"I am going to have to have you refer to me as Ryuzaki for now on, let's show Kira we value our lives." L said as he dropped more sugar cubes in his tea.
"Unfortunately, with our twelve FBI agents who died many of our task force has quit, with no fault to them, it's hard to risk your life… Even when you took a job knowing full well it may come to that, but that unprecedented fact, is besides the point." L looked out the window drinking his sweetened tea. "We'll need to be careful. It's obvious in order to orchestrate their deaths Kira had access to our data." L turned around and watched them, "You are aware I can't hear nods, correct?"
The six men on the task force nodded again and L sighed, "It's come to my attention that light of the recent deaths of the FBI agents, others that were close to them died as well. More specifically the fiancée of Ray Penber. I'll need to know who he was tailing, his fiancée was a highly skilled FBI investigator she may have discovered a lead. I wonder if it was possible for Kira to get to her before she could reach any of us, we need someone down at task force headquarters at all times. Work in shifts in you need too, Aizawa, you go first."
"You got it, Ryuzaki." Aizawa bowed, grabbed his coat and left for the door.
L watched him leave, "The rest of you, let's focus on who Ray was investigating that day."
Soichiro looked up from some papers, "Who was he investigating?"
L closed his eyes and crouched in the chair near the hotel table overlooking a paper Watari placed in front of him, "Deputy director, Soichiro Yagami and family, and Rin Takada and family."
Rin Takada, Kiyomi Takada's father, a tall slender man with dark chocolate hair and dark eyes, it has been speculated that Kiyomi looks very much like him in female form.
Both detective Rin and Soichiro eyed each other suspiciously. "Why would he be investigating our families?" Rin questioned.
L looked down and muttered, "I made it pretty clear earlier, Kira has access to our data, meaning he's most likely one of the family members of the remaining investigators. Since there's less than 1% that any of you are Kira. I'd like to place wire taps and video recorders in each home. I will personally lead the surveillance of the homes to keep it unbiased."
Each detective nodded and gave consent, "We have nothing to hide." Soichiro stated as he signed the paperwork to allow surveillance of his home.
"My daughter and I live alone, she's at school during the day and cram school in the evenings, you can go in any time of day and place them." Rin said signing his name below Soichiro's.
L nodded at both of them, "Soichiro, I'll need you to distract your family."
Soichiro put his pen back in his pocket, "My son Light and my daughter Sayu are both at school in the day and Light attends the same cram school that Mr. Rin's daughter attends, I'll be able to get my wife out of the house by surprising her and taking her to brunch. It will have to be then. Otherwise, Light will come home after school before he leaves for cram school at 1830."
L looked both detectives over, "That information is very helpful, thank you, detectives, Watari? We'll be placing surveillance in Yagami-san's home first in the morning after his wife leaves the home then we will place surveillance in Takada-san's home after. Okay, let's review the tapes of Ray Penber's death again, I think I saw something we missed last time. Soichiro, go home and rest, we'll need you to get your wife out of the home tomorrow."
Soichiro nodded, "When did you want to meet my son?"
L paused, "Oh, Right… The curious over helpful one… I forgot. After I've cleared him or have become more suspicious of him I suppose, I don't know, tell him something came up."
Soichiro looked down, "He'll be disappointed."
"Disappointed as he may be, I've taken an interest in him. I'm just not sure where that interest has fallen yet." L said to Soichiro waving him off. "Light Yagami just like everyone else I'm looking at, there's only a 5% chance you're the one I seek, yet, something about you seems off." L furrowed his eye brows reaching over to his cake.
Soichiro departed the hotel and pulled out his cell phone, "Suppose I should give him the bad news."
Light's phone rang, "Hey, Dad. No, it's okay, I completely understand, can't be to careful. Oh? Really? Mom will be excited. I can't tell her? Alright Dad, then I'll see you when you get home."
Light walked downstairs after completing his homework and helped his mother set up the table for dinner. "Dad will be coming home for dinner." He said as he set up the forth table spot.
His mother smiled from the kitchen watching Light turn around to help Sayu with her homework.
Soichiro walked through the door and left his shoes, "Hello, family!" He put his briefcase down which contained all the necessary surveillance equipment L's team would need to set up in their house the following day.
Light and Sayu both looked up from her book and greeted their father warmly.
L listened through some headphones that were linked to the bug he placed on Soichiro. "The perfect family, the perfect wife, has a hot meal for him every night, his over achiever son and his athletic daughter. He's a lucky man, if it isn't all for show that is." L placed his index finger on his bottom lip. "An interesting family indeed." L laid back on the couch listening to their conversation as the other detectives searched for more evidence other than a missing envelop.
Light was telling a story, "So, then, the punk turned to me and said, 'Fine, I'll take your money instead.' And I started jogging ahead of him and yelled, 'You can have it if you can catch me!'" The table erupted in laughter.
L smirked with his eyes closed at Light's story and listened to the families interactions with each other. "They're too perfect."
The headphones were ripped from L's head as Rin leaned over him, "What if Kira was on that train?"
L shot him a nasty glare. "I had already deduced that, why else would Ray be straining that hard to look back." L snatched the headphones back and put them back on his head.
He heard Soichiro going upstairs, with the bugged coat he hung in the bathroom to dry. "Sayu, next time, you really need to be more careful with your drink."
"I'm so sorry, Daddy!" Sayu said frantically.
"It's fine dear, just next time be more mindful." Soichiro's voice softened as he walked away. Light walked past Sayu saying goodnight to her.
"Light! I'm sorry, I'm really stressed out about the test tomorrow, will you sing that song to me again?" Sayu said pleadingly, "Please!"
"Well, I guess, I think you're getting a little old for it, though." Light said while laughing.
Sayu giggled excitedly and ran into her room across the hall from the bathroom, L could hear Light sigh and complain to himself a little.
L could hear Sayu jump into her bed and Light begin signing in Latin,
"Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam,
Et lingua eius loquetur indicium."
L had his eyes closed listening. L opened his eyes a little later to the rising sun. Getting up and stretching then hopping back on the couch and haunching over in his usual position biting his thumb, "I actually fell asleep."