Chapter Two...THANK YOU: SapphireShadowCat, XxCrimsonXXAngel, funcake89, Shakaku-lightningstrike, PhoarTeenyEmos and Kirarose Ivory for reviewing/favoriting/reading and subscribing!!!! :D
Katsuko Hirota's alarm clock blared on the bedside table as she groaned and opened her emotionless, golden brown eyes. She slapped it off and rubbed her forehead before looking back over at the two pictures next to the little black clock.
"Morning Light, morning L," she said with a distant smile as the pictures of L "Ryuuzaki", who had died about six and a half years ago, and Light Yagami, who had also died just recently.
Light's picture smiled back at her, a photo of the upper half of his body, his hands in his jean pockets, light brown bangs swaying in the wind. His black, long sleeved shirt stood out against the fresh, spring grass, and his smile was so innocent, no one would have guessed he was--or had been--the serial killer (from Katsu's point of view) Kira. The chocolate brown eyes were bright and angelic, and Katsu felt her eyes tear up as she looked from Light to L.
L's picture was taken in his suite, and he was in his usual crouching postion. Katsu had taken him by surprise and L still had his tea cup over his mouth, his ebony eyes slightly wider with surprise. L's messy, black hair hung over his eyes and his pale hand rested on his right knee as he was partially blinded by Katsu's sudden camera flash.
"Hey Ryuuzaki!" Katsuko practically sang.
"Mmm?" L looked up the sweets in front of him to the bubbly red head who had a camera poised in front of her face.
"Smile pretty!"
Click.
Ryuuzaki blinked his blank eyes and Katsu beamed at the photo frozen on the blue digital camera's screen.
"Sorry, but I need a picture of you. I have one of everyone I am close to," Katsu said and showed her idol the picture.
"Well, you didn't get the smile you wanted but okay," L had said and set his cup down.
"I like this better though. It's more you and much cuter!" Katsu said and kissed him on the top of the head.
"Very funny," L murmured and tried to hide his face as he blushed.
"I miss you both so much," Katsu whispered to the pictures and sighed heavily, "I just wish we could go back to that day before entrance exams when we were all together in that cafe. That remains to be my favorite memory..."
She trailed off and closed her eyes again remembering how she had loved being with Light and L in the cafe eating her favorite chocolate cake. There was tension between the two men, but, Katsu had been in a good enough mood to ignore it and just have fun with the two people she loved the most. The feeling of having the both next to her was priceless, and what was once a heart warming, happy memory, now seemed to stab at her painfully every time she thought back to how she had smiled so care freely and joyfully.
"Light," Katsu opened her eyes and looked at the love of her life again then at her best, truest friend, "Ryuuzaki."
"GOOD MORNING KATSUKO!!" Matsuda burst into Katsuko's bedroom, making her scream and topple to the floor in total surprise.
"MATSUDA?! WHAT THE--?! WHO GAVE YOU A KEY?!"
"You did," Matsuda said as he walked over to the tangled, shaken, scarlet haired woman.
"Matsuda, did you really have to scare poor Katsu like that? Poor girl," Matt appeared in the door way as well followed by Mello, and Katsuko stared at them.
"Is there a reason you three are bursting in here at seven in the morning on a Saturday?" Katsuko asked and Matt shrugged.
"You gave us a key, so, why not?" Mello asked and unwrapped a chocolate bar before biting off a chunk.
"You've been depressed long enough. We can't take it anymore, we miss you," Matt told her and flopped down on her bed so his face was level with hers.
"I have a lot of great reasons to be depressed Matty," Katsu said but couldn't help smiling.
"We understand, but, as your best friends, we will help bring the bright, happy Katsuko back," Matt smiled and rubbed the top of Katsu's head.
"Definitely, we're going out today to do something fun, and you're coming with us weather you like it or not," Mello declared and yanked Katsu's closet open before yanking out a pair of jeans and a tube top.
"Get changed," he added and tossed them over to her.
"Hey, we're supposed to be cheering Katsu up, not order her around," Matsuda said with a laugh and Katsuko pulled the clothes off her head, making her some strand of her hair stand up from the static.
"It's okay Matsu! I'll be down in a few minutes!" Katsu told him and added her old, bright smile.
"Okay, we'll be waiting down stairs then," Matsuda told her and stood up.
"Don't take forever," Matt instructed and Katsu giggled.
"Fine, I won't," she said and the three men left her to change her clothes.
Just keep the happy attitude up Katsu...if you keep it up, the depression will go away...keep smiling...
