~Narrator's P.O.V. ~
The door to the hotel room suite was opened by Chief Yagami. With his members following him, they walked inside to be greeted by the sound of scratching. They all looked before them to see a man that was about 5'8", wearing a long white shirt and baggy jeans that hung off his hips, his hair was messy and was black with a blue hue to it, this only seemed to emphasize his eyes that were a dark obsidian color that had bags as companions underneath them. Obviously, he was not what they were expecting to see judging by their gasps. But as he stood there on his left foot, scratching his left ankle with the opposite foot, he proceeded to speak.
"I am L." He simply introduced himself. Everyone was still taking in his general appearance as he switched to scratching the back of his head with his left hand; his eyes averted towards the ground waiting for them to get over his looks despite being the number one detective in the world. The other members seemed to look at each other as the Chief had proceeded to introduce himself with his badge opened.
"I'm Yagami, of the N.P.A." He stated out, the men behind him followed in his suit as they each took out their own individual badge identifications.
"Uh, Matsuda." One with black, shaggy hair and brown eyes said.
"I'm Aizawa." The one behind him stated, he had an afro going on that was coal colored and had a beige suit on.
"Mogi." The tallest of the men said out, he had brown hair that was cut somewhat similar to a military style.
"Ukita." The final man said, he had short hair that was cut closely to his skull, his eyes appeared to be green but that was uncertain. It was as they were introducing themselves that the rosette appeared behind them from her hiding spot. L simply looked at them, lowering his hand to his side. She remained silent as Yagami begun speaking again.
"I'm very sorry we're late. Currently the five of us are-"
"Bang!" L had cut him off. He had also raised his right hand in the shape of a gun by having his pointer finger extended and his thumb pointed upwards. He imitated shooting a real gun off at the Chief. Everyone stood there, confused by his action. But Aizawa was the first to say something.
"What the hell was that?" He questioned, demanding an answer. He didn't seem to like L already. L simply grunted before explaining himself.
"If I were Kira you'd be dead, Mr. Soichiro Yagami, Chief of the N.P.A." He told them, he seemed a bit annoyed at the fact that they'd given out their identities easily to him. The others just gasped at his words as he finished. "Kira needs a face and a name in order to commit murder. But I'm sure you've already figured that much out, haven't you?" It was at this time that the girl in the back decided to make herself noticed. She walked up behind the man known as Ukita and acted as if she had a gun to his head.
"Or he could've been covering for Kira. Or there could be a Second Kira." She told them, this obviously startled Ukita as he abruptly turned around and nearly fell at her presence. The others turned to look at her before L's voice rang throughout the room once again.
"Please do not give out your names so carelessly. Instead, let's value our lives." He told them as he began walking into the other room, the girl followed closely behind him, a bit of a skip to her step.
"Yes, please be careful with your names as L said." She called back to them as they just stood there.
"I knew that he needed a face to kill someone, but I don't remember any evidence that showed that he needed a name too." Matsuda told Chief Yagami as they walked out.
"There's no way to verify if this is related, but criminals whose names were never released publicly, or whose names were spelled incorrectly in the media, have not been targeted. We briefly went over it at one of our meetings." Chief explained to the newest member.
"That's enough small talk for now, come this way." He ordered them as he stalked over to the couch, his pants dragging on the floor with his feet.
"Oh, uh, right." Matsuda muttered out as an answer, but it wasn't acknowledged.
"Please turn off your cell phones, hand-held's, and any other communication devices and leave them on the table right there." He commanded again.
"What, do you think we're going to be using our cell phones during this meeting to leek information?" Aizawa yelled out, frustrated again by L's requests.
"It's alright. Just do as he says." Yagami told Aizawa, trying to calm him down reasonably. Each of the members complied with the request.
"I realize he's be cautious from the very beginning, but I still can't tell if he trusts us or not." Matsuda said to the others.
"L does trust you." Anarchy said to them.
"No I just find them distracting; I can't stand it when people's cell phones are ringing while I'm trying to talk." He told them as he began to sit on the couch in his usual position of crouching. The girl with him sat cross-legged on the floor at his feet. Of course, neither of them had shoes on. "Let me start by saying nobody takes notes on anything that is said in these meetings. That means when you leave head quarters, any information we need is committed to memory. Please, make yourselves comfortable." He told them
"Uh, right." Yagami said, as L's eyes read them as they began moving to empty seats near him. L had then began to pour coffee for himself and the girl before him; she simply watched at eye level, as if it was the most interesting thing in the world, with the cup as the liquid had begun to fill it. Each of the members just watched them as they prepared their drinks. Aizawa watched as the girl poured cream into one of the cups and had begun to pour sugar in shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, L had lifted his cup to his lips to taste the drink. He took the cup a few inches away from his mouth as he stared down at it, an unpleased look gracing his face. He set the cup back down and started to drop sugar cubes into the drink, two at a time.
