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CHAPTER THREE: Kira and L
Hikari lied on her soft bed while pressing randomly on the buttons of the remote control she held. Her eyes were narrowly open. She let out a loud yawn before pressing another button. Boredom taking over her.
*Ring* *Ring*
She lazily looked at her phone before picking it up.
"Moshi moshi. Masachika Residence." She said, rather bored.
"Hikari-chan!" the familiar voice of Megumi greeted her ear.
"Megumi-chan! What's up?" she said, sitting up and pulling a pillow towards her using her other free hand.
"Nothing much. So, how was your date with Yamato again huh? Could you at least make me remember the details?"
She grimaced at that question. She irritatingly sighed and took the remote and pressed the buttons irritatingly.
"Why do you always have to remind me of that day?" she questioned back. Then she heard Megumi laugh at the other line making her grimace much more.
"I knew you'd be irritated. Anyway, for your sake, I'll change the topic. So then, have you heard about KIRA?"
'Kira?' she repeated in her head. Her curiosity got the most of her. "Not really. Why? What's with that Kira?"
"Kachiin (means an expression of frustration), Hikari-chan! You didn't even heard of him?! Or even about his site?!" Hikari slightly pushed away the phone from her ears when Megumi yelled.
"No," she responded quite calm.
"Open your computer right this second!" she suddenly ordered.
"And why would I-"
"Just do it!"
She rolled her eyes and did what her friend told her to do so. She stood up and approached the computer as she sat on the computer chair.
"It's open," she muttered.
"Search for this website…The Legend of Kira, the Savior."
Typing on the keys, she muttered to Megumi: "A waste of time." But Megumi insisted what she wanted.
The homepage greeted her sight and she felt her heart thumped wildly. Something was up with this website…
"Did you see it?" Megumi asked after noticing her sudden quietness. She read the content and narrowed her eyes…kill huh?
"This is just a child's play." She commented but deep inside, she was scared.
"No! Actually, he killed many criminals! Aren't you watching the news these days?!"
"I am watching but no news about him." She reasoned, remembering one event when she saw it on news but ignored that one. 'And it obviously comes from the word killer. And…that name…he used to call that to-' She thought to herself.
"In the newspapers and on TV, it's only publicized as a 'Series of mysterious deaths among felons'. But people all over the world can already feel that someone is passing righteous judgment on them!"
"You're over exaggerating, Megumi-chan." And where did I hear that line before? Passing righteous judgment on them? She snickered when she remembered somebody saying that. Yeah, that was him for you.
"Well, that's on my point of view. Can't blame me." Hikari can imagine Megumi shrugging her shoulders at that sentence.
"Even if there are too many criminals here in this world of ours, don't you think it's still not…humanly to kill them?...I mean, they are being held captive by the police and they are the ones responsible to pass righteous on them." Megumi stated as an afterthought. She did have a point…
She was looking at the screen of the television when the channel suddenly changed. Oh, it was just another important telecast…
"Apologies. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this special report." She read mindlessly.
"You're watching the television?" Megumi asked.
"Yeah. But then a certain someone disturbed my peaceful time." Megumi chuckled. "My bad," was the only remark she received from her. "It's fine. I'm really getting bored here."
"We apologize for interrupting our normal programming. A live international ICPO, Interpol will now begin." A reporter announced.
"Interpol?
She hushed her friend when another man appeared on the screen. His hair was long past his shoulders and black. (He reminds me of Chairman Dulandan in Gundam Seed Destiny! Haha^.^) Lind L. Tailor. His name, as she convinced herself.
"I am the person who controls the entire planet's police force, Lind L. Tailor; alias, L."
"L?" she repeated with a puzzled tone in her voice.
"Does it have to do with…Kira?" her friend asked her in a timid voice.
"Possible. Nobody knows who's this Kira but himself. Maybe the police are really determined to catch him that's why they telecasted this one…"
"To the murderer who's targeting criminal after criminal: This is unforgivable; the worst crime in history. Consequently, I will catch the ringleader of these crimes, referred vulgarly as Kira."
"Thought so," she stated with a whistle.
"I wonder what this Kira will do. Probably kill this man right here and then." Megumi commented.
