Disclaimer: I do not own death note. The only things I own are Suki, Kaori and Denji.
Alright! Here's the Grand Finale!!
ENJOY!!
"If I had my own world,
I'd fill it fill it with wealth and desire
A glorious past to admire
And voices of kids out walking dogs
Birds, planes, trees and cars
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If I had my own world
I'd love it for all that's inside it
There'd be no more wars, death or riots
There'd be no more police, packed parking lots
Guns, bombs sounding off
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If I had my own world
I'd build you an empire
From here to the far lands
To spread love like violence"
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'I can't believe L has a stash of cars in the hotel car garage. Oh well, who cares? I love driving and blasting music!' Kaori thought, singing along with the song. At that moment, Kaori was weaving in and out of traffic on the highway in an orange Mazda. Looking down at the speed dial, Kaori whistled, 'Thank goodness all the cops are preparing to chase down Higuchi at this moment or I would be in jail by now….shit.'
Kaori slammed on the breaks and slowly pulled off into the median before coming to a complete stop. She sighed irritably before getting out of her car. Stopping and redirecting the traffic was a blockade of cops.
"Excuse me officer," Kaori said as she approached one of the police men directing traffic. "Is it possible for me to get through?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, we're told not to let anyone through," he replied, turning he's back on her, "So I suggest you keep moving."
"But you don't seem to understand, I need to get through."
"Look missy, we can't let you go, it's against orders."
"Let her through with us," a voice shouted behind them. Kaori slowly turned around to look at the person, and came face-to-face with Aizawa, as well as a long line of cop cars behind him.
"Aizawa…?" Kaori's jaw dropped. "Where have you…why are you… What are you doing here?"
"I'm a part of the police force," he replied.
"Well yeah, but," Kaori huffed with slight embarrassment, "…ugh, never mind."
He just laughed at her, making his way back to his car, "Alright, just follow closely behind me, alright?"
"Yep! Thanks a bunch Aizawa, I owe you one," Kaori hopped into her car and started it back up.
The engines roared as they became impatient. The police blockade had to move aside to let the group through. Finally, it was clear. Kaori stepped on the gas as soon as Aizawa's car drove past her. Within seconds, the group of 10 or so cop cars, along with Kaori, had their lights flashing and sirens on, traveling dangerously fast on the highway.
'This is awesome,' Kaori thought, closely following the lead car. 'I wish I was a cop, but then again, not really. I only like the driving fast part.'
Keeping her eyes on the road ahead, Kaori noticed lights appear in the sky and on the road ahead. She watched through the rearview mirror as the cops behind her spread out into a line, blocking off any chances of getting through. The blockade came to a stop as the lights came closer.
'What is Higuchi going to do?' Kaori asked herself as she watched a red Porsche do a 180 degree turn a little bit in front of her, two cars and a helicopter following him closely. 'If he thinks he can get away, he's in for a real treat. Now let's see what we have in this car…' Kaori unbuckled her seatbelt and started searching the car. There was nothing in the glove compartment or under the seats; basically the car was cleaned out except for a police radio. Kaori sighed before sitting back into her seat, 'I was at least hoping for a weapon.' The roar of an engine broke her concentration. "You can't be serious…" Kaori muttered as the Porsche sped towards its chasers.
A gunshot sounded through the air, shortly followed by the shattering of glass and the screeching of tires. Aizawa voice's sounded through the radio, "Surround him so he can't escape, keep your windows up." The blockade closed in on Higuchi's car, pinning him against side wall. "Now we wait for L's orders. L is definitely watching this. This is as far as we can move on our own. Do not try to apprehend him until we receive L's order." Kaori watched from her spot in the car as the scene played out.
"STAY BACK! EVERYONE STAY BACK!" Higuchi screamed from his broken car window, holding up a gun to his head. Another gunshot sounded off, this one shot the gun from his hand.
'What an idiot…If he gets caught, he'll spill everything to L.' Kaori was getting fidgety. 'Although L is smart, he won't look through the Death Note, because it's evidence, so he'll use Higuchi to explain everything. Unless, L touches the Death Note so he's able to see the shinigami. But then again, shinigami's aren't allowed to tell anything to anyone about the Death Note except the owner. So that leaves Higuchi to tell everything, all the secrets… And if he tells L everything, then L will figure out that Light was Kira and have him arrested. I can't let that happen…Higuchi needs to be dealt with…'
A tapping noise on the driver-side window startled Kaori out of her wits. She tried to slow down her heart beat as she lowered her window. "Aizawa, you scared me!"
