Death Note: The Next Kira (Part One)

Chapter Twenty-Four (Part One): Deja Vu?

JANUARY 24, 2006

AROUND 7:50 AM

TOKYO, JAPAN 

                                                                      MARIE 

I was in the bathroom applying some black lipstick that I brought with me from home. That's when I heard the song, "Beautiful Life" by Ace of Base. 

I stopped applying my lipstick and looked up at the ceiling as it was playing. I started to get a weird feeling right then and there. "It's A Beautiful Life," I said out loud. I lowered my black lipstick further away from my face and tried to think about why I was having a weird feeling about that song. I didn't know why I was feeling that way about that song. It wasn't a song talking about death. 

I've listened to many songs about death, and I felt perfectly fine listening to them. However, this song was a song that I listened to a lot in my pre-teen years, and I didn't get this weird feeling about this song. I quickly shrugged it off. "It's just a cheery song about life." I then placed the lipstick back up to my lips and kept applying it to my lips. That's when I heard the intercom go off. 

"Students," I heard someone's voice on the voice changer. It sounded very weird, and honestly, it sounded like a crazy robot or machine. "Please make sure to make it to your classes on time and do a good job in school." The person on the intercom paused for a moment. "Then you guys can party like the school is coming down. I repeat, then you can party like the school is coming..."

 That's when the voice became distorted, and the intercom was cut off. I then made a confused look on my face.  I then rolled down my lipstick and placed it back into my bag as I heard TV static coming from the intercom. As I left the bathroom, the song "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers came on. 

After I left the bathroom, I was still feeling a little hungry since I didn't have anything else with my chocolate waffles at home with Christy. That's when I went straight to my locker and placed my bag on the ground. I opened it up and took out a dark chocolate bar. I unwrapped the chocolate bar and took a bite out of it. While eating it, I got this weird feeling. And it wasn't like the dark chocolate bar didn't taste good, but it felt like I was having deja vu. After I finished the bite I took, I looked at my dark chocolate bar and began thinking about what was happening.

 "What the hell?" I muttered. "Have I done this before?"

 I then shook my head and got up while eating the dark chocolate bar. Afterward, I picked up my backpack before I walked to Mr. Mikami's classroom for my first-period class. 

                                                                MINAKO (MS. HIROTA) 

I was busy getting stuff ready in the science lab due to Kaito's big plan. Thankfully, I was able to invite a couple of friends from America. Their names were Halle Lidner a.k.a Halle Bullock and Nate River. I already knew about L's a.k.a Ryuzaki Lawliet's death and that Nate River a.k.a. Near became the new L. I never knew Mello, but I was very shocked that he became a kidnapper who kidnapped Sayu Yagami and Kiyomi Takada. I was happy that Sayu had recovered safely and was brought home, but I was also very sad that Kiyomi was burned to death in an abandoned church. I had no idea if Mello killed her and then himself, or if it was the other way around. 

"It was so nice of you to invite us, Minako," I heard Halle say to me. "I haven't seen you in a while." 

"Thanks," I responded before looking at Halle. "How is my sister doing?" "She's doing great," Halle answered. "She really misses you and wishes that you were back in Hillsboro." She paused for a minute and drank her Expresso from Starbucks. "But then again," Halle said after he was done taking a sip of coffee. "She really wishes that you were still in Waco so that you could be that much closer to home."