*** Author's Note ***

So I got another fan! Welcome to the ranks of my followers, WerewolfNobody!
I really wish people would review more often! If you do… I might do something
special… I don't know what yet though… If everyone who reads this chapter leaves
a comment then I will… I don't know. Message me your idea! Yeah! That way I
know you will like it. I thought about posting an excerpt… but it had some BIG
spoilers for the rest of the story… And I don't want to spoil it… Anyway~ You guys
want to know what gives me the inspiration to write? That's right! YOU! Every time
I check my email and someone has added "Kira Again" to their alert list, or reviewed
it, I feel so light and bouncy! And I sit down right then and write another chapter!
Think of me what you will, it is you that is the driving force behind me! I love my fans!
Okay… I have gone on rather loudly for a bit too long,
Thanks Bunchies,
Gebrelle

*** End Note ***

When Nina pulled into the grunge apartment place, she couldn't help but laugh to herself, remembering the first time Anne ever saw this place. Anne, who was always such a little princess, actually cringed when she first saw the apartment complex. It was not a large one, and its design was like nothing she had ever seen anywhere else, except for hotels. It was just a large square building, but when you passed through the hall like entrance, there was a large courtyard in the center that was complete with a pool. Once inside the hall, the apartments were like a whole other world. If it rained you never got wet on your way to your door. It was a nice design… As far as that goes…

The apartments had been long past their prime in life and were on a steady decline. She had learned from the landlord, that the person who built the apartments had been from Mexico and the idea of it was to make them look like his home. The place had arches everywhere and the block walls had a type of plaster overlay that added texture and a sense that that's what the structure was made of. Looking at it made you feel like you were in some third world country. Especially since the whole place had a layer of grime and rust.

Nina sighed and pulled her motorcycle through one of the wide hall like entrances and cut the engine by her door, set the kick stand, and began fishing out the apartment key that she didn't keep on her normal set. She wasn't supposed to park her bike there, but no one really cared about it. It was off in a corner and the children liked looking at it. She would never trust her baby out in the parking lot with the rest of the $500 cars… Nina grabbed her backpack and unlocked her door. She had barely got her helmet off and settled on the bean bag chair when her pocket buzzed. She knew what it would be even before she pulled her phone out.
It was a text message from a number she never saved on her phone for safety reasons. It said "Opened with key. 10:56:37 am". She and Anne had installed a sensor in the door that would text Nina whenever the door was opened. Whether it was forced, unlocked, or if the lock was picked, it would send her the details.

Nina stood up and went to the fridge, selecting a cherry Pepsi for herself and a Sunkist for Anne, and plopped back onto the oversized purple beanbag. After setting both drinks down on the coffee table, Nina dug in her bag and pulled out the folder that was concealing the DeathNote and laid it in her lap to wait for Anne.

Light was busy looking around and she couldn't help laugh at him. He had to have been expecting a terrible living environment. What with the way the outside of the place had looked. It had looked bad on the inside when she first got a hold of it. But after quite a bit of work, the place had cleaned up nicely.

She had been watching him poke around the place for a few minutes and was startled when she heard Anne rap out the secret knock. One knock, a pause, then two more knocks. It kind of made her feel like a child with their club house. One with a "No boys allowed" sign written in crayon on a scrap of paper taped to the door.

Nina leaned over and flipped the lock on the door knob. Anne came in and tossed a Subway bag in her lap. The door closed behind her and Nina heard the lock click, like it always did. Her phone buzzed, but she didn't bother looking at it.

She raised an eyebrow at Anne. "What?" she asked pitifully, "I meant it when I said brunch. I'm hungry…"

Nina laughed at her, "I thought you were using a key phrase."

Anne pretended to look hurt, "I was, you meanie! I meant it though." She pointed at Nina's sandwich that she hadn't even taken out of the bag yet. "Chicken breast, white American cheese, toasted, and no grass…" she started to laugh when she said grass and Nina couldn't help but smile. She had accidently called lettuce "grass" one time and Anne had not let her live it down yet. She looked down at the sandwich. It was almost creepy how well Anne knew her. Nina knew Anne too well too. Which brought her back to the reason she had called Anne over here…

Anne had finally gotten quiet and Nina used it as her chance to start the conversation. "Listen," she said, thinking about how she was going to phrase what she wanted to say, "Remember last summer? When we did that research on the Kira case?" Anne grinned a mischievous smile. Light had taken his now usual spot behind Nina's left shoulder, and she was about to continue when Anne broke in.

"Yeah, I remember. You almost got us in big trouble because you were sloppy hacking into the mainframe." Nina did a mental face palm but listened as she continued. "But you had just enough proxies to scramble our location."

"Thanks for reminding me… Anyway… As I was trying to say: Remember that one video that was taken from a helicopter of the arrest of Higuchi? The guy from the Yotsuba group that had somehow gotten a hold of Kira's powers?" Anne nodded after each question. "Well… I don't know how to keep going… Remember when they arrested him and he had that notebook that he said he used to kill people? I um…" she trailed off not knowing how to say that she had a DeathNote. She looked at Anne seriously. "I'm going to shut up now and let this thing speak for itself." She pulled the DeathNote out of the folder it was hiding in and held it just out of Anne's reach.

"I'll warn you though, before you touch it," she said, looking Anne in the eye, who was trying to tell if Nina was being serious or if she was playing a trick, "you really do see a Death God." With that said, she held it out to her and Anne took it from her, her head jerking instantly to look at Light.

"Well," Anne said in a voice that only had the slightest shake in it, "nice to meet you Kira." Light laughed and Nina saw her cringe a little at his grin. She probably thought it was just as bad a Nina did.