Doubt

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Summary

One day on campus, L/Ryuga asks Light to join him in a tennis match so they can get to know each other. Light wonders if he knows what he's up against, when L points out he lived in Britain for five years, where he was a Junior Champion in tennis. Although they act like friends on the outside, L plans to use this friendly game as a way to see if Light is Kira since he came to the assumption that Kira hates to lose. Meanwhile, things are rough at the police department with how L wants to keep the investigation a secret from everyone outside of the task force, but things seem to be at ease for now... After six matches of tennis, Light wins against L in tennis. Even though they're speaking to each other on common ground, they suspect each other to be their main target on the inside, and both come to the conclusion that in order to uncover each other's identity, they will have to go to task force headquarters where the Kira investigation is taking place...

After the tennis match, Light suggests they go somewhere for a drink and he ask L a few questions. Before this, L assures him that he suspects him to be Kira, only by 1% depending on his reasoning abilities. At a local coffee shop, Light and L sit at a table far from the others so that they can speak in peace. Light decides to leave his questions aside until he's not as suspected to be Kira, so L immediately tests his deduction skills, first by showing him the secret messages Kira made by manipulating the prisoners in previous episodes. Light knows that arranging these coded messages in the right order couldn't be enough to prove that he's Kira, so he does so by reading the message "L, did you know? Gods of Death love apples," but is told he's wrong. L says there was a fourth message, which when combined with the rest says "L, did you know? Gods of Death who love apples have red hands." Light insisted that his guess was close enough, but L said had he known how many messages there were, he would have guessed the message were incomplete, so it seems Light has basically just risen his suspicion.

After a little more talk of deduction skills, L has decided his suspicion is now at 3%, but he's more determined to work with him now because of it. He believes he is in a situation where whether or not Light is Kira, it would still benefit him if they worked together, because he'd either reveal himself or help move the investigation forward. Light uses this to argue by saying that in order to be able to work with L, he must have some sort of proof himself which says he is really L. L thinks of this as a sign that he hates losing and is trying to stall, so now his suspicion went up to 7%, but he says that he would be free to meet the task force members. Light is caught off guard by how willing he is to do this, but before they can discuss things further, both of them get a phone call. It seems that Light's father has just suffered a heart attack, much to Light's surprise since he had nothing to do with it...

It seems his father just had a minor heart attack but is in the hospital, Light and L stayed to watch over him. It appears that this heart attack was just stress-induced, and that he'll be all right. L insists it might have also been because of the stressing thought that Light is suspected to be Kira, to which Light is shocked to hear them sharing this information. His father tells him this guy is the real L, so now Light knows what situation he's in... If he tries to take down L and the other task force members, it would be too much of a foolish move, so for now he'll just have to play the innocent role. Soon enough, L explains where his suspicion comes from, and how Raye Penber was investigating on Light just before he died. Light agrees there must be no other suspect if that were the case, which brings L to another point - Light's deductive skills are very quick and accurate, and having him on the task force would be an excellent move now that Light is certain that L is really L.

After visiting hours were over, Light and L discussed the suspicion that he was Kira. He wanted to go as far as being locked up for a month to see if anything would happen, but L simply says if he's not Kira then it would become apparent no matter what. Taking his leave, Light knows now he wouldn't let the pressure get to him. Now that he knows he's really facing L in person, he has nothing else on his mind but to use the Death Note to make the world a better place. Meanwhile, at the Sakura TV Studio, the director is having trouble coming up with a way to get more ratings, when an opportunity knocks at their door. They received a package with a few audio tapes and a letter - "A message to the world from Kira. If you do not broadcast these tapes, I will kill your company's board of directors one by one." So, if this is real, then the studio is going to make a ton of money on this... This doesn't sound like a move Light would make, so is this really his work...?