A.N.: And it's December 26, the day after Christmas! I was really surprised by all of my presents, but I am happy now!! ^.^ Anyway, this chapter kinda sucks, but just read it anyway...and thanks for the reviews!! It also makes me happy that people are reading this!
Disclaimer: If I owned Death Note, Misa would have died and L would have lived and Raito would piss his pants. So, no, I don't.
Warning: Not much this chapter....
Kiyo...
What?
I was just wondering...Now that Misa's out of the picture, what's going to happen next?
Well, Raito's in trouble, I expect, since Misa's computer wasn't destroyed, and the history will show L that she had been trying to look up information on him. I wonder if she thought Raito's first name was Tsuki... anyway, since Misa had told L she had seen Kira in Aoyama, it would make sense that she would be looking for information of the Kira she had seen.
Don't you think it's kinda ironic that her computer wasn't destroyed?
Yeah, I thought Misa would have thrown it out of the window if she was having a tantrum. I guess she fell through the floor before she could do it.
Haha, I bet that story will come in handy when threatening kids not to tantrum.
I still can't believe that Rem wrote down the house designer's name. That was the stupidest revenge I've ever heard of...
You're still going on about that? Let it go, Kiyo, you can kill Raito by your own hands later.
.... Yomi, I can't even get an A in PE. How the hell would I be able to kill Raito? Even though, it would be very nice... Kiyo gave a small sigh of longing.
Bet you could with a seven-pound bat.
Anyone can kill with a seven-pound bat.
Oh come on, Kiyo... I don't like Raito either, but you have to admit he's really cute!
Blecch, don't even go there! He didn't look too cute when he died!
He was dying, Kiyo, not many people look too flattering when they die.
My point exactly.
I don't understand you.
You rarely understand me. But back to Raito...
What about him?
I wonder if this could cause him to turn himself in and lose his memories...
You mean that could still happen for a different reason? Alright, I like the innocent Raito!!
Yeah, he wasn't too bad when he didn't have his memories. But then, he got them back and turned into a crazy evil guy again.
Kiyo! The girl's eyes widened at the sudden alarm in her friend's voice.
What?!
It's two in the morning!!
......great......
I'm gonna go to sleep now.
You do that then. And Yomi....
Hm?
Be careful around L.
"If Amane Misa was the second Kira and is now dead, then what happened to the other Shinigami?" Raito mused out loud.
Ryuk took a bite out of yet another apple and swallowed. "You mean Rem? The old man killed her."
Raito turned to the death god. "You mean the Shinigami king?"
"Yeah. Turn out Rem was really upset about that girl dying and killed the designer of her house since the floor gave way..."
The teen frowned. "You usually don't tell me much, Ryuk. Why now?"
Ryuk grinned wickedly. "Well, consider it as a reward."
"For what?"
"Hehe, for providing me with such entertainment the other day."
Raito held back a blush. "With the soccer ball and Kiyo? How disappointing, I was expecting an easier way than that. I don't suppose the reward will stretch enough for you to tell me exactly how Shinigami can die?"
Ryuk finished his apple thoughtfully. "I suppose you can't do much harm with that fact. Shinigami die when they kill to make a person live. We have been created to stop life, not increase it, so that is forbidden. The Misa girl was already dead, so Rem didn't actually break that rule. But the old man can kill Shinigami if they behave so."
"I see. Well, that was a pity, they both could have been useful to me." But more importantly..." If the second Kira truly did know my real name, then they would have researched on it, trying to find information about me. If that's so, then L can find that in the history of his computer."
"Oh, that would really suck for you, Raito!! Then he'll definitely know you're Kira!" Ryuk laughed.
Raito smiled. "Exactly why this is goodbye, Ryuk."
"Eh?"
"What?!!" Kiyo and Yomi gaped at the detective. "Why?!!"
L stared at his cup of tea/coffee/drink of death. "After seeing Kiyo-san with Raito-kun, it has lead me to the suspicion that if Raito-kun is Kira, he will try and manipulate both of Kiyo-san and Yomi-kun as well, if not just Kiyo-san. For your own safety as well as mine, Watari's and my heirs', I would like to put you under camera surveillance in case Kira tries anything."
