Chapter 31

"Mr. Yagami, I want your son to join the Kira investigation." L told us as we all sat around a coffee table.

"Why my son?" The Chief asked.

"We will hide the fact that there are two Kira's from him. If Light deduces that there is in fact another person with the same power as Kira from watching this tape, he will almost be completely cleared as a suspect."

"And what if he doesn't? Will he still be a suspect?" Soichiro is being worried over his son again. Ha.

"The possibility of him being Kira is still less than five percent." L replied calmly.

The next day the Chief called Light and told him if he wanted to join the Task Force, then he should come to our location immediately. As soon as Light walked in, L shook his hand.

"Nice to see you Ryuga." Light said politely.

"Please call me Ryuzaki here. Now, let's get down to business..." L showed him where to sit and turned on the Kira tape.

"Please do not take any materials or notes out of this room." L told him.

"Alright." Light replied.

After he was finished watching the video, he told L that he suspected another Kira. He explained what he thought and such.

"Wow, he had the same thoughts as Ryuzaki." Matsuda said surprised. I felt my lips turn upwards into a smirk.

Light wrote a script for the reply to the second Kira...

"It's fine, except for the part where it says, "L needs to die." If I go on TV, I'll be killed." L pouted.

"Haha. I thought if I was playing the role as Kira that I should want L dead. But you can take that part out of it if you want."

Whenever the response tape was aired on several news channels, I knew it would only be a matter of time until Misa replied. And of course she did a few days later.

"We need to meet, Kira," it started out. "I'm pretty sure you don't have the eyes, so I won't try to kill you." Out of the corner of my eye I seen Light tense up at the word, eyes.

"We need to confirm our shinigami." Then L screamed.

Matsuda and I ran over to him where he was on the floor. He had out his arms up in the air and fell over and out of his chair. I honestly thought Kira might have killed him there for a minute, but L sat up and stuttered.

"Shi...Shinigami? Are we supposed to accept the existence of something like that?"

"Impossible." Mogi muttered.

"There's no such thing..." Aizawa said.

"That's right Ryuzaki. Shinigami don't exist." Light told L.

I stood up and glared at Light. That lying bastard! Ryuk is obviously standing right behind you with that ignorant smirk on his face. I controlled myself from saying anything to him.

L's head slowly turned back and looked at Light.

"Kira had those criminals in prison say something about shinigami..."

"So shouldn't we assume that this is the same Kira?" Chief asked. There he goes again, refusing to believe that Light is Kira.

"That can't be, dad." Light actually said. "If this was the same Kira as before, he wouldn't have replied to our video."

L kept looking nervous as Light kept talking.

"Maybe they already had a connection and they used the word Shinigami to confuse the investigators." Aizawa said.

"That's not possible." L told them. "If the two Kira's are connected, I don't think that he would stop trying to kill me."

"Shinigami probably refers to the killing power." Light said.

This is so boring~ I wonder where Beyond is right now? I leaned over and poked Matsuda.

"Yes Lamia-chan?"

"Have you seen Beyond?" I whispered, hoping that Light wouldn't hear me.

"He went for a walk a while ago. Why?"

I didn't reply but I did leave the room. Ah, fresh, cold air! It's good to be out of there. Too many people in one place at the same time. Now, if I was a serial killer that wanted to go on a walk, where would I go? I thought for a minute. The nearest park, of course!

I hurried to the closest park that I knew of. Sure enough, I seen Beyond's black hair from the spot he was sitting on a bench at. I snuck up behind him, and then I jumped over the bench and landed in a squating position next to him on the bench. To my dismay, he didn't even flinch.

"I didn't scare you at all, did I?"

"Nope. Do you know why?" Beyond shook his head and asked.

"Why?"

"I can feel your presence." Was his reply. "I knew you were there from the moment you were within a one hundred feet radius of me."

"Wow," I mumbled and sighed. "Let's go to a cafe, I'm hungry." I said, standing back up.

Beyond and I walked to that cafe that we went to after school. As soon as I walked in, I seen blonde hair and pigtails. Misa.

"Uhm, Beyond?" I elbowed the man beside me. "Misa's here. Let's go sit with her; you haven't met her yet." I told him.

"Lamia-chan!" Misa screamed and jumped out of her seat to hug me. I easily sidestepped the hug, watching her catch herself before she tumbled to the floor.

"Eh, you're no fun Lamia!" She whined and sat back down, eating her strawberry sundae. Misa blinked a few times as she looked back up at Beyond. "Who are you? Wait, don't tell me! I bet you're Lamia-chan's boyfriend."

Thank God she didn't blurt his name out loud. She's actually smart enough to know by now that he also has the eyes of a Shinigami.

"I'm only her friend, unless she wants me to be her boyfriend." Beyond looked over at me and smirked.

