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."
Chapter 40
He seemed to twitch, and K expected this of him so it was no surprise she was ready to intercept him.
As his hand came up to back hand her, she ducked, practically ripping his face off with the force she put into her own slap, claws digging into his skin and causing little rivulets of blood to flow down his face, a yowl of pain erupting from his lips .
Wow, if he was repulsive before…I feel bad for whoever had to go through the pain of childbirth for this one. K thought before, grabbing Higuchi by the arms forcefully, not even flinching when she heard his hiss of pain. She took the handcuffs out of Soichiro's hands and let Higuchi fall onto the dirt, to be tied up by the rest of the men that were surrounding "Kira."
K was standing far away from him, she did not want to let him get a good hit in… Though fear for her own wellbeing did not trigger this impulse. Even though Watari could turn him into the human equivalent of Swiss cheese with his newly improved senses. Hell, L would probably be the one that would riddle holes into Higuchi should he harm their developing children in any way or form.
Shaking her head (resisting the urge to rip off her wig when the long tendrils of her pony tail smacked her in the face), she let herself fall into a crouch, taking out a knife from one of her boots. Might as well do something productive while the interrogation starts…Kew noted appreciatively, trying to ignore the fact that K just wanted to be over there—getting information out of the greed obsessed man by slicing his skin open, cut by painful cut.
She just traced the edge of the blade absentmindedly, drawing shapeless figures on it.
Mogi gave Higuchi the headset, and K watched with morbid curiosity, tilting her head much the same way as inquisitive kitten would.
"Higuchi, how have you been killing people? As Kira, how did you kill people!? Answer!" L demanded. Are my aggressive tendencies rubbing off on him in addition to my mannerisms? "If you refuse to tell us, then we will make you tell us by any means necessary."
A cruel grin appeared on K's features; that could certainly be arranged. "Of course, you do not want another beastly scar on that face of yours, eh?" She threatened, a sinister glint entering her eyes.
After a few moments of silence, right when she was about to decide to dip her knife into his skin and see the red bubble up to the surface, he spoke. "It's a notebook…"
"Notebook?" L questioned, more as a way of verifying what Higuchi has said then a question of his sanity.
"…You probably won't believe me, but it's a notebook where if you write in it the name of a person whose face you know, then that person will die. It's in the bag inside my car…"
"Y-Yagami-san, can you at least check inside of the car to see if there's anything like that…" L more of commanded then asked; K let her eyes flicker over to the car. Even with enhanced senses, neither L nor Watari would be able to observe the contents of the car from their vantage point, or at least she assumed.
"Okay," Soichiro responded, turning around to the car, shuffling through the briefcase and pulling out a black note book.
"Ryuuzaki, the notebook is here but it's not anything special…it's true that there are people's names written in here…" But his voice trailed off as he looked up. Words like startled, flabbergasted, startled entered her mind as she saw his face.
"WAHHHH!" Soichiro yelled, backing up in horror.
K gave a violent twitch at the sound—her ears practically bleeding from the sound—before she followed Soichiro's gaze and saw the gargantuan blotch of colors.
She had seen it plenty of times on monitors, and had seen outlines and blurs of it in real life but seeing up close was a completely different matter.
She blinked her eyes repeatedly, even rubbed them with the heel of her palm, in a subconscious effort to see it. She was so unaccustomed to having her vision toyed with, so it was completely aggravating when she glared at that one spot, and felt like she was looking through some giant frosted pane of glass.
K was so irritated that she did not hear the added scream of Mogi when he went for the book. She only caught then end of Soichiro's conclusion.
"I-it a-appears that anyone who touches the notebook…can see it…"
And so, with a very dramatic turn, she walked over to the book and snatched it off the ground, then turned her eyes to the creature, taking in every detail.
It looked like one of those experiments from the facility, one of the ones who had far too many defects to even be considered for observation and testing.
She extended her arm, slamming the book into Mogi's chest. "Take this to Ryuuzaki."
"What do you see?" L asked her, the apprehensive tinge in his voice only audible to her.
"I see what I saw at headquarters, what I saw with Misa, what I saw with Light, save that now, it's crystal clear…" She answered bluntly, knowing he would be able to decipher her code.
"….Indeed…A reaper….It…r-really exists…" L muttered, but K could hear it nonetheless.
"Ryuuzaki, is it true!? Let me see that." And that was when a multitude of alarms began ringing in her head, many of them being the combined yells of anguish of Kat, Kew and—surprisingly—Kitten.
Without warning, like a startled feral tomcat, she hurled herself into a sprint, wishing she could just shift into her feline form to get there faster. But she knew that even the speed she was running at, what she estimated was a rough thirty-something miles an hour, was unnatural for most humans. She silently gave thanks for the fact that the majority of the officers were giving the monster a slack-jawed stare, therefore ignoring her.
