AN: I took the lines from the announcement off of the page for episode 2. I do not own the website or the show. I also don't make any money off of the or any other story. All credit for that belongs to the respective owners.

(Karins pov)

We had arrived in Japan last and were now sitting in our hotel room, staring at the computer L had set up to communicate with Watari and the Kira investigation task force. I had the tv on the channel L had specified, it was on mute until it was ready. I looked up as I heard L tell them to start the announcement.

" We'd like to apologize for the interruption. As of now we're bringing you a live world wide broadcast from Interpol, ICPO." We heard the announcer begin. "We now take you live to the ICPO."

Suddenly a man appeared on the screen, with the name Lind L. Tailor appearing on the desk he was sitting at.

"I head up an International Police Task Force which includes all member nations. I am Lind L. Tailor, otherwise known as L." The double stated. " Criminals around the world are being murdered by a serial killer.

I consider this crime to be the most atrocious act of murder in history. I will not rest until the person or persons responsible are brought to justice. Kira, I will hunt you down, I will find you."

"Kira, I've got a pretty good idea what your motivation might be and I can guess what you hope to achieve.

However, what you are doing right now is evil." There was a long pause, and I could feel the tension that suddenly spread throughout the city as everyone watched the confrontation between Kira and the fake L.

Then, without warning Lind L. Tailor grabbed at his chest and collapsed, dead, right on the air, being watched by thousands or so people. I looked over at L to see the stunned look on his face.

"I had to test this just in case but I, I've never thought it would actually happen. Kira, it seems you can kill people without having to be there in person. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't just witnessed it." L sounded just as surprised as I felt, I never heard him sound like that before.

"Listen to me, Kira. If you did indeed kill Lind L. Tailor, the man you just saw die on television, I should tell you that he was an inmate, whose execution was scheduled for today. That was not me. The police arrested him in absolute secrecy, so you wouldn't have heard about him on TV or through the internet. It appears not even you have access to information about these types of criminals. But I assure you L is real. I do exist. Now try to kill me."

I listened as L provoked Kira, trying to test him and see if he could kill him. My heart was in my throat as I watched for any sign of trouble.

"What's the matter? Can't you do it? Well, Kira, it seems that you can't kill me after all. So there are some people you can't kill. You've given me a useful hint. Let me return the favor. I'll tell you something that I think you'll find interesting. Although this was announced as a worldwide broadcast, the truth is, we are only broadcasting in the Kanto region of Japan. I had planned to broadcast this message around the world until we found you, but it looks that won't be necessary. I now know where you are. The police treated your first killing as an unrelated incident, but, in actuality, the first of your victims was a suspect in Shinjuku. Of all the criminals that have recently died of heart attacks, this one's crime was by far the least serious."

Huh. I hadn't even thought of that victim.

"Furthermore his crime was only ever reported inside Japan. I used that information to deduce this much.

You are in Japan. And your first victim was little more than an experiment, which means that you haven't been killing for very long. We decided to broadcast in Kanto first because of its large population, and luckily we found you. To be completely honest with you, I never expected that things would go this well, but it won't be too long now before I'm able to sentence you to death. Naturally I'm very interested to know how you are able to commit these murders without being present, but I don't mind waiting a little bit longer. You can answer all of my questions when I catch you. Let's meet again soon, Kira." He turned the voice scrambler off and I silently released the breath I didn't I was holding.

I watched as L stood up and walked over to the window, staring out of it. I stood up, quietly leaving the room, thinking about how I could help him.

I had no idea how I could be useful to him right now, other than to just keep an eye on auras. It was times like this that I felt like I was hindering L and Watari, rather than helping them.

Sure, I am pretty smart, but I could never reach the level of intelligence that hes at. I am better at getting Intel by going out into the field, so to speak, rather than on the computer. But without a suspect, there is no information to be obtained this way.

I looked up when he came in to my room. He sat down on the chair while I was sitting on the bed.

"Your alias for the investigation will be Yasuda Asami. I will be known as Ryuzaki." He told me, and I nodded. He led me back to the computer where we went over everything we knew about Kira, which honestly wasn't much.

I looked over the results of my idea about misspelling the criminals name, and the other guy who only had the picture but no name included.

"It looks like my plan worked flawlessly."

"Hmm. How so Karin? Kira was unable to kill them."

"Exactly. With the photo only criminal, we were proven that Kira can't kill by only seeing the persons face. He has to know your name before he could kill you. And with the other guy, it seems that misspelling the name protects the victim as well. So even if he had your name, but could not spell it, you would not die whenever he wants you to.

"Meaning that whatever his method of killing is, it has limitations. The question now is, how far can Kira go before he reaches those limitations? Are there possibly other ways he can kill, or other things he could make a person do?" I asked.

"Another important piece is how he kills. We know that he needs a face and a name. He can obviously kill without even being near the victim. And the fact that he could use heart attacks, something that would easily be seen as a natural cause, makes me wonder something." L looked up at me, the question in his eyes.

"Where could Kira have possibly gotten this power. It would seem almost godlike to anyone else, like rightful judgement from some kind of deity." He mumbled mostly to himself.

I left him to his thoughts as all the questions swirled in my mind, running in a continuous loop. I decided to meditate and hope that clearing my mind would help me focus on finding the answers.

I had the feeling that the answers were at the tip of my tongue.

As my mind became clear I was able to separate each question and look at them objectively, thinking about the order of the questions. Which one could be answered first, which one was the most important? Obviously that would be the how.

Once we can answer the how, the other answers would become clear.