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CHAPTER SIX: The Inevitable Void
"In order to get a Shinigami's eyes, I have to sacrifice half of my remaining lifespan. Is that right?" he stated nonchalantly.
"Yup," the Shinigami answered.
"What'll you do? Wanna make the deal?" he asked again.
Light narrowed his eyes at this. "Ryuk. That deal…" he trailed off then closed his eyes.
"Is out of the question."
"Hai…yakusoku, watashi koibito." she swore.
He can hear her sweet voice ringing in his mind. Kira-chan…
"Do you see, Ryuk? I'm going to create an ideal world without criminals. And then, I'm going to reign over that world as a god for a long time." He turned away from Ryuk who was listening intently at his words.
"If my lifespan could be extended, I might think about it. But shorter? No way. You should understand that, Ryuk."
"Yeah. But I just wanted to tell you the deal exists. I didn't want you to whine about it later 'coz I didn't tell you right away."
"If you didn't tell me right away? In that case, you're already late. Shouldn't you have told me something like that right after we met? Or at least written it in the instructions on how to use the notebook?"
"Yeah, yeah. You're right," 'Even if I'm a Shinigami, he doesn't fear me or suck up to me. When it comes to stuff like this, he even gives me a hard time.'
"And? There's nothing else you should tell me ahead of time, right, Shinigami Ryuk?"
"Yeah, nothing more." 'Probably…'
"I see. What a shame." He stood up and lied down on his bed, his arms at the back of his head.
"A shame?"
"If it'd be wings instead of eyes, I might've actually considered the deal. Don't you think it'd be godlike to have wings and be able to take to the sky at will? It's a dream humans have had since ancient times," he then stood up, remembering her again. It was her dream to fly in the sky, Kira-chan that is.
"You'd stick out if you had wings and could fly. That alone would be enough for the cops to come after ya." Ryuk explained.
"I was joking, Ryuk. But if I make a bunch of deals on things like wings and eyes, before I know it, I'll become a real Shinigami." He said, holding the Death Note.
"Wouldn't that be interesting?"
"Relax. Raito, even without doing something like that, you're already a fine Shinigami."
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Six people died of heart attack in prison.
Three people did something unprecedented right before they died.
One of those three has cut his finger and drew a strange picture in his cell wall before dying.
Another left a note saying:
"Looks like whatever I do, I'll be executed.
Or like you must suspect, I know I'll be killed by Kira."
The third one escaped from prison only to die in a bathroom.
Along with that description, the images were there with the note as well. Kira might've controlled these people before they died. He could also control someone's actions right before they die? He was really incredible!
Hikari slapped her forehead. She shouldn't be admiring his capabilities!
Looking back at the images, she thought these things were nothing but meaningless. Kira must be trying something. Using criminals as test subjects. Childish…
Her cell phone rang and she reached for it, not even looking at it for she was busy at analyzing these things.
"Moshi moshi," she greeted.
"Hikari-chan! Yuri desu," Yuri greeted excitedly. Why was her friend up so early? Usually during weekends, she was up late. But today was different, and she seemed excited.
"Doushita no? (What's the matter?)" she asked her eyes still on the screen of the computer.
"I have great news! This is my dream come true!" her friend squealed in happiness. She only rolled her eyes at this. Same, old Yuri.
"Come on, tell me. I'm doing some things." She ordered.
"Fine fine. You know Yagami Light from your class? Well…you know very well that I like him right? So…he actually asked me…OUT!!!"
Hikari stopped and her eyes widened. 'Uso…'
"Hey! You all right? Well anyway, I'd better get ready. We'll meet at exactly 11:27. I'll just contact you when I'm at the meeting place."
"Ah…right…good luck then…" she then heard the other line hang up. She stared at it, her eyes wide with disbelief.
'Light…why?'
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'You're too occupied…Kira-chan…' a distant voice said.
Hikari looked at that spirit and glared at her.
"I told you; don't call me by that name anymore."
She only cackled at her bad temper. 'Looks like that young man is going out with that friend of yours. Are you jealous?' she added with an amused tone.
"No," she simply replied, not really in the mood to be pissed off.
'You cannot hide anything from me, Hikari-chan. Would you like to know why he asked her out?'
If only spirits have body, she could've strangled them already- especially a spirit like this.
"Why would I care? It's none of my business anyway. He could go out with any girl he pleases. I don't care," she sternly said in a monotone.
Again, she cackled mockingly at her. Humans still hide what they feel even though it was pretty obvious.
