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Chapter 1

Beginning

After managing to get back to her hotel room after that rather ‘unique’ visit she gave to Beyond, Naomi decided that now would be the best time to actually see if she could find anything on Wammy’s House. Turning her laptop on she began to search.

Naomi found it a bit odd that there was in fact a Wammy’s House. According to what she read on the internet it was an orphanage, which apparently took on gifted children, whose intelligence and skill were far greater than average. It actually seemed believable that L could have come from a place like this. So perhaps there would be a way for her to contact L after all.

‘So B… you were actually being serious.’

While her eyes wondered the screen of her laptop she found something that made her eyes widen. “England! How does he pretend I get there?”

Knowing fully well that she didn’t have the time to go to England and back Naomi decided to see if there was a number to be able to contact them, and after a bit of speed reading she found it. She quickly took out her cell phone and dialed. The phone had barely rang at all before she heard it being picked up on the other line. So fast she hadn’t even fully decided what she would say.

“Good evening.” An apparently middle aged man spoke though the other line, his voice sounding completely serious.

“Hello, may I speak to Roger?”

“This is him speaking.” Naomi was slightly surprised as well that Beyond had been truthful about that too. It meant the she was speaking to the man in charged of the orphanage. Second in command to its founder Quillish Wammy.

“Um yes. This is Naomi Misora speaking.” She tensed slightly at speaking her name, knowing how dangerous it could be. But she was willing to risk it in order to reach L. “I know this may sound completely irrational, but I must speak with L.”

While she heard nothing she could actually feel his eyes widening. But he managed to regain his composure immensely fast, faster than she had anticipated.

“I’m sorry, but there is no one here by that name, if this is a joke I sincerely do not have the time for-”

“No! That’s not it.” She practically shouted, clinging to her phone a bit harder. “I’ve worked with L before, two years ago in the Los Angeles B.B. Murder Cases; I need to speak to him. If not allow me to contact Watari.”

She had no idea who Watari even was, but she hoped it would be someone that knew L.

Roger stayed silent for a moment, more than Naomi would have wanted. She felt anxious and at the same time nervous. She heard him take a deep breath as he spoke again. “Please wait a moment.”

She heard him place the phone down and apparently spoke something along the line of “Mello” and “sit down”. Naomi wondered what exactly she was waiting for; hopefully they wouldn’t take the opportunity to track her down via her cell phone. She was no threat. But she supposed L couldn’t take any precautions. Still she hoped that wasn’t the case.

-

‘One, two, three, four, five, six…’ he counted in his mind as he stacked the little gummy candies on top of one another. It was honestly harder than it looked. Chocolates were easier to stack.

‘Seven, eight…”

Grabbing the soon to be number nine, the famed detective L looked around at his hotel room. It was a real pity he would have to leave it in such short notice. He actually liked this one more than the others. But after having met the five policemen who were going to help him on his case he couldn’t just stay. They knew where he was. If Kira got to any of them there was a possibility, more like an eighty-five percent chance, that he could control them and force them to reveal its location. He couldn’t take that risk.

He placed the ninth candy on the stack. The phone rang. The stack fell.

‘Damn.’

Turning, he looked at Watari’s cell phone which had been left on his bed. Shifting his gaze to Watari, who had been sitting on the couch reading a newspaper, but had gotten up when it rang.

“Watari, would you…”

“Certainly.”

Watari answered the phone fully knowing who it was, courtesy of his selected ring tones. “Good evening Roger.”

“Quillish.” Was the reply. “I have something that I must discuss with L.”

Turning to said man, Watari handed the phone to him. “Ryuzaki.” Grabbing it with just his thumb and index fingers Ryuzaki just nodded. “Hello Roger, how may I help you?”

“L, do you happen to know of a Naomi Misora?”

Cocking his head slightly Ryuzaki thought for a moment. “Misora? Sounds somewhat familiar.”

“From the Los Angeles B.B. Murder Cases.”

“Oh!” Ryuzaki stood up quickly, slightly surprising the watching Watari. “Yes, I remember her, last I had heard her fiancé had died. Why do you ask?”

“She’s calling here.”

-

Ten minutes.

She had been waiting for ten minutes already. Was L that hard to contact? Was he even contacting L. She was having second thoughts about this call when she heard the phone being picked up.

“Please check your e-mail.”

Before she could even ask him, Roger hung up the phone and left Naomi a bit dumbfounded. Shaking it off she did as told and found that she did in fact have a new message. From Raye Penber. She felt a slight sting in her heart at reading that name, but she knew who it was without having to read it.

