Note: This chapter contains cuteness and a small badass fighting scene. O_O

A week. It took pretty much a week to get this thing done. May take longer for the next chapter but that is okay. My friend has work and school, and some nights, she is just tired and wants to sleep off the stuff she had did during the day. We made it work though and managed to get this scene done last night, but I had no time to edit (which I just finished doing moments ago as I type this note).

Enjoy the chapter. Ignore any errors.

Some time has passed. It may have been a few days that had gone by. By this point, only L is probably keeping up with the dates and how many days that have gone by. Currently, everyone (minus Mogi, of course) is in L's hotel room. They are discussing the journal the second Kira had sent.

"He wanted this journal shown on TV?" Light asked.

"Yes." Mr. Yagami handed him the journal. "This is it."

"Hmm." Light looked at it. "2006? These entries are from last year."

"Please take a look at the entry he made on the 30th," L instructed.

Light looked at the entry. "Confirmed our shinigami at the Tokyo dome. This is probably supposed to mean that he plans to do this on May 30th. If this were aired on TV, his intention would be obvious to anyone who sees it."

Kohaku is chilling in a chair beside L, sitting in her usual curled up position. She had a blank look on her face again. "I'm so bored…"

"Well." Sakae walked over to stand next to Kohaku's chair. "Maybe because the men are discussing what to do about this second Kira. Bound to be boring in some way. At least to us."

Kohaku stares at the ceiling. "This second Kira seems to be fond of the real Kira." L glanced in her direction and listened to their conversation quietly.

"Fond is an understatement. From the way second Kira talks, they idolize Kira. It makes me wonder how far they would go to get what they want," Sakae wondered for a moment.

"How much farther can they go? The second Kira has taken the lives of a few innocent people, just because they didn't approve of what Kira is doing." Kohaku got up.

"You'd be surprised. People in this world are crazy. One wrong move and they could blow up," Sakae commented.

"If only Kira would make a wrong move," Kohaku commented. Light glanced in her direction.

"That would...definitely be surprising," Sakae said, glancing around the room.

"Everyone fucks up. I wonder if Kira will eventually and hopefully, it will be soon." Though she says she wants the case to be over, she really doesn't want it to be. She wanted more time with L. They hardly speak to each other with the men and Sakae around and barely get a chance to be alone now-a-days. It was quite depressing for Kohaku.

Sakae sighed slightly and leaned on a table. "No one can really know." Sakae looked at Kohaku and could tell what her friend was feeling. She stared down at her feet. Kohaku sighed and walked around the room quietly. L watched her silently, beginning to feel a little concerned about her.

Light was back to looking at the entries. "May 22nd. 'My friend and I showed off our notebooks in Aoyama.' If by notebook, he's referring to our death notes. That's something that could only be understood by me. As for the police, they'll be distracted by the May 30th entry. 'We confirmed our shinigami at the baseball game at the Tokyo dome.' It must've been intended for them. I'm almost positive that the real message from this diary is the one regarding Aoyama but if that's the case…"

L stood and walked over to Light. "What do you think? Is it real?"

"I have to be careful not to say too much. Better to wait and hear his opinion first," Light thought. "At this point in time, all I can say for sure is he must be stupid."

"Finally!" Kohaku cheered for behind him suddenly, causing him to jump. "Something we can actually agree on." She moved to stand beside him. "Ain't you jumpy?" She elbowed him in the side lightly, smirking.

"You just shouted randomly. Why wouldn't I jump?" Light said, annoyed slightly.

"L didn't jump," Kohaku pointed out. "And I cheered randomly, not shouted."

"Because he saw you coming!" Light exclaimed. "...and whatever! It's the same thing!"

Kohaku pouted. "Hmph, whatever. Thanks for ruining my few seconds of fun. Anyways, I too believe that the second Kira is stupid."

"Yeah. I agree. I mean it's completely obvious he wants to meet Kira at the home game," Matsuda commented, throwing in his two cents.

"He could be trying to show off the skills he has to Kira, showing that he can be a good help or useful in some way," Sakae interjected in.

"Good point to be made," Light commented.

"Mmm…" Kohaku nodded.

"Doesn't he understand what would happen if we aired this message? It will create media panic and the game would have to be cancelled," Mr. Yagami stated.

L walked over to the table and picked up a chocolate and ate it, speaking as he chewed. "To be honest, it's so stupid. I'm not even sure how to deal with this whole situation anymore."

"Hm?" Kohaku looked at him.

He sat back in his chair and started to explain. "If we make the diary public, then we are forced to make some kind of televised announcements canceling the game on the 30th, but if we don't broadcast it, we can't be sure the second Kira won't do anything."

"Won't canceling the game make him angry? There's no telling what he'll do," Light said.

