Kanto, Japan

November 28, 2002

1 year before Ryuk drops the Death Note

'Ugh why is it that everytime I wake up, I end up having a headache?'

I think as I start waking up, when I finally fully regained my awareness in my new surroundings, I noticed that I was in an alley. I wrinkled my nose in disgust at the smell.

I saw a bag next to me and opened it. It had:

A folder, my teddy bear that I've had since I was 8, a couple of outfits, my weapons ,which my katanas surprisingly fit inside the bag, my untraceable phone, my gloves, my bracelets, and my necklace.

'Couldn't Rui teleport me somewhere nicer, or at least somewhere that didn't smell like shit?'

I start making my way out of the alley and into a more populated area.

As I finally got out of the alley, I noticed that I was definitely in Japan since everywhere I looked there were Japanese people. I needed to know where in Japan I was so I made my way to a man in a suit who was reading a newspaper.

"Excuse me sir?" I said with a sad look on my face. "Yes, can I help you miss?" he said.

"I need to know where I am cause I was with some friends earlier and the last thing I remember is passing out and I don't know what happened and I really don't know where I am," I said with tears in my eyes and a scared look on my face.

The man gave me a look of pity before he said,"You're in the Kanto part of Japan miss."

"Thank you so much!" I gave him a watery smile in thanks.

"Are you going to be able to get home safe miss?" he said with a concerned look on his face.

"Yes I'll be fine. I don't live far and I have enough money to make it home thank you again." I told him with a smile on my face and walk away from him and towards no specific location.

'So I am in Kanto, Japan. The first thing I need to do is find a hideout and clients that I can do jobs for.'

I started towards no real direction, just trying to find a place like an abandoned warehouse or building that could work as a hideout.

3 hours later

After walking around for hours, I finally found a perfect place. You see what happened, I was walking around towards the part of the city that was less populated and I ended up finding a warehouse that was in a very secluded place.

Most people would pass by it if they didn't know what path to look for and it was still in really good condition.

From the looks of it, the warehouse was used for storage for clothes, but the best part was that they were my style of clothes and it looks like nobody's been here for years.

The clothes were all different colors, but the first thing I did was sort out the clothes that I like to the ones I didn't. Which means I took all the dark colors and all the black hoodies.

After that, I decided to explore the place. It was, as far as I could tell, it only had 2 floors and after looking around the place, I found a basement that had a dryer and washing machine inside. It had a bathroom with a shower there too and, surprisingly enough, the water still works.

'At least I don't have to worry about dirty laundry or showers. For now, I'm just going to have to steal food and at least shampoo since I had everything else.'

But I still felt like I was forgetting something.

'Idiot!'

I just remembered if I'm going to be doing my job then I'm going to need all black clothes that are easy to move in and a mask. I really feel like facepalming now.

After that, I'm going to need to start a reputation for myself as a mercenary for hire.

'Troublesome, now I need to build up my reputation...again.'

I sighed, 'I have a lot to work on. At least I don't have to worry about the clothes portion for my job, I'm sure I'll find something in here.'

I went to the bag and the first thing I grabbed was the folder Rui left for me. I opened it up and what I saw surprised me. They were a list of jobs for me with number to contact the client, and they were the usual jobs for hired mercenaries like assassination, stealing, kidnapping, etc.

When I finally got over the surprise that Rui gave this to me, I smirked.

'Thanks Rui. You just made this a whole lot easier for me to get a bigger rep, money, and not only L's attention, but also Light's in the future.'

6 months later

Its now been around 6 months since I was send to the Death Note universe by Rui and so far, its been very interesting.

At first it was pretty lonely since it was just me in a big warehouse, but that changed about the first month I was here.

Flashback

I was taking a shortcut back to the warehouse from grocery shopping.

Crash!

I spun around with a senbon discreetly in my hand. "Who's there?" I waited for a while for whoever it was to come out, after a while I went towards where the crash came from, as I got to the end of the alley, all that there was, was a trashcan.

"Huh, I wonder what it was?" I said as I was about to leave when I heard a quiet, "Meow", I turned around.

'It sounded like it came from inside the trashcan.'

I looked inside and I saw a little black kitten with baby blue eyes that looked around 12 weeks old.

"Meow?" the kitten said as she tilted her head and I knew then and there that I couldn't leave such a little and adorable kitten in that trashcan.

I took the kitten and brung her with me to the warehouse, it was while I was getting there that I realized the kitten smelled pretty bad, I guess that's what you get for lying around in a garbage can.

When I got to the warehouse I went down to the bathroom to give her a bath.

'I hope the kitten doesn't put up a fuss about being given a bath.'

Thankfully the kitten enjoyed the bath, well I guess I would too since the poor thing looks like its been sleeping out in the cold.

When I finished giving him a bath, yes him I checked while I was giving him a bath, I tried to figure out what to name him.

"Hmm what to name you?...Hmmm how about Shadow?"

"Meow."

"Well shadow it is." I said smiling.

End Flashback

In just 6 months, I've become the number one most infamous mercenary and so far, its been really exhilarating. I wouldn't be very surprised if L is trying to figure out my identity at this point.

I'm not really surprised that I rose in the ranks so fast, since once you do a job for someone they start talking, especially since my past clients have described me as someone who gets the job done efficiently and professionally.

Once the rumors about me spread people start talking, there were higher ups that hired me and so if there's ever a job that someone needs done, then the big guys always recommend the best, me.

From those jobs I was able to get a lot of technology that I would need, you know, the basics. A couple computers for hacking and a music player, untraceable of course, to keep me entertained.

But I'm not exactly making it easy for him since when I go out for a job I was assigned, I make sure nobody sees me and even if they do see me, the outfit I wear makes it so I look like a man, and I slick my hair back so its harder to tell how long it is, so that there's a less chance of me getting caught.

I also never leave any evidence that could possibly point to me, even if they did find something on me, since I'm not from this world technically I don't even really exist.

So far tons of people have already tried to catch me and all of them have failed I wouldn't be surprised if L was trying to catch me right now. To be honest, I would be happy that the oh so great L would like a try at catching me.

'Hey maybe when he gets to Kanto I can try to hack into his computers.'

I thought with a grin on my face.

November 28, 2003

The day Ryuk drops the Death Note

I grinned.

'Today's the day everything starts falling into place, watch out Light and L, especially you Light because I really do hate you for everything you've done to everyone...what you did to L.'

I thought with a look filled with sorrow and anger.