A/N: Okay, I was overjoyed- no, words cannot describe how happy I was when I met one of my readers at school. She sat behind me in class and kept on quoting the story, and for a second there I thought she knew my own story better then I did!! But then, she said the most tear jerking thing ever. "This story has become my new twilight, no joke!" Then I get a couple of good reviews at a chapter I was considerably a bit ticked off at but not completely unsatisfied, a gajillion people put the story on their alert and favorite-d it! I've been drawing like crazy, dreaming about Oblivious Attraction and a lot more things! This story is becoming my baby so much so, that I look at the episodes and imagine Kat in the background, I have an actress picked out if there was ever a "Oblivious Attraction Live Action Movie" (Erika Toda if you are wondering) and a voice actress (if it were up to me, I'd go on YouTube and record a few scenes from the story with my voice for all of the alter-personas and my friends playing the parts of L, Light, Misa or I could do them all, I have a scary way of imitating people. But it would be Stephenie Sheh, the English voice of Hinata and then Nana Mizuki for her Japanese Seiyuu, it would fit her more soft spoken side well. I'll try to record her voice sometime)
Also, Pretty Much A Big Deal, don't be afraid to review. A simple smile :) will suffice my need for reviews. That goes for anyone else who thinks that they have nothing to say, don't sound sincere or anything. Us authors simply love any type of review. :D
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Chapter 27
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It was hard, going on through monotony for so long.
Kat was itching to go fight, to go on a mission, to do something that involved using her physical prowess and not her mind.
What with being cooped up inside for so long, she was afraid all of her moves would go rusty and we would not want that now would we?
And then, when she had the window open one day, she heard a human saying, "They say 'work gets easier after time,' but I see nothing getting easier!"
She could not disagree with that. The only person she knew that seemed to think of life getting easier as it went on was Lawliet, but she did not think it was even valid to think so, seeing as he was one of the few people she had actually taken the time to know. (And her other fellow alternate personalities did not count either seeing as Kitten thought everything was a fairly easy game, K was constantly saying that she was the only one who inclined to say anything was "easy." And Kew just hung back, watching everything go by, giving her opinion, but never voiced a substantial view).
She sighed, hand tracing imaginary patterns on Lawliet's hand while letting her eyes glide about the hotel they were in. Aizawa was the only one inside the room besides her and Lawliet, and it was starting to get a bit boring.
Aizawa had similar sentiments; after all, reading last Sundays paper was just boring. Just as he was about to open his mouth to make some useless comment and hopefully start some small talk, Matsuda burst through the door, bellowing a rather loud, "What the hell is going on?!"
Kat covered her ears upon his entrance, sending an icy glare his way. Did he not comprehend that she had sensitive ears?!
"Yesterday, two weeks worth of criminals were killed all at once." But that statement quickly silenced her reprimand.
She placed her hand in her hair, twirling it absently. "So, Kira has returned." It was a dull, quiet observation…almost as if she was expecting it.
"Yeah, Kira is back," Aizawa nodded, turning his head to the two super geniuses who did not even show any outward reaction to the startling revelation. But what could he say? He was not all keen on saying that Light was not Kira but it was a relief to know that someone else out there was off killing criminals.
Matsuda strode across the room and completely disregarded both Kat and Lawliet, causing one of her eyebrows to lift at his alacrity.
He pressed the button to Chief Yagami's room, "Chief! Kira has started killing again!"
That caused Chief Yagami to look up quickly, stirring him from what ever reverie he was in. "What?!"
"Kira must have been just resting! He's started killing again!" He said happily, almost as if it was a good thing. Really, though, this kid seems too buoyant to be on this case. K noted morbidly.
Shup! He sure is!!! Ka-chan! Can Kitten come out now? Said persona asked perkily.
Kat suppressed the sarcastic laugh that was bound to bubble to her lips. You were saying?
Uncouth words could be heard within her head. Shut up, K stated curtly, almost like a scolded child.
"Are you sure, Matsuda?!" Yagami-san asked again, "Then my son... I know I shouldn't be happy when people are being killed but... my son... no... This is Ryuuzaki we're talking about... he won't clear him..." He said, the completely accurate conjecture coming to him quick.
Aizawa and Matsuda turned to Lawliet, staring him down while Kat's ear twitched, only half aware of what was going on for Kitten kept on yelling a bunch of nonsense about "Cool black books" and "Swooshing wings."
"Well, he's in the gray area…" He muttered, hand curling into a fist.
And Matsuda turned to the monitor again, "Did you hear that chief?!"
"Yes…he was definitely guilty yesterday…oh thank god…" He sighed, bowing his head almost as if to pray.
"He's probably one shade from being cleared!" Matsuda shouted. "Now let's tell Light!"
K reacted fast, swiping at his hand, a hiss escaping through her. "Matsuda! Think before you leap! And shut your damn rat trap while you are at it!"
"B-but…" He fumbled, completely startled at the words she practically roared. It was quite a shock compared to her quiet and calm voice.
"Here, Ryuuzaki," She said, grabbing the mike and pulling it towards Lawliet and away from Matsuda.
"Thank you, Kokoro." He said, pressing the button to speak into the mike. "Light-kun…"
The seventeen year old boy looked up resignedly. "What is it Ryuuzaki?"
