AN: Aye, not too bad eh? And about Ryuzaki…..Soon, my peeps….Soon….
DISCLAIMER (again..): I DO NOT OWN DEATH NOTE, I NEVER HAD, AND NEVER WILL! I WILL NOT EVEN GET THE CHANCE TO RUIN THE SERIES WITH A BUNCH OF UNNEEDED TWISTS! But I will do so with this fic, so yeah. ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE COMPANY AND AUTHORS!!! Who shall remain nameless for safety reasons……….AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Light sat uncomfortably in the plane waiting for it to take off. He constantly fidgeted as he continued to think about Sayu. He couldn't help but feel he was breaking yet another promise to his father. Since Sayu was the baby of the family, Light was supposed to watch over her no matter what. But now with these recent events taking place, Light couldn't fulfill such a request. He sat stiffly in his seat remembering what he had to tell Sayu last week. It was truly heart breaking to the girl, even if Light tried to sugar code his words the best he could. He recalled walking out of the office angrier than hell, but when he finally reached Sayu, that anger changed into dread.
"What did he want to talk to you about?" Sayu innocently asked as Light walked back into the room. Light wasn't sure on how to answer her, what could he say? "Light?" She prodded him. He was quiet for a whole few seconds, trying to think of some story to feed her. One that didn't involve their parent's homicide and him going out of the country. But alas, no story could ever cover the truth, Light knew that.
"Well," Light began. "He had some good news, and," He paused for a quick second. "some bad news.."
"What's the good news?" Sayu naively questioned. Light huffed and bit his lip, this was going to be difficult to explain.
"They had found some distant relatives of ours and-" But before Light could finish Sayu interrupted him like she constantly did.
"They're going to take us in?!" She butted in with a new sense of hope. But the longer Light was quiet, the more her hope went away. "Right?" Light sighed and went on his knees to face Sayu better. Though they were only two years a part, Sayu was rather shorter than Light. He put his hands on her shoulders and looked her in the eyes. "Right?" She repeated now knowing something was wrong. Light shook his head and started to speak again.
"Yes, but only you can go." He said softly. Sayu at first didn't understand. She confusedly thought about it for a moment or so, and then realized what Light meant.
"You mean, you're going to live somewhere else?"
"Yes." Light confirmed.
"Where?"
Light knew this was where the conversation was going to turn real sour. He knew for a fact that Sayu was real attached to him, even if before their parent's deaths he was cold and distant towards her. He used to see as a real nuisance, constantly asking him questions and always bothering him. But when Light truly thought about it now, he cared just as much as Sayu cared for him. It was funny that he never knew how much he would miss his family until this had happened. Before hand he always thought he didn't really need them for anything but support. After it was established that he was a genius in his middle school, his mother did nothing but praise the boy. Which at one point became really irritating to Light, almost as irritating as Sayu's dumb questions. He looked up to his father, but he rarely ever got to see the man because of his job. Light later wondered how much of a different outlook he would have had on his family if his parents never died. Light never truly appreciated his family until they were out of his life.
When Light told her Winchester England, Sayu at first was quiet. She lowered her head down and soft sobs could be heard. Her nose sniffled and whimpers would every once in awhile escape her. Light wasn't sure what to do. He figured he would do the brotherly thing and hug Sayu. Sayu hugged him back with tears running down her face. After a couple of minutes of a long silence, she asked another question.
"Why?" Light debated for a moment or so on whether to tell her that their parents deaths were no accident.
"For safety reasons, that's all they told me." He lied. He figured it would be best for Sayu not to know. She was only ten, what more could the girl take?
"We'll write to each other." He found himself continuously reassuring Sayu as the week wore by. "I'll send you all kinds of things from England." Light said to Sayu thinking he could bribe her to acceptance. "Visit? I'm sure I can work something out…" Yup, Light had sugar coded every little word and sentence that came out of his mouth with a thick syrupy coat. But it never changed Sayu's mood, nor made her feel any better. And so after more tears and one week left of the two of them being together, a elderly man came by to take Light to jolly good England and to leave Sayu alone in Japan.
Light thought back to that morning, how cold it was. It was six A.M. and the night before Sayu had been moping about and crying her eyes out. A subtle knock was heard at the door, which right away woke up Light. He was at first groggy and confused, but then he could hear a voice at the other end.
"Light Yagami, they're here for you." It was the man from last week who originally informed Light of his and Sayu's separation. They're here for you. It sounded so ominous like as if Light was being taken away to jail. More knocking could be heard. "Light Yagami?"
"Be right there." Light sat up out of bed and saw that Sayu was awake. Her face was still red from the night before and her eyes swelled up like balloons. Light quietly got ready to leave and in return Sayu quietly watched him, waiting for him to leave. And when Light was all ready to go, he silently walked over to Sayu's bed for one last goodbye. "I'm going now Sayu." He whispered. She then unexpectedly jumped up and hugged Light for one last time. He was so surprised that he didn't know what to do. He wasn't naturally affectionate, but with Sayu this past week, he learned to bend his own personal rules.
"Light Yagami." The man interrupted again. Light slowly detached himself from Sayu and got up.
"Good bye." She whispered back. Light was about to say good bye himself, but then he choked. That's when Light realized that for the first time since four weeks he was crying. Sayu was a little surprised that Light had let his guard down so easily, and so was Light. Light has never cried in front of anybody before. Not even at his parents funeral. He actually waited till Sayu was asleep and locked himself in a room. Light was at first embarrassed to show his weak side to Sayu, but when he saw her smile, that moment of weakness was gone. So he wiped his tears and proudly smiled back. He then walked out, leaving Sayu.
Light walked outside of the building and saw a limo waiting for him. He walked up to it wondering if it was for him, and then a car door opened with a old man climbing out. He held the door open for Light, and Light climbed into the car. The old man went back inside the car and slammed the door shut. He then turned his head to meet Light's. he reminded Light of a grandfather, or even Santa Clause when he really thought about it. Though he had a mustache not a beard. His face was filled with wrinkles which made Light wonder how old this guy was. The old man politely smiled at him, and Light politely smiled back. The limo then drove off with them not saying a word to each other.
And so here was Light now, leaving for bloody England with an old man he barely knew. The old man dozed off a long time ago snoring louder than ever. If Light wasn't respectful to his elders he would have told the man to shut the hell up. But when the plane was finally taking off, the man shot up startled by the loud noise. He sleepily rubbed his eyes and looked around for a moment or so, and then looked at Light. Light could have sworn the man was about to say something until he fell back asleep. Yup. This was going to be a long flight.
It wasn't really until they were both in the limo ride to Wammy's House was when the old man really said anything to Light. He politely smiled at him again, and so Light smiled back, faker than ever.
"Excited?" He finally spoke. Light was a little surprised that the old man had finally talked to him. He at first didn't reply, but then shrugged it off deciding he really couldn't avoid the old man's question.
"I guess you can call it that." Light responded sarcastically. The old man nodded understanding what Light had meant.
"You'll get used to it." He added trying to cheer up Light a bit. Light of course wasn't happy about the situation, but he wouldn't dream about voicing his feelings about the matter to somebody he didn't even know. Light then decided he was entitled to ask a question considering they just took him across the country with no real explanation.
"Excuse me-" Light paused, he then realized he still didn't know the old man's name.
"Watari." The old man finished once again smiling.
"Yes, Watari," Light smiled a bit embarrassed, but despite his embarrassment he continued. "The man back at the foster home told me that you guys did a background check on me."
"That's correct." Watari verified.
"Okay, so I have a question." Light started nervously.
"Go on."
"Well…Why? It's just I'm curious to know what would make you guys take a look at my record? Why was I chosen to go to Wammy's?" Light patiently waited a few minutes for Watari to answer. The old man scratched his scraggly wrinkled chin and looked out the window in deep thought. The old man then sighed.
"Well, the whole point of Wammy's House is to take young orphaned child prodigies and mold them into detectives. When we found out about your parents' deaths, we decided to take a look in you and your sister's files to see if either of you would be legible to join our family. Unfortunately, your sister didn't fit to our standards, but you did. And let me tell you, you are a very smart young lad. That's why we chose you to join." Watari sincerely finished with a smile and a nod.
Light took all of Watari's words and replayed them in his head. Though the explanation would have been satisfying enough to most other kids his age, Light couldn't help but feel that there was more to the story then what Watari was leading on. And Light only knew this fact because Light was what you called a practiced liar, that didn't just mean that Light was extremely good at lying, it also meant that Light knew when others were bull shitting him. And Light knew for a fact that Watari was bull shitting him. Light may have had fallen for it if Watari hadn't so obviously sugar coded his words like Light had done to Sayu the past week. But Light decided not to further question the whole Wammy thing and moved onto a different topic.
"So Watari, I have another question."
"Yes?" Light looked around in a nervous matter, a little afraid to ask. But he swallowed his fear and asked anyway.
"Were my parents murdered?" Light whispered feeling as though this was a big secret that the limo driver wasn't allowed to over hear. Watari was a little taken back the question and wasn't sure on how to answer.
"Well," He began, but before he could continue the car came to a stop. Light noticing this looked out the window to see that they were parked in front of a big building. "Looks like we're here!" Watari chimed a little relieved. Watari climbed out of the car completely forgetting Light's question and opened the car door for Light. "Come on, no need to be shy."
Light unwillingly pulled himself out of the limo and wobbly stood on the ground. And for the first time, Light became conscious about the fact that he was millions and millions miles away from Japan. He felt funny as he looked around, England was a hell of a lot different from what he was used to. Even the smell was different. Watari got his luggage out of the trunk and handed it to Light. Light in a daze took it.
"Come on now." Watari nudged Light to follow him and Light dazedly did. As they walked by, Light could see lots of children some his age, some older, some younger, playing and having fun. But it seemed to Light when he passed by them they all stopped and stared. Like as if Light was a alien.
"I heard L personally chose him." Whispered a red haired boy with goggles on to a blond haired boy. Light looked in their direction a little confused, but when he did, he caught the blond haired one glaring at him intensely. Light quickly spun his head in a different direction ignoring their stares and whispers. Watari of course, being somewhat deaf, couldn't hear them.
"Yup, I think you'll like it here." He merrily added completely oblivious to Light's misery.
"Yeah….This is great." He retorted sarcastically. Just spectacular.
AN: Okay first off I would like to say that I'm Geenie and that I have a typo problem.
HI GEENIE!
Man I feel so friggin stupid for spelling Wammy wrong! Thank you to those of you who kindly pointed it out to me! I can't say I'm very happy with this chapter, but really I'm never truly satisfied with whatever I write…hopefully you peeps like it better than I do….I would also like to mention I hate writing mushy scenes that involve Light….LIGHT ISN'T A LOVING PERSON! The only time he did cry in the series was at his father's death which in general was FAKE! But technically I'm in a way re-writing Light so it's okay right?
Light: As long as you don't go overboard…
SHUT UP AND BE SENSITIVE!
Light: BUT I DON'T WANNA!
Oh yes you do! (Light starts crying) AHA! I win! Also much thankies and appreciation to those of you who have reviewed! Oh and to be nice to those of you who wish for it to be SPOILED on who's coming in the story….my hint is pay attention to the chapter title…The first letter to be exact….sorry if this one was lame, the next one shall be better promised! (looks around suspiciously) R&R!
