Chapter 2

*Light's POV*

Walking back into the house my clothes soaking wet from the rain. I slide out of my shoes before as usual calling out. "I'm home." Stepping up onto the main landing I look to my right and see my family sitting at the table.

"Light, welcome home." My mom says with a smile before getting up and fixing my plate. Debating momentarily about changing out of my wet clothes first. I walk into the room with them. "Where's Kira?" I ask noticing she wasn't in there with them.

"She ran upstairs the poor girl." Poor girl? I silently ask myself as I sit at the table in my usual seat.

"Did she not like the food mom? I'm sure it's a lot different then what she is used to."

"It's not that Light. Sayu started asking questions and she seemed to get a bit upset." She speaks gently, I could hear the emotions in her voice that truly said she felt sorry for Kira.

"Like what kind of questions?" I ask shooting a glare at Sayu.

"Don't look at me like that. How was I supposed to know her relationship with her parents." I see

"She did say she rarely gets to see them." I say setting straight in my chair as I pick up my fork to eat. "Knowing that I can only assume there isn't much of a relationship between them."

"We all feel the regret for our parts in the conversation. I'm sure they love her even though she doesn't get to see that love but, I can also understand now why she would say they don't care for her." My dad says as he picks up the newspaper and begins to read it. "She is welcome to stay here as long as she likes." He says causing me to smile. If she was only acting she did well to get him to say that.

"Thank you, dad. I'm sure what she needs is a family right now and I am glad to hear you say she can stay." I watch as mom gives me that caring smile and she places her hand on dad's shoulder. They both agreed to my silent hint of how we can be her family. After finishing supper I stand and walk up to my room. Upon entering I notice the lights are out, seeing her fast asleep on my bed a feeling I had never experienced before sprouting from my stomach causing my chest to feel heavy. She was a peculiar girl but laying there curled up to her old backpack she looked like an innocent angel. Grabbing my pajamas and sitting my bag next to my desk. I walk from the room and to the bathroom to change, leaving my wet clothes in the clothes basket before going back into my bedroom. Inching closer to the bed I feel the weight tighten on my chest seeing the tears that still streaked down her cheek. I didn't understand why seeing the remnants of tears brought such pain but it did.

Crawling into bed with her I pull her so her head was now on my chest as I laid on my back. Running my hand gently on her shoulder. She seemed to shudder at my touch in her sleep so I covered both of us up for the off chance that she was cold. Looking up at the ceiling I began to wonder if she was ever given comfort before when she was crying. Watching time pass, my mind fell on the death note until I couldn't stand it anymore. Wiggling off of under her I get up and go to my bag pulling out the notebook I had figured out was real. Sitting at my desk I turn on the desk lamp with a brief glance back to my bed to make sure I wasn't disturbing her sleep. Turning on my computer I begin to scroll through news articles about murders and other convicts worldwide before I began writing each and every name in the notebook starting with the worst of the criminals.

Finishing as the time reached midnight I put the notebook in the right-hand drawer of my desk and turn off the computer then the light, feeling as if I just accomplished something huge and meaningful. Stretching I get up and go back to the bed to see she had rolled back over and her bag was about to fall to the floor. Picking it up my eyes widen at the weight of it. "What could she have in here?" I quietly ask myself before putting it on the floor next to the bed so it wouldn't fall and make a loud thump. Laying back in bed I cover up and think about the day.

When I had first seen her I thought she might have been hurt and when she had brushed my hands away from her I couldn't help but smile. She was small, petite, and lightly tanned. The way her hair had been around her I couldn't even see her face. When she stood I first seen her magnificent charcoal eyes but the fear in them made my heart stop. Even as I tried to calm her down it didn't do any good.

Her shirt had been open, gave me a full view of the curves she was blessed with, and gave me the feeling of how I wanted this girl to like me. Of course, when she told me her story I thought she was more insane than anything but the fear switched to pain in her gaze and it had gnawed at me. I only wanted to make her smile because I thought it would be just as beautiful as she was. And now that very same girl was laying next to me in my bed. The image of her laying on her back with her shirt sprawled around her form flashing through my mind made my heart pound with a heat washing over me. The image fades from my thoughts as I feel her press against me with her arm laying over my stomach bringing fire to my cheeks. Taking more note of the fully developed breasts against me than anything. Yeah, this girl was going to make it hell to sleep tonight.

