Death Note: The Next Kira (Part One)

Chapter Nineteen: Homework and Summoning Rituals

JANUARY 20, 2006

AROUND 4:00 PM

TOKYO, JAPAN 

                                                                       MARIE

After unlocking the door to my house, I opened it and walked in.

 "Light, I'm home!" I called out.

 "Up here!" I heard Light call out from my room. I closed the door and made my way to my room, but that's when Khloe stopped me. 

"Hey, Khloe," I bent down and petted her. "How are you doing, sweetie?"

 I looked up at the staircase and went up to my room once I was through petting Khloe. I knew that Khloe was coming up the stairs to my room with me since I could hear her panting and footsteps coming from behind me. I opened the door to my room and saw Light sitting there in my chair, throwing an apple up in the air and catching it. After a few seconds, Light turned around and looked at me. 

"Oh," he let out. "You're back. How did it go?"

 "It was okay," I answered. "I enjoyed seeing Geffrey, Saiko, and their gang get a taste of their own medicine, but the bad news is that I have homework." 

I took my backpack off and dug into it. 

"It doesn't make it any better because the assignment I have is Algebra," I complained to Light as I pulled out a folder from my backpack that had my homework in it. 

 "What kind of Algebra?" Light asked. 

I handed Light the assignment without giving him a straight answer that came out of my mouth. He looked at the assignment and slightly tilted his head a little bit. "

Hmm," he let out before straightening his head back up and putting the piece of paper down. "Nothing I can't help with," he continued.

 I sat down on the chair at my computer desk once Light got up. When he came back, he was busy carrying Christy's green-furred chair (which was her favorite chair) from her room.

 "Hey!" I let out. "That's Christy's! You can't just take her favorite chair from her room!" Light rolled his eyes and shrugged.

 "Christy's not here," he informed me. "I'm sure she won't mind."

 He brought the chair into my room and placed it right beside the black-furred chair that I had at my computer desk.

 "She's pretty upset after what happened to her piano," I reminded Light. "I'm sure she doesn't want anything happening to her other stuff." 

"Heh," Light chuckled. "I won't do anything unless you make me angry," he assured me. 

Light sat down in Christy's chair and picked up a pencil. 

 "Okay," Light began as he pointed the pencil at my paper. "So we have x squared equals y squared, so we...

" I started to doze off again and take a trip down memory lane. Remember that I said that John helped me with my Algebra assignment while we were dating? Well, that's exactly what I thought about at that moment. 

MAY 30, 2005 

LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING 

WACO, TX 

                                                                             MARIE 

"And..." John began. "That is the answer to Question 10." He looked up at me. "You did it!" John cheered. "You're done!"