With the Stars – Death Note Fanfic

Genre: Sci-fi/Friendship

Rating: K+

Ack, I'm so slow at updating T-T But here is the next chapter of With the Stars!

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Chapter 8: Yagami

"Remind me to severely punish them as soon as they lay a foot in the castle." His voice was mocking and calm.

"You should have sent me, my liege. I would have done the job so much better than them!"

"Quiet, Mikami! Stop getting worked up about it, if King Yagami wanted to send those to idiots out he should be commended for it, not tormented with your own idiotic yabberings." The woman's gaze was sharp as her icy voice.

Mikami glared at her, "Takada, if you were not part of this council I would personally request that you were hung!"

She raised an eyebrow idly as she pushed a stray strand of dark hair behind her ear, she was used to the male's repetitive death threats and was quite bored of them. She rolled her dark eyes and turned back to the King.

He wasn't all powerful from the first glance, he appeared to be just a regular male in his late teens. He was handsome, with a delicately carved face and hair that was almost perfectly groomed to frame his unblemished face. He was one to walk with a stature of great importance, one of his greatest flaws in keeping his identity as the king hidden should he wish it, with regality radiating from his every step.

He seated himself into the chair placed at the head of the table, resting an elbow on the arm and his head onto a gently clenched fist. His right leg rested atop of his left and he watched the other members of his council lazily with his cold brown eyes, those that glistened with a hint of lunacy, credit to the immense power he had inherited from his father a year ago.

A pretty young woman immediately grabbed his free hand and smiled at him adoringly to which he gave his own light smile.

Takada's clenched hand tightened and her knuckles grew white. She glared at the pretty blonde with great envy.

Misa Amane was a princess from the western area of the Kuiper Belt and was engaged to the young king. Their marriage was set to be on an asteroid which would shoot past late in the next year and from there their honeymoon would ensue. All of the guests would vacate the asteroid and for a month they would travel upon the asteroid together to wherever it took them. They would certainly make a beautiful couple. According to most comets. Light was matched in charm by her, the beauty she held was envied by almost every comet on the Kuiper Belt and Takada was one of them.

She could not understand how Light could love a girl like Misa. Though very beautiful, she lacked in brains and from words spoken directly to her, Kiyomi Takada knew for a genuine fact that Light was fond of intelligence.

Fantasies brought Kiyomi the idea that Misa was a witch and had cast a spell over the King in order to become even more powerful. But she knew that these ideas were only fantasies created by fierce jealousy.

Light began to talk, immediately ending the soft chatter of his council members.

"It has come to my attention that each of you is desperate to know of my plans." He surveyed the member's reactions. Besides himself there were five members of his council. Each were devoted to him and he entrusted them with all of his decisions. With his words each had a similar expectant look upon their face, their attention heightened almost instantly. He smirked.

"It seems I am correct. I have been thinking deeply about whether or not to tell you and I have reached a decision." Silence ensued, nothing but an unheard chuckle from an unseen being could be heard.

"Each of you is loyal enough to know my secrets and so this meeting is the most secretive of all."

The unheard being stopped chuckling, instead turning to watch the faces of the council members. "I made a plan. A plan ready for my reign that would make me more than a mere King, but a God. God of a galaxy, powerful enough to smite any who chose to defy or challenge me. At first my plan was to rage war across the nine planets and take over with power, but then I found that I can take over by force. Mikami?" Light's eyebrow curved up and he fixed a gaze upon the man sitting two seats away with his hand in the air.

"My liege, if this is true.. would it be right to call you God?" He questioned hesitantly.

Light smirked, "You may call me God if you wish, Teru." Mikami squeaked in delight and fell silent, allowing the king to continue.

"So-- Yes, Higuchi?" An man with a sunken-looking face and deep brown hair slicked back over his head brought his raised hand down. An unheard laugh escaped from the unheard being, finding it hilariously funny that a man older than Light had to raise his hand to speak, just like a child would in school.

"Your majesty, I have been prepared for war for such a long time, the armies are in perfect condition to fight and win, sir. Why not use them?" He asked in slight disbelief.

