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Eovin: I don't want to spoil anything, but you're not completely wrong. Not completely right either though. ꒰˘̩̩̩⌣˘̩̩̩๑꒱
Fine Specimen Retrieved: Well... she not really scared but more of irritated with death. She herself doesn't mind dying, but only after she achieves her goal of catching Light as kira. So, in someways she's similar to Mello, willing to die if it means that the case will go in the direction she wants it too. 〜٩(^▿^)۶〜
makesomehassel : For pairings I don't really know! Takada is really closed off, and relationships are supposed to be a give and take kind of thing. Something big would have to happen to make her okay with being vulnerable in order for any type of romantic subplots to happen, which is hard to see happening. but who knows.
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"Heikichi, I haven't seen you in forever. How have you been?"
Over the past two days, Takada has been thinking more about the 'threat' she received.
'If L's a genius, then B's an extreme genius. If L's a freak, then B's an extreme freak' She remembers that exact sentence from the L.A. BB murder cases book. It's more than likely that BB is her stalker.
It makes sense, she was being followed in L.A. That had to be when he first saw her. Instead of doing what she should have done and find him herself, she let him find her unintentionally. By being passive and assuming the story would pass without her, she put herself in danger. Why he's following her is what confuses her. His goal was to surpass L as the world's, 'greatest criminal'. That's why he was killing people, there was no evidence of him killing before he left on his little mission. He only killed to get L's attention and to flaunt that he was better...in a way.
How does Kiyomi fit into this? It makes no sense.
'Oh how I wish to know your name.' What does that even mean? He clearly knows her name if he's seen her. What could be the deeper meaning to this? Or is it more simple than she thinks?
"Kiyomi, are you okay?" Heikichi asked. Takada blinked but then quickly apologized. "Glad to see you haven't changed. You always zoned out when we were in middle school too."
Heikichi called her to get coffee together. Heikichi, the judo club leader when she was in middle school. He was the reason she does judo now. His eyes just as bright as when she first met him. Suguru and Mido were hesitant on letting her go, but she quickly reminded them that were not her parents and to stop acting like them. Her little 'outburst' made sense, even though she planned exactly what to say ahead of time.
The stress of being stalked, then having your 'friends' be overly protective, and not having any say in what you're doing allows for more emotional reactions and less refined ways of saying what you mean.
So here she is. Getting coffee with a childhood friend. "I've missed it though. You always seemed to be thinking about so much. When we first started practice I would see you watch us with everyone else, but you always seemed like you were in your own fantasy world."
"Fantasy world...? I guess you could call it that" She said, feigning a smile. "How have you been?"
"Me...hah...well, I've been fine, if you could call it that. I actually called you because I was lonely."
"Lonely?"
He explains that after middle school, him and his family went to France. He had a hard time learning the language and didn't have many friends. His main way of socializing was judo and they didn't have that for students in France.
He came back to Japan for college, but still found it hard to make friends again. He wanted to reach out to people he knew when he was younger in an attempt to get back to his normal, happy self.
Takada doesn't know if her paranoia right now, is justified.
Takada doesn't trust her childhood friend.
"I'm sorry, I have to go."
He widened his eyes in surprise, "What?" But Takada was already getting up.
"Right now. I have to leave. Don't contact me ever again. For your own safety. Listen to me Heikichi, if you care about your safety, you need to get out of Japan. As soon as you can."
"Kiyomi, what are you talking about?"
But Takada already left.
Takada attempts to call Naomi again, to no avail.
Takada hears about the bus jacking that resulted in only the criminal dying. Hit by a car after having a hallucination, they said.
Only Takada knows that it's just Kira treating people like some kind of... science experiment.
When Takada gets home, she starts to look into her family's confrontations with the law. She's never bothered before, and her father rarely ever spoke of family. However, on the off chance that BB knows something about her that she doesn't know, she needs to at least have some sort of idea.
Because she didn't plan for this. She planned on dealing with Kira. This just makes everything more difficult. It's infuriating.
"Okay and let me just get some powder and...perfect!"
Kiyomi will be on TV tonight. Logically, if she had a stalker this would be the worst thing to do. But Takada's life cannot stop because of one person.
"Thank you." Takada said, then standing up. Her makeup done, outfit modest, and smile fake as ever.
The next line of the poem, Spider and the Fly has been in Kiyomi's head. Once she got home, however, she could actually think.
"I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high;
Will you rest upon my little bed?"
If her stalker did kill her father, like she thought, it would mean he was in the house, and more importantly he could have seen her room. Before she went off to L.A. she burned most of the notes she took on her dreams. If he did get into her room, there would be little suspicious evidence.
Everything she left could just be seen as little 'pick me ups' for a kid with anxiety. Reminders that she can do this and not to forget her goal. She needs to stay focused on the Kira case but BB is making it difficult. She takes a deep breath and takes out her notebook. She took the day off of work.
