Chapter 4
A sound could be heard within L's mind. At first it didn't seem like he could put words on what it was. If it was the sound of his dream or a sound coming from outside.
He turned his body around in the chair as if he tried to wake up, The sound wouldn't stop.
In fact, it was slowly starting to annoy him a little bit..
The detective's mouth opened as he let go of a sigh, his eyes opening soon after as they scanned the room for the sound.
It soon became clear to him that it was his phone calling. His fingers slowly moved down to grab the phone which was lazily laying inside one of his pockets.
He pressed the answer button before holding the phone to his ear.
"Hello"
L rubbed his eyes as he waited for the person to answer him back, Still waking up. While he was waiting for a reply he checked the time: 9:15 pm
"Good Evening. It's Ray. Ray Penber. Is this Ryuuzaki?"
It didn't take long before L answered back. The other two had planned on contacting him earlier than this so L felt his suspicions grow slightly as he answered back.
"Yes, This is Ryuuzaki. Have you managed to arrive within Japan?"
"Yes. We arrived some hours ago and right now we are sitting inside of a coffee shop which is called L'Occitane Café. We are both really sorry for not getting to you earlier. We did have some complications once arriving in Tokyo. It seems like the Kira support center has noticed your arrival. The police and the Kira organization have placed up more protection and the search for you has been doubled up.
L slowly stood up from the seat and walked over to the windows which showed the city of Tokyo. His suspicions were proven correct.
"I understand. Are you both alright?"
"Yes. We both managed to get through, However, it wasn't easy."
L's eyes slowly closed and he stepped away from the windows. All of the searching for him made him feel a little bit paranormal.
"I understand.. However, I am glad you managed to get through it. I am somehow not surprised they doubled up their watch. I will have Watari come and pick you two up and bring you to your final destination. Please keep a low profile still and make sure to not draw any attention towards yourself. Watari should be there within the next half hour. This is all for now."
L hung up before placing it into his pocket again, He slowly stepped over to where Watari was still sleeping.
This time it was his turn to wake up the elder man.
"Watari. Watari.."
The elder man slowly opened his eyes only to be met with L's eyes in return.
"L? Your awake" Watari said silently as he sat up more properly in his chair.
"Yes, I got a call from Ray Penber. It seems like they arrived in Japan a while ago. The time is now 9 PM. They met with some complications when arriving. I need you to pick them up for me, Watari"
L stood up more properly while he watched his caretaker slowly stand up as well.
"Alright sir, What is their location?" Watari eyed the young detective while taking on his hat. He wanted to ask more but he knew it was bad timing asking now. He would save it for later. What was important now was getting Ray and Naomi to this hotel, Safe.
"They are sitting at the coffee shop which is located in the middle of Tokyo downtown.
I believe it was called L'Occitane Café"
Watari nodded back in response before he grabbed his jacket, slowly taking it on.
"Alright. Shouldn't take too long. Are you gonna be alright on your own?"
L nodded and smiled a little, He had never been the type to show emotions. Not even towards Watari. He would be alright!
"Yes, of course, I will be alright. I will just look through things which I didn't finish before falling asleep"
Watari eyed L again and then looked at his own laptop.
"Now that you mention it.. I got a message from Roger yesterday after you had fallen asleep. The message contained a link to a video. Someone was talking about you or, about L to the orphan kids yesterday.
I suggest that you check it out, maybe you can get some answers as to who that person might be"
Watari didn't remove his eyes from L as he said this. He still couldn't help but feel a tad bit worried about that anonymous guy.
"The video can be found on my laptop. Once I get back again I will make sure to transfer it to your Mac as well"
L didn't take eyes away as he listened to what Watari had to say, his eyes were now facing the elder man's laptop.
"Alright then.. I will take a look at it and try to figure out who the person might be. Please be careful out there Watari. It seems like Kira and it's support center have figured our arrival. The security has grown.. "
Watari gave a nod as he eyed L all the time.
"don't worry about me. I will be back within an hour. Please take care L"
L gave a nod and watched as the other left the hotel room.
Once Watari had left, L didn't hesitate walking over to the other's laptop. It didn't take him long before he found the message Watari had explained to him.
He read the message which had been sent by Roger for less than 24 hours ago.
His eyes scanned the page once the message had been read, he soon found the link which would take him on to the video clip.
He clicked it, leaned back and watched with his thumb in his mouth.
Once the video was finished, L moved to sit up more properly again. He was still biting his thumb as he moved to screenshot one picture of the anonymous person.
"Who are you..?" He asked himself as he opened the screenshot in the program called photoshop.
He tried to lighten up the picture to see if he was able to see the person's face more clearly.
