Author's Note: This chapter took several days to make since me and my best friend are making it together over the internet. The next chapter will take a while to make just as this one did. Please enjoy. Also, they characters are, of course, in Japan but are speaking in English (to us it's English at least :P).

Light Yagami, an almost eighteen year old male with brown hair and brown eyes, is sitting in a desk in a classroom. He seems to be a bit bored. Sitting behind him is Kohaku Hatashi, an eighteen year old female with long black hair that goes a little bit past her back and darkish blue eyes, who has an expression of boredom on her face. She was as bored as Light; maybe even more bored. She turns to her right and appears to start speaking with Sakae Shiraki, a young seventeen-year-old female whose blonde hair falls along her back towards the middle and greyish blue eyes that sparkle with excitement.

"Well this class is more boring than usual," Kohaku said to Sakae.

Sakae nods in agreement, the sparkle in her eyes gone. "It would seem so. Not even Light is paying attention." She looks at their friend in front of them. "He seems more out of it than usual."

Kohaku's expression of boredom changes to one of anxiety. "Gee thanks. Now you got me worried about him."

"What? I was just pointing it out. There's no need to get too worked up about it. Light is just being Light," Sakae replied, trying to reassure her friend.

Kohaku didn't answer. She simply just looks towards Light. She stares at the back of his head for a moment before sighing and looking towards the teacher, no longer feeling like having a conversation.

The teacher drones on as people slowly slip into dreamland. "Listen for the voice of God then follow it and know that in time you will find your salvation." The teacher catches sight of Light. "Yagami, are you still with us? Can you please translate the following sentence into Japanese?"

Light take notice that the teacher called on him. Light sighs and stood up with a thin book in his hands. He spoke in Japanese as he read from it. "Follow the teachings of God and receive his blessings and so it shall be that the seas will again become bountiful and the raging storms will subside." Light sat back down.

The teacher nods to him. "Good job. Also." The teacher walks to the back of the room where Light is to find Kohaku sleeping and Sakae staring off into her own world. A loud smack sounds throughout the room.

Sakae jumped. "Holy sugar cookies!" She notices the teacher standing in front of her. "Oh...sugar cookies…"

Kohaku is, surprisingly, still sleeping.

Sakae tries to wake her sleeping friend. "Kohaku, wake up… now may not be a good time to be sleeping."

Kohaku's eyes open slightly. "Hmm..." She yawns and sits up straight in her seat, rubbing her eyes.

"Nice to see the two of you have now joined our class once again." The teacher snaps slightly.

"Sorry..." Kohaku apologized.

"Now, let's continue the lesson." The teacher walks back up to the front of the classroom and begins with the lecture again.

Sakae let out a nervous laugh. "I guess we are lucky we didn't get in anymore trouble."

"We're lucky cause this teacher is stupid," Kohaku mumbled.

"Point taken." Sakae replies.

It seemed like a long time but eventually school was over with for the day. Light, Kohaku, and Sakae are heading to Light's home, which is practically Kohaku and Sakae's home too considering they are always there. Kohaku looks almost as if she is sleep walking.

Sakae waves her hand in front of Kohaku's face. "Are you still awake?"

"Barely but yes," Kohaku replied.

"Well, the teacher did wake you up in the middle of your nap...so yeah…" Sakae says before closing off.

"Are you getting enough sleep at night, Kohaku?" Light asked, showing some concern for one of his best friends.

"No. Everytime I go home to get some sleep, dad is always yelling at mom." Kohaku stops walking to act like her dad. Light and Sakae pause to look at her. "'This is your fault, Yue! If you haven't given our daughter a boys name, she wouldn't be coming home late! She's probably going to clubs or sleeping around with strangers, using a fake name so they don't think she's odd for having a guys name! The boys at her school probably think she's a lesbian!'" Kohaku sighs. "That last thing might be true though...Hmm..." She starts thinking about it.

"Why the hell would they think you're a lesbian? You don't really hang out with girls," Sakae shoots in to ask.

"True. I hang out with just ONE girl and ONE guy," Kohaku says, looking at her two best, and only, friends. "Everyone else is annoying. You two aren't exactly annoying. Also you two are the only people around my age who actually want to speak to me." She starts walking again. Light and Sakae follow her.

Sakae bowed her head slightly, even though Kohaku couldn't see her, and smiled. "Thank you."

