"That bastard" Kira growled, throwing everything off his desk and onto the floor. If Mikami hadn't kept his freaking mouth shut around those fucking police officers, then he wouldn't have been forced to kill them. If the media got word of those deaths and linked it to Kira, then it could ruin his perfect reputation, he was working to build a new world, a world without crime where people can enjoy themselves and be happy and they wouldn't have to worry about being attacked by the vermin of society on their way home. But if the media found out that his power had been used to murder three innocent police officers, then all his hard work would be for nothing. If only Mikami hadn't been boasting about being Kira's spokesperson whilst he was near the police, then bolted when they tried to question him about it, Kira should only be glad that Mikami had worked with those police officers before so he knew their names and could dispose of them quickly.
"My plans have only slightly been put back by this my love but soon I will create that perfect world for you and I to enjoy where the people of the world will worship you like the god you are," Kira said picking up the photo frame from beside his bed and looked down at the love of his life. Nothing would impede his plans, not the media, not Mikami, and certainly not L. Once L died, nothing would stop him from creating the perfect world. Kira carefully placed the photo frame back down before returning to his desk, grabbing a pen from the floor and pulled his death note from the draw he had worked to do.
It was inevitable, really. After word got out that Kira killed those police members, the police on the task force was going to get a little apprehensive that Kira would come and kill them as well. Kira was in fact a cold-hearted killer who didn't care who he killed whether they were a criminal or innocent. Those three men had families, one had just welcomed a child into the world and now because of Kira, he would never see his son grow up. Chief Yagami as much as he hated it, and he couldn't blame everyone for leaving, many police members of the task force were young, they had families, wives, children. Hell, Chief Yagami had his own family, a wife, daughter, and son that he would never see again if Kira killed him but he couldn't just abandon the case, he wouldn't let evil triumph but working the Kira case demanded trust and at the moment, L was the only person they couldn't trust.
After the death of those police officers, it came out through an anonymous tip that the FBI agents had been following around members of the task force and their families. It felt worse when L confirmed it.
"L we've just received an anonymous tip saying you arranged for the FBI to come to Japan and investigate everyone associated with the task force and their families," Chief Yagami said furious, they were working on one of the worse crimes in history and L was wasting valuable resources looking into the task force.
"Yes, I did" L confirmed.
"So how do you explain this? Are we now suspects in our own investigation?" Chief Yagami asked.
"I felt it was necessary to uncover Kira's identity," L said, "And I was right,".
"I cannot accept that. I found it unbelievable that you would spy on us, the very people working with you on this case" Chief Yagami shouted, spying on the people you were working with was just downright unacceptable, L needed to trust the task force to do their jobs if Kira were amongst them then they would be sure that he would try to find L's location or name, but no one cared about L. Chief Yagami wasn't a betting man but if he was, he was sure that he could confidently bet and win that everyone on the task force before the FBI agents was revealed, he was sure everyone hated L in some shape or form including him.
"Please understand Mr. Yagami that I found what I was looking for. What that tip didn't specify that I was searching the families of the task force for any links to Kira. Only a few days ago, they pulled the FBI agents from the investigation because of that very issue. One agent encountered Kira and now the FBI fears their agents will be killed if they stayed in Japan any longer. So, I deduct when I found which agent met Kira, I will find Kira," L said.
L's screen went blank and Watari exited the room. The task force remained silent as everyone took in this information so Chief Yagami honestly wasn't surprised when not even an hour later, three cops quit then the rest followed.
Light had been home many a time to collect anything he needed, but he made it his mission to keep as much distance between his family and himself as possible. He just couldn't face them, like he was expecting them to accuse him of being Kira, even though his family right now knew nothing about what happened to him. He wanted to protect them and his own mental health by focusing on finding Kira, it's why he sent that email to the NPA, in the original timeline after the deaths of the FBI agents lots of people from the task force quit to save their own lives which led to the rest of the task force meeting up with L or so Light could only assume. If he was going to save as many lives as possible, he needed fewer people working on the Kira Investigation. His plan must have worked because he received a phone call from his mother demanding he come home right away because his father had called a family meeting, just like he did when FBI agents died last time.
This led Light to sit at the kitchen table, feeling extremely uncomfortable and unwilling to look at his father in the eyes. How could he? This was the man who arrested him, the man who accused him of being Kira and then let L kill him just because someone was pressuring the task force to get rid of Kira. Yes, the man in front of him might not have done that in this timeline and all going to plan, his father never will but that didn't erase what had already happened to Light and it was painful to look at his father who openly admitted that he didn't see Light as his son anymore and that he was a mistake before throwing him into a cell for L to deal with.
