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As a thank you present, here is the last chapter of Sight and Sound. Thank you, and enjoy!

Sight and Sound

Final Chapter

L had walked out the door onto the Yagami family's grassy front yard after yelling at the family. He was now standing around holding Raito's hand as she kept trying to pry his off her's, but soon she gave up. L was mentally cursing Mr. Yagami, what a selfish father he was! If only he could understand…

The pale man decided to phone Watari, he hadn't in a while. And plus, he was pissed off; he needed someone to talk to. He reached into his denim pocket and only held his phone for a moment, then he looked to his student. "Here," he said as he put her hand on the phone, then showed her how to open and close the flippy part.

"Telephone, that's what this thing is. It's a telephone," he said, not in a completely friendly tone since not all of his anger faded away. The raven-haired man spelled to her "T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E." Then he put it up to her ear and moved her jaw up and down, sort of making it look like she was talking, her teeth making a clicking sound every time he closed her mouth. He was masking his frustration as persistence. He clenched his teeth, "C'mon, you can do this, Raito! Telephone, telephone, telephone! Come on! Raito, please! I know you want this more than anything in the world!"

Raito then quickly snatched L's cell phone out of his hand, and just held it and felt it. She only stared straight ahead of herself with an expression that almost looked like surprise, maybe sorrow or desperation, but her eyes were huge now, nonetheless.

It took her a while to say it, but once she did, L nearly had a heart attack from surprise and incredibility, "…..Telly…." Her voice wasn't strangely deep, like the other kids from Watari's blind/deaf orphanage, it actually sounded very normal and feminine. If L hadn't seen that her eyes were still white, he would've thought the curse was broken.

Raito took his hand and spelled T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E to him. L put her hand on his face and nodded. As if to verify, T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E, she spelled it again, and he nodded once again, "Yes, Raito."

The girl then came closer to L, his hand still in hers, and she made him feel his own cell phone. L had to bend down to look in her eyes and double-check if the Shinigami's curse was still in effect. He looked at her, honestly a little scared, but L didn't know why he was. His heart was pounding in his chest.

Raito closed her eyes as she said it again, as if she was looking into her mind for the memory, again matching the object with the name she gave it during early childhood. "…Telly….. Telly….. Telly." Her mouth was open, and right before she opened her eyes, she gasped from what seemed like pain, then a black tear rolled down her face, her mouth still slightly open. She didn't move a muscle. L watched as the tear slowly crawled down her perfect cheek and descended farther down to where it eventually fell to the grass from her jaw line.

L froze on the spot, intently watching her. He only looked on as she put her hand on her cheek and rubbed the wet trail from where the tear rolled. Raito opened her eyes, looking first at the ground, then starting to take in the familiar surroundings slowly. She spoke her first words as a returning girl, "I can see…" she whispered, then looked around more quickly at everything but L, whom she didn't seem to know was there. She dropped his phone in the grass.

L felt a huge lump in his throat before swallowing it. She could see? "I can hear!" The brunette ran around her front yard, laughing like a maniac and crying from extreme joy, naming all the different and spelling them with her hands. "This is dirt!" "This is a cherry tree!" "These are rocks" "Grass!" "Cherry blossom!" Then for only a moment did she stop running around. She then again started running and went to her front porch and rang the emergency bell many times before shouting with her arms spread apart and up towards the heavens as she chanted in a rejoicing tone, the biggest smile L had ever seen on her bright and shining face, "Mom! Dad! Matt! I can see again! I can hear again! It's a miracle!" The whole family started coming out the front door, and they saw she was free and they all at once hugged her tightly. Sachiko started to cry from happiness, joining Raito in shedding tears. L was still standing frozen in the grassy yard, just staring at them all.

He'd done it.

He'd done what everyone said he and any other person on Earth could never do. He'd done the near impossible. He'd birthed a miracle.

As he looked down at the grass, smiling, he could faintly hear Raito's shaky voice from the porch, but didn't catch the exact words. Then he heard footsteps in the grass coming toward him, he looked up. There was his student; his bright, shining student. His no longer blind or deaf student. Her big brown eyes were looking up at him and sparkling dazzlingly gorgeously in the sunset, which was shining right on her seeing eyes. And the tears that ran down her face nonstop were also shining in the sunlight.

She only looked at him with no expression. She knew him, yet she didn't. They were both so attached to each other, and yet their worlds were so far apart. She was confused. Raito held something gold and shiny in her hand, a key. It was the one her mother had put in her pocket earlier, and the same one she used to try to get rid of L the first day he showed up. She gave it to him, her voice cracking, "I'm sorry…for…l-locking you in y-your room." L looked at it then took it.

