I'm bolding up here now to differentiate my blabbering from the story! Oopsy! I haven't been putting a disclaimer! I don't own Death Note! There we go! (Could be spoilers in following sentences, you've been warned!) Oh, and I dunno why I based this after the Kira cases since L's supposed to be dead, I just did! A world with L and without Light makes me happy. (No more spoilers!) To the chapter!

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Watari walked through the streets of Konpeito, laptop in hand. He was on his way to the police department so that L and the chief could have a face-to-face (well, face-to-screen) conversation.

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Hina awoke slowly, really groggy. She was nocturnal, not used to being awake during the day. But somehow, while asleep, she'd caught a whiff of blood. But this blood was new, she'd never smelled it before. 'A tourist, perhaps?' Hina wondered; but the town wasn't much of an attraction so the seemed unlikely. She climbed out of bed, going towards the window. She pulled the thick drape back slowly; trying to see who it was that belonged to the new scent. She saw a man with a black hat and trench coat, holding a laptop, walking in the direction of the police station. 'Hmm…I'll have to check it out tonight…' she thought, going back to bed and falling into unconsciousness.

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Watari stepped into the police department. The chief looked up from the files he was holding. He raised an eyebrow when Watari opened his laptop and placed it on the desk. A giant L was displayed on it.

"And you would be…who?" he asked. A synthetic voice answered from the laptop.

"I am L. And the man who brought the laptop is Watari" it said; Watari bowed.

"L?" the chief asked.

"Yes. I am here to help with the murder cases. "Shadow Killings", is what you've been calling them?"

"Well, the press has named the murderer the "Shadow Killer", yes. Um…are you only going to be communicating through laptop?" the chief asked, tapping the little webcam on top of the laptop. L was quiet for a few minutes.

"Hmm….If I come to trust you enough, then perhaps not." He finally said. The chief sighed; who knew what kind of person could be at the other end of the conversation?

"Do you think you could give me the names, ages, and genders of all the victims?" L suddenly asked.

"Uh, yeah, I-I guess so…. Let's see here…aha! Here's the file. How do I get the names to you?"

"Just saying them will suffice."

"Okay….From the first victim to the last there was Sakura Katsuragi, age 21, female; Akane Higurashi, age 32, female; Kaito Kagamine, age 19, male; Orihime Ryuuguu, age 45, female; Keiichi Sohma, age 24, male; Satoshi Sonozaki, age 40, male; Shiori Enma, age 27, female; Rukia Kurosaki, age 50, female; Daisuke Inoue, age 17, male; Ichigo Inoue, age 16, female-"

"Two Inoue's?" L asked.

"Yes, they were brother and sister." The chief said.

"I see, carry on."

The chief cleared his throat, "O-ren Iishi, age 24, female; Rika Ooishi, age 10, female; Tsubaki Hasegawa, age 13, female; Yuki Hatsune, age 34, female; Kisa Yagami, age 18, female; Shigure Yamamoto, age 55, male; Hiro Nakamura, age 20, male; Kariya Kuchiki, age 19, male; Sayu Uzamaki, age 60, female; Toshiki Honda, age 18, male; and the victim just last night was Ai Shirasaki, age 15, female."

"Thank you very much. I look forward to speaking to you again. Goodbye" L said, and the screen went blank. The chief blinked, 'well that was an abrupt end to our conversation…' he thought.

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L looked up at the ceiling, thinking. The deaths didn't seem to have any connection; unless there was another person with a strange sense of justice, but there couldn't be that many criminals in such a small town. He looked up all the names, none had a criminal record. He brought his thumb to hi mouth and started biting his nail; what on earth could be the reason behind these murders? Maybe there was no motive and the murderer just killed because he or she could? 'Going to investigate this myself may be easiest…' L thought.

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The clock struck ten o' clock. It was earlier than Hina usually got up, but she wanted to see who it was that was going to the police station earlier. She got out of bed and slipped on a black turtleneck and some black jeans and shoes. She slipped out the window and headed towards the police station. In just a few minutes she was there.

"So, Watari-san, what is L like?" she heard the chief of police say. Who was Watari?

"L is a great man." A guy who Hina assumed was Watari said. The laptop on the chief's desk made a noise. Somebody opened it. Hina wasn't at a window so she couldn't see who, though.

"Hello again." A synthetic voice said. Hina decided one quick look through the window couldn't hurt, so she carefully edged toward it and poked her head out from the wall, looking through. Unfortunately for her, the chief saw her and waved her in. Hina sighed but went in anyway.

"Arisu-san! How are you? Feeling well? You haven't been too sick, have you?" the chief asked. It took Hina a second to remember that everyone in town thought she had a terrible, incurable virus, and that she was only very rarely allowed to go outside. She always had a bin of food outside her door on Monday. Luckily her apartment was right above a dumpster.

"Oh, um, I've been okay." Hina said quietly. Her eyes strayed to the laptop, what was with the fancy L? 'L…' she said in her head. She'd heard that letter somewhere, as a name or something.

"So, Arisu-san, have you been letting air into your apartment? It's getting quite cool, isn't it?" the chief said.

"Has it? I haven't noticed, I'm in bed most of the time. Uh…who's this?" Hina asked, gesturing to Watari. She didn't feel like discussing the weather.

"This is Watari. You've heard about the murders, haven't you? He's here to help solve them, along with L," the chief replied, gesturing to the laptop with the L on it. Watari held out his hand and Hina shook it, "Nice to meet you." She said. After a pause she added, "Well, I should be going. It's not a great idea for me to be out."

"Arisu-san, you shouldn't be out this late alone! That murderer could get you. Please, allow me to drive you," the chief said.

"Oh, no! You were having a conversation until I interrupted. Please, carry on!" Hina said, wanting to feed on her way home. She wasn't sure if she could resist biting the chief if he drove her.

"I will walk you home, Arisu-san. I don't want to interrupt the chief and L either." Watari said. How could Hina refuse?

"Um…okay…" Hina said, and she and Watari left. Watari was very quiet the whole way, which was good, because Hina was holding her breath so she couldn't speak. She didn't want to get caught; she may have no real care for human lives, but she did watch out for herself. Hina allowed herself to talk when they got to her place, but only very shortly, "This is it. Thanks for walking me home. Be careful."

"You're welcome; goodbye Arisu-san." Watari said, walking away. Hina went inside. When Watari was out of sight, she went out again, and looked for a meal.

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All done chapter three! Finally! It took me forever to come up with this, because I needed to think about how L and Watari act. Thank you for reviews! I love reviews, they make me happy I hope you liked the chapter! Sorry for no mention of who Hina killed this time BTW, I couldn't really think of anything. You can give me suggestions if you want! Oh, and you may have noticed some names in that 22 names sound familiar! Like O-ren (from Kill Bill) or Hiro (from Heroes). I just needed names, I did not ty to take them as my own! And I combined a bunch of names from various animes/mangas too! Well 'til next chapter, farewell!