It's getting interesting now! As you guys probably remember, Olivia noticed all the traps Light has in his rooms. She knows that there are probably three of them. The Task Force would've caught Kira sooner if she'd been on the team that placed the cameras. Oh, well…

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**I don't own Death Note. Never have, probably never will. Also, I make typos. And I am often too lazy to correct them, so if you hate reading stories with typos, you've been warned.

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6. Upside Down

'Yagami Light,' L mused. Yagami and Ryuzaki were sitting on the plaited chairs in front of the television screens that showed us the Yagami house. A bit further away from their position were more television screens. Sayu's room, Yagami's wife's room, the kitchen and the bathroom. Every room was shown from different angles, but Light's room had by far the most cameras. Both the kitchen and the bathroom were also included in Ryuzaki and Yagami's television screens, but that was so that either of us could turn the screen off when we found it necessary.

'According to the people who installed the instruments, there was a small trap made to tell whether or not someone entered his room while he was out,' Ryuzaki continued, gaining my attention.

Only one trap? That would probably be the piece of paper. Shit. This could be a problem.

'Other than that, his room does not have anything strange,' Ryuzaki said.

For some reason, I did not want to tell Ryuzaki about the other traps while Yagami was here. He already had a pretty hard time with L suspecting his family, if I said this, it would seem like I was suspecting his family, too. And, yes, maybe I was – just a little bit – but that didn't mean that Yagami deserved to suffer through any of it.

I looked over to their screens to see how Light walked into his room and sat down on his bed. He laid down for precisely five seconds before getting up again, opening his closet, taking a jacket out and leaving the room again. Before he closed the door, he put the piece of paper back in its place.

Yagami seemed honestly surprised. 'So he really does set a trap there. Does he have anything to hide?'

Maybe. Probably. Certainly. I kept my mouth shut.

Since I wasn't commenting on it, Ryuzaki spoke. 'Seventeen is a sensitive age. Doing something like this isn't strange at all. When I was his age I used to do pointless things, too.'

I bit back a laugh and looked back at my screens, hoping that L hadn't noticed that I almost laughed at him.

'By the way, Yagami. I hear that your son is interested in the Kira case and is conducting an independent investigation. Have you mentioned any information to him regarding our efforts?' Ryuzaki asked then.

Yes, I answered in my head. Yagami-san probably wouldn't even have known. The things he'd said seemed to trivial and unimportant. But he did speak about the investigation that night, so he technically did mention something.

'Definitely not!' Yagami sputtered, insulted. I noticed that Ryuzaki was quite good at insulting people. That must be a gift. 'I have mentioned the case to my family, but I've never revealed anything confidential to them.'

"But even trivial matters can become important if lives are on the line, miss Savers."

I closed my eyes, grabbed the chair and dug my nails in the wood. Tried to breathe. Tried to get that voice out of my head. Something… something Yagami said made me remember. And I hated it. I hated remembering.

'Also, I haven't been home for a long time, and whenever I go there I immediately slump into my bed,' Yagami added, not noticing the state of his own assistant. He never noticed when I had flashbacks. I didn't want him to notice.

The problem with working with the world's greatest detective was that this man did notice. 'I see,' Ryuzaki responded to whatever Yagami just said. But he was looking at me, me staring back at him, almost scared. How long had he been looking at me? What had he seen? I hated not knowing. I hated the flashbacks. I hated knowing, remembering.

And I hated being wrong.

'But what do you mean by that, Ryuzaki?' Yagami asked slowly, pulling Ryuzaki's attention back to him. 'Are you saying my son could be Kira?'

All three of us watched the screen while Light entered his home again, moving upstairs. Whatever he'd been doing, it had been a short trip. Strange. If it had been so short, why hadn't he done that on his way from school to home? Why go out again?

'Of course,' L responded, looking at the screens as Light entered his bedroom. 'That's why I ordered your home to be put under surveillance.'

I went back to my screen, looked at Sachiko as she cleaned up the kitchen. Sayu was currently at a friend's house, so I only had one person to watch. She seemed tired, her face almost naturally worried. She looked like she needed a hug.

'My son reads… porno magazines?' Yagami suddenly said, surprised.

Even though I felt the immediate desire to turn around to see, I restrained myself. I didn't want to see the magazines, or whatever Light was doing with them. Still, Light never really seemed like a… normal boy to me. I always thought he was a bit off. The way he treated girls was always so… uninterested. He was always respectful, mostly kind, but he never seemed interested in any female – or male, for that matter. So this just seemed off.

'It's normal for a seventeen year old boy,' L answered Yagami, surprisingly. Then he added something which I thought was much more 'L-like'. 'But still… I think he's faking this to make it seem normal that he covered the door gap with a slip of paper.'

