Apples
by ShadowYoukai87
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note! Don't kill me Kira!!
Apples. From the moment he had first tasted one, he had been hooked. They were so juicy, so sweet, so different from anything he had ever tried before. It was true, he was a shinigami and he didn't need to eat, but, he felt as if he needed apples.
Really, he didn't understand why he felt so drawn to them. Was it that they were that bright red, the colour of blood? Or was it that they were just something that seemed so full of life, something that the shinigami so often lusted after? Whatever it was, he needed them.
Every night, Light's mother would bring them up a few, after noting how her son had suddenly began to eat everyone in the house. Not true. Light rarely touched them. It was him, Ryuk, that ate them, of course, he wasn't going to complain if it allowed him to have some everyday. He didn't want to go without those things, those sweet things that seemed to be perfect.
Light had once proposed a reason why he so needed them. He had said once, that in this book called the bible, which many people took to be as fact, as silly as that sounds, the apple was a forbidden fruit, that by eating, man had commited the first sin. Sin, that was one thing he understood. Sin, death, they were things a shinigami could understand, could love. He thrived on devouring, he revealed in watching Light cause the suffering he did, but, there was nothing he loved more than the apples. He could live with boredom again if he could just have that devil fruit with him.
of course, it wasn't possible. Eventually, Light would die. And when he died, he would have to return to his own realm, the shinigami realm. He wouldn't be able to have any more apples. he shuddered at the thought and prayed that no matter what happened, Light lived long enough so that he had many years of feasting on apples before he finnally had to return. Of course, wouldn't that make it harder? Stopping after many years?
He had thought of that a while before and had tried to stop eating them, but, it hadn't been possible. He had started sweating, something shinigami didn't usually do, he had been in pain, he had felt as if he were dying. It had been so horrible that he had sworn to never try to stop again. He had seemed to forget at the time that he would eventually have no choice.
Still, once it was done, once Light was killed and Kira's reign had ended, what would happen? He had told Light once that by using the Death Note, there was no way his soul coul go on to heaven or hell. After all, it was the truth. He hadn't told him what would happen, he wasn't allowed to. He couldn't tell him that all the Shinigami had once been human. He couldn't tell him that they had all once found Death Notes. He couldn't tell him that that was what lay beyond this world for him. He wondered what Light would do once he got there. Would he continue with his crusade? Or would he merely lose his enthusiasm? Once you reached the shinigami realm and became one, you did change. Ryuk could barely remeber his days as a human. he glanced at the apple again. Perhaps, he had been fond of apples then too.
Wow, I was busy today. Third post, hehehe. Anyways, about this, from the moment I first saw the opening, I was like "applefirst sin", cool imagry. (English major, always reading between the lines) And then, when i found out Ryuk loved them, I was like, yeah, that makes sense. First sin+god of death. Then when he told Light how his soul wouldn't go to heaven or hell or whatever, I was like'the users of the death note, could they become the shinigami?' Anyways, I think this turned out pretty good for a little nothing bit. Not to mention I was bored and I love Death Note, though I've only seen to episode 4. I loved it before the opening credits were done. Nightmare so reminds me of XJapan, and at first I thought they were XJapan. Anyways, made the note too long. Too lazy to go and delte it, so, R&R!!!