Merry Christmas everybody! Well, actually Merry Christmas Eve! This is my present to all of you, and I would like to thank Ebony Sword for the idea behind this story! I know, I have other stories to work on, but this one is going to be one of my major stories I'm working on, I have a lot more free time now (not to mention Winter Break just started), so I hope to have at least a few chapters of this up before I have to go back to school!

Sorry if anyone's OOC in this chapter, Sayu's only 9 in this chapter (don't worry, I know she's actually older) so that's why she's so childish and naïve (well, more naïve than usual :D) and Ryuk... well... he's Ryuk, he's kind of hard to write for, considering it's been a while since I've watched the anime. Anyways, I also apologize for this chapter for being so short. It's kind of a prologue and plus I really wanted to get this up before Christmas, so Merry Christmas!

Disclaimer: I don't won Death Note or Black Butler, if I did the Shinigami in Death Note would look more like the one's in Black Butler, and the ones in Black Butler would have Death Notes.

"Hey! Wait up!" A nine year old girl screeched as she ran down the sidewalk after the bus as fast as her little legs could carry, though the bus remained oblivious and turned a corner, continuing its route.

"Not again," she muttered sadly. This wasn't the first time something like this happened, her teachers had told her that she needed to hurry and get on the bus as soon as school was over, but she just couldn't help it! The bright, colorful leaves on the trees only lasted so long until they all fell off, and she just had to take it all in before they were all gone and the trees were bare until next spring. There was already a noticeable number missing that day than there was the day before.

Sayu sighed as she fell backwards, collapsing onto a large pile of leaves that she and her classmates had pilled up during their recess, the fragile leaves making a crunching noise from the sudden weight on top of it, though it wasn't much.

What am I going to do now? Sayu questioned. Both of her parents were busy, her father was at the police station and her mother was volunteering at the hospital, so that ruled them out of the question. Her brother, Light, was at his Tennis lessons, so he couldn't help her either. Sayu supposed that she could always ask a teacher to drive her home, but then she'd receive a long lecture on why she should get to the bus on time. It seemed the best option for her was to just walk home, though it was a rather long walk.

Deciding that walking home was going to be the best choice, she pulled herself up into an upright position, standing up. The sooner she got home, the sooner she could get out of this cold weather.

Sayu turned back to the leave pile and picked up her backpack, turning to the sidewalk and beginning her 'exciting' journey home. It was going to be like one of her story books she read in school! An unexpected situation leads the main character, a kid no older than herself, to an exciting adventure that changes their live forever. It all sounded so fun to the young girl! But little did she know, just how right she would be, and that her adventure was not going to be all fun and games.

Sayu looked up at the sky, watching a few birds fly overhead, traveling somewhere else where it was warmer. Sayu smiled happily, she was so glad that she managed to learn the way home from walking with her brother many times home from school. She was nearly half way home too! So it wasn't to long until she, like the birds, would be out of the cold!

Though Sayu liked birds and all, she wished there were more things out in autumn, like frogs! Or butterflies! Sayu liked butterflies, how they changed from a small little worm-like creature to a beautiful majestic being that flew high above everything else.

Putting the thoughts of the small creatures aside, Sayu continued her journey, humming random notes that just appeared in her head in no particular order. Sayu grin widened, and her parents said she couldn't take care of herself! She's pretty well of on her own, she didn't get why her parents didn't trust her to be home alone! Even now, when she was supposed to get off of a bus, there was supposed to be a babysitter at home to watch her.

Huh, I wonder how they'll react when I don't get off the bus? She questioned, giggling a little at the thought of them frantically running around the house flailling their arms, screaming they don't know where the baby they're supposed to sit on is, and her parents coming home later, only to find them sitting on a baby doll. Well, they were a baby-sitter, though Sayu didn't get why that was their name. They didn't sit on baby's, and Sayu was pretty sure they'd get in trouble if they did.

Sayu was snapped out of her thoughts by a bird tweeting in a nearby tree, another bird tweeting back to it in response. Sayu stopped and listened for a little while, giggling. It was like they were having their own conversation from tree to tree, any other birds free to join in if they were in the area. Sayu tried to join in too, by whistling, but failed, since she had no clue how to make any sounds other than air passing by her lips.

How do they do it? They don't even have lips, do they? The young girl wondered. People use their lips to whistle, right? But, Light said that birds had beaks, so how do they whistle?

Sayu shrugged it off and started walking again, deciding to just ask Light once she got home. She looked back up at the sky, only to see the sun starting to go down a little. Sayu wondered how late it was, surely she hadn't been walking for that long, right? Before she could question anything any further, she saw a small, black object fall out of the sky and into a nearby parking lot.

