"Hey, uh, any of you guys seen Sidoh?" The four shinigami gathered around the gambling bones simultaneously looked around at the one addressing them. They didn't answer. The questioning shinigami's eyes flickered between between the four. He hated being stared at. The shinigami shifted uncomfortably, the stitches holding together his patchwork body adjusting separately to the movement. He looked so pieced together it was hard to believe he could actually move at all.

"Who wants to know, Gelus?" One of the four finally spoke up after several more awkward moments. Gelus hugged the plain black notebook tighter to his chest.

"Well… I do. See, Sidoh dropped his notebook again and I was just going to return it…" He was cut of by the sharp laughter of one of the others.

"Kyehahaha! That idiot. One of these days he's going to drop that thing in the human world then he'll be sorry!" The others joined in the shinigami's laughter. Gelus forced out a chuckle, but didn't really join in. He never liked teasing Sidoh, he always felt kinda sorry for him. "I think Gukku saw him over by the by the portal to the human world. Right?"

"Yeah, I remember seein' him there."

"That moron is probably wanting to write some names, but he doesn't even know he's lost his death note! Kyehahahaha! How stupid can you get?" The others rolled with laughter, adding their own comments about the forgetful shinigami.

"Thanks…" Gelus muttered, but none of his howling fellows showed signs that they even heard him. With a shrug, he turned and clumsily began walking away in the direction of the portal.

As the laughter died away, Gelus found himself downed in silence. The only thing that could be heard was the empty howling of the wind across the barren desert landscape. It left you with an empty feeling, it made you loose hope. Although, the shinigami realm wasn't exactly supposed to be full of sunshine and daisies, Gelus couldn't help feeling that this place could be better. Perhaps Ryuk's constant complaining really did have a point after all. Perhaps this world really was rotten.

Gelus pulled himself from his thoughts and looked up to see the portal not far ahead of him and scurrying about in front of it in a panic was Sidoh. Gelus could help but chuckle a little. The sight really was quite ridicules. Suppressing his laughter, he approached the dome covering the shining portal. Sidoh, in his hysteria, didn't even notice him.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no! Where is it? I just had it… I did… it was right there and then… oh no, oh no, oh no!" Sidoh cried to no one as he ran back and forth, checking under every crevasse around the portal that could possibly hide his death note. When he finally did notice Gelus standing there, he didn't even pause in his anxiety to notice what Gelus had in his arms.

"Could you help me find it? I dropped it somewhere… it's rectangular and black and… I've got to find it!"

"Um, Sidoh?" Gelus said, poking Sidoh's shoulder with one of his short fingers. The shinigami paused and looked over at him. "I found it… a little while from here." Gelus offered the notebook out with both hands and Sidoh, eyes shining, immediately took it. "You really should keep better track of it… or at least fill out enough names to give you plenty of time…"

"You found it! Thank you um…"

"Gelus."

"Gelus! If you hadn't of found it, I would've been…" Sidoh gulped nervously. Gelus only shrugged in response.

"Well, like I said, be more careful." Sidoh didn't act like he had heard the advice. He had turned and opened the notebook in his hands, intently staring down into the portal. Gelus gave up and slowly walked away, leaving Sidoh to add to his lifespan. One of these days someone was going to take advantage of that poor shinigami.

Sidoh honestly didn't mean to be so clumsy with his death note. He didn't even mean to cut it so close when it came to writing names. It was just so difficult to remember when he needed to write names. It wasn't like he could see his own life span or anything. It was a stupid rule anyway, it was as if it was made just to make things hard for him. Oh well, he would write a few down and not have to worry about it for another fifty years or so.

Staring down into the human world, he scribbled down names. Weather or not they gave him a huge amount of years or not didn't really matter, just so long as he got some. Besides, it wasn't easy calculating how many years he got out of it in his head. He squinted his eyes, trying to see properly. It was so bright, the lights illuminating the human world. Sometimes it was hard to get used to. Sidoh grumbled and rubbed his eye with the back of his claw-like hand. Opening them again, he found it hardly helped. Placing his notebook on the ground he rubbed his eyes harder, trying to fight off the he lifted his hands away. Two small red glowing lights, clung to them, pulsing slightly, standing out against the whiteness of the portal.

