Chapter 25: Who?
L sat in his chair with a blank face, the task force surrounding him on every side as he took a small candy out of its wrapper.
I stared at him as I leaned against the island once more obviously bored, I wanted things to start moving ahead and thankfully they would soon.
"I've studied the tapes we got from the bugs and cameras over the past five days...numerous times." My head snapped up as L spoke and I felt a tremble rush through my body.
"Things are starting up again….soon so soon Light will be officially coming into the picture." I licked my dry cracked lips as I allowed my body to slide from the island and sit on the carpeted floor where I watched the scene fold in front of me. I listened to the conversation of how L was knew that his conclusion for everyone in the houses was no one, the others began speaking to each other while L slowly stirred his tea obviously in deep thought.
"L….I know this sounds a little outspoken but it seems to me that Kira is able to kill without batting a eye now." Everyone turned to look at me, I almost stopped saying anything from the look the Chief was giving me. "I mean if Kira is one of the people we were watching you would think they'd show something but there's nothing…" I gazed up at the black televisions that were far across the room.
"To me…..I bet many think that Kira is some great God passing right judgement on murderers and wrongdoers but one that kills innocent people as well…is not God...this is a child that has found fire and thinks they know how to use it; whoever it is has a childlike thought process of right and wrong. They want the world to be so perfect that they look over everything to their goal not even bothering who they kill or gets in there way…" I mumbled of as I remembered how I used to say that every time I thought of what Light had been doing.
Everyone turned away from me and began discussing what I'd said and I could feel L's eyes on me once more in deep thought. "Why is he staring so intently…oh yeah I kind of just said what was in his mind…" I blinked punching myself in my mind, I was beginning to forget that I knew everything that was going to happen; I would have to be more careful about giving stuff out especially if it attained to the future...that could be even worse.
My skin crawled as I felt his eyes on me and met them in the middle, I smiled lightly and he nodded as if he'd just come to a conclusion.
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"Goodnight Ryuzaki, see you tomorrow." Matsuda said happily following the others out. Numbly I made my way out the door and caught the Chief's sleeve in my hand, he turned to look at me.
"Chief I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for doing that to you. I know how much you care for you family but this is the only lead we have now….I'm not L who can do things like this without batting an eye...I'm sorry but…" The Chief smiled warmly and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"It's ok Hail, something tells me that you know how it feels to want to protect someone or something…but I will never be able to get past this thinking that L's suspicious of my family. We'll just have to play it out till the end." Pain and sorrow for him flashed through me; to think that this kind man would be killed later on. Angst ran through my blood as I leaned forward and hugged him slowly, his arms circled around me in a comforted motion and for once I was able to feel calm in a fatherly embrace.
"I'm sorry Chief….I will try to save you...but I'm not sure I can." I blinked the tears and left him.
L had not moved from the couch, he was frozen besides his fingers that continued to stir his tea.
"L…I-" L stood up and jumped off the couch immediately and walked towards me.
"Hail, what do you think of this? Who out of all these people we're watching is the most suspicious?" He pointed to the pictures of the people we were watching that were connected to the fridge in the kitchen as if they were already hung by their nooses.
As if a radar did it my eyes went straight to the picture of Light; his confidence shining through the photograph like a sickening disease.
"Now the person I'm going to pick L is one I've been thinking seemed different from the others for awhile now." I swallowed and walked towards the windows were I leaned my side up against it. "I chose him because he seems to be the type in a weird way, he radiates arrogance and knowledge; he's smart enough to do it since he's the top of his class…" I narrowed my eyes looking down at the streets.
I looked back to L who was standing in the middle of the room, his hands deep in his pockets as he stared at me wanting to know WHO.
"I bet on Light Yagami."
Author: Ok no matter what any of you say I died and came back to life!11 No i didn't. I'm sorry I haven't written in awhile and this chapter was short (but at least I wrote one). And the reason I didn't write was because I was going through a emotional time with some crap and I needed to get my grades up (which barely went up an inch..yea. :( I'll try and keep writing each week and since my spring break (which is TWO weeks, oh yeah!) starts next week….I should be on here more often! See ya, send NICE reviews if possible, no critic crap (which I just can't stand, at all).