It's my first fic in years and also my first Death Note fic, so be gentle. Also I couldn't think a name so suggestions are welcomed.

It will be LxLight in some point but not just yet

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, damn it…

Spoilers: Not much really, L's name in some point, but is there actually somebody who doesn't already know it?

Warnings: Gender switch, and it's totally AU. English isn't my first language so I'm warning you…

Introducing Yagami Light

It had been raining for days and the streets had turned into rivers. There was no dry place left in the busy city of Tokyo. A young woman stood in front of her school's main door under the shelter while looking at the downpour. Around her other students left while talking and laughing. Their colorful umbrellas seemed to be the only things that weren't grey. Even the yellow and red leaves of the trees seemed grey and colorless, dead. The sky was covered by grey and black clouds. She could hear the far a way sound of thunder.

She pushed her long, pianist fingers through her autumn-colored hair and sighed. She too had had colorful umbrella when she had entered the building at morning. During the day it had disappeared from her locker. She wasn't really all that surprised but that would not help right now. She had contemplated whether to walk or not and she had decided to wait little to see if the rain would ease because it would take at least fifteen minutes to reach her home, even if she ran. And in that time she would be drenched and she did not want to risk getting sick, especially because there would be test in next week. She couldn't afford to get sick for she had to study. Even thought, she thought bitterly, she would ace her exams whether she studied or not.

She wasn't egoistical, not really, more like realistic. She knew she was smarter than most of her age, actually smarter than people average. She looked at the world slightly differently from the others and that slight difference made her withdraw herself from the others. Oh, she did have friends, well at least people she hang out with, but that didn't stop her from feeling lonely. Lonely and bored, for even if she did have many friends, it wouldn't have mattered, because she wouldn't be able to have a decent conservation with them. They were simply too stupid she thought wincing. And as soon as the thought registered in to her mind, she regretted it. She wasn't supposed to feel superior, for that would only complicate her life in future.

She was startled out of her thoughts when somebody bumped her in their haste. She sighed, almost wishfully and then concentrated on her dilemma. It seemed that the rain would not stop anytime soon but she still hesitated. Her only option was to walk but yet she stayed right there without moving a muscle. Looking around her, she noticed that she was only one remaining in the school grounds. Even the teachers had already left.

The world around her seemed to match completely to her feelings and mood. The grey, which surrounded everything had long time ago got hold of her heart and mind. Her everyday life was becoming so dull, that she hardly could bother anymore. Her only enjoyment was solving her father's cases behind his back. Hacking to his compute wasn't all that hard and she had long ago learned how to help in solving without being noticed, at least by her father's superiors. Her father knew exactly what his older daughter was doing, but he couldn't really stop her, for without her many cases would have been left unsolved.

That's right; her father was chief investigator working for NPA, Yagami Soichiro. He was senior officer and lived a very busy life. Sometimes it could be days that she didn't even see him for he got home so late home that she was already asleep and left before she was awake. It was also to help him, not only the little excitement that drove her to solve the cases. She truly loved and admired her father. It may have disappointed her mother, Yagami Sachiko, that she was keener to her father's work than becoming perfect wife in future. As much as she appreciated her mother, she knew that that would not be her fate. She wasn't like her mother, gentle, loving, forgiving and more than anything, patient. She could not picture herself cleaning the house and preparing food for her husband. She was too strong willed to submit to anybody. Of course she had tried to make her mother happy and learned everything a good wife should know. Luckily she had a younger sister whom reminded more her mother.

Yagami Sayu was few years younger than she was and as gentle and loving as their mother. She loved her sister dearly but sometimes she couldn't help thinking that she was too placid. Sayu was always happy and she was always trying to please everybody. She wasn't too different in that point from her older sister, for she also tried to please everybody though they had different reasons. Sayu just wanted everybody be happy and so she did everything she could to help others. Her sister in the other hand, as awful as it sounded, pleased others so she could use them when needed. And as long as she acted as a perfect daughter, friend and student she could live her life without too many problems and enemies. Of course she couldn't live her life without annoying people for humans are jealous and her ability to succeed in anything she tried did not help her at all.

