Sorry it took so long to get this one out, but I've had a rather busy week. This one and the next one were very fun to write. They were alot better when I played them out in my mind, so sorry if it's not the best. Anyway, hope you enjoy and don't forget to review. Oh and thanks for reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or any characters affiliated with it.
"Ok, well here goes nothing," Hikari said, stepping out from the building where she was waiting on her date for the evening.
"Good, just take a deep breath and relax. Just act . . . like Misa when she's on one of her dates," Ryuuzaki spoke.
"So you want me to act immature and annoying," Hikari asked quietly, laughing a bit.
"Very funny!" Hikari heard Misa shout.
"She's only being honest, Misa," Ryuuzaki replied then returned his attention to Hikari, "Anyway, be careful and try not to blow your cover."
"Ryuuzaki, did anyone ever tell you that you worry too much?" she asked then walked towards the black sports car that just drove up to the front of the building.
The two of them went to a nice restaurant, spending most of the time during the meal in conversations concerning random things such as a favorite movie or book. During the dessert somehow the topic went from that to Kira. "So, Mina, I hear that you're a Kira supporter," Kenichi asked her.
"Why yes, I am, what about you?" she replied casually, trying hard not to make it obvious that she wasn't.
"No, I really don't believe Kira is justified by his killings. Sure, they are only criminals, but still, it doesn't seem right in my eyes . . . my father sees him differently," he admitted.
"Ah, so you're an L supporter then?"
"Yeah, I guess you could say that. So, Mina, tell me, why did you choose to support Kira? Make a believer out of me, if you're lucky you might just change my opinion," he said to her with a smirk.
"Well, in my honest opinion, I believe what Kira is doing is good. There are so many bad people in this world that are corrupting the innocent. Sure he may be killing people, but he's doing this only to help those in need. He has good intentions," Hikari replied.
"I guess that does make sense, although, I still believe Kira's wrong in his thinking. Now, if he was able to bring people back, such as victims in crimes, then maybe I might be able to believe in him and think of him as some god, but not with all this killing stuff. He seems to be scaring people for their lives more than actually helping protect the innocent," Kenichi replied. The conversation soon took a turn from Kira into more work related topics.
"My father wants me to take over for him as soon as he retires, but I'm not to sure if I really want to. Sure the pay is worth it and I know everyone in the business but I'm not really sure if the movie industry is something I had in mind as a lifetime career," he said.
"Oh, so, what do you want to do?" she asked, acting interested.
"Well, I really want to go to med school to become a doctor," he replied.
"That's interesting, sounds like a very exciting job, plus rewarding cause you're helping people," she said with a smile.
"Yeah, but I'm not sure my dad would approve of that, he'd probably say 'Now Kenichi, our family has been in the movie business for generations' or something along those lines," he said as they laughed. "I'm serious, though, he probably would say something like that, especially after the odd growth in the business over the past few weeks," he said thinking about it.
"Finally, something we can work with," Light said. Ryuuzaki just sat quietly, listening to the conversation intently.
"Odd growth?" Hikari questioned.
"Yeah, usually our business rises and falls normally depending on how great we're doing, but lately I've been noticing a weird trend in the charts. Our production company has been rising drastically while everyone else's has fallen quite significantly. I had a weird feeling, but it seemed too far fetch to me," he admitted.
"Hikari, try to get out as much information as possible without looking too suspicious," Ryuuzaki said to her.
'Got it, Ryuuzaki' she thought, "What exactly?" she asked, curious.
"Well, I know this sounds pretty impossible, but I think that Kira might be one of the producers," he said to her.
"Really? Why would you think that though, it could just be that you guys could be doing very well in sales and movie deals" she said.
"Well, that could be possible, but it wouldn't explain the deaths," he said.
"Deaths?"
"Yes, you see, every one of those production companies lost executives and head producers, not only that, but soon after, Hana production got their clients and all the deals that they had just received. It kind of strikes me at more than a coincidence, don't you think?"
Hikari shrugged, "I'm not sure, I guess you do have a point though, but why would Kira want to help out with a movie company? What would his reasons be?"
"That's why I think it's one of the head producers of the company. In fact that's probably the best place for Kira to be to achieve his new goals, I guess," he told her.
"Maybe, but why tell me all of this?"
"I don't know, maybe because your eyes show a very trustworthy person . . . or maybe because I know my father wouldn't talk to me about it. He'd say that it wasn't anything to worry about or that it didn't matter if Kira is helping so long as the money continues to pour in. I'm starting to believe that he just might be the one that is Kira. I know that may be a little too strong of a suspicion, but he's been acting very strange lately. He just recently decided to support Kira, he spends more time in his office than anywhere else and quite a few times he seems as if he's talking to himself. Then again maybe my old man's going a bit senile, you know?" he stated with a laugh.
