Hello Everyone! It's been awhile since I've written anything. I had some really weird inspiration to write this story, so I won't share how I got it. lol. This story has a different writting style than my other stories (well, at least I think so) so I hope you enjoy it!

BEWARE- This contains Spoilers and Cussing!!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note, but I own Zoe and Miranda.

Chapter One

'Thus concludes this story of the DEATH NOTE.'

Zoe sighed and closed the last volume of Death Note, one of her favorite (non-romantic) manga. Running her hands through her short hair, she rolled over on her bed, dropping the volume on the nightstand. She focused on her friend Miranda who sat on a futon across the room.

Sighing again, she spoke to her friend. "Have you ever wished you could change the plot of a manga?"

Miranda looked up from her Shojo Beat magazine, "Frequently. Why? Which one did you want to change?"

"Death Note."

"I can see why you would want to change that one. I don't think L should have died and been replaced with Near and Mello. And I didn't like what happened with Light's family or some of the stuff with…uh… model girl. I forgot her name." Miranda went back to her magazine, not caring for the forgotten name.

A soft chuckle escaped Zoe's mouth, "Its Misa." A short silence filled the room before a light growling sound filled the room. Zoe tried stifling her laugh, "Pfft! Do you have a beast in your stomach?"

Miranda couldn't help but laugh, "Yeah. I'm gonna grab the cookie cake and bring it up here."

"Good, I'm a little hungry too."

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A strong gust of wind rustled the curtains of the open window, attempting to wake Miranda from her sleep. She only grunted and twisted her body deeper into the covers, away from the draft. She fell asleep almost instantly, unaware of an empty bed across from her.

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Steady beeping was the first sound that Zoe heard as she regained conscious from her sleep. Her breathes of air seemed to be forced through her nose and into hers lungs. The discomfort caused her to twitch her nose as she lay on the bed, 'Why does it feel like I have a mask on?' Zoe went to grab whatever was on her face, but a sharp pain caused her arm to cease and eyes to snap open. Groaning in agony, her eyes were unexpectedly blinded by possibly the brightest lights that they ever encountered. As a reflex, her eyes snapped shut. The once consistent beeps became irregular. Opening her eyes for a second time, Zoe managed to squint her way past the light to attempt to find out what was wrong with her arm.

Looking down at the arm she attempted to use earlier, only to find an IV attached to her wrist. 'What the hell…?' The beeping sound accelerated as Zoe became alarmed. Picking up her unrestricted arm, she felt her face, 'Oxygen mask?' Her hand traveled up to her hair, coming in contact with a rough material that was wrapped around her head. 'Bandages?!' That hit the panic button.

"Mir…Miranda…?" Fear laced into her voice. Swiftly sitting up and throwing the sheets off her, she swung her legs off to the side of the bed. Zoe looked around the room, "Miranda?" She hit the peak of desperation. "Miranda!!!"

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"Zoe?" Miranda's head shot up from her Shojo Beat magazine that she was reading last night. 'Weird. I swore I heard Zoe calling for me.' She glanced over at the alarm clock. 'Maybe I should call her. She wasn't here when I got up. Her cell phone and purse are gone but the car's still here. I should call her…'

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With a pillow stuff in her mouth and her arm as relaxed as it could be, Zoe took a deep breath through her nose, the oxygen mask had been thrown aside awhile ago. She took one last inhale before pulling the IV from her arm. Her eyes and jaw clenched shut in pain as she let out a groan of pain. Letting the pillow drop from her mouth, she found bandages on the side table.

'Fuck.' She grunted as she wrapped up her now tender wrist. 'Now that I'm detached from everything, I can finally get out of here.' But before she could move a finger, a voice cut through the silent room. Zoe froze from shock, thinking that she had been caught by a nurse or doctor.

"Feel it, breathe it, believe it and

You'll be walking on air.

Go try, go fly so high and

You'll be walking on air.

You feel this, unless you kill it

Go on and you're forgiven.

