Okay, I finally updated. I had to redirect the story because my original idea sucked. xD So, thank you: WhiteLadyDragon, KuroxChi, Backlash Button, BlackDomino, The Dark Heroin, poohxebony, Luxord's Xigbar, May7733 and .77! I hope you all like it! :D And I am really sorry about everything being italizied..I have been trying to fix it for the passed 20 minutes and it deleted the whole chapter...luckily, I had back up and saved it in my email...alright, well, I shall address this problem and fix it ASAP. -sigh- Damn you Fan Fiction...
I feel...cold...why can't I open my eyes...? Why does my whole body hurt...? I'm bleeding...what is that...? Everything is so dark...Raito...where are you?
She paced about the streets, her brown, leather purse strapped to her shoulder and her thoughtful eyes stared at the cement passing beneath her feet. The hot sun warmed her exposed arms and she paid no heed to the by passers as they studied her curious hair color.
Stop staring at me...she thought, irritated and pushed back her rich, maroon hair over her slightly tanned shoulder. She reached the cross walk, awaiting to the sign to turn to the white person walking and then felt her senses perk. She turned her head around, glancing over her shoulder, her eyebrows creasing and her senses directing her attention to across the street.
What is this sudden...? Her eyes snapped when she caught sight of the black, leather jacket and the red, streaked hair. It can't be...! She's...here?
Flash to Trinity...
"I can't believe you wouldn't give Light L's name!" Misa scolded three days later as Trinity fixed herself a cheese sandwich.
"We've been through this several times, Misa, I don't feel right giving him the name. I don't want blood on my hands."
"But you're part shinigami! This death shouldn't matter to you!" Misa exclaimed and Trinity blew back her bangs.
"Well, it does. I have a conscience you know."
Trinity bowed her head, her topaz eyes staring at the tiled, kitchen floor and she held her lunch over her mouth, the fresh, green lettuce covering her red lips.
I have no idea what it is...but for some reason...there's this nagging attachment to him...
"But that's impossible," she sighed to herself, Misa cocking her eyebrow as she gnawed on some celery sticks and swung her feet back and forth from sitting on the counter.
"What?"
"Sorry...thinking aloud," Trinity sighed and plopped her sandwich on a plate before heading up to her room. "I'm going to my room."
Misa shrugged, not giving a second thought to Trinity's behavior and the half blood mounted the stairs, ambling down the hall to her bedroom. She set her plate down on her desk and switched her stereo on, Rem drifting through the closed door. Trinity flopped back on her bed, her skeleton plusie on her stomach and her hair fanned out around her shoulders and back, her eyes closing as Rem hovered next to the bed.
"I don't understand why you won't kill him. What is L to you?" her cousin interrogated, not minding the fact Trinity didn't want to kill but still felt obliged to know the actual reason of why.
"I'm not sure Rem...just...something is telling me I would be making a huge mistake if I killed him...or gave Light his name...something besides my conscience...it's as if I have this connection with him that I can't put my finger on."
"You've only met him once, Trinity, how can you assume something such as this?" Rem inquired, her deep voice edged with concern and Trinity pulled herself up to a sitting position, whisking her sandwich over to her bed.
"I don't know...that's another fact I need to figure out...which is why I'm joining the task force."
"I thought you weren't going to help either side?"
"I'm not," Trinity bit into her lunch and Rem's single, yellow eye quizzed her, "I'm opening up my own investigation...I want to know who I am."
Flash to Yagami Household...
"So, Light, which girl are you dating? Misa or Trinity?" Sayu interviewed as her brother opened the cabinet to grab a bag of chips.
"Dating? What are you talking about Sayu?" Light laughed and the brunette blew a raspberry, clearly annoyed in having to explain everything romance related to him.
"Okay...two really pretty girls both come over here all the time just to see you. It's been going on for a week...so...who's the lucky girl? Trinity or Misa?" she asked as she added the finishing touches on her project.
"Who are you hoping it is, Sayu?"
"What does it matter what I think? I like them both the same."
"I'm just curious...but if you don't want to tell me then-"
"Okay, fine. Personally, I like them both. They're both pretty and really nice, so, I'd be fine with either."
Sayu rested her chin on her knees, inspecting her project and Light walked over to the refrigerator to pour a glass of milk. His sister was quiet for a moment then she sighed and focused her brown eyes on him, her mood shifting from the usual perky and energetic to rather serious.