Yomi gawked at him in disgust. "Please don't tell me you're going to be watching the bathrooms as well!! You're supposed to be the greatest detective in the world, not a pervert!!!"
Don't protest too much, Yomi, or he's going to know something's up.
L put his thumb in his mouth and looked surprised. "I'm... a pervert?"
Kiyo raised an eyebrow. Didn't he do that in the story when Misa called him a pervert?
Looks like the same things will happen because of different reasons, Yomi thought back.
L turned away. "Very well. I trust Yomi-kun and Kiyo-san enough that I will not place a camera in your bathroom."
Yomi gave the detective an I-still-haven't-forgotten-what-you-tried-to-do look. Kiyo rolled her eyes. "That's makes sense, I suppose. Alright, I'm fine with it as long as no one sees me using the bathroom."
Yomi nodded. "Yeah, it's fine."
You're going to have to be more careful from now on, Yomi.
Yeah, yeah, no need to remind me.
L's cell phone rang, abruptly ending the brief silence. L held it up. "It's Raito-kun." he observed.
Souchiro perked up.
L answered it. "Yes?" A pause. "Yes, understood. I'm in room 2801 at the K."
The police chief rose anxiously. "My son's coming here?"
"Yes."
Yomi blinked in surprise. Hey, we were right. Light is actually going to do it, just like in the anime and manga.
We can't be sure Light's actually going to do that...Kiyo thought warily.
Matsuda soon opened the door to reveal the said teen, his head bowed as if in shame.
Never mind, he's going to do it.
You know, the way we keep saying "it"-
Don't go there, please.
Yomi stifled her laughter, which would have sounded very strange and out of place in the currently tense atmosphere.
Raito lifted his head. "Ryuzaki, it's as I said on the phone." He closed his eyes. "I... might be Kira."
Souchiro's jaw literally dropped.
Hehe, he did "it!"
Sheesh, Yomi, and people say I have a sick mind.
"Raito!!" His father grabbed him and shook him roughly. "Don't be stupid!! What are you saying?!!"
"Father," Raito said sadly, his eyes still closed, "If Ryuzaki is L, then it's not an exaggeration to say that he's the greatest detective in the world. The person who the FBI investigator Raye Penber was investigating from the time he came to Japan until he died.."
It looks so weird without all of those flashbacks... Yomi mused.
"...the person who was in Aoyama on the 22nd of May..." Raito continued.
Now that Misa was dead, the girls wondered what he would say next.
"...and the person who Amane Misa was trying to find before she died..."
...was you, sucker!! (Guess who thought that....)
"...and the person who tried to acquaint themselves with Kiyo-san, Ryuzaki's ward..."
Yomi and Kiyo blinked in surprise. They hadn't expected that line.
"If I were in L's shoes, I'd deduce that I was Kira." Raito finished, to the growing alarm of his horrified father.
"R-Raito!! How does wanting to know who Kiyo-san is makes you Kira??!!" His father demanded.
All eyes turned to Kiyo.
Kiyo did not like being stared at. Not at all. Oh dear. "W-well..." she began hesitantly, anything to get them to stop staring at her, "the fact is that our," she gestured to herself and Yomi, "presence here is extremely unusual. We are ordinary teenagers from America that seem unlikely to have anything to do with the Kira case, yet here we are with the protection of the greatest detective in the world. If I was Kira, I would be very curious of why Ryuzaki would want to protect us and what we have to do with the Kira case. And trying to get us comfortable with him would be the best first step of a plan to get information out of us."
This unfortunately, only made everyone, including L and even Raito, to gawk more at the poor girl.
"O-of course," Kiyo hastily continued, seeing the look on Souchiro's and Matsuda's faces, "there's the possibility that Raito-kun was just being friendly and polite as an ordinary human being. That alone does not make him Kira."
Crap. I really shouldn't have said anything.
