"And that was my day." Was what a blonde boy muttered into his laptops built in microphone. Shutting the lid and tilting his head backwards, he lets out a loud yawn the exhausting catching up with his small kid like body. Stumbling out of the small computer chair the boy walked over to his single bed, then hopping in and closing his eyes.

"Why do I even bother." He said before the darkness consumed him and he fell asleep.

Next Morning

"Hopefully today will be a better day, so I can finally update my video journal with something positive." The blonde said to his empty room. He stood there for a moment lost in thought until he grabbed his small backpack and left his dorm room. It was currently 7:16 A.M perfect timing for him to get breakfast. Slinging the bag over his shoulders, he trudged down the hallway, down the stairs and walked across Kadic Campus into the small building reserved for meals.

Pushing open the green metal doors he stepped into the lunchroom and headed for the line, he came a bit earlier than most people did so the lunchroom was practically a ghost town; besides Rosa, the spunky lunch lady of course. Getting on line to get the usual slop he once again spaced out, until one grumpy lunch lady woke him out of his stupor.

"I said what do you want for breakfast kid!" Rosa said smacking together some pots and pans to make the blonde pay attention. It worked as his head shot up instantly to find the source of the noise, seeing that it was just Rosa he relaxed,

"Oh, sorry, Rosa, I wasn't paying attention, I guess I'll have a ham and cheese sandwich." She grunted then dropped the food on the gray plastic tray then pushed it towards the blonde. Smiling gratefully he walked through the long line of tables and sat down in a chair situated further back in the lunchroom.

Glancing at his watch he noticed that it was the time when most kids are supposed to set inside the lunchroom; And as if on cue the doors burst open and an influx of kids poured in pushing and shoving one another to get the best seats or best food. Ignoring them, he picked at his food for a few minutes until he heard familiar voices nearby him. Glancing upward from his now extremely cold food, he spotted the familiar faces of Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and Aelita. They seemed to be engrossed in a serious conversation at a moment as they headed towards him.

"Ulrich, I'm just saying that you gotta admit Sissi is pretty hot, if she wasn't such a brat I'm sure guys would fall all over her." Odd commented

"Maybe you would since you go after anything that moves," he then playfully winked at Yumi "but not me especially when I have someone like Yumi around."

"Hey! No I don't! You just don't want to say it since Yumi was around." He then grinned, one that would put the Cheshire cat to shame "Especially after what happened in the factory between you tw-"

Ulrich clamped his hand over the boy's mouth reddening by the minute "Shut up ODD! We agreed never to mention it!"

"Mention what?" Yumi interjected while, Aelita just giggled and they continued walking continuing their playful banter; and right past a certain blonde genius. He was used to it but it didn't stop the hurt every time it would happen. "Time heals all wounds, bullshit." He muttered picking at his food with his plastic utensils. He sneaked a few glances over at the tables his friends were sitting at like he usually did and like usual they were joking around and having fun, Odd had just said something funny because everyone was laughing like they just heard the best joke ever. This usually happened most days from what he observed, but today was different, after wiping a tear from her face from laughter, Aelita opened her eyes and caught his glance, her face immediately darkened and she turned away, resuming the previous conversation she was having.

He turned his head back around quickly and looked down at his now cold and probably stale food. He was contemplating eating it or not until three shadows appeared above him. There were his "bullies" you see now that Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi didn't hang out with him anymore he was fair game for anyone, they usually got him in the halls, but today they seemed to gather the balls to torment him in public.

"Hey Einstein" the first boy sarcastically said to him

"…" Jeremie tried to ignore the boy's attempts to mess with him adjusting his glasses and taking small breaths.

"Flick" Black wired glasses flew up into the air and hit the concrete smashing on impact with the hard surface. Everyone in the lunchroom turned their attention to the source of the noise, even them. (A/N: the old gang you know Odd, Aelita etc)

Grabbing the collar of his shirt the bully pulled him up at least 3 feet into the air so they had eye contact, the bullies eyes bore into his with such ferocity and hate. After a few seconds of silence he said

"I was talking to you loser, now then where is my homework?"

