disclaimer; I don't own anything but the idea for the god damned fanfiction.
Title; Options of the Lost
Summary; Prequel to Bottle Up My Chain. AU. Beyond Birthday had been a Shinigami with an obsession of a human; so he became a human. However, he remembered nothing.
Pairings; Eh, not much really. Just hints of 'em for now. -shot-
The rustle of old, battered pages forced my eyes to open as I glanced about my almost bare surroundings- bare but for the ancient and new books surrounding me. Snorting with slight bemusement I padded through the maze of text while pulling out a blue notebook and pen, perching on a jutting piece of rock I wrote down small observations as I peered down into the human world through a large spherical rock.
Growing bored I placed the notebook back amongst the text for later use, and made way towards the portal that led to the human world. I licked my lips slowly in thought; first I would grab myself some jam, then I would find a decent human to kill. Yes, that sounded like a very good plan for now.
I looked down from the ledge to the brilliant light that shot up from the whole in the ground, my skeletal wings unfurling from my back in routine as I plunged down into the light. It wasn't exactly a strange experience to move from world to world, more like a tiny tingling along one's skin- but this could be just for me, being used to this.
Glancing around me I could determine I was in the area that humans call 'London', why they felt the need to name everything, I assume it is so they do not get locations confused. A prickling danced across my skin as I walked through the wall of a store, heading straight for the jam.
"Jam, jam... Grape? No. Raspberry? No. Where do these humans keep the strawberry jam? Ah there it is!" I muttered to myself, reaching out when none of them were looking to collect twelve jars of the delicious jam before flying off with my loot.
The sky was just graying with morning as I began to devour the fifth jar of jam, licking my lips as I let it plummet to the earth below. Quickly I decided to store the remaining jars somewhere safe to pick up back on my way to the Shinigami realm. That would be much more convenient than wasting the jam in one sitting, so I went ahead with that plan.
Boredom was pressing so I dropped down into an old looking building, that turned out to be an orphanage. My eyes fixed on the woman preaching the infantile homeless humans about their false 'God'. God? No such thing existed, all things had to die in the end, we Shinigami made sure to that.
I looked above her head for her name, Maria Marching, and pulled out a single black notebook with runes from my world across the top. Maria Marching's name was written in the death note with no details, unlike the other names written there. I believed dieing mysteriously of a heart attack whilst speaking of 'God' was hint enough that he did not exist.
"Henh henh henh henh henh..." My laughter trailed off when I felt like someone was staring at me.
I found that a two year old human was staring in my direction, exactly where I would be standing if I were human. The strange thing was, that this human looked like I would if I were a young human- no it was like a miniature me. Messy black hair was hanging about with no real purpose over wide, black rimmed black eyes while the child chewed on the very tip of his thumb. I glanced at the child's name, and frowned slightly when I could not yet read the name- meaning the child had yet to be given a proper name. How sad, since he was a fairly smart looking child- no not looking, I could just tell he was smarter than the rest of the frolicking human.
Slowly a ripped a tiny piece of paper from my death note, not large enough to be anything, and touched the child with it. His black rimmed eyes widened in shock at the sight of someone that looked like an older him out of nowhere, and my grin widened as I took flight right through the orphan ceiling. I don't know what spurred me to let the child see me, but it was worth it just to see his reaction.
I was musing while I collected the stored jars of jam, and headed back to the Shinigami Realm.
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Three years had passed and I watched as the child's progress increased rapidly, he was high above even the older orphans. The new woman who was watching them now thought him a demon's child because of his alarming intelligence, not some god-blessed child. This was probably because he had once mentioned that he had seen an older him when he decided to speak, and they thought him to be crazy.
Today was different though, much different than the other days I watched the child. I had officially watched him for two years- and that was strange, even for myself. I usually did not watch a human for that long, or go to the human world to be there person to watch that human and not have killed the mortal. Today and elder man had come to watch the children's progress and adopt one of them.
From what I could see the man's name was Quillish Whammy, and still had a while to go for an elder-looking human. He was a very nice gentleman that was well off, and a good person for adoption. I watched the day's events and smiled softly as it began to snow in their world, snow was nice- sometimes I even wished it would snow in the Shinigami Realm.
"Are you sure? He's a demon child."
I turned my attention back to the orphanage, where it was evident this Quillish Whammy was adopting the object of my obsession. That wasn't what had made me fall back in surprise, it was that the child's name became clear and his lifespan increased slightly.
"What?" I mumbled unsure of what I had seen and looked back to the child. I had seen correctly, there, floating above his head was a name and a lifespan that had increased immensely. That made little sense, but I didn't pay much heed to that. It was the name of the child I was interested in, not how long he had to live.
L Lawliet.
L Lawliet, huh? It was a nice name- a nice name, indeed for the human child I revealed myself to. I watched as Quillish Whammy brought L to the car, and drove away from the orphanage.
"You take good care of L Lawliet for now, Quillish Whammy. Wait a while, I have much to think about," I told the human, who could not hear me, but I hoped for some reason to have felt the need to protect L as I had.
I opened up a jar of jam as I proceeded to move through the texts that were stacked around me, within my cave. I swallowed globs of the sticky sweet at I decided on my plan, but it would only be if I had the agreement of a certain someone.
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"My mirror twin, what brings you here?" The nondescript voice of the Shinigami King asked me, but he already knew what I wanted.
"You already know, but I wish to become a human that will have a chance of meeting L," I said, irritation flitting through my tone.
"Yes, that obsession of yours. I knew it would come to this so I have already located the perfect human who's body you can take. And guess what? His name is Beyond Birthday, just like you. So you don't have to worry about that; and don't worry about anything changing with the personality, well, you'll find out, go now! Quick, I already have my personal portal set to the location," the King said, clearly delighted on helping my cause. Why? I did not know, he always seemed to be willing to give me whatever I wanted.
"Thank you," I muttered after heading towards the portal, and diving down into it. A brilliant white light once more engulfed me, and I plummeted towards the human whose body would be mine. Easily I could tell the body was a year younger than L, that I would look the same as I did now eventually, and that I would remember nothing but essential knowledge about earth. I would only remember things I knew about the human world, which I found strange, but discard easily.
Next thing I knew, I was waking up to the white walls of a hospital. And that I had a splitting pain in my head. It hurt terribly and caused me to shudder.
An older man's voice was the first thing I heard, "He woke up! My son!"
a/n; First chapter of the prequel. :D I added some nice twists, you see. The one where L had already come into contact with a death note. :D Well I can't type much here because this was finished before school, so I hope you enjoy.
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