- Anna PoV -
"This is Yagami's house" Watari stated. He stopped the car in front of a nice house, in a bourgeois district.
"Let's get this done. We have 45 minutes starting now"
"The family won't be back before one hour and a half"
"I don't care. I am a professional, I don't want to get caught and we must consider a time buffer for unforeseen events"
"It would have been easier if you got up earlier...", Watari pointed out, "...and it would have been safer if you just agreed to wear the outfit prepared for you".
"Sorry. Someone took his sweet time this morning...", Anna said with a smirk stressing the double meaning, "...by the way, Watari, I don't think that any computer company in Japan would send an old man and a seven months pregnant teenager as technicians".
Watari sighed at her statement. Nobody ever believed her to be a teenager in the last three years; but still, saying that always had an impact. She proudly dropped off the car in L's chocolate scented t-shirt, a red leather jacket and sweatpants.
"I get the things from the back of the car. Go and open the door"
"I am an hacker, not a burglar" she said stiff.
"Mr. Yagami gave us the keys. Here. Are you kind enough to unlock the door Anna?"
"You should have said that before" she said a bit annoyed.
Anna slowly walked to the entrance. She sure was not in her best shape. She should have been a little more careful that night. She took in well a assessed kick from the tiny thing inside her. Anna hissed and wondered if it was pissed by her naughty activities.
"Are you all right?"
"Mind your own business and get in", she answered bitterly.
"We must cooperate for the rest of the morning so, if you please, I demand you to be a little bit more polite" Watari eyed her and then reached the living room.
Anna shut the door behind her and resisted the urge to throw something at him.
"Get kicked from the inside of your guts and then come back to me asking to be polite!"
"You should have stayed at the hotel if you feel sick"
"I am pregnant I am not sick!"
Anna slammed open the hard case Watari brought with him and picked up some microphones and cameras.
"I am going to bug the first floor, you stay here Anna"
"Don't tell me what to do. I'll bug the bedrooms. You do the living room, the kitchen and the bathrooms"
"Does it make any difference?"
"The bedrooms grant more privacy. If anything suspicious has to happen it will obviously be in there". Anna explained it as politely as she could.
"What I was trying to say is that I can bug a bedroom, but I will do as you demand if that's going to make you happy" Watari retorted.
Anna could not take it anymore.
"Listen well! You might be an inventor or whatever but you are not an illegal ops coordinator as far as I remember. Just do as I say!". She turned to go upstairs.
"Not doing something does not mean that I am not able to do it. Being a criminal does not make you an expert in bugging a house"
"And being a wealthy honest middle aged man does not make you a better person!"
Anna spoke to Watari with all the resentment she saved up.
He never allowed her to meet the kids at Wammy's House, the orphanage for talented kids he founded, the place where L grew up. He never hosted her, even when she left her house and she was only sixteen. He never blessed her marriage to L, even if he was like a son to him. She was just a dirty criminal at the eyes of the old man.
"I am going to bug the bathroom" Watari said in a detached tone.
"Start from somewhere else"
"Am I not good enough for it maybe?"
"That's possible, but I just need to puke. Get lost" She probably was in Kira's house, with a man she despised, and her baby practicing kick boxing with her intestines. If L wasn't going to take her to Okinawa later that night, she would have chopped his head right away.
She threw up and moved to the room of Yagami's son. She opened the door and bagan spotting the best places where to place the cameras. She carefully choose the hiding spots and then checked for any trial she could have left. As her eyes browsed the floor she noticed some black dust near the door. From a closer look she noticed that the dust came from a broken graphite mine placed in the door.
"What the hell?"
Anna wondered why to put such a thing in there and then she realized that, if she didn't open the door in first place, the mine wouldn't have broken.
"Well well... Someone has something to hide in here"
She turned back and raided the room again. This time she actually looked at the stuff in there.
It was a regular student's room. Very tidy and clean. Considering the mine she imagined that the owner was the one doing all the cleaning up. If his mother kept coming in and out, the graphite trick made no sense. She saw many books on the shelfs. Novels and mangas, but mostly school books. She checked the pc. Then she observed a framed picture of the family, placed on the desk. The boy had to be the owner of the room. A posed guy with a cured look and nice clothes. Probably he was even polite and excelled in his studies. Probably he was going to enroll to a prestigious university and get a respectable job. Probably he was going to get married to an attractive woman, have two kids and live in a pretty house with a big plasma tv. A perfect life. The sort of perfect person her mother dreamed for her. She learned on her own skin that sort of perfection could not exist. There is always a dirty spot to hide. She looked again at the picture and all she could think about was one word: liar.
