AN: HUZZAH!!!! I HAVE 300+ REVIEWS!!! :D :D :D :D :D THANK YOU, ALL YOU GUYS!!! And OH MY GARSH, I'm sorry I left it on such a bad cliffhanger!! Y'all probably hate me! D: So, on to the chappie!!

OH! But quickly: I would like to point out that L didn't immediately recognize Aizawa in the last chapter because his physical appearance changed so much. Think about it: after going through that time skip, Aizawa looks like a totally different guy. And I guess that if you wanted to you could blame some of it on the fact that L went and DIED, but to me that wouldn't explain all of it...

Anyway.

March 1, 2011
12:57 PM

The room was dead silent for a few moments as they all stood stock still trying to decide what to do.

"What's going on?" asked Ide slowly.

"Who the hell are you??" Aizawa angrily questioned.

Mogi was quiet, but he seemed strained under the silence.

L sighed. "Aizawa-san, I thought that I had instructed you to enter this building at one o'clock."

Aizawa's eyes narrowed.

He doesn't believe I'm alive. L put his thumb in his mouth. "This wasn't quite what I'd expected to happen... but I don't suppose it could be helped."

In truth, he had considered the possibility at about a 5% chance of occurring... But realistically, a 5% chance??

Then again, that had been the rational likelihood of Light being Kira, too.

"Excuse me," Ide pointedly said. "Could we get an explanation?"

L stared at the old investigation team; three seconds later he sighed for a second time. "You would have gotten an explanation anyway... But first."

L very nearly glared as he turned his attention to the other end of the room.

"Mido-san, I really have no idea if you know how to properly use that thing. So please, put your gun away before you kill somebody."

While moving through one of the private rooms on the fifteenth floor of the investigation building, Matsuda suddenly stopped and stood completely still. He was so quiet that Yamamoto hadn't even noticed until he had moved several yards ahead of him.

"Hey Matsuda?" he asked as he turned around. "Shouldn't we be going towards the elevator now like Aizawa told us to--?"

"Shhh!!" Matsuda harshly whispered back to him. Cautiously he glanced around. "I think I heard something!"

Yamamoto didn't get it. "...So?"

"This building has been abandoned for seven years."

Yamamoto sighed. Matsuda could be rather... paranoid sometimes. "That doesn't mean anything! It could be a rat or something--"

"Do rats leave boxes of toys lying around??"

Oh.

...He had a point.

When in doubt, Yamamoto's first reaction as an officer of the law was to reach for his gun. Only then did he remember that Aizawa had asked that none of them bring guns to the building with them. Crap.

"Are you sure something's wrong??" he muttered to Matsuda.

"No."

Matsuda reached into his coat and took out a small pistol-- "Wait a second, you weren't supposed to bring any guns to this place!" Yamamoto yelled in a whisper.

Matsuda just rolled his eyes. "Get behind me!"

Even though he was still unsure, Yamamoto didn't wait to be told a second time. "Where d'ya think the noise came from?"

Matsuda considered his question and whirled around. "In... there." He pointed his gun towards one of the closed doors a few feet to their right. Slowly the two of them inched toward it and Matsuda--in one quick kick--knocked it open.

"Alright, come out with you hands--!"

He was unable to finish his order.

The doctor rolled his eyes as he steadily gripped the gun in his hands. "Of course I know how to use this." It was definitely not a lie: several years ago Mido had had good reasons to keep a gun around, and he wasn't stupid enough to become rusty at target practice as time passed.

Ryuzaki's harsh expression didn't fade. "I didn't ask you if you could point it at a police officer; I asked you if you could please put the gun away."

Against his instincts, Mido reluctantly turned on the Beretta's safety and stuck it in his pocket. "You make it sound as though I wasn't doing you a favor."

Ryuzaki turned to the ice cream bowl in his hand and ate a spoonful. "...Thank you for defending my honor when I more than likely would have done fine on my own."

Mido didn't like his unappreciative tone. "Well, gosh," he sarcastically responded, "I see three police officers that look prepared to arrest someone walking into the building--MY building--and I'm supposed to assume there isn't a threat?? Then, of course, I see on the security cameras that they're heading for the ONE person to ever die and be brought back to LIFE, and how the hell am I supposed to--"

"Ryuzaki."

Everyone turned towards one of the three officers--a large, muscular man--as they heard him speak.

"You really aren't dead," he said gruffly.

Silently they all took in what he said.

"Do I appear dead to you, Mogi-san?" Ryuzaki spoke in a soft voice.

"No. But none of us thought..." The man--Mogi--trailed off.

Mido nearly smirked to himself. Apparently one of them can easily accept that Ryuzaki is alive...

"But that's... PREPOSTEROUS!!" another one of the three said in an exasperated tone. Mido wasn't 100% sure who he was, but he would have guessed he was the one in charge. But even so, clearly this guy didn't know what sort of situation he was dealing with anymore. "You DID die, and you died in front of us, no less!! It's not possible!!"

Mido rolled his eyes. Hasn't he ever heard the phrase "Anything is possible?"

Ryuzaki frowned and ate another spoonful of his ice cream. "Excuse me, Aizawa-san. It appears to me that Near didn't reach that same conclusion."

Mido noticed that the three of them all reacted to the name with wide eyes.

"You... spoke with Near," the last of the officers said in a monotone. From the way his eyebrows were raised, anyone could tell he was rather shocked by the prospect.

"Of course I did," Ryuzaki said.

And that reminds me...

"Erm, speaking of Near," Mido interjected, "don't you think he'll want to know about these guys...?"

"Hmm... Yes, he will," Ryuzaki replied as another spoonful of ice cream went into his mouth. "I don't suppose you would go upstairs and--"

"What??" the one in charge--Aizawa?--asked. "He's UPSTAIRS??"

Ryuzaki ignored him; as much as he tried not to, Mido was secretly glad that he wasn't the only person Ryuzaki didn't pay attention to. "I don't suppose you would go get him, would you?" Ryuzaki finished, unperturbed.

The doctor eyed the three officers for a moment before shrugging. "As long as none of them try to kill you..." He frowned. "What floor is Near on, anyway?"

"The fifteenth."

Aizawa drew in a sharp breath. "Oh, crap."

AN: XD
Wanna take a stab at what happened to Matsuda and Yamamoto?

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(Of course, being the L fan that I am, I'm more worried about who will play our favorite insomniac detective... To quote my good friend Mickaroo, those are some BIG shoes to fill...)
(Okay, so we don't know if L literally has big feet, but you know what I mean.)

So that's the agenda for the day: read, review, vote, and figure out L's shoe size. :P

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