Chapter 9:Just a talk

I was dressed in my dark clothes again and couldn't help but feel actually comfortable in them, the colors and feel of them made me feel like I wasn't alone which helped me as I left the room and went down the stairs looking at names of the doors.

Smiling I went to the one that said; Security, No Civilians Allowed. Well seeing that sign how I could I NOT go in? The guard somehow did not notice me come in because he was in the middle of eating a doughnut. "OK what is with cops and doughnuts? I mean I never saw the Task force eating doughnuts…no only L did that…he doesn't count as a policeman." I rolled my eyes and came up with an idea as I saw a row of maid outfits not far from me; the plan began to form as I quietly pulled the maid outfit on. I breathed and left the room and knocked on it. "I can not believe I'm doing this, I could have just knocked the guy out easily…no that would have left fingerprints or something behind that would point to me…Yes this is much better." Barely two seconds had passed when the door opened to reveal the guard who was in the middle of wiping his face.

"Please! I didn't know where to go! I was cleaning one of the rooms when I saw a man pass he was choking a young woman! You have to go and help!" I said putting on my most emotional face as I allowed fake tears to slide down my face.

Believing my fake story the cop bustled out of the room and down the hall after I pointed hurriedly which room it was, the top floor. "Poor him he needed exercise anyway." I smiled going into the room and gazing at all the cameras. I was looking for a certain room with. My eyes widened as I moved closer to a certain camera. There was a laptop on the desk with a small L floating across it that was hardly even noticeable to the eye but I'd seen it before and knew that it had to be there.

"This is just too painfully easy." There was even the door number on the video showing where it was broadcasting. "Tch no challenges." I scoffed unhappily and slipped out of the maid outfit and placed my comforting one back one glad I had it.

I knew for sure that the guard would not be back for awhile so I made my way through the halls with no fear, my cold blue eyes scanned every corner analyzing everything when I realized that I reminded myself of L in that way.

"You remind me of him…" I stopped when I heard what L had said at the cafe go through me head. "Who did I remind him of?" I thought for a second of all the people in the manga but couldn't say I was like any of them.

"It is stupid to think of such things, I don't need to know." My sore lip split as I bit into it in deep thought. "Ha I guess I need to stop doing that." I whispered as I stopped in front of room 141 on the 5th floor (again on the 5th floor and another room with two 1's).

My hand grasped my phone and began texting slowly.

Are you going to let me in or not?

I looked at my watch it was exactly two in the afternoon, I wasn't late nor was I early; I was right on time.

For a second nothing happened but then my phone jingled.

The door will open in one minute, you are allowed to come in. But don't think you aren't the only one coming I have others showing up.

I nodded to no one and knew it was the task force he was speaking of. Standing there I tapped my foot to a random song in my head and stopped as I heard the door click open. It swung inward and I saw the living room I'd seen in the security room, I saw the three the table with the laptop and the couches that surrounded it where I knew the Task force would be sitting in barely an hour or two. There were four other doors and a small kitchen that connected to the living room that had a tiny island in the middle of it.

I don't remember the manga ever going into detail about what L's place's looked like but this room was nice, really nice.

"Wow I never had this type of money…" Closing my gaping mouth I closed the door behind me and went out into the living room and sat down in one of the couches without a second thought. I stared at the table that was covered in L's well known sweets. I felt a little flicker of happiness at the familiarity of the whole situation.

"You know L you can come out, I hate it when people watch me from cameras it feels like I'm being stalked." I stated obviously with a frown remembering the time that Father had placed a camera in my room to watch me sleep (he was a pervert as much as he was an abusive person), so the thought of someone able to see me while I could not see them pissed me of completely.

Nothing happened for a minute so I leaned forward and grabbed one of his bags of panda cookies and began munching. I had always eaten chocolate mostly but whenever that was not an option I ate any sweet food I could. I smiled, I was like L.

Finally I heard the shuffle of bare feet against the carpet. I opened my eyes to see L staring down at me. I gave a fake smile as I shoved a cookie between my lips.

"So let me guess, you eat sugar so to help your brain; correct? Sugar is the best thing for a smart detective right?" I smiled innocently up at the black piercing eyes that I knew were searching for answers in my eyes that I'm afraid, were padlocked; shut by many years of hateness.

"Good luck, I'm not like the others that you can read so easily. No matter how long you stare you will never figure me out." L only stared at me.

"It's obvious to me that you could be Kira yet you don't seem like the type of the person to do such a thing; you are correct I do not understand. It's quite confusing I usually can read someone, but you...I cannot." I nodded knowing how true that was, in all my life no, NO ONE had ever been able to read me; and L wouldn't be the last.

"Sorry that I'm such a difficult puzzle for you…..You can have a seat you know, don't just stand there acting so awkward. I know you're socially awkward by nature but you could at least try you know?" I gestured to him with my hand as I chewed on the cookie slowly.

"I am greatly interested in how you seem to know so much about me…but I'm sure you wouldn't tell me anything would you?" L went over to the couch across me and sat in his weird crouch that made me almost grin.

"All you need to know is that I am not Kira and that I'm here to help in anyway I can…..so when are you going to show your face to the Task force? Soon I believe, correct?" I asked quietly bringing the bag of cookies away from my face as I sat forward and grabbed a strawberry from random of the table.

"Yes…...and do you have proof that you aren't Kira?" He asked with his thumb at his lips, he looked at me waiting for a detailed explanation.

