The Detective and the Moon [Death Note Fanfic]

Chapter 7 - The Countdown

Chapter 7 – The Countdown

"Tsuki. We have something. Please come to the hotel and have a look." L's voice sounded over the phone, and even though her heart rate was already racing from working out and keeping up with her training, it still managed to skip a beat and get faster and she ran around the room after hanging up the phone and grabbed everything she would need.

She quickly locked her house up and ran to the car in the rain, got in the driver's side, and stuffed all the clothes and whatever else she had in the bag that was innocently sitting on the passenger's side seat and had been since she got home four hours ago.

It took her less than half an hour to get there, and she was speeding most of the way as well. How annoying that they had to get something just after she had left to do some seriously overdue training and get some food for Hisuiro which was currently running around in a tiny plastic enclosure with a green lid sitting on the back seat of the car.

As per usual, before she got out the car, she put her hood on and wrapped a scarf around her face to hide as much of it as she could, but not too much as to look suspicious. She slipped into the elevator, glad that no one else was in it and pressed the number 5, then waited until it reached level 5 and stepped out, only to nearly run straight into a staff member who was pushing a room service tray.

Quickly, she apologised very politely and crinkled her eyes as if she was smiling apologetically and continued walking down the hallway until she reached the correct room. Again, as per usual, she did the special knock which changed every time they changed hotels.

Ame opened the door for her, and nodded, but the expression on his face was grim. She expected that she would be told that more people had died and she struggled to compose herself and keep a hold on her temper as she briskly walked into the room and straight over to where L was crouching in his normal position on the lounge.

"Several of the lower level Sora Ops agents have been killed in their homes. Taiyou will be here any moment with the identities of the agents." L explained simply, and seemed to not realise the gravity of the situation.

Whoever the Aka Sora was, they knew who the Sora Ops agents were.

At that moment there was a knock on the door, the special knock, so without a doubt it was Taiyou. Tsuki nearly ran to the door, opened it, and before she even looked at him or acknowledged his presence, she took the briefcase from his hands and slammed it down on the nearest table.

Taiyou just didn't bother stopping her, guessing that Ame or Kumo would have wanted to do the same. He wondered whether she knew the combination, not that it would stop her from getting into the case, but he would prefer her not to break it. Everyone was standing around the table, waiting to see what Taiyou had brought.

The sound of a small click answered his question and the briefcase opened to reveal several files, five in fact. She lifted them out and spread them across the table, then opened them, one by one, looking at the names of the agents who had passed. They were all the lower agents that had potential to be promoted.

"These agents, they were potentials. They'd all been with us for at least a year. I had hoped that one of these people would replace Arashi...and now Hoshi." the woman said quietly, her blue eyes looking at the names and photos of the agents. She was not happy about this.

As per usual, L took close notice of Tsuki. The shadows on the black cloth mask she always wore made it look like she was biting her lip underneath it. He had noticed this several times before, usually when she was stressed or frustrated. Also, he noticed that her voice wavered a little when she mentioned 'Arashi', who he assumed was a former agent. More than likely, what he was about to do next wasn't the right thing to do, but his social retardation prevented him from analysing it too much.