Ciao! Sorry this chapter took so long, I was on vacation. But here it is! Oh and for those who are wondering, yes I realize Shawn's name is spelled wrong. I unfortunately looked at a part of the USA website that had a typo of his name. But no worries, I'm still going to use the spelling I've been using so it won't cause confusion. Just wanted to mention that so I don't get any flamers hehe. Enjoy!

Chapter Four: Randy

The other detectives soon stepped in. They stared at the new recruits with wonder.

"These detectives will be helping us solve the Kira case," L told them. The other detectives went to greet the two new parties.

"Hello my name is Adrian Monk and this is my assistant Natalie," Mr. Monk said.

"Mr. Monk, we're supposed to use our fake names, remember?" Natalie whispered.

"Oh yeah...right. Listen Ryuzaki this whole new name thing is really confusing. I mean none of us are the murderer, I think we can all agree. So maybe we could use our names in public," Mr. Monk said.

"If you're willing to risk it," Ryuzaki replied.

"Yeah because no offense Ryu our fake names suck. Why can't we get a cool name like Ryu?" Shawn said.

"Ryuzaki, have they seen all the information yet?" one of the detectives asked.

"They still need to see the crime scene photos."

"Woah, crime scene photos? I love crime scene photos," Shawn said. Another folder was placed on the table and Shawn snuck a peek at the crime scene folders, making it look like he didn't see any of them. Shawn suddenly began to go into a fit of convulsions. The other detectives stared at him in alarm, thinking he was suffering from a heart attack.

"Is he alright?" one of them asked. Mr. Monk rolled his eyes at the pathetic attempt to be psychic.

"No he always does that when the ...spirits are trying to contact him," Gus explained, also not pleased.

"I sense something, some sort of symbol," Shawn said. He grabbed the marker that L had been using and began to write the symbol on the table. Mr. Monk frowned at this. Now he would have to clean the table all over again. Shawn accurately drew on of the symbols that had been drawn by a victim prior to their death. When Shawn was done he got up and actually opened the folder so they could see this.

"Well Ryu it seems you were holding out on us," Shawn said. L simply nodded knowing that Shawn had snuck a peek at the photos and was merely fooling the others on the case. He decided to let Shawn play his little game if he wished.

"That was amazing!" one of the detectives exclaimed. He was a young, naive police officer, the spitting image of Randy Disher.

"How did you do that?" he continued to ask Shawn.

"Well, you see I grew up on a farm in Kansas and the gift has been passed down from generation to generation," Shawn completely bull shitted the poor unfortunate soul.

"Natalie, is it just me, or is that Randy come to haunt us?" Mr. Monk whispered.

"You're right he is a lot like Randy," Natalie whispered back.

"Matsuda, stop acting immature," the leader of the group ordered.

"'L do you know Shinigami love apples?'" Shawn read one of the messages encoded at the crime scenes, "what's a Shiny gummy?"

"It's called a Shinigami and it first referred to the Grim Reaper. The idea came from Europe in the Meji period. Now, it is more broadly used as a term for death gods," Gus said. Shawn looked up at Gus with surprise.

"Gus, I'm impressed," Shawn said and Gus gave a slight smirk, "Watching the History Channel instead of ESPN again. I'm begging you Gus just once change to that channel, once."

"After our last case in Japan, I thought I'd look up on their culture just in case. It's called research Shawn," Gus snapped back.

"Okay fine whatever. So what does that mean? I mean what kind of person says something like that?" Shawn asked.

"It might be a reference to something. Notice how he specifically says 'apples'. Why apples is the question. Did any of the murders occur during a grocery store of some sort?" Mr. Monk asked.

"Wait. What if these things actually exist? What if this guy is using a Shinigami to carry out the killings?" Gus asked.

"Gus, don't be ridiculous," Shawn quickly shut down Gus' idea, not knowing that Gus was actually right. Suddenly, Natalie's cell phone began to ring. L showed a hint of annoyance but didn't say anything.

"It's Randy," she said.

"Don't answer it," Monk said immediately.

"But it's Randy!" The cell phone continued to ring.

"Okay fine answer it but then hang up on him," Monk offered. But Natalie had already answered the phone and handed it to Mr. Monk.

"Hello Randy," Mr. Monk said in a dull tone.

"Hey Monk. Just wanted to know how the case was going."

"It's going fine Randy."

"...Is L there?"

"Yes, he's here."

"Wow," Randy said in amazement, "Hey do you think I could talk to him?"

"I don't know. He's very busy at the moment."

"Could you ask him?"

"Randy I'm not going to ask him."

"Please!? I'll never ask for any favors ever again." Mr. Monk turned to Natalie who was glaring at him. He then looked back at L.

"My friend, Randy, he's a big fan of yours. It would mean a lot to him if you could just ...talk to him," Monk said awkwardly. L stared at the phone for a moment, not comprehending what he was hearing. He had fans? You must be joking. L took the phone from Monk's hand and held it by the top part of the phone.

"..Hello?" L said into the phone.

"L?" Randy's excited voice could be heard from the phone, "wow...this is so cool. I am such a big fan. I was hoping we would see you with the Six Way Killer Case." For once someone actually knew what Randy was talking about. FBI agents had been sent to San Francisco to solve the Six Way Killer Case. A murderer had killed someone using six different methods threatening to kill again. But Mr. Monk had figured out that the murder was only a cover up for another murder that had been committed. It had actually been the case that caused L's interest in Mr. Monk. There weren't that many people that could outwit the FBI.

"I declined the case when the list of FBI agents involved in the case was sent to me," L replied frankly. He had known that if he got involved in that case, the FBI agents would never cooperate.

"We hated those guys too."

"Okay Randy, Ryuzaki has to go now. He's very busy," Natalie said as she took the phone away from L. She then hung up the phone.

"Thank you Ryuzaki. It meant a lot to him," Natalie said.

"We can see that," Shawn answered, "Now can we please get back to the case maybe."

"Right, let's start looking over the evidence," Ryuzaki replied.