It has been four years since the last Kira incident.

A shinigami lurking laughed. "It is time again, that I return."
"They may have won last time, but I have came to reclaim what is mine, it is time I change sides once again."
"I am the one... who makes the set.." laughed the Shinigami.

Four years ago, Grey was killed. His note book was gone, and now back to the present, this Shinigami has it. He has now passed it on to someone else.

It's the year 2015, killings start to happen again.

Ice stepped off of the plane, it had been a long time.
Flying private, personal favors, all too familiar.
He found himself walking familiar streets, long forgotten. Areas once masked with blood, now fixed, still roared with distant puzzles.
Eventually he found himself at D's graveyard.

He walked to the grave, each step taking longer than the last. He never accepted D's real name, too fake.
Here he lay, dead.
Ice tried to compose himself "You ended this, but kira wants everything back how it was... I think I do too."

~L.... you will be involved in this case.... you won't miss this oppurtunity.... so I'll strike..~
He leant back in the seat, the countryside zooming past the train's window. ~Kira..... or L.... I don't care who owns each title..... as long as I have L at my mercy... I shalln't rest until I have him begging for his life in sheer desperation........ then I shall crush him like the vearmin he really is....... or my name isn't ************.~ At that thought, he glanced around to see people leaning away from him. He grinned darkly at his reflection in the window. ~What's their problem..?~
"Isn't it obvious ********? They know you're secret... they know you're hunting Kira. They know you're hunting me. Or perhaps they know that I'm Kira..?"
"I don't care if you tell any of the Shinigamis my real name..... I'm not going to do your bidding. I only let you live because L will lose interest if you die....." He looked over at Kira across from him. "You may not be as bad as L.... but you are still scum."

T leant against the window, the rain tapping violently against it like a lullaby for him. Insomnia didn't keep him awake for the first time in two days.

(OOC: Sorry if it's too early to post I'm just in the mood to introduce T again so when it starts up again, this is my first post.)

[Hiraku Hitomi - march 15th - suicide.
after writing "10 criminals die by my hand" and "Every name has a meaning" Hiraku impaled himself with his pen. With his blood he writes "back" before his end.]
a book closes. 'Death Note'

"Do you know why he called himself Harold Rivers?"
"Why sir?"
"Because Director had thought my name was Harold for some reason, and Nate was another friend of Director. His real name was.. Diamond.
His parents were obsessed with diamonds. Diamond Seryr. I shall never forget him, to this day I feel an awkward presence that he is alive."
L had stood up "...he was always a great friend of mine.. even if we were acting as enemies. He was so foolish, he risked his life for nothing.. since Kira returned." L started thinking. "Where is Director's laptop?"

Meanwhile..

"haha" laughed the shinigami.. "Humans are so interesting.."
Along with him he carried the same lap top Director used.

Ice, now at his office, typed away at his laptop.
In the absence of the case he had managed to assemble a small company which had really took off. Hiring his old friends, they now had a small base of operations in England, it now existed here in Japan.
A man barged in, and began to speak "There's been a killing!" he shouted, before explaining the rest of the message.
"It's barely been fifteen minutes, one of the neighbors heard him shouting in pain... "
"Can I get a copy of the note" ice said without empathy.
"I have one here" the man said passing it over.
Ice examined it, "You can leave"

Well... This is interesting...

T stepped foot into the city once more, the most immediate change being the Ahiko asylum...... it was no longer an asylum.
Kira grinned mockingly at him. "Heh.... they turned your little club house into a hotel? How sad.
And the quality! Terrible! No where near the quality of that artistic masterpiece I made with Hiraku....." At that, T went to see the hotel up close, renting a room to see if it was as comfortable as 4 years ago.
Inside, he pulled his curtains and placed the lamp in the middle of the floor where he sat in his socks, underwear and vest, reading the information on the original Kira case which he had taken from the old asylum.
~Can't afford for someone to find my old old work..." He said chuckling to himself. "Kira... what was the name of that person you killed?" He asked without looking at him.
"You've said so many tims that you're only letting me live because L will lose interest if I die... so I suppose it's safe to be around you isn't it? So for that reason alone, I'll tell you he was Hiraku Hitomi... an old friend of mine"

T sneered at the files.
"Killing a friend... why am I not surprised."
"You must understand *****........ I do this for the sake of these people." Kira said, looking out the curtain,
"NO!! Close them!! Now!!" T roared, shoving Kira aside and shakily holding the fabric together. "Do not.... do that..... if L finds traces of you..."
"L.. L.. L..... what's this big obsession with L?"
"He killed someone that I didn't think of as a friend but..... in a strange way, was."
"Well he specifically didn't kill him..."
"No but it's his fault that W went back to that place instead of going to get treatment. I never did find out why this chain was so important to him but..... now it's important to me. It's a symbol of everything I hate about L. So for the sake of W's death, I will kill that bastard..."

