chapter 5
disclaimer: I do not own death note
As soon as Vanilla finished exploring the apartment she made a quick trip to the store where she got a broom and duster to clean up. It took her about an hour to get the entire place spotless.
"finally done, I'm tired" she flopped down on the couch, this time there was no dust cloud. She pulled her hairbrush out of her backpack and ran to the only mirror in the apartment, the bathroom mirror. She brushed her hair back then used some bobby pins to make a bow out of her hair on the top of her head, leaving her messy bangs to hang in front of her face, a style that she loved and used almost every day. She looked at herself in the mirror one more time. She didn't use much makeup, just some gold eye shadow and winged eyeliner. She was wearing her favorite outfit, a black tank-top with white flowers, some blue jeans that were torn on the left knee, and some black sneakers.
She sat on the couch and dug through her backpack. She pulled out a small box and a few tools. Inside the box were a whole bunch of broken pieces of computers, cameras and other electronics. She spent 3 days tinkering with the contents of the box before she was finally done. She had 5 things that just looked like little metal cubes and a robotic spider that was only about an inch and a half long. That night she ran through the city putting 4 metal cubes in the areas between her apartment and the police station and one cube in the polices ventilation system, where it wouldn't be easily found, and putting the spider in the police station as well.
The spider was remote controlled and had a camera and microphone on it that sent directly to Vanilla's laptop, and the cubes were like antenna things that allowed her to control the spider anywhere between her apartment and the police station.
"now I can finally spy on their meeting room, or whatever it's called" Vanilla had been hacking into the police security cameras to get more information about the police's plans and to know when they were stuck on a case, but there was one room with no cameras, and that was a room that she knew they used to talk about cases a lot. She pulled her laptop out of her backpack. It was black and she had painted the top to look like a boy and a girl sitting on a hill, holding hands and looking at he stars. She smiled as she imagined that happening in real life.
'yeah right, you're way too weird for that to ever happen' a voice in the back of her head told her. She ignored it and turned on the laptop. She directed the spider into the room and hid it in a corner by the ceiling, covered in shadows, and pointed the camera to see as much of the room as possible. "this gives a whole new meaning to using a bug to spy on people" She put on her headphones as she watched people begin to enter the room and take their seats.
"there have been 52 deaths that we're aware of, and that's just in the past week." Vanilla shifted to a more comfortable position as she listened.
'I don't think I've heard of this criminal yet' She thought.
"every single on of them involved a heart attack" another voice said.
'heart attack? maybe it's a type of poison, though I don't remember one like that from my book'
"they were all criminals who were either being held in prison of wanted by the police"
'hmmm this is different' She listened intently. She saw the chief walk in and take his seat. 'I was wondering were he was. Must have had something come up' everyone in the room started arguing and Vanilla was having trouble keeping up, she was trying to write down everything that was said at the meeting. Then something caught her attention.
"if that's the case it looks as if we'll have no choice but to bring in L"
"L!?" Vanilla had heard about L from hacking the police before. 'but I thought they didn't have any way to contact L' the whole room was quiet except for a few whispers.
"but I've heard this L is extremely arrogant and only takes on cases that he's personally interested in!" someone spoke up.
She smirked at hearing this 'heh, well I take all cases possible' she thought, but she was just trying to hide the fact that she was jealous of L for stealing all the attention, even if there was no one to hear or see it.
"that's exactly right. besides we don't even know how to contact him!"
'exactly! you don't know how to contact L! but you know perfectly well that if you ask for my help I'll get the message somehow! come on!' Vanilla's face started getting red with frustration as she listened to everyone talking about L.
"L is already already on the move" a voice said. she watched as a man with his face covered by shadow walked to the front of the room. "Gentlemen, L has already begun his investigation into these incidents"
"oh, come on!" Vanilla said out loud, throwing her hands up in frustration, knocking her headphones of her head by accident. She put them back on just in time to see the screen in the front of the room turn on to show the letter L.
"greetings to all of you at the ICPO. I, am L" The almost robotic sounding voice said from the front of the room.
'A voice modifier? that's actually a good idea. maybe I could try it sometime' She thought. She tuned out the conversation in the room for a moment to think. 'If I used that I could help the police even more. Then I'd be the one the police ask for help from'
"-also I require additional cooperation from Japan's national police agency"
'damn it! I spaced out! what did he just say?'
"what, why Japan in particular?" the chief asked.
"whether the guilty party is an individual or a group, there is a strong possibility that they are Japanese, and if they're not we can be sure they're hiding in Japan"
"what is all this based on?"
"why Japan you ask? I think I'll be able to provide you with proof of it, after I directly confront the culprit"
"a direct confrontation?"
"at any rate, I would like to set up the investigation headquarters in Japan"
Vanilla closed her laptop. "I think that's enough for today, I need to get to the cafe"
