Chapter Five

After I'd taken a long, hot shower to soothe my nerves and gotten dressed, I was ready to face the rest of the Task Force and L.

"Is Ayano okay?" Misa asked, somewhat fearfully as I exited my bedroom.

"I'm fine." I muttered. "Sorry for my outburst. I overreacted. Sorry I ruined your date."

"It's okay. That happens to everyone. As I said before, it wasn't much of a date anyways, thanks to Ryuzaki." She grumbled.

"Thanks." I said and looked into the kitchen cabinets. I took a box of pocky, a favorite study snack back in high school when L and I worked on a project together, hoping it would help with my apology. "I'll be back."

"Okay!" Misa said. I exited the room and went into the elevator and pressed the button. The elevator doors opened and I stepped into the room. L was spinning around in his chair while Light was doing some research on the computer.

"Where's everyone?" I asked.

"Lunch break." Light said. I sighed, then sat down next to L.

"L...Ryuzaki...look, I'm sorry. I overreacted and said some things I shouldn't have." I said, then held out the box of pocky. "Forgive me?" He looked at the pocky, then raised his eyebrows.

"...No, you were right..." He muttered, putting a thumb to his lips. "I shouldn't be giving up now, especially after I asked you to come over here. I was just sulking like a baby, as Light-kun put it."

"Ryuzaki, come look at this." Light said. L wheeled his chair over to Light's computer, and I moved to look over Light's shoulder. It was the data table I'd helped him make last night.

"...L...Light-kun..." L started.

"How about now? You ready to get to work?" Light grinned.

"It seems that Kira is killing criminals as a cover while he kills off people that threaten him financially." L said, by a way of answering.

"Light-san and I worked on this last night while you were sleeping." I said.

"Very impressive research. Good job, you two." L said.

"It's all thanks to this awesome new computer system." Light laughed.

"As you said once before, Light-kun, you said that if an adult had this power they would use it for their own benefit. This definitely fits that. However, like Ayano-chan said, I think that this Kira is a new Kira, and not the original one or the second one." L said.

"I think you're right. And look here. Yotsuba's stock is rising, while the others are falling from the recent deaths. Out of all of the deaths, most of them are beneficial to Yotsuba, and from another company's perspective are only two or three are beneficial." Light said. He must have done this when I was asleep, otherwise I would've remembered.

"But for all of the deaths to be beneficial to Yotsuba, that must mean-!" L started. Light and I looked at each other, then nodded.

"We think that Kira can kill in other ways than just heart attacks." I said.

"Exactly." L muttered. "Good work, you two. Now we know that this new Kira is an adult, and that he works for Yotsuba. This is big news. Let me call the rest of the task force up here and we can discuss this information..."

"Great." I grinned. It was great to see L excited on the case again.

"You're right. These deaths sure are suspicious." Aizawa said, looking at the data table.

"Yeah, for this many people against Yotsuba to die..." Matsuda said. "I've heard of big businesses sometimes sabotaging their rivals, anything to get ahead, but this is ridiculous."

"Well, don't put much faith in my judgment. Of all of the deaths, only three died of heart attacks." L said.

"So Yotsuba asked Kira to help them?" Aizawa asked.

"Kira being hired is unthinkable. That means they would have found Kira before I did. That's impossible." L said.

"You said earlier not to put faith in your reasoning, yet now you're super confident...which is it?" Aizawa asked, confused.

"I was just sulking earlier." L explained. "Besides, why would Kira work with the person who found him out instead of just killing him? A more likely theory would be that Kira works for Yotsuba."

"Yeah, Kira can't be cheap. That would be so uncool." Matsuda said.

"You think Kira is cool, Matsuda?" Aizawa said angrily.

"N...no! No, that's not what I meant!" Matsuda said quickly.

"Well, in either case, we definitely should investigate this." Aizawa said.

"Well, Watari alone wouldn't be enough to investigate Yotsuba." L said. "We could have Ayano-chan help him, but I still don't think that would be enough. Yotsuba is a pretty big business."

"Who's Watari?" Light asked.

"The person on that computer. The one I had you think was the other L." L said.

"Oh..." Light muttered.

"Well, let's get some work done. I'll contact Aiber and Wedy, and ask them to help with investigating Yotsuba." L said, getting up.

"I'll try to hack into Yotsuba's main computer." Light said, getting up as well.

"I'll help you." I said.

"I'll wait for the chief. He should be back anytime now." Aizawa said.

"I'll...uhhh..." Matsuda started.

"You can get me some coffee, Matsuda." L said.

Matsuda's the coffee man! ...lol okay. Sorry it took me forever to update. Plz REVIEW!