#53 Sickness

She walked down the street, her neatly bobbed hair bouncing slightly on her head as she nervously checked each house number, the butterflies in her stomach growing more intense as she neared the house.

Her small, pale hands gripped the basket she carried so tightly her knuckles went white. She slowly pressed the doorbell and brushed at her school uniform.

Doubts suddenly entered her mind and she half-considered running off down the path, leaving the home-made meal she'd spent the whole afternoon making on the doorstep, but then it might not be found or he might think that someone else had left it behind…

Too late for her to run, the door opened… and god, it was him. The handsomest boy in the whole class. Soichiro… and there was the cast on his arm, from an accident on the sports field.

He smiled. "Sachiko?"

Her face flushed red and she shoved the basket forwards, babbling out, "I made this for you, because you're hurt!"

Slightly puzzled, he took the basket from her shaking hands and nodded, "Thank you Sachiko." He answered, but she was already dashing down the path, blushing crimson.

"Lini, Sachiko, do you take Yagami Soichiro to be your lawful wedded husband, to love, honour and obey, in sickness and in health, so long as you both shall live?"

Sachiko felt like she could barely breathe, and not only because the dress her sisters had forced her into felt at least a whole size too small. She was marrying him, her, the shy little girl who wasn't much good at school, was marrying Soichiro, the boy she'd been in love with from the moment she saw him.

And he loved her too. He'd gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife and it was all really happening.

She could barely squeak out the words "I do."

"Sir, there's a call from the hospital for you!"

Soichiro bolted at those words, he didn't need to answer the phone, he already knew in his heart what this call was about. Sachiko, his beautiful wife, the woman whom he could not live without, had been rushed into the hospital.

He arrived just in time. It wasn't a long labour, as it happened.

He arrived just in time to see his son being born. Just in time to be the first person to hold this squealing little red lump that he suddenly loved more than he thought ever possible.

He showed the child to Sachiko as she rested. He told her how proud he was of her.

She whispered back that the boy should be called Light, because he was the brightest thing in her life apart from Soichiro himself.

They both remarked on his small, intelligent face, and how they were certain he would one day change the world.

Misfortunes came so fast, and they were split by so few moments of happiness. Sachiko almost died herself when she heard of Soichiro's heart attack, convinced it was Kira.

And then suddenly Sayu, her precious baby Sayu was kidnapped, because of the danger of her father and brother's jobs.

Suddenly she wasn't the same girl. Oh, she recovered from the shock slowly, but something in her was gone forever. Sachiko hated that, she hated Kira. He was the cause of all her precious family's ills.

She hated him more so when she was informed that her beloved Soichiro had been killed in the line of duty.

Light wouldn't allow her to see the body, or have an open casket for the funeral, as she so wanted to see him one last time.

Something in her told her, as she watched Soichiro's coffin being lowered, that Light had changed the world all right, but not for the better, and from now on, she should keep away from her son.

====NOTICE===

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