanted a knock on the door and have Riku standing there, that it happened. Another knock, no this time it was definitely real. And he could just tell it was Riku. L calmly sat down on a nearby couch; he knew if he was standing up, he might scare her.

Riku creaked the door open. She was procrastinating as much as possible to see her father's face. The face she was positive would be angry. So, when she at last opened the door, Riku did not look up. She could tell her father was in the room. And she didn't want him to be angry with her. Riku disobeyed him, and that was sure to cause him to be angry.

L was relieved to see his daughter safe, he was imagining the worse. The worse being her dead, kidnapped, attacked, or anything else that wouldn't allow her to come home that night or ever again. Nothing simple or normal like trying to catch Kira because in their family, that seems to be normal.

"Where have you been?" L asked his daughter. He said it as a concerning parent wanting to know where his daughter was. Riku heard like he was furious with her, and perception is reality. Since Riku perceived him angry, she got scared. Frightened of what her punishment would be. Riku now started imagining the worse.

"Are, are you angry with me?" Riku asked still not making eye contact. L was very surprised with this reaction. He wasn't angry with her, not at all, but it was obvious she thought he was. Instead of answering, L patted the space next to him on the couch. Riku slowly made her way over, dreading every moment.

L smiled. Riku couldn't see it, but he was smiling. L put his hand on her head softly, in a comforting way. Without words said at all, Riku understood he wasn't angry with her. She smiled to herself, and untensed, not realizing she'd been tense at all. She'd been so worried as to what her father thought of her, that she tensed up.

"Would you like to tell me where you were, Riku?" L asked her, trying as hard to sound concerned and not angry, and this time she caught on he wasn't angry with her. Riku took a deep breath.

"Well, I followed you soon after getting ready. Since you went to college, I decided to take a look around town and do some errands." L nodded saying he was listening to what she was saying. "I came back and saw you talking to Raito Yagami, the person you suspect to be Kira the most." Here L wanted to interrupt Riku to ask how she knew he suspected Raito of all people, but if she was able to find L, she could do a lot of things. Riku continued, "This was when I put a plan I had been concocting all day into action. I put on a red wig, a sundress, and took out a toy airplane I had bought."

"Were these going to be in use to catch Kira?" L asked her. Riku nodded. (a/n wow, that was worded funny, but I think it sounds cool, lol). Again, Riku inhaled deeply and continued her story.

"Well, please understand that what I did was backed up with facts and observations, and I didn't just randomly decide to do this," Riku told her father looking him in the eye. "I sat on a sidewalk, and when I saw Raito coming, I threw the airplane making it land near his feet. I knew a car was coming and…" Riku paused here. L saw what was coming; much like Raito did, and didn't like it. Not at all. "I jumped in front of the car, in hopes Raito would save me, and he did." L let out the breath he had been holding. He didn't know he'd been holding it. L knew she was safe, but to hear your daughter almost got run over is nerve-wracking.

"May I ask why you did this?" L inquired trying not to panic again.

"I did it to test his sense of justice. He thinks he has a great sense of justice, and acts based on that justice. He's also willing to take risks if he thinks he can handle them, and he usually thinks he can because he's over-confident," Riku concluded. Even though L was worried that his daughter had been almost hit by a car and had depended on a suspected criminal to save her, he found what she said interesting.

"Riku, I can't tell you to stop doing dangerous things, but at least let me know when you're going to try one in the future," L tried to persuade his daughter. As a father, he failed. No daughter really listens to what her parents say. And they love to rebel.

"If I told you, you would've stopped me." L thought about that for a moment. It was true, he would've. The plan of jumping in front of a car to test someone's sense of justice is ridiculous, but it worked.

"Yes, I would have," L told her taking his hand off her head now. Riku just realized that his finger was bleeding. L seemed to have just noticed it, too. Riku, without thinking, took his finger and put it in her mouth, in an attempt to help him.

Watari, who was coming in to tell L of something, left to get some bandages when he saw the scene. L didn't know what to make of Riku's action. He didn't want to stop her, and didn't know if he should. So he did nothing. Riku didn't stop until Watari came back with the bandages. She did the bandaging, too, convinced that it was her fault he was hurt. If Riku wasn't so outrageous, he wouldn't have had to worry.

"Oh no!" Riku cried out suddenly remembering something. L looked at her, alarmed. He didn't know what she was thinking, and it didn't seem like he would get an answer. Riku got up from the couch and ran to the guest room, her room. She flopped on her bed and turned on the TV. L followed her, curious, and looked to see what she was watching. It was CSI. (a/n CSI, I think that it's quite funny).

"Whew, I didn't miss it, oh hi dad!" Riku said suddenly becoming a normal teenager. L was smiling on the inside. This was how a daughter was supposed to be, not trying to catch a mass murderer. L wanted to come in and watch what she was doing, but he had work to do. L left the room closing the door behind him.

Was she really watching CSI behind the closed door, though? Nope. She was listening to a conversation in a matter of minutes. One involving a criminal, and the non-existent yet existent Shinigami. Of course, Riku couldn't hear the Shinigami, but he was there. Oh, how is she listening to their conversation?