Kira frowned at T, not sure how to respond. After fixing his glasses that he needed after taking minor damage to his eyes, he got back to his reading. "You say you do this for justice..? I honestly don't know. Maybe in time you can convince me that you're right... but for now.... I hate you. Not as much as L, but..... you're scum." At that, Kira lay down on the bed.
"So... ya' comin' ta' sleep love?" He said with a mockingly English accent.
"I don't see why such as joke was necessary. Unless it was aimed at Trickster, Sparrowsmith, Darkblade, Adam-Wired and lots of other RRR brits.... bloody English people."

T's mind wandered for a moment.
~I wonder what became of Ice..?~

((OOC: Oooooh... T's crazy ))

Ice opened up a talk to his team, "Alright gang! Before it was speculation, now it is confirmed! Kira is back. So we can do this three ways. Hide in secrecy, track down detectives, or make a TV broadcast. Personally, I don't think we should act unless Kira makes another move. He's an attention seeker, so he'll almost definitely act out if we ignore him. Meanwhile I want you people deciphering the notes that he left us. As far as we know, the man he killed was not a criminal, so we have to find out why he was killed."
Ice closed the door to his office as the whole place became alive.

He walked over to his laptop and smiled.

Grabbing his coat, Ice set off for an all too familiar cafe...

Jackal waited in the line to get past airline security. Like always he was taken aside for a more thorough search.
"It's the eyepatch isn't it?" he said to the security guard. The guard merely shrugged and went on with his duties.

*10 hours later*

Jackal walked out of the airport breathing in the Japanese air. He signalled for a cab, which resulted in some confusion due to the language barrier. In the end, however, he was able to direct the driver to the hotel he would be staying at.
"Looks like those Japanese courses came in handy afterall."

"Thank you sir, you are to kind! Thank you too madame, your generosity shall not be over looked!" Fool was performing on the street in a small town in North America. He let out a chuckle when he heard the news about a murder that sounded like kira's work, "It is too soon to jump the gun and head over, I let him kill one more, maybe ol' man Rover?" Fool chuckled as he shoved a hat that he collected coins with into his pocket. "So much to do, so little time, perhaps it will be easier with a little ryme?" He chuckled as he left the street side.

(OoC: my character isn't going to just rush over to japan without having his own evidence to go there. And rover was just to ryme, aint a real person XP)

"Kira..... I'm in the mood for an old favourite drink of mine.... if you wish to risk it then... you can come."
"What..? You're not afraid of L finding traces of me?" He laughed mockingly, staring up at the ceiling.
"Eh.... it's a public place. The chances of him searching somewhere like that after discovering we were ther, are much slimmer than if he found out we were here."
At that, T pulled on a pair of baggy navy jeans and grabbed his black hoody, kissing the word "Eikyou" which was written in white on the back before putting it on.

Exiting the room, he locked the door, then unlocked it, then locked it again before proceeding. With the café in sight, he made sure to watch out for familiar faces so that he wouldn't be seen with the stranger, who little did they know was Kira. The same windows and wooden door greeted him as he arrived, and he was surprised to see that one of the waitresses that used to work there still did, though as far as he could tell everyone else was different. He took a seat in the corner with three chairs, Kira standing by the window, deep in thought.
~Sometimes it's strange.... it's as if Kira is closer to me than W..... even though we're enemies that WILL kill eachother eventually... even though we constantly try to out smart eachother and even though we show our hatred through mockery....... it's almost as if........ he's a replica of W..~ His thought was interrupted by an old woman.
"Yeah, what'll it be..?" She asked rudely.
"Do you still serve the Shinigami's Caffeine?"
"Do we!? It brough in a killin' for this place! The price rose a hell of a lot of times but yeah we have it... but it's expensive."
"Price doesn't matter."