"Why waste the life of the good when they can be spared? As I was about to explain; I came across a new source of power some time ago and with it I realized I had no need for war or pain, I only needed to use fear. Fear would bring down the universe and nobody would get hurt unless it was completely necessary, so those good and decent men ready to fight in your armies can live, Higuchi, they can go home to their families knowing they will see them the next day." Tears holding themselves back decided to drip down from Takada's steely eyes.

"My king, that was beautiful. You are so thoughtful and kind-hearted. Your heart is cold and full of desire, yet you still think of those way below you, not worthy of even a passing glance from one such as yourself!." She wiped at her tears with a black sleeve.

"Mmm, isn't he the most wonderful man a girl could have?!" Misa exclaimed, wrapping her arms around Light's neck adoringly and giggling softly.

"Worthy to be a God!" Teru added.

"But how do you plan on doing this? You can't just leave us guessing."

"Demegawa. I wouldn't dream of leaving you out of my plans, you all have a part to play in this." Silence fell once more to a point of which everyone's heartbeat in their head was the only noise they could hear, "I have assigned to each of you a single and delicate piece of the puzzle which will lead up to my plan, but I must warn you that if any word of this passes your lips to anyone but myself you will be killed for your insolence and treachery." Light warned, his tone was deadly serious and his eyes reflected this with a fiery gaze.

"I will never breathe a word to anybody my Lord. I have been loyal to you since the beginning and I will remain so, I can assure you." Higuchi said, meeting the king's gaze with confident eyes of his own.

"My God, you can kill me with your own hands if I so much as consider betraying you!" Mikami declared, standing and knocking his chair over with his vicious action.

"I swear an oath on my life to remain loyal to you, my king." Demegawa stated unusually softly, his heart fully laced into his words.

"Nothing in this whole universe would make me betray you my Lord, that is a promise and an oath to which I am bound forever." Takada swore, her eyes still glassy and wet, but determined and truthful.

"I believe you all and I trust in your words, that is why I am going to tell you what I wish for you to do."

...*{WITH THE STARS}*...

The door swung shut as Higuchi left the room; the last of those at the meeting, besides Light and the unknown being.

The king leant back in his chair, smirking and twirling a pen in his fingers. His eyes gazed across to the opposite wall but it was a question as to whether he saw the wall. He was in his own head, watching the perfect galaxy he would soon create for the comets. Any and all that opposed him would be crushed and only the worthy would live in his galaxy.

Again the unheard being laughed hysterically, snapping Light from his daydreams, "Ryuk, what are you finding so funny? It's a little distracting."

'Ryuk' jumped up onto the table and sat with his long black, leather-clad legs crossed in front of the king, his clawed black hands holding his bony knees as he peered down at the male; his golden eyes smiling brightly with laughter, "Everything! You really don't give a damn do you? You're going through with it?"

Light gave a small and blunt chuckle, leaning his cheek on a clenched fist resting on the arm of his chair, "Obviously. If this is the only way to gain true control of this galaxy then so be it." He said calmly.

"So you don't even care that by doing this you can go to neither heaven nor hell?" Ryuk asked, a little shocked, though he knew the answer.

The shock was not entirely due to the fact that Light was so recklessly certain with his plan. The plan was a huge task and the teen had been working on it in secret with Ryuk for much longer than anyone would have thought; well before he was appointed the new king of the Kuiper belt after the unexpected death of his father, so there was no doubt that he was prepared and ready for anything. He had worked out any chinks in the idea and was confident.

But what shocked Ryuk the most was how carefree and calm the teen sounded when talking about it. He had heard the fact that just for involving himself with Ryuk would prevent him from going to heaven or hell at least one hundred times. He'd been telling Light since the day Ryuk was called upon. But instead of acting like a regular comet and completely abandoning the idea after finding out how serious the commitment would be – he simply smiled every time and said the same sentence, smirking all the while,

"Oh, Ryuk. When I am finished, even heaven itself will be put to shame by my galaxy."