"Frankly, that's not a big concern. From what we witnessed, it's safe to say the second Kira admires the real one. He gave his word to the Kira we invented that he'd refrain from killing aimlessly. I'm inclined to believe that. I say we make it public and we air an announcement canceling the game. At the same time, we'll announce that on May 30th, we're going to set checkpoints on all roads leading to the Tokyo dome and finally, we'll send a response from our invented Kira - something like 'I understand and I agreed to meet you there'," L said.

"Ryuzaki. You don't honestly expect him to go there if we set up checkpoints around the dome, do you?" Mr. Yagami questioned.

"I don't think that Kira will even consider it, but it's possible the other one might. It all depends on how stupid he really is. However, assuming he's not actually an idiot that we think he is, there could be another message hidden in this diary; one that is not so obvious. If there is a message here written in some code that only people who have this Shinigami power can understand, there'll be no way for me to decipher it. Still, it would only make sense for us to look into all the places that are mentioned in the journal. 22nd he's meeting a friend in Aoyama, 24th meeting another friend in Shibuya. We have to be prepared for the possibility that all of our efforts would be fruitless. Let's keep an eye out for people with notebooks in Aoyama and people in clothing stores in Shibuya," L said.

Everyone was sitting in a circle now, minus Light who was standing up.

"It's as I thought. If this phony Kira slips up and gets apprehended, at the very least, I have to obtain his notebook and in the worst case, I may end up having to kill everyone there," Light thought.

"This is so annoying," Kohaku thought. "I hate this second Kira."

"All we can do is place more surveillance cameras in Aoyama and Shibuya in the hopes that we might capture something. We should also arrange to have undercover officers on both locations on these days," L said.

"I should probably go to Aoyama and Shibuya, since I blend in with the crowd there, you know," Matsuda said.

"I'll go, too," Light said.

"But Light…" Mr. Yagami began.

"I'll be alright. Don't worry. Aoyama and Shibuya are places I go anyway. Not to mention, out of all of us, I'll probably look the most natural hanging out with Matsui there. Besides, the second Kira will be there looking for Kira, not for the police," Light said.

"I'll go as well," Sakae said.

"Mmm… You three should be careful then." Kohaku stood up and headed towards the door.

"Kohaku, is something wrong?" L asked, watching her and speaking to her for probably the first time that day in front of everyone.

"Just wanna stretch my legs. I'll be back in about 5 minutes." She didn't look back at everyone as she exited the room.

Everyone went to doing their own thing. Sakae plopped down on the couch. She laid back into the cushions to relax. "All of this is just giving me a freaking headache." She thought to herself. "But I do wonder who this second Kira could be. What if it was a girl?" She closed to her eyes to lose herself in thoughts but she heard footsteps walks up next to her. "Yes, Light?" She asked, with her eyes still closed.

"How did you know it was me?" He asked, surprised a little bit. "Do you have some ability I don't know about?"

"If you call intuition some supernatural ability, then I guess you could say that," she replied as she opened her eyes to look up at Light. "What can I do for ya?"

"I was just coming to see if you were okay," Light said.

Sakae narrowed her eyes as she stared at Light. "I feel like there is an underlying reason for this. Is there something you're not telling me, Mr. Light?" She teased slightly.

"There could be many things I'm not telling you. You'd have to figure that out for yourself," he replied, smirking a little.

"Ah," Sakae stood up from the couch and looked at Light. "Don't underestimate me, mister. You'll found out that you'll lose real quick."

"Is that a challenge?" Light asked as he got closer to Sakae.

"Perhaps it is." Sakae put her hands on her hip and smirked slightly. "Don't worry. I'll make sure that you still your pride intact…mostly."

"Hmm…you talk big, Sakae. You sure you pull through with it?" Light teased.

"Of course," she replied. "I can take-" She realized that they were barely a few inches from each other. "I see you love to get in people faces."

Light looked down and quickly back away from Sakae. "I-It's just a habit."

"Doesn't seem like it. You've started doing it just recently and only around me. Something up?" Sakae asked.

"Of course not; why would getting a new habit be something suspicious?" Light suggested.

Sakae laughed a little bit as she saw Light getting flustered. "Well, Light, it could mean," Sakae leaned up slightly to Light's ear. "You could like somebody." Light started blushing like a fire engine. "See? Now excuse me, I'm going to go do something." Sakae left Light standing where she was and went off to do whatever.

Kohaku stood outside the hotel. She stared at the sky. The sun was setting. She had to get away from everyone. She had gotten use to being around the men. She just had to get use to Sakae and Light being around her again. Her thoughts started to drift towards L.

