Chapter 12: Mystery Case: Kagome

In another room that looked a bit like a gym, Kagome was practicing ballet, something she hadn't done in years. Jumping in the air she spread her legs out then brought them down just in time to land on her feet, when her feet touch the ground she instantly drop to the ground and brought her right leg over her left leg and her twisted her body a bit before pushing herself around so that she spun on the polished wood floor. Slowly, her body rose up off the floor as she continued to the spin; her right leg was still firmly on the ground as her left leg was bent around the right leg, though not touching it.

As she fully got off the floor she raised her arm at the same time as she rose higher and higher, when she finally rose to her full extent she let her leg stick out then slowly lowered it to the ground, all of the sudden the phone rang. Kagome quickly caught herself before she fell to the floor; she let out a sigh of relief when she didn't fall, letting go of the wall that saved her ass from a bruise and probably a sprain ankle, Kagome walked over to the bench in the far corner of the room.

Beside the bench was a small table that held a black phone just like the one in the living room she picked it up off the receiver and pressed it against her ear "hello?" "Heh-!" before the person could finish, Kagome dropped the phone on the receiver and walked away from the phone. Five seconds later the phone started to ring once again, but Kagome ignored it as she stepped out of the room not feeling like finishing her ballet.

She walked into the living room but stopped in front of the door when she caught a very familiar scent, she inwardly growled "Misa, I highly recommend getting out before I throw you out" she said tonelessly. Misa was actually wearing clothes this time, she had on a black spaghetti strap tang top and a black mini skirt and a pair of black heels instead of the stilettos she always wore, around her neck were dozens of bead necklaces and around her wrist were silver bracelets, bad combination, seriously.

Misa stood up off the couch and smiled at her, Kagome could see it was hard for her to do especially when Misa tried to kill her and got her ass kicked, plan backfire. "Oh Kagome, I just wanted to hang out is all, to apologize for what I tried to do" "you mean your failed attempt to kill me or stab me?" Kagome asked curiously tilting her head to the side. Misa's eyes twitched slightly, almost unnoticeable, but Kagome noticed though didn't say anything "oh Kagome, I'll make it up to you, how about we go out and party!" she chirped happily. Something about Misa's behavior made Kagome a bit suspicious of her intentions of hanging out, she shook her head "thanks, but no thanks, we are suspects of being the second Kira and I don't feel like going to an early grave today" she said walking towards the kitchen to get some ice tea.

But it was seem Misa was actually a mule in disguise as she followed her and begged "come on, please! It'll be fun, I swear, and we don't have to tell the others" she said, almost desperately, Kagome put down the ice tea carton and put it back in the refrigerator "Misa, taking advantage of free exploration is not such a good thing. Especially when we are being accused for murdering more than a quarter half the Japanese population" she said taking a sip of her drink, it was sweet, just the way she liked it, also had a bit of lemon flavor in it.

"Oh come on, you're a teenager, live a little" "and I'm starting to wonder if you are one" Kagome walked passed her and over to the couch, Misa watched as she sat down and put her right leg over her left one. She glared at her slightly but then quickly changed it to a pouty one "what does that suppose to mean?" Kagome lowered the glass from her lips "if I remember correctly, you're…nineteen now right, almost an adult, and you're acting like a rebellious fourteen year old. You are not getting the concept that Ryuuzaki hold your fate in his hands, he has evidence against you proving that you are probably the second Kira, which would be mostly by 28.9 percent at the moment" she raised her glass and took another sip of her cold ice tea.

Misa stared at her with complete disbelief "wah-28.9 percent! But how-when-what?" Misa tripped over her words as she tried to grasp the concept of what Kagome just told her. Kagome just drank her drink calmly reveling Misa's reaction with great amusement and satisfaction, she wasn't joking when she said that, it was true that the probability of Misa being the second Kira in Ryuuzaki mind is 28.9 percent.

