Sayu looked down at the page she had wrote the name on. She remembered something and then wrote down her brother's name, 'Yagami Raito' and the time of midnight. Just Kidding! Did I freak out all the wonderful readers?

Author's note: My midterms were this week so my update was late, again. Oh and in this chapter the reference to communism is just a joke, I am not saying any thing bad or good about it so don't be offended in any way.

Disclaimer: I do not own death note and I do not own "OneRepublic" the lyrics.

Another Detective

Chapter 16

Dear Diary,

Writing this seems foolish. This is supposed to consist of a note to myself, I should not have written it in the form of a diary. As I compose this I have to pay careful attention to what items my memory will be lacking after I lose possession of the Death Note.

Today, I met Ryuk. He is the shinigami the Death Note belongs to. Only humans that touch his Death Note are able to see Ryuk, according to him at least, but he hasn't been the most reliable source of information. From the conversations I had with Ryuk, he seems to have no more knowledge about the Death Note than myself. I have considered the possibility also that he is withholding information from me.

Understanding the reasons why I disregarded that theory are found in my original encounter with the god of death, which I will precede to detail.

It has been slightly over a week since I started killing. Although the Death Note contained the information about a shinigami that supposedly the Death Note belonged to, I had disregarded the information because of the expanse of time that had passed without a visit from such a creature.

Today, when he appeared I must admit I let out a scream of terror. The creature was unexpected and appeared so inhuman. Reasoning on the situation now, the scream seems so womanish. I did not expect the shinigami to knock on the door asking for tea and crumpets before revealing themselves to be a shinigami, but it still shocked me when he appeared so suddenly.

"You seem to be enjoying it." He had said, or something to that effect. My terror was too great to recall the situation well. "I'm Ryuk, the shinigami, who dropped that notebook."

"I'm not shocked Ryuk. I have been-" I could not complete my statement because I stood up and accidently knocked over my chair which hit into the desk spilling the overfull cup of coffee across the Death Note. Now he's going to kill me if wasn't already going to, I thought.

Ryuk started to laugh at me and then began to look at the Death Note and speak about how many names I had written.

"What'll happen to me? Will you take my soul?" I interrupted him with the questions.

"What's that about? Some fantasy you human's came up with? I am not going to do anything to you. Once a Death Note lands in the human world it belongs to the human world. In other words, that belongs to you. If you don't want it, give it to someone else but all memory of the Death Note will be erased from your mind." His statement is why I began to write this.

I began to ask him questions about the consequences and what he wanted. Everything he said would not interfere with the plan I had built up to create a new world without crime but one thing he said bothered me. I asked him why he had dropped the Death Note in the human world.

"Because I was bored" he replied. That is the reason I know he is not holding any information back from me, he does not seem to care what will happen.

DELETE XOXO

Sayu stared at the page she had just read. It would have been of much benefit to read the diary before talking to the manipulative shinigami. Turning her head away from the pages, Sayu searched for Ryuk. He had left without doing anything except eating all of her apples and tricking her into becoming a murder.

The realization came to her at that moment. She is a murder. She is a Kira. Sayu flipped over to the page of the diary that Ryuk had asked her to write the name on. With the sharp tip of her pen she had pierced the heart of an innocent person and in doing so had become something that she hated. Would she be arrested for her actions?

Thoughtfully, Sayu stared at the page. Her brother was Smile, he would help her prove that she was forced into killing, wouldn't he? What if Raito did not believe her? The thought of her brother thinking of her as a criminal and convicting her of the grave and disgusting crime of murder made tears begin to swell in Sayu's eyes. It was all her fault, she should have known better than to listen to what a god of death told her to do.

Sayu wished her brother or father was here to comfort her, all that she had now was her distraught mother. No one would believe her. It would be best if she just saved everyone the trouble of sending her to her death bed and wrote her own name on the fatal page. Staring at the space underneath the name she had earlier written, Sayu made a determined choice and began to write her name.

'Yagami Say' She could not finish the name but wrote the wrong letter at the end so the name would look correct and merely misspelled.