"Well, older adults tend to act like that sometime," she said giving a small laugh as well. 'Talking with himself at times, it has to be a shinigami, meaning . . . he has to be Kira.'
"Of course I may just be paranoid, considering how bad it would hurt the business if Kira was actually one of the producers. To be honest, I know you see him as somewhat of a savior, but I wish that L would hurry up and capture that bastard," Kenichi said. The conversation began to die down soon after that and he paid their check and drove her back to the building where he picked her up earlier on.
Hikari yawned as she followed in behind Matsuda who had picked her up. "Well, that was a very interesting evening," she said as she flopped down onto the sofa. Ryuuzaki turned to her.
"Yes, I have to admit that I wasn't expecting him to reveal all that. He must be stressed over something. Then again it does make it least likely now that he would be Kira, considering Kira would never be so stupid as to reveal that to someone he only met a few days before, unless . . ." Ryuuzaki stopped in mid-thought, turning back to his computer screen as he thought things through.
Hikari was walking through the main building of Hana Productions. She was looking for the candy machine that she was told was on the current floor she had been walking on for the last ten minutes. "This place sure is big," Kaito said as he floated behind her.
As she continued on, she began to hear talking from up ahead. Usually she would have just continued on, minding her own business, but this time the conversation caught her attention. She slowly made her way near the corner of the hallway, stopping before a door of stairs that led to the basement. She remained in silence as she listened in. It was Kenichi's father, Katsuro Hana and Ichiro Takeshi.
"So, this is all you've got, huh? I've given you weeks to figure out L's identity and all you find is this? Obviously Coil is just toying with us to get money, there's more of a possibility that he has no clue just who the hell L is! This is wasting our time, Takeshi!" Mr. Hana exclaimed, but still remained as silent as possible.
"Sir, I'm sorry, this is the best I can do right now. I'm trying as hard as I can to find out more about him, but no one seems to know anything from where he's staying to how to reach him, it's just going to take more time," Mr. Takeshi explained.
"Well you better hurry up, unless you want me to kill you off next instead of the executive producer of Koubai Productions," he warned him.
"Y-yes sir," Mr. Takeshi stuttered. Hikari made her decision then that it was time to leave.
She quickly made her way down the hall, stopping at an intersection to take a breather. 'Hopefully, I wasn't heard, huh? Well, well, what do you know a snack machine.' She looked around, seeing that she was not being followed and stopped before the snack machine. "Ryuuzaki, I really hope you heard all of that," she said softly.
"Yep, every word," he replied. She could tell by how he was talking that he had a lollipop in his mouth. She sighed as she put money into the machine.
"Good," she pressed the button on the machine, getting a package of m&ms.
"Oh! Hey, Hikari, while you're at it, would you mind getting me some cupcakes?" he asked. She raised an eyebrow, but then remembered that he had cameras placed around the building.
"Which one, vanilla or chocolate?" she asked.
"Chocolate," he replied. She pressed the button, getting the package of cupcakes.
"Ooh, ask her to get me a bag of chips!" she heard Light's voice say. She knew he was doing it only to piss her off.
"Fine. Original, right?" He replied with a yes and she pressed the button for the chips.
"You guys owe me each a dollar fifty," she declared, placing the snacks before each of them.
"Thank you," each of them replied. Hikari sighed and flopped onto the sofa.
"So, Ryuuzaki, what about that conversation?"
"Well, after listening to it and going over the recording of what Kenichi Hana said, there can only be one conclusion, Mr. Katsuro Hana is Kira, however, to be sure, we're going to need and see if that threat actually happens," Ryuuzaki replied.
Hikari and the others gasped, "You mean until the executive from Koubai suddenly dies? Ryuuzaki, we can't do that!"
"I know that seems wrong, but I have to be completely sure that this is Kira--" he began.
"You want to sacrifice another innocent life just to make sure?! Ryuuzaki--" Hikari started.
"I don't have a choice!" he spat, a little less calm than before.
"If you do this, Ryuuzaki, you're no different than Kira!" she shouted at him then left the room.
"Hikari," Light called to her, but she was already gone.
She slammed the door to her room and flopped down onto her bed. She was so angry that tears started to stream down her reddening face. She grabbed her pillow and laid her face up against it, trying to calm down a bit. She was rather ashamed for what she had said to Ryuuzaki, but right now she knew that she would never admit it as wrong.
She lied there, thinking. She sat up and wiped the tears from her eyes before she left her room.
Ryuuzaki and the others
"Ryuuzaki?"
"Yes, Watari, what is it?" Ryuuzaki replied.
"We just received word that the executive producer of Koubai had just died of a heart attack, but he wasn't the only one. A number of producers from Hana Productions have just died as well.
"Thank you, Watari," Ryuuzaki said as he thought about the situation, 'It seems he's killing anyone who might know anything about him being Kira, trying to cover his trail,' he thought. "Alright, let's bring him in," He finished, rising from his chair.
