Disclaimer- I do not own death note. This is my first attempt at a Death Note chapter story, so constructive criticism is welcomed. Hope this will entertain to whoever reads it.
When a character is either talking or thinking they are shown this way:
Talking is " "
Thinking is ' '
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Raito was bored with life, and everything was too simple. Nothing had been a challenge ever since elementary school. All the other kids were trying to learn how to tie shoelaces back in first grade while Raito had known since kindergarten. While his peers were learning the two times table Raito had already mastered the complete time table chart. At times he would help the police solve cases, but the cases were so easy he doubted the police even tried at times.
Sighing, Raito turned his swirl chair to face the outside his glass sliding door. The sun was setting and another pointless day rolled away with the dying sunlight. He was losing faith in humanity, but that did not mean he would give up being a cop. Helping the crime rate go down, and following in father's foot steps was something Raito still planned on doing. He would help the world become less rotten.
A loud noise was coming up the stairs at a fast pace, and Raito knew Sayu was coming to tell him something she found exciting. His door burst open and Sayu came into his room at a quick walk. She grabbed the back of his chair and spun him around, so that the two were facing each other. "Guess what Raito Dad is coming home for supper today" Sayu said not even giving Raito to guess like she had originally wanted him to do. "Really" Raito asked sounding curious, even though he knew his dad had caught the murderer earlier today. Sayu released the chair and Raito followed her down the narrow steps that lead into the dining area.
Ryuuga Hideki was coming on TV today and giving a live concert. Sayu went over to the TV so she could record it and then watch it again, but at that time no one would be home and she could sing and dance all she wanted.
Having no interest in the singing idol Raito moved to the kitchen. Sachiko was finishing up dinner, and was just about done. Only having to set up the table and putting the dishes on the table.
"Do you want me to help you bring those dishes out to the table?" Raito asked politely. "Oh Raito you don't have to. Sayu can help me" Sachiko responded dismissively. "I don't mind and Sayu's program is coming on soon" Raito responded. "That is very sweet of you, then please grab the beef stew pot" Sachiko responded happily, as she then moved to pick up a tray that held four rice bowls on them.
The two walked out of the kitchen and into the dinning hall. Soichiro was walking into the room as well. "Welcome home dear" Sachiko said as she placed the tray down on the table and then proceeds to put the four rice bowls in their proper place. "How was work" Sachiko asked, re-picking up the tray and holding it close to her chest as she turned to face her husband. "Busy as usual, but I have a few days off since my team and I caught the murderer today." Soichiro said relieved to have a few days off, and could spend time with his family again.
"That's great dad" Raito said as he placed the beef stew on a hot plate that was already set in the center of the table. "It was Hiruma, Soujiro, right?" Raito asked though he already knew the answer. He had been following it and hacking into the police database ever so often to see how it was coming along. He figured out who it a week before the police had.
Soichiro smiled proudly at his son "Yes it was" Soichiro said confirming his son's suspicion.
"Let's not have any police talk around the dinner table" Sachiko said and then called for Sayu to come help her set up the dinner table, while Raito got the glasses and filled them with jasmine tea. When everything was set up the four sat down and ate.
Afterwards Raito went into his room to study, even through he didn't need to. He didn't want to get bad test scores. Nothing less than perfect would suffice. Once he entered his room he shut the door and waited for a challenge to come into his life.
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Next Day
Raito had not seen the Death Note fall from the sky since the teacher had called on him to read a long passage that was written in English, and one of three students in the class who could speak flawless English.
Tetsuya Nanahara sat two seats behind Raito and was looking outside the window. He picked a few words out of what Raito was saying but didn't get most of it. A sudden object caught his attention as it was falling from the sky. 'Where did that come from' Tetsuya thought as he looked outside to see if a small jet had somehow dropped it, or if a student on the roof had. There was no jet stream line, and no student.
Class let out a few minutes early and Tetsuya speed walked out of the class room and down a flight of stairs before he reached outside. He moved into the court yard and no one had picked it up yet. He jogged the rest of the way to where the notebook lay before coming to a stand still right in front of it.
His hand slowly reached it and nerves crept up on him as soon as he saw the title.
