Author's Note: Really love the reviews! At the request of one of the reviewers I attempted a longer chapter. This chapter follows the plot of Death Note closely...I hope you enjoy. Oh the thing at the coffee shop happened to me in real life so I hope you find it amusing. The next chapter will have Raito and L meeting!
Disclaimer: I do not own death note and I do not own the 'Bullet For My Valentine' Lyrics at the end. Enjoy!
Another Detective
Chapter 4
L set the papers he had been looking through down on the table. The suggestion from Smile was ridiculous, there was no way he would show his face to other people and let them know he was L! If it was only Smile…maybe he would show himself, just for him but in any case for now he would remain a letter.
Entering the room and waiting to be acknowledged, Watari stood twitching his mustache in annoyance.
"Watari arrange for agents from the FBI to be sent in, we require assistance in investigating some things", he said and vaguely gestured towards the files of the Kira Task Force agents.
"Should I inform Smile as well of this?"
"No."
Watari looked puzzled by this, so L decided to elaborate the answer.
"I don't like to loose and if I tell Smile he might get to Kira first."
With a nod of acceptance, Watari left the room to make arrangements.
L glanced at his computer; there was a message from Smile.
'I know what you're thinking; it's not a good idea. You will lose the police's trust in an instant!'
A smile formed on L's face after reading the message.
"You are just mad you didn't think about it first", he said jokingly to the computer.
In truth this assumption was one of L's first mistakes.
The FBI would start the tracking in a few days time.
Raito had come up with ideas of his own.
The killings were occurring between 4pm until 2am on weekdays Japanese time; 68% of them occurred between 8pm and 12am. There was also a great variation of time of weekends, and holidays.
The culprit was most likely a student, especially with the drive of justice they exhibited. Surprisingly, the ideas were similar to Raito's own sense of justice but Raito knew he would never kill anyone with the chance he already had to bring proper justice and redemption as detective. Kira is, as Lind L. Taylor properly stated, 'evil'.
Before he embarked on the wonderful journey to a peaceful night's sleep, he sent another message to L.
Message sent 12:16p.m. Number unknown.
'Good night detective'
Morning was serving its purpose; Raito mourned the fact that he had to get up for the day. He silently wished he had a life similar to L's, were his entire career was detective work and, although he was reclusive, he did not have another identity.
Raito sometimes wondered why he hid his identity from his family, making him have a hidden identity. At first, this hiding act was for the convenience of the police not knowing the age of Smile but now that Raito was older this reasoning was obsolete. He pushed these thoughts aside to head to school.
Raito like any other detective had a sense of paranoia, and today when he walked to school this sense was active. At every turn he noticed a man in a long coat. He was greatly annoyed by this development, and wondered why he was being followed.
There was no way it was an agent of Kira, right? And they couldn't know Raito was Smile!
Coming to a decision then, Raito knew that if the person was there when he walked home he was going by the building Beyond was at and borrowing a weapon.
Upon entering the school's grounds, the tail seemed to vanish. Raito was relieved by this development and preceded to his normal school day activities. He greeted all the people that were always happy that 'the Yagami Raito' knew their names.
It was amusing that both as a normal high school student and as one of the world's greatest detective people viewed him as superior to a normal being. Despite this fact Raito did not act arrogant, his work as a detective and the few times L had outwitted him had served the purpose of humbling him.
The day was just as boring as always, the teachers bothering him to answer questions that the teachers probably did not even know the correct answers to and random students following him like puppies. Today had one highlight to it; someone said something that Raito found very humorous.
"Yagami-san, why do your eyes look red sometimes?" Takada Kiyomi had asked the question.
Raito smiled at this and leaned closer so that he was breathing next to her ear. He felt her shiver slightly at this contact.
"I see death" he whispered the words in the creepy way he often heard Beyond speak.
Takada Kiyomi had a face of shear fear when Raito walked away. At least the girl would no longer be bothering him.
After effortlessly completing the rest of the day's classes, Raito began to turn in order to walk home until he saw the edge of a coat twirl towards him in his perifial vision.
The cunning smile that Raito only wore when he had no need for a mask of innocence and normalcy filled his face. He walked to the office building he had been at only a few days earlier and entered, instead of heading home.
From the cameras within and outside the building, Raito could see the man's face. He was talking into a cell phone, and Raito regretted not installing audio bugs outside. Above the man's head hung the name Raye Penber, an American name if Raito was not mistaken.
Without consulting Beyond on the matter, Ratio grabbed a thin firearm from a cabinet in the building and draped a hooded jacket over himself in order to hide his appearance. He then exited through the side door, opposite to where Penber was standing.
