Chapter 7
Yatsuki yawned and sat on the couch next to B before leaning over and setting her head in his lap after he adjusted his seating position. "B! I'm bored!!" she moaned up at him.
"Why don't you finish grading those papers?" he asked.
"I did that already." She said. "I'd go over to the Yagami's, but I think Papa Y. is pissed at me."
"Why would he be pissed at you?" B asked.
"'Cause I'm teaching at To-Oh and possibly being a burden to the investigation."
"Why don't you go work in the garage?" B asked.
"Nobody's buying at the moment. Therefore, I have no reason to."
B thought for a moment. He would ask Envy what to do, but L had bugged the house again, so he couldn't. Envy had left to go someplace anyway, so it wouldn't matter if L had bugged the house or not. Yatsuki looked like she had an idea and grinned wickedly. "What are you thinking?" B asked. When she grinned wider he added, "Never mind. I don't want to know."
She laughed and sprang up, grabbing his hand and dragging him into the garage. It was the only place in the whole house where they couldn't put cameras. "What are you doing?" B asked as Yatsuki picked up one of her laptops and dragged him back out to the couch. "And why did you drag me in there only to come back out here?"
She didn't answer, just giggled as she opened the laptop and started to type. After a few minutes, she set it on the coffee table and waited, smirking.
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L and the others had their eyes trained on the screens in front of them, where Yatsuki and B were sitting on the couch. She had gone and gotten a lap top from her garage and just started typing. "What's in that garage?" Matsuda wondered aloud, voicing everyone's question.
Yatsuki hit the "enter" key on her laptop and set it on the table in front of her, smirking. They could see the codes written on the screen of the lap top, but they had no idea what they were.
A few seconds later, all the screens went black and all audio was lost. "What the-"
"Greetings!" Yatsuki's voice said as her image appeared on the screen in the middle. She was grinning from ear to ear. "Did you really think that you could get this past me, L?" she asked. She was talking to them using the camera on the computer!
"How did you know?" L asked.
"Because I'm Yatsuki Okida and I'm bitchin' that way." She replied. They heard B sigh in the background and she giggled. "Ok, fine. I heard the zoom lenses of the cameras working."
"Can you see us, to?" Matsuda asked as everyone gave him pointed looks.
"No." Yatsuki replied. "But it's not hard to guess the looks on your faces. L just stares on blankly while Matsuda is staring in wonder and awe and the rest of you in surprise and general pissed-offedness."
"I don't think that that's a word, Tsuki-chan." B said.
She turned to look at him. "Well it is now." She said before sticking out her tongue. She turned back to the camera. "Anyway, I just wanted to say 'you are the weakest link. Goodbye.'" With that, the screen went black.
"How does she do that?" Ida asked.
"Just like she said." Matsuda replied, grinning. "She's Yatsuki Okida."
Soichiro sighed. "Still, this could cause a problem."
"On the contraty." L said. "If we play our cards right, we could use this in our favor." He turned to Watari. "Please get the head of the FBI on the phone." Watari nodded. Two could play at this game.
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Yatsuki shivered and stepped down from the chair that she was using as a ladder to remove the hidden camera she had recently found. "Are you cold?" B asked.
"No." she replied. "Just got a bad feeling."
Just then, Envy phased through the door. "There you are!" Yatsuki said. "Help us find the bugs."
Envy just nodded and helped as she told him what happened while he was away. He chuckled and shook his head. "You know you just got yourself into a whole lot of trouble, right?" he asked.
She shrugged and then sneezed. "Is a cute boy talking about you?" B asked.
She grinned. "Yupp."
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"I don't understand the request, sir." The head of the FBI said to L over the phone.
"Yatsuki Okida is a suspect in a case I'm currently trying to solve. I was hoping you could help me." L replied calmly.
"What case is it?"
"The Kira case."
There was a pause. "I don't know what she did that made you suspect her, but I can tell you right now that there is no way in hell that she's Kira."
"And why is that?" L asked. Everyone else stayed silent as they waited to hear the response (L had the phone on speaker.)
"Because she's terrified of the concept of death." The man finally replied. "If you even say the word around her, she freezes up and goes into some kind of fit."
Soichiro's eyes widened. That explained the reaction she had when he mentioned the deaths of the FBI agents. It also explained why she never stuck around to hear about the outcome of cases that she helped on.
"Do you know why?" L asked.
"No." The man replied. "I don't know much else about her, myself. She's kept a pretty tight lid on everything. I can only think that it was some kind of traumatizing experience from when she was a kid." The man sighed in thought. "Is that all?"
"Yes." L responded. "Thank you. You have been most helpful."
"What are we going to do?" Soichiro asked.
