Chapter 6
Edited By Kugnae-san
Lights flickered in Kai's eyes, almost as if dancing to his agony.
The scientists had finally lost their minds. They were making sure he did not end up like the K series, but they were apparently giving him the same treatment as it.
The poisons…gunshots…surgeries…
He must've done something seriously fucked up in a previous life to deserve what was happening to him. Sure, even in this life he had some karma stacked up against him from stealing, but that was for survival. Not that he believed in that karma crap.
His eyes flicked over to the door that separated him from the scientists, smelling a different scent than usual. But it had something wicked dancing around him, something intensely evil. Even in his out of commissioned state, his fur stood on end from the lingering scent.
His ears pointed at the door, half-lidded eyes almost trying to see through the door. "This-this isn't right…I-I hope K gets here soon…"
Kai shut his eyes, Female voice. But why does she smell so…why does it smell like death? She doesn't sound like the type to go off and kill people on a whim.
And then the scarce colors in his vision went spiraling away until he was left alone with himself in the dark confines of his subconscious.
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L opened up the email, eyes widening fractionally as his eyes scanned over the words quickly memorizing it in his uncanny way.
URGENT!
L, K, or whoever might be reading this (Though I suggest if you're not one of the before mentioned people, you stop reading this right now),
I have found the most disturbing thing happening here at the facility in China. A young boy, no more than fourteen or fifteen, has been captured.
They somehow caught him and smuggled him in here without B or myself knowing. From what I have been able to see of the files, he is from the Z series of the feline-human hybrid experiments. He had been released from the facility in the United States after some animal activists discovered it a few years ago. He was one of the children to have escaped.
They captured him in Greater LA, dumpster diving and quickly apprehended him, tranquilizing him and taking precautions against his feline traits.
I stumbled across him a few days ago. After Beyond instructed me to shoot down anyone suspicious. I am afraid for the boy.
I have not told Beyond because he will most likely kill the boy in one of his rages.
Please send someone as soon as the resources are available. I shall try and gather more information for you all.
-S
Lawliet's hands clenched into fists before he took a big breath. No, this is very fortunate. I must nip my rosebuds while I may.
He quickly pressed the "Reply" button with his index finger before pulling out the clear key board and writing a simple statement.
To S,
I understand. Please do not do anything rash.
—L
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Karin took a deep breath, resisting the animal urge to punch the wall repeatedly.
I can't believe it, she pressed the rewind button on the tape and paused it when the cameras focused on K. How could this be?
Gritting her teeth, she smashed the call button on her phone. "Artemis? Get your ass down here! I have to show you something that beloved Eve and Gameboy-geek-Freak just conveniently forgot to tell us!"
"Fine, just don't get your panties in a knot," he muttered before hanging up.
She nearly paced a whole in the floor by the time Artemis arrived, and when he did, she nearly ripped his arm off while pulling him in front of the TV she had set up.
"Bloody 'ell! What's your problem?!"
She pressed the play button and spoke through gritted teeth, "Just watch the damn video, and look closely at Agent K."
And he did.
"I am the head of a special police task force which includes members of all nations, my name is Lind L. Tailor, otherwise known as 'L.'" A small screen in the corner of the TV was focusing on everything Agent K did while balancing on the building. He caught the way she sighed in a hopeless manner.
That's familiar…
"Criminals all over the world are being murdered by a serial killer; I believe this to be the most atrocious act of mass murder in history. Kira, I will hunt you down, I will find you." K's eyes were half way glazed over…
I've seen that before…Artemis thought.
"Kira, I have a pretty good idea of what your motivation is and I can guess what you hope to achieve, but what your doing right now– is evil!" he said, K jumped onto the ledge of the building she was on, wind tussling her purple hair as she looked down through yellow eyes. K turned her head one way, indicating she was making sure something was there before muttering something into a highly futuristic looking headset.
Is that a Gen2 FHS? But those weren't released until winter of 2008…
He examined the little barely visible pale receiver in her ear and the spindly little wire that abruptly stopped half way to her mouth. It was so tiny and seemed so frail, with the one opal light blinking on the receiver.
And then Lind L. Tailor fell to his death, clutching his chest…
"I had to test this just in case, but I never thought it would actually happen. Kira, it seems you can kill people without having to be there in person." the synthetic voice said. The one nearly everyone on the planet came to recognize as L.
"Listen to me, Kira, if you did in fact kill Lind L. Tailor, the man you just saw die on television, I should tell you he was an inmate whose execution was scheduled for today. That wasn't me." K tensed her muscles, latching her fingers onto the edge of the building, leaning her body back in a swimming pose.
"But L is real, I do exist. Now, try to kill me!" he continued.
Sometimes, I wonder if L was either an idiot or just had too much hubris…
"What are you waiting for?" L continued to taunt.
"Come on! Go ahead and kill me!" K tilted her head, just barely, as if listening to all of the words below her. But how was it possible for her to do that?
"I'm still here, can't do it, Kira?" L went on, "Evidently you aren't able to kill me." the synthetic voice said calmly.
K smirked, "My turn L, introduce me to this 'Kira,'" she commanded, (at least from what he could read off of her lips) a smirk on her features as she saw both cameras turn to her, her face appearing on the screens. Something about her yelled out brash and arrogant.
