Oh boy, this is a long one. I thought about splitting it up into 5 and 6, but couldn't find anywhere to stop that felt right. As always enjoy, and review if you wish :)
Mora paces back and forth in her room. She was so exhausted from the long trip into the woods that when she returned home she fell asleep. But now that she has awoken, she finds that Light is gone. Where the hell did he go? I didn't think he could leave! She pulls out her death note and turns on the t.v. I bet if I start punishing criminals without his permission, that would get him back here awfully quickly. Mora presses a pen to the page, and writes the first criminal who appears onscreen.
"You don't need my permission to use the death note." Light says, making Mora jump. She whirls around in her chair; the Shinigami Light is standing behind her. Mora glares at him, "Where were you?" she snaps. "That is none of your concern." Light snaps back at her. "No, you are wrong. It is my concern. You are my Shinigami, you left. I didn't even know you could leave me. I want some answers!" Mora suddenly realizes how silly she must sound. For two reasons, one being that she was whisper-yelling at him. And secondly because she sounded whiny and jealous. Light studies her from across the room, "You know, you and I, at least when I was a human. We are a lot alike. Top of our classes, athletic, driven, and patient."
"Well I am not feeling very patient right now." Mora crosses her arms. "I want answers Light. You can start with where you went, and end with what you need a third notebook for." Light lets out a sigh. "Fine, I suppose I can tell you. I had to return to the Shinigami realm. To return the death note." "Really? And who exactly did you return the death note to?" Mora asks him. "Well, it is expected that if a Shinigami finds a death note in the human world, that they return it to the Shinigami king." Light informs her. "Since when did you follow the rules?" Mora raises an eyebrow at him. Light doesn't answer her, he just smiles his wicked smile. I definitely don't believe he returned the death note to any Shinigami king.
Mora turns away from him and sits back down. Light's stare is burning a hole in her. Pretending not to notice, Mora changes the channel. On screen now is a live broadcast of a trial. A man is accused of raping multiple victims, he is currently on the stand trying to convince his innocence. "Now this could be interesting." Light moves closer to Mora to see what she is going to do. Mora smirks, "You know, I was just thinking the same thing." She begins to write in the death note. Light can tell she is writing more than just his name, but cannot see that it is. Once Mora is finished, she sits back and watches the trial. 6 minutes and 40 seconds pass and then suddenly the man jumps up on top of the stand he is sitting behind.
He jumps down the other side and runs over to where his lawyer is sitting. Grabbing something off the table, he returns to the middle of the room and starts screaming a confession about raping a dozen men and women, killing a cat, and having hundreds of unpaid parking tickets. "I wrote for him to admit every crime he committed." Mora tells Light and continues to watch. He then plunges the object he took from the table into his neck. Blood sprays out onto the people closest to him. Just before the camera cuts off, you can see people running to him and attempt to stop the bleeding. "Well, that certainly was a scene." Light's voice brings Mora out of her trance.
When she turns to look at him her pupils are dilated. I wasn't expecting to feel this way. It was so thrilling. Kira doesn't usually see them die. But I did, and it happened step by step, word for word as I had written in the death note. Of course, that's the way it is supposed to play out. But I was almost certain something would go wrong, that someone would attempt to intervene. But even then, I'm sure the death note would still ultimately get its way.
"Light, if someone had tried to stop him just now, what would have happened? Say someone grabbed the pen from his hand." Mora asks him. "He would have still died; the death note never fails. He would have just died from a heart attack instead." Light answers her, even he is surprised that not only did he answer the question, but he was direct and honest. But then again, only he knows how useless Ryuk was to him. Light sits down on the bed, he looks like he is deep in thought.
Just as Mora is about to speak, she hears a car pull into her driveway. She gets up to look out the window. She sees her father getting out of his car and walk into the house. "Who is it?" Light asks. "My father, he is always working late." She explains. "Oh, and what is it that he does?" Light questions her. "Well, you'll never believe this, but he is a police officer." Mora is worried that he might get angry at this, but instead his wicked smile returns, "Interesting, you know, so was mine." He tells her. "Oh really? I don't remember seeing that when I was researching Kira." Mora is confused on why that detail was left out. "Probably to save my father's reputation, his was pretty revered." Light then adds "How else do you think I got to join the Kira investigation, and later lead it." He says this smugly.
"Well I don't see my father ever allowing me to do something like that." She says before adding, "A lot of good being a part of the investigation did you, in the end, you still ended up getting caught." "That may be so, but I was able to go on that way for years before it caught up with me." Light tells her. She was expecting him to get mad at her bold comment but he didn't. "Besides, if you are lucky, and smart, wont any investigation for you to join." Light's wicked grin that he sports so often appears on his face again.