That didn't help much.
It seemed like the person behind this mask knew some stuff about him. However, no matter how long L tried to think about it. No name nor identity came to mind.
He decided to send a message to Roger and ask for all the documents of children who had attended Wammy's house for the last 15 years.
L had calculated this much. The anonymous person had to be somewhere around the age of 20. And if his explanation were true, He had left the orphan home when he figured out the truth regarding Beyond Birthday and A.
He opened the mail and began to write.
Hello Roger.
…..
Can you please send me every document regarding the children who stayed at Wammy's house for the last 15 years? This request is due to the video which was played to the children who's currently staying there.
Please get back to me as fast as possible.
Best regards.
L.
He clicked the send button before he clicked to look at the screenshot again.
'This person knew what he was doing, he was careful as well. He probably knew that Roger would end up showing me this. If that's the case… It can also be possible that this person is working with Kira and even possible know who Kira is'
L allowed for his thoughts to come while he awaited for Watari to return with the two FBI agents.
He couldn't do much about this mysterious man anyway.
His eyes moved to look out of the window as he continued to wait for the other three to arrive. It wouldn't take too long. L trusted Watari and he was sure they would all be alright.
He moved his attention back to the laptop again as he went on the internet. If Ray's information were correct. It was probably shown on the internet. He had to check it out.
Once the internet browser opened he quickly typed in 'Kira support center, L hunt', he pressed the enter button and quickly found the page he was looking for.
The page hadn't changed much since last time he checked it. However, a new page had been added which lead to more information about their hunt for L.
He clicked it and began to read.
Kira is our god! Help us bring evil to justice for a peaceful world.
Many rumours have been going around lately about the investigator L, If they have managed to get into Japan or not.
These rumours are true! The organization or the detective known as L has indeed arrived within Japan.
This has, in fact, lead to a lot of fear for many of us who support Kira's work.
Not much is known about this detective. No identity and no information regarding their family.
We do not know where they are coming from or how they look like.
Just this is making the people of Japan nervous and scared. Kira wants us to find L and we will support his offer and help.
Can we really allow for these people to harass us this way? The answer is no!
L needs to be found and put to justice.
Ever since the news about L's arrival went viral, The Kira support center has had every control panel doubled up with police officers and security.
We all hope that justice will be served soon and the evilness will be put to rest by Kira.
If you know anything about L or where they are hiding, please contact the Kira support center and help us bring peace to this world.
Only you can help Kira put an end to this terror.
Once L was finished reading the text, he leaned back in the chair and allowed for a long sigh to escape his lips.
'People within japan have been blinded..! They are blind. How can they not see facts? What Kira does is wrong.
Kira is the one who puts terror on people's shoulders. Fear will be created and it has already started. Do they really believe that Kira's work will bring justice and peace to the world? All I can see is people living in fear.'
The detective closed his eyes as he kept thinking about how blinded people were. It annoyed him, However, there was no hiding the fact that the people of Japan.. They were scared. Scared of the unknown and scared of Kira.
The raven-haired man slowly opened his eyes again once he heard the door open. He slowly got up from his chair and turned around to look at the entrance.
Watari, Ray and Naomi stepped inside of the room. Watari removed his jacket and then offered to take the other two's jackets as well.
"We are back L, Everything went alright. The police are everywhere but it didn't seem like they found any of us suspicious. Anyway.." He looked at the two FBI agents and then at the younger detective.
"Welcome, this is L"
Ray and Naomi turned to look at L once their outdoor clothes had been removed. Both of them seemed to have a surprised look on their face.
They slowly looked at each other and then back at L again.
L wasn't used to presenting himself to people and this was the first time he had been presented to someone knew. He had been working with Naomi on an earlier case about 14 months ago. However, they had only been communicating through a laptop.
"Hello, I am L" He said and broke the silence which had grown between them all.
"It's nice meeting you. I hope that the 4 of us can bring Kira to justice"
Ray and Naomi looked at each other again before Ray stepped forward, holding out his hand.
"Hello, I am Ray Penber. FBI and this is Naomi Misora. We recently just married"
Naomi stepped forward and both of them kept studying L.
The detective slowly moved his hand out to take Ray's hand in return. Shaking it gently before cleaning his hand.
"Congratulations. I am happy for you two. I worked with your wife on an earlier case which I am sure she remembers"
Naomi had been staring at L ever since they came inside the hotel room, just until now she hadn't been sure why. Before now!
She remembered! She had helped L solving the B.B murder case in Los Angeles! This is why she had been staring so much at the other male! L reminded her of Beyond Birthday, In fact, they almost looked identical! It scared her a little bit but she chose not to say anything about the fact that she had freaked out a bit.
