Author Note: here's another, unfortunately, short chapter.
Disclaimer: Death Note and its characters belong to Tsugumi Ohba
Chapter 14: Terror and Heartache
A couple days later Light met up with the task force and L in order to help with the investigation and Light had me come with him, while intangible of course. They had him listen to the confiscated recordings from Sakura TV and give his opinion on them.
"There may be more than one person with Kira's power." The task force members, except L, all gasped at Light's words.
"What do you mean?" One of them asked.
"There's a good chance that this is not the Kira we've known up to now." Light clarified, rather needlessly in my opinion.
"It's exactly the same deduction that L…I mean Ryuzaki has made." The youngest member, Matsuda, said while staring at Light in awe. Everyone was busy staring at Light but I was staring at L. He noticed that it was a different Kira…amazing.
The plan L came up with to stop the Second Kira was to create a message while posing as the real Kira. Unfortunately, he wanted Light to play the part as Kira. Light didn't really have a choice so he went along with it. The message was aired and surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, we got a response several days later.
"Kira, thank you for your reply. I promise to do as you say." Even I was surprised that the Second Kira believed that message to be from the original. Not very smart is he?
"I want to meet you. I don't think you have the eyes…but I won't try to kill you." I tensed at the mention of the shinigami eyes. Not very smart…more like a complete idiot, I thought, What is he thinking talking about the eyes on live television…even if nobody will really understand what that's about?
"Please tell where we can meet where the police won't be able to interfere. When we meet, we can confirm our identities by showing our shinigami to each other." There was another series of gasps then…
"AAAAHHHHH!" L threw his hands up, screaming in terror. Eventually his scream got caught in his throat and he fell from his chair with the chair crashing down after him. The members of the task force gathered around him, worried that he was having a heart attack but he didn't seem to see or hear them. I stood behind the group, worried as well but a feeling of dread kept me from getting closer. L sat up and stared at the screen in terror.
"Shinigami…am I supposed to believe in such a thing?" I felt a stab in my heart at how those words were spoken with such fear. The men seemed to think that L's reaction was over the top but not me; that is the normal response. The thought that there was a being able to kill you from another realm just because it wanted to would terrify anyone. I had never witnessed this reaction before though until now; not even Light was this terrified upon first meeting me because he had been expecting it.
He's terrified…absolutely terrified, I thought, frozen in place. I had known that I should never let anyone else know I was a shinigami, especially L, because then they would use that fact against Light but…I never thought about how anyone would really react to it. Seeing L so terrified really hammered in the fact that I couldn't let him ever know. If he ever knew what I was then he would fear me too and may even despise me and for some reason…the thought of that happening caused a slight twinge in my chest.
Author Note: I created a poll about who Akishi should end up with, it's on my profile page please check it out and vote.
Every time I see that scene I can't help but wonder why L reacted the way he did…it really seems over the top compared to the others and he didn't react that way at all when he actually sees one for the first time.
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