Note: This story takes place in LA.

Aiko is Sayu's older twin sister and Sayu is always in the shadow of Aiko and Light. This is an AU story.

Disclaimer: I only own Aiko.

Please review and tell me what you think.

Chapter 1:

A is for "Assassinated"

Just fifty-three minutes and so many seconds earlier, Sayu Yagami had been dry but marked for death. Now, her arms were wound tightly around the man's waist who was supposed to have killed her instead of her twin sister to spare her life and she was soaking wet. Her twin sister was still alive... for now...

But now she rode on a motercycle- something she thought she'd never do- with the teenager- Mello- who had been trying to kill her. And now she wrapped her arms tighter around him, biting her lip and letting the rain hide the fact that she was crying.

Fifty-three minutes ago...

Sayu Yagami sat with her knees under her. She wasn't sure if just the Japanese sat like this, maybe the Chinese and the Koreans did too. All she knew was that her legs were under herself and getting sore. Well that, she was dressed as a geisha for Halloween, and "she" was marked for death. The thought made her sigh and she left her uncomfortable position to lie down.

The kimono sleeve was white and decorated with dragonflies- blue bodies with red and violet wings. The obi was red. Her mother had done something for Sayu that she never had before- she pampered Sayu. She put her hair up into a bun instead of leaving it down. She had even gotten the same red paint the geisha's used for their lips. She had also taken her sister's- the person she was dieing for- makeup.

Sayu guessed she wanted mother daughter memories- the good ones before she's have to come home to her headless body… well, she was guessing headless.

Aiko, her older twin sister, was out trick or treaing. She seemed upset when she left but when Sayu looked out the window, she was laughing like nothing was wrong. The moment she closed the door, she had laughed. Did Sayu mean so little to her that she could laugh? Or was she trying to forget the pain of losing her twin? She'd like to think it was the latter.

Her hand rose to touch the scar just under her right eye. It was one of the few ways to tell Sayu and Aiko apart. She had been ten when she'd got it. It was the only time that her father, Soichiro Yagami, had shown a form of compassion that she remembered. They were walking downstairs when someone had tried to claim his life.

A stray bullet from the man's accomplice had been fired and grazed her face. The man who had her father at the knife dropped it and ran, shouting to her father to get her to a hospital. Another shot hit her lower ribcage and she had passed out from the pain and bloodloss.

She let her eyes close and reminded herself that for tonight, she was Aiko. She was dieing for her twin sister. Sayu thought about the day she agreed to do this… and why? She had agreed to this but second thoughts were forming in her brain now. She smiled bitterly and rolled onto her back- she'd never even been on a Ferris wheel.

Sayu got up off the floor, suddenly craving calamari. Unlike her brother, mother, and sister, she and her father liked spicy food, well, to an extent.

She warmed it up in the oven and when it was done, she took it with her to go sit in her mom and dad's room. She wasn't planning on dying in there, she just wanted to check one thing out. She opened a loose floorboard that she knew was there because she had hid her diary in a loose floorboard in her room once and her father had found it. Frowning, she pulled out the cigarettes that her father said he didn't smoke anymore.

On a piece of paper she wrote, Mom, make his quit. You'll both thank me when you see your grandchildren. Sayu, and then she attached it to the cigarette box and put it under the pillow.

She heard a window break and she scurried out of her parents' room. She turned the corner that led to the living room without looking and she came face to face with the man who was supposed to kill her. She fell onto her butt as the teenager- he couldn't be much older then her- kneeled down.

"You're clumsy, Aiko Yagami," he smirked. Sayu bit her lip, flustered. She knew that this was the person who was going to kill her but she couldn't help but thinking that the teenager in front of her was handsome- incredibly so. From afar, she might think that he was a girl but up close...

She swallowed and scooted back but the stranger grabbed onto her hand.

"You know I'm here to kill you, right?" he asked again.

"Then why don't you?" she hissed, trying to back up but she hit the coffee table her parents never seemed to find a place or a time to get rid of it.

"You're amusing... I thought you'd be screaming your head off trying to get away from me," he said. "That's how you're profile described you-" With her free hand, Sayu grabbed onto the telephone cord and threw the phone at Mello's head, using his shock and disbelief as momentum to escape. She fled from him, running upstairs and she heard Mello's furious footsteps running after her and she knew that he was right behind her.

She tripped over the hem of her kimono and cursed as she hit the floor. She was right in guessing that he was right behind her because when he had caught ahold of her, he lifted her up and pinned her against the wall, a knife at her throat.

"You're far too much trouble then you're worth," he hissed, pressing the knife harder against her throat. She whimpered, trying to turn her head to get away from the pressure of the knife.

"Don't..." she whimpered as she closed her eyes tightly.

"You're not Aiko," he said suddenly. Her eyes opened and he let her drop her to the floor. Sayu then realized her mistake.

"Wh-what are you talking about? Y-yes I am!" she protested.

"Do you or don't you want to die?" he demanded, pinning her to the floor as he covered her body with his. She blushed, realizing the compromising position they were in. "Who are you?"

"I told you-"

"Don't give me that bull shit," he snapped. "Who the fuck are you?" She stared at his cold, calculating eyes and for the first time in her life, she was truly, utterly scared.

"Y-Yagami, Sayu," she said. He stared down at her for a moment before getting off of her.

"Wh-what're you doing?" she asked, getting up.

"Leaving. You're not my damned target!" he snapped. "Now I have to go find her and-"

"No! Kill me instead!" Sayu begged, tripping over the hem again and this time she fell onto his back, bringing them both down.

"What is with you?" he demanded. "If you want to die so bad, do it yourself, stupid girl!" He threw her off of him again and she grabbed onto his hand.

"If... if you won't kill me," she begged. "Then take me with you!"

"Why?" he asked. "Why should I take you with me when-"

"I'll do anything! Just get me away from here and don't kill my sister! Please, don't..." Sayu begged. "I just want to get out of here!" He stared at her for what seemed like an eternity and eventually he spoke.

"Can you walk?" he asked. She nodded but when she put pressure on her left foot, she cried out in pain and the blonde teenager lifted her into his arms like a new bride. Sayu was too exhausted and in pain to blush like she normally would.

"What's your name?" she asked quietly.

"...You can call me Mello," he said as he walked down the stairs.

Sixty-eight minutes later...

"Mello..." she asked as he parked his bike inside an abandoned garage.

"What?"

"Why did you agree to take me?"

"That's another story for another time," he grunted. "If you want to survive the rest of the night, you need to do exactly as I say when I say it, no questions asked. Stay here." She felt a shudder run down her spine. His voice was cruel, demanding, and left no room for objection.

And when he returned with rope and a gag, she remembered to keep her mouth shut.

That'd be chapter one. Please review and tell me what you thought.