"Um, so what's with the family meeting, Dad?" Sayu asked curiously, she had been busy trying to do her math homework when her mother ordered her downstairs.
"I figured you're going to find out eventually, so I might as well tell you now. I don't want you to be alarmed, but I'm sure you've heard of this Kira investigation," Chief Yagami said, pausing for a bit to look at his family. Light stared down at the table, Sayu stared at him with a look of curiosity and confusion whilst his wife kept a blank expression, "Well, I'm currently in charge of it,".
"What? Are you serious? That's totally awesome, Dad. You're the best cop ever," Sayu cheered.
"That's not quite the point I'm trying to make," Chief Yagami said to his daughter.
"Oh?".
"You see the truth is, the FBI sent twelve agents to Japan to assist us in finding Kira in all secrecy and a few days ago, they were all recalled to America after the identity of one agent might have been leaked to Kira," Chief Yagami said, "that's not it. Yesterday we found three police officers dead from heart attacks. All three men were in perfect health or didn't have any conditions which could have caused a heart attack. They weren't even on the Kira investigation so the heart attack couldn't have been caused by stress,".
"Does that mean they were all killed by Kira?" Light asked but he still refused to look at his father, everything about this meeting was the same as last time except the reason for having the meeting changed just a bit, going from the FBI agents' deaths to only three police officers.
"What!" Sayu screamed her eyes widened in fear as she looked at her brother than to her father.
"What I'm saying is, there's a chance that Kira will try to kill anyone who comes after him. His crimes are ruthless and more frightening than anything we've seen. Many detectives have already quit" Chief Yagami said to his family. He knew how they would react, he knew they would beg him to quit too, but he couldn't. He didn't become a police officer so he could run away with his tail between his legs at the first sight of danger.
"Dad, you should quit, too. I don't want you to die. What if he gets you?" Sayu begged, she didn't want to lose her father because of Kira.
"That's right, your life is so much more important than some job," Sachiko agreed.
"I can't, I could never forgive myself if I walked away from this. I will not sit back and let evil triumph" Chief Yagami said. He refused to quit. He wasn't that sort of man, he wasn't a quitter, he was a fighter.
"But Dad!" Sayu shouted at the same time his mother said, "Please, dear…"
"Mum, Sayu. It won't work, he's already made up his mind, he's going to do this whether or not we want him to. Dad just… don't die" Light said. Previously he had joined his mother and sister and begged his father to quit the task force but that never happened, hell it was evidence used against him for being Kira. They believed that he only begged so that there would be fewer people coming after him but that wasn't it. One he wasn't Kira, and two, he begged because he didn't want to watch his father die at the hands of Kira. Light pushed his chair out from underneath the table and stood up before pushing it back under and leaving the room. After everything that had happened in the last couple of days, he was knackered, but he could only dread what he would see when he closed his eyes. The first dream had been bad enough, and he could only imagine that they would get worse.
Chief Yagami didn't stay much longer after the meeting, they were meeting L at a hotel at midnight. So, he waited until his wife and daughter went up to bed before he left. Light hadn't resurfaced that night; and it worried him. Light had never been like this before. Now he thought about it. Light hadn't been acting like himself for a couple of days according to his wife, Light would always stay out late and sometimes he didn't even come home. Even when he did, Light would barely spend any time with Sayu and Sachiko instead of going to his room to hideaway.
He was worried about his son's health and well-being, but what could he do. Because of Kira he hardly spent any time at home. He wasn't sure that it wasn't something he had done that caused Light to act like this but no matter how hard he wracked his brain trying to think of something he might have said or done which might have hurt Light, he couldn't think of anything. The last time he had seen Light, they were talking just like normal. Unless his long absences were starting to take an effect on Light more so than he thought they might but if that was the case shouldn't it be affecting Sayu too but she had been fine around him during the family meeting, it was only Light acting odd.
But again, he couldn't focus on that. He had just arrived at Teito Hotel with Matsuda and Aizawa. With Mogi and Ukita planned to arrive half an hour later, just like L had planned. When the others had arrived, the group headed into the hotel, one group taking the elevators and the others taking the stairs before reuniting just outside L's hotel room door. Chief Yagami gave the others a reassuring nod of the head before raising his hand and knocked on the hotel room door.
