She hated him. She hated everything about him. She hated the fact that he seemed so perfect, when he was really rotten on the inside. To everyone else, he was the perfect human being with no flaws, but they couldn't see his aura or the damn shinigami that followed him wherever he went.
"Thank you Light," Ryuzaki said as the two of them shook hands. Kagome huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. Working with Light was going to take a lot of self control from her.
"Not at all," he responded. "After all I want to catch Kira as much as you do, Ryuuga."
"I'll have to ask that you call me Ryuzaki here." he said.
"I'm Matsui."
"Aihara."
"And I'm Asahi." His father said.
His honey brown eyes clashed with Kagome's chocolate brown ones. A smirk found it's way onto her face as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Kagome Higurashi." For a moment, it seemed as if he was glaring at her. He had his usual smile on his face, but his eyes told a different story. Like a warning.
"Yes, of course. Perhaps I should call myself Light Asahi?" Turning to Ryuzaki.
"Yes, please do. To keep things simple from this point on, I'll call you Light." With that, introductions were over. "Ok, let's get down to work. You can start by looking over all the information we've collected. I'd also like you to examine these videos. They were sent to the TV station, but were never aired. For security reasons, you're not permitted to take notes and all materials must remain here."
"I understand." Light nodded and followed Ryuzaki.
"We'll begin now." L clicked on the TV and allowed Light to do his thing.
Kagome left the room. If she had to be in the same room as that bastard for any longer, she'd kill him. She sat on the couch, staring out the window, lost in her thoughts. "With Light here, that means he now has access to all their information concerning the Kira case. That also means, the chances of him actually killing Ryuzaki rises." Kagome brought her thumb to her lip and began chewing on her nail. "Kira needs a name and a face to kill. He has one of the two, a face. How does he plan on getting his real name?" She felt herself begin to panic. "Calm down, Kagome. You still have time." She glanced in the other room at Ryuzaki, "But how much time...?"
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"So, what do you make up this Light?" Ryuzaki asked him after Light had finished the video recordings. His finger went to his mouth. "Have you come to any conclusions?"
Kagome watched as Light stood up. "It's hard to say for sure, but there might be another person out there with Kira's power."
"Of course he'd come to the same conclusion as L, because he is the first Kira and never sent those." she rolled her eyes. Light Yagami pissed her off in every aspect.
"With Kira's power?" his father exclaimed, "But what do you mean by that Light?"
Light pointed at the televison. "At the very least, I'd say this tape was created by the Kira we're familiar with. It's extremely out of character for him to use these kinds of victims for his killings. And since we've established that he needs a name and face to kill, it makes you wonder how he was able to kill that detective and those two officers right outside the television station like that."
"I-it's the same..." Aizawa, or Aihara, mumbled.
"That's almost exactly as L... I mean Ryuzaki said it." Matsui said.
"I think you're exactly right about that." Ryuzaki spoke. "We also believe this is the work of a second Kira."
"So, you knew about this all along Ryuuga.. Sorry Ryuzaki?" Light crossed his arms over his chest. "Which means this was just another one of your tests?"
"It wasn't my intention to test you." he admitted. "The truth is, if I was the only one who thought there was a second Kira, It wouldn't be too convincing. But the fact that we both came to the same name conclusion makes a theory that much more believable. As expected, you did not disappoint us. You've been a great help. It's decided then, first we must focus on stopping this copy cat. From what we've seen, he sympathizes with the real Kira, but clearly lacks his sophistication. I think he might even be willing to obey the original. if so, we could lure him into a trap by sending our own message from the real Kira."
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised. You literally took the words right out of my mouth."
"Oh, and Light? I would like you to play the part of the real Kira." Ryuzaki said. Kagome found a smirk form on her face as his eyes widened.
"Huh? Me as Kira?" Light gave him a shocked look and Kagome almost laughed aloud. Almost.
"Yes, you're the only one I can think of that could pull something like this off. At any rate, we don't have time to waste. Do you think you could script a message from Kira in time for it to be aired on this evenings national news?" Ryuzaki asked.
Kagome's attention snapped to Ryuk who began laughing. He was such a distraction. After all, he was not human, ugly too, and rather large and gothic looking. But, she did have to admit this sitatuon was humorous.
Kagome turned her attention to Ryuzaki. She had no idea what was going through his head, but deep down she had a feeling that he believe that Light was Kira. He just needed evidence to prove that he was. And now he also has a second Kira to deal with.
A little while later, Light presented his letter to Kira. "Ryuzaki is this okay? I think I managed to make it believeable."
Ryuzaki looked over the note, holding it by the corners using only his index finger and thumb. "I think you've done an excellent job with this. However, if we don't omit the part that says 'you're free to kill L' then i'm going to end up dead." He looked down at Light.
