--L's POV--
"You've got to be joking, Ryuzaki." Matsuda tells me, "There's no way that someone like that can help us on this case."

"I've got to agree." Yagami-kun started as he sat down, "From what I saw on the way up here, she's not all that bright and pretty clumsy. She might hurt this investigation more than she'll help it."

"You two met on the way up here?" I asked Yagami-kun.

"Yes." he replied, not sure where I was going with it.

"Did you talk to her?"

"Very briefly, but yes. Where is this going Ryuzaki?"

"She probably knows a lot about your personality then." I sat there thinking to myself what did she know about Yagami-kun and when can she tell me.

"What?"

"It's as you said, she really isn't that smart, but she is very good at reading people. She notices details in appearance, speech, actions, and mannerisms. If she knows a person long enough and knows so much about them, she can tell what they're thinking. She is also very quick about analyzing someone. She probably found out information about you in those couple of minutes that you didn't even know yourself."

"You're joking, right?"

"Why would I be? She's a good friend of mine and is willing to be part of this investigation. Why deny her of that? She will be able to help us."

"How? You said yourself that she specializes in noticing details in appearance and mannerisms. How can she help us when we don't know what Kira looks like or what he does?" I was starting to see him getting frustrated because I was defending Kari so much.

"I also said that she notices people's speech and actions. I have a feeling that you left that out on purpose. She could tell who the second Kira is by seeing the tapes and have an idea on who the first Kira is by their actions." I say as I absent-mindedly clink my spoon on the sides of the tea cup.

"Does she know about the chance of a second Kira?" Chief Yagami asks of me.

"No, not yet." I reply, picking up my cup, "I haven't been able to, because lately she wasn't paying that much attention to me while we talked. I think she was too busy with school."

As I started sipping from the cup, Chief Yagami asks another question, "So, you're saying she's a student?"

I set down the now empty cup as I look towards him, "Yes, she is. She's a senior in high school in the states. She's only a few months younger than you, Yagami-kun." I start refilling the cup to near the top.

"You sure seem confident, Ryuzaki." Yagami-kun says.

"Why do you say that?"

"You're giving all this information out to us on Kari. Aren't you afraid that one of us is Kira? Wasn't I your number one suspect?"

"Of course you are." I reply while dropping a few sugar cubes into my tea, "But all information, including federal information, about Kari is false. For her own protection of course." Come on, some type of reaction. I plead in my mind.

But I get nothing to prove that he was angered. "You never cease to amaze me, Ryuzaki. The measures you go to to protect your fellow detectives is astounding." Exactly what college-student Yagami Light-kun would say. I think as the familiar clinking noise echoes in the room.

Not long after, we all heard the click of a door opening and closing, and soft footsteps.

--Kari's POV--

I headed out of the bathroom and down the hallway, just after taking a quick shower. My hair was already dry, how I love short hair, and I wore pretty much the same thing. I still wore my jeans, but I changed my top to a plain black tank-top. I also went barefoot this time.

My feet made very little noise on the floor as I approached the living room area of the hotel room. As I entered, I noticed that everyone besides Ryuzaki tensed up. I smirked as I walked up to an empty chair that was on Ryuzaki's right side. I sat down with my back against the arm rest closest to Ryuzaki and the bottom half of my legs dangling off of the other arm rest, towards the windows.

"Ah, you were talking about me, weren't you?" My smirk turning into a smile. "What were you saying?" I turn more towards Ryuzaki, looking for an answer.

"It was mostly between Yagami-kun and I." Ryuzaki replies, "Anyway, Kari, what can you tell me about Yagami-kun?"

I knew he was just trying to change the subject, but I let him. I looked over to Light, getting rid of my smile and put on a more serious face, before I replied, "A perfectionist, but also very professional. But when you put those two things together, it really screams...death by 45."

Light's eyes widened for only a moment, but went back to a thoughtful facade. "What makes you say that I'm going to die by the time I'm 45?" Light asks.

"You're putting way too much stress on your mind and body. That ages you faster than you're supposed to. So, it's going to make you die at a relatively young age."

"Does that mean you will die young?" Ryuzaki asks me, "You do have OCD after all."

"A very slight, slight, case of OCD." I reply, "It's very slight, but yes I do. And I balance that out with insane friends that take my mind off of stuff like that."

"I have something that I want you to take a look at." Ryuzaki tells me as he stands up. I knew he was just trying to get out of the topic.

"Work. Whoopee-dee-doo." I say with sarcasm and boredom dripping from my lips as I push myself up from the oh-so comfortable chair. "Just give me a sec." I say as I walk over to Light, who was still sitting. I noticed him slightly tense up as I leaned forward. I took my pointer finger and gently moved away a few strands of hair out of eyes. "Sorry. It was bothering me." I tell him as I straightened back up. I walked over to where Ryuzaki was sitting and saw another chair and a TV. I sat down in the chair cross-legged and waited for Ryuzaki to start explaining.

"I want you to watch a few tapes from a person that's claiming to be Kira." he tells me, "I need you to listen and see if this Kira is the real one. And, you should know, you aren't allowed to write anything down."

"Yeah, yeah." I say absent-mindedly as I wave one hand in his general direction and got myself comfortable by resting my elbows on my knees and resting my chin in my hands.

"Watari." I hear Ryuzaki say as I stare at the black and blank TV screen. It then turns to a blinding white with "Kira" written in black Old English font.

"Well, obviously who ever this is isn't original." I say, referring to the screen that Ryuzaki and I used when talking to people through the computer. I didn't say anything else throughout the four different tapes, except for halfway through the second one where I couldn't take that multiple eyes burning into my back anymore.

"What did you find out?" Ryuzaki asks me, his eyes still burning through me, but I never yelled at him for it because I knew that he would just continue no matter what I said.

I leaned back in the chair and heard my back crack a little before answering, "This Kira and the Kira that's been killing criminals aren't the same people. Unless Kira is an oyster, which I highly doubt."

"Elaborate, please."

"Yeah. What does oysters have to do with the Kira case?" I hear a voice from behind me that sounds older than Light, but still younger than most of the people here.

"Oysters have the ability to change genders." I reply without looking at him. I then go back to Ryuzaki, "From what I've seen and heard, the first Kira is a guy. The person here who is claiming to be Kira, is a girl. No guy can get this obsessed over something, anything. Also, the first Kira seems to be looking for a challenge from you. Now, if you just appear on TV, that isn't much of a challenge now, is it?"

"True." Ryuzaki replies as he starts chewing on his thumb, a nasty habit he has had for as long as I've known him, "What do you propose we do?"

"I say you make a fake tape claiming to be the real Kira, come up with something to say, air it, and see what happens. Most likely, this second Kira will reply and I'll be able to tell you defiantly the gender and possibly the age."

"Exactly what I was thinking. I was planning on Light playing Kira."

"Sounds good to me."