"So, what information do we know that the police don't" Sayu said flopping onto her brother's bed. Light held a finger up to his sister asking her to wait before switching his TV onto a random channel and turned the volume up slightly.
"So, no one can hear us" Light explained, the last thing they needed was to talk about the death notes and have their mum overhear them. She'd either think they had gone mad or she would tell their father who Light suspected was already working on the Kira case.
"Right. So, what do we know about this Kira person so far. They have a death note" Sayu started.
"Haven't made the eye deal yet or at least don't know about it. Criminals whose names were spelt wrong or have no picture haven't been killed. They seem to only use heart attack as the cause of death, so they want to be noticed" Light added.
"please don't say god complex" Sayu said, the last thing they needed was for Kira to believe they were so high and mighty.
"God complex" Light said giving her a sympathetic look. He didn't like it much more than she did, Kira somehow believed that they were a cut above everyone else because they had gotten their hands on a death note and for some deluded reason believed that what they were doing was for the better. Which was wrong, yes in the short-term crime rates will probably reduce because people start fearing for their lives if they do anything which might be remotely wrong however, once Kira disappeared and people know Kira is gone then the crime rates will just increase again. You can't bring about change through fear, it's impossible.
"Great. Anything else?".
"From the official Kira investigation, they are suspecting Kira to be a student which could be possible however, if Kira's smart and he does some signs of above intelligence then if they want to keep the police busy looking in the wrong direction then they could easily manipulate the times of death to work around a typical student's timetable" Light explained.
"Right, wait what do you mean from the Kira investigation?" Sayu said standing up and walking over to her brother who had been typing away on his computer "did you just hack the NPA?".
"We're on a home network plus we need to keep up-to-date with current information just in case they stumble across something which leads to Kira identity. We need to get to Kira first before they do if we want to keep the existence of the death note a secret" Light said trying to defend himself.
"Oh, I'm just impressed is all. Who would have thought that dad's perfect honour student of a son would dare do something like this" Sayu teased and Light laughed.
"We both know that I'm no perfect student that Dad thinks I am. First my closest friends are two actual gods of deaths and my own sister, I'm gay so I'm never going to give him any grandchildren which he expects me to. Also, I'm not going to be following in his footsteps like he believes I will. I don't want to join the NPA after university, I want to go straight into freelance work" Light said, Sayu was the only person who knew he was gay. He suspected that his mother had her suspicions but since he never dated any girl that his father had tried to introduce him to (they were all children of his colleagues from his work) or brought anyone home from school.
"Well if Dad has anything bad to say about it then he will have to come through me first" Sayu said with a look of determination on her face. Light laughed; he was glad someone was ready to fight in his corner.
"Hey Light-o what's going on with your TV" Ryuk said, Light and Sayu turned their heads to see that the channel had changed from whatever crap, which was originally on to a news channel, Sayu shot a confused look over to her brother who was still focused on the TV.
"What's going on" Sayu asked, but Light only shrugged, she quickly gave up before turning back to look at the TV.
"We're sorry to interrupt this broadcast, we now bring you live to the ICPO" the news reported said before the TV switched again to a black-haired man wearing a suit sat behind a large wooden desk with the name Lind L. Tailor printed onto the card. Light let his eyes trail up and found the same name hovering over his head, Light then looked at his lifespan quickly calculating it into human time.
"Please don't tell me the idiot used his real name going up against Kira" Sayu asked looking over at her brother then her Shinigami.
"Yep, I bet 10 apples that I know how this is going to end. Hyuk some humans are so stupid" Ryuk said and Sayu could help but nod. Yes, he couldn't know that Kira had a death note however, he should have been more careful when it came to approaching Kira.
"It doesn't matter whether he's going to be killed by Kira. He's due to die in like two hours anyway" Light said, looking over at his sister for the first time since the broadcast started. To think that the police were so stupid that they want to confront the killer on live TV when he was killing criminals by using heart attacks all over the world.
"…otherwise known as L". Light head snapped up pulling him out of his internal downward spiral. This was L, the world's famous detective L.
"Do you recognise the name Light?" Sayu asked when she saw her brother's face practically light up. She had never seen him like that before, he always had such control over his facial expressions to see something like a natural expression on his face seemed so alien to her.
"Yeah, he's like the world's most famous detective. He always kept in the shadows, but he's solved the worlds hardest cases. But to think L would be this stupid… no it can't be" Light said trailing off.
"What can't be Light? Hey, don't leave us hanging here" Sayu complained.
"Sayu look" Rem spoke up point her large claw at the TV where Lind L Tailor had clutched his chest and died of a heart attack.
