Death Note: The Next Kira (Part One)

Chapter Fifty-Two: Kidnapped by a Celebrity

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

TOKYO, JAPAN

AT 9:00 AM

                                                                                  MARIE 

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock ringing. I reached over the bed and onto my nightstand so I could be able to snooze it. That's when I felt someone's mouth literally on my hand. 

"Huh? What?" I heard a male voice ask as I unintentionally rubbed my arm against his lips. "Please stop," I heard the guy beg.

 I opened my eyes and saw Ryuzaki lying there next to me. I quickly sat up in the bed.

 "Ryuzaki, you idiot!" I said to him. 

"It wasn't my idea!" he said to me.

 "Ugh," I let out under my breath. "Of course it was."

 "What are you talking about?" Ryuzaki asked me in a concerned tone. "I didn't do anything." 

I heard the door to my room opening. "What's going on in here?" I heard Light ask. Ryuzaki and I turned to face Light. 

"Light!" Ryuzaki and I chided.

 "Seriously?" I asked him. "This again?" 

Light looked at us with his eyes wide open. "I was in the guest room all night. I swear that I had nothing to do with any of this," he informed us.

 "Great," Ryuzaki said sarcastically as he got up from the bed. 

"You must have been sleepwalking this time, Ryuzaki," Light told him. 

"Oh, is that so?" Ryuzaki asked as he looked up at Light. "I was up last night getting a midnight snack, and my flashlight went out. I must have stumbled into this room by accident." 

"Well, if that's the case, then I'm locking the door at night," I told Light and Ryuzaki. "Even if you do lock the door at night, either of us can pick the lock and open the door," Ryuzaki informed me.

 I scoffed and crossed my arms. "Seriously?" I asked. "Can't you let a girl sleep in peace for once without having a guy right next to her?" "You're not helping," Light told me. 

I watched as Ryuzaki turned and faced Light. "Well, you're the one that started this whole thing, my friend," he told him.

 Silence fell upon us, and we all just stood (or sat) there. "It's a good thing I'm not in America," I told Light and Ryuzaki. "That way I don't have to go to church since I stopped believing in both God and the Devil when I was thirteen."

 "How come?" Ryuzaki asked me after he turned around and looked at me. "My aunt had cancer during the middle part of 2000, but she was able to get better around the holidays last year," I answered. "Soon after that, she got into a really bad car accident, and she didn't survive." 

Light and Ryuzaki looked at me with shocked looks on their faces.

 "Oh," Ryuzaki let out. "I'm very sorry that you had to go through that." 

I sighed. "It's okay, Ryuzaki," I told him. "It was a while ago." 

"Almost five years doesn't seem like a whole while ago," Light told me. 

"So when did she die?" "A couple of weeks before her birthday," I answered. "It wasn't that soon after when she died; it was only about four months up until her death. She was about to turn thirty-five on February 22nd of that year." 

"So 2001?" Light asked.

 I nodded. "Yes," I answered. "That was also the same year when we were under attack."