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Note: The legal procedures are all of an Alternate universe, so please do not confuse them with the ones in real life.
This chapter has got nothing to do with Light directly. It deals more with the side-characters. Try not to get too disappointed.
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note for the life of me -_- #
CHAPTER 1 – RUSTED RELATIONS
"I still don't believe a word of what they said, mum," Sayu Yagami said between tears as she and Mrs. Yagami left the police headquarters after spending two full weeks under lockup. Well, technically it was more like they were under constant surveillance, minus all the bad food and the stuffy rooms. In fact the rooms they stayed in were more than equivalent to that of a five star hotel and every dish was very much palatable.
The duo was not aware of the real reason behind their confinement. They were told that it was for their protection, which was the half-truth after all.
All the good treatment and the dishes were completely lost on the grieving pair. They had lost half of their family. The head of the family had perished during a very 'difficult mission' and the second head was also lost to a similar 'difficult mission', three years later, so something as material as food and lifestyle could not uplift their mood that much. If at all, it made them feel even worse.
They weren't much happy with the lack of a body to explain Light's death either. Yet, they couldn't find any other plausible reason.
The women did weep. But, one was weeping on the inside and the other shed tears openly. Mrs. Yagami was the former.
The older woman, simply pulled her daughter along sway from that wretched Headquarters. Away from the place where the news of her husband's and son's death had been registered.
She increased her pace on the footpath, scared as if her only remaining daughter would also be snatched away from her.
Sachiko Yagami was scared, sad and angry. Angry at the men, who had brought in the news of her son's death, scared that he was still alive somewhere but was bleeding to death.
…Which could not be possible, since he was literally, blown apart by a land mine, while investigating the Kira case.
A big,fat,damn lie. It was all a cover up and Sachiko knew it. She could feel it in her bones. But she never said a word to her whimpering daughter. She was way too mad right then to say anything to anyone.
~o~o~o~
Sachiko Yagami was a mother of two well grown children, but she was still too young to have lived through the death of her husband and her son. She had a pretty average face for a Japanese, middle aged woman and if looked closely, a shred of prettiness from her youth was visible in those brown eyes. However, those eyes no longer showed much of anything, but a hollow emptiness.
She would smile at her friends if she met them in a shopping mall, but it didn't reach her eyes.
They didn't blame her, though. They knew the sort of things she had gone through and many women in her neighborhood also considered her a strong minded woman.
If only they knew.
Inside she was crestfallen and didn't trust in herself to be able to live another day. But she did. She had to. She had a hard time reminding herself that she still had a daughter, her only remaining family to take care of. That's why she tried to stay happy. That's why she lived on... but she could never move on.
Her daughter on the other hand, saw right through her mother's facade. She could clearly see the pain in her eyes even though her mother had tried to hide them behind harsh words. Sayu knew exactly what her mother was going through. After all, they were of the same blood.
The coming days was a series of 'peek-a-boo-at-my-pain' game, for the mother and daughter duo.
~o~o~o~
Sayu Yagami, tried her best to keep her mother occupied and happy. Sayu's attempts were clearly visible to her mother in every small thing she did. For example, Sachiko saw the way her daughter's face lit up with a small smile every time she was caught with a sad face... and in turn the mother tried to find humor in Sayu's half arsed attempts at a joke, while watching a movie.
She politely let Sayu help in the kitchen, even though she knew nothing about the first thing about boiling water.
Sayu had even improved in her academics in order to keep her mother smiling and proud. She had improved to a point, where she won the national math quiz on a regular basis.
Yes Sachiko was very proud of her daughter's achievements. But nothing ever seemed to distract her mother from the hideous truth of their life.
~o~o~o~
Sachiko would lay awake at night and stare at the photo album of her entire family. She caressed the photographface of Light with her forefinger. She thought about how sweet a future he would have had. How he would marvel at his sister's progress in academics. Yes, Sayu was in fact turning out to be quite a genius herself. She would ace almost all her papers now. Just like how Light had been during his school days. Oh, that trail of thought led to another sleepless and tearful night for her mother.
~o~o~o~
Sayu woke up with a start, as the nightmare of her brother's bloody face screamed out to her, telling her to run away as far as possible from an unseen demon.
She screamed, but her voice slowly faded away into a mess of tears and curses.
She threw the blankets off her and crossed the length of her room in a frenzy. It was warm and she was sweating all over. She needed to get some cool water from the kitchen to calm her nerves.
On the way back to her room, Sayu found that the light in her mother's room was still on. As she approached, she heard soft, muffled cries and she realized it would be rude to interrupt, so she silently retracted to her own ball of grief in her room.
~o~o~o~
It had been over a year since the 'Kira incident' and everything seemed to go back to normal. Except fate wasn't done playing with the Yagami family yet.
Sayu came back home, exhausted from her day in school. It was her senior year. The last year in school, before she could finally go to university.
She threw her ragged bag on to the floor and ran to the kitchen to satisfy her famished stomach. She expected to be treated with the delicious smell of steaming rice from the rice cooker.
Instead the stench of her mother's blood filled her nostrils.
What she saw, upon entering the dining room, made her heart stop. Her voice constricted dangerously and she couldn't bring herself to speak.
When, her senses did decide to shout out for help...It was of no use.
On the floor lied Mrs. Yagami's lifeless body with a deep, bloody gash on her forehead.
~o~o~o~
There were no signs of forced entry, they said.
No one had tried to burgle into their home, they said.
It was not a suicide either... It was just misfortune, an accident, they said.
But the daughter knew better.
The breaking point for Sayu Yagami, was on the day her entire family had become non-existent. She couldn't stay in that wretched neighborhood any longer. Scratch that, the entire city- no, no- the entire country, reeked of misfortune.
