The cattle children, or, past cattle children made plans with Sayu today. Even though the risk of Sayu giving something away is iffy, she can be a pretty good actor.
They decided to tell her some of what they know, giving evidence to prove their point. The plan was to get her to hang out with her brother more, maybe even talk about Kira and why she's thankful he's here.
Hopefully by doing this we could get more evidence against him. That doesn't mean they don't feel a little bit guilty for using their friend to get info from a mass murderer.
"How much longerrrrrrrr." Emma held out the r childishly as she rolled in the grass outside.
"We won't be going to the cafe for another hour or so, why don't you just read a book or something." Ray mumbled the last sentence, a slight amount of annoyance slipping through his voice.
"What I'm worried about is when L will respond. It's been a couple of days and we solved about 5 cases in that time. We even made sure to include a bit of code... Did we not do enough to get his attention?" Doing his best to not lose his cool, Norman took a deep breath and looked at the sky.
Clouds moved slowly and there was a small breeze. It wasn't summer but the sun was still shining. The peaceful day was able to bring a soft smile to Norman's face.
It was silent for a while, the siblings laying down in the park, gazing at the sky. But it also gave them a quiet time to think.
Where did their siblings end up? If there was the farms and this, is there another world they could have gone too? And the worst of all, are they still alive?
Nobody wanted to even consider the possibility of their own family dying. Especially after all the years they fought, laughed, and cried together. The pain of losing even one of their siblings would be worse than losing a limb.
Time flew by, no one saying a thing. Over half an hour went by when the kids held hands, gazing at the sky above them.
"We should get going..." Emma murmured, but they stayed still for a moment longer before slowly getting up.
"Whaaaaaat? Does it have to be now?" Sayu whined as she pulled on her coat and shoes.
"Your father's been pulling overnight shifts with no change of clothes, so you're going to bring these to him." Sachiko spoke sternly, placing a large paper bad on the table.
"But Mooooom, I totally promised my friends that I'd go out with them today." Sayu held out the letters in her words, making sure to be dramatic. Just then Light came downstairs and walked into the living room.
"Why don't I go? I could use a break." A kind smile was placed on Light Yagami's face, no one would suspect his perfectly formed mask.
"Thanks, Light. I owe you one next time!" Sayu chuckled as she walked out the door, shoving a few chips into her mouth.
Light walked down the streets, double checking he had a piece of the death note on him.
"So I guess this will give you a chance to spy on the police." Ryuk floated over Light upside down, occasionally waving his hand through Light's shoulder to annoy him.
"I won't go further than the reception desk." Light spoke as if it were obvious, even though it pretty much was. Why would he build suspicion for himself?
"So you have a page on you. Planning to kill someone?" Light's eye twitched as he held back the urge to swat Ryuk's hand away.
"No, but lately I've been bringing a page with me every time I go out, just in case." The duo walked into the NPA building, glancing at a women in the distance.
Light pulled out his to call his dad, hoping he could be let in or told where to go to put the clothes. Unfortunately when he tried to call the phone rung to voicemail. Assuming he was in a meeting he decided to let it be. Perhaps he would call him later though.
The women he saw earlier had walked in and was talking with the front task during his futile attempt to reach his father.
"Please, I need to speak directly with someone from the special investigation task force. It's urgent." The stranger spoke frantically, tapping her
"I'm sorry ma'am, but I can't help you. As I've told you already, there is no one at task force headquarters right now." After the receptionist broke the bad news, the stranger sighed heavily.
'There's no one at headquarters? What's going on?' Light thought confused.
"Can't you contact them somehow? I have information relating to the Kira investigation." The women pleaded, anxious as she went through trial and error.
"Look, I'll call headquarters one more time for you." She picked up the phone, punching in a few numbers and put it up to her ear. "One moment please."
Light took this opportunity to get the stranger's attention. If she was really investigating the Kira case, then Light might be in trouble, and he can't have that now can he?
"Hi, I'm Detective Soichiro Yagami's son, Light Yagami. I brought my father a change of clothes, but it doesn't look like he's in. Can I leave them here?" He spoke with a charming smile and the receptionist perked up, recognizing the boy.
"Sure. Hey, I haven't seen you in a while, Light." The receptionist grinned from ear to ear. Light politely disregarded any indication that he knew her and the receptionist decided to tease him a bit.
"What, you don't remember? You helped solve the insurance fraud murder investigation. Sometime last year. But hey, no one remembers the receptionist, do they?" A soft laugh escaped her lips.
"I'm so sorry, I'm terrible with faces," when speaking he could've sworn he heard Ryuk laughing, "next time I won't forget." Light pretended to be nervous as he rubbed the back of his head, holding a slightly awkward, but charming smile.
"So Light, does this mean you're gonna be helping us with the Kira investigation, too?"
"Sure! If all goes well, maybe I'll find Kira before L does." 'That should get her attention, maybe if I could convince her to work with me and then...' Light's thoughts trailed off as he formed a plan, he wouldn't kill her if it wasn't necessary, but if push came to shove... let's just say the story would be different.
