Who Said Death Was Easy? [Death Note Fanfiction]

Chapter Seventeen: Meeting

[A/N: I hope you enjoy! Lemme know what you think!]

Keiko's POV:

"So, we were there both days...Aoyama on the 22nd and then Shibuya on the 24th and...we observed nothing of significance on either occasions," Matsuda announced, a look of despair on his face, "damn...I was really hoping that we would find at least some clue that would lead us closer to either Kira or the Second Kira."

Keiko flashed a sympathetic smile his way. He returned her look with a weak smile of his own as she replied, "well, at least we did our best and tried, Matsuda-san. Remember, it was never guaranteed that we found find anything anyway. Besides, there's still one more entry left in the journal page...that-"

"That leaves us with only the Tokyo Dome on the 30th," Ryuzaki interrupted before he popped a strawberry into his mouth. Keiko looked over at him and glared.

"I was just getting to that, Ryuzaki-san," she snapped at him. A moment later, Keiko could feel Light's warm hand gently on her knee, as if to try and calm her down.

"Not fast enough for my taste," the detective responded, a bored expression entering his face.

So much for the idea of him caring about me...see, Keiko, you were just so exhausted you were imagining things... he's just as cold and emotionless as usual...but now his behavior is even more frustrating.

Keiko opened her mouth to speak again when an incoming message from Watari popped up on L's computer screen, "Ryuzaki-san, Sakura T.V. has just informed me that they have received another message from the Second Kira."

There were gasps from several members of the Task Force. Keiko gave a small gasp herself, and she bit her lip in thought.

"What...the..." Keiko heard Matsuda quietly mumble beside her. She looked over at him, seeing his bewilderment written across his face.

"It was postmarked on the 23rd," Watari continued, "wait just a moment..."

Not long after, the gothic K.I.R.A. logo popped up on the screen, "I wanted to say that I have found Kira. To all of the people at the broadcasting station and the police station, thank you very much."

What?! No way! Wait a second. So that means Kira had to be in Aoyama...unfortunately this also means...

Keiko turned her attention towards Light once she felt him shift a little beside her. She watched as his eyebrows furrowed, signaling that he was in deep thought, and carefully studied him for any suspicious behavior.

This means, as much as I don't want to think about it, there's still a possibility that my boyfriend, Light Yagami, may be Kira. A fact that I haven't wanted to think about lately, a fact that I've been ignoring because nothing too suspicious has happened...until now.

Getting the feeling she was being watched, she snapped her eyes away from her boyfriend. Keiko looked for the source of her sudden discomfort and found L's dark eyes drilling a hole in her own. Once again, he had an unreadable expression on his face, but when he noticed that Keiko was looking over at him, he flashed a sort of smug look in her direction. She had no doubt in her mind that he knew exactly what she had been thinking. Keiko felt her face flush, but she didn't dare look away. Her heart was pounding a little faster in her chest.

"This is a disaster if he found him," Aizawa commented, causing Keiko to finally break her eye contact with the great detective. Honestly, she was glad, their little staredown was starting to feel a little too intense, a little too personal for her taste.

"Yeah," Mr. Yagami added, "and it most likely means that the original Kira and the Second Kira are now cooperating with each other."

"At this point, I don't think we should jump to conclusions," she heard L respond, "the Second Kira is only saying that he found him and nothing more. He may not have made any sort of contact with him yet...so now that it's come to this...we have no choice but to communicate a message as the police and send it directly to the Second Kira."