Kira Kira
Disclaimer: If I owned Death Note, you shouldn't expect more mystery fanfics from me. But I'm planning on more! Haha, I'm getting good at this hiding Kira business.
(Title of this chapter is a tribute to my favorite song, "So Cold" by Breaking Benjamin.)
A/N: You know what the problem is with anonymous reviews? I have trouble thanking you for them! Haha, when y'all tell me your thoughts, I can't answer them! I'm not complaining, though. I love all reviews. XD I wanna know everyone's thoughts. HOWEVER, if you think into things too much, you aren't still clear. I've even hidden some red herrings in past chapters, waiting for people to over-think them.
…Or have I?
Anyway, the opinions really start flying in this chapter.
Light was thinking. Well, perhaps that is a ridiculous statement. It would be more accurately described as focusing his entire mind on the papers scattered across his bedroom floor and scribbling furiously at even more sheets of notes. There was so much dead information…why had L bothered to collect it? If the detective didn't repeat his bizarre actions soon, Light thought he might be forced to box up some stacks of documents himself. This was dead weight! Why did they need to know if any of the suspects had recently lost a PEN?
When confronted, L defended it by saying that Watari had recently lost one, and he wanted to know if the others had the same problem. …There was a MASS-MURDERER with a GOD-COMPLEX out there, and L was concerned about his caretaker losing a PEN. An ordinary, cheap quality, plain black pen that they sell at convenience stores was mixed up in a case to catch Kira.
…It really made Light want to bang his head against the wall.
However, it did succeed in increasing his suspicion of L.
Near had been doing a lot of thinking since he'd been put into the hospital. But only a small percentage of it had really been productive, thanks to the dodgy medicine he'd been treated with.
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed that L was Kira. Yagami-san had to be second Kira. Near was so sure…
To his vast relief, Light entered the room.
"Good morning, Near-kun. Ryuzaki will be up in a few minutes. He may be getting something for you at the gift shop!"
Near doubted that they called the stores in hospitals "gift shops," but he was too excited about his theories to care. "Ryuzaki is Kira," he mumbled, glancing toward the door.
Light stared in slight shock for a second before poking his head out of the doorframe. A moment later, he eased it shut and crept over to the hospitalized teen. "You think so, too?"
Near nodded a bit, and then he wished he hadn't. Pain flared up the back of his neck. "I have been thinking about it quite a bit."
Light nodded, regarding the boy who was somewhere around four years younger than him with full seriousness. "I had the same theory. However, we can not assume this makes it correct." He stood up, pacing slowly across the room. "I will stop by here alone later. We'll talk more about it then."
As if on cue, L walked in empty-handed. Both younger males regarded him suspiciously.
"Weren't you at the gift shop?" Light asked.
"…Hospitals do not have gift shops, Yagami-kun."
"Mello-kun… Please tell me your thoughts on this."
The blonde boy leaped to his feet and made his way across the hotel room to L. "What is it?"
Another prisoner had left a message on the wall in blood.
The end is NEAR.
Mello covered his totally inappropriate laugh up with his palm. "Y-yeah, what about it…?" He slid his nose down his arm, giggling madly into his elbow.
"It is not funny, Mello. In fact, it is very serious."
"It sounds more like Kira was making a joke to me."
"A joke? This is a highly sophisticated message. Not to refer to Kira as sophisticated, that is."
Mello sobered up. "Look, see? If Kira is one of your suspects, we have several options. Did Near kill him to throw off suspicion? You told the task force that the scramble took away from suspicion of Matt."
"Near-kun would not fall for that."
"Is that what he wants you to think?"
"It is an incredibly risky move. Ridiculous. And how would one of the task force members present at the meeting leak information to him?"
Mello sighed. Very easily, unfortunately. Near was dangerous. "Okay, second option. Kira is someone else, and wants you to suspect Near."
L rubbed his lower lip with his thumb. "It is not completely unlikely. But only Matsuda-san would be simple enough to expect me to fall for it."
Mello nearly sweat-dropped. For once, he was actually thinking, Poor Matsuda. "Third option. It really is a joke that Kira expects you to take seriously and waste time on."
L gave Mello another flat glance. "If you insist," he allowed dryly, thinking that there was a fourth option.
His hand hit a chocolate bar, sending it into the wastebasket beside the desk. There was a fourth option!
"Near is Kira, and Mello is the second Kira. Mello-kun did it to make me suspect Near-kun. The scrambled voices on that tape fit their personalities startlingly well. They'd started getting along in that weird way. But all along, Mello had been waiting for the opportunity to take over!"
L turned and stared at Mello, eyes wider than usual.
"…What?" Mello was a genius, and he hadn't caught more than his alias in L's extremely fast speech.
"You are the second Kira."
"No…" Mello's voice was patient, like he was talking to a confused child rather than a world-famous detective. "I am not. I thoroughly believe that Near is Kira, and Yagami-san is second Kira." L was merely scrambling in the dark, now. He randomly accused anyone who didn't give him the opinion he wanted…
"You are the second Kira."
Mello sighed. "Well, even if I helped you catch the real Kiras, you still wouldn't believe me. So I'd be wasting my breath trying to deny your false accusations."
And so it went. Everyone had their own "suspects" in the case. Even Kira himself, probably. Matsuda began to make a list from what he had heard.
Light was convinced that L was Kira. Mello was probably second Kira, according to his theories.
L had no doubts that Near was Kira and Mello was second Kira, as he had said to Mello.
Near mentioned once during a visit that he believed L to be Kira and the Chief to be second.
Mello thought that Near was Kira and Yagami-san was second Kira.
The Chief said that he suspected Mello as Kira and Matsuda as second Kira, much to the officer's disappointment. He still found it difficult to think any less of his role-model, however.
Ukita never trusted Near. He talked like he thought Near was both Kiras.
Aizawa suspected Light. Something didn't sit right in his stomach about the boy. And he'd also mentioned having the same discomfort around Near.
Mogi had refused to voice his opinions on the case when Matsuda asked. The cheerful officer took that to mean that he was the quiet man's primary suspect.
Matsuda didn't put his own thoughts down. That would be stupid. He knew his thoughts, so why add them to the list?
L felt like he could eliminate Light, finally. He was slightly annoyed that he still didn't have enough information to take Near and Mello out of the equation, however. In actuality, it was just the opposite.
A/N: Hey, do hospitals in Japan have gift shops? I know they do in America…
I should shut up and let you review. I won't be setting up a poll for this chapter – less and less people are voting in them…
ALSO… IMPORTANT… I feel like people are losing interest… And as much as I'd love to wait around for more reviews, I don't want that happening! Although I guarantee I will be writing more mysteries in the future. I love doing it. XD
In other words, Kira and second Kira will be revealed in chapter eleven. The next chapter is the second to last – hopefully you'll figure it out. A major chapter to look in for the second Kira is chapter seven, by the way. I thought I'd given it completely away… Whew.
And the reason I'm posting this after only five reviews is for that reason. And I needed something to help me put off my English project. -dead- The next chapter, second to last, will be posted when…I think it should. I know, I reek. -laughing-
