Okay, so first chapter of the rewritten The Sister's Point Of View, which, by the way, needs a new title...like, really bad, and I can't think of one so I'm accepting ideas.
I stared at my brother's door. Should I really be doing this? Maybe I was making a mistake. The voice that obviously wasn't my brother's could have been the TV, everyone replies to the TV every now and then…but what if it wasn't?
I took a deep breath and tried to open Light's door. It was locked. Huh?
"Why do you have to lock your door, Light?" I asked curiously.
"Oh…hey, Sayu." Light greeted, not opening his door, "what?"
"I need some help with my homework!" I replied sheepishly.
"Oh, okay, sure. Hang on a second" I heard some shuffling.
What's he hiding from us? I wondered as my older brother opened the door.
"Ta-da! Quadratic functions!" I chirped, holding up my MATH homework book and textbook.
"Uh-huh" Light nodded.
"Watch out, Light…" a rough voice spoke. It was faint, and I could barely hear it, it was like someone was speaking from a distance. Who…? I quickly scanned the room, in search for the owner.
"That death note in your drawer…if she touches it, well, anyone who touches it can see me".
Eh? Anyone who touches it…? What's a death note? What does he mean? I wanted to ask Light so bad, but that would give me away! I was only here for help with homework, nothing more.
I looked around for the person who spoke again, and spotted a book on the floor.
"Hey, were you reading this magazine? Isn't it kinda dirty?" Is this was he was trying to hide? "Oh, I know. Is this why you locked your door?"
"hey, you." Light took the magazine from me, "I was looking at the articles about Kira and L".
If that really was what he was trying to hide, why bother in the first place? He's allowed to…no…it's something else; he's hiding something else. "Oh, yeah, you're going to be a detective when you grow up. So you're studying for that, too. Wow."
"That's right. I'm going to be the top honcho at the National Police Agency" Light gloated.
"I bet you will, too, Light" I encouraged, "you really could." Why do I even bother feeding his ego?
After that, we sat down at Light's desk and Light started "helping" me with my homework.
I don't really need help with my homework. I can do it myself just fine, if anything it's too easy. I may act like a normal teenager, but I've already graduated college. The only one who knows is my aunt, Miyo, who signed all the papers for my online course. I'm staying in school right now because I want to live as an average teenager, at least for a little while; I have tons of time to grow up later.
I sighed out of boredom as Light explained the latest problem to me before going back to acting like I know nothing. "Gosh, you're such a Math whiz!"
"Look, did you really get it?" Light questioned.
I put on a sheepish face as I replied, "uh…well, sort of".
I then heard some noises downstairs and held in my sigh of relief, "Oh, that must be dad, he's home early today".
I stood up and hurried out of the room, giving a short reply to Light's request of me finishing off my homework by myself, before jumping into my room and quickly grabbing my white notebook. My notebook worked like a diary; I wrote everything I thought down during my little breaks from my hobby: detective work.
Ever since I'd graduated from my online college course three months ago, I had grown bored, and decided to put my hacking skills to good use. I'd hack into the police's case files and see what I could do to help, leaving a little note behind from my alias, Dawn, so they wouldn't freak out. I'm starting to believe the police are beginning to trust Dawn a little, since they've stopped trying to make new passwords and locks…that or they've given up, which I doubt.
I wrote down what I heard the strange voice say, and my suspicions and ideas, before closing my notebook and stuffing it into my pillow case, where I hide everything, including my savings from my pocket money from mom and my pay from my part-time job online, which aunt Miyo sends me every two weeks.
"Light, Sayu, its dinner time!" my mom, Sachiko Yagami, called up to us, "Come downstairs."
"Coming!" I called back, rushing downstairs, "Hi daddy!"
When I saw my dad's face, I began to worry a little, "are you okay, dad?"
"Yeah" my dad, Soichiro Yagami sighed as he sat down to take off his shoes, "go and eat, your mother is waiting."
I heard Light greet dad as I entered the kitchen to help mom bring the food to the table.
Once all the food was ready, dad and Light sat down with us and began to eat. Half way through, dad sighed and started up a conversation.
"How's school going, Light?" Dad asked my brother.
"Hm?" Light looked up, "okay. Same as usual, dad."
"Yup" I joined in, "top of the class as usual! You can count on Light!"
"Yes" mom agreed, "you can count on Light."
"And what about you, Sayu?" Dad asked me.
"Who, me?" I blinked, and then turned sheepish, "are you…sure you want to know? I guess it's…same as usual for me, too."
"I see" dad said, putting down his chopsticks.
"You seem tired, dad." Light said, stating the obvious. I held in my sarcastic response.
"Well…this case is a hard one, to put it mildly…" dad sighed, "It's practically a wild goose chase. But…the person in charge of the investigation did say today that judging from the estimated time of death, the killer is probably a student…"
"I really don't think this is a subject for the dinner table…" mom interjected.
"Why not?" Dad asked, "we've had cases before where ideas from Light helped us move the investigation forward."
Before anything else happened, Light put his chopsticks down too and stood up, "I'm done."
"What, already?!" I stared.
"Sayu, is that all the help you needed?" Light asked as he took his dishes into the kitchen.
"Yeah, thanks" I replied.
"Was Light helping you do your homework again, Sayu?" Dad asked.
"Gee, Light! Thanks for blabbing!" I cried teasingly.
After that I wasn't really listening, Light said something to mom about cleaning and then left.
"You know" I said to myself, "Light's starting to act like a real teenager."
"Sayu?" Dad called my attention, I looked up.
"Yeah, dad?" I replied.
"Is something wrong?" Dad worried.
"Huh? No, I just zoned out a little" I smiled.
"Are you sure?" Mom joined in.
"Yes, I'm fine" I waved them off, "if anything, I'm more worried about you, dad."
"I'll be alright, don't worry" Dad smiled back.
After dinner, I headed up to my room and pulled out my laptop before typing in the rather long password and getting into the police files as if it were nothing.
I opened the file containing information on the Kira case, which I had been keeping tabs on ever since L and Kira's "battle", what I found surprised me.
"-From what we have found, the times of death (4 pm – 2 am weekdays, 11 am – 2 am weekends) indicate that Kira may be a student" I read, then I went back, "wait! A student! That's the exact same thing dad said! That means he's on the Kira case!"
I jumped up and ran to my door, planning to tell dad to quit, but then I realised that if I did that, I'd give myself away. I could get into a lot of trouble.
With that in mind, I walked back to my bed and read over the rest of the file. If I couldn't tell dad to quit, I'll just have to help them catch Kira faster.