A/N: Okay, I am writing this in the school library (being a Library Aide has its perks), on one of the computers. Special thanks to Special Agent Cuppa Jo (you know who you are young lady :) ) Timekeeper101, White Alchemist Taya, michi-nin and BlueHarpy For support, tips, corrections and or for helping out with the story.
Disclaimer-thingy-majigger: Uh, yeah. If owned Death Note, L would have (NEVER NO WAY IN ALL SEVEN HELLS AND ALL THE GALAXIES AND UNIVERSES) died at the indirect hand of Kira, Mello would so hook up with someone cause he just seems like that, Matt would have a bigger part and BEYOND BIRTHDAY WOULD BE MENTIONED! Is anyone else pissed that BB was never mentioned TT-TT? Wait, what's the point of this again? Oh, yes, I only own Kat, her alternate personalities, Suture and the little ups and down that come with this story YOU NO STEALIE!
Listening to Death Note OST 3 – Confronting (Taiji)
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Chapter 28
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It was day fifty of the imprisonment.
It was so dreary around the hotel room, so empty.
Kat, dutiful and loyal, was sitting next to Lawliet, her lips turned down the slightest bit. She had told Lawliet her conclusion a little over two weeks ago, but even as she babbled on in excitement (the task force was absent, since they did not suffer from insomnia) she noticed the darkening of his eyes.
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"What's wrong?" She asked, the alacrity seeping out of her system.
He seemed to blank out for a moment before stating, "Even if this is something that will probably change course of the investigation, we cannot use it when we file our report on the case."
"Why?"
"Because, we do not need anyone coming barging through the doors of Wammy's, our hotel room or anywhere else wanting to get a hold of you." The gravity of his voice caused her mood to take a complete U-turn.
"Naturally," The despondent tenor of her voice quickly turning into scorn. "Humans and their idiotic sense of curiosity."
She took a deep breath before leaning back. Staring at the monitors blankly.
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Lawliet leaned forward, pressing the button to one of the confinement rooms. "Are you okay, Yagami-san? There is no reason for you to keep on doing this."
Chief Yagami was sitting with his elbows resting on his knees, looking down at the floor. "It's been over a month now that criminals have started getting murdered again…I have concluded that my son is not Kira…Now, Ryuuzaki, you only have to attest to it." He turned his head towards the camera, so that his unshaven face and disheveled hair could be seen. "When I get out of here, it will be with my son."
Dumbass. K's murmurs were heard. Though he seemed like an unbiased man early on…he just doesn't want to admit that anyone related to him can be Kira. Showing such favoritism even when all the evidence pointed towards his son being a mass murderer.
You can't judge him like that. We have never had a biological family, Kew admonished, even though she disliked his bias as much as all the other personas. Therefore, we cannot judge upon what we do not know.
Man, stop talking so cryptically a put a sock in it. K hissed vehemently.
Please be quiet, I'm trying to listen! Kat said, unknowingly narrowing her eyes into a glare at the monitors.
Fine.
"The Chief is stubborn, too," Matsuda whispered to Aizawa, cupping his hand around his mouth almost as if to prevent anyone else from hearing in the otherwise dead silent room.
He switched microphones again, taking the one for Light's room. "Light-kun, are you alright?"
The teenager was lying on his side in his cell. "Yeah… I'm alright but…" He turned his more towards the camera, showing how much the confinement had worn him down. "Ryuuzaki…the criminals have stopped dying since I've been detained…From this, I think that there is a high possibility that Kira is someone who is aware of my current situation. With that angle…"
Before he could even finished his sentence, Lawliet interrupted him. "No. Criminals haven't died because you are Kira."
"That's wrong. I'm not Kira. How many times do I have to tell you?" He questioned almost angrily.
If he were Kira, the he should've known that the murders would start again…it doesn't look like it though…Lawliet pondered, remaining completely impassive on the outside.
"Ryuuzaki is messed up…to insist on not letting Light-kun know that criminals are being murdered." Aizawa muttered. Were they not aware that the second set of ears on the top her head were not for decoration? Were they ignorant to the fact that one of her cat ears was facing towards them?
"Amane," Lawliet called. She was slumped over, much in the same was as Yagami-san but since she was tied to a chair and in a straight-jacket.
"…Yes?"
"You look down, are you okay?" Kat twitched. That was a completely idiotic question.
"……You're stupid aren't you." And apparently Amane had similar sentiments. "If I didn't look unhappy after several weeks of this, then I'd be insane."