The woman left, leaving T and Kira in the shade, hen he quickly called over t her after seeing Kira give him a surprised look.
"Uh.. sorry make it two please.."

Ice approached the familiar face, a feeling of optimism and regret washing over him.
"Who's the second coffee for?" Ice asked casually, almost beaming from ear to ear, "I heard you were back, well, I assumed you would be."
Ice took a seat and sat next to T.
"Let's talk Kira, how much do you know?"

T's eyes shot open at a voice that he'd recognise a mile away, and he gulped, which he tried to cover with a joke.
"Ice..... after all this time.... taht's how you greet me? Not even a hug? He let his eyes flicker to the window before looking at Ice.
"What's there to know? Unlike you, I haven't come from another country to look for him. This is my country and I was in the neighbourhood so I decided to get involved though he's not my top priority. Although I believe 99% that he's real, I don't think he's made a real enough move yet. Not for us to move on anyway, though he said I'm back as if he was messaging someone..... I think he's one of us detectives from what is... four years ago? So he's you, Grey, Seek, or anyone else..... just a theory of course."

T smiled as his coffees came. "Oh the second one is..... well do you remember Ino? Well she.. was also a detective, made to play dumb but..... we went out of control and are now..... well y'know." T laughed, and sipped the coffee, using it as an excuse to look up at Kira who was leaving the front door. "Well what about you? What are your views on Kira?"

Ice chuckled a little, "You want a hug? Really?" Ice called over the waitress and ordered a plain coffee, "I don't know how you drink those things... Tried one, wasn't great."
Ice glanced over at the door.
What's he looking at...
"Anyway, I believe there's a message or.. a clue in that note. I have some people looking over it. Man wasn't even a criminal, and such an odd name, maybe I just read into these things too much. One of my men went as far as to suggest that Kira could kill us, but wants to play first. The ten criminals are a countdown. I think it's an interesting theory, and it fits with yours. However, I am certain that Kira is back... There is an air about it."

"Well it would take a lot more than a small possibility to bring us back again..." T stirred his spoon around the coffee, the cream collapsing into the drink. "That wasn't very nice..... you hurt my feelings... why have you insulted my recipe..?"
T continued to drink and wiped his mouth clean, dropping W's chain into the drink.
In an an instant, T's eyes shot open as he pulled the chain out with the spoon, and he staggered to his feet, desperately trying to clean it, drawing several eyes to him, which he responded to by sneering and slamming a piece of paper with his room's address on it in front of Ice before swiftly stumbling outside, turning left from the door.
The back of the card has dates and times of the deaths of Thomas, W and Ino. Thomas from a heart-attack which was clearly Kiras doing from the sick artwork added, W died from a possible heart-attack that could have been Kira though no proof exists and Ino was killed in a car accident last year.

Pacing swiftly to the hotel, T ignored Kira who was leaning against a light pole and continued on.
"I won't let it rust.... I won't let it rust... I won't let it rust....." He chanted continuously aloud, turning heads as he walked, the chain dangling from his thumb.

Ice looked at the note speculatively, then at the people.
I think there's the very real possibility that he lied to me, and/or has gone completely insane... Maybe I should hire him...

Ice sat down regardless and finished his coffee, afterwards he sat and waited.

[Kunihiro Kawakami - suicide - March 15th 3.23 pm
In his home in Osaka, Kunihiro strangles himself with a makeshift rope of colorful panties. He records the whole thing live from a camera set in his left shoe that is then sent to a blogging site. He used 9 panties to make the rope]

Kira kept up the pace with T.
"You know.... I have made the deal..... I think Ice should be out of the way A..S...A...P....." Kira laughed, holding the Deathnote in one hand, and a pen in the other, tapping it against his chin. "Decisions... decisions....... what to do with hi-"
"If you're killing him then do it! Don't try to annoy me with your bullshit!" T was about to continue when he remembered where he was, and spoke in a lower voice. "I just lied to one of the few people on this case that I think I can trust..... for you to stay alive as long as possible. I can't afford to let anyone, ESPECIALLY not Ice get to you until I've dealt with L, but after that......... I'll happily feed you to the dogs."
T continued the walk to his hotel, and fixed his glasses, pulling out the recording device to see how good it really was.
~Well it seems to have gotten it clearly enough.... noises can occasionaly be a bit dodgy but good quality over all.~ T grinned at the discovery that he hadn't wasted his money.

