"The
Way of Misa"
Demeter
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG13
Characters: Misa, Raito
Warnings: Spoilers up to Ch.58, vaguely futurish
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He pets her absently on the head, Misa looks at him and knows that he doesn't even see her. Misa's there, she has the eyes, she has the ability, she listens to him, he likes that quality about her, he finds her clingy, he doesn't care what she gets out of this. This. This relationship? A relationship of lies, of truths, of damnation because, somehow, Misa misses Rem more than she thought she would and the lack of a caring voice causes the notes to shrill sharply, to fade, to disappear, to die away like the disappearance of Ryuuzaki who Misa now realizes is the one person Raito needs to stopper his brilliant mind, to bottle his hubris, to wave a wand and make everything okay and bring back the Raito who'd hit Ryuuzaki for wanting to use Misa as bait.
Look there, twenty years left in that person, oops, she only has two days left, that poor girl, she's going to die in only two days because she's going to get raped and beaten until the brains are leaking out of her ears and wasn't Misa so very lucky for that Death God who'd she never met, who she'd never known, and who, according to Rem, had given up its life just so Misa could live happily ever after, but this happy ending isn't happy and she sees nothing but Raito sneering and Misa knows that this wasn't what she was looking for at all.
But Ryuuzaki does the circle dance in Misa's head and Misa sees Raito's none-existent lifeline in her eyes. There is no end, there is no clue and Misa knows the clock will tick, tick, tick until the time is gone and then Misa'll do the wrong thing and Raito will be God and Ryuuzaki will be back and Misa?
Well, Misa doesn't care what happens to Misa. Just so long Raito and Kira (or is it the other way around, Misa wonders) is safe and playing God with people who are as lost as she is she'll cut her life in half again and again, and it'll be okay because didn't someone once say that to cut in half was to cut into infinity?
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