I Am Kira!

by AlmineGoneWild

Lila Ranger is an ordinary Canadian high school girl who dies one night after a terrible car accident followed by a heart attack. The next thing she knows she's waking up in an alternate world's Japan apparently in the Death Note universe, one of her favourite anime's. This would be great except...Now the death note's been placed in her hands and now there's no going back!

2. Chapter 1 (Unitentionally?)

Chapter 1

(Deadly Beginnings)

I shifted at my desk once again completely bored out of my mind. The few months had been hectic and I didn't even know where to start listing off everything that had happened to me all at once. After I had spoken to Mr. Yagami, I had remained in the hospital a while longer where even though they'd tried to find my parents in this world, they'd come up short saying basically that they didn't exist. I had known the attempt would be futile after I'd realized where I was but I had to help them out otherwise they'd start getting suspicious and ask me questions where it would lead me to accidentally spilling too much.

After a tiring event of questions both from the hospital and the authorities I finally made the suggestion that perhaps I had suffered from some sort of head injury and that I couldn't remember much. Thankfully, I had still maintained some of my original injuries which included a slight concussion from my world which verified my prediction. In the current case, it was determined and I don't know how, by the police that I was without a family or a place to stay. Ultimately, they connected my accident to a plane accident that had occurred recently over Japan where many people had died. They assumed my parents had been among the casualties.

Afterwards, Mr. Yagami was kind and after talking it over with his wife and family, I was accepted as an adopted daughter into their family. I still remember the day I'd arrived. Mrs. Yagami and her daughter, Sayu were extremely happy to see me. As for the maid protagonist of the series; I had had to keep reminding myself to stay calm when I finally met Light Yagami. However, after a while of being there, I'd learned that it was only halfway point in the school year for Light and that the series hadn't even started so at least then I could take a deep breath of relief.

I'd been housed in the guest room upstairs just down the hall from Light's room and his parents. It had taken me a while to get used to things and the fact the I was in a Japan not in my world. I'd been signed up for school where I was conveniently placed in the same classroom as Light. On the first day, the teacher had moved Light from his window seat so I wouldn't have to sit by the boys who were giving me looks that made me uncomfortable. Also, since he believed being by a window would help with my brain damage.

As for the rest of what happened, it all just became a big blur. Now I was here in my new classroom, in a new country, in a new world and for the first time ever, in an actual school uniform, something that hadn't been common in Canadian schools. At first I hadn't liked the idea but after a while, it just became a part of my daily routine. The teacher stood at the front of the room teaching language arts or at least what I had dubbed language arts at Japanese school. I sighed and looked out the window, trying to let my mind wander anywhere else. Ultimately, it turned into a really bad idea.

"Miss Ranger," the teacher spoke my name sharply, jolting me out of my own world. I looked towards the front. Everyone was looking at me, except Light of course, he too was in his own little world, probably thinking about how rotten the world was. My teacher spoke again. "Please read the next passage, that is if you were actually paying attention." I groaned inwardly. In my personal opinion, teachers in Japanese high schools were a lot stricter about paying attention in class than in Canada in my world.

I stood as was custom for giving an answer in Japanese high school. I looked down at the Japanese lettering which immediately changed to English inside my mind as had become custom with everything I had read in this world. Not only was I apparently fluent in Japanese but I could read it now too. I sighed and began reading from what I thought was the right passage. When I finished, I could hear a few snickers around the room. I guess I'd done something wrong.

"Well it's nice to see you've taken an interest in the workings of Kimiko Gunta but we're reading from the next page over," said my teacher. I flinched. Yep there it was. The teacher sighed. "Miss Ranger, please turn to the next page and read from the next passage." I immediately blushed tomato red.

"Y-yes sir," I said shakily. A few more snickers echoed throughout the room. The only one who wasn't laughing at my failure to follow along was Light. He himself was not paying attention to me but I knew he was listening while thinking inside that head of his. I could almost hear the gears turning.

I read from the passage, not really comprehending what I was reading, a habit I'd picked up in my previous school when I didn't like what we were studying. This time when I was finished, I bowed quickly and sat down, heart palpitating and face red and hot. The teacher nodded in my direction.

"Thank you very much Miss Ranger," he said. Then he went back to teaching, writing a few things down on the board. I sighed, slumping down in my seat, trying not to be seen. I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see Light looking right at me.

