A/N:

PLEASE READ THIS!!

Forget everything I said in my last A/N's.

Here is a quick list of who is dead already.

Miyo Takano.

Jiro Tomitake.

Raito Yagami.

Misa Amane.

It'd been a slow eighteen months for L; since the Kira case had come to a close, crime certainly intended not to show it's ugly face, in fear the media were lying. Sure, there were still petty thefts here and there, a few bashings; but they weren't exactly 'L Material'. He wanted a real case. A real challenge, like Kira had been.

'Raito…' L thought wearily of the death of his 'accomplice'; it'd been over a year. Since, his father had sunk into a state of depression, but soon crawled from his spiral and returned to the force, as happy as ever. 'Life just has to go on, Yagami. Your son did terrible things, and as a penalty, received death.'

L's toe twitched slightly; his foot was going numb from the unusual way he was sitting. Allowing his eyes to flutter closed, the detective reached blindly for something sugary. Anything would do! Please, please…!

"L," His computer buzzed softly, as a voice came through his speakers. "It's Watari, L. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," L whispered, barely audible, as his computer screen suddenly flickering on, bringing a dim light to the gloomy room.

"Please take a look at these files I have just received. I think they may interest you," from his computer in the next room, Watari sent four files. "I just received a phone call, which I recorded for you. If you care to press the play button, you can hear it too."

Not resisting a good case, L clicked the play button and listened to the sound file being played back to him.

"Hello?"

"Is… is this Watari?"

"Who might this be?"

"It's Yagami of the police,"

"Ah, yes. How can I be a service to you?"

"It's an issue in a remote town, far away from Tokyo… you see, we have reason to believe that Kira has returned…"

"Oh dear, I'll inform Ryuuzaki right away. In the mean time, gentlemen, I bid you a good day."

L sat motionless, his eyes fixated on the screen. He quickly rewound the file and listened to it again.

"It's an issue in a remote town, far away from Tokyo… you see, we have reason to believe that Kira has returned…"

"You see, we have reason to believe that Kira has returned…"

"Kira has returned…"

.xxx.

Ooshi kicked his chair in anger; another death? Another! This was getting way too strange for his liking; with rumors of Oyashiro-sama being the new Kira floating around Hinamizawa like wild-fire, citizens were staying locked in their homes, in fear of their lives. Not only that, tourists were staying far, far away.

'Not like we get tourists much here, anyway,' Ooshi told himself, staring into the distant forest area that surrounded his town. 'It's just a principle!'

"Akasaka!" Ooshi shouted, as the junior police officer scrambled into the room, "Have we heard back from this 'L' person, yet?"

"Er, no sir," Akasaka looked at his feet, suddenly interested in his shoelaces. "But we did hear back from the Tokyo police. They contacted him, you see."

"Well, don't just stand there!" Ooshi growled, his temper wearing thin. "Is he coming here or not?"

"No," on finishing that word, the man could see Ooshi twitching. "L doesn't leave his house."

Miles away, at the school of Keiichi and his friends, they swore they could hear the rumbling anger of someone shouting, "AKASAKA!".

.xxx.

"This is most interesting," L tapping his computer screen, a fork full of cheesecake hanging from his lips. "I wonder who this 'Oyashiro' person is."

Watari took a sip of his coffee as L showed him various photos of Hinamizawa that he'd found in police records and travel guides.

"Oyashiro is meant to be a God-like figure, the deity if you will, of Hinamizawa. Although, it appears that he is rather brutal," L continued scanning the name 'Oyashiro' in Google. "Look at this picture; his shrine has locks on it. But why? What's in there that others cannot see?"

"The missing bodies?" Watari offered, gesturing to the small piece of information surrounding an annual event by the name of 'Watanagashi'.

"One missing… one murdered… once a year sacrifice to Oyashiro-sama…" L paused, sighing slightly. "The crazy things people will believe. There is obviously a reasonable explanation for all this."

"I doubt it is all coincidence, L," Watari pointed out, handing the detective another slice of cheesecake.

As much as L hated to admit it, Watari was probably right; the chances of these deaths being a sick coincidence were one to a million, billion even. L didn't have the time to take that chance. Munching on his cake slice, he clicked open an email that popped up on his screen.

"Jiro Tomitake; dead. Passed away in the early hours of the morning by clawing of the throat. No narcotics were found in the blood stream. Suicide or Insanity?"

'Or Kira?' L thought bitterly, ramming his innocent thumb into his mouth and chewing on it. L could remember (how could he forget?) the different causes of death Kira had put his poor victims through. The assortment of unusual suicides ranged from cutting open their fingers and writing things on the walls in their own blood, to running in front of cars, to hanging themselves from the rafters. The way Kira could alter their times of death, the things they did before they died; it was sickening. And it was all because of-!

L shot up, spitting his cake across the room. Watari jolted for his friend, but was pushed away. One word escaped L's lips before he had grabbed his coat and dashed out the door.

"Shinigami."

A/N:

Ah... a little OOC for L to leave the house, but you know.

It sounded good!