A/N:

Well, I didn't want to start any new stories until I was done my work in progress, Cornflower Blue Tears. Well, this plot was so good ( that someone probably already had this idea ) that I just had to start writing right away. xD

I switched Light and L's roles, so now L is almost like Kira, and Light is the one working to send him to justice… I didn't want to, but L would make such an awesome vampire… heh.

Light tapped the eraser on the end of his pencil rhythmically with the clock, anxiously awaiting the last bell ring. As excellent as he was in his classes, the bronze haired boy couldn't help but hate school. He was terribly ahead of everyone else even with all of his advanced classes. Still, Light saw it as pointless – why did teachers expect students to memorize what date Columbus came to America, or what War was fought when? And why did they stress over how accurate their science answers were if the student didn't even care to get into that field. Cupping his chin in his hands, he waited. The hands on the clock seemed to be moving so slowly, Light had to swallow the urge to ask his teacher what time it was.

"Light! Did you really finish all your work so quickly?" Light tilted his head to his left and peered down at Misa out of the corners of his eyes. Though the girl didn't belong in the same classes as him, the high school scholar knew that it wouldn't take a genius to figure out how she got in. Being a famous model was impressive, he had to admit, yet the teen should be among people who she could actually keep up with.

"It was easy. Aren't you done yet? The school bell is about to go off." Misa wiggled her eyebrows at him.

"We still have at least ten minutes, and I'm not as smart as you!" She pretended to pout. Poking out her lip and batting her lashes, she almost looked believable for an instant. Light simply laughed and turned back to his original position – facing the clock. The teen sighed; Misa was right, he had about ten minutes to wait. He wondered what he could do in that time. He thought about the case his dad had just been assigned. Yes, that would keep him busy for a time…

Apparently, somebody was on a killing spree all across Japan. It was odd; the killings happened several times a day, but never within a hundred miles of each other. The murderer was thinking well, considering the assassins never happened in the same place, so he'd be extremely difficult to track. But that would be about three plane flights a day… Could the murderer actually be murderers? Light wasn't sure about that either. The person, possibly persons, didn't seem to be putting much effort into their killings… The murders might be sprawled across the country, but they were never hidden or cleaned up like how a cerial killer would.

Light had some ideas of what the Investigation team could do, he just wasn't positive if they would work. This criminal gave the police force little to work with.

***

"Dad," Light announced, walking into police headquarters, "I have some thoughts on what we could do, though they are limited..."

"We'll take any suggestions right now," Chief Soichiro Yagami answered in a sigh.

"Well," Light said, pulling out a map of Japan, "I've plotted all of the spots the killer has hit, and they aren't in any kind of order whatsoever. So when it comes to that, the most we can do is stay in one place, hoping that the murderer will hit here next... but that's what we've been doing, right?"

The crowd that had begun to circle around the boy genious all just sighed and dissolved back to their stations.

"That's what we've been doing though," grimaced Aizawa.

"I wasn't done yet," growled Light, "I also wrote the times on here," Light pulled out another piece of paper with a long list of recorded times of the deaths. "Every single death so far has occured between 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. at night. I was thinking we could announce that we've switched this Kira case to a nightshift case, in an attempt to send the killer into a frienzy. He'll know we're on to him, hopefully, and maybe we can figure this out a little further."

"That's brilliant, Light!" exclaimed Mikami, the newest member of the task force. He swore to send any source of evil to justace, and Light found that especially useful for this case. In situations like these, he needed as many allies as he could get.

"Yes, I agree with Mikami. That's a good idea Light!" Matsuda declared, punching his fist in his palm.

"I see, but what if he continues killing at night?"

"Then we'll know he can't alter his killing time, which means there must be some reason he can't go out during the daytime..." Aizawa was right, thought the bronze haired leader. "If the homosides continued to go on during the night still, then our next step would have to be to figure out why this person can't go out during the day time, wouldn't you agree?"

"How?" a few people rang out at the same time.

"I'm not sure yet," admitted Light, "But starting here is better than starting nowhere, so let's just give this a try for now." The members of the task force gave him doubtful looks, but Light shook them off. This person didn't really leave them many clues…

A\N: Ahh, that was some good stuff. . .

Yea, not really... I might change this up, because I'm not too thrilled with where it left off. I couldn't think of a way to wrap up the chapter, so I just dropped it.T_T

The next chapter will be with L though! Yayz! xD