At the top of the page she wrote BB. Then, everything she knew about him.
Obsessive, unstable, unbelievable smart. Self righteous, disconnected. A freak.
Mourning. With a question mark.
It was said that it was after A committed suicide did BB start his plan of being the best criminal. However, it wasn't actually said that he was friends with A or if he ever...talked to them.
Kiyomi begins to doubt that he was actually saddened by A's death, or just saw it as a way to help justify his hatred of L.
She chewed the back of her pencil and thought about it more. She never bothered to try and figure out BB because she assumed he'd be dead by now due to Kira.
She sighed.
What does BB want? He doesn't kill because he likes it or he's 'insane' (She isn't fond of that word), he killed his victims because they were going to die anyways. He's never threatened or used scare tactics before, at least they haven't been recorded.
Then it hit her.
"He's trying to figure out what kind of spider I am."
Kiyomi scores best in her school again. None of her teachers have talked to her since her last confrontation.
Mido, Suguru and Arayoshi give Takada more space after her instances that's she's fine. She still calls one of them at least everyday to make sure that she gets home safe.
She tries to call Naomi again. No answer.
She pulls some strings, gets into contact with police over in L.A. More connections made.
She calls Raye Pender.
All possible ways of getting in contact with Naomi have been destroyed, disconnected, or unavailable.
Takada was done. She couldn't get in contact with Naomi, so she's going to try and alternative route to try and get some sort of detective or cop to help her. She also couldn't risk slipping up and have people find out that she knows more then she lets on. She couldn't risk BB figuring her out.
So, she found Matsuda
He was one of the police officers at the station when she first received the threat. He was mostly off to the side, not quite sure what to do since the other officers where trying their best to take care of the situation and calm Mido down. When she went the police station it was clear that he was already on a case, however it looked as if they where short staffed.
She quickly cornered him. Saying something along the lines of, "Please, I need to talk to a police officer one on one."
He awkwardly looked around to other police officers. Aizawa, she quickly recognized, put his hand on his shoulder. "You can take care of this, you know how to take a report, don't you?"
It was clear Matsuda was uncomfortable, but he still smiled at Takada and lead her to an interrogation room.
"I'm being stalked by a serial killer." She quickly started off. Matsuda paused, waiting to see if she was joking. She was serious.
"Did you...already file a report?" He asked slowly, shocked at how calm she is.
"Other then the first time I was here with my friend, no. I thought it was best to keep my knowledge of who it is on the down low."
"U-understandable." He said, "We can-"
"No need. I want to you give someone a message for me."
"Excuse me?"
She sighed and bite her tongue for a moment. "I'm only telling you this because you're working on the Kira task force and are in contact with L." She said, ignoring the look of shock the Matsuda had. "The next time L contacts the task force, I need you to mention me. Something like, 'A girl name in by the name of Kiyomi Takada. She believe that the man behind the killings in L.A. a little under a year ago is stalking her. She wanted me to tell you this information in hopes that you contact her. She has information about the Kira case as well as a man named BB."
"It's in L's best interest." Kiyomi goes on to say. "It must be a thorn in his side to have to deal with this case alongside the Kira investigation. I'd helping things get a move on by giving over the information directly to him." Takada leaned forward in her chair, looking Matsuda in his eyes. "I need you to do this, Matsuda. I'm in danger. You're a good cop, aren't you? You're supposed to help people like me." Her voice sounded strained, but her eye contact remained strong. "You're the only person I've told this too. I'm trusting you. Please."
Matsuda couldn't break Takada stare.
"I'm only seventeen. If you don't deliver this message for me...I have no doubt that my stalker will kill me. I'm too young to die, I have barely even done anything with my life yet. Give me at least a chance of living."
"...I'll do what I can, Miss Takada."
Takada smiled.
Aizawa was watching Matsuda and Takada from the two way mirror in the interrogation room. Matsuda was still new and Aizawa was making sure that he filed what ever report Takada needed correctly.
He was shocked, and pretty pissed off. A seventeen year old girl was making demands for a police officer to give a message to L. He was already mad that she somehow figured out that Matsuda was on the Kira task force. Was she the leek that L mentioned earlier?
Aizawa was going to mention this girl the next time L contacts the force. With much less sympathy than Matsuda.
Kiyomi considers herself an actress of sorts now. It sounds much better than a liar. She's about to put all of her skills, everything she's learned, to the ultimate test. Fooling the world's greatest detective, his backup, and Kira, at the same time.
She was fairly confidence that BB was not going to kill her, however she had to convince Matsuda to feel bad for her, to sympathize with her. She was not nearly as scared as she played herself off to be. She also sure that L was already aware of her. However, she needed to add the extra...push. She had to be more active in this and less passive then she really is.
Two days later, Takada receives a phone call from Naomi.
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