Edited by: Kugnae-san
Chapter 39
There were no balloons marking her entrance, (not that it was much of an entrance at all, just silently slipping behind Lawliet) no one even glanced her way. And that was fine by her, it was essential for her to know that she was at least stealthy enough to slip under the radar.
But when she looked at the monitors, her eyes met with what she assumed used to be the blur.
It was just a hulking and imposing figure as before, but this time, she saw blotches of color—almost like an out of focused picture on a camera. A blotch of white with purple and yellow where she assumed the eyes would be.
"Rem? Who is Rem? He went into the car alone and it doesn't look as if someone else is in that car with him. He is not using his mobile either… is he using a radio to communicate with someone?" Light questioned, completely focused on the screen.
"No," Lawliet corrected. "There is no radio fixed inside of that car, just the camera and the bug we set up. We can trust Weddy on that."
Kat walked up to the screen, squinting that the out of focus thing in the back seat. "Do you think there will be a CV in the office of Yoshida agency?"
Of course, K thought snidely. Yoshida is not that big despite Amane's popularity. So, theoretically, there should be a CV there. A monkey could conclude that.
"Is he talking to himself…?" Light questioned.
"Why are you asking me? How would I know?" K gave a startled jump at the haunting voice, alerting everyone by the shocked look in her eye.
"What's wrong, Kokoro?" Lawl—no, this was L…if the no-nonsense tone he was giving her meant anything.
She put her index finger flush against her lips, eye narrowing into slits as the fur on the back of her neck rose.
"If he really knows what he is doing, then he must have deleted all the articles that might contain his real name before going on TV… And Yoshida Agency allowing me to enter their office and have a look at their CV, isn't that kind of careless? Well… I guess if I'm the only one who enters the place, and then if anything gets stolen it can only be me…" He deducted. He was being so careful yet reckless as well. But then again, only those with the level of paranoia that L and she had mastered would lead to the deduction that the car was bugged.
"He will go, I'm certain," L said once he noticed that K would not respond.
"Even if I do find his CV in the office, what if it has a fake name on it again? No, I'd say it is highly likely that the name on it will be a fake."
"But if you don't do anything it is also likely that he will give your name on the TV." That thing again.
"You don't hear it?" K hissed through gritted teeth, emerald orbs smoldering in frustration. "Ryuuzaki! Listen and look carefully in the back seat! Something is there… something that should not be, but we see because we are what we are!" She was throwing hints and clues at him left and right.
She looked into his gunmetal eyes, watching that single moment when his eyes flashed with revelation before focusing in on the back seat of the car.
"What are you talking about Kokoro?" Light asked her.
She turned angry eyes on him, "If you do not understand, it is not meant for your ears, Yagami Light!"
She turned back to the monitors, hands curled into potentially fatal claws from the strain of controlling the adrenaline that was pumping through her veins at the moment.
Both geniuses remain silent as Higuchi made his way into Yoshida Agency and pulled up the file on "Yamashita Taichiro," wrote the name down in a notebook and left.
"No, he only made a note of the name and now he is leaving the room… is he not going to kill in the office?" Light, once again, questioned to himself.
"Ryuuzaki! Shall we go for him?" Mogi asked.
L gave K a pointed look, one that clearly said, "You know what to do."
She cleared her throat before giving out her commands. "Stand down, Mogi. Our objective is to see the method in which Kira murders. The moment he does anything suspicious inside his car, we will alert you and you will move in. Until then, we trust Weddy to keep surveillance on his movements."
Lawliet resisted the urge to grin a bit. She gave a whole SWAT formatted speech when a simple, "No, wait. Weddy, monitor his movements." would have easily sufficed. But he supposed that hers was a more professional response, something to clue those around that they were dealing with something organized…and dangerous according to the tenor of her voice.
"Damn it, why doesn't he die!?" Higuchi shouted, the television show continuing on, Matsuda still alive.
Light vaulted out of his seat, standing just as frustrated as K. "What does he mean by that?! He just said 'Why doesn't he die!?'"
"it means that he has already used his method to kill… he did so either while he was getting out of the office and into the car…or is writing the name down itself the method to kill…?" Lawliet muttered pensively, clearly, his mind was working at unnatural speeds to figure out the conundrum.
K's mind thought process was likely slower, but it was using every brain cell it had to figure it out. A memory being was being dug up… "Books, wings, she said, cool black books and swishing wings," Her musing was inaudible to all but the recently artificially hybridized L.
She shook her head, "I'll go get Watari and the arms…" She muttered quietly, reaching up and pressing the little button on her head set so that she would not be lost as everything progressed.
She was quick and silent as she listened to the conversation. "Rem, time for the deal," K fought the urge to freeze. This human was more messed up than any other human she had ever met.
"The deal? What is he talking about, and what is this Rem he's been mentioning? Can the ability of Kira really be a godsend…?" Light asked, pulling out the first thought that popped into his head.
