Deidara looked at Ryuga. "I'll help out, un." He said, standing up.
Sasori looked at him. "I think I will, too."
Ryuga nodded. "Good."
The next day was a Saturday, and the students were free to leave campus. Ryuga, Sasori, and Deidara left to the NPA, Light had been there for a while already. When they got there, the other detectives gave Deidara and Sasori a strange look, and the glance that Light shot their way was ever stranger.
Why are they here…? He thought, looking down.
"Ryuzaki, are they…?"
Ryuga nodded. "They are joining the task force. Their deduction skills are excellent."
Light nodded.
"Um, Ryuga-san…"
"Please, call me Ryuzaki here." He told Sasori, biting on his thumbnail, as usual. He took his seat in his usual weird position, and grabbed a box of pocky, eating slowly. He put the box down, and looked at Deidara and Sasori.
"Here in the task force, we have fake names for everyone…so you, Deidara, are Tito Daichuo, and Sasori-san, Satsuma Saioro."
The two nodded.
"So…I will call you Tito-san and Satsuma-san."
They nodded again.
Light looked at Ryuzaki. "What is my fake name?"
"Asahi Raito."
Light nodded, taking it in.
Ryuzaki looked at Deidara and Sasori. "Satsuma-san, can you look at these things for me?" he asked the puppeteer, giving him a stack of photos. He gave Deidara a list of names.
"Tito-san, that is a list of the twelve agents. Kira murdered them all. This list is in the order of which they received a file of the names and faces of the other 12. It is in the same order as they died."
Deidara gawked at the list. There was something about the way the murders were carried out…the order and everything.
"Doesn't Kira need a name and a face?"
Ryuzaki nodded.
"Well, the file was of names and photographs…do you think that maybe Kira used that file somehow, un? He must have been in contact with one of the agents, un…"
Ryuzaki grinned. "You're not as blonde as you seem, Tito-san. That is the way it seems."
Deidara nodded, looking again.
Ryuzaki turned to Sasori. "Satsuma-san, can you see anything in the notes?"
Sasori looked up. "Yeah. They have print numbers on the back, but the notes themselves don't make sense. It took me a while to figure out, but the first words on each note…they come out, 'L do you know gods of death love apples?'"
Light looked at the notes. He had made his victims write those when he was testing the Death Note's abilities. The Death Note could control its victims before death.
Ryuzaki nodded. "Yes, but the print numbers make more sense, because there is a fourth note."
Light looked at him. A fourth?
Ryuzaki arranged the notes so Sasori could see it. "Oh…that makes less sense, but I guess that's the order it's supposed to be in…that's weird."
Deidara looked at them, too. "Oh, that is weird…"
Ryuzaki nodded. "Well, that's all. You two can go back to campus."
They nodded, going back to the dorms hand in hand.
Matsuda looked at Ryuzaki. "Are they…?"
Ryuzaki nodded.
