A/N: Inspired by Fiona Apple's oh so angst-filled "Never is a Promise," slightly distorted and messed with to give you psychological-descent!Light, who we all love and adore. Trying out something new with these divisions, and first time attempting Light. Read and review if you like!

Disease

It begins, as all things do, with good intentions.

The names go down one right after the other.

They have made their choices.

Now they suffer the consequences.

The names spew out and out, all dictated, all perfect, all ordered to death by their new master.

(tsugumi ohba 10:00 pm)(takeshi obata 11:00 pm)(nisio isin 12:00 am)

He watches and watches.

The world is diseased, rotting from the inside out, and there's very little anyone can do to stop it. The policemen are really only there to keep the filth from overflowing, not to stop it at its source. Nobody is nearly so brave.

Nobody except for a brilliant boy up in his room, a boy named Yagami Light who the world knows, but does not know.

(tetsuro araki 1:00 am)(masaru kitao 2:00 am)(mamoru miyano 3:00 am)

He is admired in hushed voices all over the world, in electronic letters of worship and secrets whispered behind pale hands. He is known throughout the world only as Kira, a savior, a hero.

A god.

(akino shiori 4:00 am)(kappei yamaguchi 5:00 am)(aya hirano 6:00 am)

And one day the world will awaken to a new age Kira has made for them. A world where they do not need to fear murder, or kidnappings, or anything that goes bump in the night and lurks in the dark.

There will only be Kira, and the throne he sits in, and the world that lies, waiting to be judged.

(miyu irino 7:00 am)(koichi yamadera 8:00 am)(yutaka shimaka 9:00 am)

And they will all fling themselves at his feet while he sits there, legs cross, eyes apathetic and not really there.

"Kira," they say, "powerful mighty Kira, I'll never glow the way you'll glow."

He'll only smile, all radiant light.

"I'll never be good the way you are."

(mamoru miyano 10:00 am)(risa uchida 11:00 am)(akio ohtsuka 12:00 pm)

"Please spare my family. Spare us all, Kira, please. Let us live in this brave new world that has such people in it. Please, let us start right away."

And Kira, he'll only smile, and one more line will be left empty that day.

(toshiko sawada 1:00 pm)(takashi aoyagi 2:00 pm)(iku nakahara 3:00 pm)

And Yagami Light, the brilliant boy thinks I won't stop, I can never ever stop, I will never stop.

(genzo wakayama 4:00 pm)(koki uchiyama 5:00 pm)(toru ohira 6:00 pm)

But never is a promise.

(minoru uchida 7:00 pm)(mayuko aoki 8:00 pm)(kazuya nakai 9:00 pm)

And he can hardly afford to lie anymore than he has to.

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