Raye Pender quickly spun to face the shadow that had blocked the solid rays of afternoon sunlight. Pointed directly between Pender's eyes was a gun welded by a hooded figure that stood close to the building, hidden by the sun's dark casted shadow next to the building.
"Hello Raye Pender, what brings you to Japan?" Raito said in English, with a flawless accent. Amused by the man's surprised and almost fearful expression, he took a step closer and loaded the gun. "A quick answer would be appreciated."
"I am investigating an occurrence."
"L brought Americans…" Raito whispered the words with a bemused tone.
There was no notice taken as an apprentice at a local law firm's building listened from a nearby balcony nor was the whisper of the word delete taken into consideration by anyone.
Raito did not even find it the least bit odd when Raye Pender walked away with an entranced look on his face, despite Raito's screams and threats.
No one noticed as Raye Pender picked up a piece of paper that had been placed carefully by a law firm's door and then scribbled down the names of the twelve FBI agents sent by L to Japan. However, in a few hours when L got the news of the FBI agents' death by heart attack he took into consideration the fact that Raye Pender, who had been investigating Yagami Raito, died a few minutes later then everyone else.
Message sent 5:00a.m. Number unknown.
'Smile I need to tell you something.'
Message sent 5:11a.m. Number unknown.
'You brought FBI agents from America and Kira killed them all, while they were investigating members of the Kira Task Force and their families?'
Message sent 5:15a.m. Number unknown.
'No…actually I was going to tell you I like cake. How did you find out about the agents?'
Message sent 5:23a.m. Number unknown.
'Luck, I found one of the bodies'.
Message sent 5:33a.m. Number unknown.
'I am now deducing that Smile is in Kanto.'
Message sent 5:39a.m. Number unknown.
'They'll let anyone call themselves the world's greatest detective now-a-days…did it honestly take you that long to figure that out?'
Message sent 6:00a.m. Number unknown.
'I also think Smile-kun is Japanese'
Message sent 6:21a.m. Number unknown.
'Your English.'
Message sent 6:38a.m. Number unknown.
'…Smile-kun show me his entire deck of good cards, it defeats the purpose of the game'
Message sent 7:12a.m. Number unknown.
'Trust me I have plenty more aces'
Message sent 7:19 a.m. Number unknown.
'A deck of cards only has four'
Message sent 7:37 a.m. Number unknown.
'The real world has imaginary numbers'
Message sent 7:46a.m. Number unknown.
'I have a Kira suspect'
Message sent 7:59a.m. Number unknown.
'I do as well'
Message sent 8:22a.m. Number unknown.
'Too bad yours isn't Kira!'
Message sent 8:33a.m. Number unknown.
'Don't shout at me, I'll give you a cookie if I am wrong.'
Message sent 8:45a.m. Number unknown.
'I don't want a cookie from Smile, I want a kiss.'
Message sent 8:51a.m. Number unknown.
'But that would be a reward for both of us.'
Message sent 9:00a.m. Number unknown.
'We should both be rewarded for catching Kira, I must go I am meeting with the Kira Task Force'.
Starring at the phone in shock, Raito wondered how L got the members to meet with him without Raito noticing. It must have been the five Kira Task Force meetings that Smile missed. Raito smiled, Smile was not very respectful for order unlike Yagami Raito who could not do without order.
If he kept letting L get ahead of him Kira would be dead and L would be one step closer to 'the best' detective rather than 'one of the best'. He needed to focus on discovering something, one decisive clue that would bring him closer to finding Kira.
Raito pushed his things back into the secret compartment of his desk and began to work out some things regarding the FBI agents' deaths.
Raye Pender had died last; it was Raito's fault for announcing his name to the world. This also meant that Kira was located somewhere near Smile's headquarters.
Based off of Raito's theory of Kira being a student, it was likely Kira was working as an associate or apprentice. The law firm near Smile's office building came to mind. It was probable that Kira was listening to the conversation with Raye Pender and had somehow controlled him when he walked away.
Raito sent a message to Beyond about this idea and added instructions in case something should happen to him, Kira might already have Raito's name and be waiting for an opportunity to kill him.
Raito needed fresh air, he felt uneasy. As he walked down the stairs, he overheard his sister arguing with his mother about bringing clothes to his working father. This caused a smile to form on his face. An advantage L did not have is having personal ties with the Kira Task Force; he could meet L without him knowing!
"I'll go, I could use a break" Raito stated. Sayu thanked him and he stopped himself from thanking her instead. He would only get as far as the reception desk but that was a lot closer to finding new information then he was now.
