Me: Here's the next chapter to Understanding Life. This is only a little beginning chapter, showing what Light is doing and what he is thinking. I have also never used the honorifics before, only read them in most Death Note fanfics I've read, so I don't know if I'll get it right. But since I watched most Death Note episodes in Japanese with English subtitles, I can't write it any other way.

I haven't seen the first few episodes in over a month, so I don't really remember the timeline that well. This is set after Light kills Naomi, the day after he first meets Misa (If I remember correctly, it was several days or something before Misa and L first met), but before he loses his memories and gets chained to L. No B in this one, sadly enough, but he will be in the next one. I just can't get enough of him at the moment. I haven't even read Death Note: Another Note, just read a basic summary of it, though, so I might not have his personality down all the way. So don't kill me if that happens. And, here is the chapter:

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It had been a trying day for Light Yagami, a.k.a. Kira. After all, he had had to deal with the first encounter with Misa Amane today, and that was practically hell on Earth for him. He was surprised that she had been able to find him so quickly, surprised but not unpleased. It would certainly make things easier in the long run if he could get Misa to meet L soon and find out L's name, letting him kill him and leaving Light innocent because to the investigation team, Light couldn't possibly have known L's real name.

It just so happened that L had his father tell him after dinner that he had to come in the next day after school. Light didn't have a single clue what L was planning, but he could bet that it would be another test to prove how he 'was Kira.' Of course, it made sense considering none of them knew he was Kira, so Light's annoyance that L continually called him Kira (And was right, of course) could only mean one thing to them. That was that Light was tired and annoyed that L continually called him Kira.

Light didn't know how long the game could go on before someone started believing L and helping him, effectively exposing Light as Kira. Light knew that one of the few reasons L hadn't already caught him was that the others didn't believe him and weren't watching Light as closely as L was, that and the others weren't as smart as L or Light. That caused Light to smirk quietly, the others on the investigation team were easy to manipulate against L. They were such simpletons that it wasn't even a challenge.

It had been pure undulated luck that Light had found Naomi Misora before she could tell L the one thing that would put a huge hole in the one thing that was holding his innocence. If L found that criminals could be killed in other ways besides heart attacks, L would discover that Penbar had given Light his name on that bus. If L found that out, Light would certainly be even more condemned than before, and all the progress he had made on the investigation team would disappear. Even his father would start to get suspicious should that happen.

"Oi, onii-chan!" Sayu called from behind Light's door, "Can you help me again with my homework?"

Light smiled to himself, though inside he was slightly annoyed at the thought of his sister interrupting his own study time. "Sure, I'll help you Sayu," he called back, not even blinking when she burst her door open and skipped to his side holding her math book in one hand.

Ryuk, who had been busy munching on a few apples Light had brought up earlier, pouted slightly since he could no longer eat the last apple with her in the room. "Oi, Raito! What do you think L will do tomorrow?" he asked, snickering slightly because Light couldn't answer him while his sister was there. Luckily those annoying cameras were gone, so he could eat as many apples in Light's room as he wanted.

Light's eye twitched slightly at the subtle insult. Ryuk knew very well that Light had no idea what L would do, and he was using his cluelessness to tease him. It was hard to admit to himself, but he really could not think of a single thing that L could pull on him. Unless the train had a camera that he hadn't been aware of… He paled slightly, he hadn't even thought of that. If L could get an image of him inside the car while Penbar lay dying, it was all over.

Sayu, oblivious to her brother's abrupt change in pallor, chirped happily as she pulled a chair over and plopped into it. She put her book on the desk and opened it to the page she was having trouble with. "This is the one that's troubling me the most, do you think you can help me?" she asked, pointing to the twenty-third problem.

Light mentally shook himself and forced himself to focus on what his sister wanted, he could worry later, it would not do to make his family suspicious of him if there had been no camera in the subway. There probably wasn't and he was just worrying more than he should have. He took a look at the problem and solved it in under ten seconds, it was really easy.

"Sure I can help you, Sayu. Here, let me explain," he began, knowing that it would end with her having the vaguest of understandings on the problem when their mother called them down for dinner.

On the bed, Ryuk chuckled to himself. Humans were so very interesting, how they had varying intelligence. Shinigami weren't like that; they were mostly in one range of intelligence, only a little higher or lower than that. He settled in, waiting for the time when Light's mother would call him down for dinner. Perhaps he would get another apple, if he annoyed Light enough. Ah, this was definitely the life.

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Me: Did you like it? Things might be a little slow, but it will pick up two chapters from now, because that's when B will escape. There's a little bone for you to chew on, so you can wonder what will happen then. Though I don't really think I need them for this story, I'd really like reviews to know that people like my stories. I'm out.