"Right on, girl!" they both laughed, even though they knew they shouldn't be kidding around. In the midst of Hikari's thought, she could imagine Kira smirking and the image of a notebook popping out of her mind, making her stiff.
'Wait, Light has that notebook. Don't tell me he's the one doing this! He can't be Kira!'
"Kira, I can imagine what you must be thinking, to do something like this. But, what you are doing EVIL."
That caught her off guard. Why did Light have to always pop out inside of her mind? He couldn't be the one doing those crimes! But what about that notebook? Why did she have this feeling that it was that notebook's doing?
And that creature with him…could it be possibly a Shinigami? The sound of a pencil scratching on a paper. Her eyes widened when she heard it. Then…
"Oh my god!" she heard Megumi's shrill voice pierce through her mind. She snapped out of her thoughts and looked back at the screen and almost cried when the so-called L, lied dead on the desk…
There were two guys who came to get the dead corpse and the screen changed again, showing a big Old English Text L.
"I don't believe it," a raspy voice said. She knew it was a fake voice and…was this the real L? Something told her this was him…she noticed that Megumi became silent since the death of that Lind Tailor. She became worried for her friend.
"Megumi? Megumi? You still there?" she called softly. A minute of silence passed by but she replied nevertheless.
"Yeah…" she replied timidly.
"You all right? Maybe you should rest. Don't watch that telecast anymore. I'll just tell you what happens tomorrow."
Megumi agreed and soon bid goodbye.
She placed the phone back and faced the screen of the television.
"I thought it might be so I tested it, but…Kira, you can kill people without ever laying a finger on them? I couldn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. Listen carefully, Kira. If you are really responsible for the death of Lind L. Tailor on TV, know that he was actually a man who was scheduled to be executed at this time today. He was not me."
"This L is very smart. Taking precautions, I see." She stated.
"A criminal whose capture was top secret an not reported on television and Internet. It seems even you don't have information about criminals like that one. But I, L, definitely exist. Well then, try killing me." Nothing happened. No gurgling sounds or anything since this L couldn't be seen but couldn only be heard.
"Well, what's wrong? Hurry up and try it! Hurry up and try to kill me! Kill me, Kill me! Try to kill me! What's wrong? Can't you?" wow, he was really challenging Kira. But why was Kira not killing him? Maybe because he couldn't see L?
"It would seem that for some reason, he can't kill me. So there are people who can't be killed. Thanks for the hint. In exchange, I'll tell you this. I had them announce that this was being broadcast worldwide but in fact, it was only broadcast in Kantou, Japan. I was planning on going region to region, showing this at different times, but there is no longer any need for that. You are currently at Kantou."
Really sharp, but this was all getting boring. And so what if Kira couldn't kill him? Who cared anyway? Probably only Kira. He was the one being challenged here.
"It was a small case, so that the police missed it but the first victim in this string of crimes was the Shinjuku street slasher."
"Among the felons who have been dying of heart attacks, this street slasher's crime was incongruously light. Plus, this case was only reported in Japan. That's all I needed to figure out that you're in Japan and that your first victim was a test of your power. "
That made Hikari think, that was the very day she saw that notebook. And Light took it with him…could it be?...
"I concentrated on Kantou, which was the highest population and lucky me, you were there. I didn't honestly think that my speculations would hold true this far. Kira, it might not be long before I send you to your execution."
The door creaked open as her older brother came inside.
"Hikari-"
"Shhh!" she hushed as her right point finger rose to her lips.
"Kira, I am very interested in knowing by what means you are committing these murders. But I'll know that once I catch you. Until we meet again, Kira." The letter L disappeared and the screen was completely blank. Her brother approached her and patted her head.
"Okaeri (Shortcut for Welcome home/ Welcome back)," she greeted smiling at him.
"Hmm, looks like you're watching news these days huh? Interested with that Kira thing?" he asked.
"Just now," she answered.
"Anyhow, don't concentrate on those things but on your studies instead. Come on, I brought us some dinner." He stood up and went for the door.
She looked back at the screen of the television; the programs weren't still coming into view. She looked one last glance at it before turning it off and rising from the bed.
This world had become…injustice…