Author's Notes: This chapter is another done by my brother. Took him long enough.


Disguises

After Beyond's confession last night, L had become a bit more wary around Light. He had ordered Mogi to tail Light and keep an eye on him when he wasn't at the hotel. He had also resorted to asking Beyond to tell him if he saw anyone else without a lifespan. The ex-criminal only grumbled a reply and stared blankly into space.

'Some day's Beyond's a chatterbox and then all of a sudden he stops talking altogether.' L had thought to himself. 'I don't even want to try and understand him.'

It was when a diary entry came to them that L ordered Matsuda to go with Light during his trip to Aoyama. He couldn't risk letting Light go alone when his suspicions were already high enough.


To everyone else in the task force who looked at the Aoyama camera footage, nothing was out of the ordinary. Light and Matsuda had hung around a group of Light's friends all day, just walking, talking, and stopping by the occasional shop for food and souvenirs.

To Beyond though, there was the constant reminder that he couldn't see Light's lifespan and he was steadily growing frustrated.

'Dammit boy, why can't I figure you out? If you are Kira, then you should want L to appear on TV. But then you write that message…GAH!! I want to break your neck so bad…'

"Beyond?"

He snapped out of his mental rant to see the task force, L, and Naomi looking at him strangely.

Naomi spoke up again. " Are you alright? You were twitching a bit and we thought we heard you growl."

After a couple seconds of awkward silence, Beyond stared back at the TV.

"I'm just…mad at Kira. I feel as if he's one step ahead of us…hold up! Rewind that back a few seconds!"

Watari, who had been standing nearby with a desert cart, rushed over and rewound the tape until Beyond told him to stop. Beyond watched the following scene with wide, tinted red eyes.

A girl with short black hair, glasses, and what looked like a school uniform, came out of the café that Light had just passed. He didn't see a name or a lifespan. Which could only mean…

"A disguise."

The whole room once again had their eyes on Beyond. Without waiting for a response, Beyond looked to L and said what was on his mind.

"What if the second Kira was there, just in disguise? That would make it extremely difficult for us to find them don't you think?"

While the officers started to talk amongst each other about this bit of info, Naomi stepped to the side and got as close to and Beyond as she could get without attracting attention.

'It's time I find out why Beyond has been acting stranger than usual lately.'

She pretended to be listening to the officers while she hung her head low and eavesdropped on the two look-alikes.

"What did you see?"

"A girl. With no name or lifespan. Meaning it was a disguise."

"Are you sure?"

"Did you ask for my help or not?! Of course I'm sure!"

"Alright. And where did you see her?"

"She walked out of the café just as Light and the group passed by. I know I don't have hard evidence, but my eyes are telling me that the second Kira is a woman."

Naomi couldn't believe what she was hearing. Beyond could tell who the second Kira was just by looking at them? 'Beyond what is going on? I don't understand…'

"Oh Naomi?"

She blinked a couple times to clear her thoughts and turned around to see Beyond mere inches from her face. 'Not to big on personal space are you?'

"Would you mind eavesdropping somewhere else? Or at least get me another jar of strawberry jam?"

After staring shocked for a couple of seconds, Naomi pouted and walked out of the room.

"Beyond, don't you think-"

"Look L, I've kept this secret to myself for a very long time, so be thankful I even told you. I don't want anybody else to know unless it's absolutely necessary."

After a moments pause, L gave in. "Very well."

It was then that Matsuda spoke up. "If the second Kira is in a disguise, anyone in Aoyama could be a suspect! How are we going to narrow it down now?"

L had put his thumb back up to his lips while plucking a donut from the desert cart.

"Hmmm, for now, we will continue looking into any location the second Kira mentions in videos or diary pages."

Naomi came back a few minutes later with Beyond's jam and a question.

"What exactly did you see on the tape?"

Beyond paused in his jam jar opening to look the ex-FBI agent in the eyes. "Naomi, I saw what everyone else saw. Nothing." Before she could ask what he meant, he had taken his jam and walked off to the far side of the room. She sighed 'I'm never going to get through to him.'


"So you were at Aoyama in disguise just to meet me?"

"Yes, and I made sure no one followed me so you don't have to worry about anything."

"What about those tapes you sent? Your fingerprints-"

"Those aren't my fingerprints! I took them from videos a friend and I used to make back home."

After a few more minutes of thinking, Light still wasn't sure about his new guest Misa Amane. Could she really be the second Kira?

"Look, if you don't trust me, you can have my Death Note. I'm not officially giving it to you, so I'll still have my memories of it, but I'll let you hold onto it."

"How do I know your not hiding any pages of the Death Note somewhere?"

"What is this 20 questions!? I don't have any pages on me or anywhere else! Why don't you trust me?" With that, the girl began to quietly sob and tell about how Kira killed the man who murdered her parents and how she had been a Kira supporter ever since. She even went as far as to say she would do anything for Kira.

'There is no doubt I can use her eyes to get L's real name. But she knows too much. As soon as I kill L, I'll kill her too.'

"Alright fine. I'll think of a way for you to at least catch a glimpse of L's face and then, when you give me his name, I can kill him."

"Okay! But on one condition!"

"Wh-what?"

"I'll agree to your plan if you agree to be my boyfriend!"


Sorry if the ending is kind of abrupt, but I couldn't stand writing Misa dialogue any longer. Next chapter on its way!!

-RulerofFire's brother