A/N: Wow...It's been a long time since I updated. XD

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or any of its characters. I also do not own Death Note Another Note: The LABB Murder Cases. I do not own Courtney and Ariel. They belong to ... Courtney and Ariel. There're a lot of things I don't own, okay! But I do own the OC's.

[Transfer]

[Chapter 4: Meeting Him]

Soichiro Yagami and Matsuda waited at the front of the head quarters for the girls to arrive. In front of them was their car. They had told L that five teens were willing to help out on the case. He wasn't impressed, but they had told him to give them a chance.

"I hope Ryuzaki would trust them." Matsuda said.

"It's up to him to decide whether these girls were to be trusted or not." The Chief said.

Just then, five girls were seen walking down the sidewalk. Matsuda waved to them and they waved back, except for Maddie, who had a bored expression on her face. Veronica nudged her. She grunted and gave a small wave back.

"Good afternoon, girls." The Chief and Matsuda bowed.

"Good afternoon, Yagami-san, Matsu-san." Matsuda faintly blushed at the nickname.

"Um, so, where do we go now?" Arisa asked. Her eyes scanned the building and their surroundings and eventually landed on a van in front of them.

"There is something we have to tell you." The Chief said in a low voice. "Matsuda and I have been with L lately on the case. We've already met him in person." The five teens went on with their fake shocked faces.

"Really?!" Courtney gasped. Her expression went from bewildered to a polite one. "Is he cute?" She whispered harshly.

The Chief's and Matsuda's eyes widened. "Uh..."

Veronica scoffed and rolled her eyes. She pulled Courtney by the arm. "What she meant was, is he attractive? Like, when you're talking to him face to face and not all creepy?" Ariel and Arisa face palmed. Maddie sighed in annoyance.

"Ignore their stupid comments." She said in a semi-polite tone. "So, what did L say about us helping?

"Well, he wasn't really happy about it, but he had agreed to give you girls a chance." The Chief replied.

Courtney and Arisa made an 'eep' sound, which turned the whole conversation into an awkward silence. Arisa blushed and looked down, but Courtney didn't seemed to be embarrassed. Matsuda cleared his throat and motioned the girls into the car.

"Are we gonna meet L in person?" Courtney asked. It was hard for her to keep the excitement out of her voice.

"It's up to him to decide. He'll ask you a few questions, though." Matsuda replied.

"Why?" Veronica asked. Courtney rolled her eyes. Jeez, could she be any dumber?

It was Maddie who answered nonchalantly. "They might suspect us of being Kira. You know how detectives are. Always skeptical and freakishly observant." She sighed inaudibly. "It's part of their job." Something in her voice made Matsuda shudder a bit. He and the Chief remained silent. Not that Maddie was expecting them to say anything.

She squirmed a little bit on her seat, trying to be more comfortable. Of course that was going to be hard, considering she had a gun with her...

The Chief had pulled up in front of a tall building. A hotel. A five-star hotel.

They all got out of the van. Or at least tried to. When Courtney was peacefully getting out of the car, Veronica, being the evil one, pushed her.

"Hurry up!"

It was a good thing Matsuda was there to catch her.

"What the hell is your problem?!" She snapped. She really wanted to punch her right now.

"You were too slow." Veronica answered nonchalantly and straightened up her pink light jacket. It wasn't that cold in Japan, thank goodness, unlike in Winnipeg. Courtney silently thanked Matsuda, and went over to Veronica. She raised her clenched fist, but Ariel and Arisa pushed them aside.

"Will you two quit it?!" Ariel looked behind her to see Maddie smirking, as if she really had wanted Courtney to punch Veronica. Ariel sighed. 'Heh. It's a shock her brother hasn't thrown her into prison yet.' she thought.

"That is enough." The Chief said firmly.

"Are you okay Cassandra-san?" Matsuda asked. Courtney nodded stiffly and gave Veronica a one last glare.

"Come on, let's go in." The Chief said.

A young detective watched through the cameras as Soichiro Yagami entered the room. The room only had a chair and a table. Behind him were five teenagers and Matsuda was quietly trailing behind them.

"What now?" Arisa asked.

"Good afternoon, ladies." All of them flinched and some squeaked, except for the Chief and Maddie, at the computerized voice. "I am L."