"You're lying!" Misa exclaimed angrily, Kagome place the cup on her knee "actually I'm not, to be honest, I'm also calculating the probability of you being the second Kira and it is on the same level, but I'm doing four calculations at once. It pains me to think this, but I'm also calculating the probability of Light being the original Kira and it's much higher than yours, 37.2 percent to be exact. The other two is another probability I'm doing on my own all together and believe me, the other ones are quite high" she said calmly spinning the cup around slightly making the ice tea to swirl around in it. Misa watched her through narrowed eyes "why would you keep track of the probabilities of me and Light being the original and second Kira?" she asked through clenched teeth, Kagome stopped spinning the cup, her eyes were closed and her head was leaned to the side against the knuckles of her hand.

She was silent for a while, she slowly opened her eyes and stared down at her ice tea "reasons that can't be explained" she said softly, she stared the cup for a few more moment before she closed her eyes releasing a sigh like yawn "also there is nothing else to do in this building that I find occupying." "Then come with me" "nope!" Kagome gulped down the last bit of her drink and stood up "unlike you, I like the little freedom I have" she walked pass her and into the kitchen, leaving Misa standing in the living room.

Misa stood there silent just staring at the floor two feet away from her feet.

In the work room Light and Ryuuzaki was watching the whole thing and were shocked that Kagome refused Misa in getting out of the building and having fun, though they could partly understand if they ever got attacked by the crazed bitch that unexpectedly appears asking to hang out as an apology. Though, Kagome chose to stay in the building, probably bored out of her mind, over going out and have a bit of freedom.

"Kagome is a very logical girl" he said with his thumb pressed lightly on the side of his bottom lip, Light stared at the screen watching Misa as she stood there seeming lost on what to do next 'Kagome is keeping track of the probability of me and Misa being the original and second Kira, why?' he wondered to himself.

"Reasons that can't be explained"

Kagome's words repeated in his mind 'what reasons I wonder' he thought, he saw Kagome walk back into the room "still here I see" he heard her say, Misa turned to her, her eyes narrowed into slits "how are you keeping track of us when Ryuuzaki wouldn't tell me shit about what's going on in the Kira Investigation" she hissed. Light was a bit shocked that Misa cussed, he never heard he cuss before, well, minus calling Kagome a bitch a few times.

He saw Kagome sigh and shake her head, she lightly scratched the back of her head, but below her hair "I write everything down that causes me to raise suspicion or percentages on you guys" "where?" "Like I'll tell you, come on, I didn't graduate college because of looks sweetheart, I'm smarter than I seem" Kagome said incredulously, she shook her head and walked over to the couch and sat down in the spot she always sat.

"Fine, how about this, instead of going out to hang out, we could stay here while you explain to me about this whole thing" Misa said starting to take off her heels. Kagome didn't say a word after a minute before she let out a sigh "sure, fine, whatever, as long as it gets your head out of my ass." In the background they heard Matsuda choke on his coffee, but Light and Ryuuzaki ignored him, Ryuuzaki reached over and grabbed the phone and pressed the button to the room.

As the phone rang, Kagome let out a groan and got up; she walked over to it and picked it up "what do you want from me Satan. I already sent you the two fart jobs from South Park" she said, knowing who it really was on the other end. Light covered his mouth to stifle back a laugh as he watched Ryuuzaki's eye twitch. Ryuuzaki cleared his throat and quickly regained his composure "if you don't mind, Light and I, will be coming up to hear yours and Misa's conversation" "…hmm, I see why not, heck, bring the whole team, the more the merrier, that way I don't have to repeat myself when Misa's whines to Light about her being suspected as the second Kira."

Her voice was bored like and held no enthusiasm what so ever "alright, we'll but in a little bit" "oh Ryuuzaki, before you go" "yes?" Ryuuzaki said preparing for a snooty remark, but he was shocked when he didn't receive one instead Kagome asked if he liked iced tea. He gave a stuttering yes before slowly hanging the phone up on the receiver, he stood there still shocked before he shook his head and hopped off his chair.

