STRAWBERRY MEMORIES- ICHIGO NO KIOKU
Capitolo I
"MISA"
Don't get any big ideas
they don't gonna appens
You paint your smile
you paint yourself white
and fill up with noise
there'll be something missing
And now that you found it
it's gone
just when you feel it
you don't, it's gone forever.
You'll go to Hell
For what your
Dirty mind is thinking.
(Radiohead, Nude)
A flash of lightning suddenly brightened the dark room and Misa awoke from her slumber.
Incredible she had been more than two hours to think!
She listlessly got up from the fuchsia armchair and dragged herself to the clock resting on the table, it was 1:00 a.m.
It was late and the next day she had to go to work but she didn't really want to sleep.
She ran her tongue over her lips again and realized that she had already eaten all the lipgloss, then she took it out of his pocket and slowly put it back in front of the living room mirror.
Once again a flash of lightning lit her face which looked tired and dull, a dull reflection.
When she returned home, after hours under those lights that were too strong and too fake, she could abandon herself and yet often even at home she managed to keep her smile. That day, however, she did not succeed, that day was the first anniversary of the death of his parents and she just could not be indifferent to it.
The year before she was still so busy at work that she didn't even have time to think and even that sweet sugary memory had slowly drifted away; but now, now it was all different, now Eru had become her obsession, her only reason of life.
How many times had she hoped he would come to Japan and how many nights had she cried for that impossible dream, probably the same number of prayers made to God that the murderer of her parents (long on the loose) would die, and magically, he was dead all of a sudden!
One of her wishes had come true, so the second could also come true!
She wanted to find her only friend, she hadn't had any since that day, perhaps because nobody could compete with that sunny day and with that wounded knee, what she remembered was not only dry and red blood, because even if that wound hurt a lot and her leg could not bend, she knew that the red was bright and that the blood was alive, she was alive!
She touched the small scar and smiled, the opaque reflection just brightened.
Another miracle had happened and that miracle was called Kira.
Of course that was only the nickname, in reality she did not know his real name and that was her purpose. As according to recent news it was him who killed the murderer of her parents and it wasn't the only things happened thanks to him!
Thanks to Kira Eru had come to Japan to hunt him and now he was probably in her own city, in some unknown palace or hiding place.
How did she knows that this was his Eru?
Simple, who could be called by such a strange name?
Who could be smarter than he (the only one who had managed to stand up to her)?
Who could pursue justice if not him?
But above all, why did he already have a butler and a limousine at such young age?
2 + 2 always did only 4, even for Misa Amane.
Misa had also done some research and had discovered that her Eru, who the world called "the best detective in the world", had been in business for a long time and by archiving all the newspapers that had happened to her she had managed to trace the first cases solved in London!
The country where she went on vacation was the first home of her beloved L.
Yes! It was thanks to that letter that appeared on the screens of all Kanto, and it was only thanks to him that she had discovered that Kira was right there in Tokyo, indeed in Shinjuku.
Now her main goal was to reach him, and first she had to find Kira and consequently get closer to him. Actually she didn't know for sure what she wanted to do, the only thing she was sure of was that there were only two sure ways to find L: the first, was to join the investigation team to find Kira and that possibility had already been discarded, how could she, without any investigative or journalist title, come in there?
And then that also meant having to hunt down his idol!
No, that wasn't a possibility for her.
The second and dangerously one was to approach Kira, but in an unexpected way even for Kira himself, and to achieve this goal she would become his girlfriend. In this way, L would immediately suspect her, as the girl of who he considered a mass murder, while she called him a God.
Moreover, in that manner, not even Kira would suspected her true intentions, for this reason she would have been the stupidest of all the stupid girls in his eyes, but she wasn't at all.
Another flash of lightning lit the room and the mirror in front of her, but behind her there was another figure.
An imposing gray figure who looked at her with his big yellow eye.
«Misa have you decided what to do?»
«Yes Rem ... let's exchange the eyes»
The corner of the baka aka moi:
I know, I know this song is macabre and sad but in spite of everything it is one of my favorites and it fit very well to this chapter and to Misa from which the chapter takes its name.
Like the song says, Misa too paints on her face a lot of smiles, she also gets confused with the noise of nothing to reach the rhythm, the apathy of the feelings ... but despite everything, something is missing and that something is the feelings she felt for her parents , for her sister, for Eru of whom she claims the only material thing left by him: the strawberry lip-gloss's flavor that ends up constantly.
She too, once 10 years earlier, has tasted that sweet taste and as soon as she reached maturity her parents, with the affection she felt for them, disappeared forever, to give way to the raw reality of feelings who scream only revenge at all costs, there is only one last hope, the last glimmer of light is L (a fragment of strawberry memory almost escaped ).
All that is beautiful, that memory is beautiful and reachable, despite being a pure feeling, the only one left ... the only way to get it is to dirty one's soul and end up in hell with the exchange of the eyes.
I think I was exhaustive XD