Katsuko pulled the golden cami off of her body and replaced it with the green and white tube top before pulling off the boxer shorts and buttoning her jeans up. She tied a silver scarf belt around her waist as she started to her bathroom to wash her face and brush her scarlet hair.
The pain disappears after a while...it'll be fine...it's been about two months since Light's death and you've practically lived on your bed since...get over it...get out and have some fun...it'll be okay...just keep the good attitude up and you'll be fine...
Katsuko studied her pale, sun deprived face as she pulled her now waist long, firey waves up into a pony tail. She couldn't believe how much paler she had gotten since she had stopped going outside so much. Katsu was almost whiter than L, which was scary on so many different levels, and her once bright, glittering, golden brown eyes were now blank and emotionless as she tied her hair up. Her already slender body was now dangerously thin, almost a skeleton, due to lose of appetite and the scarlet waves even seemed to be losing their shine.
I'm fucking torturing myself! This depression has gone on long enough, I look awful! Okay Katsuko, pull yourself together...neither L or Light would want to see you like this...
Katsuko finished pinning up her hair and studied the hair style she had absentmindedly created.
"Wow, my hair has gotten so long..." she thought out loud as she observed the thin braids she had made at the base of the ponytail and the rest of her hair cascaded down her back to the bottom of her rib cage in gentle waves.
Katsu gave her reflection a look of irritation and then went downstairs to get breakfast.
"Hey do you three want anything to eat? I've lost every ounce of fat I have on my body and it's grossing me out, so, I'm making a big breakfast," Katsu said to her three friends as she pulled the refrigerator door open to get eggs out.
"Yeah, sure, if you're really okay with cooking," Matt said and strode up behind her to offer some help, "damn, you are so skinny."
"I lost my appetite, which is amazing since before Light died, I was an eating machine," Katsu said and tossed a box of pancake mix onto the counter.
"What about now?" Mello asked and set a pan out on the stove.
"I feel like I haven't eaten in two months," Katsu said and then added, "hey Matsu, would you like any breakfast?"
"Eh, no, I'm not hungry. I ate before I came," he said and Katsu noticed the guilty look come over his eyes.
"Hey, what's bothering you?" she asked, immediatly sensing feelings of deep regret.
Matsuda looked up at her then stood before walking out the door.
"Matsuda--?"
"Let him go for a minute," Mello told her softly and Matt cracked three eggs.
"You know, I don't think Katsu is the only one affected by Light's death. I'm starting to think Matsuda blames himself for Light dying," the copper haired teen said.
"Why do you say--? Oh yeah, that's why..." Katsu's mind drifted back to the moments of when both Matsuda and Mello shot Light five times all together.
Those are the few moments that will forever haunt me about him...those five bullets tearing into his body, and I couldn't do a single thing about it...
"Katsuko, return to reality please! This is a Happy Feelings Only Day!" Matt said through a rolled up magazine as if he were a director of a five star movie.
Katsu snapped out of her trance and sweat dropped, her face turning a faint shade of red and an embarrassed smile spreading across her face.
"Right! I'm sorry, I've been drifting off so much, I don't mean to irritate you or anything," Katsuko said and started to mix together the ingredients for the pancakes.
"Nah, you're not irritating us. We just want you out of this depression," Mello told her and Katsuko poured the mix onto the pan.
"Thanks guys, really, you're helping a lot," she said with a smile and there was a door slam.
"Welcome back Matsuda," Matt said calmly as the detective walked back through the door and into the kitchen.
"Hey, sorry about that. Anyway, if there's anything I can do to help here then, I will," Matsuda said and Katsu smiled at him again.
"There's chocolate chip waffles in the freezer if you want to get those out for me," she said and Mello tensed up.
"You have chocolate chip--waffles?!" he asked in a deadly whisper, his icey blue eyes staring at her.
"Here it comes," Matt grumbled and flipped through the magazine he had been holding mindlessly.
"Yeah, did you want me to make--?"
"OF COURSE I DO!"
Mello yanked the freezer door open and thrust the box at Katsu.
"Make...them..." he said through gritted teeth.
Katsu--O.O
"Don't kill her Mello, calm down," Matt said in a bored tone.
Matsuda--o.O
"Now..." Mello hissed, a black aura coming around him.
"Okay, just don't murder me--!" Katsu squeaked and worked the box from Mello's gloved hands and pulled four waffles out before pusheing them down into the toaster. "Happy now?"