"Huh? What is that?" Sayu questioned, her curiosity starting to get the better of her. She looked up at the sky again. "I should go home, but I need to know what fell!" Sayu ran into the parking lot and looked around. Sayu frowned, and turned around, planning on just going home since she couldn't find anything, but she quickly stopped, spotting a dark object out of the corner of her eye. She walked towards it and looked at it confused. It seemed to be a small black notebook, with something written on it. It seemed to be in another language though, maybe English? Light had showed her a little bit of that, but she didn't know very much.

Sayu knelt down and picked up the book, examining it. It looked just like a normal notebook, but why did it fall out of the sky?

"Did an airplane drop this?" She questioned, having no other explanation why it came out of the sky. She examined it a few more minutes, deciding that looked cool and would be a good present for her to give her brother, she decided to keep it. She was so focused in that notebook, when she looked up she didn't notice the figure standing in front of her, and screamed when she saw it, stumbling backwards and falling on her butt. But Sayu was frankly to shocked to care.

The thing standing in front of her was truly terrifying. It was a large bluish greyish skinned being that was looking down on her, with it's large, round yellow eyes, a wide, twisted grin etched into its face. It's head appeared to be attached to a skin-tight black body suit, and Sayu wasn't sure if that was actually the case or if it was just for design, either way it was freaking her out.

"You know it's pretty rude to scream at someone you don't know." The thing said in a low, gruff voice and Sayu screamed again. "Come on, you're hurting my feelings."

"W-who are you?!" Sayu questioned.

"I'm Ryuk, the Shinigami whose Death Note you just found."

"S-Shinigami? D-Death Note?"

"It's complicated. I don't expect a puny kid like you to understand, let alone be enough to entertain me. Can I have that back?" He questioned, moving closer to her. Sayu, not wanting him to get any closer, held the book up to try to put some space in-between them. Though the thing, Ryuk, apparently thought she was holding it out to him and took it, turning back around, black feathery wings sprouting from his back.

"Thanks kid." He said, getting ready to take off. Sayu wasn't sure what compelled her to do what she did next, whether it be an act of anger, stupidity, or curiosity, but she jumped on his back right as he took off, though Ryuk didn't seem to notice she was there, due to her very light weight.

Sayu looked around, they were in the sky! The clouds were all around them, it was a site to be seen. Sayu looked at the world under them, and her eyes widened in fear. Everything was growing smaller the higher up they got. Sayu screamed in fear, instantly regretting her decision.

"What the-?" Ryuk started, realizing the kid was on his back. "Get off of me! No free rides!" He tried to shake her off, but she just screamed and held on even tighter. They had entered an unknown area, that rested in-between the Human World and the Shinigami Realm. If you went up even further, you were in the Shinigami Realm, if you went down, the Human World. If you went left or right, no one knew what would happen. "Get off!"

"No!" Sayu countered, not wanting to fall to her untimely doom, though Ryuk seemed contempt in getting her off.

"I said let go!" He screamed, flinging around one more time, Sayu finally coming loose and flinging to his left, into the unknown. Ryuk looked over and sighed.

"I wonder how much trouble I'm going to get in for this." He muttered, looking up. "Probably a whole lot. Damn."

Sayu screamed as loud as she could as she fell, clenching her eyes shut. She was going to die, she just knew she was going to die! A few moments later, after noticing she was still alive, Sayu fearfully opened her eyes and looked around her, a few tears on her cheeks. She had started crying sometime when she fell.

She looked around curiously. She wasn't dead. She seemed to be falling down a tunnel-type thing. It was a light brown all around her, and occasionally something would pass, though she couldn't get a clear view of what they were, most of them seemed to be clocks, from what she could tell. Next thing she knew, a bright white flash appeared all around her, making her close her eyes from the light, and then next thing she knew she was on something hard, a bunch of small, pointy objects poking her. Sayu opened her eyes, only to be met with a dark green substance. She painfully sat up and realized that she was in a bush.

She stood up, brushing a few twigs from her hair. Her arms and legs were all scratched up from landing in the bush, and Sayu briefly wondered how high she fell from. She was still alive, so it couldn't have been that high up. Sayu then looked around her, her mouth dropping and her eyes becoming as big as the moon.

All the buildings around her were made of stone! Everything looked so old fashioned! At the sound of a horse's neigh, she turned her head and saw a horse and buggy ride past her. She looked around slowly. Where was she? Better question yet, just what time was it?

So, whatcha think? Like it? Hate it? Anywhere in-between? Is anyone OOC? Please review and give me you're feedback! Pwease?

What do you want for Christmas/What was your favorite gift you got for Christmas?

Anyone who reads any of my stories will know that I like to ask a question at the end of each chapter. And the last part, well, some of you might be reading this after Christmas, so yeah. Sorry to those of you who don't celebrate Christmas, and therefor cannot answer the question. Merry Christmas though, to all of you who do :D