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Chapter 2: Something Else

I was still completely overwhelmed that I had actually made it into L's task force, and I hadn't even won the chess game. I made a mental note to just go along with whatever L said, no matter how crazy it sounded, because he clearly knew what he was doing.

I was being introduced to the rest of the group. I met Chief Yagami, Matsuda, Aizawa, Mogi, Ide, and Ukita, and then I walked over to the young man in a tan suit.

"Hello," he said, holding out his hand. "I'm Yagami Light. I'm glad to have you on the task force."

"Oh, so you're Misa's boyfriend?" I asked. He nodded curtly.

I looked him up and down. Something about him rubbed me the wrong way. He looked too perfectly groomed and confident, almost arrogant, and he looked at me like he was trying to figure out how to take me down in a battle of wits. Not the way L did, though. With this guy it was more like he was positive he'd win.

I turned to L, who was now crouched over in his chair, eating a slice of shortcake that older man was providing. I whispered to him, "Um, who exactly is that man?"

"Oh, him?" he said through a mouthful of cake. He swallowed and said, "That's Watari."

I raised my eyebrows. I had heard of Watari. He was always by L's side, and also never showed his face. I didn't know he also happened to be L's snack supplier.

"Thank you so much for letting me in, L. I won't disappoint you."

"Please, call me Ryuzaki. I prefer that name to my well-known business name. I only let people I trust call me by it."

I blinked, and then smiled. "Sure. Thank you, Ryuzaki."

Smiling, I looked around the whole room, with all the task force members and computers and everything. Here, I could help catch Kira once and for all. But also, I felt like I had finally found home.

As Rin went around getting acquainted, Ryuzaki sized her up silently over his slice of cake. He had liked her the moment she agreed to play chess, and since then he had been studying her carefully. The detective had never really seen the likes of her before. There was something he liked a lot, but he couldn't place it. After a few moments, he realized it was her overall behavior. The way she walked slowly, to take everything in, the quiet curiosity that lit up her dark blue eyes. Dark blue eyes, he thought. That's unusual for a Japanese. But her entire manner seemed so mature and intelligent, as well as determined. She would definitely make a good agent.

"This is amazing," Rin breathed as she scanned through a computer's data. "You've all been working so hard at this. I'm going to have to catch up to you all…"

"You'll do fine," Ryuzaki said. "You seem perfectly intelligent and capable. We'll help you with anything you don't understand. Just relax for now."

She turned around at him and gave him a beaming smile. "Thank you so much, Ryuzaki."

Now Ryuzaki was very confused. His heart had done a little back flip when she smiled so happily at him. The new agent was, indeed, going to be an experience had never had before.

He kept feeling that there was something else, not her mature, strong nature or her humble personality. He still couldn't place what it was. He kept thinking and watching her walk around the room.

"Ryuzaki? Ryuzaki!"

Ryuzaki jumped and looked at Matsuda, who had been calling him. "Uh?"

"There's a new report of Kira killings from yesterday; you had better come take a look."

He took a second to clear his head and then walked in his odd gait to look at the new report. Rin walked over to look as well. "All heart attacks, as usual," said Ryuzaki. "You already know this of course, Amane-san, but Kira has shown certain patterns of killing in the past. Such as when he killed one person every hour, or when he made his victims do strange things just before death…but there doesn't seem to be a pattern here. All just heart attacks at random times…"

He chewed his thumbnail. Rin studied the screen and said, "Maybe there is a pattern that we just can't see yet."

Everyone looked at her. "What do you mean?" asked Aizawa.

"Well," Rin started to explain, "maybe in a few days he'll go back to killing one criminal each hour, and after that the victims will behave bizarrely just before dying, or maybe after this there will be another method of killing he hasn't used yet. It's too early in the case to really be sure. There might be an overall pattern that we can't see because we don't know enough."

Ryuzaki looked up at Rin. "So you're thinking…a pattern in the nature of the death…that's an interesting idea."

"I'm just offering it up as a possibility, though," she said. "It's actually not advisable to try and get too ahead of your enemy and guess everything they're going to do. It can lead you away into bypaths that won't help you defeat your opponent. I think it's best to only stay a step ahead the whole time, using the information you've gathered and your knowledge of, say, your opponent's habits. It'll probably be best for us if we just keep searching for patterns in Kira's behavior and not jump to any major conclusions."

The rest of the taskforce was very impressed. This was a woman with very superior tactical ability and foresight. Ryuzaki gave a little smile. "Very well said. We'll all keep looking for patterns and anything unusual. How about I show you your station now?"

Rin nodded and smiled. Meanwhile, Misa-Misa was standing near Light and they shared a glance that nobody caught. They were thinking the same thing about this new agent.

As Ryuzaki showed Rin around, he was consistently surprised at how intelligent she was. She was never afraid to ask questions, and she caught on quickly to how things were run in the organization. He had never met anyone who fit in so well there. She took to the computers and the research like a bird to the sky. But there was something else, still. He couldn't put his finger on it, what it was about her that was different.

"Hey, Amane-san?"

She turned around. "Yes?"

He suddenly noticed how large and bright her eyes were from the excitement, and had to scramble to remember what he was about to say. "Uh, it's getting pretty late. There's no specific time we have to go home, but I thought I'd let you know…"

Rin looked around. Everybody but Matsuda, Misa-Misa and Light were already gone. Her watch read quarter to midnight. "Woah, you're right. I'll have to get going."

She stood up and got her coat and bag, and she inclined her head to Ryuzaki. "I can't thank you enough for letting me join, Ryuzaki. I feel like I'm finally doing something to fight Kira. Thanks for showing me around and everything."

She gave such a grateful smile that Ryuzaki found his tounge a bit tied. He said, "It was my pleasure. Could you be here tomorrow at around seven? We'll probably have some more reports you could look at by then, or something. You seem to have a gift for interpreting Kira's actions, which could be useful. I mean, it's definitely useful. Not that it's your only gift; I'm sure…uh…"

Wonderful, now he was just babbling. Rin asked, "Ryuzaki?"

"Yes?"

"Um, you could just call me Rin, if you want. I mean, you don't have to be that formal. I'm just a newbie detective here, after all," she said, chuckling.

Ryuzaki blinked and said, "Oh. Alright. Well, Rin, we'll see you tomorrow, then."

Rin nodded, waved goodbye to Misa, Matsuda, and Light, and went down the elevator. After that, something was a bit off in the taskforce room. Matsuda was watching Ryuzaki as he researched, and it looked to him like his mind was barely there.

Matsuda had guessed right. Ryuzaki clicked through page after page, hardly glancing at them. He kept trying to decipher what was so special about Rin. He kept remembering the way her face seemed to light up with happiness, and how his heart somehow flopped whenever she smiled or laughed. As he remembered, he slowly figured it out.

Rin is…he thought, staring off into space. Rin is really…very pretty.

Author's Note: Do you think this is getting stupid? Answer honestly, please. -.-

Another Author's Note: Also, in ch. 1 when it says in bold, 'Yuki's POV' that's supposed to be Mizuki's POV. Yuki used to be Mizuki's name but I changed it. Just letting you know incase that was confusing.