Chapter 10

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"And there's one more thing Suzuki… please be careful. You are in Kira's territory and if he were to kill you…well that would be upsetting."

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A building full of officers from almost every country, Watari in his coat and hat with a silver suitcase near his side, me with my hair up in a ponytail and aviators on my face. Watari had given me the glasses in the car and told me to protect my identity no matter what, despite the fact that every card in my 'wallet' has a false name.

Security was extremely tight but Watari had some sort of super clearance and we were able to get by relatively easy. Wish I could say that for some of the other people. Some poor young bastard got held up at the metal detector and I had laughed internally as I watched him call out for help from his superior while he got wanded. They didn't find anything besides a watch that he had forgotten to take off, but it was still kinda funny.

So here I am standing with Watari, arms folded, leaning against the wall out of the way with Ryuzaki in my ear and a wire attached to my shirt for him to pick up sound. I feel like a human telephone… I glance around the room at every old guy until my eyes spot that poor bastard from earlier. He's sitting next to some older guy with glasses. What's that paper in front of him say? I can't read it, what is that symbol? White and red? Oh they must be from Japan. It's gotta be pretty embarrassing getting wanded by security at a meeting this big in your own country.

"Watari, you may step in now." Ryuzaki's synthetic voice comes through my earpiece and Watari begins to walk toward the stage. "Suzuki just stay where you are. Showing them that Watari has a female assistant might be beneficial." I roll my eyes under my glasses.

So all I am are silent boobs today? That makes me feel like a real part of the team, thanks Ryuzaki…

"L is already on the move. He has been investigating this case for some time now."

I look up at the sound of a much more assertive Watari voice. It booms over the room, and I hear his name repeated in a multitude of different accents. Seems like Alfred is more popular than I thought… "Silence please, L would now like to address you." I watch Watari set up the laptop and place it near a microphone; the top screen comes to life and displays a graphic of a fancy L.

"Greetings to all of you at the ICPO, I am L. The case before you is unprecedented in scope and difficulty. It is a monstrous crime of mass murder that is unforgiveable and must be stopped no matter the cost. This case cannot be solved without the full cooperation of the ICPO, that is, all of the organizations you represent throughout the world. You need to make the decision to fully support the investigation at this meeting."

What…so Ryuzaki wants the police to help him worldwide?

The room erupts into discussion, it's loud and I can only hear pieces.

"Let's take a vote, all in favor of helping L raise your hand." Some old man calls and almost all the hands in the room go up.

Watari speaks into his mic and I hear it relayed through my own earpiece. "L, INTERPOL has given you their full cooperation."

"I appreciate your cooperation. Now I strongly request the help of the Japanese Police in particular." The room erupts into questions ad I look to the two men from earlier, they seem completely confused. Holy shit…Ryuzaki has been speaking English this entire time. Everyone in this room understands English! "Whether these crimes are being executed by a group or singularity, it's highly probable that they're Japanese, however there is a possibility that there not Japanese, but I am certain that they are hiding in Japan." I make out someone yell 'How can that be.' "Why Japan? I think I will be able to show you in a demonstration, when I directly confront this killer. I therefore request that the investigation headquarters be placed in Japan." Ryuzaki finishes and people seem nervous. A direct confrontation? That doesn't sound good at all…

"Suzuki, Watari, please come back to the hotel. I have received confirmation that the Japanese Police are pulling together a task force." Ryuzakis voice crackles through my ear piece and I push off the wall bringing attention to myself.

Pay no attention to the girl behind the sunglasses.

"I thank you all for your cooperation and I will be in contact with the Japanese Police tomorrow, when my plan will be put into action." Ryuzakis voice comes through the computer one last time before Watari shuts it.

The old men seem flustered, but it seems acceptable to leave everything in Ryuzaki's hands. I'm still standing by the wall as Watari approaches me.

"Ready to head back?"

"Yeah." I'm beginning to feel angry.

I'm ready to head back and make sure Ryuzaki isn't gonna get himself killed. A direct confrontation?! What is he stupid?!

"Good lets go." Watari heads toward the door and I follow, or at least I try to, but something falls on me and I stumble forward, my glasses sliding to the bridge of my nose. My hand goes to my hip where my gun would normally be, but seeing how it's not there I spin around and look at what fell on me.

"I'm so sorry! Gomennasai!" I look down and it's that poor son of a bitch from earlier. He's still on the floor so I reach my hand down to help him up. He jumps to his feet and bows slightly. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay. Are you hurt?" My hand is still extended so I use it to push my glasses back up since he didn't use it.

"No, I-I'm okay." He stammers out in English.

I see the older guy with glasses from earlier walk up to him and gently slap him on the back of the head. He says something gruffly in Japanese, but the end I catch.

Matsuda…hmm that's probably his name.

'Matsuda' apologizes to the man and says something else before bowing to me and sauntering off.

The other man extends his hand to me and I shake it. "I'm sorry, he's a bit green, but he's a very good detective."

"It's okay as long as he wasn't hurt." I shake his hand, he bows and walks off.

"Suzuki, are you alright?" Watari's voice comes through the speaker in my ear.

"Yeah one of the Japanese detectives tripped into me, but I'm okay." I quicken my pace toward the door.

"Okay I'll meet you by the car."

"I'm on my way."

Soooooo, are you surprised that she saw Matsuda and Chief Yagami? Did you think it was funny? I wanted her to attend the meeting but I wasn't sure what she should do. The story is starting to mesh with the anime and manga now so if it feels familiar that's why. Some of the diologue is really important and will be repeated so I'm gonna say now how I don't own anything but Samn/Suzuki, so I cover all my bases. If things seem weird I was pretty distracted while I typed this, but I will see you in the next chapter