Death Note: The Story of Toshiro Akamine

by DoggyBearBear

What if Light never picked up the Death Note that fateful day at his high school? Who else could have? What would they have done with it? This is the story of a student much like Light who become the user of the Death Note and proceeded to use it to fulfill his own ideology about the world. Criminals beware for Toshiro shows no mercy to those that are unjust!

Prologue:

This is a world different from that of which you know. The places and names might be the same, but the people that you've come to know and love are different from what they are in that other parallel dimension. Yes… This is a world where the esteemed Light Yagami never acquired the Death Note, and, because of that, the identity known as "Kira" never came to fruition.

So what became of the Death Note then? Well, Ryuuk had still managed to "Accidently drop it" in the human world, but Light wasn't the one who noticed the falling book… Instead it was one of his classmates. Someone whom Light had known of but never on a personal level. For you see, the student who had actually picked up the book was Toshiro Akamine… A rival student of Light's who competed for the top position of the academic leaderboard in their nation.

Toshiro was a lot like light in many ways. Their personal lives were fairly similar in that he also spent a lot of his time further pursuing his academic career. Going to night classes as well as his usual morning classes was just a part of his life. His goal was to become a trauma surgeon, one that would accomplish great deeds for people all over the world, and help those who've been put into critical care by the inhuman acts of others.

But… just like in the case of Light, the finding of the Death Note caused him to change his perspective on humanity. It gave him an opportunity to do more with his life than just simply help those who have been hurt. He felt that if he were to rid the world of all loose criminals, all those that would impose injustice and harm on to others, then that act alone would be more beneficial to all of the people who tried to live just lives. With that ideology in mind, Toshiro began his intensive quest to exterminate the vile that was rotting his world.