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As I felt asleep in his arms that night, my frozen body against his warm one, besides sending a message to Millie telling her to tell daddy I had slept over, I deepened my promise:
If my doom eventually came when I least expected it, I wouldn't drag him along with me.
I grabbed his index finger with my own. The promise was sealed!
And it wouldn't end up stained with blood!Not with his blood at least...
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Each step I'm giving is a step closer to the truth of this mystery.
The fact that Kira is widening up his ground is undeniable! Could the power he possesses somehow be controlling him? It is what normally happens to humans with power: there is always a time when the tables eventually turn.
Now that Kira has decided to widen up the challenge he made upon me, more than ever is when I need to act according to the clues I already have, even if they're relatively small.
Tomorrow… Tomorrow I'll finally begin to dig through the most vital clue I possess. It's the day of the welcoming ceremony to the freshmen of Toh-Oh University.
One of the two will go through the test I'll be sure to prepare. The question still pending on my head is: which of them?
"Oh! Putting quite a thought in your dressing style?" commented Ryuk as he watched me all busy in front of my bathroom mirror
"Oh not really! This black dress is as informal as you can get. Now the high heels, ugh, my poor feet!" I said
Besides the black dress and the mega high heels I had as shoes, I was now giving the final touch by placing a black rose over the ponytail my hairdresser had so eloquently made moments ago.
"I don't think I would get used to it if I dressed like this every day" I commented passing the black pencil through my eyes
I exited in tiptoes to the living room so the floor wasn't marked by the heels. There was a note in the kitchen stand.
"I would love to be present in the ceremony… Make a big deal out of this new step of your life! Love you to deathlike you know I do! Papy"
"Always remembering me, my old man!" I said smiling to myself
I closed the door then I walked through the street. So far my feet were fine. For now…
"I don't know why but I'm actually proud of you!" said Ryuk talking very openly to me
"You've been with me for quite a while… I could name you my godfather you know!" I said talking very sweetly
"Why could I be your Godfather?" asked Ryuk curiously
"Point number one: You're a GOD of death, ya get me? Point number two: I see you look at me like a daughter heehee!" I said pulling my tongue out to him
I chuckled a little as he protested behind me. Having a god of Death as a shadow was being a reasonable experience. There was something I was kinda wondering if it would be wise to ask: "Are you on my side? Or are you playing the part of an audience as you watch the show that is my life?"; I was kind of wondering If Gods of Death could feel for some humans, something that I found very unlikely. But who was I to talk about creatures whose mind I couldn't read?
"I was going through the park one daaaaay… In the merry merry month of May…" I sang quietly to myself
"How you speak like you're actually English is something that really surprises me Seira-chan!" said Ryuk from my right side
"Yeah, I know! Humpf today I think there will be no room for all the compliments I'm sure I'll be getting…" I said as I reached for the Yagami's house door bell
Light and I had agreed to go together to the ceremony. So I was there to pick his ass up.
Sayu opened the door, and was immediately hyper to see me. She was already very used to my company.
"Ahhh, finally here Seira-chan! Wow you look like a vixen with that dress!" she said while eating a bag of potato chips
"I know, some said I look like one of the Addams with this dress on!" I said taking out a potato chip from her as I entered the house "So where is our little whiz kid?"
"One sec… Onii-chan! Seira-chan here!" she exclaimed out loud
"Send her up!" yelled Light from above
"You're not going to do stuff now, are you?!" yelled Sayu back trying to mess with her brother
(Every time she was with us there had to be a question of our sex life! How a twelve year old catches up on things real fast is something creepy that always left me with the beginning of a headache due to the exposition of a part of my personal life.)
"Nah, we don't want to do inappropriate things with a kid on the house!" joked Light while his sister made a frown and filled up her cheeks with air.
"What kind of persons do you take us for, Sayu-chan?" I asked joke fully as I went up the stairs and reached for the door of his room
I entered and closed the door. It was kind of stuffy in the room.
"I told you, she had a sixth sense…" I said as I walked to face him
He was turned to me putting his tie in the right place.
"Next time we want some privacy it's your house!" he said kissing my forehead quickly as I took his hair away from his eyes
"Keep your hair away from those eyes, people will find it strange if they can't see your eyes while you speak! Sorry If I sound snobby though…" I said sort of playing with his bangs
About the relationship we now have… Little has changed since that night in our birthday. We still talk for hours like we used to, still hang out at the same places where we used to when we were at Daikoku. Still share pretty much the same secrets as we used to.
Only two things were added:
One is relative to the intimate moments we now have. Sometimes we just stay cuddled up in each other's arms in a sofa, or in the park when no one is watching. Other times the thing became a little more intimate when we shared kisses and "kisses". And others times… were when we arrived in his house with no one, and sometimes we ended up just cuddled up on the sofa while watching TV… or cuddled up in his bed… Well, it depended on our moods in the times we were alone.
Two… is the fact that I'm on pills now. I've gained some pounds as a consequence of it!
