Lina: okay, this is long overdue, and I apologize. I have been busy with writing my stories and school starting, and the Force Unleashed! I beat it today, it was a very short game, so I will have more time, although I'll be starting Too Human again soon and Silent Hill comes out at the end of the month! Aaah! I broke down yesterday cuz there was just too much stuff I wanted to do and not enough time! Grr. Well, here is the exciting, yes, exciting next chapter! I hope you enjoy!
Kira: Hahaha, can't catch me!
Eyes and Ayumu: Wanna bet?
Spiral/Death Note Fic: Chapter 3, Impending Doom
Ayumu yawned Monday morning as he tossed his briefcase on his desk. Eyes was right behind him, and closed the door to the office.
"This is a nice place you have. I was going to say it earlier, but there was too much to discuss. You have it made," Eyes said. Ayumu was surprised to hear that phrase come out of his mouth. Eyes really had changed. Ayumu knew him to be closed in, not let anyone in his personal life, but now here he was, wanting to help Ayumu with a case. Strange how people can change at the tip of a hat. Eyes waved his hand in front of the dazed Ayumu's eyes. He blinked, realizing where he was.
"Oh, right. Thanks. I'd like to get back on the case, I want to find this guy as soon as possible," Ayumu stated. Eyes did not say anything to this, he just sat down and started reading the paper. Just then the phone rang, Ayumu scrambled to answer, and he was shocked to hear who it was. It was a male sounding voice with a voice changer.
"I want you to stop this investigation," he said. Ayumu quickly put it on speaker phone. "I know who you are, and if you get any closer to finding me, I will kill you and your friends as well, staring with Hiyono Yuizaki," the voice said and then clicked off before Ayumu could answer. There was a moment of silence, but Eyes broke it.
"Do you think that was the real Kira?" He asked. Another pause. Ayumu slouched down in his desk chair, and placed an elbow on the desk and rested his chin in the palm of that hand.
"I think it was. Somehow he must have had a spy watching me this whole time, and knew I was trying to hack into the police records. Damn it!"
"Don't you think you should call Miss Yuizaki just to be safe, make sure she's still not investigating?" Ayumu nodded to this suggestion and started to dial the phone when there was a knock at the door. They could see a familiar shape of someone's spiky hair out the window. Eyes stood up and opened the door. Kousuke was standing there, grinning like he had just won the lottery.
"Eyes! You're back from Paris! How are you?" He asked, glancing towards Ayumu but then back at Eyes.
"I'm good, how did you find me here?" Eyes asked.
"I called Ms. Yuizaki. She hasn't changed one bit, except that she's going out with little Kiyotaka here," Kousuke said. Eyes blinked.
"What? I didn't know that! Why didn't you tell me?" He asked, turning to Ayumu, who was still dazed. He stood up.
"Because I didn't want the whole world knowing about it! Sheesh, I'm going to have to yell at her later," Ayumu replied.
"Don't be too hard on her. It was my fault, I shouldn't have said anything," Kousuke stated. Ayumu sighed. "So, what are you guys up to? Why are you in Ayumu's office?" Kousuke asked.
"We're trying to find Kira, although we just got a threat from him telling us to stop," Eyes said. Ayumu shot him a warning look. "What? I was just answering his question."
"You've really changed, you know? Maybe Kousuke can help us, if he's not too busy that is," Ayumu said, sighing. Kousuke was a little confused, but shrugged.
"Hey, you know how much I hate criminals. Besides, it might be fun," he said the first part sarcastically. "If you got a threat, doesn't that mean that he's watching you from somewhere?"
"Yeah, we have to search the entire place for any cameras that were put here recently. Also, someone is checking the outside to make sure that there's no one suspicious," Ayumu said.
"Wow, you have your own professional body guards? Neat," Kousuke stated. Ayumu smiled.
"One of the many perks of being chief detective. Okay, I am going to call Hiyono quickly and tell her what's going on, but I'll have to go somewhere else for that. You two continue looking for clues." Ayumu left the room with his cell phone. He went outside and around the corner into an alley way. It was still light out, so he wasn't worried about being attacked. He dialed Hiyono's number, but what he received on the other line scared him.