Just then, the door opened and in walked Yatsuki with two bags in her hands, whistling a strange tune. One she threw onto the couch and the other she carefully lay on the table before turning and walking towards the door.
"Miss Okida." L said, making her stop in her tracks. "You lied about working with the FBI."
She turned to him with an annoyed look. "No I didn't. You asked if I was an agent, and I'm not." She pulled out a badge and showed it. "I'm a computer specialist. And even then, I don't work with them directly. Now, with all possible respect, get the hell out of my business." She pocketed the badge and walked out of the room.
"As long as you're a suspect, your business is mine as well."
They heard her footsteps stop and head back to the room. She poked her head through the door and glared at L. "Has anyone ever told you that you're an annoying little fucker?"
All the men in the room looked at her, shocked that she'd say something like that. L, on the other hand, remembered a certain little girl from Whammy's who said the exact same thing. He nodded. "Many times."
Yatsuki rolled her eyes and walked away, not turning back this time.
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"The nerve of him!" Yatsuki yelled as she walked into the house. "He is such an asshole!"
"L?" both B and Envy said at the same time, looking up from the game of Scrabble that they had set up on the floor of the living room.
Yatsuki paused and laughed at them, her bad mood forgotten. "Yeah." She replied, sitting and grabbing some letters. She looked at the board, the words "Death," "Animal," and "Notebook" already on the board. "He's so friggin' annoying."
"And yet he was one of your best friends." B muttered, setting down tiles that spelled out the word "Killer."
"'Was' is the key word there." She said as she set down tiles, forming the word "Alias."
"I think he's still looking for you." B said as Envy spelled the word "King." "Or, he's looking for S."
Yatsuki snorted. "I know he is. What I want to know is why. I left before you did, so it couldn't be because he thinks I'll end up like you. And it's not like I was the first to leave, anyway. So why is he so interested in finding me?"
B and Envy stared at her. "Because." B muttered as he started to spell a word. "He felt the same way about you that I do. Most likely, he still does." The tiles spelt the word "Love."
Yatsuki's eyes widened slightly before she stood, cleaning up her tiles. "I'm going to get some food. What do you want?" she said.
"Cake." B replied.
Yatsuki playfully rolled her eyes and smiled when B threw a tile at her. But when she opened the door, there stood L, ready to knock. Her eyes widened before setting into a cool gaze. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Is this a bad time, Tsuki-chan?" he asked. At the sound of his voice, B was at her side with one arm wrapped around her waist possessively. The two men seemed to glare at each other. You could cut the tension with a knife.
"Not at all." Yatsuki said. "I was just about to go get us some dinner. B, please clean up for when I come back."
B nodded but didn't move from her side. "Would you mind terribly if I joined you?" L asked, his glare not breaking from B's.
"Of course not." She replied, ignoring the way B's grip tightened around her waist.
L nodded and motioned to the black car that was parked on the street, Watari waiting next to it like a good Butler. It made Yatsuki's blood boil. She moved from B's grip, but not before he managed to somehow give her a quick kiss while L was watching. L's glare became more intense and B looked a little smug. Yatsuki mumbled something about immature children and walked to the car, completely ignoring Watari. A chill went up her spine and she turned to look at the Yagami household to see Light watching from his bedroom window.
She pondered reasons of why he would be as she got in the car, closely followed by L. When Watari got in the driver's seat, L spoke. "Are you still angry with me, Tsuki-chan?" he asked, innocently.
"Duh." She responded. L reached for the passenger seat and pulled out a container of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Yatsuki squealed and grabbed it, a grin on her face. "You're forgiven." She said as she ripped off the lid and took a spoon that L offered her. Watari chuckled and L smiled slightly at her childish behavior.
After half an hour of waiting for the food and childish bickering, L and Watari dropped off Yatsuki at her house and bid her goodnight before driving off. She turned the key in the lock and opened the door, dropping the food to the floor.
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The Yagami's were having a quiet evening watching TV in the family room with the windows open, even though Light was far from relaxed.
Halfway through the movie, a scream ripped through the room. "That sounded like Tsuki-chan!" Saiyu yelled.
Soichiro immediately jumped into action, telling his family to stay in the house as he went to check what happened, grabbing a gun on the way out. He didn't expect what he saw.
Yatsuki was kneeling on the floor, a motionless B lying in her lap looking peaceful with a small smile on his face, his fingers still holding hers as if he died holding her hand, which he probably did. Yatsuki was in hysterics, unable to breath and a small trickle of blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth, repeating the word "No" over and over. Soichiro immediately called an ambulance and rushed to Yatsuki's side, stepping over a bag of food and a few Scrabble tiles that spelled out the words "I love you S" that were on the floor.