"Yes, I remember. The B.B murder case in Los Angeles. I am happy to meet you in person"
L watched the woman and once she finished speaking, L nodded and looked at them both.
"Yes, The B.B murder case was the case I took on before this one. Beyond Birthday was put in jail and solved by Naomi Misora. I am very grateful for your help. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to contact you both for this case. I have worked with one of you before and read about you, Ray Penber. It seems like your both quite excellent FBI agents! Please follow me and if you have any mobile phones or anything which can make sounds.. I would rather you place it on the table over there. Please do not take it personally, I just simply dislike sounds going off when I am trying to speak"
The young detective turned around while pointing at the only table which was free from sweet and candy. The two FBI agents looked at each other and then placed their phones on the table like they had been told, They then followed the detective into another room before sitting down next to another table.
Ray turned to face L before answering the other back from what he had said to them earlier.
"L, we both appreciate you contacting us regarding Kira. Neither one of us are supportive towards his way of justice and we both want to help with capturing him, however, this isn't going to be easy but I believe as you said.. Us 4 working together might be enough for us to bring Kira to justice"
L listened and eyed the other two all the time. He gave a nod.
"Yes, I am aware of the danger of this case and we need to be careful if we need to go outside. Personally, I would like if we could stay inside at all time, however, if neither of you has to go outside. Please keep in mind to keep a low profile. We do not want to draw any attention to ourself. Now that that has been said.. I want you both to listen to me really carefully."
The detective sat up more properly in the chair. It almost seemed like he was watching the other two more closely now and it made the two FBI agents a little bit uncomfortable. However, both of them kept quiet and allowed for the detective to speak.
"I believe we can all agree with the fact that what Kira is doing isn't justice. He has created a lot of fear and blinded most of the people all over the world. However, I suspect that they are following him out of fear. Not by justice. Since I arrived in Japan a few days ago, 200 people who used to stay inside the Los Angeles prison has been killed. All of them died of a heart attack and it has caused people to panic even more. One particular death happened a few days ago, Beyond Birthday had been found inside his cell, dead. His death has yet not been confirmed but I was told that it was most likely by a heart attack"
Misora looked at Ray and then at L.
"Beyond Birthday died?"
L nodded and after a little break, he kept talking.
"Yes, he died and now 200 more criminals have been murdered within the same prison. Calculating all of this together, I am afraid that the president of the United States is indeed helping Kira. He was the only one with access to the information about these types of criminals."
Ray slowly closed his eyes while Naomi kept a serious face expression all the time. Both of them could tell that this was wrong and they definitely wanted nothing else than to bring Kira to execution!
Ray opened his eyes again and looked at L.
"So do you believe that the president of the United States is scared of Kira? "
L nodded and closed his eyes.
"Yes, that is exactly what I believe. I believe that Kira has managed to manipulate the president or maybe threatened him with something. I don't believe that the president is following him out of gratitude.
I think… We should try to contact him. He might have some useful information which could help us move further ahead in this case. At least it's a good start"
Naomi and Ray looked at each other again and then at L, They both seemed to be surprised by this statement.
Neither of them said anything for a bit, Probably both of them being too busy thinking this through.
Once neither of them said anything, L broke the silence again.
"Things have already been arranged for this matter and we will be using a special phone. This phone cannot be tracked and our voice will be hidden. We should be safe"
Naomi and Ray both nodded.
"We both trust you and knowing that you have been solving over 3000 cases. We believe and will follow your orders"
L nodded yet again and his facial expression didn't change one bit.
"That's good and thank you. I believe you are both tired after your travel. I will have Watari show you to your room. We will continue this talk tomorrow morning, You both seem rather tired. I can see it in your eyes."
L picked up his phone and held it loosely against his ear, waiting for the other to answer.
"Watari… Please come into the room and show Miss Naomi and Sir Penber to their room.."
The two FBI agents looked at eachooter again, having a weird expression. Neither one of them understood why the other called for his caretaker. It was just one room between them.
They kept silent and looked at L again once the call ended.
"Watari will show you to your room. Please do not leave this place at night and make sure to not use your phones to call someone within Japan. Our phones can be tracked"
The detective slowly got up from his chair as Watari entered the room. "Please.. you two, follow me and I will show you to your room. L, Roger has answered you. I suggest you check it out right away"
Ray and Naomi slowly got up from the couch and both of them seemed rather happy that the other had allowed for them to go and rest. Both of them were rather exhausted from the trip.
They followed Watari out of the room and again, L was left alone.
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The raven-haired man slowly went over to Watari's laptop. He opened the E-mail and quickly found the message from Roger.
