Chapter 07

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 "I found a camera in the air conditioner!" Ryuk called triumphantly.

Dan didn't react and continued to to 'study'. Although he was trying hard he was a little on edge with the camera's in the room. However he did manage to write half an essay. He let out a huff before groaning and laying his head in his arms.

He waits there for a few minutes, taking a break before sighing and getting on with it.

"There's one in the light shade!" Ryuk called again. 

He started to scribble some more words down on the sheet of paper before glaring as his left hand smudged the writing. 

"Ugh, the pains of being left handed I swear!" Dan complained, trying to wipe off the led from the side of his hand. He then proceeded to close his books and put all the paper in a neat pile. He whined a little as he stretched out his limbs and yawned. 

He then went into the kitchen and began to pour a bowl of Phil's cereal since Phil had eaten most of his. It was an annoying habbit he had. He proceeded to the living room where he switched the TV to Adventure Time, trying to relax and enjoy the cartoon without the paranoia of someone watching him. He had something planned for later which would be sort of humiliating but at least it could possibly clear his  name.

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"Well he's not done anything suspicious so far." Mr Howell spoke in a relieved tone. "Neither has Adrian, although I'm not too happy about him playing for hours on his nintendo whilst he has homework." He huffed.

Phil wasn't listening, his eyes had been focused on Dan the whole time. He was definitely the main suspect and would be a perfect victim as Kira but deep down he wished it wasn't that way. He watched Dan stretch, whining slightly. Phil's heart beat picked up, he was pretty adorable. Recently Phil had been feeling especially guilty and weird feelings about him would pop up every now and then. Like how his eyes were glued to the small patch of skin that was showing on Dan's hips over his low pyjama bottoms. 

Phil's eyes widened at that thought and snapped out of it, watching the screen and trying to focus. Dan poured a bowl of his cereal and he felt rather annoyed. "That's my cereal." He mumbled and Mr Howell gave him an odd look but didn't say anything.

They continued to watch as Dan watched Adventure Time and ate cereal until he finished the episode and turned the TV off.

"He's not watching the news, surely he couldn't kill any one without knowing their names and faces." Mr Howell pointed out hopefully.

Again Phil didn't answer, he knew there was still plenty of time for Kira to make a move and they'd have to keep watching him. Dan set up his laptop and turned off the lights in the room, the cameras going into night vision . The glow of the laptop screen made Dan's face illuminate and for a second Phil's mind drifted and he admired the handsome features of his friend's face.

"Jim, change to this screen to camera 34 so we can have a look at the laptop and put the others to 46, 53 and 47." Phil spoke up. Dan's laptop screen showed up as google. Dan started typing and Mr Howell and Phil took a sharp intake of breath when they realized what he'd typed in.

'Pornhub'

 "Oh god." Mr Howell groaned, covering his eyes and shaking his head. Phil's jaw dropped and his eyes bulged as he saw his friend search the dirty site. He wanted to look away but he knew he'd have to keep looking like a professional if he wanted to catch anything suspicious.

"I have to go to the toilet." Mr Howell said awkwardly, averting his eyes from the screen and what his son was doing. Phil only nodded, eyes still on the screen although he winced a little as he watched the dirty video come up. Dan went through a few and Phil was feeling very uncomfortable on the 4th video and was about to look away when suddenly Dan moaned. 

Phil's jaw gawped and his eyes were as round as saucers. Dan emitted a ray of sounds afterwards like whimpers, whines, panting and moaning. Phil watched transfixed as Dan's face screwed up in pleasure. His forehead was damp and his hair was curling at the ends as his mouth hung open in bliss, red bitten lips parted. His hand was moving in the southern region which Phil was too gentlemanly to look at but the sounds tumbling off Dan's tongue were very hot. Phil felt his pants tighten and his hands clenched. "Oh shit." Phil thought. Was he really getting turned on by his best friend? What was wrong with him? He bit his lip as he watched Dan buck into the touch and felt the blood rush to his groin. 

He felt like he needed to look away, this was invading privacy but it was also police work. Phil bit his lip, torn between the decision. A loud moan made it for him and he jumped to his feet walking across the room to the door.

"Phil!" The screen moaned.

