He held my hand.
"Have you seen G and L?"
"They're hard to miss. They're the closest thing to family any child at Whammy's has ever seen."
"Do you think he's told her?"
"Obviously he has. See the way she's clutching his hand? Her eyes are filled with tears, just look."
"Oh, yes. I see it now. It's such a shame, you know? Orphans never get much love, but these 2... Well, I suppose she'll want to visit the grave every day, like she does her parents."
"You mean Naomi and Raye? She's their secret child? But why would they desert her?"
"It was just too risky. Naomi's been careful since she joined the FBI. It's only right she wouldn't want her child in the midst of all of this."
The people in the background talked and talked.
"Forget about them." He told me. "I knew your mother. And I promised I'd look after you as best I could. But this...
"This is as best I could...
"I'm sorry..."
I awoke from my sleep.
Another flashback to my past. I don't remember anything in that dream...
Yet I know it happened...
Today I graduate from Whammy's. Today I take on the letter G, standing for Gifted Child, or Grieving One. I'm told my parents died for the same reason Ryuzaki, the man who looked after me secretly until his end was near. He knew he was going to die. He wasn't afraid, either. He embraced death, and he didn't die in vain.
Today, 9 years ago, Light Yagami died of a heart attack. I hate that man for all he was. He was the reason I was orphaned. He was the reason I don't even have my Onii-sama with me anymore. He's also the reason I'm ending up working underneath that idiot, Nate River, the new L.
The death note is sat on my bedside table, all the victims of this Light idiot written across it. No sign of Ryuzaki's name, however I knew he was smarter than to kill L with his own hands.
Or maybe just a wimp.
There's only one thing to do...
Yes, I am working with the Death Note. However I'm not doing it for any benefit of other people than L and myself. I've been avenging L. All the Yagami's have died painful awful deaths. All... except the girl...
Sayu, I've figured out was a nickname. No one but her parents and Light knew her real name, since she always preferred Sayu. Which is why I'm missing a death note.
Teen Idol Misa Amane's Death Note...
I should've seen it coming. No one knew I'd have killed the Yagami's if I hadn't gone up to her and laughed.
"My name's Reiko Misora-Penber. of course, that won't be much help to a dying girl. Your parents knew too, Sayu Yagami... All my victims are signed with a little R only I understand. I'm avenging my disceased parents and Onii-sama. Goodbye, Sayu Yagami."
She was scared too, of course, until I write it, and she didn't die. Again and again. Nothing!
Why? Is there a limit? What's going on?
"Reiko... Misora-Penber... 3:15am... t-twenty ninth... J-January.. 2019..."
What is she doing?
So then I guess I lied. I won't be working under Nate River. It's the January 28th 2019 now, tomorrow the death date she told me. But I'm not going to die the horrible way she's planned out for me - let alone on my 17th birthday.
"I'll see you again, won't I, Lawliet?"
I whisper his name because if anyone else hears he will die.
"Yes... although, hopefully not too soon."
I'm coming to join you, Lawliet...
And Mum...
And Dad...
My eyes are tearing...
Write a nicer death before she writes hers.
Reiko Misora Penber, 12:23pm... 28th January... 2019... poisons herself"
I even bought the bleach and put it in my drink.
It's all over now, I think as I pick up my cup sub-conciously...
"This is the best I could... I'm sorry..."
