This is the final chapter for my story. Contains spoilers for Light. Rated T+

Itsumo is sleeping when she feels someone shaking her awake.

"What is it?" She snaps.

"You overslept and we're going to be late for the task-force meeting."

"Screw the task-force. I'm going back to sleep." She grumbles but gets up anyway.

Itsumo rubs her eyes sleepily and gets changed. She makes sure that her salt circle I still in tact.

"Why are you checking that? You're leaving anyway."

"You would have had to stand inside of it to wake me up." She mumbles.

It keeps pout those who wish to harm me. It was broken the other day so he was able to get in. It isn't broken today.

Itsumo follows Light down the stair while brushing her hair.

When they enter the head quarters, an air of coldness permeates the room as Itsumo meets L's eyes. She purposefully sits as far away from him and as close to Light as possible.

"I believe that Misa Amane is the second Kira. Due to this suspicion, I have decided to put her under solitary confinement starting today." L states.

"What? You can't just confine somebody like that!" Aizawa complains.

"On the contrary, Mr. Aizawa, I can, I have, and I will continue to do so until my suspicions are assuaged." L counters calmly.

"It's best to just let him do as he pleases. He'll do it anyway. It doesn't matter who it is." Itsumo tells him.

A live image of Misa in confinement comes onto screen.

"Kill me. Just get it over with! If you won't, I will." Misa yells.

L continues.

"Misa will be in confinement until she is proven innocent or guilty. If she is proven guilty, she will be sentenced to death."

"How can you just decide a sentence without a fair trial?" Light asks him.

"He's L and he can. Isn't that right, Ryuzaki?" Itsumo asks slightly sarcastically.

"To put it bluntly, Itsumo is correct."

Itsumo sends a withering glare L's way.

Matsuda looks at Itsumo and silently wonders what she's glaring at L for.

"Is everything okay, Itsumo?" Matsuda asks to break the uncomfortable silence that had fallen upon the room.

"Ask L. He knows everything, after all." She keeps her voice calm, but her eyes portray her resentment.

"As I said yesterday, there is no need for hostility, Itsumo. Everything is fine, Matsuda. You needn't concern yourself with it just yet."

"Yet?" Matsuda asks.

"There is nothing here to discuss." Itsumo says.

"Are you only saying that because you don't want anything discussed?" L asks calmly.

"What is going on here?" Soichiro asks firmly.

"Itsumo is being hostile towards me because I suspect her of being Kira or being involved with Kira."

A collective gasp rises from the room.

"Watari, please take care of Misa while I handle things over here." L says as he senses that things will get worse.

"Very well."

The screen goes blank.

"How can you even think that?" Light demands.

"She's changed. In addition, Itsumo has also began a relationship with you, one of my prime suspects." L says then eats a panda cookie.

I wonder if this is how Light felt when he was first accused. This is a living nightmare.

"So you're accusing your own sister because she's changed a bit and has a boyfriend? Everyone changes Ryuzaki. How did you even come to this conclusion?" Light asks incredulously.

It is apparent to both L and Itsumo that Light is faking his concern. What no one realizes, is that Light is actually wondering why L would accuse her. However, that doesn't mean that he cares.

"I would also like to know the root of your suspicions." Aizawa says with a slightly annoyed tone.

"You don't know her like I do. For a while now, Itsumo has been exhibiting behaviors that are odd for her."

L's face is blank and his voice is emotionless.

'Perfect. Here's my chance to put her in a pressing situation. I won't even have to do it myself. I'll just egg L on until he says something that makes her lose her cool.' Light thinks triumphantly.

"What do you mean, odd for her?"

"She's being extremely emotional and she has begun to turn a blind eye towards things that should not be ignored. She usually isn't this strange."

Light takes a glance at Itsumo who is silently seething and glaring daggers at her brother.

"Itsumo isn't odd at all."

"No. She is. I have also noticed that her obsession with shinigami has grown. It isn't normal."

'That should do it.

Itsumo stands up and pounds on the table with her palms.

"You know what, L? I am sick and tired of you criticizing me! Do you even know all of the unfair criticism I went through at Wammy's House because of you?! They wanted me to be a carbon copy of you! Whenever I wasn't as good as my 'flawless brother', I would hear whispers of 'If they didn't look alike, I wouldn't think they were related. She's nowhere near as smart as him.' Speaking of Near, he's actually smarter than you. Who would've guessed that someone at the orphanage we grew up in would surpass your ability?"