"I don't like to think that way." L muttered.
"Do you see it…?" K asked as she rounded another corner and met up with Watari in a small weaponry room they had stowed away from everybody. He was already garbed in his sniper suit, just loading the rifle now while she glanced over the assortment of artillery deciding on a new design that Watari had come up with.
It was small, camouflaged to look like any regular handgun, but the little thing held the same amount of power and shooting ability as any machine gun out on Black Market. The bad part: it was impractical to be running around and reloading the gun like the soldiers in wars…or movies for that matter. So, she had to settle with the amount of bullets that the small weapon could carry.
After making sure the safety was on, she strapped it to a holster on her hip.
"Then what is Rem?" Light asked, reminding K that she couldn't ogle at weapons so much this particular day.
"A reaper…?" He offered uncertainly. "Anyway, it's too soon to draw a conclusion. It looks like there are things yet to come and we might get to find out his method to kill." Reaper? Could that be what that thing is? Kew wondered absentmindedly.
K listened intently as she and Watari made their way to the helicopter, checking to make sure that it was in condition to fly.
K heard a screech of tires in the monitor that was fixed into the helicopter. No way…what the hell is up with his eyes…?
"We're going after him!" Mogi said firmly into his own headset.
"You have the go ahead to pursue, no fire arms Mogi. I repeat, no fire arms," She commanded dangerously, eyes scanning the inside of the helicopter for anything that might be amiss.
"Stop right there, that's you, in the Porsche!" Oh wow, Kira getting pulled over for speeding? There goes his megalomania complex down the toilet, K thought after getting frustrated with checking the aircraft. There was a reason she preferred racing around in a car or in a race compared to even attempting to take Lawliet up on his offer to teach her how to run one of the many helicopters and planes in his repertoire. The buttons were all confusing! At least in a car, all she needed to know was red means stop, green means go, yellow means go faster so that you don't get a red….There's only two pedals and just one steering wheel!
K's eyes averted to the monitor again as Higuchi screeched out of sight of the officer.
The officer immediately followed, K blinked only once before focusing her eyes on the officer, her eyes trying to force themselves to work around the little static colors of the monitor.
"Ryuuzaki! The police vehicle just crashed against a lorry!" Mogi informed them.
"Crashed…an accident?" Light exclaimed.
"Everyone, I've decided that it is now dangerous to let Higuchi move any longer and although we haven't established his method of killing, assuming that he currently possesses sufficient evidence on him, we are taking our next step and will capture Higuchi. However, we are assuming that Higuchi now has the ability as the second Kira and can kill just by looking at faces. That is out premise."
K looked at Watari as he worked on her laptop.
"Watari, connect me to the director general of the police," L commanded.
"I suppose that is the best we can do since the Special Assault Team is part of the NPA and they severed all ties with us," K murmured under her breath. The SAT, the Tokushu Kyūshū Butai, the Special Assault Team, they were the Japanese equivalent of the United State's SWAT, the United Kingdom's CTC, Spain's GEO…basically, the local counter-terrorist group. Kira wasn't necessarily a terrorist but that was why she could always call in favors.
"This is L. I now have the name of an individual who is Kira," L spoke, a no nonsense tone that was similar to the one Kew had to use with K. "At the moment his vehicle, a red Porsche with plate number 911, is on route 1 heading from the Hibiya area to Shibuya. I am terribly sorry but I believe that he killed one of your motorcycle policemen on duty. We will capture Kira, but I would like you to notify all of your men to stay away form that Porsche."
K raised her hand to the headset. "The helicopter's ready, we got guns, all we need is both you and Light here so that we can go already…"
"Got it, K."
Both she and Watari barely had any time to strap themselves in before both males appeared on the roof top, making their way over to the plane.
She handed them the ear-muff like devices (which she loathed, because they only helped her more inferior pair of ears while the other ones were blasted to bits).
Before she had time to clench her teeth, they were already in the air. Light making some random comment about not expecting L to have known how to pilot; she merely glowered, not even enjoying the height as much as she would've were they under any other circumstances.
She hung back, resisting the need to lean forward and tweak Lawliet's hair, trying to convince herself that this was a very serious situation.
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Suture looked through some files, determined to help Kat in any way she could…even if she had to endure the nearly emotionless eyes of Beyond.
"…W-Why did you kill that s-scientist?" She asked strained, sure, when they were younger, they spoke about getting rid of "bad people" but they were children! Now they were adults, and he had simply cut down that man!
Another "glop," a clear sign that he was lobbing another handful of strawberry jam into his mouth, "…Mmm, I was given permission by K. She said that if anyone deserved to be killed by Kira, it was them…but she was wracked by emotional stress then, so I'm not sure if she was coherent enough to realize that I was going to take that seriously…"
That was quite possibly the longest speech he'd given since she swapped places with Kat. "S-She just told you that?" Suture was alarmed, and it was completely obvious. "B-but—she's always been so…I don't know, she has a thirst for justice, so why would she let you kill for the heck of it?"