"Don't worry about it," he assured me. "You did okay." I rolled my eyes and turned front again.

"Yeah, thanks a lot!" I said sarcastically. After three months of living with the Yagami's, Light and I had become more like brother and sister than I'd thought was possible. The only plus side to the whole damned thing was the fact that he would help me with homework whenever I asked. However, I still felt uneasy around him sometimes. Maybe it was because I knew that sooner or later, he could become my enemy which once again raised the question, what would happen when he found the death note?

I couldn't help but wonder what my role in all of it was. Why was I here? Was I supposed to keep him from losing or what? Even though I had loved watching the series and the struggles between Light and L, I wasn't too thrilled about the idea of becoming a mass murder's sidekick. Finding myself thinking about it again, I shook my head and turned my head to look out the window once more. I let the teacher's voice drone on as I pondered other things completely detached from the world around me.

That's when I noticed it. Something had fallen by the window, something black. My heart almost stopped a second time. Could that have been…? No it couldn't have been. It was probably just someone being an asshole and throwing something out the window. But still…I had to be sure.

I turned around, glancing diagonally backwards at Light. Light didn't seem to have noticed. He was staring off into the distance alright like in the series but it was more towards the wall clock, not out the window. I still had to be sure. As the teacher spoke up front, I leaned back in my chair.

"Pst! Light," I whispered. Light came out of his trance, turning to me.

"Yeah?" he replied.

"Um, did you notice what that was falling outside the window?" He gave me a slightly puzzled look.

"Something falling outside the window?" he asked in his own whisper. "No, I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't looking out the window." His story seemed genuine. However, this was Light Yagami, even before Kira his head was a dangerous weapon. I had to be careful.

"Oh," I responded. "I was just wondering because it looked kind of weird." Light shrugged turning back to his work and began taking notes again.

"Well maybe it was a bird that flew into a window or you were just imagining it." He didn't seem particularly dishonest. I allowed myself to relax for a moment. I had the feeling that he really hadn't seen anything. In that case, that was good.

"Never mind," I sighed, returning to my frontward position. "I guess I was just imaging something. Or my hair just fell across my peripheral vision. It was probably nothing." Glancing back, I noticed Light nodding and returning to writing some notes, obviously bored with just sitting around.

A little later, after the school bell had rung, I made my way down to the ground floor, near where our classroom was. I had gotten out before Light and he'd stopped off in the bathroom so that gave me some time. I took a deep breath as I approached the ground right underneath the window of our classroom. Right where it had been before when I'd been on the other side, was a moderate sized black notebook. Cautiously, I knelt down beside it, the title in chiller lettering font on the front, spelling out Death Note. I stared at it a while.

"Hey Lila!" I heard Light calling my name from behind me as he approached. Oh crap! I thought to myself. Quickly, without thinking, I snatched up the notebook and hid it behind my back as I turned around.

"Oh hey Light," I called casually. I was really good at hiding my true emotions in certain situations. Light wore a puzzled look.

"What're you doing over here, home's that way," he jerked his thumb over towards the exit through the school gate. I nodded, agreeing.

I uh, thought I saw something over here so I came over and the I lost my earing in the grass after I tripped so I was looking for it." I thought for sure he would see through the ruse. Luckily for me, I was a practiced liar and had been ever since the time I'd taken more cookies when I shouldn't have.

"Okay, well, did you find it?" he asked.

"Oh, yeah, as you can see," I replied pointing to my dangly earring. It wasn't uncommon for my earrings to fall out, especially these ones. Sometimes the backings would go missing. Luckily, I'd become better at keeping track of them. At that, Light turned to start heading home and I sighed a sigh of relief. Then I froze, suddenly realizing what I was holding behind my back. Slowly, I brought it out. I stared down at the notebook in my hands. I had touched it. It hadn't been Light, it had be me. I had touched it and now I began to realize what that would mean.

I couldn't let Light see it. The thought about opening that can of worms was not a comforting one. So I quickly put it in my school bag which was hanging by my side from its one shoulder strap. Then I ran to catch up with Light. The faster we got home, the faster I'd be able to get my room and start preparing myself for what was to come. The visit from Ryuk, the Shinigami.

