This chapter has finally been edited. However, I know that some mistakes have slipped past me. In case you found some grammar mistakes or even misspelled words, kindly include it to your review. Thank you.
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CHAPTER ONE: Death Note
As usual, Hikari was scribbling down words in her notebook- words that did not have to do with the lecture of her class. She looked at her teacher with bored eyes and rested her chin on her left hand. Lessons were really boring.
Watashi Koibito…
"Yagami-kun," called their sensei to the handsome straight A student.
"Are you listening? Will you translate that last part?" his voice showing a hint of irritation and oration to his student.
Light sighed before standing up and scanned the book, "You should follow god's teachings. If you do, the sea will remain quiet and the storm will not come." He read after he found the right page.
'As expected from the great student. He hasn't changed' she thought sarcastically as she watched him sit back to his seat and rest his head on his hand, looking outside the window again.
She followed his gaze and stopped. A notebook fell from the sky. Was it Death Note that she saw engraved on it? Where could it have come from? She finally made a decision; she would check it out later. Just to settle her curiosity.
-DISMISSAL-
"Hey, Hikari-chan! Wanna hang with-"
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry," she answered before Yamato could complete his sentence. She then quickly ran off, thoughts about the notebook filled her mind.
She slowed her steps as she arrived outside and her eyes quickly wandered around her for a moment, then she found what she was looking for.
'Asoko! (There!)' she ran towards it but stopped on her tracks when Light came into view. She quickly sat on a nearby bench and secretly watched his moves. 'He has seen it also…'
The guy picked it up and observed the notebook for a while before opening to the first page. Hikari felt strange when he opened the notebook. Her hairs at the back of her neck were standing. She observed the cover of the notebook, Death Note. She was right, those were the words engraved on it.
He closed the notebook and put it back on the ground, walking away. Hikari took this as a chance and slowly approached it but Light looked back again and took it again. This time, leaving for sure…
She looked puzzled at the guy. Why would Light take it?
-6:20 PM-
"Boring!" she said as she lied at her soft bed. The television was turned on.
'What could be that notebook that Light took? It's obviously not his…'
"The man who discriminately killed and wounded six people yesterday in Shinjiku is still barricaded inside the nursery school with eight hostages including little children…"
At hearing this, she sat up and turned her full attention on the screen. A picture of a 42-year-old man appeared on the screen.
"The metropolitan police have determined the man's identity as Kurou Otoharada, 42-years-old and unemployed,"
"How stupid," she muttered mockingly as she slightly stretched.
"They are currently trying to negotiate with him…"
"Seriously, using children as hostages? How childish of them," she stood up and glanced at the wall clock before changing into her new clothes. It was 5:23 PM exactly…
"It's hard to tell what's happening now,"
"I'm so worried about the hostages…" commented the news reporter, who was a woman.
"Me, too"
And that was the report from the screen. The alternate reporter was waiting back at the Newscast station, appearing on the screen.
"Thank you. What do you think will happen, Hashimoto-san?"
"I'm hoping for a quick resolution," the reporter replied timidly.
'I hope that man dies soon. There are too many criminals already.' She thought without hesitation and glanced at the mirror to check herself.
"Ah! Wait a minute!"
She removed her attention from the mirror and looked back at the screen.
"We have a new development!" added the woman in the screen.
"The hostages are coming out!" exclaimed the reporter. Hikari's eyes widened. The reporter was right; the children were already running out from the building.
'What the heck just happened?'
"They all seem to be all right,"
"And now, the police are going in! Will they be able to arrest the suspect?"
"This message just came in! The captor has died inside the nursery school!"
Hikari gasped, "Oh my god!"
"It appears the suspect is dead!"
"The police are emphasizing that they did not shoot him,"
"Could that mean he committed suicide?" asked the reporter to her co-reporter.
"Well, the hostages are apparently saying he suddenly collapsed."
Hikari stared at the screen for a long time. The photographers were all crowding and taking pictures at the incident. Her thought came true! But only one image came into her mind, and that was the notebook…
'It's not true…it's not true!'
She flinched when she heard her alarm clock ring. It was already 6:30 PM. She quickly turned it off and the television before picking her handbag and leaving with a deep thought.
This day…it was so strange…
-6:54 PM-
'I'm gonna be late! Stupid news!' she ran as fast as she could when she saw the prep course school. She quickly went inside and turned to the stairs. She could hear her running footsteps as she run on the clean corridors.
She slid the door open.
'Made it!' she panted heavily before looking in front of her as she heard the familiar voice of Sudou.
"Hey, Ryo baby"
"Uh… what, Sudou-kun?"