Raito then reached up with her hands and felt his face and cheeks. With a complete stranger, she would never do this, but this man standing in front of her was not a complete stranger, so it was just on the border of what was okay and what was not. The brunette girl felt his crazy hair, felt the familiar thickness and spikes, and gently smoothed her thumbs on his dark circles. Finally, not taking her hands off him, she asked, "…And what are you called?"

L took one of her hands, T-E-A-C-H-E-R "…Teacher," he whispered very softly and gently. She spelled back, T-E-A-C-H-E-R. He nodded to her smiling, he whispered again, this time barely audible even to the girl. He wanted to be sure that her family waiting on the porch didn't hear. "Teacher." This was their thing, he didn't want them getting involved in it and changing the strong teacher and student relationship. L wrapped his arms around her slowly and rested his head on her soft hair. As he held her small body tightly and she hugged him back, he closed his eyes and thought to himself, 'This feeling, right now, feels a lot like victory… Though she, truly, is the real winner.'

…

That night, L was sitting in the rocking chair on the front porch. He had been thinking there since the Yagami's all went inside to celebrate real Raito's real homecoming. It was nighttime now. Caught up in thinking of the memories he recently made with his student, L didn't notice that Raito came out too. She was dressed in black pajama shorts and a blue tank top. She was looking up at the sky, and she startled L when he heard her, "It's great to see the stars and moon again….. It's also wonderful to hear the crickets again," she smiled.

L nodded towards her, deciding to stay quiet. He knew she must have a lot to say. But L honestly wanted to hear what she'd say too.

It was then that they could both hear Matt playing the piano inside the house. He played Canon in D, the wedding song. Raito felt even more appreciative towards L, because if it weren't for him, she knows that she would not be able to hear that wonderful tune.

She started, "Thank you, Teacher." Raito smiled, and L smiled back.

"You're welcome."

Then she scoffed and laughed to herself, "Geez, that isn't…nearly enough to repay you for all you've done."

L snickered, "You were pretty stubborn. But nothing unbearable."

There was a small silence, except for the piano, of course, as they both smiled contently. Raito tried to think of ways to thank her teacher, but none seemed good enough. She gave it a shot, though.

"…Inside," she started, "my family told me everything you'd done for me… The three hour battle in the dining room, the house in California, the two weeks just you and me one-on-one… That's so incredibly amazing of you." She swallowed during her pause. "…I remember that you even bathed me because I forgot how and couldn't by myself…you were so gentle with me….. Any other teacher wouldn't have cared so much to do that for me every single day. Any other teacher wouldn't have cared like you did." L blushed at that last part. He could remember her perfectly unmarked body, her perfect curves. Also how cute she looked with her hair wet when he would take the plastic cup filled with water and pour it over her head. To try hiding his blush, he scratched his face, but she didn't seem to notice. "Gosh, I really can't thank you enough." She got up and walked towards him, then stopped suddenly for a moment with a puzzled face, "Teacher? …What's your real name?"

The pale man looked up at her, "L Lawliet."

She smiled, "Well, L Lawliet," she then sat down on his lap, making the chair creek and rock a little bit. The brunette put her arms around his neck, latching and entwining her own fingers together. 'She really is my little monkey, hanging on me like this,' L thought to himself, smiling at her. She smiled back, "You didn't even know me before this, you'd never met me before, had never seen my face, had never known my personality, never heard of Raito Yagami before… Yet you cared so much for me when no one else seemed to."

"Again, I can't thank you enough." She looked straight into his big, child-like eyes and smiled genuinely. "I just hope this might be enough to repay you for some of your trouble." Raito moved her face and kissed his cheek for a good five seconds, then rest her head on his shoulder with her nose in his neck.

"It was no trouble," he said. "None of it was any trouble." He hugged her waist and back, rubbing and patting her back with his pale hands. "I'm so proud of you….. And I'm so honored that I was your teacher. I'm so glad I met you, Raito," he smiled. L then took her right hand from his neck into his left hand. He signed and spoke to her.

I "I"

L-O-V-E "love"

R-A-I-T-O "Raito."

He could feel her smile on his pale neck. "Please don't ever leave," she whispered so quietly.

He whispered back in an equal volume, "I promise….. I will never leave you." L then moved his bare feet to rock the chair once more, and they stayed like that until they were both lulled to sleep by the beautiful sound of the piano. They both fell asleep without the fear of her not seeing or hearing again. They both knew that when she woke up, Raito would still be able to hear and see, all thanks to L Lawliet and the alphabet.

)))To teach is to touch a life forever(((

OWARI

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