Who are you kidding? You are insane, plodding about like an idiot and yelling out that you support Kira.
Shut up, K, we're trying to listen. Kew muttered angrily.
"Yes, you're right." Lawliet said.
"…For once…" K mumbled, sighing the slightest bit.
"Let me go already…I want to see Light…Light…" Her incoherent sentences, the state she was in, made Kat shiver a bit. Why the hell did she consent to this? It was too much like when she was in the labs and they were giving her a mental stability test.
"All three of them seem to be at their breaking points…" Matsuda assumed, just as Aizawa turned his head quickly in the direction of the monitors, striding behind both Kat and Lawliet. "Ryuuzaki…why are you keeping Light-kun captive? He should be freed. By doing that, the chief will also come out." Kat leaned back, turning towards him, stoic.
"I mean, criminals have been getting murdered without those two receiving any information. That should tell us enough."
"No…" Lawliet stated simply, taking one last sip from his tea. "Amane's obsessive love toward Yagami Light is just about all we've found out."
"Ryuuzaki…I'm sorry, but from what I can see, all you-re doing is refusing to admit that your verdict of Light being Kira was wrong." He yelled, making Kat wince. What was with this task force and deciding to burst her ear drums?
And Aizawa was quickly getting on her bad side. Was all of the task force plagued with favoritism?
"So that is what you think after all." He never took his eyes off of the monitor.
"As Light-kun said, Kira killed Lind. L Tailor and the FBI agents. If people can be killed without any publication and information collected, then there wouldn't be a point to kill Tailor or the FBI agents. There is no end no matter how much you investigate. Kira doesn't commit any unnecessary murders. That's something you stated yourself." He finished, panting a bit. And K was quickly going to loose her temper with these people if they kept on ranting without ever trying to read between the lines, as the saying went.
"…I see…If he's able to kill people in this situation, then he could've left the FBI agents alone with no worries." Matsuda exclaimed. Kat raised an eyebrow, did he expect to get some sort of reward for summarizing what had been said over and over and over again?
"Nothing was---"
"Found in the search of Yagami Light's house. Only a notebook of his work on this investigation was discovered from his shelf under a fake board…and the last line read 'I might be Kira…' We are all well aware of this, Aizawa-san." She interrupted him, guessing what he was about to saying from his previous speech.
"But that's my point! It's been fifty days now! There is no point in doing this. Instead, we should be thinking about how to catch the real Kira!!" He shouted.
Lawliet licked his thumb, an act that made Kat's stomach to churn. "I understand…" His eye flickered to Kat's, motioning to the microphone with his chin. She nodded, reaching for it.
"Yagami-san."
"Yes, Kokoro?"
"Ryuuzaki and I need to tell you something in person. Would you please come back to the hotel right away? Ryuuzaki would like you to hear his decision on the case, starting with you, Light's father."
He was silent for a moment before yielding to it.
Upon his arrival, Kat ushered Aizawa and Matsuda out of the room and into a sitting room, already knowing exactly what was being said do to the fact that Lawliet and herself had discussed what would happen should a situation like the one they were in arose.
"Kokoro-san, why have you never tried to sway Ryuuzaki if you knew what was going on?" Aizawa asked, quietly, giving her a hard look. "Do you have something against Light?"
"Hardly," She said, leaning against a wall and crossing her ankles. "The only reason I refrained from doing that was because I know Ryuuzaki. Though his methods are unorthodox, they are far less gruesome then anything I might come up with."
He was about to open his mouth but she silenced him with one hand. "We may seem like two sick and twisted delinquents, Aizawa-san, but we have solved a great many cases with these methods of ours. Be thankful that Ryuuzaki chose to confine them, for what I was thinking was more vivid then your worst nightmare." That was a bluff, but he seemed convinced by it. "It's a wonder I even let the prime suspects of the investigation anywhere near my house." She said, turning her head to look out the window at the blue sky, watching the crows fly by. It was a clear sign that she wished to continue the conversation no longer.
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3 days later
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K walked the dank streets, turning this way and that. She was intent on finding it.
One of her associates had some information for her.
She slinked through the shadows, adjusting her sunglasses every once in a while and then making sure her hood stayed over her head, concealing the myriad hues of dyed crimson in her hair (her ears were well concealed, and safe from the temporary chemical change).
She was originally planning on staying at the hotel with Lawliet, or even going to Suture's house and seeing if she had anything worth doing other than watching two teenagers flail around in desperation as they were hauled away to their 'execution.'