The room was still as he left it, but he made a thorough search in the drawers and cupboard to make sure all was perfect.
Nothing had changed.

Ice checked the time on a clock on the wall, it was nearly half three.
This day has flown by.
He ordered another coffee, this time to go, then headed back to his office, enjoying the sunshine.
He wasn't far away, and made it back within ten minutes, upon arrival he received worried looks off of his team.
On the screens was footage of a man killing himself, with a rope made of ... underwear.
"What is this?" Ice asked.
"The next Kira victim"
"How can we be so sure? These aren't even heart attacks."
"He doesn't look like he wants to do it."
"That doesn't mean anything!" Ice snapped, "Analyze that note some more"
"But that's it sir. The first note said ten, this man hangs himself with 9~"
"Ok! You can keep looking at the video if you care so much, the rest of you better work on this case or make me some money!" Ice shouted, closing the door to his office.
Like Kira would do that

~Another death.... but what does it mean? The first name had two H's, and the second two K's..... there are two letters between H and K, four if you include H and K themselves..... the distance between A and H is eight letters.... the distance between K and A is eleven letters. The distance between H and Z is ninteen letters, and between K and Z is six..... is there a link between any of them?~ T thought, turning off the TV and writing about the more recent death.

"Kira...? What runs through your mind when you do this..? You say you do this for justice.... as far as I can tell neither of these men were criminals, and they were btoh killed in such..... disturbed ways. It's like you want the world locking down on you."
Kira simply stood and grinned, his eyes drifting to the files on Ice, with T confused of why it interested him so much.
"Look at this.... you missed something on Ice."
"And what's that?"
"He revealed his real name whil spamming a topic on RRR.... the fool.... IT'S MY WIN!!"
"Well.... even though we have no pieces to be suspicious of for the time being, I need to find SOMETHING and attack it..... anything that can increase L's activity.." As he spoke in a normal, planning manner, the same wretched noise echoed through his mind constantly.

~L... L... L.... L... L...L.. L...L.... L... L.... L....L.... L...~

Ice headed out of his base of operations, this time with his camera.
He headed straight to T's hotel and made his way up to his hotel room. He knocked three times.
"Hey T! Open up, it's Ice, I think I found something."

T launched himself to his feet, knockingthe files everywhere though that wasn't important at the moment.
~Shit.... what to d-..~ When he looked, Kira was hanging out of the window saluting him, before he dropped down landing on a truck, with minor back pain. Letting out a sigh, he opened the door and closed it behind Ice, locking it, unlockig it and once again locking it.
"Now.... I've been thinkig about this too. As far as I can tell, the distance of the letters H and K in comparison to eachother as well as A and Z have no significance so..... I'm lost. What do you have..?" He asked, briefly seeing Kira waving to him from a fair distance outside, making him chuckle slightly in his throat.

Ice took out a notepad, "Well," he started, "Number is a relevance. The first victim was associated with 10 criminals dying, but it did not appear he counted. So there must be another reason he was chosen. Then there is the second victim, who used 9 pair of underwear to kill himself. I think this means he was a criminal... But seeing as no one has caught on, it was probably minor. There are lots of people with his name. I'll keep looking. Then I went back to the first victim, and the how the names are important. The victim had a very odd name: 'Hiraku Hitomi'... The next part is rather interesting. Hiraku, the name, means to reveal or expand, or open. Hitomi, the eye's pupil."
Ice took a deep breath then finished, "Expand the pupil of your eye. Shinigami eyes. That's my theory so far, the second victim remains elusive... His death is too specific though. What does a camera on the foot have to do with ... underwear?" Ice remarked, still confused.
"However, you may be onto something. H to K being 2... and A to H being 8 letters... 2 + 8 = 10. This is the second Kira, and..."
Ice began counting
me, T, T, W, Albel, Grey, BB, D, L, seek... But one was Kira... Am I counting this right
"How many people other than Kira were investigating? How many people died? This is just getting more and more complicated.
Wait... Me, you, Seek and Albel were all involved in the previous case without dying... that's 4... And now, assuming we've all returned, we've come back to the same case. 2x4 = 8
maybe?"

