But all too soon, they separated, the need for air pulling at their lungs. Their quiet pants, the red tint on their cheeks, the way that they were so warm…and the heavy, glazed eyed look that they had as they looked at each other…
Lawliet took hold of her lips again, however this time; he sneaked his tongue into her mouth, exploring everything that was to do within the small space.
It surprised her, but she complied nonetheless, mimicking him.
Kat's hands, which had come down to his shirt at some time or another, were something he just noticed as they surreptitiously made their way around his midsection, pushing both their chests together.
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The pause did not go unnoticed by Kat. However, instead of writing it off as an abnormality, she chose to wade it out. But luckily, she did not have to wait long.
Though when he did come back from whatever thought that had taken hold of him, she found her back against the soft comforter. His lips had disappeared from hers, hunting along from her collar bone to the bottom of her ear, leaving wet butterfly kisses in his wake. Her hands were prickling with the slightest bit of perspiration, untangling from his shirt and clawing into the fabric of the comforter; it was certainly better than digging her dangerous nails into his back.
His breath feathered over her face as he moved just above her lips.
Is he teasing me?
She did not know what was taking hold of her body, she suddenly wanted him to kiss her and spend more time with him (as if they did not spend enough time together).
Lawliet saw her eyes flare with an alien emotion before she had flipped him, one hand caressing his face while the other was preoccupied with keeping her balanced.
Her lips were very quick on his, in every essence animalistic. Her human side was surfacing the slightest bit, guiding her actions.
Lawliet was thoroughly surprised with this, especially when one of her hands went to pull at the bottom of his shirt.
Kat felt him pull away, her eyes opened up when she sensed him breathing heavily. Sighing, she turned onto her back, scrunching her face up when the bandages on her chest prevented her from expanding her chest anymore than a little bit.
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING KID!!!!!?????? K roared, as a reflex Kat reached up to cover ears even if she knew full well that that would not work; a whimper leaving her throat as she squeezed her eyes shut.
I do not know what you are talking about… Kat replied feebly, considerably scared of the thunderous voice. All in all, K seemed like the dominant caretaker of all when Kew just chose to watch.
Lawliet crawled closer to her when he saw her suddenly cringe, unaware if this was because of the Multiple Personality Disorder or something malfunctioning with her due to her being a feline-homosapien hybrid.
Are you dumb?! Did you not pay attention to anything that you read last time? Humans can mate too y'know! K lectured; a ferocious and tempestuous growl audible in her tone.
I know, but what does that have to do with anything?
The fact that you don't know if this human is willing to be your mate for the rest of your life or if he even considers you as a probable mate, AND; hello! Weren't cha clueless not too long ago over this whole relationship thing!!?? Don't get in over your head kid!
… Kat remained quiet for a moment, thinking of something. Then I must talk to him more often and evaluate how his feelings are to me….how did that human website phrase it? Oh, communicating and sharing secrets.
A hand brushing against her face brought her down from the conversation. "Are you alright?"
Kat blinked; once, twice. Then she eased into a more relaxed position. "Yes. Just getting a hefty lecture from K…"
Lawliet nodded, still turned towards her. For once, her usually heavily guarded eyes were shining with the emotions that she kept hidden so often. Lost, anger (most likely from K), and a pensive emotion.
"What are we to do while your mobility is confined and restricted? I shall not be able to speak as freely to you as before and I cannot simply lock Light up in a room for suspicion will surely arise." She murmured, crossing her arms over her stomach.
It was just like Kat to switch the subject so tactlessly, and then she would turn around and say he had no tact. She was right. Nonetheless, she must have already come up with a solution and was only seeing if he approved and was on the same page as her. "You are correct; any suggestions?"
A shiver went down her neck as his breath hit it (for he was not to far away from her). "I propose we meet in the dead of night. The probability of any of the task force or Light being up at the anomalous hours that we are…But K has means of keeping your suspect asleep; conversely, I am not willing to use illegal and untested drugs on a minor. After all, we specialize in beneficence, not mindless noisome to people's health." Lawliet paid special attention to the fact that she was attempting to scold the overbearing K.
"Meeting at night works out fairly well."
