Chapter Nine
I started down the stairs to the task force room. I resolved to pretend nothing had happened unless someone asks me. L wouldn't ask about what happened last night. Probably. Maybe. But what if he did? What would I say?
Shut up! Listen to yourself! It's like you're in puberty again! Stop freaking out over every single thing! He might not have even been watching! You shouldn't even be worried about this, because you're not in love with L! I scolded myself. I suddenly noticed I was at the bottom of the stairs. I sighed, then opened the door to the main room.
"Ayano-san! How's it going?" Matsuda asked cheerfully.
"Hi, Matsuda-san. Good morning. I'm glad to see you alive." I said.
"Thanks!" Matsuda said.
"Good morning, Ayano-chan." L said, turning to look at me.
"Hey, Ryuzaki. Here you go." I handed L the transceiver he'd given me last night.
"Thank you." L said, taking the transceiver from my hand. "You did a good job last night."
"Huh? But I barely got anything out of him…." I said.
"Yes, well, you probably could have if Matsuda hadn't started his show that early. But, since the plan has worked, we have Matsuda and his eyewitness. He says that they have these meetings every Friday. So right now Wedy is breaking into the Yotsuba office and putting bugs and cameras in the meeting room so that we can see if these truly are Kira meetings." L said.
"Oh, so we've got to wait a week?" I asked. "Ugh." I squatted down in a chair, mimicking L.
"Hey, you guys. Come over here for a sec. I've done some research on the Yotsuba members here last night." Light said. I pushed the swivel chair and I rolled over to Light.
"Hmph. Takahashi is supposed to be married?" I sniffed, looking over Light's shoulder. "What a hypocrite!"
"Impressive work, Light-kun." L said. He took a quick look at his computer monitor, then turned back to Light's. "So, if Matsuda-san is right we can assume that one of these eight is Kira. Or possibly, all eight of them could have the power. But it would seem more likely that they can't use the power freely, since none of the deaths seem to benefit any of them individually."
"Hmm, well at least from this we could deduce that they don't have the power of the second Kira to be able to kill only from looking at a face. See, look, everyone they've killed has been broadcast with both a name and a face. All of the business people dying have had their names and faces broadcast too." I said, leaning over to look at L's monitor.
"You're right, Ayano-chan." L said. "If they could do that, I'd have a hard time believing Matsuda-san's still alive."
"Oh yeah….I really was in trouble, wasn't I….?" Matsuda asked.
"Well, we've got a week until they'll be meeting again." L said, ignoring Matsuda. "We'll see for sure if these Kira meetings are taking place."
"Right." I nodded. Suddenly, my phone began to vibrate.
Crap! I thought. While I was worrying about what I would say to L, I'd completely forgotten about Toshiro. I should've left my phone off….DAMMIT! What if he's got a freakin' tracker on his cell phone? Then he can find out where I am…how the hell can I be so stupid?
L looked at me suspiciously.
"Oooh, Ayano-san, you're not supposed to have cell phones on in the building." Matsuda said.
"Is that your ex-boyfriend?" L asked.
So he was listening… I thought, mentally kicking myself. Now I have two issues to deal with….
"Oh, um…..yeah. Probably." I said quickly. I darted my hand into my pocket and shut off the phone, mentally cursing myself for being such an idiot.
"If you want to call him back, you can head outside." L said.
"No, no. I don't want to talk to him." I said. L raised his eyebrows and turned back to the computer. Probably to everyone else he appeared to drop it, but I knew this wasn't going to be the end. He'd probably already figured something had happened to me yesterday by the tone of my voice over the phone when he called me. Not to mention the text. I prayed that my back blocked the view of my cell phone screen. Somehow, he'd get me alone and question me about it.
It wasn't as if I could escape either. If I went out of the building, then if Toshiro had a tracker on his phone he'd probably be hanging around outside. And I couldn't avoid L forever. The building was huge, but I was supposed to be helping him with the Kira case.