"Hey, Light?"
"Yeah?"
"Er...can I ask you something?" Her voice was almost trembling and Light peered at her over the white refrigerator's door, wondering.
"Okay...what is it?"
"Does Trinity remind you...of her?" Sayu practically whispered and Light cocked his eyebrow.
"Of who?" he asked, even though he already knew the answer his sister would give him.
"Iris."
Light sighed, feeling his chest tighten slightly at the sound of the girl's name.
"What makes you ask that?" he inquired and slammed the door shut, making Sayu jump slightly.
"Think about it Light...wasn't Iris always talking about making a career out of art? Not to mention, the way Trinity acts is so similar to Iris...all quiet and somewhat Gothic...plus she helped me with my art project...something Iris always did and-"
"Iris is dead, Sayu, she's been dead for over a month. Look, it's hard for me to accept to...I think about her all the time but..." Light inhaled deeply to stop himself from sounding angry then continued, his voice low and almost trembling, "there is no way she'd be able to come back. Trinity is a completely different person...lots of people want to major in art and just as many don't go to college. I admit, I see some similarities between them but Iris and Trinity are two completely different people."
Sayu burrowed her face in her sweat pants and hugged her knees, pulling them up to her chest, not allowing her brother to see the distant gaze in her eyes.
"I'm sorry...it was just something that struck me..."
"Look," Light sighed, trying to calm his sister, "I know you were affected by her death as much as anyone else that knew her was...but if you keep this up, you'll only make the sadness worse."
"I know...I just miss having her around...she was so sweet."
"I know she was," Light murmured, returning to the stairs and Sayu directed her attention back towards the television, "I miss her too."
Sort of.
Light re-entered his darkened bedroom, his eyes shadowed by his bangs as he strode over to his desk drawer. Pulling it open, he picked up the photograph he had kept carelessly stashed away for what seemed to be over a year rather than a month.
"Iris..." he sighed at the crumbled picture, the bright smile shining back at him.
"Raito!"
Light closed his eyes, recollecting the memory of the young, Spanish girl he only barely knew. Sayu was right in a way...Trinity was similar Iris...the difference was their attitudes. Trinity was more goth and had a serious edge...not to mention she hated Light with her whole being...Iris was sweeter and didn't talk to anyone but Light and his sister...
"Both of them are rather antisocial...but Iris actually liked me...then again she had only been in school for a few months and the language barrier between the students and her...so that does explain how she was so awkward around people..."
Well...if it weren't for the fact Iris died in a robbery at the mall, then, Sayu could actually be right...
Light leaned back in his chair and absent mindedly shoved the already crumbled picture she had given him back into the drawer without a second thought. Bored out of his mind and pushing all thoughts of the dead girl out of his mind, Kira slipped his Death Note out of the bottom drawer and switched his television on, which provided him with the fresh face of a rapist taken into custody only six hours before hand. He smiled, the sinister glaze returning to his chocolate brown eyes and Light unhurriedly wrote down the name on the white page, the death being specified of the rapist being beaten to death by a fellow inmate in a fight while in prison.
"You're busy again, I see," Ryuk leisurly appeared and stood next to Kira, whose triumphant smile transformed into a twisted smirk.
"Tell me, Ryuk, is there a such thing as ghosts?"
The shinigami stared at him, debating whether or not to feel stunned at the absurd question...Light had been asking a boat load of those lately.
"Uh...not as far as I know, why?"
Light slowly turned his desk chair over to face the God of death, his expression serious and almost deadly.
"You know about Iris, don't you?" His voice was practically a hiss and his bangs almost completely shadowed his gleaming eyes but Ryuk remained indifferent to the menacing glare.
"Isn't she that red headed Costa Rican girl that transferred?"
"Yes, that's her."
"Then, yeah, I know about her. I don't know her personally but...I saw her with you when you picked up the Death Note. What about her?"
Light paused, his long fingers curling over the chair's arm and Ryuk waited for the response or explanation. Gnawing his lower lip, Kira cast his glare back over to the TV screen, which was now murmuring a man's voice over for an advertisement and then continued, his voice hushed.
"I think she's back from the dead."
Right when I thought you couldn't get anymore insane...
Flash to Misa...
"I wonder what Light is planning to do next," Misa day dreamed as she prodded at a strawberry in her sundae.