*Kira POV*

My eyes open as the sun began to peek through the curtains. Squinting at the harshness I slide carefully out of bed before looking down at Light. He was definitely a sight to behold laying there with his arm stretched out where I had just been and his hair over his eyes hiding them from the rising sun. Getting into my bag I pull out my wallet and walk quietly to his computer. Turning it on I decided to try the cards to see if they actually would work. If not then we are going to be in a heap of trouble. Finding Japanese Clothing sites from what little of Kanji I knew I scrolled through the clothing adding articles to the shopping basket. A pair of crescent moon earrings caught my eyes so I decided to add them too with a smile. At the checkout, I pull out my favorite of cards the one that had the cute kitten on the front of it, and typed in the information it required. But, not knowing the address put me at a standstill. Standing I go downstairs to find Mrs. Yagami already up and about. "Mrs. Yagami, umm.." I look down my cheeks going red as I tried to find the right words to say. "I was shopping online for some clothes but I realized I don't know the address here."

She stops walking and sets the laundry basket down giving me a smile before walking into the same room that dinner was held in. Standing there I wait patiently until I see her come back around the corner and hold out a piece of junk mail to me. "Here you go sweetie if you need anything at all just let me know."

"Thank you, Mrs. Yagami." I tell her before running back up the stairs to Light's bedroom. Quietly walking in I go to the computer and type in the address on the mail his mom had given me.

"What are you doing?" I hear his sleep-filled voice coming from the bed as I hold my breath and hit submit for the same-day shipping. Hearing him move from the bed and his feet padding against the floor as he walks up to me. I watch as the order number confirmation page pops up. Leaping to my feet I turn wrapping my arms around him and burying my face against him to muffle my squeal.

Feeling him tense against me I step back my eyes widen as my cheeks flush realizing what I had just done. "I…I...I'm sorry, I.. was just... Seeing if my cards would work in this... World." I stammered now looking down at my feet.

"I take it from your reaction just now it did work." He says causing me to look up and see him looking at the computer screen allowing me to recover from my embarrassing actions.

"Yes, it worked. Isn't that great? I can get myself an apartment now when we find one so no one will ask questions."

"I agree that is the best course of action at this point." He says though there was a tone in his voice that made me feel as if it was contradicting what he was saying. "Today after school I'll help you find one." Smiling to him I touch his arm lightly making him look down at me.

"Thank you Light, but so you know even if we find me an apartment, that doesn't mean neither one of us can't visit the other." with my words washing over him he smiles raising his hand and placing it momentarily over my own.

"That is true Kira, as I hope that no matter what we both will visit each other frequently." Nodding I look to the door as I hear his mom.

"Kira, I have some clothes you can borrow until yours arrive." With a glance to Light, I walk from the room and down the stairs to see Mr. and Mrs. Yagami, a bag hanging from her hand with a smile. "Why don't you try these on Sweetie." She spoke softly and I somehow smile to her in return taking the bag.

"You didn't have to but thank you." That is all I could say to their kindness. Biting my bottom lip I wonder if I should, but then I shook the debate out of my head and went ahead and hugged the both of them.

"You're welcome." Mr. Yagami says with a smile before I turn and run from the room. Going into the bathroom and changing into the new clothes. They were simple enough, a white T-shirt which made me cringe from how much it covers, and a pair of jeans which surprisingly fit almost perfectly. The shoes and socks in the bag are what caught my breath though. Setting down I put the socks on and tug on the shoes before standing; rocking back and forth from heel to toe making sure they fit. They were a little big but close enough in my book. Going back downstairs I see Light already slipping on his shoes before looking at me. Even as his eyes lingered I knew what the deal was. The white shirt was riding tightly against my chest. Walking into the dining room I smile at Mrs. Yagami before grabbing an apple. "See you later Mrs. Yagami and thanks again!" I called to her over my shoulder as I ran to Light knowing with our little lie I was going to have to leave the house as if I was going to school as well. As we walk I keep an eye on my surroundings trying to one be able to find my way around and two look for stores I could visit.

"How did you know?" I hear Light's quiet question causing me to look at him in curiosity before understanding finally dawns on me.

"As I said yesterday, to me this is my favorite anime, I know every single scene by heart. Except for the second season but that's because I didn't like it as much as the first." Looking down I grip hold of the straps on my backpack. (which if you hadn't figured out she always has with her) "Actually, I'm not sure if I can tell you all this or not. I know my actions if I don't allow you to go through with everything that is to come without my input and advice, would drastically change the outcome. But I'm not even sure if me being here is enough to change a lot of it anyway."

"I see, so something happens in this second season you're talking about that you don't like."

"Yes."

"But the first is good?"

"Beyond the mistakes made throughout it, yes. It is a terrific storyline. But it's just that. A storyline is designed to keep the viewer entertained. If not for the mistakes there wouldn't have been as many struggles to make it more interesting."

"Just as all shows do." He comments more to himself. A piece of me begins to hope that he is actually starting to believe my story. "Can you tell me what happens next?"

