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"How did you figure out who it was so fast?" Yagami asked.

"More importantly, why didn't you mention it earlier?" Aizawa said.

Katherine sat down on the couch with her legs crossed, leaning forward to put the tape in the player. Without looking back at the team, she spoke.

"Watch the tape. Your questions will be answered in a minute."

The rest of the team gathered around the televisions, sitting in the arrangement of chairs. L took his normal chair and watched the video at a faster than normal speed. Katherine was fast forwarding it to the important part, apparently, as she had the remote and an impatient expression on her face. She looked around at the team.

"It could take a minute," she said. "I'll point out a few important things at the part when the girl walks in. Ah," she said. "There's the one. She's in disguise, by the way."

"How do you know?" Matsuda asked.

"We were in our last year of school together," Katherine said. "I gave her unfortunate advice at random moments on how to avoid being arrested if she ever had to."

"Why?" Yagami asked.

"Because I tend to speak before I think sometimes," she said with a sigh. "Now," she continued in a more to-the-point tone. "Notice how she is sitting completely alone, yet she keeps glancing behind her and talking. She'll pause as though waiting for a response, and then speak again. It may be at a fast speed at the moment, but you do notice it, correct?"

"Yeah," Matsuda said. "Does she think someone's there?"

"It would seem like it," Aizawa said.

"We're getting to the good part now," Katherine said. "In a few seconds, she will react to something that we can't see on the cameras, if you notice…" Katherine played the tape at normal speed now. They watched as the girl jumped forward a little, looking out the front window. She said something. "If that's not a little strange, I'm not sure what is. I think it is possible that she had some way of recognizing Kira here. It is possible that she saw him through the front window."

"Hey!" Matsuda said, looking at the corner of the screen at the time. "Isn't that around the time we got to Aoyama?"

"If my calculations are correct," Katherine said, "that's exactly the time we would have been walking past that diner. I happened to glance into it as we were walking past. The girl struck me as familiar, and I put a lot of thought into it, and I realized who it was. She's really got blond hair and an obsession with Gothic Lolita clothing and accessories, and doesn't wear glasses. As I said, I went to school with her. She enjoyed following me around. I mentioned a lot of things that I had learned from my con artist friends at random on occasion, and I think she probably remembered quite a few of them. That means that the fingerprints on the envelopes she sent most likely were not her fingerprints."

"So that means she might have recognized you as you were walking past," Aizawa said.

"One, I was in disguise, and a damn good one if I might add. Two, why was she disguised in the first place?"

"What if it's her sister or something?" Matsuda said.

"Her sister wouldn't be in Aoyama," Katherine said. "Misa's and her parents were murdered by a robber who was later murdered by Kira. Misa looks at Kira as a god. She was so happy the day she saw his death in the paper that she wouldn't stop talking that day. She told me she believed it was Kira just like the news did and that she was in full support of Kira. She had supported Kira before that, but she became a devoted follower of him after."

"This…" Yagami said, "… this could be a good lead."

"But it means that of the group myself, Matsuda-san, and Light-kun were in, one of the people there had to be Kira, unless she simply recognized me. Now, that is unlikely, regarding the fact that after we had walked past, if you'll notice…" She played the tape up to where Misa left, "… she left the diner. That increases suspicion of me, but also of Light-kun. He is less likely than me due to the fact that his house has been surveilled before."

"Is there a reason you incriminate yourself so much?" Matsuda asked curiously.

"Well," she said, "it's mostly because while incriminating myself brings up suspicion, I know I won't ever be prosecuted because I'm not Kira."

"But we don't know that," Aizawa said.

"Right," she said, "but you will know when we catch Kira. Or maybe even the second Kira. She might be willing to blab, you know?"

"Unless Kira's told her to keep her mouth shut," Aizawa said. "If that's happened, then she probably won't talk."

"Yeah…" Katherine said with a sigh. "I'm ninety-nine percent sure Misa has met Kira by now. Knowing her, she will do whatever Kira says. How should we go about catching her?"

"You said you knew her," Matsuda said. "You could get in contact with her, right?"

"I don't know," she said. "We haven't spoken since we graduated, I have no idea where she is now."

"It seems you have a better chance of finding her than any one else on this team does," L said. "Therefore, you will be in charge of contacting her."

"Eh, I can't complain," she said. "I was the one who said I preferred working on the battlefront rather than the base. Could be fun. I just hate thinking she's actually that stupid. I know she's a total ditz from the time I spent with her last year, but this is beyond that…"


Katherine sat at a laptop in the headquarters hours later, pulling up page after page of information on Misa. She hadn't gotten rid of any of her websites. She was a small-gig model now, and she was a co-host of a late night talk show. She would be quite easy to locate from the looks of it.

"Good lord…" Katherine thought aloud from the other side of the hotel room. The team, who were discussing the best way to apprehend a suspect likely to be Kira so they couldn't kill without being noticed, all stopped their discussion and looked back. "Misa Amane. Part-time model, part-time talk-show host, full-time idiot. Her modeling profile for the agency she works for states her devotion to Kira. Right on the page. She even gave details of what happened to her parents and how Kira killed the criminal responsible. If she's the second Kira and she hasn't erased all of this, she must me mentally challenged."

