Woohoo I feel really good! I hope you guys like this story, because I'm going to be focusing on it for a bit. My Vampire Knight story is going roughly, so I'm trying to avoid it! (sweatdrop)

Disclaimer: I no owney! Except for Naeko, Mayako, Yuki, and the sleeping bags! I own all of those! Oh, and Kenji and the bitch girl he was talking to in the last chapter. Oh, and Hisa too! And Hisa's ingenuity of making up names that have to do with "yaoi". Uh, and Hisa's laptop. …I think that's it though…oh! And Mr. Tahuko! Uh, and 1st block teacher Mr. Yakatome. That's it though. I promise. I won't even GO into the first two volumes of Death Note that I OWN.

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"Talk to me."

"Light…" Naeko sighed. She knew the boy had come out after her and she could feel his breath, as he was standing right behind her. Unconsciously, she leaned into Light's touch, surprising the boy quite a bit. "Can you do me a favor?"

"Anything," Light replied, leaning his head down so that he was whispering into Naeko's ear. Stealthily, Light snaked his arms around Naeko's lithe form.

"Will you camp out with me tonight in the backyard?"

Light froze. Camping out in the backyard…watching the stars as they moved across the sky…

"Please?" Naeko's voice was pleading, and she was starting to shake slightly. "I never wanted to remember what it was like when she was alive, but now…I want to create my own memories! Without her!"

"Why do you want to forget her so much?" Light asked softly. He knew who "she" was. The only person in the world Naeko "couldn't live without". For now, he was going to humor the girl's wishes so that he could learn why she was so unhappy.

"Hisa loved me, and I think she might have loved you too. The three of us spent so much time together, while we were here. It's hard to remember how it was back then, because I know I can never have that again. Right now, all I have left of that memory is you."

Light's eyes closed in a thoughtful expression. "So, you could remember the time we spent together."

"Light, please," Naeko asked again, almost whimpering, "please stay out here tonight with me!"

"Of course," Light replied. "I'd be happy to."

Naeko pulled away from Light's hug and turned so that they were facing each other. Quickly, she leaned up and kissed Light on the cheek, before skipping past him to collect the sleeping bags from the closet near the back door. Even though she was moving quickly, Light couldn't miss the small smile that lingered at the girl's lips.

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Naeko handed Light the darker of the sleeping bags – the green and black one. Unrolling her own – a blue and yellow one – she set it down on the grass in the far backyard and plopped down on top, bringing her pillow with her. Light's pillow was lying on the ground near the bottom of Naeko's sleeping bag.

"Why don't you set up your sleeping bag?" Naeko asked Light, her mood already a thousand times better.

"Because I have a better idea. Get up." Light wasted no time in ordering the girl around. Naeko pouted a bit, but she followed Light's orders and stood up, holding her pillow to her chest. Light unfurled his sleeping bag and unzipped it until it was completely undone. Lying the sleeping bag so it was inside up, Light then moved on to Naeko's sleeping bag. He also unzipped that one, and placed it over top of his own. Then, he used the zippers on both sleeping bags to zip up the bottom and sides, leaving a space at the top that they could climb in to.

"Um, that'll put us pretty close," Naeko said dubiously. Light shrugged and picked up his pillow, placing it on the right side of the now single sleeping bag.

"It shouldn't matter, since we're going out now," Light said matter-of-factly. Naeko frowned.

"I thought that was just for pretend?" she asked. Light just shrugged and walked over to Naeko, pulling her closely to him until she was flush up against his body.

"Well now it's real," Light said, whispering sexily into Naeko's ear. Naeko pouted and pulled away to slip under the sleeping bag, as it was quickly getting cold out and Naeko was only wearing jeans and a T-shirt.

"I can't believe you sometimes, Light," Naeko said. Light smiled and crawled under the sleeping bag. Surprisingly, there was quite enough room for two, tall teenagers. Light snuggled up to Naeko and took her into his arms.

"Oh really?" the male teen purred. It was quite uncharacteristic for him, and Naeko stiffened, thinking aliens had replaced Light with an ultra-cuddly, touchy-feely teen look-a-like. "Why can't you believe me? Everything I'm doing is real."

Naeko felt Light's breath on the top of her head and sighed. "I don't know. You're just acting so strangely all of a sudden. It is…"

"What?" Light asked. The purr in his voice diminished and instead took on a more serious tone, but he still didn't relinquish his hold on Naeko's small body.

"It's a total turn-off," Naeko dead-panned. Light chuckled and backed off a bit, giving Naeko her own space.

"There, is that better?" Light asked. Truth be told, he had actually liked the close contact they had had with each other. Naeko nodded and turned so that she was lying on her back to gaze up at the stars. Light followed her example.

"Light…I want to, but I know I can't…" Naeko began slowly. A thin arm draped itself over the girl's brow, and Naeko stretched her toes under the cover of the sleeping bag. Light didn't even have to ask for her to continue, because the brunette began again with, "The death note has given me so many bad memories…well, truth be told, it hasn't. But, I still want to forget it. I want to forget that I ever killed anyone. I wish it would all just disappear!"

Light thought for a moment before replying. "If you want to forget…then go all the way. Don't just forget the little details; forget all about the death note, the murders, Ryuk—"

"Mmm, speaking of Ryuk, I told him that if he could be quiet, he could play on my laptop upstairs," Naeko said, putting a finger to her lips in a thoughtful expression. "I wonder if he's already bored?"

