April 7, 2001
5 years, 7 months, 16 days prior to Incident
Daikoku Junior High. The cream of the crop. He'd pretended to be shocked at the acceptance letter, but really, it was just a matter of course. Hopefully, Sayu would be accepted too when it was her turn, but he sincerely doubted it.
Sorry Sayu, Yagami Light thought as he approached a corner. That was unkind of me -
He slammed violently into someone rushing from the other direction. Pink flooded his vision as he toppled to the ground.
"Ow!" a high voice yelled in his ear. "Watch where you're going!"
He twitched.
"You were the one running."
Really, how did this girl - from her weight and voice, it was obviously a girl - even get into Daikoku? Not on academic prowess, surely. Money, probably, or connections.
"And you were the one with his head in the clouds. If you'd been paying attention, you'd have avoided me," the girl told him, sitting up. He stared at her.
"Your hair is pink."
"Yeah, and yours is brown, what about it?"
"Isn't it against school policy to dye it that colour?"
"What are you talking about, this is my natural hair," she huffed, finally getting off of him.
"I don't believe you," he informed her, grabbing her outstretched hand and pulling himself up.
She stuck her tongue out. "Too bad, not my problem."
Childish, he thought. Hopefully we aren't in the same class.
Two hours later.
They were.
Three minutes later.
Her name was Fuyuno Sakura.
Twelve minutes later.
Her entrance exam score was higher than his!
He'd gotten 100%, how did that even make sense?
20 seconds later.
That was it, he officially hated her.
Fuyuno Sakura - age 11, 1st year junior high school
Yagami Light - age 12, 1st year junior high school