"Light?"
Light sighed, stress overtaking his mind, but he forced his features to soften for Sayu, for his little sister.
"Yeah, Sayu?" The young man spun around in his chair and smiled, conflicting with his stirring emotions.
"Why…" She trailed off. Clearly this was difficult for her to say. What could be so hard that she couldn't even tell him?
"Why…what?"
"Why did you…why did you save me?" she asked in what was barely more than a whisper.
The incredulous, almost angry look he gave her forced her eyes downward to stare at the floor.
"What do you mean, 'Why did I save you'?" Light stood, his expression turning to that of sadness, almost pleading.
He was wracking his brain for any reason she would be confused about this. There were very people who truly cared for, three in fact. Those elite few were his father, his mother, and…his dear little sister.
"The people who kidnapped me…they have the notebook now…" she had taken the idea of a notebook that could control and kill people with less than a grain of salt when the idea was presented to her, but now, after all that had happening and everything that was still happening, she didn't know what to believe anymore, "If it's real, they could kill a lot of people."
Light saw that his sister was near to tears. She had grown up so much since then, so long ago when he had first acquired the book that would change the world for the better. Not only had she physically filled out, now a beautiful young lady in place of the kid-ish teen she once was, but her maturity had grown and the intelligence she had hidden from the world for so long was finally being revealed. He had always known she was smart, perceptive, but she kept that part of her locked away when she was a child, whether purposefully or not he was unsure.
"It is real, and it can kill a lot of people. I know that. But, Sayu, you're my sister, my baby sister…I couldn't let anything happen to you."
She looked at him, tears in her eyes but obedient enough to leek, a small smile forming as she wrapped her arms around her older brother.
Please don't make me have to kill her. Please! Anyone but her…
Please don't let him be Kira. I want to be wrong! Please! Anyone…but him..