Author's Note
Here it is, the second chapter. Hope you like it. As always, please review and don't forget to vote in the new poll on my profile page. This time it's about pairings in this story. Also, I'm still looking for someone who would beta-read my stories so send me a message if you are interested. Thank you for the support!

Return to Hinamizawa

Keiichi was bored, sitting in the car his dad drove. He hated the ride. Why must Hinamizawa be so far from any town? That's probably the only downside. But I can't wait to meet again with everybody! I have to show them that strange notebook. For the rest of the ride, Keiichi's thoughts were focused only on the fun things he is going to do with the club once he returns.

"So? Did you bring the thing I wanted?" Mion asked Keiichi teasingly?

"Of course not! I was on a funeral. There was no time to check some toy shops! I told you so already! How many times are you going to ask?" Keiichi shouted angrily.

"Calm down, don't sweat it! I'm just mildly disappointed, that's all."

"And I'm mildly sorry."

They both broke into a laugh and continued on their way to school.

"By the way, where's Rena?" Keiichi noticed his favorite redhead is nowhere to be found. "She usually comes to school with us."

"She said she has some things she needs to do at school, so she went ahead. Don't worry."

"I see. Well, just wait till I show you what I found lying in a school park."

"I thought you said you had no time." Mion slightly raised her eyebrow.

"Ah, that is… you know… I… run off right after the funeral."

"You did WHAT? That is pretty daring of you, you know?"

"Yeah, but when I saw the school, I just had to take a look. It was this huge!" Keiichi stretched his arms as much as he could. "Everyone was wearing neat uniforms and it had its own school park!"

"Hmmm… And you say you found something there? What is it? Tell me!"

"No way! You have to wait after school." Keiichi grinned at Mion.

"Hey, come on! Don't be such a meanie! I really want to know!"

"No can do."

Keiichi and Mion argued loudly for the rest of their walk to school.

The ring signalizing the end of classes rung and everybody except certain 5 people began to leave. Mion signaled everyone to gather around her and without waiting pointed her finger at Keiichi.

"So!" She announced theatrically. "It is after school like you said. Now, show us that mysterious object!"

"Mysterious object? Is it cute? Kana? Kana?" Rena seemed excited at the prospect of having a new thing for her collection.

Keiichi smirked and stood on a chair. He raised one leg on the table and leaned on it.

"It was on one of my numerous adventures. I was walking through a dangerous territory. One bad step and you are forever lost. When I was there, I saw a huge building, towering above everything like some guardian. Naturally, my explorer's instinct navigated me to this building and I saw a huge jungle full of dangerous creatures! I knew there has to be something interesting in the jungle so against all danger, I went through and—"

SMACK! Mion's fist crashed hard on Keiichi.

"Don't make up such nonsense story and show us the thing already."

"I just wanted to make things a little more dramatic. What's wrong with that?"

Keiichi felt a tug on his shirt. He looked down and saw Rika.

"Mii. Don't make us wait, Keiichi." Rika smiled at him.

"Okay! Here I go!" Keiichi reached into his backpack and took out a thin black notebook. He placed it on the table with a triumphant face. "Well, what do you say?"

"Death Note… What the hell is that?" Satoko looked at the notebook with slight disgust.

"That's not all! Look at this!" Keiichi opened the notebook and read: "How to use. The human whose name is written in this note shall die. Pretty neat, huh?"

"You really believe that this thing is real?" Satoko broke into her signature laugh. "My, my, how typically pathetic of you, Keiichi-san. Believing in such nonsense."

"Of course I don't believe such a thing can exist." Keiichi shouted. "But… it looks real." He added more calmly.

The group carefully studied the note but there were only blank pages. There was nothing else beside the instructions on the inside of the front cover.

"Hey, hey, should we try it out?" Mion suddenly shouted. "Not that it is going to work, right? Just for fun. What do you say?"

Everybody nodded their heads but nobody added anything. The atmosphere seemed gloom like there was an aura of death around the note.

