(Karins pov)
It was early in the morning a few days after the leak. I saw L talking to someone on the phone, but I wasn't awake enough to hear the conversation. L looked up at me when he hung up.
"Morning Karin." He greeted.
"Good morning L. Anything happen?" I asked. He told me that he had been on the phone with the director of the FBI, and then he told me about his plan for bringing in some FBI agents to investigate people within the task force.
L explained his reasoning for why he called the FBI to secretly come in. Besides the need to find the source of the leak (I had told him that I had the feeling that Kira would be too cautious even if he wasn't being followed), he hoped that by involving the FBI, he could dwindle the number of police working on the investigation (I asked him what he was planning)
"I believe that if we want to catch Kira, then we would need to work even closer to the NPA then we already are, and in order to do that we need to weed out anyone we wouldn't be able to trust." He had replied.
I nodded, its not like we can show ourselves to just anybody, after all. Not with our line of work. Its time we get serious.
A couple of hours later I was sitting by Ls computer as he was in the kitchen, getting some cheese cake. I listened as a few men were talking to Chief Yagami about leaving the case or resigning.
"Why? You are good cops." The chief said.
"Isn't it clear?" One of the men answered. "It's because we value our lives, sir."
"If what L says is true, Kira has some ESP-like power that somehow allows him to kill people indirectly from anywhere." The second said
"Well, if I were Kira, sir, I'd probably wanna trying to get rid of the people who are trying to catch me. Let's face it, he knows he will be sentenced to death if he's caught. We all sat here and watched when L decided to pull that media stunt and challenge Kira to kill him. Well, it was all very impressive at the time, but again L never had to show his face or reveal his name for that matter. I'm sure you recall L's last request? He asked that we take a closer look at how these victims' identities were made public. And specifically to determine whether photos of the victims were available to the public prior to their deaths. Well, it turns out he was right. Every single one of those victims' names and photos were broadcast to the Japanese public and then they died. Unlike someone we know, we are out there investigating this case wearing police IDs with our names and photos on them.
Anybody with a computer can find out who we are. We don't hide our faces. We 're out in the open." The first man explained. The three of them apparently walked away because I could hear Chief Yagami trying to get them to come back.
L came in a moment later, cheese cake in hand and crouched down beside me. His microphone hadn't been on yet, so he looked over at me.
"Did I miss anything?" He asked innocently.
"A few men left the case. Seems they are fed up with Kira and you. One of them mentioned that you never show your face in public or give your name to anyone, unlike them, who have to carry badges and photo ids."
Ls only response was a thoughtful look.
(The next day)
It was morning now and we were in the living room on Ls computer. Today he had chosen to crouch on the floor with the computer in front of him. His thumb was pressed to his lips as we waited for the report.
We could hear Chief Yagami on Wataris side, but we couldn't really catch what was going on.
L asked him what happened and Watari told us that more 6 victims died last night but there was something different about them this time. He sent us everything the NPA had received.
There were two photos and a note. One photo shown was from a victim that had drawn a pentagram on the wall of his cell in his own blood.
Another had escaped his cell, only to die in a bathroom minutes later.
The last one wrote was looked like a suicide note.
"The note would make you believe that the victim was afraid of Kira, which is certainly a possibility. But we know Kira could control when the victim dies, so would it be possible to say that he could control their actions during the final moments before their deaths?" He mumbled to himself.
Then he told the chief not to give the details to the media. He didn't want Kira to get the results of what looked to us like an experiment. I could hear conversations on the other side about how horrible it is if Kira was using these criminals as experiments.
My mind went back to my early days in the Leaf and how Sasuke and I would sometimes hear mother and father talking about how disturbing it was to learn that Orochimaru had been illegally experimenting on children.
"Is everything alright Karin?" L asked, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah. I was just thinking about the victims from last night." I glanced at the screen, as L remained silent, waiting for me to continue.
"They said that 6 people died, yet only 3 of them had exhibited strange behaviour prior to death. The question is why? Why did three die of simple heart attacks, but not the others?" I paused, trying to think. My eyes widened as I got my answer.
"Unless he was trying to control all of them before they died."
"What do you mean?"
"What if Kira had tried to get the other 3 inmates to do things, but failed?" I asked
"If he was, why would it fail?" He questioned. I got up and paced, as I thought over everything we knew and everything we had just heard. I suddenly stopped as the answer appeared in my mind.
"He was testing the limits!" I mumbled.
"Testing the...limits?" He asked.
"If Kira truly is experimenting, then it would be safe to say that he is testing exactly how much control he has over his victims. Perhaps seeing what is possible or impossible, or even how much control he can have over the person. But if thats the case, then he probably has a bigger motive." I sat back down. Ls eyes widened in surprise.
"If he is testing his powers now, then chances are high that he is planning something big, but what? What are you up to Kira?" He finished my thoughts.
(2 days later still Karins pov)
I had turned on the news in my bedroom of the current hotel room, and was shocked at what I saw. I quickly called for L to turn on the tv to the particular channel. I ran to the living room.
"What is going on?"
"I think Kira may have made his move." I told him. He nodded and turned to the tv, as we listened to a couple of people who were giving accounts of what happened.
"I was just sitting on the bus, planning to meet my grandchildren at Spaceland for a birthday surprise for my grandson.
"This man boarded the bus, then started yelling about how he was bus jacking us. He forced the driver to call Spaceland with his gun against his head. He made the demand that they sent a female staff member to meet him two bus stops from the park with all of the money they had from yesterday. He threatened to kill us if the police became involved." The elderly man began.
"Th-then he started freaking out, like he was seeing a ghost or something. He began shooting his gun at the back window, panicking more and more with each shot. Once his gun was empty he ran to the front of the bus, but kept glancing behind him. He begged for the driver to stop the bus, to let him off. As soon as the man fell off the bus he was hit by a car."The mans wife finished, obviously shaken up by the whole ordeal.
"The man, identified as Kiichiro Osoreda was killed instantly by the car." The reporter finished. I turned the tv off.
"Kiichiro Osoreda was on the news the other day. A drug addict who had tried to rob a bank but was unsuccessful." I told him. I watched as he stood, nibbling on his thumb as he so often does when he is thinking.
"If it was Kira what did he have to achieve from a bus jacking?" He asked looking out towards the skyline visible by the picture window.
Before we were able to think more on it Watari beeped in, telling us that another inmate died, and had written a suicide note. L asked that he send it over.
"L do you know Gods of Death love apples" I read. What kind of message is this? What is Kira doing?