In five minutes everyone were sitting in Kagome's living room, Kagome was over at the bookshelf scanning through the binders on the bottom shelf, everyone watched her as she mumbled to herself repeating which one which one. "Ah, here we are!" Kagome smiled victoriously as she held up a black binder that was filled with several papers and they could see a folder in there in the middle.

Kagome walked over to the couch and sat down "alrighty then, lets get down to business" she placed the binder on the table then opened it up revealing the first page that had Light's whole profile such as name, age, sex, orientation, etc. "Okay, now Light, I know you must be a bit confused right now about why I'm keeping track of the probability of you might being Kira, especially after I knocked Ryuuzaki one when he accused you of being Kira" she paused, Light nodded and Kagome continued. "Well first, it was because it's kind of stupid that he would be depressed because his assumptions of you being Kira was wrong and acted childishly about it" she sent Ryuuzaki a flat look before looking down at the paper and flipped it to the other page revealing loads and loads of writing and a hand made graph on the side.

"Also, it's to make sure that there is a probability and possibility that you're not Kira that way if Ryuuzaki sends you to court or an execution without trial I can interfere with the right of stopping it." She turned the binder around so everyone could read it without being it upside down; they were very impressed by what they read. "Now I start this off with all the information I overheard Ryuuzaki saying when we were released from confinement and partly of the spot when you about to get shot in the head" she said the last part dismissively. Soichiro sent his son an apologetic look; Light nodded silently forgiving him for that day, knowing it wasn't really intentional.

"Now the papers that are not within the folder are Ryuuzaki's probabilities with some of my thoughts and scales and sorry if I sound a bit uninterested and a bit illogical" she said rubbing her forehead. Everyone gave her a concerned look "are you okay?" Matsuda asked, Kagome nodded "yes, I'm fine, anyways continuing on with this conversation" she waved her hand.

"Okay, in the beginning, I don't know what Ryuuzaki reason for first suspecting Light was, but something told me because of his calculating way and there is no possible way he could have met him because of how much he looks like a hermit…" Ryuuzaki sent her a glare but she ignored it "so in other ways he could have kept track of him was to either have an insider, which I doubt, or cameras be put into the house in every room, in every corner of the house. Now from the last time I was in the house and had a little tour I would say that Light had about…" Kagome tssh sound as she perked her lips a bit and thought "hmm, about 63 or 64 cameras to keep track of his every move. And around the house in total, minus Light's room…I'm not sure, somewhere around 34 or something" she shook her head, everyone stared at her with wide eyes, they were shocked that she came up with that conclusion in such a short time.

"Excuse me for a moment, I need to get something to drink, be right back" she grabbed her empty cup on the table and walked around to the kitchen; everyone watched her enter the kitchen then turned back to the binder filled with unbelievable amount of papers. Light turned the binder to him and looked through the writing, turning it once in a while when he was finished with a page "wow, this is amazing, she put in her hypothesis on the side right next to Ryuuzaki's hypothesis and suspicions of me. Also she has fact and flaw here" he squinted his eyes a bit "what's the fact and flaw on the one she just told us?" Mogi asked curious, Light turned the page back to the front and looked at the side of the page. "Well what she told us was the fact and the flaw is that Ryuuzaki will be charged for illegal surveillance without police force (the entire police force including head of the police force) permission. Punishment would be four or five months in prison" Light looked at everyone to see them staring at the binder with blank expression, then they turned their heads when they heard the clinking sound of cups.

Kagome walked into the room with a tray of cups in her hand she walked over to the table and placed a cup of iced tea in front of everyone then walked over to her own seat and sat down "and that is true, also a bottom note is that Ryuuzaki must have asked Soichiro for permission for doing this and he reluctantly agreed only wanting his son to be proven innocent. The surveillance must have only lasted for about a week if not more and they didn't find anything suspicious, well minus some of Light's security actions" "what?" Kagome turned her head to Light "between your door and the hinge there is a thin stick of lead which would not snap until you close the door after you open it. Also your doorknob was slightly turned down, which is not very noticeable only if you had a sharp eye, from what I remember in my classes back in college, doorknobs are always parallel, but when I touch the knob it felt like it was going slightly downwards. So my guess is that you turned it slightly down so that you know if someone went in your room or not because if someone did the doorknob will be pointing parallel again instead of the slightly turned way, the way you put it. Also in a way you knew that your mother wouldn't disturb your sanctuary in any way while you're gone and you're sister wouldn't do it since she's at school."