"I don't see how he's consider the world's greatest detective; I would have expected he was smarter than…" Sayu was cut off when the screen once again changed from the slumped body of Lind L Tailor to a gothic L on a white background.
"Ah. I had to test this, just in case. But I-I never thought it would actually happen. Kira… it seems you can kill people without having to be there in person. I wouldn't have believe it if I hadn't just witnessed it. Listen to me, Kira. If you did, indeed, kill Lind L. Tailor, the man who you just saw die on television, I should tell you that he was an inmate whose execution was scheduled for today. That was not me. The police arrested him in absolute secrecy, so you wouldn't have heard of him on Tv or through the internet. It appears not even you have access to information about these types of criminals. But I assure you, L is real. I do exist. Now… try to kill me" the computer modified voice said and Sayu gasped.
"This L guy is good isn't him hyuk" Ryuk commented and Sayu had to agree, she could definitely now see why he was believed to be the worlds greatest detective. He had just made Kira reveal themselves on TV in front of everyone. She looked over at Light who was smiling.
"If anyone has the chance of even finding Kira then this detective seems a likely candidate" Rem said.
"Yeah but greatest detective or not, we can't let the police get their hands on the death note. The temptation to use it would be too strong" Light said and Sayu swore. She had forgotten about the lure which humans were meant to experience when they came into contact with a death note.
"Expect for you brat, both of you have been exposed to two death notes yet, you haven't used it yourselves" Ryuk said giving them both an odd look before taking an apple from Light's fruit bowl and scoffed it down.
"Yeah but we're weird" Sayu said.
"Actually, I have some theories to why the death note didn't affect us like it was supposed to" Light said, he had been thinking about it for a couple of days. They had played Sayu not using the death note as a potential one off, but Light hadn't felt drawn to it either.
"Oh… I would love to hear this since I have no clue to why you brats are so weird" Ryuk said his mouth still full of apple that Light was lucky to even make any of what he said out.
"Ignore the buffoon Light. Continue with what would were saying" Rem said hitting Ryuk before turning her attention back to her human.
"For why Sayu wasn't affected, I think it was a mix between lack of understanding and me telling her it was a prank. She couldn't read the English and there was no reason for her to doubt me so, the lure couldn't affect her like it would any other person. And, I think for me even though I know what the death note was capable of I never felt pulled to use it. I think it's because the death note doesn't register me as human or at least fully human" Light theorised looking over at Rem and Ryuk for their opinions.
"I suppose that makes sense" Rem said.
"Wait what do you mean fully human. You were human the last time I checked" Sayu said confused and Light sighed.
"My eyes aren't. When Gelus died, he gifted me with his eyes which means that they are more advanced that the Shinigami Eyes which death note users would receive if they made the deal. Initially I can't see your lifespan, but I feel like if I focused enough and tried then I could see it. It's hard to explain but it's what I feel" Light said trying to convey what he felt into words.
"Wonderful" Sayu said sarcastically and Light nodded, his life couldn't getting anymore complicating that it already was. Unfortunately for Light only a few days later it did.
4 days later Light started feeling like someone was watching him however every time he turned around to investigate he couldn't see anyone or at least anyone suspicious.
"Rem can you do me a favour?" Light asked the Shinigami following him as he continued his way home, he was feeling a little paranoid and a little scared considering the last time he was being followed he was meant to die, and it was definitely something he didn't want to experience again especially considering he had no idea how long Gelus had left to live. He was potential living on borrowed time, he wasn't sure whether he had 80 years left or 8 minutes. His nightmares enjoyed speculating those scenarios.
"Of course, what is it?" Rem asked looking down at the human she was haunting who she had slowly grown attached to over these last couple of days. She could see why Gelus was so willing to give up his own life to protect Light, she was starting to think that she too would sacrifice her own life to protect either Light or his younger sister Sayu.
"I think someone is following me, can you investigate for me" Light asked, and his Shinigami nodded, flying off whilst Light continue to walk home. He wished that he had met up with Sayu and Ryuk after school, so he didn't have to walk home alone but Sayu had promised her friends that they would go to the shopping centre and Light hadn't fancied following them around town.
"Light keep walking and don't react but, you were right. Another human is following you" Rem said. Light took a sharp intake of breath, but he didn't miss a step. Who would be following him now? Did he have another stalker or, was it someone else entirely? His father was a police officer so he had made plenty of enemies over the last few years could someone being trying to get revenge of his father by coming after Light. What about his sister?
The Shinigami Protection Squad
Light: Be careful Sayu, someone is following me.