• She had been with them for months and she knew everything, how he or she killed them, who he or she targeted, how long it had taken: she had helped a great deal in the “Kira Investigation”. She especially liked the one leading the investigation, L, also known as Ryuzaki ever since she had first set eyes on him, she couldn’t stop thinking about him. The girl leaned back in her chair and sighed, “What’s wrong, Hikari?” asked Matsuda. “Oh, nothing” Hikari sat up straight stared at her computer screen, “I’m going outside” she said after a moment. “What! It’s storming out there!” Matsuda half yelled, “I know, I just need something to wake me up” Hikari said as she closed the door.

    5 minutes later…

    “Ahhhhhh.” said Hikari as the rain hit her face, she loved the rain it always calmed her down after a hard day’s work. After a few minutes of letting the rain soak her she looked down to see L standing father away, “Hello and may I ask what you are doing out here?” L looked down at Hikari and then back at the sky, “Just thinking” he replied. The two stood there for a few minutes letting the rain soak them through to the bones; they didn’t say anything to each other, they were just enjoying the silence.

    “You know, you’re going to…..”
    “So what’s your…..” L looked at Hikari as she looked up at him, she had a smile plastered on her face and her hands were wrapped securely behind her back. She was actually about to laugh like a maniac. “You first” L said to her, she nodded her head and repeated what she was going to say, “You know, you’re going to catch a cold if you stay out here too long.” He just looked at her and that was when she let her laugh escape, after he laugh fit she looked back up at L, “So what were you going to say?” He looked back up at the sky and blinked a few times, “what’s your real name, Miss Hikari?” Hikari looked at him strangely, “What do you mean?” “You never told me your last name...” he pressed. Hikari looked at him with squinted eyes, “You were going to study up on me!! You…” He cut her off before she could make any accusations, “It was to make sure I could trust you with what information we gave you.”

    Hikari thought about it a moment before responding to his statement, “Good enough reason. My name is Melissa Shay.” She said as she stared at the buildings across the way, ‘Because what Kira is doing is wrong and he must be stopped!!’ that was her reason for joining the team, but she thought she might as well tell the rest of it. “Kira killed my father; he was one of the investigators coming from America that is also why I joined” L turned his head towards her and shoved his hands in his pockets, “I’m sorry for your loss” a small smile found its way onto Melissa’s face. “And your name?” Melissa asked, “That’s classified information” He replied “Of course.”

    Melissa continued to stare at the buildings across the way, she wasn’t really thinking about anything in particular, just staring. L on the other hand continued to stare at her, he always did like her ever since she joined the team, and he was constantly trying to figure out why though. At first he thought it was because she was almost like him, quiet and smart, but the more he watched her the more he realized that they weren’t alike at all, in fact they were quite different. While he was quiet, aloof, and didn’t speak until he had it mostly figured out she was loud, alert, and she always gave possible solutions instead of thinking them through all the way. He was the smartest man in the world, he could figure out almost anything, but Kira and why he liked Melissa so much. He had a feeling he was about to find out.

    Melissa could still feel L’s eyes on her so she turned her head to look at him, she was going to ask him why he kept staring at her, but then she realized how close they actually were. Now normally Melissa would have stepped away from him or asked him about something of no particular value, but for some reason she couldn’t will her legs to start walking or her mouth to start working so she just stood there looking up at the man that she had an abnormally large crush on. After a few moments of just standing there not saying anything, L slowly and unsurely raised his hand up to her cheek and caressed it while at the same-unknowing-time bringing his head down to meet hers. At this point Melissa’s stomach was doing flip-flops and the at the one time she wants her feet muscles to work, they were pushing her upwards to meet L, her lips were parted slightly and her eyes were halfway closed. The two were that close to kissing when the heard the click of a door and Light’s voice calling for them.

    The two people-startled-quickly straightened themselves and stepped a good way away from each other, “I guess we should be heading back” Melissa said to not let what just happened or what could have happened get to her, of course she was blushing profusely. “Yes, you’re right, we should be getting back” L just stared at her for a few more seconds finally piecing the puzzle together before he grabbed her hand and led her towards the door that led to the inside of the building. L grabbing her hand made Melissa’s blushes brighter than they ever were before and her stomach do the biggest flip-flops in the world.

    In the office…

    “Thank you, Watari” the man on the other side of the screen nodded his head replied to the boy that he took care of as a child, “You’re welcome sir” he replied, after the screens turned black L sat in his chair for a moment trying to find out what the next step to his plan was, then as he was getting up he reached for the Death Note and looked at it, “I’m going to use the Death Note.” Melissa looked at L bewildered, “What?” That was the question on everyone’s minds, she was just the first to ask it, L looked at her and he could see the worry in her eyes, but he had to do this in order to find and bring Kira to justice. As L was about to state the reason as to why he was going to use the death note the computer screens went red and the alarms went off, immediately he sat back down in his chair and tried to contact Watarie again, but nothing happened. “Watari, what’s wrong?!” Asked L and still nothing, everybody stared at the screens wondering what was happening then the screens went white with the words:

    ‘ALL DATA DELETION’

    “What’s wrong?” Asked Light as he stared at the screen, “I told Watari to delete all data if something happened…” Then realization hit him, “It’s the Shinigami, she’s…” L’s eyes widened and the book fell out of his hands, he tried to say something but no words came out, at one point he was standing over the desk the next he was laying on the floor, and he knew what was happening he just couldn’t do anything about it.
    “L!” Melissa screamed as he fell to the floor, what was wrong with him? What was happening? She got down onto her knees and lifted his head onto her lap,
    “L?” she whispered; all he could do was look at her and place a small wrapper in her hand and then he could feel his eyes closing and everything disappeared from view, then the sound, then nothing.

    “Ryuzaki snap out of it!” Yelled Light, “Ryuzaki?!” Melissa just stared at him waiting, wondering, hoping that he would get up and say ‘Could you go get me some coffee with a bag of sugar cubes?’ But he never got up, he never asked for coffee, and he never asked for a bag of sugar cubes, he just laid there silent, unmoving, and lifeless. “YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS, SHINIGAMI!!!” Light yelled, “We have to find her before she can kill anybody else!” Everybody left the room except for Melissa; somewhere in the shock she found the strength to unravel the wrapper that he pressed into her hand, it revealed a small purple candy heart with the words:

    ‘I love you’