A/N: I'm terribly sorry about not updating last week! Please don't hate me and enjoy having a slightly longer chapter!
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On with the next chapter!:
Kagome sat on a cream colored love seat off to the side of the 'investigation room', her eyes trained on Soichiro specifically. The older man was obviously in distress, and she could almost hear the inner turmoil resounding within his mind. Of course, no matter how much power a priestess is given, she could not hear his actual thoughts. But because of her priestess heritage, she was sensitive to the emotions swirling around the room. And his emotions were going off the charts. Her brow puckered, feeling a head ache edging at the back of her mind. 'Lovely,' she thought with a scowl.
Kagome's head snapped up to the monitor when she heard Misa moan slightly as she awakened. The blonds head perked up when she realized she was bound to an up-right table, and called out, "Stalker-san?" L paused from eating a Mini Reeses and took a moment to assess the situation. "Hey, Stalker-san? Where are you? Why don't you stop playing games now?"
"Stalker?" Soichiro murmured, frowning. "What is she talking about? Why has she suddenly undertaken a complete change in attitude?" L said nothing, setting the little chocolate onto his tongue.
Kouga hopped into a flimsy tree, settling on its thin branches, finally catching up to Light and Ryuk in a dense and foggy forest. If he were a human, he would be seriously creeped out. Even as a demon, the place gave him a sense of unease. He could feel the spirits of people and animals wandering around aimlessly, some of which who died confused and alone, unable to pass on to the next realm. Some were... angry and vengeful. Kouga didn't want to spend anymore time here than he had to. He frowned when he observed the bone armored shinigami from before fly off, leaving the other two behind on the ground. 'Now, what is happening here?' Kouga thought, keeping from their view.
"You really sure about this Light?" Ryuk asked gruffly. Cold yet amused dull red eyes set on the teen standing in front of him.
"Yes," was all Light said.
"You know, I never guessed the notebook I gave you would end up discarded in the ground somewhere," the shinigami said, glancing over at the spot the Death Note was buried.
"Listen Ryuk... For the moment, I've only hidden it in the ground. You will discard it the very next time the word 'discard' escapes my mouth. Regardless of the context in which I say it. When I say that word, I'll mean it in relation to discarding the notebook," Light instructed.
"Got it," Ryuk nodded.
Kouga turned away from the scene when he felt his form flicker out of exhaustion and began making his way towards the hotels direction, hopping from tree to tree. 'This is starting to get all the more interesting.'
"Stalker-san? This is a felony, you know. Please stop... Stalker-san? Hey?" Misa exclaimed, demanding to be acknowledged. L placed his thumb to his lip, his steely gaze set on the bright screen. Aizawa and Matsuda shifted nervously behind the famous detectives seat and glanced between Soichiro, L, Kagome and the monitor.
"She's been like this ever since she passed out," Aizawa informed, trying to fill the tense silence. Kagome rubbed her temples out of annoyance and in an effort to relieve the head ache she had.
"Jeez, she really thinks she can feign innocence, doesn't she?" Matsuda asked with a huff.
"Ah, I know!" Misa called out. "Why don't you take my blindfold off? Stalker-san, I want to see your face." L leaned forward, his hands resting on the tops of his knees. "I'll give you my autograph and shake your hand! Oh, and I'll kiss you on the cheek! Misa won't run away."
L stared blankly at the screen before pressing the button on the microphone. "Amane Misa," he said.
"Stalker-san, what do you want?" Misa asked haughtily. "Have you finally decided to release me?"
"Before you fell asleep, you were denying everything, and even went as far as saying 'kill me'; yet now we have a senseless struggle like this?" L asked, wondering how much she would remember, if at all.
"What are you talking about?" the captive girl snapped. "You were the one who knocked me out and brought Misa here! What? You want to do an 'Investigation of Misa' or something?"
Matsuda and Aizawa glanced at each other with quizzical looks plastered on their faces.
"Do you know why you're tied up like that?" L questioned.
"Why? It's because Misa's an idol right?" she answered dubiously. "But you know Stalker-san, you're the first to have gone this far for me."
Matsuda crossed the room, anger etched into his features as he grabbed the microphone. "Damn it Amane! Stop messing around!"
