Warning: For those who don't like OC stories, it is going to be this kind of story. Of course I hope you will give it a chance, but I'm warning anyway. The first chapter is more like OC's backstory, more action with canon characters will appear in next chapters.

„Damn..." Jenna muttered a while after the headmaster read the name of the best student in school. Of course, she cursed because the name wasn't hers. She studied so hard through the whole school year and she still didn't manage to reach her goal and win the grand scholarship by earning the best grades in the school. The name the headmaster read belonged to the biggest cheater in the school, who only earned good grades by always having cheat sheets made by others. This way she had landed on the position of the second-best student.

Again.

"Don't worry, Jen, it's not like being second is bad. Anyway, you're first in our class. And everybody knows that he's a cheater and you're the best." Said the dark blonde girl who sat next to Jenna on the ending ceremony. Her voice was cheerful and careless and she sounded really convincing. But not for Jenna.

"But the scholarship is still his. If you weren't making these cheat sheets for him he would never manage to!" Jenna growled with an unpleasant grimace on her face. The fact was, that the blonde girl, Alice Sevenwinds, ran the biggest cheat sheet business in the school.

Well, maybe it wasn't a business at all, she was always giving them away for free. Ironically, she was Jenna's only friend in the high school.

"Well, he always asked for them. You know I don't need them anyway. If you're writing the same sheet twentieth time, you remember everything without mistakes. Besides, I always offered sheets for you before I gave them away. " Girl said, carelessly as always.

"Cheating is not okay." Jenna stated firmly, wearing a serious expression.

Then, the headmaster have called her name, of course there were prizes for a second place too.

"So, you won morally. It's not always possible to win in every possible category." – Alice said with pure honesty, but Jenna already got up, going to get her prizes. Blonde girl sighed. She admired her friend for all this hard work, but she also wanted her to slow down a little.

After all, working too hard exhausts people. It hurt her to see her friend going around like a walking death because she missed next night in order to study.

She would never sacrifice so much for some stupid scholarship. If she hasn't memorized every single sheet she wrote for others she wouldn't hesitate from cheating. Jenna, on the other side, was quite firm in her opinion about it.

When Jenna came back with her awards, she stayed silent, just like the whole rest of the students. Just few people cheered for her. Of course, the name Alice Sevenwinds was also written on the list of the best students, soon she also received her awards, as the sixth in the school ranking. But she was still second in her own class, right after Jenna. Yet, in Alice case, her whole class was cheering.

There lied the difference between two friends.

Alice was lazy, Jenna, hard working

Alice didn't hesitate to break the rules, when Jenna tried her best not only to obey the rules, but also to make others follow them. With no exception for Alice, though it never worked on her.

Alice was shy, Jenna was self-confident.

Yet, Alice was liked by people, and Jenna was despised.

Jenna asked herself the same question every day: why? Even teachers liked Alice more, even if she broke practically every rule of the lessons. Not paying attention, doodling, playing video games under the tables...

The only thing that linked these two teenage girls was their uncommon intelligence, and semi-intentional arrogance. After all, they were both great students between masses of lower-than-intelligent people who came to this certain school because they weren't accepted anywhere else.

It would seem that they were destined to be rivals, yet, somehow, they managed to become best friends.

Though Jenna had moments when she questioned this friendship. She felt like Alice was trying to break her morals, maybe in a good will, but still. Not to mention that she was apparently Alice's private calendar and a food delivery, because the blonde girl never bothered herself to memorize the dates of exams or bring her own lunch.

Luckily, after the ending ceremony she will leave this school behind. She planned to apply to the best universities.

Later, after the ceremony... Jenna's family household

"What, we're moving? To Japan?!" Jenna's mom only nodded in a reaction for her daughter surprised statement. The news Jenna heard after she came back home were indeed surprising. It seemed like her dad got some well paid commission to do in Japan, and he was going to take the whole family with him.

They were going to rent a house for few months. Jenna was indifferent towards the idea, she could speak Japanese, and she heard that there are some good universities in Japan. Maybe she would stay in the foreign country after all? She really needed a change of surroundings.

"Are you fine with this? I know it's all out of sudden-

"No, no, It's fine! I always wanted to see the Japan" Jenna cut off her mother's sentence, smiling a bit. It will be better this way. Maybe she will finally feel some relief when they will move.

"I'm just worried about this Kira thing, in news they're telling that he lives in Japan" Jenna's father said all of sudden, but the teenage girl only rolled her eyes.

"Dad, Kira only kills criminals, he's not just a murderer. After all, he's doing a good thing for the world. He's not targeting innocent people at all" Jenna's voice was quite confident. The mysterious person who stood behind the massive amounts of criminals deaths was already a hot topic even in States. He appeared out of nowhere about a month ago, and he began to clean the world out of the scum.