"Thanks for letting me drop by on such short notice," she said, sitting down on a sofa.
"It's fine, so what happened?" Kenichi asked her.
"Me and a friend got into an argument, no big deal, just thought it would be best to get away and calm down," she said with a smile.
"I understand perfectly, you wait here and I'll get you a drink. I hope cola is fine?" he said.
"Yes, thank you," she replied and he left the room. She looked around the current room she was in. It looked like the combination of a sitting room and an office.
"Hikari, are you sure you should be here especially on your own?" Kaito asked.
"I'll be fine, Kaito. Why are you acting so worried all of a sudden--" she whispered, but stopped when something caught her attention. She rose to her feet, walking toward the office desk.
The humming of the helicopter rang through the air as bright lights were shining towards the person of interest, who stood on a boat dock before a yacht. "It's over Hana! Turn around with your hands up, now!" Mr. Yagami said as he and other task force members surrounded the suspect, all wearing helmets to keep their faces hidden. Ryuuzaki, Light, and Watari were in the helicopter that flew over head, watching the suspect carefully.
'It can't be! No way . . . We were wrong!?' Hikari thought, her hands trembling as she held the black notebook that she was so familiar with. Hearing footsteps approaching, she set it back down, quickly and sat back down on the sofa.
"Here you are," he said, handing her the drink. She took a sip, trying her best to regain her composure.
'Now, for the moment of truth,' she thought then looked up at him, "Thank you," she replied. Her eyes caught sight of the white shinigami a few feet behind him. Thank God she had already witnessed a shinigami before or she would have lost all control and gave up her cover. She took another sip, remaining calm, and then set the glass onto the coffee table. 'I need to get in touch with Ryuuzaki and fast,' she thought. "Do you mind if I use your restroom real quick?"
"Not at all, down that hall and to the left," he replied, still as polite as always. Hikari rose to her feet and walked down the hall, Kaito following her, knowing what she was about to do. She closed the door behind her and pulled out her cell phone. She quickly dialed the number and impatiently waited for him to answer. "Come on, Ryuuzaki pick up."
Hearing the ringing of his cell phone, he removed it from his pocket and looked to the ID. "Hikari?"
"Probably calling to apologize about that comment earlier," Light suggested.
"Sorry, Hikari, but I'll have to call you back," he said to the phone, placing it back into his pocket.
The message recorder picked it up instead, "Dammit, L, this is important! We were wrong about Kira! He's not Katsuro Hana he's--" she tried, but lost consciousness when something hit her in the back of the head.
Mr. Hana put his hand in the air as he turned around, "Alright, you got me!" he replied then suddenly collapsed.
"What the hell?" Light shouted as he and Ryuuzaki looked to see the fallen suspect.
"Ryuuzaki . . . H-he's dead," Mr. Yagami revealed.
"How can that be possible?" Light asked.
"We found a letter with him . . . and . . . it's addressed to you, L," Mr. Yagami told Ryuuzaki.
"Bring it over to the helicopter, please," Ryuuzaki asked. The envelope was brought to him and he opened it, pulling out the letter to read the one sentence written:
Catch me if you can, L!
-Kira
'Damn you, Kira!' he thought as he set the letter down. He thought over everything carefully then remembered Hikari's call. Something was telling him that her call couldn't wait. He pulled out the phone listening to the message, his eyes widening as he heard it.
"Ryuuzaki?" Light called.
Ryuuzaki removed the phone from his ear and dialed the number to Hikari's cell phone. It just kept ringing, no one answering. It reached her voice mail and he hung up dialed again once again ending up with nothing.
"Ryuuzaki, what's going on?" Light asked and then Ryuuzaki's cell phone started ringing. He answered the phone.
"Hikari?" he asked.
"Hello, L," a synthetic voice spoke.
"Who is this? Where is she?!" he growled.
"As if I'd tell you. I will give you a little heads up though; you only have twenty minutes to find her. Being the great detective that you are, you should have no trouble finding her, right?" the voice challenged.
"How do I know she's still alive?" he asked.
The voice chuckled, "Here, angel, L wants to talk to you," the voice said in the background as the phone was moved.
"R-Ryuuzaki--" Hikari spoke softly, her voice shaken up.
"Hikari--"
"There, now you know she's alive, for now." The voice spoke then disconnected the phone.
A/N: Yay... A hostage situation, how nice -sarcasm- Well that's it for this chapter. I'll try to get the next one out soon, possibly today if my PC allows me the opportunity... lately it's been a bit tempermental... Anyway, review and tell me whatcha think :3
sun-sun kat: I'm glad you love it :3 Yea, I keep getting irratated at Hikari because she is not telling him (even though it's my fault, lol) but I'm not ready to end the story yet so I torture them a little bit more (sorry L) Thanks for the story alert and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story as well :D