A/N: yea, I really know that everyone is fed up with me apologizing for the delay. The plot just kept slipping from my mind nowadays and I'm just too tired sometimes to be able to write so once again, honto ni gomenasai! I hope that some are still waiting for my updates.

Discalimer: I do not own Death Note.

----Chapter 7----

----Contact----

The door creaked and L looked up from the computer monitor to see Lira entering the room, dragging her luggage followed by Watari. Lira only came back to Japan that day after asking L if she could take days off and go visit the three prodigies at the Wammy House. She just phoned in a few days ago saying that her arrival would be that day and L either too busy or Kira was just too eager to track him down for the detective to come out in the open and do something so simple yet so dangerous like pick Lira up from the airport.

Lira cast her luggage aside and threw her arms around the detective who had returned his gaze back to the computer screen, catching L by surprise. The detective's eyes grew wider than they originally were and his breath hitched. He placed a hand on hers and turned to look at the girl behind him.

"Don't just go hugging people like that, young lady," L said in a tone which resembled that of a father's scolding his daughter.

"Don't worry, the only one I hug like this is you," Lira smiled at the detective.

"Even so, you surprised me," L said with a little hint of frown in his impassive features.

"Sorry about that," Lira grinned as she let go of the detective and dragged a chair to sit beside him.

"So, how's the investigation going? I haven't heard of any developments while I was away," Lira asked taking a marshmallow from the bowl next to L. The detective scowled at her but answered.

"It would be too dangerous to send vital information when we don't know who could be intercepting your mail," L said in a matter of fact way before proceeding. "We have been monitoring the houses of the police officers that Ray Penber had been asked to tail but nobody seemed to be suspicious enough to be Kira," L explained.

"Ray Penber? Why? What happened to him?" Lira asked in a tone of worry.

"He died at a train station. It was heart attack according to the autopsy report. All the FBI agents sent here died too along with their commander. A few days later, Misora Naomi went missing. We have concluded that it is one of the members of the families that Penber had been tailing who did this so we set up surveillance cameras in their houses and watched them for a week for any suspicious activity but none was found so we removed them after the promised deadline," L said it all very fast as if he was reciting it all in his head. Lira clapped a hand on her mouth.

"Oh my god, Ray died and we are at a dead end? How… how?" Lira asked being lost for words.

"However, I think I know who Kira is. I just have to prove it," L said tapping at a photo displayed at the monitor. It was a photo of a boy with brown hair and handsome features. The boy was what Lira thought could be the perfect one to describe the Japanese term bishounen.

"Who is he?" Lira asked.

"Yagami Light. Son of chief Soichiro Yagami. A very smart boy, according to Ray's investigation and the person who rode the same bus that was hijacked days before Ray died. A wanted criminal died that day too. It seems that he rode the bus with Ray and it was one of the last suspicious incident that happened involving Ray before he passed away," L explained. "And also, I think Kira's been in contact with Misora. I don't think that she would commit suicide. She's made of stronger stuff than that. I think she was killed because she know a vital information that would help in the investigation. Kira got her before she could get here," he added.

"So you're saying that this kid's probably Kira?" Lira asked.

"Yes. He's going to be taking the entrance exam at Tou-oh at Sunday. I'm going to take that too as Hideki Ryuuga and if we both passed, it will be my chance to come in contact with him and see for myself if he is really Kira," L said in a voice of determination.

"Wait! Are you absolutely nuts? What if he is really Kira? You'll get yourself killed!" Lira retaliated.

"Don't you know that Kira needs a name and a face to kill? He's got my face, alright. And he's got a name. But only you and Watari knew about my real name. Hideki Ryuuga is not my real name, so if the star died of a heart attack, he's stupid enough to reveal that he's Kira," The detective explained.

"So you're putting an innocent man's life on the line just to get proof?" the woman asked incredulously.

"I doubt that he would be stupid enough to do what we wanted him to do. He already knows that he's under suspicion so he'll never do something like that to draw more attention to himself," L replied.

"But then, how are you going to prove that he's really Kira?" Lira asked.

"You'll see," L replied as he took another marshmallow from the bowl.

"L, I've got something to tell you," Lira said three days later. The detective nodded to show that he is listening.

"I secured a post as a professor at Tou-oh," Lira continued. L almost spat coffee on the monitor.

"You – WHAT?" he asked incredulously.

"What's so surprising about that?" Lira scowled.

"It's just that you're a tad bit sadistic to be a professor," L said regaining his composure.

"And what supposed to mean?" Lira asked, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"I thought you don't have enough patience to handle students, that's all. But I think that we can put your being a professor into good use during the investigation," L smiled slightly at Lira which the female returned.

The first job entrusted to Lira was for her to be one of the many proctors in the entrance examinations of Tou-oh University. L found it very beneficial mainly for the surveillance and monitoring of the Yagami boy's actions and as L had put it, she could put in the right answers if ever L made mistakes with the test items.

The day of the exams, Lira decided to commute to Tou-oh because it would look really suspicious if a proctor arrived with an examinee. As she watched the building outside of the train, she wondered what to expect of the handsome boy that was Yagami Light. Is he really evil that his looks had deceived everyone into thinking that he was actually a good boy, in all sense of the term? She got off at her station and started walking towards the university, it being a few blocks away from the station. This would be her first job as a professor so she better do it well and she also needs to protect L's identity if the kid really is Kira. She was mulling these thought over in her head when she bumped with someone.

"Oh, I'm really sorry, I wasn't looking at where I'm going," Lira apologized, bowing her head to the person she bumped.

"It's alright. Are you hurt, miss?" a deep voice answered back. Lira looked up to see that she was looking face to face with their suspect: Light Yagami.

"Oh, no, not at all," she managed to say and glanced at her watch. It'll only be a few more minutes before the exam starts. Shit, I was lazing around! Lira thought frantically before hurrying to the examination hall.

A/N: so that ends this chapter. I really wish I could update more frequently because I really want to finish this story now that I have a lot of new story ideas that have been on cue. Well, I hope you like this chapter.
: FBI! FBI! my friend bugged the hell out of me because of this one but now i've changed it. sorry about that. I just got a little confused since NBI is like the local version of the FBI here...