"Mm," Kohaku responded, continuing to walk in front of her friends.

"Allow for other people to believe what they wish. It doesn't really affect you in the end," Light said to try and comfort his friend.

"Whatever you say bud," Kohaku sighed. She remained quiet for the rest of the walk.

The next day, Light is looking out the window to his left as the teacher is talking. Sakae and Kohaku are obviously not paying any attention to the teacher and are doing their own little thing.

"Another noticeable consequence is the extinction of many species on the planet. Species are now becoming extinct at a faster rate than has ever occurred in our recorded history," the teacher spoke. None of the students were really listening.

As Light continued to stare out the window, a black notebook fell out of the sky and landed in the grass. Light stared at it in surprise. Sakae and Kohaku notice his look.

"Light," Kohaku said. "Are you okay buddy?"

"Hm?" Light turns to his two friends to see worried expressions. "Yea, I'm fine."

"You sure now?" Sakae asked him.

"Yes, I'm sure." He turns and stares back out the window.

"Liar," Kohaku accused him. "No one ever just randomly becomes surprised by looking out of a window at school. Unless you see something very perverted or the sky's falling."

"Maybe I remembered something I had to do later. It could be anything," Light said in a calm tone.

"I don't believe you," Kohaku said. She then muttered under her breath, hoping her friends wouldn't hear. "Jackass..."

"Heard that," Light teased as continues to look out the window.

"Definitely is out of character today," Sakae commented.

Kohaku sighed.

"Now are you okay?" Sakae asked her sighing friend.

Kohaku shrugged before staring at her desk with a sad expression on her face. She didn't like how Light wouldn't tell them why he seemed so surprised. They were suppose to be friends after all.

"Kohaku?" Sakae calls out to her, softly.

"Leave me be," Kohaku said quietly.

"S-Sorry," Sakae apologizes before looking at her desk.

"Sakae."

Sakae looked up to see Light looking at her. "Yes?"

"Is everything okay between you and your brother?" he asked.

"Oh? Um… yeah, everything is fine for now," she said before smiling a little bit. Light nods in response and looks up at the teacher.

Class was eventually over. The three friends were now outside, around where the notebook had fallen. Kohaku seemed to be back to being her usual self, not showing that she was still a bit sad. Light spotted the notebook and walked over to it. Curiosity got the best of Sakae & Kohaku and they walk over to him as he picked up the notebook. Light sighed when his friends reached him, having hoped his friends wouldn't follow but then again, they followed him everywhere.

Kohaku studied the cover of it. "Death Note? You know, like a book of death? Think that's what it could be?"

"Hmm." Light turned the book over and saw rules on the back. He read the first rule silently. "How to use it: the human whose name is written in this notebook… shall die."

"You mean, you can just kill anyone?" Sakae asked, having read the same rule in her head too.

Light put the Death Note back on the ground. "It's pretty lame, not to mention twisted. It's really not that different from one of those chain letters you get. A human whose name is written in this notebook shall die? Come on." He started walking away.

"You aren't going to keep it?" Kohaku questioned, tilting her head to the side and remaining by the book that now laid on the ground again. "What if someone else finds it and believes it's real?" She waited for a response. Light stopped walking to look at his friends but said nothing.

Sakae responded to her instead. "Imagine if it got into the hands of the wrong person. They could just start killing everybody?! Almost like trying to sculpt a perfect world in their image." Chills ran down her spine. "Scary just thinking about it."

"I say we take it," Kohaku said. "Even if it is a prank."

"Okay, okay, I'll take it." Light walks back over to them and grabs the notebook from the ground once again. "I still don't believe this thing is real."

"And let's hope we never find out!" Sakae yelled, causing her friends to cover their ears. "Sorry…"

Kohaku uncovered her ears. "Anything is possible," she stated. "There is always at least a 5% chance that something is possible when it's highly impossible."

"Hmm…" Light thought for a second. "You really think so?"

"Indeed." She half-smiled. Never has she smiled completely. It was always a half smile or smirk.

"As the saying goes, nothing is ever impossible." Sakae smiled slightly.

Light looked down at the notebook. "You're right. It couldn't possibly hurt anyone."

A train whistles as it goes by. Once it's gone, the three friends begin walking. They are heading to Light's home.

"There must be something wrong with us to even consider it," Light said low enough for only Kohaku and Sakae to hear as they walk past people.