“Miss Naomi Misora;

This is L. I have been contacted by Roger that you need to speak with me. I assume that said necessity has to do with the Kira case. If you would, please access the Funny Dish server at 9:00 pm. today. Said line will be opened for only five minutes. Considering we met like this before it should be no problem to do so again. Do break through the firewall yourself… again.

L

PS: I’m terribly sorry to have to use your late fiancé’s address, it was the safest method.

PSS: Please destroy this computer within the next twenty-four hours.”

After reading it Naomi signed. That was the second one L had destroyed. ‘So, I have to break in to the server by nine. And it’s…’ Watching her cell phone, she noticed that it displayed the time as 8:58 pm. She signed.

“s**t.”

-

Never had she managed to break into a server at such speeds. Naomi had even managed to do so after only a few second had passed after the time had become 9:00. Watching her screen turn completely white didn’t surprise her; neither did the big L on the screen.

“Greetings Naomi Misora.” L’s voice spoke through her speakers, it being unrecognizable.

Misora quickly typed on her keyboard. She needed to tell him too much information for just five minutes. “Greetings L. I have something urgent I must speak with you.”

“I presume. Do tell.”

“I have reasons to believe that Kira can kill through other means other than heart attacks.” She typed as fast as she could, hoping that she would commit any spelling errors. Now was not the time.

“Other means? I have been pondering that for a bit now.” L spoke. “Said possibility is in about seventy percent. How did you come to this conclusion?”

She was about to start writing about Raye’s encounter on the bus, but looking at the time she decided to shorten it. “I’ve first had my suspicions with something that occurred before the death of my fiancé, Raye. But someone else also came to the same conclusion, with whom I spoke in order to contact you.”

“Who?”

“Beyond Birthday?”

She heard a crash, from her speaker. Unknown to her Ryuzaki had fallen from his chair. Standing back up faster than what he had fallen Ryuzaki thought for a moment. “He came to this conclusion as well?”

“Yes.”

Naomi had thought L would have questioned her going to speak with him of such matters; L was rather hard to understand.

“I see.” A few seconds passed as L pondered this. “So what do you propose? That he might be of use to the investigation?”

“It is a possibility.” She wrote back.

“And what would we give him, a shorter sentence perhaps?”

“If it were possible.” Naomi could almost feel L thinking on the other side, it made her shiver slightly.

“That’s a-”

‘Stupid, moronic, idiotic idea’ She thought.

“-marvelous idea.”

Her eyes widened. He agreed, just like that. Surely he’d give something such as this more thought.

“I’m sure that with his help we might actually capture Kira faster. So I suppose-” With that the screen faded to black as the server was brought down. It took Naomi a few seconds to realize that her time was up.

“Oh come on!” She shouted as she removed herself from the server. Before she could pick her phone up again she heard her computer utter the “You got Mail” phrase and a new e-mail appeared. Opening it with out giving it much thought, since it was being sent by “Raye”.

“Miss Naomi Misora.

I apologize for that. Maybe ten minutes would have been better. Either way I shall get everything settled so that we can use B.B.’s assistance. All you have to do is to be at the Los Angeles Federal Prison at 8:00 am tomorrow morning. When you get there state you name and the will do the rest.

L

PS: Tell B that I said hi.”

She blinked. Twice.

Not only had she expected to be allowed to actually go through with her idea, but L agreed without a second thought. Did he trust her that much? Either way Naomi decided that now would be a good time to shower and then to sleep. Tomorrow she had to destroy her laptop and visit the federal prison. That sounded nice.

Signing she made her way into the bathroom.

-

As L turned off his computer, he stood up and walked towards the window, and took a glance at the streets below. Japan actually seemed peaceful.

“Ryuzaki.” Watari spoke up. “Do you think it’s a good idea to actually use Beyond Birthday’s help? I know he’s a genius, but…”

“Right now Kira’s on the loose killing criminals right and left.” Ryuzaki spoke up, his gaze still focused on the outside. “Not only that but he got twelve FBI agents as well. And if my instincts are correct, there may be even more that he’s killed without us knowing. B. may be a murderer, but right now even he knows that he’s in danger of being killed himself. And if I know him, he’ll want to get to Kira before I do.”

“And what do you think of that?” Watari spoke, his eyes slightly widening as he saw L’s face bright up with wide smile.

“I actually find that very interesting.”


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Where the hell am I in all of this you ask?... In prison.

In all seriousness, while I do not appear in this chapter I promise you that I shall be in the next. Also worth mentioning is that this chapter was shorter than I wanted; and probably shorter than what you all hoped; but I wanted to leave it there for now. Why? You'll learn soon enough.

I guess Naomi got the spotlight today, that b*****d L too...

Muchas Gracias to everyone who reviewed. I guess it makes this whole thing worthwhile.

-Rue