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Death Note: Light's Angel

Chapter 3


"Hello? Light? Are you home dear?" Sachiko called as she and Sayu returned home for the day."Yeah, I'm upstairs!" Light replied loudly. "Studying again already?" Sayu teased as she stepped into the kitchen. "No, just looking at a magazine I bought regarding law enforcement."

Sayu shook her head in skepticism. She suspected it wasn't anything of the sort, but chose to forget it for now. Instead, she went to the snack cupboard for her usual bag of potato chips.

She was about to grab one when she found a different flavored bag she didn't remember was there before.

'Light must've bought this before coming home today.' Sayu smirked. 'I don't think he'll miss a few of these. Besides, this is kind of payback for what he's been doing lately…'

As she opened the bag, however, she saw something inside that made her gasp.

'What the heck? I've heard of prizes being found in snack bags before, but this takes the cake.'

She then noticed something else in the bag that seemed even more curious. 'Light, what are you up to now?'

"Sayu, don't stuff yourself with chips. I'm about to make dinner." Her mother said, lightly scolding her. Sighing, Sayu closed up the chip bag and put it back.

"I was just going to eat a few." She complained as she turned on the TV.

For the next hour, Sayu watched a movie staring her favorite actor, Hideki Ryuga. It was a love story, and it was starting to get to the good part when her mother distracted her.

"Sayu, please tell your brother that dinner is ready." Sayu got up and walked to the foot of the stairs.

"Hey Light! Come on, dinner's ready!" "Coming!"

Sayu went back to her movie as her brother came downstairs.

"Aren't you supposed to be at the table?" Light teased as he sat down with his mom. "Yeah, yeah." His sister replied, not looking at him.

Her favorite part then came up, where Hideki and his female costar were together in the rain.

"Hideki Ryuga, I swear he's perfect! How come no one in my class is like that?" Sayu complained as she admired her idol.

"Sayu, just eat your dinner." Sachiko said, not approving of her not eating with her and Light.

"I'll eat later." She replied, continuing to stare at the TV.

While its true she adored the actor, Sayu was determined not to be at the table with her brother. In fact, it was taking a lot of her willpower to not look in his direction.


Little did she know, someone else was watching her and her family at that moment.

As he observed them, L picked up the phone and contacted a member of the Task Force.

"Hello, Mr. Aizawa? Are the Kitamuras watching television now?" "Yes. He's not home but the other four are watching while they eat dinner. It's Channel Four." Aizawa replied. L hung up and made his next move.

"Watari, please contact the broadcasters and tell them to play our message." "Very well, understood." Watari said as he made the call.

After talking with Agent Penber and Naomi, L decided to install surveillance cameras and wire taps throughout the Yagami home, much to the displeasure of the chief himself.

Despite hearing that his son was Kira, Soichiro absolutely refused to believe it. He even went as far to say that everything Agent Penber said regarding his son was purely circumstantial, that there's no hard proof.

When L said that Agent Penber pointed out that both Light and Kira had the same voice, Soichiro retorted that the voice could've been copied to frame his son. He even dismissed the fact Penber showed his fake ID only to Light on that bus.

To try to calm him a little, L informed him that Raye, who was assigned to investigate Soichiro and his family, also investigated Deputy Director Kitamura and his family.

He then suggested that they also set up surveillance equipment in the Kitamura household as well, which Soichiro agreed. As a curtesy to him, L said that only he and the chief will be observing his family, while the others will take turns watching the Kitamura family.

While the two of them watched, they had observed nothing from Light to suspect him of being Kira. The most they got before he went down to dinner was him looking at magazines with women wearing bikinis.

L suspected that it was a decoy to distract them from what he was really hiding, but Soichiro strongly disagreed.

L then prepared a message to be broadcast while both families were watching TV.


