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I don't own Death Note or it's characters...so sad:(
Deception
She made her way to her room silently and changed into her pants and shirt from the day, shoving her feet into her runners and grabbing a thick fluffy hoodie. Taking nothing with her except for her cane she made her way downstairs and listened. Her mom and sister were in her sisters room by the sounds she could here.
Doing up her hoodie she went to the door and opened it as soundlessly as possible before letting herself out and closing it behind her. Pulling the spare house key out from behind the flowerpot she locked the door, returned it to it's hiding place.
Faith began to speed walk the path to the hotel, having memorized it. Luckily she didn't have to take the train to get there because she would be in major trouble if she did. As she walked tears trickled down her cheeks, Faith trying desperately to hold them in.
Finally after a ten minute walk she reached the hotel. Pushing inside she tried to make her way through the lobby which was extreamly busy at that moment and was pushed over by someone.
Faith sat on the ground clinging to her cane and trying to recover her bearings.
"Faith?! What on earth are you doing here child!?"
"Watari!" Faith gasped out tearfully.
"Child! You look positively awful!" He helped her up and led her to the elevator.
"What's going on? Where's Light?" Watari questioned gently.
Faith felt a sob escape and plastered her hands over her mouth.
"Hush Faith, everything is going to be ok. The men are staying the night so I rented them a separate room to work and sleep in for the time being so that Ryuzaki could work undisturbed. We will go to him right now. Just breath." Watari coached.
Faith tried but little sobs escaped her.
Moments later the elevator stopped and she was lead to a hotel room. As Watari unlocked it she tried to do deep breathing.
The door opened and she was lead inside by Watari.
"Ryuzaki, I apologize for disturbing but I found Faith downstairs in the lobby." Watari explained.
She heard a chair shift and she started to shake. What if they didn't believe her? Or worse, if they thought that she was trying to implicate her brother?! Another almost sob escaped her lips and she pinched them closed, trying to keep anything else from escaping.
"Faith?!" Ryuzaki gasped, a chair clattering and moments later a hand settled on her shoulder.
She was steered over to the couch and he settled down next to her keeping a hand resting on her arm. Watari sat down on the couch.
"What happened?" Ryuzaki's usually calm voice sounded worried.
"Light is Kira." Faith got out before starting to cry.
"?!"
Faith tried to control her tears and explain what was going.
"Faith, breath. We need to know what's going on." Watari instructed.
Faith took a breath and began to speak.
"I was studying with Light in his room when someone from his school came over to talk to him. She returned and acted strange when she saw my lying on his bed with my work. When I turned to face in her direction she relaxed and suddenly blurted out that I was Lights sister. We don't have any photo's anymore other then the ones that were buried but somehow she knew that were were siblings. I asked her how she knew and she acted scared until Light announced that he had told her he had a twin. But something about the way they were verbally interacting was off." Faith started.
Ryuzaki hummed, prompting her to continue.
"Light asked me to leave so that he could talk to the girl, her name is Misa. Anyway once I had left and closed the door behind them I pressed my ear to the door to listen to what they talked about. First the talked about this thing called the eye trade. Misa called it having 'the eyes of the Shinigami' and having those eyes meant that when looking at a person she could see their full name and life span. She then talked about this notebook called the Death Note." Faith choked on the name of the notebook.
"Oh?"
Ryuzaki said.
Faith swallowed another sob.
"When we were at school one day before Kira rose I was waiting on a grassy area for my brother and I found this black notebook that said Death Note on the cover. I had no use for it and I thought it was some sort of a prank so I gave it to Light. After he got it that's when he started acting strange and that's also when criminals started dying. I never associated the two events before since I had forgotten about the notebook since as far as I knew it wasn't anything of importance." Faith continued, her voice shaking.
"Aside from the fact that she mentioned something called the Death Note how do you know it's attached to Kira?" Ryuzaki asked gently.
"Because they were arguing about whether Light could trust her or not and she said he could have her notebook as a safekeep. He said that she could have always pulled some of the pages out of the death note and hid them somewhere and Misa got all upset saying that she wouldn't do that since the only use for the Death Note was to kill people." Faith said, her voice thick with tears.
"Dear god." Watari whispered.
"Are you absolutely sure that's what they were talking about?" Ryuzaki pressed.
Tears flowed in earnest now.
"Yes. I can't believe I gave him that book! Light is Kira and it's all my fault!" Faith cried.
Faith plastered her hands over her face and sobbed.
"Watari! She's crying! What I do?! Faith heard Ryuzaki gasp but couldn't focus on his actual words.
"Comfort her. I'm going to go prepare tea to calm her once she can stop crying." Watari said.
Faith rocked slightly as she sobbed, suddenly she felt arms wrap around her gently, causing her to lean slightly into Ryuzaki. At the feeling of someone holding her she let go, burying her face in his chest and crying her heart out. She felt him lower his legs into a normal sitting position and hold her close, murmuring comforting words into her ear.
It took a while but Faith finally cried herself out and reluctantly straightened out of his embrace, wiping at her eyes.
"I apologize for reacting the way I did, it was unprofessional. Do you have any questions about what you heard." Faith said, clearing her expression and trying to even out her tone.
"Faith, at this point "unprofessional" is the least of my worries. You have just heard something that upset you deeply. It's perfectly normal to cry." Ryuzaki said.
Faith smiled weekly, swiping at her cheeks. She felt soft klenix gently dabbing at her cheeks and laughed softly.