"Yeah," Mello said and leaned on the counter, perfectly normal now. (Or as normal as Mello will ever be...I mean this is Mello we're talking about...I'm sorry for my pathetic attempt at being funny...but anyway...)
"Anyway, what do you three have in mind for today?" Katsu asked once she got over the shock of Mello attacking her with waffles.
"Going to the cafe for lunch, mall, walk around town, just so we can get out and get our minds off of some stuff," Matsuda said and Katsu nodded.
"That sounds great!" she beamed as she finished making the pancakes and the waffles popped back up out of the toaster.
Later...
"Okay, how old are you two?" Mello asked as Katsu jumped up onto Matt's back.
"Who cares, this is fun," Matt said and hooked his arms under Katsu's kneecaps, "I haven't given a piggy back ride to a girl since I was ten."
"I'm sure there is a good reason for that," Mello sighed and Matt shot him a dirty look.
"Aw, lighten up Mello. Just ask Matsuda--"
"That is not what I was implying!"
Matsuda laughed and Katsu joined in as the four friends walked back down the darkening sidewalk, each of them carrying a shopping bag in their hand.
"I'm surprised at how much we bought today," Katsu said as she adjusted the bag strap over her shoulder.
"Hey, it's a day out. We're supposed to spend a lot," Matsuda told her and the red head shrugged.
"True, very true."
With Katsu on his back, Matt, Mello and Matsuda all made their way back to Katsuko's house when Matt felt her tense up.
"Hey Kat, are you alright?" he asked and Katsu's pale index finger pointed directly ahead of them.
"It's him--" she whispered and wiggled back down on her own two feet.
"Katsuko, what are you--?" Matsuda asked bewildered.
"It's--" Katsuko started walking away in the direction of a pitch black alley at a brisk pace and her three friends all exchanged looks of complete confusion.
"Katsu, who?" Mello asked as she began to run.
"Wait! Hey, Ryuu--!"
"She's hallucinating again, I don't see a thing," Matt said and started to take off after her.
"Katsuko! It's just a hallucination! Stop!" Mello called but Katsuko kept running.
"Ryuuzaki! Wait a second! Ryuuzaki!" Katsu panted as the dark haired man turned around the corner.
Katsuko followed him, running desperately and calling his name, but he didn't turn around.
It's him...I know it is...that same messy, black hair...the bad posture...it's him...
"Ryuuzaki, please wait! I need to--!"
He stopped and Katsu caught up with him.
"L! What are you doing here? Do you need to tell me something?" she asked and took his pale hand.
L's spirit didn't answer and Katsu gave his hand a few, small squeezes.
"Ryuuzaki?"
He still didn't answer, but he slowly started to turn around.
"Ryuuzaki, I miss you, can't you talk to me--?" Katsuko stopped and she immediately let go of his hand when she saw his face.
Ryuuzaki's eyes were glowing a haunting red, and he had a twisted smile on his usual soft, friendly face.
"Hirota-san," he said softly and a shiver ran up and down Katsuko's spine as the blood red eyes stared at her, unblinking, cold, frightening...
Katsuko took a step back, her own eyes bugging out in fear.
He's never looked like this...what the hell?!
"Hirota-san," he said again, the red, red eyes still glaring at her.
"Ryuu--!" Katsuko's heel caught on a hole in the cement and she fell backwards, still staring up in total terror.
This isn't L...this can't be!
Katsuko let quiet shrieks tumble out of her mouth as the psychotic smile widened and he got closer to her.
"Ryuuzaki! Ryuuzaki!" she shrieked and the terrifying eyes were level with hers.
"It'll be alright, Katsuko..." he whispered and Katsuko had no idea what he was talking about until she felt the cool tip of a pocket knife glide over her bare arm.
Katsu screamed at the top of her lungs and kicked him as hard as she could.
"NO!!! GET AWAY!! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" she screamed and kicked again.
"KATSU?! KATSU!" Mello called out to her as he, Matt and Matsuda sprinted around the corner to her side.
"What happeneed?!" Matt helped get her heel out of the hole in the sidewalk and stand back up.
"He--he's--" Katsu gasped and pointed straight ahead, but when her friends turned to look for themselves, the alley was completely empty except for them.
Hello...again..and I'm sorry for the cliff hanger and slow update...my writers block...anywayz, the part with Mello and the waffles was totally OOC but I just had to...just for my own amusment of writing...haha. Hopefully everyone is still in character and I'll update again soon. review!!!! :D Luff you guys!! ^^