The Detective and the Moon [Death Note Fanfic]

Chapter 5 - The Meeting

Chapter 5 – The Meeting

'I would like to meet with you...'

The words repeated in her head as she walked up the stairs. She was wearing her usual black pants, with her boots on as well, and a casual dark grey tank top that she hadn't even taken out of her draw in about a year since she hadn't needed it, a nice warm jacket, and a black scarf that tactfully wrapped around to cover the lower half of her face.

Usually something like that would turn heads, but she knew how to blend in and stay under the radar so no unnecessary attention was drawn to her. And if something like that did happen, she only appeared to be unarmed. A member of the Sora Ops never walked around unarmed. Even when at home.

She continued walking up the stairs until she got to the right floor and opened the door that revealed the long hallway. Glancing at the numbers on the doors, she kept on going until she finally saw the number 613.

Casually, she lifted the door card out of her pants pocket and swiped it through the small machine attached to the door. The red light flickered to green and the door was unlocked. She opened the door and stepped inside, simultaneously pulling her Sora Ops mask out of her jacket and over her face and cautiously looked around until she saw Ame, Kumo, and Taiyou sitting around a small coffee table in the middle of the room .

Another person in the room caught her attention. It was an old, bespectacled man wearing a smart, but not too formal suit and a kind expression on his face. Her blue orbs focused on him, and she deduced before he could react that going by his body size and height that he was Watari. He walked over to her and bowed politely and respectfully.

"My condolences, Tsuki." he said sympathetically with a hint of sadness in his voice.

When he stood back up, he offered to take her coat, but she declined politely as she could and walked over to sit down with the others. As per usual, Ame and Kumo both had their masks on, and they both greeted her with their eyes as they had become used to doing.

Tsuki could tell that they were still both pretty shaken by Hoshi's death, and she couldn't deny that she was too, and had even allowed a break in her emotional wall and shed a single tear for him when she had arrived home after everyone had decided to call it a day and get some rest. Taiyou was also upset, but he had been doing this sort of thing for years, so he wasn't too shaken by it all.

She noticed Watari going into another room, and he came out a moment later and everyone could feel the suspense rising.

"L will be with you in a moment." he spoke and bowed his head a little before moving off to do something else that no one really paid attention to, since all eyes were focused on the door he had entered and come out of.

The discussion - or argument, more or less – from this morning kept running through her head.

Watari had just left, and Taiyou was walking him out of the building like he did every now and then. Back in the office, predictably enough, Tsuki was having her own little tantrum in a very serious, rational and emotionless manner. Ame and Kumo were going to have to try and get through to her.

"This is a ridiculous idea. L is not in charge of this investigation. The Sora Ops are the ones being targeted, as well as anyone that we've worked with previously, therefore it is our responsibility. If we meet with L, they will gain control of this operation and when it concerns my agents that I work with day in and day out, risking our lives to complete our missions, I will not allow any usurpation of the lead." Tsuki hissed tonelessly, ignoring the gazes of her co-workers.