Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note. I only own Kaori, Suki, and Denji.


After hours of cake making, video game bashing, and movie watching, Kaori had problems waking up the next morning. She arrived late to school and managed to sleep through most of her classes.

"yawn" Kaori found herself leaning against the school building again, "He sure is taking his time today…" she muttered, watching the entrance. She took out her cell phone and checked the time. School has been officially out for 10 minutes and still no sign of Light. 'That's weird, he's usually out by now…' Kaori thought to herself.

Soon, ten minutes turned into fifteen, which then turned into twenty. Fed up with waiting and a little worried about her friend, Kaori called Light. Surprisingly, there was no answer. Kaori shut her phone a little irked. 'I can't believe he ditched me… Oh well, I guess even your best friends do that to you once in awhile,' she thought, making her way home.

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A week has passed since Kaori had seen Light. And now she found herself standing in front of the Yagami household.

"He so better be home…" she muttered knocking on the door.

The door suddenly swung open revealing Light's sister.

"Kaori!" Sayu exclaimed.

"Sayu, how's it going? Does your brother happen to be home?" Kaori asked giving the younger girl a hug.

"I'm doing well except for math, I still need Light's help with that." Sayu pouted.

"Don't we all," Kaori giggled.

"Light should be up in his room," Sayu stepped aside to let Kaori in, "you already know the way."

Walking up the stairs and down the hall, Kaori stopped in front of Light's bedroom door when she heard him talking. It sounded like he was talking to someone but there was no other voice to answer whatever he said. 'When did Light start talking to himself?' Kaori thought before trying to open Light's door. She wasn't surprised to find it locked.

"Light," she whined jiggling the handle, "why do you always lock your door?" She heard scrambling from inside the room. Within moments, the door was jerked open.

"Hey," Light was mildly surprised at the house visit.

"Did you not think I would come and find you after you left me hanging for an entire week?" she responded, hands on her hips.

"Actually, I kind of figured you would."

"Whatever…" Kaori went into Light's room and sat on his bed."I've been worried about you," she started, watching Light shutting his door before returning to his computer chair. "It's not like I have class with you, so the only time I get to see you is after school. But I haven't seen nor heard from you during this past week. When I tried calling you about helping me catch up with the prep class, you never answered. I was hoping you would call me back, but you never did. I tried to catch you every day after school, but somehow you managed to slip by me unnoticed." She paused for a deep breath. "You know, if you wanted to hang out with your girlfriend, whoever she may be, you could have at least told me about it instead of blowing me off!" Kaori knew quite well that Light would never get a girlfriend at this point in time; it was pointless since the final and college entrance exams were coming up within two months.

She took a good look at Light's face, trying to read his reaction. His eyes were slightly widened with shock at hearing her accusation. That's when she noticed that his eyes were slightly different. She made a mental note to ask Suki if she noticed any change since she had classes with him. But as fast as his reaction appeared on his face, it was gone.

"What?" Kaori knew it wasn't an actual question by the tone of Light's voice, "You know very well that I don't have a girlfriend. And you certainly know that I would NOT blow you off even if I had one."

"You mean you haven't asked Yuri out yet?" she asked feigning surprise.

Light just rolled his eyes as he caught on to what Kaori was doing. "I wasn't going to in the first place. Obviously you don't know me that well."

"You would throw my own words back in my face," she huffed.

He just shrugged, "You deserve it."

"Anyway, I have a real question," she crossed her arms, "What have you been doing over this past week?"


Well, that's all I've got for right now. I couldn't really think of an excuse for Light at the moment so I decided to end it there. I hope the story started to pick up at least a little bit.