Misa shuddered whenever she thought about Light, his coldness to her, the fact that he was using her. She knew she should break it off, stop acting like a clingy five year old and tell the world they were the Kiras.

Everything she did was an act. Everything she did was so she could continue to kill the ones who murdered her parents before she could, oh yes, she hated her parents. They forced her to pose in front of ogling photographers who always tried to make a move on her before she killed them with her notebook, they forced her to go into showbiz so they could brag about her to other people, 'oh, have you heard, our daughter is Misa Misa!" , she had to follow because, goddammit, she was underage and they always kept watch on her. Her father, entering her room at night when he thought she was sleeping…

She was thinking about killing them when someone else did.

That day she entered the kitchen to find them with bullet holes in their foreheads, and inside she laughed and was the happiest she'd ever been in her life, and outside she cried and put on an act( one of the best she'd ever done) and thought that it was lucky for her that she was an actress.

So she continued to do showbiz because without her parents monitoring her every move she found that she actually enjoyed it. And so she could track down who killed her parents so she could maybe thank them and then kill them.

But as years passed she found she didn't care about that so much, after all, she was going to kill them anyway wasn't she? and was going to forget about it when she saw Kira.

She wanted to talk with him, with someone else she could freely talk to about her death note. And maybe to find out how to destroy it, she wasn't sure how Rem would feel if she asked her. She hated talking to her in public because then everyone stared and wondered why Misa Misa was talking to herself.

So she decided to put on an act for him. After all, how could she be sure that he was someone she would want to talk to about in-depth things? And oh, how lucky she was that she did. Misa tried not to think about what could have happened if she was herself around him.

Sometimes it was a gift, she thinks. A gift and a curse, both intelligence and her death note. Being intelligent meant that you could figure out things quicker, but it just raged at her insides when other people looked down at you because they thought they were smarter. Like someone she knew.

"Light-kun!" she squeals (and inside she wishes his face would crack off), " Misa Misa wants a date! Light-kun never goes on a date with Misa, so she is bored!!" she brushes his hand and looks up at him adoringly to stop herself from looking at the man next to him with messy black hair and a proclivity towards sweets.

"Not now, Misa. I'm busy," he replies, not taking his eyes off the computer screen, and she barely stops herself from spinning around in delight. " Go find something else to do."

Misa pouts at him and flounces out of the room but gets the feeling that Ryuzaki is watching her go.