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Wow it has almost been 4 months since my last update.� I bet some of you thought you�d heard the
last of me, well fear not I will get the fic done one way or another.� To make up in part for my terrible update
time this chapter is over twice as long as any previous chapter!� 12k words!�
So whilst you�ve had to wait a long time to get this I hope you can see
have been pretty busy working away at this.

This is also the first chapter where I�ve had real time
batering as I go.� So a massive thanks to
Believe Bridesmaid, who I�ve been in almost daily msn chat to just get this
chapter perfect.� She�s also batered all
the other chapters and they�ll be going up over the next few days.� We�ve also got a few more projects in the
pipeline and possibly some opportunities for outside input if anyone is up for
that?

I shan�t delay you any longer, please enjoy and let me know
what you think.

Hilda

xxx

�In Spain
today a prisoner�s rights group marched through Madrid calling for greater protection for
the country�s remaining convicts.� The
protests were prompted by the latest in the new series of mass Kira-killings
last week when over four thousand inmates, mostly from the country�s north
eastern prisons died from heart attacks.�
The man responsible is local government official and Kira supporter
Perico de los Palotes, who released their information onto a pro-Kira
website.� Rita la Pollera, march
organiser and mother of one of last week�s victims, an 18 year old drug dealer,
had this to say to reporters��

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�The Greek pharmaceutical company Pharmakon, has filed for
bankruptcy today, after the Kira caused death of the managing director, Giorgos
Tade following corruption charges last week.�
Two thousand job losses are expected with in Greece and many more in the
company�s international offices and plants.�
For the effects on the Greek stock exchange we now go to��

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�An unprecedented legal decision took place in the House of
Lords today. The Law Lords have ruled that �Kira� is a legitimate �murder
weapon�.� This ruling applies in such
cases where the defendant has made deliberate and calculated efforts to ensure
their victim is accused of an uncommitted crime or had a previous criminal action
inflated to warrant Kira�s punishment.�
Lady Justice, Anne Other for the opposition has described the decision
as �foolish and rushed�.� Whilst Lord
Punter has said this is a �Landmark decision of great achievement�.� They both join me now from our Westminster studio.� Lord Punter isn�t this decision long
overdue?� Of course I refer to the case
of �the man on the Clapham Omnibus� which last week��

�I think it is fair to say that this is a decision we have
all been anticipating, but it needed to go through all the correct legal
procedures before we��

�Correct legal procedures?!�
I think not, this monumental decision was dashed through the Lords
without any careful thought or planning.�
This government is once again yielding to press and public hysteria and
making bad judgements.��

�So Lady Other you don�t believe in the prosecution of those
who mislead Kira into killing perfectly innocent people?� Should Sarah Smith not stand trial for
accusing her school teacher husband John of paedophilia based not on evidence
but because it was cheaper than divorce?�

�I cannot comment on specific cases, but in such instances I
can see why we do need to carefully rethink how we handle false accusations
like this.� I am merely concerned that we
have not thought through the implications of this legislation.� For example in America last week, where very
similar procedures are already in place, a policeman was accused of the murder
of a suspect because he arrested
him.� They say the victim, a serial rapist wouldn�t have died if officer Doe hadn�t
arrested him!� Since the officer deliberately arrested him, John Doe now
finds himself up for the death penalty, most probably administered by the same
weapon, Kira.

I�m not saying we should let those who manipulate Kira
should not be punished for their heinous acts, all I�m saying is that we must
protect everyone from Kira, the police, public and criminals alike.� The prevention of such cases must fall
directly to those from whom Kira receives his information the police and the press,
both must ensure the accuracy of their reports lest they cause any unnecessary
deaths.�

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��

L didn�t like working with the world news on, it was so
demoralising, sapping the strength and the energy from the team until they
worked in silence.� It was hard to watch
Kira murder, Kira corrupt and Kira destroy when you knew that the one thing
keeping the world�s hope alive was almost a complete lie.� Out there, all across the world, people got
up in the morning and got on with life because they knew that the great detective L and the best of the Japanese police
were working tirelessly to protect them.�
What they didn�t know was what that really meant; seven men and a
teenage boy.

No, he didn�t like watching the news, because everyday it
reminded him that yesterday he had failed and people had suffered because of
him.�

In a typical case the knowledge that L was on the scene was
usually enough to halt a murder spree or at least slow it down. The criminal suddenly
worried a lot about the evidence being left behind and changed things, which in
itself was usually enough evidence to catch them soon after.

That was of course, back in the days when �L� meant
something.� L had meant justice,
integrity and action.�� It meant that criminals should look out,
take heed and be very, very quiet.�

Now�

� there was a phrase circulating the English speaking
countries, �when L arrests Kira� which
was roughly the equivalent of �when pigs fly�.�

But he would, he bloody well would, he�d get him somehow.

He had to!

�

But Kira could be anyone, anywhere, maybe even the other
side of the world?

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Or the thickness of a wall away.�

Ryuzaki wasn�t the only one who liked to play with double
sided mirrors.�

However, unlike the other one this mirror had an automatic
cutoff and a carefully placed �emergency exit� light to ensure that Kira�s side
of the mirror was always darker and the �mirror� therefore, always a
mirror.�� Ryuzaki stared at it a lot Kira
noticed, when he was stressed, as though he too had been suckered into the
belief that �L knew all� and was desperately seeking the answers in his eyes.

�You�re lost, L and soon, you�re going to die.�

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�The Filipino
president, Juan de la Cruz, officially announced the
deaths of over six and a half thousand prisoners killed in the most active
phase of Kira�s new reign of terror.� The
victims mostly came from high security facilities and it is still unknown how
information about them was leaked to Kira.�
President de la Cruz pledged to increase his country�s contribution to
the reward being offered to the person or forces responsible for the stopping
Kira.� The amount on offer currently
stands at��

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It was just under
two months since they had first moved into the new investigation headquarters
with such hope and optimism� well not that much of either, but certainly more
than they had now anyway.� A lot had
happened and none of it good.�

For a start Kira had
gotten a lot faster.

In the darkest,
deepest parts of his heart, Light might have once acknowledged a certain
sympathy for Kira and his methods, but now he knew� no, everyone knew, � surely
even Kira himself had to know this was madness!�
The numbers involved were just ridiculous!� Experts were estimating that Kira was very
close to the thirty thousand mark, but Light considering himself the expert knew Kira had passed that
some days ago.� 30,000 people!� How did someone do that anyway?�

A lot of the Kira
supporters had quietly shut-up, leaving only the most fanatical who hailed the
divine retribution, singing Kira�s praises from on high�or something like that
whilst conveniently forgetting Kira�s mistakes or even more sinister, accepting
them.� �Kira punished them; therefore
they must have done something wrong.� And the child victims �were obviously
going grow up to be bad people.��
Presumably killing them before they did anything wrong was more time
efficient.��

Around the world there was a very uncomfortable, unspoken
acknowledgement that Kira �wasn�t � you know�very�well that is to say�um�whilst
I accept crime rates have gone down and all that�well, this Kira chap
isn�t�very�nice.��

Very few were prepared to speak out against him and even less
to do it publicly.� That was despite Kira
apparently sticking to his word of only killing criminals (or people mistaken
for criminals or people who got on the wrong sort of list).� It was because Kira could, that people stayed
away, you never knew if your comment would just be a bit too strong or catch
Kira in a bad mood.�

But of course there were always some, Light thought with a
smile, prepared to give it a go.

