LMN Chapter 29

Somehow Nil had been convinced to hop a plane back to Japan. Watari had insisted that he would help her as best he could as long as she returned with him. He had said that the Kira case needed him back since L had contacted him about some sort of plan that was going to finally help them catch Kira.

"So please tell me what is on your mind." Watari insisted as she stared out the window.

"Well, first of all, anything that I tell you now is not to be shared with anybody." She was definitely uncomfortable about this.

"I swear that I will keep it to myself." Somehow he seemed very trustworthy and kind. She knew that he was telling the truth.

"Ok...this is sorta hard for me to reveal." She said awkwardly. Watari put a hand on her shoulder in comfort.

She sighed and began thinking of what to say first. "Ever since my parents died I've been very withdrawn from people."

"That seems understandable." He encouraged.

"Yes, but after so much time...I think I have withdrawn a little too much." She looked down at her hands. "I just push everyone away and keep to myself. Everyone except my sisters." She sighed heavily in frustration with herself. "I haven't let anybody else get close to me. Not even Chiyo."

"Maybe you should start there." Watari suggested. "It should be easier, since you have known her for so long."

"Yes, but I have no clue how to do that."

"How bout starting simple." He grabbed her hand in both of his in comfort. "Tell her how you feel about her. Or even show her."

"I suppose I could try, as awkward as that sounds." Watari chuckled at her discomfort.

"It will get easier."

"I hope you are...right." Something on the television set in the front of the airplane caught her attention. Sakura TV was on and the bottom of the screen displayed the words 'Kira's Identity'. "What the heck?" Watari looked as well.

"This must be part of Ryuzaki's plan." He surmised.

"Plan?" Obviously she had been left out of some sort of loop. On the TV were two screens showing two silhouetted figures. One of which looked slightly familiar. "What is going on that I haven't been told?" Just then one of the screens fell revealing Matsuda. "Oh, nevermind."

"Wait? You know what is going on just by seeing Matsuda?" Watari was impressed to say the least.

"Well sort of." She said proudly. "I know this is just a set up for Kira. Obviously L must know the identity of Kira and has made sure he is watching this." Watari was definitely surprised. "Although this is very risky considering we don't really know if this Kira can kill with just a face, but seeing as how Matsuda is not dead yet proves this theory wrong."

"That is a very good deduction."

"Thank you. I also believe that this is set up to show how this Kira can kill, since they must already know who Kira is. They cannot bring him into custody without knowing how he kills." The more she thought about it the more obvious the situation became. "I wish I knew what Kira was doing now."

"Actually, he is heading towards the Yoshida Productions building." Watari turned his laptop so that it was facing her. There was a red dot with the name Higuchi on it and a smaller gray dot with the name Weddy on it.

"Higuchi huh?" She looked at her watch to see how much time til their flight landed. "One hour."


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"Everything is still going as planned." Light said as they watched Higuchi frantically race towards the Yoshida Productions office in his car.

"Mmm, Light please put Higuchi's car on audio channel one and Sakura TV on audio channel two." L said as he ate a banana.

"As expected, Higuchi is watching every minute of this from his car." Light mused as he did what L said. They listened to the program for a few minutes as they watched Higuchi become more panicked by the minute. Then he finally began to speak.

"Rem, what do you think?" He said apparently to himself.

"Rem? Who's that?" Light was confused because there wasn't anybody else in the vehicle that they could see. "There's no one else in that car, right? It's impossible for somebody to be hiding without us knowing. He isn't using his cell phone. Could it be a hidden radio?"

"No." L said ubruptly after swallowing the last of his banana. "There aren't any radios or other devices. Only the bugs, cameras, and tracking beacons that Weddy placed. I have no doubt that she did a thorough job." He said confidently.

Higuchi began to speak to himself again as if somebody else was in the car. "Do you think I will get to Yoshida Productions just to find his file isn't there?"

"Is he talking to himself?" Light asked more to himself then anybody else.

"If this guy was smart he would destroy everything that would connect him to his real name before he appeared on TV." Higuchi realized. "And don't you think it's a little too reckless for Yoshida Productions to just let me into their offices unsupervised." Something seemed wrong to him but... "Maybe not, if there was a robbery they'd know exactly who did it since I know where the key is."

"This isn't sounding very good." Misa spoke up worriedly.

"He'll still go there." L said confidently. "Don't you worry."

"Even if he does have a file at Yoshida it could just be another alias. Dammit!" Higuchi was getting more frustrated the more he thought about it. "I wouldn't put it passed this guy to do something like that. No wonder he's confident."

The host of Sakura TV announced that there would be one more hour before the identity of Kira is revealed.