"Kill a few more people I would assume," Trinity grumbled and sipped on her chocolate milkshake, her blond friend not hearing her.
"Light's so wonderful, isn't he Trinity? I mean, I read some stuff about him the night we both saw him in the cafe and it turns out he's the top of his class and he was the junior tennis champion in junior high! Plus he's so handsome and..." Misa trailed off, resting her chin on her slender arm resting on the wooden table top, "he's everything I have ever dreamed a man could be."
Trinity blinked, her lips curled over the straw in her milkshake and her topaz eyes quizzed the love struck model.
"Misa, you do realize he's manipulating both of us, right? I don't mean to sound like a witch, but I honestly think you could fall for someone more worthwhile than Light."
Misa stared at the half blood as if she had offend her on every level possible and the blue eyes glared into the topaz.
"Light is perfect!" the second Kira shrieked and Trinity slowly pushed her chair away from the table as Misa towered over her. "Light is amazing and awesome and perfect in every way!"
"Okay! Okay...just...calm down!" Trinity begged, not liking the rage generating from Misa's presents. She didn't back down, her blue eyes shining almost demonically and Trinity swallowed a mouthful of her drink.
"I take it back," the shinigami squeaked, shrinking down in her seat and Misa slowly relaxed, lowering herself back down into her chair. "Geez...don't kill me...it's just my opinion."
Returning back to her usually sweet, peppy self, Misa spooned another mouthful of strawberry ice cream into her mouth and was once again lost in fantasy. Trinity leaned back in her chair, keeping a close eye on her friend, glancing every so often at the newcomers entering the warm coffee shop over the crimped, gold pigtails.
But in all honesty...I don't see what Misa sees in Light...sure he's smart and really sexy but he's a friggin psychopath! I can tell he's going to yield to the Death Note's power and when that happens...
Trinity shuddered and there was the blast of a gun being fired, Misa jumping ten feet out of her seat. Realizing she hadn't imagined it, both girls sprinted over to the diner's window, peering out into the street and Misa's jaw dropped when she noticed the crimson pool forming around a red haired woman's body.
"Oh my God!"
"Someone call 911!"
Chaos broke loose and Trinity's body paralyzed, her eyes glued to the corpse laying in the street, innocent by standers now beginning to circle around the dead woman. Misa grabbed her friend's hand, desperate to find a safe place to hide and use her Death Note but the half blood wouldn't budge.
"Trinity!"
Her high pitched voice was distant, her vision becoming foggy and Trinity felt her eyes leaking tears from lack of blinking. Sirens drowned out everyone's shrieks and she stared...the red hair...the pool of crimson blood...the victim of the murder...Aichi Megumi...twenty-one years old...why was she just randomly shot in the middle of the street...? And the murderer...?
Trinity was in a trance, unaware she was wandering out of the diner, Misa calling out to her but being pulled back into the sea of people and losing sight of the red and black hair. The half blood pushed the door open, everyone sounding distant, the rhythm of her heart beat echoing in her mind as she ambled over to the corpse, pushing passed the wall of bodies and standing over her.
"Megumi?" she found herself whispering but the bloody girl didn't respond, her emerald green eyes glassy and empty, Trinity sinking down next to her. "Megumi?"
The irises shifted, surrounding people frantically attempting to flag down the approaching ambulance and police cars, Trinity tilting her head.
"Megumi?" she said again and the green eyes widened, the arm lashing out and latching onto the pastey white wrist. "Huh? WHAT? Let me go!"
She struggled, trying to free her wrist from the icy grip, no one taking notice of the scene only ten feet in front of them.
"Wh-what is this? Let me go!"
"He...doesn't know...!" Megumi hissed, Trinity realizing the supposedly dead woman was speaking rapid Italian, "you must tell them...! You...have to...tell them...before...you run out...of time...!"
Trinity felt her heart stop for a moment, her mind flashing back to the scream of the bullet being fired and her body froze momentarily. Megumi's spidery fingers tightened around her wrist and her mouth opened into a wide O before she inhaled, a trickle of blood escaping her mouth and her eyes became glassy and lifeless once again. Trinity yanked her hand free without much effort, falling backwards against someone's legs and she realized she was gasping, her face stark white.
"Trinity!" Misa's voice rang through the air, everyone's voices and desperate cries for help growing sharper with each long second that passed. "Trinity!"
"S-someone-! She's alive-?" the half blood pleaed, her voice inaudible and she glances about her, seeing no one was paying attention. "Someone...!"
