Gods of Death and Gods of Nothing

by Tono Radish

What starts out as a goofy series of events between a human and a Shinigami turns into a battle to save the worlds and the shinigami king. When evil collects death notes and upsets the balance of life and death it's up to Kidd Lelliet and his ability to make friends with gods of death to save the day… if only he wasn't so apathetic toward things that didn't involve anime...

1. Otaku

Gods of Death and Gods of Nothing

It's been about a week since I dropped my Death Note into the human world. Upon further investigation I find that a human has picked it up. He's 17 by the looks of it, since then he hasn't written a single name inside. How boring. I dropped my Death Note because Ryuk did. He's the most interesting guy in the shinigami realm. I'm afraid I'm not as interesting and he never wants to talk to me. But now that I'm in the human, with a dropped Death Note, he'll have no choice but to hang out with me! We'll have all sorts of inside jokes and eat apples! I can't wait! First I have to get this stupid kid into the real world so he can find Ryuk's human.

I've been standing here for a while but he won't look up from that gaming system. His face looks bored, actually I can't really read his face.

"Hey Kidd."

He didn't look up. This is the owner of my death note right?

"Kidd. Kidd Lelliet!"

He looked up, "You still here?"

"You knew I was here the whole time!?"

"Yeah. Oh speaking of time…"

Kidd checked his watch and turned on the TV. I was about to scream at him but then I looked into the monitor. There were some cute anime girls dancing to some song. I shut my trap and sat down.

"Oh great, another endless eight episode. Whatever."

"Kidd what is this?"

"Anime."

"This show is so… Interesting."

My big red eyes looked deeper into the pixels of light. So many cute girls wearing swim suits doing really lesbian things without being lesbians!? Why couldn't the human who wrote this pick up my Death Note!?

"So you know my name, what's yours?"

"You don't seem surprised at all that I'm here?"

"I read through the instructions of the Death Note and it said you'd be coming along."

"You're not at all surprised by my appearance either?"

Kidd Lelliet pointed to the bookshelf on the other side of his room. It was full of manga, dvds, and video games. Not to mention figures!

"This one is from that show we're watching, why is she dressed like a rabbit?"

"Episode 2."

"I see. You know I never get into human affairs or popular trends but I must say you have some nice things here."

"You still haven't told me your name."

"Oh, well I'm Key. I'm a shinigami."

"Alright, so you're gonna follow me around from now on?"

"That's the plan."

"Okay, we'll go do something after this episode."

"Sounds good to me."

We sat down and finished the episode of this… anime thing.