I sat in my room that night staring up at the ceiling, wondering what Ryuk would actually look like in real life. Would he look anything like the anime or completely different? Whatever it was I wasn't looking forward to it. I glanced over at my clock by my bed where I was lying and saw that it was getting close to dinnertime and I hadn't done so much as a scrap of homework. I sighed and turned back up towards the ceiling then finally slipped off the bed and went to sit in my computer chair by my desk.

I reached into my bag and pulled out the black note book. I placed it on my desk and looked down at it. I slowly opened it up to the cover where I knew the rules would be written and sure enough, there they were. I of course knew there were more to come but that Ryuk and most Shinigami didn't understand what their own books could do. As I scanned the rules, my eye caught sight of a little note on the side. It was written in another text than the rest of it. Curious I picked it up and read it.

In order to save this world from Kira and Kira from Kira, you must become Kira and write the names of the condemned within these pages and keep your mind open. Be careful, the game will get harder from this point forward.

I was shocked, unable to comprehend what I'd just read. Save Kira from Kira, save the world, become Kira, what did it all mean? Was that the reason I'd died before then was brought here? Was I supposed to become a mass murder myself? No, I refused to believe it. I looked at the note and kept re reading it over and over. What kind of a sick joke was this? I tried to pull myself together so I decided to turn on my mini TV I'd gotten as a present from the Yagami's. It was a bad idea. As soon as there was an image on the screen, I could tell it was a breaking news broadcast.

"The same assailant who attacked six people at a busy shopping district in Shinjuku yesterday has struck again," said the news reporter. He continued. "…Taking eight people hostage at this daycare center. His captives include both children and teachers. The police have now identified the suspect as forty two year old Kuro Otoharada, currently unemployed. We expect negotiations to begin immediately."

My heart almost stopped at the realization. That was the name of the name of the man who'd been Light Yagami's or rather Kira's first kill in the series. But now I had the death note, it was my call whether or not this man would have to die or not. No, no, no! I shook the thought from my head. What right did I have to judge the wicked? That was supposed to be God's job right? Then again, I was in a completely different world where usually Gods of death made the call. I wasn't exactly sure what other entities might arise here. I shook my head again and decided to just sit back and watch how things would unfold.

"You can't help but feel concerned for the safety of those hostages," came the voice of the anchor woman from the television. The scree flicked back to the news reporter.

"You're absolutely right," he agreed. "We'll continue to monitor the situation from here." The screen flickered back to image of the young news anchor sitting behind her desk.

"Thank you for that report." she replied to the man. Then she proceeded to ask a question of her partner. "What do you make of this Mr. Hashimoto?"

"Well one can only hope for a quick resolution to this situation," the man replied. Then the two continued chatting for a while, eventually changing the subject to other news. However, I could hardly rest easy. I had no idea what this man could do to those poor children and their teachers. If he killed the teachers, the kids would be mentally scarred for life from the bloodshed and the same would go for he killed an innocent child. I just hoped everything was alright. I decided to keep the TV turned on for any possible updates while I began doing my homework.

I started with history since I seemed better at that than at math. I'd have to ask Light for help with it later since he'd become my personal tutor since starting school. Not that I'd been too terribly bad at math but here in Japan, it seemed a lot harder than what we were saddled with in an average Canadian school. Japan always had to have the smartest people didn't they? I was called down for dinner during which I couldn't stop thinking about the news story. Once I got back to my room, I began doing the readings from our textbook, skimming over the non-important parts while the television just became background noise. Despite my best efforts thought to remain focused, my eyes kept being drawn to the black notebook on my desk. Would I allow myself to be tempted? Was I really that weak minded? I couldn't bring myself to kill anyone yet my hand was itching to write just one name down and test it out. I already knew so many names from the series that would try to get in Kira's way but could I really bring myself to be that black hearted. I even knew the name of the detective who would get in Kira's way and all I'd to do to find that out was go online and look it up in my world. However, I'd hated it just the same when he'd died. I just couldn't decide. Then all of a sudden the new story changed back to the one I'd tuned in on in the first place.

"Breaking news," came the voice of the anchor woman. "We've just got a new development on the daycare hostage story. We now take you live to our reporter on the scene."

"Thanks," responded the reporter. "It now seems as though negotiations didn't go so well between our police force and the assailant. He's now hold a young boy hostage, threatening to shoot if the police make one move and it seems our forces can't because the boy is in the way of any shots they could take. This could really end badly after all. Wait, the assailant is coming out now!"