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��So Professor, your
latest book is out this week.� �The Kira
Delusion� that�s quite a controversial title!�
Don�t you think it�s a bit risky to do something like this now?�

�Risky indeed, but no, I had to write this book, somethings
things just have to be said.� What I and
many other prominent thinkers have been stunned by is the global acceptance of
this concept of Kira.�

�You deny what is happening in prisons all over the
world?� Are you saying that the prison
guards are �delusional�? �

�No, of course not.�
The delusion I refer to is not over the deaths of criminals world wide,
unfortunately that is an undeniable fact.�
The delusion is �Kira�, the god, not the process.� Within weeks of these terrible murders
starting fanatics and cults have been springing up everywhere claiming to know
�the true word of Kira� or that Kira speaks to them at night or Kira�s �healed
them�.�� And those are just the ones that
are mad, there are many more who are just cashing in on people�s gullibility,
take the preacher for example, who claims that if you send him a donation he�ll
pray to Kira for you and redeem you of your crimes.�

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It had also been two months since his and Ryuzaki�s rather
large falling out, the bruises and injured prides of which had taken many weeks
to heal.�

They still hadn�t exactly made up even now.� He wanted to of course, but Ryuzaki was so uncooperative,
often claiming Light had said and done things that he certainly didn�t remember
doing and then hitting him for these imaginary grievances.�

It didn�t help that his father was doing everything in his
power to stop them from being within a 3 ft radius of one another.� Watari was in on it too, having shown Yagami-San
footage of their �interactions�.

Soichiro hadn�t yet said anything directly but had made
quite pointed remarks to Ryuzaki that he should allow Light to visit his girlfriend, what with him being a young teenager and all, in fact why not
give him a night off, let him enjoy a romantic evening with his pretty girlfriend, alone, without adult supervision,
to do teenage boy sort of things. He�d even offered, if Light was feeling
bored, to go home and fetch him some books or magazines or something.�
�Erk! How does he know about my porn?��
Light wasn�t sure how he felt about his dad�s reactions all he knew was
that it was getting very annoying.

��

Just the other night, as they were getting ready for bed,
whilst arguing over some email had been allegedly sent by/to Ryuzaki to/from
Light another fight had started.� Being
tired, it wasn�t a proper fight and soon changed into general shoving and then
into playful wrestling and ended with Light being held under L on the
detective�s bed.�

Ryuzaki had stopped tickling Light�s feet when a shift of
the other�s legs had brought their faces close together.� Ryuzaki was crouched over him, sitting on his
stomach, staring down and the flushed, smiling boy reclined against his pillows
with hair swept around him.� He slowly
leaned in toward the boy, who sat up slightly.�

Just as their lips were about to meet L�s phone rang.� Both made frustrated noises and glared at the
blinking security camera over looking the bed.�

�I thought I turned that off.� He said before answering the
phone.

�Yes Watari�yes�yes� I know�really?...fine I�ll be there in
a minute.�� He sighed and shut off the
phone; Light had sat up and moved to the other side of the bed.� �There is apparently an emergency requiring
my immediate attention�um�will you wait for me?�

�No point.� Good night
Ryuzaki-San.� He said with a huff and left the room without looking back at the
detective.

It seemed as though everyone and fate itself was determined
to keep them apart.

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��Perico de los
Palotes has just been found dead.�� L
relayed the message he�d just received from the Spanish authorities to the
team.� Light paused, pen in hand to look
at him.

�Isn�t he that Spanish Kira supporter who had all those
people killed?� asked Matsuda, who was currently on stapler duty.

�Yes, although Kira didn�t seem too fond of him - he died of
a heart attack.�

�Odd.� said his father.�
�It�s not like Kira to go around killing his supporters, and it�s not as
though the guy cheated.� Like that
Austrian guy who hid the details of his ex-wife in the prison lists.�

�Ryuzaki, didn�t you once tell me you thought Kira
controlled the head of the FBI before killing him?� Kira made him give the details of the 12 FBI
agents away so they could all be killed.�
Is this perhaps the same tactic?��
Light suggested, allowing the worry to be heard in his tone.

�Yes, well done Yagami-kun.� droned L in a deadpan voice. �I
suspect Kira is either blackmailing or �controlling� minor officials and prison
guards in order to perpetrate more� efficient
judgements.�� He paused and bit his thumb nail.� �This is worrying, since there is very little
that can be done to prevent it.� We are
particularly vulnerable to such an attack ourselves.� Or you
are gentlemen, since none of you would ever be able to reveal my identity, and
those that can� well lets just say they are very few and far between and
unlikely to come to Kira�s attention.

Never the less, this is a very important issue, Mogi-san if
you�ve completed the last task I set for you I would like you to investigate
�controlled� victims�.��

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�I�m useless here
and everyone knows it.� I have no idea
what Light-kun is going on about these days. I can only just about follow his
instructions and even then I mess up so much it�s just easier for him to do it.� Although, Misa appreciates me� I think.�

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Light was staring
out of the window, his mind meandering around the banks of confusion and
inspiration.� The computer system was
slowly restarting, a casualty of his latest programming efforts that had seen
blue screens and data loss all around.� L
had claimed that this was just another attempt to delay the Kira investigation
whence Light had replied claiming that �Your mum�s an attempt to delay the Kira
investigation!�� Yes, after weeks of
petty fighting and point scoring they had descended to that level of pointless
bickering.

He looked back at
the data � there was a pattern here but what did it mean?� Ok, what did he know?

�1. Criminals
announced on the 9 o�clock NHN and Sakura TV news programs are killed
(regardless of how atrocious the crime committed was)

2. They die in the
order in which they were announced. �

3. Those reported on
NHN first, then any criminals they didn�t report die in the order that Sakura
TV announced them. Therefore Kira watches NHN first, then he watches Sakura TV.

However, with the 6 o�clock
news, the �worst criminals�, the murderers, the rapists and the gangsters, are
killed first. �The rest, the thieves, the
yobs and the vandals, then die a few hours later in the order they were
originally announced in, but with gaps of a few minutes in the space left by a
�bad criminal�.�

But that only applies in Japan or at least
for anyone who makes the Japanese news, if the names can�t be found on a
Japanese site then only the �real criminals� die � does Kira really hate Japan?

�

�No, that wouldn�t make sense�.

If there are still two Kiras active now�then
this�maybe.� Yeah� Ok we have �Good Kira�
and �Bastard Kira�.� Good-Kira kills all
the real criminals at 6,� then Bastard-Kira
comes along later and kills everyone else not knowing Good-Kira got in there
before him.�� But while Good-Kira is
killing the bad criminals from all over the world, Bastard-Kira beats him to
the 9 o�clock news and kills everyone� as long as he doesn�t have too look to
hard for them.

Hang on, why I�m I calling one of them
�Good-Kira�?

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�The World Bank is
putting emergency funds in place for countries struggling to cope with the
recent dramatic increases in Kira activities.�
For more information and full analysis of the troubling market
conditions we now got to our financial reporter��

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�Damn it!�� The Blue Screen of Death once again loomed
down upon Light.� He was so sure that
this time it would work but when the network had failed the main processor had
dumped all the data at once on the router which had thrown up bizarre system
cache related errors.� There was just too
much data and his new system was obviously far too ambitious.�� Oh well, it�s another late night I guess��

But he didn�t mind,
anything was better than thinking too much�

�like how he was
very good at English but not so good at French.�
Things like that weren�t nice to think about when the FBI�s victim
report was open on his screen� and that French news report

�apparently Kira
misread a news article off a French website and killed the victim not the
rapist � an odd use of prepositions and an irregular verb were to blame.

Well those network
cables weren�t going to untangle themselves�

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�One lead is all I
need.� Just some little mistake and I can
hunt him down, but I just can�t find it.��
It was impossible with this many victims to look intently at each to see
if one just happened to have only been reported in one country or had any
connection to one of his suspects.� L
only clung to the idea that Kira still had to be Japanese because the thought
of expanding the amount of potential suspects by that much was just too
depressing to contemplate.� Kira had to be Japanese and he had to be Light Yagami, although why he
was so sure of this he didn�t know anymore.�

What he wouldn�t
give to feel the certainty of his conviction like he had only a few months
ago?� Right after Amane�s arrest, after
they got the first physical evidence of a link between a Kira and a suspect
there had been a period of about three days where he knew with complete
certainty that the case was over.� All
they would need is for Light to slip up, kill Amane or go on the run and that
would be it: Case Solved.� Of course
there would be the small matter of extracting the Kira method from one of the
perpetrators, but that wasn�t something L had considered would be a long
process, he was very used to dealing with such things.