"That tickles!" She squeaked.
"My apologies." Ryuzaki said.
Faith sighed and leaned back. Watari placed a tea cup in her hand and she sipped slowly, calming herself down. Once she was done she settled it down onto the table and took a deep breath.
"What do I do now? Now that I know for sure that Light is Kira I'm not going to be able to treat him like normal. To be completely honest I'm so scared to see him again. What do I do?" Faith mumbled, clenching and unclenching her fists.
A soft hand settled over one of her hands and slipped inside her fist, gently gripping her hand and forcing her to relax. Faith smiled and felt Ryuzaki adjust his grasp on her hand so that he was able to give her a reassuring squeeze.
"Watari? Faith has a good point, going back to Light would be problematic. What do you propose we do. After all, we cannot tell her father about this since there is no way to track down proof right away without endangering both the task forces life and Faith's life." Ryuzaki asked.
Faith heard Watari settle down in a chair across from the couch and let out a long breath.
"I thought you might ask me and I do have a idea. It would work out perfectly, especially since we now know without a doubt that Light is Kira. But this could potentially cause problems for both her and you in the long run." Watari said gravely.
"At this point we don't have much choice. Tell us your idea and then we can talk it over." Ryuzaki said quietly.
"If you and Faith pretended to become a couple it will anger Light and her dad both. In fact they may even go so far as to try to forbid your relationship which is the perfect reason for you to get angry and decide to move into the hotel with Ryuzaki. There are two bedrooms in this hotel so you wouldn't have to share a bedroom. Both of you are reserved people so not having constant physical contact won't make them disbelieve your relationship status. Besides, Matsuda was already saying that he was wondering if you guys were either already a couple or were going to get involved soon so everyone is already going to have a seed of doubt planted so they will accept the idea of a relationship between the two of you much easier." Watari explained.
Faith stared at him.
"Matsuda thought that Ryuzaki and I are dating? Why on earth would he think that?" Faith said in confusion.
"Yes, what on earth would possess him to make such a assumption?" Ryuzaki added.
"Because Ryuzaki, you are more aware of her blindness and the problems it presents as well as how you can help her around them than anyone else on the team aside from Light. If I didn't know you better I would have wondered about the status of your relationship myself. The two of you are very attuned to each other." Watari commented with a hint of amusement.
"Oh. I guess that makes sense. And Matsuda was always one to put a romantic spin on everything he sees." Faith said.
"Hmm. Watari do you mind discussing this with us, answering any questions we have after we've had a chance to talk this over?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Of course. I will retire to my room. When you would like me to come to talk with you guys simply call me." Watari said calmly before Faith heard him get up and leave.
A moment of silence. Then she felt Ryuzaki shift and his legs got pulled back up to his chest.
"So what do you think about Watari's suggestion Faith?" Ryuzaki asked quietly.
Faith leaned back and closed her eyes, running the suggestion through her mind.
"I think that it would work. I work well with you and enjoy talking with you. The only thing would be going against my dad. And it would be hard deceiving Light. I've never tried to lie to him and this is a pretty big situation." Faith mused.
"I too believe that this has the potential to work. However you need to remember the ramifications. I am your boss and in most work situations a relationship between me and you would be considered inappropriate. Your father would be quite angry with me and you which could be a problem for the Kira case. However nothing is more important than getting evidence and being able to arrest Light and Misa so the pro's of this plan might out way the cons." Ryuzaki pointed out.
"That's true this is going to be really hard. But because of Light I'm willing to do almost anything at this point. God, I'm so scared of Light!" Faith mumbled, dropping her head into her hands.
Faith felt a hand rest on her shoulder blade.
"Relax, no matter what happens I will make sure that your protected. Do you want to call Watari in to talk with him about this?" Ryuzaki asked.
Faith took a breath and nodded.
"So have I answered all the questions you have about this plan?" Watari asked after over a hour of questions and discussion.
"I don't have any more questions." Ryuzaki said.
"Neither do I." Faith added.
"So are you going to do this? Or no." Watari asked.
Faith took a breath.
"If your ok to do this Ryuzaki I will. I understand that you might not because of the potential downfall you might suffer on the Taskforce." Faith said carefully.
"I am not worried about any downfalls that could occur. I am in to do this plan as well. So how do we go about this Watari?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Ok. So if your going to sit next to anyone it should probably be each other. Once and a while maybe if you take her hand Ryuzaki, not obviously but definitely do it when you are sitting together. And when everyone else goes home if she stays for maybe another hour or so. And continue calling her Faith, no chan added onto the end." Watari said.
"Oh! I apologize for calling by your first name without any affix. I was so startled by your appearance and news that I forgot."
"I'm not worried about it. What I am worried about is what happens if I get kicked out or Light starts getting suspicious and grilling me?" Faith asked nervously.
"You will come live at the hotel until the case is over of course." Watari said kindly.
"Of course." Ryuzaki agreed.
Faith nodded quietly. Suddenly her phone chimed, telling her she had a text. She keyed in her passcode and then pressed the button that would have her phone read her text aloud to her.
"Where are you Faith?" It was from Light.
She looked in the direction of Ryuzaki.
"What do I tell him?"
Watari cleared his throat.
"Your positive that you want to go through on the plan?" He asked.
Faith nodded.
"Then tell him your at your boyfriends."
Mwahaha I told you I was going to throw a twist in:D So what did you think? Reviews are welcome! Flames shall be laughed at, posted for others to laugh at, and then ignored as I continue the story.