I watched as on the other side of the screen, the man whose picture had been shown to the public earlier came out with not just one hostage like the reporter had said but with two, one boy and one girl. They looked like they were on the verge of crying and honestly I couldn't blame them. The guy who was pulling their strings looked pretty scary. The poor thing's hands were bound by strong looking ropes and one of them was bleeding from the head and the nose. That bastard must've hit him. The man spoke up with a sneer playing across his features.

"Hah, what're you idiots going to do know?" he asked smugly. The police forces shifted. "Heh, go ahead and shoot officers but if you do these pretty little faces will be joining me as well and we wouldn't want that now would we especially not with the cameras watching so I suggest you rethink your tactics." The head of the police gave looks amongst themselves then backed up some to allow them to pass. As soon as they were through the barrier however, one of the cops had become trigger happy and made the first shot. It hit the man in the shoulder causing him to call out in pain. The rest of the forces saw this as their opportunity to move in. However the man had already recovered.

"You idiots, you shouldn't have done that. Now I'll make it even he said as he pulled his own gun and shot the poor boy beside him in the shoulder where he himself had been shot. The kid started balling and going into hysteria. The man picked him up and began to drag him once again. Because of his rash action the police were backing away now that they'd seen he was serious. The criminal had forgotten to grab the girl though and now she was running at him and she bit into his hand.

The man cried out again and he looked down at the girl with a rage in his eyes. The girl was looking back up at him with anger in her eyes as well accompanied with tears. The man used the butt of the gun to bash her head and make her let go. Then he was pointing the gun at her face.

"You brat!" he bellowed in rage. "You're too much trouble so it's time to go to sleep!" Someone from the crowd screamed "No, don't do it!" Meanwhile I was in a panic. There was only one way to save the girl and so my hand was flying across the paper in an instant out of fear for her life. As soon as I was done, I wrote "Immediate heart attack" next to the name. The moment my hand had left the page, the effects were instantaneous. The man known as Kuro Otoharada immediately seized up. As his body shook, he clutched his chest, eyes widening in fear. He let out a yell of pain as his other hand dropped the gun on the ground. Still clutching his chest, he struggled to breathe but to no avail. After a while, he finally collapsed dead on the ground. There was a long pause as everyone tried to comprehend what had just happened.

I collapsed in my chair, unable to stand as the sudden realization hit me. I was in a cold sweat trying to figure things out. I had just killed someone, using the notebook. I had killed and what was more, I had killed the same first man Kira had originally killed. Things weren't looking good especially with the note I'd read earlier. Suddenly the news was an explosion of excitement.

"What just happened?" asked the news anchor. The news reporter turned his face towards the camera again as the police went to apprehend the dead man and their comrades went to rescue the other hostages from inside the daycare.

"I'm not entirely sure how to explain it but it seems that the man who was about to shoot the innocent girl has collapsed and died of a sudden heart attack. The police are now moving in to the daycare to rescue the other hostages and the others are taking care of the body and the little boy who was shot in the shoulder along with the little girl. In all honesty I can't say this is just mere coincidence since it happened just as the girl was about to be sacrificed. You could say that this could indeed have been an act of god!"

No, I thought to myself. Please don' call me a god. I leaned back in my chair trying to calm myself down and rubbing my temples. I breathed in and out and in and out. I sighed letting my breath. Then I heard a knock on my door. Quickly, snapping out of it, I grabbed the notebook again and stuffed it into my book bag.

"Come in," I called. The door opened to reveal Sayu Yagami standing in the door frame.

"Oh good you have been watching," she said indicating the commotion coming from my television. "I just wanted to know if you just saw the same news story I did about the captives at the day care," she confirmed.

"Yeah, I saw it," I said shaking a little. "So what do you think about it?" I asked trying to keep up the conversation.

"I thought it was crazy. The guy shot a boy in the shoulder and they still continued broadcasting through the whole thing. I thought for sure they'd cut us off. Then the guy dropped dead when he pointed his gun at that girl's face. Really crazy!" she exclaimed. Apparently she was very excited and surprised by what had happened. It made me feel like I had a knot in my stomach as I realized she'd watched me kill my first victim. My only victim I reminded myself. Just then Light opened his door down the hall and stepped out.

"What's going on?" he asked. "Why are you making so much noise Sayu?" Sayu turned to her brother.

"Hey Light, you usually watch the new right? Did you see what happened with the whole daycare hostage thing?" she asked excitedly. Light paused for a moment the turned back towards his room.

"Yeah I saw it. Pretty crazy stuff happening. It was like he was attacked by some mysterious force when he threatened that kid."

"Yeah, that's right. Man that was like the craziest part!" she exclaimed again. As Light went back into his room, I came out of mine. Then Mrs. Yagami's voice rang up the staircase.

"Light don't you have night cram school tonight?" she called up. Light responded from his opened door.

"Yeah, I'm getting ready now." he replied. A few minutes later, he came out with his coat on and his school bag in hand. That was when I remembered something.

"Hey Light," I started. He turned to look at me. "Do you mind if I come with you. I just remembered I have to pick something up for myself from the nearby convenience store."

"Are you sure?" he asked. "It's dangerous out at night and you could get jumped with all of the criminal activity that's been occurring lately. Can't you just wait until morning?"

"No," I protested. "I'd rather get it tonight. If you're that worried about me getting jumped then I'll just wait for your class to end and we can go together on the way home." Light stopped and thought a moment. Then he finally shrugged.

"Fine by me. Just tell mom you're coming with me." I nodded in response then ran into my own room and picked up my backpack, the one I usually wore casually. I transferred my purse into it and put the death note in it as well. I wasn't entirely sure I was going to use it again but if the time came, I'd definitely have to decide under pressure.

As we left the house and began to walk towards Light's night school, the thought egged at me, tearing at me from the inside. Would I really kill those perverts or would I be able to do something else? Could I really take another human's life? I couldn't decide. We finally arrived at the building and I ended up waiting outside in the lobby part of the building for Light to finish. When he was finally done, we began heading towards the convenience store I'd talked about earlier. Sure enough as we approached, I could see the perverts beginning to diverge on the poor helpless woman. We entered the store.

"So what exactly do you need from here?" he asked looking around trying to figure out my motives.

"Not sure," I admitted. "I'll just know when I see it, okay." I began looking around; up and down the isle's looking for something important. Meanwhile Light had gone near the front of the store and had begun flipping through some pages of some magazines. All the while, as I shifted around, I kept a watchful eye on the front window and the men trying to touch the woman. She was backing up now. I made my way back to the front then and my eye passed over some hair spray in the cosmetics isle. I thought to myself. I picked it up. It wasn't as effective as pepper spray but it'd be effective enough.

I made my way to the front of the store and purchased the hairspray as well as some candy bars and a comic book. Light saw me with my bag of goodies and followed me outside where the men had started trying to pants the woman. She struggled, trying to get free. I bent down, picking up a rock and as she finally made her way towards the crosswalk, I threw the stone and it hit he guy square in the side of the face. Light looked at me in utter shock and with a look that asked, "What the hell are you doing?" the man and his men turned to me.

"Leave her alone you damned bastard!" I shouted at him. The men looked at one another and then started chuckling evilly. Meanwhile, the woman who'd been running away was now frozen on the other side of the street and watching what was happening. The leader who'd been giving the orders stepped forward.

"That really hurt you bitch!" he sneered. "Now our new friend has run away. Oh well, I guess you'll make a fine substitute." He took another step, I was ready for him. However, I wasn't entirely prepared for what happened next. Light stepped in between the two of us. I could tell he was scared but Light wasn't one to lose his cool in a tight situation.

"I'd seriously reconsider that if I were you," he said, glaring daggers at the man. The man didn't seem intimidated.

"Oh, I'm sorry," the man sneered. "But I don't remember saying that I was taking orders from a brat like you. Move along kid or get yourself hurt, your choice." His men snickered beside him. They'd moved into an effective circle around us.

"What are you doing?" I hissed at Light.

"What am doing, what are you doing?" he retorted. "These men are dangerous. You shouldn't have gotten involved."

"Oh and just let them rape that poor woman. I don't think so," I hissed back. One of the men nearby spoke up.

"Hey, what're you two talking about? You shouldn't keep secrets from us," he chided, grinning ear to ear. The men were moving in.

