HELLO READERS!

I can't sleep XP so I decided to get another chapter done! So, this might help with the introduction into the story. n.n Please enjoy File 2!

A couple more weeks past, Light sometimes looked back in his math class to find Hikari having troubles with her studies and also trying her best to keep up with her work. She didn't seem the best in math, but at least she was still trying. Most people gave up in the advanced class. Light noticed her no more then that, he was always too busy with the Death Note.

Something that did bother him was the fact that during breaks or class changes everyone was talking about Kira and what they thought. Hikari always talked in conversations but she never once talked about Kira. He didn't know if she supported his secret identity or denied it completely. She would just sit down at her desk and doodle in her notebook, he never got to see what she was drawing. Hikari always looked interested in what she did, and always smiled at the end of when she was done doodling. He never went over to ask, it might make him look suspicious and interested in her. Light just kept on with his normal routine of school, home, Death Note, repeat. The normal routine, he had to keep it up to claim his perfect world and also to keep L off of his back.

It was just another day at school, hotter then expected. It was fall, things should have been cooling off but a heat wave was going over Japan at the moment. Everyone still wore short sleeve shirt uniforms and the girls still had on their skirts while boys didn't want to wear their jackets. Light didn't complain, he never really did. During one of the hot fall days Light sat in the classroom alone, class had ended and he just looked out the window. Ryuk was balanced in a pounce like position on the desk in front of Light, looking down with a hunch at the high school genius. "What's on your mind?"

"Why do you ask?" Light asked, still keeping his attention outside.

Ryuk just shrugged his shoulders as he kept talking. "You hate staying behind at school, usually you go home by now and start using the Death Note."

Light kept looking out, something had attracted his attention and he had been watching it for some time. Ryuk finally took the initiate to also glance down to the bottom floor since they were on the second. It was an old car, almost like a limo. The doors were never opened and no one went near it, it just sat there as if to pick someone up. Light's attention was on that, for some reason he got chills looking down at it. The car had been outside since school got out and it hadn't moved one bit. His focus was broken when footsteps came to an abrupt halt in the doorway. Light and Ryuk both turned to the door, there stood Hikari leaning on the door frame and out of breath. "Professor Ta-"

"He left about ten minutes ago." Light spoke before she could finish. Hikari just scuffed her shoe against the floor and muttered something quick to herself. She looked a little different out of the rain, she was still pale but did have some color on her cheeks to prove she was living. Hikari's hair was also with some volume, not the long straight black that most girls had. As of now Hikari had her hair up in a ponytail with her bangs pushed to the side so they wouldn't get in her eyes. "Do you need to speak to him?"

She nodded, starting into the classroom. "Yeah, he was going to help me find a math tutor but he didn't stay! Just goes to show how truthful a teacher can be huh?" Hikari took the seat of the desk that Ryuk was at, of course she couldn't see the death god. She didn't even spin the chair around, the back was still to Light's desk. Hikari sat down and wrapped her arms around the top of the back, resting her head on her arms. She leaned in to keep talking to him. "You know... you're the top of the class and look like you don't have any trouble with this class..."

"No." He got up before she could finish.

While Light packed his things Hikari leaned back against the desk. She let her feet swing above the ground and had her arms stretched as she still held onto the back. "Oh come on! If you want payment I can pay, brother really wants me to get better at math for analyzing and all. Don't ask me why, I want to get better so I can get better scores on my tests." Light started out of the room, his jacket now off and thrown over his shoulder as he walked and his tie loose. Hikari shot up as well, catching up to Light to keep talking. "Come on, pretty please? Just for a month. If I don't do any better with my grades in a month you can drop me like the atom bomb okay? Please Yamagi-san?" He kept on walking. Hikari frowned and then got in his way, stopping with her hands on her hips. Light also stopped so he wouldn't run into her. "Two weeks? How about just two weeks? We have that big exam in winter for semester grades, I won't even ask for that cram time if you just help me for one month now in the slow season. Just ONE month! Please Yamagi-san?" Hikari finally let her arms slide down slowly, her anger fading as were her chances to get his help. "Please? I'll pay, I'll cook if I need to, I'll do your work for some other class if you need. Just help me with my math a bit, if not then Professor Tachinori will have to drop me from the class for not meeting the requirements and then I'll have to go to the dumb people math class." She then clapped her hands together with a slight bow, apparently she felt she had offended someone. "Oh! Please pardon that, it's not like that's where dumb people go! It's just that class goes over everything so SLOWLY, it's boring. Please PLEASE Yamagi-san? Will you tutor me in math for just one month, I'm not even asking for the semester exam time or the college entrance exams, just asking for this to help me jump start on my maths. If I do this I promise to keep up with the others and I'll have time to find another tutor, I just need to raise my grade to stay in the class now and-"

