Ice cream, it was every where. I tried to get all the children to calm down, but it was hopeless.
A bunch of fourteen year olds wouldn't listen to a seventy year old like me. My younger sister, Deiji had wanted to throw a huge birthday party down at the ice cream café, which was also where I held a part-time-job. It didn't pay as much as I wished it did, but it was the closest thing to home in case mom had another attack. I, of course, was made to look after Deiji.
Mom had taken an extra shift at the hospital, again. I was starting to worry about her health, she seemed to be eating less and less for the past few days, and losing Dad this past year didn't help. It was like she was rotting away each day.
"Kibo-Chan!" The annoying voice of my sister whined.
I put down the box of presents and turned to her, raising a eyebrow at her pouting face. She had gotten taller, but was still small for a fourteen year old. Her head barely reached my stomach. She had mum's blue gaze and father's red hair, as I had mum's orange hair and dad's green eyes. But, my sister seemed to tan more easily than me as my pale skin stood out against her dark one. She must have gotten it from Dad, he'd never get sunburned, while mum and I did.
"Can I open my presents now!" She pleaded and I sighed. She will never change.
I struck a thinking pose, finger tapping on my chin, as my other hand sat on my hip. "Hmmm, Maybe if you get your friends to all sit down, we can begin" I sung out and like magic every one bolted to their seats.
"Hehehe, Works every time" I whisper to Risuna, my long time friend and college, as we begin present time.
It had taken me and Risuna about two hours to clean up the mess as parents started to come by, picking up their kids. We were almost finished when my butt pocket buzzed.
"Hello?" I asked, taking out my phone, as Risuna smirked. She started making kissy faces and I waved her off. I listened to the caller and nodded as they went on talking.
" Sure, Mr. Yagami, It's no problem" I reassured.
"Thank you, Kibo your a big help!" Mr. Yagami said from the speaker and I ended the call. Risuna's face had gone pale and it was my turn to smirk.
"I thought it was Light" She confessed and we broke out in laughter. "So what Did Mr. Yagami want?" She asked and I sighed, rubbing my forehead.
"He can't make it on time to pick up Sayu, so he asked me if I could"
"And knowing you, you couldn't refuse a pleading old man" She finished and I nodded sadly. "Then ya better leave now, it looks like it's about to rain" she finished, handing me the box of Deiji's presents, as she checked the weather outside the cafe's window.
I follow my friends gaze and agree, it was begging to get dark from thunder clouds. I turn my attention to a hopeful girl, standing outside.
Sayu had been waiting for a her dad and I felt bad for her, as my father used to do the same thing. Get so caught up with work that he'd forget about previous engagements, made mom furious every time.
"You think you could close up without me?" I asked Risuna and she waved me off, telling me not to worry about it.
Deiji and I left the café, with her presents in "our" hands, as I told her to wait in the car.
"Sayu!" I called out and she turned to me with a forced smile. "I'll drive you home, come on"
She gave a sad smile and nodded, coming along with us. I, My sister, and Sayu were the closest out of anyone we knew. But, Sayu liked to come to me for advice on important lady things. I had taken the roll as her older sister by accident and didn't mind.
"So how's light doing these days?" I asked on the drive to Sayu's home. I and Deiji had been there so many times, It was easy to find by now.
The two younger girls giggled in the back seat, whispering back and forth, until finally Sayu spoke.
"Why, ya want to know about light?"
I could hear the hinting in her voice and scoffed, rolling my eye's.
"Haven't talked to him much since I moved schools" I said nonchalantly and groans could be heard from behind me. I smirked when Sayu gave in.
"He's fine, been hung up in his room mostly with homework. But, he's still the same old light"
I smiled, half listening to Sayu and my sister ramble on about older siblings being annoying. It was nice that at least one of my friends didn't change on me.
"Here we are!" I sang out as I parked the car in front of the yagami's home, just being able to make out lights bedroom window from me seat.
Sayu and Deiji cheered, getting out in a snap. The two preteens raced for the house. I always wondered how they had so much energy as I locked up the car. But, as I headed for the front door, A presence walked down the road and I sighed sadly. It was a ghost.
Since I could remember, I had the ability to see the dead or any other paranormal being of sorts. It scared me really bad when I was a child, but after a while. I had gotten used to seeing them, meds mostly helped my sanity, and pretending they weren't even there. Mom had told me once, I had inherited it from my father's side and would grow to be so much more then I knew, whatever that was suppose to mean...
"Hahahaha~" A chilling laughter whispered threw the air behind me and I quicken my pace towards the house.
"Kibo-Chan! thank you for bringing Sayu home, I hope she didn't cause to much trouble?" Mrs. Yagami said, embracing me into a tight hug, as I entered the front door. "Excuse me!" Sayu shout could be heard from the living room and I chuckled.
"No, Mrs.Yagami. Sayu was great, the most behaved out of everyone" I sighed out and the older woman smiled knowingly at me. "How about I get you some tea?"