"Sorry about that," he apologized, "Here." He handed her a police helmet that shields the face.
"Seriously?"
"You have every right to be out there with the rest of them."
"Awesome! You really make my day, Aizawa!" Kaori quickly rolled up her window and shut off the car. Putting the helmet on, she stepped out of the car and followed Aizawa to Higuchi's Porsche.
"Higuchi," came the voice of Mr. Yagami from one of the multiple police men with helmets, "Raise your hands and exit the vehicle." Once Higuchi stepped out and away from his car, Mr. Yagami continued. "Keep your back to us." As soon as he turned around, the policemen quickly cuffed him and placed tape over his eyes, and placed a headset on him.
'That's really weird…' Kaori thought, watching as Higuchi began speaking to someone over the headset. Her eyes followed over to Mr. Yagami as he took out Higuchi's bag and go through it, taking out a black note book. 'The Death Note…'
"AHHH!" Mr. Yagami started freaking out. "M-monster!"
"Mr. Yagami!" Kaori called, quickly making her way toward the man on the ground. "What's wrong?" She picked up the note book, and looking right in front of her.
"AHHHHHHHH!" she shrieked as she came face to face with the shinigami know as Rem. She threw the notebook a few feet beside her, but not before she tore out a corner on one of the back pages. She continued to pretend to freak out, backing up against the Porsche, her hands getting cut by glass in the process. Making sure no eyes were on her and everyone continuing their investigation. 'By now, that notebook would have gotten into L's and Light's hands, I need to do this quick… I can't believe I'm going to do this…' Searching around her, Kaori found nothing but glass. 'This and blood will have to do.'
Picking up one of the pieces of broken glass, Kaori swiped some blood from her already bleeding hand. Putting the small piece of the Death Note paper on her knee, Kaori wrote Higuchi's full name. Once she finished, she stuffed the paper into her pants pocket and leaned up against the car. '…What have I done? I just killed someone…'
The death of Higuchi was confirmed when the man himself was brought down to the ground.
"Higuchi!" Mr. Yagami grabbed a hold of the dead man's body. "Ryuzaki! Higuchi is dead!!"
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"Higuchi could have committed suicide," Mr. Yagami proposed, "He had the power to kill. It's not impossible that he could kill himself."
Kaori, Mr. Yagami, Matsuda, Aizawa, Mogi, L, and Light were back in the computer room, trying to work out the events of what happened on the highway. Well, Kaori knew what happened, but her mouth was shut.
"But he killed by writing people's names down in the notebook, so wouldn't he have to write his own name down?" Matsuda argued back. "If he could kill himself like that, why did he point the gun to his head earlier?"
"Well, maybe he figured it would be less painful than dying by a heart attack…?" Mr. Yagami was losing that battle. "A coincidental heart attack… suicide… Another Kira… A shinigami… Which is it, Shinigami?"
"My name is Rem," it replied. By now, everyone one in the room knew that Rem existed and could see him. "I didn't kill Higuchi and don't know why he died."
'I need to get out of this room…' Kaori thought, keeping a wary eye on Rem, 'I don't want to have to answer any of those questions and I need to get rid of the paper in my pocket.'
Quietly getting up from her spot next to Aizawa, who was currently talking on the phone, Kaori made her way to the exit door. Unfortunately she had to get passed Mr. Yagami, Matsuda, and Rem to get out of the door.
"Where are you going Kaori?" Mr. Yagami asked, he's eyes on her.
"I really need to go clear my head…" Kaori said with a shaky voice, "I feel like I'm in a nightmare."
"Did you need to help to your room? Or someone to talk to about this? Because I know this hasn't been the easiest night."
Kaori smiled at him, "Actually… that would be nice."
"I'll go with her, dad," Light spoke up before they could take a step toward the door.
"That might be a wise choice," Mr. Yagami agreed.
"Come on Kaori," Light muttered, placing his hand around her arm and guiding her out of the room. The walk was silent as they made their way into the elevator.
As soon as the elevator doors closed, Light quickly turned Kaori so she was facing him. "Light… What's wrong?" she asked, confused by Light's actions.
"I remember," he replied.
"Remember what, Light."
"I remember everything, Kaori."
