A/N: The following is a JOKE. It's meant to make you laugh, but I need to know if I should keep going or not. Fist chapter is really short, but I don't intend on making it very long anyway...
It started when Danzou handed him a notebook.
It was a small, simple, black book, almost nondescript save for the writing on the cover that had made Sai stare.
"The rules are simple, Sai..." Danzou said quietly as the boy took the notebook from him. The person who's name is written in this notebook will die..." Danzou said, narrowing his eyes. Sai looked up in shock. Was this some kind of test?
"You know what to do...dismissed..." Danzou said, tapping his cane on the floor and turning away. Sai stared after him before looking down at the notebook.
"This must be a sick joke..." He muttered, turning the notebook over in his hands before tucking it in his bag and leaving.
That night, Sai sat in his small apartment, reading a small book. The windows had been closed shut and latched to block out the oncoming cold.
The black book sat untouched on his kitchen counter. Surely Danzou couldn't have been serious? What kind of notebook could kill someone simply by writing their name inside?
He stared blankly at the counter for a moment, contemplating the small book. Even if it were true...in the hands of an idiot it could become a lot of trouble for a lot of people...
Sai closed his own book, standing up and inspecting the black notebook closer.
Inside there was a full set of rules on how to use the thing.
All together, the teen admired the craftsmanship and the amount of thought it had taken to create the thing. The rules were clear and concise, written in two languages, one of which he didn't recognize.
"Perhaps...I should burn it just to be safe..." He muttered, picking it up. "Though...Danzou-sama wouldn't be very happy with me..." He muttered.
"I wouldn't be very happy with you either..." Came a growling, scratchy voice behind him. Sai just about went through the ceiling. No one had ever snuck up on him like that. Without thinking, he whipped out a kunai and hit whomever it was right between the eyes.
"He he, hello..." The creature said, waving it's hand as it pulled the kunai out of it's forehead.
Sai stared. "Who are you?" He asked, not letting his surprise show. Those kunai should have killed the creature...
"I'm the Shinigami that owns that notebook..." The shinigami said with a laugh.
Sai blinked again. "Shi-Shinigami? This is your notebook?" Sai asked, holding it out for the grotesque creature to take. The creature simply raised it's hands and smirked.
"I'm leaving it in your care for now...but I should warn you...you cant kill me...what you tired back there...it wont work..." It said with a laugh. "My name is Ryuuk, by the way..."
"I'm Sai..."
"Pleased to meet you, Sai..."
They stood there in silence for an eternity.
"What exactly is this thing, Ryuuk-san?" Sai said, waving the notebook. Now he was convinced he was trapped in some sort of fucked up genjutsu...
"Huh? Didn't you read the instructions on the inside? It's a Death Note...and I'm here untill I either write your name in it, or it's all used up..." the Shinigami said, slowly turning upside down. "So...you got any apples around here?"