'Yagami Sa' Sayu began to cry and her tears washed the lettering of the name. Blindly, Sayu lashed her pen in the motion of the last part of her name but the letters fell in-between her first and last name causing it to once again be misspelled.

'Yogami Sayu' The name was written so quickly Sayu did not realize her mistake at first. After realizing forty seconds later that she had not died, Sayu looked down at the page and noticed the misspelling.

With her head resting in her arm, Sayu tried once more to write out the letters but they were more jumbled than the last three times.

Throwing the diary across the room, Sayu felt the cool tears roll down her cheeks. She wished she was more like her brother in being able to control her emotions, and in being intelligent enough to not let something like this happen. Sayu collapsed dramatically into her bed and starred at the blue diary that stood against the wall in far edge of the room. She looked at her failed attempt at committing suicide.

Sayu was glad she had never gotten her entire name out; it would have been unfortunate if she died. She had never even checked on the internet to see if she had really killed the individual she wrote down the name of.

Now was the best time to check the validity of the statement made in the diary about certain pages being parts of a 'Death Note' that killed people. Walking over to her computer, Sayu opened an internet browser and typed in the name Hideki Ryuga. He had been one of Sayu's favorite celebrities but she was no longer searching the internet for what shows and concerts he was going to be in.

The page of the Death Note that was placed inside the diary was without a doubt real.

"What would be the motive behind killing a pop celebrity?" Beyond asked Smile, who was currently staring at pages of scrolling information on a laptop screen.

Surprisingly, L replied to the question. "Celebrity news often exhausts and engulfs television stations, causing them to neglect criminal activity in broadcasts."

This explanation made sense but Raito could not help but think that the real reason that Hideki Ryuga had died was for Rem to convey a message. Sayu was obsessed with him and thus killing him would be a representation of the how easy it would be for the shinigami to kill Raito's sister.

Raito turned to the computer and began to look for any other deaths that may be related to the fact that someone from the celebrity class of people had died. There was a slight possibility that the Death Note, which Raito knew Rem had given to someone, had fallen into the hands of someone that wanted to kill celebrities silently along with killing criminals.

Twisting his fingers across the keyboard, Raito pulled up a list of the criminals and other causalities being blamed on the notorious Kira. Everyone else on the list had committed crimes of serious or minor nature. There were multiple murders, rapists and terrorists as well as a few thieves and one or two tax evaders. The tax evading part was slightly off so Raito did a search for any more money related crimes.

When nothing came up Raito was disappointed, maybe he would have to wait until more people died to prove that there was a new Kira targeting different groups of people. He needed to find out who was doing the killings eventually so that L would see the rules in the Death Note that would prove Misa innocent and stop Rem from completing assassination of Raito and his family.

Raito looked at L, who was staring at him with an accusing face. Wondering how L would react when he found out how wrong he really was caused Raito to smile at the black haired detective. L turned away from Raito to look at the computer which had reverted to an L filled screen saver, making how long he had been staring obvious.

After trying to stifle his amusement to several seconds, Raito let out a light snort at the other detective. "You seem focused. Does your screen saver provide insight into the case?"

"I have been focused on studying a Kira suspect." L said in a dismissing manner, but his manner did not seem to dismiss Raito's further inquiries.

"I believe you were studying but not in a suspecting way." Replying a joking tone, Raito turned his chair so that he would be facing L.

"Sorry if I bothered you Kira-kun." L seemed irritated by the joking although, within his serene and emotionless way of speaking, the irritation was inaudible to most people.

"Why don't you say Raito like that?" Raito said in reference to the way that L had said 'Kira' with the hint of emotion.

"Like what exactly?" Resisting the urge to smile at the jokes, L asked a question he already knew the answer to.

"With emotion, say it with that irritation like how you say Kira-kun."

"Wanting to see emotion seems like something Kira would want, Raito-kun."

"Great! That type of emotion sounds much better when you say my name."

"Raito-kun makes me feel uncomfortable wanting to hear his name with emotion and being chained to me."

"You're the one that chained me to yourself."

"I think B expressed a good reason for that."

