XII


It was as if he knew how to make me feel good.

Part of my fear about his opinion about me went away on that day.

Unconsciously we left school to his house…with our hands joined.

I wondered what would happen besides the "brainwash" he would certainly give me.

Now that I think of it…

Maybe I should have thought about in how much trouble I would be after my first visit to his house…


"Ohhhh… Study, study, study! I wonder if they must think of us as machines or something!" I protested while Light heard me

"Just thank the fact that I took the afternoon off to put up with you…" he commented in a dry voice

I looked at him with puppy eyes and he smiled as if he was satisfied to see me that way.

"But seriously, that negative mark on Maths is really bugging me right now…" I said looking down to my feet

"Is that the only thing bugging you?"

I stopped and he stopped too a little in front of me. I had forgotten the fact that we were holding hands until that moment.

"Huh? What is this question about?" I asked moving my fingers slowly around the palm of his hand

"It's just that since the accident you've had… I've been wondering how all the passengers on that bus ended up being all killed…"

And he faced me with a very serious expression. But that expression was not like him…

"… While you were the only one to survive, without a single scratch on you"

I looked at him fearful and kind of sadly.

"Why are you saying this to me only now?!" I almost ended up yelling "Are you saying you wanted me dead right now? Or that you wanted me to end up carbonized like everyone else did?!"

Suddenly the action was too fast. He came closer to me, looked down at me and held our still held hands in the middle of our two faces.

My hand held his tighter.

"I never said that…" he said looking at me with a mysterious darkly expression

Then he moved to my right ear, but he didn't release my hand.

"… but I don't believe that your luck was just a simple coincidence…"
I froze as he moved away slowly. He couldn't find out that I was somehow the cause of it all. And his father was one of the cops. Probably working on the Kira case. Maybe I was about to enter on the wolf's lair that day.

"Hyuk hyuk hyuk… Your boyfriend isn't dumb at all is he?" asked Ryuk entertained from behind me

The two of us kept walking without switching any words.

But our hands remained held together until we got to his house.

It was a nice little house, small but nice.

He tried to open the front door and finally he had to release my hand to do it.

"Huh? Nobody's home?" he asked sounding surprised

"Maybe your mom went out to do some shopping" I said while he took out his house keys.

He opened the door and we proceeded.

"Ojamajimasu!" I exclaimed as I took off my shoes and placed on some slippers he handed to me

"That was unnecessary Seira-chan!" he said as he climbed up the stairs

I peeked onto his living room. It was quite spacey, and the kitchen was just next to it.

"Just one!" pleaded Ryuk pointing towards a basket of apples lying in the kitchen table

"No…" I whispered as I returned to the hallway to climb up the stairs to keep up with Light.

When we finally got to his room.

It seemed that he noticed something as he opened the door, because his expression seemed surprised, but at that time I assumed it was just my impression.

It was the typical room of a class's best student. The books all placed in order on the shelves, the desk all organized and clean, soft curtains on the windows, but the best of it was….

"Ohhhhh… Your bed…" I said when I sat down on his bed to find that it was very comfortable.

I laid myself down enjoying the comfort. Not even my bed, now with a water mattress was that comfortable.

"The nerve of this girl…" said Ryuk walking out towards the balcony

Light took the advantage of my distraction, and while I moved myself happily on his bed he laid himself next to me.

Suddenly I stopped fooling around and saw that he was very close to me watching my face under his.

I looked at him and felt the blush rising on my cheeks.

"Yagami Light!" I said pushing him furiously away from me and sitting down on the bed "What kind of idea is that?!"

"What idea exactly?" he asked playing naïve

"Oh stop!" Are you going to say that by placing yourself like that towards me, didn't meant you were having perverted ideas

I realized he was testing me… yet again.

"What kind of perverted ideas?" he whispered as is breath slammed my neck

"Oh stop!" Can you imagine what it would be like if someone was watching us?"

HE approached me more, and then grabbed a little part of my hair curling it on his finger.

"Are you going to say that doesn't give you some ideas as well he whispered as his lips petted my ear

"Stop!" I said laughing nervously

All of a sudden he laid me on the bed and placed his hands side by side of my head. He was now over me fortunately he was lighter than I thought and my body wasn't being crushed under his.

"Having some ideas now?" he said smiling maliciously at me

I simply remained staring at him , gazing upon his eyes, not knowing how to react.

All of a sudden the fact that my hips were almost side by side on his waist made me feel like I was actually having a heart attack.

My chest burned me.

I didn't knew if I was supposed to feel disgusting or good.

But the truth was I wanted… him…

Brief images of our bare bodies together raced my mind. I shouldn't think like that!

I COULDN'T!

My legs in a try to close themselves only ended up tightening his waist closer to me.

"Your reactions are interesting…" he commented standing up

I stood up too feeling strange.

I was just sick of mind games. Not only from him but from everyone around me.

