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Chapter 56

Stuck

"The 22nd in Aoyama, 24th in Shibuya, so far no evidence that anything happened. The only thing left in the diary is the 30th at the Tokyo Dome..." Aizawa read from the police reports, they were accurate nothing out of the ordinary had happened on the 22nd or the 24th.

Still, there was no way that the second Kira was stupid enough to actually go to the Dome. That was just insane, they'd be caught for sure.

"Ryuzaki, Sakura Tv has received a message from the second Kira. The post mark is the 23rd." Watari said through the laptop on the table, what could the second Kira want now?

"Again?!" Yagami-san asked.

"I'll send you the file over this computer first." Watari told us, then he linked the video through the laptop.

"I was able to find Kira." the second Kira's voice said through the screen. "People at the Tv station, policemen, thank you all very much."

No way. The second Kira couldn't have found Raito, wait, what if it was that thing I thought I saw in that café on the 22nd? It did seem larger then a person, but I had only caught a glimpse of it. Though it was the only unusual thing I had noticed...

"'found him?' this is bad!" Aizawa exclaimed.

"Yes... so Kira and the second Kira have joined forces..." Yagami-san muttered.

"We can't be sure they are together just yet." Ryuzaki disagreed, "until now, the second Kira has talked about wanting to meet Kira. Now he mentions 'finding him.' it is possible that he has merely located Kira, and hasn't contacted him yet."

"I think we can say that at least up to the 23rd, they have not joined forces. If they had, I doubt that Kira would have the second Kira tell us that he 'found him'. At this point, the police will have to send out a message directly to the second Kira..." Ryuzaki decided.

"Message?" Matsuda repeated.

"Yes. We have the police offer the second Kira leniency in exchange for the identity of Kira. This will be even more effective if Kira doesn't know who the second Kira is yet." Ryuzaki explained. "Asahi-san, would it be possible to offer the second Kira immunity in exchange for information leading to the capture of Kira?"

"He's killed at least eight innocent people that we know of... we can't..." Yagami-san answered.

"Then we'll remain vague about that and offer as much leniency as we can... how about that he'll be treated like a hero and the police will not come after him?" Ryuzaki suggested.

"I want this as soon as possible. It's 7:25 pm right now... prepare something to run on every station at 8:55." Ryuzaki ordered.

"Yes, understood." Yagami-san agreed.

"Um, Ryuzaki?" I cut in, "you do realize that this entire plan is based on how spineless or devoted the second Kira is, right? And what about if this doesn't work, it could show Kira that it's not too dangerous to approach the second Kira, because she's loyal enough to keep his identity a secret."

"Hmm, you have a point. But it's still worth a try, after all, the second Kira might be spineless." Ryuzaki said. I wasn't going to argue.

"But if Kira doesn't know who you are yet, then there's still time. You must not get close to Kira out of curiosity. If you contact Kira, you will only be used and killed. Kira is a mass murderer, you must not help him." the police message said that night, it was around the part about contact that I realized the real flaw in this plan.

If the second Kira didn't think through their actions, then they would see this video as initiative to reveal themself to Kira.

"What you must do now is think of the value of human life and atone for your crimes by revealing what you know to the police."

"Ryuzaki, I'm going out far a while." I said and left the room, if the second Kira knew who Raito was, then they would probably try to see him after this video, which meant that I had to head them off.

"And save the world from the terror of Kira..."

It took me a while longer then I would have liked to get to Raito's house, though there was no particular reason for the delay. When I did get there it was almost eleven thirty, I climbed up the grate with the vines to look in his window, but when I got close enough to hear I could tell I was too late.

"...dating other girls?" a high pitched voice asked, I couldn't see who it was without being seen, not like it would matter even if it was the second Kira.

"Pretty much..." Raito replied.

"No way!!" the girl shouted, she was one of the first people I knew of who had been given the choice of whether or not her boyfriend was going to cheat on her, or at least that was what I gathered from the five words I had heard.

"There's no way I'll stand for you seeing other girls. If I see that I'll kill them." the girl said, lowering her voice so that she sounded menacing. That was definitely the second Kira in–

CRACK!!

The wooden grate I had been standing on splintered under me and I was sent crashing back into the garden.

Embarrassing...

I looked up to see both Kiras watching me from the up stairs window. Raito was looking around in case anyone had heard the noise, then he turned back to look down at me and I could see his face was a mix of shock and annoyance, with the latter winning the inner struggle for facial dominance.

The second Kira was a young girl– take that Ryuzaki!– with blond hair black clothes and... wait...