"Sadly… I am glad that Light, Sakae, and I found the Death Note… I wouldn't have met L… I wouldn't have...found love…if it is even love that I feel towards L..." Kohaku felt her eyes beginning to water. "I don't want the case to end… I want to stay with L as long as possible… I don't want him to leave me… Who knew that a girl like me could fall in love with a detective in just a couple of months of being around him constantly..." She blinked back her tears. "I should think positive… Maybe, while L is around, me and him can find time to talk to each other like we've been doing...except we'll be having more moments where we can talk and not just once every few days." She started to walk across the street. "I need to stop talking to myself when I am alone…"

As she got to the other side of the street, she ran into someone and landed on her ass. "Ow…"

"Well, well. Lookie here."

Kohaku recognized the voice and looked up. Standing in front of her was Sudo and two of his friends. He was smiling slyly at her. She glared at him. "Sudo." Sudo smiled more and looked at his friends, nodding at them. They moved to pick Kohaku off the ground roughly. They held onto her arms.

"Let go!" Kohaku yelled. She glanced around to see that the streets were vacant. "Great… No witnesses… I guess I'll have to resort to violence to get out of this. Again."

"She's shaking in fear," one of Sudo's friends laughed. She was shaking, yeah, but not from fear. She was shaking in anger. They were pissing her off. How dare they put their hands on her.

"You have one more chance to let me go before I kick your asses!" Kohaku exclaimed.

"I'd like to see you try," Sudo's other friend said. "Are you gonna beat her up or not, Sudo? I'm tired of holding her."

"Don't rush me," Sudo said. "I wanna enjoy this." Sudo raised his fist. "This is what happens when you mess with me." He swung his fist towards her.

Kohaku ducked and yanked her arms free from Sudo's two goon-ish friends. She elbowed one of Sudo's friends in the stomach, making him kneel to the ground in pain and holding his stomach. The other friend tried to grab her and restrain her, but she did a spinning kick and knocked the guy out once her foot made contact with his face. He fell to the ground with a thud.

Sudo glared at her and tried to punch her. She moved out of the way. "Stop moving!"

"This is what you get for thinking that you could beat up someone like me!" She tackled him to the ground. She proceeded to punch him in the face multiple times, making his lip and nose bleed. She didn't pay no mind to Sudo's friend, that was conscious, who took off running away from the scene in fear. She went to punch Sudo one more time when she felt a small stinging sensation in her cheek. She blinked in surprise. He had just slapped her. It most definitely was gonna leave a handprint, as well as a red mark for at least thirty minutes or so.

Sudo pushed her off of him and pulled out a knife. "Stupid bitch!" He got on top of her and cut cheek that he hadn't slapped. Blood dripped out of the new wound. Kohaku kicked him off her. He landed on his ass in front of her, knife still in hand. Kohaku stood up and got her fists ready so she could punch the shit outta him if he came at her, not caring that he still had the knife and that he could easily kill her if she let her guard down.

Sudo stood up and ran at her. Kohaku side stepped as he tried to stab her and she punched him in the face again. Sudo spit out some blood and continued trying to stab Kohaku. She back flipped out of the way.

"STOP MOVING!" Sudo shouted, running at Kohaku to tackle her and stab her. She side stepped again and did another spinning kick. Sudo barely dodge it. Kohaku proceeded to flip Sudo over. As he landed on the ground, his head hit the concrete of the sidewalk rather hard and knocked him unconscious.

Kohaku panted. "Motherfucker…" She looked at her arms, seeing bruises from where the goons had held on to her tightly. "Bastards…" Today wasn't the best day to have taken off her wrinkled boy shirt and walk around in her black tanktop that she always wore underneath. If she walks back into the hotel room with bruises on her arm, a handprint of her left cheek, and a cut on her right cheek, she'll be harassed with a bunch of frantic questions from not only Mr. Yagami, but Sakae and maybe even Light too. She sighed and looked at the unconscious Sudo. He was wearing a black jacket. "Hmm…" She kneeled beside him and decided to take his jacket. It was nice enough to steal anyways so why the fuck not. It'll hide her bruises and she could put the hoodie up to cover her face.

Once she removed Sudo's jacket and put it on, she immediately put the hood over her head and she ran across the street, back to the hotel. Only, she didn't head to L's room. She sat in the lobby. It was safe and no one would dare attack her where there were witnesses, not unless they were bold enough.

A ding rang off as one of the hotel elevators came to a stop. L stepped out of the elevator as the doors opened in front of him. He made his way to the lobby where he say Kohaku sitting. "Hey," he called out to her as he made his way over to her.

Kohaku made the jacket's hood cover her face more. "Hi. I wasn't expecting you to come down."

He shrugged a little. "I guess I was getting a little worried after you didn't come back. Is everything okay?"