Hikari walked mindlessly along the streets. She'd meet up with Megumi and tell her about Yuri's DATE. Megumi didn't know that she and Light were childhood friends before but she knew that Hikari…
'Jealousy is vain. Love is…vain.' Yoko [1] suddenly said.
She narrowed her eyes at what the spirit said. "Words of wisdom, I presume." She said sarcastically.
'No. It's base on experience.' She merely said.
'Her husband left her with another woman,' Masamichi [2] said.
'Did not! He-he only…' she trailed off and Hikari kindly continued it for her. "He only wanted to enjoy his life with another woman."
Masamichi laughed at that remark.
'Still, what Yoko was telling you before was…'
"Hikari-chan!"
She smiled at the sight of her friend. She quickened her pace and the spirits with her instantly vanished.
"Thank god you're here already! Yuri-chan just sent me a message. She said that Light asked her out." Megumi stopped when realization hit her. "So that's why you want to meet with me."
Hikari nodded without a smile. Megumi sighed then invited her to a café shop.
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The bus stopped and he went in side.
'He's here! It's him!' Light thought as his attention focused at his bait.
'Seven people on the bus, not counting him. So, everything should go well.'
The criminal pulled out his gun and pointed it to the driver. The driver saw it the corner of his eyes and gasped.
"I'm hijacking this bus!" he announced with his raspy low voice.
Everybody inside gasped in fear at what he said. Of course, Light was an exception.
"Don't make a ruckus! I'll kill anyone who moves!" he then looked back at the driver.
"Driver! Ya know the phone number of Space Land's main office, right? Call it!" he ordered harshly.
"Yes!" The driver did what he ordered him to do and reached for the phone.
"This is Sasaki, the driver of bus number 174." He said, his voice slightly shaking because of fear. He could barely concentrate on driving the vehicle.
"Tell 'em 'bout what's happenin' now." He ordered again.
"T-the bus has been hijacked by a man with a gun."
"Gimme that!" he snatched the phone from him when his patience snapped and put it in his ear.
"So that's it! Listen carefully! Send one woman in a car with all your revenue from yesterday to the second bus stop of Space Land before the bus gets there! If ya try any stupid tricks or contact the police, I'll kill every last one of the passengers!" he then threw the phone on the ground, stepping hard on it as it broke into pieces.
Light showed Yuri a note saying he would grab the gun away from the hijacker. Ray saw it and moved closer to them. "It's too dangerous. Don't. When the time comes, I'll do it." He whispered to them.
Light was about to write his answer on the paper when he said, "It's okay. Even if we don't pass notes, he won't be able to hear what we're saying over the sound of the engine."
Light crumpled the paper and put it inside his pocket.
"Do you have any proof that you're not the criminal's accomplice?" at that question, Ray was silenced. He was taken aback by his remark.
"A-accomplice?" Yuri repeated in a frightened tone.
"It happens a lot. They make you think they're acting alone. Instead, ahead of time, an accomplice hides in the back, just in case something happens. What's wrong?"
"No…you can't really…" Yuri muttered, fear filling up her whole body.
There was a moment of silence. Light was only waiting for him to show him something that will lead him to his…death.
"Here's my proof. Take a look" He said, showing him his ID.
The teenager took it and was surprised. 'FBI?! So, L must be using the FBI to investigate the police department. His name is Ray Penbar.' An evil grin crossed his lips.
"I'll trust you," he whispered, returning his ID to him.
"I won't presume to ask why I'd meet an FBI agent here. Do you have a gun?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll leave it to you, when the right time comes."
An elderly woman began to whimper, causing the drug addict to turn his attention back to the passengers.
"Be quiet!" He yelled. "Do you wanna be killed?" he threatened harshly, causing the two old couples to shake in fear.
Light intentionally let a piece of crumpled paper fell onto the ground. IT was a piece of the Death Note. He immediately reached down to retrieve it but stopped when it caught the criminal's attention.
"You there!" The man pointed the gun at Light. Light stopped what he was 'going' to do.
"Don't move!"
"What's that bit of paper?" The man took long strides, reached down and picking up the scrap, but not quite opening it entirely. "You bastard! Were you writing notes to the other passengers?"
He opened the piece of paper and read its content with his large eyes.
"Your plans for your date?!" he irritatingly remarked after reading it.
He threw it back onto the ground, not noticing the evil grin that the teenager had on his face.
"What a waste of time." he muttered then headed towards the front of the bus.
And as if on a cue, the man looked behind him. His eyes grew big at seeing that thing- Ryuk.
"W-What are you, you bastard?!" he stuttered in pure terror.
"You there, in the back!"