He opened it and read the answer to his earlier message.
Good Afternoon L.
I am sorry if this message comes in at a late hour for you. I believe it's around midnight in Tokyo now.
I managed to look through your request and found all of the papers. Every child who has stayed here at Wammy's for the last 15 years.
I will be adding a link to this message. It will lead you to a secret word document, it contains all of the information about the children who have been here for the last 15 years.
I hope the information will be enough to give you answers.
Say hello to Watari from me.
Hope your both doing well.
Best wishes.
-Roger
Once finished with the reading, L moved the page further down, it didn't take him long before he found the secret word document. He clicked it and waited for it to download and open.
Please enter password:
/Name of the man who started the Orphan home/
L knew that Roger had made sure that only he and Watari would be able to see these pages of information.
He quickly typed in the name of the original owner and soon after, the word document opened. Giving him access to every child who had attended Wammy's house for the last 15 years.
He began to search and read about them. He had to figure out who that mysterious man could be and how he knew so much about him.
Minutes passed away and soon became hours. Watari had been checking on him for a couple of times but he soon found out that the detective was too focused on his task. He took the hint and left L alone.
The elder man walked into another room to get some sleep. Knowing for a fact that L wouldn't sleep this night.
For people who were travelling a lot, either if it was due to work or just vacation. Most people knew the difference and complications that came due to all the different time zones.
At one place it would be morning while at another place it would be night time.
The hour difference between Japan and Los Angeles was 17 hours and this could be noticed by one particular man. A man who was lusting for revenge. Revenge on L.
Our current location happens to be Los Angeles the time was currently 5 PM in the evening. The sun was still high up in the sky, shining over the people of Los Angeles.
The town was as busy as always. A person living here could easily tell the time by just watching the people walking by and the cars driving around. At this time of day, the street was 10 times fuller than any other time of the day. People were either done at school or work and couldn't wait to get home for dinner.
However, no matter how interesting they all might be, we are here in Los Angeles because of one person.
A person who at the moment were busy waiting for the lights to turn green, along with 15 other people.
The man didn't seem to much out of character compared to the people around him. However, the temperature was high and the man wore nothing else but black.
Half of his face was hidden behind black clothing and a pair of sunglasses.
This had, of course, lead to some strange looks from people around him. Some seemed nervous to be standing close to him.
However, the man couldn't care less and ignored every person around him as he watched the signs until it turned green. Allowing for him and the rest to walk over the road.
Once he had stepped over the road, the black clothed man walked straight forward and disappeared between two buildings.
At the end of the two buildings was a door, a door which was soon opened by the man.
Inside was a small room, a room which to others might have been considered not livable.
However, the man couldn't care less about where he was staying. All he could care about was to get in contact with Kira again. The man which in his eyes would help him get rid of his problem.
He carefully lifted up a laptop and didn't bother taking off anything as he sat down on an old chair. He pressed the button on the laptop and waited for it to turn on completely, sighing at the wait.
If there was something he disliked, it was waiting.. For anything!
He was an impatient man when it came to things like this.
Soon the laptop was on and the man moved to press the webcam button. It wouldn't do at all going online with Kira at a place like this. Therefore he would just send a private message to Kira's advisor and instruct him what to do next.
He made sure that the camera didn't catch anything of his private looks before he pressed the play button.
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"Hello, again Kira. I want to say thank you for the last time we spoke and inform you that my plan is under process still. I am still waiting for people's response to my work. I believe it won't take too long before I hear something. I am positive.
However, I want to ask for access to the cameras which are being used around the police control place. As I believe, your advisor has told you something about myself. We both wish for the same thing. Giving me the access to the cameras will allow us both to get closer to our goal.
Please get back to me as soon as possible"
….
Before sending it, the mystical ma added a short explanation in the message, He then pressed send.
The man slowly got up from his chair and walked over to a mirror. Nothing could be seen within it except a pair of glasses and a black mask that covered his nose and mouth.
"Once this has all been taken care off. I don't need to live in the shadows anymore. With the help of Kira. I can finally make my own justice! Starting off with L's death!"
The mirror didn't catch it but it was clear that the male was smiling to himself. Just the thought about L's ending had him start smiling.
He stepped away from the mirror and packed away his laptop again. Staying at one place for too long could be proven risky. He had to get away from this place. The police were everywhere in Los Angeles and the man didn't feel safe.
He made sure to get everything with him as he left the destroyed house, He didn't even look back as he left to another safe place of his. Being a criminal wasn't always easy. Especially not around the United States area. This man was one of the most wanted, the police and FBI had promised a huge amount of money for any information about him. Still even to this very day. He had managed to stay away from getting captured and put back into jail again.