Veronica let out a low whistle. "O-kay, that was a little creepy." She looked around, trying to find where the voice came from. The intercom was on the table.

"Matsu-san, was that really him?" Ariel asked and stared at the intercom.

"Yep. That was really the great L." He replied with a nod and a smile.

"Mr. Yagami, Matsuda, you may leave now. But take four girls out with you. I assumed you two had already told these girls about the interrogations. It is up to you ladies on which one wants to go first."

They all looked at each other. "I guess I'll go first." Courtney said. The rest nodded in agreement and all piled out of the room. Her friends had gave her a thumbs-up, except for Maddie, who'd grinned evilly at her. In which she had returned.

Once everyone was out of the room, L spoke. "Hello Miss, what is your name?"

She sighed and looked at the intercom, a little frustrated that it wasn't L's face but she decided to live with it. The detective saw this. She smiled and answered. "Cassandra."

"Ms. Cassandra, please take a seat and we'll begin the interrogation." She did what she was told and made herself comfortable by crossing her legs Indian style.

"So Ms. Cassandra, was there any particular reason for you to look at the intercom rather, frustratingly?" She wasn't really surprised, as she had expected him to be this observant. She looked around, then stared back at the intercom again. She smiled smugly before answering.

""I ... feel lonely that I'm not able to see your face. I'm picturing what you could look like but it will never be like the real thing, that is what frustrating me."

Out of her sight, L put his thumb in his mouth and chew on his thumbnail. "Oh is that so? Moving on. Do you think what Kira's doing is right?"

She pursed her lips for a moment. "His theory is right, but his actions are wrong and he should leave it up to the justice system. Don't get me wrong, I am not a supporter of Kira, but I have to be honest."

"What makes you think his theory is correct?"

"Well, criminals around the world are evil, some even get away for what they were doing and that doesn't bring justice. So, it is kind of right that he'd be bringing them to justice, but killing and taking a life is still wrong."

'Especially taking your life.'

Matsuda smiled nervously at Maddie and quickly looked away. The whole Kira investigators, including the teens, were sitting inside a grand suite. Watari had served them some food.

Veronica tapped her fingers impatiently, unnerving Aizawa. "Will you stop that?"

She gritted her teeth. "Tch. Whatever." She mumbled. She was cranky because Courtney was taking too long on the interrogation and all they had to do was sit around and talk with these stern-looking police guys. Well, except for Matsuda, who always seemed so cheerful and careless. She would rather talk to that panda-eyed detective than talk to these old policemen. Even if he actually kind of looked like the kid from the Grudge movie. She shuddered.

"So, are you five sisters?" Matsuda asked Ariel.

"Yep. Except for Asura, she's our cousin." Ariel replied as she took a sip from her hot chocolate. The girls had went over everything they had to do, in any case that they were going to meet L in person. Courtney had warned everyone to not over-exaggerate when acting if they see him, as she was sure that he would see through it. Veronica, being the best actress out of the five, smirked and thought about the things she would do. Would she faint or scream? The only problem was she always let her emotions take over her, and that was mostly the reason she'd get trouble in their school.

And as for Ariel, she was kind of creeped out by the detective. Arisa had told her that he would do strange things such as sit in a weird position, eat none other than sweets, and let's not forget his dark eyes boring through your soul. She was also kind of nervous about the interrogation because she knew how smart this L guy is. And like what Maddie had said before, detectives were always observant. One wrong word and you would be quickly under suspicion.

Maddie wasn't really that nervous. In fact, she felt nothing as usual, being the complete opposite of Veronica and the most laid-back one. Although, she had to admit that she missed Dave and Ethan a little bit. Ever since they got in Japan unexpectedly, she had been trying to send them messages, saying she was fine, through her laptop. But unfortunately, it didn't work.

What Arisa was feeling right now was like Courtney. They both had the same personality, except Courtney was more out-going, straightforward, and crazy while Arisa, well let's just say she had more dignity than Courtney.

Just then, the intercom that was attached beside the door went beeping. They all stared at it. After a few moments, Watari entered the room and pushed a button.

"Ms. Cassandra's interrogation is done. Watari, could you please come to the room and accompany her out? And also, bring Ms. Ashley with you." L said with the distorted voice that they were familiar with.

