Hey guys, sorry if the editing might be a bit off, I think I broke autocorrect. I find it so funny that my views increased by so much since I changed the description XD was a suggestive description really all it took? LOL
Chapter 11
L watched his partner attentively as she read through the folder containing their carefully planned out strategy to out Kira, she would stop and reread certain parts then would nod slightly and then carry on.
"Well?"he asked as soon as she put down the folder. She smiled and nodded approvingly.
"It's a good plan…" she admitted shamelessly.
"Of course." L smirked at the brunette, he was the one who came up with the plan. He got up then made his way to the dessert cart he had sent up and took his time to choose a sweet treat.
"L?" the brunette called to the fellow detective who had all his focus set on the confectionaries.
"Hmm?" he grunted to signify that she had gotten his attention.
"If I die…" she started, but was quickly interrupted.
"What is it? Are you afraid of death? That's so out of character from the fearless Sinclair that the world has come to know!" he poked at her mockingly.
"No, that's not it!" she said quickly, jumping round her seat to face the raven haired detective.
"I won't let that happen." He said quietly, looking the lady in the eye.
"Chivalry will get you killed." She added.
"That's not the reason." He finally settled on a stick of dango, turning it around his hand to observe the colorful dumplings.
"Then what?" she watched the detective take a seat next to her, pulling his knees to his chest like he always did, then offered her a stick of dango which she politely accepted.
"I have my reasons." He stated, then took a bite of his dessert, pulling a single dumpling off the stick and into his mouth, chewing swiftly before swallowing.
She huffed, "I was going to say you should inform my…" she stopped then bit her lip not sure if this was the best decision, then shook her head quickly, "Ah…never mind." She turned away then took a bite of dango to keep herself occupied.
L tilted his head at the brunette, "You'd like me too inform your father if you die on this case?" Sinclair shook her head feverishly.
"No don't do that!"she said quickly.
"I won't have to." L reassured her.
"How are you so sure?" Sinclair crossed her arms over her chest.
"Don't you trust me?" He asked.
"Why? Do you trust me?" the thought never crossed her mind that L would even choose to collaborate with her on a case, and yet here she was.
"Is it that hard to believe, that besides for Watari, you're the only person I can trust." He said casually even though the fact itself was sad.
"Oh, look who's being transparent now." She teased, the raven haired detective frowned in response, "That's sweet L, really. But you forget that I will stop at nothing to reach my goals." she reminded the detective, scooting closer and batting her eyelashes coyly and pouted her lips for effect.
"Likewise, if I had to choose between your life and solving the Kira case, you'd be dead."
"Then what was all that talk about trust?"
"You should trust in me, that I will never have to make that decision." he smirked down at the lady detective.
Their little conversation was interrupted when L's mobile rang, he pulled it out from his pocket then flipped it open, "Yes…good." Then hung up, "They're on their way up." L stated, jumping up from his seat.
"Oh, of course." Sinclair joined him in the hallway, standing next to him, she didn't notice the detective shuffle behind her.
"What are you doing?!" she hissed at the male, who had gripped the hemming of her skirt and tugged it downwards.
"Your very presence is distracting; the task force may not have as much self control as I do when it comes to suppressing their…" The detective paused then looked the brunette up and down.
"What?" she questioned irritated, "Suppress what?"
L cleared his throat slightly then whispered, "Urges." He watched the lady detective go red in the face, averting her gaze, "Never mind." He said then turned to the hotel door, awaiting the belated task force.
Just then there was a beep at the door, and slowly it opened and the task force filled into the hall.
"Huh?" Sinclair looked to L, this was the task force, five police officers? As if reading her mind L responded with a slight nod and a look that said unfortunately.
For a few seconds, everyone stood there awkwardly, the 'task force' gaping unbelievingly at L and the raven haired detective hunched over.
L was the first to break the silence with a simple statement, "I am L." he said in that deep monotonous voice and the task force, seemed shocked, "And this is my partner, Sinclair, I'm sure you've heard of her." He gestured to the brunette who bowed slightly at the introduction.
"Of course, the fourth greatest detective in the world, will she be working with us?" questioned the older officer, with a mustache and square specs.