"Yeah, I already know that much myself. But just to be on the safe side I should also kill the people I contacted a Yoshida Productions. That includes the President, Misa, and that manager of hers." He answered as if someone was letting him know something important.

"What!" Misa exclaimed. "No way. He's gonna kill me?"

"It's alright, don't worry. He's talking about after he's killed Matsuda." L said. "There would be no point in killing the rest of you until he's gotten rid of the main threat."

"That's true." Light said uneasily. "But still."

Higuchi spoke again. "Oh yeah, Rem I didn't think you were so smart. Then I'll make them all erase their calling histories before they die."

Light stood from his seat in frustration. "There is no way he can just be talking to himself, but who's Rem. Who's he talking to?" His voice rose with every word.

"If he's talking to someone right now it could be...a shinigami." L said seriously as he pealed a banana. And then less seriously he added. "Perhaps." Then he took a giant bite of the sweet, yellow fruit.

"No, I'd end up being ruined if I did that. Even if I forgot the notebook this guy has concrete evidence to back him up. If he points out Yotsuba's recent growth on the air, no one would ever doubt his claims. They would believe whatever he said." Higuchi was definitely sweating. "That means whoever he says is Kira will be marked as Kira. Even if he didn't have proof, and I got rid of the evidence by returning the notebook my life would be over. I wouldn't get promoted. I wouldn't even be able to stay with Yotsuba."

Higuchi finally arrived at the Yoshida Productions building and went straigt to the office with the file containing Matsuda's information. He took out the file and made a note of his name in a black notebook.

"Hey wait! He just made a note of his name? He's not going to kill him here?" Light said confused. Mogi and Aiber were waiting in a nearby office to take Higuchi down as soon as they witnessed how he killed somebody.

"Do you want us to take him down?" Mogi whispered into a microphone attached to his shirt.

"Negative." L ordered. "We still don't know how he kills. Perhaps he plans on doing something once he's back in the car."

The Yotsuba employee seemed too calm as he reentered his car and continued watching Sakura TV as if expecting something. After a short time however Higuchi began yelling. "DAMN HE DIDN'T DIE!"

"Wait, did he already try and kill him?" Light wondered aloud. "Was all he had to do is write down his name?"

"DAMN I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME!" He yelled as the host of Sakura TV announced fifty minutes left of the show. He took out his cellphone and dialed a number.

"It's probably Misa again." L guessed.

"Yep." She stated as her phone went off. She clicked the hang up button.

Higuchi was angered by this and threw his phone in a fit of rage. He sat there for a moment in thought. "Rem, lets make the deal." He said abruptly.


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Something was wrong and Nil knew it. Why hadn't L brought Higuchi into custody yet. Surely after he had gone to the Yoshida Productions building they would know how he killed, but the Higuchi dot was speeding off in a new direction. "What is L doing?"


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Somewhere along the lines of this whole ordeal things had gotten way outta hand. Higuchi was somehow able to kill a traffic control officer by just looking at him. Now L had to assume that he had the powers of the second Kira. He and Light, Mello, and Lia were now in a helicopter in pursuit of his car.

He first headed to the Yotsuba Headquarters to try and find the video tapes of when Matsuda was there, but that plan failed since Weddy had already cleared everything containing Matsuda in it. So Higuchi raced to Sakura TV only to find that they had replaced everyone with dummies. He also found that he had fallen into a trap. Weddy, Meek, and Mr. Yagami were waiting for him and Mogi and Aiber had followed him in.

He was surrounded but somehow managed to escape when he pulled a gun on Meek making Mr. Yagami jump in front of her. Higuchi escaped and took off with his car again.

"Oh no, are you alright?" Meek asked in worry.

"I'm fine." He said encouragingly. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah." She patted his shoulder. "Thanks to your good reflexes."

"This leaves us no choice." L stated. "We'll have to move in and apprehend him."

Higuchi weaved in and out of traffic like a bat out of hell, and finally turned onto an offramp to aviod any more vehicles.

"How are we going to stop him?" Light asked and was soon answered as a blockade of police cars was piled up in the middle of the road.

"Wait a minute, I thought you told the police not to get involved." Light thought. "The only one who would do this is..."

"Yes, you must be right." L stated.

Obviously Aizawa had something to do with this.

Higuchi hit the brakes and spun around so that he was facing L's helicopter. He then hit the gas and one of his tires exploded from a gunshot. L looked to find Watari crouched by one of the police cars and someone with a police helmet standing next to him with a megaphone.

"L, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!" The voice was unmistakeably Nil's.

L didn't quite know what to say to that. "Vulgar isn't she?" Light said.

"Watari, I don't think being sensitive is quite my style." She said to the old man.

"Yes, I see that." He said with a chuckle.