It was a Saturday night, late in April. Sayu Yagami was just leaving for her first night course for the week at the local college. As she turned to close the door, she heard a soft whimper. Sayu glanced down to see a young, about two months old, baby girl on the porch. Sayu shouted for her mother, Sachiko Yagami, to come and take a look. Sachiko rushed out and also saw the child. Sayu bent down, grasped the infant, and looked at her mother. Sachiko walked back inside the house and called the police to report the mysterious baby. As Sayu turned into her home, she glanced back, hoping to find that the mother had just left the baby for a second, preying that it would be safe until she returned. Little did Sayu know, that by taking this infant in her arms, she would start a war the world only just gotten rid of...

"Aya!" Sayu said from downstairs, "Breakfast's ready!" Aya came running down and grabbed the scrambled eggs that were neatly piled onto her slightly burned toast and topped with maple syrup, just the way she liked it.

"HOT!" screamed Aya as she ran out the front door, just making it to the bus stop.

The date was April 20th, 2024. In two days, Ayas 13th birthday would be here and she could hardly wait. Aya was adopted and she knew it. She knew that she was found on her mother's doorstep as well. No one knew when her true date of birth was, so her parents decided to use when she was found, to commemorate that special day.

"Aya Matsuda?" Aya quickly and silently raised her hand. As her teacher, Mrs. Takahashi, finished role call, she made an announcement. "Today we will be having a new student with us class. His name is Johnathan Northwell. He just transferred here from North Carolina an-"

"SORRY I'M LATE! MY BUS HATES ME!" said John as he rushed into the classroom, "THE NAME'S JOHN...NICE TO MEETCHA!"

"Johnathan! Take your seat behind Aya now!"

John slowly strutted in a strange, catlike manner, stopped halfway across the room, turned to look at Mrs. Takahashi and asked, "Umm...who's Aya?" Aya looked up at him in a pissed off way and raised an eyebrow. Johnathan, slightly amused by her reaction, sat down in the empty seat.

"Now then, today we will start off with equations. Equations consi..." Johnathan couldn't concentrate on anything except Aya the entire day. He loved the way her hair curled up in that odd style, and how the leaned when she wrote. John was the kind of guy who was attracted by the strangest girls. He thought normal was just plain and boring. He wanted someone who could add an extra 'spark' to his life.

Aya, completely unaware of Johns raising interest in her, was focusing on algebraic equations that could leave a senior high school student stumped. 'If the square root of the variables, ab, divided by pi cubed...'

BRING!

"Alright class, we had a great lesson today and I hope to see you all tomorrow." Mrs. Takahashi said as she dismissed everyone.

"Yo, Aya!" John shouted as he ran to catch up with her. Aya just kept walking, not even dropping a hint that she had heard him. "Aya!" John walked up beside her. "I don't think you heard me back there and-"

"I heard you. I just didn't want to waste my energy on someone like you." responded Aya has she surged ahead into the growing crowd of school children, leaving John behind.

As Aya arrived at her house, she noticed an oddity on the front lawn. A blackish, rectangular lump it was and Aya was curious. She walked over towards it and saw that it had the words 'DEATH NOTE' written on its cover. 'What the hell...?' Aya stooped down to pick it up, with a slight feeling of déjà vu. As she slowly climbed the stairs to her room, Aya skimmed through this supposed notebook of death. "Ah!" Aya breaths as she finds instructions on how the Death Note is used. "English huh. Well I'm in for an interesting night."

Aya awoke to the slight chirping of the birds. "Umm...Oh my god, its 12:34?! How late did I stay up last night?"

"You were up until 3:35 last night, then you finally dosed off on top of your notes." answered a deep voice from behind her.

"Thanks," said Aya turning to the strangely disfigured creature behind her, "I could really use the information you've given me," Aya stands up, face to face with the creature, "Dad."