Misa bit her lip, trying to hold back her tears. "I-I'm scared... What's going on? I don't want this! Let me go!" She began struggling against her restraints, trying to free herself from the silver bindings, but all was in vain. "Let me go! Let me go!" Matsuda grip on the microphone loosened as his expression softened, shifting from anger to sympathy and worry. "Please! Umm... I have to use the bathroom again! I want to go!"
L took over the microphone once again, saying in a monotone voice, "You went to the bathroom four minutes ago. Please try to hold it."
"What?" Misa protested. "Oh, you want to see Misa wet herself again, won't that be fun?" Kagome rolled her eyes at the blond models antics. "You pervert!"
The miko turned to the famous detective with an amused grin. "I'm... a pervert?" L wondered out loud, his thumb to his lip once again. "Amane Misa, let's be serious and continue our discussion from before. Do you know Yagami Light? How did you get to know him?"
"Why wouldn't I know my own boyfriend?"
The Task Force jumped at the sound of a phone ringing and turned their gazes to the source: L. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and read the caller i.d. "It's Light-kun."
L ordered Watari to cut the video feed and audio from his monitors. "Understood," Watari told him, and the monitor went blank.
With the phone between his thumb and index finger, L answered with a, "Yes?" Kagome heaved herself from the couch and went to L's side, trying to listen in on what Light was saying on the other side. Unfortunately for her, she didn't have demonic hearing. "Yes, I'm in the room 2801 at the K." L hung up as Soichiro stood suddenly.
"My son is coming here?" he asked incredulously. Matsuda and Aizawa stared at their chief nervously before Matsuda proceeded to the next room.
Kagome took a swig of her cooled coffee on the table and licked her lips free of the sweetened concoction. She made the mistake of allowing L to sweeten her drink the past few days, though she'd have to admit, his sweetening habits were slowly growing on her. Inuyasha already caught her wrist that morning when she nearly poured a whole container of sugar into her tea.
L took the time to let his feet down and stand, maneuvering around his seat and took his place to the right of Kagome, both facing the wooden double doors.
Not a moment later did Matsuda leave the dark room, he entered it again... but this time with Light beside him.
Kagome's lips curled in satisfaction when Light's eyes widened, his expression that of shock. She could tell he was contemplating on what this meant, figuring his next move. L interrupted the pairs intense stare-down, introducing the miko to the teen. "Light-kun, this is Rin, an acquaintance of mine."
"It's a pleasure to meet you officially, Yagami Light," the miko greeted sweetly.
Ayame walked in behind Matsuda, nudging her way to Kagome and handing the raven haired girl a bowl of ramen. "I know you're probably sick of this stuff because you had to eat it all the time," Kagome knew Ayame meant back when she traveled in Edo, "but this is all I could find at the moment. So suck it up and eat," she announced, settling in the love seat Kagome used to occupy and began eating her own bowl of instant ramen. Being as dense as Kouga when it came to human emotions, she finally realized she walked into a tense situation. "Am I interrupting something?"
"This is Amaya, also an acquaintance. I called them here to assist the Kira case," L nodded.
Snapping out of his reverie, Light put on a mask of mock sadness and confusion. "Ryuzaki, it's as I said on the phone... I... might be Kira."
Soichiro's eyes went as wide as saucers and gasped, "D-Don't be stupid! What are you saying? Light?" The distraught father took his teenage son by his shoulders and shook him as if he could shake the thought of being Kira right out of Lights head.
L stared at Light, searching for a conclusion as to why the red haired male would try giving himself up. Kagome set the steaming bowl of ramen on the table and crossed her arms under her chest, knowing something was up if he was confessing.
"Father, if Ryuzaki is L, it's not an exaggeration to say that he's the best detective in the world. That same L is labeling me as Kira. I have to be Kira," Light declared.
"W-What are you saying?" Soichiro shouted angrily.
Lights eyes closed, as if resigned and accepting the current situation he was in. "The person who the FBI investigator Ray Penber was investigating from the time he came to Japan until his death... The person who was in Aoyama on the 22nd of May... The person Amane Misa, the suspected Second Kira, immediately made advances on after coming here from Kanto... They're all me." His eyes opened as he continued his explanation. "If I were in L's shoes, I'd deduce I was Kira. This means that subconsciously, I might have become Kira." Light stared down at his upturned hands, a simple gesture of forfeiting. Kagome narrowed her eyes, knowing that that was not the truth. He had something planned, that much she knew.