Shit, I knew I was forgetting something last night!

Twiddling his fingers together he weakly replied "Oh, well, you see, I kind of forg-"

"UGHRAA" He screamed after receiving a swift punch to the ribs followed up by more and more blows, he couldn't hold on, he felt his eyes rising to the back of his head and the grip on him loosening. When he hit the ground, his head turned to see his "friends" they were just watching intently expressionless, no laughing, and smiling. The darkness was now completely clouding his vision, he heard his bully say something he couldn't understand. The room spun around and his eyes closed.

"Nghh" He moaned, his vision was blurry and his sides felt as if they were on fire, while his eyes adjusted to his surroundings he propped himself up with his elbows and noticed he was floating. When he finally blinked away the last bits of sleep, he noticed that he was in what appeared to be nurse office and he was on the small wheel able bed. Jumping off the bed he felt a sharp pain in his left side and only then remembering the events that landed him in the office. Once the pain subsided he scanned the room for anyone, it turned out it was empty, he was about to leave until he noticed a sheet of paper on the desk, he picked it up squinting to read it without his glasses.

Sorry Jeremie but I had to pick up something, you can leave once you wake up just take it easy, I left a note for you to hand into the principal office for an excused absence.

-Nurse Yolanda

"Great, another person who doesn't give a damn about me." He picked up the note and exited the nurse's office and was headed out the building until he bumped into a similar pink haired girl and blonde.

Unfortunately he couldn't see who they were since his glasses were gone and he was still in a haze from crashing "Oh, sorry… um what's you're name?" he asked scrambling to help her pick up her items.

Upon hearing her voice he knew exactly who she was, he looked up shocked. Aelita didn't take it very well and retreated behind Odd's back

"Get out of here," He snarled at Jeremie pushing him back making him fall on his ass again

"I didn't even do anything! What do you want from me?"

"We all just want you to disappear like a bad memory, so why don't you just transfer to a school for brains or something!"

At a loss for words he glanced at Aelita who was still hiding behind Odd's back

"Do you feel the same?" he asked his voice barely audible

She nodded

He snapped

"Of course, I pretty much give you a life, save the world and deprive myself of sleep to be treated like this, you know what... just forget it, just forget it like you forgot me!" He screamed pointing a shaking finger at her "The sight of you makes me sick." Pausing for a brief second to register their shocked faces he turned and left, but as he was leaving, he made one more comment "I hope you fade into nothingness like your father." He opened the door and left the building.

Rain, it was raining, but he didn't care, there was only one place he could go now. He ran out into the forest his visibility cut greatly by the slight fog his hair covering his eyes and his lack of glasses. Thankfully, with his mental map of the area he found what he was looking for, the sewer grate.

Pulling it open the blonde descended the steel bars, jumping down to finish off the last three. Looking over his side, he saw his scooter, without a moment's hesitation he hopped aboard it and pushed with his entire might heading to his safe haven.

A small grate on the surface moved and a boy emerged from it, having deposited his scooter at the other end of the tunnel earlier he ran through the heavy rain and occasional flashes of thunder across the large bridge to the factory.

Stepping inside the opening in the factory he hopped down the rope landing in a way that would put star athletes to shame, wasting no time he ran to elevator inputted the key code and entered heading down, to his lab.

The elevator opened and he just stood there inside staring at it. The supercomputer, the one they shut down two years ago today. He walked over it tracing the lines with his moist fingers, feeling the hard texture of it, relieving single memory of the fight against X.A.N.A.

Opening his eyes he realized that he must have been down there for a while since a hour passed, climbing back into the elevator he pushed the button and exited the factory.

Stepping back out into the rain, he ran again and slipped.

He grunted as his body hit cold wet concrete. He laid there unable to move from the pain, and as he was about to get up he felt something hit his head. It was a… book? He took the book and put it between his armpit for protection from the rain and rain back to Kadic Campus.

Stepping back into his dorm room he grabbed a change of clothes and place the book on his computer desk. He held the book close and read the title on the black notebook.

Death Note