CHAPTER 1: REVIVAL
This story began when a Shinigami named Ryuk dropped his fatal notebook into the human world. This notebook's name is the Death Note. And there was a special student, named Light Yagami. He seemed like a normal high school student. He was the smartest out of all the Japanese students, he came from a rich family, and above all, he was very bored with his life. He hated how the world was. And he picked up this killer notebook, the whole world shook and fell to its knees. There was a deity that was dealing justice to the criminals on this planet. The world labeled Light Yagami, Kira. He was killing criminals on this planet, cleansing this "rotten world". But a man who goes by the name of L tried to stop the genius Kira. Then a battle of unbelievable talent skill and smarts took place between the world's greatest detective, L, and the world's greatest serial killer, Kira. This game of immeasurable intellect ended with the death of L, whose real name turned out to be Ryuzaki. Light had won. Then L's successor, Near, did what the original L set out to do: unmask the infamous Kira. And so he did, at the Daikoku Wharf, or Yellow Box. So Light Yagami was labeled as Kira, and killed by the Shinigami who gave him his lethal power, Ryuk. This is where our story starts…
"Uhhh….," groaned Light. Light opens his eyes and sees a dark grey sky. It looks as though storm clouds have gathered everywhere in this gloomy world. "Where am I?"
"This is the Shinigami Realm," answered the Shinigami, Ryuk. He was barely hovering above the ground, as usual, and looking at Light.
Light sits up, being propped up by his arms. He looks around and says, "This is weird…the last thing I remember is confronting Near, being shot by Matsuda, and…and…," suddenly something clicked inside Light's head. "YOU! You killed me Ryuk! You killed me with your Death Note!" Light screamed, pointing at Ryuk.
"This is true. But I warned you when we met. Remember? I said that in the end, I would be the one who wrote your name in my Death Note," Ryuk said.
"Dammit, Ryuk," Light shouted. "You didn't have to kill me. Blasted Shinigami," Light looked down at the ground, realizing that it was pointless to curse this Shinigami for something that has already happened. "Hmm… fine. I guess what's done is done. So, why am I…?"
"Otoharada Kurou, heart attack." An ominous voice said, as if coming out of the sky. Suddenly, Light felt a stinging pain in his chest. He gripped his heart area, and collapsed. Light woke up again and saw that same dreary sky.
Light props himself up again and sees Ryuk, right where he was before he collapsed. "What just happened? Ryuk, what…"
Light couldn't finish his sentence. The voice coming from the sky interrupted him and stated, "Shibuimaru Takuo, car accident." Then, out of nowhere, a dump truck hit Light going 55 miles per hour. He didn't even feel anything as the massive truck collided into him. Light woke up again, just like before, and looked at his body. There were no bruises or cuts or anything, even though he was just hit by a truck.
'It can't be…the people I've killed so far…" Light's eyes got wider with the revelation he has come up with.
"Ahh, so you've caught on. That's right. Everyone that you have killed with the Death Note, you will feel the same pain. If you have killed a thousand people, for example, you will die a thousand times. Then, after you have felt the pain of every person you murdered, you will disappear, and erased from the memories of people on Earth and files and records on your planet will show that you didn't even exist. That is the atonement for anyone who uses the Death Note." The Death God explained.
"No way…," Light said in astonishment.
"Did you really think you could become a Shinigami? True, I gave you the power of one, but a human can never become anything more than a human."
"Then what was the voice that came out if thin air?" Light asked.
"That is the Shinigami King," Ryuk explained. "He is the one who deals out your punishment. That old fart's Death Note has the special ability of killing the same person over and over again."
The Shinigami King's voice broke up their conversation again and said, "Lind L. Tailor, heart attack."
"Gah…," Light fell to the ground again, clutching his chest, feeling the exact pain Lind L. Tailor did before he died.
Light woke up a fourth time and got up quicker than the other times. He finally got a good look at his surroundings. They are in what appears to be a grey amphitheater with a purple hue to it. But this building looks like someone left it there to rot. There was no ceiling to it and there were some holes in the walls. Everything around Light was grey and dark. Even the ground, which he has been introduced with multiple times, is a gloomy grey color. Ryuk is staring at him, as if waiting for Light to say something.
"I see… so for every person I have killed with the Death Note, I will receive the same punishments they did?" Light asked.
"Yes, that's right," Ryuk clarified.
"Hmm hm hm hmmm," sounded Light. The noises sounded as if he was suppressing a laugh. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" howled the well-renown Kira. He was laughing, just as he did when he has thought of a plan to best someone who stands in his way. "So, I feel the pain of all I have killed. In order for that to happen, I have to exist," Deduced the intellectual Light Yagami while grinning the same devilish grin as when he witnessed L die.
"Light, what are you planning?" asked Ryuk with interest.
"That's more than enough time to formulate an exact plan and escape this situation I'm in. I could strike a deal with the Shinigami King. I will give him my intellect in order for him to reconstruct this rotting world. And if he refuses, I could easily just kill him."
"I'm not sure the old fart would want that deal. And killing him would be near impossible," said Ryuk.
"Ryuk, who do you think I am? I am the man who became a God and transformed the rotting human world. I will find a way. I shall best him with my superior intellect."
"Wow. Light, you really are amazing."
"Thank you, Ryuk. It seems, the entertainment for you isn't quite over," Light looks up in the pale, grey sky, "Human versus Shinigami… a battle at the summit." Light said with a hint of amusement in his voice. He starts walking toward the nearest opening in the wall of the amphitheater-like building they were in. "Let's go, Ryuk."
"Ku ku ku," Ryuk chuckled, "This should be very interesting," he thought to himself.
"I will show you the genesis of the new world once again." Light said. And they both went outside the opening in the wall, and into the Shinigami Realm.