Her now vermillion eyes landed on another hooded figure, half hidden in an alleyway, but her eyes had no trouble deciphering him.
"What information do you have for me?" K deliberately lowered her voice, making sure it sounded like nothing she used when on missions. If she was discovered to be Agent K here than her death would be inevitable. She had enough enemies as it was.
"Yea', hullo to you, too, Eve," The man spoke in a sort of Irish brogue.
"Just get to the damn point, Artemis. You know I have little tolerance for small talk." Her voice was dangerous, and made the older man wince.
"Right, forgot," He said, rubbing the back of his head in a nervous habit. "Well, my sources in Kanto tell me that no one from their sector have been up to anything."
"This is to be expected, Artemis. Kira is back, and is killing again. It would cause any criminal to be frightened to mug a decrepit old woman." She muttered, starting to think that she should have stayed back at the hotel. "Do you have anything useful for me?"
"Y-yes, actually, I think you might want to come inside for this." He walked up to metal door, opening it for her and making a grand motion with his hands. "Ladies first, Eve."
She nearly gagged. Such a false sense of chivalry.
"Whatever." It was the latest phrase she had learned on the street.
Upon her entrance, Artemis followed, guiding her through to the front, where a murky bar was located. He pulled down his hood revealing hazel eyes, an aristocratic nose, small mouth and shaggy brunette hair.
She let her own hood fall revealing her altered appearance to all of the customers of the bar. A hush fell upon all of the inhabitants, as heads turned her way.
"Hey, Inoue! Eve-sama is here! Get me my usual and the lady a bottle of whisky, she's gonna need it later!" Artemis yelled out towards the back as they both took a seat at the bar. Then he quickly turned around to the rest of the humans.
"What the hell are all of you looking at? Mind your own goddamn business!" He bellowed, sending a deathly glare their way.
They waited, patiently and in dead silence until Inoue, a haggard man that was missing a few yellowed teeth, brought them a bottle of whisky and a bottle of hot Sake with some cups. K merely nodded at Artemis once Inoue went to the other side of the bar, cleaning some glasses with a stained rag.
"Tell me of your news before you get piss drunk." She muttered in English, narrowing her eyes at him when he rose a challenging eyebrow.
"Fine, it seems to me that someone pretty damn rich has built a giant skyscraper in the middle of Tokyo, preferably L," He stated simply, pouring himself some Sake.
"What else?" She questioned, placing her elbow on the counter after surreptitiously wiping it with a napkin.
"Also, with the sudden absence of Amane Misa, Saionji Tomoe, and their manager we have concluded that one among them might be Kira. Adding on to that, someone is targeting the 'business' corporation in Shinjuku that the Inagawa-kai (1) recently obtained."
K nodded in comprehension, before standing up, placing a roll of bills on the counter in front of Artemis. "Your assistance is appreciated." She said in Japanese. And with hat she swept out of the bar, back through the alleys, and disappearing into the shadows.
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K snuck into the hotel room mutely, frowning when she saw Light chained to Lawliet. She was gone for a little over an hour and she finds that the plan had been executed and apparently all at the cost of her figuring out how aware the underworld was of Kira's movements.
"Doing this with guys is kinda gross…are you that type, Ryuuzaki-san? You were together with Light at the university…" Misa was whispering, a sneaky look on her face.
Lawliet scratched his chin. "I am not doing this because I want to."
"But Light is Misa's Light…and if you're with him 24-7 then when is Misa going to go on dates with Light?" She demanded loudly.
"On dates, it will be the three of us," He said.
"Don't you dare think that I am going to let you loose any possible sanity you might have, Ryuuzaki." Kat said, moving across the room towards where he was, sweeping a lock of her crimson hair behind her ear, an annoyed visage on her features.
"What?! Are you telling me that when I kiss him, it going to be in front of you two!?"
Please, don't make me laugh. K said cynically. As if I would ever let you kiss anyone within my presence. Sorry, our presence.
"We never said you had to kiss him, right? However, we will be observing."
"HUUUUUH? What's with that?! I knew it! You are a pervert!"
"Light-kun, can you please make Misa-san be quiet?"
Then she turned on Kat. "And you! What are you; his bisexual girlfriend?!"
