Author Note: I'm so sorry this took so long, I had two essays to write and both counted as my final exam so I really needed to focus. My semester is almost over and I won't have any classes till January so I should be able to work on my story more often.

Disclaimer: Death Note and its characters belong to Tsugumi Ohba

Chapter 7: A Promise Broken

"Light! Light! Light!" I turned around as Akishi phased into my room, calling my name with a big smile. "There's a street fair going on not too far from here, want to come with me?"

Seeing that smile made me think back on my recent betrayal and I had to hide my grimace. I knew it was only a matter of time before I got over it but at that point in time, I couldn't really spend time with her without choking on guilt. I gave her an excuse to not go. I once again had to hide a grimace as her smile fell. She left, clearly disappointed. Coincidentally, right after my mother came and asked me to bring a change of clothes to my father and I wasn't the type of son to deny her. The walk to the police headquarters was lonely without Akishi but there was nothing I could do about that.

I came across a very interesting person upon entering the headquarters. It was a woman who claimed to have information on the Kira case and I naturally had to get involved. I went up to her and offered to have her speak to my father on my cell phone. She was clearly wary of me but she accepted the offer nonetheless. I got her to walk with me and found her name to be Shoko Maki. I asked her about the information she had and she spoke of her fiancé who was an FBI agent and how she wanted to stop Kira for killing him. She continued on about him and it became obvious that her fiancé was Raye Penber. She then talked about the bus hijacking and I was filled with dread as she made the correct assumption that Penber had showed his badge to Kira on that bus. Clearly, she knew too much and I had no choice but to get rid of her.

The problem I quickly found out was that she had given me an alias. I managed to trick her into thinking I was a member of the task force and that I was willing to help her join, all I needed was some form of identification. Completely convinced by my lie, she gave me her driver's license without any suspicion. I wrote her name down on a page of the Death Note that I carried around in my wallet and she watched me, completely oblivious to her upcoming demise. I looked down at my watch, counting down the seconds till the notebook took effect.

"Why do you keep checking your watch?" She asked me, now a little suspicious.

"Oh…I guess it's because…" I looked down again and saw there was only a few seconds left. I looked back up at her, a cruel smirk on my face. "Because I'm Kira." She froze and her face slowly took on a horrified expression as she realized what had just happened. There was no time for her to do anything though. I could see the sudden loss of will in her eyes as she turned and started walking away to fulfill what I had written out.

"Goodbye Naomi Misora." I smirked after her, completely absorbed in the thrill of having taken out an adversary.

"Light?" My heart stopped at that voice and I instinctively spun around to face the speaker. Akishi was standing there with an awful, heartbroken look.

"Akishi…" Oh God! How long has she been there? I thought to myself. "I was just-" She cut me off by slapping me across the face as hard as she could. There was so much force that I nearly toppled over.

"You promised me!" She shouted at me, clearly outraged and hurt by what I had just done and knowing this hurt me.

"She was-" I tried to talk my way out of this but she wouldn't listen.

"No! I heard…she was just trying to stop you because you killed her fiancé…a FBI agent…but you…" Tears started to spill from her eyes and she fell to her knees. "You…you killed her…with the Death Note." She suddenly covered her face with her hands. "Oh God…I killed them…it's my fault." She started sobbing.

That's not the reaction I expected, I thought to myself before quickly kneeling in front of her. I pulled her hands away from her face and gently held her face so she would look me in the eye. I had expected her to pull away from me but she seemed to have lost all her strength.

"No…It's my fault. Please don't blame yourself." She started at me silently with tears still falling from her eyes. "I'm sorry…I know I promised you that I wouldn't kill any innocents and I shouldn't have promised you that because the truth is that my goal can't be achieved without sacrifices. Believe me…I wanted to keep that promise but I couldn't. All we can do is make sure that their deaths aren't in vain." I gently wiped her tears away before continuing. "I know I can't ask you to trust me but I swear I won't let those deaths be in vain." She took deep breaths as she tried to stop the tears but that was proving to be difficult.

"I don't know… what to do Light." She choked a bit on her tears.

"You don't have to do anything…I just want you to understand that sacrifices are inevitable." She didn't say anything more but I didn't really expect her to go along with this right from the start. I carefully brought my arms around her and pressed her into my chest. I rubbed her back as she clung to me. I swore right then that I would achieve a new world so she would never blame herself for the lives that were lost.

L better watch out, because I will win…for her sake, I thought to myself as I held her close.

Author Note: I really enjoyed the slap part…Let's face it, he had it coming. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and don't think it was too soon to have her find out.

If any of you are wondering why she didn't stop Light from killing Naomi was because she was too shocked by what was happening to really react, she did just find out that Light had killed those FBI agents after he promised not to take any innocent lives.

We'll have to see if she goes along with what he's doing or not.

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