Chapter 1-The Death Note

Jenaya woke up to her alarm blaring in her ear to remind her that she needed to go to work. She rolled her eyes, groaned and cussed at the alarm, and hit the snooze button for the third time that morning. She was definitely not a morning person, and despite loving her job she sometimes wished that she could just be someone who worked at night and slept all day. When she looked at her alarm she realized she had pushed the snooze one too many times.

"Shit! I'm going to be so late for work!"

She hopped out of bed and pulled random clothes out of her closet. They had to look Professional for work purposes. Her clothes were organized in a way where she could just pick them up and go. She pulled on her shirt and pants and grabbed her keys to the car. Her cat Yowled at her like she was going to forget to feed him or something. She patted him on the head and filled the bowls up quickly.

"Bye Einstein! I'll see you after work smart boy!" She shut the door and headed out.

The weather was bitingly cold and Jenaya had figured out another problem, her car was iced over. She cursed under her breath several times as she started the car and put it on the highest temperature in order to thaw it out. Her car was a mess full of old fast food bags and pop bottles as she basically lived in her car. She started digging in her car for an Ice scraper.

"I know I had one in here, where in the heck did I put it? Shit! I can't find it anywhere and I'm already really late!"

Angrily she dug in her purse and pulled out a credit card that she had overdue fines on and started scraping at the windows. It was not as good as an Ice Scraper but after she scraped it for about 20 minutes the windows were clean enough for her to drive. She got in the car and looked at the clock to see what time it was. She was already ten minutes late to work and she still had a 30 minute drive ahead of her. She quickly phoned her boss and informed them of the issue apologizing profusely.

When Jenaya got to work it was the same old same old routine. There was lots of paperwork and meeting with people in order to help them find some resources. She had been in School since she was 4 and had just recently graduated with her Bachelors at the age of 28, on her Birthday no less. She was beginning to not understand the point of putting so much money into college as all she got was a piece of paper, and her job did not pay well. She knew that if she had just graduated high-school and chose to work in fast food the rest of her life she would get more money than she did now. However her job was precious to her and she enjoyed being able to help others find what they needed to get around.

Jenaya went on her lunch break around 12:30pm and it had warmed up to a nice temperature by that time outside. There was a graveyard right across from where she worked that was full of ancient memories and recent ones of people who had been on the earth and left. She decided that she was going to walk around the graveyard for her lunchbreak. She grabbed the sandwich she brought and the blanket she kept in her office because of how cold it was and went outside to walk to her favorite stone in the graveyard and have a bit of a picnic.

When she reached the stone she admired its beauty. It was a huge monument of an angel praying and looking down at the place where the child lay. The angel that was a white stone was starting to age a bit as some pieces came off making look an ugly off white color in various places. The note on the stone was the hardest for her to read, though, but anytime she went there she read it to remember this child she never knew.

Here lies Sierra Renée Preston Born February 14, 1987 Died February 14, 1994 at the hands of her father who raped and beat her on her birthday claiming it was an act of love.

"Sierra I am so sorry for you that you had to suffer that. I took the job I have so that no one would ever suffer that again. May you forever rest in peace, and may one day your father pay for what he has done!"

After the picnic, by Sierra's grave, Jenaya headed out of the graveyard to get back to the office and continue working with the people she tried so hard to protect and help. There was a glint in the sky that caught her eye and she watched as the object fell down into the middle of the graveyard. With her interest piqued she headed back to the middle of the graveyard and noticed a black book laying on the ground right by Sierra's grave.

She reached out and touched it asking herself aloud, "What is this random notebook doing here?"

A voice came from behind her with a bit of evil pleasure in it. "Hey Jenaya, that is no random notebook there! You just got a hold of my death note that I accidentally dropped"

Jenaya jumped and turned around upon hearing her name. When she looked behind her she saw an ugly sight. It was a creature that looked like a skeleton. He had an earring dangling from one of his ears and was wearing all black. His hair was sticking up and his eyes were catlike and red. He had a short pudgy nose that seemed to go into his face and a wicked looking smile. He was the ugliest and scariest thing she had ever seen and Jenaya ran off screaming keeping hold of the notebook the whole way.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop sister, that is one of my notebooks, and since you picked it up I have to hang around you until I am able to write your name in my notebook and kill you."

"What…I mean who…are you? H-how did you know my name?"

"Name's Ryuk, sister, don't forget it! I know your name because I am a Shinigami, and that notebook you have is no ordinary notebook there I can tell you that."

"What do you mean it's no ordinary notebook?" Jenaya asked keeping her distance, "And what in the world is a Shinigami?"

"Well let me start semi-from the beginning. That notebook is called a death note; you can write any name in it at all if you imagine their face as you write the name, then the person will die of a heart attack in 40 seconds."

"Really? This could be interesting. A lot of the people I work with have either been raped or abused, I feel like those criminals deserve more than just 15 years in prison, they deserve the death penalty."

"Which brings me to the second explanation," Ryuk added, "I heard what you said to that Sierra person's grave. I heard it and accidentally dropped my notebook so you could pick it up. If her father is in jail for abusing and raping her then I can give you the Shinigami eyes so he can pay for what he's done."

"Okay, okay, stop for a minute, before we discuss these shenanigan eyes, or whatever can you please tell me what you are?"

"I'm a Shinigami, a God of death. We live in a desolate world and are very lazy. It is so boring there compared to the human world. Sometimes I like to accidentally drop my notebook when I find an interesting human being. See we only work when our life is about out and then we write a name in our notebook and wa-la we add the person's remaining life-span onto our own."

"Okay…sounds a little interesting. Now what are these Shenanigan eyes?"

"Geez, sister you said it right the first time its Shinigami eyes and I can give them to you for the low price of half of your life span. That way any person you look at you can know their name immediately. So you know if an unknown criminal like that one girls Dad is seen by you then ba-bam you write his name in the death note and he is gone and paid for his crimes."

"Sorry, Rick was it? I am not giving you half of my lifespan for something like that. Besides the only people I want to have pay are the sex offenders and child abusers. Luckily in this world of technology today most everybody has a picture and name on the internet if they have committed those crimes."

"It's Ryuk, and I think you doubt the notebooks powers. I'll tell you what, I'll cheat just this once and write a name of a person any person you see walking down the street that you point out, to show you how it works."

Jenaya was starting to like the sound of this death notebook that this Shinigami thing was talking about. There was one person who she constantly saw bothering the people she worked with. He was always so drunk there was no reasoning with him and had sometimes been on property where she was at and attempted to rape or beat some of the people she saw. He was hanging out around the dumpster by the back door like always.

"Ryuk, see that guy over there by the dumpster? I don't know his name but he is constantly trying to rape and beat the people I see. No matter how many times we call the police he gets out of trouble by pleading insanity. He needs punishment show me the true power of the death note!"

"Very well Jenaya, I know you won't be disappointed. Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk."