Dicevi che il mondo va cambiato

e intanto รจ lui che cambia te

dicevi che il mondo va colpito

e intanto lui colpisce te

_Ligabue_

- Aizawa PoV -

"What the hell, I leave for six hours and you make all this fuss?! Fuck you guys, sincerely!"

"That might mean your presence is not needed here, Mihael"

"Eat shit Nate, this was not your idea!"

I laugh listening to the two man fighting like kids. It doesn't matter if L forced them to work together, they are never going to toss aside their competitiveness.

"How is it going?", L asks Anna from above her shoulder. "Did you find anything?"

In answer to his question she moves away from the computer to let everyone have a look at the screen. In less than thirty minutes thousands of posts, hundreds of emails, photos, videos regarding Light and Misa are already jamming the net.

"Wow. We might have created a monster... How are we going to skim?"

"Just sit down and watch, this is my home ground. I am already running a semantic analysis, I personally modified the searching criteria to refine the research and set an automatic selection for the items with highest significance. For those I can trace the IP and evaluate if it's the case to proceed on field"

As she spoke the room got strangely silent. I look around and notice that all eyes are set on her. After all, this is the first time that most of us see Anna so seriously lost in her element.

"How long will you take to trace a location, working in this condition?", L asks quietly without paying attention at the small crowd of spectators.

"Emh...a...an hour can do..."

I smirk seeing that the cheeky girl is unusually blushing being in the spotlight. After all, she can feel embarassed too.

"We need to be faster. If we take too long we leave Kira enough time to run away, and we won't have a chance like this again"

"What the fuck, L! How can you say that one hour is too much?!"

"He's right Mello, it's useless to send a squad in a place if our target is long gone", I admit.

"Actually I was just weighting the options. Her average time is much better than that", L interrupts us again. "We need Reel now, not a random hacker, Anna. How long with the usual assets?"

"I can make it in twenty minutes!", she says jumping on her feet. "Do you really let me do that?!"

L rolls his eyes and nods in resignation.

"Do you promise me that one hour is the minimum time you need like this? Still, I can't explain myself such differences in your perfomance"

"You have your fixations, I have mines! You will be allowed to complain about my efficiency once that you start to sit normally!"

"Fine fine... Shopping list?"

"A bottle of Zinfandel. A good one!"

"Ok"

I chuckle and call an agent to order the wine. It's always funny to hear Anna scolding L. It's a bit comforting to know that my wife is not the only tenent around.

"Ohi, Anna!"

I turn around just in time to see Miheal passing Anna a thin cigarette. Definitely not the custom kind.

"Aww! I love you blondie!"

"Yeah yeah, I know you too well to know that you are just licking my ass sweetie. Now go and show us what you can do"

Anna collects her stuff and gambols out of the room with L.

"Mello...you were in custody all the time. Where did you get that cigarette?", I wonder, afraid to know the answer.

"Uh? The seizures area, I was so bored that as soon as I saw some interesting stuff I stole it. Sorry cop"

Apparently Layla finds the thing extremely funny. This guy stole illegal stock to the force. Hilarious.

"Next time you steal evidences I'd rather be informed about it, Mihael"

"Oh come on. We are making good use of that stuff!"

I sigh wondering how this guy was supposed to became a decent detective if Nate didn't took over L's seat. If he was trained to become a criminal he wouldn't have achieved such outstanding results.

"Ide, Matsuda, Mogi! I want you to quickly organize four special ops squads. Each one of us is going to lead one"

The agents promptly follow my orders and disappear from view.

"Aizawa, my squad can support you. They are highly trained for this kind of situations"

"Thanks Nate, once that the squads are ready and Anna has some addresses they are going to split up between the four squads"

"Ok. I suggest the pairs Rester-Matsuda, Gevanni-Mogi, Halle-Ide. Considering their characteristics I think that's going to make fair teams"

"Sounds good. L can join my team and you and Mello can coordinate things from here"

"Ehy wait! Why do I have to be left out from all the fun and work with the dwarf?!"

I sigh and oblige myself to explain the obvious, even if I know that Mello perfectly knows the answer, and just doesn't care about rules.

"I cannot allow you to go on field because you are not in the force, Mihael. Not in Japan nor abroad"

"Kiss my beautiful ass, Aizawa. Mafia is definitely a force"

"Shut the hell up Mello!"

Surprised I stare at Nate, who apparently found the resolve to answer back to his rival.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY?!"

Thankfully L is back just in time to stop an uprising. It's more than likely the most difficult part in this operation is going to be having those two working together.

We quickly leave them alone to avoid double thoughts and reach the destinations Anna found for us.

"Everyone in position. Each team will receive specific information from now on. If you need to communicate with each other for any reason we are going to keep you in touch. All clear?"

"Squad one speaking. Message received Near", I confirm pulling down a balaclava.

It's too thight and too hot for my tastes. I am not used to do this sort of things.

"This sucks. I hate this thing. I have no idea how can you say that you like field job L.."

"Dunno. But this way Light is going to take a while to figure our identies. Even few seconds can change things"

"I perfecly know that but it's not going to chance the fact that I hate doing this. Damn Kira!"

"We haven't even begun yet!", L laughs at my complaints. "You should have let Mello come in your place if you feel so uncomfortable!"

I glare at the man, who didn't lost a second to make fun of me. Seriously, the fact that he got so friendly is not always a good thing.

"You shouldn't let your wife leave hickeys if you feel uncomfortable showing them", I reply with a smirk. "And still, here you are..."

"Shit! I thought I hid them!"

I laugh, very proud of my reply, as L tries to better hide his neck. It's too easy to win this game knowing his flaws. Big pity that the balaclava is covering his face. I could pay to see it.

"Are you ready to see Light again?", I ask, getting serious again.

No matter how equipped we are. This is not regular routine and Kira is not regular enemy. If things are going to finish in a face to face battle we must be prepared to win over some of our worst memories.

"No. But this way I must keep my eyes open don't you think?"

"Same here"

"Let's put an end to this story Aizawa"