"Excuse me, L?" Matsuda began.
"Mm... And from now on, I'll have to ask that you stop calling me 'L', it's Ryuzaki now, just to be safe." He told them.
"Uh, okay, Ryuzaki. But who is this girl?" He asked as everyone looked down at her. She simply sipped her drink, never breaking eye contact with whoever was looking. L looked down at her, waiting for her to speak. The crimson eyed woman sensed this and had placed her cup down on the table in front of her.
"I am Anarchy. In these meeting I will be known as Angel, on the outside you will call me Alice Asylum if you need a full name; if not, then just Alice. It doesn't matter how you're referring to me whether it be over the phone, a text message, face to face contact, etc., I will be known as Alice Asylum on the outside." She told them, her eyes reading each one of their deaths. Her face almost turned into a saddened expression, but she caught herself, Ukita was the first to die. His death, a heart attack; no doubt caused by Kira. L then took over speaking again as the girl now known to them as Angel began drinking her coffee once again.
"As I said previously, there's two ways in which I will be proving that I am L. Angel here, is the first method." He told them as he begun stirring his drink, holding the long spoon between his thumb and index finger delicately.
"But how is she a way?" Aizawa asked, not knowing what to make of the situation. His face was scrunched a bit in anger and distrust. L simply sighed slightly.
"Angel's existence isn't known by anyone, excluding myself and Watari. She's always been working along side me. I guess you could call us childhood friends at the least. Although her existence isn't made obvious in the slightest, she usually does whatever she can to protect me. It doesn't matter what it is, she'll handle it if she thinks that the task could harm me or worse in any way. In fact, that broadcast to prove Kira's being in Japan was carried out by her. It was not me behind that microphone, although I did write out the scripting for it. She wanted to be sure that I would not die incase Kira could get me. She is loyal, and protective, I will not tolerate anything that happens to her. In other words, if I find out anyone does anything to cause harm or distress to her, I'll be sure to repay whoever that person is." He threatened them. Of course he knew that Anarchy would also add in her own bit of information.
"That goes hand in hand with me. If I feel that anything or anyone threatens Ryuzaki, regardless of who it is, I will take action against them without hesitation." She told them, her eyes partially glowering at each of them to assure she got her point across.
"But that's ridiculous! None of us would ever do such a thing to either of you, so you shouldn't even consider those possibilities!" Aizawa shouted out to them, standing up from his seat. He was hunched over a bit. Anarchy simply looked up at him from over her cup.
"If any of you don't plan on doing anything along those lines, then you should have nothing to worry about and my actions shouldn't bother you either." She told him, her voice getting cocky against him. What she stated was true though. Aizawa simply looked at her, his eyes softened a bit before he resumed his seat.
"There was also something else that she forgot to mention to all of you." He said looking down at her' she knew what he was talking about.
"What do you mean?" Chief asked, curiosity filling the room as if it were visible. She looked up at L; fear in her eyes, not a lot but it was there. She then felt his hand on her shoulder as she sighed and looked at each of them, trying to muster up courage to reveal her secret.
"I want you all to know that what I'm about to say I'm being one hundred percent serious about and is entirely true. You can as Ryuzaki if you don't believe me. But my eyes are not like yours."
"What do you mean by that, Anar-, Angel?" Matsuda caught himself.
"I can see how people will die." She bluntly said, wanting to get it out of the way. The men gasped at what she revealed. "And I can also estimate when a person will die. All that is necessary for me to do is look at someone's eyes and their death will be revealed to me. I'm not always able to tell when a person will die though."
"You can't expect us to believe that!" Aizawa yelled out.
"Please calm down. It is true; her eyes see death in everyone. If you'd like an example I'll gladly give you one at a later time. Now then, back to the present matter at hand, Kira." L directed them.
"If we know that he needs a name and a face to kill, couldn't we cut down on the number of victims by keeping criminals names from the news?" Matsuda was the first to speak.
"If we do that then we'll only be putting the general public at risk." L said in his voice that made everything seem obvious.
"The general public?" Ukita questioned, followed by Aizawa.
"Why?" At that point L, or Ryuzaki rather, ceased his stirring and looked up from the liquid below his hand.
"Kira is childish and he hates losing." He told them in all seriousness.
"But how do you...?" Matsuda trailed off.
"Just what do you mean?" Soichiro asked for him. Angel couldn't help but smile the littlest amount at this.