"The number you are trying to reach is currently either disconnected or out of range. Please try another number," the automated voice on the other line said. Ayumu stared at the phone for a minute while the dial tone buzzed. He then flipped his phone closed and ran back inside. Sweating and breathing heavily, he stood in the doorway to his office and bent over. Eyes and Kousuke turned to him.
"Hiyono's phone is dead. She never misses any of my calls. She always hangs her phone up at night too, so the battery can't be dead or disconnected," Ayumu said, talking fast.
"Slow down. Maybe she just left it off?" Kousuke suggested. Ayumu shook his head as he walked in and closed the door slowly.
"No, it said it was either disconnected or out of range, which usually means the service has been cancelled. Hiyono could be in danger," Ayumu said, still out of breath. Then, the office phone rang again. Ayumu quickly answered it on speaker phone. "Hello?" He asked.
"I told you to stop looking. Now you just cost this girl's life," the voice said. Then Hiyono's mumbling could be heard, like she had her mouth gagged or duct taped.
"Damn it! Leave her out of this, she didn't do anything!" Ayumu yelled.
"If you can reach me by 3 p.m. today, I will let her go free, and not kill her. I will give you a clue to where she is, the initials S.A. That is all, good luck," the voice said. There was some noise in the background, it sounded like a crowd, or it could have been a commercial playing. Then the phone clicked off and Ayumu punched the desk with his fist, angrily.
"Calm down, there are few places with the initials S.A. located in Japan, so all we have to do is come up with the right one," Kousuke said. Ayumu flipped open the laptop that was on his desk and began searching the web on popular places in Shinjuku. He hadn't been there that long, and he only knew of a few places, but none with those initials.
A few hours went by, still nothing. Ayumu was getting impatient and frustrated, so he decided to try one more site before searching on his own. He clicked on a tour guide that listed some places. He scrolled near the bottom and read. Then a name jumped out at him, Studio Alta. It was a commercial playing in the background. There is a huge TV screen outside the studio. Ayumu grabbed his coat and ran out, Eyes and Kousuke followed him.
"Where are we going?" Eyes asked. Ayumu kept moving through the crowd.
"Studio Alta! I recognized the commercial playing in the background and realized that it had to be on the screen at that moment," Ayumu said, still pushing his way through people. They made it to the train station, it was an hour and ten minutes away from his office, so they would just make it in time. The three piled on to the overcrowded train and held on to the straps.
"What a bastard this guy is, kidnapping someone who barely had anything to do with this case," Kousuke said, clenching his fist.
"We don't even know if this is the real deal. I mean, he could have someone spying on us for him, if it even is a he," Eyes stated.
"Yeah… and Hiyono may have continued the investigation without my consent," Ayumu said. The train ride seemed to take forever, but they finally made it to the right stop, and got off. Ayumu ran ahead to Station Alta, where there was an even larger crowd. He looked around frantically, and then at his watch, and then back at the crowd.
"Ayumu!" He heard a familiar voice. It has her.
"Hiyono! Where are you?" He shouted. He could then see a hand reaching above the crowd, Ayumu recognized the yellow sleeve. He shoved his way through the people and made it to an opening, where he saw Hiyono, almost in tears. She smiled and ran up to him to hug him.
"Ayumu! You made it, I knew you would. You were cutting it close though!" She said, tears in the corners of her eyes. Ayumu hugged her back and looked at his watch. It read 2:56. Eyes and Kousuke finally reached them as well, panting.
"You found her, that's good," Kousuke said. Hiyono smiled and wiped away her tears.
"Hello Kousuke and Eyes, thank you for helping Ayumu," she said. Ayumu looked at her with concerning eyes.
"I told you not to get involved anymore. Why didn't you listen to me?"
"I wanted to help you, Ayumu. I didn't know how dangerous this guy was, but I'm all right, since I knew you would come for me."
"Just don't do anymore, okay?" Ayumu asked. Hiyono nodded. They took Hiyono back to the train station so she could get back home, and then the three went back to the office. They found something extremely odd there, that there was no one there.
Lina: Hehe I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, I hope you liked it! I had to do a little Shinjuku research, since I don't want to get anything wrong and make people mad.
Eyes: Have me in it more next time!
Lina: Oh there will be a whole chapter pretty much on just you and Rio will be in the next one as well! So, keep looking forward to it, and it won't take me as long to update this time. This chapter was long though. So, until then, jaa!