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Here's eleven... not really long, still trying to work on longer chapters anyway, enjoy and please review...
A few weeks had passed since Hikari had last seen Ryuga; he hadn't been at school or talking with Light, either. As she sat in her classes, she wondered where he could possibly be.
After class, she left the building, heading across the campus of the university. It was then, when she noticed Light standing before Hideki Ryuga, who was sitting on a wooden bench. She approached, slowly, hearing a little of their conversation, "Is it ok to be here? Didn't you say you were afraid to appear in public?" he asked.
'Huh? What does Light mean by that? Is Hideki in danger?' Hikari thought.
"Yeah, I did, but then I realized that as long as you're not Kira, I should be safe. The fact is you're the only one on the outside who knows me as L. In the unlikely event that I die in the next few days, I've instructed your father and everyone at headquarters to assume that you are Kira." he admitted.
Hikari froze when she heard it. Hideki Ryuga, the guy she had become friends with. The one she was starting to fall for. He was L! He was the great detective that everyone was talking about capturing Kira. It was him all along. As she thought about this, a question popped in her mind, 'Was he just trying to get a confession from me? Was that all that was? It wasn't about friendship at all . . . he just wanted answers . . . damn him,' she thought as she continued listening in. As the two started walking off, a young woman --blonde-- appeared before them. She was a tiny girl, a well known model by the name Misa Amane or Misa Misa.
Hikari watched as the three stood there talking. Suddenly, a huge group of people surrounded them, seeing Misa. It was like that for a few moments until her manager came and dragged her off, telling her she was going to be late for her shoot. The crowd dispersed and Ryuga began to walk off, Light remaining behind. She saw Light take out his cell phone and he dialed a number.
As Ryuga walked off, the phone with him began to ring. Light turned to Ryuga, who explained that someone must have dropped the phone during the excitement. She heard Light explain it was Misa's phone and he returned it to Light. The two of them exchanged words again before walking off a final time.
Hikari watched as the supposed L walked off, accidentally tripping when she stepped back. She fell back with a thud, rustling a bush she managed to hit with her hand. Ryuga turned toward the bush, walking over to her when he saw her sitting on the ground.
She stood up, dusting herself off when she saw him. "Hikari, what are you doing?" he asked and noticed that she looked a bit ticked off.
"Thanks for being honest with me, L," she spat then turned and ran off, not giving him a chance to say a word or explain anything. Although he didn't see it, a small stream of tears ran down her cheeks.
He stood there, shocked at what she had just said. Did she hear the conversation between him and Light, did she honestly know that he was in fact L. Those questions ran in his mind. 'This isn't good, what am I gonna do now,' he thought hard to come up with something.
Hikari slammed the door behind her, heading through the apartment to her bedroom. She shut her door and flopped down onto her bed. Kaito watched her, a bit freaked out by her new behavior. Hikari didn't say a word, just laid there, her head lying on her pillow, hiding her eyes covered in tears. She was upset, but more at herself than at L. It wasn't the fact that he had used her to get information, pretending to want friendship, that wasn't the problem. It was that she was falling for him, the enemy of one of her friends and she hated herself for it.
Her mind was full of questions without any hint of answers. What was she going to do? Suddenly, the telephone on her bedside table began to ring. She looked up from her pillow, to the phone. Instincts told her who it was, but she didn't know how to react. Would she just ignore him, hoping he'd get the message to leave her alone? Would she answer it and hear him out? What? Which method was better and wouldn't cause her any pain. She thought about it as the phone continued to ring.
'It doesn't matter,' she told herself, 'no matter if I take the call or just let it ring, I'm going to get hurt. Either I lose Light and possibly end up killed or I lose L with him getting killed by Light . . . why me? Of all the damned people in this world why did that damned thing end up in my hands!?' she asked herself as she looked to her Death Note, lying under a magazine on the table next to the phone. The phone stopped ringing, letting the answer machine pick up the call. She was silent as she listened to the message. She heard a beep then a click, no message was left. She sighed and lied her head back down.
The phone rang again, and again she ignored it as it followed the same cycle. This continued over again at least five times before she got fed up with it. Grabbing the phone off the receiver she shouted, "Leave me alone!"
"Hikari? What's wrong, are you alright?" she heard a female voice say, sounding worried.
"Yuka? Yeah, I'm fine, just having a bad day, that's all," she admitted, calming down and wiping away her tears.
"You sure? You sound really upset . . ." she said.
"I'm fine, it's nothing-" Hikari explained.
"Ok, well, if you need me you know where I am, alright?" she urged her friend.
"I know. I'll talk to you later . . . alright?" Hikari said to her, assuring her that she was ok.
"Ok. Bye, Hikari," Yuka told her.
"Bye," she replied, hanging up the phone. She sighed as she lied back down onto the bed. She grabbed her pillow, clutching it to her body as she drifted off to sleep.