Beyond the Complexity of the Mind

by Quiet Harmony-chan

Light Yagami provided the shinigami with entertainment in life, and he would do so once again in death. That was his 'payment' for using the death note, an eternity of entertaining the shinigami. But this punishment was quickly over-ruled when someone frees him and takes him back to the past. However will he go back and make things right or be the same deranged Kira.

1. Chapter 1

All of the shinigami were silent as the human suddenly appeared in the plane of darkness below them. At first it lay unmoving, not caring to see its new surroundings, causing many of the shingami to think that the human was permanently dead. Just when their King was about to cast it away the human moved. It was little more than a jerk, but that was all that was needed to keep it within the cage and in the gaze of the eager spectators.

"Human, can you still hear?" The King called down.

For a few moments the shinigami believed that it would ignore the speaker, but slowly it sat up and clutched it's chest. "I'm still alive?"

A sharp grin spread on skull face of the Death King. "That you are human, alive and in good enough condition to entertain us."

The human looked up, the almond brown eyes narrowed since it could not see past the layers of darkness. "So then I didn't die that day... or am I in that place that is neither heaven nor hell."

"The place where you are is called many things...Call it Oblivion, Nothingness, Mu, call it what you will." The King offered. "In the end that place is simply a cage, a place that humans who use the Death Note go to give us shinigami entertainment."

Slowly the distrusting look twisted to one of confusion. "What do you mean?"

"There's nothing special about what I am saying." The King said. "You will live in this cage until the years of the human lives that you have stolen is finally spent...Or we become bored with you, which ever comes first."

The human grit his teeth and slammed a fist into the ground, the show of rage causing a murmur to go through the crowd present. "It wasn't supposed to end like this, not yet! I was so close and had everything ready!"

"Yes, yes, wonderful for you. How about you tell us about it or continue to make a fool of yourself, which ever works for you." The four hands on the Death King began to clap."I'm suddenly entertained."

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A/N: It's stated in the Death Note that a human will not go to heaven or hell should they use the notebook. After thinking about that I thought about how the Shinigami are always bored and came up with this...Hope you like it!