Raven's fingers danced over the keyboard as she typed rapidly. Across from her bed, her TV was on. A news anchor was reporting the death of three serial rapists and murderers. Their names were Jackson Childs, Charles Liam, and Rex Dodge.

Moon was not present. He had picked up the habit of perching on the roof of her house like a vulture and looking over the town. She didn't mind his absence and constant questions about what she was doing.

Raven picked up her mango smoothie and took a sip without looking away from the screen full of code. She loved mangos, especially in smoothie form. Her eyes narrowed as she mistyped something and she fixed her mistake. Focus was of the essence here, so she set her smoothie back on a tile coaster with a picture of snowflakes. Living in Miami as she did, that tile was the closest Raven had ever come to seeing snow.

Her DEATH NOTE was sitting on the desk next to her smoothie. It was open to a partially full page of names and there was a pencil sitting in the gutter between the pages.

"What are you doing?" A voice behind her asked.

Raven sighed as she brushed a blue-streaked lock of hair behind her ear. That was Moon's voice. She had so seen that coming!

"I thought you were on the roof. Get tired of brooding?" Raven asked.

"I wasn't brooding," Moon snapped.

Raven smile briefly but didn't look away from her work. "Before you ask again Moon, I'm rewriting the code that runs a website. By doing this I'm making it so my call can't be tracked back to me. I'm also crosswiring my scattershot program with the website to another level of security. There's no way I can get more technical because you wouldn't understand it."

"What website?" Moon asked. He leaned over her shoulder.

"Stop hovering," Raven scolded Moon.

With a huff, Moon straightened.

"As for your question," Raven continued as she finished typing and saved the code. "This is called Skype. It's how I'm going to contact Mei."

"Mei?" Moon asked curiously. Then he remembered. "Oh Mei Akiyama, the reporter in Japan's Kanto region. She's going to be Kira's new voice."

"At least your skull isn't completely stuffed with hot air," Raven teased Moon as she closed the coding and opened the Skype icon on one of her monitors.

"Hey," Moon warned.

"By the by, skull boy," Raven added as the Skype loaded. "I haven't just been wasting time. I've been doing my research on Mei. She has a security system set up in her home that was easy to hack. I know her schedule and I know that she has a Skype account."

She glanced at the bottom of the screen to the time. "Right now, Mei's at her office preparing for her last show of the day."

Last show? It wasn't even 8am here. Moon remembered Japan and Miami were on the opposite sides of the world. Japan was 13 hours ahead of Miami, so it was almost 9pm there.

While Skype loaded on one screen, Raven brought up her voice scrambler on a second. The third screen was split into four different views of what Moon realized was Mei's office. His ally must have hacked their security. Mei was sitting at her desk in front of her computer looking over several sheets of paper that were likely her script for the 9 O'clock News.

Raven clipped her Bluetooth onto her ear and turned it on. Moon fell silent as Raven called Mei over Skype. Over the security screens, Moon saw Mei look up as her Skype paged her. She frowned and then clicked accept to the call. Humans were such a curiosity driven race.

Mei's eyes widened in shock as the screen turned white, and the word 'kira' appeared in black script. "What is…?"

"Mei Akiyama," Raven said. Her voice scrambler made her sound like Kira. "This is Kira."

"K-Kira?" Mei stuttered. Her eyes widened and a slight red colored her cheeks. "This is, this is an honor," she bowed her head.

Moon would have raised an eyebrow in admiration if he had eyebrows. It seemed Raven had done her research well.

"But," Mei frowned. "How do I know you are truly Lord Kira?"

Lord Kira? Moon laughed to himself and shook his head with amusement. Raven turned her head to glare at him momentarily.

"I presume you can call the Tokyo Prison?" Raven asked calmly.

"Yes," Mei Akiyama nodded. She wasn't sure if Kira could see her or not.

Good Raven said calmly. "Ask for Daichi Tsukino."

Mei fished her cell phone out of the purse on her desk and flipped it open. She quickly dialed, and held it to her ear. After a few seconds someone on the prison answered her.