"Mhm, everything is peachy keen," she said with a slight note of sarcasm in her tone.

"Then why are you hiding your face?" He asked.

"Eh..." Kohaku sweat-dropped. "Because I want to?"

"This seems oddly out of character for you," L commented. "Did something happen?"

"I wonder why he isn't asking where I got the jacket," she wondered in her head. She stood up. "Nothing happened. At least, nothing that concerns you." She turned to walk out of the hotel and ran into a few people, falling flat on her ass and the hood falling down. "Ugh… I really hate it when that happens…"

L walked over to her and helped her up. "What happened?" He examined her face: her left cheek was red and the other had a cut.

"Nothing happened," she said.

"That cut and red mark on your cheeks say otherwise," L pointed out.

Kohaku placed her hands on L's shoulders and gripped them firmly. She looked him in the eyes. "Just drop it, Ryuzaki. Nothing happened and I am fine."

"Better to tell now than to have questioned later," L commented.

Kohaku sighed and laid her head on his shoulder. "I wish you would just stop asking…" She sighed. "Fiiiine. An asshole named Sudo tried to beat me up with the help of his goons because I crushed Sudo's ego when I made him give back the money he stole from someone and when I dodged his punches when he tried to harm me. He said he'd get his revenge or whatever and it took him long enough to finally try something." She sniffed L's shoulder absentmindedly. "You smell like sweets."

"I perhaps may have had some before I came down here," L stated.

Kohaku smiled a little. "You and your love for sweets."

"You can't tell me you don't like them too," L commented. They both did indeed love sweets.

"Hmph," Kohaku pouted.

"Did I say something?" L asked, confused.

Kohaku's head was still on his shoulder. "No. Just felt like pouting."

"That's an odd thing to feel," L commented.

"Indeed it is," she replied.

"But feelings can be an odd thing in general," L stated.

"Yeah," Kohaku agreed.

"I guess I'm one to talk, aren't I?" L asked.

"Mmm. I guess so." Kohaku moved her head off of his shoulder. She was very close to L, their faces rather close to one another.

"A-Are you okay?" L asked nervously.

Kohaku grinned, blushing slightly. "Yeah. What made you want to ask me that? Of course I'm okay."

"No reason," L spoke nervously still as he unconsciously scratched the back of his head.

Kohaku pouted a little. "Come on, there had to be a reason."

"I can't think of one," he revealed, blushing the tiniest bit.

Kohaku stared at him, confused. "You can't? But you're...you." People walked past them as they headed to their hotel rooms or out of the hotel. "You can think of a lot of things. You've gotten us this far in the...thing that I can't speak of here with people around."

"Detective work, yes," L said, lowly so only Kohaku could hear as move people walked around them in the hotel lobby. He then spoke louder. "But...feelings are different. I don't know how to deal with them," he confessed.

"I don't know how to deal with feelings well myself. But," she placed her hands on his shoulders again, "You'll learn how to deal with emotions you never felt before. As will I. It'll...just take time."

"But...the feelings I'm feeling right now, I don't understand them. It's so confusing," L stated.

"Feelings can be quite confusing sometimes." Kohaku bit her lip.

"Very confusing, but, I guess it is apart of human nature to feel," L said, blushing a little more.

"Yeah." She placed one of her hands on one of L's cheeks and stroked it. "You're blushing."

L placed his hand over Kohaku's absentmindedly. "I-I am?"

Kohaku nodded shortly. "Mhm... It's cute."

"C-Cute? Really?" A small smile appeared across L's face.

"Yeah." Kohaku blushed a little.

They stared deeply into each other's eyes. They forgot about the people that were walking around them and just stared at one another. Kohaku started to lean towards L, closing her eyes. L closed his own, but was too shy to lean towards her this time. Their lips connected for the first time. L slowly places his hands on Kohaku's waist and he slowly kissed her back, absorbing her essence into his very cells. Kohaku's arms wrapped around L's neck. After about two minutes of kissing, the two slowly pulled apart, blushing deeply. People around them had stopped to watch and they were clapping.

"Such a cute couple," a female commented.

Kohaku laughed a little at the comment and L smiled before he leaned in to reclaim her mouth in another long, passionate kiss.

It was dark out. Matsuda, Light, and Sakae were outside. Light and Sakae were entering a cab.

"We'll talk more about our trips tomorrow," Light told Matsuda.

"Sounds good, Light. See you two tomorrow. Careful getting home," Matsuda said. The cab drove off with Light and Sakae inside it. Matsuda headed to go back inside the hotel when his phone ran. "It never fails. The second I'm out the door, my phone starts ringing." He pulled his phone out and answered it. "Yes?"

"It's Ryuzaki. When you are working with Light and Sakae, I want you to keep a closer eye on Light the entire time. Also, please keep this between you and me."