"I guess." Kohaku began to think about it. "Maybe we should've left it for someone else to find. 95% chance it's a prank after all but still, we couldn't take a risk of someone getting it...Hm…" She pressed her finger to her lips as she thought while she walked with Sakae and Light.

"What's boiling in that head of yours, Kohaku?" Sakae asked.

"Let me look at it," Kohaku said, looking at Light. He handed her the Death Note and another notebook and she flipped through the pages as she hid the Death Note inside the other notebook to keep others from seeing it as they walked. "Hmm? Doesn't seem like anyone has written in this. Maybe it really is a prank...but then again, maybe some pages were ripped out after it was used..."

Sakae looked confused for a moment. "Some of the pages are ripped out?"

"Most likely because they didn't want someone to see what they put; and if it's real, the people they killed," Light commented.

Kohaku checked for ripped pages. "No signs of anything being ripped out so that possibility is at 1%."

"Do you like making calculations?" Light asked.

Kohaku paid him no mind as she continued to think of more possibilities. She mumbled to herself. "1% for pages having been ripped out from the 5% of this being real and the other 4% is that there could be something in here but we just haven't seen it yet… Hm… That can also go for the 95% of this being fake and the person was trying to make it seem real… Interesting… Very interesting…" She flipped the pages slowly, trying to find any names that may had been written in it. Light and Sakae were beginning to see why she didn't have very many friends...and it wasn't just from her avoiding people...

"Um...Kohaku, are you going to join us on Earth again?" Sakae nudged her a little.

Kohaku blinked and looked at her. "Hm? Did you want something?"

"You seemed like you were having fun with trying to figure out whether out the notebook was real," Sakae commented.

"I always do things like this. Mainly when I'm alone. There are many mysteries in this world but this notebook is by far the greatest," Kohaku stated.

"Hmm… there could be more, but at the moment, you are correct. It's a puzzle that needs to be solved." Light looked down at the notebook then back to Kohaku. "Do you think you have come up with an answer?"

"There's only one thing we can do," Kohaku said, sighing. "But you may not like it."

"What would that be?" Both Sakae and Light asked.

Kohaku stopped walking and turned to look at them both. "Isn't it obvious? To prove if it's real or fake, we'll have to write a name in it."

"You mean, actually kill somebody?!" Sakae yelled. A few people around them gave her a look as they walked by.

Kohaku frowned. "Perhaps. That's only if this turns out to be real."

"I think…" Light puts his hand on his chin, closes his eyes, and thinks for a moment. "If it is real, it needs to be someone who has done terrible things."

"We'll figure it out when we get to your house," Kohaku said.

Light sat at his desk at his home, inside his room, while Sakae and Kohaku stood behind him, looking over his shoulders. They were reading all of the rules of the Death Note.

"This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his or her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected," Kohaku spoke, lifting a finger to her lips. "That's interesting…"

Sakae read the next few rules. "If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds."

"Hmm, so depending on the person you have in mind you can either kill them easily or painfully, huh," Light said, staring at the Death Note's rules. "This is pretty detailed for a prank, I'll give them that."

"I am beginning to think that it is not a prank," Kohaku commented.

"It is very intricate to be one if it is, but I agree with Kohaku. This doesn't seem like a prank," Sakae said before crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well, go ahead Light. Write a name," Kohaku said.

"Wait, on the off chance someone really dies, would that make me a murderer?" Light questioned.

"I'll write the name if that little fact bothers you," Kohaku suggested. "I have nothing to lose."

"No...I'm fine with it. But thanks anyway," Light declined.

"Now, question is, whose name should be put," Sakae said.

"That's easy. Just turn on the TV and watch the news. There's bound to be something going on," Kohaku said.

"Alright." Light turned on the TV and it was already on the news. There's a daycare center being shown from a helicopter.

"The same assailant who attacked 6 people at a busy shopping district in Sinjuku yesterday has struck again. Taking 8 people hostage at this daycare center," said the newscaster, who was then shown on the TV screen. "His captives include both children and teachers." A picture of a man appeared on the screen. "The police have now identified the suspect as 42-year-old Kuro Otoharada, currently unemployed. We expect negotiations to begin immediately."

"Hmm," Kohaku said, staring at the screen.

Sakae stopped looking at the screen momentarily to see Light writing down the man's name. She saw him look at the clock.

