Just like that, her world tilted on it's axis.
She didn't know whether to be disappointed at the news, or astonished at the absurdly casual way it was conveyed. It had barely sunk in.
Hikari wanted to cry and scream. But she couldn't. She couldn't bring herself to overcome the absolute numbness that was consuming her. She didn't even know what she was feeling.
"Yagami?"
All she could manage was a question. A pretty much rhetorical question. Hikari was grateful. Not because he wasn't alone, because she wasn't alone. She always chased success. Chased more. But, for once in her life, probably in the most unpredictable time, she felt content.
"Yes."
She sighed shakily. Teeth clenched, she didn't even know whether she was trying to hold back tears or let them out.
She'd spent so much of their lives hiding her weaknesses, showing she was tough, that it'd consumed her personality.
L was caught off guard by her relatively mature reaction. Either it hadn't sunk in yet, or it'd sunk in too hard.
She clenched her fists. "Let's... burn that notebook up and making swallow every burning page till his tongue turns black!'
That was more like her.
"It is amusing how broad your creativity is when think of murderous ways," he asserted.
"It's not funny, damn it."
Anger. One way of channeling all the negativity and anguish inside of her without dropping to a vulnerable position. It was almost like her body was programmed to do this.
She started retreating back inside in silence, expecting him to follow. He knew how much this was affecting her, though she'd never be able to admit it.
The two sat down on the staircase, thoughts racing through their minds.
Hikari wiped herself down aggressively, a poor way of releasing her anger.
She'd been rubbing at her arms to the point where they had turned red, when she felt the soft touch of a towel on her foot.
"You and your timing..."
Despite complaining, she would never admit how much she liked it. How much she liked him. For a second, it made her forget what the future held.
But, regardless of what you think, the future is the future till you change it.
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𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙊𝙇𝙑𝙀 | l lawliet
Fanfiction𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖛𝖊 /𝖗ɪˈ𝖟ɒ𝖑𝖛/ - 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖉𝖔 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 L Lawliet had always been a mystery to the world, an enigma who was like a shadow: visible, but untraceable. But, as it is for most introverted men in ro...
