L stood, watching.
Just watching.
Waiting.
Nothing else.
Waiting for the inevitable. He watched Light's chest rise up and down, a little slower with each breath. It made him sad to see this. Because he allowed himself to believe, if only for a second, that perhaps Yagami Light and Kira were two different people, sharing the same body. So who died before him now? Light or Kira? Both? He looked again, getting the strangest feeling that the boy could see him…
It wouldn't be long now.
Unable to remain still any longer, he moved forward, gliding soundlessly up the metal steps, and putting himself into a resting position on the stairs. Not quite sitting, not quite hovering, a little above Light's eye level.
"You cannot see, or hear me?"
No response. He felt a pang in his stomach.
He made a strange sound, like the beginning of a note, a sound not quite like speaking, but it was cut short almost as soon as it left his lips. Why still so self-conscious? It wasn't like there was anyone to judge…
He began again, slow and trembling, his voice sounding hollow and empty in the empty building, with no other sound but the rapidly slowing heartbeat of the boy next to him.
"Through wind and rain
All storms must die
Through pain and sorrow
We stay alive
We will remain
'Til memory fades
And webs of shadow cross all minds
And through this dark
We rest and hide
We forever close our eyes
Our presence stays
Untouched by time
Until the last stream flows bone dry
Until the last tree withers and dies
And the stars fall upon the sky
And last regrets, they mean no more
As the last wave breaks upon the shore
And the last note hangs in the air
As the last thought releases the last care
And finally, when all else is gone
The last light will look very long
And memory is soon dismembered
Even when the darkness falls
To keep a dream once remembered
The last heartbeat. The closing of the eyes. How fitting.
A ghostly tear fell unattended upon the hand of Yagami Light.