She slid to a stop just in time to duck her head into her shoulders, covering her ears as a horrible, bloodcurdling scream erupted from the helicopter.
From Light.
She forced her body to seem relaxed, but she was wound tighter than a coil, nerves frayed.
That feeling…
The one she got before Light was put in solitary confinement…
That stupid instinct of self-preservation…
That need to wring that foul little child's neck, and watch the life leave his eyes—
—was back.
She resisted the impending and completely animalistic urge to let her lips curl up, bare her teeth at the monstrosity sitting next to her mate, uncouth words dangling on the tip of her tongue.
"…..A-are you alright? Though if anyone saw that monster they would be surprised—" Oh for the sake of---! Just let me tear him to pieces already! If you're lucky you'll be left with enough of a cadaver to prosecute and put on a platter in front of the ICPO!
"If you write someone's name into something like this, people will die…. Can you believe that? …" Light asked.
At this point, it was hard for K to control her breathing, the muscles in her jaw tight, adrenaline seeping into her system.
"….What? I-it's hard to believe but…Th…There's no way that we can… test it…….Right? ……..Yagami-san." He was only going through the motions, she could see it in his eyes, in his speech; it was painfully obvious how his new senses were allowing him to see as she would.
He no doubt felt the incredible "Fight or Flight" impulse, hence his uncharacteristic hesitance.
"Obviously, Ryuuzaki!!"
And that was her cue to swallow the growl that built up in her chest.
"Ryuuzaki, first let's match the names written here with the names of the victims…" Light said, turning around to type on the computer.
"Um…Yes…ah…That's right…."
She glanced at L, both sharing a look.
He was trying to fool them with his "effortless perfect-boy acting" as the personas called it.
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Beyond stared at Suture, watching her deftly make incisions into the body of the former Kira…
As soon as the body was wheeled in for them to take apart and examine (apparently completely sterile and "bloody well fresh" from what he made out of K's haphazard angry slurs), he saw the slight flash of horror appear in his younger counterpart's blue eyes.
Three long, scarlet and jagged lines of puckered scar tissue went from his ear, across the bridge of his crooked nose, to the other ear.
If one did not know exactly whom they were working with, they would have assumed the Higuchi was mauled by some wild animal, and that the reason he was lying on the examining table was as such.
But Beyond and Suture evidently knew better.
They certainly were not going to even consider such a foolish freak accident had happened.
The fact that there were no other signs of a struggle was one huge clue to them.
No. They had been informed before it all that the "imbecile" they were going to examine and prod was a former Kira who died of a heart attack. (And Beyond was the very first one to accuse the incident of being redundant, causing K to agree half heartedly before barking out orders to someone on another line and hanging up on him.)
However, Beyond was not very interested in Higuchi, rather, his counter part.
He watched with detached interest as the recognition flashed in her eyes, followed by the horror before her orbs went flat.
She had finally accepted the fact that her idol, the woman she followed around like a sick puppy was just as vile as any other person she would meet. The only difference was that she also shared DNA with the disease infested vermin that ran around in the alleys.
His apt observation, he noted, made her jittery, jumpy; so he turned around, analyzing other matters. She was more than able to make a few incisions on a corpse and conclude the cause of death as he was.
He didn't hate K. He didn't dislike her. He just found himself comparing her to L far too much than he was at all comfortable with.
She was not insanely genius like L, but she was just behind him on that one. She was not male, she was not as reserved and she was not as…stable.
Which is where, he deducted, the differences ended.
They both had the ability to manipulate people to an extreme… to the point where a person would actually doubt whether or not they were on the side of "good" or "evil." They both had the tendency to drag others in to their problems, they both were far more childish than what they should be, and they were both incredibly cruel in their own way…
But then again, the fact that she was unstable would bring him round full circle.
The fact that she was almost clinically insane was what weighed her far more favorable than L for some reason. Because she was more likely to be rash, to be emotionally ship wrecked, to have that small hint of sadism…well, that just made her seem more human to him.
But he would never admit that. After all, Suture is to K what Beyond was to L. Backup, replacement, alternate, but she was Similar.
And he wanted to make her see the light because of that. He needed to make Suture realize that chasing after an idol was incorrect…but not necessarily the same way he had tried to show his independence…
He noisily stuffed his hand into the jam, purposely making sure he sounded as obnoxious as possible, knowing that Suture would twitch.
"Hey, B-Beyond, this guys eye's…there is a r-red tint to them…a little b-bit l-like yours…"
And that was when Beyond froze in his snacking, completely stilled by the turn of events.
Shinigami eyes…