Ab Aeterno

Silent Dagger: Hooray for new idea for a Death Note story (don't worry, I'm still working away at In Paridisum)! OK, so on the matter of the Kira case being closed. I won't go into much detail now because it will show up at some point in the story, however, just know that something went wrong with Light's plan and he never got hold of the Death Note again, so he never remembered that he was Kira and thus Higuchi was arrested as Kira and was not killed so he was convicted. So yeah, Light stayed innocent as did Misa. Which means that Light's Death Note is still buried out there in the forest mwahahaha.

Prologue: The New Case

Four years had passed since the Kira case. Light Yagami was now able to focus on his classes again as well as help out the others at the Japanese Police when they got a case that was too severe for them alone. He was sitting in an English class and he couldn't help but think about the Kira case again. Normally he tried to forget about it, but for now his mind was drawn to it. Kyosuke Higuchi, the man had pretended that he was going to lead the people to a new world when secretly he had just been using the deaths to benefit himself. He had even gone so far as to make Light appear suspicious so that the investigation would focus on him when he had been innocent! Light would never do something like that…it was true that he did believe the world was better off with some people dying, but he would never be able to judge them like that…

He sighed to himself. Higuchi had been caught and the Kira killings had stopped. He had celebrated with the rest that this murderer had been brought down. And then, everything sort of became normal again. Ryuuzaki left Japan with Watari and he hadn't heard from them once, the investigation team became the head of the Japanese Police and Light was free to come and go as he pleased. To be honest…things had gotten boring ever since the Kira case was over.

It wasn't that Light enjoyed the fact that all those people were dying, no of course not. But it had been the first time in his life he had ever been challenged. Not to mention it was the first time in his life he got to spend time with someone as intelligent as himself. Now he was back with the daily masses, and no one understood him. Not that he missed Ryuuzaki…the man was irritating to no ends and had tried to prove that Light had been Kira until the end. Unless Light was mistaken, Ryuuzaki had appeared…almost disappointed that it had ended with Higuchi. Light stood up as the class ended and shook his head. Whatever the detective wanted to think, the fact remained that he, Light, was not Kira.

Since he had no more lectures for the day, Light planned to just return home and relax. There were no big cases to be solved at the present time so he really had no need to go to the police station. He sighed to himself as he headed home. Whenever he was alone like this, left alone in his thoughts, he seemed to remember wisps of a far off life. Of being followed by something dark, of having a secret, but he could not remember what and he passed it off as fleeting dreams that would never make themselves known to him.

Oh well, there was not much use in trying to force himself to remember a dream, no matter how important the dream may seem. He reached his house and walked through the door. The light on his phone was flashing, meaning that he had messages. He frowned; he bet every single one was from Misa. The woman still wouldn't leave him alone no matter how many hints he dropped. However, he could never bring himself to just reject her entirely. They were friends after all…

He picked up the phone and dialed his voice mail.

"LIGHT!!!" Yep, he had been right, Misa had struck again. He held the phone away from his ear as the message continued. "Misa-Misa has a photo shoot tonight at seven and she was wondering if she could meet with Light afterwards? Give Misa a call when you get this!!"

Light frowned at the phone. The last thing he wanted was to hang around with Misa after a photo shoot. If things didn't go well during it, Misa would be in a horrible mood and Light would have to put up with her bitter remarks for an entire evening…and if it went really well, he would have to listen to every single detail about the shoot. No, he was in no mood to do that.

The next message started to play.

"Hey Light, it's Sayu! I never see you anymore! Just because you're old enough to live on your own doesn't mean you have to shun your family! I'm just kidding, I know you're super busy, but try to make time to see your sister soon! Love you!"

Light couldn't help but smile as Sayu's message ended. She was still a sweet girl, he'd have to find time to take her out for lunch or something. He figured the next message would be Misa again, asking him if he had gotten her original message about hanging out and he held the phone out again, expecting another shout of his name through the phone.

However, it was not Misa…it wasn't even his father which had been his second guess. No, it was a familiar voice, a voice that he had not heard for four years.

"Light-kun, this is Watari…I need you to call me back as soon as possible…listen closely, there is a complicated password in order to get through to my current phone…"

Light focused in and listened as Watari listed off a long set of numbers. As soon as he was done, Light dialed. What was this about? Watari had not contacted him once and his voice sounded rather grave. Did something bad happen? Or maybe there was a hard case and Watari was just asking Light to help out? Well, he was sure he would find out soon.

"Yes?"

"Watari, it's Light Yagami," Light said.

"Ahh, thank you for getting back to me so quickly, Light-kun," Watari replied. He paused and Light wanted to prompt him to continue as he was starting to feel slightly anxious about what he was about to be told. "I know this is very short notice…Light-kun, but do you think you could come to England to help on a case?"

Light's eyes widened. England? Well…that was unexpected to say the least.

"What's the case, Watari?" he asked.

"It involves a very dangerous murderer, however I am sure Ryuuzaki would like to explain the situation in more detail when you get here…"

"All right," Light said, slightly taken aback. "Where should I meet with you?" he asked.

"Winchester Hospital," Watari said heavily.

"Why the hospital? Is a patient there a survivor from the murderer's attack?" Light asked.

"…Light-kun…the patient is Ryuuzaki."