The other house which he was looking for wasn't laying too far away from the earlier one. It took the man 15 minutes to walk over and once inside the house, he allowed for a sigh to escape his lips.
'It shouldn't be too long before I hear back from the Wammy's children now. I do wonder what will happen after the message I gave them'
A small chuckle escaped his lips as he walked over to the fridge to find something to stuff in his mouth before sitting down with his laptop again. He looked at the time which showed 7 pm in the evening.
'Since the time here is 7 Pm… It means the time in England, UK is now 3 AM in the morning and 12 AM in Tokyo. It shouldn't take too long before I get a reply back from Kira's advisor at least. He seemed rather eager about my plan to help get rid of L'
He slowly removed the mask from his face as he allowed himself to eat his food.
Another hour passed away with no sound coming from the laptop, this was starting to annoy the man a little bit. How long would it take them to reply back to him!?
He slowly closed his eyes and it only seemed like a minute passed away when he heard his E-mail.
His eyes opened and he opened the Email on his laptop.
A smile arrived on his lips.
'Finally!' He thought to himself as he opened the message from Kira's advisor.
He quickly began to read it.
Hello.
I apologize for getting back to you this late. We have been rather busy today. The security around Tokyo town has been doubled up and I had to help Kira fix some things for tomorrow.
Anyway, I talked with Kira and he accepted your request. I will be sending the videos to you by using Bluetooth. Since we share the same laptop and we're both rather good with laptops. I believe this could work out better and faster than using Email.
It should arrive to you any minutes now, all you need to do is accept and download and it's ready to watch. It's a video from the last couple of days.
We await to hear from you.
-Kira's advisor!
ENDING TEXT TO CHAPTER 4:
Just as explained, a link popped up on his screen not long after he finished reading the message. He clicked the download link and watched as the percent grew closer and closer to 100%.
The man kept watching the screen with deep eyes as he quickly came to understand that the file was rather huge. Understandable.. If there was security camera for 2 whole days. This could take a while.
It took the file 2 hours to download and the man hadn't left his place for the whole time. Once finished he quickly clicked the play button and started to watch.
He removed the sunglasses once realised he hadn't done that and focused on the video.
'Now.. let's see if I can find you' he thought to himself while another smile appeared on his lips.
It had been two days since the video of the mysterious man had been shown at Wammy's house.
The current owner of the orphan home had after that meet with a lot of children in his office.
What he feared had been proven to be correct. Many of the children had come with wishes that they wanted to leave the orphan home and some had even done it.
The morning after the video had been shown, Roger had found 5 rooms which had been emptied. All that was left was notes from the children.
We looked up to L and wanted to become like him. He was our idol but after hearing about earlier accidents we don't want to stay here any longer. We chose to go our own way and will be alright. Thank you for accepting us into this home.
Goodbye.
This was only one of 5 notes which the old man had collected. He hadn't had the heart telling Watari and L about this incident just yet but knew he had to inform them both really soon.
The elder man sighed as he looked at the notes on his desk. His eyes closed and he put the notes away before leaving the office.
It was time to wake the children.
He walked from door to door and gently knocked, He slowly opened the door to see if the children where still in bed, more importantly, if they were still there.
"Time is 8 Am. Please get ready for breakfast"
He repeated this actions on every door and once again today.. He found another couple of empty rooms. His heart sank more as he collected the notes from these rooms as well.
'I have no choice but to tell L and Watari about this now. This is getting out of my hands.' He thought to himself as he left the room, hiding the notes inside his pockets.
Outside in the hallway, he met some of the children who had already gotten up. He gave them a warm smile as he looked at them.
"Good morning. Did you sleep well?"
The children nodded and some of them answered the man.
"Yes. We did"
Roger nodded and his heart felt a little better hearing something good from the children.
"The breakfast will be at 9 am. Please make yourself ready for it. Clean your faces and if necessary take a shower. I know some of you don't enjoy showers but you had gym yesterday and a shower will help you feel better"
He left the children and walked into his office again. He had to tell Watari and L about this.
Roger sat down by the laptop and turned it on, quickly finding Watari's Email again.
…
Hello.
I am sorry to tell you both that after the earlier episode with the mysterious man, many children have chosen to leave Wammy's house. This happened at night and all that is left behind them are notes. I am not sure what to do but I believe if possible… L, could you try to talk with the children of this orphan home again?
Keep a chat with them and try to lighten their mode.
currently… 14 children have left and I am afraid they won't come back..
please answer me back as soon as you can.
-Roger.
….
He pressed the send button and leaned back in his chair.