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IV. Legacy
When Yagami Sayu finds the black notebook on her bed, she wonders vaguely whether it's another of her mother's surprise gifts meant brighten her mood. When she looks at it more closely, she feels sure it isn't. It's dark and weird and her mother would find something like that tasteless, and anyway, she goes out of her way not to mention anything to do with death in front of her daughter.
Sayu frowns at the book. It's in English, not her best subject, but she's bored, and thinks that maybe it will distract her for a while. She translates each word painstakingly and pauses at the end. She decides it's a stupid thing and leaves it to watch television, but she can't concentrate.
Something draws her back to it. She traces the title with her finger and toys with her pen.
Death Note.
She's curious. Almost as a joke, she writes the name of a man on the telly who's pro-fucking Kira. Kira. The reason her father and adored older brother are nothing but scattered ashes. Bastard, she thinks as she glares at the television and finishes scribbling his name.
When she sees him clutch his at his heart and fall down dead, Sayu freezes.
Mouth dry and heart beating wildly, she glances from the book to the screen, from the screen to the book. He died.
Hands trembling, she slowly writes down the names of her demons, the men who survived, the officers who were supposed to protect her brother but had failed him, those who had come to apologise to her and her mother after his death, as though that could mean something.
The next day she listens to the news and learns that three highly respected police-officers died simultaneously of heart attacks.
Sayu smiles for the first time in two years and a Death God smirks in the shadows.
Slightly longer, but what the heck. Wonder how Sayu would react to a shinigami grinning at her?