The current story is that there are 6 Death Note Owners, and 6 Shinigami in the human world ( the maximum number allowed ), they have created a pact to not interfere too much in the human world so that they won't throw it into chaos. One day, one of the owners die, and a stranger picks up the Death Note, a few days later he declares war on humanity. The other 5 owners now have to stop him before anarchy engulfs the world.
Chapter 1 : This is no accident
I have chosen you, from all the humans in this world, from all the possible owners, you are the only one I want to offer this powers, you are the only one who can change this world.
Nate Ingram, you are the only one worthy of this world, so do not disappoint me, repay me with the destruction of this world, fulfill both of our dreams.
New York - September 28th
It was a cold rainy day, Nate was on his way home, he saw a girl crossing the street, and on her left the lights of an incoming truck, he knew what was going to happen, he screamed at the girl but the sound of the wind and the raindrops were too loud for the girl to hear him.
He witnessed an accident, a girl was hit by a truck, he thought it was most likely an accident since the streets were blurred by the fog and you could barely see a few meters in front of you.
His eyes were captured by the bloody scenery, all the mixed emotions coming from that scene, it was his first time seeing someone die.
People were gathered all around the girl, a young man tried to resuscitate her, but nothing, the driver tried to stop when he saw her but the streets were too slippery, not only that he hit her, but he was crushed in an impact with a wall.
A girl was screaming, people were whispering and some taking photos with their mobile phones, it was like no one was bothered anymore by the rain, it was like they couldn't feel the cold anymore, such a sickening image, taking photos of an accident, of a dead body.
The blood was quickly washed away by the rain, and an ambulance finally arrived taking her body, the police had to wait for the firefighters in order to extricate the driver's body from the wreck.
In all that time, Nate was motionless, he felt sick, not sad, but disgusted with what he saw, he didn't notice the girl's bag at his feet, the police didn't find any ID on the girl so they couldn't identify her in order to inform her family, he grabbed the bag and walked towards a police officer.
- Excuse me, said Nate, I believe this bag belongs to the victim, you could probably find some sort of identification in here, he handed the bag to the police officer.
- Thank you. Are you a witness? asked the police officer.
- Yes, sadly, I've seen everything.
- It's raining pretty hard, and we already have a dozen witnesses, so you can go for now. Would mind coming to the station tomorrow in order to give a testimony?
- Ahh, sure, said Nate, with a not-so-willing face.
He went home after that, he was confused about his emotions, he felt guilty that he wasn't able to be a hero. He felt asleep reliving that moment over and over again, he thought of all the possible situations, maybe if he jumped in front of the truck and pushed her, maybe he could have saved her with the price of his, he didn't value his life so he was willing to sacrifice himself even for his worst enemy.
Next morning he went to the police station and gave his testimony.
- That was it, thank you young man, said Sergeant Brook.
- Hmm, I was wondering, did you find out her identity? asked Nate.
- No, I'm afraid that we couldn't find anything useful in her bag, just a couple of books, a phone that had no registered numbers and a weird notebook.
- Weird, what do you mean by weird? asked Nate.
- Well, it was this unusual black notebook, the only thing that was written on it's cover was ''Death Note'', inside there were a couple of pages filled with japanese or chinese writing and random numbers, there was no name or anything. Actually, do you know anything about it? It's probably one of those weird things only teenagers are interested in, my daughters are into all of that anime crap. Or maybe it's part of a game, or something like that?
- No, never heard of such a thing, what did you do with it?
- It's behind you, if you want you can take a look at it, everything the girl had will be thrown in the garbage if we don't find her family soon, and I doubt her parents would be interested in those books.
- Sergeant Brook! There is a meeting in the chief's office, you need to come too, said a police officer.
- Anyway, you are free to go, thank you for your time, said Sergeant Brook while leaving his desk.
- No problem, responded Nate.
The words ''Death Note'' were stuck in Nate's mind. He was curious about what it was, he turned around where her bag and books were.
- Eww, ''Twilight''!? Are you serious!? said Nate while searching through the pile of books. Here it is!
He took the ''Death Note'', and opened it, inside it's cover and on a few pages there was japanese writing, he was a big manga fan so even though he couldn't translate the writing, it was clear to him that it was japanese.
After a few second of browsing through the notebook, he sensed a weird smell, cinnamon and mint, the entire ''Death Note'' was covered in that smell.
Although at first he didn't wanted to, he told himself that same thing Sergeant Brook told him, her parents would have no use for those books, especially for that notebook, so he decided to take the ''Death Note'' home.
On his way home he felt guilty, he felt like he stole from the dead, his consciousness was always like that, it made him feel bad when he did things like that, but soon enough his curiosity for the ''Death Note'' overwhelmed his guilt, it was like an unknown force was drawing him towards the notebook.
When he got home, he searched ''Death Note'' on Google, but the only results he got were about suicide notes, nothing related to this weird notebook. He then began with the help of an online dictionary to translate the writing on the inside of the cover.
After almost half an hour of struggling he translates what he thinks is the first sentence.
''The human whose name is written in this note shall die.''
He wondered just what the hell was that supposed to mean, exactly what type of game was this ''Death Note'' part of. After about 2 hours he finally translate everything on the inside of the cover.
''This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.''
''If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.''
''If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.''
''After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.''
- What is this? What is the meaning of these sentences? These seem to be some sort of rules, are they for the use of this ''Death Note''? Names, huh, so, are these writings, japanese names?
He rushed to the computer and translated the first sentence on the page, it was a name, a date, an hour and the word ''accident'' near it. With a quick search on the internet he found something that puzzled him, an article with the name of the person in the notebook, the date and hour were the same, that person died in a car crash.
- Could it be? No, she must have written this after seeing the accident, those rules, they can't be real!
There was no point in him translating anymore, it took too much time, so he decided to test it, to see if it's real, he was skeptical about it but it would take him only a few seconds.
At that moment the TV was on the news channel, he knew the name of the reporter so he wrote it in the ''Death Note'', he didn't write anything else, so as the rules stated she was supposed to die in 40 seconds of a heart attack.
But then he was struck by something, everything was in japanese and he wrote in english, there didn't seem to be any rule that stated that you were allowed to write only in one language, so why did that person write in japanese?
While wondering why would that person write in japanese, the unbelievable happened, the woman had a heart attack live, it seemed unreal, how could a piece of paper have such powers?
- Shit! I just killed her, how the fuck did that happened!? What is this ''Death Note''?
The horror of what he did engulfed him. But he couldn't let himself feel sorry for what he did, he caused an indirect death, she was a stranger, why should he care? He left his consciousness behind, the power that the ''Death Note'' offered him was to great to be saddened by such a thing.
He fell to his knees, and after a few minutes of silence in which hundreds of thoughts and ideas rushed through his mind, he began to laugh uncontrollably.
- This! This! This is what I have waited for! All my life, I wondered for what do I exist, all my life I wondered why my dreams seemed so unreachable, why I couldn't be satisfied with anything this world had to offer! And now! NOW! I no longer feel dead inside! I feel alive, I feel like my existence has a purpose, I have awaited so much to have the power to change this world, and now, I have been given the power over life and death!
His heart was racing.
- This has to be destiny, the chances of me getting this ''Death Note'' were one in a million! From all the people, I found it, and now this power is mine! I can be the god I always wanted to be!
End of Chapter 1: This is no accident