"What I think boys is that we should take her as a replacement," stated the leader, "And teach this son of a bitch a lesson." He sneered. I glared daggers of hatred towards him. If I wanted to I couldn't use the death note here in front of all of these witnesses, not that I did want to anyway. I wanted to avoid using it all costs. The men began to converge. Light tensed next to me. Clearly he'd never gotten into a fight before but now, there was no way out of it in his eyes. Light was a smart guy but he wasn't some kickass body builder or karate expert. That'd been why I'd intervened because I knew I could take them. I stepped back a bit, reaching into my grocery bag.

"Here's an idea," I almost growled back at them. My voice had become calm, relaxed, almost deadly which was exactly the opposite of how I really felt. "Why don't you teach yourself!" I yelled throwing my bag on the ground and coming out with the hairspray and uncapping it just as one of the guys charged us. Immediately I sprayed it into his face and he jumped back screaming with his hands over his eyes.

"You little bitch!" shouted another. He came at me as did all of the others. I readied myself in a horse stance while handing the canister back to Light.

"Here," I said. "You might need this." Light took the hairspray, completely dumbfounded at first as I sidestepped the incoming tank of a man. And with that adrenaline and instinct took over my body. I was moving about, throwing punches and kicks and quickly dodging oncoming attacks like a freaking martial artist from the movies. Meanwhile, Light observed me, trying to follow my lead by only dodging and blocking blows from the other guys while using the hairspray effectively blinding them. The next man who came my way, I side stepped slightly, grabbing hold of his shoulder and bringing him down forcefully, stomach first upon my knee.

All of a sudden a guy came up from behind, pushing me down into the ground after I'd let my guard down accidentally for an instant. Meanwhile, Light was trying to fend off another guy, looking my way.

"Lila!" he exclaimed in shock. Despite me being on the ground, I had also gained a new advantage as the man came to step over me, beginning to bend over to choke me. I let my leg come up and shinned him in the groin. Immediately, he'd collapsed overtop of me and I was able to get up immediately turning to send a punch into the leader's face as he came at me. He reeled back but before he could come at me again, I came up to him and pushed him down while he was off balance. Then remembering something I'd learned from somewhere in my past, I clapped my hands over his ears as he was getting back up. Just like I'd expected, he crumpled again, his central gyroscope off balance and fell unconscious at my feet from the two blows I'd dealt him. Quickly I turned to see Light elbowing the last guy of his in the back with such a force that it sent him flying into the pavement, probably chipping a few teeth in process.

As we both stood up, we saw the results of the battle. All of the men were either trying to stand up again without much success, while some were just unconscious on the ground. Both of us were breathing heavily. Light bent over trying to catch his breath and I could see he'd gotten clipped somewhere because he was bleeding from the head. I looked down at myself to see if I'd sustained any damage. There were only cuts, scraped and bruises here and there but otherwise unscathed.

"So, you wanna tell me…just what the hell was all that?" Light asked panting. He reached up his hand to wipe away the sweat from his brow. I looked around seeing there had been a small crowd that had gathered and I could hear sirens in the distance. Clearly the store clerk had called the police.

"What're you talking about?" I asked faking innocence. "We just beat the crap out of some perverts who were trying to take advantage of not just an innocent woman but me too. I think we can chalk it up to a win against villainy." I gave a half-hearted grin. Light sighed.

"Whatever you say," he replied. He stood up and walked over to me, handing me back my hairspray. "How'd you know we were going to need this anyway?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked still panting.

"I mean, you came with me tonight and we ended up at the convenience store you wanted to come to for something important you just couldn't wait for until tomorrow. The next I know you're getting involved with a bunch of thugs and you bought a can of hairspray to use against them. So how'd you know?" My heart raced inside my chest. How was I supposed to tell him? How could I when it could mean he'd steal the death note from me and begin his work as Kira? I couldn't, that was the answer.

"What do you mean how did I know?" I scoffed. "I just noticed that those guys were starting to gang up on a poor defenseless woman and I saw an opportunity to save her. In all honesty, I just wanted to get out of the house tonight to clear my head from all of that stupid homework our history teacher gave us. Besides, when was the last time you just wanted let your troubles slide away and relax a little, I mean you work extra hard as it is. Even with your talent and intellect, you're still just a kid like me." Light stopped and thought for a moment.

"Okay, so you just made up an excuse to come with me so you wouldn't be trapped?" he repeated. I nodded as he thought on it. "Then how come you didn't just tell me?" I thought of a comeback and after three seconds it came.

