BONUS ROUND 1: THROWBACK PROMPTS

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FILL: TEAM VISUAL NOVELS

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Ship: Amane Misa/Akino Shiori (Death Note)

Notes: i think it would be cheating to write about battle royale yuri for a battle royale prompt (+ i've yet to read the lesbian spinoff manga). have a tatsuya fujiwara throughline instead

When Light clutches at her arms and tells her that they'll make it through this together, Shiori believes him. She's never had a reason to doubt him. Even now, in the Battle Royale, he's as dependable as ever. If anyone were to make it to the end, it would be him.

And that's true. Light's going to make it. Alone. 

Shiori presses on her bullet wound, the blood gushing out and staining her uniform shirt. Naomi had been aiming at Light, but she hadn't expected him to use Shiori as a human shield. Shiori hadn't, either. Naomi hadn't had time to stop the gun, nor time to respond before Light leapt forward and stabbed her in the heart. 

Without looking back, Light had grabbed the gun and fled, leaving Shiori bleeding out on the forest floor. All alone, with naught but a broken promise and a bleeding heart. Literally.

Shiori chokes on a sob. Or blood. She should have expected this. Light had been acting weird ever since they were dropped off on the island, becoming increasingly irate and paranoid. Nothing like the cool-headed lawyer-to-be she fell in love with. But it was easy to write that off as due to their current situation. She just hadn't thought it'd lead to this. 

It's becoming increasingly hard to think. Shiori slumps over, head spinning from blood loss. She isn't going to make it. She's going to die here, alone, thousands of kilometres from her loved ones. What kind of cruel punishment was this? What had she ever done, but love Light Yagami?

‘Light Yagami… I should've known you were an asshole the first time you showed up to middle school contemporary literature reading Nietzsche in german.’

Her eyes shut.

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Shiori does not expect to wake up ever again. 

She certainly doesn't expect to wake up in the school idol Misa Amane’s lap.

One blink, to confirm she's alive. Another to confirm that it's Misa’s face looking down at her. Another life-confirmation blink.

“Do you have something in your eye?” Misa titters. It is an embarrassing thing to be asked. Shiori quickly scrambles away, but only manages to fall onto a hard floor. From above, Misa laughs at her. “You're like a newborn foal.”

Similarly, it is an embarrassing thing to be told. If Shiori’s side weren't aching, she might have let herself actually be embarrassed. But her gunshot wound comes first. Avoiding Misa’s gaze, she sits up and tentatively checks her side. Through her school shirt, she can feel bandages. Someone must have patched her up.

“Oh! That was me!” Misa chirps, “I found you basically half-dead, so I brought you to my secret cabin and stitched you back up!

“You do know this is a competition, right? You should've left me for dead.” Shiori sneers back. She doesn't mean to be cruel, but it doesn't make much sense for Misa to save her. It wasn't as if they were close- Misa had a crush on her boyfriend after all. “What, you wanna use me to get close to Light? Hate to break it to you, but he's the reason why I nearly died.”

Misa hums. She moves to sit on the ground next to Shiori. “I know. I saw you and Misora.”

Oh great, Misa had been watching. She was probably stalking Light again. 

“Misora had been acting weird, so I followed her to make sure she-”

Shiori sighs. “Drop the act. Everybody knows your favourite hobby is stalking Light. What point are you trying to make?’

“I didn't- I thought-” Misa trails off, clutching at her skirt. “I just didn't think Light would…”

“That makes the two of us. But I guess it's survival of the fittest now.” Shiori manages something akin to a laugh, but it just aggravates her bullet wound. 

“No, I… I think he killed Rem.”

That gives Shiori pause. Rem was the strongest girl in the class, possibly even the strongest person altogether. Light getting the jump on her seemed near impossible- it would've made more sense if she was taken out by someone stronger like Ryuk, or someone (she can admit this now) smarter like Lawliet. If it's true… even someone like Misa couldn't forgive Light for killing her best friend. 

“So you want to get revenge? That's why you saved me?”

Misa’s head shoots up. “No! I mean, yes, that was part of it, but I couldn't just leave you there. My parents…”

Right. Her whole family died from gunshot wounds. Shiori probably wouldn't be alive right now if they didn't, or if Naomi got any other weapon in her pack. 

As much as she hates to admit it, she's indebted to Misa. If it means Light won't leave the island scot free… “If you do want revenge, I’ll help.”

It's Misa’s turn to be surprised. “Really? But I thought you didn't like me.”

The girl had always come off as ditzy, but she's surprisingly perceptive. And not as much as a doormat as Shiori had believed, apparently. “I don't. But right now, I hate my ex boyfriend a lot more.”

At that, Misa squeals (???) and wraps Shiori in a hug. “Oh, thank you, thank you! You won't regret it! We'll take Light down and get out, the two of us!”

Somehow, Shiori almost believes it. Maybe she's just as naive as before.