"Yeah, you're right..." Jenna's dad sighed, however he wasn't sounding convinced

"So, it's settled, we're departing in the next week" He stated in a little happier tone. Jenna nodded enthusiastically and smiled, then, she left to her room. She had to pack the most important things right now, otherwise she could forget them in the day of the departure.

Meanwhile in Alice's house

The blonde girl threw herself on the couch without taking off any clothes. She stared at the ceiling, as the happiness which came from being awarded on the ceremony started to leave, slowly being replaced with a crushing feeling of loneliness.

It's all because of this house. Empty house. From as long as she could remember, she lived only with her mother, who died in an accident some weeks ago. She never told anybody and lived like nothing had happened. She pretended that her mother have to stay longer in work each day. She tried to not think about it, to occupy herself, with school, with video games, books...

But in the moments like this she couldn't help but get flooded by the grief. The truth was slowly breaking her mental barriers, and the usually cheerful and selfless girl spend her evenings, pitifully crying into the pillows.

But there won't be any school anymore. She graduated from the high school, but there were no perspectives on the future. The recruitment formalities always seemed way too complicated for her to be worthy of the fatigue.

How long could she just lay down like this and think? She knew that it's not healthy for her now to do nothing, but there was nothing to do.

After few minutes of staring at the ceiling Alice noticed a small spider crawling out of the crackle in the wall, and abseiled itself on its web. For unknown reason girl raised her hand and smacked the spider, causing it to swing forward and backward... until its web broke and it landed on girl's nose.

I guess it's only my fault~ she thought, with a subtle grimace on her lips, smacking the spider once again to remove it from her face. Little bug landed on the floor and fled, Alice had no intentions to kill it. She stood up and walked towards the window. Her mind drifted back to the ending ceremony. Jenna seemed upset on her. Partially, she could see why. She probably shouldn't marginalize her friend's defeat, yet she just wanted to cheer her up.

After all, five hundred dollars weren't just stuff. Considering that their school was rather poor in comparison to others...

"I've got an idea!" she suddenly exclaimed, out loud, even if there wasn't anybody around to hear it. She walked to the table and grabbed her mother's wallet. There were merely eight hundred dollars in it. Quite an amount to carry in a wallet, yet definitely not enough to pay all the bills and afford food for more than one month. Not to mention that Alice had no idea how to pay bills for her apartment anyway, and she was underage, so she probably couldn't pay them by herself even if she knew how.

She decided. The money wouldn't be much use to her in the future, or, to be more precise, they would just disappear soon, and she would be forced to learn how to live without them anyway, so five hundred dollars wouldn't make big difference. There would be still three hundreds left to afford food... cheap food, for some period of time.

So she shoved these five hundred dollars in her pocket [because she didn't really believe that she could get robbed or something], put the wallet on the table and grabbed her unlimited-ride metrocard, which was going to expire in the matter of days, shoving it in the same pocket... and she left the apartment, almost forgetting to lock the door after she walked out.

She was heading to her friend's house. It wasn't very late, so Jenna probably won't be mad for an unexpected visit.

After she arrived to Jenna's household...

Alice knocked at the door of Jenna's house, and soon her friend allowed her to come in, with a surprised expression on her face.

"Oh, hello, Alice... what are you doing there?" Jenna closed the door after Alice entered.

"Hi... I just thought, you seemed upset on the ceremony, you know, you deserved the scholarship more than this cheating guy..."

"Are you trying to cheer me up again? Not everybody is as uncaring as you... It really meant much for me..."

"I know... I'm sorry about how I acted. Also, that's why I came there! " Alice smiled genuinely and reached to her pocket, taking out a roll of banknotes. She quickly clenched her fingers around it so her friend would not be able to see what was she holding, and extended her hand in Jenna's direction.

"What's that?" Jen asked, also extending her hand to take whatever her friend wanted to give to her.

"Your scholarship!" Alice exclaimed while putting the roll of banknotes on her friends palm. Jenna's eyes widened in shock.

"You can't be serious! Are you?" She asked with disbelief painted on her face.

"Yup" Blonde girl nodded, grinning happily.

"Oh my god! Thank you!" All of sudden, Jenna pounced on her friend, hugging her tightly, until Alice somehow managed to push her off.

"Okay, okay, just no hugs, please!" She said, smiling sheepishly and raising her hands in the gesture of surrender

"b-but, your mom allowed you to just give away so much money?" Jenna still wasn't completely convinced about this situation. Because, please, which human just gives five hundred dollars away and want nothing in return? Though, Alice was well known in school because of her generousness.

Yet, a smile on Alice's face faded a bit.

"Sure, she thinks you deserve it too." She said, trying to sound all cheerful, like she always did in the school. Yet, she wasn't sure if her mother would agree with the idea if she lived. Her mom wasn't much of an idealist, and she cared for money very much. Alice felt kinda bad, talking like that, when it's not true.