"Stop." Both Light and Ryuk said at the same time. Hikari only heard Light and didn't even notice Ryuk as he wasn't visible. Hikari just stood there with her hands slightly down, waiting for him to keep going. Light took a deep breath and closed his eyes, the time seemed to be lasting too long for such a simple answer. "Fine, one month and that's it." Hikari gave a type of squeal, jumping up and down in her spot. Light finally looked at her jumping in circles, it was a totally different side then he saw in class or on the street of the rainy day. Hikari finally stopped jumping and turned to him, giving a grand bend over respectful bow.

She then popped her head up and gave a very childish smile. "Thank you Yamagi-san, I'll start tomorrow after school. I guess I can walk home with you tomorrow. Watari is waiting outside for me, he picks me up every day, I have to go now. Talk with you later, thanks again Yamagi-san!" Hikari then started to run off while waving back to Light, still smiling that she now had someone to help her in the hard but fun subject of math.

Light still didn't move as Ryuk was laughing with a weird snort inserted here and there. "Yes, the human woman are very enforcing." He burst out into laughter after he spoke those words, making Light just walk on to try and ignore the giant monster. When Light got outside he watched the fancy black car start off, sitting in the back seat was Hikari. He now knew what that car was there for, but why did he still despise it? It was like that car was also used for someone else, but that someone he didn't know yet. "We going home now? I'm craving for another apple."

"Yeah." Light started off in the opposite direction that the car drove and went down the busy streets again.

He got home, with the great welcome from his mother as she was the only one home, and then went upstairs and locked the door behind him. Light tossed his bag to the side and sat down in his computer chair, staring down at the drawer that the Death Note was hidden inside. He never even opened it, all he did was look. Ryuk went over to the apple that Light placed on the desk (he picked it up when he got home) and started to chomp on it. Ryuk went back to the bed and lay down with his bug eyed head hanging over the side. Light still glared at the drawer. "What now?" Ryuk asked as he hung there.

"It's Hikari Yokohama. There's something about her that doesn't seem right. She's always talking with others on many subjects but when it comes to Kira she keeps her mouth shut. Then she also has a very fancy ride but never talks about her wealth, that is very rare. Then she needs tutoring so her brother can see her improve in something, she never even mentioned her parents." Light sat back and closed his eyes and he kept thinking out loud. "There is something that Hikari is hiding from me, probably to protect another more then herself. She's not as slow or thickheaded as some of the other girls, Hikari has a head on her shoulders. That something that she is hiding is very..." He leaned on his elbows now, they rested on the desk as his hands propped up to hold his head up. "unique." He finished, then Light turned his head a bit to the bed to see Ryuk still laying with his head over the side. "Don't you think?"

"I guess." Ryuk put simply, not moving.

Light nodded and turned back to the wall that his desk was against. "Exactly. The probability of her being that important is too low, but it's still a possibility. Any slight percentage can point evidence a certain way, it can even somehow connect her to L if need be." Ryuk sighed, this was what Light thought about in her. He always wondered if Hikari had some connection to L and knew that Ryuk would help none to find out if she was. "Anyone can be connected into helping L, my job is to find out if she is as well. Sure the entire world isn't looking for me, but if more events occur that point me to being Kira then I know that Hikari had something to do with it." Light finally sat back in the chair and took a ball point pen from the cup of pens and pencils on the desk. He took out the ink middle and used it to push through the hole on the bottom of the drawer that he opened just now on the top right of his desk. The hidden compartment opened and he took out the notebook inside. He opened it and turned a couple pages, Light had been busy. He flicked on his television and turned it to a news channel, then waited for some interesting news on criminals to come up. He also turned on his computer and networked it to his fathers files that connected to other countries information on criminals. After reading a few and saving some for reserves Light started to write down some names and go on with his business of killing. He got the name with the face and wrote it down just like the rules told him to. Ryuk sat up on the bed and watched in silence for about an hour.