"There were eleven investigators, one was Kira. You forgot Wong, and deaths.... well Wong, T, W, D, BB.... huh.. five deaths.
So half of the investigators died since one was Kira..... could it mean something?" T stepped into the lamp's full light on the floor and leant against the bed. "To be honest Ice.... I jumped on one leg when I heard about Kira's return but only because L will be involved. And...." T sat for a moment and frowned, contemplating several factors. "I know who Kira is. He was in the café and he's near here but...... I can't have him out of the picture. L will lose interest which is unacceptable, so if you want me to stop.... well 'Protecting' him then you'll have to shoot me. Nothing will stop me...."

T's eyes flicked towards the bed as he pulled a small chest out from under it. Inside were notes on all the top criminals in Japan, each with unique causes of deaths written beside them, and all with the same date that had to be a code since it was two years ago and none of them were dead.
"This is the person you're seeking.... a mad man who strongly stands for his idea of justice, and plans to kill all of these men on the same day, at the same time. What day and time it is I don't know but he's delivering more than the other Kiras.....he's more convincing of his cause as well." He said with a frown, his eyes swinging to the pictures and names of the men and women.
" The good news is I have no reason to suspect you or anyone for that matter....... and.... that's it really. The rest is bad news...
so although I will help you as much as I can, because at the moment you're the closest thing to trustable there is, I can't allow you to apprehend Kira until I've done what MUST be done.."

T's left hand shook slightly as he held the case.
"Do unto me as you may, it won't let you catch him."

Ice breathed a sigh of relief, then one of pure confusion, "I'll be straight with ya, for a moment there I thought you meant I was Kira" Ice laughed, "But you think you know Kira? Well... Which one? These new killings are very far from the old Kira, I'd of thought... no, I'm sure that this is a second Kira... So which do you know? The first or the second? And do they have the eyes?" Ice humored T, not sure what stunt he was pulling by being friends with Kira... It couldn't be true. Could it?

T stared at Ice with disgust
"First or se-.... the current Kira! The one an addiction to 'Death By Underwear'.... and I think I see what you're doing here.."
T stood up and walked to the window examining the open window. Kira was gone.
He was... standing down there for a while. It's impressive Ice.[/b]" He said turning around to Ice, "You had Kira under your nose TWICE.... and you saw nothing strange. His was the second coffee... he opened this window and got ou-...." In an instant, T pulled the curtains together, the light of the lamp growing stronger. "He got out through this window because..." T grinned darkly. "You revealed yourself to be Ice." He let out a sigh. "And yes.... he apparently has the eyes though I'm not sure..... he said he does and that it was tempting to kill you after I left. It was probably a bluff though. I need him alive.... I can die as far a he's concerned though so I wouldn't be alive if he had them." T sat bak on the ground again leaning against the bed, and let out a sigh.

"[bSo..?[/b]"

Ice slowly pace, "You need to lighten up, T, and get some rest. I'm pretty sure if Kira has been paying you visits he could of killed you with or without the eyes, and he hasn't killed me either. Besides, I'd need evidence that he was kira."
Ice's face turned grim, "What does he look like?... Who does he look like?"

Ice's mind clicked into place, "Death by underwear? But T, the death had nothing to do with it!" Ice exclaimed, almost completely changing the topic, "The point was to have a live death! The strangling was just a painful means to watch it. The message is in the location of the camera and the instrument of death itself... he had a camera set in his left shoe... T, what if this man was a pervert, or a rapist or something of that description... Something no one ever knew about, or he never got sentenced for... "
Let's see how he reacts if I ignore that he knows Kira.

OOC: Okay, things just got really complicated in the eyes of TEH n00b. Not that I'm asking for an explanation, its just now there's this whole other twist to the "find Kira" formula that acts as a wall for me. Nevertheless, I will struggle on.

IC:
Jackal scanned his hotel room. A one bed room, with a coffeemaker, television. The place would suffice. He set his suitcase aside and looked at his watch. With plenty of hours left in the day, Jackal decided he would pay the police department a visit.

It wasn't long before he was in the police records, sifting through the file of the first ever Kira case. The front desk had a hard time believing he was authorized to investigate such matters, but it wasn't a couple phone calls couldn't solve.
Jackal let out a sigh. He heard rumors about investigators who have made so much progress on the case, and he was just getting started at square one. He certainly had some catching up to do.

