"(Y/n), can you do my hair? It's getting in my face"

An excuse to play salon on Nears gorgeous white hair? Absolutely. Back down at wammys to check in on the successors and the case, you and L were helping out as much as you could with tracking down an exact location in Japan this Kira was.

You jumped at the chance to give Near a fun hairstyle, so you dropped everything to get a brush and some ribbons. They had such pretty hair, long, soft, wavy and pristine white. It wasn't common for natural white hair to happen in humans, Near was lucky. As you worked your magic weaving their hair into long plats, they continued to work with the others.

Up on the computers they all scanned through every single death that had occurred so far looking for the most common place of death. The idea was it'd be likely Kira would be seeing reports on crimes from their local news outlets. And if you could figure out what prefecture I'd Japan the most deaths occurred in, it was likely that was the location.

This Kira was crafty, they made sure there were several international cases and criminals being targeted each day. But region locked content was a factor, it would be harder to get your hands on more obscure cases from overseas because of language barriers and websites being region locked. It made sense that he'd have the most access to cases reported on in Japanese, within Japan. He could go out if his way to look for obscure international cases yes, but given the fact he needs a face and name to kill he'd have to spend extra time looking for both the name and photos of international criminals on the side of the internet he can't read. With the strict schedule he has, there's no way he was spending time doing that.

"Ok there's two possible options here..." Matt spoke up, catching everyone's attention.

Looking over at his screen, he'd run the stats through a program to identify the most common location of death.

"There's 50 deaths in Osaka, and another 50 in Shinjuku. They're tied for most deaths. I'd say if we give it another day or so and see which one of those goes up, we'll have our place" He explained.

"As much as I wish people didn't have to die for that data... you're right. And hey, if it's Osaka..." L replied.

"Oh my god you're right, we have insider info about Osaka" Mello gasped, connecting the dots.

Several years before the original Kira, L worked on a case in Japan involving a bio terrorist group known as blue ship. He ended up having to rescue an at the time 10 year old girl, and because she lost both parents in that case she ended up exactly where you were right now. Wammys house. You'd met her a few times, she was very smart and for someone who knew zero English when she first arrived, she improved her language skills very very fast. Languages and math were her thing, she could speak several fluently and knew how to solve any equation you could think of.

And where was she from? Osaka. She grew up there, she even knew Misa before she debuted as a idol.

"Is she here right now?" L asked.

"Yeah she hasn't left wammys yet. She wants to do some extra studies before going out into the world" Mello replied.

"Hang on I'll go get her" Matt said, getting up to go find her.

Last you saw her she was probably 14, she'd be about 16 now. Man... all the kids around you were growing up so fast.

It took all of two seconds for her to rush down the halls when Matt told her L was back, and the familiar face practically kicked the doors in and jumped on him.

"L!" She smiled.

"Maki! Oh my gods you're tall now..." L replied, returning the hug.

She had grown, she was almost as tall as L having overtaken the boys in height. Her hair was longer, she'd re-styled it too into curtain bangs rather than a straight cut.

"I overtook Matt and now he's pissed at me" Maki snickered.

"Don't rub it in, stop growing. I'm older than you I should be taller" Matt replied, gently boping her on the head.

All the wammys kids that grew up together always ended up in this family unit type bond. Each generation that came through the doors left with several unofficial siblings and parents.

"Nice to see you again Maki, I like the hair" you said.

"Thanks, I was getting sick of having to do the emo head flick whenever my fringe got slightly too long" she said.

"Oh L would know aaalllll about emo haircuts"

"Shut up my fringe wasn't that bad-" L sighed.

Seems like as Maki had grown up and healed from all the traumatic stuff that happened to her she'd really come out of her shell and found herself. She seemed more confident, developed her own style reminiscent of kogal fashion in Japan and formed sibling like bonds with the other kids. Although the part of her that was her parents precious little girl back in Osaka would always be in her, to this day she still slept with the Teddy her mum left her when she died, and still had the emergency phone her dad gave her that lead her to Watari and L.

"So this guy is in Osaka?" She asked.

"50-50 chance it's either Osaka or Shinjuku. But honestly I'm leaning toward Osaka because of its population" L replied.

Maki took a look at the data, seeing what L meant. There were more people in Osaka so it was more likely to be there.

"I think you're right. The crime rates aren't that bad in Osaka but there's a lot of news stations and people who work on journalism there, so word about crimes gets around" she replied.

"That's what I was thinking. Once we confirm Osaka is the place, we'll probably have you help out here and there since you know the area the best. You spent half your life there after all"

"If you guys go there, can you take me? I haven't been since... well since blue ship. I miss it, I'd love to see all my old hang outs. And isn't Misa Misa living there again? I haven't seen her since I was 8! Maybe we can visit?"

She seemed eager, exited to be involved and have the chance to go back to her hometown. But you could see the worry on L's face, he really didn't want his successors or anyone from wammys getting in the eye of the storm and potentially hurt by this new Kira. None of them were immune to the death note like he was, if they died young and by Kiras hand of all people, he'd never forgive himself.

"I don't know... I don't really want you guys getting too close to the guy" He said.

"Pleeeaasseee? You guys can do your Kami magic to get away quick right? If something bad happens you can shove me through a portal or something. L I know you feel bad I kinda got my dumbass kidnapped and almost died of that virus while I was under your care and stuff, but I'm 16 now and have brain cells. I won't get myself into trouble, and by the way none of that was your fault" She replied.

Osaka dialect was known for being blunt, honest and to the point. And even in English she was blunt, honest and to the point. She was right though, it was no one's fault but blue ship for what happened. L did everything he could to protect her, Maki was only 10 and freshly traumatised so she could easily be manipulated. It was the terrorists and no one else's fault. And hey, she lived didn't she? She made a full recovery aside from some asthma from the respiratory problems of the virus.

"Maybe. If we have to go to Osaka and get a little time off to wander around I'll pick you up and we can get crepes" L caved.

"YUS! Thanks L, best crepe guy ever" Maki cheered.

It seemed like things were heading in the direction of Osaka, you'd probably run into Misa, Zephyr and Naja again if you were out that way. And hey, Maki could drop by and say hello too. She would be super useful for information on all the local areas and culture of Osaka that's for sure.

"Hey L, remember when you had to dress up as a girl to sneak as past the checkpoints?" Maki teased, a cheeky grin on her face.

"I do, that was wig so itchy..." L sighed.

The successors snickered, that was their favourite story of L's cases. Maki would never let anyone forget that happened. The fact that it worked too, L must have made a very convincing girl.

"I still think you should show me that outfit. I bet you'd make a cute girl" you teased.

L gave you a playful glare, ever since you heard about that story you'd been begging him to put on that disguise and show you.

"I made a gorgeous girl, thank you very much"