"Do you even know what she has done through the years, young Suture?" Beyond asked, licking the jam off his fingers, noting that it was sure to stain his fingers pink.
Suture was not sure if she wanted to know the answer, but she shook her head "no" anyways.
"She has tortured, she has been the tortured, and she has hunted, been the hunted, and slain many more than even I have during my period of, as she calls it, lapse of intelligent judgment."
This came as a shock to Suture. She had been living thinking that Kat simply did retrieval missions, captured and nothing more, but it seemed that she was just a much a criminal as anyone Kira slated for death. "I see. And from these files, telling you to kill is her way of p-payback?"
Beyond made no move to answer the question. That was one answer. Then there were two other reasons why he murdered the scientist with the very knife that K had given him.
He was plotting something against all of them, but then Beyond caught sight of when his death date was. Consequentially, Beyond had killed him on that date when the man had plainly told him that he would get his experiment back and that he would find Kira if he had to.
They lapsed into an uncomfortable silence, Beyond thinking about morbid things while the pure vision Suture had of her idol shattered into a million pieces.
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Soichiro just got shot and now Higuchi is back on the run…Oh, this is turning into such an eventful occurrence, and it wasn't even a mission! K said, the childish tenor of her voice chilling.
"In that case, we have to move on ourselves. Are we ready to go after him, Watari, Kokoro?" L asked us.
"Yes," Watari answered for both of us as K took the safety off of her gun.
L took out a gun, "Do you feel capable of shooting, Yagami-kun? Have it anyway, to protect yourself. It's Kira we are going after."
"No, that is not permitted in Japan," Light declined, quite probably the most idiotic response K had heard in ages.
"I suppose Yagami-san said the same thing…" L trailed off.
"Wow, how ironic… the man we believe to be the prime suspect in our Kira investigation… the man we believe to be a mass murderer is turning down a gun," She murmured under her breath, struggling to resist the smirk that was bound to surface as L grinned a bit.
K grabbed hold to the side of the aircraft as the circled around, watching the police vehicles swarm by, sirens practically tearing her ear drums to pieces with the combined force of the helicopter.
"That is strange, we did inform the police not to get involved in this…" Watari mused.
"It can only be…" Light trailed off.
"Yes, that's right…"
K merely stared at the zooming ground below, having as much of an idea of who was behind all of this as both the male geniuses.
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"I cannot thank you enough for doing this, Ide."
"We don't have time for it now, Aizawa," Ide reprimanded.
"No, if you weren't here I wouldn't be here myself… I would probably be sitting at the chief investigator's desk with no motivation whatsoever and continued to spend my days as such, like a coward," Wincing at the case that Kew sent me, no doubt.
"The reason I'm here now, is you, Ide. You continued with your own investigation after you parted with L, even after the police abandoned the Kira Investigation. You kept going at the risk of losing your badge, and secretly gathered those who were trustworthy and continued your investigation while hiding it from the top brass…and that's why we are still chasing Kita tonight like this."
"Aizawa, when you returned from the investigation team lead by L all by yourself, I asked you to be the chief investigator because I knew that out of all the force members, you know Kira best. And you did not question me for it, you just trusted me and agreed to take over the investigation team. I'm the one who is thankful to you for that."
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Watari leaned out the side of the helicopter… he aimed quickly then shot. This action caused a feral grin to appear on K's face. The bullet slammed into the window of his car, more than likely scaring Higuchi senseless. Now if only he caught sight of her with her little gun.
Her eyes gauged the distance from her to the floor, crouching and tensing her muscles for a leap. She snapped her head around when she sensed someone looking at her.
L's eyes flicked up before looking back in front of her.
K's brows meshed together before she got what he was saying. With a quick curse she pulled her cloth mask down over her face.
She really couldn't afford such stupid mistakes anymore…Kat was rubbing off on her far too much.
She glanced back at him, waited for the minute nod of his head before she somersaulted out onto the ground, landing in a crouch, taking out her gun.
When he positioned his gun next to his head, K had no idea that both she and Watari had the same idea. Watari began to crouch in an effort to aim his weapon more precisely, his new heightened senses would surely come in handy for this shot… He must not harm Higuchi, nor could he let Higuchi harm himself… There was still far too much to ask him. The same exact thoughts were racing through K's head as she took aim. Both K and Watari fired one single bullet almost simultaneously, hitting Higuchi's weapon directly in its shaft.
"Now, get out of your car and turn around slowly," She said; a glint in her eye. Who knew how long it had been since she actually did something like this. "I could just go limb by limb until you abide my orders."
A/N: Whatcha guys think? Which scenes pop out the most? Well, I hope you all like it, and please review!