"Wow, they teach you that in college" "mmhm" Kagome said while drinking her iced tea "yup also you join a club if you want to learn some extra stuff about it, like forensics. Now, on the next page I put down the part when you're sister told me that you went out of play tennis with your friend, which was no doubt Ryuuzaki. This is kind of short, you and he played a match against one another and while you were playing it was actually a game to see if you had the same strong impulse that Kira did, which is not losing. You won the game and that cause suspicions to increase, the flaw in that is that everyone has the strong impulse to not lose, its human nature and instinct" Kagome paused to take another sip of her drink.

Everyone looked over at the page that had everything about the tennis match on it there was even a graph that they could barely understand on the corner. They were very impressed "do you mind if we read this over?" Soichiro asked, Kagome just shrugged "go right ahead, the paper on the other side of the folder is just Misa's" she said then continue got up and walked over to the bookcase once more to pulled out a red folder. "Here, this is some things I did in my free time, its all about Kira also the second Kira, its full of stuff that you might have not found about yet" she passed the folder to Light and then stepped out of the room to leave everyone to work on in peace, but she stopped at the door "hey Matsuda" Matsuda lifted his head and turned to Kagome "yeah?" "Are you okay, I heard that you fell off a building a bit tipsy?" Matsuda blushed then laugh nervously "yeah, I'm fine" "sure?" "Yeah, thanks" "no prob" after that Kagome left the room closing the door behind her.

It was three in the morning when Kagome came back; as she entered the room she heard snoring, she smiled at this and shook her head 'work themselves to sleep, I should have made them coffee, oh well' she walked out of the room leaving the door open. She came back into the room with a bunch of blankets and pillows in her arms; she carefully placed them on the side then started making makeshift beds for everyone.

'If I knew I was going to have a sleepover I would have brought some whip cream' she mentally grinned and little horns appeared on top of her head 'ha-ha, nah I wouldn't do that to them' "I must say, I'm really impressed on you dedication in your work" Kagome's whole body froze up and tensed when she heard Ryuuzaki's voice. She stood frozen for a whole minute until Ryuuzaki asked if she was alright when she saw her whole body still and tense, Kagome's body slowly relaxed "I'm fine, just startled me is all" she said with a small sigh. "My apologies" "apology accepted" she said as she walked over to the first person that was near, it was Matsuda, she carefully picked him up and put him in the fist make shift bed.

The second person was Mogi, she had to drag him since she didn't want to show her strength to Ryuuzaki, who she knew was watching her every move, and the next and last person was Soichiro, though she couldn't find Misa, but assumed she went back downstairs after she left. After everyone was in their makeshift beds with their shoes, socks, and coats next to them, Kagome went over to the couch she heard Light was still awake "boy, when was the last time you got some rest?" she asked.

Light smiled "yesterday" "how many hours?" "About four" Kagome stared at him for a while with a blank expression before shaking her head "pretty soon you're going to be ended up looking like Ryuuzaki" at this Light laughed, but softly for he wouldn't wake up the others. "I take offense to that" Ryuuzaki said, Kagome shrugged "you only do because you know its true" Ryuuzaki didn't say anything and looked back down at the paper that were in the red folder.

"These are very impressive Kagome, I never knew someone who would do all this work" "yes you do, it's the people who made the text books at your school" she smiled; Light smiled back and shook his head. He then let out a yawn "excuse me" he said "I think you should get some sleep Light" "I'm fine" "do you want me to do that thing I did to Misa back in the hotel?" Kagome threatened. Light looked at her with a slightly scared expression, he put his head on his neck as though trying to protect it "um, no" he said "then get some sleep" "can't" "let me guess, chain?" "Yeah" Kagome sighed and shook her head.

