Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note, though that is pretty obvious as this is called FanFiction.

This is set in an alternate universe where Kira never existed, so all of the original characters might as well be nonexistent. Rated T just to be safe.

Demiyue's Death Note: Prologue

Cold rain showered down on the Earth, while everyone stayed inside their houses. Few lights were visible through windows, at this time of night everyone should've been asleep. One particular teenager had his light off, however his window was open. He sat on his bed perched alongside the window, which happened to be on the third floor of the house, and inside the teenager's room. He gazed out at the beautiful night. His house is so close to the border of the ocean, he thought, and the rain is always beautiful. Especially when it poured down like this. It reflected the light of the half-moon, and the raindrops were silver tears.

Then, very suddenly, as he stared at the half-lit moon he saw some kind of black thing fall right in the center of the light. It felt like time slowed down when he saw it, before it continued falling quickly down to the ground below. It surprised the teen. At first he couldn't believe his eyes. Did something just fall from the sky?

He heard no airplanes, only the loud sound of the downpour of rain. He looked up; no lights, only clouds. But he actually remembered the black smudge falling through the moon's light. He couldn't deny it.

Well, he wasn't tired. What could going out to look for it do to him?

He knew his family was asleep, and he knew they were heavy sleepers. He was still dressed, he would just need his coat and shoes. So he snuck out of his room, engaging his stealth mode. He passed his little sister's room carefully. He got his shoes. He got his coat. He stepped down the stairs. Then he walked out the front door of his house.

He remembered where it had fell. But he only knew the rough location, and it was very, very dark outside, with only the moon to guide his way, so it would probably take a while to find. Whatever it was.

He hoped no one was out tonight, he didn't want to be in danger. He knew around here very well, so he could manage to get around without much light. His curiosity was the only reason he was outside.

He rounded corners, taking in how different the world seemed to him after the evening ended and it became full night. His mother didn't like it when he was out on his own, especially at night, so he was taking a risk. Something just made him want to come out there and see what it was that had fell from the sky. Where else could it have come from, other than the sky?

There were no cars. This was a very small place, no visitors really ever came by. It was just a few dozen buildings circled around some water connected to the ocean rounded up with a population. In fact, no cars were used here. Any people who happened to come to the place had a small parking lot somewhere in the outskirts of the town, where people could park their cars and proceed to walk to wherever they were going. Thus, all the streets were just pavement, where people could walk through to get to their destinations.

The teen rounded another corner and he knew where he was, at a four-way intersection he frequently walked through. People who lived in the town remembered it well because it was bigger than all the other four-way intersections and it was the only place in the whole town that had a street light. And as the teen looked upon the dimly lit intersection, he immediately saw a black notebook sitting right in the middle of it, with something written on the front.

He slowly walked over to it, and he realized that at some time the rain had stopped, though the clouds were still there, and the moon was brightly visible. He was right over the notebook now, and he looked around and listened intently for anyone, to see if a person could've dropped it. Nope. Nothing.

So he looked back down at the notebook and picked it up. There on the front, written in a strange way, it read:

Death Note

Death Note? the teen thought. A death notebook?

Feeling slightly afraid, he looked straight up. He was sure this was what had fallen from the sky, at this particular spot. How peculiar.

He looked back down at it, and slowly opened it to the first page.

Death Note...How to use it...he read. Then he read the third line and paused. Then he read it again, aloud:

"The human whose name is written in this notebook...shall die."