"Well I knew you'd probably tell me to stay home and I knew if I complained enough of how important it was to me you'd have to let me come. Honestly I thought it'd take more convincing than that. But anyway, if I hadn't done that don't you think Sayu would've wanted to come along to and add to our troubles?"

"I suppose so," Light sighed. He bent down and picked up the bag I'd dropped earlier and handed it to me. "I take it you bought more than just the hairspray?" he quizzed.

"Just some candy is all," I admitted then added, "Oh and a comic book too." Light shook his head and picked up his back he'd been forced to drop earlier. Just then as we were ready to leave, the first cop car arrived and skidded to a halt by the front of the store. From the driver's side stepped out Soichiro Yagami. He approached as soon as he noticed us.

"Light, Lila, what are you two doing here?" he asked, coming up. His companions were arriving now as well.

"Dad," Light exclaimed. "We were just shopping for Lila's convenience." Soichiro looked around and noticed the blood coming from Light's forehead.

"Just shopping, huh?" he asked skeptically. He turned to me and I felt as I always did whenever my own father had caught me doing something I shouldn't

"Yes sir," I replied. Then we noticed these thugs harassing a poor defenseless woman and so on our way out, I threw a stone at one of them and the fight sort of just escalated from there." The other policemen were now helping pick up the men on the sidewalk. Mr. Yagami sighed.

"And do you have any proof of this?" he asked. Light and I looked at each other, unsure of how to prove ourselves. Then a small voice came from behind us.

"It's true," said the voice. We turned to see the same woman who'd been attacked before approaching us all cautiously. "I'm the one who was being harassed and then this young lady and her friend came to my rescue and stopped them from coming after me," she finished. The poor thing was shaking like a leaf.

"Yeah that's right," said the store clerk coming outside. "I saw it with my own eyes. This girl here used the hairspray she'd bought to blind one of them after he attacked. Then this young man helped." More of our eye witnesses started coming forth telling the chief everything they'd seen. Mr. Yagami sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose in thought.

"Well then, in that case," he started. "You men," he pointed at some of the officers. "Take these men into custody and bring them down to the station for questioning."

"Yes sir, chief Yagami sir!" came the reply. Then Soichiro turned to us.

"As for you two, how about coming with me to help finish the report and then I'll drive you home. It's been a long day after all," he stated. We nodded then headed over to the chief's car. As the other men were put into separate cars, we got into our own and were driven down to the station. After a long while of questioning and a call home to assure Mrs. Yagami was alright, we were let go and had a silent car ride home.

As we entered the door, Sayu came running at us both full throttle and jumped us with a hug.

"Ouch, Sayu, that hurts," complained Light as he winced. She pulled back and gave us a scolding look.

"Well good!" she snapped. "You two almost got yourselves killed!"

"What're you talking about?" I asked. "We had all under control.

"Then why are you both bruised and battered?"

"Because no one gets out of any combat unscathed!" I growled back. "Besides it's not like they pulled any knives on us or anything."

"You don't need to worry Sayu," Light said. "We're home now and that's all that matters. Can we just drop it and get some sleep? We have to get an early start tomorrow." Sayu backed up as Light brushed past her to head upstairs. He yawned on his way up and said goodnight to his mom who was standing in the hallway. As we heard his door click shut, Mrs. Yagami turned to us.

"Your brother has a point Sayu," she stated. "You should go on up to bed now too, it's late."

"Fine," sighed Sayu as she headed upstairs to her own room. Mrs. Yagami then turned to her husband.

"They didn't do too much damage did they?" she asked concerned. Mr. Yagami shook his head.

"No, just some well-placed hits and a can of hairspray to the eyes were the only cause for any injury and they were minor at that. However, we're probably going to have to question the culprits further tomorrow along with the one they harassed." Mrs. Yagami nodded. I still remained in the doorway. She turned to me and smiled.

"You should probably go and get some shut eye too Lila," she suggested. "You do still have school tomorrow and you don't want to sleep in again."

"Heh, yeah," I agreed sheepishly, remembering the last time I'd slept in causing her to have to drive me on her way into town for groceries. I'd gotten a big scolding from my teacher that day and honestly I could go without a repeat. So instead of wasting time, I took my bag of things I'd gotten at the convenience store upstairs with me to my room.