Although…it would be pretty hard for him to get me alone as he was chained to Light. If he wanted to question me, he'd have to do it with Light watching….so maybe I was safe for now.
For now.
"Anyway," Light said cautiously, "I think we should look farther into this and see if we can find anything that would be able to point towards one of these people being Kira.
"You're right, Light-kun." L said. His glance shifted once more towards me. I coughed and got up out of my chair.
"I….I'll be right back. I'm going to grab my laptop." I said quickly, walking out of the room and dashing out of the room.
L Lawliet watched Ayano run out of the room. He put his thumb to his lip and moved his gaze towards the computer screen.
"Turn the cameras on in Amane-san's room," he said.
"But why? She's at a movie shoot now," Matsuda asked.
"I want to keep an eye on Ayano-chan. She's acting very strange," he said.
"What? You're suspecting her of being Kira?" Matsuda asked.
"No, I do not suspect her," L said. "However…I feel she may be in danger."
"In danger?" Matsuda asked.
"Yes. When I called her last night, she sounded very tense. I think someone may have contacted her and pressured her for information about us," L said.
"What's the probability on this, Ryuzaki?" Light asked. L paused for a moment, letting the numbers run through his head.
"Hmm….I'd say about eighty percent," L said. He was beginning to wish he hadn't brought Ayano into this. If anything were to happen to her….
"Matsuda, where was she heading?" he asked.
"Huh? Well, I told her that she should go sightseeing, and Misa-Misa asked for a cup of coffee…so maybe she went over to the coffee place across the street," Matsuda said.
"What was that coffee place called?" L asked.
"Uh, umm….I don't remember…." Matsuda frowned. L sighed.
"Then where was the movie shoot, exactly?" L asked.
"Um….. at that fountain near that Yostuba office," Matsuda said. L typed in the office's address and a 3-D map came up.
"Remember this place, Light-kun?" L said, clicking on a building. It was the same coffee shop he and Light first stopped at after their game of tennis.
"You're kidding. That's the place?" Light asked, looking at L's computer.
"It would appear to be the case," L said. He brought up the place's website, then began to hammer on the keyboard.
"Ryuzaki, what are you doing?" Matsuda cried.
"Hacking into their computer database. They have some security cameras there and if Ayano met someone there it would get caught on camera," L said.
"Wait, Ryuzaki, if we were there then wouldn't your face be caught on camera too?" Light said.
"It was before the second Kira showed up," L said. "You also have to remember that I think you are Kira. If I already had shown my face to you, it wouldn't matter whether the camera caught me on tape or not. But after the second Kira showed up I hacked into here and deleted all of the footage where my face was shown."
"But then if you can hack in here and delete footage then wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that the one who threatened Ayano could too?" Light asked.
"Yes. Yes, it is possible that he could be one step ahead of me. However, it won't hurt to try," L said. Suddenly, the entire screen went blank.
"Ryuzaki! What's happening?" Soichiro asked. A bunch of numbers began to show up on the screen. L frowned.
"It would appear that someone has put a border up so that I can't access the videos," L said as the computer screen went black.
"And that someone must be the one who threatened Ayano!" Matsuda said.
"Yes." L said. "Now the problem is we're not sure if this person is Kira….or some other force."
"Some other force?" Matsuda asked.
"Yes….we may have another problem on our hands…." L said. "I'll have to get her to talk to me somehow…"
"But how are you going to do that? Would she give you the information if you asked?" Light asked.
"I may have to prod her a little….but I should be able to get something out of her," L said. He stared up at the TV screen that was displaying all of the cameras from Amane's room. She was frowning at her laptop.
Something was definitely very wrong.
He needed to find out what before something happened.
He couldn't lose her.
So, um, yeah. I really wanted to do something from L's POV. I think I'm gonna do this occasionally, maybe I'll do one from Light's sometimes too. I need to find out a way for L to talk to Ayano. Alone. So I need your suggestions on how he's gonna get Light out of there. so REVIEW and give me ideas! Or else Toshiro will come and accuse you of being Kira.