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Chapter Ten: Curiosity Doesn't Always Kill the Cat
Curiosity is a very human emotion, people can't help but wonder about things they do not know.
They wish to gain knowledge about anything and everything and will go to nearly any extent to gain knowledge. People have travelled across the world, invented and tested many things, have studied many subjects, creatures and people yet we still crave new expertise.
However we aren't always curious about things we should be, we pry into others lives and try to fit ourselves in and involve ourselves in ways we shouldn't.
The saying goes that 'curiosity kills the cat' but is that always true?
*****
Yagami Sayu liked to think of herself as a good person and especially liked to think that she was a good little sister so when Raito left his phone on the coffee table one morning, well she decided that she'd inform him and return it to him.
Of course when she felt the phone vibrate and saw that he had received two text messages, she just had to see what they said. She was his younger sister, she was expected to be nosy.
They read:
Raito!
Misa has a shoot near yr house so she's coming 2 have lunch with u!
Can't wait!
Luv, Misa Misa 3
and
Yagami-kun,
I got your number off of a girl from your school, I was hoping to meet up with you, I have something of the utmost importance to discuss with you.
I will meet you in the park at 10AM.
Kiyomi
The brunette blinked down at the second message.
She thought it was sweet that Misa had asked to meet up with her big brother but who was Kiyomi? What was so important that she had to talk to him about it face to face.
Sayu's mouth dropped open a bit, maybe Raito was dating the both of them?!
He had been spending an awful lot of time out, sure he was leaving with their dad but they could be splitting up. Oh how horrible would that be, Raito was too nice to do such things to girls, it couldn't be true.
That was when the front door opened and before the teenage girl could drop the phone, Raito entered the living room and caught her looking at his phone.
"Sayu, what are you doing with my phone?" he asked quietly, he looked calm but she could tell he was annoyed with her.
"Ummm nothing, I was just going to bring your phone to you," she answered before handing the phone to the older teenager but not before she worked up the nerve to ask him about the messages she'd read.
"Who's Kiyomi?"
Raito looked confused for a second or so before he looked down at the message left open on the phone and understood,
"She's a friend, why do you want to know anyway?"
Sayu sighed and smiled up at him,
"I knew it was stupid to be worried, you'd never cheat on Misa-chan," she exclaimed.
A loud sound burbled from the male as he begun to laugh, cheat on Misa with Takada? He wouldn't date either of them unless it was necessary but the fact that he had technically done just that in his past life just made it even funnier.
He calmed down when he received a pout in response,
"Honestly Sayu, I'm not dating either of them. Where did you get that idea," he explained before he ran a hand through his neat auburn hair before he put his phone in his pocket and turned to leave.
"Since I'm not needed, I better go meet her," he muttered before he turned and left the house with his little sister gaping at his back.
What was he talking about, of course he was dating Misa!
"Guys," she grumbled as she flopped down on the sofa and turned the television on.
What could you do with them.
*****
Heels clicked across the concrete as a sharply dressed brunette female walked towards the bench where her companion was waiting,
"Good morning Yagami-kun," she greeted as she sat down, wearing trousers and a pastel coloured blouse that day.
She always dressed as if she was doing business.
"Morning Takada-san, what was it you wanted to talk about?"
A wry smile grew on painted red lips,
"Straight to the point then, have you thought about dealing with criminals again?" she asked as she smoothed out the creases in her trousers and turned to him.
"Obviously I have but I plan to do it by joining the police or something along those lines."
Slender fingers gripped his arm as she leaned in closer to him, so he could almost feel her breath on his face.
"What if there was another way, what if we could go on killing criminals and get away with it."
Killing criminals? What was she talking about that.
He frowned slightly,
"Takada-san, what are you talking about ...you haven't killed anyone have you?" he asked in a hushed tone, leaning in closer as well so no one could listen in on their conversation.
"Perhaps, but I would only kill those who deserve it as you did," she breathed with a smirk on her lips and a malicious gleam in her eye.
She couldn't be...