"H-h-how? You're lying to me, you have to be! There's no way you can remember!" Kaori didn't know what to do, nothing made sense to her. She looked up into his eyes, but what she saw made her stumble backwards out of his grip. His eyes were back to what they once were, red tint and a hint of evil in them. "That's impossible…I thought that once you gave up your memories, you wouldn't remember anything to do with it."
"Nothing's impossible Kaori," he replied, a smile on his face.
"B-b-but…" tears were streaming down her face by now as she held onto her head, "You left me all by myself with the truth!"
"I know," he replied, grabbing a hold of her and hugging her, "I'm sorry about that, but I didn't tell anyone but Ryuk and Rem about my plan."
"Why am I always left out of the plans…" Kaori muttered into Light's chest. He just chuckled at her. The elevator doors opened with a ding, making Kaori jump a little.
"Let's go," Light said, pulling away from Kaori, grabbing her wrist in the process. He pulled her out and led her into her room. As soon as the door was shut, Kaori yanked her wrist away from Light.
"How could you do that to me?" she hissed at him.
"If I didn't have my memories erased, I would've been caught."
"You should've warned me! I went mental after you did that!"
Light sighed, lowering his eyes, "I know. I remember your fight with the shower and your phone lost at sea. But would you rather have me do that, or get caught?"
Kaori looked at him, not knowing what to say. Finally, she gave her answer, "I'd rather you have done that but trusted me with your plan. I'm not a blabber mouth Light."
"I know, and I'm sorry. If I had known that that would happen, I wouldn't have done it. But there is one thing I don't understand… How did Higuchi die? Did someone find my Death Note or is there another one out there?"
She frowned and turned away from him, making her way into the bathroom. Standing in front of the sink, she took out the paper from her pocket and turned on the water. She held the paper underneath the water, watching the blood wash off.
"Kaori…" Light said carefully, "What are you doing?"
She glanced into the mirror, meeting Light's confused eyes, "Washing paper."
"You…you killed him?"
Kaori bit her bottom lip, focusing on washing all the blood out of the paper. She tensed up as arms wrapped around her shoulders.
"Thank you," Light said, nuzzling Kaori's neck. "I love you."
Kaori dropped the paper into the sink and turned around, "Are you just saying that, or do you mean it?"
"I mean it," he replied, leaning his forehead against hers. She carefully searched his eyes before smiling softly at him.
"I love you too Light." Light returned her smile before he kissed her nose. He went to go kiss her on the lips but his phone went off.
"We'll have to save that for later," Light sighed with annoyance, looking at the caller ID on his cell, "L wants me back down in the computer room. Don't worry though, if my plan goes accordingly, he won't be here much longer."
Kaori's smile disappeared, "Good, because no matter how cute he can be, he's a totally asshole."Light just looked at her, no readable expression on his face
Within a second, Kaori felt soft lips upon hers. But they were gone in the next second. Kaori blinked before smiling at Light, "What was that for?"
"…Everything…" And with that, Light left.
Kaori shook her head before turning back around. Picking up the disintegrating paper, Kaori continued the method of getting rid of it.
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Two days later and Kaori was back into computer room with Light, L, Aizawa, Matsuda, and Mr. Yagami; Kira had struck again.
"What's going on?! The criminals are being killed again…?!" Mr. Yagami exclaimed, having thought to be done with Kira.
Kaori looked over at Light, watching a sly grin appear in his eyes. Kaori rolled her eyes, 'Obviously Light sweet talked Misa into killing for him. But then again, he didn't even have to sweet talk me into killing for him.' Kaori sighed as she sifted positions on the couch, going back to listening to the conversation.
"But this makes it clear that there really is another notebook out there," Light said, "Right Rem?"
"Must be…" Rem replied, "A shinigami wouldn't go out of his way to kill only criminals…"
"This happens the moment Amane is freed…" L thought out loud.
"Ryuzaki, you're still saying that?" Light replied, as he stole a glance at Rem.
'So that's what Light's plan is…' Kaori thought, a smile growing on her face. 'He plans to get L to think Misa's Kira so Rem will panic and kill of L. Though, I didn't realize that Light wanted Rem dead…well… maybe it's because Rem is too overprotected of Misa since Misa is to stupid to look after herself. I just hope Light knows what he's doing.'
"I don't care what country, let's contact them. There shouldn't be a problem if we're up-front about it," L stated, "We'll have them use the notebook in an execution."
"Wait…what?" Kaori asked as she shot off the couch. "Why do you want to test the notebook?"