"Light..." Soichiro whispered.
"I don't even understand myself anymore," Light admitted, shaking his head. "Even though I'm not conscious of it, I could be killing people while I was sleeping or something."
"That you haven't," L finally spoke.
"What do you mean Ryuzaki?"
"To be honest, there was a period of five days where we set up surveillance cameras in your room."
Light looked up at L, surprised. "Cameras?"
"Yes. You slept normally at night. Having seen that criminals continued to die, despite you having no access to information about them, I concluded not that you were innocent; merely that, if you were Kira, you would not give yourself away on camera."
"'If you were Kira, you would not give yourself away on camera', hm?" Light murmured, running a hand through his hair out of frustration. "That could be true."
'True my ass,' Kagome thought bitterly. 'What are you planning Yagami Light? Where is your lackey shinigami?'
"If I'm honest, I've sometimes thought that some criminals would be better off dead," Light continued, looking over at Soichiro. "I think anyone who thinks this way could become Kira."
"Light-kun! I'm exactly the same. I often find myself thinking that certain people would be better off dead, but that doesn't mean we would really go and kill them right?" Matsuda asked. "Besides, criminals that you had no knowledge of continued to die. The surveillance cameras prove this!"
"No," Aizawa interrupted. "At the time, we didn't have enough man power and only watched his movements inside of the house. It's not like we watched him 24/7 over those five days, so he may have had a way of killing people when he was out of the house."
L reclaimed his seat in front of the monitor and wiggled his toes in thought. "Somehow, I don't like the way this conversation is heading, but... fine." The detective stared up at the ceiling. "We'll restrain Yagami Light and imprison him long term."
"W-What?" Soichiro exclaimed.
Everyone froze in shock, eyes wide and mouths agape. Ayame snorted at the Task Force's reactions, having deduced that this would happen long ago, and Kagome glared at L venomously. Honestly, she was pissed that he made a drastic move without speaking to her about it. For all she knew, they could've just walked into a trap.
"Light-kun... imprisoned?" Matsuda asked through his shock.
"If we're going to do this, we'll start now, by making sure he doesn't go anywhere I can't see him," L stated, lifting his sugar loaded coffee to his pale and thin lips, unaware of the furious miko wanting to throttle him.
"This is unnecessary!" Soichiro ranted. "There's no way my son could be Kira! My son would never-!"
"It's ok, Father," Light said calmly. "I can't continue chasing Kira when deep down I don't even know whether I'm Kira or not." He turned to L, "In return, until you have absolutely no doubt that I am innocent, no matter what happens or what I say, don't let me out."
"I understand," agreed L. "Yagami-san, come up with an excuse for Light-kun's absence for your family. I mean... please do so."
"All of a sudden, you can't expect me to...! I can't understand why my son has to be imprisoned in the first place!" Soichiro yelled.
"Because your son is a raging A-hole with a God complex," Ayame muttered under her breath, chopsticks in her mouth.
"You're being stubborn," Soichiro's son spoke sincerely. "This is the only method by which I'll be able to convince myself I'm not Kira."
"Are you serious Light?"
"Yes, by sealing my freedom, I'm going to win against the fear that Kira lurks inside of me!"
Aizawa took it upon himself to hand cuff his chiefs son and blindfolded him the same way they did Misa. "Aizawa-san, I'm counting on you," L said without looking at them.
"Ok," Aizawa mumbled, leading Light out of the double doors. Soichiro watched helplessly as Matsuda drew the wooden entry ways closed and gave a sympathetic look towards the helpless older man that could do nothing to help his own son.
A/N: There you have it. Again, I'm so sorry about not updating last week. Things have been a little hectic and infuriating. This chapter was a mess a week ago and I thought to myself that I couldn't possibly put this up without refining it thoroughly for you all. Even now, I'm kinda not happy with it, but at least it was better than before. -Sigh-
As you can see, I did put a lot of Soichiro's emotions in this chapter because of the fact that he really went through a lot when he found out that Light would be imprisoned. To think that your son, on a slim chance, may be a mass murderer is hard on anyone, and even the most conservative people would crack and go into a sort of hysterics.
Please review, it makes me happy! Review your thoughts, concerns, and questions if you have any! Ja ne
-KiriKatana