"Sup, Juu-biotch!" Laughs the punk in leather, Ed Huligan. Juubei's expression remained the same.
Juubei is a worshipper of Kira. It's not surprising, one man having the ability to kill all the world's most famous criminals in almost an instant, of course he will be worshipped. Churches have been established praising Kira at this point, although his death has been reported, some refuse to believe he is dead. In the United States these churches are only aloud due to the separation of religion and government. Juubei is a mere one of these church goers who believes there will be a second coming of Kira, or that he's not dead at all. His hair is black, with a two inch braid on the left side. He has dull green eyes, a simple grey shirt, with dark blue jeans and a belt, with a wristband on his right forearm. He wears white tennis shoes with a blue stripe design. He's an exchange student from Japan who has everything going for him, including being the smartest kid in the state.
"Fuck off Ed." Julie says in a harsh tone.
Julie is his girlfriend. She has long blond straight hair, blue eyes, and perfect tan skin. She usually wears a belly shirt and white jeans and black tennis shoes. She's the most attractive girl in school, with a bit of brains to boot.
"Hey Julie, dump the wuss and get with a real man." Ed said pointing his thumb to himself.
"A man actually amounts to something in his lifetime." Juubei counters.
"What'd you say to me?" Asks Ed.
"I didn't stutter. You're just like the rest of them; the rest of the scum that should be rid from the earth. Now that Kira's gone there's no one left to do it." Juubei says. Ed just glares on with a sour face.
"Well?" Asks Juubei.
"Fuck Kira I ain't afraid of him!" Ed finally bursts out.
"You're not now that he's dead. When criminals were dying you were almost the perfect child, because you were afraid. You were so scared you even waited three years before your first vandalism." Juubei says.
"Pricks like that piss me off." Julie says.
"Pricks like that piss everyone off." Juubei says.
"So you need a ride home again?" Juubei asks.
"Actually I was thinking we could spend the rest of the day together." Julie says.
"If it's not too much trouble." She finishes.
"I'd love that." He says with a smile.
"Well let's go!" She says scurrying to the school parking lot.
"Can't wait for me can ya'?" He asks, quickly catching up to her.
"I love your car." She said getting in.
"It's not a car. It's a JEEP." He corrects her with great pride.
Juubei is easily the richest kid in the district, and like every rich kid, he has a kick ass car. Scratch that, it's not a car, it's a jeep. The bi-engine, sixteen cylinder Jeep Hurricane, easily the most powerful, most capable, most versatile vehicle available. The interior is like no other vehicle. Black leather seats, the stick, or rather sticks are where they'd normally be, one for shifting gears, and one for reverse, standard, and everything in between . The rest of the interior is black and steel, with a chrome look. There's a compass, gas and oil pressure gauge, along with the speedometer, odometer, and lastly a gauge for the RPM. Tons of buttons, for the radio. The space-age levers are for the wheels, to control which way they turn, mostly for fancy tricks. The inside is spotless, and looks like it's recently been polished, as it looks every day.
"Watch this." Juubei says as he pulls out doing a reverse doughnut, and exits the student parking lot driving sideways.
"You're always so risky." Julie sighs.
"I know you love that about me." He smiles at her. She tries not to smile, but ends up cracking.
"Come on, we can do whatever you want." He says with genuine sincerity.
"The park, it's not too far away." She says.
"Where we first met." He recalls correctly.
"You remember! That's so sweet." She smiles, putting her hand on his knee.
"Of course I remember! I would never forget meeting a woman as beautiful as you." He says.
"Stop." She says blushing. They arrive at the destination after a few moments and begin walking in the park, which almost resembles a cross between a forest in its own right.
"So whatcha wanna do?" Juubei ends up asking again.
"I'm happy I'm just with you." She says while they hold hands and continue to walk on the park trail.
"Wanna watch the sunset?" Juubei asks.
"Oh can we? That would be so romantic." Julie answers.
"Sure. I know the perfect place to." He says, picking her up bridal style, and begins a mild jog carrying her, while she blushes profusely. His jog comes to a steady walk as he starts up an incline. Once he reaches the top of the hill They're there alone, with the shade of a single tree, and a great view of the sun about to set.
"Wow, how'd you find this place?" She asks.
