I had been wanting to write a Deathnote fanfic for a while, so after I had a freaky nightmare, I decided to use that idea. The preface isn't really scary; its kind of the opposite, but I'll be sure to make the future chapters a lot scarier! Enjoy! ;)

The House of Murder

Preface

"Hey, Light. Check this out,"

"Huh? What is it, Ryuzaki?"

Light Yagami had been engrossed in a novel, about a detective that was tracking down a mysterious serial killer, who seemed to be murdering all the criminals in the world. Now, the first thing that caught his attention was that the killer shared the same name as him, but what really ate at him was that he had to find out how he killed. It was so irritating; the novel was narrated by the detective, of all people, so unfortunately Light would probably only find out when he did. But that's what kept him interested.

Ryuzaki Lawliet was one of his close friends, infuriatingly smart and startlingly strong for his appearance; he was very slim, almost skin and bones, but he could easily beat Light, who seemed like a normal healthy, athletic boy, to a fine pulp. His only weak point seemed to be his love for sweets; he couldn't go on for a single day without eating anything that didn't contain a high amount of sugar, and he was good at it too; he could eat a week's worth of Halloween candy and not even come close to being fat. In fact, he still looked underfed.

Now, while Light had a lot of fun seeing Ryuzaki jump around and singing about chocolate rain after eating six spoons of white sugar, his mother wasn't impressed for the least. They had wasted eight packs of sugar with Ryuzaki's experiment that he pleaded he had to try, on how time would cease to exist and the brain would enter mental heaven, if that amount of sugar was consumed in a time frame of 3 minutes. It was a horrible failure, resulting in Ryuzaki temporarily experiencing hallucinations of sugar plum fairies attacking him with candy canes and chocolate rabbits and Light gaining six layers of flab on his abdomen. Fortunately, because of his mother's urgent consent for him to join a 9 week boot camp, that was temporary too.

Ryuzaki had been experiencing the evils of the internet, of which he will let you imagine for yourself, when he received a strange message in his email.

"That's spam, Ryuzaki. You should delete it; don't open it,"

"Why not? It looks…interesting…"

"Well, when my computer gets infected by your interesting emails, things are gonna get very, very interesting, my friend. So interesting that when Soichiro Yagami comes home, Ryuzaki will never be welcome here again…!"

After a long pause, Ryuzaki answered calmly.

"Well, that's not very interesting, now isn't it?"

Light mentally slapped himself in the face.

"Now, I'm just going to click on it once, no harm-

"No, Ryuzaki, one click is all it takes to-

"Light, you're such a scaredy-cat-

"Well, better to be safe than sorry!"

"You lead such a dry little life, my friend, no sense of adventure-

"Spamming your friend's computer, isn't an adventure-

"How do you know when you never even tried…?! Light, you never cease to amaze me, with your sudden lack of thinking; you're usually quite intelligent…"

"…RYUZAKI…!"

"What?"

"Don't click on it…!"

"No!"

And with one quick creepy smile Ryuzaki clicked his message.

"…Ryuzaki…" Light muttered with his face in his hands. He couldn't bear to look at the massive damage that his friend probably created with that stupid click. Some friend he was.

"What? I'm going through a rebellious stage,"

And with that, Light took a potato chip. And crushed it.

Okay, that was kind of weird for a horror fic, and it might seem irrelevant to the plot now, but the pieces will all fit together...later...

See you guys later! ;)