IMPORTANT the new name of this story (old name being The Sister's Point Of View) is now Through Her Eyes (AKA, THE, which I find very amusing). The new title will be put up during the chapter eleven update, just so it's not confusing.
I waved to Near as I walked out my front door with two bags over my back, we had planned an all-nighter at his place to do an "assignment" (AKA, files on the Kira case). Dad didn't like the idea at first, he said that I should stay at a boy's place with constant parental supervision, but mom (ever the pervert) managed to convince him to let me go saying that 'Shiro' promised to let me sleep in his room with the door locked.
"Do you have WiFi at your place?" I wondered as we walked.
"Yeah" Near nodded.
"How about food? You remember my warning, right?" I worried, "I have weird eating habits".
(Two days earlier at their first study night)
"Next time we're doing this at your place" I grumbled, Near nodded.
"When?" Near asked.
"I dunno, as soon as possible?" I replied.
"How about tomorrow night?" Near suggested.
"No, too soon, plus you probably don't have the stuff" I shook my head.
"What stuff?" Near wondered.
"I have weird eating habits, I'm sure you've noticed" I told him.
(Present time)
"Yeah" Near scratched his neck nervously.
"You did get the food…didn't you?" I worried.
"Huh? O-of course I did" Near stuttered. That was odd…Near never stuttered.
"Are you sure?" I questioned.
"Yes" Near nodded, before quietly adding something else, "and…"
"Sorry, what was that?" I blinked.
"Nothing!" Near yelped.
"You're acting strange" I pointed out.
"No I'm not" Near denied as we turned and went up some stairs.
"I think you are" I argued, we turned right and went down a hallway.
"Nope" Near said, ending the conversation as we stopped in front of a door, "we're here".
"Really?" I blinked, "you're pretty close to my place".
"That's because we're both close to the school" Near replied, unlocking the door.
We walked inside and the first thing I saw was food; lots and lots of food. It was stacked everywhere! Benches, tables, shelves (that looked like they were bought for that purpose), I opened the fridge and looked inside, that was filled up too.
"You're that weirdo that bought all the food!" I gasped, realising where the apartment complex was located.
"What was that?" Near blinked, poking his head out of the only bedroom in the apartment, I guess he was setting it up for me.
"Nothing" I shook my head, a sense of de-ja-vu entered my mind and I laughed a little before closing the fridge, "what's all the food for?"
"Uh" Near suddenly became awkward, "I…wasn't sure what you wanted…"
"And you couldn't ask me because…?" I smirked.
"Um…pride?" It came out as a question, which made me laugh some more.
"Guys and their pride" I giggled.
"So, are we going to start looking at those notes?" Near quickly changed the subject, I let him.
"Yeah" I nodded, grabbing one of my bags that I had dropped by the front door and pulling out the files before sitting on the ground in front of Near, who I knew preferred to work sitting on the floor.
"Alright, if Kira was controlling Kiichiro Osoreda to make him hijack the bus before being hit by the car, what was his intension?" Near picked up where we left off.
"Not this again" I groaned, I had been thinking about it a lot since we came to the conclusion of Kira having other ways to kill, and I hadn't gotten any new ideas, "can we just check what the task force has on them?"
"I already did" Near replied, "they're a step behind us, I think your ability to hear Ryuk is coming in handy. I did find something interesting though".
"What is it?" I asked eagerly.
"L sent twelve FBI agents to Japan, remember that?" Near looked at me, "the FBI agents were tailing some suspects, there was someone with connections to Kira in the task force, and L had narrowed it down a little…one of the FBI agents was tailing the Yagami family".
I gasped, "L suspects one of us?!"
"Yes, and now that the FBI agents are dead, L has resorted to surveillance cameras" Near explained, "there isn't a spot in your house that L can't see".
"Even the-" I felt kind of grossed out at the thought.
"Yeah, even the bathrooms" Near confirmed.
"Urgh, L really is a pervert" I felt my admiration for L go down a little.
"I'm fairly certain that he would look away when someone is in the bathroom, it doesn't exactly say it, but I'm sure your dad takes over at that point" Near reassured, my admiration was restored.
"Oh…good" I sighed.
"Yes, but I need to ask, did you do anything suspicious yesterday? If L saw, he may end up tracing something to me, and I would be sent back to England. If that happens, I won't be able to work on the Kira case and all we've done would have been for nothing" Near rambled.
"We'll be fine, all I did yesterday was go out with a friend and accuse Light of being gay" I grinned.
"Good, how did he react to that anyway? I didn't get the video" Near wondered.
"Oh, here" I flipped open my phone and handed it to Near as the video started.
The video was only three minutes long, but by the time it ended Near and I were both lying on the floor laughing.
"How about we get a snack? We're obviously not going to focus on the case for a while and there's tons of food we've got to get through before we go to sleep" I sighed.
"True point" Near agreed, sitting up and shuffling into the kitchen, "what would you like?"
"Let me get it" I insisted, "I'm very picky".
Near watched in shock as I grabbed a can of cola beer, which was by far my favourite.
"You drink alcohol?" Near gawked.
"Yep, everyone in my family has a form of addiction, mom's is tea, dad's is fried rice, Light's is apples, and mine is alcohol" I explained, "though I try to avoid it most of the time, not so healthy for someone my age".
"What's it like?" Near wondered.
"You haven't had any?" I blinked, "huh, does your orphanage shelter you or something? Here" I threw a can to him, which he caught, "think of ginger beer gone sour with some cola added in".
"That doesn't sound too great" Near frowned as he popped the tab and looked doubtfully inside.
"Only if you drink it quickly, have a little bit at a time. If you drink it like that there's also less of a chance of you getting drunk" I instructed.
"…Alright" Near hesitated before taking a very slow sip…and then pulling the can away from his face quickly as he crinkled his face in disgust, "gross".
I laughed as I watch Near wait a moment before going back for more, I popped my can's tab and took a sip as well.
"See, not bad right?" I smirked.
"I wouldn't have it regularly, but yes, not bad" Near nodded, I smiled to him.
Three cans later, I noticed Near becoming a little sloppy and I chuckled, "so you're a lightweight".
I grabbed a glass and poured some water into it before swapping it with Near's latest can, "come on, sober up, we've still got to work on the case".
I've been looking forward to writing this chapter since chapter five, and now I can finally put it up! I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did when I was writing it!