And that was the straw that broke the camels back. "Why you little--! I am heterosexual you little wench! I have half a mind to- mmmph mmmph mmph!!!" But, before she could turn her verbal assault into a full out fight, Lawliet had slapped his hand onto her mouth, pulling her towards him as she tried reach the hormone ridden love sick teenager.
"Sooner rather than later, Light-kun," Lawliet urged him.
"Misa, don't be so obstinate. You should be thankful that you can still go free even thought it's been proven that you were the one who sent those videotapes." Light tried to sway her, quickly making it so that her attention was solely on him.
"Huh? Even you, Light? Misa is your girlfriend, right? You can't trust your lover?" She asked, giving him strange doe eyes that made K's eye and ear twitch.
If anyone else other than Lawliet were trying to stop me, then they would find them selves in a great deal of pain right now…
"E-even if you say you're my girlfriend, you're the one who fell in 'love at first sight' and came after me…" That troublesome word again, K was about ready to go shoot whoever created it.
Misa ran towards Light, banging on his chest, sobbing out; "Th-then when I told you I 'liked you' you decided to turn it into your advantage and kissed me?"
You can use kissing to your advantage…? Kat thought, letting her eyes wander off to the irate Aizawa and Yagami that were sitting on the couch.
"About falling in love at first sigh…" He let go of Kat in favor was walking up in front of Misa. For some reason, it sparked her anger again. "It was on May 22nd at Aoyama, right, Misa-san? You were with Tomoe-san?"
"Yes." She answered, half suspicious of what he was trying to get at.
"That day, why did you go to Aoyama? What were you wearing when you went there?"
Misa on anger seemed to have flickered back, "How many times do I have to say that I just went there on a whim? I don't remember how I felt or what I was wearing that day at all. Is it wrong for Misa to wander around Aoyama without a reason?" She barked, getting up in his face.
"Then after you went to and came back from Aoyama you knew the name of Light-kun who you'd fallen in love with." He kept on with his miniature interrogation.
"Yes."
"But you don't know how you knew his name." He was nose to nose with her now, and the anger was bubbling into fury.
"And what of Saionji Tomoe?" K resisted the snicker that was bound to rise, Misa was completely clueless to the fact that she was standing in the same room as "Tomo."
"I don't remember! Alright?!"
He seemed to come to a realization, eyes widening, about the only way the rest of the task force would ever figure out that he was just as capable of emotions as the rest of them. "Well then…if Light-kun happened to be Kira, then what would you think?"
This caught the small blonde model off guard. "Huh!?"
She latched onto Light's arm, looking at him pensively. "If Light was Kira?..."
"Yes." Oh, now Kat saw what he was doing. She quickly made her way over so that she was side by side Lawliet, arm bumping against his.
"That would be the best. Misa has always been grateful to Kira who executed the murderers of my parents. If Light was Kira, then I would love Light even more!" She almost sang, leaning her head against Light's arm.
She gave Light a coy look, "Although I already love you to the point where I can't love you any further."
Kat had had enough with being silent. "You realize that this is Kira we are talking about, right? Saying 'I would love you even more'…are you not frightened at all?" She asked, looking down at the significantly short girl.
"You're saying if Light was Kira right? There's nothing to be scared of. Misa is a fan of Kira. Rather then being afraid I would try to be useful to him."
"You would be more in the way than useful," She spat, still not over the fact that the little blonde called her bisexual.
"However, with this there is no doubt that Misa is the second Kira." Lawliet concluded, putting his finger to his lip. "It's becoming so obvious that I begin to want to not believe it…"
"You would be right, even if you didn't think it, Misa is not Kira." She exclaimed indignantly, turning her face away in what would be disgust.
"Anyways, I will place Misa-san under surveillance."
Kat twitched, tuning everything out until Aizawa had a temper tantrum similar to her own. "WILL YOU JUST STOP IT WITH THE TALK ABOUT HOMOS AND DATES AND KISSING AND MISA-MISA ALREADY?!! THIS IS THE INVESTIGATION ON KIRA, UNDERSTAND!? YOU NEED TO BE MORE SERIOUS ABOUT IT ALL!"
K twitched and stood up, grabbing the girl by her arm, "I completely agree with Aizawa-san here. To ease the tension, I think that it would be best if we lock Amane in her room." She said, pushing her into her room, and slamming it shut.
"Now, please excuse me, I must go return my hair to its natural color." And perhaps go beat the stuffing out of a punching bag or two…
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A/N: I have no qualms against Misa, she is one of my favorite characters. So no shouting at me for it. Anyways, this way there is comic relief.