"Oh, sure. Yeah, I understand," Matsuda said. He hung up the phone. "I guess he still plans to investigate Light to the probability that he is Kira, which is zero." He headed inside.

L put his phone in his pocket. He walked away from the window and headed to the kitchen. He spotted Kohaku leaning against the counter, eating something chocolaty. He eyed it. "What's that?"

"Chocolate Castella," she answered with her mouth full. She swallowed. "Sponge cake in other words. I just finished making it." She took another bite of her chocolate sponge cake. "I'm a chocoholic; I love chocolate so damn much."

"You...can cook?" L questioned. This was news to him; not once had he seen her cook or heard her talk about cooking.

"I can only cook a couple of desserts and that's it," she admitted after she swallowed another piece of her dessert.

"Can I try it?" he asked shyly, blushing a little.

Kohaku giggled. "Sure."

L took a bit of the cake. "It's really good."

"Awesome!" Kohaku cheered.

"What other things can you cook?" L asked.

"Um...well, like I said, a couple of desserts...that involve chocolate, obviously...and brownies & cookies," Kohaku said after thinking about it for a few moments.

"That sounds amazing," L commented. Kohaku blushed. "Could you cook something some other time?" L asked.

"Yeah," Kohaku answered. L smiled a little at her and he ate some more of the sponge cake.

Sakae stretched her arms up as she yawned and settled back into the car seat.

"Tired?" Light asked.

Sakae laid her head on Light's shoulder. "Yeah, a little bit; considering the time and the lack of sleep I've been getting lately, it's a surprise I haven't passed out yet," She stated as she closed her eyes.

"Why haven't you been getting any sleep?" Light asked again, looking a little worried.

"The case, homework, school, Ryuichi, karate lessons; so many things that have to be done and I feel as if there isn't enough time to get it all done. I wish we could got back to simpler times." Sakae thought of her times back in high school before the time of the notebook, when there was no fighting and they all had each other. A small sigh escaped Sakae.

"I know what you mean; but, once it's all over, there will be a world that we can all be happy in," Light said.

Sakae opened her eyes and looked up at Light with a concerned look. "You're forgetting one thing. In order for you to have your perfect world, sacrifices need to be made. Those sacrifices, I don't like them, especially one of them."

"I know, I know," Light said as he thought for a moment. "I keep trying to think of a way around it, so she can have her happy ending, but… They all come to the same conclusion. There is only one way to get what I want and he stands in the way."

Sakae sat up. "I understand…" She smiled a little bit. "At least we can watch her be happy."

"Yea…" Light mumbled, frowning a little. He honestly didn't want to ruin Kohaku's happiness, but L had to die for the new world to be created. Sakae's apartment building came into view.

"Oh, looks like the ride's over." The cab stopped at the side of the curb. Sakae opened the door to get.

"Sakae?" Light called out.

"Yes?" Sakae turned to look at Light.

"I…It's nothing. Have a good evening and I'll see you later," Light said.

Sakae looked a little confused but shrugged a little. "See ya, Light." And she exited the cab, leaving Light behind in the seat. She watched the cab drive off and stood against a lap post. "I wonder…could he possibly?" She thought to herself for a second but shook her head and headed up to the apartment.

"I'm home," Light called out as he entered his house.

Mrs. Yagami walked up to him. "Hello, dear. You're back quite late today."

"Yeah. Ah, it's because I was hanging out with my girlfriend," he replied. "I'm suppose to keep the fact I'm helping the Kira investigation a secret."

Mrs. Yagami stared at her son in surprise. "You were?"

Sayu ran out of the other room and stood beside their mother, giggling. "Light, you have a girlfriend now? What's her name?" She smiled and giggled more. "Is it Sakae?! Please tell me it is!" It was amazing how she wasn't jumping up and down out of excitement.

Light avoided the Sakae question. "It's not that surprising. I'm 18 and I'm in an university now. Of course, I have a girlfriend. You should look for a boyfriend, Sayu." He headed to his room.

Sayu blushed a little. "Hm? A boyfriend? What's that supposed to mean?"

"Light, aren't you going to have any dinner?" Mrs. Yagami questioned.

"Actually, I'm still full from the room service at the hotel," Light replied as he started to enter his room.

"Ah, I can't believe you just said that to Mom," Sayu said, smiling. "So what's this about the hotel? Sounds pretty suspicious!" She didn't get a reply from Light.

Once he was in his room, he shut the door behind him and locked it. Ryuk, who was always following him and having the tendency of being completely silent, was by him like always. Light decided to talk to him. "OK, Ryuk. We need to have a little talk."

"Ah, should have known," Ryuk said.