In those three days
his victory had been assured, he had out-smarted and out-manoeuvred that cocky
bastard and everything had fallen into place.�
But then it all went wrong.�
Why?� What happened in those three
days?�

No, wait, it was
after then when it really went bad�a couple of days later� Light went all funny
and Kira started killing again but faster� what happened?� What changed?

L�s mind slipped
from its concentrated state for it had become quite distracted.�

There, to his right
was a rather attractive bottom emerging from a bank of computers.� He does
love those tight trousers doesn�t he?�
And so it seems do I.� Light
was on his hands and needs waist deep in a tangle of cables under the
desk.� Muffled grunts and swearing could
be heard as the owner of the delightfully toned buttocks grappled with a
particularly tricky Ethernet cable.��
�Ewww Ryuzaki it�s disgusting down here!�
How the hell did so many sweat wrappers end up in this mess?�

�I couldn�t possibly
speculate Yagami-kun.� But I think a close
inspection is defiantly in order.

Ryuzaki hopped down
of his chain in order to �assist� Light with his difficult task that now seemed
similar to untangling a Mobius strip.�
�So how is the project going, Yagami-kun?� he asked as he handed the boy
an extension lead, taking care to accidentally catch the end on Light�s shirt
and so sliding it up slightly.� An
expletive was all he received as a reply, but it gave him an excuse to lean in
closer, in a purely helpful sort of way, placing his hand as he did so, on the
exposed skin, to support himself of course.

A loud and aggrieved
cough alerted him to the presence of a loud and aggrieved police officer behind
him.� The man�s expression quite clearly
sent the message �that in the interest of professionalism and normal business
practises I am restraining myself from kicking your head in, but should you
fail to desist I may be forced to change my position on that course of action.�

Ryuzaki carefully
removed the offending hand and made of show of dusting off the affected area
before quickly shuffling back to the safety of his seat.��

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�This is too big for
me.� I thought we could really do
something, but this is getting mental� and my family wants me to get out whilst
I still can.� I�m sorry Ukita, but I
don�t think I can do this for much longer.�

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Misa-Misa was having the time of her life.� Every few nights her beloved boyfriend was
sneaking out of Ryuga�s clutches and visiting her in her rooms.� The first time he had said the evil pervert
Ryuga had come on to him and he needed to de-gay himself.� Misa�s knight had then made love to her with
such intensity and passion that she would have sworn he�d been doing it for
years.� He knew her body so well, what
she liked and how she liked it, she couldn�t believe such a perfect boyfriend
had tuned out to be such a perfect lover.��

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Ryuzaki wasn�t having the time of his life.� The Kira case was going nowhere, his
reputation was in tatters and he had a sexy, attractive young man about whom he
was having sexy, attractive urges, yet with whom he could do nothing with�or
to�or on as the case may be.��

Also he was out of cake.��

Apparently the bakery hadn�t received Watari�s order � an
email glitch, and with things as they were he didn�t dare send the old man out
unnecessarily.�� Things were getting
difficult, L had to acknowledge that.� It
felt as though Kira was closing in and although he didn�t know why Kira�s lust
for death had so dramatically increased he felt sure it was down to him at
least in part.

How could he think about the boy when his inaction condemned
thousands to die?� Dusky daydreams about
warm kisses whilst hearts were untimely stilled.� Covert cuddling and sneaky hand-holding
despite the fresh graves and grieving families, how dare he?� Never before had L felt such a weight of
responsibility, even the worst serial killers were limited to a handful of
people a day.� How, when they caught
Kira, would L ever be able to forgive himself for all those victims he couldn�t
save?�

But, still, even having said all that, was it so wrong to
take a little comfort when things were hard?

After a week of very late nights Ryuzaki had finally taken
pity of the boy and dragged him off to bed.�
Light was leaning on him, half asleep, arm around his shoulder as he led
them down their corridor.� Ryuzaki opened
his door and squeezed them through.�
Light, having sighted a bed, disengaged from the detective, shuffling
towards it.� Upon reaching it and with
minor preamble he changed from the vertical to the horizontal in a graceless belly
flop.

�Ne, Light-kun you can�t sleep there, this is my room and
you haven�t taken your shoes off or� exfoliated yet!� You know you�ll regret that in the morning and
spend all day bitching about it.�� A
vague noise emerged from the pile of covers in which Light�s head was
buried.�� He crawled up onto the bed and
over towards the sleeper.� �Come on
Light� Watari�s going to call in a minute� and then you�ll have to go.�� He said as he poked him repeatedly.� Giving up, he sat back against the pillows
and ruffled the soft caramel hair before carefully tugging the boy closer.� Light responded with a grunt, wrapped his arm
around Ryuzaki�s waist and snuggled up with his chest as a new pillow.� �Hey�Watari�s gonna�� he said before trailing
off.� He was tired too, he wouldn�t
arrest Kira tonight�so what was the harm in� he needed this!� Was it so wrong to take a little comfort when
you were so alone?

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�Aren�t we going to stop them?�� In the control room Watari and Soichiro were
�not exactly spying� of course not� they were, they agreed, in a very real
sense, preventing dangerous or undesirable occurrences from slowing the Kira
investigation�ok they were spying but they weren�t going to admit to that.

Part of Yagami Soichiro was raving madly inside his
skull.� �How dare that freak molest my
perfect, handsome and above all, very heterosexual son!?�� It called for death!� To beat that pervert black and blue!� Lock away his son in a cage made of Playboy
magazines!� His faultless, manly son was
obviously not a homo!� Four gorgeous
girlfriends, no obvious interest in musical theatre and great sporting ability
� all the signs were there!� Even if�
well he did have to admit that when he�d seen his son looking at girly
magazines he had been very relieved under all the embarrassment, but that just
showed how good at hiding stuff his son was.

�But he�s never brought any of those girls home, never goes
to their homes.�� The other part of
Yagami Soichiro, the part he used at work, didn�t rave.� After years of practise it had no opinion, it
observed, took note and came to conclusions.�
It was the part of him that allowed detective Yagami to become the man
he was, to treat the murders of small children and Yakuza bosses with the same
clinical dispassion and energy.� This
part observed the smiles and blushes between his two �suspects� and how they
talked together, worked together and fought together.� Now as he stared up at feed from camera #153
this part, the Detective, saw Suspect A stroke Suspect B�s face.� Suspect B lent upward and began to kiss
Suspect A, who wrapped both arms around and pulled to other on top of him.� The detective could see no signs of coercion or
intimidation, both were well above the age of consent and neither had taken any
intoxicating substances, and so the Detective had to conclude that Suspect B
was probably happy with his current situation.

��Don�t these boys
deserve a little brake?�� Watari was also
unsure as to what to make of the young master�s new �interest�.� He well remembered a time, for it was not so
long ago, when such things were illegal and thought to arise from a mental
defect.� In fact it was only four years
ago that the age of consent was equalised in his home country.� Yet despite being born into a time that would
hand out prison sentences for such �crimes�, a public school and Oxbridge
education had, shall we say, broadened Quillish�s mind when it came to certain
�lifestyles�.� However when it came to L,
the dear boy and the son he�d never have, Wammy held quite different
opinions.� He�d been the young genius�s
main career and companion almost since he�d found him as a boy in run down
orphanage.� Wammy had always aimed to give
the prodigy a somewhat normal social life, but L had never been interested and
in some cases very uncooperative.� He
tried though and did his best to accommodate him and alleviate some of the
issues caused by his regressed social skills.