"A heart attack in 40 seconds...we'll see," Light mumbled to himself, turning to look at the TV again. Sakae looked back at the TV as well.

Kohaku looked at Light. "You actually wrote his name?" She hadn't expected him to actually try out the notebook. She glanced at the Death Note to see if he was lying but saw the name of the criminal on the TV. "Seems you aren't kidding…" She looked at the TV.

Forty seconds went by and nothing seemed to really happen. Light picked up the remote for his TV. "Looks like it didn't work. I didn't expect it to."

"Let's wait a second," Kohaku said, staring at the TV, feeling like something was about to happen and indeed something did.

On the TV, they watch as the hostages are seen running out of the daycare center and special forces heading into the building.

"The hostages all look to be unharmed," the newscaster said. "The Special Forces are taking action! We don't know if the suspect's been arrested." The newscaster paused. "Huh?" He seemed confused and a bit surprised. "We now have confirmation. The suspect has been found dead inside. I repeat, the suspect is now dead."

"Dead?" Light said, looking shocked and surprised.

"The Special Forces are denying allegations that they shot the suspect," the newscaster stated. "According to statements from hostages, the suspect just suddenly collapsed."

Kohaku blinked as she continued staring at the TV. "It actually worked?"

"No way! It's just a coincidence," Light said.

"Then that is one heck of a coincidence then," Sakae said while looking at the screen of the TV. "Something like that...almost seems impossible but…it happened."

"What more proof do you need, Light?" Kohaku questioned, looking at him. "You have to see it happen in person?"

"I don't know if I really want that." Light replied.

"Mmm..." Kohaku sighed.

"Well, I guess we will have to see." Sakae commented.

The three friends had cram school that night. They were all sitting at desks away from each other. Kohaku was sitting around the front, Light was somewhere in the middle, and Sakae was somewhere at the back.

Light glanced to his right to see Sudo, a young male who was a complete asshole, talking to another classmate, Ryo.

"Hey, Ryo buddy," Sudo said to Ryo, a sly smile on his face.

"What is it, Sudo?" Ryo asked. He seemed to be a bit afraid of Sudo. Then again, who wouldn't?

"Didn't you want to lend me 20 dollars?" Sudo asked him, the sly smile still on his face.

"What, again? But I can't do that…" Ryo mumbled.

"Maybe I should try killing him," Light thought as he stared at Sudo. "No, I should definitely avoid killing people I know. Then again, does it even really matter? I mean, would anyone really care if a guy like him was to disappear one day?"

Light watched as Ryo handed Sudo some money.

"Sweet, looks like we'll be hanging at the arcade after school," Sudo said to his friend.

Light sighed and felt someone sit beside him. He glanced to see it was Sakae.

"Sakae?" he questioned.

She pointed at the front of the room. Light looked and spotted Kohaku, who was getting out of her seat, her fists clenched. He watched as she moved towards where Sudo and his friend stood.

"What the hell is she thinking?" Light wondered.

Kohaku stood behind Sudo. "Give him back his money."

Sudo turned around and his sly smile grew. "Ah, Kohaku right? What makes you think it's his?"

Kohaku stared at him, her expression blank. "I saw you take it from him."

"I got this money fair and square," Sudo said. "Go cry about it somewhere else."

Kohaku's fist connected to his stomach. Sudo grunted in pain and let go of the money, wrapping his arms around his stomach. Kohaku caught the money and handed it to Ryo.

"You're welcome," Kohaku said to him before she headed back to her seat.

"That little…" Sudo growled. He pointed towards her, yelling at his friend. "What are you doing just standing there gawking? Teach her a lesson!"

"But what if she hits me back?" his friend questioned. Sudo just growled in anger and hit his friend's arm.

"Are you just being a freakin' wimp?! Fine, I'll do it." Sudo gets up and goes over to Kohaku who just reached her desk. "Do you want to fight, you little punk?"

Kohaku sat down in her desk and doesn't even glance at Sudo. "Why would I want to fight you? I was simply returning the money to its rightful owner."

"You saw that he handed it to me, out of his own free will," Sudo shouted

"Because you freaked him out. He knew you'd do something if he didn't," Kohaku spoke calmly. "You don't scare me however. You are wasting my time."

"Then you shouldn't have messed with me in the first place." Sudo brought up his hand to try and throw a punch at Kohaku.

She caught his fist in her hand. "Are you done?"