Before she had a chance to ask anything someone called out on the prison side of the phone. "One of the prisoners just collapsed, help me out!"

Mei's hand that she held the phone with trembled as the prison guard apologized and hung up. No way. That meant, that meant that this was the real Kira!

Raven smiled, and set her head in one hand. "You can confirm later if you wish that Daichi Tsukino is truly dead."

"I believe you, my lord," Mei said quietly although she did make a note to double check for herself. If this wasn't the real Kira she didn't want to insult the real one by following a fake.

"What do you want me to do?" Mei asked firmly as she closed the phone and set it on the desk in front of her.

"I want you to become my voice," Raven ordered.

"Become the Voice of Kira?" Mei whispered. That was something she'd been dreaming of ever since Sakura TV had announced that they were.

"Yes," Raven repeated. "In fact, I have an announcement I want you to make when you go on the air for the 9 O'clock news."

"Name it," Mei said quickly. She flipped one of the sheets of paper over and picked up a pen so she could write Kira's wishes down.

Raven smiled.

Matsuda was walking along the Shibuya Scramble Crossing when one of the LED TV's suddenly lit up for the 9 O'clock news.

"This is Mei Akiyama of Channel 7," the news anchor introduced herself. "I have an important announcement to make. As of today, I have been chosen to become the new Voice of Kira."

Matsuda stopped walking and looked up at the screen. He wasn't the only one. Most of the people walking stopped and followed his lead.

"I will speak for our Lord Kira, and spread his word and glory for all to hear," Akiyama continued.

Murmurs broke out.

"No way," Matsuda whispered.

"Kira has given me a message to pass on," Akiyama flipped over the sheet she was supposed to be reading from. On the back of it was her handwriting where she had copied down word for word Kira's speech.

It became strangely quiet in the crossing, and Matsuda looked around warily. A great number of the people hear seemed to be raptly paying attention as if they were going to hear from their god. Matsuda felt a shiver go down his spine. This was creepy.

"Kira would like to honor the men and women fighting both in law enforcements and the armed forces in their struggle to protect their county. He has no wish to fight you, for you and he are working towards the same goal – a world free of crime and darkness. A world where your children and families are safe to walk the streets at night without fear. A world where the news are not cluttered with stories of robberies, shootings, and stabbings. A world where that is not considered normal." Akiyama's voice was strong and sure.

"That is side Kira fights for," Akiyama promised, "and he thanks all of you who fight for that, and who have given their lives to protect the innocent. He asks all of you now to not interfere with him, for he is not your enemy – but your greatest ally."

"Near," Akiyama addressed directly, "if you are watching this then please know that you are the criminals greatest friend. By attempting to stop Kira you attempt to stop justice and let the criminals roam free. You insult the ultimate sacrifice that many men and women have made to protect their home. If you win, then the criminals win and they will continue to run free and unhindered. They will continue to kill, rob, and maim. Please stop fighting Kira."

Matsuda winced. Kira was making Near look like the ultimate villain. This was not good.

"That is all I Kira wishes to say," Akiyama finished. "When he has another announcement then I will relay it to you."

She closed her eyes and lowered her head for a moment to let the announcement sink in.

"Now," she continued as she flipped the paper back to the typed side. "I will relay the 9 O'clock news."

Matsuda wasn't listening. He turned and ran through the scramble crossing. Many people were starting to scatter, eager to get to their destinations and tell others of Kira's wish. It disgusted Matsuda, but intrigued him at the same time. Who was this new Kira?

Who indeed, Aizawa thought as he looked away from the TV in the police office break room. This was very bad. Sitting at the same table as him was Mogi and Ide.

"Aizawa," Mogi said quietly.

Aizawa didn't say anything out loud, but nodded. Kira had to be in the Kanto region of Japan. The Japanese Taskforce was on. They'd catch Kira, and show Near exactly what they were made of.


It's too bad Kira is in Miami! Talk about a wild goose chase... Now the Taskforce is chasing after nothing, so only Near is looking for her.