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1237 hours,
02 days after my life ended.
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I smacked my gum loudly, unconcernedly. It echoed through the small servo. The guy behind the counter shifted and fidgeted; he couldn't tell wether I was staring at him or not. Behind my sunglasses, my eyes crinkled briefly with mirth. Then a voice that sounded suspiciously like Light said 'Small things amuse small minds' in the back of my head. I immediately scowled turned away from the front of the shop. There was a small sigh of relief behind me.
I drew one finger across the price bar of the self, perusing the products for a specific one that Light had to have. Under the circumstances, I didn't question him.
"Have you found it yet?"
I flicked a glance over my shoulder at Light. He looked like his old self but not quite with his own pair of sunglasses and a beanie pulled over his scalp. I shook my head in answer to his question. Light sighed and began to search the shelf himself. I stepped back to let him, and my lips pulled into a strangely unfamiliar pout.
"It had a long name," I muttered defensively, playing with the waistband of my tracksuit pants. Light let out a short, strained chuckle. It also seemed unfamiliar and I wondered again, almost absentmindedly, how so much could change in so short a period of time.
The shelf in the next aisle over had cheap cosmetics stocked. I left Light to his search and slowly made my way around. The products were lit up with those flickering fluorescent lights, which are only used on the women's hygiene section of shops. You know the kind that are meant to brighten up the section just a little bit more than everything else. As though women only wanted pretty things.
I flinched away; the glare was giving me a head ache.
The many tubes of different toned lip-stick stuck out at me suddenly. My tongue flicked over my dry lips and my fingers crept down to the side pocket of my satchel. My lip gloss tasted like crap, and it wasn't going to last long. I picked up a deep red colour and held it before my face, inspecting it off-hand. It was incredibly ugly.
I felt a pair of eyes on me and looked up. Light blinked, focusing first on my face, then on the lip stick. He raised his eyebrows. My fingers clenched around tube and I shrugged, dropping it back to the shelf with a clatter.
"I've got what I needed."
Light spun on his heel and strode towards the counter, a couple of items clutched in his hands. I followed at his heels in a familiar gesture; like a puppy.
The guy behind the counter was ringing up our stuff when the bell rang behind us, signifying the servo door opening. I casually glanced over my shoulder when Light stiffened; taking the hint that someone needed to look. I frowned in surprise when I saw the new customer.
The girl at the door was dressed really weird, like in some back ball-gown thing. That would be freezing with today's weather. I narrowed my eyes behind my glasses when she made a sudden movement, then relaxed when she wasn't facing us. The girl made her way purposefully to the slushy machine and immediately pulled out a jumbo-sized cup. I blinked unsurely. At least she wasn't a problem.
"Let's go."
The cashier had finished with the till, and Light was closing his fist around the proffered change. I turned my head to Light and nodded slightly, carefully zipping the offered shopping bag into his back pack. I glimpsed a blue container filled with bandaids and tilted my head involuntarily. Did they really need to be the ones printed with cartoon characters? I glanced at Light's calm face from under my lashes and fought the urge to hug him. He felt my gaze and looked down with a tiny grin.
"Where to next?"
I asked quietly as we walked towards the door. Light pursed his lips and opened his mouth to reply, but was interrupted by my small squeak.
It didn't really hurt when I hit the slushy girl, but it caught me by surprise. She'd come walking out of nowhere with a full cup and a packet of skittles. The skittles went skidding across the floor and wedged themselves under a shelf. The slushy, the girl and I all hit the floor. My squeak became a gasp as the ice-cold sleety substance spread across my chest and dripped down my body. Light immediately bent down and slid his arm behind me, to help me to my feet when I regained my balance.
"Oh my. You spilled my drink."
I froze in my movements and looked up at the girl. Bright, yellow-green eyes gazed at me harshly, belittling the sweet smile resting on her red-painted lips. Light also froze behind me, but didn't remain silent.
"You walked into her," he said evenly. I could hear the indignation in his tone. The girl switched her burning gaze to him and seemed to brighten up.
"Did I now?"
I felt something rise in the air and following silence between us. Tension. I shivered; the liquid staining my clothes was starting to seep though the fabric.
The girl continued her smiling, cold-gazed façade. Light's calm face was starting to melt away. I shivered again when the beginnings of a glare began on his face. Light never got angry. I prayed quietly for someone or something to step in and stop this girl looking at us. She was beautiful and smiling and weird and scary. I glanced at the cashier, but he seemed suddenly absorbed in counting bills. I closed my eyes and mustered up my courage.
"I'm sorry."
I managed without stuttering, but flinched under the girl's gaze as she fixed it on me. Light tensed even further and suddenly he was pulling me to my feet again.
"You shouldn't be. It was her fault."
He handed me a tissue to get the last of the unmelted ice off and pulled me after him towards the door without acknowledging the girl further. I could feel the cold gaze on the back of my head. The girl watched silently until we reached the door.
"How rude. I would like to let you off, because you're so handsome and all, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to set my boys on you."
Sirens echoed outside, lining her words. I watched with horrified eyes as her fist dropped open and revealed a small metal device. Comlink. I sucked in a sharp and breath and flicked panicked eyes to Light. She was one of the ones chasing us. She was one of the ones we were hiding from. She was one of them. They'd found us!
"Run!"
I obeyed Light's shout immediately, ignoring the icy discomfort on my front. The girl's chilling giggle echoed after us as Light shoved the doors closed. Outside was a nightmare. Terrified pedestrians avoided equally urgent drivers in a frenzied attempt to escape the sleek formation of hovercrafts humming down the street. I didn't have time to throw an accusing look at Light as I bolted in the opposite direction. What the fuck had dad got us into?
I felt the rush of fear again and focused it into running; adrenaline pumped in my muscles. I heard Light panting behind me and wondered why he didn't just run a head and show me where to go. We both knew he was faster.
The humming got louder and I made a split second decision. Left down the next street, sprint across the road, dodge panicked people and left again down the next alley. I skidded to a brief halt and spun around.
Light stood there panting, his hand clenched into a white fist around the back pack strap. We were carrying it then; what they were after.
"Into the building. We need somewhere to hide."
I didn't argue. The door was rusted and iron, but unlocked. Shoving it forward I pushed into a stairwell and started up them without a pause. I heard a slam and Light bolting the lock behind me. There were no more doors for several flights of stairs and I guessed we were near the top.
I kicked at the first door to appear without stopping to open it and skidded, completely exposed, onto the building roof. Light came after me and we both froze.
The wind cut into my damp body like knives and howled in my ears. Hovercrafts surrounded the building with the terrifying low thrumming. I saw black suits and the gleam of firearms and my body shut down. This was pathetic, wasn't it? Caught already.
"Into the river!"
Light's desperate shout broke through my haze of terror and I followed him with out thinking as he took off. Wait a second, weren't rivers normally on the ground? I watched detachedly as Light jumped off the building roof. He's fucking insane.
A second later I followed him, because he's Light. And my brother. And I didn't want to die yet.
The rest was rushing wind and gleaming water and desperate hope that death wasn't as fast approaching as the ground.
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"You trust me, right Sayu?"
"Of course! But it's a long slide-"
"Just follow me Sayu, I promise you'll be fine."
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