He raised his gun and pointed it at the Shinigami. His hands on the gun was limp, and at the same time, his hands began to shake violently.
"W-What kind of trick is this?!" he said, his voice cracking up. His whole body shaking because of fear and terror.
"When'd you get there!?"
"Huh? You talkin' to me?" Ryuk asked dumbly as he pointed a finger towards himself to make sure.
"You can see me?..."
Light rolled his eyes by the Shinigami's stupid remark. It was pretty obvious.
"D-Don't move! Just stay...right there...or I'll shoot...!" The man pointed his gun at what seemed to be thin air for he was the only one, except for Light, who can see this Shinigami.
"He's on PCP or something! He's hallucinating...Everybody down!" Yelled Ray Penbar, his voice taking affect on all the passengers that immediately obliged to his orders. Light did the same as he pretended to protect Yuri. His eyes focused to this event he was expecting.
A loud shot sounded around the bus. Like a sound of thunder, it brought shivers towards all the people inside the bus.
"Oh, I get it," Ryuk said said, "that note that Light dropped just now with the plans for his date...it must've been written on paper torn from the Death Note."
"Then he made you touch it, so only you can see me."
"Smart kid, Light!" he took a moment to smile triumphantly.
There were the sounds of gunshots fired, shattering the glass of the back window, causing the glass to shower onto the backs of the bus. There were cries coming from the people inside at hearing the sound of the gunshots again.
"Sorry," Ryuk said again, "I'm a Shinigami, so I won't die from just that"
At the corner of Light's eyes, he could see Ray Penbar stand from his seat and ran towards the freaking criminal.
"Anyone who touches the Death Note can see me; I have to follow behind Light. Death Gods won't die, even if they' re shot. They're all the things that I told Light. He put it all together, as is to be expected from the kid who placed first on the National Exams. That and he used this bus jacking to somehow get the name of the guy who's been followin' him." he said, more like of a typical boring speech.
The criminal seemed to be scared out-of-his-wits and ordered the bus driver to stop the bus and he quickly exited the bus, but as soon as he got outside...the Inevitable Void started...
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"Come on, Hikari-chan. Cheer up. It's not really that big." Megumi said, hoping to bring a smile to her.
Hikari only nodded, 'You don't understand…he made a promise, a promise that he has to fulfill.' She pulled some strands of hair behind her ears.
"Yuri likes Light since she saw her and you love him since…?" Megumi trailed off, not knowing when she did anyway.
'Since we were kids,' she wanted to say that out loud but she chose not to. The promise was between her and the young guy and only they should know it.
"Since when did you start loving him? You didn't even tell me any of it." Megumi alleged.
"I don't know either," she lied.
"You're not telling me something, aren't you?"
"Why would you say such a thing? Don't you believe me?"
Megumi only sighed; she could tell that Hikari was hiding something from her.
Hikari then stood up, "Let's go someplace. I don't feel like being here anyway." She invited.
Megumi stood up also. "Fine," she answered.
Hikari left some money on the table and went outside the café with Megumi beside her.
"I would really want to go to the mall! Why don't we go shopping?! Shopping relieves our stresses!" Megumi suggested.
"Fine by me!" they did a high five and an unexpected thing happened.
On the road, a bus stopped and a man went out of it. He looked as if he was scared out of his wits and there was a loud screech of a car and everything happened very fast.
The two girls' eyes widened at the accident that they just saw. Another one. This was the third time Hikari encountered seeing accidents like this. The first one was that Shibumaru Takuo then the death of Lind L. Tailor. Lastly…this?!
"W-why do these things have to happen?" Megumi whispered.
Her eyes caught somebody. Somebody she knew very well. It was…Light.
[1] Yoko- means The Side. She was the second lover of her husband, but legally married to him when she was still a human being. After marrying her husband, they hired a maid. That maid changed their whole lives. I gave her that name because she was always put aside and was mostly ignored. She grew up with no parents and she didn't have any friends. She killed herself when her husband ran away with that maid. And since then, her soul wandered off to the depths of Earth. Apparently, Hikari met Yoko when she first came to the house they stayed for one year with her brother.
[2] Masamichi- means The Way of Truth. Masamichi was given that name because of her Honesty. She was a witness in a case court when she was still alive. The case was about a drug addict guy who raped and killed a poor little girl. Apparently, she saw that scene and volunteered herself as a witness. But the father of the drug addict guy was so rich that she was ordered to be killed before she went to the court. Hikari met her when something painful happened to her. At that time, Masamichi's soul appeared before her and told Hikari the truth.
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