Well well well, what do we have here...?
This chapter just sort of wrote itself, but I'm glad it's not a one-shot anymore.
If I actually finish the story, I will be deleting all chapters from KCoT, and repost them as a real story somewhere else. (*coughkhorosecough*)
Beyond opened the door slowly, relishing in the faces the taskforces were making. They were just dumb idiots that are too stupid to back out, even when they heard Kira could kill by only a face and a name, they /still/ introduce themselves to a stranger.
Beyond leveled a finger, (it was also the shape of an L, which was very ironic).
He had no idea how L was going to stand working with these idiots, and even more impossibly, train them in shape.
"Bang." he said simply, and when the taskforce looked confused, Beyond had to resist the urge to facepalm. "If I was Kira, you'd be dead right now." he explained
Some of them managed to look sheepish, while others still did not understand.
"Does that mean you're Kira?" Ukita asked nervously.
Beyond rolled his eyes, "No." he resisted adding a 'duh' at the end. Those 'help' L enlisted are going to drag him down than being an actual 'help'. And he was sure L was thinking the same thing from upstairs.
"Are you L, then?" Asked Yagami Souichiro.
"Finally somebody gets it, give the old man an award." Beyond said sarcastically, "Because I'm not nice enough to give out my real name, you could call me 'Ryuuzaki'."
"..." the taskforce still looked shellshocked. L was nothing like they imagined he would be, and they didn't know what to think about this guy.
"Oh, um... Ryuuzaki, it's n-nice to meet you!" Matsuda laughed nervously, extending his hand for Beyond to shake. Deciding to be 'L-ish' and be polite, Beyond took it.
If he made a bad impression on the taskforce now, then L would be angry, and possibly send him back to prison. Beyond wasn't going to give up on his freedom, and L knew it.
"Ryuuzaki?"
"Oh, sorry, I was lost in thought."
They discussed the plans concerning Kira. It seems that Kira was in one of the police families, because when L guessed it was a high-school student, Kira had gotten information from the police records and changed the timing of the criminal's deaths. It could mean Kira had been leading them on all along, or that Kira was still a student but could manipulate the timing of the deaths whenever he wanted.
"Here," Beyond pushed them a file full of photographs. There were three strange deaths. One was a prisoner who drew a pentagon with his own blood and he, along with the second one, wrote suicide notes. the last one escaped from prison and died in a public toilet.
"What does that mean?" Aizawa asked.
"It means that Kira was still testing his power, and he's experimenting with the criminals." Beyond murmured, staring at the photographs, "and I'm 78% sure that this suicide note is a code of some sorts..."
"You're amazing, Ryuuzaki!" Matsuda exclaimed.
Naturally, Beyond's ego would have inflated further, but since they thought they were complementing /L/, it just wasn't as satisfying.
Beyond gazed at the picture more closely, his red eyes scanning the lines more closely. There was no hidden meaning contained inside, so that means it not a word game. The answer was hidden somewhere...
"L" Beyond didn't notice himself saying it out loud, "Did you know that Shinigamis likes apples?"
Was that it? He felt disappointed. Kira was obviously underestimating their intelligence, if he thought 'L' would be confused about this. But still, it's better for Kira to toy around with them. Beyond would not miss the chance of seeing Kira's face as he caught- no, he would kill him.
"What's that supposed to mean? Shinigamis don't exist!" Matsuda exclaimed.
"Not to you." Beyond muttered. He sat in L's favorite position on the chair, and inwardly winced as he picked apart a cake. Cakes are just not on the same level as jam.
"L- um, Ryuuzaki!" Matsuda called, "Do you still think it's a code?
"No," said Beyond, "I think Kira is just mocking us."
"What are we going to do then? " asked Aizawa.
"For now, we need to narrow the list of suspects. Kira has access to police families, and is a good hacker or the parents give them the information. Kira is a student. He only changed the timing after we figured that out, and the deaths before that matched."
"W-wow, you're so smart Ryuuzaki!"
"So what I need," Beyond continued as if he hadn't heard, "Is to put surveillance in the suspect's families."
Souichiro twitched, "My son is on that list, and we are not going to put cameras in the house so you can enjoy peeping at my wife!"
Beyond stared, "Don't worry, I'll have a woman watch any shower scenes. No lesbians."
Souichiro just muttered and shook his head.
"Fine," he said after a while, "If it helps clear my son's name, then I'll allow it."
"No guarantees," said Beyond, "Right now, his chances of being Kira is... 3%"
Souichiro sighed, "I guess that's the best I can get."
One by one, the taskforce filtered out the room. Beyond Birthday turned and smirked at the camera, his ruby eyes glinting amusedly.
"How did I do." he asked.
"Not bad," the reply came instantly, not missing a beat. "I think you've scared them off."
"So you'll be there to greet them in person next time," the serial killer laughed, "Oh, I do want to see their faces when they realized they've been talking to two different people as 'L'."
"... Just don't tell them until they figure it out."
"Heh, that'll never. But I do admit, it's scary how much we could accomplish when we actually agree on something."
"The taskforce is not that dumb, so have a bit of faith in them."
"Not that dumb? Kyahahahah... I'll believe that when they catch Kira before we do."
"They may surprise you, you know."
"Not a chance."
"..."
"By the way, the cake tasted disgusting."
"BLASPHEMY!"