School

Happy Halloween everyone. I'm sorry to everyone who was waiting for the next chapter (if there was any), I've been really busy with school work and all.

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note. The only thing I do own is my OCs Angie and Chiyemi, and the idea of this story.

I woke up in a small and unfamiliar bedroom. It took me a second to remember that this was the room Mr. and Mrs. Yagami gave me. It was a small rectangular room with beige walls. The bed was placed at the corner, the right and top side against the walls. The window was on the wall behind the bed. The door was on the opposite wall to the window. A desk was against the wall on the left of the bed. There was nothing on it except for a small digital clock which told me that it was 6:00 am. I always have been an early riser. A closet was placed beside the desk. My guitar was leaning on the wall beside the closed door where I have placed it before I went to bed. I was still wearing what I had on before I went to bed.

The moment I remembered why I was there, I remembered that my parents were dead and I started crying. I hugged my legs and buried my face in my knees. 'My parents are dead. My parents are DEAD. I can't do anything to get them back. The gemstone…doesn't have the power to bring them back to life. Wait, there is that obvious loophole. I could just go back in time and prevent the death from ever happening. Why haven't I thought of this until now? I must not have been able to think clearly. Why do I still feel so sad? This feeling will subside eventually, just like the time when my biological parents…no I shouldn't even think about that I have more important things I have to do. Anyway I'm already here, I could go back to the real world to stop my parents' death after I finish this mission I got myself to do.' I then got up and took my guitar and sat at the foot of my bed and began playing random chords on my guitar. That always helped me feel better, and even though I wasn't playing anything in particular it was still sounded nice to listen to.

After approximately 10 minutes of playing my guitar, the door of the room I was in opened. I looked up to see Sayu, still in her pajamas, standing at the door. "I'm sorry if I woke you."I apologized. She said nothing and sat beside me. She looked at my tear stained face and smiled.

"It's ok. It's nice to hear you play and I have to get up later for school anyway. Now I have more time to get ready." Then her smile faded and she looked concerned "Look, I don't know what it's like to lose my parents and we don't know each other very well, we just met but, if you need someone to talk to, if you have any problems at all, just know that I'm here. Whatever it is I'll be there for you."

I gave her a small smile "Thank you."

She stood up. "Well I have to go and get ready for school. Breakfast will be at 7. I'll talk to you later ok." I just nodded in response and she left the room. I kept playing my guitar until it was already 7 am. I stood up and placed my guitar on my bed then headed downstairs where the dining room was. I was greeted by Mrs. Yagami, Light and Sayu. I sat down and ate the cereal that was already placed there for me. Light stood up and said he was off to school.

"Um, is there a computer here I could use?" I asked politely. Light turned around and told me I could use his. He handed me his laptop and left for school. Soon Sayu did the same. I finished my breakfast and stood up hugging Light's laptop to make sure it doesn't fall off.

"We could buy you some clothes sometime this week. Until then, you can use some of Sayu's old clothes. She already brought out her clothes that don't fit her anymore." I then took a shower and changed into Sayu's clothes. I was wearing a black short sleeve shirt with silver floral pattern on the front and navy blue jeans. I towel dried my long hair and went to the living room. I sat on the couch and opened Light's laptop, which was on my lap. I searched up the school that guy from the bench outside Light's cram school told me about. I quickly found the school's website. It was certainly a great school, made for talented people to improve their skills. The students there can choose their subjects. They still had to take Maths and Science but other than those two, they can choose what they want to take. There were singing, dancing, acting and so much more. It was located in Kanto; it wasn't very far from where I was staying. I looked to see the price for going to that school. My heart sank. It was way too expensive, I'd rather not tell you exactly how much but it was definitely a lot more expensive than international schools out there.

I looked at the clock in Light's laptop it saw that it was already after school hours. 'I must have spent way too long reading about the school.' I heard footsteps behind me and turned to see Light.

"You want to go to that school?" Light asked me.

I closed the laptop and stood up from the couch. "It's way too expensive." I said quietly and handed him his laptop.

Soon it was time for dinner and we sat at the same place as last night, I had salad like the previews night. Mrs. Yagami spoke to me "You must be really hungry you haven't eaten lunch. You can attend Sayu's school by next week, unless you want to go to a different school. How old are you?"

"Eleven." I wasn't lying. I turned myself a year older for no real reason. I just wanted to.

"She wants to go to a performing arts school here." Light said.

I sighed "But its way too expensive."

"You know they do have scholarship there." Light told me.

'I haven't seen a scholarship in the school website. I must have missed it or maybe they haven't put it there' "But what if I'm not good enough to get a scholarship?"

"I've heard you play. You're really good. There's a good chance that you'll get a scholarship." Light encouraged me.

I gave him a smile in response. After we finished dinner, I changed into Sayu's old pajamas which were way too small for her, but it fit me perfectly. I went to bed and went to sleep. Sometime during the week; Sayu and I have been able to shop for my clothes, and I performed to get my scholarship in the school. The principle of the school told me I was very talented and gave me a full scholarship. I was extremely happy and excited, as well as nervous to go on my first day of school.

It was Monday, on the third week of September 2006. My first day of school. There wasn't a school uniform because the school encourages the students to express themselves as well as be creative. I wore a pale pink button down shirt with long sleeves which have holes exposing my shoulders, a jet black a-line skirt which goes just above my knees and brown shorts which covered half my thighs underneath, and black dolly shoes with a royal blue bow on each shoe. I wore my bunny-ears hat on my head and my necklace was placed neatly over the collar of my shirt. I made the habit of always wearing the necklace like my hat.