"Well.... it's possible but...... the nine in his death was important, so why is it that the first guy's death didn't count into the ten deaths?
We'll probably have to wait for death number three to notice anything......." T pulled the knight piece from his pocket, dried blood still noticeable and small chips missing from it, s he began rolling it around his right palm.
~Need some rest..? He.. thinks I'm either lieing to him, testing him or I'm crazy...! Bastard....... no... I wonder..... could he be trying to clear Kira in some way...? Is he... an accomplice..? Or is HE Kira, and the one following me is the accomplice!?~ T's eys shot open with the shock of such a thought, as he briefly looked Ice deeply in the eyes and then back at the lamp which was standing on his equally bloodied, and chipped chess board.

"I'm not really sure how to describe him really. He's just your average, dark haired Japanese man....... no older than me. Casual clothing...... nothing fancy about him. Plain and simple 'justice' is all he cares about, and... apparently Hitomi, the first death, was a friend of his. Prove that he's Kira.... well if I found a Deathnote on him and we tested it to see if it could kill, then wouldn't that prove him to be Kira...?
Of course I couldn't let you have that proof until....." T sighed, wondering what came lver him to get into this mess.

Ice nodded, "You show me a working death note, and I'll believe you. Sorry for my skepticism but I can't go chasing an average looking japanese man."
Ice looked at the chess board, "So... What happened?"

Barry just got into his hotel room. The flight wasn't terrible, just boring. When you're going off to find a serial killer that, at anytime, kill you on the dot. He looked up at the cieling. Kira..."Killer" Kira... His view of justice is understandable but still...how does he have that sort of power? I don't think this is as simple as I think it is. But first, I need to meet up with the rest of the team of detectives. They must be mad at me being late. Barry got up, changed, and opened his phone to call one of the detectives.

" Hello, I'm Barry, the other detective. My flight just came in, I wanted to ask when will we all meet up on the progress?"

[OoC: Anyone can reply, cuz I'm still sorta confused.]

[OoC We'll say that Ice advertised the case ]

Ice's mobile rang, "Excuse me one moment." He said, turning to the closed curtains.
"Hello? Oh, you saw my advert? There are numerous detectives in the case, you never know when you'll meet one... However, the most common place is a cafe, or you can find me at my HQ, [You now know where the cafe and my office are, it's easier to say this than a real address] In the meantime, try and contact other detectives, compile evidence, crack Kira's codes and hang about the cafe. I hope to see you soon, and by the way, I'm Ice."
Ice paced, unsure whether to hang up or arrange another meeting, "Any questions?"

Barry caught all the stuff Ice told him, causing him to say, " No. I'm fine. But if you could, please tell the other detectives of my presence. It'll be easier if we work together." Barry was about to hang up his phone, but then asked, " Actually....yeah, I do have a few more questions, but I'll text them to you." He hung up the phone and went to the TV, and turned on his laptop to find out more about Kira. " Right now, all I know about the Kira case is about the old cases a few years back. Now, I already know that he must be an insider. Now, the only guy I know right now at this second is this "Ice" character. I'm sure there are many more, and I can find them inside the portfolio or meet them myself. So, let's get to business." Barry looked through the police records to find out about all the old detectives still alive from the Second Kira case. " Ice...T....[Ice-T lol]..." Barry picked up his phone, and dialed Ice again. As he got out of the hotel, he told Ice, " I need to see you.
We need to discuss what's been happening so far. I'll be at the Cafe when you're ready." Barry walked to his car to go to the Cafe

A child had been walking around the street he was 14, he saw Ice. "Ah, your that investigator, what's you're name again..? Hmm.. Anyway, good luck with the Kira case, however.. I don't think he is doing right or wrong, I think he just likes to have a fun challenge. Nothing wrong with that when humanity back fires on people, right? Just wanted to share my point of view with you, I want to be a detective one day, so if you need any help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask."

[OOC: Did Ice even leave yet? If so..]
T decided to go with Ice since he had obviously been talking with another detective.
"So who was it on the phone..?" He asked. "Someone we-.." He was abou to ask another question when he saw Kira inside with a coffee, a bored expression clear on his face. "Uh.... is.. is it anyone we know?" He finished, looking around to see if anyone strange was about. The detectives on the Kira case had a strange tendency of being strange.

