L was beyond suspicious at this point, he had stopped receiving information on the Yagami family from Raye Penber, yet no body had turned up to say that Penber had been killed by Kira also he was still receiving information from the other eleven FBI agents. L suspected that if Kira had gotten to Penber that he would force Penber to reveal the names of all the other agents working in Japan however, they hadn't died. It didn't make sense for Penber to just stop communicating all of a sudden unless his identity had been compromised which if L had to put a percentage to it in these current circumstances has a 43% probability. And there was a 11% chance that Penber was being held hostage by Kira. It also increased the likeliness that Kira was a part of the Yagami family and the only person who fit the Kira profile was Chief Yagami's genius son Light Yagami.
"Could Light Yagami be Kira" L muttered to himself before opening a new tab on his laptop and started investigating.
Light had practically moved into Naomi and Raye's apartment with the mindset that if he worked his ass off then they would find and catch Kira sooner. The sooner they dealt with Kira, the less likely it would be for Light to have to (if he had to at all and Light was doing his damn hardest not to) communicate with L. At first Light hadn't realised a potential mistake they had made until he was updating his new timeline of the events from the divergence from the original timeline after Light came back in time and saved Naomi and Raye from their inevitable demise – since Raye wasn't following Light around anymore, he hadn't been sending any information to L about Light's whereabouts and doings.
"We need to get all of the FBI agents to leave Japan to reduce the risk of any of the others revealing their identity to Kira then my attempt to prevent all twelve FBI agents would have been for nothing. We need to stop the investigation" Light said before taking a sip of his drink that Naomi had prepared.
"I agree, I haven't been sending any information in about you and I don't feel safe to resume my job knowing that I nearly gave my identity away once to Kira and since we still don't have any idea who the real Kira is, we can't risk the chance of him trying again with either myself or another agent" Raye agreed, ever since Light had approached them he had hardly left his apartment in true terror that Kira would try again and this time succeed.
"So, we agree. Raye sends a message saying his identity was compromised or do we convince the other FBI agents that their identity has also been compromised and have them contact the director as well" Naomi suggested, it would be the quickest way to get all the FBI agents out of Japan.
"Kira is currently a national threat to the whole world. I believe that the FBI won't risk their agents' lives. A message from Raye should be enough" Light answered, it took all the FBI agents dying for the FBI to stop investigating Kira the last time instead of putting more agents on the case to find Kira. One simple message should spark the same fear which the FBI director experienced the last time to order his agents to drop their assignments and return to America. Light continued "Give me your laptop, I can compose the message for you then you can edit it to make sure that it sounds like the email is coming from you, we don't need the director to have even speck of doubt that this isn't from you to not bring the agents by to America".
Raye nodded before grabbing his laptop, pulling up his emails then passed it to Light who got to work straight away.
Dear Director, Freddi Guntair,
I am one of the FBI agents sent to Japan to aid L in catching Kira, I email you know because I fear for the safety on myself and the other eleven agents. Recently I was in a bus jacking whilst following one of the NPA family members, one of the passengers was extremely persistent that I reveal who I was to prove that I wasn't a second bus hijacker. Fortunately, the bus jacker died before I was forced to actually reveal my identity which I fear I would have done. Because of how adamant the man was (who wasn't the suspect I was following) I'm worried that he was either Kira or an associate of Kira. I have not left my apartment since the jacking in fear that this man would try again to get my identity, due to the radio silence with the other agents I have not been able to warn them of him. So, for all I know the other agents are dead and Kira is planning to kill me too.
I'm not sure what I should do since this is not a situation which I have previously been put in before, I may have come into contact with Kira and could be at risk of dying or getting the other agents killed. I wished to warn you sir, so, you can make the appropriate steps to protect anymore people from being killed by Kira.
Yours Sincerely,
Agent Raye Penber
"Read through this, make sure it seems like it's coming from you" Light said once he finished typing up the email and handed the laptop back to Raye. Raye looked through the email changing a couple of things to make sure it sounded more like him before adding in the relevant contact email and sent it off to his boss.
"It's getting late, you should get some sleep – if you don't mind sleeping on the sofa then you're more than welcome to stay here" Naomi said looking over at the visible tired teen who looked like he hadn't slept in weeks.
"I'm fine, I don't need as much sleep as I use to" Light replied, he would rather get more work done then waste his time sleeping, he never truly realised how much time people waste sleeping until he didn't need it as much anymore.
"And you look like you're about to fall asleep, when was the last time you slept? Huh I bet it wasn't anytime recent" Naomi said, and Light froze, when was the last time he slept. He was pretty sure it he hadn't at all since he had been sent back which meant it had to be the night of his execution was the last time he slept, if he could really call it sleeping considering he spent half the night awake staring up at his cell ceiling imagining the different possible outcomes which would happen the following day.
"The night before I died" Light confessed. Naomi didn't even reply instead she stood up and walked into her bedroom before returning with a blanket and pillow and threw them at Light.
"Go to sleep" she ordered and Light sighed. He might as well pretend to sleep and once he was sure that Naomi and Raye were asleep themselves, he could continue working. Light threw the blanket over him and rested his head on the pillow and closed his eyes, he heard Raye and Naomi walking into their bedroom and shut the door behind them. Light waited to hear Raye's snoring, but it never came because Light accidentally drifted off to sleep.
Light knew he was dreaming when he opened his eyes, he had to be. He was currently in his living room at home, the whole house felt cold and empty that it sent a shiver down Light's spine. Well the house was almost empty; his father was sat slumped on the sofa. His eyes were clearly red from crying.
'Why would my father be crying?' Light thought to himself as he stepped closer and notice that on the table was a picture of Light and his father outside To-ho university, it was the day of To-ho entrance ceremony. It was also the last day Light had seen his father until the day he was arrested – his father was always working on the Kira case but Light never expected that his father would ever believe that he had what it takes to be Kira or even a murderer.
"Dad what's wrong?" Light asked but he didn't get a response, his father didn't even look up or even acknowledge that he had heard Light. Could it be possible that he couldn't hear him? But why, it was Light's dream so shouldn't he be able to interact with everything in his dream including said father.
"I'm so sorry Light. I should have believed you when you said you weren't Kira. I should have fought harder for you. This is all my fault if only I changed the other task force members minds than maybe they would have help me get Ryuzaki to find actual concrete evidence to whether you were Kira or if not then work to find the real Kira and not speculation and the pressure from the ICPO to arrest Kira and close the case" Soichiro Yagami said before breaking down into tears once more. Light just stood there frozen to the spot, what did his father mean. He was executed because a speculation and peer pressure and not 'hard evidence'.
Light woke up startled why the hell would he be dreaming of his father grieving after all he hadn't died in this timeline… not yet at least. Could this be a side effect from the time travel that even though he was physically running on a different time, he somehow had access to the events of after his death. Did he really want to see what his family was going through after he died. And if that was true what his father said, that couldn't be real could it. He didn't just lose his life because of stupid peer pressure. That couldn't be true, could it?
"L, you have a call from the director of the FBI" Watari informed the detective who turned to his laptop and answered the call.
"It's me. I've received a message from one of my agents who worried that Kira had tried to get his identity which means that Kira must know about the agents sent to Japan. I can't risk the chance that Kira will try again to gain all the agents' identities. Look, I'm sorry but it's already decided. We are calling off our investigation and bringing all the twelve agents back to America to protect them" and with the director cut the call, L just sat there staring at the wall thinking.
'Which agent could have possibly come into contract with Kira'. If he found out who it was then that would narrow down his suspect list, to two potential households. This was going to be easier than L first thought.