Iexcepted her hospitality, thanking her kindly.
"So how are your studies going, you're studying to be a doctor just like your mother aren't you?" She asked and I nodded, walking into the kitchen and taking a seat at the dining table.
For the past few years, I had been working on helping my mom out at her work, hoping to save someone that needs help.
"It always made me happy to help others in need... to help someone in dad's shoes..." I said, remembering the accident clearly, as my hands clenched tightly together on my lap.
"Your father was a great man, my husband and I will always remember his sacrifice Kibo-chan" Mrs. Yagami said, taking a hold of my hands. Putting a cup of tea in them, she tried to comfort me. I gave her a pained smile and she patted my cheek.
"Drink, ginger tea helps" She lectured and I laugh, but drink it anyway.
"Well, now this is a surprise, Kobo's back!" The all too familiar voice sung out as I snapped around.
Light Yagami in all his cockiness walked off the stairs and over to me. A big grin was plastered on his face as I frowned.
"Its Kibo, I'm not a phone line!" I snapped, but the smile on my face was making the anger in my voice useless as I embraced Light into a hug.
"Its been what, Two years now?" Light said and I shrugged, letting go of him. After getting teased about hugging light and eating dinner with the Yagami's, Light had taken me up to his room to talk.
"Light what did you want to..." I froze in mid speech as we walked into his room.
A huge wigged creature laid sprawled out on Lights bed as if he lived here. Light hadn't noticed my behavior as he sat down in his desk chair.
"I just wanted to catch up, what have you been up to lately?" He asked, motioning for me to take a seat on his bed. But, I didn't want to be anywhere not that thing. So I sat on the floor beside the bed, causing light's brow to crease, as the thing looked over at me.
"Are you okay, is there something wrong with my bed?"
"Hey, light do you think she can see me?" The demons scratchy voice said to light, staring at me intensely, as it appeared in front of me. But, I ignored it and played it cool.
"It's fine Light, I'm just not comfortable in sitting on a guy's bed..." I said slowly.
"Why?" Light persisted, staring at me in a way that made me feel naked.
I frowned, holding back a smirk that clearly said "are you really this dumb?", as he glared at me. "what do guys usually do in their beds, besides sleeping, Light?" I asked him in an innocent manner.
Light gave new meaning to his name as his face shined bright red.
"Hahaha, She's got ya there. I like her!" The winged being said, laughing crazily, as Light forced a smile. He decided that we should switch spots, so that I was in the desk chair and him on his bed.
"So what have you been up to?" Light asked, again.
"Nothing much to be honest, other then getting into the same college as you" I said, smirking at his shocked face.
He smiled brightly and started firing questions like, when, who, why, and did your mom approve. We talked for a while until Lights mother came up offering us snacks to eat.
"Do you have any apples?" I asked and she nodded smiling, before heading down to get me one.
I had always loved the fruit, honey crisps were always my favourite.
"still love apples I see" Light said and I gave him a thumbs up.
"Ain't nothing better man!" I cheered out as the demon copied me.
"Light, Light! She likes apples!"
He started to cry in... joy? I tried not to laugh. This demon was funny and it seemed that light could see him too, which was very odd. I wonder, was light like me?
Light gave a stressful sigh, mumbling something that the demon heard, and he spoke up. "Remember when you invented that apple eating contest for the new year festival?"
"I won it every time!" I sigh, remembering it fondly, as I subconsciously rubbed my stomach and we both laughed. But, something felt off. The aura in his room gave me bad vibs.
"Light" I said. He meet my serious gaze with his own and I thought about telling him my special gift. "Remember when we were kids and I had that trauma attack in the park..." We both frowned, remembering when I started screaming and crying for my parents as I pointed at something in the woods that wasn't there.
"Ya, you scared the hell out of dad and me" He said. I nodded and looked towards the window, that was blocked by the demon that loomed over me, as my green eye's gazed into it's red one's that reminded me of the horrible things I had witnessed it's kind do.
" I saw something that day, but no one seemed to see it..." I whispered and Light froze, snapping his head up to me, as his eye's flickered back and forth between the demon and I, who were still looking at each other. I knew by the crazed glint in their eye's that it would be best to not tell them the whole truth.
"I saw a man, kill a child" I confessed and Light seemed to change his nervous tension to anger.
"People like that disgust me" He said and I gave him a blank look.
"Light we can't control who lives and dies in this world, better to just accept it and move on..." I mumbled and Light shot up, grabbing a holding of my chair.
"Light what are you-!" I said in shock and looked up. The look in Light's eye's scared me a bit as he hovered over me, just a breath away, when a grin pulled on his lips.
"What if you could" He whispered. "Let's share the fruit of fate..."
The demon's evil laughter echoed menacingly threw out the room. All I could feel in that moment was a huge urge to run and hide.
What had happened to you, Light... Or are you even him anymore?
To Be Continued In Chapter Two!