"Oops…" Sidoh muttered and moved to put the lights back up to his eyes, but they had other ideas. Leaping from Sidoh's grasp, the hovered over the portal to the human world. The shinigami watched open mouthed as the lights slowly orbited each other, as if searching the world below. Then, Sidoh helpless to do anything, they fell strait down, vanishing into the portal. Staring, the shinigami stood there for several moments, unable to believe what just happened. Did he really just drop his eyes? He knew there was a punishment for dropping your only death note in the human world, but was there a punishment for dropping your eyes?

"Oops."

Meanwhile, the two lights sped far above the hills and buildings of the earth, unseen by anyone and anything. They passed over hundreds of miles, constantly searching and never pausing. Unfazed, they passed over large cities, glistening in the sun's cold glow as it's rays reflected off the thin layer of ice coating the roofs. The red lights suddenly froze, stopping in their tracks as if they had hit a brick wall. Just like they had over the portal, they hovered, slowly revolving around one another. Then, they dropped like a stone.

They fell in among the tightly packed buildings of a city and took off along it's streets, flying low and fast, still unseen by a single soul. They dodged cars and humans going about there way, fogged breath hovering over their mouths and they breathed the chilled air. They were searching. Something that would accept them, something that wouldn't reject the fallen eyes. It had to be found fast.

Suddenly, the light's haphazard path straitened like an iron rod, speeding toward one single goal. An auburn haired woman walked innocently down the street with her friend, a shopping bag clutched in her hands. Without even slowing their insane speed, they slammed into the young woman's midsection, nocking he back. She cried out and very nearly fell on to the pavement, but her watchful friend caught her.

"Alexa! Are you alright? What on earth happened?" The other woman cried, concerned about the heath of her friend. Leaning into her friend, the woman clutched her middle, face still contorted in pain and shock. "What happened?"

"I… I don't know… it felt like someone just hit me…" She forced out, her voice carrying a thick british accent. With some assistance she got back on her feet and straitened herself, one hand still resting on her abdomen. "I'm fine now… well… maybe I should head back home…" Her friend agreed and, supporting her, they turned around.

Inside the woman's belly, still unknown by her, a small child was growing, only two weeks from the moment it's fist cells divided. The lights circled around the fetus, as if inspecting it. Then, satisfied, they formed into the still developing eyes of the child. For a moment there was a bright glow, then the lights vanished. The once black eyes of the fetus were now scarlet with the new vision they had gained. The vision of a shinigami.

The Fool
Represents new beginnings, optimism, and zeal for all life has to offer, but carried a warning with it as well. Despite your hope, you still need to watch your step, lest you fall and end up looking the fool.

Author's Note: Yay for short prologues! Alright so this is going to be the story of, you guessed it, Beyond Birthday. I'm going to go though his life from his early childhood until the day he left Whammy's house (plus epilogue). Each chapter is going to be represented by an oracle card which sort of a a summary of the feel of the chapter and stuff. Yep.

ANYWHO this is going to pretty much go through the important stages of Beyond's life, yada yada yada. I'll try and make it interesting (and actually finish it) with plenty of action and such.

Yes, I did decide to go with Mello's idea of "If there's a shinigami out there dumb enough to drop his note book, there's probably another one who could drop his eyes". And yes I did give the eyes minds of their own and, unlike Mr. Yagami, Beyond was chosen to have those eyes. Why? God only knows.

The reason I chose The Fool for this chapter is because the card represents a new beginning for Beyond. What could've been a (relatively) normal life for him suddenly changes and becomes something unique and new. And Sidoh is an idiot. Enough said.

I'm not an oracle expert. In fact, I really don't believe in that kind of thing. But I like how each card has a meaning and I thought that it would fit in the story very well! ^_^

Another Note: Ishin Nishio
Death Note: Tsugumi Ohba
Beyond Being: Piper Lynn