"Gee what do you wanna do tonight Brain?" I asked in a goofy british accent.

"The same we do every night Pinky. Try to take over the world!" Light replied in a mock serious tone.

I laid on his bed, laughing hysterically. He smiled and went back to his computer. Light Yagami is my best friend. We've been friends for..I don't know, practically our whole lives. He's a straight-A, college bound student while I was the perfect example of a slacker.

"Say, Tsukiko, when are you going to finish that report for Effective Writing?"

I flicked my raven black hair behind me.

"Whenever I feel like it." I replied and stretched.

"That's not good." He nagged. "You're not going to graduate if you keep slacking like this."

Blah blah blah, he says this every time! Doesn't he have an off switch?

"Yeah yeah, I know."

"So why don't you do anything about it?" He snapped.

"Because I'm lazy." I replied with a smile.

"You're impossible." He scoffed and went back to clicking at the computer.

"What'cha doin?" I asked, pressing my face against the screen.

"Watching the news." He replied and pushed my face away.

Yet another has died because of Kira. Big whup.

"Hey Light?"

"Yes Tsukiko?"

"I looooooooooove you!"

He simply rolled his eyes and went back to watching the news. I watched with him, wondering what would happen next.

"I'm bored." I said, rolling on my back.

"What do you want me to do about it?" He asked.

"Entertain me." I replied.

"No way. Go find Misa, I'm sure she'll entertain you."

"Ugh, she's so annoying! She so completely in love with you that it makes me sick."

"As if there's anything I can do about it. Now scoot!"

I sighed in frustration and left the room. I said good bye to Mrs. Yagami and walked outside. I hadn't even realized it, but it was pouring outside. I had also never told Light that I was in love with him, I just wasn't as open about it as Misa was. I couldn't help it, we've been so close for so many years, why couldn't I say anything about it? Just as I looked up to the heavens and curse God, I saw a black covering over my head. I looked down to a pale, dark eyed boy, looking about my age. He was so attractive that Light slipped from my mind like water.

"Why on earth would you go out in weather like this without an umbrella?" He asked, moving closer to ensure that I was covered.

"Oh, I don't know, I didn't expect a gentleman like yourself to help me." I replied with a smile.

"Can I ask where you're going? I don't want to leave you alone in the cold like this."

Either this guy was a real honest-to-god gentleman, or just a plain old pervert. I'll go with gentleman.

"Just up the road here. It isn't very far."

"I'll walk you home." He said quietly and followed me home.

"So what's your name?" I asked sweetly, flipping my raven black hair back behind my ears.

"Ryuzaki. What about you?"

"My name is Tsukiko Namida. It's so nice to have gentlemen like you around."

"I have to admit, there aren't many of us left." He replied quietly.

We stopped in front of a rather lavish mansion that was well lit. I was incredibly wealthy, but I hated to flaunt it, so I wore simple clothes, similar to Misa's.

"Well, we're here." I said nervously.

We walked up to the front porch where Ryuzaki closed his umbrella.

"Do you want to come in? You look awfully cold." I asked.

"Oh, I couldn't. I don't even know your family."

"That what introductions are for!" I chimed and grabbed him by the wrist, dragging him inside.

I propped him in front of me while my parents sat in front of the fireplace, daddy reading a newspaper and mommy puffing on a cigarette.

"Mommy, Daddy, this is my new friend Ryuzaki. He's really cold and alone, can he stay for the night?"

My mother's mouth fell open, causing her to almost drop her cigarette. Daddy put the paper down and stared at me.

"Why?" Mommy asked, stamping her cigarette out.

"He's alone and cold mommy, just look at him!"

Mommy looked to daddy and he shook his read, shaking the newspaper and adjusting his glasses.

"Alright, he can stay in the guest room."

I nearly choked daddy to death and dragged Ryuzaki up the stairs, around a turn, up another flight of stairs, and into my room. No one said we had to go to bed now.

"This is my room. We're gonna have fun till we fall asleep!" I squeeled.

Ryuzaki raised a finger, but I shoved an Xbox 360 controller into his hands before he could say anything.

"Come one!" I squeeled again. "We're gonna play Halo 3, then Viva Piñata! Party Animals, then maybe Dynasty Warriors: Gundam if we haven't fallen asleep yet."

Ryuzaki stared down at the controller, completely puzzled.

"I'm not a video game person." He admitted.

"Oh, that's okay! I'll teach you!"

Before long, we were kicking ass on Xbox Live. Everyone wanted to join our team, and our enemies cursed us out until I had to mute them.

"This is fun." Ryuzaki said with a smile.

"Heck yes it is! This is one of my favorite games." I chuckled.

Ryuzaki was quiet for a while, until he asked me a question that threw me off track.

"You've heard of the Kira case, haven't you?" He asked.

I snuck up behind someone on blue team and cracked him in the back of the head.

"Yeah, why?"

"Just curious." He replied in a tone that would indicate suspicion.

"I'm not Kira Ryuzaki." I said simply, pumping another blue team member with lead.

"I never said you were." He replied, looking to the left.

"You're a liar." I chuckled and left the game.

"Hm?" He asked, and looked a bit curious.

I set down my controller and headset and stared at him.

"When you said you said I was Kira, you looked to the left. Humans always look to the left when they're making something up, but they look to the right when telling the truth."

"Amazing.." Ryuzaki whispered and yawned.

"Yeah, I'm kind of tired too." I said and stretched out of the rug.

Ryuzaki stood up and tried to walk out, but I whined in protest. He looked back at me and I patted the area next to me.

"Won't your dad get angry? I mean, we've only known each other for--" He looked at his watch "Four hours."

"Yeah, well I'll just say we got tired and fell asleep. Besides, I don't feel like getting up."

My blood red eyes lit up when he curled up next to me like a cat.

"Good night Ryuzaki." I whispered.

"Good night Tsukiko." He whispered back.