Disclaimer: I do not own death note. The only things I own are Suki, Kaori and Denji.
Sorry this kind of took long, and I kinda feel like the story's going nowhere, but that's just me. lol. Just to let you know, the end is in site, but I won't tell you how close I am to finishing, just because I don't feel like telling you. Alright...
ENJOY!
Warning: Contains curse words, so be careful!
"Matsui!!" Kaori yelled running over to the balcony. Tears were falling from her eyes as she spied his body on the concrete. "Matsui!" Even though Matsuda was not the sharpest tool in the shed, he was her friend. And watching a friend fall to their death is not the most pleasant feeling in the world. She became numb to the situation around her, she didn't even notice that she was leaning off the balcony until arms wrapped themselves around her, snapping her back into the present. The arms carried her back to the room, finally letting her go. She turned her teary eyes toward the owner of the arms, coming face to face with Reiji.
"Umeko come on," he said tugging on her arm, "We have to get out of here." Through Kaori's perspective, everyone in the room was in slow motion; their movements smooth and flowing, but there was no sound. She watched Reiji's lips move, but no sound come out of them. He finally gave up and grabbed her wrist, following the rest of the people to the scene on the ground.
When they actually made it onto the street, an ambulance was already there, the body covered up and heading toward the back of the vehicle. Kaori's eyes never left the covered body, tears still spilling out of them. She watched as the ambulance drove away and as Reiji placed a slip of paper into her hand. She didn't register Misa guiding her back into the hotel and into Kaori's room.
"Get some sleep," Misa said cheerfully before she left. Kaori glared at her back as she came back into reality.
'What an insensitive bitch!' she snarled in her head. Collapsing on her bed, her eyes immediately closed as she was lured into sleep.
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Kaori walked solemnly down the hallway to the computer room, where everyone else was waiting…except for Matsuda. When she woke up at noon, she started crying again as the night before came rushing back into her head. Now her eyes were trained on the ground, looking mindlessly over the tile. She stopped in front of the door, not really wanting to see everyone's reaction to Matsuda's death. Taking a deep breath, Kaori opened the doors, to find everyone crowded around the computer screens; the profiles of the eight business men from last night were up on the screen.
"Kaori! You look sleepy even after 12 hours of sleep," as voiced called to her as she walked closer. She stopped in place as her face started to drain from color and lifted her head towards the speaker, eyes widening and jaw dropping.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" she screeched pointing at the living Matsuda.
"W-w-what d-do y-you mean?" Matsuda was taken back from her sudden outburst.
"You're supposed to be DEAD!!" Kaori was starting to hyperventilate.
"Did someone not tell her the plan?" Mr. Yagami asked, making his way towards the shaking girl.
"What plan?!" Kaori was utterly confused as to what was going on. At Mr. Yagami's touch on the shoulder, Kaori jumped.
"Shit…" Light muttered, realizing his mistake. He never really told her what the plan was. He quickly got up, dragging L with him. "Kaori calm down, we had formed a plan to have Matsuda fake his death."
"How can I calm down? You can't… you can't do that!" she yelled backing away from everyone.
"But you're reaction to the 'death' easily convinced everyone in the room to believe it," L stated. Obviously he didn't realize that he didn't help the situation until too late.
BAM!
The heel of Kaori's foot connected with L's cheek as she round-house kicked him in the face, sending him flying to the side. The force of the kick broke the chain between him and Light, leaving everyone in the room stunned.
"You BASTARD! How dare you!" Kaori was beyond the point of self-control, "You are so fucking INSENSITIVE! You have no right to let me believe that someone I care about DIED! I don't care if you're fucking GOD! I HATE YOU! I wish that Kira would strike you dead this very moment! You have no right to screw around with people's emotions! I hate you! I hate you!" Light wrapped his arms around Kaori's shoulders. "Let me go!" she screamed struggling to get out of his hold.
"Kaori calm down," Light murmured into her ear, still having troubles holding her down.
"No! Let me go! Please! For the love of god! Let me go!" Tears were leaking down her face. Matsuda and Mr. Yagami were helping L up from the floor. He had a massive bruise starting to form on his cheek.
"Calm down…" Light said burying his face into her should. Finally Kaori gave up. She slumped back against Light's body, covering her tears in her hands.
Light tightened his grip around Kaori's shoulders, "I'll take her up to her room." He led Kaori out of the room before anyone had the chance to object. Out in the hallway, Light picked her up and carried her to his room.
Shutting the door with his foot, he walked over to his bed and set Kaori down. Her eyes were out of tears, leaving her eyes red and puff. No sound came of her slightly opened mouth as she looked up at Light, eyes glazed over.
"Kaori," he said, pressing his forehead against hers. She continued to look at him; her gaze just seemed to go past him as if he wasn't even there. He sighed gently pushing her down. Almost instant her eyes closed as she fell asleep.
Light continued to watch her as she slept. He leaned down to kiss her lips but was interrupted by the door creaking open. He quickly sat up and glared at L, who stood in the door way with a patch over his cheek. "What do you want?" He wasn't really happy about L causing Kaori to lose her self-control.
"I need to ask a favor of Kaori-chan," he said simply.
"She's asleep. What's the favor?"
"Reiji Namikawa gave Kaori his phone number and email address. I want her to try and pry information out of him."
"No. The conman you hired is already doing that by pretending to be a hitman. She doesn't have to do that."
"After observing Namikawa in the meeting, he's most likely not to be Kira and easily influenced."
"Then I will persuade him to talk."
L sighed, "Fine." Without another word, he left, shutting the door behind him.
Light sighed and laid down next to Kaori's sleeping body. "What's happened to you Kaori?" he muttered to himself, watching her sleep. "Ever since I came out of my confinement, you haven't acted yourself. You've become more on edge, more weary of what's happening around you… Great, now I'm talking to myself." It took Light an hour to clear his head of any thoughts before he finally managed to fall asleep.