"Me? Join you? But... but I'm only 12! And you're... an actual detective! I..." I was stunned. Completely and fully stunned.
"Really, when it comes to people like you, age doesn't matter. You're already as good as me, maybe even better. Why should it matter how old you are?" he asked. He had a point, but, still.
"Yeah. I'll join you." I had no idea what I was saying. This... this was something else. Way better than living at my old home. Could you even call it a home anymore? Who the hell cared anyway? I was working along side of a detective! This was amazing!
"Well, I have to go visit my orphange," Watari said, standing up, "Why don't you two get to know each other a bit?" L nodded. Watari left the room. We kinda just stared at each other for a while. I guess neither of us were really that good at communicating. He seemed like he was, sort of, examining me again. Still sitting in that strange position.
"Hungry?" he asked. Now that I thought about it, I was kinda hungry.
"Yeah, I guess."
He got up and gestured for me to follow him. I did. We walked into a kitchen-looking room. He opened up a cabinet. I saw sugar. Sugary sweets, doughnuts, marshmellows, packets of instant hot chocolate, chocolate-dipped strawberries, and cake. Lots of cake. Six whole boxes of cake. They were big boxes, too. He grabbed three chocolate dipped strawberries and a box of cake. He ate two strawberries and gave me one. I guzzled it down before you could blink, literally. Then he opened the box of cake. Half of it was gone already. It was a strawberry shortcake, I think. He cut two pieces from it and offered me one. I gladly accepted the offer. L didn't even use a fork! He just tore a piece of with his fingers and placed it in his mouth. I followed his example, seeing as I wasn't offered a fork. How often did he eat this stuff?
"So... L, is it?" He looked at me in response. "What do you like to do?"
Stupid, stupid, stupid. That was one of the stupidest questions I could have asked. It sounded like a childish way to start up a conversation, but, oh well.
"What do I like to do? I guess, solve my cases. I never really do anything else. Maybe I'll read a manga every once a month?"
Didn't seem like much of a life. Didn't start up much of a conversation either.
"So... L-"
Then a phone rang. Of course.
He walked over to it, still hunched over. Did he ever stand up straight? He picked up the phone.
"Hello? Really? Interesting enough. Sure, I'll take the case. I'll check into it soon."
He walked back to me again.
"Seems like we have a new case on our hands. This one is... rather interesting. The case of... Kira, they're calling it? A string of heart attacks centered on criminals."
For the next few days, he, I, and occasionally Watari, sat on our computers, seaching for information, digging out info from where ever we could. They even gave me my own laptop! My own! I never used it for anything other than solving cases that they threw at me, but still!
One day, while we were all working, I discovered an important clue.
"Japan! That's it!" I yelled that rather loudly. L and Watari stopped what they were doing immediately and looked over at me.
"What about Japan?" L asked.
"Kira! Whether it's just one person, or a group of several, they mainly operate in Japan! That has to be it! There's no other way!"
"What made you arrive at that conclusion?" Watari asked in response.
"The... the first victim. It wasn't recorded in the police records as a "Kira" killing, but, it was in Japan. A heart attack! If you were Kira, wouldn't your first experiment be a person that you could see whether you actually killed or not? I know that last sentence didn't make much sense, but do you get what I'm saying? And that information was only broadcasted in Japan, so the killer, or killers, must either live in Japan or reside there at the moment."
L sat there for a moment; he looked like he was pondering the idea. "An ingenious conclusion. Probably wouldn't have come up with a better deduction myself. I believe we have our information for the ICPO. Watari, could you set up a meeting within the next few days?"
"Of course. I believe the ICPO has a meeting in four days, would you like to set the meeting to then?"
"I believe so. Now, let us celebrate Nami's deduction with some cake in the kitchen."
I laughed. Classic L. Never can have too much cake, can he? But, I can't believe that it was what I figured out that gave him a core clue. Of course, he probably would have figured it out sooner or later himself. Nevertheless, I did it! I was so proud of myself! Watari and I followed L into the kitchen, who had already got out the cake and began cutting it.
It's only been a few days, but I had already grown a tight bond with Watari and L. A tighter bond than I have ever had with my biological parents, by far.
We all ate our slice of cake, but of course, L ate about 4 pieces. Then Watari called the ICPO or something and set it up so that they could have a meeting. Well, I guess you would call it a meeting. We would all be involved, but none of us would show our faces. Could you call that a meeting? Well, we would communicate, so I guess it is. Until that time, we focused mainly on our other cases. What we do from here, when it comes to the Kira case, would have to involve the police in some form. So, until then, other cases would be where we focused.
Until then.