"Raito!" a loud, obnoxious squeal interrupted his thought process before he was tugged away from Takada, he turned his head slightly to see Misa.
Not that he had assumed it was anyone other then her.
"What were you doing so close to that girl," Misa wailed, her voice shrill as she glared at the other girl with her heavily made up eyes.
"Raito belongs to Misa so stay away!"
The blonde had a surprisingly tight grip on him but he managed to escape as Takada eyed the girl's short lolita attire and stood up, speaking up,
"As far as I know he doesn't belong to anyone other then himself."
"That's where you're wrong! Who are you anyway!" she demanded, hands on her hips as she tapped her foot on the ground in annoyance.
"Takada Kiyomi, I already know who you are though Amane-san."
Misa's expression turned smug, glad that even a prize bitch like Takada knew who she was.
"Though I have to confess, I am slightly disappointed that you seem to be a stereotypical model..."
The blonde looked confused and the resounding look of satisfaction on Takada's face was rather amusing,
"I mean that you seem to be a dumb blonde," she explained with a small sigh.
The older girl flushed a deep red colour out of embarrassment,
"How dare you! Misa is not dumb and you Kiyomi-san don't know her!"
Raito shook his head as he watched the two squabbling girls, it didn't appear that they'd be stopping any time soon and he needed quiet to think about the theory he had just hatched about the murderer.
He needed to get to the headquarters but the two girls were never going to allow him to at this rate.
"Look this is all just one big misunderstanding, we were having a private conversation Misa and Takada-san...Misa isn't all that dumb, that was a slightly unfair statement."
There was silence between the two girls for a moment,
"Fine then but Amane-san, just a friendly a friendly warning though, I wouldn't go out at night dressed like that if I were you, someone might mistake as a hmph...lady of the night, goodbye," Takada commented before turning and walking away, Misa gaping at her back for a few moments before she pouted and started stomping on the spot, fuming to herself.
"How dare she say such things about Misa!" she spat, only just starting on her rant, Raito took this as his cue to leave.
"That was rather rude but I'm afraid I have to leave now Misa, I've got something to attend to so I'll have to see you another time," he quickly replied.
The brunet stood up and smiled down at Misa, she would leave him alone if he put on the charm. Girls were so easy to manipulate in that aspect, they would do anything you told them to do, would believe anything you said as long as you kept them sweet and acted charismatic.
Of course his plan worked, Misa just nodded and batted her eyelashes back up at him,
"Okay then Raito! Misa will call you tonight," she exclaimed before she skipped back off from the direction she came from.
So simple.
*****
Eventually Raito made his way to the hotel the investigation was based in, he had ended up stopping at a bakery on the way to get a cake for L.
It wasn't that he wanted the detective to forgive him, he just realised that L was extremely stubborn and it wouldn't be easy to explain his theory to him unless he was happy and cake was the one way he knew to make the other happy.
He sighed, if his theory got him anywhere anyway.
Her words could have just been talking about a possibility, Takada probably wouldn't want to get her hands dirty and there was no way she could get her hands on a death note anyway.
Or was there.
He would need to have a word with Ryuk later.
Entering the make shift investigation room-the lounge- he placed the white box on the table in front of L before he headed to the laptop that his father vacated when he'd seen him arrive.
"What is in the box Yagami-kun?" L asked as he eyed it blankly.
Why did he always have to look so expressionless, the brunet couldn't help but think in vexation.
Sitting down in an arm chair he looked back up at the pale skinned man,
"Strawberry shortcake, I passed a bakery on the way so I thought I'd get some for everyone," he explained indifferently before he returned his attention to his laptop.
He heard a pleased noise escape L though and he couldn't help the smile that grew on his lips.
The detective may be infuriatingly annoying, stubborn and unfair but he wasn't all that bad. He wanted justice as much as Raito had, they had just had different views on how to give justice.
No, he had to concentrate on his work.
He shook his head and opened up the police files, searching for Takada's to check out.
It appeared she hadn't been arrested and didn't have anything on her criminal record. She'd always done well in school and well she seemed like a perfectly good person.
Raito sighed, it didn't look as if this was going to come to anything.