"Trinity!" Misa shoved passed two people, her thick, blond pigtails whipping them in the face as she rushed to the shinigami's side, the chains on her black mini skirt clinking together as she knelt down beside Trinity. "Are you okay? What in the world were you thinking!"
"M-Misa-chan...she's...alive!" She pointed to the limp body, Misa's worried, blue eyes following the dazed gaze and shuddered.
"Come on, Trinity, let's get home. She's dead," the blond assured her but the delusional girl shook her head violently.
"N-no she's not! She grabbed my wrist and-look!" Trinity held up her wrist for Misa to see the faint, red marks against the pasty skin.
"That's from me grabbing you a few seconds ago, Trinity."
"But-but-!"
But Misa didn't grab my wrist...! I swear she didn't! Am I...losing my mind!
"Everyone out of the way!" a loud, husky voice came and the sea of people divided as a burly police officer shoved passed them followed by another officer with thick, curly, brown hair styled up into an afro.
"FBI! Everyone stand back!" the police officer with the afro instructed, flashing his gold badge around and the others backed away as ordered to do so. Trinity watched as the two agents bent over Megumi's bloody body and covered her with a white tarp, yet another police car screeching to a stop and two more agents stepping watched as the glaring eyes were covered up, the haunting stare disappearing and the teen shuddered, shaking the hallucination from her mind.
"Aizawa, clear everyone out of here," one of the newer agents ordered to the officer with the afro, his voice smooth and calm but his eyes wild with concern and slight fear.
"Yes Chief...alright you heard him! We need everyone to clear out, this is a crime scene! Please everyone remain calm and-"
"Are you okay?" a gentler voice asked from beside Trinity and Misa met soft, puppy brown eye surveying the both of them. The agent offered a hand to Trinity then to Misa, pulling the two shaken girls to their feet and Trinity slicked a stray strand of hair behind her ear.
"Yeah...but...whose the murderer?"
"We're going to figure that out. Now, you should go back-"
"Matsuda! Come here please and help us with her...hey! What are you two doing?" Aizawa demanded as his other two companions lifted the corpse onto a stretcher. Well...I was talking to a dead person a few seconds ago...Trinity thought and Misa tugged on her leather sleeve.
"Come on," she urged quietly, "we have to go home."
"Hang on," the chief stopped the two teenage girls, Misa not letting her grip on Trinity's sleeve go as the cheif approached. "I'd like if you two came with us."
"Huh? Why?" Trinity blurted out before she could stop herself.
"What's going on?" Misa asked, her voice cracking with worry.
"Just come with us, please," the chief repeated and Misa followed cautiously behind Trinity as she slid into the back of the police car, shifting uncomfortably at the curious stares being cast in their direction.
"Any idea what's going on? Do you think Light would know?" Misa whispered in the back seat and Trinity shook her head.
"No...I'm sure he wouldn't have a clue either..."
The click of the car door being opened sounded and the chief ducked into the driver's seat, Matsuda slipping in beside him in the passenger's. Misa was silent, her blue eyes shifting from Matsuda to the chief, neither of them sensing her gaze. The police cruiser pulled away from the crime scene, more people peering into the car windows, some shooting dirty glares as if the two girls were the killers. Misa paid no heed to them as the cruiser rumbled out onto the main road, the model settling back in her seat and watching her friend out of the corner of her eye.
What exactly has come over you...? she wondered to herself, chewing her lower lip anxiously as Trinity's blank eyes followed the pace of another bystander with maroon hair. Both pairs of eyes widened slightly when they made contact, Trinity's pale fingertips twitching on her lap and Misa's eyebrows creased.
What are you not telling me?
Light smirked to himself as he slinked away from the crime scene and into the shadows of the alley.
Just as planned.
I'm trying to get all the characters an equal amount of time in here and not make it ALL about Trinity...hm...I gotta get more L in. Anyone else miss him? I do. xD He'll be the first one focused on in the next chapter, I pinky promise! :D And hopefully, I'm not giving too much away right now...even though I'm sure some of you have made a connection or conclusion of some type. :P I'm not as crafty as I think I am. Sadly. Reviews make me happy! And I really hope you're liking it! I finally know what I'm going to do...my original idea sucked so, it took me a while to redirect the whole story without making any major changes in previous chapters. :3 Hope you're enjoying it!