Ariel's ears perked up. 'Eh, how did he know my name? Or rather, my alias? Courtney must've told him.' She sighed before standing up. 'But why does he want me to go next? Can't he just let us choose...' She looked at Veronica. Her lips curled-up in annoyance. Ariel bit her lip and looked at Maddie. She smiled gleefully at her. Her way of saying, 'Good luck'. Arisa smiled at her in encouragement. She took two deep breaths before following Watari.

'I hope he's not an obnoxious detective. Nah, Courtney and Arisa seemed to like him a lot, even though he is an anime character. Or was. So I guess he's a nice person even though he looks creepy. So how hard could it be?'

All of their interrogations were finished, and so the girls were sitting in the room where the questioning took place. Matsuda and Mogi were sitting behind them.

Apparently, Ariel had thought too soon about L being nice and all. Her brain hurt too much. L's questions had almost made her head explode. Heck, she had never even met him in person and she already thought of him as a big jerk. He kept asking questions about Kira, a.k.a Light Imagay. She didn't even know this Light guy! All she knew about him was that he was corrupted, and that was the reason why he thought killing criminals was , it was an interrogation so deal with it, woman!

Of course, it was easy for Arisa, Courtney, and Maddie as they were familiar with his personality. And for Veronica, well let's just say she had walked out of the room, eyes full of rage...

"I'm positve that none of you is Kira."

Everyone sighed in relief. "The five of you can start working tomorrow. Goodbye."

"Wait, that's it?! I thought we were going to see you! Traitor!" Courtney huffed.

It was silent for a moment. "Is there any reason to why you are so eager to meet me in person?"

Veronica smirked before she had spoken. "Yeah Cassandra, why are you so eager to see him? I mean, for all we know he could be hideous." Ariel snorted, but quickly covered her mouth with her hand and looked down. Arisa covered her laugh with a fake cough. Maddie's lips twitched and quickly turned into a smirk. Courtney laughed out loud. And I mean loud.

"Calm the heck down." Ariel said with a laugh. She heard Matsuda snickered behind them.

"Alright. I already said that I was positive that none you is Kira, so I guess it couldn't hurt. All of you will see me in a few moments."

Veronica crossed her arms over her chest and looked smug. "Why the sudden change of plans? Oh wait, now I know. I think you don't want us thinking that you're an ugly nerd. Hmm... interesting." She put a finger under her chin.

"Very interesting, indeed." Maddie mused. "After all, smart people sometimes looks like a nerd. Scratch that, they often look like a nerd."

"Don't call him a nerd! You haven't even seen him in person!" Courtney snapped.

"So?" Veronica shrugged. Two reasons why she had agreed to help out on the case: One, to catch Kira, and two, to bug the world's greatest detective. But I guess she had underestimated him...

"You can't judge people. At least he's smart, unlike some people I know." Courtney muttered. Veronica gasped.

"Did you just call me dumb?!" Ariel covered her mouth again and looked at Arisa at the corner of her eye.

Courtney mocked gasped. "Hey look, she's catching on!"

"Stop fighting or all of you would be off the task force." L saw Matsuda grinning behind the girls. He could clearly see that Matsuda was enjoying the argument. L had to admit, it was interesting to watch girls fight, any girls (Well aren't you a perv), but he couldn't afford to waste any more time.

He sighed inwardly. These were some of the problems you'd have working with women. They would fight over the stupidest things. He knew working with women sometimes could be a pain in the A, especially when they're teenagers...

"Matsuda, Mogi. The two of you can take them to my suite now."

"I am L."

To him, it was all Déjà vu. Arisa looked at Matsuda and raised an eyebrow in question. Matsuda grinned and nodded. "That's him."

Even though Courtney had seen and dreamed of his face, there was still a difference between an anime version of him, and a real-life one. From afar, you could clearly see the dark bags under his eyes on the contrast of his pale face. If he straightened his back, he would look taller. His black hair, as usual, were pointing out in different directions. But most importantly, he was a lot cuter in real life.

"Well, at least he doesn't looked like a nerd, but he still looks creepy." Veronica whispered to Courtney. For the first time, Courtney hadn't protest. She just stared at him with shocked and pure happiness.

