(A/N): It's amazing what a roll of the dice can inspire.
Like a AU Death Note fanfic.
Let me explain.
My long-time friend, Stephanie, and I were playing a game because we were bored in the middle of a basketball game (I had happened to bring the game along with me... it wasn't my idea to go to the basketball game, and it wasn't hers either).
It's called Rory's Story Cubes (You might be able to find it on Barnes and Noble or on Amazon) and we were playing on the third suggested set of rules.
We had both read the Death Note manga about four or five months prior and had LOVED it.
What happened to be the first roll?
An apple.
And that's how we got this fic.
For each drabble chapter, the title will be named after whatever we interpreted the roll (or rolls – sometimes one roll isn't enough for a chapter, in which case there will be a / or two in the title) as. This one is appropriately called 'Apple'.
The fun thing about this is that we only know where we go with this shortly before you guys find out. It's completely random... dice rolls and improv are deciding the plot, so we have no idea how long this will end up being.
APPLE
He bit into one of the Shinigami Realm's bitter, dry apples, despising the taste, or lack thereof.
His name was Ryuk, and he was a shinigami, a god of death that, like the others of his kind, killed humans with his Death Note (or, more accurately, his two) to extend his life, and occasionally for entertainment.
The old gods like him had lost their purpose over time, and were slowly dissolving into irrelevance. An idea briefly crossed his mind, and then just as quickly fled.
He brought it back in – a new form of entertainment, a game of sorts. He would give one of his notebooks to a human, one who would provide constant entertainment for at least several months.
It was decided.
(A/N): Before we truly begin, let's explain the setting.
The place is in an AU universe where Light had a different shinigami (Not Ryuk - neither Light nor Misa had Ryuk; however, Misa still has Rem). Thus, Ryuk still has his two Death Notes.
This is set (canon-wise) shortly after Misa revealed herself to Light. Everything before (except for Ryuk not being there) is the same as canon.