"god, thank you once more! You're the best friend I ever had!" Jenna continued her outburst of happiness. Meanwhile, Jenna's parents came downstairs and greeted their daughter's friend. Suddenly Jenna recalled that she really hadn't told her parents anything about how the ceremony went. They were so busy with planning their trip to Japan, that they hadn't even asked.

Brown-haired girl send a questioning glance to her blonde friend, then, Alice just winked in return. They often understood each other without words. Jenna grinned happily and turned around to face her parents.

"I forgotten to tell you, but I got awarded with a scholarship for the great student on the ending ceremony! Though I forgotten to take it from the headmaster's office, so Alice brought it for me " She told, and then her parents started to praise her. Meanwhile, Alice herself felt a pleasant, warm feeling in her chest. She was always like that – bringing happiness to other people made her forget about her own troubles.

When Jenna was always very protective over what's hers [especially her results in education], Alice was ready to give away mostly everything, just to see that she made someone smile.

Jenna's parents also thanked Alice for delivering their daughter's scholarship, and invited her to stay for the supper. Of course blonde girl didn't have anything against it. She wasn't enjoying the thought of spending the afternoon alone in the dark, lonely den which her own apartment became after her mom passed away. Too bad that staying overnight was out of question, if she didn't want to cause suspicion...

Seven days later...

Through the whole week, Alice visited Jenna on daily basis, staying as long as she could, but this day she had to leave earlier – Jenna told her about their trip to Japan before, so today, right before they were going to depart, she just said farewell to them and left. All alone again. Still, she wasn't really interested in sitting in home and thinking. When she had nothing to occupy herself with, her thoughts always brought out the grief after her mother. How many things she could do and she haven't? And she wasn't always nice to her mom too, how much she regretted now...

So she started to aimlessly wander through her housing estate, thinking what she could do. Maybe something exciting would help her to forget...

Then she caught the glimpse of cars, riding in completely different direction than her school was. Honestly, it may seem weir, but she never went in this direction before. She didn't know what was there.

Now, that's the idea!~ She thought to herself. Yet, she got another thought. Something she always wanted to try, but was afraid off. Now, considering that nobody would care... she could try riding on a top of cars like these cool guys in films! And not even once it had crossed her mind that the idea was crazy and may have fatal consequences. So, she headed towards the street.

She climbed on the tree which was bent over the road and started to observe cars. She wasn't stupid. She knew she have to jump early enough so she will land on the top of car not dead on the road, and she had to choose the right car. The one that have something she could hold on the top. Otherwise she would surely fall, and, let not lie, probably kill herself.

Yet she did not wanted to die. She just needed adrenaline

Eventually she jumped on the top of the long bus, immediately catching hold on the bus's sunroof. She could see the people in the bus staring up through it, and she giggled. Sudden wave of excitement flooded her immediately.

Unfortunately, not for long. When the bus speeded up, she realized how difficult it was. Fear fought its way to her mind and she got enlightened about the danger she got herself in. She clung to the bus's sunroof as if her life depended on it... and ironically, it really did.

But what a moderately weak girl without any training can do against the merciless laws of physics? On the first sharper turn of the road, her hands slipped off of the sunroof's edge and she fell off the bus, luckily landing on the pavement instead of the busy street.

But it did hurt. She painfully slid on the paving, which ripped her clothing to shreds, along with the big area of her skin. At first she didn't feel any pain. Matter of adrenaline, one could guess. She looked around not fully conscious what did just happen. Then her eyes met an individual staring down at her with unusual, red eyes. The man [or a boy? He looked young] had black hair, was wearing black long sleeved shirt and dark jeans, while his skin was, on the contrary, very pale.

He just stood and stared. His gaze literally paralyzed her on the ground, as the pain from her wounds was slowly starting to reach her mind. Then, the mysterious man just started to slowly walk away.

Okay... so now, I should just get up, right?~ She thought and tried to lift herself. Yet the pain exploded in her left leg, and with similar intensity, in her chest. She must have broken some bones. Luckily nothing worse. She fell back on the ground helplessly, now feeling the pain with full power. She yelped and tried to call the mysterious guy from earlier.

"Sir, please! Help me!" At the sound of her voice guy turned around and approached her once more, kneeled beside her and put the hand on the small pool of blood, which was slowly growing on the pavement.

"Why would I?" He said in completely uncaring tone. He seemed to be far more interested in the red sticky liquid in her wounds...

A/N: Hello, dear readers. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my fanfiction. I basically started to write it with the intention of working of my English, and the Death Note just happened to be my favorite anime show, so feel free to point out any grammar mistakes [just don't be rude, please.]

Also, you can review and tell me what do you think of the story :)