Tetra Muffins: For now, Light has no plans to kill the girls

Saiyuri Haruno: Lol, nope. They're pretty abnormal and strange little girls

Sakura02: Not the cake of death! Poor L…

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"Ryuzaki, hurry up!" Hiroko whined. She was standing on a small stool in the kitchen area with a green apron on. Various ingredients were in front of her.

Naoko stood next to Hiroko on a stool with a matching apron on. She smiled apologetically over at the annoyed detective. "If you want Ryuzaki-san to move faster, maybe you should go help him."

L grumbled his agreement with Naoko. He had no idea what had possessed him to agree to make this damn cake with the twins. He should be interrogating the shinigami, not baking delicious sweets. He dropped his armful of ingredients in front of the two girls. He sighed in annoyance when he saw the frown on Hiroko's face. "What? Did I forget something?"

"Well, yeah." Hiroko huffed, her hands on her hips. "You forgot the most important ingredient; strawberries!"

L actually felt his mouth watering. "We're making a strawberry cake?"

Hiroko nodded her head enthusiastically. "Yeah! Strawberry cake is your favorite after all."

Naoko smiled shyly at the confused detective. "We wanted to make a cake with you to thank you for taking care of us. I know we cause you a lot of trouble, especially Hiroko. So, this is our way of saying thank you."

L turned towards the refrigerator to hide the small smile on his face. He would never tell either of the girls, especially not Hiroko, but he had grown rather fond of the two of them. They brought a brightness to the otherwise serious Task Force that he was grateful for. He brought the strawberries over and plopped them down. "Now what?" He asked, chewing thoughtfully on his thumb.

"Naoko knows what to do!" Hiroko chimed excitedly, grinning over at her twin. "Naoko is the best baker in the whole wide world!"

Naoko blushed proudly. "I'm not that good. Mommy taught both of us, but Hiroko burns everything she touches."

"Somehow, that doesn't surprise me." L muttered, missing the right hook Hiroko sent at him. "I'll have to teach you two how to fight properly. We can't have you two growing up without knowing how to defend yourselves. With how gullible you two are, a guy could roll up on a motorcycle and you'd hop right on."

Hiroko stuck her tongue out. "No way. Boys are gross. They have cooties."

L patted her head and nodded approvingly. "You keep thinking that. You two, Naoko. I'm more worried about you doing that then Hiroko."

Naoko blushed again and focused on mixing the ingredients together. "I wouldn't. I don't like motorcycles. They're scary. The people that ride them are even scarier." Naoko instructed Hiroko and L on what to do. She kept having to whack their hands away with wooden spoons when they would try and sneak a lick of the batter. "You're going to get worms!" She screamed.

Finally, they managed to get the cake into the baking pan and in the oven. Having nothing to do for the next hour, Hiroko began to grow bored. A mischievous glint came to her eyes when she saw there was still some pink batter left in the mixing bowl.

L blinked and crossed his eyes, trying to see the offending bit of batter Hiroko had dabbed on his nose. "That's very immature, Hiroko." He reached into the bowl and poked her on the forehead.

Naoko rolled her eyes. "You're both immature." She squeaked when L scooped her up in his arms and dabbed a bit of frosting onto her cheek. "You're so mean, Ryuzaki-san!"

"Put my sister down!" Hiroko howled furiously.

L didn't have time to put Naoko down or to even move out of the way of the incoming bag of open flour. He stood there with Naoko still in his arms, both of them completely stunned and covered head to toe in flour.

Naoko let out a small cough. She laughed when a small cloud of flour went up into the air and at the sight of the serious L covered in flour. She tried to wipe some off his face, but it only made matters worse.

L sighed and put Naoko down. While he was scooping up a large handful of flour, he glared over at Hiroko. "That was not very nice, Hiroko."

Hiroko squealed and tried to run past him. Just as she went by him, L dumped his handful of flour onto her head. Hiroko let out a wail of despair and sat down on the flour. "Now I have to take a bath, Ryuzaki!"

L smirked and picked her up. He held the pouting girl at arms length. "You needed one anyways. Come along. By the time you two are done with your bath, the cake will be done." He took both girls by the hand and led them out of the kitchen.

Matsuda howled with laughter while the rest of the Task Force just looked at the three with a raised eyebrow. Matsuda pulled a camera from his bag and snapped a quick photo. "That's hilarious!"

"Delete that now, Matsuda." L barked. He led the girls up the stairs to their room and drew them a bath.

Once L had left, the two girls jumped into the bath and quickly rinsed off. Hiroko couldn't keep the silly grin off her face. "Today has been the best day ever!"

Naoko nodded her head in agreement. "I hope Ryuzaki-san and the others like the cake."

"Of course they will!" Hiroko said proudly. "You make the best cakes in the whole world!"

The twins finished bathing and hopped out of the bath. They quickly dried off and got dressed. They met Ryuzaki and went back into the still messy kitchen just as the timer went off. L helped the girls put the cake in the refrigerator so it could cool down. The three stood in the kitchen, eating some of the strawberries while they waited for the cake to cool. Once it had, Naoko shooed Hiroko and L to stand back while she concentrated on frosting and decorating.

L stepped forward and watched the little girl make tiny flowers out of frosting and how she carefully placed each strawberry on the cake. "You should become a baker when you get older, Naoko."

Naoko beamed proudly. She was about to suggest that they serve everyone some cake when a loud commotion from the main area interrupted her. L rushed out of the kitchen with the two little girls following him.

"What is it?" L asked, taking his customary seat in front of the computers. He gave Matsuda a small nod when the man slid him a cup of tea.

"Sixteen criminals died last night. It's all the criminals that have been on television since Higuchi's death." Aizawa answered.

Hiroko and Naoko lingered a few steps back. "So, Higuchi wasn't Kira?" Hiroko asked uncertainly.

Naoko shook her head. "Higuchi was killing criminals. Does this mean a new Kira has shown up? Is there another notebook in this world?" She looked curiously up at Rem.

Rem nodded slowly at the little girl. "Must be. A shinigami wouldn't go out of its way to just kill criminals."

L stirred his tea thoughtfully. "These criminals started dying the moment Amane was released from custody."

Naoko shuddered. She could feel a strange change in Light's aura while he argued with L. He didn't seem worried at all despite how he was talking to the others. She looked over to ask Rem another question and blinked. "Hey, where'd Rem go?"

There was a sudden crash through the speakers of the computer where a large 'W' stood on a white background. L frowned. "Watari, what's wrong?"

Naoko let out a small gasp. She latched onto Hiroko's hand with her own trembling one. When Hiroko looked over at her worriedly, Naoko bit her lip. "Watari-san's aura…it's disappearing."

Despite how quiet Naoko was, L heard her. "Watari!"