A/N: Death Note is one of my favorite animes, as soon as I saw the first episode I was hooked. lol. And yes, I am on Kira's side. Not that I don't like L, cause I do, I just agree with Light. So, this story was on Quizilla first too but I'm switching almost all my stories over to here. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note just Akina(pronounced Ah-Ki-Nah)

"Honey! You're going to be late if you don't leave now!"

"I know Mom!" I called from my room. I quickly ran around, throwing my long dark brown hair up into a ponytail. I grabbed my bag and ran down the stairs tripping over the bottom step in my hurry. I prepared myself to feel pain, but it didn't come. All I felt were two strong arms holding me up.

"You should really stop being such a klutz Akina." I looked up at my best friend who was smirking at me and glared.

"Oh shut up Light!" I stood up and put my shoes on. "I'm leaving Mom! See you later!"

"Have a good day sweetie!" she called from the kitchen.

"I will!" I said before walking out the door following Light.

My name is Akina Lawliet. I'm 18 years old, and attend high school with my best fried Light Yagami. We have been best friends since we were 4 years old. I had met him when I was at the park one day. Some of the other kids were picking on me and he came up and stopped them. The two of us have been almost inseparable ever since. Of course, when he offered to walk me home that day, I told him no for fear of what he would think. See, my mom wasn't really my mom. She adopted me a few years ago when I was 13. I used to live at the Wammy House, along with my brother and a bunch of other kids who were 'gifted'. When Watari told me that someone wanted to adopt me, I wasn't happy at all. Because he said only I was adopted, not my older brother. And I didn't want to leave him. However, my brother-known as L around the orphanage-came in at that moment and talked to me. He said that it was a good idea, since he was leaving anyway. I had asked him if I could go with him but he said he had to be alone. But he would try and visit me when he could. I had sighed and finally agreed.

Thus brings us to where I was now. Light knows now that I grew up in an orphanage and that I'm adopted. But I never told him about L or any of the others from Wammy's.

"Akina! Light!"

We both turned to see my other best friend, Kita, running up to us. Kita was in our grade, a senior, and almost all the guys wanted her. She had long light brown hair that went to her butt, and bright blue eyes, along with a small curvy figure that made all the guys stare.

She stopped in front of us smiling. "Hiya!" She was always a little too hyper in the morning.

"Hi." I smiled. Light nodded once.

Kita linked her arm with mine and started walking. "So how's my bestest friend today?"

"Fine. I guess." I smiled glancing up at Light. He just rolled his eyes.

"How about you Light?"

He looked down at Kita. "Fine."

Kita frowned. "You're always such a grouch Light."

I sat in my desk next to Light doodling on my paper. I really didn't need to pay attention. After all, I was number 2 in the class-only second to Light who was number 1.

"Yagami, are you still with us?"

I glanced over at Light and saw him look up at the teacher. I guess he was spacing out too. He's been doing that a lot lately…

"Can you please translate the following sentence into English?"

Light sighed and stood up, reciting the sentence perfectly. I wasn't surprised. It wasn't really that hard of a sentence to read, at least not to me.

The rest of the day went by pretty boring as usual. I got a few tests back and they were all perfect of course. After school, I walked home with Light. I normally went over to his house after school, since we both went to cram school.

For some reason though, Light seemed really deep in thought today. Like there was something on his mind. Instead of talking to me like normal, he was reading from a book.

"Hey, Light?"

"Hm?"

"Are you ok?"

He glanced over at me and saw me watching him. "Yeah. Why?"

I shrugged. "I don't know. You just seem really….out of it today."

He looked back at his book after a few seconds. "I was just thinking about how our world is rotting."

"What?" I asked confused.

"Think about it. Look at all the murders and crimes there are each day. Its always the same. Someone needs to do something about it."

"Its not that easy Light." I said. "There are a lot of criminals out there. You can't hope to stop all of them."

"That's why I'm becoming a police officer." Light said looking over at me. "I will stop all these crimes. I want to make the world a better place."

I stopped walking for a second. I knew Light wanted to go to school for criminal justice, but I've never heard him speak like this.

"Akina? You coming?" I looked up and saw Light outside the gate to his house.

I ran to catch up. I'll just think about this later.

A/N: Well let me know what you think!! I don't have as many chapters done for this one as I do for some of my other ones but I'm trying. lol. Anywho, review please!!