'That does seem like a thing he would do,' I said, immediately feeling Yagami's eyes in my back. 'If Light is indeed Kira,' I added, more for Yagami than for anyone else.

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I watched how Sayu came home and helped her mother with dinner, which seemed to lighten up Sachiko's face a little, and Light came downstairs to eat, with his perfect façade still on.

'More music videos?' he asked his sister as he sat down, looking at the television screen. 'You should watch the new more often, Sayu.'

Seeing as how all the members of the Yagami household were in the living room now, I stood and walked over to the other screens, standing behind Ryuzaki's and Yagami's chairs. Only seconds later, Ryuzaki picked up his phone. As I saw him move, I wondered why he started to move like that. Was it good for the blood circulation or something? Or was he just weird? Hmm, could be both.

'Aizawa, are the Satamura's watching television?' Ryuzaki asked. I guessed the answer was 'yes', because he pushed his 'Watari-button' (yes, I gave everything names like that) and the screen next to him lit up, showing Watari sitting behind his desk.

'Watari, begin the broadcast immediately,' Ryuzaki ordered.

Watari obeyed without a question. 'Affirmative.'

From where I was standing I couldn't see the television screen all that well, but from Sayu's reaction I guessed what it was about. L had faked a special report, saying that the ICPO sent 1500 investigators to work in Japan.

I looked at Light carefully, but his face stayed the same. Was it the mask that Kira was hiding behind, or was this was Light always did? It became hard to tell now that I knew he could be Kira.

'What a stupid move!' Light then declared, his mask showing more emotion now. The only problem was that, to me, it looked like fake emotion.

'Eh?!' Sachiko and Sayu said, both at the same time. Those two weren't intellectual or diabolical enough to be Kira. Their reactions alone were proof enough. There was never anything calculated about the way those two acted. Light always calculated everything, created the perfect image. I remembered now. He always did that. That didn't make him Kira.

'A public announcement like this one is completely useless. If they really wanted to investigate, they'd have to do so secretly. Even FBI agents who were undercover were killed. Publicly announcing that they're sending more agents would only increase the casualties,' Light said, explaining to his mother and sister what everyone in this room already knew.

'Ah, that's true!' Sayu realised. 'Nii-san is so smart!'

But Light wasn't done talking yet, something that both surprised and upset me. I wasn't sure it upset me, though. 'So this news report must be a bluff that the police are trying to scare Kira with. But it's too obvious. Kira is probably laughing at them right now.'

A short silence before L spoke. 'Your son is pretty smart,' he said, a hint of a smile in his voice. He sounded amused, but not really impressed. As if he'd known that there were a few options, a few scenarios, ways Light could've reacted. And he liked the option Light went with.

'Huh?' Yagami said, surprised by the sudden compliment. 'Uh… I guess so…'

Light stood then, making of focus again. 'I'm done,' he announced, taking his plate to the kitchen.

'So fast!' his sister told him with food in her mouth. I smiled at that.

Then we watched how Light went to the closet and grabbed a bag of chips, which got him a reaction from his sister. 'Nii-san, you're eating chips right after dinner? You'll get fat!' she told him.

'This is my study snack,' Light told her, waving with the bag of chips before walking away.

I watched him walk to his room, but returned to my own chair when Sayu went to her room and Sachiko started to clean up.

Sayu and Sachiko watched a drama together, when I watched how Sayu took a shower, which was both uncomfortable and surprisingly fine, which was a bit weird, and then she called a friend while sitting on her bed with her PJ's on. Sachiko watched a cooking program alone before brushing her teeth and going to bed. Now I had to watch two women sleep for… eight hours?

I looked over at the other screens, saw that Light was in fact still studying.

'Five minutes before the late night news,' Ryuzaki announced after a short while, reminding me that I probably should keep watching Sayu and Sachiko, while Yagami and Ryuzaki were doing what they were supposed to be doing.

'Your son has been doing nothing but study ever since dinner,' L said, which was a pretty stupid remark if you think about it.

'That's because he has an important test coming up soon,' I answered for Yagami, hoping that speaking with them could help me not get bored or tired. But they both didn't say anything in response, so I was stuck with looking at two dark rooms.

The silence in the room was gone when Watari walked in. 'Ryuzaki,' he said, having a slightly urgent tone in his voice.

'What is it, Watari?' Ryuzaki asked, not turning around. He kept looking at the screen, just as Yagami, making me the only one who actually looked at Watari.

'The bribery and robbery suspects that were both announced on the news both died in their holding cells,' Watari announced, looking at the papers in his hands.

Yagami shot up from his chair, clearly enthusiastic. 'It's Kira!'