"That's all on her website?" Yagami said incredulously. "Maybe there's a chance we have the wrong person, then. Anyone would have been smart enough to have taken that out of the view of the public eye if they were an accomplice to Kira."

"She looked too nerdy to be a model," Matsuda said uncertainly.

"Idiot…" Aizawa said, rolling his eyes at Matsuda.

"Yeah." She turned around the laptop for the team to see the page. "There she is out of disguise," she said, pointing at a picture in the corner of the screen. "She's not really very nerdy at all, as I'm sure you can see. She also has various pages on different social networking sites, where she also mentions how much she admires Kira. I still think she is probably the second Kira. She's never been very bright. Maybe this is a sore attempt to trick us, even."

"How so?" Yagami asked.

"By leaving up her claims of devotion to Kira," L said, "she could expect that we won't suspect her. We could easily find out when she had changed the pages, and also find out what they used to say. Perhaps she hasn't changed them because she wants us to think she doesn't have anything to hide."

"Right," Katherine said. "She wouldn't have gone changing the pages unless she was the second Kira, right?"

"Right," Aizawa said.

"So if she leaves them the same…" Katherine trailed off, waiting to see if anyone else could finish.

"Then…" Matsuda said slowly, "I think this is right…. Then that would make herself seem less suspicious, because she might have guessed we'd be thinking 'the second Kira couldn't possibly be that dumb'…?"

"Right," Katherine said. "See?" she said, looking at Aizawa. "Matsuda-san isn't a complete idiot. However," she continued, "with Misa, it's more likely she just didn't think about it. This is completely useless pondering, as we basically have enough evidence just to take her in for questioning already just with the surveillance from Aoyama."

"Yes," L agreed. "Do you have an address yet?"

"Her mailing address only," she said with a sigh. "It's a post office box. She is a part time model, so leaving her home address anywhere on the internet could result in some major potential stalker issues. So, that means I'll have to think of some other way to locate her. I could track her by her IP address whenever she logs in to one of her web accounts."

"Couldn't you just send her an email?" Matsuda suggested.

"If she is the second Kira, she might suspect me to be working against Kira," Katherine said. "Despite how she used to follow me around and bug me all the time, she probably wouldn't meet me if I suggested it with all this second Kira bussiness, which means I have to conveniently run into her. That means I need to track her IP address. Seems like the best possible method as of right now, seeing as I blew the chances of meeting with her by email earlier in the case." She turned the laptop back around. "Sorry about that, by the way," she added absently.


"She's online now on MySpace…"

Katherine smirked from her seat on the floor in front of the laptop. She had obviously been waiting for something like this to happen for hours. She had started whistling the Jeopardy theme after only five minutes of looking, and she hadn't stopped. Her sudden cease almost three hours later had caused L to look back. The rest of the team had fallen asleep.

"She's just updated her page…" she mumbled

L's cell phone rang. He took it out of his pocket and checked to caller ID on its front. He pressed the send button and held it to his ear.

"Yes?"

Katherine vaguely listened to the conversation as she refreshed Misa's MySpace page. Her eyes widened. She couldn't help but allow herself a laugh and a grin.

"Misa, you idiot." She laughed again. "Light Yagami, you are going down."

"I see," L said to the phone. "Thank you, Mogi-san. Yes, please do that."

Katherine didn't notice the conversation had ended. She was more paying attention to the random dispersals of the phrase "Misa Amane Loves Light Yagami" all over her web page. Then the laptop turned around.

"Oy!" she said in aggravation. "That was important!"

"Mogi-san has been spying on Light Yagami for quite a while," L said, fishing around for something on the computer. "Apparently, ever since the twenty-sixth, his general activity durring and after school has changed drastically."

"Ever since the second Kira said she found Kira," Katherine said, moving around to the other side of the table that the laptop was on. "How so?"

"He started dating various girls all at around that time."

She laughed. "Light's a whore."

"Mogi-san has sent a file with pictures of them all," he said. "Will you be able to identify Misa Amane if you see her?"

"Most likely," Katherine said. "She pretty much sticks out like a sore thumb, anyway. These are the pictures?" She moved the lap top over and scrolled through them. "This is Takada something or another. She goes to Touou. This girl's name is Maya, she went to the same High School as Light. Don't know her. Or her. Or her. Good lord, Light's a slut. Or her. Nope…" She got to the last picture in the file. She laughed. The blond hair, the chains, the fishnet, the five foot tall height – it was definitely Misa. She pointed at the screen. "Misa Amane. This is brilliant," she added. "When was Light last seen with her?"

"Tonight."

"Oh," she said, nodding. "Misa probably showed up out of the blue. Did Mogi-san give any details of what happened?"

"Yes," he said. "She basically snuck up on him, and Light-kun appeared rather irritated, but she followed him anyway."