'Death Note is this some kind of prank by the freshman' Tetsuya thought as he looked at the weird notebook. He flipped it open to the first page. "Whoever's name is written in here shall die' Teenagers sure due have morbid fasciations" Tetsuya mumbled to himself, not wanting to attract attention to himself.
After debating on whether or not to take it home, Tetsuya decided to, and slipped it into his backpack before walking away.
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As soon as Tetsuya got home he went straight up to his room and locked the brown wooden door behind him. Making his way to his desk, which was located in the far left corner of his room, he promptly sat down at the small wooden desk and switched his light one.
Bringing out the Death Note his fingers trembled a little at the thought of controlling life and death. Pushing the thought quickly away, since there is no way it could be real, Tetsuya thought to himself. He read through a few of the rules and decided to try out the notebook.
'It is not real' Tetsuya thought to himself again as he pulled back his long black hair into a ponytail. And thought he needed to some lose weight since his uniform was beginning to feel tight around his abdomen.
Ever sine he was eight he had a crush on a girl that always seemed to be in at least one of classes. He had asked her out many times and every time she turned him down. Not even giving him a second glance at school. So he wrote down the name 'Kamiya Hana.' But what if the notebook was really real, then he just would have killed of someone. Maybe if he erased the name then she wouldn't die if it was real. Cursing himself for using a pen he crossed out the name and prayed Hana would still be alive. After eating dinner with his mom and doing homework Tetsuya went to bed that night and could not fall asleep.
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Next Day
Tetsuya got up and dressed like usual and went downstairs to eat some breakfast. His mom had turned the news on, and the next report was starting.
A young anochor woman with short black hair came onto the screen and started talking. "A seventeen year old girl was found dead on her way home from school yesterday. Her friends say she just suddenly fell over and wouldn't get up. They called an ambulance, and the medics at the scene said she was dead when they got there. Cause of death is a heart attack" and for a second the anchor women's eyes widened in surprise, but went back to normal as she started talking again. "The victims name is Kamiya Hana" and her voice continued but Tetsuya ran upstairs and open the Death note.
He had killed her crossing out the name had not worked. Why had it not worked? There was no way he could live with himself after killing the only girl he ever had feelings for. In sloppy handwriting Tetsuya wrote his own name in the Death Note, and forty seconds fell over dead onto his desk.
Worried about her only son bolting up the stairs and not coming back down even though he was going to be late for school if he did not leave now, she decided to go cheek on him. Himeko walked up the stairs and sighed lightly. Her son was always trying to sleep for as long as possible before he left for school. "Tetsuya" she called lightly, stepping into her son's room. "You're going to be late" she scolded lightly.
His body was slumped on the desk in an odd position. His upper body was on the desk with his lower body slowly moving toward the ground. 'Had he developed necropsy' Himeko thought worriedly. Coming to her son she shook him lightly and waited for a response, and none came. "This isn't funny Tetsuya, Tetsuya" she said her voice shaking from fear and shaking her son harder to get him up. Tetsuya whole body hit the floor with a small thud, and Himeko checked for a pulse and found none. Quickly moving to the telephone she called 911, and the police. First her husband and now her son, and Himeko broke into hysteric sobs.
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Teru didn't know why he had to come with Detective Morse to a crime scene. The detective had told him that this was the last case he was going to do, since he was falling back to attorney instead. The company Teru had gotten into was to help organize police work. Morse wanted Teru to get some other experience while adding that Mikami might want to change his career to a detective instead of just staying in a court room. Though Mikami he suspected the man said this only because Morse wife had been nagging him to go into a less dangerous aspect of the law, and he had attorney to fall back on.
The two entered the room of Tetsuya Nanahara where the body was laying on the ground and two other officers' were standing taking pictures of the room. Detective Morse was walking around more slowly, since his arthritics in his knees were catching up with him, and being 50 did not help him. Morse stopped in front of the desk and picked up the Death Note.
"Mikami what do you make of this" Morse said calling over the young man. He had flipped open the Death Note and read through the first rule and snorted. "The pranks kids want to pull these days" Morse said and handed Mikami the notebook once Teru had reached him. Once Teru had read the first five rules and saw where Tetsuya name was written his eyes widened slightly. Coming had not been waste of time. Finally, a truly effective way to punish criminals, the court room only did so much. But the Death Note; this could give the criminals the justice they truly deserved. No longer would the lack evidence hold him back from giving the criminals the punishment they truly deserve.
