Sukiro stared at the place where Ryuzaki had been even after he was already long gone with a completely blank expression. Who was that guy, who gave so much importance to her actions? Why did he even bother in suspecting her, when no one else seemed to do so? What a strange guy, she thought and smiled. If she was lucky, he was about to make things interesting in her life.
"Why are you smiling?" Yuuko asked, placing itself in front of a smiling Sukiro. Even she felt strange doing so, as Sukiro was not very used of smiling. "If anything you should be worried. It is more than clear that the boy suspects you. If he lets any word slip to the police, you may be in trouble."
"You're correct," Sukiro said looking up at the Shinigami. "But that only means that I'll have to be a little more careful with the people I kill, now that I know that the death note is real. And also," She smiled at the Shinigami, and Yuuko was surprised to find such smile charming. "I would like to have you answer me some questions, if you don't mind. I need to know everything about the notebook if I intend to continue using it. And you must believe that I certainly do."
Sukiro sat in her bed with her arms wrapped around her knees as she heard everything Yuuko had to say about the death note. Surprisingly, the Shinigami was more than willing to tell her everything about it, and Sukiro was very grateful about that. She listened quietly and nodded every time Yuuko told her something that sounded useful to her and her plans. She decided not to take notes and to instead commit solely to her memory, since the last thing she wanted was to have more evidence against her, and the death note in a way was more than enough evidence to prove her guilty of her crimes.
What caught Sukiro's attention the most was the special deal Yuuko mentioned. She felt tempted to make the deal at that very moment, but refrained herself. She never knew when she was going to die, and halving that date might end up being more than troubling to her. So she decided to use that only as a last resort. She also realized that her most urgent problem to attend was how to hide her death note. To have her in her possession while being a suspect, even if she was only a suspect for one strange guy, was more dangerous than she should allow it to be. However, leaving it at home for her adoptive mother to find it was just as dangerous, especially since it meant that she would also be able to see Yuuko and that was bound to end badly. Still, hiding it in her house was her best bet, since she needed it somewhere easily accessible to her.
Sukiro went with a rather simple method to hide her death note. Why make it obvious with an elaborated hiding place, when she could simply place it among her books in her bookshelf. Her books were already quite dark-looking. So it wasn't very surprising that her death note blended in with them perfectly. She had a lot of books, too. She doubted anyone would get into the trouble of looking into them. She placed a black paper cover over the notebook, just in case someone were to actually look through her books and came into contact with the death note. Now in order to come in contact with the actual death note, they would have to go past the fake cover and touch the pages inside. That was in case the police ever went through her things, although she still thought that highly unlikely.
"That's its?" Yuuko asked, feeling confused. Didn't it occur to the girl that someone could actually open the notebook? Or was she relying on the obviousness of her hiding place to make it even less noticeable? Either way, the Shinigami felt that it was still risky. Especially since Kira also had a death note, and if they discovered his, the police would be searching for a notebook if Sukiro ever became a suspect. Although Sukiro obviously didn't know that Kira was also in possession of a death note, and that was information Yuuko couldn't share with her, even if it was beginning to take some liking on the human girl. Still, didn't Sukiro even suspect it?
"If I ever become a true suspect, I'll think of something else. I also have to do some research on Kira and see if I can ever contact him. I don't have any evidence that his method of murdering is through a death note, but now that I have one myself, I think it might be likely that he has one too. At least, that is more likely than him having god-like powers. And if he did, I don't see why he would only kill criminals in Japan. He should have already killed way more criminals all around the world."
Alright, so her human isn't as oblivious as Yuuko thought.
"How will you contact Kira?" Yuuko asked, truly curious.
Sukiro smiled. "I won't," she said simply, and her Shinigami raised its eyebrows. "I'll make Kira want to find me."
"And how will you do that?" Yuuko pushed. This was really interesting to her. Never had she ever had this much fun in the Shinigami realm.
"Well, I don't intend to switch my victims to criminals just because a guy like Ryuzaki suspects me. Sure, I will also kill criminals, but I'm not like Kira. I don't care about people being righteous or evil. I'll kill everyone who I deem worthless. And Kira will most definitely be against this and want to eliminate me himself, since he will see me himself as another criminal. Although unlike every other criminal, he will know I too have powers similar to his, whether or not he has a death note."
Yuuko laughed, making Sukiro look up at her in confusion. Had she said something funny?
"How can someone as small as you be so despicable?" Yuuko asked, genuinely bemused at her human partner. She decided she definitely liked that girl, and felt lucky that someone like her had picked up her death note.
Sukiro shrugged. "I wonder that same thing about everyone else."