Even before Yagami's speech, it was clear to all that after the death of twelve FBI agents Kira was no longer seeking for justice only, but he would also kill whoever stood in his way.

-Just know that if you give up now, there won't be any consequences. Your family's life and your own are in danger. Feel free to choose now.-

-What are you going to do? Quit?-

-We knew from the start that this case was going to be dangerous... Wouldn't you agree?-

-Me? Oh... Sure!-

-Don't tell me you're scared...-

-What are you talking about, Himari? Of course not!-

Answered Mitsuru laughing. The woman took another sip of coffee, nervously. How many of them were going to stay? She had her answer in less time than expected. Soon the room emptied out, leaving only eight policemen including Yagami and Watari.

-Only seven? With me, we're in eight. Well, that means that there's at least eight people willing to fight for justice.-

-Who would've thought that you two would stay?-

-Why, thank you, mister Matsuda... It's a good thing you trust us...-

Said Himari with a sarcastic tone. Matsuda immediately tried to explain himself:

-No, I meant: you two are just rookies! You're younger than us, I thought you would've been scared of dying for this case...-

-We may have ended our studies last year, mister Matsuda, but after all that Kira's done, do we really want to give up?-

Said Mitsuru.

-I am aware of that, but... Can you two please quit calling me "mister Matsuda"? We're only one year apart and it's making me feel old!-

-You are old, Matsuda.-

Answered Aizawa, trying to shush all of that useless chitchatting.

-WE'RE ALMOST THE SAME AGE, AIZAWA!-

-Congratulations, gentlemen... I'm quite happy that there are people willing to risk their life for justice.-

-Ain't it easy for you! We stayed, so we request to see your true face once and for all!-

Said Aizawa to the white screen with an L on it, from which a clearly modified voice gave instructions to the Japanese police. The letter disappeared, leaving place to a sentence:

-What will happen from now on, will have to stay a secret between the ten of us...-

-I can't believe it...-

The girl burst into tears. Her mother hugged her.

-Vera... You promised you weren't going to cry once your father died...-

-He didn't just die, mum! Kira killed him!-

-What? What are you talking about?-

The girl pulled away from her, still crying. She had brown hair and hazelnut eyes. She had taken absolutely nothing from her mother, Tsukiko Reikko, that was more of a black hair and black eyes (like almost every Japanese lady) and everything from her father Jeremy. She wore a pair of thin, red glasses and she yelled at her mother:

-Of course it was Kira! They found out they were followed and killed all of the FBI agents in Japan!-

-Why not just kill the agent that was following them, then? All of the twelve agents died, not only Jer...-

-To avoid being recognisable, mum, isn't that obvious?-

-Calm down! We'll talk abut things like this when you'll finish your study and become a police officer just like me.-

Vera clenched her teeth, swallowing the tears. It was true: her father wouldn't want her to cry over him. He was always saying that fighting for justice, death can arrive when least expected.

-Please tell me L's gonna make another announcement... What did he tell you?-

-It's top secret, sweetie.-

Said her mother sitting down on the couch, trying to hold back her tears. She didn't want her daughter to see her cry, maybe she was going to start once Vera had fallen asleep or she would've drank to stop thinking about it.

-Mum: without telling me top secrets information, tell me something! Anything!-

-I'm not allowed to know anything regarding the Kira case, I requested with a good number of my colleagues to have moved to another case.-

-What?!-

-Keep your voice down! I have a migraine... I can't risk to end up like your father and leave you alone, is that clear?-

-But Kira will win! If you all give up, who's gonna stand up against him?!-

-That's enough, young lady! Go study for your exams! I have enough to think about without you intervening...-

These words were followed by a long silence, in which Vera was still crying quietly. Then she turned her back and went to her room, slamming the door. Tsukiko sighed and finally far from her daughter's sight, she started crying as well.

~Author's spot~

This is the first and last time I'll write at the end of a chapter.

I wrote multiple AUs in Italian, and I thought it was finally time to start wringing them in English as well...

The premise of this AU is pretty simple: Raye Penber wasn't just following Light and Kitamura's daughter, but also Vera, our protagonist (if you can call her that, everyone's a protagonist in my book).
Light blackmails her, convinced that he can kill her whenever he wants, and forces her to do things that will make L suspect her rather than him, but Vera will try in every way to contact the Task Force, pretending to follow his orders.

And I really hope you'll like it...

WARNING:

If none of your ships are in this, don't worry, neither mine are. I don't wanna focus on ships and jokes on this AU, I wanna keep it like the real Death Note, with L and Light's mental battles, the schemes to try and not get caught and characters with a philosophy and with valid motivation (despite me not sharing them). Nothing will ever come close to the real Death Note, so mine is without a doubt a fan work.

Now I'm sure you'll all be wondering (even if it's probably obvious)

am I #TeamL

or #TeamKira?

To avoid all spoilers, I won't give away the answer yet, you'll find out reading this. And the finale is probably gonna give it away (of the first arc, at least)

And goodbye