Light walked me to my new school. Chiyemi stayed in my room acting like a real guinea pig because pets weren't allowed in school. It was a really big school. Various age groups of students were going into the huge building. It was 10 stories high and it covered a lot of ground. It was surrounded by a park with neatly cut grass and a few trees. Light started to walk away towards his school. I walked on the pathway to the front door of the school. I have chosen to take acting, dancing, singing, designing/sewing, baking, soccer and tennis classes and a class for playing musical instruments. The only academic classes I took were Maths and Science which were required. The principle gave me a tour of the school. She said that she or a staff member does that with all new students. My first class was baking. It was on the eighth floor, it was a good thing there was an elevator. I didn't want to walk through all those stairs.

When class started the teacher introduced me as the new student. I wore my apron and sat next to a Japanese girl with black mid-length hair named Kaori. The teacher taught us the recipe to make chocolate and strawberry cream cake and we each had to make one by the end of the lesson. I quickly learned that Kaori was the most popular girl in school and that she was very arrogant and she can't stand losing seeing how she reacted when my cake turned out to be better than hers. Next I had singing. The only seat left was at the back next to a girl with dirty blonde hair tied in high pigtails that reaches her shoulders. 'She seems familiar somehow. Perhaps I have seen in her somewhere in Death Note?' I thought. I thought of everyone I've seen in Death Note both from the manga and anime as I sang the songs with everyone else in class. The good thing about having a perfect memory is that it's very easy to multitask; I can think of and do many different things at the same time. After a few minutes of thinking, I came to the conclusion that the blonde girl who was sitting beside me was Linda. She was only shown once in the manga and only mentioned in the anime. Even though I only took one glimpse of Linda I could tell that she had similar features as her.

This was certainly an amazing school. The school had students from different parts of the world and all the classes are taught in English, except for the language classes. It was Friday (still the third week of September). Everyone I've met seemed to like me and found it fun to be around me, except for Kaori. Even though I've only been at school for five days, Kaori already hated me. Somehow she reminded me of Mello. She just can't stand the fact that I'm doing better than her in the classes we had together. She threw insults at me and tried to hit me, of course I only fought back using words, it only got physical when she started hitting me and all I did was block all of her attacks she gets angrier when I fight back. She is in most of my classes. The only classes she doesn't have with me are: soccer and designing/sewing. She is over a year older than me (12) so I don't have Maths or Science with her. I found that in the artistic classes, the age/grade doesn't matter, however the age gap between the students in each class wasn't bigger than 4 years.

The blonde girl was also in most of my classes. She is very shy, she always sits at the back of the class. I was 95% sure that she was Linda. I haven't spoken to her yet in the 5 days I was there. The only classes I do not have with her are baking and Maths. She was in my science class so she was about my age probably a few months older.

It was my free period. It was a period when I can do whatever I want as long as it didn't disturb the other classes, too much. Every student gets at least one free period each week, but there can't be more than one free period in one day. I have two free periods each week, one during Tuesday and another during Friday. I found out that some students go to the classes of their friends during their free time. I was on my way to the park outside the school and sit under a tree. On my way I found Kaori yelling at the blonde girl with her two 'friends' (more like loyal puppies to me) beside her. She was holding a sketch book. Hugging it, she tried to block away Kaori's insults. I really felt bad for the blonde, I really didn't like bullying, weather it was me or someone else. I decided to defend her.

"Stop that Kaori." My voice was monotone and held an emotionless mask on. Just like Near. It found it to be very easy to do that. Once, I didn't show any emotion and kept my voice monotone for a whole week, until I got bored and went back into being my cheerful self.

"Stay out of this, rabbit." Kaori yelled at me.

"You have no right to yell at her like that." I kept my voice in monotone.

"What, I'm doing is none of your business."

"Tell me Kaori, what did she do to deserve all this?"

"Like I need to explain myself to you." She was getting furious.

"Is it because she did something better than you? Because that's exactly what you tried to do to me. You think you're so highly of yourself and you'll do anything to make sure you're always the best. When someone does even only slightly better than you, you try to lower down their self esteem by throwing insults at them, as if it'll make you any better than them. You just can't stand the fact that other people can actually be better than you at something. You're just a sore loser."

She opened her mouth but she couldn't think of any comebacks to what I just said and ended up storming off with her friends following her, probably to her next class.

I turned to the blonde girl. She was still had her pigtails on, she was wearing a yellow shirt, black track pants, sports shoes and a basketball jacket a size too big for her which was left unzipped. She had an average height for 11 year olds, she was almost a head taller than me. "Hi, my name is Angie."

"Nice to meet you Angie, I'm Linda." She held her hand out. I shook it and gave her a big smile. 'I knew it, she is Linda.' "Well, I have to get to class, there is no way I'm going to be late to my Art class."

She turned around to leave and I followed her. "Can I come to your class with you? I have free period now."

She smiled. "Sure. You know when you were talking to Kaori, you reminded me of someone I used to know." She said before going into the classroom and took a seat. I took a seat next to her and I saw Kaori and her friends were also in this class.

'She must have been talking about Near, who else would she be talking about? I have a good feeling that Linda and I are going to become really good friends.'

I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. Review and tell me what you think. I haven't came up with a name of the school, if you guys have any ideas just review and tell me. It would be a lot better than referring to it as 'the school'.