"I have my ways." He says smiling, with a shrug as they both sit under the shade of the tree.
"It's so beautiful." Julie says in astonishment.
"Not as beautiful as you." He says, suave in his voice.
"I wonder how many of those compliments you actually mean." Julie remarks, slightly leaning toward him.
"All of the above." He says, leaning in and gently kissing her, as a brushing sound is heard in the tree leaves above.
"What was that?" Julie asks, not concerned, but rather wondering why there was no such noise before.
"A squirrel?" Juubei asks.
"Why would a squirrel live in the one secluded tree?" She asks.
"Good point." Juubei says, standing up, squinting his eyes, looking into the tree.
"See anything?" Julie asks.
"Yeah actually." He says taking a few steps back from the tree. He gets a quick start up the tree using some parkour skill, grabs a tree branch and pulls himself up.
"Be careful." Julie warns as he falls from the tree and lands on his feet moments later.
"It's a notebook. Death Note." He says reading the cover, he soon begins flitting though the pages.
"How-to-use, and names and causes of death on some of the ladder pages, before that it's just chicken scratch." He says scanning the How-to-use.
"Creepy. Who would make such an elaborate prank? It's stupid." Julie shuns the thought away.
"Huh, sounds like the thing Kira used." Juubei chuckles.
"Stop, you know I'm not into all that stuff." She says.
"Maybe I should test it on Ed." Juubei laughs.
"That's not a bad idea." She says jokingly.
"Should I?" He pulls out a pen.
"Go crazy."
"Ed Huligan, cause of death…" He says as he writes, but comes to a pause, lacking a fitting death.
"Car crash?" Julie asks.
"Car crash. Details are he was driving home from school, when he failed to pay attention to a stop sign, and got hit in the process, causing almost instant death." He says, as he finishes the writing.
"Almost instant death?" Julie asks.
"Hey if it's real, at least we won't suffer long." Juubei says.
"True. So what are you going to do with it?" Julie asks.
"Keep it, I can look up the names, see if it's real, and if it's not then free notebook." He says throwing it in his jeep then sitting back down in time for the couple to successfully enjoy the sunset together.
LATER THE NEXT DAY…
"Did you hear? Ed died." A shaking Julie said to Juubei near the soda machines, their usually hangout along together.
"How?" Asked Juubei.
"Take a guess." She said, as his eyes turn wide.
"So this is…" He lets the comment hang in the air.
"Do you still have it?" She asked.
"Yeah right here." He said, pulling it out of his bag.
"What should we do with it?" Julie asked, holding it.
"Use it." A foreign voice calls out, scaring Julie causing her to scream.
"Where are you?" A startle Juubei asks.
"Up." The voice says simply.
Juubei looks up and sees a shinigami floating above his head.
"I'm surprised she didn't see me when she first walked up, must have been the first time touching the notebook." Oni says aloud as the two stare in disbelief as he slowly starts his descent next to the boy.
"What are you?" Juubei asks.
"Im'ma shinigami. Names Oni. We usually come within thirty-nine days of whoever finds a death note, but I was in a hurry." He introduces himself.
"You must be the owner." He says, pointing at Juubei with his long boney fingers.
"Owner?" Julie asks.
"Of the death note." Oni finishes.
"What are you here for?" Juubei asks.
"A fun time, I do expect you to win after all." Oni says.
"Win what?" Juubei asks.
"You'd call it a challenge. At the current time three notebooks were dropped into your world. The three people who find those note books are to attempt to kill the other two." Oni explains.
"Why?" Julie asks.
"Entertainment." Oni simply answers.
"That's horrible! Why would we agree to that?" asks Julie.
"'Cause if you don't you'll die." Oni says simply.
"What's your name?" Juubei asks.
"Oni." He answers.
"It fits you perfectly." Juubei glares.
"What's Oni mean?" Julie asks.
"In a nutshell, demon." Juubei answers.
"Oh, that's not very nice." He sulks.
"So what do we do?" Julie asks.
"This is our chance to change the world, and either way you look at it, if we refuse we'll die, if we participate, we'll have a chance for survival, and a chance to change the world as well." Juubei answers.
"You know I'm not into the whole Kira thing, but I don't think I have much of a choice." She gulps.
"I'm glad." Oni smiles.