"Nope, nothing at all; and I'm not afraid to admit it!" I said grinning a fake wide smile that seemed to catch his attention. However the smile was a smirk, even the great L couldn't tell my smiles from my smirks and fakes; I was good at my mask.

My answer seemed to put L at a disadvantage I knew he was worried that I knew so much but I didn't care. "Listen L, let's just be friends here. I know you've never had friends and that you don't trust anyone but you can trust me on this I promise." I said allowing my eyes to soften for him slightly which I had never done, but what can I say this was L; one of my favorite characters in the entire Death Note manga, I couldn't be a complete jerk to him no matter how sarcastic I was.

"I can live with that…..can you tell me anything about yourself then?" He asked quietly still watching my every move. I grabbed another strawberry and took a tiny bite savoring the flavor. "What is your name?" It was a simple question yet I knew in this world that names meant everything, I could not give out my name so easily.

"It's Hailane, just call me Hail." I sat forward bringing the strawberry from my lips and staring at him with the full darkness of my eyes; I'm not sure but I saw L's eyes narrow but I can't be sure what I saw nowadays.

"Nice to meet you, you already know all my names but please do not say my real name in….."
"In public?" I said cutting him." I know, you don't want me to call you L either, just Ryuzaki right? I can do that don't worry. I'm not cruel enough to tell anyone your real name, it would just be mean and letting others know I know your name could make me a target of Kira since I'm sure he wants you dead after your little TV incident; which was brave of you." I said pushing the rest of the strawberry in my mouth allowing my fake smile to slide of and to just stare at him with my usual frown/blank face. For once I did not feel compelled to use my fake smile around him; I felt like I could be my normal self; but not my dark morbid self.

"So you saw that?" I blinked nodding as I remembered watching it just a few months ago.

"Yes, you were able to tell that Kira was in the Kanto region and that he doesn't have to be anywhere near the person to kill them; what else have you come up with?" L stared at me and I held my tongue I shouldn't have asked, he didn't trust me enough yet.

"That he needs a name to kill." I looked at him shocked.

"Now this was a surprising turn of events, I would have never expected him to just do that…..Wait he did the same thing with Light when he told him that he was L; he's trying to test me here."

"I can see how you came up with that deduction, Kira was able to kill the man that played you in his place because he had his name yet I think we might be missing something here. Think about it Ryuzaki there has to be more, he was unable to kill you; why? Think of two things that were in that broadcast with Lind L. Taylor. It showed his face. Don't you think it is possible that Kira can kill with a name and a FACE? However it would be easier if we knew how he killed." I furrowed my brow trying to look like I was thinking yet I was remembering a time when I'd reached the part of Lind L. Taylor dying.

"Yes I came to the same conclusion actually, he was unable to kill me because he did not have a name and a face…..which is why I do not suspect you Hail." I looked at him suspiciously.

"You know my name, you seem to have known it for a long time. Yet you have not killed me; which means that you are not Kira… however if you were Kira you could just be waiting for me to help you in some way…...but that does seem to be your style." L took the computer of the table and pressed a few keys and turned it towards me.

I smiled, it showed me talking to the guard in my maid outfit and then skipped to showing me at the other hotel grabbing the key from the maids cart.

"It seems that you are indeed smart…."
"Not as much as I'd thought if you were able to find me so easily; I guess next time I'll find the camera room and delete all footage of me." I sat back in the couch staring at the video of me.

This seemed to interest L. "You can do that with a computer?" I nodded blinking away my tiredness.

"Yes let's just say I have some experience in that field." Smiling a cheshire smile I wrapped my arms around my chest smugly.

"Hmm…" L looked thoughtful for a moment. "Yes I believe that we will be good friends Miss Hail. It will be a pleasure to catch Kira with you." I knew very well that I didn't show much emotion even in my head yet I couldn't stop the fireworks from exploding in my head in an array of colors. I had completely gotten in and I was going to help L! A shiver went through my body as I tried to calm down.

"You don't seem like one to show much emotion either.." L started watching my reactions quietly in his weird stance.

"No but I can at least put on a mask and pretend that I don't hate the world." I stared at him coldly as if proving a point. I DID hate the world, but I hated myself more.

Maybe if I had been through hell with my family before reading Death Note I would have been on Kira's side because I wanted the man that had killed my Mother and Sister to die; Father should have died too he hadn't deserved life after putting me through hell. However I had begun reading it before anything really bad had happened, I had ended up against Kira because back then I hated the way he used everyone; I still did but I understand his reasoning's. That doesn't mean I was gonna turn into a Light lover; I'd kill myself if I did.

"You hate the world?" L asked finally bending forward to grab a goodie of the table. There was something about the question that seemed to be that he was saying it so that he could grasp the meaning of it.

"Of course I do, you'd understand if you knew what I knew." I muttered closing my eyes for a second, memories passing through my mind like wild fire.

"But you will never know L, I would never tell you…unless I absolutely had no choice but to tell you. But don't count on it."


Author: It's funny actually that I gave so many of my characteristics to Hailey. She has my weird love for music and taps and hums 24-7 just like me. She also is sarcastic. The part with her and L, I would seriously be that way (that conversation just seemed to go in circles to me which I liked). I am extremely sarcastic however I wanted her to seem a little more kinder because L is her favorite along with Near, I also like that L can not read her…who's gonna be able to read her or will no one ever be able to; can you guess?