Author's note: Originally this this fic was not going to include Wedy and Aiber but I had this crazy idea of Wendy walking in and knowing Smile and B. I hope you all enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own death note and I do not own the lyrics (does anyone know what the lyrics are from? My friend sent them to me).

Another Detective

Chapter 17

The precautions had been set up faultlessly, as all the other operations she had completed. No one was going to be in the bank and she could easily remove the documents she had been hired to remove. Turning to the camera that stared right towards her pale face and dark sunglasses, the blonde women grinned and even waved imprudently.

Waving and smiling at the camera served no purpose, the camera had been set to loop the image of an empty bank and give the appearance of an empty bank. It was quite an achievement to break into this particular bank on this night, this bank often boasted of its wondrous security system. That was one of the two reasons the people that enlisted her services as a burglar had chosen her to retrieve the files, she could break through any security system.

Walking lazily around the dark building, she decided to take the stairs rather than go through the trouble of using the elevator. The pale light above the staircase made her body eliminated. Her clothing was not the typical garment chosen to rob a bank in, it was a basic gray skirt-suit not a black thievery uniform with full body spandex and a ski mask.

Finally, she arrived at the rustic steal safe-door that opened to reveal ten rows of drawers that filled half of this story of the building. A noise caught her attention. It was probably nothing; no one was supposed to be here. Again the noise sounded, it was whispering its tune erratically. As she walked back farther in the rows of drawers the noise drew more constant. "46, 47, 48, 49, 50! Ready or not here I come."

Stunned by the realization that someone was in here, the blonde women realized there was also probably a meaning of the words. The person had been counting and then said a peculiar phrase. What did that phrase mean? It sounded loosely familiar. 'Ready or not here I come' is a phrase used when a child is playing hide and seek. That meant that there was definitely more than one individual within this enclosed area.

In an attempt to walk forward, the woman grazed her foot forward and was surprised as it hit into an obstacle and she fell forward. Glancing back to see what had caused the fall; she spotted a shoe that was attached to a person with red eyes. It was the devil, she knew it was. Who else could the person be?

After all her wrongdoings the little demon had came to make her suffer for her sin. There was no other way that the women could think of for why the individual would be present. "How did you get in here?" She asked meekly.

"Hush! You already made enough noise, he'll find me" the voice said with a hint of worry.

"You are playing hide and seek?" She asked for clarification.

Before they could respond another person stepped out from behind the edge of the row of drawers. She could barely see the individual but his shining teeth and mocking smile illuminated the darkened space causing her to stare from the ground where she was still situated. "I won, but I think I have to thank Mary Kenwood for that." The smiler said.

Wedy stared at the person in shock, they knew her real name. Even the criminals that knew her very well only knew her by her thief name: Wedy. In an attempt to disguise the fact that he had uttered her name she was about to ask who he had been speaking about until, a flash erupted from the smiler's hand. He had been holding a camera.

Blinded by the flash of light, Wendy tried to clear her eyes but by the time she had done so the two had left and the only reminder of their presence was a note that was in the safety deposit box that Wendy was supposed to receive the documents from.

'You have encountered the wonderful services of Smile and B, your welcome. Have a great day!' Wedy stared at the note. She could only assume that Smile was the great detective Smile and was the same boy with the smile that had illuminated the room. B was probably an assistant and the demon with the red eyes.

Sayu had finally calmed down to an extent. Her desk had swelled slightly from the water of the tears that had fallen upon it but she had finally came to the conclusion that it was not her fault that she had killed the innocent star that she enjoyed so much.

The computer screen that had gone to sleep after a period of inactivity blinked to life with the herald of a new message in her email inbox. Forcing herself to not reveal any unnecessary information, Sayu composed a message in response to the email that she found to be from her brother. All he asked was for her welfare and the welfare of their mother; she did not want to tell him anything negative on the subject so she typed a fastidious response.