Biting my bottom lip I watch ahead of us trying to decide if I should tell him or not. "Something is going to present itself to you as the owner of the notebook." That is all I can come up with to tell him without giving much of anything away. Noticing he was looking at me with an expression as if to say. -you're not going to tell me anything else?- "Trust me, there is one thing I know for certain. That is, if I'm still around I don't want things to end as they do in the anime." Stopping in front of the school I give him a smile. "I'll be back by the time you get out of school so I'll meet you back at this spot." Knowing he understands why. I turn and begin to backtrack towards what looked like a shopping district I had seen in the distance.

Finding a bank I decided to try out an atm Sliding my favorite card in I punch my pin then try and decide how much I would like to withdraw. Curiously I type in the amount using U.S. numbers since it's a u.s bank account. I put in the total of 200. Which as I went to the next screen I find out that is 19,618 yen. My eyes go wide but I hit the yes button anyway and put the money into my wallet. I already knew from my curiosity that things cost differently here in Japan, that it wasn't much to spend even 30,000 yen on a haircut and dye. So I began wondering if I should pull out more. Shrugging a why not, I slide my card in one more time and this time put in 1,000 American amount. Smiling at the 98,090 I got. I fold it up and put it in my hidden pocket inside my bag before putting my card away and closing it up. Figuring I now had rent and a little spending money. I move from store to store in search of clothing that I would actually wear. By the time I saw school should be getting out I was already carting around lots of bags full of clothes, bathing necessities, accessories, and anything cute I came across. Running back towards the school I get there to see Light waiting outside with his right hand in his pocket. Stopping next to him I feel like I'm hyperventilating trying to catch my breath. I now understand fully the difference between shopping online and going around town through stores. I'm exhausted, I don't think I've walked so much my entire life. I could feel his eyes on me and I could only figure he was looking at me as if I was insane buying so much on my own. I feel my cheeks flush red as I catch my breath and smile to him.

"That must have cost a fortune." He says as he grabs some of the bags from me to alleviate the strain.

"Well at first I pulled out 117,708 yen, but then I figured out I needed more so I pulled out twice the amount just to make sure I wouldn't end up cutting myself short on anything." As I rambled off the amounts I watched his eyes widen in disbelief as I only nervously giggled and rubbed the back of my head.

"Your family must be pretty wealthy." He comments and I shrug as we start walking to a realtor. The conversation seemed to die away as comfortable silence rang out between us. Finding a house near him with my insistence that I shouldn't be too far from him, and finding that him buying one for me was cheaper than if I had bought it myself we successfully purchased the property. After of course I ran to a bank and got more currency pulled from my card. We were now walking to the house that surprisingly was only a few houses down from his own. "This place should already be furnished, I'll take the money you gave me to make sure the utilities are turned on. Are you sure you'll be alright here by yourself?" Smiling to him as I unlock the door and turn to him.

"I will be fine. Just make sure you come and visit." I tell him as he reaches past me setting my bags down inside the door for me.

"I'll definitely be by to visit." Feeling my cheeks redden again I lean up on my toes to brush my lips against his cheek but at some point, I end up feeling his arms around me as he turns his head meeting my lips with his in a kiss. My eyes widen from the surprise but soon after, I feel myself melt into his hold. Closing my eyes I snake my arms around the back of his neck returning his heated kiss with just as much intensity, feeling warmth pool in my lower tummy as if a fire was sending its warmth through me. Breaking the kiss he looks down at me his eyes full of so much emotion I never thought it would have been possible.

Three days later~

I look at the calendar I had bought and marked my entrance into this world and counted the days. Today was the day. It's been five days since I got here. Closing my eyes as I sit in Indian style on an armchair in my living room. I play out the days that have passed in my mind. The death of criminals is on the rise and had to reach nearly two hundred if not more by now. All I had done was my usual of surfing the net keeping track of what was going on and contemplating what I should do. Should I be there when he meets the shinigami for the first time? Or wait until tomorrow to talk to him? Deciding on the latter of the two I walk up to the bathroom and run myself a steaming hot bath.

*Light*

"What a nice surprise!" Mom greets me as I walk into the house. The sound of the rain being shut out by the door as I close it behind me. "I wasn't expecting you home so early."

Being pulled from my thoughts of Kira I smile at her trying to focus on what she was saying. "Yeah... Hi mom it's because.." I wanted to drop my school stuff off and go see Kira. I thought before seeing mom hold her hands open, I stop myself from saying those words. "Oh, the results of the nationwide exams." I realize as I set my bag down and dig through it for the result sheet.

"I've been waiting all day."

"Here." I say handing them to her before picking my bag back up.

"Goodness number one again! These are the highest scores you've had." I take off my shoes as she talks then walk towards the stairs.

"I guess, I'm going to go study in my room so please don't interrupt me okay."

"As you wish, oh Light." She stops me halfway up the stairs and I turn to look at her. "How's Kira doing?"

"She's fine mom, I walked her home again today."

"That's my Light, a true gentleman."

"Yeah.."

