It had been nearly twelve days since she left. More precisely it had been eleven days, twenty three hours and forty seven minutes since the investigation team had seen her face. She had come to them and confessed her feeling of being useless and she had stubbornly left. The short time she had spent with them was the reason why her departure didn't affect them too much as a group.

But theories about her emerged as quickly as four hours after her departure. Mogi and Soichiro agreed on the possibility that she was Kira and that she had managed to worm her way into the investigation despite Ryuzaki's initial accusations. Matsuda argued with the two of them, in a somewhat overly enthusiastic manner. Light suggested that perhaps her depression had gotten the best of her- her words surely suggested that option. However, he also suggested that his father and Mogi were right; her character had changed drastically from the time he had gone out with her to the bakery to when he met her again as a part of the investigation team.

The theories were most simple and didn't have much thought put into them. When someone mentioned a theory a conversation would arouse for an hour but the investigation of Kira began as soon as the discussion was over.

They sat in the main room, most of them b the table. No leads to Kira had been found, no solid evidence or ever a clue to who he might be. "Ryuzaki, aren't you worried that Mizuki's Kira or maybe an ally of his?" Mogi said, using the name she had introduced herself with. Ryuzaki's full attention was usually hard to capture but he turned his head towards Mogi and looked at him his eyes looking more restless than ever. The room became silent, as if everyone- and everything, were waiting for his reply. He knew he couldn't tell them that she was being watched. He wasn't sure what her plan really was, but it seemed to involving proving that Light was Kira. As much as he disliked it, he had decided to let her try out her plan.

"I believe Miss Oshiro will take care of us, whether she intends to or not, we all gave her a fake alias, and we haven't progressed much since she came," he said after thinking about his reply carefully. He was pretty sure that he had managed to make the investigation team and Light think that he knew nothing about her whereabouts or plans. A few muscles automatically stiffened up when he recalled what Watari had told him eight days earlier. Even though he had asked Watari to send someone to follow her, and Watari choose the best man for the job, she somehow disappeared after only three days.

"I'm going out for some fresh air," Light announced, breaking Ryuzaki's concentration of her wellbeing. Soichiro agreed and everyone seemed relieved that someone was taking a break. Soon the room had emptied out and the only people left in the room were Ryuzaki and Watari. The fact that Watari had known Ryuzaki for such a long time, it wasn't hard for him to notice that Ryuzaki was tense and the reasons for him being tense were only two in his mind.

Light had somehow found out Ryuzaki's real name, or something about her came up in his mind.

"Why don't you go get some rest, Ryuzaki?" Watari suggested in a caring tone. Ryuzaki nodded.

Rest. That was a word he didn't hear often- at least not directed towards him. Ryuzaki stepped off of the chair and walked with heavy steps towards his private room. Before she arrived he had just about enough rest. However, since she had gone out to eat with Light that one time it gradually grew more difficult to "rest", especially after she left and they had lost track of her so soon. This wasn't like his normal feeling to provide justice to someone. He didn't feel like he was doing it for the same reasons. He didn't feel obligated to try to save her, but instead he felt a longing to keep her safe.

He calmly walked towards the bed in the room. How long had it been since he had slept in a proper bed? During the Kira case he usually slept while sitting. He lied down onto his side, facing the screen which showed him her room. For some reason, the room was in the same messy state she had left it in. Despite the twelve days and nineteen minutes that had passed since she left. He forced himself to shut his eyes. If he didn't, he would probably never be able to get her out of his mind. The fact that she somehow always seemed to be on it annoyed him- no, it frustrated him. The last thing he wanted to be was… fascinated? Or was mesmerized a more fitting word? He slowed down his thinking process so that he could relax properly. After a while he finally managed to capture the true meaning of 'rest'.


She panted as she stopped by the side of some rode. She had accepted a ride with a man who offered to drive her wherever she wanted, but she ended up in a small farm somewhere in the outskirts and after six days of staying in that place, which for some reason had no phone, she had decided to try to head back. She needed to find a phone to call him. To let him know she was alive. She took a couple of deep breaths and calmed herself down. All she needed to do was follow her intuition. Her father had always told her that they'd make of good use in situations like that.

