Chapter Summary: L starts telling Anne about the entirety of Kira case from his viewpoint. Anne meets someone...unpleasant.
A/N: For people who've seen the anime/read the manga, you can skip this one. Just read the note at the end of the chapter.
L doesn't take his eyes off his cake till it's all gone. Only then does he look up and open multiple files on the screen.
"Last October, I started the Kira investigation. Multiple criminals worldwide had been dying of mysterious heart attacks. The ICPO was at its wit's end because it had no clue where to start. I dug in a little deeper and found that the first criminal to die of a heart attack was a person named Kurou Otoharada who was holding some hosta-"
"Yes, yes, sweetiepops. I saw your pissing contest. Viral everywhere. If that's all, let's move on."
Sweetiepops looks annoyed at the interruption but continues. "I worked with the NPA as it was confirmed that Kira was in Kanto, Japan. We looked at the pattern of the deaths and found that they at night and on the weekends- an ideal time for a student. Just as we deduced that, the killings started happening every hour as if Kira was privy to our investigation and taunting us. There was a leak in the NPA so I called in 12 FBI agents in secret to Japan to investigate the NPA and their families.
On 14th December, they came in. On 19th December, Kira started experiments. Controlling the prisoner's actions before they died."
I cut in, "Hold on, controlling their actions how?"
"Raise your hand before you speak. Kira made one go to the bathroom, the other draw something and some others send messages to me. (Seeing me raise my hand, L's voice turns exasperated. "Shh, I have the pictures, you can see them later. They seem nonsense to me but you can give them a look if you desire.") On the 27th, all 12 FBI agents died of heart attacks. Before dying, they all had gotten the full list of all 12 FBI agents in Japan at random times. They also died at random times so there's no way of finding out which FBI agent Kira used to kill all of them.
However, while looking at the footage of some of the agents' deaths that happened in public, one stood out from the rest. Raye Penber. He died after he got off a train and it seemed like- let me play the footage now and you can see for yourself."
A video starts on the screen and as I turn to look at it, L turns to look at me. Like full-on staring with his thumb in his mouth. "Whatchoo doing, L?"
"It's not L, it's Ryuzaki, for safety reasons. I want to assess your reaction to watching the video. Don't mind me."
"Riiiight." Shaking my head, I pay attention to the screen. This Penber guy gets on the train, gets off around an hour and a half later and just hits the floor clutching his heart. But wait…is that…shock? His features are not too clear but I think they're frozen in horror, disbelief. He's looking at something- or someone- in the train, before it takes off and he drops dead. That's something, but not all of it. "Hit rewind, Ryuzaki…that's it, play now." Where'd the envelope go?
"Any idea what was in the envelope? Or did he just conveniently forget it on the train?" I ask the room.
Asahi sits up straighter. "We noticed it but know nothing about it."
"I'll bet you anything that the names of your agents were in it. And Kira was on that train too. Someone Penber knew, and thought to be innocent, which explains the look of shock mingled with horror. Who was Penber investigating before the…experiments started?"
Asahi visibly pales. His voice trembles when he asks, "So you also think that someone Raye was investigating is Kira?"
" Also , chief? So you've already worked this angle, huh? Tell me who's our top star."
"It's me. Raye was investigating Deputy Director Kitamura's and my family", Light confesses, looking uncomfortable.
"But my son is cleared from suspicion, isn't that right, Ryuzaki?"
"Yes, he was. But I think I best continue my explanation to help Miss Anne understand this better.
Upon noticing my suspicion that someone in NPA was causing the leak, several refused to work with me and only Asahi, Moji, Aihira, Matsui and Ukita stayed. Be quiet, Ukita-san is the one who passed away in front of Sakura TV, I'll get to that. Anyway, they wanted deeper trust between us so I called them to my hotel and revealed my face to them. After we investigated the deaths of the 12 FBI agents, I came to the same conclusion as you and decided to install cameras and wiretaps in Yagami and Kitamura households. (My eyes widen in realization, prompting L to respond, "Yes, yes, he was Detective Superintendent Yagami, he resigned now, don't use his real name.") Everything was normal, but Yagamin-kun was too normal. He was certainly intelligent enough to do the murders. I immediately became suspicious of him but even when he was studying right before my eyes, the deaths continued happening. After a few days of this, I had to remove the surveillance.
Of course, the killings never stopped. So I decided to enter the same college as Light-kun and revealed myself as L to him. If he killed me now, the whole task force would know he was Kira. I conducted some tests and played a tennis match to determine if he was Kira but he avoided detection in all of them. Unfortunately, Asahi-san had a heart attack at the same time so I had to halt my investigation.
We also discovered Raye Penber's fiance, Naomi Misora, an ex-FBI agent, had suddenly disappeared. I worked with her on a case before and know she wasn't the suicidal type. Which means she was investigating Kira on her own and Kira had killed her.
Few days later, Sakura TV played the tape from Kira. I'm assuming you saw that?"
"The whole fiasco right to the end of the whole patriotic police blockade."
"Ukita-san had rushed there to stop the broadcast and was killed immediately. Same happened to the other two police officers. Lucky for us, Asahi-san broke in using an armored truck to protect his identity, recovered all the tapes and stopped the broadcast. We sent the tapes for forensics in hopes to find Kira's DNA or some clue. We listened to the tapes afterward and the gist was this- police agree to comply with Kira and all the policemen including myself appear on TV as insurance. If we didn't comply or failed to broadcast the names of criminals on TV regularly, he would kill the Director of NPA unless the real L revealed his identity on TV.
Based on those tapes, I surmised that this Kira was not the original Kira. The original Kira only killed the criminals or those actively hunting him like the FBI agents. Those newscasters were of no threat to him. Furthermore, Ukita and those two police officers died immediately even though their names were secret which meant this Kira only needed a face to kill. Also, a direct threat was not Kira's style- he wanted a peaceful world with adoring people, and this move would make them hate him. So I contacted Light-"
I jump and push L behind me as a screech filled the air. Taking a defensive stance, my eyes fell on the door to see a blur of glittery pink and yellow barreling right at me.
"OHMYGOD! We're going to be best friends foreverrrrrrrrr!"
A/N: So, Anne meets Misa. The rest is just Kira case summary. I know this is slow and too detailed but please bear with me. All the Supernatural fans out there who haven't watched Death Note need these chapters. Once we get the details out of the way, we're going faster, I promise :)
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