'From: Sayu'

'I am fine as is mom. I wish I could say the same of my brother but I find that he has separated himself from me and I do not know of his welfare. Do you know of him?'

As she watched the screen, the banner displaying zero unread messages changed to a taunting one unread message. Sayu quickly clicked to read the response; she hoped that Raito was able to detect the sorrow in the way in which she wrote the email.

'From: Ratio'

'This message is not from Raito. He has fallen asleep in front of the computer. When I saw that you had typed a message to him, I attempted to rouse him but all he did was open his mouth so saliva would fall on the keyboard. Since I know I am typing on that keyboard, it is quite unsettling to think about. I felt based on your email that it was imperative to learn of Raito's condition. He is fine, he still is smiling his evil smile at every moment, even as he sleeps he smiles.'

Gazing at the email, Sayu understood who it had come from. She had received an email from L. Quickly, Sayu typed a response.

'From: Sayu'

'L, there is something you need to know. Raito probably thinks it will do more harm than good to share the knowledge but I disagree.'

Sayu glanced around the room to ensure the shinigami would not see the next message she would type. The shinigami was not around, which was good, it was better for the thing to be gone than to be here making trouble for her and the rest of humanity.

Glancing at the clock, Sayu noticed that the time had already reached around six in the morning and she had yet to get any type of rest. She knew that Raito would not want her staying up worried about him and about the Kira case but he did not know how directly involved she was now.

Sachiko knocked lightly on Sayu's door and came inside. "Sayu, why have you had your light on all night? Have you been awake all this time?" She asked before sitting on the edge of Sayu's bed. The condition of the bed answered the question, the bed was neat and Sayu never fixed her bed after sleeping.

"Yes I have been awake," Sayu said and watched her mother's eyes study her.

"Is it dreams or anxiety?" Sachiko asked.

"It is hard to say, I can barley tell what is reality anymore." It was difficult to even ponder the idea of reality being finite after meeting a shinigami and killing an idol writing down their name in a notebook.

Drinking another cup of coffee, Matsuda watched Misa Misa as she spoke to the press about her feelings after the death of the co-star in the movie they had been filming. It was tiresome to wake up so early in the morning just to hear Misa talk about Raito and then whine about how mean Ryuuzaki is but this was his assignment. The only hope he had was with Raito's new findings about Kira, maybe they would bring him a new opportunity for assignments.

Once the model was done voicing her planned reaction, she walked over to Matsuda and began to talk about the movie's continuation. Matsuda wondered if the girl realized he was not paying any attention to her. He may not be as intelligent as L and Raito but he still found it difficult to communicate with Misa in a conversation.

After Misa completed a few more interviews and such, she and Matsuda began the walk back to the building Ryuuzaki had built.

As they approached, Ukita and Mogi were entering the building as well. They seemed perturbed for some reason, Matsuda wondered what had occurred. He was sure that if he hurried along he could hear what happened while they told Ryuuzaki about it.

Once Matsuda left Misa at the floor Mikami and she were sharing, he entered the main investigation room where Mogi and Ukita were speaking about what had happened while they were conversing with the head of the police. Everyone in the room was focused on what they were saying; it was definitely not something of positive nature.

"The police have begun to support Kira; he has threatened to begin killing politicians if they continue to chase him." Ukita told the task force sullenly. "Mogi has already made up his mind but, Aizawa and Matsuda if you really still want to pursue Kira turn in your letters of resignation to me. We cannot pursue Kira anymore unless you quit the police force."

Before Aizawa and Matsuda could respond to the news, L interrupted their thoughts by instructing them to remain police officers. L told them that he would visit them at the police department and bring Kira's head as a gift for them. Even if the small force left he would still have Beyond and Raito, who were the only two that had actually made any findings for the Kira case.

Matsuda, Mogi, and Ukita wanted to stay and help to catch Kira but Aizawa began to become indecisive and was unsure as to whether he could quit the police force. If Soichiro was still on the force it would have probably made the choice simpler because he would understand the need to support the family during and after the investigation.

