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Chapter 5 – Sight and Sound

…I've always been a bit…strange. I have been having these dreams about the future. Well I have no idea what else to call it. I see what happens later in my dreams. It could be days, months or years before it happens though. That's why it's so scary. I had dreams about my mother…of her dying. It made me so sad. Then they put me on sleeping pills that gave me blank dreams, dreamless sleep. It was alright then. But when I'd fall asleep during the day, the dreams would be worse. I dreamt I was right by my mother as she died. I cried as she died from her sickness. That happened when I dreamed of my father's death too. But, I prefer not to talk about his death…

Gailen spit out her apple in surprise. She cleaned it up while the voice went on about her wasting perfectly good apple.

"But isn't a shinigami an entity? God of death?" she asked, throwing out the pieces of fruit.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Hey, how can you hear me anyway? Can't you see me?"

"Nope. I can feel you though. When I knocked into you in the hallway."

"Hm…humans are interesting…"

"No, we're just unpredictable in our actions, thoughts and speech."

She continued to talk with the shinigami until she started yawning in between sentences.

"Maybe you should go rest, kid."

"Alright…but one last question?"

"Sure. Two if you get me some more apples."

Gailen giggled. "Okay. First question, how do you know Light Yagami?"

"Light? He found my note book. When he touched it, he could see me."

"Notebook? Let me see."

The voice handed her a black notebook that seemed to come out of nowhere. When she touched it, light flashed in front of her and faces both familiar and not, flashed through her eyes and into her brain. As this happened, her mouth was opened in a silent scream and the whole of her eyes turned a bright glowing purple. She could feel their pain…pain from what, she didn't know. After a few minutes, she dropped the book and then dropped to the floor, blacking out.

"Hey, are you alright? Kid?"

Gailen felt a hand with claws shake her shoulder. She lifted her head to see a sort of demon. He was with pale blue skin and big yellow eyes with red pupils. She wasn't very surprised, gods of death were supposed to be ugly, right?

"Shinigami?" she asked.

"You okay?"

"I guess…is it sun up yet?"

"No, it's about two human hours away, I think."

"Shit…"

The shinigami was right. It was 5 A.M.

"Okay, but now my second question. Did Light kill my aunt Naomi? She was close to uncovering the Kira case, she had a lead. But then someone killed her. Was it Light?"

"Well…normally shinigami aren't aloud to meddle in human affairs…but you're a special case."

Special case?

"So I'll tell you. Just promise to bring back more apples, okay?"

"Deal."

"Okay, so you're talking about Naomi Misora? Well, it took a lot for Light to get her name. She kept using fake names…well anyway, in the end; Light killed her with the Death Note."

"Death Note?"

"Now I have to go. Light will be waking up soon."

"Okay. Will you tell me more about the Death Note next time?"

"Sure…"

Gailen watched as the death god fazed through the ceiling to Light's room. She then lay back on the couch and stared at the ceiling until sleep overtook her in the form of a two hour nap.

~*~

It was dark again. Gailen reached out her hands to the sky. She grabbed a hold of the dark star printed cloth and pulled. It revealed a cloudy but bright sky, like light from heaven. She reveled in it until she heard foot steps…not soft ones like her own either. They were steady with loud clacks, but with rhythm of a woman's swinging hips. Gailen looked to her right.

"Aunt Naomi!" Gailen skipped over to her aunt. Misora was clad in her infamous riding leathers, unlike the thin gown her niece wore.

"Hey babe…" Misora ruffled the hair of her niece with a gloved hand while smiling upon her. "How's my favorite future detective?"

"I'm okay. I found out who killed you."

Misora's smile disappeared and her hand dropped to her side. "Really?"

"Yes, but can you give me that picture of the last person you talked to before you died? The young boy who was the son of the chief of police?"

"Oh, that person…"

Misora waved her hand in the air and a photo floated into Gailen's hands. Gailen gave it a once over. Yup, no mistaking it. It was Light Yagami.

"Okay. He was going to help you get to L, right?"

"Yeah. He said he was going to tell his father and then the info was going to get to L."

"But! He never gave that info to his father! No one even knew how you died! I found out!"

"Really? That's great! You can turn them into the police and--"

"But I don't have enough proof yet."

"Oh…who was it then?"

"This guy." Gailen pointed to the picture. "I overheard him talk about me looking so much like you, who he says he KILLED! He thinks I might know something, but I'm kind of scared…Your body was never found. And I don't have any idea how he killed you in one afternoon so quickly…"

"It's okay…" Misora pulled Gailen into a hug. "You can stop him. Just find L. He'll help you."

"L? You worked with him before didn't you? On the LABB Murder Case?"

"ACTUALLY…it was Beyond Birthday. You know him from that orphanage, right? Doozey's or something…?"

"Whammy's, Aunt Naomi. Get with the times." Gailen giggled. "But Beyond, he was…disturbed. He wanted whatever L had available. This included his fans…like me. And what was so embarrassing about it was that I actually confessed the REAL reason why—"

"Why what, Grey?" a male voice asked. This was NOT Aunt Naomi.

Gailen looked up to see the face of her mentor, the man who she was supposed to succeed, the man who she thought was the absolute best male human on the face of this planet…

"L?" she asked softly while looking up. "Are you going to help me?"

"As long as you continue to support me with my fight with Kira…"

"But what about—"

"GAILEN!" a female voice screamed from L's mouth. "WAKE UP!"

"Sayu? What the Hell are—"

~*~

Gailen was awakened by Sayu shaking her awake. She angrily yawned while sitting up. She trudged to the bathroom, ready for the day. When she came down and sat at the table, Light was just like yesterday. What did she expect? He didn't know that she heard…unless…

The shinigami! Gailen said to herself. What if that bastard told Light…no. Be ethical. Apples are more important to him than that…aren't they?

"I hope you two didn't stay up too late," Sachiko said while serving breakfast.

"Yes, girls your age should be going to bed early," Soichiro agreed.

"Well, we watched our movie— or rather I did, since Sayu fell asleep early— and then went to sleep," Gailen explained," Nothing big or bad."

"Really? I hope you didn't make any trouble for yourself, Yayate-san," Light commented nonchalantly.

"Ha. Ha." She stared hard across the table at Light. "And a big high school student like you would know…"

They continued to eat with idle conversation. Light, don't you have a girlfriend yet? ... So how is work…School's okay…Did the test results come in yet...?

At noon-ish, Gailen had to leave. Her uncle Ophelos arrived.

"Gailen! Your uncle is here!" Sachiko called.

"Coming!" Gailen replied. She helped Sayu clean up their card game before bolting down the stairs with bag in hand. "Bye Sayu!"

"Bye, Gailen!"

Ophelos just laughed as his niece zoomed by him. He was in conversation with Soichiro.

"So active," the police chief commented. "Where does she get that energy?"

"Her mother and father mostly. They were very athletic. Her mother trained her in gymnastics since she was very young."

"Ah…"

Out in the car, Gailen sat waiting for her uncle. He always liked to flap his gums with other father figures. Like he was actually a father…ha! That thought made Gailen laugh…