Ariel had to admit, he kind of looked cute. He reminded her of a panda. But, why was he staring at her?! 'Uh... OMGosh this is just plain creepy. Go stare at someone else, jerk!' She sighed in relief as he gazed moved onto Courtney. But it was like he had never stared at Ariel. He had jerked his head too fast for Ariel to notice.

"Hmm....Are you really L? For all we know you could be pretending to be him." Veronica said.

Courtney sighed in exasperation. "Oh my gosh." She muttered and pointed at Matsuda.

"He just said that he is L! You are such a dumbass." Veronica slapped the back of Courtney's head. Courtney's face turned red in anger and charged to Veronica, but Maddie grabbed the back of her shirt and easily yanked her closer to L. Ariel and Arisa had grabbed Veronica before she could tackle Courtney.

"I would not accept this kind of behaviour. If you all want to continue working on this case, I'd suggest you all act your age and be mature." L said in a slightly hard tone, but nonetheless monotonous.

"Ha, like you're mature! You can be childish, too, you know." Courtney said. He turned towards her.

"Like how?"

Courtney thought about it for a second. She went through all of the immature things he had done in the anime, but all of it would get L all suspicious.

"Uh... I can just tell about a person." But L was not convinced.

"Yeah, she's just weird like that." Ariel said quickly, but it was a lot more convincing than what Courtney had said because she looked pretty nervous.

"That's her nature." Maddie muttered. L didn't asked any more questions, but remained alert and skeptical.

A very unexpected thing had happened next...

Courtney's stomach had growled so loud they all thought someone had farted...

The girls looked at each other and burst out laughing. Watari smiled, but Mogi remained emotionless. Matsuda giggled behind them. Wait, GIGGLED?!

"You're - what - the heck was that?!" Veronica gasped out the words.

"It means - I'm hungry - you noob!" Courtney covered her mouth, but was still laughing.

"Wow - I thought that was - a dinosaur or something!" Ariel snickered. She looked at Arisa, who was dying from laughing. "Hey, Ari- Asura! Are you okay?!" Arisa breathed in deeply.

"I'm okay."

"Why are you still hungry? Didn't you eat like, most of the stuff Watari had served us?" Ariel asked with a smile.

"Neh, don't be rude. It's Watari-san.­" Arisa said. Ariel giggled. "Sorry."

"L, do you have anything else other than sweets?" Courtney asked in a whiny tone.

"I'm gonna have to ask you to call me Ryuzaki from now on." L said. "And uh, what would you girls like to eat?"

"Pizza!"

"Ice cream!"

"Po-ta-to Chips!"

"Chocolate!"

"Pizza."

"Gummy Bears!"

They all turned around and stared at Matsuda, who had squeaked 'Gummy Bears'. Courtney snickered. "What the hell? And who was the other one who said pizza?!"

"I did." Maddie said.

"Aha! We get pizza, then!" Courtney pumped her fist up in the air. The rest of them shrugged in agreement.

L put his thumb in his mouth and scratched his right foot at the back of his left leg. "Okay, then. What topping?"

"Pepperoni!"

"Ham and Pineapple!"

"Bacon!"

"Ham, Pineapple, Bacon and Pepperoni all together." Maddie muttered. Courtney extended her hand with her fist clenched to Maddie. "Pound it home doggy dogg home slice." Maddie smacked her fist with a grin.

"FoShizzle!"

Arisa gave them a weird look. Courtney laughed. "It's an American gangster stuff."

"More like Wangsters to me." Veronica mumbled.

"Nuh-huh! We are cool!" Courtney argued.

"Yes! We're hot!" Veronica and Courtney gave each other a thumbs-up and both grinned like idiots.

"Aww, nice to see you two get along." Arisa said.

"Yeah, that is very nice, but we have to give Watari our order." Maddie said bluntly.

"Watari-san."

"Whatever."

"Don't you want any, L?" Ariel offered him a slice of pizza.

"No thank you. And please call me Ryuzaki."

"Right, sorry."

All of them were sitting in his suite, and were eating pizza. Mogi, Aizawa, and the Chief were in the other room. Matsuda was supposed to be in the other room, too, but the girls had forced him to stay in the suite and eat pizza with them. They loved him already.

"So, L - Ryuzaki, what's new with Kira?" Arisa asked.