I held back the urge to blush, though it was hard.

"You two would be perfect together!" Misa clapped her hands together and smiled brightly.

"You know I don't have time for...what do you call it? Romance?" I told her with a serious look.

"Well why not? You two live together, don't you?"

"Yes we live together, but it's complicated," I said and looked around at the other people in the cafe. Light Yagami was sitting in a corner with a scowl on his face. "But I have a feeling you will understand soon enough." I finished.

She worships Kira. If she finds out that Light is Kira, she'll be even more obsessed with him because of the fact that he's good looking. If they start dating, she'll be with him at the HQ, which will make it all the easier for me to kill them.

Due to the second Kira wanting to meet the real Kira at a dome, Matsuda (Matsumi in Light's case) and Light went together to that certain city. Matsuda was told by L to keep an eye on Light at all times, meaning he was still a suspect.

"Lamia," L said calmly as the two guys left, "You should go too. Just don't be around them, stay at a distance."

"What about Beyond?" I asked him.

L shook his head at me. "Although I know you would be more safe with him with you, there are three reasons why I cannot let him go with you. One: I don't trust two killers together, especially knowing that you haven't had blood in a while. Two: there is a 99% chance that you will kill someone today while you are out; with Beyond, there is a 100% chance you would. And three: Beyond stands out too much with his red eyes and spiky black hair like my own. Light would notice you right away if he seen Beyond."

"I would stand out, too. In that particular area with a lot of people around, they are bound to know I am Misa's sister." I tried to reason with him.

He shook his head, again. "That is why you are wearing your costume."

"Huh?" Then Watari brought me the cat outfit that I wore whenever that assassin guy tried to kill L and I. "You have got to be kidding me!" I wailed as I seen the cat ears.

"Do you have a problem with that?" L asked me.

"Why yes I do L. I'd stand out even more if I had a cat outfit on. Do you know how much attention that would cause me to get?"

"Then wear a wig."

"Never."

"Please?" I don't recall him ever saying please before...

"No." I said more icily than I intended to.

"What's going on?" Beyond asked, rubbing his eyes as he woke up.

"L is trying to make me wear a cat costume in public!" I told him.

Beyond's eyes snapped open, and suddenly he was wide awake. "What?"

L held up the outfit to show the red-eyed teen.

"She doesn't have to disguise herself, she can hide in the shadows like we used to do." B told L.

"Fine." L gave up with an annoyed look.

"I don't feel like going!" I told them. "Besides, we have cameras to watch them anyways." I paused as I thought of something.

Turning towards L, I glared daggers at him. "You just wanted to get me out of your hair for the day, didn't you?" I accused him.

"Maybe." L replied with a smirk, which disappeared behind a tea cup as he drank his tea.

"You bastard..."

Nothing happened that day, but I did see Misa walking down the street towards the Yagami household that night. So, you know Light is Kira? I wonder what will happen next?

L kept rewatching the tapes that we had from Light's trip. Matsuda and Aizawa were saying something about how they didn't know if L was even human, because he never slept. But, Matsuda said that he seen him sleeping in the same exact position that he sits in.

"I would like Mr. Mogi to keep an eye on Light. If he is in fact Kira, it is possible that he and the second Kira has came into contact with each other." L told us. "Also," he spun around in his chair and faced me. "You will help Mogi keep an eye on Light during school."

"Alright." I told him. "Does that mean you aren't going to be at school?"

"No, I have to stay here and work on the case."

"Well then. Let's go, Mogi, Beyond." I said, waving the two men over.

At school, during the lecture, Beyond, Mogi, and I sat at the very back of the classroom. Light twirled his pencil around as if he was bored, but he did have a thinking face on. Apparently, Takada and him are dating. Blehh. Nothing suspicious happened besides the fact that Light now has a girlfriend; or at least he made it look like he had one.

The next day Light came to the HQ. The auburn-haired guy watched the newest (and the last) second Kira tape. He once again came to the same conclusion as L; that Kira and the second Kira had came into contact, and that Kira is commanding the other to do as he says. Light kept saying, "If I were Kira..." and Soichiro got mad about that, even if it was just a reference. But Light did say that he was sorry; and that he is not Kira.

"It's a good thing that you are not Kira, Light." L licked his fingers; which was covered in chocolate. "Because I feel that you are the first friend I've ever had."

"I'm glad you feel that way, Ryuzaki. I have missed you at school. We should play tennis together again, soon." Light told him with a smile.

L almost smiled and nodded. "Hey, what about Beyond and I? I thought we were your friends?" I acted sad, earning a laugh from a few members of the Task Force.

"Oh, my bad. I forgot you were standing there." L told me and dropped some more sugar cubes in his tea.