Darquesse : I'm so sorry about lately! Well, at least you have an update now, right?
Angeru : Well, I technically wasn't grounded...
TwilightHaseo : Haha thank you. And don't worry, I'm planning on seeing this through until the end! ...You just gave me an idea... hehehehe
Elanor Pratt : I kind of like evil Chief too. He's starting to grow on me haha.
howcanihelpyou : :)
CocoBunni96 : Yay! You do too!
Darquesse : I'm trying! I think I found a solution! :) I'm the same with the grammar thing.
SharinganWeasel : ...Yeah...I just noticed that... haha
Let the races begin!
So, everything was going according to plan. L suspects Light, and I'll place enough evidence to fully incriminate him. I'd originally done this because I was bored, but now that I had motivation, it was turning out to be quite fun.
"I'm back to help you search for your grades. It seems like Sayu understood the material tonight."
He lifted his head off the desk and stared at me with large eyes.
I smiled.
"Well, if you can't find it, I'll have the school mail out another one tomorrow."
Light squeezed his eyes shut. He slowly opened them, before taking the card with the grades out of the basket it was hiding in.
I searched carefully for the reason why he wouldn't show me the card.
"An A-, Light? Really? Well, you know what must be done..." I pretended to feel sorry for him, but it is obvious I am lying.
I took a step closer. Light took three back. We stay in this pattern until Light hits the wall.
later later later later later later later
I pop my arm back in place, barely suppressing a groan. That last one really hurt. I can tell that one of my fingers is broken. There was no way I can sneak this past Mom, with the way it hangs funny. Yes, it hurts. But I've had worse.
I picked up the phone and dialed with my good hand.
"Misa? Yeah, it's Light. I...tripped...again. A finger is all I know that is broken for sure. Other than that, it's your territory. As soon as possible? Thanks, Misa, I really appreciate it. Oh, and could you bring some bandages, please?"
I was known for my phone straight-forward phone-calls. They just fit my personality.
"I'll be over momentarily! And you're a horrible liar, Light." Her perky voice declared before hanging up.
A minute later, there was a knock on my window. There was Misa, clad in the usual black silk.
I slid my window open to let the doctor inside my room. She glanced at the blood on my shirt before shaking her head.
"That man is disgusting, Light. How can you stand it? I would have called the police by now!"
"My dad is the police, Misa." She frowned.
"Oh yeah."
L
The task force on the other end of the screen were silent, as was I, both from different shocks. There was no possible way that this could be him...but it obviously was. He had called out my true name, the one that only Watari and Mi knew.
And where did-...Wait...
Mi.
Light.
Yagami. YagaMI.
I had to get over there. Whenever that blonde nurse left, I had to get Light. Immediately.
She was currently bandaging his arm, where Chief had reopened an old wound for the millionth time, apparently. A bloody arm...
Clue after clue kept coming into plain sight. The only question was if Light was Kira or not, but...but if that was so, he would have killed chief, wouldn't he? None of this was making sense. My brain was going haywire, I-
"Oh, god!" My gaze came back to the screen.
"I'm so sorry! That was an accident!" The girl stumbled over her words in a rush to get them out.
"I didn't mean to bend your finger, Light! I'm so sorry!"
Light was trying as hard as possible not to cry out again.
"Shut up before Father hears you, Misa. Please." There was pain in the voice.
Misa silently nodded and finished with the fingers.
"Are you going to school tomorrow?" She muttered for him.
"I have to. I'll just say I smashed my hand in the car."
She raised her eyebrows. "And the arm?"
"Easy enough to hide. As if I haven't been doing this my whole life, Misa." She nodded solemnly.
"How is your mother's leg?"
Light groaned and hid his face in his arms. Misa stood up and said briskly, "Well, I must be going. Other patients to see, you get the idea. Goodbye, Light."
With those passing words, she jumped out of the window and got to the ground by whatever magical means she used.
"Great. Now I've pissed off the fourth person I've ever given a real shit about. I'm not allowed any contact with Mom and Sayu, my doctor hates me, and Ryuzaki..." Light trailed off, glancing up to the ceiling.
"Whatever he's doing, I hope he's forgiven me for leaving. I was already too late as it was. Mom's leg was done for when I got home."
He reached under the bed and pulled out a box, one that had a bear, a torn picture, and a note written in orange, clumsy handwriting.
THE PAST THE PAST THE PAST THE PAST THE PAST
Tears streaming down my face, I wrote. In orange, my favorite color, I put a maze of words on the paper.
I wrote to Mi, the friend lost to me. My first, only, and best friend.
'Why? We all cared about you, Mi. Why do you have to go back to them? They only hurt you. Please, please come back. Please, Mi. I need you. I...I love you, Mi. Come back, for me, please?'
Crumbling up the letter, I ran out to the spot in the woods where I'd met him, and threw the note to the ground before running back home.
^Maybe, if I'd stayed a little longer, I'd have felt the eyes on my back. Maybe I'd have seen the little rustle in the bushes when a small, bruised and bloody hand snatched the note. And maybe I'd have heard the soft, high-pitched sobs.^
CURRENT L CURRENT L CURRENT L CURRENT L
"No way..." I breathed out softly.
"L?" Matsuda asked.
I shook my head rapidly to clear it, before telling them to do the plan forming in my head that was getting more and more real by the moment.
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