Kagome approached Light, "Yes, that would be quite a problem if Ryuzaki were to die because of you." The outer iris of her eye glowed a pink color and for once, Light felt fear creep inside him as she stepped back to stand behind Ryuzaki and continue to glare at him.
Light let out a nervous laugh, "Sorry, I guess I got carried away playing the part. I figured if I was him I'd probably demand that you be killed. " Light leaned back in the chair, his hands resting behind his head. "I was improvising. Feel free to change it to whatever you like."
"Sounds good."
Lowly she spoke to the shinigami. "If you make any attempts to kill Ryuzaki, I'll purify your ugly ass." and she turned and stormed out of the room. Ryuk watched her go, a little scared of the small human girl. If looks could kill, Light would most definitely be dead.
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"Okay Aihara, the script is ready, I'll leave it to you."
"Alright.
(Timeskip)
Everyone gathered around L who was seated in front of the television. Kagome stood beside him, focused on the screen on front of her.
"And now a shocking announcement. In response to the frightening Kira video aired on Sakura T.V. only a few days ago, an anonymous individual has contacted us claiming to be the real Kira. In short, he has demanded this network, as well as several others, that we air the message you are now about to see. I would also like to mention that the NPA has granted us permission to air this video. Is this the real Kira? No one knows for sure. But we can only hope this video will provide us with some much needed answers." They then began to play the messgae.
(Timeskip)
"How in the hell am I going to deal with both Light and this other person? And does this other person have a shinigami as well!? Gah! This is so frustrating! Dealing with demons and Naraku were much easier than this!" Kagome hadn't moved from her spot even after the video had ended.
"Ryuzaki we have a reply." Watari spoke from the laptop. "From the second Kira."
"That was quick." Kagome muttered.
"What?"
"Really?" Matsuda said.
"I'll be bringing over the envelope and tape that we received but in the meantime I'm streaming a copy of the video so you can view it on your end. Everyone gathered around L and the laptop as the video popped up.
"Mr. Kira, thank you for your reply. I will do as you say."
"Wow!" Matsuda voiced.
"We did it." Soichiro said.
"How submissive." Kagome snickered.
"I want to meet you," the video continued. "I don't think you have the eyes, but I won't try to kill you. Please don't worry."
"The eyes...?" Kagome glanced at Light and then back to the screen. "What the hell is this guy talking about?"
"He just said that he didn't have 'the eyes' didn't he? What could that mean?"
"Please tell me how I can meet you without the police finding out. When we meet, we can confirm out identities by showing our Shinigami to each other."
"Shinigami!" Aihara and Matsui repeated.
Before anymore words could be spoken, Ryuzaki threw his hands in th air and screamed, his chair tipping over in the process. Kagome growled as she it the nail of her thumb. "Two shinigamis, huh. I'm sure Midoriko could kill a Shinigami, but what about me? Would I able to kill a shinigami?"
"Ryuzaki!' Aihara and Matsui were by his side in a seconds notice. "Is he alright?"
Ryuzaki sat up. "Sh-shinigami...?" He stared at the screen with wide eyes. "Am I supposed to believe that? Shinigami actually exist?"
"That's impossible!" Matsui commented.
"They obviously don't exist." Aihara reassured.
"Yes, that's right Ryuzaki, listen to yourself. Of course shinigami don't exist." Ryuzaki looked back at Light.
"You're probably right, but I remember Kira had those prisoners write something suggesting the existence of shinigami." Ryuzaki explained.
"That's not true," Kagome muttered, however, her words fell on deaf ears.
"So based on that fact, perhaps we're dealing with the same person after all. That would defiantly explain why we're hearing the same words." Soichiro said.
"I don't think so," Light looked at his father. "Because if this was the same person, its highly unlikely he would have responded to our video in the first place. And why would he agree to let L live after going through all the trouble of getting him to appear on TV. The real Kira wants him dead, so it doesn't make sense."
"Then maybe there's some other connection between the real one and this new one." Aihara suggested. "They could have already met and decided to use the word shinigami as a way to confuse us."
"No, I'd say that's unlikely." Ryuzaki picked his chair back off the ground, sparing Kagome a quick glance, before seating himself in it. "It's as Light says, if the two Kira's were connected, I don't think the impostor would be so willing to give up on his plan to kill me. All of this suggests to me, is that the copy cat has his own agenda and is acting independently from the first. I believe his actual motivation is to meet the original."
"I think you're right." Light agreed. "He's acting out of interest in Kira. The word shinigami could very well reference to some other killing power. Saying we can confirm our identities by showing our shinigami to each other, probably means they confirmed their identities by somehow demonstrating their ability to kill."