Light – a little miffed that he had been interrupted so easily – was only a little glad that he hadn't been able to finish his sentence. '—forget all about me.'

"But," Naeko continued, acting as if she had not heard Light's words, "I do want to remember just a little. All of the goods, things, and the times I was with you…" Naeko turned her head and moved her arm so that it was back at her side. Light was staring at her with a great intensity, and before she knew it they were kissing. The kiss was soft at first, but eventually Naeko scooted over so that she was closer to Light. Then, Light took dominance over the kiss, moving so that he was laying slightly on top of Naeko. They broke the kiss for a breath of the crisp night air, and Light took the time to swipe a lock of stray brown hair from Naeko's intense, green eyes. When the hair was behind the girl's right ear, Light's hand went to the other side of Naeko's head and he shifted his knees so that one was in-between Naeko's own legs and the other was on the side of her leg that he had been laying on.

"Light, what if someone sees?" Naeko whispered, never breaking eye contact.

"No one will see," Light whispered back, reassuringly. "The fence around your house and the darkness will hide us." Naeko made an "o" with her mouth and reached tentatively up to touch Light's cheek, as if she wasn't sure if she should be doing that. Light's eyes softened as he felt her cold skin brush against his face, and he brought his left hand up to guide her own. Then Light leaned down and enveloped Naeko's lips in another, more passionate, kiss.

All of a sudden, Naeko's hand fell limply out of Light's own, and her face turned so that Light's lips didn't touch hers. Light gave her a questioning look, and she sighed. "Light…I think…"

"What?" Light asked, a sort of urgency in his voice. "It's alright, you can tell me." Light's mouth opened again to say more, but he caught the little drops dripping off of Naeko's pale skin onto the sleeping bag's material. Closing his mouth once more, Light cupped Naeko's cheek and turned her face so that she was looking back at him. Light hated the trails of tears running over her cheeks. He hated that, by touching her tears, he could feel her sorrows.

"I tried to kill him, Light. I really wanted to, too! He was…he was…"

"He who?" Light asked, quickly getting over the temporary shock that Naeko had tried using the death note again.

Naeko sniffled and a hand came up quickly to wipe away her tears. "Do you remember that guy that came up to me earlier during school and asked me if we could go shopping after school?" Light nodded his affirmative. "Well, after I…left early, I went to the park and he found me after school let out. Then we went to the mall and I got some sticky stuff on my hands so when I went to wash them I came back from the bathroom and overheard him talking to this weird girl I had never seen before." Naeko had to take a breath before she continued. "Anyway, the girl was bad-mouthing me and he wasn't doing a very good job of defending me, then he said that it was all part of a bet anyway, and that he couldn't care less if I died!"

By the time Naeko was done with her small speech, she was more angry than sad, and the tears stopped flowing. Softly, Light asked, "Why didn't you write his name down?" He couldn't say he honestly approved of Naeko's actions, but making a young, vulnerable girl the object of a bet was quite a sick thought.

Naeko looked up sheepishly and said, "'Cause I don't know his last name." Light blinked and then rolled over onto his side, trying to hide the laughter that was bubbling up from his stomach. Naeko sat up, her body now free to move without Light hovering over it. "Hey! It's not that funny! Maybe next time you try to write down somebody's name, I'll laugh at you because you don't know it!"

"Actually," Light said, his laughing starting to subside, "I've run into that problem several times." Light started to say more about the deal Ryuk had been willing to strike with him for the Shinigami eyes, but Naeko could also make the deal, and he didn't want that to happen. Giving half of her life for something she wouldn't even want to use…he would give his life to make sure it didn't happen.

Naeko chuckled a little, but she seemed to have a thought on her mind, and she would continue to feel uneasy until she got it off her chest. "Light," she said, sobering down once more, "I think…"

Light watched Naeko struggle with her words, and he pulled the girl closer so that she was once more in his arms. No matter how much they touched, Light couldn't believe the sensation that went through him as he held his cohort-in-killing in his arms. Apparently, with the confidence she borrowed from Light, Naeko was able to collect her thoughts and turn them into sentences.

"Light, I'm going back to the United States. And I want you to come with me."

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BWAHAHAHAH! You know what this means, don't you? BRING ON THE SEQUEL, BABY! Actually, because this story was so short and I don't want you all to have to put on new alerts, I'll just label the chapters in THIS STORY as "Part II: Chap 1" or something like that, next time I update.

(sigh) Okay, hyper mood over. I just taste-tested several different chocolate snacks, and I can't seem to spend my energy cause it's dark and cold and I don't wanna get off the computer cause I feel that I'm so hyper and I want to get a lot done and OMG I've been neglecting my Willful story and hell this is a really long run-on. (grin) And, you'll all love me cause I came up with a NEW idea today in History! It was really funny, because in the middle of a lecture on the US government I suddenly started digging in all my stuff to get paper and a pencil, then I was pretending to take notes (which was really stupid, because NO ONE ever takes notes in that damned class. The ONLY B I got on my report card. The rest were A's.) and then I was writing down the summary for the story and the guy I have a HUGE crush on (no saying names, because I KNOW some of you people) leaned over my shoulder and was like, "New fanfiction?" and I screamed so loud, because I HATE when people walk up behind me, and I jump at every bell. I really wanted to slap the guy, but I was so embarrassed because the entire class was laughing at me, and I was so totally red and had to hide my face behind my notebook! (sigh) Life is rough when your crush is bent on embarrassing you to the point of no return!

I think I've ranted enough, so please review and stuff! XD