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Death Note: Light's Angel
Chapter 6
Flashback
As Ryuk laughed, Sayu heard her mom come up the stairs and scurried back to her room. She didn't want her mom to know she was eavesdropping. She hoped she wouldn't go visit Light. But unfortunately, that's what Sayu's mom did.
"Light?" Sachiko called as she knocked on her son's bedroom door.
Sayu wanted to yell at her, scream at her to not open the door! But she was too terrified. A second later, Light opened the door, facing his mom.
"What is it?" Light asked.
"I thought you'd like some apples. The neighbors brought them over for us." Sachiko then noticed how dark it was in Light's room. "Why on Earth is it so dark in your room? It will ruin your eyesight."
Sayu was dumbfounded that her mom wasn't screaming at the top of her lungs.
'She doesn't see Ryuk? He must hidden himself in Light's closet before the door opened.' Sayu figured that had to be the case. As she watched her mom give a bowl of apples to Light, she still wanted to warn her that there was a potential madman in her son's bedroom talking about notebooks of death to him.
Sayu really didn't want to listen to anymore conversations between Light and Ryuk, but something told her that she should. Perhaps against her better judgement, she waited until her mom had left and Light closed his door again before resuming her position of eavesdropping.
"That notebook you found originally belonged to me. And since you're now using it, you are the only one who's able to see me. And of course, my voice can only be heard by you. In other words, the Death Note is the bond between Light, the human, and Ryuk, the Shinigami."
Sayu then heard munching sounds, meaning Ryuk must be eating one of the apples Light was given. What Ryuk just said made no sense… well, less sense than anything she's heard tonight.
'Only Light can see and hear Ryuk? Does that mean he really wasn't hiding in the closet when Mom looked inside Light's room? And if only Light can hear his voice, then how come I can hear him too? I don't own that freaky notebook, and I've definitely never used it!'
However, if what Ryuk said was indeed true, then that would mean he wasn't in the room when Sayu found the notebook. Otherwise, he would've told Light there and then that there were two people who could see and hear him. So again, how did he get in there without making noise?
"Yum." Ryuk said, confirming that he did eat an apple. "I just have one more question I want to ask you. Why was I chosen for this?" Light asked.
Instead of answering, Sayu heard more eating sounds… which obviously annoyed her brother. "Hey, are you even listening?"
"Apples in the Human World are worth the trip. What's the best way to describe these? Juicy?" Sayu sensed that Ryuk had a thing for apples. Perhaps she should keep that in mind as well.
"Just answer my question!" Light demanded.
"Tch, I didn't choose you. Don't you see? This is all just an accident. You actually thought you were chosen because you're so smart or something? Don't be so vain. It just happened to fall around here and you just happen to pick up, and that's all there is to it. That's why I wrote the instructions in English, the most popular language in the Human World."
Sayu then heard Ryuk tell her brother that he did it because he was bored, and that other Shinigami didn't have much to do. When he asked Light why he only wrote the cause of death for some guy who was hit by a truck, he responded that if the cause of death wasn't written, then that person would die from a heart attack.
"And that's probably the best thing about the Death Note, Ryuk." 'What does he mean by that?' Sayu asked herself. His next statement was definitely surprising.
"You see, I've already exhausted the list of the world's major criminals. And eventually, I'm gonna get rid of them all."
Sayu widened her eyes once more.
'Wait. The people Light has been murdering… were criminals?'
This somewhat lessoned Sayu's fears of her brother. Until now, she thought he had been killing lots of innocent people; people that did no wrong.
'But still, murder is murder… whether someone was innocent or guilty. What my brother is doing is still not right. Why would he do this?'
Ryuk was thinking on the same lines when he asked Light what the point was in doing that.
"It's only a matter of time before people figure out that these criminals are being eliminated by someone. I want the world to know of MY existence, that there's someone out there passing righteous judgement on the wicked!"
Sayu thought Light was being both stupid and careless. If people learn that someone is murdering of that magnitude, criminal or not, the authorities will take action against him. The police would hunt him down and judge him like the criminals he himself was executing.
'Seriously, has that notebook messed up his brain? I'm no genius, but even I know better than to draw unwanted attention to myself.' Sayu said in her mind.
"Why even bother? What are you trying to achieve by passing judgement on them? I mean, why do you care?" Ryuk asked, sounding like none of it really mattered. Sayu wanted to know that as well as she continued listening.
"Because… I've been bored too." Light responded.
'Light was also bored?' Sayu wondered.
"I wasn't ready to believe it at first, but it's obvious now. There's something about the Death Note itself that makes humans want to try it out at least once."
'Not me! I'd NEVER kill anyone!' Sayu retorted angrily in her head.
She vowed that no matter what, she would never be tempted to use the Death Note. Even if it meant her own life.
"At first, I wrote the names of the worst criminals I could think of. Like I was cleaning up the world one name at a time, so that eventually no one will EVER do anything evil again. And while the truly guilty ones who deserved to be punished for their crimes die of heart attacks, the people who are less guilty but still make trouble for others will slowly be erased through disease and accidental death. Then, and only then, the world will start moving in the right direction."
Sayu was disgusted by Light's plans of murder. And for what? As if he heard her thoughts, Light provided the answer.