I think that was the most intelligent thought I've ever heard. Yomi quickly grabbed Kiyo's shoulder in a brotherly manner. "Oi, oi, don't get involved with this, Kiyo. You're just making it worst for Yagami-san and Raito-kun." Not to mention for us as well..
"He is right." Kiyo agreed, bowing. "I'm very sorry, everyone. I should not have spoken. Perhaps you should all forget the last minute."
L gave her a calculating glance and turned back to his cup of (tea?). This girl... she thinks on a level of Raito-kun's and mine, yet she is unaware of it herself... is that why Zarth sent her to me? But why would he send Yomi-kun as well?
Raito closed his eyes again. "No, Kiyo-san, you're right. It would make sense for Kira to try to know the two of you better..." He faked (Only L and the girls suspected/knew it was fake) a broken tone of agony. "I don't even understand myself anymore. Even though I'm not conscious of it, I could be killing people while I sleep or something!!"
Still immersed with his tea/coffee/drink of death, L calmly responded, "No, you haven't."
Raito's face took on a look of surprise and confusion. The girls, and anyone who watched episode 8 of Death Note, knew that was fake as well. "What do you mean, Ryuzaki?"
"To be honest, there was a period of five days where we set up surveillance cameras in your room." L stated in a monotone without turning around.
"Cameras?!" The teen asked in a startled tone. (A.N.: And of course, people, we know everything Raito does here is fake, so no more need to keep saying it)
"You slept normally at night." L looked up from his tea and stared at the blank screen in front of him. "Having seen that criminals die while you had no way of accessing such information, I concluded not that you were innocent; merely that if you were Kira, you would not give yourself away on camera."
" 'If you were Kira, you wouldn't give yourself away.' " Raito quoted bitterly. "To be honest, I have thought of some criminals being better off dead."
Kiyo couldn't help feeling sorry for Raito's dad, who looked like he was having a heart attack.
"Raito-kun," Matsuda protested fiercely, "I'm the same!!"
Have you ever noticed Matsuda uses boku as well?
Kiyo, is this really relevant?
No, it's just a random observation.
"I've also wished some criminals were dead, but that doesn't mean we'd really go and kill them, right?"
Yomi couldn't help feeling sorry for the innocent officer.
"Besides," Matsuda continued, "criminals that you had no knowledge of continued to die. The surveillance cameras proved this!"
Poor Matsuda, he really is a good man...
Aiwaza paused. "N-no..." the man said quietly. "At that time, we didn't have enough power, and only watched his movements inside of the house. It's not like we watched him 24/7 over those five days." The man looked up at Raito, his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "He may have had a way of killing people when he was out of the house."
Yomi could practically see L's hair go dark blue as the detective sank into his thoughts. Too bad we can't the thing where L's reflection in the cup speaks, that was so cool!!
He already knows... L can already tell it's an act, and what Light's gonna do next...
"Somehow, I don't like the way this conversation is heading...but..." L lifted his head. "Fine."
"We'll restrain Raito-kun and imprison him long term." Souchiro's mouth dropped open again in horror.
"If we going to do this, we may as well start now," the insomniac continued. "Make sure he doesn't go anywhere where I can't see him."
Raito nodded in consent, his eyes seeming sad. "Understood."
Aiwaza roughly grabbed Raito's arm and practically yanked the boy out of the building. "Aiwaza-san, you're hurting me." Raito said quietly.
Kiyo sighed. Now it's going to be 50 days...do you know how long that is?
Um, almost two months?
Before Raito completely left the room, his head suddenly swiveled around to Kiyo.
Yes, just Kiyo.
Kiyo looked at him with a mixture of disgust and pity.
Raito smiled. Don't worry...I'll still have you...
Aah, poor Kiyo!! Like Misa, Raito's feelings will also remain...that sucks for her!! I'm getting a little stuck now. Anyone want anything to happen next?
And, how many people are reading this story? Just curious, I just wrote this because I was bored, so I wasn't expecting anyone to actually read it...
