A few days had past since Hikari's realization that Light was Kira. It was now December 08, 2006. Terror filled her mind and she knew she had no choice but to do as Light said, otherwise he would follow through with his sincere threat. She kept the Death Note with her always, never letting it out of her sight, nor allowing any other person to touch it, let alone see it. She was extremely careful with it and since the first day had not written a single name in the note.
Her attention sprang to Kaito as she heard him chuckle, "What is it, Kaito?"
"Not very active with the note, are you?" he asked her from across the room. He was lying on the couch eating from a bag of chips. Throughout the day, most the shinigami ever did was eat junk foods and take naps. He would occasionally play video games when he ran out of food to eat, usually pestering Hikari into going to get more.
"I'm not too fond of being a murderer, so of course I'm not going to go crazy with it. If I do happen to use it again it will be for a good reason," Hikari explained as she turned on the television. A few moments after it came on the screen changed from its program to a blue screen with a message for the viewers.
It read, 'Advisory. A special broadcast will be aired in place of what was scheduled in this time slot.' Suddenly the screen changed to a news anchor who tried to explain, "We'd like to apologize for the interruption. As of now we're bringing you a live worldwide broadcast of Interpol ICPO."
Another voice then spoke saying, "We now take you live to the ICPO."
"I wonder what this is all about," Hikari asked as her and Kaito looked to the television. The screen changed to the ICPO. A man was sitting before the camera, finely dressed with a name plate on the desk which read Lind. L. Tailor. He had black hair and blue eyes and looked about in his early to mid thirties.
"I head up an international police task force, which includes all member nations. I am Lind. L. Tailor, otherwise known as L," the man spoke.
"L?" Hikari asked as she watched the broadcast.
"Criminals around the world are being murdered by a serial killer; I consider this crime to be the most atrocious act of murder in history. I will not rest until the person or persons responsible are brought to justice. Kira, I will hunt you down. I will find you. Kira, I've got a pretty good idea what your motivation might be and I can guess what you hope to achieve. However, what you are doing right now is evil," the man finished as he smirked.
"I wonder if Light's seeing this . . . how will he react to it?" she asked herself. Kaito laughed.
"This is interesting, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was to die," he said still laughing. Hikari looked at him then back to the television. Suddenly, like clockwork, the man grasped his chest in pain and fell forward onto the desk, dead instantly by heart attack.
She gasped after seeing it, "Light, you didn't . . ." she spoke, shaking her head. Suddenly, people rushed onto the scene, carrying away the man's body. Soon after, the screen changed again, this time changing to a white screen with the single letter L written in cloister black font in the middle.
"Uh . . . I had to test this just in case but I-I never thought it would actually happen. Kira, it seems you can kill people without having to be there in person. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't just witnessed it," the person spoke but used a synthetic voice to hid their true voice.
"Listen to me, Kira, if you did indeed kill Lind. L. Tailor, the man you just saw die on television. I should tell you that he was an inmate, whose execution was scheduled for today. That was not me. The police arrested him in absolute secrecy, so you wouldn't have heard about it on TV or through the internet. It appears that not even you have access to information about these types of criminals. But I assure you, L is real. I do exist, now . . . try to kill me!" the person shouted over the broadcast.
"Is this guy crazy, then again . . . I guess he's pretty safe considering Light has no idea what he looks like or even his real name . . ."
"Come on, right now, kill me. What are you waiting for, are you gonna do it? Come on, try to kill me. What's the matter, can't you do it?" the voice persisted then stopped, taking a deep pause.
"Well Kira, it seems that you can't kill me after all. So there are some people you can't kill. You've given me a useful hint. Let me return the favor. I'll tell you something that I think you'll find interesting. Although this was announced as a worldwide broadcast, the truth is we are only broadcasting in the Kanto region of Japan."
"What?!" Hikari said shocked.
"I had planned to broadcast this message around the world until we found you, but it looks like that won't be necessary, I now know where you are. The police treated your first killing as an unrelated incident, but in actuality the first of your victims was a suspect in Shinjuku. Of all the criminals that have recently died of heart attacks, this one's crime was by far the least serious; furthermore, his crime was only ever reported inside Japan. I used that information to deduce this much: You are in Japan and your first victim was little more than an experiment, which means that you haven't been killing for very long." Hikari kept watching unable to believe how right this person was about Kira's whereabouts.
"We decided to broadcast in Kanto first because of its large population and luckily we found you. To be completely honest with you, I never expected that things would go this well, but it won't be too long now before I'm able to sentence you to death."
"Wow . . . by this rate he'll be able to figure it out easily," Hikari said. Kaito sat there amazed.
"Well, seems your friend, Light, is going to have to be careful or he just might end up behind bars or worse," the shinigami said.
"Naturally, I'm very interested to know how you're able to commit these murders without being present, but I don't mind waiting a little bit longer. You can answer all of my questions when I catch you. Let's meet again soon, Kira," the voice finished then disappeared along with the screen.
"A battle between Kira and L . . ."
"This will be fun to watch," Kaito finished for her. She turned and looked at him, "What, you know you were thinking it," he said then laughed.
"Fun? More like intense," she said and looked back to her screen, "In anyway, Light's definitely going to have to be careful if he wants to stay out of L's grasp, then again I don't really think it's right for Light to get away with this, after all . . . it's as if he's playing God," Hikari said as she thought deeply about the issue. True, she was Light's friend and would try her best to help him, but this didn't seem right in her opinion, it wasn't his nor anyone else's job to pass judgment on people. She believed it should be left up to God and God alone. However, in her situation, what would she do? What could she possibly do, and would it put her life in danger? Those were the questions she asked herself that day.