"It will be a new world, free of injustice and populated by people who I've judged to be honest, kind, and hardworking."
'And a world where people are afraid to die if they do anything bad? That's no utopia; it's a dictatorship!' Sayu thought fiercely.
"But if you did that, it would make you the only bad person left." Ryuk pointed out.
"Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a hardworking honor student who's considered to be one of Japan's best and brightest. And I… I will become the god of this new world!"
Sayu had finally heard enough as she made her way back to her room. Once inside, she closed the door and sat on her bed.
"A god? No Light, you're no god… you're a monster." She said softly as angry tears ran down her face.
Flashback End
"Ever since, I've been listening in on a lot of their conversations. One of them was Light revealing the notebook's hiding place and the booby trap to Ryuk. Ryuk was also the reason Light and I found out about the cameras in the first place. I heard him telling Light about them when he went up to study after dinner." Sayu said, finishing her story.
As Sayu's story came to a close, the whole room was filled with ominous silence. No one said anything for a long time, not even L.
Sayu knew how absurd her story sounded, but she hoped at least someone would believe her.
At last, L broke the silence while he drank tea.
"That is quite a story, Sayu. But I have a some questions about it."
"Like what?" she asked.
"First of all: The existence of this Shinigami, Ryuk. You heard him talking to Light, claiming he was a Shinigami. But have you actually seen him yourself?"
Sayu looked down again, looking afraid now. "Yes, I've seen him."
"You have?" Soichiro asked, surprised by the answer.
"Yeah, on the morning after I overheard his conversation with Light." Sayu said.
"What did he look like?" Raye asked. Sayu hugged herself before she proceeded.
"Ryuk… looked like a clown rock star from Hell. Tall and lanky, he was completely black with a pasty white face with red eyes and sharp teeth. But the really scary part about him, was that he never stopped smiling. He smiled with his teeth showing at all times." She started to shake at this point, prompting her father to hold her hand.
"How did you come to see him, and did he see you back?" L asked.
"After I woke up and came downstairs for breakfast, I saw my mom and my brother… along with something else." She closed her eyes. "He was right there, standing over Light as he ate, and Mom was acting like he wasn't even there. She really couldn't see him, it was just me and my brother who could. And no, he didn't see me looking at him. I was at the foot of the stairs when I saw him."
Naomi really hoped she wouldn't see something that horrifying.
"Up till then, I didn't really believe Shinigami were real. But now…" Sayu stopped to try to calm herself.
"How are you able to see and hear Ryuk while he believed only your brother could?" L questioned.
"I've been asking myself that same question. One day I decided to take a chance and find out. I went to Light to ask him to help me with my math homework. When he let me in, I acted as normal as I could and tried not to notice Ryuk. As I approached Light's desk, I heard Ryuk warning him that if anyone else touched the notebook, then they'd be able to see him too."
"The notebook? You mean this Death Note?" L asked, with Sayu responding with a nod.
"I touched and held that notebook the night I heard everything. That's how I could see and hear that Shinigami."
"Anyone who touches the notebook will be able to see Ryuk?" Naomi asked, remembering that she held the notebook as well.
"That's right. And since you touched it Naomi, you should be able to see him now too." Sayu replied.
Now the former FBI agent felt a little nervous.
L had a thought about that.
"Sayu, is it necessary to touch the notebook itself in order to see the Shinigami? Or will only a piece of it suffice?" He asked.
"Actually, touching any part of the notebook will do the trick. Even a small bit torn from one of it's pages would be enough." Sayu answered.
"I see." L then turned to Raye. "Agent Penber, remember how the bus high-jacker was claiming to see a monster and tried to shoot it with his gun?"
"Uh, yes. Why?" Raye asked.
"Did he happen to touch any kind of paper prior to acting crazy?"
Raye thought carefully about the incident, and gasped as he remembered something.
"Yes, he did! When he was approaching where Light and his friend were sitting, Light dropped a crumpled piece of paper on the bus floor. He wrote in it earlier describing his dating plans with the girl he was with. The man picked up the paper and seconds later, he started freaking out."
"So the high-jacker really did see a monster that day. Also, the notebook's rules and what Sayu said about the man killed by the truck confirms my theory earlier." Naomi said in conclusion.
"Indeed, and that monster was most likely Ryuk. By the way Naomi, did you get the pictures of the notebook?" L asked.
"It's all in my phone." Naomi answered confidently.
"Good. Please bring your phone here and show us those pictures."
As Naomi left to get her phone, Sayu faced L. "So, does this mean… that you believe me?" L hesitated before giving an answer.
"Do you believe in a notebook that can kill people?" Sayu felt annoyed that he turned this around on her, but she understood why.
"Not at first, like I didn't believe in Ryuk. But soon after I saw him, I went to my computer and looked up some of the names written in the Death Note. I had to make sure none of it was a prank." Sayu shook her head sadly.
"Not only were those people all criminals like Light said, but they all died of heart attacks within the 5 days he had been writing down names in the notebook. I know because I checked the dates of each death. That was the moment I truly accepted that my brother had become… a murderer." Sayu remembered crying just after coming to that realization.
It was also not long after that, that she began thinking of a plan to save Light… from himself.
To be continued.