In the house, Sayu noticed a message on top of the screen during the movie. "Huh? What's this? I.C.P.O.? They're saying that "In response to the Kira murders, Interpol has decided to dispatch a force of 1500 investigators to Japan. The investigators are withdrawn from the law enforcement agencies of its member nations." Fifteen hundred investigators? Woah." She finished with awe.

Sayu wondered why more investigators were coming to Japan, given that 11 FBI agents recently died at Kira's hand. She honestly didn't want more innocent people to be murdered. 'What could Interpol be thinking? That bigger numbers will beat Kira? I doubt it.' As she thought this, Light gave his thoughts on the matter.

"The I.C.P.O. sure is stupid." Sayu, distracted, looked over at her brother. "I mean, there's no point in making this announcement. If they're gonna send all these people here to investigate, shouldn't they keep it a secret? Even the FBI agents who were secretly investigating were killed by Kira."

"Not all of them." Sayu pointed out, reminding Light that one agent still survived. Annoyed, Light went on.

"My point is, why would this be any different? If you ask me, this is nothing more than a desperate attempt to shock Kira in the hopes that he would reveal himself somehow. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if Kira sees right through this."

Impressed by Light's reasoning, L bit his thumb and chuckled softly. "Your son is quite clever, isn't he?" "Well, yes." Soichiro replied.

Sayu frowned from her brother's explanation. 'Yeah, I'll bet he would. Personally, I think L has a much better chance at catching Kira. I'm sure he'd know what to do, if only I could contact him…' Sayu suddenly decided to stir the pot a bit, just for fun.

"You know Light, even if Interpol is sending all those people to catch Kira, I don't think they'd be able to anyway." Light raised an eyebrow from this. "Oh? Why is that Sayu?" She then smirked at him. "Because I believe L can do it."

Both Light and L were startled by this. "L? You think he can catch Kira?" Sachiko asked.

Sayu nodded with certainty as she stood up. "Of course, Mom. He's the one that found out that Kira is right here in Japan, living somewhere in the Kanto region. Honestly, it was Kira's own fault that L tracked him here in the first place. If he hadn't killed that guy posing as L, Kira wouldn't have the real L breathing down his neck."

L smiled widely from Sayu's comments. 'That has got to sting, don't you think so Light?' He thought to himself.

"Your daughter seems to have a lot of faith in me." He said to the girl's father. "It would seem so." Soichiro said, smiling a bit.

Doing his best to hide his anger, Light took a deep breath and calmed down.

"I have no doubt L will try his best to apprehend Kira, but something tells me it won't be so easy. Kira seems to be good at avoiding capture so far." "Yeah, but he'll slip up. He already did once, I'm sure it'll happen again. And maybe when he does, L will have him cornered." Sayu replied.

'Not if I get to L first.' Light thought angrily as he got up after finishing dinner.

"Thanks for dinner Mom." He said as he walked to the cupboard and reached for a bag of potato chips, which Sayu saw.

"Huh? You're eating a bag of chips? You just had dinner. Your good looks are going to go down the drain if you keep that up."

"It's a late night snack for studying." Light responded as he also grabbed a mug of hot coffee and proceeded to head back to his room.

As he passed Sayu, she noticed the flavor of the bag he took with him. It was the same bag she tried to eat from earlier… the one with the unusual contents along with the chips.

'Light is taking that bag with him? For studying?' Sayu got too curious to stay put and planned to find out what the deal was with that bag.

"Mom, I need to use the bathroom. I promise I'll eat when I come back down." Sachiko sighed in exasperation. "Fine honey, just don't take too long." With that, Sayu started to follow Light upstairs without him knowing it.

Back at the hotel room, L and Soichiro watched as Light locked himself in his room to study.

They were surprised, however, when they saw that instead of going to the bathroom, Sayu stopped at her brother's bedroom door and appeared to be trying to eavesdrop on him.

"What's she doing? I thought Sayu was going to the bathroom?" Soichiro questioned.

"Perhaps it was just an excuse to spy on her brother. However, I don't see what she would hope to learn. Light isn't saying anything and his television is off, as well as his computer." L said as they observed both the Yagami children.