During the rest of the afternoon, I managed to take that out of my head, as we studied, watched TV and talked about nothing too relevant. I had to push harder by my head when he wanted to see if I understood all he had taught me.

It was almost 7 pm when the revision was over.

"Ungh!" I said "My head aches!"

And I laid my head on his desk.

"If I had to study like this every day , I would have to make some holidays before the tests…"

He petted my head.

"You'll stay for dinner then!"

"Huh?! But…"

"Light! I'm here!"

"Oh, it's my mom!" he said standing up

I followed him out of his room.

"Light!" greeted his mom when we arrived to the hallway "Are you here for long?"

"A while!" he answered as I came from behind him

"Are… You brought company?" asked his mom watching me from top to bottom

"This girl is Seira-chan!" he said introducing me "The one that competes with me for top of the class"

"Light-kun!" I exclaimed embarrassed

"Actually Light only talks good of you, so you should know!" said his mom punching him softly on the head "But you sound like a nice company for what he's been telling me"

"He he he" I said blushing with my tongue out

"It's a pleasure to meet you at last Seira-san!"

"My pleasure Mrs Yagami-san!" I said making a polite bow

Suddenly a girl, younger than me entered. I assumed it was his younger sister.

"Hi!" she said with a loud but cheerful voice "Huh? Who is this?"

"This girl is Minamoto Seira!" said Mrs Yagami for me

"AH!" she said pointing what sounded like an accusing finger to me "So you are Ni-chan's girlfriend then!"

As you can imagine, my face became bright red like the apples I praised

"Light and I don't…" I tried to say

"Why do you have to assume that all girls are my girlfriends Sayu?" asked Light "Do I have to be engaged in your point of view?"

"Oh, but you two are the best students in the class! It's a perfect match!" she said looking at us evilly

I looked away embarrassed.

"Mom, she'll be staying for dinner, by the way!" said Light ignoring his little sister

"Oh, no, no no! It's not…"

"But I DO insist!" said Mrs Yagami giving Light some backup

I took a deep breath.

"Yes, alright!"

"Come to the living room!" said Sayu taking me quickly by the hand while Light followed behind us

Until dinner began we were watching a soap opera with the famous actor Hideki Ryuga.

"Ohhhhhh!" complained Sayu still glued to the screen "Why isn't anyone of my class like you Hideki!?"

"Sayu! Come and have dinner!" called Mrs Yagami for the fifth time

"Isn't your dad coming?" I asked wondering why I didn't saw Mr Yagami still

"Father is on some complicated cases right now! He barely stops at home only when he's sleeping we're all in the same house!"

"That case wouldn't be the Kira case by chance, right?"

Light and his mom didn't answer.

"I mean… It's the only case on air lately!" I commented trying to sound casual

"Hey!" said Sayu all of a sudden, still in front of the screen "Something just came up: 'ICPO announces that 1500 agents will be sent from all over the world to Japan, in order to solve the Kira case

1500? No way… Not as a joke but seriously

Where would they find all those agents all of a sudden from out of nowhere?

"These ICPO guys are a bunch of idiots…" commented Light breaking the silence

I awoke from the small trance.

"You can say that again!" I answered back "I don't see many people risking their lives to solve the case, and the fact that they've announced it to the public just like that makes their plan go down the drain."

"They are just trying to scare Kira. And you have a point in saying that there aren't many people brave enough to solve such a case. I doubt Kira will fall for this scheme, and even if it's true all he has to do is move a finger and cause some heart attacks"

"If I were Kira I would definitely be laughing in their faces right now, but… I don't think he'll kill people who did nothing wrong!"

I was talking like I was making an autobiography of myself. How ironic…

"But he did kill that guy live on TV when it was that confrontation with L. He thought he was L, and that was all it took."

"But maybe, just maybe he could get some information from the police and see that the guy was indeed a criminal, which he was!"

"But that kill is proof that he's willing to take out whoever gets in his way!"

"All chances are possible, can't argue with you…"

I looked behind me and I noticed for the first time that Ryuk wasn't next to me. Damn it! Couldn't he stand still for just a minute?!

"Something bugging you?" asked Light

"Oh, nothing, I felt a chill that's all…"

After dinner we grabbed some chips and cookies and it was another long study session.

At some point he went to the restroom for a minute and I stood inside his room.

I was exhausted…

The sleep was invading me… I was with my head lying on his desk and I barely managed to keep my eyes opened.

"Seira-chan!" said Ryuk suddenly from behind me

But I didn't answer. I wasn't even actually there anymore. I felt like I was about to float onto the celling.

"Before you fall asleep listen to me carefully!"

But I barely felt conscious…

"I was looking around the house, since no one can see me, and I noticed in an important detail. Listen to me…"

I was falling now…

"The house has cameras! Did ya catch me?"

But finally the slumber took the best of me…