Kat twisted her head up to look at him, pondering whether to tell him about the blurs that had disappeared…
No. She had a plan to work out. He would be able to see them soon enough if it worked out. "Lawliet," hearing her say his name after so much of 'Ryuuzaki' was refreshing. "Could you please ask Watari for any files he might have on the K series and anything else they might have on the genetic experimentation of the other hybrids? I believe I would like to know exactly what might be ahead of me and if it is possible that any others from the Scientifically Engineered Female Feline Unit, K series are alive. And possibly those others…" Yet, he was not expecting her to be asking for information on such a delicate matter.
He did not know all of the full details of what she experienced at the lab, or the others; and Watari had denied him any data that would manage to give him enough information to conclude what living as a product of science would be.
Kat stared at his eyes, taking in his emotions and the hesitant pause not escaping her.
"Of course. That is very practical. I shall have Watari take care of it immediately."
Kat pulled herself up (almost with a mechanical cadence), wrapping her arms around her knees, staring off at the wall. This moment of silence, gave her some clarity at least. So much so that she was able to make evident one specific detail that had led to the events of the night.
It was perfectly clear. He had been testing her. He had feigned depression yesterday; seeing the reactions he could pull out of Light by the way that he kept on retorting with nonsensical babblings should have clued her into that much earlier. But, he was not only seeing Light's behavior patterns but the way he stared at her, with no subtlety, was evidence that he was trying to see how she would react to his "depression."
So the only logical explanation for his tests on her would have been that he was making sure that she was not (as he so blatantly phrased it once "googling") acting out all of her actions to appease his affection for her.
Sighing, she heaved herself up and off of the bed. "My sources say that the criminals are becoming aware of L's actions and are beginning to organize themselves to ambush Kira, or at least, that is what they were implying. So if nothing further is left to be said here, than I shall go off to phone some humans."
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A whole week had passed, and Kat had been locking herself up, eyes scanning all the information that had been given to her. None of the task force were all too surprised that the ghost like and darn right eerie woman was not in the room, she had a habit of popping in and out without notice. Yet, they hardly ever managed to detect her presence so it was basically the same to them.
And yet, when they saw her trudge through the doors of the main investigation room, with light bags under her eyes, face ashen white, radiating exhaustion; it was a none too pleasant feeling.
She made her way to one of the couches by the computers, curling herself up and closing her eyes. As much as K loathed to admit it; she was beginning to get accustomed to all of those that consisted of the task force and it seemed completely lonely for her to rest by herself in the very room where she was discovering more vile things and certain clues as to how she was going to get around a certain hurdle in her possibly short life.
Lawliet did not have much time to even look at her seeing as he was glued to Light's computer; eyes wide at the information that he had missed.
"What do you think? Has some motivation come out?"
"If this is connected to Kira, then Kira's real intention is not necessarily to punish criminals but something else…?" The surprise in his voice was all too audible to her.
"Uh-huh. He might be killing crooks and pretending that it is of moral sanctions, but perhaps he is doing it for his own benefit."
"Once Yagami-kun mentioned about how adults would use the power for their own gain, and this might be the case…but supposing the once Kira and the second Kira were both active at once, it's possible that this Kira is not the one who's been punishing criminals…" He placed his hand on Light's shoulder. "It's impressive, the way you dug this one up."
"Yeah," He murmured impassively.
"I helped him a lot too, Ryuuzaki!" Matsuda piped in.
Kat rolled off the couch slowing, getting on all fours and silently moving next to L to look at the screen.
"It's all thanks to this program that allows me to accesses any data of the police and the secret services across the world."
"I'll be sure to thank my associates for you, Light-kun." Kat whispered, eyes flickering across the screens.
"Yes, please do so." He muttered before continuing on with his elaborate explanation. "To be honest, I didn't have a clue where to start…so I went to the very beginning…to verify the theory that Kira is here in Japan. Considering that out of all the criminals Kira killed, the majority of them were Japanese, I was convinced that Kira obtained the information about those criminals from the Japanese Media. And I presumed that there would've been some deaths that were caused by heart attacks but were not associated with Kira." So far, it was making sense to her.
"So I traced back all the deaths caused by heart attacks, including non-criminals. If it was not for this program, it would've taken ages."
"And that was where I came in real handy, Ryuuzaki." Lawliet glance at him before returning his eyes to the computers.
