Chapter 1
Life with Light Yagami was better than I could ever have imagined. We had overcome all obstacles that had stood in our way ever since we had met. For instance like when I had first arrived in the Death Note world. I had no idea how I ended up there, no place to go, and I had absolutely no clue if my parent's credit cards would work there. We had talked his mom into letting me stay for a few days and from there I had gained the love of his family. Looking back now, I know there wasn't a necessity for me to find my own place but I am glad I had. Having my own place made it that much more difficult for L to watch both Light and I. I was able to move more freely and coerce events in the directions I wanted them to take. I was even able to allow my cousin to stay in my house while I was too preoccupied with the Kira investigation in order for her to do what I could not. Seeing as Light and I were being so closely watched. With Light at my side, we conquered the second Kira, outwitted L, and even found our way back to each other so we could rule over our world together.
There was one hurdle we just couldn't seem to overcome. Closing my eyes as I held Light's hand in mine. I allow my memories to take over my conscious thinking. Taking me away from the present back to when we were standing on the balcony of our home with our son resting peacefully in his crib. The blonde dye having long left the soft tendrils of my long black hair. "Kira." Light's voice rang through my head, shattering the comfortable silence between us. Looking up to him I became captivated by his caring amber eyes. Age has done him justice even as a light five o'clock shadow grazed his features. Which had become more defined than when we had first met. "I've vowed to spend the rest of my life with you ever since I first realized my love I have for you. It has been a year since we got married." He speaks as he turns towards me. Wrapping his strong safe arms around my form, I couldn't help but lean into his hold and take in his scent. "But, wouldn't it be better if we could spend eternity together just like this?"
Closing my eyes I could feel his breath against my ear. As he reminded me of the fleeting world we were tucking ourselves away in. I feel a tear sting my eye threatening to break loose. He steps back and hooks his finger on my chin so my gaze would meet his eyes. "Yes, it would Light. Till the end of time itself, still wouldn't be long enough to spend with you." I told him having learned already that there is no longer any need to hide my true emotions towards this man. "But, why are you telling me this now?"
I watched him give a slight shake of his head before finally speaking again. "You have noticed it haven't you? I have aged whereas you still look the same as you did when we first met nearly a decade ago." I felt my eyes widen before against my own will, which screams to be as close as possible to the man in front of me, I step back away from him. Looking down I felt myself shake as I fight not to release tears with the thought of him growing old and dying in front of my eyes. "You can make it possible can't you?" His question breaks through my painful thoughts causing me to shake my head.
"I explained to you once before. I do not have the power to take away your humanity…. I can not make you… like me. No matter how bad I selfishly want to. It isn't possible." I wasn't lying, what I was doing and even plan to do still was definitely selfish. I had proudly proclaimed to my cousin five years ago that forty years was nothing to those like us, so my family could wait back home until then... If I had any mercy in my heart for my own soul or even the soul standing before me. I would have left when she told me how. To spend eternity with him when I already plan to take away the very human life he could have happily lived, just so I would never be without him. I am beyond selfish to want all of it with him.
Opening my eyes from the memory I look to Light's sleeping form in the hospital bed in front of me. I can still see the beautiful young man I had met and married even if he has become hidden by the signs of age. Before now, I had begun to think each grey hair on his head was as beautiful on him as when they were light brown. "How I wish now more than ever we would have had eternity together. I would have given anything to have made you like me when you had asked." I whisper to him as I brush my thumb over the back of his hand that once held warmth. "I love you Light, I always have…" Yet, his time was finally here as the heart monitor's beeping became a single solid noise.
Unable to stop myself, I cupped my cheek with his hand as tears stream down my face. My love, my darling… Our son came rushing into the hospital room just in time to catch my shoulders and lead me into the hall so the doctors could attempt to revive someone whose time is already up. Turning to my son whose light brown locks of hair reminded me so much of his father's, though his eyes were purely the mother he would never know.
His arms held me close to him as he watches the doctor's attempts while they bustled around the room and even using an EKG to try and thwart death itself. Time felt like an eternity until the doctor stepped out to us. Looking to young Taiyo Yagami rather than me. Which was normal as far as they knew I was his little sister. "I am sorry. There was nothing we could do…. Your father has passed." Even though the doctor only reiterated what I already knew, someone speaking it aloud only made it more real. I felt my knees buckle to the point my son had to catch me. My world. My perfect world with Light shattering inside me. I couldn't hear anything else that was said before I fought against my son's hold and barreled through the nurses and doctors to get to Light.