A moment later, the pair noticed Sayu's expression had changed. She was now wide eyed with her mouth hanging open. She appeared to be shocked.

"Why does Sayu look like that?" Soichiro asked, concerned.

L didn't respond as he studied Sayu's reaction. 'Why indeed? No unusual sounds came from her brother's room at all. What could she have reacted too?'

They were surprised once more as Sayu then moved to her own room, albeit quietly so that Light wouldn't hear her, and gathered some paper and a pencil. After that, she really did go to the bathroom this time and locked herself in. Once inside, she began writing on one of the pieces of paper she had.

She covered her paper so that the cameras inside couldn't see what she was writing. "What in the world is my daughter up to?" Her father was starting to really worry about Sayu; he never knew her to be so secretive.

L narrowed his eyes and bit his thumb. 'How strange. Light Yagami is our prime suspect of being Kira, and yet… his younger sister is the one showing suspicious behavior. What could she be writing?'

Their answer was revealed when Sayu stopped writing and showed what the paper said. And what it said completely caught Soichiro and even L by surprise.

"What the hell?!" Soichiro yelled in disbelief as he shot to his feet.

"I… wasn't expecting that." L said as he stared at the message.

Sayu was holding up a paper that said the following words: "Dad, if you're watching, please respond by text. Say something that tells me it's you."

Soichiro stared at the screen, completely stunned by Sayu's message. "I don't understand. How did Sayu find out about the cameras?"

"Good question. In the meantime, I suggest you send a response to your daughter like she's asking." L instructed calmly. A very confused Soichiro nodded as he turned his phone on and began texting.

In the bathroom, Sayu stared at her phone, waiting to hear from her dad. It wasn't long before she got her reply. What she got made her smile. "Sayu, you told me that you'd rather have me at home unemployed than see me die on the job."

'I knew it! It really is Dad!' Feeling both relieved and excited, she immediately started writing another message. This one asked her dad if he was watching alone.

After reading the new message, Soichiro asked L if he should not tell Sayu that he is with him. L thought about it for a bit before answering.

"It's alright. Tell her I'm with you." After receiving her dad's answer, Sayu almost dropped her phone.

'No way. L is with my dad right now? That's amazing! Then that must mean L's the one who set up the cameras in the house. I bet he also…' She then wrote down her next message to them both.

"Do you suspect my brother of being Kira?" The pair were once again surprised.

"I can't believe Sayu just asked that question." Soichiro said in a hushed voice. "It's almost as if she's reading our minds." L added, sounding impressed.

"What should I say to her? If we tell her that Light is under suspicion, she'll be scared to death. Also, she looks up to him. Can you imagine how Sayu would react if she found out if her own brother..?" Soichiro couldn't finish the question. L nodded in agreement.

"I imagine she would be terrified of living under the same roof as Kira." He then turned to face the chief. "But I think it's important that we need to be honest with her. If Light does turn out to be Kira, like I believe, then she should be on the alert. Besides, I want to see where this goes."

L then told Soichiro to tell his daughter the truth. Reluctantly, the chief began to send his reply. Moments later, Sayu got a response from her dad saying that L suspects her brother, but he himself doesn't at all. Sayu sighed sadly.

'I thought he might say that.' Sayu started writing yet another message. When she had finished it, she held it to her chest and closed her eyes.

'Alright, this is the big one. Once I show my dad and L this message, there's no going back. Everything will change.' Sayu then opened her eyes again and faced upward, looking determined. 'But I have to do this. For my dad and mom's sake, and… my brother's sake too.'

Soichiro and L noticed that Sayu was hesitating with her next message. "For Sayu to be taking a little more time in showing her new message, it must be very ominous." L guessed while waiting. "What could she have to tell us this time?" Soichiro asked, still can't believing he and his daughter are communicating like this.

