Chapter 2: Tabs
A few weeks after Choko had come into contact with the boy at her family's restaurant Choko's life was going as usual; she hated the people around her and she continued to make notes of her cases in her note book. One night Choko was laying her room reading over her notes for her most recent case. Ever since she had met that boy these unexplainable crimes had been happening, little children were murdering their parents, children were committing crimes all over japan. The media had just said it was some sort of new rebellion trend, but Choko knew differently.
The next day Choko couldn't put her finger on it but things seemed different. She was always waking up tired as if she didn't sleep at all. Choko was also 100 times more moody than she had been before and she couldn't imagine why. However the thing that scared her most was that her family seemed scared of her, they cringed when they saw her and looked as if they wanted to die when she spoke. Choko couldn't figure it out, so as her instinct dictated she blamed the boy she had met because he seemed so utterly strange.
That Saturday Choko awoke to an empty house but when she walked downstairs to work she saw only one person in the restaurant. The boy with the black spikey hair and the white t-shirt, he was sitting on his feet with his back hunched.
"She's very smart isn't she Watari?" the boy asked as he sipped his coffee, then suddenly an old man in a suit walked out from behind a corner.
"Yes she is." The old man replied as he walked closer to the boy, then stood beside him
Choko, even though it was against her nature fainted, and woke up ten minutes later on the couch in her house. Instantaneously she started to freak out only to be calmed by the boy who called himself Ryuzaki's touch. The old man brought a tray filled with sugary snacks and sugary drinks into the room, and after eating nearly everything on the tray Ryuzaki began to explain. He told Choko that he was in fact a detective and even though he didn't believe it to be stalking he had been keeping tabs on her since he saw her case notes; and even though Choko he was probably furious he begged her not to press charges. Choko who had wanted to rip his head off started to think she could use this for her advantage but quickly came to a very shocking realization.
"Ok Ryuzaki or should I say L! I won't press charges if…you let me work with you on this case." Choko chuckled out in an evil like voice.
"Wow you really are smart, however you missed the point of why we're here; we're here to ask you to help us." L said in an entertained chuckle.
L realized she was smart enough to figure out who he was by a simple clue he had given her unconsciously. He had told her he was a detective, yet he had forgotten all of the detective's in Japan had their faces plastered all over the television or buildings, all detectives but the legendary L!