"Well, I am also childish and I hate to lose, along with Angel. That's how I know." He concluded before lifting up his cup and taking another sip as Angel finished her cup and set it down.
"This is true, we both don't like losing, and we don't intend to lose to Kira either." She said as she leaned back a bit onto the man's feet behind her.
"Ryuzaki, would you mind being a little more specific for us?" Chief requested. Ryuzaki lowered his cup from his mouth.
"Hm... Earlier on in the investigation I tried to provoke Kira with that broadcast. Up until then we thought Kira would only go after criminals; but as we all witnessed, he didn't hesitate to kill my stand in."
"And whenever we had confirmed that he was within the Kanto region of Japan, he made sure his next victims came from within Japan." Angel added for Ryuzaki.
"This was an act of defiance that seemed to say: 'And what are you going to do about it?'." Ryuzaki started talking again, taking another sip then setting the cup down on the table. "He's met each of my challenges head on and he's never missed an opportunity to return the favor."
"Kira is one of the first people to do that, it's a bit surprising actually..." The girl softly trailed off.
"Now what do you think would happen if we tried to use media restrictions to hide criminals from someone like that?" Ryuzaki questioned the other men in the room.
"I guess..." Matsuda was cut off.
"If you choose to withhold the names of your worst criminals, I'll kill petty criminals or the innocent. I'm holding the whole world hostage so who's it gonna be? I'm not the evil one here, but all those who oppose me by hiding criminals, you are truly evil." He shuttered a bit, starting to rub his feet against one another, causing the girl to stand up and stretch her legs. "That's exactly how Kira thinks. In any case, let's look at another way of how we can use the media to draw him out."
"But how?" Aizawa interrogated.
"How about something like this..." Ryuzaki started off, looking up to the ceiling with his hand to his chin. Meanwhile, Angel had made herself more coffee and was now sitting on the arm of Ryuzaki's chair. "Death of F.B.I. agents infuriates the U.S.; latest killings anger the International Policing Community. Nations agree to send fifteen hundred investigators to Japan. For Kira this will be way beyond what he faced with the F.B.I. He'll see everyone as a potential threat. Psychologically, he'll start to feel cornered and that will cause him to take some kind of drastic action." He concluded.
"If that doesn't work then his psyche will eventually catch up with him and cause his edge to dull. It will ultimately be his downfall no matter what sort of individual he is." Angel said as she swirled her coffee around in her cup gently.
"That's interesting." Ukita said with a smile on his face.
"So he'll think there are fifteen hundred, when there are really only eight of us!" Aizawa said, this threw off the girl. 'Eight? I guess that they included Watari as well...' She thought, trying to figure out who that eighth person was. Since there was only the five of them and then herself and Ryuzaki; that added up to only seven, Watari was the only other person she could think of. "And since none of these investigators exist, Kira won't be able to kill them."
"It just might work!" Ukita added in. Ryuzaki looked up a bit at them.
"Well before we celebrate, let me tell you the rest of my thoughts on the Kira case." The others just 'Hmed' amongst each other. "Kira works alone. He had access to all our classified information." He said while placing a thumb to his bottom lip.
"What evidence do you have that he works alone? I mean Angel gave the theory that Kira could be working with someone." Aizawa pointed out. Angel had crossed her arms after placing her cup down once again and looked at him.
"Hold on, Aizawa. Let's listen to his entire theory before asking questions." Soichiro told him.
"Yes but at the moment I think that he's alone. He's starting to gain popularity among some people which would probably cause them to want to come into contact with him. Their sympathy might make Kira take them in to help himself in the end. And from what I've thought of, Kira wants to make a world ridden of the curse that is evil. However, Kira doesn't know what true evil is so he's just going along with who he judges as evil. If there was another person or multiple people working with him at the present moment, then there'd be a larger number of criminals dying, and also those F.B.I. agents would have most likely died earlier. So it's based on that theory that Kira is alone at the moment." She elaborated, closing her eyes in the process.
"What she stated is most likely true. We know he needs a name and a face to kill, and to some extent he can control a victim's time of death and the actions before dying. We already know that much, please keep that in mind. And listen carefully to what I have to say next." Ryuzaki ordered as he took a black marker and uncapped it. He held the marker and the cap between his thumb, index and middle fingers before he began writing on the table in front of him. "On December 14th, twelve F.B.I. investigators entered Japan. Here we are on December 19th. Using prison inmates, Kira conducts experiments manipulating his victim's actions before they die. In other words, in this window of only five days Kira became aware of the F.B.I.'s presence and obviously felt threatened. Because he didn't know any of their names or faces he was at a disadvantage." He explained as he wrote down two dates and drew a line in between them. "He needed to know how much control he had over his victims before he could use it against the twelve agents. And as we all know on December 27th..."
