I was in class that day; it was so easy for me that it was no longer posing any challenge. So, I was bored. It never seemed like such a stressful thing, school I mean, unlike what other people believe. Then again, I suppose that someone like me ought to be able to get top marks… After all, I've helped my father – the Chief of the NPA – solve quite a few complicated crimes.

My name? Light Yagami. People always believed me to be, more or less, the role model – someone to depend on and look up to. It's kind of a bother.

Anyway, it was just so boring in that class because it's not hard at all. I never thought that day would forever change the course of my life. Sometimes I wonder what would've happened had I not looked out that window during class and seen the Death Note lying on the ground outside of my High School. I might be the Chief of the NPA right now, instead of where I am. I might've been able to stay away from this entire mess, instead of being the mess. But, then again, destiny took its course that day…and I can't change the past. Yes, I wonder "what if", but that doesn't mean I do want to change the past. Hell, what would've been the point? Not as many people would be so afraid to do wrong right now.

Yes, this is a better world you're living in. And guess what…? It's all because of me! Justice has also taken its course.

But, on that simple course came another who sought his own version of "justice". A world without me here, a world also without the Death Note. His name was Ryuzaki, and he was also my enemy, L. Though he did not know it was me he was hunting, I did. Why is that? Because I helped him hunt me. Why, you ask…? Because the closer I could get to L, the faster I could dispose of my enemy.

Someone like myself, a person of justice, never has any time to think of love. By the time I realized who I loved, and what I had schemed for that person's fate…it was already too late for them. I regret it sometimes, but no more so than right now as I lay here on this cold concrete floor. But, I am whom I am…that I never regret.

I am justice, I am a God, I am a harbinger of death, I am an older brother, I am a son, and I am lonely. I am Kira.