Itsumo laughs harshly. The task-force looks on in a slightly astonished silence since Itsumo, who is normally quiet, is screaming at the top of her lungs.

"You will never know what you've done to the orphans there. A's death was your fault! Beyond's killings were your fault! If he wasn't obsessed with beating you, he wouldn't have done it. He wouldn't have tried to kill himself and he wouldn't have been killed by Kira! Because of you, Mello has an inferiority complex and Near is a recluse! Nobody trusts anybody in that orphanage." Itsumo bellows.

'She's dropped that nonchalant attitude. I wonder how long she'll rant?' Light thinks smugly.

"If I recall correctly, Near and you were close friends." L states.

He does not appear to be phased by Itsumo's yelling.

"Your point? Just because Near and I are friends doesn't necessarily mean we trust each other. Misa and I are friends and I trust her as much I would trust Linda with a shotgun! We all know what happened the last time someone did that!"

"I was told that she wanted to sketch it. I was not aware that Linda intended to shoot herself." L says evenly.

"You weren't her roommate. L, you didn't have to hear the gunshot from the bottom bunk at three in the morning! You didn't wake up to a corpse with a hole in her head and blood on your walls. You didn't even care about me at all until you heard about my IQ level!"

"You know as well as I do that the previous statement is false."

"All you ever do is lie to people! You give them all false hopes."

"I never give people a false hope. I told them what would happen if they failed yet they still hope that they can win. That has nothing to do with me."

"You stole away the childhood of young children and destroyed their dreams. Near had once told me that he wanted to be a professor. A year later he told me that since he could no longer dream about such a task, he would just forget about it!"

Itsumo walks angrily to the door.

"Itsumo."

"What?!"

"I'll see you tomorrow." L says with an even tone.

Itsumo storms out and slams the door.

"I've never seen you angry." Naraku remarks.

"It's just so overwhelming. The notebook, Light, me, you, L, Kira, Ryuk, and the confinement of Misa all hit me in such a short period of time. I just snapped. I'm pathetic." Itsumo says with a sob.

She looks at her watch.

It's fifteen minutes to twelve. What can I do to calm myself? I suppose I could use it again. It's still clean and I doubt anyone would really care anyway.'

Itsumo walks into a public restroom that can be used by either gender, enters a stall, and locks the door.

"Don't do it again, Itsumo. Don't do it."

Naraku watches Itsumo's lifespan.

She takes a razor from her purse.

Ten.

Meanwhile, Light is still at HQ but things still aren't calm.

"Ryuzaki! How could make her cry like that?" Light asks angrily.

"Upsetting Itsumo was not my intention. She's just stressed and decided to take it out on me."

"I've never seen her so upset. I didn't even think she could get that emotional."

"Light, I'm not very concerned about her right now. I have more pressing issues at hand and she can deal with this on her own."

"Honestly, Ryuzaki. Don't you even love her at all?"

"She is my sister. Therefore, I must love her, so I do."

"Ryuzaki!"

Light is appalled at L's choice of words. Every sibling should love each other, but not because they have to. He would never leave an upset Sayu to cope on her own. L does not belong in Light's crime free world of peace and love. No, he deserves death, maybe even something worse than death if that is at all conceivable.

"If you care so much, by all means, go and find her. I will not stop you."

Light walks out of the HQ in a calm manner.

"Hyuk! Things sure are interesting today. Hey, will you get me an apple, Light?"

"Not right now, Ryuk."

"C'mon! I need apples. You know I do."

"I don't have any on me."

In the bathroom stall, Itsumo presses the sharp blade to her skin. She closes her eyes and breathes deeply. Crimson blood wells up and slides down her arm.

Nine.

"Itsumo. You have to stop this." Naraku says worriedly.

"I can't, Naraku. I won't. I need to cope with life."

Again she drags the cold metal across her pale skin. The blood from her second cut mixes with that of the first.

Eight.

"Itsumo. You have to stop! Listen to me! Listen to me! Dear god. Itsumo, please listen!"

"I need to feel calm, Naraku. I need this to feel calm. I have to stay calm, no matter what. I have to."

Another cut. Blood drips onto the floor of the stall.

Seven.