"All of those agents died that day because of Kira. I assume that he managed to get a file of some sort that had each of their names and faces within it. How he retrieved it is still a mystery, but we can't change what's already happened." Angel said, she pulled her feet up so they were both resting on the arm rest along with the rest of her. She had her hands behind her neck as she leaned back a little. "However it is possible that one of the agents could have been manipulated by Kira before they died and gave him said file, but unfortunately it's impossible to tell which one it could possibly have been."
"During this period, to the best of our knowledge, at least twenty-three individuals died of heart attacks. But these victims were different from Kira's previous targets. They were all alleged criminals, convicts, or suspects in on-going investigations, so legally speaking they were innocent." Ryuzaki said as he wrote a number '23' down in between those days.
"That's true." Soichiro confirmed.
"What this indicates, is that Kira had to manipulate these lesser criminals in order to kill those F.B.I. agents. He killed that many people so that we'd be unable to tell the decoys from those who were actually used. In truth he probably only needed a few. He waited eight days so the F.B.I. could investigate other suspects, this meant there would be no time line linking them to their deaths. I suspect Kira had to be one of the people being investigated by the F.B.I. between the 14th and the 19th of December, in fact I have no doubt." He concluded, drawing in an 'x' on the line between the 14th and the 19th, indicating that's the time line of where he was at. The others simply awed at his work before he held out a stack of papers to them. "These are files provided by the F.B.I. they contain additional information you might find useful. For obvious reasons, you're not permitted to take these out of this room but..."
"Amazing!" Matsuda had cut him off as he looked at the papers that he had given. "There may be only 5 of us, but with this much information we'll be able to cover a lot of ground!"
"We'll split up into two teams. One team traces the F.B.I. agents, the other looks at the heart attack victims." Aizawa planned.
"There weren't that many people who had access to information from head quarters, and of those the F.B.I. only investigated a small group within the first five days." Matsuda pointed out, optimism was obvious in that man.
"Yeah, yeah!" Aizawa resounded.
"So, does anyone have any questions?" Ryuzaki asked them, resting his hands on his knees.
"Actually Ryuzaki, I do have one question for you. And it pertains to what you said earlier about how you two hate to lose. Does the fact that you've shown us your face and Angel her existence? By just being here are you admitting defeat to Kira?" Soichiro asked, Angel couldn't help but smile at his questions.
"That's right, by showing my face to you, revealing Angel's existence, and sacrificing the lives of twelve F.B.I. agents I have lost the battle." He started.
"And this means war between us and Kira." Angel said confidently, she'd wanted something exciting to happen in a case for sometime.
"But we're not gonna lose the war." Ryuzaki concluded. He wanted to be assured that he could figure out who Kira really was. "This is the first time I've ever put my life on the line."
"And it's also my first public appearance regarding my existence in this world."
"I want to show Kira we're all willing to risk our lives if that's what it takes..."
"And that justice will prevail no matter what." The two said in unison; smiles gracing both their faces equally.
"Hey yeah, that's right." Mogi realized.
"I like the sound of that." Matsuda commented happily.
"We can do this!" Ukita assured.
"Alright then, let's do this, Ryuzaki, Angel." Aizawa said. Each one of them had been struck with courage to face this murderer known as Kira head on because of that one thing the two detectives said.
"Before we go any further, I have to be absolutely sure that none of you are Kira. So I'll need to speak with each of you individually before you leave today." Ryuzaki requested of them. Now the members were confused a bit by his request.
"Huh?" Aizawa started, turning to the other men. "What's the deal, he still doesn't trust us?"
"No, I think it's a fair request." Soichiro told them, grabbing their attentions. "Try to see it from his perspective. Kira's been getting information from our head quarters from the very beginning, so there's a good chance that's he's one of us.
"Chief's right. Working this case has given us a chance to hear him in person. And to be the first to know Anarchy, Angel I mean." Matsuda said.
"He's risking his life to be here. Her too, especially since no one knows she exists, it's got to be scary right now for her." Aizawa concluded, trying to visualize what they were feeling. By this time, both of the young detectives were standing side by side at the window that overlooked parts of the city. 'Things are going well.' L thought to himself. 'Just one clue, a single decisive factor is all I need.' His eyes were intensely watching over the buildings that were within sight. The girl, however, was watching the sky and everything that went on with the world. 'Kira is bound to slip up on something. He'll accidentally let a clue be out in the open sky; it's just a matter of who can catch it first before it crashes to the ground.' She idealized, thinking of possible things that could serve as clues. 'Just one thing.' The two detectives thought together, but also a third person. Light Yagami was thinking the same thought they were.