"Lend me some money. Two thousand will do"
"Eh…again?"
Hikari looked at him in disgust as she sat on the desk that was to the left of Light. Her attention fell on Light and saw him staring into the scene between Sudou and Ryo with a deep thought in his head.
She looked back and saw Ryo handing Sudou a 2000-yen bill.
"Sweet! We're going to the arcade tonight!"
Sudou and his friend started walking away and were about to reach her desk. When he was close by, she put her foot on the way, making him stumble to the floor.
"Ah, gomene, Sudou-kun. I didn't see you there," she said as she act as if she was innocent.
Sudou got to his knees and brushed the dirt off of him.
"You know, by the way you act, I can clearly see you are very childish. Childish, indeed. You should return that back to Ryo-kun or else-" she paused and put a sly grin.
"Or else what?" he asked, daring her to continue. She hummed playfully before swiping the bill off of his hand.
"Hey! Give it back! It's mine!" he tried to get it from her but he always missed.
"If it's really yours, why can't I see your name written on it?" she stated, only one eye open.
Sudou held his hands into a fist before turning around, pissed off. She grinned at his reaction "Baka, (Stupid/idiot)"
Ryo quickly approached her with a thankful smile. "Arigatou, Hikari-chan!" he thanked happily.
"It's nothing, Ryo-kun." She handed him back his money and he bowed slightly before going back to his seat.
Her gaze fell on Light and saw him smiling. She looked questioningly at him.
'Why the heck is he smiling like that?'
-9:00 PM-
Hikari quickly gathered her things before pulling her handbag in her right shoulder and sped of outside the room. She was running so fast that she bumped onto someone and fell on her butt.
"Gomene, (sorry)" apologized the stranger. She looked up and saw the handsome face of Light Yagami.
Watashi koibito…
He offered his hand to her and she snapped out of her flash back then took it.
"Arigatou, Light-kun (Thank you)" he only nodded with a smile and bid goodbye. As she was waving goodbye at him, the notebook appeared on her mind. Her hand fell in her side and watched Light walk away. Something was definitely going to happen…
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As he continued walking after helping Hikari, his mind was filled about the notebook again.
'Mataku. Start looking around you. And all you see are people the world would be better off without.' but Hikari's face appeared in his mind. Maybe, not all of them…
"Onee-san!"
Light glanced at the person and saw a group of men, who were riding motorcycles, blocking a woman's way.
"How about havin' some fun with us tonight?" the ugly man with shades said to the woman.
Light went inside a convenient store and watched the commotion between those people through the transparent windows.
"Hey Taku-san, you got a good taste, man." His friend commented with a silly grin.
"My name's Shibumaru Takuo, that's Shibaku for short. Hehe. Come on, onee-san, how about it?"
"I…don't think so," she answered frighteningly.
"She doesn't think so, dude!"
"Awww, so cute!"
Light picked a magazine as he watched them.
"Let's take off all her clothes!"
"Haha. You sure? Hehehe!" a water pipe was slid under her throat, holding her from struggling.
"Yamede! Onegai! (Stop it! Please!)" she pleaded as she tried to break free.
"Yamede!!!"
Takuo's hands reached for the button of her pants but she grabbed his hands, trying her best to remove his hands from hers.
Light had already finished writing his name on the Death Note.
Shibumaru Takuo
Cause of Death: Traffic Accident
'Now,' he thought as he looked at his watch.
'What will happen?!'
The girl ran towards the other side of the street, shaking slightly. A motorcycle was started and it followed her. She didn't dare to look behind her and she stumbled.
"Takuo! Watch out!"
There was a loud bang and the sound of shattering glass coming from the two vehicles. And the cluttering of the glass could be heard as they fall on the hard ground.
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She was all wide-eyed. That notebook.
'I-it happened…again…' she looked at the blood scattered all over the ground. The girl was crying as she saw the guy who chased her dead. Light…he was holding the notebook. She looked back at him but found him nowhere. Her cellphone suddenly rung, making all her thoughts disappear for a while. She clicked the call button and put it shakily on her ear.
"Moshi moshi…(Hello)" she greeted, slightly trembling.
"Hikari," her brother's voice sounded through her ear. "Where are you already?" he asked.
Hikari looked at the scene in front of her before answering. "I'll be there soon, onii-san. Daijoubu, (Don't worry)" she heard a sigh from the other line.
"Okay, be careful on you way"
There was a click at the other line before she clicked the end call button.
The sirens of the police cars sounded everywhere. She looked at the place where Light was standing at before. She then sighed before turning away. She had seen too much…just because of that notebook…everything…changed…
…Death Note…