"And I'd appreciate an answer if you could. If two shinigami happen to meet in the human world, are they allowed to speak to each other?" Light went over to his desk and sat in it.

"Hard to say," Ryuk said, moving to stand behind Light. "As long as I'm attached to a human, I'd say it's against the rules unless I had their permission first. But there's no laws against it, either. So I guess it's possible that another shinigami might talk to me."

"So does that mean that if this fake Kira's shinigami would see you, there's a chance he might mention the fact you're with me and reveal that I'm Kira?" Light questioned.

"They probably wouldn't, but it depends on their personality," Ryuk said.

"And if this kind of situation did arise, I can assume that you'll act the way you normally do?" Light questioned.

"Even if I see another human with a shinigami, I'm not gonna tell you," Ryuk stated.

"Well, I definitely think you've got the right approach," Light said.

"Hm? Thanks," Ryuk replied.

Light looked up some information on his laptop. "Huh? There's no way. Did he really think this far ahead?"

"What is it?" Ryuk questioned, looking over Light's shoulder.

"Aoyama is a big area. I was searching for possible meeting places when I stumbled across this. On the 22nd, there's a big event going on at a club in Aoyama called the 'Note Blue' Aoyama, blue mountain. Note and blue; its code," Light said, mainly to himself.

"Well, well, if you ask me, that's pretty elaborate," Ryuk said.

"He might be smarter than I thought which means I have to be that much more careful from now on. In any case, this 'Note Blue' place is definitely worth checking out," Light stated.

"What's the point in going there, if you don't want him to find out that you're Kira. You really think it's worth a risk?" Ryuk questioned. He didn't get an answer.

It's daylight of a brand new fabulous day. Light and Sakae are with a group of friends from the university. Matsuda walked up to them.

"Oh, excuse me, Light; Sakae. What's going on here?" Matsuda asked.

"Oh, these are some of our friends from school," Light said.

Matsuda bowed to them a little. "Nice to meet you."

"This is my cousin, Taro," Light told the group of friends. "It's his first time ever in Tokyo and he wants to see Aoyama and Roppongi. So I figured the least we could do is show him a good time. I'm counting on you guys! Oh yeah, he also told me he's looking for a girlfriend. So, does anyone wanna volunteer?" The group of friends laughed.

"Hey! I never said that!" Matsuda exclaimed.

"You are so silly, Taro," Sakae said, smiling. Matsuda smiled nervously.

"I'm impressed, Light and Sakae," Matsuda thought as he, Light, Sakae, and the group walked around. "I doubt that anyone would ever suspect that there was a police detective hanging around with the students."

"With all of us walking together like this, even if Ryuk is seen, no one would be able to tell which one of us he's following. It's also a good defense against L's surveillance cameras. Not such a bad way to investigate really. I just have to stay relaxed and keep an eye on the entrance of the Note Blue when it opens," Light thought.

Unknownst to Sakae, Light, and Matsuda, the second Kira was watching them from inside a shop, wearing a disguise. The second Kira's name...is Misa. She could see Light's name but not his lifespan.

"Found you!" Misa cheered to herself. "Moon Yagami, is it? You're the only one whose lifespan I can't see. He is Kira! I can't believe it! And never thought it would be this easy to find him." She stood up. "All right Rem. Time to go."

Rem looked at her in confusion. "Ha! You finally found him and now you just want to leave?"

"Well I can't go up to him and say 'Hi, Kira! Nice to meet you. I'm the one who sent you the messages' with all these people around." Misa had a good point. "I know his name now, so I can easily find out all about him. After all, it's such a unique name." She headed out of the store with Rem.

Light, Sakae, Kohaku, Mr. Yagami, Aizawa, L, and Matsuda were sitting around in a circle like they usually did when they had meetings in L's hotel room. A couple of days or so had gone by.

"So we were there both days, In Aoyama on the 22nd and Shibuya on the 24th, and we observed nothing of significance on either location. That leaves us with only the Dome on the 30th," Aizawa stated as he read from the paper in his hand.

"I didn't notice anyone who looked suspicious at the Note Blue. Was he serious about the Dome?" Light thought.

"Ryuzaki," Watari said through the laptop. "Apparently Sakura TV has just received another message from the 2nd Kira. It was postmarked on the 23rd." He transferred the tape to them.

"I'm happy to say that I have found Kira to all the people of television station and the police department. I'd like to thank you very much," the second Kira said.

"Hm? I-impossible! Where in Aoyama? His shinigami. It must have seen Ryuk and picked me out of the crowd. No! There's no way he could've known who Ryuk was attached to. I checked repeatedly that no one was following me," Light thought.

"This second Kira might be a little smarter than I thought," Kohaku thought.

