Chapter 14

Katsumi layed across the couch of her room. Three laptops were set up on the coffee table and the tv was hooked up to a few cameras that were set up in L's room. Just a few minutes until Watari let the select team of police officers through the door. L was scratching his head while eating a bite of ice cream sundae. She adjusted the view of a few cameras and checked the sound systems on the bugs. She pressed a button.

"Ryuzaki?" He dropped his spoon and fell out of his chair.

"Oh gosh! Don't scare me like that!!" He climbed back in his chair and picked up his spoon. Katsumi giggled.

"Sorry... I just need you to do a few voice frequency checks so I can make sure these bugs work."

"Sure... um... Hello! ... Hello... HELLO!!!!" The loudest volume made a microphone squeak.

"Ok!! Ok!! Not so loud!" Ryuzaki smiled. She turned off the microphone and rubbed her temples.

"Ow..."

Watari opened the door. Five men entered.

"Please put your cell phones on the table, I don't like it when someone calls during meetings..." Ryuzaki said, still hidden in the room. The officers reluctantly put down their cell phones. The man sitting on the chair opposite of them stood up and walked towards them.

"Good evening... I am L." The officers examined him. They weren't impressed with him at all. They pulled out their identification badges.

"Sochiro Yagami."

"Matsuda Touta."

"Shuchi Aizawa."

"Kanzo Mogi."

"Hirokazu Ukita." L pointed his finger at them.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" He said.

"What the hell is the meaning of this, L?!" Sochiro yelled.

"If I were Kira, you'd all be dead right now. Never give out your real names to someone you don't know. It puts your life in grave danger." He turned back to the chair and sat in it, knees under his chin and hands resting on his knees.

"I see that one has left out of the six... I guess he couldn't trust me. I understand that. I mean, I have waited for this long to let you meet me."

"I have gotten a report about the FBI agent teams that have been tailing you and your families..." The men were surprised.

"Tailing us?!"

"Yes... I'm sure you can understand. I know Kira has access to Police files... so I just had to be sure... But... they have died. All of them from heartattacks. I can now say for certain that Kira found out about it. How he got all of the names, I don't know. But somehow, he found out. Please, make yourselves comfortable... this'll take a while..." L got to business.

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Katsumi listened intently to everything that was said. An hour passed, L had finally gotten to the point of fake IDs and the emergency tracking belts. She grinned. She had managed to create the fake IDs and the belts herself. A few hours passed. L talked about the FBI agents deaths. He was centered on Ray Penber, the one who was trailing Yagami's family. Mostly because someone who he had once worked with was personally investigating his death and had called L recently about it. Naomi Misora. Katsumi remembered her. She had worked with L, on the L.A.B.B case when Beyond Birthday was caught. That reminded Katsumi of how BB had died; a heart attack in his cell. She felt disgusted with Kira for killing someone who was so intelligent. L had already said how he had an associate call up the train station security to retrieve these tapes. They were to arrive tomorrow afternoon. Katsumi had done the work on that. She managed to hack through the system and filter out the film that was caught on the cameras and isolate the train that Ray Penber took and the stop it made where he died. According to the films, he had entered the train station at 4:07 p.m. and had died at exactly 4:43 p.m. L wanted the tapes so he could personally watch them himself; in case there was something interesting on it he had to see. There was a knock at the door.

"Room service?" A voice said. She opened the door. Room service? She didn't order anything.

"This is a special order from a special someone just for you, Miss." He came in with a tray of sweet, coffee, and dinner with candles lite on the top tray. A bouqet of flowers and a note were in between the candles.

"I'll leave the tray here with you. Just call the desk when you're done with it, Miss." He bowed and left the room. She stared at the tray.

"How the hell am I going to eat this!?" She said. She picked up the note and read through it. She fell to her knees. Tears formed in her eyes. A small smile came to her lips.

"Oh... Ryuzaki..." Her heart was racing.

Dear Katsu...

If you're reading this note, then you got the tray I ordered just for you. I had to custom order certain sweets. But I'm sure everything there is something that is a favorite of yours. If you look in the sweetest dessert, there will be a special prize inside. When you find that prize, read the note on the bottom tray.

