AN: YESH! AN UPDATE!!

Erm.

Still not done writing it all out... but I'm a TON closer, and most of the whole "complicated-plot" section is done. Plus, my school's musical is done on Saturday, so I'll have a lot more free time after that! :D

Anyway, I figured, What the heck! I was gonna wait until I was done, but I might as well post this.

Happy Saint Patty's Day!

March 1, 2011
4:59 PM

"Matsuda," Ide asked, nudging his friend on the arm, "are you sure Ryuzaki's plan is going to work?"

"Well... no," Matsuda admitted, "but some of his other plans haven't been completely foolproof either, and they turned out okay..."

L rolled his eyes. "Matsuda," he said from across the room, "if you want to get away with gossiping about someone, I would advise you to do it when the person in question isn't nearby."

Matsuda's face began to resemble a tomato. "Ah... Sorry!"

Near paused in the construction of a LEGO tower on the desk. "Excuse me," he said pointedly. "The news program will be airing in forty seconds."

Aizawa frowned, and he clearly couldn't decide if Near had intentionally made the pun or not... (L was 76% sure he had.)

Then again, it wasn't something to joke about now: timing was everything when it came to this stunt. While it would air first in Japan, it was bound to be picked up by people in other countries in a ridiculously short amount of time. L had specifically requested to the other nations of the world that this story be banned by the official media, but where the internet was concerned that didn't guarantee anything. There was always the possibility that word of the terrible homicide committed by Jaymes Fosse could spread far more quickly than L had anticipated.

Granted, Matsuda had made a surprisingly observant point. What if Light hadn't been watching television when Lind L. Tailor was broadcast in the Kanto region of the country? They very well could have shown the same message all over the world and never caught Kira. L was able to come up with good plans, but all of them seemed to depend on a fair amount of luck.

Somewhere, in the back of his head, L wondered if his luck would ever run out.

"Tonight's top story comes from the United States, where an American man has murdered two Tokyo businessmen in California. The Sacramento authorities released today that Jaymes Fosse committed homicide yesterday when two prominent business figures were visiting to make a company deal. It appears that Fosse snuck into their hotel room and bludgeoned both Japanese men to death. Their names and Fosse's motives for the attack were not disclosed in the report.

"And today, there was an important meeting between the prime minister of Great Britain and..."

5:02 PM

"Ryuzaki! Fosse just collapsed in his cell!!" Aizawa shouted.

After one and a half minutes?? Kira had to be in Japan of that was true.

L swivelled his chair across the room in record time over to the monitor that had been set up to display Fosse in the California prision. "Cardiac arrest?"

"Hell, from the look on his face...! It had to be!"

Prison paramedics that L had ordered be put on standby were rushing around on camera. Ten and three-fifths seconds later, one of them rushed back off, yelling something to someone off-screen.

"Near!" L shouted across the room. "Get the head of the prison on the phone!!"

Near's only reaction to the whole ordeal was to ignore his LEGO tower, widen his eyes just a bit, and comply to L's directions much faster than normal. Eight seconds later he had the head of the prison on the line. "He-hello?" the voice on the line asked nervously.

"This is L," Near said without emotion. "You have Jaymes Fosse under tight surveillance, correct?"

"Well, ye-yeah, I mean, you told me to--"

"Did he just collapse from a heart attack??" Near interrupted.

The director sounded startled. "Did he--?"

"Did Jaymes Fosse just die of cardiac arrest??"

"I..." He paused. "Just a moment, one of my staff members just called me--"

Near was put on hold.

Nobody else seemed to notice, but L could tell that everyone there--except for Near and himself--was holding their breath.

Twenty-seven seconds later the prison director picked up the phone once more. "Hello--L, are you still there?"

He sounds shaken, L observed.

"Yes," Near breathed. L then realized that Near had actually been holding in a small breath as well. "Well?"

For a moment the line was quiet.

"...He's dead," the man said slowly, "and I believe it's safe to say that he died of a heart attack."

AN: OMG KIRA'S IN JAPAN!!

...Hmm, I guess we knew that already though.

But still!! They're getting closer!! A lot closer, actually... Wow, I just realized that this chapter is kinda short. I hope that's okay, since it wasn't filler this time...

Okay, my brother is standing here poking me and telling me to tell you guys about his story, so I guess I will. It's called "Loose Ends" by Near the Sheep, and it is Super-Special-Awesome (SARCASM). Check it out if you have time. ^.^

Review? Plzkthnx. ;D