Yes. We know, Yagami. But wait before getting excited. Maybe Ryuzaki won't be as convinced as you are…

'Only Jichou's wife and eldest daughter watched the news at Satamura's,' Watari said, answering a question that no one had asked yet.

'The director's wife and daughter were watching a drama, then the daughter left and the wife watched a cooking show before turning off the television. They didn't watch anything else,' L said, surprising me. He had been looking so closely at Light, that I'd assumed that he wouldn't watch the living room at all. But he had.

'The son has been studying since 7:30… it's 11:00 now.' Even though I couldn't see his face, I felt like Ryuzaki was frowning. 'Neither families used the telephone, they didn't use the radio or internet either. Kira needs a victim's name and face in order to kill them, if they didn't watch the news, then they are not Kira, howe—'

Ryuzaki was cut off by Yagami shouted: 'As you can see, my family is innocent!' he even smiled.

But L wasn't done talking yet. 'However, the criminals Kira killed today only committed minor crimes, which is odd considering Kira's killing pattern. Furthermore, the Yagami household shook off all suspicion in just one day…'

Yagami looked seriously worried now, but I couldn't help but smile. That man was a great detective, but he really had no idea how bad he was with people. He seemed an expert in how to piss people off.

'I… I'm taking a short break,' Yagami announced, leaving the room.

Tell him! my mind shouted almost immediately. Tell him about the traps! 'Ryuzaki,' I said, too fast, making it soon all fumbled and weird.

'Hm?' he said, not looking at me, but at Light. Geez. If he wasn't investigating I would think that he had an odd fascination for the boy.

'You said that the team who placed the cameras only found one trap, right?' I asked, not looking at L since he wasn't looking at me.

'I did, yes,' Ryuzaki answered.

Did he really think he was going to miss something important if he looked at me for just two seconds? Seriously? Did he hate my face?

Stop it.

I shook my head, tried to think clearly. 'I think I should let you know that, last time I visited the house, I spotted three traps.' I looked at him and saw that he turned his head to look at me slowly, as if moving too fast could scare me away.

'And what were those three traps?' he asked.

'The piece of paper, of course,' I started. 'And there was a piece of lead balanced on the highest door hinge. It gets broken if someone were to open the door without removing it. And the third one…' I stopped. Hated being wrong. Didn't know for sure. Didn't want L to think I was stupid. Didn't want anyone to think I was stupid.

"You're so dumb. Haven't you figured it out yet? Your parents won't come for you. Where you're going, no one will ever come for you. You're mine now."

Darkness, the smell of the sea. Vague car lights that couldn't help me, couldn't save me. "No, stop... Please…"

"Stop whining. It's annoying. And wipe that blood of your face. It ruins your beautiful face."

'Olivia.'

"No, please, please. Stop it. Take me back home. Take me home."

'Olivia.' I felt someone hitting me in the face, but I wasn't sure where. Was there someone else here? There? The parking lot seemed empty. I was all alone.

"You were wrong, miss Savers."

I was hit in the face so hard that I fell out of my chair. Or maybe I'd already dropped on the floor. Whatever happened, when I looked up, I saw two dark eyes staring at me, surprisingly emotionless. And way too close to me. I was sure that I was staring into those eyes with nothing but fear.

'Ah, there you are,' Ryuzaki said before standing up and walking back to his chair, his hands in his pockets. 'I read that you do that sometimes,' he told me, almost as if those words would explain his actions.

I touched my cheek, which still burned. Did L actually punch me in the face? The L? That was… weird. I wasn't sure how I should respond to that. 'Did you also read that you should punch me when I do that?'

'No, I did not, but it's the quickest way,' he answered. Then he said: 'What was the third trap?'

Slowly, I looked up at him, but he wasn't looking at me. He'd done it. He'd found a way to piss me off, too. I stood, looked around me. Saw that Watari wasn't in the room anymore. And Yagami hadn't returned yet. Good. I was still safe.

I considered hitting him. Not hard, but just hard enough for him to feel it. The reason why I didn't was because I was quite certain that he would hit back. 'The freaking door handle,' I answered before walking out the room, leaving L with his television screens.

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Tadaa! I think. Meh. This chapter is a bit shorter than the previous chapters, but I didn't want to drag this chapter out too long. And it's really hard for me to make Olivia use logic. Especially when it comes to Light. I just want her to suspect Light 100%, but that's not how it would work. She doesn't work like that. Also, at first, I wanted her to save Misora from Light, but my problem with that was that I had Misora alive. What would I do with her? Olivia doesn't know her, she doesn't know what Light can do. It was too much thinking for me, so I decided to pass on that idea. Sorry, Naomi.

Anyhowsies, thank you for reading and hope you enjoyed. Bye!

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