"As I thought, there's no one at headquarters. You're going to have to trust me on this, ma'am. I'll be sure to give them your message as soon as I see them. I promise." As she spoke the receptionist turned to look at the stranger.
"That's not good enough. I have to tell them in person!" Bingo. The perfect chance to come to her 'rescue'.
"Excuse me." Light started, fighting back a smirk. "My father is actually in charge of the Kira investigation. If you'd like, I could pass your message onto him. His cell phone is off at the moment, but I should be able to contact him soon. A number of FBI agents were just killed, and a lot of detectives have quit the case because they're afraid of Kira, so he's pretty busy right now"
The receptionist cleared her through subtly, getting Light's attention.
"Uh, Light, it's probably better if you don't discuss this with." She spoke in a small voice with a slight edge, but Light cut her off with a kind tone.
"True, but it's practically common knowledge at this point. Besides, I feel like I can trust her. You can almost see it in her eyes. She's a wise and careful person. You heard about what happened, and you must have figured out that the police had a leak of some kind. And that's why you wanted to tell them in person. You thought this through. Well, am I right?"
The woman gasps in surprise, but recovers quickly. The two decided to talk as they walked down the street in order to get away from prying eyes. Nobody wants an eavesdropper.
Ray had grabbed onto another file that held answers for another case and another code for L. They planned to have Sayu drop it off at the station for them.
The four kids walked around the streets, did some window shopping, even went to get something to eat. However they knew that they wouldn't be able to stall for much longer.
"Taiyo, what's wrong?" Sayu asked Emma as they walked in the direction of the police station. The closer they got the more noticeable Emma's small frown became.
"Well we wanted to tell you something, and it's really important, but I'm afraid it could affect our friendship." Emma looked to the ground as she spoke softly, cutting off Sayu before she could speak. "Or worse, what if he found out and you ended up in trouble?"
Norman and Ray grew nervous as well, thinking of different things Light could do to manipulate Sayu if he ever found out what they were planning. What even happen if Sayu was caught eavesdropping on Light? Would he go as far as to kill his own family?
"Nothing you ever ask of me will make me not want to be your friend! Well, unless you were asking me to bully someone, that goes against my morals." The first part of Sayu's response was loud and bold as she looked into her friend's eyes stubbornly, only to murmur to herself near the end.
"Well, uh-" It was clear that Emma was reluctant to tell her, but before she could she was cut off by Norman.
"We believe that your brother is Kira." His tone was glum as he spoke in a low voice. Norman didn't want anyone to know they were investigating other than those necessary for the plan.
"WHAAATTT!" Sayu's voice echoed through the street they were on, quickly being shushed by Ray.
"I don't think China heard you, wanna try again?" Ray said sarcastically after he covered her mouth. Once Sayu had successfully ripped away from Ray she began to defend her brother.
"There is no way that Light is a mass murderer. He spends all his time studying, and if he wasn't his grades would have dropped. And he's always wanted to be a police officer, so why would do something that would ruin his dreams?!" Sayu listed off a few factoids on her fingers, a look of panic settling on her face.
"It makes sense! Please, just listen, you don't have to do anything if you don't want to." The panicked girl seemed to calm down at Emma's words and grew quiet.
"First, Light is a high school student, Kira's killings have followed a schedule almost exactly to his. Second, the time changed, this means that Kira must have been able to get into police files easily. Someone who could do this is probably related to a person on the task-force, a person like Soichiro Yagami.
"Third, you said Light has been locking himself in his room lately, only coming down for things like dinner, right? Light Yagami wanted to become a police officer or a detective, someone who demands justice. But isn't that what Kira is doing? Demanding justice in his own childish and twisted ways?" Ray spoke before Emma could open her mouth, Sayu only shrunk at each piece of evidence.
"What do you want me to do." The young girl's head hung low in shame. She was clutching her wrist tightly, tears threatening to spill as she thought about the possibility of her brother being a self proclaimed god.
"When you are at your house, try to eavesdrop on light while he's in his room. When you are together, talk about how Kira is making you feel safer and how he might actually be helping the world. You could even try to speak to him about it at dinner, this would get your parents attention, probably make them yell at you, and Light would follow after to comfort you. Things like that, or maybe you could even get a recording of him speaking in his room." As Emma told Sayu what to do she made sure to give the small girl a side hug.
"O-ok, I'll do my best." Sayu sniffed, wiping her eyes and giving a small smile to her best friends. The kids rounded the corner, Norman bumping into a young lady with jet black hair.
"Sorry miss, please, excuse me." He spoke politely, frowning slightly at the soulless response.
"No worries." The lady's eyes were devoid of all light, she spoke as if nothing would matter, and when she walked away her feet stumbled, not seeming set on going anywhere specific.
The weird thing was Norman recognized her from somewhere, but where could he possibly have seen the stranger? Definitely not on the streets, there were too many people to focus on a single one and truly feel like they are important.
As Norman wracked his brain the rest of the group continued walking, walking to the direction of the police station. When the white haired kid finally turned around he barely caught a glimpse of Light Yagami turning the corner at the end of the street.