Walking up to my room I go to close my door pausing as I hear her talk again. "Do you want anything at all dear? You can ask for anything you like."

"No, I'm fine mom. Thanks though." Closing the door and locking it, the majority of my thoughts revolving around the death note. "There are only two things I want and one of them is right here." I say to myself going to my desk and pulling out the death note looking at my work chuckling.

"You've taken quite a liking to it." A creepy male voice suddenly comes up from the corner of my room bringing forth a gasp from my unsuspecting self. Seeing a tall black monster near my window, I yelp falling off of my chair onto the floor. His face looked like a dark and twisted clown, the corners of his impossibly large mouth turned in a smile showing teeth that would best fit a shark. As lightning lit the room his red eyes seemed to glow. "No reason to act surprised. I am the Shinigami Ryuk and that used to be my notebook, and judging by your laughter you've already figured out that what you have is no ordinary notebook." My eyes widen but then Kira's face flashes into my mind. ~"Something is going to present itself to you as the owner of the notebook..."~ So this is what she was talking about. I shouldn't be surprised, smiling I reach for my computer chair to help stand me back up.

"A Shinigami, a god of death huh." Standing I look him straight in the face. "Well, I'm not surprised in fact, Ryuk. I've been waiting for you."

"Oh?"

"I've already figured out this death note I found is real. It didn't take me long, and now that I've witnessed the proof of its power, I only feel more confident in what I'm going to do." yes play it as if she never existed. Who knows what this thing will do and if he does take my life at least then he won't take hers.

"That's interesting, I certainly wasn't expecting this. Several death notes have made their way into the human world in the past but you're the first to have written this many names. Look at how many people you've killed in only five days. Most are reluctant to write this much."

Setting down I look at the names in the book smiling at the fact he hasn't suspected someone had warned me ahead of time of his arrival. "I've already prepared myself Ryuk. I used the notebook even though I knew it belonged to a shinigami and now that shinigami has come. So what will happen to me?" I accept my fate if it is to die but you won't get her. "You're here to take my soul right?" And not hers.

"Huh, what do you mean? Is that some fantasy you humans came up with? I'm not going to do anything to you." With a gasp I realize I'm safe but the thought of her smile being preserved brought forth an even more lightening feeling of joy. What am I thinking? I'm always thinking about her, why is that? "The notebook becomes part of the human realm from the very moment it touches the earth. In other words." Ryuk points at me as he's talking. "The notebook is now yours." Looking at the notebook I couldn't believe it. "This is mine?"

"If you don't want it then just give it to someone else." Looking at him my eyes widen. Does he know? "But if you give it away I'd have no choice but to erase your memories of the notebook."

"So then you're saying I can use the death note all I want and I won't be punished?"

*Kira*

Looking out my window at the rain as I run my brush through my mass of hair. I imagine what Light is doing right now, a small smile creeping along my lips. "Right about now he's speaking with Ryuk and finding out that Ryuk won't kill him to get the notebook back. That it's now his to do with what he wants but the downfall is. When he dies he'll be stuck in limbo for eternity. A part of me still wonders if that is what a shinigami actually is. Someone who's used a notebook and can't go to heaven nor hell." Turning away from my window I return my hairbrush to my backpack. Laying on the bed with my arms behind my head, wearing my swimming suit and shorts again for the first time since I changed out of them. Step one is nearly done. But then... When what's next happens what should I do?

*Light*

"Why even bother, what are you trying to achieve by passing judgment on them? I mean why do you even care?"

Looking out my window I see the lights begin to flick on in Kira's house. As if she either just got home or it's finally getting dark enough for her to turn them on. "Because I've been bored too." Turning away from the window I look at the shinigami who has fallen silent. "I wasn't ready to believe it at first but it's obvious now. There's something about the death note itself to make humans want to try it out at least once." Looking back out of the window towards Kira's house I think about the past five days. "At first, I wrote the names of the worst criminals I could think of like I was cleaning up the world one name at a time. So that eventually no one will ever do anything evil again and while the truly guilty ones who deserve to be punished for their crimes die of heart attacks the people who are less guilty but will still make trouble for others will slowly be erased through disease or accidental death." Watching the sun come up I focus on the colors of the early morning light. "Then and only then the world will start moving in the right direction." Looking back to the shinigami I can't help but smile feeling pride in what I am doing. "It will be a new world free of injustice and populated by people who I've judged to be honest, kind, and hard-working."

"But if you did that it would make you the only bad person left."

A slight laugh escapes from me as I try to keep a straight face to Ryuk. "I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a hard-working honor student who is considered to be one of Japan's best and brightest... And I...I will become the god of this new world." Looking back out the window I think about a world free from evil where even she will be safe. Walking past the Shinigami I lay down on my bed looking up at the ceiling. It was the weekend finally and soon I will go and see the one that will become my Goddess.