Love,

Ryuzaki.

She dropped the note and held herself in her arms. Tears fell to the floor.

"L... this is... so romantic..." She whispered. She thought over the note; the sweetest dessert had a 'prize inside'. She smiled to herself.

"I'm not going crazy just to hunt for that prize, Ryuzaki..." She whispered.

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A week passed, L had introduced the Task force to the new headquarters for the Kira investigation. Experimental killings continued. L had recieved Kira's taunting message completely now. 'L, did you know that Shinigami's love apples?' It was a message to taunt him. They were moving into the new building. Naomi Misora had been killed by Kira, according to L. He had a new suspect, a specific one. Naomi Misora had confronted the person she suspected to be Kira just before she disappeared. She had given L his name. Light Yagami. Director Yagami's son. Set up on a rolling chair in front of a series of computers, L prepared himself to ask Soichiro Yagami a question.

"Mr. Yagami... I would like to place your family under surveillance."

"What!? Why the hell would you want to do that?!" L bit his thumb.

"Because of what Naomi Misora had told me before her disappearence..." Aizawa and the other men stared at his back.

"She was reporting to you, L?"

"Yes. She knew who I was because she worked with me before... So trust every word she tells me. Mr. Yagami... there was one man she suspected to be Kira mainly because he's the one who interacted with the FBI agent who was tailing him; who was her fiancee. She had reported that mans name and had confronted him before her disappearence. He is your son, Mr. Yagami. Light Yagami." Soichiro slammed his hands on the desk.

"Are you accusing my son of being Kira, L?!"

"C-Chief! Calm down!" Matsuda said.

"No. I don't suspect him. But this information cannot be ignored, Mr. Yagami. I would like to put your entire family under surveillance in your home."

"Wait a moment, L! What about his daughter a wife!?"

"Mr. Yagami will watch them himself. I understand that much. Besides... I am only interested in Light Yagami. Mr. Yagami will also moniter the bathroom; I'm sure you all understand... And I only wish for this to go on for... a week."

"L, what you're doing is breaking the law here! It's against moral and ethic right!" Aizawa protested.

"Aizawa, leave it be..." Soichiro muttered.

"Cheif!"

"I understand what L is doing here... If what this Naomi Misora said is true, if I were L, I would be thinking the same thing. Alright... I'll let you do it."

"Thank you Mr. Yagami. I'll have my associate installed cameras and bugs around your household right now." He pressed a button on his keyboard.

"Yes?" A fake voice.

"Go ahead and install everything, please."

"Okey Dokey, Smokey." They hung up.

"Who was that, L?" Mogi asked.

"That was the associate I've been having do most outside work for me. They're very reliable and quite smart. You can trust them." In a few minutes, the screens lite up with images of the Yagami's home. Mrs. Yagami was inside, cleaning.

"You let him enter while my wife was home?" Yagami snapped.

"It's best to install these things immediatly." The sound came on. The front door showed someone in a mask and trenchcoat leave.

"Is this associate some sort of professional criminal, L?" Ukita asked.

"Not criminal, more like... a spy..." He stared at the screens.

"That's the same thing, L!" Aizawa snapped.

"L... do you really think you have to do this?" L nodded.

"Yes... It's nessecary to find out if Light is a suspect..."

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Four days later...

A beeping sound came from the computer Aizawa was at.

"Cheif! Thirty more criminals died from heart attacks!" Soichiro went from Aizawa to the screen showing Light eating chips and doing homework.

"There! Do you see, L!? Light doesn't have the TV on or anything. He hasn't written anything down that comes close to the criminal names!" He said. L looked closer at the bag. Light would grab a chip every now and then. He had an escalated feeling of interest in him.

"Hmm... I'm going to meet with your son earlier than I had predicted..."

"What?!"

"Yes... I'm going to meet him a week from now."

"How the hell are you going to meet with Light!? How are you going to act with a high schooler!?" Aizawa yelled.