Ice shook his head, "No, new detective. Name: Barry. He wants us to know he's here... Anyway, I'll be going now"
Ice headed out of the hotel room.

He made his way out onto the street when he ran into a young teen.
"I'm Ice." Ice said coldly, "And trust me, Kira has a sick and twisted idea of justice. I would never call his work justice. And trust me, kid, there is absolutely nothing you could tell me that I don't already know... Then again, I said the same thing to a man who's now dead, so I'm not always right."

Just then Ice's phone rang, "Yeah, I'm on my way."
"Talk later kid"

Ice continued down the street to the cafe.

The teen smiled, and catched up with him. "How can you call yourself a detective when you can't even see Kira's point of view? Kind of silly,
anyway I heard on this blog that the last L tried to blow up our whole city! I doubt we can ever rely on L again.."

Ice didn't change his pace, "Look kid, I understand him but I don't empathize with him. It's not like it takes one to know one. And this little talk is about Kira, not L - L is still at large and he's my number two to catch. Now scram or I'll take a picture of ya and leave it for Kira to find."
Ice laughed and held his camera loosely, no intention of taking a picture.

T decided to follow Ice partly out of curiosity for the new detective, coming to a halt when a kid began speaking to Ice.
"This new guy sounds..... naive. As naive as that kid you just shunned off. But who were you talking about? Who's the guy that's now dead? Director? Also- L is my catch.. no one else's." He asked, entering the building ahead of Ice and checking around before sitting at a table away from Kira who was writing something which left T to sit nervously and tense as he ordered a black coffee with no sugar.
Kira stared at him strangely for a moment, confused that he asn't ordering his usual overly sweet coffee.
"So when's Barry meant to arrive..?"

Jackal awoke to find himself in a pile of papers.
"Must have fallen asleep," he said to himself as he started gathering the papers together.
After putting the file, and his own notes into seperate piles, he reviewed what he had written.

The 1st Kira:
Although Kira, utelizes an untracable form of killing, an analysis of the killing patterns point to one conclusion. When the Kira killings were still maturing, the deaths were concentrated around late afternoons, and weekends leading the department to assume that Kira was a student. This assumption was overturned when the killings began to systematically occur every hour. While these findings certainly seem to disprove the theory, this was merely an indicator of Kira's supernatural power coming to full maturation. The fact that, the killings are so systematic only leaves the conclusion that Kira had come to realize his ability to manipulate the time of death of his victims. This theory was also stated by "L" who was in league with the police at the time.

The notes stopped there. Past that point, the death of FBI members lead to the police retracting from the Kira case. Any investigations were conducted by L, and this information was not to be found in the police record.
Jackal sighed, a put away his notes. It was sad that the police were so quick to give up on Kira.
He was done here. There was no use investigating this matter any further. The information was too lacking, nothing he could try and correlate to the new Kira. On the other hand, the trip wasn't a complete waste of time. Jackal now knew the capablities of Kira, details that were "hush hush" back in the States.
On his way out he found a flier posted on a bulletin board. He didn't see it earlier. It advertised for detectives working on the Kira case.
"Might as well give it a shot," he mummbled as he searched his pockets for his cellular. He dialed the number and waited for a reply.

The kid laughed. "So you can empathize with a detective who tried to kill us, however you can't empathize with a mass murderer?"

Ice sat down in the cafe, "Man thing's are busy" he whispered over to T.
"Make that two black coffees!" he shouted to the waitress.

Once again, the kid made a statement, "I don't empathize with L, L is this guy's target" Ice assured, indicating to T, "I want to find kira, personal glory and all that. Justice has nothing to do with it, there is no justice."
Ice was interrupted by his phone, "Hello" he answered, "If you're in Japan and interested in the case, meet us at the cafe, you can find it at [cafe's location] we're having a little meeting right now. Got anything to say? be quick about it cause I'm having one heck of a day."

Ice covered the bottom section of the phone, "Barry's on his way, I think someone else might be joining us too."

The man on the other end of the phone seemed to be real busy, but Jackal thought he wouldn't pursue any questions. He'll just do as said and go to the cafe. He wrote the address on a scrap of paper and signalled for a cab.
He arrived at the cafe, and walking in, he realized he had indication of who he was supposed to meet with this person. He made another call but, quickly terminated it as soon as he heard someones phone ring over by the corner.
"I presume you're the ones investigating Kira?"