Absently, he moved onto her parents files. Her dad was a banker, had received a speeding fine years back but that was hardly anything of importance. Her mother's file however was different.
The brunet sat up straight as his eyes skimmed the file and the further he read the more his eyes widened.
It appeared that Takada didn't come from such a normal, middle class family after all.
He continued clicking through files and checked things out before he shut the laptop.
Well that certainly gave her a reason for hating prostitutes.
Finally he stood up and walked over to where L was sitting.
Takada could quite well be a murderer, in her past life she wouldn't have known about the death notes at this time in her life, she would have found another way to deal with her hate but now...
She had all her memories of what she'd done, about what Raito, Mikami, Misa and Higuchi had done. They had all dealt justice to criminals and prostitution was a crime plus she had her own personal vendetta against them. It would seem like a perfect reason to kill them.
He sighed slightly before he cleared his throat to call L's attention to him.
Black eyes settled on him for a moment before returning to the slice of cake he was eating.
"Yes Yagami-kun?"
"Could I speak to you in private. I have a theory on who the killer is."
There was a sudden silence as the police officers and Watari stopped what they were doing to listen in as they all turned their shocked gazes on him.
"Can you not tell me who it is in front of everyone else?"
Inside Raito scowled in response to this but that would seem childish, he needed to remain calm and not allow the other to get to him.
"Fine then, earlier on I was speaking to a friend of mine, Takada Kiyomi and she said something rather suspicious to me..."
"How come I have never heard of this Takada?" Soichiro interrupted, he thought he knew about all of his son's friends and they were all perfectly good citizens. Well as good as teenagers could be.
"I only met her recently, anyway she asked me what I could do if we could kill criminals then get away with it. Sadly our conversation was ended by Misa but before she left she also warned Misa that she might be mistaken as a prostitute and it sounded like a threat to me," he explained.
The look L was shooting him looked almost sceptical, it was blank but Raito could feel that the older man didn't believe him.
"If she is a high school student like you then how could she find the time and what would her motive be?" he asked.
That didn't stop you from accusing me he retorted in his mind but of course he continued to act calm in front of everyone though he was coming close to losing it.
"I did some background research on her and her family, it turns out that years before she got married, her mother was a prostitute for a while. She was addicted to drugs and jailed for it for a few times before she was finally placed on a rehabilitation program and found a job. Last year though she was also done for assault, apparently she caught her husband in bed with a prostitute and attempted to attack the girl for it. That prostitute was the first victim, Sakurai Junko."
L had finished his cake as the brunet was speaking and placed his empty plate down on the table next to his laptop.
"I suppose that is a sufficient motive but for once Yagami-kun, I cannot agree with you. It just does not suit the killings and where would she have got her hands on the correct equipment? It is just too improbable," he responded as he looked up at the teenage male.
He did have a point there but that was the last straw, he couldn't take any more of the man's off-handed, demeaning attitude. He just didn't want to admit he was wrong as that would mean that Raito was better then him. In his warped mind it could mean that he had power over him and that was a thought that L didn't like.
"She could have paid someone or there could have been some other way she did it but you just won't agree with me because it would mean that you're wrong, that I am not the killer but you're just too stubborn to see it," his voice started off calm but as he spoke he became angrier until he was nearly screaming at the other who just stared emptily back at him.
As if he didn't care.
Oh, the brunet was going to make him care though.
He pulled his arm back and went in for a punch but before his fist met the other's face, L had moved and he felt a leg kick into his side and send him flying back into the table, knocking of the laptop and scattering the files all across the floor.
Raito glared at L through narrowed brown eyes,
"That is enough Yagami-kun, I will look into your theory as we need to look into every angle but there is no need to scream at me. Please return to your work everyone, I will have a word with Yagami-kun in private," he said, nodding at everyone else in the group who all did as he said but Raito didn't miss the angry look his father shot at him.
He knew he should have stayed calm, getting to his feet, he followed L into the bedroom to talk.
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I hope that chapter was a lot better then the last one, it's longer most definitely XD.
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