Chapter 7: Missing
Light was feeling positive about this. He would just go up to that house and knock, casually asking if she was there because she won a free trip to Tokyo or something. Hopefully they'd believe him. He had rehearsed it enough times.
He stood in front of a dark, wood door, highly polished.
Knock, knock, knock.
A woman came to the door. Her face was swollen from crying. It didn't look like she cared much of her appearance, unkempt hair and oversized sweater signifying lethargy over the past days. Light took a deep breath.
"Hi, I'm Light Yagami, I was wondering if you knew where Kurai is," Light said. The woman sobbed, handed him a piece of paper, and slammed the door. Light looked at the paper, wondering why that woman reacted that way. He assumed she was Kurai's mother, but…
The paper in his hands had Kurai's picture on it. Right underneath the word "Missing" in mocking, bolded letters.
Kurai had been dragged to an airport nearly four hours later. They were in a plane; she was sitting next to Matt, looking out the window. When she asked where they were going, Matt simply responded, "England." Like it was the obvious answer.
Mello wouldn't speak to her, sometimes glaring, never saying a word. If it was supposed to make her angry, it wasn't working. It just made her feel depressed.
The plane started to slowly move, Kurai's eyes widened. She hated planes. She started to freak out, thrashing in her seat, mumbling about how something could happen, she was scared. People started to look at her, they were nervous too. It's not every day some random girl starts going crazy in the middle of your plane ride.
The voices started to get blurry, everything was fading.
"Stop!"
"Kurai. Calm down, damnit!"
"…Too much…. Attracting attention….. Not good."
She felt a sting on her right arm, and then realized it was a needle. Mello had injected her. But with what? He has no right. What is this? "What is it?" Even Kurai herself was surprised, she had slurred out that last sentence.
"Tranquilizer," Mello whispered.
That was the last thing she heard before she lost consciousness.