Riku is pretty smart, actually a total genius for her age. During her errands, she bought a necklace, a microphone, and a bunch of other things. Hidden inside the necklace was a microphone that she herself put together. Riku couldn't find a camera small enough fit inside the necklace's pendant, so she settled for a microphone. Using other cables, she rigged it up so that she could hear whatever the necklace was near in a 5 meter radius. Genius or what?

Problem was, she couldn't record what was being said, so she either had to commit it to memory or write it down. She chose to write it down, the whole conversation Raito was having, well, with himself it seemed.

Raito was not talking to himself. Nor was he talking to his pet, unless you can have a Shinigami for a pet. Then, I guess you could say he was talking to his pet, Ryuk.

"Hey, Raito, have any up and coming plans to get close to L, or is Kira finally failing?" Ryuk taunted the teen, one of his favorite past times if you haven't figure that out yet.

"No, Ryuk, I am not failing. I will think of something," Raito said leaning back in his chair. That was easier said than done. Raito needed an event of any kind to happen, something that will shake things up. L's relative maybe?

"Hm, I could try using L's relative," Raito thought aloud, not really wanting a comment from Ryuk. He got one anyway.

"How would you do that? You don't know who his relative is. Hyuk hyuk, you're stuck," Ryuk teased, and on a roll continued, "All you have is that girl you met and that necklace, not like they'd do anything."

"The necklace?" Raito wondered aloud, not knowing that Riku was listening through the microphone. Thoughts began racing as ideas came one after the other, rapidly.

Who was that girl? L's relative? If that's true, then she was investigating me. She was trying to figure out if I was Kira. Then why would she give me the necklace…? The last thought hit Raito like a bullet train. Immediately, he tore out the necklace from his pocket, and pried it open.

Raito was correct in his thoughts; the necklace was bugged, there were wires all over it. But what could they mean? Raito examined the wires, and found that there was a microphone.

'Dammit!' Raito cried in his head, 'someone's been listening to my whole conversation! That girl, she must be working for L, to go so far as to bug a necklace, it's something only L would do.' (a/n or L's daughter, she would, too).

Raito thought back on his conversation, he didn't say anything that would give someone concrete proof that was Kira, but he sure gave them enough clues that it wouldn't be long before they figured it out. It all depends on the genius of the person, and, according the complicatedness of wired microphone and the thought put into the plan, the person was very smart. You were bound to be if you were detective L's daughter.

Raito didn't know it was L's daughter, but thought it to be L, who is just as, if not more, dangerous. Raito calmly put the necklace in the trash and brought the trash downstairs and put it outside. He walked back upstairs with a straight face. The façade was lost when he got to his room and closed the door.

"How did I let him beat me!? How did he manage to get a microphone in my house without me knowing!?" Raito ranted losing all control. He was so angry at L for having gotten so close to him, but Raito saw through, barely. Judging on the mechanics he saw in the microphone, it would be impossible for the microphone to record what he had said. It was too simple for that, but someone was definitely listening on. So there was still a chance…no. He had to assume that L was listening to his entire conversation.

The only real clue he gave away was Ryuk's name. But Ryuk's name could mean a lot to L, as he always seems to focus in on small things. This was L they were talking about, right?

Wrong. They were talking about L's daughter, Riku, who as a child has a great imagination. She wrote the conversation down, and looked over it. She knew the conversation had ended because she had lost transmission, meaning the necklace was broken in some way. Probably thrown out or smashed. Either way, she wasn't getting that necklace back. Back to the conversation:

"No, Ryuk, I am not failing. I will think of something,"

"Hm, I could try using L's relative,"

"The necklace?"

It wasn't much, but, like a poem, each line had to be taken into consideration. Riku sat on her bed and crossed her legs. She took out a piece of gum she'd bought on her errands, and started chewing. It was her way of thinking, without getting cavities.

In the first line, he looks like he could be talking about his homework, but who is Ryuk? A pet? Riku would have to find out. The second line interested her. Using L's relative. She couldn't possibly conjecture as to what that could mean, but she guessed that it's referring to her, Hanabi. And the last line told her that he was about to investigate the necklace.

There was one thing puzzling her, though. Raito definitely seemed to be talking to someone; there were pauses in between each line where someone could be speaking. No noise was heard, so it wasn't a pet. Online chatting? Riku doubted it, but it was a possibility. Riku put the conversation away and concentrated on CSI, like she was supposed to.

L had no clue what his daughter was doing. For all he knew, she was watching CSI, trying to be like her father. He was right, she was trying to be like her father, but she wasn't watching CSI. Somewhere in the back of L's mind he knew that, but he really didn't want to admit it. L was being childish himself. He wanted to believe that his daughter was normal. As normal as she could be with him for a father.

Too bad that he was wrong and his daughter was getting farther in the Kira case than he was. Riku wondered, still chewing her gum, if her father would be proud of her for what she's doing. Probably. Riku's bubble popped and she contemplated what to do tomorrow; she still had one more day left before going back to school.

Whew!! I wrote that really fast, but I already had all my thoughts organized, so it wasn't hard. Ah… it's after 11:00 p.m. sigh I need a life. Wait, anime is my life. I need a better life. One that let's me sleep normal hours. Ah forget it! I love anime too much. Y'know what I love MORE than anime, though? REVIEWS!! I LOVE REVIEWS!!! They make me happy and I get to reply to them, so just write me a little spiel of what you thought about my story. PLEASE?