�L sometimes seemed
almost too innocent.�� Wammy recalled one
night when he�d been summoned by the panicked investigator because something
was happening �down there� a short lecture on wet dreams and the �wonderful
world of puberty� later and all was well. However Quillish often worried about
the young man who had got the rest of his sex ed from the rape cases he worked
on, and it seemed as though years of such detective work had had that
undesirable effect, when the young detective never showed an interest in
finding someone special.�� They�d had
other talks on how �sex wasn�t just for bad men�, and he�d arranged little
dates between him and pretty lady genii but he�d never seemed that keen. ��And now I know why.�

That wasn�t the main worry for Watari. Wammy always wished
for L�s happiness, and if that was gained through cannonading with the other
boys then who was he to judge?� For
Watari this recent development was troubling for different reasons; the
suspect/investigator impartiality was shot to pieces � this was completely
unprofessional!� Then there was the
strong possibility that this was all part of the young Kira�s plans, and maybe
the next time he took his eyes off them a love stuck L would be handing over
his criminal database or lying dead on the floor.� Still if L thought it was safe��

�I thought we agreed we had to stop this.�

�I know, but they�ve been working so hard lately,
Yagami-san. This case is very stressful and tiring and this is there way of
coping and getting through it together.�

�But I thought stopping them was our �way of coping��

�You�re right but��
he sighed.� On screen Yagami-kun
was pushing L�s shirt up and L�s hands were wondering far to close the others
trousers.� ��Oh what the heck, lets turn
on the sprinklers!�

On the screen the now soggy affair was called to a halt and
each returned to getting ready for bed in their own rooms.�

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The idea was simple, the process it turned out, was
not.� In theory, as Light had previously
suggested, anything that one might want to know about the activities of the
Kiras could be found from the data already collated.�

If of course, one knew what one was looking for, but they
didn�t.� Did Kira have a strict moral
code? Did Kira always target one type of crime?�
Did Kira have any biases or bigotries?�
All of which be useful to know!�
Hell if they could work out Kira�s schedule then they could probably
guess at what sort of job he had.

�However everything was
inextricably confused and complicated by the apparent existence of multiple
Kiras.� It was assumed that there were
probably only two currently active Kiras, (and if L�s theory was to be believed
then two other inactive Kiras remained at large.) but their justification for
such an assumption was pretty weak, in fact Aizawa claimed that the sudden
rapid acceleration was more likely due to other Kiras emerging than the
originals becoming more murderous.� The
team were divided on which scenario they preferred, an ever growing army of
psychic killers or facing one Kira who could calmly slaughter two thousand
people in a few hours.

Light�s suspected that his theory of a Good-Kira and
Bastard-Kira was correct but could currently do little to prove it.� Now if only his damn programme would
work!�

His idea went like this; �about each victim, I know a few
variables (TOD, crime, time of announcement, length of criminal history etc) as
well as other factors more about the person (age, sex, race, religion, class,
education etc) but I have no idea how they might correlate.�� Perhaps Kira hated rich people who committed
violent crimes?� Or maybe Kira was
lenient on the young, so severity of crimes committed by victims would decrease
with age.� Or he might think all poor,
uneducated men were thugs so would kill them for any crime no matter how
evil?� Kira might even suffer from
pogonophobia and kill anyone with a beard!�

It was impossible to tell what might correlate, of what
might be the answer.� So therein arose
his programme, for it relied of the ability of the human mind to spot pattern
and meaning in a way no computer can possibly emulate.� It would, when it worked, pick two random
factors or variables and produce a simple graph; this graph would then be
displayed on one of the four computers manned by a detective.� The detective would then rate the graph on
correlation and meaning, a zero for a chaotic graph that perhaps showed colour
of victim�s shirt in photographs against victim numbers and a ten for a
straight line graph showing severity of crime against victim numbers.� The rating was stored and then used to
generate the next set of graphs.� In this
way Light hoped to have any bit of important information that it was possible
to abstract from the data in a matter of days, weeks for anything a bit
weirder.�

However there was one thing, beyond simply writing the
programme halting his progress.

Two different and independently minded Kiras increased the
complexity a hundred fold.

He just couldn�t do it unless he could analyse them
separately.�

If there was some way in which he could conclusively say who
killed who, the he could do it.

But he couldn�t� well�

No he might� but if that worked what did it mean?

Over the last few weeks the identities of �Good-Kira� and
�Bastard-Kira� had solidified in his mind.�
He could no longer deny it, but the way that �Bastard-Kira� operated
revolted Light to the extreme, he killed pregnant women for fuck�s sake!� Seventeen year olds of crashed their dad�s
car in to trees, twenty year olds arrested for drunk exam celebrations,
anti-war protesters who chained themselves to government offices were just the
tip of a very evil iceberg.�� That man
was a menace and it wasn�t even on just the extreme cases on which they differed,
it was on their whole concepts of justice and what was �bad�.� A careless driver who knocks down a kid is
careless and does deserve some punishment, but isn�t actually �bad�, or not in
the same way that a rapist is.

�

�Good-Kira� however� well the name itself gave it away.

Light and the other Kira� when he didn�t make mistakes �
seemed to have quite similar� well, very similar opinions about crime.� Almost identical it would seem, especially
before�before his comfine-

But obviously a few parallel thoughts on justice didn�t mean
all that much� and nowadays with all the mass killings, (even if they were the
worst criminals) and with the mistakes, any rational person, who truly
understood law and crime, would come to a similar conclusion.

Really it meant nothing and besides it probably wouldn�t
even work.

But we have to solve
this!� What if by worrying about some
completely meaningless implications to my own guilt, I�m holding up the
investigation? �Even if it does work, the
team will just be so pleased they won�t ask how I did it. �L will� no L trusts me�somewhat.

Damn it! �I�m going to do it!

So Light spent the rest of the afternoon designing a data filter
that he hoped would separate out the Japanese victims of the two Kiras.� Straight in went �violent rape�, �child
abuse� and �pre-meditated murder without extenuating circumstances� then any
sort of �serial killer or gangster� after that it got a bit trickier, �armed
robbery� but if no one got hurt?� �Drug
dealers?� and �addicts� were they that bad?�
Or did it depend more on the drug involved?� Prostitution, whilst illegal tended not to be
the woman�s occupation of choice so it seemed hardly fair to punish with
death.�

Once he had the filter constructed it took another hour or
so to get the system to accept it and begin to work.� Then he was faced with the choice.� On screen was a button that said [Run].� He sighed, took a deep breath and clicked on it.
After a few tense minutes the computer stopped processing and outputted the
data.� A new button was high-lighted
[Compare].� This too was clicked upon.� The list of the first Kira victims up until
Sakura TV appeared next to the list of criminals announced in the same period
but run through the filter.� A number
materialised on screen.

87 percent accuracy.�
Light gasped and quickly brought up the names that did not feature on
both lists.� On the filtered list were
criminals with names unknown or photos not shown, and on the other list were
victims that L had already suggested were killed under pressure.� With this he made some adjustments in the
filter and recalculated.

96.3 percent.� Oh god, I�m going to be sick. This proves
it, L�s been right all along�

��

�Hey everybody look! Yagami-kun�s finally done it!�� Aizawa, walking behind him had just spotted
what was on the screen.

�Let me see that.� L almost leaped across the room in his
excitement to see if he�d finally got his lead.

�Oh wow, well done Light-kun. 96 percent huh?�� Matsuda slapped him on the back.

�Does it work on the rest of the data?� At Mogi�s request
Light started clicking away and the team collectively held their breath as the
mouse came to hover over the [Run] button.

�83 percent huh?� That�s
to be expected isn�t it with that other Kira messing things up.� Well I think that proves it Ryuzaki, the old
Kira and the new Kira are the same, my son is innocent!�� His dad actually had his arm round him as he
beamed with pride.

�That is still to be seen.� His father glowered at the
detective.� �but I guess it does seem
rather unlikely now, well done Yagami-kun!��
L said as he sent him an affectionate smile.

Oh goody

�Well come on then Yagami-kun, now you�ve got it working set
up that system of yours and we�ll have a proper go at it tomorrow.�� Said Aizawa who was also smiling at him.