Only four people stood in his way at the moment, and he could get rid of them easily.
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Teru knew he was meant to have it. Detective Morse told Teru to take it home with him, and report to Morse if he found any unusual rules. Mikami had wanted to roll his eyes but resisted. Really that man thought that he would find a rule stranger than writing down a person's name in the notebook and that person dying forty seconds later. No one had heard the conversation since Mrs. Nanahara was out of earshot, and the two cops were getting the hysterical women testimony. Once Teru had reached home and pulled out the Death Note and read through all the rules twice making sure to remember them.
After reading through all the rules Mikami went to the page were Tetsuya had written his name down and wrote down under Tetsuya name. Himeko Nanahara silts her wrist at midnight November 30th. 'One down three to go' Teru thought smirking slightly. The two other cops could wait for later this week Detective Morse would have to die now. Timothy Morse gets into a traffic accident on November 29th. Those two had to accidents along with cops, or they could trace it back to Teru. The two cops had shown Teru pictures of the victims' room. Teru deleted all the pictures that had the Death Note in it and instead re-took the pictures after the cops and Morse had taken Mrs. Nanahara downstairs so she wouldn't have to see her son's dead body.
Turning on the T.V. Mikami went to a news station and started to write down all the criminals' names that showed up on T.V.
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After a week, Mikami had written down over a thousand criminal names. A strange figure appeared in Mikami room and he turned around when he saw a shadow lurking over him. As he turned Mikami screamed and fell out of his chair.
"W..whaa..what are you? Are you a shinigami? Teru asked terrified at the ugly creature that showed up in his room. "Have you come to kill me because I used your notebook?" Teru asked unsure if he wanted to hear the answer or not. He did not move from the floor and sat on his butt while looking up at the shinigami.
"Humans are so silly. I am not here to kill you. You are the new owner of my notebook. I have to be around it. Really I don't care how you use it" Ryuuk said as he picked up the Death Note and flipped through it. "You must be pretty sure about yourself no previous Death Note owner has ever written this much in it. Hyuuk Hyuuk Hyuuk." Ryuuk said as he placed the Death note down on the desk.
"As long as you entertain me, you don't have to worry about dying. I want to kill my boredom, and you seem to be the entertaining type. However, when you are in a situation where you could die or on the verge of dying, I will be the one to write your name down in my own death note. Now" Ryuuk said turning to Mikami "do you have any apples?" Ryuuk asked staring at Mikami. Teru slowly stood up. "So you won't try to stop my cause of purifying the world?" Teru said looking at Ryuuk. "Do what you want, give me apples and I really couldn't care less. What are you planning to do exactly" Ryuuk questioned.
"I will be the God of the new world and get rid of all those who make the world rotten" Teru responded. Mikami went to get Ryuuk an apple after that said. He didn't want to anger a shinigami, especially if Ryuuk was going to living with him from now on.
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L sat in his newest hotel chair. His legs pulled up to his chest and a bunch of newspaper clippings were scattered around him about all the criminals who had died of unexpected heart attacks. They are calling the man Kira, since there was only a 3 chance it was a female doing all this. Watari came into the room and placed a plate full of chocolate chip cookies down on a small table that was right next to L's chair. "Russia is asking for your assistance in a murder case" Watari informed him.
"Tell the Russian Minster I will not take the case. Watari make flight plans to Japan, I am going to catch Kira." L said taking a bit of his cookie. "Understood" Watari said, and with that left the room.
L glanced outside of the hotel's tainted windows. Slowly L bought his thumb to his mouth and began to chew on it. A small smile coming to L's face, it seems he may have a worthy opponent at least.
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End of first chapter. Was it any good? Since Raito will not be the owner of the Death Note I figured I should make it someone else. I didn't want to have someone who is not is the series to be the first real Kira, so I figured I let Mikami be first real Kira. Do you think that is a good way for Mikami to get it? It was the best I could do without completely taking another authors idea, and if it is to close I apologize. If Mikami is OOC I apologize for that. I have never seen/read Mikami in the actually series. I am going off the little facts that I do know about him. I am hoping to get some L/Raito interaction in the next chapter as well. Hopefully I will be able to post the second chapter soon. Reviews of any kind are welcomed.
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