Phil froze, did he hear right? Phil listened for a second more but all he heard was panting and whining. He shook his head. "Stop being an idiot Phil. Dan doesn't like you that way and you don't like him that way!" Phil told himself firmly. With that he left the room so Dan could finish.

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Dan walked back into his room and closed the door behind him, walking straight over to his computer. 

"I think that's it Dan." Ryuk said weakly from the floor. "I found every camera they put in the house! I guess Shinigami get tired when they work hard!"

Dan walked over to his bed, plugging in his laptop and setting it up.

"Now let me explain where they all are. It's a little bit complicated so listen up, there's nothing I hate more than explaining something twice." Ryuk stated. "There are a lot of cameras in this room, I counted 64 in total. I guess whoever put them here expected you to find at least some of them." Ryuk explained, still sprawled out on the floor.

"It must have been L, he had no problem letting a death row inmate take his place when he declared war on me. It's pretty clear he doesn't know any limits. He must have narrowed down the suspects and singled me out because of my father working on the case." Dan thought as he watched his laptop show him the lock screen. He quickly typed in his password and waited for his computer to log on.

"What I wanna know is how am I going to eat apples?" Ryuk asked worriedly. He waited. "Oh yeah, I forgot you can't talk." He grumbled.

"Judging by the number of camera's he's planted he's planning on making a decision in a short period of time. There's probably wire traps too. Any normal person would slip under these circumstances but it won't be that easy with me!" Dan thought to himself, holding back a smirk.

"Oh no the symptoms are starting!" Ryuk exclaimed as he went into a handstand. Dan's eyes flicked to Ryuk who was watching him from the floor. Dan gave him a hard stare before diverting it to the screen.

"Oh, do you want me to leave?" Ryuk asked, sounding strained. He sighed when Dan didn't answer and disappeared through the wall, walking on his hands out of the room.

Dan then proceeded to go onto google.

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Dan began to delete his internet search history. "Shit! Did I REALLy say Phil's name? Oh shit, L knows I have a crush on my room mate now, fuck sake!" Dan thought scornfully. Once it was all deleted he looked at his clock and saw it was ten o'clock. 

He was feeling tired after his little show, even though he'd usually be up way later. He decided to spend the rest of the night on tumblr before shutting his laptop down and falling asleep.

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Phil was blushing furiously at the screen, Dan was finally finished and was just scrolling on tumblr. Phil shook a little, not sure how to feel about his wierd feelings. Mr Howell finally came back into the room.

"Is it safe?" He asked.

"Yes." Phil replied.

"Sorry for running away, it's just something a parent doesn't like watching." Mr Howell apologized.

"No problem , that's understandable." 

Then Jim walked into the room. "Ryuzaki."

"Yes Jim?" 

"A few minutes ago a man charged with stealing and a drug dealer staying in prison, were broadcast on the news, they both just died of sudden inexplicable heart attacks." Jim explained.

"It's Kira!" Mr Howell exclaimed.

"While all that was happening your wife was washing the dishes, your youngest son was playing a video game and your oldest was studying and playing on his computer. Kira needs a name and a face, without those he can't kill. So I suppose anyone who didn't watch the news can't be Kira. Right?" Phil asked, eyes still on the screen.

"You said it yourself! That means my family is in the clear!" Mr Howell exclaimed, almost happily.

"It doesn't make sense that Kira would kill two petty criminals right after their identities were broadcast ... I know it's only the first day after the camera's were installed but the Howell household seems a little too innocent." Phil explained with a sad sigh.

There was the guilt again.

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"So what DID you do Dan?" Ryuk asked as he and Dan walked into the park the next day. "How did you get those criminals to die without watching the news?" 

Dan smirked. "When we were out, I wrote a few things down in the death note. I made it so that Tom Curtis, a drug dealer would get caught by the police trying to kidnap someone. It would have definitely made the news and I wrote down that three hours after he was caught, he'd die of a heart attack. I did a similar thing to a theif, I made it so they would try rob a bank. Obviously this would go live and he died from a heart attack not only two hours later. It all worked out pretty well if you ask me." Dan smirked.

"It was a risk though." 

"A risk worth taking. All those experiments have come in handy, sometimes you have to take it a step further." Dan grinned mischeviously."

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