�Yeh!� With this I bet
I�ll be no time at all until we catch Kira!��
A few of the others joined in with Matsuda�s cheer.

But who will we catch?

Then the computer, after working so well all afternoon
seemed to sense the imbalance in the universe, promptly crashed.

Although that might have had something to do with him
surreptitiously pulling out a cable or two.

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��

What the hell was happening to this timeline!� He turned his back for two minutes and those
two were hoping into bed or sneaking into broom closets!� Never mind purging the world of crime and
controlling the investigation, it was protecting his younger self that was the
hard work.� �I don�t get it � I�m not gay�
and it wasn�t as though this time was that much different either.��

�The chain!� Don�t
tell me that the only thing keeping Ryuzaki and I from making wild animalistic
love with each other was that damn chain!��
Then again, being permanently attached to someone is probably totally
unconducive to attraction.� No space, no
freedom, driving each other up the wall, showering, farting and taking a crap
in front of the other certainly removed any passion from the atmosphere.� So was that it?� With the freedom to pick your nose in privacy
love may bloom�well not if he could help it!

Over the last 2 months Light had been waging a constant
battle against the lustful teenage hormones of his younger self.� His first course of action was to seek
unknowing allies in the form of his father and the old man.� Watari must be going senile or did he really
think that it was just his good luck that the screens would just happen to
flick to the right camera as soon as the boys found themselves alone?� Sometimes a little bit of prompting was
needed, such as causing the sprinkler light to flash and catch they eye at just
the right moment.

�

If his allies were busy, then the young lovers might find
certain doors were oh so inconveniently locked, an occupied shower that the
other approached immediately turned scalding, romantic cake by candlelight
instantly set off fire alarms and occasionally those elevator door shut too
fast.� One was left behind, whilst the
other was taken on a slow ride to the top of the building then being left to
walk off his lust descending 23 stories due to sudden lift malfunction.� Once when his younger self was forcefully
rammed up against the fridge and was just about to be slobbered upon, a few mouse
clicks on his part resulted in a gush if ice cubes from the abused appliance
into the face of the aggressor.

Well he would admit it; he was a bit of a bastard.

That was of course without the emails and personal
appearances he put in�that made him a full on dickhead.� Oh, he would never get tired of spying L on
his lonesome, turning up, making some derogatory comment or physically
assaulting him then slipping out just as his younger self arrived.�� He was surprised L still felt frisky after
all those groin based injuries and deprecation he received.� Perhaps it was time to really turn things up?

�Beep beep beep

Kiss �Misa sweetie�� kiss ��Do you remember what I need you to do for
me?�

Giggle stroke �Yup!
Don�t worry Lighty can count on his Misa-Misa!� kiss �Light looked down at
the semi naked woman writhing on his crotch.�
�Oh dear! Gothic-Lolita lingerie
has a lot to answer for.�� Misa was
not so much as wearing the � �garments� as she was standing next to them.� It, being the rather small amount of lace
held together with shear force of will as far as Light could ascertain, was
red, very red.� With red lacy stockings,
red fluffy shoes and something up top that was presumably meant to be a bra but
seemed not to fit the form nor the purpose that was suggested by the word
�bra�.

�Here, slip on your (red) silk gown.� Now remember L doesn�t know I�ve been
sneaking off to come see you, so I�m going to pretend I haven�t been and
remember, I�m very good at acting.�
But...�

�If we show L just how much we love each other he�ll have to
let us stay together!�

Kiss �Yes!� Well done!�
And what else?�

�I must be careful not to mention when you come and see me,
�cos other wise he�ll stop you from coming.�

Kiss �Perfect!� You were always perfect my beautiful Misa.��

�

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�

L was sitting, crouched in a� No L was leading the Kira
investigation, it was Ryuzaki who was hiding in a spare room and �had something
in his eye.� Both eyes in fact because
they were watering like anything.� �Of course
he would�isn�t he always telling me how much he hates me and how ugly I
am�� he felt foolish, how could he have
missed it? He was a detective for crying out loud!

It had been Yagami-san who had forced them to go visit
Misa.� He�d been hinting for weeks that
they ought to, �Light would enjoy it��

�oh!� Did he
know?��

Had he been trying to warn Ryuzaki this whole time?� Was it not his homophobia speaking but his
concern?� Yagami-san already knew his son
was a four-timer �

�I bet they all knew� they were just trying to help, but I
couldn�t see that.�

Amane-san was beautiful, lovely and bouncy in all the right
places.� and Ryuzaki was�not.�

They had brought cake and pop with them for the �date�.� Light had been grumpy, apparently he was half
way through analysing some new data, so he hadn�t been pleased when his father
had forcefully thrown them from the work room.�
He stopped stomping however when Ryuzaki had took his hand and smiled at
him and they�d walked together upstairs.�
But then Watari had arrived with the tea things to escort them to Misa�s
room and ensure they didn�t �get lost� along the way.� Misa�s room was softly lit with candles and
romantic music: that only caused the two of them to snigger.� Misa�s knowledge of romantic music apparently
began and ended with any song that had �love� in the title.� As they sat down Misa announced herself.

Ryuzaki�s mouth had fallen open and in the shock his cupcake
slid between his fingers and squelched on the floor.� She�d stood there like a Gothic Aphrodite,
the shear force of her sexuality hitting him like a�like a � an incomparable
force that knocked the metaphors right out of him.� He�d seen naked women before of course
(typically the sort with chalk outlines round them) but this one seemed
somehow� more naked even though she was, apparently, adequately dressed.� In a vision of red she�d strutted over to
them, using every modelling trick she knew and a few of those usually confined
to the casting couch.� It was only when
she settled herself upon her equally stunned boyfriend that Ryuzaki had
remembered his existence or noticed that Misa had apparently been speaking to
them.� Misa wobbled and Light reached to
support her unsure of where was polite to place his hands and ending up with
handfuls of lithe young woman.

�Oh Lighty!! It�s been soon long, and why did you bring him with you this time?� How are we supposed to have our fun with that
pervert hanging around?�� Misa�s hand fiddled with Light�s top button
as the other coyly played with his fringe offset by a few covert moves of her
hips that had Light stammering as he desperately tried to find her eyes more
fascinating than her cleavage and failing miserably.

�I�m surprised you came back so soon after what we got up to
last time! He he he!!!�

�uh-erk!� apparently Misa had just
rubbed something interesting.

�Of course hanging around with that freak must be so
terrible, I shouldn�t really be surprised.�

�Myah!�

�Such an icky thing isn�t he, can�t blame you for sneaking
off again at any opportunity.� Don�t
worry Lighty!� �Misa-Misa will cheer you up!�� She leaned forward making her point by
submerging her boyfriend�s face in boob.

�Mmf.�� Hands raised to push the model away found
themselves distracted and lost by her bum.

That was it! He couldn�t take it anymore and shaking Ryuzaki
stumbled to his feet.� She looked up at
him and her gaze pinned him to the wall.�
She smiled widely, �Don�t look so grossed out Ryuga! I know you don�t
get out much, but really!� This is what
it looks like when two people are in love so maybe you�ll understand now �Light
is mine�. He he!��
His fingers slipped as they scrambled at the door handle but he managed
to open it.

�Ryu!� Light had managed to free
his face and was attempting to stand up against the model�s best efforts.� �Misa! Get off me!�� he stumbled and they both collapsed to the
floor behind the sofa.

�Oh Lighty Yes!�

Slipping out the door Ryuzaki lurched blindly along the corridor
to the stairwell and down a few flights to he came upon the room he was now
in.�

.

.

.

.

