"You take your aim to point the blame," Light sung softly, pressing into the keys of the piano. He imagined how his mother would have played it with so much more care and ease, while he practically massacred the keys, despite how softly he played. Hideki sidled up next to him on the piano bench. He was actually rather surprised how often he'd seen Hideki around after their meeting with Watari previously. The Yagami siblings had become very quick friends with the man after so many odd conversations and their friendship only seemed to grow that much stronger when Hideki admitted to being the infamous L, despite immediately mentioning that he suspected Light of being Kira.
Light's relationship with the man seemed to be purely an interest and curiosity, while Sayu, who was also very inquisitive about him, took the opportunity to make an alliance against Light with the odd man. Light was obviously not pleased to see that his sister and Hideki had decided to become team let's-embarrass-and-make-fun-of-Light-at-every-given-opportunity or as they liked to call themselves 'The LEAMFOLAEGO Squad' (mostly Sayu though, as Hideki was not that amused by the nickname despite insisting on calling themselves the Gay Protection Squad instead, which Sayu had turned down because "Light hasn't come out of the closet yet, so I gotta be supportive of his closet-ed self." Their shenanigans had earned them more than a few eye rolls from Light).
Hideki hummed along softly. "Why do you sing so many of your songs in English? Isn't that rather difficult, considering Japanese is your mother tongue?" Hideki asked, fully aware that Light was very fluent in English, so it probably wasn't actually a problem for him. Light shrugged in response. "I'm fluent in English, so it's not that hard. Plus a lot of people like English songs, especially abroad. Not everybody listens to Kpop, but a lot of people are willing to listen to people like Taylor Swift and Kanye." Hideki nodded. "I suppose that makes sense if you want to be more popular as a songwriter or even take your music to the world-wide level."
Light nodded back. "Though I suppose the songs I write are not as popular as they would be if written into the more popular hip hop genre."
"Light! You have to see this!" Sayu sung, plopping a rather expensive-looking XP tablet on the top of the piano in front of the two boys. On it was an on-going video of a blonde girl dressed in American colonial garb singing along to the song playing. She had her pixie-cut bangs curled into her forehead and the rest of her hair was styled in a way that almost made the top of her head look completely flat. It was a rather pretty scene with a beautiful dining room one would expect to be in an early 16th century European house, though the scene was diluted by the old woman who was wheeled into the room and given a heart on a plate.
Light grimaced at the sight of the woman putting it in her mouth. The scene then switched to a man finding a tree with hearts growing off it and digging up a naked girl. It was all so strange, yet entrancing. And it seemed as if the girl who was singing was only a background character in her own video. The video was so dark in nature, while the song seemed to be about love. The background music accentuated the perfect nature of the relationship the girl sung about in a cute, high-pitched voice. "You be the moon, I'll be the earth and when we burst, start over, oh darling, begin again."
Light gave Sayu a look that clearly said why the hell did you feel the need to show me that music video? Sayu grinned mischievously. "Her name is Misa Misa and she wants to do a duet with you, Light!" Sayu squealed, no doubt thinking that this was the perfect opportunity to set her older brother up with a date. "And how did you find this information before I did?" Sayu shrugged and tapped the screen, changing it to an article about an interview taken of Misa Amane.
Light quickly scanned the document, seeing that Misa had in fact said that she wanted to do a duet with Light. Oh, his manager was going to be hounding him about this. Sayu then pulled up a plethora of images of Misa, babbling on about how pretty she was. All the pictures showed her with gothic lolita clothes on. She seemed to fit the part of emo-popstar more than Light did. And he was a serial killer for Christ's sake. Her normal attire definitely contrasted to that that she wore in the video. Hell, in the music video she could pass as a bubbly blonde, even with the dark imagery.
Light hummed for a moment. The girl was actually as popular as him, though she seemed to fall into a completely different crowd with her music. His manager would probably hound him to do a duet with her, however he wasn't nearly dumb enough to pass up an opportunity like this, especially considering how his popularity had been waning recently after his lack of output and later entire change of musical genre he was putting out. And as his brain whirled around the idea, he decided that he could have some use for the girl unrelated to music.
Yes, this was a perfect opportunity.