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Ch. 5 Conan's Comics

I sit in the cold, metal chair staring at my sneakers. I never thought I'd have to be here again. Or at least so soon.

"(Y/N)"

I look up from my feet and frantically look around the room. I jump up and stare at my sister, tearing up.

"Touka" I whisper while running to embrace her.

"I missed you so much." I said.

She kisses me on the forehead and looks down and smiles at me.

"Well good cause now you can't get rid of me." she said laughing through her tears.

She grabs my hand as we walk out the hospital together. Touka goes on about how nasty the hospital food was and complained about how big the pills they made her take were. She seems...normal.

"I think she's okay." I say smiling to myself.

"Hey can we hit up that comic store on the corner? We haven't been there in ages!" she says excitingly.

The comic store. I had almost forgot about it

FLASHBACK

"(Y/N)! This is the new edition, we have to get it!" Touka said excitedly.

"There's no way daddy's gonna let us get it tough." I said, pouting.

"No way I'm going to let you get what?" Our dad said, smirking at us as he picked me up and put me on his shoulders.

"This new comic book! Oh please dad!" Touka said.

My dad took the comic book from Touka's hand and examined it.

"Hmmm?" He took a second. "Okay but don't tell your mom." he said chuckling at Touka.

"Okay deal!" Touka says snatching it from my dad.

"Thanks Daddy!" Touka exclaimed while she ran to the register.

He looked up at me.

"You won't tell mom, right little one." he said while putting my pinky towards his face.

"I pinky promise." He locked his pinky with mine.

"Okay, pinky promise." He said laughing.

FLASHBACK OVER

"Comic Store? I'm down." I say to her just happy we're together.

We walk into the Comic Store and are greeted by the worker.

"Welcome to Conan's Comics!" The man says.

'Conan? I don't remember this place being called Conan.'

Hey look at this one! Touka exclaims, running towards a shelf.

"(Y/N) This is the new edition, we have to get it!" Touka exclaims.

I whip my head to look at her.

"What did you just say?" I ask, startled.

"This new comic book! Oh please dad!" Touka exclaims.

What the f*uck was happening.

"Touka what are yo-"

I look up at her to see her staring at me with a blank expression.

"Why did I die, (Y/N)?" Touka asks.

I paused. 'Die?'

"What? What are you talking about?" I ask, inching towards her with a look of confusion on my face.

"Do you know what I saw?" she asked, her face as straight as a pencil.

"What did you see?" I ask, still confused by her sudden change of behavior.

"Maybe we shouldn't have gone to SpaceLand" she says a tear rolling down her still straight face.

"Huh? Space Lan-"

Suddenly, everything dropped. I couldn't speak anymore. It all came rushing back. I remembered.

I remembered all of it. The bus-jacking, Light, the FBI agent, Touka hallucinating, the hospital. I remember....the call.

"I am very sorry to inform you that your sister, Touka (L/N) has passed away due to a heart attack."

Heart Attack. Was it a coincidence or was it...

"Touka..." I looked up at her tears rolling down my face.

"What did you see?"

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

I jolted up out of bed, sweaty and in tears.

Another nightmare. I rolled over looking at my phone to see texts from my best friend. It was nice that we touched bases again, even if it was just out of pity.

MISA: Hey girly! Are we still meeting for lunch! I have some big news to tell you :) xoxo

I guess a little leisure time wouldn't hurt...

I answered

ME: Hey, yeah sure meet you at 12:30

I put my phone down and plopped back on my bed. I stared at the ceiling, recalling my dream. It had been a month or so since Touka's passing and I still couldn't wrap my head around it. I had been going insane, thinking she was alive in my dreams when she wasn't. I guess that's what happens when someone you love dies so suddenly and so inexplicably, or just dies in general.

I get up from my bed and notice how messy my desk is. Damn. I really did need a break. For the past month I had done nothing but follow the Kira case, I had even hacked my way into some police databases. Although I spent restless nights searching for Kira, parts of the evidence in itself could not reveal anything without the remainder of the information...and unfortunately, i had no access to it.

 I couldn't rest properly with even the slightest bit of speculation in my mind that my sister could've died at the hands of Kira. I had no evidence, of course, but for some reason I couldn't shake the idea out of my head. I had been focused on the Kira case day and night, but had run out of leads to follow. I went to bed last night feeling as if my head was going to explode...

'Hopefully this lunch with Misa will take my mind off of the Kira case.'

 I walk to the bathroom and start to get ready. I put on a sweatshirt, a pair of black jeans, and throw my hair into a pony-tail.

I walked downstairs and grabbed my bus pass.

I sighed, 'Alright let's go'

Sorry this one was a little short but hope y'all are enjoying!