At last, Sayu slowly revealed her latest message. What that message said nearly gave her father a heart attack. "WHAT?! Ryuzaki, please tell me I'm not seeing this!" L stared at the message with the same look Sayu had when see was outside her brother's room.

"No Mr. Yagami, what we're seeing is very real. But I am at a complete loss as to how Sayu could know this." The new message that left the two shocked said this:

"It's true. Light really is Kira."

Soichiro slowly fell back into his chair, feeling like he had been punched in the stomach. It had been bad enough to hear about his son being Kira from a couple of strangers… but to also hear it from his own daughter?! He didn't know what to believe anymore.

L, on the other hand, pondered how Sayu could have made this huge discovery. He knew that Agent Penber made the connection, but Sayu accomplishing the same thing truly amazed him. She didn't seem at all to be on the same intelligence level as her brother, but still…

"Mr. Yagami, may I borrow your cell phone and talk to your daughter? I think you should take a break after all this." Soichiro nodded gratefully as he handed his phone to L.

"Yeah, you're right. I'm going to go lie down." He then moved to the couch and lay in it.

The next reply Sayu got surprised her.

"Sayu Yagami, this is L. I'm taking over for your father. I felt he should rest for now. At this point, we will communicate only by text; no more handwritten messages. Is this alright?"

Sayu didn't blame her dad for not talking anymore, after what she just revealed. She was also nervous about actually talking to L. But if her dad trusted him, then that was good enough for her. She immediately texted back saying it was fine. Satisfied by her response, L then began his own chat with her.

"I'm sure you have much to say, but let us stick to the present situation. Somehow, you found out about the cameras and wire taps, hence why you haven't said a single word since you tried to spy on your brother. Very smart. Now, does Light also know about the surveillance equipment in your house?"

"Yes."

"I suspected as such. Does he also know how many cameras are in his room?"

"Yeah, he knows there are 64 of them." L raised his eyebrows from this. How could Light know the exact number of cameras in his room? And how did Sayu learn he knew?

"Sayu! Are you okay? Should I come up and check on you?" Sayu jumped as she heard her mom calling for her. "No I'm fine! I'll be down in a minute!"

After flushing the toilet, she sent another text to L.

"I need to go, but before I do... Is Light eating out of a bag of potato chips while he's studying?"

L looked over at the cameras focusing on Light, and saw he was eating chips. "Yes he is. Why do you ask?"

"Well, there's something you should know about that bag." Sayu then told L what she discovered in that chip bag, which he found very interesting.

"How does this relate to the fact that he is Kira?"

"It has to do with how he's killing people." Sayu figured this out after not hearing a peep from her brother's TV and hearing he knew about the cameras. This piqued L's curiosity.

"About that. Do you know how Light can commit murder without being seen by anyone?"

Sayu started to feel uncomfortable at this point. "I'd feel better talking about it to you in person, but… it involves a small black notebook. Look, I really think I should go now before my mom starts to worry." L sighed, feeling like he lost out in getting a sweet treat.

"Very well, I understand. Just let me say this. Before you go to dinner, please quickly return to your room and hide all the messages you've written. Someplace only you would know, just in case. Then after dinner, before you go to bed, please delete all text messages on your phone from tonight. Afterwards, don't try to contact me or your father again. Understand?"

"Got it. Thanks for listening to me. Oh, I almost forgot, our trash gets picked up tomorrow. I hope to talk to you again soon. Bye." With that, Sayu retrieved her papers and followed L's instructions. As she did so, L returned his attention to Light, who still appeared to be studying.

While watching, L wondered why Sayu told him about the trash. He then saw that the potato chip bag was now in the small trash bin by Light's desk. Suddenly, he knew the reason Sayu brought it up.

'Sayu Yagami is a smarter person than I observed her to be. What else does she know about her brother that she couldn't say tonight? And what is this notebook she was referring too?' L knew that those answers would have to wait.

For now, all he could do was observe Light and plan his next move… which will include a face-to-face conversation with Sayu.

To be continued.