I stood up, glancing over to my left and sighing with relief at the sight of the wooden garden stake that had nearly impaled me. Without another thought I climbed back up the grate– bypassing the hole I had created– and into the room.

I ignored Raito, he wasn't all that interesting anyway, and went strait over to the second Kira. I looked her over a few times, checking her shinigami eyes as well as her appearance then:

"Are you Amane Misa?" I asked, circling her like a vulture or a shark, though comparing myself to birds of pray and large carnivorous fish wasn't helping my confusion.

I stopped in front of her and took in her confused expression, but she wasn't looking at my face...

"What's your name?" she asked, ignoring the fact that I had asked first.

"Can't you see it?" I joked, I knew she couldn't, Raito's confused expression burned into my back, or at least, I thought it could have.

Then I realized that I shouldn't have known that she should have been able to see it, so I took mercy on her and helped with some of her confusion.

"I know about the death note." I told her.

"Misa, can you see her name?" Raito asked, he must not have figured it out by now because I could hear the smile in his voice, probably already opening the note.

"Hey, Raito, if she could see it why would she ask me what it was?" I asked, turning to face him, his smile faded.

Amane shook her head to answer his question. I walked over to the white boney shinigami standing behind Amane Misa. It eyed me with confusion, probably because I was looking right at it.

"I'm Yumi." I said, holding my hand out to it.

It didn't take my hand, instead it leaned over to look at me more closely. I withdrew my hand to avoid the awkwardness of it phasing through the shinigami's stomach, but other then that, I didn't flinch away from it like a normal person would have.

"Yumi?" it asked, "is that your real name?"

"No." I answered flatly, that wasn't anything new to me and by now I was used to people asking me about it.

"Then what is it?" the shinigami asked, it was obviously wondering if I was hiding my name somehow.

"I don't have one." I said.

I heard Raito drop something.

I turned to look at him, he had one of the classic 'what the hell?!' looks on his face that normally accompanies large fiery explosions. I smirked a bit.

"I'm Rem." the shinigami said once it had gotten it's answer.

"Oh hey, Amane, how did you get your death note?" I asked, suddenly remembering the confusion I had felt over not sensing her death note at first. I had a theory, but I needed to know for sure.

"From Rem." she answered as if it were obvious, and that much was.

"How, though?" I asked again.

"Well, she handed it to me..." Amane answered.

"Handed it right to you?" I asked, this was important.

"Yes." she said.

That made sense. The explosive red aura of a death note entering the human world only happens if the note is loose in the human world, that's why when a human picks a death note up off the ground and becomes the owner, the aura disappears.

If Shinigami ,Rem, had handed it right to Amane Misa, then it had never been loose and that was why I hadn't sensed the aura when it first showed up, because the note changed hands strait from Rem to Amane in the human world.

In short, the aura of a loose death note entering the human world had never showed up because Shinigami, Rem, had carried it here and handed it to Amane once she had arrived.

"So, can I see your shinigami?" Amane asked me suddenly, I looked up from my thoughts.

"I don't have one." I told her.

"But, don't all death note owners have shinigami with them?" she asked as if to prove me wrong.

How had she known I had a death note? Even Raito hadn't figured that out, sure I knew about them, but I also climbed into the bedroom of Kira in the middle of the night, he could have told me.

"How do you know I have a death note?" I asked.

"I can't see your life span with the eyes." she stated.

"What does that have to do with it?" I asked, this was interesting. Ever since I had spoken to B in the hospital in LA two years ago, I had wondered why shinigami eyes couldn't see my life span, after a while I had just decided it had something to do with my namelessness, but if this girl knew the answer.

"Shinigami eyes can't see the life span of someone with a death note." she stated matter of factly. Knowing the answer that I hadn't must have made her feel smart or something.

"Oh. That makes sense." I agreed, "hey, I'd better get going, Ryuzaki will be wondering where I am. Maybe." I said.

It didn't matter if I said Ryuzaki, it was a fake name after all, he had tons of those.

I crossed over to the window and hoisted myself out.

"Bye, Ryuk. Good bye, Rem." I said as I began to climb down. "Nice to meet you Amane-san!" I shouted back up from the bottom, then walked away.

At least I had learned some interesting stuff, and I knew everything about the second Kira that Raito did, now. And as a bonus, the only time I had lied all night was when I had said that Ryuzaki would be worried. That meant that I was getting the hang of the honesty thing now.

All in all, it was a good night.

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author's note: started late, sorry. So now Raito knows about the no name thing. Lot of good it'll do him though. Thanks for reading and thanks for the reviews!