Raito thought about that statement for a moment, hadn't Beyond said that Raito was a good 'charm bracelet'. Was L saying something like that as flirtation of some sort? The other detective was so odd. After meeting L in person, Raito would have never thought he would be someone that enjoyed joking around with potential murder. Maybe it was because Raito was still Smile. Despite the lack of title, the persona of Raito was the same one that L was comfortable talking to on the phone and in emails.

Turning back to the computer, Raito opened an Office Outlook document to compose an email to Sayu. He needed to distract himself from the Kira case and his thoughts.

'From: Raito'

'How are you doing Sayu? I have not been able to talk to you since the day at the hospital. How is mom coping? I hope you both are doing well. Kira will be caught soon, and you two will both be safe, I promise. Be careful.'

Minimizing the messaging screen, Raito opened another window and once again checked the list of Kira killings. Another business person had died; this one was not even known for being a criminal in any way. Maybe it was unrelated to the Kira case but Raito doubted this, all three of them had been killed on the same day of the week.

Whoever the new Kira was had completed these killings. Raito wonder what the motive to killing these men had been; the new Kira obviously did not actually have the goal of creating a crime free utopia.

L made a sigh next to Raito, it was then that Raito realized how close the detective was to him and it caused Raito to jump slightly.

"Is the great Kira afraid of me?" L said after the way Raito jumped.

"Fear, that's an interesting word. Do I fear you? Not necessarily. Do I fear for you? Possibly."

"You can not confuse me."

"If you were not confused you would not have said that."

"Raito-kun needs to focus on the case."

Raito ran his index finger along the chain that connected the older detective to him. "You also seem to lack focus. Is it not being use to this close of contact?" As Raito said the words, he moved his finger along the chain and thus closer to L until it forced him to relocate the chair in order to reach L's wrist. Withdrawing his finger as soon as it reached its destination, Raito looked at L to see the reaction.

Staring at the teen, L felt incredibly discomfited. Kira's new ability to create emotion needed to be thoroughly investigated. How could he feel gauche from Raito's annoying actions? In the past, L had absolutely no sense of social unease; he never wears shoes, puts way too much sugar in everything, and sits in an odd position without any problems with awkwardness but not he felt awkward. Raito reminded L too much of the late detective Smile by his way speaking and acting just to bother him.

It was certain that the teenage boy beside him had a lead on the case by the way he had been looking at the computer screen, L could not say he had anything near a lead except his opinion that Raito was at one time Kira. L needed to work more intently on the case but with no leads he was beginning to feel somewhat depressed with his findings. It might be best to just ask Raito what he had found out about the case, it was a small defeat but it was necessary.

"Raito-kun, did you find out something about the case?" L inquired.

Raito moved the chair back towards the computer and opened the list of financial businessmen that had died of heart attacks. "After we found out that someone other than a criminal may have been killed by Kira, I searched for any other odd heart attacks that showed any patterns. Look at this."

Leisurely, L progressed towards the computer Raito was at. He had been correct; it did appear that there was some type of correlation between Kira and the deaths of these people. It was as if Kira was trying to eliminate certain business people for some type of goal.

"I knew Kira had a god complex but I didn't know he was Marxist too." Raito said with a joking tone but then changed his voice to be slightly more serious as he spoke his actual thoughts. "I compared the deaths to the stock market it appears all the deaths have caused Yotsuba's stock price to rise and other companies to fall. Looking back at other records, they seem to show the same pattern."

"If this is true then Kira's true intent is not punishing criminals." L stared at the computer screen with the information Raito had found. He had discovered a vital piece of evidence in the case that L had overlooked, in the past the only person who had been able to do that was Smile. For a moment L hoped Raito was not Kira, he was the first person other than the deceased who had been able to think on a level near L's own level of thought.

Do you think I'm special, do you think I'm nice
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces
Between the noise you hear and the sound you like
Are we just sinking in the ocean of faces
It can't be possible, the rain can fall
Only when it's over our heads
The sun is shining everyday but its far away
Over the world they said, they got
They got all the right friends in all the right places