"Why you little-!" Sudo takes his hand back and tries to punch her once again.

She moves her head slightly and he misses. "Can you leave me alone already?"

Sudo growled slightly but left. "I will get you next time."

"I doubt it," Kohaku whispered, sighing.

"Damn." Sakae whispered as she watched Sudo walk back to his seat. "She truly did crush his pride."

Light nodded slightly. "Men like that, they seek to crush people to boost their ego."

Sakae began to twirl her pencil through her fingers. "Doesn't matter right now. Let's just concentrate on work." She got up and went back to her seat.

Light stared down at his desk in front of him and thought about the Death Note. The night couldn't go by any slower.

Light, Kohaku, and Sakae were walking down the street, silently. As they three walked, they noticed a few men surround a young woman. The men were on motorcycles.

"Hey baby, where you going? Come have a little fun with us," Takuo said to the lady. He must've been the leader of the group.

One of his henchmen laughed. "That's our Takuo for ya. This guy can spot a hottie a mile away."

"What's up little lady?" Takuo lowered his sunglasses a bit. "The name's Takuo Shibuimaru. What do you say? Come hang out with us pretty lady."

Light, Sakae, and Kohaku walked into the store by them.

"We gotta help her," Kohaku stated calmly. "And soon. I don't want to witness a rape."

"But how could we do that without trying to get involved?" Sakae asked.

Kohaku rolled her eyes and pulled the Death Note out of Light's bag. "You can be dumb sometimes."

"I already knew about that. I just...didn't know it would actually be done." Sakae looked down at her hands, nervously.

"Please, I don't want any trouble," the woman said to the men surrounding her outside the store.

The same henchman who spoke before, spoke again. "You hear that? She doesn't want trouble."

"Isn't that cute," the second henchman said.

Takuo grabbed onto the girl. "Let's go boys. Strip her down right here."

His men were off their motorcycles.

"Are you sure?" his henchman asked greedily.

They didn't wait for a reply as one of the men started to try and undo the girl's pants. Light, Kohaku, and Sakae were watching thru the store's window.

"Light," Kohaku said.

"I know." Light finished writing in the Death Note.

"...I guess we just wait…" Sakae said, frowning.

The three watch as the woman runs across the street, Takuo chasing after her on his motorcycle. Just as the woman is off the street with Takuo right behind her, a large truck slams right into Takuo, killing him. Light stares in shock like he had earlier that day. Sakae looked horrified. Kohaku just stared at the scene blankly.

"The Death Note, it's for real," Light mumbled.

"Indeed," Kohaku said. She was extremely calm.

"There is the final proof that we truly needed. This…is scary," Sakae said as chills ran down her spine.

"To you, maybe. Me, I think it's kinda cool," Kohaku said. "We can get rid of all the evil in the world. Think about it. You said yesterday when we found the book that someone could use it to sculpt a perfect world in their image. We can do that. I mean, Light can do that." Kohaku turned towards Light.

"Me?" Light asked, slightly shocked. He looked at Kohaku. Sakae looked at her as well.

"Well, you found it. Besides, you saw what those men were going to do. We can stop that. We, meaning Sakae and myself, can help you get names of criminals on the internet while you look for ones on TV. We can be a team," Kohaku said.

"You're actually agreeing we do this, Kohaku? This isn't right! People can change, they just need to be given that second chance," Sakae said, trying to convince her two friends.

Kohaku looked at her. "Sakae, a lot of murderers get second chances. You know what they do? Kill some more." She looked at Light. "You agree with me, don't you? We can stop all those criminals faster than any cop can!"

Light looked down at the notebook. "Yea, I think I do agree. We were given this power and we should do some good with it."

"Are you two listening to me?! Killing people is not the way to solve things." Sakae looked between them, looking for any sign of agreement. Sadly, she sees nothing. "You...you're really going to do this? Light?"

"This world is corrupted, Sakae. It's better for the good to survive rather than the evil." Light stood his ground of his decision, causing Sakae to cringe back a little.

"Are you with us or against us, Sakae?" Kohaku questioned.

With a small sigh, Sakae stared at her two friends. "Do I really have a choice? I'd never try to go against my friends."

Light placed his hand on Sakae's shoulder and smiled a little.

"Great! We'll fix this world together!" Kohaku sorta cheered. She never done so before.

Sakae nodded shortly. She didn't like this one bit...

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