I continued with the usual routine of killing criminals when I wasn't at school for the next few days. I told Ryuk how my hiding place for the Death Note had worked and didn't answer when he asked me who I said had given me the idea. Saying Light did would be talking about myself here since he doesn't know about the original. I'm actually just a fake. Anyway, I found out I was pretty popular with how many times I had to turn down people's invitations. Ryuk complained about school and made it a little difficult to concentrate with his antics going on in the background. I also had to tell him that I wasn't going to talk to him in public. I had to help Sayu with her homework today. And by help, I mean I pretty much did it for her.
"Do you get it now?" I asked her tiredly, pointing to one of the last questions I helped her with.
"Um…" She stared at it in confusion.
I sighed and put a hand to my forehead. "What am I going to do with you?"
She gave me a sheepish smile, which I responded to with a snort and a lopsided smile before trying to explain to her one more time.
A couple more days and I found the Kira websites. I sighed as Ryuk looked over my shoulder at them.
"What? Aren't you happy about this?"
"No. I don't care about their opinions."
"You make it sound like there's someone you do want to notice."
"Do I?" I asked with a lop-sided smile that probably could be described as wistful as I turned on the T.V. sitting on my desk.
"We'd like to apologize for the interruption. As of now, we're bringing you a live worldwide broadcast of Interpol's ICPO." A reporter read from a paper. "We now take you live to the ICPO."
"Hm?" I tilted my head in curiosity as the screen changed to a black haired man with a nameplate reading "Lind L. Tailor" on it.
"Hm? What's this?" Ryuk seemed interested as well.
"I head up an international police task force which includes all member nations. I am Lind L. Tailor. Otherwise known as L." The man on the screen said.
"Buuuulllshiiiit." I mumbled, staring at the screen with a stupid giddy grin on my face as I got the Death Note ready.
"You don't believe him but you're writing his name?" Ryuk questioned me.
"He's a criminal who's on death row anyway." I shrugged.
"How do you know?"
I just continued staring quietly at the T.V. as my heartbeat started to get louder and faster with my excitement. After a long pause, the man finally spoke again.
"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."
"He's certain he'll catch you." Ryuk commented.
"He's also going to die and he knows it." I responded absently.
"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're doing right now is evil."
"I know." I whispered, feeling my smile twist with a slight insanity as I got my pen ready, my hand twitching as I waited for the right time. When he smiled, I quickly scratched down his name. It wasn't big like Light's had been, taking up half a page, but rather just like any other criminal I've killed. "This is about to get very interesting. Would you remember what I said about this guy being a criminal as we watch, Ryuk?"
"Huh?"
After waiting forty seconds, the man cried out in pain and grabbed his chest before his face hit the desk and he was probably dead.
"Come on out, L." I whispered, biting the end of the pen with anticipation as I watched the man being carried off the screen before it cut to the screen with a fancy "L" on it.
"Ah…I had to test this just in case, but I…I never thought it would actually happen." The scrambled voice sounded pretty surprised. "Kira, it seems you can kill people without having to be there in person. I wouldn't've believed it if I hadn't just witnessed it. Listen to me, Kira, if you did indeed kill Lind L. Tailor, the man that you just saw die on television, I should tell you that he was an inmate who's execution was scheduled for today. That was not me."
Ryuk started cackling like that was the funniest thing that's happened all week.
"The police arrested him in absolute secrecy, so you wouldn't've heard about him on T.V. or through the internet. It appears that even you don't have access to information about these types of criminals."
"You got him there, didn't you?" Ryuk said between cackles.
"But I assure you, L is real. I do exist. Now, try to kill me!"
I leaned back in my chair and crossed my arms. "Nah. Don't wanna."
"What's wrong? Hurry up! Come on, right now! Kill me!"
I bit the pen as I closed the Death Note and began putting it away.
"You're not going to?"
"My purpose in killing Lind L. Tailor was to confirm to L that I existed. I have no need to kill him. He'll be chasing me now."
"You want to get caught?" Ryuk sounded confused now.
"No. I have a purpose in having L chase me."
"A purpose?"
"You'll see." I dismissed the question.
"Hey, you're not any regular human, are you?" Ryuk asked me suspiciously.
"I…don't know." I responded, turning my attention back to the taunting as that giddy, lop-sided smile of a near-insane person worked it's way back onto my face.
"Well, Kira, it seems that you can't kill me after all." L said.
"Didn't want to."
"So there are some people you can't kill. You've given me a useful hint. Let me return the favour. I'll tell you something that I think you'll find interesting."
"This broadcast is only in the Kanto region?" I replied, on the edge of my seat.
"Although this was announced as a world-wide broadcast, the truth is, we are only broadcasting in the Kanto region of Japan. 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."
Ryuk laughed. "This L guy is pretty good, but you predicted that and still did it."
"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 who've 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. 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 will be able to sentence you to death."
"You're a little late for that." I felt my grin grow. "I've already done it for you."
"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." And with that, the T.V. went to static.
I stared at it in silence for a moment before I burst out into a fit of laughter that sounded insane even to my own ears. It didn't take long for me to calm to just the lop-sided grin.
"L, I will hunt you down wherever you're hiding and I will…" I trailed into another fit of mad giggling before I just completed the dramatic line. "I am justice!"
And then I fell back into my giggling, even falling off my chair and wrapping my arms around my stomach while I kicked my legs. My eyes were watering and my chest hurt, but I couldn't stop until I was gasping for breath and felt like I might be sick.
"What's so funny?" Ryuk asked once I got up and picked up my chair, still giggling even with my head spinning.
"Nothing. Something happened that was just personally hilarious to me."
"What?"
There was a knock on my door. "Light? Is everything alright?"
"Y-Yeah, everything's…fine!" I called back to my mother as I tried to contain my leftover giggling.
"A-Alright…" She didn't sound convinced, but left anyway.
I sat back down in my chair and leaned back. "Well now, I guess I have some work to do before that happens."