Title: Death Note (Part V)
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red/Ash)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #44, Stuck
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, Character Death

How could this have happened?

Seiyou stared at the screen with a sick feeling welling up in her chest. The twelve FBI agents she had sent to Japan to investigate the police were all dead, and Matsubusa’s fiancée, Homura, was missing…

Was she truly losing to Kira?

Was it time to give up?

No… she could not…

She had to be strong, and so, that day, she ordered the cameras and bugs.

Three weeks, to let him investigate others. Three weeks so Matsubusa would not suspect her. It was sinfully easy, of course, he had written the names and killed all his comrades, and she had left him the most lovely suicide note…

Wataru closed her eyes, and climbed into bed with a pleased smile.

Daigo watched her, troubled, and felt stirrings in the wind. Trouble was brewing, and they were in the eye of the storm…

When would it break over their heads?

Truth be told, he was in no danger, and if Wataru were going to act crazy-stubborn, it was none of his concern. As the number of names in his Death Note increased, so did his lifespan as a Shinigami.

Careless girl.

Seiyou slammed her fist into her desk, wincing. Whoever this Kira was… she would find him and dispose of him!

Matsubusa… who had he been investigating? She had to find out quickly. Perhaps one of them was Kira, and had killed him to protect his or her secret.

She sighed, and dialed Sakaki, and explained quietly that it was necessary, and so, that night, they began to talk seriously.

It was their last chance.

Shirona was angry, as to be expected. All her agents had died, and so had several others, that had been connected in no way to the Kira case. She was leaving things in the hands of the Japanese police now…

It mattered little, for soon, her fate was also sealed.

Wataru closed the Death Note with a satisfied expression. Daigo floated next to her shoulder, a frown on his face.

Was that really necessary?

“Was what necessary?” Wataru asked.

Why did you kill her?

“Well, I can’t have the FBI stalking me, can I?” Wataru asked sweetly. “Besides… things are about to get exciting again.”

Daigo blinked at her. What do you mean?

“Soon, I’ll be watched at home… I’m sure S is trying to determine my identity as Kira, but as long as he doesn’t have the Death Note, well, it doesn’t matter…”

She would deal with the rest when she went home. The preparations had already been put into place…

And then she smiled.

Dealing with Homura had been…. Difficult, but she had succeeded. She closed her eyes and leaned back in her desk chair, remembering…

Daigo floated nearby, lost in thought and wondering where the dark path would lead. At the very least, it would be amusing…

End Fic

Completed 12/21/06

Short, I know, because I’m tired!