"I'm going to find Light. Maybe he can stop you."

Itsumo's hand slips at the mention of Light. The cut is deeper than the other.

Six.

"No! Don't you dare!"

Naraku leaves the stall. Itsumo inflicts another deep wound.

Five.

Light sees Naraku rushing out of a bathroom stall.

"Light! Light, you have to come here. She's bleeding!"

"Who is?" Light asks.

"Itsumo. Itsumo is. She won't stop. You have to help her!"

"Why should I?"

"She loves you, Light. She really does. Don't let her die." Naraku pleads.

Light walks quickly into the stall.

Ryuk cackles.

"Her numbers are at four now."

Light's face pales at the sight of blood running down her arms and onto the floor.

"Itsumo! What the hell are you doing?!" He exclaims.

"I'm trying to feel better. Just a little deeper, and I'll feel better."

Light involuntarily shivers as Itsumo lets the blade tear into her skin.

Three.

Itsumo slumps onto the ground.

"Itsumo!"

"I'm fine. I have a feeling that I'll be at peace soon."

She turns her head.

"Naraku, give my Death Note to Light. I relinquish ownership of my note book. I no longer want it."

Naraku nods solemnly. Itsumo loses her memories of the Death Note.

"Here. Take your cross back."

He unclasps it and holds it out to her.

"N-no. You keep it."

He clasps it around his neck.

Her first laceration continues to bleed.

Two.

Light gathers Itsumo into his arms and blood soaks part of his shirt.

"Itsumo. No. You can't leave me."

"Please, call me Kyoko. That's my real name, Light. Kyoko Lawliet." She rasps.

Light holds her close and hears her shaky breathing.

One.

"I've always loved you, Light. Even if you never loved me, I've love you."

"I....I love you too."

Itsumo smiles happily. Her eyes slowly go blank and her body becomes limp.

Zero.

"No!" Light screams.

"Keh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh." Ryuk laughs hysterically.

"Why?" Light asks the lifeless corpse.

"Why did you have to die this way with such a heavy heart?"

For once in his life, Light is not faking anything. He has fallen for his own plan. He has fallen in love with his worst enemy's best ally. What will he do now that she is dead?

"I told you Light, the user of the Death Note suffers despair worse than of any human. You knew that when you got it, and you're experiencing it now."

Light calls L.

"Hello?" L asks.

"L! You have to get down here! It's Itsumo. She...she's dead!"

Light gives L the exact location.

L immediately hangs up the phone and rushes to the restroom.

L notices the bloody razor blade on the floor and Itsumo's gashed arm.

"Itsumo." He mutters for lack of any idea of what else he could say.

Internally, L is devastated. He just lost his only remaining relative that he knew about. He just lost his sister, his ally, and his closest friend.

'How could I have let this happen? Why didn't I realize that she would do this?' L questions himself.

"Light....call the funeral director. I'll take care of her body."

"How can be so nonchalant?! Your sister just died!"

"I know that. Just do as I say."

'Before I lose my temper.' L adds mentally.

Light hands Itsumo's body to L then leaves the stall for better service.

L brushes hair back from her still warm face.

"My sister, I am sorry. Forgive me."

L's hands tighten on his knees and he hears his knuckles pop.

They tell the news to the rest of the task force and the response is the same for everyone. They are all sad, but none were as sad as Light and L. Those two were the closest to her. L calls Wammy's House and informs the other orphans.

The next week, Itsumo was laid to rest. Naraku watches the funeral. He is still on earth because he has honored Itsumo's final wishes. Light now owns her old Death Note. Light sees a white haired child who he doesn't know. The child walks up to him.

"Light Yagami, I assume?"

"Yes, who are you? How do you know who I am?"

"I am Near. Itsumo and I wrote letters to each other, though I am sure she never told you. She wrote about you quite often."

Light is very sad for some time after Itsumo's funeral. He didn't let it show and always kept his face a solid mask of indifference. L is the same way. Everyday until his death, Light put four black and four yellow roses on Itsumo's grave.

Later, when Light was dying, he would have sworn that he saw Itsumo standing next to L looking down at him.

When Near saw Light's dead body, he noticed a glimmer. He carefully picked up the source of the glimmer. He noted, with some astonishment, that it was Bakura's cross. After all those years, Light never took it off, and he never forgot about his love, Kyoko Lawliet.