A/N: This is my first official chapter story! I do not own Death Note or its characters. Those belong to Tsugumi Ohba. I only own my OC Amaya Kobatsuki. I hope you enjoy my story :)

15 Minutes

"Hey Apple, what are you doing?" A strange, black creature stood in the corner of a small bedroom designed for a toddler. The creature was staring at a girl, no older than 4, building something out of cards, candy wrappers, paper, anything she could find. Her long black hair was tied into a ponytail as to not get in her way.

"I'm constructing a replica of the world's first bio-dome. What are you doing Ryuk?" The girl turned to look at the tall ghoulish looking creature, Ryuk, with her big, forever changing color eyes. Ryuk chuckled before finishing his apple, the fruit he named the girl after for he was fond of her and apples. Of course he knew the girls real name, he just preferred to use this one.

"Amaya! Time for dinner!" A female voice, most likely her mothers, was calling for her. Amaya looked sad that she had to leave her sculpture but she got up anyways.

"Coming Momma!" She turned and smiled to Ryuk, her one and only friend. "I'll bring you back an apple." She then skipped off to eat.

Amaya Kobatsuki, daughter of Shibuya and Mai Kobatsuki. Age 4. Has no siblings and her father is deceased. Has an extremely high intelligence. Ryuk knew everything about her. He was sent to kill her mother. Unfortunately he was becoming attached to the girl and it was becoming very hard to kill her mother and leave, but he had to do it and he had to do it today. It was Mai's time to go. He grabbed his little note book her always carried around and started to write in it.

Mai Kobatsuki. December 18 7:15 pm. After supper, leaves to go get groceries at 7:00 pm. At 7:10 pm a drunk driver is driving down the same road in the opposite direction. At 7:15 pm the drunk driver hits her car. She dies instantly on impact.

Ryuk looked up at the clock. It was 7:00 pm. In 15 minutes Amaya would be an orphan. Ryuk left to go to him own realm before Amaya could see him.

"Ryuk I brought you an apple! Ryuk?" Amaya's eyes searched the whole room for him but only found a piece of paper where he last stood. She picked it up and read it, her heart stopping. 'Goodbye Apple.' Her best friend had left her. She heard tires screech in the distance as she fell to the floor, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Not five minutes later there was a knock at her front door. She ran downstairs to open it hoping for her mom. Instead there were two police men standing on the front porch. They looked down at her with sad expressions.

"Is your dad home little one?" One of the men crouched down to be eye level with her.

"My dad died when I was 2, mister." Amaya had a look on her face that said she didn't even care. The men looked at each other for a second.

"You're going to have to come with us." A look of confusion spread across her face.

"Why? What's going on?" The men didn't look at her and just talked to each other. It sounded important so she tried to listen in. She heard one of them say the word orphanage and then it hit her. Her mom was dead. She was all alone in the world.

The police brought her to the local orphanage/school and explained her story to the head mistress. They left her there with only one bag of clothes and her memories. She was alone. She lost everything, everyone important to her. And it all happened in a span of 15 minutes.

Well I hope you enjoy the first chapter! Love it? Hate it? I'd love to know. R and R please!