The Rules That Went Unnoticed

by Kaiqua

Causes and effects of change. Minor or major, they all stem from the Death Note's How To Use. Mainly gen; For Want Of A Nail; some angst; each story stands alone and has separate warnings inside.

1. Wet Paper

Wet Paper
Words: 100
Setting: Chapter 1 / Episode 1
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Slight possible squick

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How to Use: XXXI

- The number of pages of the Death Note will never run out.

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Two nights after picking up the notebook of death, madness strikes Light Yagami.

The Death Note is grabbed roughly by its binding, huge clumps of pages tearing out in a fury born of guilt.

They scatter to the floor, seemingly harmless.

When all that remains is a black cover and the instructions, the pages are gathered and shredded.

Each scrap is plunged into a bowl of water.

A smuggled spoon mixes them gingerly, and the paste goes down his throat in three sobbing gulps.

Next morning the pages have grown back, ready for use once again.

Light feels like vomiting.