The death god was getting bored and wanted to know more about Lights input on Hikari. He stood up and hovered over Light, the boy had put down a good twenty names with very descriptive ways of dying but all ended with the same heart attack. "You think you'll ever write her name in there?" Light stopped writing but never turned his head. Ryuk tilted his head like an animal while Light slowly turned the chair around. "That girl you're so worried about."

"I better not have to." Light noted, glaring down out of the corner of his eye to the notebook. "I don't want to kill any more innocent people to hide my name, but if it comes down to that she'll go just like the FBI agents and that private investigator that was married to the agent that following me." Light stopped talking then, he didn't remember any of their names. He had written down so many names and so many unique ways to go that he was now forgetting the important names. The private investigator that was homing down on Light, the FBI agent that he met on the bus and got his name, the very first person he killed to find out if the Death Note was real. Light put down his pen and closed the book with a sigh. "I think that's enough for tonight. I have tests coming and need to prepare for her tutoring." Light put the notebook back and got up, leaving Ryuk without a word. The death god followed, not being seen by any of the other family members that were home, and Light went into the kitchen to get some chips. He went back upstairs and finished his homework, then went off to dinner and shortly after went to bed.

Again Light dreamt of nothing, he had dreamt of nothing sense he acquired the Death Note. Light would close his eye, then open them as if he blinked. He forgot how it felt to dream, Light didn't even realize that he lost the ability to dream at all. He got out of bed, Ryuk already sitting in Light's computer chair and waiting for the boy to get up to go to school. Light didn't say a word, he just sat up in his bed and closed his eyes a bit. "What's on your mind now?"

He never answered the shinigami's question. Light got up and showered, the got into his uniform and left for school. It was another rainy day, a cold front was moving through and soon it would get cold. He had his red umbrella with him, opening it and started out to school. Ryuk didn't get wet when he followed, the walk was one in silence. Light was again walking on the busy street in the pouring rain, and again felt a bump on his shoulder. His bag slid down his left shoulder as the person that bumped him fell forward. She tripped over his foot in a run, dropping her own umbrella in front of her and her bag to the ground. "Not again!" She whimpered, picking up her bag. It didn't open so the stuff inside didn't get wet. It was Hikari, she didn't even notice that it was Light she ran into. The boy just stood there as she went to her umbrella, it was clear plastic. She picked it up, the umbrella was ruined with the fall. No longer would it open and no longer would it shelter her from the rain. "No no no no! This is the third one I've broken in this month alone!" Hikari pouted, getting soaked with the rain that never seemed to stop.

Light walked up right behind her, holding his umbrella over both of them. Hikari finally noticed him as Light stood next to her. She hugged her bag and began to blush again, being once again soaked in her school uniform. "Three times?"

Hikari nodded, not being able to talk. He gave a type of smile, but it was one to try to get close to her. Even the smallest percentage, ran through his head, is a possibility. "I'm sorry again Yamagi-san." She bowed a bit, then stood up right and kept her eyes down. "Umm... thanks. I guess I should get going, I need to tell Professor Tachinori that I have a tutor before he tries to find me one." Hikari started off, but Light followed with his umbrella. When she stopped walking so did he, keeping her under the cover from the rain. "You don't have to do this you know, I've ran more then once in the rain."

He didn't say a word. She bowed with respect once more and hugged her bag as she ran off. Light just watched, even the smallest chance. The smallest chance for her to have any connection to anyone that could find him out. Something about her, Hikari, something made her part of his equation on how to find and kill L. Light kept on his path following, they did go to the same high school after all. Ryuk was snickering behind Light as they got closer. He went off to the side, under a bridge that was made for no real reason. The school boy took the slight detour that no one knew about so no one would be around. He then kept walking but talked to the demon behind him. "What's so funny now?"

"You, humans actually." Ryuk snickered again as the walk continued. "Is it suspicion that keeps you after her, or lust confused with love?" Light finally stopped, turning a quarter of the way to face Ryuk. The death god actually stopped his floating and chuckling, the look on Light's face could freeze anyone in their path. After a bit of silence Light started off again to school, he didn't want to be late. Ryuk kept following but now without a sound.

So, what did you think? Do YOU think there is a connection? Well... I'M NOT TELLING! XD It's probably really easy to find out. So, I hope that you keep interested into the story! Please, review and refer me to other readers! (Not only of Death Note, but also of Kingdom Hearts and Gravitation as well!)

-Kokoro