"Light get up, Ryuuzaki, move to the end over here where Light was sitting" she said "why?" "Do it or forever hold your brains" she said with a small hiss. Light got up and Ryuuzaki crawled over to end of the couch where Light was sitting before "Light, sit next to me" she said patting the spot next to her, Light did as she said and sat next to her. "Okay, now lay your head on my lap and go to the sleep" what?" "Head lap sleep now" Kagome repeated simply, Light stared at her for a bit then hesitantly laid his head down on her lap, pulling his legs up onto the couch and closed his eyes.

He had to admit it was kind of comfortable especially when Kagome started to stroke his head gently, in no time he fell into a deep slumber. Kagome listened as Light's breathing slowly became slow and even, she smile slightly when he finally fell to sleep, the whole time Ryuuzaki was watching the whole thing. He had never seen family care that much the only time he did was when he was watching Light and his family interact with each other through surveillance, he looked at the others to see them peacefully sleeping in the makeshift bed on the floor.

"You're very caring" "hm, what-oh I guess" Kagome said and continued on stroking Light's auburn colored hair, Ryuuzaki felt something in his chest that made him feel sick, angry, and disgusted at the same time. 'Am I…jealous? Ha! Preposterous' he thought to himself before turning back to papers before him, he turned to a page that said Shinigami on it, his eyes widened when he saw a dark sketch of one. He picked it up and looked at it carefully, the 'Shinigami' had long skinny arms that reached all the way to the knees and clawed fingers, their posture was hunched over a bit, long legs and what looked to be torn wings behind them and there was another one looked a bit like a skeleton, though not really.

He scoffed thinking it was just Kagome mocking him in a way and looked at the other paper behind it "Shinigami is the Japanese God of Death, sometimes known as the Death Deity. Shinigami's are what you can or can not say fictional or mythological, they truly exist, yet they are very rarely seen in the human world. They came to be somewhere around the 1900s during the Japanese wars, Shinigami can come in very different looks, but same traits such as long arms that reaches unimaginably to their knees, almost passing them. Clawed fingers, hunched of postures, long legs, slightly bent knees, big rounded eyes.

"Shinigamis have eyes that allow them to see a human's name and lifespan right above their heads also they have the power to kill a human in any type a way such as heart attacks and other unexpected ways. How they are able to do that are still unknown, other than that Shinigamis are not very threatening only if a human can obtain their abilities to kill"

Ryuuzaki stared at the paper with wide eyes then quickly reread it again, after reading it five times he looked over at Kagome to see her still stroking Light's hair humming softly, he saw Light snuggle his cheek on Kagome's leg and sigh in contentment. He couldn't help but glare at the young teenager peacefully sleeping on Kagome's lap, Kagome heard the chain shift and then felt a warm breath hit her cheek, backing her head a bit and turning her face to face Ryuuzaki was too close for her liking.

"How do you know about Shinigamis?" he asked softly though his voice was hard and suspicious, Kagome frowned "I remember my grandfather telling me about them when I was younger, he was priest of a temple so he knew about everything about unbelievable stuff that includes Shinigamis" she said. Ryuuzaki stared at Kagome for a long time then his eyes unwillingly fell down to her soft looking lips, he stared at her lips for a long time, he silently wondered to himself what they would feel like and if they would taste sweet. Realizing what he was thinking he moved back and shook his head berating himself for thinking such things about his suspect, he looked at Kagome from the side of his eye to see her adjust herself a bit and go back to stroking Light's hair "why do you do that?" he asked.

"My mother use to do it to me when I was younger, it calms a person when they sleep causing bad dreams that might appear go away" when she said that Ryuuzaki suddenly remembered what Watari told him about Kagome being raped by her father. His heart gave one painful beat before going back to its normal calm pace; he blinked a couple times then looked down at all the paper on the table he didn't know what to think about Kagome at the moment. She was a very difficult mystery that he seemed to not be able to solve, he inwardly sighed and closed his eyes trying to clear his mind 'Kagome, what are you hiding that you won't tell us.'