Light sometimes wondered how he was related to Soichiro Yagami. That man was a complete workaholic that their mother had forced Light and Sayu to deliver a change of clothes to him. Like they didn't already have enough to do. With his exams approaching, Light was being forced by his mother to spend more time studying. She was even keeping Sayu out of his room, which meant that their plans for finding Kira had slightly been put on the back burner. Rem and Ryuk still came into his room to update him on anything which has happened with Kira, any new victims and what not. But being stuck in an empty room with no sister or Shinigami for a distraction also meant that Light was alone with his thoughts, once upon a time, Light enjoyed his time alone but recently, he felt like someone was going to strike him whenever his back was turned.
Light's paranoid thoughts aside, what was making this worse was no matter how many times Light or Sayu tried calling their father's phone, it kept going to voice mail which never happened. Their father believed that if he ever turned his phone off, then he could miss out on important information regarding a case, so unless he's in a meeting, there was no reason for his father's phone to be turned off.
"Why couldn't mum bring them? I was so close to finishing my script for the whole Second Kira thing and dad still isn't answering!" Sayu whined, shoving her phone back into her coat pocket as they approached the NPA headquarters.
"We'll just leave them with the receptionist," Light said to Sayu, who nodded. They didn't have any other choice as they walked inside. The reception area was mostly empty, with two receptionists and one black-haired woman.
"Please. I need to speak directly with someone from the special investigation task force. It's urgent," the woman said, Light and Sayu shared a look as they walked over to the desk.
"I'm sorry, ma'am but I can't help you. As I've told you already, there's no one at task force headquarters right now," the receptionist said.
"Looks like no one's home Light-o," Ryuk said. Something must be going on for no one to be at headquarters and for his father to have his phone off. Light doubted the detectives were out on a lead looking for Kira because just before they left the house, Light checked the NPA servers for any updates which there hadn't been, the last thing logged onto the Kira case was the FBI agents deaths and the police quitting the investigation.
"Can't you contact them somehow? I have information relating to the Kira investigation" the woman said, which instantly caught both Light and Sayu's attention. This time Light gave the woman a proper look. The woman was considerably young with black hair, she was wearing a black leather jacket, black jeans and black boots. Her name was Naomi Misora, and she still had a good sixty years left on her lifespan. Light felt his phone buzz in his pocket.
The Shinigami Protection Squad
Sayu:
Who is this woman?
Light:
Naomi Misora
Sayu:
If she has information on Kira
Should we at least talk to her
Maybe bring her in on our investigation?
She may be helpful
Light:
Any other circumstances I would say yes
But for this, it would be too risky
Sayu we have two death notes, two Shinigami
What is Misora gets exposed to the thrall?
It might manipulate her in ways it can't with us
Sayu:
Crap!
Could it be worse if she knew that it worked?
Like the death notes
And that Shinigami are real
Light:
Maybe
All we can do is get her in contact with our father and leave it at that
"Hi, I'm Detective Soichiro Yagami's son, Light Yagami. I've brought my father a change of clothes, but it doesn't look like he's in. Can I leave them here?" Light said handing the bag of clothes over to the receptionist whilst Sayu kept her eyes on Naomi.
"As I thought, there's no one at headquarters. You are going to have to trust me on this, ma'am. I will give them your message as soon as I see them, I promise," the other receptionist said when he put the phone down.
"That's not good enough. I have to tell them in person," Naomi said.
"Excuse me" Sayu spoke up, this was the only chance they had to speak with this woman. Maybe they could get the information she had on Kira and get her in touch with the task force. It would be a win-win for both of them, "Our father is actually in charge of the Kira investigation. If you want, we could call him so you could speak with him".
"You can't do that, it would be a breach of…" the receptionist started but Ryuk pushed a glass of water all over his paperwork whilst Rem turned on the nearest electric fan beside the other receptionist sending their work flying and with that Light and Sayu guided Mr Misora out of the building.
"I'm Light Yagami and this is my sister Sayu, it's nice to meet you" Light introduced them when they were further away from the NPA building.