"Yes, I will." The lady detective spoke up, thinking it quite rude to not address her instead, her gaze locked with the officer next to the older one, he seemed to be the youngest and least experienced in the room and he quickly averted his gaze away from hers, almost embarrassed.
The five officers proceeded to introduce themselves, the oldest went first…
"I'm Yagami, of the NPA." He said, taking out his police identification.
"Uh…Matsuda." Said the youngest.
"I am Aizawa." Said the one with the afro.
"Mogi." Said the tall one, with the deep voice.
"Ukita." Said the shortest of them all.
"I'm very sorry that we're late," began the one known as Yagami, "Currently the five of us…" he was interrupted by L, who made a gun with his hand and pointed it at the officers.
"Bang." He imitated the sound of a gun firing, the lady detective sighed, rolling her eyes.
"What the hell was that?!" questions the one known as Aizawa.
"If I were Kira, you'd be dead Mr. Soichiro Yagami chief of the NPA." L reasoned, shocking almost everyone in the room, "Kira needs a name and face in order to commit murder, I'm sure you've already figured that much out, haven't you?" the detective looked over to his partner who nodded agreeing.
"Don't be so careless with giving out your names." Added Sinclair, feeling kind of left out.
"Yes, instead let's value our lives." L lead the way to the living room.
"I knew he needed a face to kill someone, but I don't remember any evidence showing that he needed a name too." States Matsuda, turning Chief Yagami for answers.
"There's no way to verify if this is related, but criminals whose names were not released to the public and whose names were spelled incorrectly in the media have not been targeted. We briefly went over it at one of our meetings." explains the chief.
"That's enough small talk for now, come this way." Says L from his place in the living room, "And please turn off all cell phones, handhelds and any other communication devices and place them on the table right there, so that Sinclair can check for any bugs or tracking devices." L gestures to the table were the lady detective is seated.
"What do you think, we're going to be using our cell phones during the meeting to leak information?" Aizawa speaks up, irritated.
"It's alright just do as he says." the chief reassures the rest of the task force and one by one, everyone places their cell phone on the table. Matsuda is the last to give his in and sneaks a peek at the brunette, who smiles up at him, but he quickly clears his throat and joins the others.
"I realize he's been cautious from the beginning, but I still can tell whether he trusts us or not." Matsuda says to the chief.
"No I just find them distracting, I can't stand it when peoples cell phones ring when I'm trying to talk." L takes his seat on the couch and everyone follows after, accept of course for Sinclair, who starts checking the phones immediately.
After a minute or two, Sinclair joins everyone else in the living room.
"And from now on I'll have to ask that you to stop calling me L it's Ryuzaki now, just to be safe."
"Interesting alias." Sinclair states, stopping in her tracks.
"Hmm? Yes I thought you'd like it." L turns his attention to his partner, and gestures for her to join him. Sinclair makes her way round to L's side, "One more thing…" L grabs the lady's wrist and pulls her down onto the arm of his chair, "Please treat Sinclair with the respect that she deserves, not only is she regarded higher then all of you on this case, but if there are any problems, you go to her directly and she will pass it on to me." L explains carefully to the task force, whilst Sinclair stared wide-eyed at the detective, "She is also off limits," the lady detective couldn't help but almost choke on air, "So don't get any ideas." He directs the last part to the youngest one, Matsuda, who shifts uncomfortably in his seat, "Understand?" the whole task force nods their heads in understanding.
"Please, call me Suki from now on." Sinclair directs this to everyone in the room.
"Um…Ryuzaki?" says Matsuda, trying to get the detective's attention, who seemed preoccupied with transferring the entire contents of the sugar bowl into his coffee.
"Hmm?"
"If Kira needs a name and face to kill, couldn't we cut down on the number of victims by keeping the names of criminals from the news?" he suggests.
"If we do that, we'll only be putting the general public at risk." he states, stirring the contents of his cup before taking a sip.
"The general public?"
"Why?"
There's a pause as everyone awaits an answer, then finally L share's his observation "Kira is childish and he hates to lose."
"What exactly do you mean?" questions the chief.
"Well, I am also childish and hate to lose, that's how I know." He reasoned, taking a sip of his coffee.