Sayu was sick and tired of people dying on her. So on the day her mother died, she made the ultimate decision. She would survive her fate. She would survive in this cruel world and never fall prey to her emotions, no matter what.
And with that single thought in her arsenal, Sayu decided to fly abroad to her aunt's place in the UK. Her studies might have suffered a little. But what good is a woman in her homeland, if her heart had stopped beating for it?
~o~o~o~
When Matsuda and the others had returned from their chase without a body, the new chief commander was out of his wits. That was until Near showed up and calmed the situation in a very unpredictable way. Like he always did.
But it wasn't enough to satisfy the logically playing minds of the rest of the officers. So, Near did the next best thing.
He told them to keep Light's remaining family under surveillance for a period of two weeks and also to provide them with the best facilities that the FBI had to offer. In addition, the officers were not to offend Light's remaining family in the slightest. As far as they knew, Sayu Yagami and Sachiko Yagami were innocent citizens who were being kept under protection.
"Why only two weeks?" The new chief, a balding man in his mid-forties questioned the famous detective, 'L'.
The outer world wasn't aware of the death of L Lawliet or a certain Yagami taking over as L for a brief period of three years. So Near took over as the second 'L'.
"Three weeks is the maximum time we can keep innocent citizens under surveillance simply based on suspicion. But I won't require more than two. That's why." Near said, sucking his thumb. The action was unbeknownst to the chief.
"You think you can figure out wherever this lunatic is hiding by that time? How can you be so sure? "The chief frowned at the Laptop screen that displayed only a calligraphic letter 'L' in black.
"No. I didn't say I could. Why? Because he is dead, gentlemen. He will be dead for a long time to come... Unless all the rules written at the back of the Death Note were false and the Shinigami was lying," Near said as a matter-of-factly.
"Oh I know why you need just two weeks...it's to test that rule. Where a person dies if he or she doesn't kill using the Death Note within a period of thirteen days. Is it not?" Matsuda piped in a very serious tone. The Matsuda that everyone knew was long gone. His eyes showed sure signs of tiredness and his face was sagging with an unseen emotional weight of having to kill someone whom he had believed in as a good friend.
"Maybe..." the chorus of voices replied.
"But that doesn't make sense. We already know that Light had made up that rule to save his hide. He must've made someone else do his dirty work while he was under surveillance." Aizawa, an equally emotionally charged comrade, objected.
"While that is true… Can you tell me whether that other Kira had lived to see the fourteenth day once the notebook had been taken away from them by Light?" Near questioned and continued after a while.
"It is true that neither Light nor Misa died while they were under surveillance. But there is no telling how many other Kiras, Light could've set up to do his dirty work. There very well could've been others and they very well could've been extinguished before we ever came to know of their existence... Other than Higuchi that is."
The officers paused to consider this, and all they could do was, agree.
"Basically you mean that there are more such deadly notebooks out in the open and that these two remaining women of the Yagami family could be in the possession of the notebooks?!" The chief was flabbergasted upon realizing the real meaning behind L's statement. He hadn't thought about that until now.
"Four to be precise. But No I don't think that these women have all the four with them." Near sighed, frustrated at the other man's foolishness.
"That's absurd Nea-uh I mean 'L'. Sayu and Mrs. Yagami couldn't kill a fly! This is preposterous! After all that they've been through! How could you be so uncaring and inhuman?!" Matsuda exclaimed at Near's suggestion.
"Please calm down Matsuda. Do you not remember how Light had once convinced us all of how innocent he was? Have you still not learned your lesson? Never judge a book by its cover!" Mogi placed a soothing hand on Matsuda's shoulder.
"But... but... but...This ain't right-I just can't allow this! They need all the support that they can get right now! And you... you... Damn it!" Matsuda finally broke down into tears. His tough, emotionally drained facade was up.
"Mr. Kanzo would you be so kind as to take Mr. Touta outside?" The chief said half-heartedly.
Once the said men had left the conference hall. The meeting continued on as if nothing had happened.
"And how do you suppose we dispose of them all?" Aizawa asked in a tired voice. He had enough of Death Notes for one lifetime. The man was planning to quit his job after the Kira case was over. But now that seemed highly impossible. He didn't care in the slightest about, who was tried next or executed. He underwent the biggest shock of his life after Light had revealed his true identity two weeks earlier, to care about anybody any longer.
If it was possible for a person to show his nonchalance through a computer screen, then Near was your man.
"We don't dispose of them all. In fact we do nothing at all. There is no possible way of knowing where and in whose hands these notebooks are... If a situation like the Kira case arises again- which I'm pretty sure it won't- But if it does, we will have enough information to deal with it then."
"How can you speak of the Kira case like it's already closed? You can be very infuriating sometimes L!" The chief growled, obviously annoyed at 'L's' lack of respect for the FBI.
Ignoring the lesser man's outbursts, Near proceeded to end the discussion once and for all, "That's because according to the SPKA members and me, it is a closed case... But with all due respect, if you wish to pursue this case any further, be my guest. You'll only be wasting your precious time and resources, Chief." With that, Near signed off, leaving the Chief in anger-induced hysterics.
Although the chief didn't want to agree with that no good of a man, L. The detective did have a point. 'The Kiracase' was forever closed in the eyes of the public, the Tokyo police and the FBI...But never in Near's book.
A/N: I know this chapter was significantly shorter than the prologue, but I promise I'll try to make the next chap more lengthier. My semester finals are coming up and I'm kinda jumpy, If y'know what I mean?
I wanted to clear a few things up. Which are apparently important for the later part of my story.
I thought you guys would like to know, what exactly went on with the remaining part of the task force members and Near. Also I've always wondered how, Sayu and Misses Yagami would have lived after such a tragedy. So yeah!
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