"Well... I look enough like a University student, don't I? I've taken many types of exams before in my life... I'll blend in with the school life and get close to Light... Oh, and from this point on... Please call me Ryuzaki. I will have a specially made wire on me to record my conversations with him. I'll be able to moniter him without breaking the law."

"A wire? That'll seem a bit noticable, L."

"Oh no... this type of wire..." He held up a small clip.

"Is custom made by my associate. It looks like a regular clip and can go anywhere and pick up sounds within a twenty yard radius. It has a special filter installed in it so it only records the dominant voices; which will be mine and Light's. My associate has already enrolled in Light's school. I've been getting reports on him everyday. I'm sure it'll go fine."

"In... in person?"

"Yes... if he is Kira... then it'll be solved quickly. This will narrow it down very, very easily."

"W-when do you plan on meeting him?"

"Not anytime soon... At the least, maybe in... three weeks..." Soichiro shifted uncomfortably.

"Alright... I don't mind..."

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Six days later...

01/17/04

Katsumi felt the stares at her back. It was normal to read a two thousand page book while in Math class, wasn't it?! It was on computer science! The teacher tapped his fingers on her desk.

"Miss Koyokitsu... What are you reading?"

"Computer Science." He smirked, annoyed.

"I understand that uses math... but we're in the middle of class here..."

"I'm learning three things at once."

"Three?!" He growled. She held up another book that was open on her lap.

"Firewalls."

"I should give you a detention..."

"You should stop hanging around downtown after school and telling lies to your wife..." He froze.

"What?!"

"You heard me. Besides... I already know the things you're teaching. So just ignore me and everything will be fine!" She smiled. She knew she hit a nerve. Light Yagami was concealing a chuckled just a few seats next to her.

"Grr! This is a warning! Can't you at least... try to conceal that giant book?!"

"No. It won't fit under the desk." She closed it and tried to fit it between her lap and the desk, the desk popped up about three inches off the ground. The teacher stormed back to the front of the class, defeated, and continued to teach. She opened the book again and continued reading. A note plopped on her desk.

How did you know about his after school specials? -Light.

I live in the downtown area. How do you know about them?

An outing I was on with my girlfriend. I just saw him having a conversation with a girl and well, I saw other things too.

Oh sure... Hey, did you hear we're getting a new student tomorrow?

Tomorrow? No, I didn't hear about that. Do you know him?

Eh... kind of. We went to the same school in elementary and that's all.

Oh, interesting. Oh, this is a popular subject and all but... How do you feel about Kira? Katsumi glanced over at Light.

Nothing.

Nothing? What do you mean nothing?

I don't care about Kira. He's killing criminals, so I'm 50/50 on it. They did bad things, they're punished but they were never sentenced. How he does it is a little cowardly though... I mean, he stays in the shadows and doesn't say a word to anyone. Only the new Kira has done that.

So? That doesn't mean Kira is a coward. I mean, it takes a lot of guts to kill someone.

It also takes a lot of guts to challenge the world. The bell rang. Katsumi gathered her books and walked out. Light followed her in the hallway.

"Hey, Karui, wait a sec." She stopped.

"What?"

"I was thinking that we could just talk for a while."

"No... I have to work on a few jobs when I get home."

"Like what?" She opened her bag and pulled out a small robot. She pressed a button on its back.

"Good evening! May I get you anything?" The hands crossed to show respect.

"That's really good!"

"The voice still sounds horrible."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It sounds like a computer. The 'evolutionary' thing about this thing is that it sounds just like a person. Still sounds like a computer... it's incomplete. Then I have to construct a larger model along with a little remote to it."

"Oh... well... t-then... uh... Ok..." Light was amazed at her work. She left his side and walked outside. She opened her cellphone.

"L." There was the answering machine. A puzzled expression went over her face.

"Where is he?" She put her phone away.

A few minutes away, Light Yagami passed a student with black messy hair wearing jeans and a plain white long sleeved shirt. He quickly glanced at like, hunched over with his thumb in his mouth, then looked away. Light ignored him, thinking of him as a lucky student who barely got into To-Oh University. Soichiro nearly died of a heart attack after he learnt what L meant by 'meeting' Light at the university that night.