Before Mora can say anything, there is a knock on her door. She answers and finds her father, Taro, standing in the hallway. "Hey dad." Mora smiles brightly. "I was just coming to say good night. I haven't seen you since Friday night. I still haven't had a chance to congratulate you." He says as he steps into the room. "Be careful, if he touches the death note he will be able to see me." Light warns her. Mora looks at her desk. Sure enough, the death note is still sitting there open. Panic rises inside her. "Thanks dad." Mora says as she walks back over to her desk and sits down.
She closes the death note, keeping the front over down on the desk. "I was just doing some last-minute studying for my exams tomorrow." She grabs some other notebooks and a textbook that is also on her desk, and places them on top of the death note. Picking them all up together, she slides them into her bag. Once the death note is safely out of reach she relaxes. "Well, I don't want to keep you from your studies. Make sure you get a good night's rest sweetie." He kisses her atop her head and walks out of the room. "Good night dad." She says as he closes the door. After she hears his footsteps fade away as he walks down the stairs, she locks the door.
"Your next task is going to be to find a safe place to hide the death note." Light tells her. "Yes," she says as she nods, "I wouldn't want my parents to stumble upon it." Mora sits there thinking for a few minutes. Where can I hide it … oh I know the perfect place. She gets up and walks over to bed closet. Inside there is an old toy chest that she has had since she was a kid, the toys have been long gone, but she kept the chest. Now it is filled mostly with school papers and projects that she was either most proud of, or get high marks on. There is also some clothing hanging in there and a shelf above that with some boxes on it.
Mora pulls the chest from the closet. What she is really trying to get to is under it, the floor. Against the wall she pulls up a loose floorboard and then another, she reaches down inside and pulls out a wooden box. It is just long and wide enough for the death note to fit inside. She brings the box over to her desk, there she opens it. Inside are small keepsakes, some old photographs of her great grandparents that lived in America, one of her father's mother working in a rice field of his family's farm in Japan's countryside. There are a few letters in the box, a concert ticket, and a few small objects. "This is a trick box," she tells Light as she removes all the items inside. "It has a false bottom, but you need to know …" the box makes a clicking sound, "exactly how to open it, to get inside."
Mora grabs her bag and takes out the death note. Carefully, she removes a page from the death note, and then sets the notebook gently inside the secret chamber of the box. Once she hears it click, she knows it is properly closed, and puts everything else back inside the top. After she is finished she closes the box up, brings it back to its hiding spot in the closet floor, and replaces the floorboards. She pushes the chest back to its spot and closes the door. Mora goes back to her desk and picks up the loose death note page. "This I will keep on me." She says. "Sounds like a good plan to me." Light's words sound sarcastic, causing Mora to almost doubt herself. It is a good plan. No one else knows I even have that box, never mind where it is hidden.
Mora looks at the time on her alarm clock. It is nearly midnight. She drags herself up and climbs into bed. "Well good night Light." She says and turns out the light on her night stand.
Mora wakes up the next morning, and gets ready for school. "I have two exams to take today and then I'll be out for the day. About four hours in school." She explains to Light. She goes downstairs, as she reaches the bottom there is a knock on the front door. "Who would be knocking on the door this early?" she hears her father asking her mother from the kitchen. Since she is standing right there she answers the door.
Outside is a man with greying hair. "Good morning, I am looking for Taro Akito, is he available?" the man asks Mora. "Um, let me see if he is still here." Mora turns to see her father coming down the hallway. "Hello, what can I do for you?" Taro asks, "Good morning, I am here to talk to you about you cousin, Misa Amane." The man says to Taro. "What?!" Mora shouts in disbelief. Her eyes widen, as they both turn and stare at her. "I am sorry, I didn't mean to shout, I just didn't know that we were related to her." Mora recovers quickly. "Please come in." Taro tells the man.
They all go into the kitchen and Taro motions for him to sit down at the table with him. Elaine is at the sink washing the dishes from breakfast. She turns and smile, "Hello, would you like some coffee or tea?" she asks him politely. "Please, ma'am. I would love a cup of coffee." Mora stands in the background trying to be unnoticed. The man turns back to Taro and speaks, "My name is Shuichi Aizawa, I am here to explain a situation that has taken place last night, you are the closest living relation of Misa's that we could find." Aizawa explains.
"I haven't seen or heard from Misa for … I think it has been almost 16 years now. Last time I saw her was at her parent's funeral." Taro recalls. "Oh, I know who you are!" Mora interrupts. "You were on the Kira case! You helped to end Kira's reign." Mora's parents look at her questioningly. "We had an assignment on Kira, I did a lot of research on the case." She explains to them all. "Yes, that is why I am here." Aizawa pauses looking concerned. "I am going to try and explain this the best I can, without taking up too much of your time."