She felt a chill running through her spine. This guy was Kira. She didn't know why but if there was a suspect in this house it was him.
Anna took a deep breath. She showed her face to Kira's father. All she could do now was to trust her instincts and hope that Soichiro Yagami wouldn't talk about her to his son.
"What are you doing? In 30 minutes you haven't finished a single room". Watari appeared at the door.
"... Watari...", Anna blabbed, "...he...he is..."
"Anna are you all right?! If you don't feel good we can finish another day..."
Since when Watari cared about her?
"Anna what happened?!"
Anna caught a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror next to the bed. She didn't realize she was crying. She was a white as sheet and was trembling.
Watari approached her and leaded her to sit on the bed.
"I am going to finish the job here and we leave right afterwards"
"He is Kira". Anna said in a shaky voice.
Watari stared at her and did something unexpected. He sit next to her and took her hand.
"Everything is going to be all right. If this boy really is Kira, it means that L is going to catch him soon"
Anna looked at the old man. He smiled at her at then got up to place down a few more cameras and microphones. Too easy to be found. But she didn't complain. If this was Kira's room it was for the best to record every single movement of the occupant. She was not going to brake down this time. L found him. And if he didn't kill them yet, now they had the chance to counterattack.
"Let's go now"
"We must bug the remaining bedrooms"
"Already done. Can you walk?"
"Yes"
Anna picked up a new graphite mine from a suitcase on the desk and replaced the one she broke. Then she followed Watari to the car. She was about to call L and fill him in, but she stopped. She could talk to him later. Having him close by. Instead she turned to face Watari.
"Let's go to Kitamura's house"
"You are not in condition to continue today"
"I'm fine now. I was just shocked"
"Why do you think that Yagami's son is Kira?"
"Intuition maybe. He's too...perfect", Anna tried to explain, "Anyone so perfect has something to hide. A perfect life is too impersonal for any human being to bare it"
Watari stopped at a traffic light.
"I understand..."
Anna smiled bitterly.
"You don't believe me don't you?"
"All the contrary. Humans are egotistical creatures. We cannot live solely to please the others"
"Maybe that kid just likes to bully his classmates" she added with a little smile.
"We'll see"
Anna stared at the old man. He was strangely nice to her that day. Did she look so pitiful back in that room to soften him? If so, there was something she had to know, that she had to ask, while he has willing to answer her. Better said, while he has willing to answer her not too harshly.
"Watari..."
"Yes?"
Anna bit her lip and gathered her courage.
"Why do you hate me?"
Watary looked at her in surprise. She could not believe to have asked it. She never wanted to show any concerns about the opinion he had of her. But she could not take it anymore. If he had a problem with her, he had say it out aloud. She was going to face his answer keeping her head up.
"I...I don't hate you Anna!"
"It doesn't matter anyway if you... Wait what?!"
"I like you actually, why are you asking such a thing?"
She was the one surprised now. All she wanted was to have him confessing once and for all his dislike for her. Instead, he made all her beliefs crumble.
"But...why didn't you take me in at Wammy's? Why did you even forbid me to talk to the kids?"
"Kids are easy to influence Anna. You must do what you do because you choose to do it. I am responsible for their actions, until they choose a path that's their own".
Watari was speaking slowly and sincerely. Anna wished to retort but stayed silent and listened to him.
"Regarding your first question. It's very inappropriate to host someone like you in a orphanage. That kids have no one caring about them. You have a mother who loves you. She still calls me now and then to make sure you are fine"
Anna tried to digest the words of the old man. She would have never turned the kids into her little copycats. But yet... he was right on the latter part. She has been a spoiled brat. She still was.
She observed the city passing by and could not find a single appropriate thing to say.
"I am sorry". That was all she could make up.
"Me too. I didn't mean to make you feel unwelcomed"
"Thank you Watari"
Anna smiled silently. That horrible day ended up in a really unpredictable way. She found herself respecting the old man.
"Is she all good?", Anna asked awkwardly.
"She's glad that you are more a badass than Kira"
Yeah. Maybe she could like Watari in the end.
