Death Gods
by Saladred
"Rem ?"
The female Death God who had silently been observing Misa reading a fashion magazine lifted her head.
"Yes?"
"Do you also have such a thing, a shikai?"(1)
Silence remained for a moment.
"A shikai?"
"Or a bankai? They mention it here," the modell told her and pointed at an article featuring the illustration of a young, orange-haired boy carrying a freakishly huge kitchen knife with a white band twining around it's handle. Next to him stood a dark-skinned man in a Hawaiian shirt, a woman with glasses in a lab coat and a red-haired girl with huge breasts and a dim-witted face, wearing a sweat suit.
Rem could not read the Japanese characters, therefore she searched for something in the picture that might be a "shikai". She saw nothing that she thought it could be.
"What is a shikai?"
"Oh, so you don't have one?"
Misa seemed to be disappointed.
"Well, too good to be true."
She stretched on her bed and examined her fingernails.
"If we had one, we could have helped Kira even more," she said.
"Besides, it says here that all boys think a shikai is cool. So he surely would've been happy about it!"
She sighed and closed her eyes. It remained quiet for a while. Misa seemed to be pondering about something. Rem did not take much interest in this shikai thing but she feared that she might have made Misa unhappy. But before she could propose to get a shikai, Misa sprang upright and smacked her forehead.
"Of course you don't have a shikai! You don't have a sword!" she exclaimed.
"Anyway, it doesn't matter. I like you the way you are, Rem."
She winked at Rem and turned towards her magazine again. But she quickly turned the page with the oddly dressed young man on it.
"We don't have time for fantasies like that. After all, we want to create a New World!" she stated and giggled. A moment later she looked up from her magazine again.
"Say, Rem, can you transform into animals?"(2)
Author's note: Misa's ideas about death gods in this story originate from:
(1) Bleach
(2) Fullmoon wo sagashite
This story was NOT written by me! It's Saladred's story! I just translated it to English and since he doesn't want to upload it, I did because I think the story is cute and deserves to be read by other Death Note fans :-)