They walked to the parking lot of the Students Union Building and headed towards Dekani's dark blue, dodge truck.
"Tensei…" Dekani said as they approached the truck, "Can you grab the large pale out of the trunk and put it in the back seat?"
Tensei nodded as Dekani searched for her keys. Once she found them, Dekani unlocked threw her books into back and got into the driver's seat.
Dekani drew a deep breath before putting the keys into the ignition.
Ryuga looked at her, "Are you okay?"
Dekani pushed her bangs out of her eyes and shook her head, she glanced at Ryuga.
"Can you drive?"
"Yeah."
Dekani tossed the keys to Ryuga. She got out of the drivers seat and got out of the divers seat. Without any words Ryuga slid over to Dekani's vacant seat and reinserted the keys into the ignition.
Dekani looks very agitated. Tensei started to panic. What is wrong? Is something going to happen?
"Dekani…what's…" Tensei didn't have time to finish her sentence. She could feel a mass amount of blood inch its way up her throat. Tensei groped for the pale. The huge amount of red liquid splashed against the bottom of the pale but just as it came out another huge amount started coming up. Tensei had just enough time to glance up at Dekani who was curled up in her seat; hands holding her head. She groaned. The surrounding area started to blur. Another pool of blood came out. Her vision started to black out. Tensei couldn't keep conscious, she let her self slide into the darkness that was grabbing at her.
"Dekani!" Ryuga forced the vehicles door open and ran to the passengers side.
Dekani pushed Ryuga away. "Tensei." she gritted through her teeth, "Check on Tensei!"
Dekani gave another forceful push to Ryuga. Ryuga grabbed the handle of the back seat door and tugged the door open. He was meant with the disgusting site of Tensei passed out with a mass amount of blood surrounding her. Ryuga gave Dekani an emotionless stare.
"Call Watari, you idiot!" Dekani couldn't stand it any longer. Her head felt like a balloon with too much air. Damn you, Kira...Damn you, Light! Dekani's vision started to fade. She struggled to stay awake but her attempt failed. As she slipped away into the awaiting darkness, Dekani heard a vehicle pull up and a door slam. Followed by the sound of the concerned voices of L and Watari, then everything went black.
Dekani moaned, she opened her eyes. Sunlight flooded the unfamiliar room. Dekani lifted her head and looked around.
It was a fairly large room with one big window on the east side of the wall that over looked the city. Dekani sat up and rubbed her eyes, trying to remember the events that had just passed.
There was a small bed stand with a glass of water on it. She gladly accepted it and drank it down with one gulp. As she placed the cup back on the table, Dekani noticed a blue envelope with her name on it. She snatched it up and tore the seal off:
Dear Dekani,
I hope you are well rested and okay. Tensei is fine. She is unconscious in the room next to yours. She is expected to wake up soon.
L would like to speak to you about very important matters. So once you are ready please call him on his cell phone. The number is on the slip of paper found in the envelope. He wishes to speak to you in private therefore your room is currently not under surveillance of any type and his cell phone will not be intercepted by anything. Please call him as soon as possible.
Again I hope that you are okay.
Watari
Surveillance? Why would this room be under surveillance? Dekani sighed. She didn't care at the moment. Her mind was filled with the events that had just past.
Light was a brilliant guy; too bad Tensei wasn't a brilliant girl. Tensei's previous meeting with Light had openly hinted the twins or rather Dekani's suspicion. Light had been just as subtle as her sister was with him. He had let Dekani know that he was aware of her conclusions and made his move. Although this worked out to her advantage perfectly.
So Light believes us to be dead...Dekani grinned; it was all too perfect. Next, she was going to be asked into the Kira investigation.
Dekani couldn't help but chuckle, "This was way too easy."
She reached for her cell phone and dialed the number that was on the piece of paper that was found in the letter. There was a quick hello followed by a an okay. Dekani hung up and flopped out of bed. Her head still pounding, Dekani walked over to the medicine cabinet and took two extra strength Tylenol. She fixed her self up and hobbled back to the bed. Just as she was about to sit down there was three short knocks on the door.
"Come in."
L opened the door and walked in. He closed the door lightly behind him, walked over to the chair on the opposite side of the room and resumed his normal position.
"I hope you are well enough to talk." L reached for the he sugar cubes that were on the coffee table in front of him and started to stack them.
Dekani rolled her eyes and nodded, "I supposed you would like an explanation."
"No, just please answer my questions honestly."
Once again Dekani nodded. "But first you have to answer my questions?"
"Naturally."