Something else familiar…
"How about Agent K? Can you kill her?" The synthetic voice began its mocking again.
Everyone seemed to turn and twist to the building she was on as she smirked slightly. "Yes, can you kill me, Kira? Can an evil criminal like you kill a government assassin?"
But, honestly, Artemis didn't need to see anything else. The smirk was enough, the tone of voice…everything.
"You mean to tell me…" he turned to Karin, seeing her distraught and aggravated.
"Yes! Eve, K! They're both the same! The facial structures, the mannerisms! I can't believe I didn't see it before! We've been working with Agent K—one of the most despicable government assassins, someone who worked with L and played a part in killing my brother—for the past few years!"
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"I can't believe we ended up back in Japan…" K muttered petulantly, leaning on the wall beside a window and pulling the curtain back with one finger. She turned to Matt, "He said he was coming straight over here right?"
"Yeah," Matt mumbled, pressing a few buttons on his video game. "Right after he confronted Near about something…"
K sighed, looking back out at the town.
This place, Japan, doesn't feel the same as the last time I came.
Maybe it's the fact that Light in waaay over in the US of A while you are here? Less evil, Kat suggested lamely, still ticked with the older persona.
Or the fact that L— Kew began.
Shut up. L just wants to hold us down and control us. You can't control us, it's impossible.
The tension between the personas was almost tangible. Your sense of reasoning fails to make sense to me. The only feasible reason he might have possibly had for restraining us and preventing us from leaving was for our own well being. Not to mention the children were sleeping a few rooms away, have you not tried to think about that?
…Just shut up Kew. No one asked you anything…!
But then she got a text message on her phone…
She winced at the loud Ding! sound it made before flipping it open and checking the message. Suture. 911. Experiment. Z.
Her eyebrows went flying up, Is this some sort of…prank?!
She quickly checked who it was from and scowled when she read the kanji. "L."
It can't possibly be a prank, no one is authorized to use it has their ID, save for Light, and even then, Light has no idea of your past, save for that we were at the Wammy's house for a few years.
So it has to be authentic…eh?
It took her a while, but her mind eventually grasped what the text message meant. And when she did, she nearly crushed the tiny phone.
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"Hey, guys?" Matsuda called, turning to the rest of the task force.
"What is it now, Matsuda?" Ide asked in a tone that clearly said he was tired of the rookie's questions.
"Don't you find it…I don't know…weird…? Without L or K here, I mean. It's always felt so off doing the investigation without them…" he put his chin in his hand. "Not only that, but don't you find it strange that K disappeared with Watari and L's dead bodies?"
Matsuda, you idiot, where are you going with all this? Aizawa thought, keeping a façade of aggravation on the outside. Not that he really needed the façade when it came to Matsuda.
"Now that you mention it…it is a bit peculiar," Ide muttered.
"Yeah, but you have to remember; K, L, Watari—they all lived in secrecy. It fits that she'd want to leave with them," Aizawa pointed out. In truth, he wanted nothing to do with the conversation. But it would seem odd if he didn't say anything, and suspicion might switch over to him. At least, he assumed as much.
"But how would she be able to take them both away? She was a small woman, barely older than Misa-Misa, even if she was the famous K."
Dammit, why does Matsuda have to pick today to be analytical?
"You're right, even if she went and committed suicide because of the notebook, it would have been pretty hard for her to pick them both up and then off herself," Ide agreed.
"Does it honestly matter?" Aizawa asked. "She's no longer here. It's no use crying over spilled milk. We have to focus on capturing Kira."
On the other side of the door, holding a tea cup, was Light, an evil smirk accompanied by a red glare in his eyes. K. She's one of the missing variables.
She must have snuck away somehow…if so, it could be possible that she is collaborating with Mello or Near. No—it has to be Mello. Near seems far too subdued to be working with her, considering her hard-headedness and violent tendencies.
So that would mean that she had to have been working with the Mafia at some point.
But why would she take L and Watari's bodies away? That part still doesn't make sense. They were dead, Rem put their names in the Death Note…
However—didn't K survive her name being put in the Death Note? Misa told me how she had written her name, but I saw her walking around without so much as a limp a few days later!!!
Something just isn't matching up.
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You're going to run off?! Again?! Kew screeched.
Yes, now pipe down! As soon as I see Mello is fine, I'm off! K answered, reaching up to tug at her hair out of habit.
You don't get it do you?! Running off isn't how things are done! You've told us countless times, plan it out! Don't run in with your eyes closed! Don't be imbeciles!
I know! Which is precisely why I need you to be quiet so that I can figure out how to get more information without contacting L!
You're going to have to contact him sometime… Kat noted somberly. If you don't, I will. He knows how you can get. And he'll believe us, no doubt whatsoever.
He's just a human! K tried arguing back. How much help can a human provide?!
You cannot deny that you love him just as much as the rest of us, Kew scolded. You were, after all, the one who practically dragged him to the bedroom after tucking the kids in.
K bit her lip. She couldn't deny that.
She stewed in the silence…I'm still not calling him. I'll get whatever information I need directly from Suture or Beyond.