"It has been two weeks and no criminals have been killed. Are you going to confess to being Kira?" Lawliet questioned. It was a matter of psychological manipulation. Trying to confuse him into submission.
"Don't be ridiculous, Ryuuzaki!" Light cried. "Ryuuzaki, you're wrong. I can understand how you concluded that I was Kira. But this is a trap! I'm not Kira!" He kept on, near hysteria. "Zoom in on my eyes! Are these the eyes of someone who's lying?! Let me out of here, Ryuuzaki!"
K completely ignored him, turning the mike off and grabbing the one for Misa's confinement room. "Amane, do you know who Kira is?" She asked.
Misa heaved a giant sigh. "This again? I wish I knew. Kira is the hero who punished the burglar who murdered my parents."
Kat turned it off and leaned back. This was getting no one, no where. And just when they were getting somewhere.
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She glanced at the clock. 1:15 AM it flashed.
Kat ran a hand through her locks, over her fluffy ears and down to her neck; holding it.
This was completely insane. It was close to a month and nothing had happened. More people were getting killed.
What were they doing wrong?!
How could it all be silent for two weeks, almost normal if it were not for the lack in criminal activity (due to the then dormant Kira); then BAM! Kira comes back while there prime suspects were under their supervision. It made close to no sense.
Her shoulders slumped forward when nothing came to mind, as if someone had turned her mind off, for it was empty of even a thought from the usually wailing Kitten.
She shook her head and brought her hands down to continue typing on her laptop. It seemed it was all she did as of late. Type, research, type, research, and conclude.
She had a bunch of files and folders on her computer, some labeled "confidential," others "top secret," "Solved Cases," "Awards," and last "Research." (She was all too grateful that Matt had taught her how to use the computer)
Currently, she was absently, as Lawliet put it "Googling." Even if it deterred her from her main focus, it was enough to get her back onto more positive thoughts.
Hey, Kew, She called out into her mind, however much it might have sounded odd to anyone else, it seemed normal to her. Are you there or not?
Of course I am, where the hell else am I going to go? The responding voice had the same tenor as Kat's own, but the wit and sarcasm reminded her of K far too much.
Where ever K and Kitten disappear off to? She asked, just to tick off the 'elder' one.
Cut to the chase already, Kat.
Well, do not get all irritated. I just wanted to ask what Kitten was babbling on about a while ago, what with the "books" and "wings."
Something a kin to a sigh was heard. It's Kitten, for justice's sake. She loves to ramble. It's her thing.
"Act your age for once and please answer the question." She murmured impatiently. Now this was different. It seemed like Kat was starting to take on some of K's unruly temper.
Fine, Kew gave in. You know of that blur that suddenly disappeared?
"Of course. The laugh still causes the fur on my neck to stand on end…"
Well, I have a feeling it is to do with them. But then again, it might not. What with the way Kitten just sporadically spouts out information…it's impossible to accurately find what is useful of it.
And with that, Kew went just as silent as the other personas.
Kat muttered profanities, not at all different than when she would start cursing within the walls of her small inhabitance in 1988. (1) She closed the lap top and set it aside before flopping down on the pillows, embracing one of the pillows in a death grip, curling herself into fetal position.
Hirokazu Ukita. Why did he die and she did not? It was something that was bothering her ever since she (or rather the little insufferable brat, Kitten) woke up from 'nearly dying.' According to what Lawliet had said, she seemed all of dead for at least a minute or two. However, the difference was that she had been thrown into a nightmare (a vivid one that had haunted her since she had been saved from the labs in China) while he actually died on sight.
She rolled onto her back, extending on leg and putting on of her hands behind her head.
Right, she had to analyze this thoroughly.
Up until she had appeared, the pattern was constant: go near the building (or present yourself as a police, it seemed as well), you get killed. Conversely, it did not apply when your whole face was covered, or so your body. The wall of police officers with helmets and Chief Yagami were proof enough for that theory.
Then she comes in, within the area of which the people were getting killed, searches through the windows and gets a glimpse of the blonde haired girl.
And then, on another instance, when both Misa and herself are on there own at a café, she is forced to leave the establishment clutching her chest while running off to the hotel at her inhuman speed.
In both instances, Amane Misa was present. But that was a moot point; she already knew the model was the second Kira.
And it was proven that Kira had to kill with both a name and a face…so was it possible for the second Kira to have had some other way to find out a person's name? It was possible.
No. It was completely plausible and fit in with what Amane had managed to convey to her via the diary entry. It was close to impossible for someone like Amane to figure out all of her aliases when not even the task force, people who were trained to do such things, could decipher even her explanations.
So Amane could somehow see her Aliases.
Except that still did not help with the matter of why Ukita had died and she hadnot. They both had aliases so that was not the variable that separated her from him.
And she could bar the fact that she had multiple personalities because according to the medical profiles of some of the celebrities that were killed, one or two had multiple personality disorder as well.
She heaved a sigh, closing her eyes.
Ukita was male: she was female. No, that was completely irrelevant; Kira did not discriminate against gender.
Ukita was twenty-six years of age: she was twenty-four. And that was completely extraneous as well. Kira did not kill within any specific age group.
Her tail twitched irritably.
But then her eyes snapped open, and she came shooting up.
Ukita was human! She was only half human!
Of course! It makes sense now! Whatever weapon Kira uses to kill is specifically engineered so that it only affects humans! How could I have missed the most obvious difference?!