In My Enemy's Hands
A Death Note Story
If you had the power to change the world anyway you wanted to, would you? If you had the power to judge people according to what they had done, would you use it? That's what I thought. I thought the world was too rotten and evil to go on how it is. My name is Light Yagami. I am just a normal High School boy who does his homework and gets the good grades he deserves. I study hard and do all I can, so I can get into a nice college. The fact that there were evil-doers in the world puzzled me. The people who commit crimes should be punished. They should be eliminated. But how? How could one person get rid of thousands or even millions of these crime committing fools? For any normal person it was impossible. But….not for me. It……………was a mistake….I just happened to pick it up. I wasn't chosen to shape the world using this….this….Death Note. Or at least that's what the Shinigami Ryuk said. Even though I wasn't hand chosen by God to do this dirty work; it felt like it. I couldn't help the feeling that the only person in the world who had the "heart" to do this, was me. When things happen to you, you sometimes only expect the bad things. Good things can come of your choices. I thought doing this…..eliminating criminals according to their crimes, was a good thing. And that only one good thing could come out of it. A safer world. But, people caught on to my plan, and tried to destroy it. I merely wanted to make the world safe for the people who live here. Most people thought of me as some type of god. They don't call me that of course. As I told Ryuk, I will be the god of this new world. But alas, that is not the name they have given me. The name given to me is the Japanese word for killer. My name……..is KIRA.