It was another disused bedroom, barren and dusty now
darkening as grey and dreary evening settled. Tape and wires hung from gaps in the
celling, boxes, paint tins and the odd screwdriver were pilled up in a
corner.� He stepped into the room and
glanced around at yet another waste of space and disorder before flipping the
light switch.� Nothing happened.��

And that was it, after a frustrating day in a frustrating
month, after that thing upstairs, it
was the broken light switch that reduced the great detective L to this, to
tears.� He shook as he slumped down the
wall, behind his knees his hands couldn�t stop the deluge that flowed freely
down his face.�� And inside he screamed. Why does nothing work? It�s just a damn
light, why can�t it work? A light, Light.

He wasn�t sure quite how long he sat there for as the room
darkened slowly, lit only from the traffic below. He calmed down after a while
and now sat resting up against the glass starring down at the world, watching
the patterns of red and white lights on the roads and the people that traversed
them.� How carefree they are, how do they cope? Doesn�t Kira scare them or do
they cheer for him?

Or do they wait for
me?� Do any of them still think I can do
this? Justice aside, I�m useless.� All
I�m good for is money, rhetoric and pointless accusations.� Light is the one doing most for this case�

� am I even L anymore?

Footsteps approached, the door opened and Light stood there
with a sad smile on his face.

�Hey Ryu.� Why are you sitting in the dark?�

He flipped the switch.

And light filled the room.

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�How was I Lighty?��
Misa stood demure and unsure.�
She�d done everything her knight had asked of her but he�d wriggled away
and ran after the freak.�

Had his plan gone wrong?�
Had she messed up?

�My dear, you were perfect.��
Light, for all his years of knowing the model had never understood her
propensity for self doubt and meekness when it came to certain issues.� It was something he�d always found initiating
in her and women in general; the idea that they should seek approval for their
every action.�

It was why they would never succeed and why he could use
them as he pleased.��

Misa knew she was a beautiful, attractive and talented
woman, yet seemed in constant need to be reminded of the fact by those around
her.� Light on the other hand knew how
perfect he was but didn�t feel the need to ask the world if they agreed,
instead, he told them. Arrogance some might call it and of course he had to be
careful not to go too far, but it worked.�
Tell people you�re good and they�ll believe you, ask them and they�ll
have to think about it and will find you lacking.� Misa could be so sexy, so commanding and
powerful, have anyone she liked (him included) worshipping her, if only there
wasn�t to be found in her eyes a little girl desperately seeking your approval.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

The room, now beautifully lit, turned the world outside to
nothing but inky blackness.� �When
there�s too much light we are blind to everything else.�� L whispered to himself.� He�d ignored Light, not sure of what he
wanted to say or if he trusted himself not to say too much should he start. So
Light crossed the room and carefully sat down next to him.� �Umm�� Light stammered and then paused.� Ryuzaki wasn�t looking at him, but was trying
to face his own reflection in the black mirror.�
Light sighed and then carefully went to grasp the detective�s left hand,
who after a moments resistance surrendered and allowed
the fingers to thread between his own. Neither said anything but let the
silence to reign, just watching the darkened clouds gather outside.

After a while and when L could be sure the last trace of
redness would be gone from his eyes he spoke.�
�Yagami-kun, are you Kira?�� It
wasn�t what Light had been expecting and it threw him a little, but he paused
and though about his answer and with only a slight unease
replied. �I � don�t know.�� L turned with
genuine surprise to gaze at the young man, but their hands remained
clasped.�

�You don�t know?� Well
that�s new.� How so?�

�I guess I �donno but it seems
like I think like Kira� and well you were always pretty convinced I was.�� And then with a sudden rushed energy he went
on. �It�s the programme! Everyone thinks I�m amazing for figuring it out but
really all I did was decide who I�d kill if I was Kira and the whole thing just
popped out.� If you add up everyone who
I�d punish you get almost exactly the victim list for the first Kira!� But I swear Ryu�I
wouldn�t�� He stopped, as though worried
that armed police officers might burst into the room.

�Oh.� Said Ryuzaki.�
�Your moral code matches Kira�s huh?��
he turned back to the window.� �suppose
I�d better arrest you then.�

�I guess.�� Said Light
equally despondent.

�but you ought to have notice by now that I haven�t
Light-kun.� He sighed.� �it was a nice
theory I guess, that moral code thing, when you look at it from far away, but
when you start to work with it you realise it�s utter bollocks.� Don�t look at me like that, do you remember
that test I made you take a while back, well I took it too.� It seems we have quite similar opinions about
crime.� So then I got a few more samples
and realised that most people have quite similar opinions on crime.� However much I tried to narrow it down and
find your justice unique, I couldn�t do it.�
From the results its only possible to tell you�re younger than 40,
middle class, educated and probably male.�
You�re not unique in any way in your opinions.�

�Only probably huh?��
Light said with a slight smile on his face.

�In fact I�m coming to the conclusion that Light-kun is
probably not Kira, although the chances of him at one point having been Kira or
used by Kira still hovers around 25 percent and 35 percent respectively.��

�Really, that low?��
He gave L�s hand a little squeeze who too now smiled slightly

�Though I guess I do wish that Yagami-kun was Kira
sometimes.�� He said.� �Yagami-Kira would be a good Kira I
think.�� He wouldn�t kill like this,
mass, pointless, waves of death.

� We would dance
together in a waltz of lies and treachery, with none of this senseless vulgar
march of destruction.� Kira no longer
cares for his dream of wining over the hearts and minds of the populous, creating
a just and free society.� He doesn�t even
seem to care about me anymore.� No longer
do we exchange move and counter move, bluffs and charges.� Now he bulldozes right over me, L is nothing
more than a joke to him.� The world�s
greatest detective could do no more than stare blindly after Kira as he
vanished so completely you wondered if he�d ever been there in the first place.

Light broke through his reverie. �This room is
depressing.� Let�s go.�� They stood and walked toward the door,
Ryuzaki not sure why he was following but reluctant to let go nonetheless.�

They arrived on the roof and L wondered quite how this was
supposed to be an improvement of downstairs.�
Though lighter now, night was setting in, the grungy grey rain clouds
that had stuck around all day now pilled up in to storm clouds that squatted
over the sky ominously.� The air was
humid and dirty, polluted to the brim and the wind!� It whipped about, howling round the building
with every promise to get colder and faster.�
It was not surprising then that L choose to remain in the relative shelter
of the door way rather than follow Light out on to the deck.� Light instead decided to run out and laughed
as he did so hair and clothes ripping up around him.

.

.

�Oh god Ryuzaki.� Look
its amazing!�� For some reason the
detective remained huddled in the door way rather than come out here and just
feel it.� The wind that rushed around him
was full of life, the air electric and those dark and rolling storm clouds just
screamed excitement.� The gust of energy
that rushed around his feet and blow the hair from his face filled him to the
brim with some unspeakable desire to just be, exist for the moment and revel in
the somethingness of the atmosphere.� He spun around, experiencing a great feeling
of power and life as all around him nature danced around him ready to release
itself in one moment to the world. �Ryuzaki! Come out here!� It�s great!�

.

.

No way!� He was cold
enough as it was and he wasn�t going to prance about on a roof when it was
clearly about to rain.� �No thankyou Yagami-kun, I�ll stay-� he was right it did start
to rain.� Although rain hardly seemed
like a suitable word.� In one instant the
whole world was just wet, as though the water had decided not to bother with
the whole falling part of the deal.� His
view of Light was now blurred by the rain�s seemingly difficult task of making
things wetter.� It pelted down, bucket
sized rain drops smashing into the roof with brick like force.� Light gave a scream of laughter but instead
of running back toward the door instead spun faster cackling with almost manic
glee.

.

.

It was marvellous, his hair rammed against his head, clothes
now twice as heavy but feeling so so so powerful.� He
stopped his spinning and sighted L standing horror stuck in the door way.� Slipping and skidding over there Light
grabbed the shocked detective and dragged him free of the doorway and on to the
roof.� �Ahhh!� Let me go! Let me go Light!�� the detective struggled and flailed against
him but Light held firm, wrapping his arm around his shoulders then forcing
their mouths together.� Ryuzaki froze in
his arms for a moment but then melted into the kiss and slipped his arms around
Light�s waist, the fridged cold of the rain
brilliantly counterpointed but the searing heat of the other�s body sending
delightful shivers up his spine.