I knew, that I could feel that

I feel like I'm walking on air…"

Zoe let out a breath of air realizing it was only music and not a staff member. As the verse played itself over again, she realized something, 'That's a ringtone!' Listening to the sound, she tracked down where it was coming from. Opening a closet door, Zoe gazed upon her purse and a pair of black sweatpants, gray T-shirt, sandals and her undergarments.

Completely baffled, Zoe quickly plucked the phone from her purse and answered it without looking at the caller ID. "…hello?"

"Zoe?"

"Miranda?"

"Yeah. Where are you?"

"You mean you don't know where I am?" Zoe's thoughts began to race. 'If Mira doesn't know where I am then… what the hell happened to me?!'

"Of course I don't! You were gone when I woke up this morning."

"Shit… Hang on and let me change into some clothes." Quickly putting down the phone, Zoe threw off the hospital gown and put on the clothes that had been with her purse. She picked up her cell phone once she finished changing. "You still there?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, I'll tell you straight up. I don't know where the fuck I am. All I remember is falling asleep in bed and the next thing I know, I wake up in a hospital bed."

"Are you alright?" Miranda asked; worry was laced in her voice.

"Yeah, don't worry. I have bandages on but not injuries, so I don't know why I'm here. I feel perfectly fine."

"Have you run into any of the nurses or doctors?"

"No. No one has entered this room when I was conscious."

"Have you been outside of the room?"

"Not yet."

"Well, go out into the hallway and see if you can find a nurse or doctor to see what the hell's going on."

"Alright," Zoe said uneasily. "Will you stay on the phone with me?"

"Of course."

Grabbing her purse with her cell phone still pressed to her ear, Zoe left the hospital room. She shut the door quietly behind her before she took a look into the hallway. Looking from left to right, she frowned, "There's no one in the hallway."

"You're kidding."

"No. It seriously feels like I'm in a horror movie."

"Well, move on to the next hallway."

Turning to her left, Zoe walked down the seemingly endless hallway, looking left and right for a nurse or doctor. The sound of a tray clattering to the floor caused Zoe to turn around to the source. There stood an Asian nurse clad in her white uniform, the tray of food she had been carrying lay in a mess on the floor.

"おい!" The nurse yelled, quickly making her way to Zoe.

"What the…" Without another word or thought, Zoe turned back around and broke out into a run as her survival instincts came over her.

"右がストップ!"

"What's going on?" Miranda inquired.

"There's some crazy oriental nurse chasing me!!"

"What?!"

"She freaking came out of nowhere! And now she's chasing me!"

"Well shit."

Zoe quickly took a right, running down another hallway before running through another one on her left. The sounds of the nurses shoes and yells were following her steadily. "I'm not losing her!" Zoe gasped out.

"Run faster!"

"That's easier said than done!"

As Zoe turned down another hallway, she slipped on the bottom of her sweatpants. With a shriek of terror, she fell down to the ground, hitting her elbow hard against it causing her cell phone to fly out of her hand. It skidded on the tile floor before coming to a stop in front of two sets of tennis shoes.

Groaning in pain, Zoe sat up clutching her stinging elbow. She quickly looked around and noticed her phone on the floor several feet in front of her. But as she scrambled to reach it, a hand reached down and pulled it off the floor using the pointer finger and thumb. Following the feet of the two standing in front of her, she looked up into the faces of two Asian men. The one on the right had smooth brown hair and brown eyes that widened, but then quickly narrowed into a glare, as he looked at her. The one on the left, who had picked up her phone, had messy black hair and dark eyes. He stared at her with unwavering eyes that seemed to calculate her. Zoe shivered involuntarily under his steady gaze. After what seemed like an eternity, the slouched man awkwardly smiled at her, still holding her phone in his fingers.

"私が私たちといっしょにする必要があります," he said, smile still intact.

Zoe was at a loss of words as she realized the two men in front of her were the two famous characters of the manga Death Note; Light Yagami and Dectective L.

There you have it. Chapter One.

Just to let you know, I'm almost positive that the japanese figures in this story don't make sense since I just put them through a translator. So please don't give me crap for that (I've never taken Japanese so I don't know if it's right or not).

Oh! And Zoe's not supposed to understand what the Nurse and L are saying so please keep that in mind.