[OoC I'll let Trickster and scriptless post first, possibly TaFresh, seeing as I only just got off of the phone

edit- scratch that. He's offline]

while T and Ice drank coffee, occasionally they would exchange ideas, and T talked to the kid about L.
Ice's phone began to ring, but he was soon approached by a man.
"Aha!" Ice said, shaking the man's hand, "You wouldn't be wrong, pull up a chair and order a coffee. Seeing as you're new to the case, ask any question you want and I'll answer... Oh, and are you Barry, or the second man to ring me?"

Jackal shook the other man's hand. He seemed friendly enough, and he did what he was told. He got himself a chair, and order a coffee, black.
"Well, I'm no Barry," he replied. "The name's Jackal. Well, not really. My boss told me I should adopt an Alias while I'm here. Not that I don't trust you,, but you know how it is."
Jackal rested his chin on his hand. "If we're still waiting for someone else to show up, I suppose I'll hold off on the questions. Although, I suppose I should learn your names."

T nodded expressionlessly at the new detective, and pulled down his hood.
"Listen kid... my point is- Kira's reasoning for this is Justice. That's fair enough, but it breaks the law so for that he must be punished. But L? He manipulates people at will for his own sick little game without true reason. That my friend.." He took a long sip of the coffee, surprised by the sweetlessnes before finishing, "I just cannot stand for." At that he turned his attention back to the table.
"Bloody kids.." T whispered to Ice with a grin, taking another sip of coffee. "Is it cold in here or just me...?" He said with a puzzled look, pulling his hood back up, and finishing his coffee. "To hell with this stuff! Can I get a Shinigami's Caffeine here please?", smiling as the waitress walked towards him with it until he saw Kira who finished writing something, saluted T with a frown, before his eyes suddenly shot open, and he fell to the ground clutching his heart as the world fell down around him revealing darkness.
He snapped to his senses, but continued to sit with a blank Stoner expression as the coffee lay before him.

Paying attention to Jackal, he shuck his head. "I'm Track. My buddy here calls me T.." He said with a grin, his arm around Ice's shoulder.
"And you have good reason not to trust us. In fact you shouldn't trust us. Just because we're meeting you doesn't mean we can't shoot you from behind, or in this case, write your name down." T said with a serious look, his arms now lieing flat on the table.

Ice looked at T with a puzzled face, but chose to ignore it.
"Well, I'm Ice. Which is quite clearly not my real name. Alias are essential, I'd like to meet your boss, though I don't see it happening. Anyway, I'm sure it's going to be just fantastic working with you Jackal. Seeing as you're at this table, I guess we should fill you in.. Kira might be able to kill just by seeing your face... So we may need to start wearing masks if the case gets serious."

"Ice you can be more specific that that I think... ahem. Well it seems that some kind of "Deal" is available to Kira which allows him to know the names of a person by looking at them, but for now we don't know if he's made this "Deal", which we believe causes Kira to die sooner though though that part is still a theory developed during the last case. Now the deaths are performed through writing the name of a person while thinking of their face into.... a magical notebook called the Deathnote which is.... kind of laughable.
But that's as far as it goes really. Now we can only hope to solve these odd clues he's leaving behind", T finished, swinging backwards on his chair.

"When's the other nooby getting here?" T asked jokingly, shaking his head at Jackal to say 'Dun take meh srsly'.

"Have you found Director's laptop?"
"No sir.."
"Hmm.."
L raised, he had been throwing his arms around. "Let Act II begin!"
He picked up a violin, and soon a message all across the world, had taken place. The people could hear the violin music, it wasn't bad but it was certainly unique. "Kira, I am L. I was too busy, forgive me I was practicing my violin, of course the only reason for that is because I don't find you worth my time. I'll leave it to those amateur detectives, if you manage to beat them, I'll be more than glad to participate in this small child's game, once you grow up let me know, then we can start playing on equal levels. Thank you."
The broadcast ended.
"Was that necessary sir?"
"Completely" L laughed.
The whole message was encoded with mixed vocals.

Ice scratched his head, "I'm afraid it's all true, Kira even sent us a fake notebook..." Ice's voice trailed off as his attention turned a television.
Ice sighed, "And that's our competition. The ominous and hidden face of the copycat L"