L turned toward her, "Well, Kaori-chan, I want to test the thirteen day rule." He turned back towards the majority of the group, "As I was saying, we'll have a criminal scheduled for execution within 13 days write the name down. The deal will be that if the person lives past 13 days, then his death sentence will be commuted… Watari, contact the leader of a country who would agree to this."
'Since when did that rule exist? Was that rule apart of Light's plan too?' Kaori asked herself.
"Ryuzaki!!"
"Wait! This is crazy!!" Aizawa yelled, "What does this accomplish?!"
"Obviously to test whether this murder notebook works," L simple replied.
Kaori noticed some movement out of the corner of her eye. 'Rem…' Making sure no one was looking, she snuck a glance of the shinigami. He's catlike eyes pierced through hers. His face went from a panicked look to a glare, but for he disappeared through the wall. 'What the hell was that all about…?'
CRASH!
Kaori whipped back around to the group.
"What's wrong, Watari?" L asked, eyes widening. "Watari…?
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
"What's going on?!" Kaori asked eyes on the computer. All data erased appeared on the screen.
"I told Watari that if something ever happened to him, he should erase all the data he can and to set his system up to erase automatically after a certain amount of time," L said darkly.
"It something happened to him…?" Aizawa repeated.
"You mean… like death…?" Matsuda muttered.
"Where's the shinigami?!" Aizawa asked, whipping around.
"Everyone," L started off, "The shiniga…"
"Ryuzaki…?" Kaori asked as she noticed his hand shaking. She knew what was happening but it seemed almost like a dream. She watched as his awkward sitting positioned body fell off the side of his chair, tipping it with him.
"RYUZAKI?!" Light screamed, catching the falling man before he hit the floor. He stopped screaming as his father went to go call an ambulance.
"We'll be killed too!" Aizawa said, falling back against the desk.
"Not if we find Rem!" Light replied getting up. "Kaori! Go find out where the damned shinigami went!"
"Of course," Kaori said, a 'shocked' look on her face. Running out of the room, she turned to the door that was in the room right next to the computer room. 'Now… Where are you Rem?' The ground beneath her next step caused her to slip a bit. Looking down, Kaori noticed a pile of sand along with the Death Note. 'So this is what happens when a shinigami dies…' Picking up the notebook, Kaori started flipping through the pages. She stopped on the last page, reading the names. Her heart nearly stopped as she read the third to last name.
Kaori Mochizuki will die 5 minutes after picking up this Death Note.
Kaori quickly picked up her cell phone and looked at the time. 9:42pm. She let out as scream of anger as she through her phone at the wall, shattering it. 'That BASTARD! He knew Misa wouldn't allow him to kill Light so he thought it would be best to kill me off so Misa could live happily ever after! I can't believe this! I'm going to die!' Reality hit her. '…I'm going to die…?' Her hands started to shake from the shock. Her eyesight blurred as tears built up and fell down her face. Her entire body trembled as she sobbed.
"Kaori?" Light's voice sounded through the storage room. The sound of his footsteps stopped as soon as it was behind Kaori. "Kaori what's wrong?"
"That god damn shinigami killed me!" Kaori cried turning around to face Light.
He gave her a crazy look, "What do you mean? You're still alive."
She shoved the last page in his face, "Read the third to last line."
Kaori watched as a series of emotions appeared on Light's face. He didn't speak for what seemed like hours, but she knew it was only seconds. His eyes met hers, fear, sadness and anger coursing behind them. He pulled out his watch, "How long ago did you pick up the notebook?"
"9:42…" she murmured, looking down at the sand left behind by Rem.
A hand was placed underneath Kaori's chin, guiding it up so she was looking at him again. "Kaori," Light said, stray tears running down his face, "I love you. You will always be my queen."
He brought down his face closer to hers, his lips brushing against hers. More tears leaked out of Kaori's eyes as she placed her trembles arms around Light's neck. She pressed her lips harder against his. She quickly pulled away from him as a sudden burst of pain exploded in her chest.
"L-Light," she gasped as her muscles started to collapse.
"Kaori!" Light grabbed a hold of her, slowly placing her on the floor, but not letting her go.
She smiled up at him through her tear streaked face, "I love you, Light. I'll see you…on the other…side…"
And... ya. That the last chapter of this story, but stay tuned for the epilogue! It'll be a little bit happier than this and will at least have some closure to it.