And thus she had come to notice that her umbrella had been stolen. And now she was stuck under shelter at school. Cursing whatever god or gods there were she raised her black jacket's collar in a desperate hope of not getting totally drenched. Her reddish-brown eyes were dull as she made final check around her, but there was nothing she could use as a replacement umbrella. Under the jacket she only had her school uniform and once again she found herself wishing she could wear pants like boys did. The skirt she was wearing did not cover very much, even thought she had not shortened it like some girls did. Sighing she left her shelter and started to run.

LxL

When she arrived home she was totally soaked. She said the traditional "Tadaima" while taking of her shoes without expecting answer as the house was dark and it usually meant her mother was out shopping and her sister was out with her friends. So she was surprised to hear the answer call from the upstairs. As she came to kitchen she saw her little sister coming down. Sayu gasped as she saw her sister and ran to bathroom to get her towel.

"What happened?" Sayu asked in wonder. "Didn't you have an umbrella when you left at morning?"

She smiled little as she tried to dry her hair. "I did, but it would seem somebody needed it more than I did." She noticed that the water dripping from her clothes was making a puddle in the floor. She quickly went upstairs to her room to chance her clothes. Sayu, after drying the water, rushed to her sister's room. She knocked the closed door and the door was opened instantly. Her sister was already dressed. Damn, she was fast.

Still drying her waist long hair she stepped aside to let Sayu inside. Then she frowned. "Weren't you supposed to be at your friend's place?" She threw the towel to back of the chair and adjusted her black long-sleeved shirt. The light blue jeans were tight and made her look even longer than she already was. She had always been tall for a girl, but it was until her body had matured that she started to look good. Her beautiful face was free from makeup as she couldn't bother with it.

"She had to go to see her grandparents," Sayu said lightly. She had always admired her sister who seemed simply too perfect to exists. She of course knew that she was nowhere near as good as she was but she liked to think there was some other quality that made her likeable. She was pretty, not drop-dead gorgeous as her sister was, but still pretty enough. She looked at her sister who didn't seem to be listening.

"Light?"

Yagami Light looked at her sister as if surprised to see her and then smiled. "Sorry, I zoned out little. You were saying?"

Sayu shook her head. "It's nothing." She bit her lip and looked at her sister speculatively. "I know you must be busy and all," she started hesitantly, "but could you help me with my homework? I still don't get math."

Light looked at her sister who was looking at her with the puppy-eyes. Sighing Light nodded. "Yay!" Sayu ran out of her room and Light yelled after her: "After dinner!"

Sighing once again she shook her head amused. Then she sat down her chair and started to do her own homework. It wasn't very hard, but there was a lot to do. No matter how smart she was, she still couldn't write faster than any normal human being.

LxL

Light sat on her chair after the dinner and the study-session with Sayu watching TV with a little enthusiasm. She was watching an old re-run from 1980s and she was as bored as ever. She was contemplating whether to go to sleep early or not, when the episode was cut off by extra news.

"An atrocious murder has taken place in Tokyo. A body of young woman was found in the trashcan near the police station. The police are not commenting yet but the eyewitness has confirmed that the body was badly mutilated. It would seem that the killer has marred her all over, expect her face."

The news anchor kept on describing the situation as a short video clip was shown. Corpses face was shown shortly. She had been a pretty dark-haired girl. In the corner of her eye was a big beauty mark and for some reason Light felt that she should know the woman but she couldn't pinpoint exactly where she had seen her before.

She heard how her father's cell phone went off. Mr. Yagami spoke quietly and then she heard him say goodbye to her mother as he left to work. She knew it must have something to do with the news but she also knew that she wouldn't get anything useful in a couple of days to work with. She smiled little as she knew that her boredom was over, at least for a while. She suppressed the guilt she had from her thoughts quickly. She did feel bad for the woman and she wished, as she had many times before, that she had a power to kill all the criminals, but this was her chance to relive some of the boredom she felt and she would not give up on that.

Not really feeling tired she decided to check out on the internet if there was something new about the case but she was not disappointed when she didn't find anything. The possibility had been small in the first. She sat in front of her computer frowning. Her thoughts were running and she was trying to come up theories but eventually she gave up as she had too little to work with. Sighing she went to shower, trying to forget the case for now seeing how she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if the thoughts plagued her mind. In an attempt to forget she took her school book and started to study for her up-coming exams.

Her tedium would come to an end soon.

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