While Aizawa was trying to come to a final decision, a W appeared on the computer screens and Watari began to talk. "You entrusted me to make preparations so that every member of the task force and their families would be financially secure no matter what happened to them including if they were fired from the police force. Why aren't you telling them that?"

L stared at the computer for a moment, almost glaring at the W. "Watch what you say, Watari."

Aizawa become outraged at the fact that L had secured money already and was merely testing him to see what his reaction would have been in a situation where he had to choose between working on the case and caring financially for his family.

After he stormed outside of the building, the Kira task force began their work once again.

Raito checked his email and was surprised to find one message he had never seen that had been responded to. He had never read the message that Sayu had sent him, how was it possible that he replied to it? As he thought over these things, a message from Sayu arrived. The email was addressed to L.

Sometime during the night, L had sent a message to Sayu. Raito was upset at this invasion of his emails but felt that it was necessary for the detective to check the emails of a Kira suspect to ensure the computer was not the source of the heat attack causing power. Reading the message, Raito felt upset at Sayu. Was she honestly planning on telling L the truth?

The email needed a response but Raito could not decide how to respond. In a whimsical and deceitful decision, Raito began to type an email that was would appear to be from L.

'From: Raito'

'I am still not really Raito but I am sure you are already aware of that. Do not concern yourself with telling me things about Raito-kun. Raito already tells me everything; people do not hold information back from their lovers. '

Raito could not hold back an amused smile as he sent the message, it was comical. He could tell L was staring at him and trying to detect the reason behind the smile but Raito just smiled more at the detective's prying gaze. Before L actually asked Raito what he found so amusing, Ukita informed them of a finding he had made. Apparently, Kira's business related killings were concentrated around Fridays.

"Is Kira part of Yotsuba or using Yotsuba? I haven't figured it out yet but let's investigate this with the assumption that it is Kira's doing." L stated as Beyond brought forward a complied list of Yotsuba's domestic employees. As Beyond set down the colossal pile of papers, he purposely slanted them so that all of the papers would fall in front of Raito. When the papers finally fell, Raito cursed under breath in a language only Beyond knew.

Matsuda tried to help Raito pick up the papers but only made himself more of a nuisance. No one would actually call Matsuda a nuisance but he could tell there was nothing he was being assigned to do in order to help the case. "Ryuuzaki, is there something I can do besides being a manager?" Matsuda requested.

"If you want to be more helpful you can acquire some coffee for me," L said blandly.

"Is everything that comes out of your mouth that caustic?" Raito asked after L said this to Matsuda.

"Fine, if he wishes to help he can instead get coffee for the guests," L told Matsuda and pointed indistinctly toward a seat where a blonde man and women were seated.

"Who are they? When did they get in?" Ukita asked when he saw them. As he said this, the two stood up and looked towards the investigators.

"I'm Aiber a con-man pleased to meet you," the man said.

"Wedy, I am a thief by trade," the women said and then suddenly seemed to lose composure and stumble back a few steps. "What the hell? That demon is in here!" Wedy shouted and pointed at Beyond, who had been standing beside Raito.

Everyone, except Smile and Beyond, seemed slightly confused. "What do you mean?" Beyond said venomously.

"It is B, the guy that works with Smile! Is Smile in here too?" She began to look around at people's faces to try to spot the smile that had engraved itself into her memory.

Raito forced himself not to smile at the situation.

Mogi, who seemed to be ignoring the Wedy, turned towards L. "We are working with criminals?" Mogi inquired.

"Yes, but not the type that would surface and be killed by Kira," L said and then turned to begin working of the computer again. His return to work signaled that everyone else should be doing the same.

I never really know
A killer from a savior
'Til I break at the bend
We're here and now, but will we ever be again
'Cause I have found
All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade
Away again
It's too far away for me to hold