"It's unlocked," A voice said from inside the hotel room and Chief Yagami pushed the door open and walked inside to find something he hadn't expected. A young man maybe in his early twenties stood in the centre of the room, he had black messy hair and what looked like panda like dark eyes with noticeable bags underneath them. The young man was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, baggy and faded blue jeans with no shoes or socks on his feet, "I am L".
"I'm Yagami of the NPA," Chief Yagami said, pulling out his badge from his jacket pocket and showed it up to the man – apparently L.
"Matsuda" Matsuda introduced himself, holding up his police badge.
"I'm Aizawa,".
"Mogi,".
"Ukita,".
"I'm very sorry we're late, currently the five of us are…" Chief Yagami apologised but was interrupted by L, who raised his hand and said.
"Bang,".
"What the hell was that?" Aizawa shouted, taking a step back from the weirdo in front of him.
"If I were Kira, you'd be dead, Mr. Soichiro Yagami, chief of the NPA," L said, "Kira needs a face and a name in order to commit murder but I'm sure you've already figured that much out, haven't you? Please do not give out your name so carelessly. Instead, let's value our lives,".
Chief Yagami stared at L, this was meant to be the world's famous detective who was going to help them solve the Kira case. If that was the case, then God help them.
It felt exactly like it had the last time. Light was still in his house, neither his mother nor his sister was anywhere to be seen, but his father was slumped on the sofa surrounded with empty beer cans. He was still wearing the same clothes Light had seen him in, in the last 'dream' but as he looked at the date, it was nearly a month after that. His father had been wearing the same clothes for a month, the little hair he still has was greasy and the childhood home Light grew up in was full of rubbish and beer cans, there were piles of dirty plates in and around the sick whilst the rubbish bin was overflowing with garbage.
"Oi, woman grab me another beer" his father shouted, and his mother scurried into the living room and headed towards the kitchen before grabbing another pack of beers from the fridge and gave it to his father. His mother then ran back out of the room, pausing by the front door when there was a knock. Light looked horrified at his father's treatment of his mother, yes, he got his death has affected his family in different ways, however, for his father to turn from this kind, loving man to this alcoholic, abusive drunk in a month, it scared Light of what he might see the next time he is forced to see his family's future. Disgusted with his father, Light left the living room and went into the hallway to see his mother, who didn't look any better. The clothes she wore didn't fit her. Despite the signs of dirty plates in the kitchen, it looked like his mother had had none of it. Her skin was pale, her arm full of cuts and bruises which she was hiding underneath her jumper and underneath her eyes were dark bags showing Light just how little his mother was sleeping, it had been roughly a month and a few weeks since his death and his family was a wreck that Light dreaded to see what condition Sayu was in.
"Hello Mrs. Yagami," the person said when his mother opened the door, "I'm sorry if I'm intruding on anything,".
"It's alright Aizawa," Light's mother said smiling sadly at the detective, "have they made their decision?".
"They have," Aizawa said before letting out a deep sigh "I'm sorry Mrs. Yagami but they've made their decision. After Chief Yagami recently turning up drunk to work, with the know known knowledge that he drinks heavily and gets violent, they've had no choice but to dismiss him from his position as Chief of the NPA and fire him from being a detective all together. He's a risk to those he works with, they might have not told you but, the day Mr. Yagami was suspended, he got into a fight with Detective Touta Masuda, I say fight but it was more one-sided and could better be termed a beating. Mr. Yagami for reasons unknown suddenly attacked Detective Matsuda and broke multiple ribs, his jaw, and arm. For those reasons alone, we can't risk our other officers around your husband. I'm truly sorry Mrs. Yagami, I know your family has been through a lot lately and you didn't need this on top but the NPA has no choice,".
"No Aizawa. Don't apologise, Soichiro brought this on himself. After Lig… no Kira's death, Soichiro willingly turned to the bottle in his way of coping. He went to work drunk so he must deal with the consequences of his actions… thank you for informing me of the outcome. Goodbye Aizawa," Light's mother said, shutting the front door and collapsed against the wall. Light wasn't sure why, but he knew she was dreading to tell his father about being fired.
Light shot up in bed, wrapping his arms around his legs and buried his head in his knees. He wished he could cry; he wished he could just let out his emotions like everyone else, but he couldn't. Tears were just another thing taken from him, just like he didn't have the ability to naturally blink or breathe so whenever he was out in public, he would always have to remind himself to do it. Light took in a deep breath before pushing his covers off him, and he walked over to his desk. He wouldn't get back to sleep after that, he didn't want to force himself to suffer another and much worse 'dream'. After all, he had Kira to find. He would suffer these dreams if it meant bringing down that bastard.