The kiss ended and they stood apart a little.

Then Light took his sodden sleeve and flicked a few drops of
water on to Ryuzaki�s face.� And under a
rain that could not have made things any wetter the absurdity of Light�s action
broke something inside of him and he started laughing. After everything that
had brought him down, this lifted him and set him free and once he started he
couldn�t stop, doubling up in side-splitting, frenzied laughter, the tension
washed away like the water off the roof.�
What did anything matter when for a moment they could just be?� He grabbed Light�s hands and together they
span in circles, joking and shoving, happy just existing.�

Suddenly a bolt if lightning smashed through the sky and the
thunder pounded against the eardrums almost together and seemingly very
close.� Both yelped and jumped in close
together before once again bursting out in to laughter.�

�Come on Light.� Lets
head inside, it�s dangerous out here!��

�No way you wimp!� Ha ha this is great!�� and
with that the younger man grabbed him flipped him over his shoulder and began
spinning him again.� Another flash and
boom followed, closer still and Ryuzaki yelped.�

�Hey you!� What are
you so scared of?�� Light brought him
close and stood there gazing into his eyes before leaning in to kiss him.� Another flash and the world turned white for
an instant.

But!

There, over Light�s shoulder, standing by the helicopter
platform, looking down on him with a terrible shining smile and deep red eyes,
dry and menacing in the midst of all the rain, was Light?

Another flash and nothing stood by the tower.

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��

A very angry Watari and Soichiro stood waiting for them back
inside the building.� The looks on their
faces enough to make them immediately break their clasped hands and stand like
naughty school boys, dripping and shivering they stood apart a little and
waited for the yelling to begin.

And it did.� It
started with a �Of all the silly things you�ve�� from Watari in his quiet and most
livid voice and included words like, �hypothermia, electrocution, slip and
fall.�� Whence it moved on to words like
�duty, obligation and responsibility.� And finishing with, �reputation, honer
and integrity.�.� Soichiro warmed up with
the popular �I didn�t raise you to�� which he followed with a �what will your
mother think?� before he settled on disorganised rant of the �disgusting, homo
and faggot� type.�

Light�s face was burning with embarrassment and a
combination of shame and indignation.� L
slouched, hands crammed into pockets trying to look his normal disinterested
self, only shivering slightly.� Wasn�t he affected by this?� L never seemed that bothered about what other
people thought of him, but surely this tirade should have broken through his
stony facade.� For him though, the good
child, such anger from his father was a terrifying experience, not quite on the
same level as his fake execution, but very similar to the fear and terror of
waiting for his fathers reaction to Light having shoved his 6 year old sister
down the stairs and braking her arm.��

However along with all the emotions directed inward, Light
had a strong feeling of shame for his
father.� I knew he was a little conservative, but is this really how he
feels?� How does he survive as a police
officer if this is what he really thinks?�
Doesn�t he know about Mogi?�� Even Light had heard about Mogi,� Matsuda had
told him a one of his father�s work parties, quite high up in the LGBT Police
Association apparently and always attended the Pride marches.��

He didn�t want to listen to his father and couldn�t bear to
even look at him so followed the normal trick of just staring past one shoulder
and letting his mind fall blank.� Maybe
it was better this way?� Although Light
hadn�t really decided what he felt about the thing between L and him, there
were only so many times his father could get mad about it, so might as well get it over with.�
It wasn�t as though his father hadn�t had the time to get used to the
idea, or that his son was going to stop just because he�d told him to.� Light was often mistakenly thought of as an
obedient son, but this was not the case, it was just that his parents has so
far made sensible demands of him and ones that he was prepared to listen to.

That will change
though, when they find out that I�m Kira.

��

�What ever Ryuzaki
said it didn�t change the fact that it was Light�s very specific preferences
that could be used to work the �Kira hunting� programme.� There seemed to be nothing he could do, each
day he would work tirelessly to convict himself of the world�s greatest
murder.� Perhaps this was L�s real plan;
sit sulking all day in order to force Light to gather evidence against himself
just for something to do.

Or maybe L was right?�
Light knew in his heart that he couldn�t actually, really, be Kira, it
just had to be a mistake, and the only way to prove that was to find out who
was Kira.� If they were able to catch
someone else the guilt would be removed, Light would be innocent.� Catching Kira was going to be a long and
arduous process, the data analysis had only just started today and only in a
week or so would they have anything sensible to work with.

Part of his father�s speech then seemed to permeate his
thoughts. ��you never take account of anyone else�s
views�� account, accountant� wasn�t there an accountant killed today by Kira?� Suspected embezzlement, yeh
Wanabe Jirou, pretty high up in Akihabara
International.�

Wasn�t there that
other guy too?� A� senior accountant for the Bank of Tokyo - killed last
week.�

They were
Bastard-Kira�s weren�t they?� Well I
certainly wouldn�t kill anyone for banking crimes.�

Oh! And another from Ginza Plc!� No, wait, he was an investment banker not an
accountant.� I thought I was on to
something.� And then his eyes just
staring past his father�s shoulder alighted on his collar�white collar crimes, �.city bosses committing fraud, receptionists
stealing, breach of contracts, board men and office juniors� corporate
crime�there�s been a whole lot of that about recently hasn�t there� and they�re
all being punished� by Bastard-Kira!

That�s it!

He spun suddenly to L startling his father and Watari.� �Ryuzaki! I think I�ve got it, Kira has made
a mistake!�

�What!?�� Gasped L but
Light was already running, he reached the lift and slapped the call button,
opening the lift doors.� L didn�t
hesitate and flew after him, slipping in just behind as the doors shut and the
angry yells of the older men echoed around them.� �Get back here! We weren�t finished with you
yet.�

As the lift descended Light excitedly explained his
tantalising theory.� �Its not many, one
or two a week but they�re definitely not the work of the old Kira, and when you
take into consideration new Kira�s far fewer murders, the killing of business
men becomes far more proportionally significant.. Kira has a grudge against
white collar crimes!�� L was silent,
partially because he wouldn�t have got a word in edgewise with Light in this
hyperactive state but mostly because his brain was boiling.� What did this mean?� Why had new Kira taken such a vendetta
against the corporate world?�

The elevator doors dinged open and Light ran to the
computer, knocking a shocked Aizawa off his chair and began typing
furiously.�

�Yagami-kun!� What in the�why
are you guys soaked?�

�Quite Aizawa-san!��
said L as he too force the policeman out of the way and positioned
himself in front of the computer.� Graphs
started appearing on screen, numbers started rushing by on a second
monitor.� �Look I was right! See these
trends here, business related deaths are increasing way beyond any other type,
15 percent growth month on month!��

�What?� Why would Kira
do that?� said Matsuda as he rushed over to take a look.

�I don�t know, maybe Kira is an aggrieved business man, got
laid off or fired.�� Suggested the rather
peeved Aizawa.

�Why�s it increasing though?� You�d think if you had a grudge you�d be
angriest at the start not slowly hate it more.��
Asked Matsuda.

�Yes and the rate�s increasing gradually but regularly, even
if you did hate it more you wouldn�t always hate it exactly 15 percent more
each�� why so habitual?� Kira would only want to do that if��

��He was trying to hide it from us!�� Finished L.

�Of course, the police would notice right away if all business
criminals were targeted.�� Said Light as
he turned to Ryuzaki.

�Then if he doesn�t want us to know, it is not his sudden
distaste for white collar crime he�s trying to hide��started L

��he must have an ulterior motive, some how Kira is
benefiting from this.� Concluded Light.

�but how?� Why would
anyone want to do this deliberately?� The
economy has gone haywire, the news keeps talking about recession.�� Said Matsuda.