I had to see him. I have to see his sly smirk or inquisitive eyes again. To feel his safe arms around me letting his warmth envelop me. But, there he was laying peacefully just as I had left him. Walking up to him I could feel everything I held dear break inside of me, shattering into fragments smaller than even a fine sliver. My ears still ring with the way my name would roll off his tongue, I could still see Light's seventeen-year-old self smiling at me as he holds his hand out for me to take. Then again the night at task force headquarters even though we knew we were being watched; I could still feel his lips brushing against every part of my body as his hands shot electric currents through me sending me further into bliss. The smile he gave me in our first apartment or the look in his eyes when he saw me for the first time since hearing from L about my death. How he radiated with pride the first time he held Misa's and his baby boy. The love on his features every day since our wedding.
I found myself collapsing on top of him gripping onto him as echoing screams of pain broke from me for the first time in my life. True agony radiates through my body causing me to shake and the tears to flow faster as if they were a raging river. "Light." My Light in the darkness of night. My moon that the stars will only shine for. Is forever gone. Leaving the world in utter darkness.
*5 days later*
The funeral had been two days ago. Something I never wished to go through. With Light gone, Taiyo was staying with me in my home in order to make sure I was going to be alright. His wife and child already having gone back to their place leaving just my son and myself within this house. The very home Taiyo had grown up in. Sitting on my bed I run my fingertips over the blanket next to me. So many memories... Too many of Light and I. I feel like I am suffocating in this house. Even though Taiyo was helpful and I knew I wasn't alone, he has to go home to his family soon. He cannot stay with me and all he will do is worry instead of living his life. Which is why… Standing, I close my eyes grabbing my old backpack containing all of my "essentials" and pulling the straps over my shoulders securing it onto my back. With one last look at the bedroom Light and I had shared for decades. I turn off the light and walk down to the main family room where Taiyo was just hanging up his cell phone.
"Hmm?" He questions realizing I was there. I watch as his eyes rake over my body taking in my appearance as if he was double-checking to make sure I was alright, though they lingered on my backpack. "Mom?" He asks walking towards me. I held up my right hand keeping my left behind my back causing him to stop.
"It's time I go home Taiyo. It has been too long since I've seen my own parents. You have your own family who needs you, my darling boy. A family to be proud of." Looking away a moment I feel my throat tighten painfully from the feeling of fresh sobs of agony rising back to the surface. "I would say I don't belong here. I never had. You remember the stories I would tell you growing up. It's just... I can't stay here in this house any longer. There are far too many memories built up within these walls and they are tearing me apart. I know I'm being selfish but even your wife thinks I'm your little sister rather than what I truly am." Looking back to Taiyo who was smiling softly to me in understanding I give him a nod. "Your father has prepared you for this day… For the right moment.." Stiffening up my shoulders I hold my left hand out to him containing Light's death note. "The day has come for you to take up the family business my son. It is up to you to keep this world the way your father and I had created it."
Taiyo steps closer taking the note from me his eyes falling upon his old friend Ryuk. The very one his father had let him see at a young age as one of the steps in preparing Taiyo for this day. When his eyes fall back on me he wraps his arms around me in a tender hug. "I will miss you, mom. I understand you have to do what you must. You can trust me. I remember everything Dad taught me. I will not let either of you down." Raising my head I place a kiss on his cheek, my heart filling with momentary warmth from my son's words.
"I have no doubt, my son. You will make us proud and keep this world from rotting once again. I love you my shining sun." Stepping out of my son's arms I watch him as I let my energy flow around me. From practice, all these years have become easier than it used to. I let a tear roll down my cheek as I felt myself falling. The image of Taiyo receding from sight.
Finally closing my eyes once he was no longer to be seen I take in the old familiar feeling. One I have not felt since I was a teenager. I was falling as if to my death only this time I knew where I would end up. Once the sensation stopped I open my charcoal eyes and take in the sight of my old home. A sad smirk tugs at the corner of my lips from one thought. This place used to feel like a prison. A prison that was suffocating the life out of me. Now, it's home; it's my sanctuary from all of the pain I have been feeling. Glancing around my bedroom I walk over to the desk and spin my chair around. "It has been such a long time." I whisper to myself. Growing up this is where I learned how to hack, and learned from videos how to cook. Where I've spent countless hours watching anime and learning. My world was in this room. Now I've tasted a world so sweet that I can't even figure out how I survived this torture, to begin with.
Reaching for my computer as I retrieve my Ipad from my backpack I plug the two together before setting down at my desk and begin switching out my more recent documents, including journal entries along with the notes I had made during the Kira investigation. Placing them onto my desktop before saving my favorite anime onto my pad so it would contain more than just Death note. My world was no longer this room but... I still love anime and will wish to watch it whenever I can. Retrieving my USB I place the files that wouldn't fit onto my Ipad. Once done I return the items into my backpack and stand from my desk.
