When we got back to headquarters Halle showed Hope around and introduced her to the rest of the team. I kept thinking back to when we were on the plane. The way she tried so hard to cover up the fact that she was crying. Would she rather cry by herself? The thing was I didn't want her to have to cry alone. I wanted to comfort her. It took so much to not, but the puzzle I gave her only took her 2 minutes but it seemed to calm her down. Right now I was sat in the middle of the floor playing with my trains, while Hope was talking to the other SPK members. Anthony kept glancing at me from the side until eventually I couldn't take it any more.

"What is it Anthony?" He turned around and came closer to me.

"This girl...ever since we picked her up you have seemed distracted. You need to be focusing on where Kira is."

"I already know where he is."

"You do?"

"Yes but I cannot be 100 percent sure. My plan was to give Hope all the information and see if she comes to the same conclusion."

"On the plane you noticed she was crying and comforted her. In the 4 years I have known you, you have never done anything like that."

"You think she is just a distraction and that she will be of no help." Anthony nodded. "Well I can assure you that is not the case. Hope could very well be L's successor but she turned the offer down."

"She turned it down?"

"Yes, she said it wasn't right for her to step in like that since Mellow and I have been at Wammy's longer than her."

"Is she really that cleaver?"

"You saw how quickly she solved the rubix cube and the number puzzle. Is that not enough proof? Considering that when I first got that number puzzle it took me 1 minutes and 47 seconds. It took her 2 minutes and 7 seconds. Though the fact that I have had a lot more experience with toys than she has makes the fact that I finished quicker than her not that big of a deal. You also noticed the pictures of her walls. She drew them all."

"I thought they were pictures."

"No, they were her own drawings. Hope is incredibly good at drawing, it is a passion of hers. Her drawings were as good as a professional artists the day I met her when she was only 12. Do not underestimate her, she is very smart and someone that I value the opinion of."

After the talk with Anthony he seemed to warm up to Hope a lot more. He showed her all the evidence we had collected on the Kira case so far. She stood in front of the computer scenes silently listening to everything Anthony was telling her. I watched and I could almost see her brain working. She kept looking at all the different computer scenes, fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. Her tail was twitching and her ears were moving as she listened to Anthony. When Anthony had finished explaining everything to her, she turned to me.

"I believe that Kira is within the Japanese police." She told me. I resisted the urge to smile. Of course she would get the same answer as me. This proves that my theory was right.

"What?" Anthony said in surprise.

"Well, L worked closely with the police and because we know that Kira needs a name and a face to kill, it is clear that he was close to L. Kira must have somehow found out L's real name. The public don't know what L looked like so Kira has to have close ties with the police, but the police have pulled out and stopped investigating the Kira case. However you tell me that there are still people that gave up there jobs to catch Kira. This makes our job easier because Kira will be one of the few that are still investigating Kira. Then there is the issue of this fake L. I believe the second L is Kira himself."

"What makes you say that?"

"Think about it. L had a lot of power over the police and a lot more countries, if Kira acted as L he would be able to get them to do whatever he wants making him all the more powerful. Is all that about right Near?" She looked at me. I nodded, however Anthony was looking back and fourth between Hope and I. "You seem confused?" Said Hope. "Allow me to explain. All this didn't take me long to work out and if I could work it out there is no doubt in my mind that Near could too. So, it seems he just wanted a second opinion to confirm his theories."

"You see why I called Hope in on the case now Anthony." I said, finding his shocked face amusing. Hope gave me a slight smile, ever since we got off that aeroplane she seemed to be warming up to me. Perhaps she was slowing forgiving me for leaving her like that? I hoped that was the case. Even though I did only spent one evening with Hope when I was 13 I still felt as though she was my first and only friend. The fact that she was mad at me for leaving her, even though it was understandable it upset me more than I liked to admit.

Later on in the day I was stacking some cards while listening to a Japanese debate about with Kira was good or not. There were a shocking amount of people on the pro Kira side. Hope was sat opposite me drawing something on her pad though she kept looking up at the tv scenes to see what was going on. We were the only ones in the room at the time and with neither of us talking it was peaceful. Sat with her like that I could almost imagine that we were just two normal teenagers watching tv, but the thought was of course ridicules. It was just after Anthony entered the room that things started to go wrong. One man on the anti-Kira side of the debate stood up and stumbled forward. He collapsed and the scene that was hiding the people's faces was broken. The people behind the glass started to panic. They were covering there faces and running of the scene. Several of them had heart attacks whilst trying to run away. Then the scene shut down and the scene was simply blue. It was all clearly the work of Kira. He was trying to show the world what happens if they went against me. A public massacre. Anthony's face was one of complete horror, while Hope was staring at the blue scene with no emotion. She had clearly come to the same conclusion that I had over what we had just seen. She turned to look at me.

"Did that really just happen?" Said Anthony still staring at the scene. Hope then suddenly stood up, closed her notepad and calmly left the room...