Title: The Ultimate Challenge!
Rated: T
Summary: We have always been told in the past by teachers that an assignment can't be done at the last minute. Of course, we normally prove them wrong and get the highest grade. What if Light was told he couldn't build a working atom splicer at the last minute? Would he not get it done, or would he? Would he fail?
AN: Based off of a face book status shuffle. This is Before Light goes to college.
It was a bright late May day in the Kanto region of Japan. School was still in session for high school genius, Light Yagami. He was in his last class of the day, the one he loathed with very fiber of his being, chemistry.
" Class, I want each of you to build a working replica of an atom splicer." Mrs. Melissa, the chemistry teacher, said.
"When is it due?" One of the students asked for the whole class.
"It's due the week before summer break. This is not an assignment that can be done at the last minute!"
Light smiled, his boredom starting to fade.
"Challenge accepted. Bring it on." Light whispered, accepting the challenge.
Summer break crept closer and closer, each chemistry student was still hard at work on the assignment. Everyone that is, except for Light. Seeing as how he never had to worry about his grades, he decided it could wait. After all he had more demanding matters to attend to.
Between keeping Task Force on its toes, ridding the world of evil, using Misa, and keeping up a "normal" high-school life, he forgot.
"Light-Kun!" His friend yells, startling the Zac Effron look-a-like from his thoughts.
"Yes?" Light asks, bored.
"The atom splicer is due tomorrow!"
Light blinks for a few moments then mutters something incoherent under his breath.
"No worries. I've got it covered."
Those words were like the kiss of death for Light. He didn't know how or what it would look like. He had twenty-four hours, and in that time he planned on still ridding the world of evil while getting an A.
In only a hour he googled the parts needed to make an atom splicer while killing ten criminals. After two hours and six trips to Home Depot, he started to build the atom splicer. Light started to get nervous as the clock ticked away, mocking him.
He might have worked well under pressure as proven when he became Kira, but he was only human, no matter how much of a god complex he had, and needed a break. So that's what he did, while killing sixty more criminals with the Death Note.
After the hour break he went back to work on the project. He had just one more piece to put on and soon, the atom splicer would be completed and he could focus on being Kira.
Sadly things didn't go as planned and Light had to keep on fiddling with that one part. Twenty minutes later and Light put on the final part, satisfied. He yawned loudly and decided after killing one more criminal, to go to bed.
The next day everyone turned in the working atom splicer. By the end of the day, Mrs. Melissa handed out the grades to each student. Everyone got an A or a B, everyone that is except Light. When he saw his grade, his jaw almost literally hit the ground in shock. He had gotten a grade he had never thought to exist, a grade he could never get. He had gotten a F.
He glared at his teacher and muttered loud enough for L to hear, "No one gives Kira a F."
Having heard that L came to the high school and arrested Light Yagami on several counts of murder.
While being taken away Light yelled on the top of his lungs, "That project was a waste of my time!"
That was why you never tried to prove that you could do an assignment at the last possible minute.