"So… who is going to write?" Keiichi finally broke the silence. Everybody turned to Mion, for she was their leader.

"How about we decide it with Jan-Ken-Pon?"

Everybody nodded their head and they gather in a circle.

"Jan-Ken-PON!"

"I won!" Rena jumped with excitement but then she realized what she is going to do and calmed down. She reached for a pen and sat before the note.

"Who should I write? Kana? Kana?" Rena turned her head around, looking at the other members.

"Hmm… Who, indeed." Mion scratched her chin.

Everybody thought frantically. After a while, Mion gasped.

"Ah! I know! Ba-san!"

"WHAT?" Everybody shouted at the same time. "She's your family!"

"I mean, she's old so she is going to die soon and I don't like her anyways. She is the main reason the Sonozaki family is viewed in a bad light like yakuza. It's not like it's going to work, you know." Mion explained her reasoning confidently.

"Well… I think that can work. Okay, I'll write her name." Rena nodded her head, deriving her own confidence from Mion's.

"Wait, you should write some cause of death so we can have proof that the note caused the death." Keiichi stopped Rena from writing. "Something distinct, like… suddenly falling off her wheelchair and impaling her head on a metal bar that suddenly falls from shelf!"

Everybody looked at Keiichi with shocked eyes.

"What? I saw it in one horror movie!"

Mion sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "I guess it doesn't matter. Just write it."

"Remember, you have to imagine her face, like it states here." Satoko pointed at the instructions.

"I know. I know." Rena focused on the face of Mion's grandma and slowly wrote her name in the book and added the cause of death. Everybody looked at the clock and counted 40 seconds.

"Okay, it should happen now. Heh, yeah right. Like hell it is going to happen." Mion laughed. "Let's go home for today, it's getting late anyway. Keiichi, you don't mind if Rena takes the note with herself, right? After all, she is the one who wrote it."

"I don't care. Do whatever you wish." Keiichi stretched himself and grabbed his backpack. "Let's go."

Mion pulled the door to her home open and yelled: "I'm home! Hey mom, did something happen to Ba-san?" Mion giggled at her stupid question.

There was no answer. Mion scratched her head in bewilderment. She went inside and looked into the rooms. They were all empty. That's strange. Did mom go out? That's very unusual. Mion noticed the doors to the storage room are open. Why are these open? There are just some old things. What could anybody want there? Mion slowly approached the door and looked inside. It was pitch black. Damn! Where's the switch? She slid her hand on the wall until she finally reached the light switch and clicked it on.

The room brightened with light and revealed a scene that almost made Mion puke. She was looking at her grandma's body, lying on the floor. She had a metal bar through her head. What is this? This isn't real, right? I'm dreaming, right? Mion took one step inside and something squished under her foot. She looked down and saw a grey matter splattered on the floor. It trailed to her grandma's head. A horrible stench hit Mion in the face and she had to run out of the room to resist the urge to vomit. What am I going to do? Nobody is home! What should I do…? Rena! Mion quickly run to the phone and dialed Rena's number. Come on! Come on! Pick it up! This is serious trouble! Finally, she heard the sound of the phone being picked up.

"Rena! Listen to me! We have a huge problem! It's Ba-san! She—" Mion was interrupted by Rena before she could finish the sentence.

"Mii-chan, if you had the power to kill anybody you like, what would you do?" Rena's voice was cold and distant. She sounded so sinister that it freaked Mion out.

"Rena, what are you saying? This is not time for jokes!"

"Am I joking? Kana? Kana?" Rena started laughing maniacally into the phone.

Mion listened in shock to the crazy laugh of her friend.

"Rena! Stop it right now!" Mion shouted into the phone as hard as she could.

"Don't worry Mii-chan. Everything is going to be all right. I'm going to take care of everything." Rena giggled in a creepy way and hung up the phone.

Mion sunk to her knees and cried bitter tears of regret.

"Oh my god… What have I done?"