"Are you so worried of what people think of me?" asked Light very casually
"Oh, you get what I'm saying!" I said tying up his coat
"Really? Is it really what you mean?" he said with a charm on his glance
"Stop! Sayu is downstairs! Gee, can't you wait until the ceremony is over and we're on my house?"
"You're thinking of the 'party' already?" he replied with that gaze that made my cheeks color up more.
He pointed toward my nose.
"You are!"
"Yagami Light, shut the hell up!" I said hitting him on the chest
I then moved away and sat down onto his bed. I sighed and looked distractedly through his always neat room.
"Ya know… It's like I can still see us the first time we've met… Who would have known we would be like this almost a year after the day I basically told you to fuck off just because you wanted to escort me home!" I said chuckling in the middle of my words
He walked closer to me and tapped my shoulder like the friend he had always been to me.
"You were the perfect example of stubbornness ya know… But funny I didn't call you out after that!"
"Sometimes I wonder if… If ya know… Well, when two people meet each other and hate each other in the first place… if it means that later something very good will appear between the two persons. "
"Do you actually believe in those things Seira-chan? That's not like you…" commented Light smiling, but clearly showing interest in the subject of our conversation
"Heck…" I smiled back then I looked away through his window thinking "My thoughts on those matters have been changing so much lately…"
He took my hand and I stood up still looking through the window.
"We'll have time to talk all about it when we're done with the ceremony…" said Light guiding me outside his room "I see we can have motives to talk…"
"Hummmm… Talk about what more specifically?" said Sayu out loud through the living room
"About matters that are rated M, which means you're far too immature to know!" said Light opening the front door
"One day I will know about them though!" I heard Sayu scream before he closed the door
As we got to the grounds of Toh-Oh I was greeted by the cherry blossom trees, which were blooming. Petals were floating through the air like bids learning how to fly. But that wasn't the only thing to greet me.
"Seira-chan! Light-kun!" exclaimed Rena waving to us with happiness drawn on her face
"Oh, Rena-chan! You got in too? Isn't it great?!" I exclaimed running towards her and grabbing both her hands
"And she wasn't the only one who made it" said Kichiro from behind her with that so very warm smile he owned
"Cool!" I exclaimed giving him a soft slap in the cheek "Ya go into medicine right Haji kun?"
(Calling him Haji-kun was easier.)
"Yeah… But Yagami-kun also had a chance too!" he said giving Light a quick handshake
"I'm more into police business, though!" replied Light outgoing as always
"And one fine detective you shall be!" said Kichiro with encouragement in his voice "Before you know it, you'll be the one driving Kira through the corridor of Death!"
I froze.
Imagining my own boyfriend leading me to my doom gave me a cold shake in the chest.
"Light-kun wanna know a secret?"
"I'm listening… As I always listen to you…"
"I'm Kira!"
"…"
"So now what will you do?"
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On that imaginary conversation I imagined us as little nine year olds. It was like we were playing pretend. Three replies from him came to my head:
a)"Please let me help you fix this filthy world!"
b)"I'm guiding you to the Death Penalty!"
c)"I don't want to have any more to do with you!"
It was far too dangerous to tell anyone no matter how intimate they were to me that I was Kira… God knows if I would ruin their feelings about me. It was too risky!
But imagining Light guiding me through a corridor where the electric chair was awaiting me was something I didn't dare to imagine.
In my dreams he was next to me. In my imagination he was dooming me. Why?
"Seira-chan!" he said making me snap back to Earth
I shook my head and giggled to him.
"Sorry, but I always get pretty thoughtful every time someone talks about Kira…" I said disguising
"Come now, it will begin in fifteen minutes!" said Rena calling us
As we entered the building I noticed Light sometimes glanced briefly to me with slight confusion in there. Concern? Or did he actually picked up something from my reaction to the Kira conversation.
"Rena-chan, you and Millie take good care of her! I'll have to sit in the front with some other guy who also had the highest score!"
"There was someone else?!" asked Rena with a face as surprised as mine
"So it seems!" said Light walking forward "Be good back there!"
"He knows I'ma badass by nature…" I said and Rena and I laughed together
"You sure are blessed Seira-chan…" she said winking to me
"Why do you say that?"
"You have the boyfriend every girls wish… Don't you consider yourself lucky?"
"It's something that just came, ya know… I wasn't ever expecting him to look at me that way, even though he always looked for my company at Daikoku!"
"I wish I was that lucky… I only had one boyfriend when I was very young… And…"
I noticed she was beginning to shake. I tapped my hand in her hands to calm her down. But she seemed lost in some sort of trance.
"Yo, gals!" said Millie arriving and taking the seat I was saving to her
Rena seemed to return to normal as soon as Millie arrived and greeted her with an open smile.
"Peace and quiet, farewell!" I commented as she replied to me with a frown
"So where are the boys?" asked Millie
"Light is at the front waiting to speech and Haji-kun is in getting a coffee with some friends he ran onto… Hey speaking of guys… where is Nobu?"
Millie glanced away with her face all red.
