'The Kira case? What's that?'

The friendly light in their living room illuminated his friend's curious faces. The silence of expectation settled around them – Mikami, Takada, Misa, Mello and Matt all leaned closer to him across the table waiting for his response. Light's face wore a mask of complete seriousness and he lowered his voice to make his words seem more significant.

'Well, Kira is a mass murderer killing criminals…' just when Light thought he could continue all hell broke loose. He needed a huge amount of self control in order to calm everybody down and convince Mello that going to another world with a single gun in hand to kill Kira was not the best option.

'Killing criminals? What's the point of that?' Mikami asked raising his eyebrows with a grin on his face like it was nothing more than a simple joke.

Light explained the necessary facts he knew about the case – which wasn't much, really – and the group quieted down, all processing the information.

'The Freak with a woman?! Are you kidding?!' Mello instantly grew furious. How dare that freak, that nobody, that little punk… He almost started to damage things around him like he always did when he remembered something.

'What did she look like?'

'Who?'

'The woman. What did she look like?'

'Really? After everything I told you, your first question is about a random moron around the Freak? Anyway, she is nothing special. White-blond hair…'

'Oh, it was probably Linzer.' Mello said, relieved, sitting back in his chair.

'Linzer? Like that cookie?' Misa was beyond confused. In one second they were talking about a crazy idealistic mass murderer and in the other the topic became a damn cookie. She really couldn't keep up with the pace of the conversation. And she didn't even like that type of cookie. It was too fattening. Maybe that was why she was called Linzer. Nobody liked a cookie like that in Misa's opinion.

Her train of thought was interrupted by a crash. Everyone looked for the source of the noise only to find Matt laughing on the floor, hands on his belly with his legs high up in the air and his PSP thrown a few meters away.

'What are you doing?'

'Oh, I just…just imagined us in a world like that. We would be the first ones to be killed.' Matt managed to say while he was laughing like an idiot.

'So we are dead in that world?' Takada asked.

'Probably.' Mello said playing with his gun that he'd gotten somewhere. Takada could swear it hadn't been there a minute ago.

'There are still many things we don't know. Like how can Kira kill criminals with heart attacks? It must be dark magic. If so is it really safe for us to go against Kira like that?' Mikami asked, clearly unconvinced.

'But that's the challenge in it, Mikami. Nobody actually knows much about dark magic. But I can find out more about it. I can solve the case.' Light's eyes held determination that could convince anybody no matter how doubtful they were.

'I want you to know one thing, though. I'm sure that Near- sorry, the Freak knows that I've signed up for the same case by now. And if he doesn't back down, it means war and I need your help. I admit that I can't beat them alone but I will not back down. Everybody knows that we are a better team and it's not just the scoreboard that says so. It's the perfect time for us to prove we are the superior ones. Now, who's with me?'

Everyone agreed to help in the end.

The others went away to their classes, but Mikami stayed in the living room for a little bit.

Eventually he stood up, lingering at the door for a second, sighing as he thought about what Light had said.

He got a bad feeling about it. A really bad feeling.

A/N: Okay, so I hope you liked my first chapter. If you didn't, you can tell me why. I never really show my works to anyone so it would help me become a better writer to hear what you guys thought. I appreciate constructive criticism, just don't be too rude :D