She had promised herself to not do anything stupid during these seventeen days, twenty one hours and three minutes. She didn't even have a clock so she could watch her time. She wanted to get a chance to call him before Light would enter her room. She was almost a hundred percent sure that if he was Kira, he would eventually find out there her room was paid for the next month and he would somehow find a way to get into her room. She was actually secretly hoping that he would open the violin case and see that she had given him a fake name.

Suddenly realizing that he could be entering her room at any given moment she made a face. She needed to get to the phone. Maybe, if possible, she would be able to stay on the line long enough with Ryuzaki for Light to kill her while she was at it. She was slightly puzzled at her obligation to let him know somehow, it was similar feeling of obligation she felt towards her father and brothers yet with a big difference she couldn't put her finger on. She shrugged it off; it was probably that she idolized him, since he would be the one who would capture Kira. He would be the one who would capture the person who got rid of almost everyone around her. She nodded in approval of her thoughts and began running once again.

She wasn't going to lose to either Kira or time.


Light happily walked away from the front desk. It wasn't too hard convincing them to give him the key. The only thing he needed to do was span up a story about him and Mizuki. He had told them that they were engaged, and that he wanted to surprise her. He emphasized the word surprise so well that they seemed to fall into awe as soon as he finished his sentence. That's the downside to have such naïve people at the counter. He thought to himself, smirking. He entered the elevator and pressed the floor number. He was getting all excited over nothing.

He needed to make sure that she wouldn't come back.

He waltzed right out of the elevator and made his way down the hall, the opposite way to where the investigation mainly took place. He looked at room numbers, trying to spot number 416. Soon he had found the door he was looking for. He had been there once before- at least properly. That time he had invited her out and commented on her playing. He smiled slyly to himself. She actually believed that he knew anything about that stupid song she played while he hadn't even been listening. He put in the card key and the door seemed to open magically. He wasn't surprised to see the same messy room as he had seen before. Everything was there like last time. The papers, the violin, the computer and her clothes. His first thought was to make his way to the computer, which was an obvious place to keep personal records.

He kicked around things that were in his way. Mainly papers. The computer was set on the floor by the foot of the bed. He sat down on the floor and opened the screen. The computer was plugged in and for some reason it was also turned on. He looked at the screen carefully. There was a count down open.

5:21:47

What was it counting down to? He thought to himself but ignoring it. She probably had some important even going on that she wasn't able to remember. He browsed through her computer, breaking passwords where it was necessary. She had a lot of pictures; most of them were scanned into the computer and were of small children, always the four same children appearing and every now and then a young, happy looking couple. But he didn't find any important documents. She had a few ones labeled with Kira. He quickly scanned over the first ten files, but the last one he read thoroughly. It was almost like a detailed summary of every thing she had done since she began investigating Kira. It started almost a year earlier. Only four days were missing until it was exactly a year.

Suddenly a click sound emerged from behind him. He turned his head to see the door starting to open. He suddenly panicked. He made a mistake? He was sure that they had stopped watching her when she joined the investigation team, and after she left there was no reason for them to watch her. So it couldn't have been that Ryuzaki, or anyone else, would know of him being there.

"Looks like she didn't intend to leave at all," that all too familiar, oddly sounding voice said, its words almost echoing throughout the room.


A/n: so, I guess some of you might be thinking "Eh? But wasn't he sleeping?" or something like that. xD Well, as you all know, it seems he always knows everything. That's my excuse for him suddenly appearing. Besides that. I feel like both Ryuzaki and "She" whose name is Nariko (as you might remember Ryuzaki thinking sometime ago) are a bit obsessive... But I guess it goes with their characters, Ryuzaki being slightly eccentric and her being... well, not making sense usually I believe. I'd appreciate comments! ^______^