Death note: the challenge
Prologue
They told the truth. The government actually told the truth. That was the best way to conceal it I guess. Conceal what? Kira. No one in their right mind would believe the true story about Kira, I guess that's why it's so perfect. It's the biggest conspiracy that's not a conspiracy. Yet it leaves one to wonder, will they cover this the same way?
"I'm bored." Whines Oni, crushing a skull in the desolate wasteland they call a world, the shinigami world.
Oni is a shinigami. He enjoys games, probably because that's the only thing to enjoy in the shinigami world. He's tall with grey skin and yellow eyes with purple iris. Most of his skin and lips are white. His 'clothes' are what appear to be a loose black robe stitched around his neck, fully concealing everything except his head and hands. His hands are dead white, and the 'robe' is also appears to be stitched to the top of each wrist, and slacks about a foot. His feet are bare, but are completely black. He has what appears to be a tattoo of a skull on his forehead, and short spiky blond hair.
"Ahh shut it, you think we aren't?" asks Lilith in a harsh tone.
Despite her sudden hostility, Lilith and Oni are friends. She often complains of the slow life as a shinigami, and often times wishes something interesting would actually happen. She loves challenges. She also has grey skin and 'wears' a white 'shirt' stapled down the middle, around her waist, and drape about her fore arms and spike out along with a black 'skirt' with downward spikes at the end, with a belt weaved in and out and white 'pants' that drape downwards. Her feet are white and match her skin color and appear to have what is similar to falcon claws for toes. Her eyes are red with black iris. Her lips are purple and her face has one black arrow tattooed down her right side of her face, though her eye, and another going up her face parallel to the other, going through her other eye. She has short, black, straight hair.
"Bored to hostility huh? I don't blame you, absolutely nothing to do here." said Grim sympathetically.
Grim is neither friend nor enemy of either of the others. He knows of them, and leaves it at that. His usual activities include lazing around and watching humans though the hole in the shinigami world. He 'wears' a cape sewn from his right shoulder, almost always completely covering his right arm with only his hand showing.
His other arm has what appear to be stiches going fully down his arm, into his palm. His torso is covered completely by a black 'shirt' which drapes below his waist, but doesn't cover either arm at all. His 'pants' resemble black leather. He has what appear to be stiches down his side of his face, crossing his eye, and more fully across his face on his nose. His hair is black and is extremely messy. His lips are also black. It seems to spike in some places, but curl in others. His eyes are black with a red iris.
"You three are fools." Ryuk cackles landing on the ground from flight with his black shinigami wings.
"Coming from the joker himself." Grim laughs.
"What do you want Ryuk?" asked Lilith with suspicion.
"Any of you want to play a new game?" Ryuk asks.
"What kind of game?" Oni asks with delight at the thought of a different game.
"It involves going to the human world." Ryuk starts off in a roundabout way.
"And?" Grim asks, with his interest at an apparent peak.
"You give your notebook to a human, and you pit them against each other. Mind you, you'll most likely never have the experience I had with Light, but you can give it a try." Ryuk says.
"Are there any more rules to this game?" Lilith asks.
"I dunno, it's up to you really. I won't be participating, only watching. I've had my fun in the human world for now." Ryuk sighs. The three shinigami look at each other eyes narrowed, ready for a competition.
"Rules." Lilith says simply.
"No giving the note to a human with an incredible amount of resources." Oni says.
"In other words, they need to be average?" asks grim with a slight loss of interest.
"Not average, but not…" Oni trails off.
"When I met light, he was merely a smart high school student." Ryuk says.
"Like that." Oni says.
"I think I understand" Lilith says, and Grim nods in agreement.
"What about the region?" Grim asks.
"With the humans, how they speak depends on where they live. Language they call it." He says.
"Well it should be technologically adept." Oni says.
"Agreed." Lilith says.
"The united states then?" Grim asks.
"Not a bad choice. I met light in Japan, but the size of the U.S. dwarfs japan, it would be good for the three of you to have distance." Ryuk says.
"How should they use the notebook?" Oni asks.
"However they see fit." Lilith says.
"This will be fun." Oni says.