Death Note: The Next Kira (Part One)

Chapter Twenty-Four (Part Three): Trying and Failing to Change the Vision

JANUARY 24, 2006

AROUND 8:30 AM-ISH 

TOKYO, JAPAN

                                                                               MARIE 

I then looked back at Near, who was glaring at me. "Not your boyfriend, eh?" he asked. 

My smile then faded. "No," I answered. "He's not." 

"But you seem to like it when he's flirting with you," Near added. I hesitated for a little bit. 

"Well," I began. "Sam's basically what if Sephiroth stayed a good guy and became a supermodel."

 Near and I looked at Sam, who was now in his seat. He was caressing his own long platinum-blonde hair and looking into a black hand mirror. 

"Such a beautiful man," Sam said quietly. "Just like Sephiroth." Near and I looked at each other. "But he's..." I began. "Very self-obsessed." 

Near sighed as he picked up a Jenga block. "Indeed," he said as he tried to build something else with the Jenga blocks. 

I offered to help him, but that's when I got the feeling to look at something. I turned to the left again and saw a guy who looked exactly like L eating a piece of cake. He then turned and looked at me. We stared at each other for quite some time and didn't say anything. 

"What?" he asked, finally breaking the silence. 

I shook my head and then looked back at Near. I sighed. "What a way to begin a morning," I told him.

That's when a little quake rumbled the ground. It didn't feel like a strong earthquake, but a soft and almost gentle one. However, it didn't stop us from looking around in fear as Near and I held onto something, but I couldn't exactly tell what we were holding onto. "What in the world?" Ms. Hirota asked as we all looked around in fear. The lights flickered a little bit as I saw Mr. Mikami, Ms. Hirota, Mr. Yamamoto, and Principal Mizuki look around the room. I then looked down at Near and saw that he was looking around with a horrified look on his face. 

"What in the world?" she muttered. 

 Mr. Mikami, Ms. Hirota, Mr. Yamamoto, and Principal Mizuki looked around the room as the lights flickered a little bit, but didn't go on and off. It went on for almost a minute.

Near and I looked down at each other's hands, only to notice that we were holding hands.

 "Oh!" I softly exclaimed as I removed my hands from Near's. 

"It's alright, you two," I heard Halle say. "Especially you, Near." 

Near turned around and looked at Halle. "It's just a little quake." We all looked at the teachers and the principal who was in the room with us. 

"Everybody okay?" Mr. Mikami asked. 

As I drifted my attention away from him, I widened my eyes, and I gasped in horror, for I had remembered something. It was a dream I had about the school having a mini-earthquake right before another earthquake took place, which was more powerful. I then remembered everybody evacuating the school and seeing hundreds of my schoolmates being slaughtered like in Final Destination, and I was one of them who lost their lives too.

"Oh no," I muttered.

 Near and Halle turned around so that they could look at me. "Are you okay?" Halle asked. 

I stayed silent for a few seconds. "It's too late," I muttered. "It's already happening." 

"What's already happening?" Halle asked.