"Last night, Misa Amane, took her life." Mora hears Elaine gasp, and Taro glances up at Mora. I am sure he doesn't want me to hear this any further. Mora steps forward and excuses herself. "I am sorry but I must be leaving for school now, exams start today and I don't want to be late." She says a quick goodbye to her parents and Mr. Aizawa. She pauses in the hallway and hears him explaining to her parents about Misa, Kira, and where she has been for the last 10 years. Mora opens the front door and leaves.
Mora's first final is in Advanced Biology. She has a hour and a half to complete the test, but she doubts she will need all of it. Mora has always loved the sciences and has plans on pursuing a career in science. But today, she is having a little trouble staying focused on the test in front of her, between writing answers her mind keeps wandering off.
So, Light did write her name down, although he didn't say exactly how she did it, but it must have been humanly possible, otherwise it would have been a heart attack. Unless he lied about how she died. And I am sure if she had died of a heart attack that would raise a lot of suspicions. But Light had to do it, it would have been so cruel of him not to of. I cannot believe I am related to her. I had no idea. I wonder if Light knew?
She answers a few more questions on her exam, trying to clear her mind. Then something dawns on her. Oh no, what if they know I went to visit Misa? They didn't take my name and I provided a fake on when I set up the visit but they probably have me on camera. The probably recorded the whole visit! What if they heard us? "Mora, I can tell you are worried about Misa. I assure you, there is nothing to worry about." Light's voice brings Mora's train of thought to a halt.
Mora finishes her exam with a half hour to spare. She is allowed to leave, adding thirty extra minutes to her break. She heads to the cafeteria, there is no one else in there but her. She sits in the far corner of the large room and pull a textbook and notepad from her bag. "Light tell me, did you know that Misa and my father were cousins?" Mora asks while she unfolds the newspaper she bought on her way to school. "No, I didn't know of Misa having any family. She never mentioned any." Light stands to the left of her.
Mora takes the death note page out of the spot she has it hidden. It is folded up inside a plastic sleeve that she would normally put an essay in. She glances up at Light and nods, then looks back down at the newspaper. On the front page there is a story, that made her buy the paper to begin with, about a woman who was caught on camera physically abusing her three-year-old son. Mora looks at the woman's mug shot and then continues to read the entire article. Apparently, the father was suspicious of his wife when he started noticing bruise on his son. She claimed that he was hurting himself. So, the father set up a hidden nanny camera, and caught her. "What a disgusting woman." Mora spats at the page. Mora writes her name on the loose death note page, and nothing more. Allowing her to die simply of a heart attack.
Mora continues to read the paper. The next two pages are filled with economic and political articles. But on page four there is another story, about a hit and run accident. A car hit an elderly woman who was crossing the road. She died on the way to the hospital. The whole thing happened in front of an officer. Instead of pulling over, the drive took off in his car. Leading police on a twenty-minute high-speed chase. It ended with him flipping his car over, he was hurt, but he would live. They had a previous mug shot of his in the paper, as he was still recovering in the hospital and had not yet been properly booked. It explains that the mug shot was from a month prior where he had been arrested for assaulting someone outside of a bar. "You know, he wouldn't be in all this trouble, if he had just stopped." Mora looked at Light, who nodded in response. Again, Mora writes just his name.
Mora flips through the rest of the newspaper. Find one more article. This one was of a couple, who together, kidnapped a teenage girl, and held her hostage in their home. I can only imagine what they did to her. The girl somehow managed to escape, and the couple were arrested soon afterwards. Both their mugshots are alongside the article. Somehow, they managed to get released on bail. "How did they even get a bail set when they committed such a horrible crime?" I wouldn't be surprised if they have a new victim right now. Mora is outraged.
Mora begins writing down their names. But instead of letting them die of mere heart attacks, this time, she writes down a cause. A murder, suicide. She orders the man to kill the woman by shooting her in the head, and to then shoot himself in the head as well. Just to be safe, Mora write in for him to release anyone they might be holding hostage before he kills himself. When she is finished writing all of this down she returns the death note page to its plastic sleeve, and tucks it safely away in her bag. Just in time, as Jade approaches her.
They sit together chatting lightly, studying for their next exams. Jade asks her what she is doing after school. "Well, I have to go right home from here, I am waiting for letters from the universities that are scouting me." Mora makes up an excuse to not hang out. "After exams are over, we can do something fun." Mora adds and her friend smiles at her. The bell rings. Mora and Jade quickly gather their stuff up, and race off in separate directions to their next exams.
Ryuk is watching Light and Mora from the Shinigami realm. "Well Light, looks like you found someone just like you used to be. This is going to be interesting." Ryuk laughs, "Oh and by the way. Thank you for giving me back my old notebook." Ryuk laughs holding up the death note that Light had Mora dig up.