"My name is Shoko Maki" Naomi lied and Light didn't blame her, there was a killer on the loose who could kill with only a name and a face. You need to be careful with who you trust your actual name with.
"It's nice to meet with you Miss Maki, I've got to say, you must be pretty brave to be getting involved in the Kira case like this" Light said. It was true. Those who purposefully involve themselves in the Kira Case were brave considering they were going up against a tool of the Shinigami, which could make it completely impossible to find the human behind the notebook if you didn't have the Shinigami Eyes.
"That's not true, you see. Kira killed my fiancé, and I need to get justice for him," Naomi said. She had to. For Raye.
"I think you're very brave for stand up for what you believe in," Sayu said. They had no choice to protect the secret of the death note and the existence of the Shinigami then they had to investigate and find Kira first, but this woman didn't have to, she was willingly risking her life to find Kira.
"Miss Maki, our father's phone is currently switched off now, but we can give you his phone number so you don't have to wait around until he calls back. That could be hours away, but if you kept trying to call him in your own time, then maybe you'll be able to get through. If you tell him that Light Yagami gave you this number, then he should listen to you," Light said pulling a small notebook out of his pocket which he kept on him at all times and ripped a page out before scribbling down his father's number and handed it over to Naomi.
"How can you trust me that much?" Naomi asked bewildered as she accepted the piece of paper.
"I don't know, I just feel like I can trust you. You've been careful up to this point, demanding to talk with the police face to face. You're willingly risking your own life to bring Kira down, and you said you have important information for the task force, if it urgent then you need some way to contact the task force," Light said, "You must be busy Miss Maki so, we won't keep you any longer,".
"Yes, thank you for this" Naomi said. She could hardly believe what had happened. Whilst the NPA couldn't help, these children had willingly given her a direct line to the task force, she couldn't help but be a little suspicious and she would definitely look into this number to make sure it was legitimate but this could be the break she needed, "I best be off".
Light nodded and said his own goodbyes before pulling his sister away to pretend that they were leaving.
"Why did you do that? We didn't find out what she knew," Sayu said, looking at her brother with a confused expression on her face.
"If we kept prying, then she would have gotten suspicious," Light said. He could see it in Naomi's eyes. That woman was intelligent, and she would easily figure out if they were pushing for information. Anyway, Light had another idea to find out what Naomi Misora knew. It was the reason he gave her their father's phone number, "Rem, would you be able to follow Miss Misora and find out what she knows?".
"Of course, Light, what do you plan to do?" Rem agreed.
"Sayu and I will return home and continue our investigation, I want to look into the type of victims Kira kills, see if there is a type of criminal Kira kills more of the others. If something happened to Kira in the past, they subconsciously might kill this type of criminal more than others," Light said, "Might find a suspect from that,".
"I'll return when I have the information you require," Rem said as she opened her wings and flew off in the direction Naomi Misora went in.
Rem had to wait hours with Naomi watching the woman call the phone number, again and again, every half an hour until she finally got through near seven o'clock a near nine hours after meeting the Yagami siblings and receiving that number. Rem could only be glad that Chief Yagami let Naomi say her spiel first before putting her on hold or whatever he did after she spoke to him. Rem didn't wait around much longer, instead, she flew home to tell Light and Sayu what she had discovered.
"I have Naomi Misora's information," Rem said as she materialised through the wall of Light's bedroom to find Light completing a test paper and Sayu reading on Light's bed. The siblings were sitting in silence and Rem could instantly tell something was wrong, Light's mother wasn't home so Light wasn't forced to do any of his studying and for the time Rem had know Sayu, she read nothing other than her magazines. Ryuk wasn't with them either. What was going on?
"Ryuk" Rem shouted, floating through the house looking for her fellow Shinigami, which she found in Sayu's room with his head stuck through the wall, "Ryuk what are you doing?".
Ryuk pulled his head out and looked over at Rem, he looked worried and that was wrong, Ryuk never seemed worried, "This entire house of covered in cameras and wiretaps".