Chapter seventeen:

Sayu smiles a little more than she already is. "Yes. It's me." She confirms.

Light hurries over to her and wraps his arms around her as she returns the hug. "I'm so happy to see you." He tells her letting a few tears escape to roll down his cheeks.

"I'm happy to see you too." Sayu says in agreement.

They stay like that for a few moments before Sayu pulls away and they now stand there facing each other.

"There is a reason I came here." Sayu says. "Well other than to see you again."

"What is it?" Light asks with a slight tilt of his head.

"I wanted to tell you something. Something important." Sayu begins. "I want to tell you that it's alright. It's all alright." She tells him and Light blinks in slight confusion but he lets her continue. "You should pursue that man."

"Sayu…" Light gasps slightly.

"It's alright. I understand and he can make you happy again." Sayu tells him. "Besides let me remind you." She reaches over gently raising one of his hand gently urging him silently to light his hand on fire as she pulls her hand away. She had also made her damp with her powers just in case as she pulls her hand away. "He can not only help you mentally and all but will also help you with keeping your powers. I know you are weakened since my death but you've been fighting to keep your powers. Deep down you knew that if you lost your powers then you'd be kicked from the throne. So you out of instinct fought to keep them even as you mourned for me. I'm impressed about that." She says watching the fire on Light's hand. "And I'm happy that you are still ruling even after all that has happened."

"But let's be honest." Light begins and he glances down letting the fire on his hand be put out on his own as he lowers his hand to his side again. "There really isn't much meaning to life without you there."

Sayu smiles sympathetically then reaches over gently gripping Light's hands together between her gentle hands effectively stopping him from saying anything else. She brings their hands a little up to about chest high and this causes Light to look back to her in curiosity that is slightly sad. "You need to remember something." She tells him glancing to their hands for a moment then looks back up to Light. "And listen well because I will not be able to repeat myself." She tells him seriously with a serious face. She blinks and she smiles softly. "The meaning of life is what you choose it to be. What you make it be."

Then everything fades as Light bolts to sitting up in his bed.

Meanwhile….

"So you are alone." The guard says staring at L.

L can feel the anger and hate coming off of the guards gaze that rests on him. "Did you expect me to have company?" He asks.

The guard growls. "I was hoping you would be alone."

L suddenly wasn't fully sure if he should ask why.

"And it's good that you are." The guard moves more into the room.

"Is there something you need?" L asks.

"I am glad that his majesty did not come here. It's enough for me to now for certain that he is not lying to us about anything going on." The guard stops walking halfway to the bed that L is chained to.

L watches the other as he quickly maps out every possible way he can try to fight back if he is attacked.

"I believe that you should be locked away in some interrogation room so we can get information. I don't see how whatever our king is doing is going to do anything." The guard says with a slight growl. "It could be so easy." He glances to L's neck and after that chest then turns to look to one of his hands palms. "So… So easy." He slowly clenches his hand into a fist. "No one would know. They would never find out."

L tenses to get ready to fight back as best as he can at any moment.

"No one would ever know." The guard looks back to L locking eyes with him. "They would never know that I was the one that killed you."

Back with Light…..

Light glances around himself but sees that he is alone. He brings a hand up to rest on half of his face as he looks to his legs. "That dream…." He gasps softly to himself. He closes his eyes as he sits there for a moment to think before he slides his hand down off of his face where it drops down to his lap. He opens his eyes with determination filling them in a split second. "I will do my best." He says. "Now with Sayu urging me to go for it I can do this much more confidently." He hurriedly gets up and he hurries down the hall to go to get to the room L is being held in. He doesn't acknowledge anyone else as he hurries to get to the room… but… as he gets closer he starts to get a bad feeling about something. He arrives and slows to a stop for a moment when he notices that the door is open. He sprints to the door skidding to a stop as he turns to look into the room the moment that the whole door is open thing processed through his mind. He finds the guard moving towards L who is tense to be ready to fight back. "Hey!" He calls out with slight anger.

The guard stops and spins around to look to Light in surprise. "Y-your majesty?" He gasps as he realizes that he is busted.

