Sorry for the lack of updates recently. School is crazy right now.

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Sakura02: He can even give her a treat for doing a trick! XD

hinatablueeyes708: The girls will notice that something is off about Light, but to what extent, I'm not sure yet. Obviously I don't want them to figure out right away that he's Kira because the story would be over far too quickly. As for the shinigami, that will also come more into play as the story progresses.

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"You're not serious, are you, Soichiro-san?" Hiroko shouted angrily, splashing her tea out of her cup as she slammed it on the table.

Naoko flinched, but was equally as upset as her twin. "Those other police chiefs haven't helped at all and they just want L to go on TV like Kira wants him to?"

Soichiro sighed as he slumped down on the couch next to Matsuda. It had been only a couple days since the chaotic mess at SakuraTV. They had allowed Sakura to air the final tape which outlined Kira's demands for the police to have L come on television to be killed. If this did not happen, Kira had promised to kill police chiefs around the world. "I'm afraid so."

L sighed as he sipped his tea. "Their choice is right and reasonable. Hiroko, if you slam that cup down one more time and get more tea on the carpet, you're going to be the one to clean it up."

Hiroko pouted. "How can you be so calm, Ryuuzaki? Those jerks want you to die for them!"

L shrugged as he began eating the cake in front of him. "If the choice is between me and the NPA Director General, then I'm the logical choice. After all, I'm the one that challenged Kira and swore to capture him. It's the right decision."

Naoko frowned as she looked into her tea. "But…it's not fair." She muttered lamely, having nothing else she could think of to say.

"What's more troubling is that when I appear on television, and I intend to," he cut in when Hiroko and Naoko opened their mouths to protest again. "if Kira knows nothing about me, how do I convince him I'm really L?"

The Task Force looked around at each other. "That's true…" Matsuda said.

"But…but…" Hiroko opened and closed her mouth a few times. Her and Naoko were quite upset by the whole thing, particularly how nonchalantly L was talking about allowing himself to die. They'd lost quite enough people the past few months without someone they had just bonded with to die as well.

"He's not even the real Kira!" Naoko finally blurted out. She quickly covered her mouth as the Task Force whipped around to look at her.

L nodded as he ate his cake. "I'd suspected as much. I thought he may have been an accomplice but that doesn't seem likely after reviewing the first tape sent in."

"How'd you figure that?" Matsuda asked. "I mean, if Naoko says so I guess it's true since she probably…saw something…" Matsuda was still trying to wrap his mind around the fact that the two girls had psychic powers. "I watched the tape, though, and I didn't suspect anything."

"The victims that were killed to prove the sender was Kira were different from ones that Kira kills." L answered. "They were TV celebrities that had been caught with drugs. Only daytime tabloid news made a big fuss about it."

"Girls, have you seen anything to help?" Soichiro asked. He had been filled in on the girls' uniqueness's after he had recovered.

Hiroko and Naoko both looked at each other and shrugged. "Nothing concrete. But, it's definitely not the same Kira. It has something to do with the name Rem and those red eyes I drew."

"I'm seventy percent certain there is a Second Kira." L piped up.

Naoko and Hiroko tuned out what the group was saying around them. "I'm going to the bathroom." Hiroko suddenly announced.

"I'll go with you." Naoko said softly, following after her sister.

As soon as they were out of earshot, Hiroko sighed and slumped against the wall. "This sucks, Naoko."

Naoko nodded, sitting beside her sister with her knees drawn up. "I wish Mom could have taught us how to use our powers better. Then, we might actually be able to help."

Hiroko frowned, resting her head against Naoko's shoulder. "I don't want Ryuuzaki to die…I don't want anyone else to die…we need the book."

Naoko stiffened. "But…it's back at the house…we'd have to go back there…"

"Don't you want to save everyone, Naoko?" Hiroko asked, sitting up. "What if Kira does kill Ryuuzaki? Or Soichiro-san or even Light?"

Naoko's eyes widened. She looked around to make sure nobody was coming towards them. "How are we going to leave, though? Ryuuzaki won't let us go anywhere without him or one of the others."

Hiroko shrugged as she stood up. "We'll figure something out. Come on, let's go back."

Aizawa raised an eyebrow as the two girls came back. "Everything okay?"