"If this is true, the only possible event that corresponds with this tape he mailed on the 23rd is the entry regarding Aoyama on the 22nd.. The only ones from the task force who went to Aoyama are Matsuda and Light Yagami. Is Light really Kira after all?" L thought.

"This is a disaster if he found him," Aizawa said.

"Yeah and most likely it means that the two Kiras are now cooperating with each other," Mr. Yagami said.

"We shouldn't jump to any conclusions just yet," Kohaku commented.

L nodded in agreement. "Yes. The second Kira is only saying that he found him, nothing more. He may not have made contact yet."

"Hmm," Mr. Yagami grunted. Sakae bit her lip.

"Now that it comes to this, we have no choice but to communicate as the police directly with the second Kira," L said.

"You wanna send a message?" Matsuda questioned.

"Yes. The police need to reach out the copycat and offer him a deal. We need to negotiate with him to see if we can get Kira's real name," L said.

"Good idea," Kohaku commented.

Ryuk was laughing. "Hahaha. That's the last thing you wanted to hear, right?"

"This isn't good. I have no idea how the fake Kira will react to this, but I have no means of stopping the police from sending this message," Light thought.

"This is bad…" Sakae thought.

Kohaku and Sakae are at Light's house. They are in his room, chilling on his bed. Light was standing. All three of them were looking at the TV. The police's video was playing on it.

"If Kira doesn't yet know your name, it may not be too late if you provide that you're willing to cooperate. Whatever you do, you must not approach Kira out of curiosity. Make no mistake. Kira will kill you if you contact him. You'll be used and disposed of. Consider your own life for a moment. Yours, like every other life, has intrinsic value. Now is your chance to right past wrongs by sharing what you know about Kira. Only you can help us bring his reign of terror to an end," it said.

"I doubt that's gonna stop the second Kira," Kohaku commented.

"Maybe a lot harder than we thought if there is a way," Sakae stated.

"That...make no sense. You should rephrase that," Kohaku stated.

"Liiiiiiiiight!" Sayu called out, knocking on the door.

Light sighed and went over to his bedroom door. He opened it. "What is it?"

"There's a girl here who said she has an important notebook to give you," Sayu said.

Kohaku's widened a bit. "Could...the second Kira be here at this very moment?"

"Notebook? Could it be?" Light thought. He looked at Sakae and Kohaku. "I'll be right back." He exited his room and Sayu followed him.

"This is going to be interesting," Sakae commented as she sat down in Light's desk chair.

"Most definitely," Kohaku stated.

"Seems like it's a girl as well. My prediction may be correct after all," Sakae said as she thought.

"Mmm… If Light brings the girl up here, she better not be annoying or a bitch is gonna get slapped." Kohaku laid on Light's bed and stared at the ceiling.

"I would say that's a bad thing; but if she is, you have my blessing," Sakae commented with a small laugh.

Kohaku laughed a little with her. "Awesome."

After about two more minutes, Light entered the room with Misa.

Sakae showed a bright smile when they entered. "Hello!"

Kohaku looked towards Light and Misa. She remained quiet. "I already don't like her."

Misa looked towards Light. "Light, who are these girls?" Misa sounded both annoyed and jealous.

"They're friends of mine, ever since high school," Light stated.

"Y-Yea, that's how it's been since the day we met," Sakae said, a little nervous.

"I'll assume you are the second Kira so that means he also forgot to mention that we use to help him out with getting names," Kohaku commented, still laying on the bed.

Misa seemed a little bit surprised at learning that the girls knew of the Death Note. Soon, Light, Sakae, and Kohaku were sitting on the bed while Misa was sitting in Light's desk chair across from them.

"How did you find me?" Light questioned Misa.

"Huh! I knew it! You never made the Shinigami eye deal. When you have the Shinigami eyes like I do, you can see most people's name and lifespan just by looking at them. However, you can't see the lifespan of any person who possesses the death note," Misa replied.

"Huh?" Light questioned.

"Eh? You can?" Kohaku questioned.

"That's pretty interesting," Sakae commented.

Light looked towards Ryuk to hear what he had to say on the matter, feeling like it was information that he didn't share.

"No kidding. I had to admit even I wasn't aware of that little detail," Ryuk stated.

"Well, now you've managed to find me. But you are careless. What if you have been caught by the police, then they know everything about Kira," Light said, glaring at Misa.

"It's all right," Misa said. "Because the police didn't catch me. And if I will do as you say from now on, they'll never be able to. So we are safe. After all don't you need someone to see L's name? If you want, I could be your eyes. So…" She looked down at her hands that she had laying on her lap.

"Yeah? So what?" Light questioned.

"Would you please make me your girlfriend?" Misa asked him, staring right at him.

Light was surprised a bit. "Huh? Girlfriend?"

"Yes," Misa said.