"That means Light has previously told her that he can't meet with her in public often," Katherine said. "I'd expect her to do the same thing again, she's known for taking spontaneous action at inopportune moments. She may have something scheduled tomorrow regarding her job… if you can call anything that requires absolutely no thought whatsoever a 'job'…" Katherine minimized the file and brought up the internet. She went to Misa's modeling profile. She went to a page with her schedule. "According to this, she has a photo shoot for some teen magazine tomorrow. Very close to Touou University, and at around lunch hour. I bet anything she knows Light goes there. She'll probably stop by to see him."

"So that means we should have a spy there tomorrow…" L said slowly.

"So you go," she said.

"Me?" he said, looking at her oddly.

"Yeah," she said. "If you and Light-kun miss each other so much." She laughed at the absolutely incredulous look L was giving her. "Besides, this way you can get him with something pretty interesting, then. Tell him that your life isn't in threat for being outdoors unless he is Kira, as he is the only person who knows who you are. Also," she added, "you should inform Yagami-san that if you die soon, then there is no doubt that Light is Kira. He would disagree, but there would be a suspect in that event. Obviously, I won't die unless Light shoots me in the face, so I'll definitely be going to the college tomorrow. I practically haven't left since Shibuya on the twenty-sixth. Compared to my previous methods of investigation, this isn't much fun at all."

"Your previous methods would have been a lot more hazardous for anyone else."

"Considering Light never knew I was following him, no they wouldn't have been."

"Speaking of following," L said, "what are you planning?"

"Oh, right," she said, remembering what she had told Light when she followed him downstairs. "I told Light I was on Kira's side. I got tired of not being on the front lines, so now I'm going to be working as a sort of double agent occasionally. I I'll get him admitting to being Kira on tape, and I'll let the team hear it. If they won't believe anyone else saying he's Kira, then they may believe him admitting it under completely unprovoked circumstances."

"Or they might not," L said. "I have a feeling that unless he is caught killing someone, then no one will believe it."

"Well, if it comes down to it," she said quietly with a sigh, "then they may all have to come in contact with my Death Note. If they can see Ryuk following Light around, they might be a bit more apt to believe something's going on."

"Ryuk…?"

"That's his Shinigami's name." She laughed. "Told you he wasn't on Light's side. You heard him mention Light was Kira, I'm presuming?"

"Yes," he said, "but a Reaper's accusation isn't exactly the most solid evidence."

"That's true…" she said. "It does still show, however, that he isn't on Light's side. That Shinigami knows I can see him and hear him, and he still said that. I assume he dropped Light's Death Note in the first place because he was bored and wanted to see what would happen."

"So Reapers absolve boredom by giving humans weapons…" L said. "That isn't a pleasant thought at all."

"Not all of them do," she said. "Otherwise, people all over, not just criminals, would be dropping dead of heart attacks spontaneously. I think Ryuk's just a smart ass. Reapers live by killing humans and taking what's left in their life spans as their own. Makes them practically immortal. Odds are, he got bored with doing things like that and wanted to see what would happen if a human got a Death Note. Reapers just kill to live. A human would kill for other reasons, and he probably thought of that, and he probably wondered what those reasons were, so he decided to experiment."

"Apparently there is more than just the one like that," he said, biting his fingernail. "This Misa Amane also has a Death Note. You had their King's Death Note. Any other one could drop one, couldn't they?"

"Yes, but it's highly doubtful they would. Ryuk is… let's say unique. The Shinigami King dropped mine by accident because he's a stupid son of a bitch who never even visits me. I think a Shinigami would make a cool pet, but his ass is too damn lazy…."

"What about Amane's?"

"Rem," Katherine said, sounding puzzled. "Misa's Shinigami…" She shook her head. "I don't know what Rem's doing. Rem is a lot more serious than Ryuk. Compared to Ryuk, Rem could be considered noble. I'll have to ask Rem if I come in contact with her any time in the future what the hell she was thinking."

"So," L said, "Light-kun's Shinigami didn't drop his note with the intention of him in particular picking it up?"

"I don't think so," she said. "He would have been happy with anyone. Since someone like Light picked it up, though, he's getting a good laugh out of it."

"And we don't know if Misa's Shinigami is on her side or not?"

"No," Katherine said. "Knowing Rem and knowing Misa, Rem may be on Misa's side. Rem, I think, has more of a sense of compassion than most Shinigami would."

"So we may have a Shinigami against us."

"Possibly. No one on the team can be killed, though."

"There's also no way to prove any of it to them."

"There's one way," she said with a nervous laugh, staring at her knees. "I don't want it to come down to them seeing the Shinigami, though, not like this. Everyone would be much happier if they didn't know about it unless they absolutely had to." She yawned. "I think I'll be getting some sleep before the infiltration of Toudai."

She stretched her arms out as she stood. She walked to one of the remaining empty chairs and fell sideways into it, her legs dangling over one of the armrests. Her last thought before drifting to sleep was how it was nice to finally have a friend with whom she could actually have an intelligent conversation.