"I don't know… He's not a freshman, maybe he didn't come" she said moving her fingers very hyperactively
"You never did tell me what the heck is really going on between the two of you…" I whispered to her
"Tell you later!" she whispered back
I looked to the front with an "Ooooooo-kay…"
Eventually the ceremony begun. But we were mostly gossiping very low as they made one of those long speeches.
"I get it now…" I whispered as Millie told me what the deal with Nobu was
(It seemed they had only had an open relationship for a short time.)
"He wants to find someone serious, ya know… And I never did like him on THAT way…"
Rena was beside us looking to the front and pretending it was none of her business.
(She didn't find it very funny when someone's personal life came to the conversation. Though it was different when Sekino was around her.)
"Humf, I get it now…" I said boringly
"Guys I think this is it!" said Rena shaking my arm vigorously
"Next we have the freshman address!" said the man on the big stage
"Oh, God, shut up now!" I said feeling nervous for my own boyfriend
"Our freshman representative Yagami Light."
"Here!" said Light standing up
"And our other freshman representative Hideki Ryuga!"
A big "WHA…?" was hears through the crowd, along with some whispers among the people.
"Huh? There's two this year?!"
"Did he say 'Hideki Ryuga'? Like, the pop idol?"
"As if that pop idol could get into Toh-Oh, come on!"
I was also very confused when I heard that name, but then when I saw who it was I let out an "Oh!" of surprise.
"Oh… Yeah. Wow, he's NOTNG like that Hideki Ryuga for sure!" said a guy in front of us
Light and Ryuga, the black haired guy I had met in the day of the first exam, went up to the stage and begun to speech. I noticed that Ryuga seemed to study Light very carefully as they made their way.
"Ohhhhhhhhh!" said Millie shaking in excitation and shaking me "Wouldn't it be great if us, the two bestest friends ever, dated the two brightest boys of this university?"
"Quit it!" I whispered making her stop "And please no teenage fantasies here!"
Every single person on the room was comparing them both now that they were on that stage. The guys in front of us didn't pipe it down for a minute about the fact that they both had perfect scores in all subjects.
"The guy on the right is so cute…" said a girl behind us referring to Ryuga
Millie turned to her with blazing eyes.
"Too bad I saw him first…" she said cynically
The other girl looked back at her with blazing eyes also.
"Never mind Kyoko…" said another girl behind us sitting right besides her "Besides the left one is way better looking!"
Millie snapped her fingers in front of the other girl's face then pointed at me.
"He's ta-kennnnnnnnnnnn…" she said with a childish voice
The other girl looked at both of us with disgust in her frown.
"Millie shut up before we make unnecessary enemies!" I said making her turn to the front
Rena was looking at us with a drop on her head.
"You two will be the envy of the girls from this university now…"
"Thanks a lot Millie…" I said sarcastically
(Ryuk was also with a face as stupefied as Rena's.)
"You date one of them?" asked me a boy who was in front of me
"Yeah, the left one…" I said reaching closer to begin a talk
"Humpf… Talk about opposites those two…" said another guy who was beside the one who had talked to me
"Your boyfriend seems like the typical elite private-school type, pampered and brilliant!"
"Yeah we went to Daikoku, where we first met!" I confirmed to him
"The other guy looks…" he said lowering his voice a little (due to Millie) "Kinda wild. Well, pretty bizarre anyway"
"Maybe he's some kind of crazy genius?"
Millie looked away pretending she wasn't hearing.
"Frankly! Coming to the ceremony dressed like that! He's either dissing everybody or he's just acting stupid!" said a third guy mocking him
I looked serious at him. I hated when people were mocked that way.
"If he's stupid, how come he got a perfect score? Why don't you go up there and show you're 'smarter, huh?" I asked in response
The other guy looked at me weirdly then looked at the front.
"I'm not sure…" said Rena all of a sudden "But now that I look better at him… I feel like he's the kind of guy who has many things to say about himself… He's mysterious… Uncommon…"
She was visibly studying him. Her glance was serious and curious at the same time.
As the crowd applauded at the two of them thanked the crowd (well actually Light thanked with a bow, while Ryuga just scratched the back of his head like he didn't knew where he was), I took another glance at them.
How could they visibly be opposites, but somehow have something that made them so similar to each other at the same time?!
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The speech is over.
Now it's my chance to make my move.
"Yagami-kun." I call him as we stepped out of the stage
He seemed to hear me alright.
"You're the son of Detective-Superintended Soichiro Yagami of the NPA. Your respect fot your father is matched only by your deep sense of justice."
We sat down in the front. He didn't react but he seems to still be listening to me.
"You aim a leadership position in the NPA yourself, and have in the past provided insights that have led to the solution of several cases. And right now you're showing a great deal of interest in the Kira case."
He looked at me through the corner of his eyes.
"So if you will swear to me that you will not tell anybody, I shall place my faith in your abilities and sense of justice… And tell you something of vital importance regarding the Kira case."
He took a deep breath, but he still didn't look at me directly.
"I won't tell anyone… What is it?"
There was a brief moment of silence in the room, like we were the only ones in there
"I want to tell you, I'm L!"
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