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L watched the screens before him, a grim look in his eyes. His hand idly putting a handful of sweets through his mouth. The room having long been silent since the morning. On the screen before him, Light Yagami, Kira, was currently struggling. His panicked cries a far-cry to his earlier state.
"I am telling you Ryuzaki! I am not-" L closed off the mic, his eyes narrowing further.
It didn't make sense.
None of it did.
Turning towards the other screen, he was met by an even more baffling sight. Misa Amane, while similar to Light's reversion... Took on a whole different level I truth. The woman's very personality seems to have been rewritten! While Light's confusion and bafflement was certainly curious, deep down, L knew that it was only the surface that was effected. That the student's personality, while certainly different, wasn't to the same point of extreme as Misa Amane's.
Though that might've had more to do with the fact he had no training in dealing with crying women.
Atleast Light wasn't crying.
That would be a very un-kira thing to do-
'CRASH!'
L's snapped his gaze backwards, his suspicions immediately getting confirmed, towards Matsuda.
The officer in question having knocked over his mountain of sweets in his hurry. A blasphemy act he most certainly wouldn't have tolerated had Matsuda's expression shown anything else.
"Matsuda, you idiot..." He still couldn't help the slip as he palmed his head. Yet, it seemed to be a day full of surprises as Matsuda gave him his own one.
The officer didn't so much as bat an eye, his colleagues all flowing through the same door he'd just bulldozed through. All, but chief Yagami. All filled with as much confusion as he felt... Only he didn't know why. He certainly knew why he himself was confused... He doubted the others felt the same way about the situation.
They'd need to have figured out as much first.
"We-" Matsuda caught his breath. "We caught something! A transmission!"
L gave him a blank stare.
"You knocked over my sweets. For a Transmission?" He questioned dangerously.
"It's about Kira." L's head snapped towards Aizawa, his irritation slowly disappearing, instead replaced by further confusion. Light was still in custody. As was Amane.
Was there a third he didn't know of?
"It is Kira!" Matsuda remarked, standing straight up again. "Tv Tokyo announced it!"
"Announced what-" L began to ask before, once again reigniting his irritation, Matsuda promptly picked up the wrong remote and switched off the surveillance.
"A-Ah. Damnit..." Matsuda murmerred, immediately switching the surveillance back on before grabbing hold of the other remote on the table while L grabbed the bridge of his nose.
"Apparently, he's going to reveal himself." Aizawa added on, his eyes locked onto the nearby TV set, Matsuda slowlygoing through each channel.
"Reveal himself?" L questioned dubiously, his eyes once again turning towards Light's frame. "Are you sure about that?" He questioned, humourlessly, his hand idly putting another sweet into his mouth.
In response, Matsuda evidently found the right channel.
The white background and large K in the middle was a quick giveaway. The static screen not showing nor sounding off anything else.
"You think it's another fake?" Aizawa questioned, idly taking a seat.
"Or another of Light-kun's friends. Maybe it's a boyfriend this time."
Matsuda, despite the grim wording accusing his chief's son, couldn't help the snort. The man immediately covering his mouth afterwards. The others didn't take the words nearly as well. Though none of them had the chance to respond as the channel screen promptly changed. The visual static blinking in and out of existence as, to L's shock, the image disappeared. A recording quickly taking it's place.
"Is this currently live?" L questioned, watching as a youthful face emerged amongst a shadowy background. The recording showed off the strangers upper body, covered in a pink and white vertically striped shirt, the rest hidden by an empty table. A single candle set just before the man's face been the only source of light showing off the smiling stranger.
Aizawa's intake of breath told him the others hadn't bothered to check. "Find the source, now!"
He turned his full attention to the screen, his hand routinely going over the mic connected to the two cells, making sure they were off. His mind calculating and recalculating as it prepared itself for-
"Ignore the following voice exercise." Was certainly not what he expected to hear... The man's cheeky expression not matching the chaotic eyes behind them.
L's own warring mind, for a moment seemed to slow down, effectively dubbing the idiot on screen the kind that would do anything for a small bit of fame-
"El El El El!" The stranger continued, the voice in tone going higher by the second as L promptly snatched the remote out of Matsuda, earning an undignified cry in the process, his hands hovering over the volume control, his gaze minutely turning back towards Light's visual screen, idle curiosity filling his mind.
A distraction maybe?
"Law. Law. Law-" The voice continued, this time stilling the detective'ing genius in the room.
"Law? The law?" L ignored Matsuda's whisper to himself. His gaze slowly turned back towards the, presumed, attention-seeking idiot on screen. His eyes widening as the stranger pulled something out from under the desk. A handful of what looked suspiciously like photos, though he could never be sure-
"That's... Those are our pictures!" Indeed they were, the stranger currently airing across Tv Tokyo was flashing the camera said photos.
"Li. Li. Lie-" The stranger continued, L's heartbeat steadily rising, his breathing uneven as he slowly edged away from the screen. The others turned towards him, bemusement clear in their eyes.
"T." And with that, the stranger coughed once, beamed another humourless smile towards them and introduced himself.
"Hello world. My name is Kira."
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