Dekani leaned her back against the head board and look around, "Where am I?"
L pick up another sugar cube and added it to his stack,"You are on the west end of Tokyo. This hotel room you are presently in is the Kira investigation head quarters."
"Right," Dekani sat up, grabbed a candy that was on the bed stand next to her and started to fiddled with it, "You are the current leader of the investigation?"
"Yes." L answer as he added another sugar cube to his stack.
There was a slight pause, "One more question.'
L raised his eye brow.
"How long have I been out?"
"A day and a half."
Dekani rubbed her forehead, "Well, that answers my questions."
"Good." L grabbed a pencil and attempted to balance it on the sugar cubes.
"Do you think Light-kun is Kira?"
She showed no reaction to the bluntness of the question. Dekani just grinned.
"Yeah, I do."
L glanced at her, "By what evidence?"
Dekani shifted in her position on the bed. I spoke too soon; this might be a little tricky to answer. She couldn't exactly tell L that they were half shinigami. Even the idea seems unrealistic.
Dekani sighed and walked over to the window. She had blown it; Dekani had taken too long to answer the question. Her head was still spinning; even if Dekani could of thought of some plausible evidence L would still suspect a lie. No, she had to try.
"Remember the broadcast in the Kanto region that you did?"
L nodded.
"The minute that broadcast came on I knew this person the world had dubbed Kira was a real threat. Before, I had thought that the times of the death of the criminals were just a coincidence. Of course the media hadn't released the number of deaths at the time only a select few. After the broadcast however I became interested in Kira. I did some research and noticed the times of the deaths were mostly after school between four and six; sometimes even later but the rate of deaths stretched out during the weekend."
Dekani paused to catch her breath. L was still trying to balance the pencil on the stack of sugar.
"I made the assumption that Kira was most likely a student. I had also assumed that the police had caught on because for two days criminals were dying every hour. This also led me to believe that Kira had access to police information but I couldn't acquire any information on the task force or who was in it. So I had to go on personal knowledge."
She paused again. L had successfully balanced the pencil on the stack of sugar cubes and was now trying to balance more sugar cubs on top of that.
"I knew that Yagami, Matsuda, and Mogi were in the NDP. That's all I could go on and basing my suspicion on the fact that Kira was a student, the only person who even fit that description was Light Yagami, Mr. Yagami's son. As a bonus I heard he was going to the same University as I was attending. I followed his actions for a bit, sometimes even catching him talking to what seemed to be no one. I even caught him talking about Kira to again no one. Ever since then I've suspected Light as Kira."
Dekani looked over at L, who was still balancing sugar cubes but in a different way. He had taken an empty cup and balanced the cubes on the edge of the cup. Dekani hadn't lied. She had in fact done some research on Kira.
"Seems to be a reasonable explanation...although I'm curious to know how you obtained the times and numbers of deaths. The media hasn't even released half of the numbers."
She knew this question was coming. Dekani smirked, "Well I'm not exactly computer illiterate."
L just stared at her and started to bite his thumb nail, "I see why you hesitated. I think we have found our hacker."
He thinks he found his hacker? Dekani gazed out of the window, "I guess you have."
The warm, noon sun beat down through the open windows. The sound of the traffic below them filled the silence in the room.
L broke the silence with the question Dekani had been waiting for, "Would you like to be apart of the Kira investigation?"
"Can I?" Dekani tried hard to hide the irony in her voice.
"If you would like to."
Dekani tucked her grinned away before she turned toward L, "Sure, I'll take up that offer."
"Okay, I'm done." L got out of his seat and walked towards the door. "Once you are ready you can come in to the living room; the investigation is taking place their."
"Sure thing, but what about Tensei?"
L reached for the door handle, "Once she's conscious Tensei can stay here if he wants."
"Tensei's an idiot. She'll probably end up staying here even if she has a choice." Dekani said as she rolled her eyes.
"She can stay as long as she doesn't reveal any of the case information to anyone but the task force members."
Dekani chuckled, "Harder said than done but I'll make sure that her mouth doesn't open."
"Please do." he started to walk to the door, "Oh one more thing."
Dekani cocked her head.
"The task force member refer to me as Ryuzaki. So if you please..."
"Don't worry." she reassured him.
L nodded, walked out of the room and closed the door.
Dekani flopped on the bed and started to laugh. She couldn't say he fell for it. Dekani had given him the truth. Maybe not all the details but still she didn't lie. Dekani got out of bed and went to the door. She couldn't get carried away. The last thing she wanted to do was to underestimate L.