�That�s the other Kira�s work, no a few well placed deaths
might be propelling Kira up the career ladder.�
It would certainly bring new meaning to the phrase �waiting for dead
men�s shoes.�� Mogi
added finally joining in the conversation.

�No, this feels bigger than that; it may even be affecting
the whole banking industry.� Yagami-kun
bring up the financial times site please.��
Light typed in the URL and L pressed enter and then leaned round him to
take over the mouse.� It took them around
ten minutes to find what they were looking for, during which time Watari and
Soichiro had made it downstairs and had the situation explained to them by
Aizawa.

It was big, even bigger than L had suggested.� Not just concerning banks but instead a huge
multinational conglomerate with interests in almost any conceivable market
area� Yotsuba corporation.

They were everywhere.�
Up until a week or so ago Yotsuba had been
enjoying massive growth with vast profits, and even now with the market in
recession with stocks falling, Yotsuba was still
miles ahead of their competitors, in graceful belt-tightening rather than the
free fall losses and insolvency facing the competition.

It became all that more conclusive when Light started
checking off deaths against companies and effects on the market.� Every one left Yotsuba
better off, every one was an advantage.

And it was then whilst Light and L were hogging the creative
spotlight that Matsuda made his greatest contribution to the case.

�Hey Light-kun what about Aihara Miki?�

�Don�t be so stupid Matsuda! It says right there she died in
a house fire.�� But Light just acting on
the name had already typed it in and pressed enter.

�Oh� said Light.� It
seemed that around the time of Aihara�s death Yotsuba�s stock had taken a sudden jump.� A bit of research later and� �She was head of
marketing at Industrial Illusions, she was due to announce a whole new product
range the day before she died.� All the
files and documents were lost in the fire, because of this the company had to
delay the launch of a new technology that would have directly rivalled Yotsuba�s VDU and electronics divisions.�

Silence filled the investigation room as each man chose to
privately contemplate the implications of that information.

�Kira � is perhaps� not so restricted �.to heart attacks.�
Said L quite clearly shaken.

�Oh my god!� Matsuda gasped as he tried to imagine the
possibilities.

�Good lord!� Kira
could have been killing secretly for months now.� Light quickly! Look for more possible
victims.�

�And what do you want me to search for dad?� People who�ve died
in the last year!�

�Well I think we can assume that the methods must be
accidental or natural.�

�Why?� There�s no
reason to think it�s limited to that!�
For all we know anything�s possible, catching bubonic plague, struck by meteor or maybe even being raped
to death by a troupe of rabid gorillas!�

�Yagami-kun don�t be silly. I understand it is now going to
be a lot more difficult to unpick Kira�s moves now that any death is possibly a
victim, but what you forget is that tonight we have uncovered a substantial
lead on this case.�� Said L and a
suddenly much more relaxed voice.

�You�re right!� We�ve
finally cracked it!�� Cried Matsuda as he
gave a little victory dance.

�We could probably even get a warrant on this information,
couldn�t we chief?� Said Mogi, grinning.

�Definitely, we can pull their records.� Get all information on meetings and
accounts.� Replied Yagami.�

�We�re really getting somewhere aren�t we?� Ha ha it�s back to
that old policing chestnut �follow the money�, and this time Kira is at the end
of the trail.�� Declared a psyched
Aizawa.

�Yes, gentlemen I believe it may not be too long until we�re
able to shut Kira down as they say.��
Said a smiling Watari.

�Kira�s making mistakes.�
These deaths are not random; they�re linked to him and him alone.� Watari, we�re going to need some help with
this one, call in Weddy and Aiba.�� Said L, and for the first time in months
actually sounding happy whilst working.�
�Now everyone, we�ve made a lot of progress tonight but we should
probably�� He looked around at the
excited and eager faces around him.�
�Fine if you want to stay, then start looking for more victims, you
four� he gestured vaguely to the police officers �dig through the obituaries
and the financial magazines then maybe we�ll have to try hospital and
governmental records.� Watari, bring
everyone a highly caffeinated beverage of choice and
a slice of the Special Cake.� This is a
celebration!� The team moved away to their specific tasks, except� I almost forgot.� �Yagami-kun!�� The team paused and turned to the boy who�d been silent for some minutes.� �well�Well done! Your achievements here
tonight, no all your work has been of an exemplary level and your dedication��

�Woo! Go Light-kun.� Yelled Matsuda as he punched the
air.�

Aizawa clapped him on the back and said �Good work
Yagami-kun!�; that was chorused and cheered by the others.

His father placed a hand upon his shoulder, �I�m very proud
of you son.� He said sounding very much as though he meant it and also very,
very, releived.

Watari arrived then with the celebratory cake, a double
layered chocolate affair liberally coated in sprinkles and curly icing, and
began handing out slices on little plates.

Matsuda then cleared his throat and started in an awkward
and stilted voice, �um, Ryuzaki�and er Light-kun are
you aware that you�re um�holding hands?��
the whole room stilled into a self-conscious, uncomfortable moment.�� Oh� whispered Light as he looked down and
noticed that indeed he was holding L�s hand.

�Ah� said L �ummm opps�� he slowly and
carefully removed his hand from Lights�s. No one
spoke and no one knew quite what to say as the tension slowly built.� Each man desperately rung him brain for
anything to say or do to somehow break the worsening silence and the social
inadequacy.� Someone carefully placed the
cake plate down but the clatter rang loud in the echoing room.

Finally after what seemed like hours Yagami-san caved and
began to speak with an angry but carefully measured voice �Fine, go on then if
you must!�

And with that L leaned across and kissed Light on the mouth.

After a few modest seconds Light blushed and turned
away.� To which L growled in annoyance,
grabbed the back of his head and brought him back for a proper full on snog.� Matsuda after
a moment made a decision and whooped loudly �Go L!�.� Aizawa, Mogi and
Watari sent concerned glances to Soichiro who was glaring death at a patch of
carpet near his feet.� Light, now even
more embarrassed, attempted to extricate himself from L�s clutches but instead,
through leaning further and further back, over balanced his chair and ended up
dragging the startled detective and a half eaten slice of cake with him on his
short and painful trip to the floor.

�

The team together laughed at L�s perplexed and disorientated expression and then even more so when they
realised that Light�s pained look was not due to the fall but instead the
result of L�s knee colliding with his groin.�
L joined them upon seeing Light�s face contort into a look of abject
horror when he realised his pristine hair had been involved with a fatal
collision with a chocolate based sponge desert and Light just sat their and
pouted, wiping the chocolatey gue
off his head.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

In monitor #73 L yelped as he was slapped with a hand full
of cake.� He grabbed Light around the
middle and wrestled him back to the ground and began to smear the cream further
into the soft brown hair as the rest of the room cheered him on.� #67 showed from a better angle Light twisting
out of the hold and getting ready with another slice of cake before in #71 a
skillful swipe from Watari stopped the projectile from entering the foray.� A handkerchief was produced and the older man
attempted to clean the worst off his employer�s face.� #65 displayed Yagami-san hoisting his son to
his feet and frog marching him off toward the bathroom.� The remaining policemen all moved towards the
computers still talking excitedly about the progress made.� Web pages were loaded, programmes were run
and names were found, all as a slightly sticky detective barked orders at
them.�

And all watched, far away in the parasitic control room, by
Kira.�

�And so it begins.��
Kira reached over to his right and pulled out the notebook, putting pen
to paper.

The shinigami watched on, more
unnerved, more worried and more alarmed by what he had just witnessed in the
last ten minutes than by anything else he had experienced in his
existence.� Ryuk
didn�t speak, didn�t eat his apple, didn�t even reveal himself in the room,
for, top of he list of things that unnerved, worried and alarmed him was that
persistent red glow in Kira�s eyes that would no longer fade.

�

I won�t say much other than I promise the next instalment
will be a little sooner than last time.�
Also just a reminder that any review is greatly appreciated and will
defiantly motivate me to start writing as soon as possible.��
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