Hiroko put on her most dazzling smile while Naoko smiled softly. "Yup." Hiroko hopped back into her seat. She blinked when she noticed the grin on Soichiro's face. "What's wrong?"

"Light will be joining the Task Force." Soichiro said. "He should be here shortly."

Naoko's eyes lit up. "Does that mean you don't think he's Kira anymore, Ryuuzaki-san?"

L sipped his tea. "Not entirely. Don't you glare at me like that, Young Lady."

Naoko pouted but didn't argue since Light walked in right at that moment. "Light-san!"

Light smiled as he was tackled to the ground by the two excited twins. Hiroko was attached to his waist while Naoko had her arms wrapped tightly around his neck. "Hey, girls. It's good to see you again."

"Girls, go to your room for a bit while we brief Light-kun on the evidence and show him the tapes." L said, nudging at Hiroko with his foot.

The two pouted but complied. "I'm really tired of them sending us to our room when they want to talk about serious Kira stuff. We're not kids."

"Actually, we are, Hiroko. We're only seven." Naoko reminded patiently.

Hiroko rolled her eyes. "That's not the point." Her face suddenly turned serious. "Did you sense something…odd about Light?"

Naoko nodded. "Yes, but…it wasn't Light himself. It was like…there was something…something attached to him."

"Naoko, Hiroko, you can come out now." Soichiro sighed tiredly as he opened the door. He blinked as he felt two small hands touching his own.

"Soichiro-san, are you okay?" Naoko asked softly.

"Don't worry." Hiroko added. "We know Light is innocent. Ryuuzaki will see it soon enough too. Light's a good person."

Soichiro smiled down at the two. "Thank you, girls. It's almost like you can read my mind sometimes…you can't, can you?"

Naoko wrinkled her nose and shook her head. "No. Our mom could, but we didn't get that power."

"Good thing too." Hiroko shuddered. "I don't know if I'd want to know what Light was thinking after seeing he had those dirty magazines in his room."

"Light-san isn't that kind of a person!" Naoko whined as Soichiro led the two girls back into the room.

Soichiro watched with mild interest as Hiroko immediately shoved L over to sit next to him while Naoko curled up beside Light on the couch to watch the video response the Task Force had made from the 'real' Kira. The way the two boys reacted to the girls was amusing as well. L glowered at Hiroko and kept trying to shove her off the chair with his foot while Light simply smiled down at Naoko and wrapped a protective arm around the small girl. Things were definitely going to be interesting from now on.

It was a couple days later when Watari's voice rang through the meeting room. Light had been helping Hiroko and Naoko with their studies, having already been filled in on their gifts.

"Ryuuzaki, we received a response from the Second Kira!" Watari's distorted voice said.

"Don't you dare tell us to leave." Hiroko snapped at L. "We wanna know what this moron has to say."

L sighed, but decided not to fight them. "Play the tape."

"Kira, thank you for responding." The gravely voice came over the speakers as the crudely written name 'Kira' appeared on the screen.

"It's a girl." Naoko said with a definitive air.

L glanced at the two young girls. "How can you tell?"

Naoko hesitated before speaking. "The aura coming from the tape…it's a really feminine one…almost annoyingly so."

"I want to meet you, Kira. I don't think you have the eyes, but I won't kill you so don't be worried." The voice continued.

"Eyes…" Hiroko muttered, flashing back the red eyes she had drawn earlier in the week.

"Light-san, are you okay?" Naoko asked as she felt the tense nervousness emanating from Light. She held his hand tightly. "It's okay. Don't be scared."

"Please think of a way we can meet without the police knowing. We can confirm each other when we meet by showing our Shinigami."

"Ryuuzaki!" Hiroko cried out as L suddenly fell from his seat. She crouched down beside him. "Are you okay?"

L stared in horror at the screen. "Shinigami? Are we really supposed to believe there's such a thing?"

Naoko and Hiroko exchanged looks. Their mother had mentioned shinigami on numerous occasions while they were growing up. Shinigami were bad. They brought chaos. More importantly, the thing their mother had always repeated to them rang out in their mind.

"When the Shinigami appear, chaos reigns down. When they come to Earth, the end is near and the search for Death's Scythe will begin."