"Do you mind being more specific?" says the chief.
"Early on in the investigated I tried to provoke Kira with that broadcast, up until then we had thought that Kira would only go after criminals, but as we all witness, he didn't hesitate to kill my stand in. Also as soon as I said I knew he was in the Kanto region, in defiance he made sure that all his victims came from within Japan as if to say 'What are you going to do about it'" he paused, bringing his thumb to his lips, "He's met each of my challenges head-on and he has never missed the opportunity to return the favor. Now what do you think would happen if we tried to use media restrictions to hide criminals from someone like that?" L looks to the task force for an answer.
"I guess…" begins Matsuda.
"If you choose to withhold the names of your worst criminals then I'll kill petty criminals or the innocent. I'm holding the whole world hostage so who's it going to be? I'm not the evil one here, but all those who oppose me by hiding criminals, you are truly evil. That's exactly how Kira thinks. In any case let's look at another way to use the media to draw him out."
"But how?"
"How about something like this…death of FBI agents infuriates US. Latest killings anger the international policing community. Nations agree to send fifteen hundred investigators to Japan." Explains the detective, "For Kira this'll be way beyond what he faced with the FBI. He'll see everyone as a potential threat, psychologically he'll start to feel cornered and that'll cause him to take some kind of drastic action."
"That's interesting." Says Ukita.
"So he'll think there are fifteen hundred of us when really there only eight of us and since none of these investigators exist, Kira won't be able to kill them." Says Aizawa.
"This just might work."
"Of course." States the brunette, smirking down at the raven haired detective, who returns the favor.
"Well, before you celebrate, let me tell you the rest of my thoughts on the Kira case." The task force leaned in a bit closer to take in what the detective was about to say, "Kira works alone, he had access to all our classified information." L states, bringing his thumb to his lip.
"What evidence to you have that he's working alone?"
"We already know that he needs a name and face to kill, and can even control a victims actions and time of death." Explains the lady detective.
"Please keep that in mind, and listen carefully to what I have to say next…" L pulls out a sharpie and starts mapping out a timeline on the surface of the coffee table, sharing his observations, then hands out a stack of papers containing additional information. "So, does anyone have any questions?"
"Actually Ryuzaki, I do have one question for you and it pertains to what you said earlier about how you hate to lose. Does the fact that you've shown your face to us mean you've lost? By just being here have you admitted defeat to Kira?" questions chief Yagami.
"That's right, by showing my face to you now and by sacrificing the lives of twelve FBI agents I have lost the battle…" Sinclair looked down at the detective, completely shocked, had L just admitted defeat? "…but I'm not going to lose the war." Said the detective, seriously, "This is the first time, I've ever put my life on the line, I want to show Kira that we're all willing to risk our lives, if that's what it takes." He said, gripping his knees, his mouth spread into a mischievous smile, "And that justice will prevail." The detective finishes off his inspirational speech.
"Alright I like the sound of that!"
"We can do this!"
"Alright then, let's do this Ryuzaki!"
"Before we go any further I have to be sure that none of you are Kira. So each of you will speak with Sukia and myself individually before you leave today." L jumps up from his seat and makes his way to the window for a moment of brooding silence, leaving Sinclair behind to watch the task force.
"What, he still doesn't trust us?" questioned Aizawa.
"No, I think it's a fair request. Try to see it from his perspective, Kira's been getting information from our headquarters from the very beginning so there's a good chance that he's one of us."
"Chief's right. Working on this case gives us a chance to see him in person."
"He's risking his life to be here."
Sinclair came up beside the detective staring out the window overlooking the night city, "I thought you said it wouldn't come to having to choose between life and the Kira case."
"Hmm," L looked to the lady detective beside him "That was just to get the task force pumped up a bit." He brought his hand up to her head and patted down her bangs absentmindedly.
"Okay, then job well done." She smiled up at the raven haired detective, who ran his hand down her face, letting his arm fall back to his side, "When was the last time you slept?" she asked concerned for his health.
"Never mind that." He stated then continued back to the living room. Sinclair shook her head then followed.
Am I the only one who finds writing directly from the anime difficult? Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.