"Yes, that's it. Based on their messages, we can assume that the word shinigami most hold some other meaning that only the real Kira and the second Kira are aware of. Now we just have to figure convince this copy cat to tell us what that is." Ryuzaki said.
"So, will you respond and force him to be more specific? We have to be careful how we handle this. We can't make it to obvious that we're asking, otherwise he'll realize we're not Kira."
"No from now on, it's best we leave it up to the two Kira's."
"What do you mean?" Aihara questioned.
"I imagined that the second Kira is probably quite satisfied with the current situation now that he's received televised response. He sent a message to get Kira's attention and as far as he knows, he now has it. Also there's that word he used. One only the two of them would understand. We'll arrange to have this reply by broadcast today on Sakura six o' clock news. Naturally this will be of interest to Kira and he'll follow this exchange between the copy cat and the one we've invented. Now if I were Kira himself, my priority to prevent this impostor from coming into contact with the police. This is good for us because it means that the real Kira will fill pressure to respond this time."
"Okay. Let's say that he doesn't respond, then what do we do?" Aihara asked.
Ryuzaki tapped his leg. "Yes. I've been thinking about what the second Kira might do if he gets no response. For one, he might reveal more information that he knows Kira wants kept secret, to pressure him into meeting, of course that would make Kira nervous. It could be interesting. And what would be more interesting is if Kira's sent a message of his own to keep this from happening. Ideally this could provide us with the physical evidence we'll need to build a case against him. In the meantime lets gather all the information we can on the copy cat."
Kagome was quick to leave the room. She headed straight for her bedroom that she was given while she stayed with them. She could leave and go home any time she wanted, according to Watari. But what Watari and Ryuzaki didn't know was she was already in too deep, trying to protect L from being killed by Kira. Kagome paced back and forth in front of her bed, mumbling to herself. "Not good. Not good at all." Too busy panicking about her current situation, she didn't hear the knock on her door, nor that it began to open. "And here I thought traveling through Feudal Japan and killing demons was difficult."
Ryuzaki stopped his advance. He was concerned for the girl, seeing how her reaction was quite similar to his own, only she didn't make a scene like he had. The panicked look in her eyes brought on a whole new set of questions and he was going to get answers. And now he was hearing talk about demons? Quietly he closed the door and opened the laptop screen. In the search bar, Ryuzaki typed the words demons and clicked on the first link. The information he was given was practically useless.
"How are Demons, Feudal Japan, and Kagome Higurashi all connected." he thought as he brought her thumb to his lip. Closing the lid, he decided to go ask her. Knocking again, this time louder than before, he entered when she gave him permission.
Kagome was a lot more calmer this time around. She had forced herself to sit down and take a dee breathe. Panicking wasn't going to solve anything. She smiled at Ryuzaki. "What can I do for you?" she patted the spot beside her.
"I came by earlier and overheard you speaking to yourself." Ryuzaki sat down beside her. Kagome stiffened slightly. "I did a little research and now I am curious. How are you connected to Feudal Japan and Demons? You talked as if you were there in that time period, which would also be impossible seeing as how you are sitting in front me still young and beautiful."
Kagome blushed. "B-beautiful?" she shook her head forced the thought to the side. "Well, you're getting slightly warmer, not by much I must admit."
"Lets make an exchange." He suggested after a moment of silence between the two of them.
"An exchange?"
Yes, you tell me this well guarded secret and I will tell you mine." he never broke eye contact with her and she found she couldn't look away even if she wanted to.
"Your secret...?" She whispered.
"Yes, mine. And knowing it is quite a big deal seeing as how only you and Watari would know."
Kagome sighed. "I can't tell you. It's nothing personal, but I fear you may not believe me and think I've gone mad. However, the only thing I can give you is a hint, hopefully, with that smart brain of yours, you'll be able to connect the dots. Think of this as a challenge." She winked at him and smiled. "Now, if accepting this, I can understand why you wouldn't tell me your secret."
"I see," he thought for a moment. "I accept."
"The Shikon Jewel and it's final guardian."
"I believe I am not too familiar with the Shikon Jewel and its origins. I do know that it is a very powerful jewel. But, adeal is a deal." he gave her a serious look. "It is very important you not tell anyone this secret. My life depends on it. Should you come across someone trying to find out, you must not let anyone know."
"I-I promise," she held out her pinky. He stared at it before bring his hand up and wrapping his pinky finger around hers at the same moment he pulled her closer his body and whispered one word to her. "Lawliet." and then he removed himself and quickly left the room.
Her heart pounded in her chest as she left to sit there and ponder what that meant exactly.