Turning away I walk towards the door of my room to see if my mother and father were home. A sudden thundering crash rumbles through the mansion causing my floorboards to vibrate, enticing me into tearing open the door and running out of my room. "That sounded like it came from downstairs!" I exclaim aloud as I leap from the middle of the stairs to the smoke-filled bottom. Sucking in a breath of clean air just before landing upon my feet in a crouch. Fully encasing myself into the smoke. My eyes sting painfully as I look around trying to figure out what was going on.
"Get your butt up the stairs!" A familiar voice rang in my ears. One I haven't heard since I was 18.
"Aphrodite?" I question. Could it really be my cousin? Without a response, I felt arms around my waist with such force the air left my lungs. Hoisting me towards the top of the stairs I had just come from.
Gasping in fresh air once I was pulled above the smoke. I nearly choke on blonde tendrils that were covering my face. Once we reach the landing She releases me as she stands up looking towards the bottom step. My eyes widened as I look up at my once pale but now lightly tanned blonde-haired cousin. Wearing a lightweight over jacket on top of a bright red silk dress that I could only guess was sleeveless. Her gentle blue eyes glanced at me as I stood and began to straighten out my sleeveless white button-up shirt and make sure my thin necktie was laying the way it was supposed to. Looking down at my black and white mini skirt I begin to brush the dirt off making sure my black and white thigh-high leg warmers were secured in place.
I must have taken too long for Aphrodite latched a hold of my left arm warmer. "You really are a princess. Your appearance doesn't matter right now." She hissed and tugged me back towards my bedroom with more strength than one would guess could come from a girl like her. "Aphro.." I began before she shoved me inside and slammed the door shut behind me.
"I don't have time to explain. Is there a way out from here?" She questions as the sounds of echoing footsteps could be heard running up the stairs. Is there? I silently wonder before my eyes widen.
"There is a hanging just outside of the window we can use to get to the roof." I explain as I run to the window and throw it open. I am not sure what is going on but she is trying to protect me from something or someone just outside of my bedroom door, that much is certain. Crawling into my window I look up to spot the overhang just before leaping into the air and catching hold of it. "Just don't look down Kira.." I whispered to myself knowing it would be a long fall if I misjudge my movements even slightly. Much farther than if I had ever fallen getting up into Light's bedroom when he still lived with his family. Just think about that climb; how it was so easy to accomplish. What was it… a normal house room is usually what? Eight feet. Add a possible two feet between floors would be a total of ten to twelve feet to his balcony. Yes, think of the easiness of that climb. Don't think about how far off the ground I actually am.
I could hear Aphrodite following me as I pulled myself up onto the roof, from first catching my right leg on the overhang and using my hold to throw the rest of my body up. Aphrodite was holding her hand out to me just as I rolled onto my back. Now, I know the fall wouldn't kill me but still... Heights aren't really a comfort zone to me. Especially this high. I don't know the exact schematics of my parent's house but if I remember correctly. I believe I had figured the downstairs alone from floor to ceiling was about thirty feet to accommodate their true forms. Making that at least an extra ten feet between floors so the second floor could hold their true mass. Taking her hand I stand. "That way!" I tell her only specifying the direction when I take off running towards the back end of the house. "My dad used to jump from here to the pool below." I explained as she ran next to me. But.. Coming to the end of the roof I found my running, halt to a dead stop with my heart hammering in my chest. My eyes fall upon the pool nearly eighty feet below. I know the pool was definitely deep enough to accommodate leaping from this height but…
"What's wrong?! Go!" Aphrodite's yelling felt like it was miles away. Drowned out by the thundering sound of my heartbeat.
"Well. Well. Sister. I didn't exactly expect you here." A male voice came from behind us. Drawing my attention from the edge of the roof.
"Of course, I would be Damen!" Aphrodite snaps at the tall brunette with eerie red eyes. He was beautiful to look at but my skin was crawling from how close he was. What could be wrong with him to cause such a sensation? "I protect Kira. The future Queen. I am her right hand! I will always be there for her when danger is around."
"Tsk.." Damen looked around as his brows furrowed before a maddening smirk showed on his features. "You are most annoying Aphrodite. Always doing as you are told. You listen to mother as if she were the wisest being alive! While I am cast aside because I know that Mother should have been the one Queen. She was born before her twin! The throne is rightfully hers!"
"You say that because you crave power you do not have. You, the weakest of us three kids. You want the throne for yourself. Because it's the only way you could ever achieve power."
"I'm weak?" He responds to Aphrodite before letting out a maniacal laugh with his arms held out to his sides. "I'll show you weak." He smirked once his outrageous laugh was done. He held his left hand out in my direction with his pointer finger directed straight at me. Before I knew it an amazingly violet light shot from his hand. Am I going to die? I silently ask myself before seeing Aphrodite run in front of me to block me from an attack that seemed to only mesmerize me.
The violet light expands brightly stinging my eyes. It felt hot but not unbearably so. "Aphrodite!" I called raising my arms to block the light from my eyes so I could attempt to make out what was happening.