"I was going to scan the recent five months and the look into each detail. But then I came to notice these particular three. If it was only a couple, I might have taken theme for a coincidence, but not three.
"Roppei Tamiya, the manager of the developmental planning department of Sekimaru-corp, Kouji Aoi, the vice director of the system integration division of Aoi Agency, and Takeyoshi Morita, the Ex-Chairman of the Yotsuba Group.
"All three of them were once posted at an important position in a company that is major enough to represent Japan, and they all died of heart attacks.
"I see. So you must of searched through those companies' files. And…" Kat started, glancing at the line graph he opened. "Apparently, Yotsuba's share is rising steadily while the other two are going into the negatives."
"Then you searched for any kind of death related to those companies…" L trailed off.
"Uh-huh, and look…I found thirteen convenient losses for Yotsuba over the recent three months, barely a couple of those deaths were profitable for other companies' point of view. All of those deaths were accidental or by illness, except for those three heart attacks and one suicide. And this week another two were punished by Kira for bribery."
"It was also around three months ago that I imprisons Yagami-kun and the killing temporarily stopped, the started again…something smells fishy…" That phrase that L used confused her a bit. She sniffed the air, glancing around the room; did she leave some sushi lying around?
"I know…"
"What do you think? For me, I can only see it as Kira's backing Yotsuba."
"…But then that means Kira…"
"Yes…Kira can kill people with more than just heart attacks!"
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"It sure does not look like a coincidence." Aizawa mentioned, looking over the printed files. Kat was sitting on the arm of the couch, looking at the files over L's shoulder. She could afford to leave her files in favor of the Kira case. "All those people who were in the way of Yotsuba Group died…"
"Those big companies do those kinds of things, get rid of people by faking accidents, or poisoning them to make them sick, then get rid of them…" Matsuda actually said something beneficial.
"About which era are you talking about? The companies these days never do such things." Aizazwa retorted.
"Incorrect, Aizawa-san." K said, turning her unsettling eyes on him. "I know of many companies that rule by that type of imbecilic use of lethal drugs. Seeing as the Yakuza tends to like to play a part in these business transactions…your assumption of all these poorly executed ways to get ahead are completely and utterly wrong."
"Yes," Lawliet put a thumb to his lips. "And evidently, Yotsuba does. The question is, whether it is related to Kira or not…"
"You think Kira's behind all this, Ryuuzaki?" Aizawa exclaimed leaning forward and disregarding that he had been snuffed by K a few moments ago.
"Given that three of those deaths were by heart attacks, I think it is possible. Don't take me for granted though, my verdicts are apt to turn wrong…" K twitched at the statement, pinching him with one of her hand furtively, sending him a small glare. He really can act like a dumbass sometimes. If he is holding this act up for us then he is an imbecile. If for the task force, then he is twice the imbecile…
"How about Kira hiring Yotsuba, by feeding the company some dough?"
"No, Kira would never hire anyone." He dismissed it, rubbing the place where the indentation of where K's claws had pinched.
"Why not?"
"Because, if that is the case, that means that some company has managed to find Kira before myself."
"And myself, which, is completely impossible."
"…You've just said something about your verdicts tending to turn out wrong, and now… I don't get you…"
"I was just playing cynical back then.
"Besides, Kira won't cooperate with others just because someone found out his identity. If that's the case, he is more likely to just kill that person. Therefore it's better off assuming that Kira is a member of Yotsuba group, or a member of Yotsuba possesses Kira's ability."
"Then how about the possibility that Kira offered himself to Yotsuba? Perhaps he needed funds for some expenses for whatever plan he has…" Aizawa was just throwing out ideas now.
"But that makes Kira cheap and uncool. That's not groovy at all."
"So you reackon Kira is cool and groovy, Matsuda, huh?!" Aizawa was now in his face, causing the rookie to back up.
"Er, no ididn't mean that…sorry!"
"Either way, our part in this is to investigate. Now if you excuse me, I shall go attend to my own devices." And with that she exited. Back to the paperwork and to seeing whether or not I can figure a way around this damn case.
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A/N: I am back from my vacation. If you would please direct yourself to my profile I have Kat and K's theme songs posted, some tips on writing and will soon record both the Japanese version of K's voice and the English. If you want any other language, please say so. Hope you all like the chapter and review like you did last chapter.
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