Kesu

Chapter 1:

Found

Ryuk flew over the strange village with a gleeful grin on his face. After he'd killed Light Yagami since he'd gotten boring, Ryuk no longer had a source of entertainment. He'd taken back the notebooks and gone back to the Shinigami realm. But he'd gotten bored again and was out to find another human to entertain him. He cackled madly as he dropped the extra Death Note he had since one had once belong to Rem.

The notebook just so happened to land right in front of a certain blonde haired ninja as he sat on his favorite swing and had just failed his gennin exam. "Huh? What's this?" he asked in a depressed tone as he picked it up.

Ryuk cackled, bringing the boy's attention to the floating Shinigami. Naruto gasped and froze in shock. "Don't look so frightened human," he cackled dryly as he saw the name Naruto Namikaze floating above the boy's head.

"W-who are you?" he asked shakily as he pointed to the humanoid creature with light gray, almost blue-ish color skin, limbs that are abnormally long, black spiked hair and has bulging yellow eyes with black irises. "What are you?"

"I'm Ryuk, a Shinigami." he said with a freakish grin. "And that notebook you're holding is a Death Note."

"A what?" Naruto asked in disbelief. "You're a Shinigami? And what the hell is a Death Note?!"

Ryuk chuckled. Maybe seeing what an idiot would do with a Death Note would be more interesting than a genius like Light. "Hey kid, you might want to know that only you can see and hear me, you're getting weird looks."

Naruto looked around and saw some of the kids and parents picking them up were giving him weirder looks than usual. "Well it's not like it's anything new…" he grumbled before he turned back to the Shinigami Ryuk. "So you're saying I'm the only one who can see you?"

"Yeah." Ryuk chuckled as he pointed to the notebook in Naruto's hands. "And anyone who touches this Death Note."

"Yeah, what's up with this?" Naruto asked as he flipped through the blank pages while he tilted his head.

"The Death Note lets the user kill anyone who's name he's written on it." Ryuk gave a dry raspy snicker. "So write down a name kid. Have any enemies? Just write their name down while you imagine their face and their die of a heart attack in 40 seconds." Ryuk cackled excitedly.

Naruto almost dropped the notebook as he stared at it in shock and wonder, realizing all the power he held in his hands just with one little notebook. His hands trembled slightly and he gulped as he remembered all the beatings he'd gotten from villagers in his earlier years before he'd gotten so good at stealth that only ANBU and Iruka, who just had a knack for this, could find him.

"So have anyone in mind?" Ryuk asked eagerly, snapping Naruto from his memories. He shook his head to clear it and stared at the notebook with newfound reverence. With this book he could kill anyone, no matter how strong he was, how smart he was, or even how much he trained. It didn't matter because this seemingly simple notebook could overpower them.

"Ryuk, how does this notebook work?" Naruto asked with a smirk as he walked away from the academy, the Shinigami flying behind him.

Ryuk cackled gleefully. "So you do have someone in mind!"