I sighed and shook as I left the room. Light followed close behind, unsure if he wanted to put his arm around me.

"Jesus Christ." I whispered as I reached for a cigarette.

"I didn't know you were a smoker." Light remarked as he took my lighter out of my hands and lit my cigarette for me.

"I only smoke in times of high stress." I replied and took a deep drag.

I continued to shake until Light put his arm around me. I stopped after a while, wondering what was going to happen next.

"Something's wrong." I whispered.

"What?" Light asked, staring at me.

I closed my eyes and breathed deeply.

"Don't ask me how I know, but something is wrong back home. I can feel it."

"Ryuzaki and I will give you a ride home then."

I threw my cigarette on the street and beat Light to the elevator. I knocked on Ryuzaki's door and he opened it, hesitating to let us back in.

"Ryuzaki, something is wrong back home. I don't know how or why, but I can feel it."

"And?"

"And I was wondering if you could give me a ride home."

He walked out of his room and motioned to Watari. We walked downstairs and into Ryuzaki's limo. I was too nervous to eat or drink and we spent the car ride in silence.

--

"Thank you Watari." I whispered and carefully climbed out of the door.

"Just shout if something's wrong." Light called as I shut the door.

I walked up to the door and shook terribly. The air became thicker and it was harder to breathe as I smelled death in the air. I steadied my nerves and walked in the door to find blood everywhere. It was on the walls, floor and ceiling. I rushed inside screaming for my parents and daddy was in the kitchen with a knife, stabbing a bloody body.

"Mom!" I screamed and ran into the kitchen, slipping and falling on the blood.

My ankle started to swell as I stared at her body. Her face was beaten so badly she was indiscernible. I threw myself on her and screamed. Daddy stood over me, his body covered in blood and he was crying.

"I..tried to protect her. Protect you..."

"How could you?!" I screamed.

I remembered what Light said and ran out the door, my nice white shirt covered in blood. Light and Ryuzaki erupted from the car, Light clutching me wildly.

"She's gone!" I screamed until I was hoarse.

Light handed me to Ryuzaki who pulled me onto the ground and I rested on his shoulder. He tried to calm my trembling but it didn't help. Soon police showed up and their guns were in their hands as they screamed at daddy to get out of the house now.

"She's gone." I whispered hoarsely.

"Shhh, it's going to be okay."

"No."

I was incapable of thinking. The world was rushing by a terrible speed and I was destined to be swept along. I watched as a dozen policeman, including Mr. Yagami, dragged daddy out of the house with his head down.

"Tsukiko.." He whispered.

I stood up and stared at him. He reared up and headbutted me in the face. Mr. Yagami punched him in the face and threw him in the car and instructed another officer to take him away. I fell to the ground and stopped my crying and trembling. The blood ran out of my nose as I lay in the street, perfectly still. The world was shattered and quiet. until I heard the screaming sirens as it nearly ran over my head and screeched to a stop and ran into the house. One man looked outside and shook his head at Light. A stretcher carried my mother's body, completely wrapped in white, away from the house and into the ambulance. Someone grabbed me roughly and pulled me up, shining a light in my eyes.

"Are you feeling dizzy?" The man asked.

I couldn't answer. He shined the light in my eyes for a few seconds, then lightly touched my nose, which evoked the first human sound from me in the last twenty minutes.

"It's broken." The man sighed, as if he saw this kind of thing every day.

"Broken?" Light asked.

The man nodded and offered to adjust it here, or he could take me to the hospital and doctors could do it.

"Take her to the hospital." Mr. Yagami said.

"I'm sorry sir, but you have no power to do that."

"Yes I do. By her parents' wishes, if anything was to happen to them I would become her legal guardian. Now take her to the hospital."

"Y-yes sir." The man seemed reluctant, but put me in the ambulance anyway.

"Would you like to accompany her?" The man asked.

"Light, you can go with her. Ryuzaki and I will follow."

Light climbed into the ambulance and it whirred away soundlessly.