Author Note: I'm amazed with how many followers this story now has. I never thought this story would be so popular.

Once again I had no idea what to call this chapter and unfortunately it's a short one.

Disclaimer: Death Note and its characters belong to Tsugumi Ohba

Chapter 25: Doubts and Inconveniences

We were all working on investigating Yotsuba but there was little progress and I was actually having a hard time focusing. For some reason I kept thinking of other things, though still Kira related. I didn't want to admit it, even to myself, but I knew that my ideals weren't that different from Kira's…and that worried me. I began to doubt myself.

Maybe L is right…maybe I was Kira.

It wasn't just because of my ideals that I thought this…it was also because of the time I met with Naomi Misora. Matsuda had mentioned to me once that they believed Kira killed her and the fact that I had spoken to her on the day she went missing unnerved me. I barely remembered the incident honestly but I couldn't understand why.

What had we talked about? I kept dwelling on it, it felt important that I remember.

A memory from that day suddenly became clearer but it wasn't exactly the memory I was dwelling on. Pain in my cheek…Akishi crying…a broken promise…a sworn oath, not to her but to myself.

What promise did I break? What did I do to make her cry like that? I glanced over at where she was talking to L while he ate a piece of cake, wondering whether she had gotten over it. She has never mentioned it…does she not remember it either? For some reason, I doubted that that was possible. Does she know that I don't remember it? I stopped that train of thought, worried about the possible implications if that turned out to be true. I looked away, still lost in my thoughts.

"What's wrong Light?" I looked up when she suddenly spoke, now standing next to me. "Does your hand still hurt?" Apparently, I had been looking down at my injured hand while I was thinking.

"It's fine." I reassured her. Her frown told me that she didn't quite believe me. Her frown suddenly turned into a mischievous smile as she started teasing me.

"Maybe now you'll think twice before starting a fight…especially with someone who has had proper training."

"I didn't know he knew how to fight." I said in my defense, resisting the urge to cross my arms much like my sister would have done.

"Really Light? You didn't think for a minute that the overly paranoid detective that many criminals would love to get their hands on wouldn't know how to defend himself if needed?"

Does she have to make it sound so obvious? I said nothing, a little ashamed with myself. She gave me a reassuring smile.

"It's okay Light, none of us really expected it…he certainly doesn't look like he can fight." We both glanced over at the detective, taking in just how frail and lanky he looked. L stopped eating his cake and looked our way, probably wondering why we were staring at him.

"I'm not exactly sure what you two are talking about but I don't really like how you two are looking at me." L said with an almost childish pout.

"We were just talking about how impressive your combat abilities are." Akishi said with a smile as she went over to stand beside L again. L gave her a look that showed that he didn't quite believe her.

"I was inspired to properly learn capoeira after Naomi Misora sent me tumbling down a flight of stairs." L explained. Everyone stared at him in disbelief but he just turned back to his cake, seemingly unaware of how bizarre that tale sounded.

"Ryuzaki." Watari's voice suddenly came through the computer, drawing everyone's attention.

"What is it, Watari?"

"I have received a distress signal from Mr. Matsuda." L let out an audible sigh before asking where Matsuda was.

"The signal…" Watari hesitated a bit as he let out his own sigh. "Is coming from Yotsuba's headquarters."

Are you serious? I covered my face with my hand, once again wondering how Matsuda had managed to become a police officer.

Author Note: Naomi sending L down a flight of stairs happened at the end of the Los Angeles BB Murder Case Novel and she didn't even know who he was hahahaha :). I can imagine everyone in the room stopping to stare at L after his explanation and he just keeps eating his cake.

Capoeira is a Brazilian fighting style in case you were wondering and that is the style that L supposedly uses.

I felt that Light and Akishi needed another moment together and that there should be some more comedy so that's where this chapter came from.

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