"What is going on!?" Light demands moving forward into the room as the guard follows his movements. He stands between L and the guard now and the guard takes a step back as Light raises a hand lighting it on fire.

"I only wished to check on him." The guard says a little quickly. "To ensure that he has not done anything to escape." He quickly removes his helmet in respect with a quick bow. "I was just worried that something had happened. That he found a way to get free."

"Yeah well you are stupid. Not only is he chained up but he can't use his powers." Light tells the guard in a pissed off voice. He throws a small fireball in the guards direction hitting his target which is the ear.

The guard yells out in pain as his ear becomes burned enough that it is now chipped. His helmet clatters since it fell to the ground when the guard was hit by the fireball. His hands shoot up to touch his ear but yelps in pain only to cup his sensitive and throbbing in pain ear with slight whimpers that only last a few moments.

"I do not want anyone to interfere with what is happening here." Light says sternly with his hand no longer on fire. "Consider that your only warning." He looks down at the guard, who kneels still cupping his ear careful not to touch it, darkly. "And I am very disappointed to hear that you do not trust in me to do what it is that I believe is right."

"I-I'm sorry your majesty." The guard looks up pleadingly to him. "I'm so-sorry."

"You'd better be." Light growls low in a dangerous way. "Now take your helmet and leave this room. Close the door too."

"Y-yes sir." The guard grabs his helmet then races out of the room making sure to close the door behind himself.

Light waits a few moments and listens to the guards retreating footsteps before turning to look to L. "My dear raven." He says moving over to the bed. "Do not worry about that. And don't listen to him. I had to tell them lies that I was trying to get information from you." He sits down next to L on the bed. "As it stands they would not accept the truth that I just wish to have you at my side."

L blinks and he watches Light in slight amazement. He can hear the sincerity in Light's tone but he is also pretty much admitting that he truly does think of L's safety and wellbeing as well as his own. He finds Light fascinating especially on times like now when Light shows a human side of him that before being captured L never thought he even had. He then notices the bruising on Light's neck almost like he had been choked. "Your neck…" He trails off examining the bruising from where he is.

Light waves it off slightly. "It was simply just some interrogation troubles. Don't worry my sweet raven." He assures L. "Now there is something that I must tell you."

L listens to what Light has to say in curiosity.

"I wish I can say the truth that I want you to be with me but not only would you probably be killed but then they will start to question me. The kingdom could very well fall apart just because I want to keep you at my side." Light pauses a moment and takes a slightly deep breath before continuing. "So instead I will do all that I can to keep you happy and safe. No one can tear us apart this way."

There is a moments pause and before L can process what he is doing he opens his mouth to speak.

"L."

Light blinks in surprise then turns to look to L who slightly turns away not saying anything more. After a few moments of silence Light seems to realize what L is trying to say causing his face to change to happiness as he even smiles almost to the point of grinning at this.

L keeps his eyes away from Light wondering why he just went and blurted that out.

….

Near arrives back to the rebellion's group camp only to be approached by Matt. "Greetings Matt."

"Is everything alright?" Matt asks.

Near nods. "Yes. I am just getting some information on a few things. It's nothing to get worked up over." He responds with an implied gesture to wave it off.

"Ok." Matt nods softly. "Well preparations are so far going pretty well." He adds. "Plus no injures since there hasn't been any battles against anyone so far."

"That's good." Near nods. "I will take over and you can get some rest." He places a gentle hand on Matt's arm.

Matt smiles tiredly. "Thanks." He says and heads to go get some rest.

Near turns away and heads to see what preparation's have been started. He first finds some people practicing to be ready for the fight while weapons are currently being worked on to make sure that they are in top condition for whenever the fight is. "We will need to settle on an exact date." He says to himself. "We cannot just tell them last minute or much too close to the time that it is going to happen. They deserve a fair warning of when it is going to happen so we can be ready." He turns and heads to his place. "Perhaps… there is one good date. I will have to think about more than just the battle though. The fact that I need to make sure that there is someone to take the throne if I die along with Light." He begins looking through a calendar as he thinks while his eyes scan each date and he flips through it. "If I don't think of that then it could cause a lot of trouble." He stops at a certain month and scans the dates until his eyes come to rest upon a certain date. "Perfect."