"Uh…" Kohaku didn't know how to respond to this. Sakae's eyes went wide a little bit but stayed unusually quiet.

"If she finds out I'm manipulating her and gets hurt, she'll probably kill me. But still…" Light thought. He decided to try and convince her to give up on wanting to date him. "Impossible. The date you and I, and Sakae, were in Aoyama, there were three times the usual number of surveillance cameras around. Anyone who was in Aoyama on the 22nd would definitely be caught on camera. That includes me...and Sakae. If you and I were seen together, it wouldn't look very good. In fact even being here together right now is a problem. I wish you understand that."

"But look. These are pictures of me when I went to Aoyama that day." Misa held up a photo of the disguise she wore the day she spotted Light.

"Well I'm sure no one would recognize her from this," Ryuk commented. Kohaku and Sakae nodded in agreement.

"And what about your fingerprints? All those tapes you sent to the TV station, they all had the same fingerprints on them," Light said.

"Yep, but those aren't my fingerprints. It's not like I do these things without thinking about them first. Up until recently I lived in the Kansai region. And I had this friend who was into the occult. I suggested that we distribute this fake poltergeist video I had made to bunch of different TV shows. Sort of, it was a prank., and she agreed to help me with it. I had her take care of all of the dubbing so my fingerprints wouldn't be on the tapes. Then I took them from her, added the Kira graphic and recorded the message with that voice effect," Misa said.

"Then the friend you made the tapes with, where is she now?" Light questioned.

"Yeah. Where is she?" Kohaku questioned.

"Well?" Sakae wondered.

"Why are you doing this to me?!" Misa exclaimed. "If you want me to kill her, just say so!"

"This bitch is crazy!" Kohaku thought.

"Holy shit," Sakae whispered as she stared at Misa.

"Hmmm," Light wondered.

"If you really still can't trust me, then here." Misa held out her Death Note. "I'll even let you hold onto my death note. But, you just be holding it. So I'd still be the rightful owner of it and that means I get to keep my shinigami eyes. Isn't that right, Rem?" Misa looked at Rem.

"Yes, that's right," Rem said. Only Misa and Light heard her...and only they could see her.

"Rem?" Kohaku questioned. "Is that the name of your Shinigami?"

"I'm guessing that would be considering we can't see it. And I highly doubt Ryuk will say something about it," Sakae stated.

"Can we see your Shinigami?" Kohaku asked Misa as politely as she could. Misa ignores her. "Guess not."

"Now there's no way I could possibly kill you and if I become a burden to you, then you can just kill me, OK?" Misa said to Light.

Light now had Misa's Death Note in hand. "Why would she go this far?" Light thought as he held the Death Note. He looked from the Death Note and at Misa. "But you might have removed several pages from your death note. You could've be hiding them somewhere for all I know."

Misa stood up. She had tears in her eyes. "Why are you so suspicious of me? I already told you. I don't care even if all you do was to use me. Believe me."

"This bitch truly is nuts," Kohaku thought.

"I can't believe she'd want to be in an emotionally abusive relationship," Sakae thought, frowning.

"How can you say that?" Light questioned.

Misa dropped to the floor. "Exactly one year ago, my parents were killed in a robbery. I was also home at that time, it happened right in front of me. I wanted that man to pay for what he did. But the trial dragged on forever. Opinion started surfacing that he was being falsely accused. And it happened. Kira punished him for what he did to my parents. And that's why Kira means everything. Kira means everything to me. All I...all I wanted was a chance to meet you one day so I could thank you for what you did." She started to sob.

"So all these were rational moves. They were just to means for her to meet Kira. Still she got around the surveillance cameras with ease. And managed not to leave her fingerprints on the evidence. She is not as stupid as I thought. And she has promised to obey me from now on," Light thought. He stood up and went over to Misa. He knelt down and hugged her, causing her to gasp. "I understand. The length you went to meet me to be of help to me, those eyes of yours that you sacrificed half your life to get, will become my weapon."

"Thank you so much," Misa said, hugging him back. "I'll try my hardest to make you love me, I promise."

"Oh great…" Kohaku thought. "Just what we needed… an obsessive bitch."

Sakae frowned as she stared at Misa and Light hugging. Misa caught her staring and smirked at her as her crying lightened up. Kohaku caught this transaction happening and thought: "Now I really hate this bitch! I am so gonna knock the shit out of her one day."

Misa is crazy. I really don't like her. Sorry Misa lovers, I hate Misa. Don't hate me for my opinion.

So Kohaku and L had their first kiss! WOOHOO! There is a site called Sex in Romance and it tells you how to describe things. I used a few for the kiss. O-O Credit goes to that site.

I love you guys. I'll try to update a little faster next time. Peace.