As he walked Raito attempted to call his father but the line would not go through, he must still be with L. He entered the police building and saw a frantic woman at the desk requesting to talk to the task force, who as Raito thought were not present.
He approached the desk and left the clothing. The receptionist, who recognized him from some insurance case he gave assistance the police with, asked him if he was going to help with the Kira case. For a moment Raito panicked but his face remained emotionless, there was no way the foolish man could know anything.
"Yes. If all goes well I may be able to beat L" he said happily and it was true, since L's leads were far different then Smile's.
The women standing beside Ratio was asking about the Kira Case again. He interrupted.
"Excuse me…my father is leading the Kira Investigation"-and I am Smile-"do you want to leave a message with me? His cell phone is off so I can't tell him immediately but they are probably busy." Raito took the chance to look above the women's head at the floating name and numbers.
A gasp escaped Ratio's lips. "Naomi Misora?" He asked in a whisper.
Her eyes filled with shock for a moment and then it wore off and she lifted a finger into the air and drew a smile shape.
Raito nodded and the women threw her arms around him in a hug.
"Aw…I have not seen you since you in years" she said and then glanced at the receptionists for a moment and then asked, "How is he?" The last time she saw Raito was when he was a young Japanese boy trying to convince her that Beyond Birthday deserved redemption.
"Great actually but…" Raito tilted his head towards the door to explain that he wanted to walk and talk. After she nodded and they were outside Raito began to speak again. "I believe Kira is staying at the law office next to where I am keeping Beyond. If Kira finds out who we are, a criminal and a detective trying to defeat him, the results will not be favorable."
"Did you already tell L?"
"No we are playing a little racing game and…" Raito broke into a devious smirk, "I don't want him to suspect Yagami Raito of anything."
Naomi nodded at this; it was understandable, after all Raito was hiding something of great magnitude.
"Did you know Raye Pender?" Raito asked remembering a picture of Naomi in his wallet, his question seemed to surprise her.
"He was my fiancé."
"You wanted to help with the investigation because of him then?"
"Yes…vengeance, I guess would be the right term."
"Welcome to the smiling side of justice" Raito said and reached out his hand in the western style of shaking hands and Naomi took the hand and shook it lightly.
"Could I, by any chance go see Beyond?"
"Yes but I will give you directions, you must go on your own." After she nodded Raito wrote directions down quickly and began to walk away.
"Good bye Light."
Raito smiled at the English version of his name. It was unfortunate that he would never see her again.
Surprise awaited Raito when he returned home. The paper kept in Raito's door had fallen to the ground but the lead he kept in the joint of the door and the handle had been disturbed. Someone other than his own family had entered the room.
He walked in and sat in the bed and then walked out and readjusted the paper in the door, after this Raito left to go outside.
Who had come into his room? There was no way anyone had discovered he was Smile and it was too farfetched that someone thought he was Kira. Maybe the explanation was simple, like his sister playing spy or something by replacing the paper in the door.
He doubted this possibility. There was the chance that Kira themselves suspected Raito and had planted cameras, in this case Raito would have to discontinue his actions as Smile for a while or find a way to hide them.
Raito's first stop while he was out was getting some coffee at a local cafe'. He walked into the cafe' that was styled to match a brown and beige color palette and smiled at a waitress that happily came over to get his order.
"I would like a cup of coffee."
"Would you like a hazel, french vanilla, chocolate, mint-"
"Just regular black coffee."
"I'm sorry I don't understand."
"I would like plain black coffee."
"Cream and sugar?"
"Plain black coffee! No cream! No Sugar!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I am sure!"
"Without any sugar it would probably taste better with a flavor..."
Raito lost his temper at this and abruptly left the store without getting any coffee.
While Raito was out he also bought a distasteful magazine displaying women in an erotic manner, this would hide what he was actually hiding. Looking at these pictures once he arrived back home proved to be amusing, it was funny that people paid money to degrade other people in such a way. Raito felt bad that his father would see him doing such a disturbing thing.
Raito headed downstairs for dinner and saw the banner L had sent out, his tactics were humorous so Raito made a comment on how stupid the trick was. Pretending to be grabbing some potato chips to eat after dinner, Raito grabbed a bag that concealed a phone.
He could eat potato chips, text L as Smile and solve equations at the same time.
Message sent 11:01p.m. Number unknown.
'How's your investigating going L?'
Past the noise that criticized
It's the best place to be when your feeling like me,
yeah,
All these things I hate revolve around me,
yeah,
Just back up before I snap
Once more you tell those lies to me,
Why cant you just be straight up with honesty?
When you say those things in my ear,
Why do you always tell me what you wanna hear?
Oh yeah