"Nothing interesting has happened yet." He took a sugar cube and popped it into his mouth. Veronica wrinkled her nose in disgust, but said nothing.

"Wow, what a pretty boring first day." Courtney muttered.

"He said we start tomorrow." Maddie reminded her.

"He did?" She asked in confusion. "Oh yeah, he did."

Ariel chuckled. "Yeah, just talk like he's not here." She said sarcastically. They glanced at L, but he was typing something inhumanly fast in his laptop.

It was silent for a moment. "So, Ryuzaki? Why do you look like that? I mean, detectives are supposed to look good. I thought you'd be more like Sherlock Holmes or something."

"You actually think he cares what he looked like? He can wear whatever the hell he wants." Courtney said. But Veronica was not listening to her.

"I know! We should take you out shopping!" L looked up from his laptop.

"This is not a fashion show. You are here because you are helping us catch Kira."

Veronica pouted. "You need new clothes! Don't you agree, Matsu-chan?" She turned to Matsuda, who was blushing furiously. Courtney made a disgusted face and stuck her tongue out behind Veronica's back. Arisa's eyes widened and giggled.

"Uh... I..." Matsuda glanced at L, who was staring at him with those dark, creepy eyes.

"Aw, come on! Stop scaring him!" Arisa giggled.

"You know, why don't you try this pizza? Or eat anything other than those junk." Ariel asked.

L took his blueberry cheesecake. "I'm perfectly fine with this."

"Fine then, you'd get fat."

"If you must know, I have high metabolism." He took a bite of his cake. Veronica looked at him in envy.

"You're lucky." She said in an admired tone.

Maddie sighed inaudibly. "I think this would cover up till dinner."

"You don't have any food?" Matsuda asked.

It was Courtney who answered. "No, we got mugged." Ariel almost choked on her pizza. Arisa gave her water, but some of it went out of her nose because she was giggling too much. Wow, very attractive, huh?

"What do you mean about that?" L asked in a monotonous tone.

"Wow, and I thought you were supposed to be the smart one." Ariel muttered.

"Well, Vanessa was walking down the street one night carrying all the money we had, but being the stupid one, she got mugged by two psychopathic maniacs and took all of our money. It's probably a good thing she didn't get stabbed or anything." Courtney said nonchalantly. Well maybe it was a bad thing for Courtney.

Out of L's sight, Maddie gave her a 'where-are-you-going-with-this' look. She just smirked back. Surprisingly, Veronica had caught on pretty fast on what Courtney was blabbering about.

"Yeah. All the hard work we'd done, all for nothing!" Veronica said dramatically.

"Dramatic, much?" Ariel chuckled and took a bite off of her pizza.

Matsuda gasped. "Was it the guys who had try to harassed you both?" He asked Arisa and Veronica.

"Yes." Veronica replied sadly. She glanced at Arisa, who nodded sadly. 'Good, she knows what we're doing. I just hoped Ariel does, too...'

"And now, we're broke."

"Well anyway, what time is it?" Arisa asked. Matsuda glanced at his watch.

"It's past 8."

"Holy crap. The interrogation had took longer than I thought." Courtney muttered. She rubbed her eyes and yawned.

"We should probably go now." Maddie said. 'Wait, what the? What is she doing? Aww and now L wouldn't give us money to buy clothes!' Veronica mused.

Watari entered the room and gave L a white cellphone. L then gave it to Ariel, who was sitting beside him. "Call me on this phone in case of an emergency. Remember, only use this phone if it's urgent. Any information that we need is committed to memory, and that none of you should tell anyone outside of the investigation anything about the Kira case. Understood?" The girls nodded in agreement.

"Do all of you want a ride home?" Matsuda asked. L felt an eye-roll coming, but went against it.

"Sure, thanks." Arisa said. Matsuda and the girls stood up, while L remained sitting and watching them.

He put his thumb in his mouth. 'Hmm... is catching Kira the only reason why these girls want to help?'

A/N: I know, I know! It was a dull ending! But I couldn't think of any good one. I hoped I didn't make L too OOC. He'll have his goofiness in the story, but not too goofy.

The "Yes! We're hot!" part was from a Fruits Basket Ayame - Shigure avatar. :)

So, we started school last week, and I loved it! Hope you guys are having a rockin' out school year! And please review! :D