Author's Note: This is a really short chapter. I promise that I will get to the action in the next chapter.
Also, had anyone heard of TVTropes dot Org? I have set up a page there for this fan-fiction. You can check it out, if you wish.
Also, I have several stories in the idea phrase. I am thinking of making up about a case that Near takes during the four-year gap.
Meanwhile, Justin was writing more names in the Death Note. However, he stopped at about ten names.
Justin saw Landras floating around his room. He turned around his chair and asked, "Can you explain the extents of the Death Note?"
Landras said, "What exactly? Even we Shinigami don't know everything about the Death Note,"
"The extents that the Death Note could control people," Justin said aloud. His sister and mom were away, and his dad was deeply asleep on the other side of the house and won't wake up for a few more hours. He took off his telepathy necklace and put it to the side.
"Yes, there are limits," Landras said, "Of course; you can't make anyone do anything impossible. For example, for someone in London dieing in New York an hour later. Also, there are less obvious restrictions, like nobody who isn't mentioned in the Death Note dieing as a result of the Death Note. For example, if you wrote that 'Person A kills Person B and then dies', Person A would simply die from a heart attack. You can't also have someone set off a bomb or cause a mass murder. But 'Person A gets stabbed by someone and dies' is a valid reason,"
"So, no collision damage?" Justin asked.
"Correct,"
Justin took out a list of names and faces, "I have a list of twenty low-tier criminals either in prison, or on the run, but not seen in awhile. The police may be suspicious on why the former hadn't died yet, but I been saving them just in case,"
"But you said you won't make any moves to make you a suspect,"
"I said, just in case." He took out a notepad, "I been writing down notes concerning the Death Note, with a special personal cipher and a slightly different writing. I'm also keeping a small list of core terrorists with great influence but been inactive over the years. With the twenty criminals, I could put them in any scenario. All I need to do is to have them die in a position where the media would be able to report their deaths, without tipping the FBI off that I have access to their database:
"Wait," Landras said, "You have-"
"Before you came," I had a bug planted into be uncle's laptop. I found out that I could use it to view the contents of his whole hard drive. He has a database on the Kira Case,"
"So what situations are you going to put them in?" Landras asked.
"You will see," he then faced his desk and started to write in the Death Note.
"By the way," Landras said, "When did you find this out?"
Justin grinned, "When I called you out so I could dress. I took advantage of that situation,"
Landras then thought, "Very impressive. However, he does look better when he's smiling…"
The next day, David Peterson was surprised at Kira's latest victims.
"Twenty-four victims died in prison," he thought as he read the reports, "One per hour," Regularly, Kira averaged about fifteen to twenty per day, "Eight criminals also died, a few of them doing something out of the ordinary,"
One of the victims cut himself, and wrote the word "Kira" on the wall before having a heart attack. Another victim somehow jumped over the prison wall, and suffered a heart attack a few blocks away. One even yelled the words, "Kira is Justice!" in a prison cafeteria before dieing too. There were three other cases, but they were only normal deaths.
David turned on the television, "This is Chastity Pure. An informant in the FBI released information earlier about 'unusual deaths' in several local prisons. Details will be revealed later…"
He sighed, turned off the television and laid the report down. He was in his office in the FBI Chicago headquarters. He was sitting at his desk, which included a computer, a television, stacks of paper, and several photographs of his family.
A pastel-painted vacuum bot zipped from a doggy door and started to clean the carpet. Vacuum bots were starting to be mass-produced along with automatic driving and patrolling trashcan, though the latter was mostly a novelty item.
"Maybe Harold would know," David thought as he picked up the phone and dialed a number. After a few tones, he heard Harold Blick's, an Agent, voice on the receiver.
"Hello?" Mr. Blick said.
"Someone did an information leak, concerning the recent unusual deaths. Do you know who might have done this?"
"I don't know, but I will investigate this," Mr. Blick said, "There are only about fifteen agents with access to information on the Kira case. Most of our members requested a transfer,"
"I know. Thank you," Mr. Peterson hanged up and laid his back on his chair. There were two main Kira investigations, one in Chicago and the other in Washington DC. The other braches send agents to those two, but mostly DC. David's superiors were requesting more agents, but they were worried about becoming understaffed in other departments in the process.
"If only L would work with us," David thought. According to reports, Watari was in DC, "It took five years last time before Kira disappeared. I know want this case to last that long,"
Justin looked up the results to his experiment on the Internet.
"All the victims were reported," Justin said.
"How did you do that?" Landras asked as she floated behind Justin.
"One of my experiments was to see if a Death Note victim can threaten someone not in the Note. Specially, a FBI agent my uncle knows that has access to the case," Justin opened the Death Note to showed what he did.
"I first saw if a person would hurt himself and do a simple task," Justin explained, "Then I see if a person could do something unlikely and if events will change around him. I wrote that he dies from seeing a yellow car with a broken window. The third one was to test to see if someone could say something he might not believe,"
"What about the other three?"
"Let's say they were put in nearly impossible situations. How did I do?"
"You did great. You are following Kira's footsteps…"
Meanwhile Near looked at the information Watari sent to him from the FBI investigation. He took one glance at it and grinned.
"This is defiantly a new Kira," Near thought, "And this one's is on par with Light Yagami. That means he will be easier to catch this time…"
More Author's Note: Sorry, but I'm in a rush. What do you think?