I threw myself down on the bed and raised my right hand above my head, gazing at it blankly. To think that today with this very hand I had silenced a deadly assailant and had used it many times to knock some jerk's heads in. I now possessed a power that was beyond the comprehension of this world, a power that I didn't like the idea of having. Why had Ryuk found it of interest to drop something so dangerous upon humanity's doorstep? Why was I the one who now held the power? I had to admit it was better than having had Light have the power. He'd become corrupted by it after the first two people he'd killed in the original series. I guessed it was like throwing a pebble into the calm waters of a pond. Once it struck the surface and began to sink in it did two things. First it made ripples upon impact and then it sank to the bottom to become one with the pond. I sighed, turning on my side on the bed to look out my window.

Why was I here? Why was I the one with knowledge of this world from the outside? Why did I have the death note? Honestly, I was starting to get worried about it all. How would things turn out now? I sat up and went over to my dresser where I pulled out a pair of fresh pajamas from the third drawer. After I had gotten dressed, I put my hair up into a scrunchy. Then I sat on my bed again, flicking on my lamp on my bedside table. I pulled out the death note and turned it to the first page where I'd written Kuro's name. I stared at it blankly. Had he been scared when his heart had seized up? Had he had a good reason for acting the way he did? Perhaps there could've been abuse in his life to lead him to this. Either way, he hadn't been right to shoo that boy, threaten that girl or the rest of the daycare. It made me sick to think someone could be so cruel but then was I so different? I had taken the man's life after all. I just couldn't make sense of it.

I kept staring at the name until something else had caught my eye. A stray slip of paper hanging near the edge where the rules had been. I picked it up and read what was on it.

Congratulations, you've committed your first murder

I gulped at that and started shaking.

You seem to be off to a good start. However, you'll have to kill more than just on person in order to save this world from Kira and Kira from Kira. You are the new Kira and now it's up to you to kill off as many criminals as you can without getting caught. However, you know the people Kira killed who weren't condemned and you know that not all criminals are worthy of death. So please, be careful and don't allow those who don't need to, to die. Keep up the good work.

I continued to stare at the tiny note. Great now I was being patted on the back by someone I didn't know for killing someone who was condemned. What the hell did that mean? I had serious doubts that whoever or whatever this was, it wasn't human or a Shinigami. I placed the notebook back into my bag along with my other school things for tomorrow. I turned off my lamp and crawled into bed underneath the covers. It occurred to me that I hadn't really brushed my teeth but I was too tired to care. I'd just do it in the morning after breakfast or something.

I settled down, slowly allowing my eyes to close. I wondered as I drifted off when Ryuk would come to visit me and what he'd actually look like. This would be my first time seeing an actual Shinigami up close and personal in real life. He definitely wouldn't be animated. After all, nobody else had. Eventually after a long time of worrying about it all I finally drifted off into a deep sleep.

When I awoke I was floating in the air. It was slightly chilly and I couldn't tell where I was. I started freaking out when I finally decided that this had to be a dream. I floated around for what seemed to me to be hours. All the while I heard whispers coming from everywhere from several different voices. I spoke up hoping this wouldn't be a dream where I was unable to use my voice.

"Hello," my voice echoed silencing the whispers for only a second before they continued. "Where am I? Is anybody out there who could tell me what I'm doing here?" I looked around for anyone, anything that could give me a hint. Then all of a sudden a cool and calm voice came from somewhere.

"Why my friend, isn't it obvious?" asked the voice. "You're not anywhere at all really and yet…you're everywhere at the same time." This confused me.

"I beg your pardon," I said.

"You're pardoned," replied the voice. Shaking my head I continued.

"I don't really understand what you're trying to say."

"Oh but that's not entirely true," commented the voice. "You do know what I'm saying; you just don't understand what lies behind the words that I'm using."

"Huh?" I still didn't get it. The voice sighed. Then I caught a glimpse of something forming in the distance. It looked like the body of an oddly striped cat. First his head appeared with a wide grinning smile with incisors that looked sharper than I'd ever seen any before.

"Humans can be so slow," the cat commented. "That's why I usually prefer working with other cats or sometimes foxes. We seem to have so much more in common and yet I'm glad I work with humans because they're fun to mess around with sometimes, turning their minds inside out and so on. But anyways, what I'm trying to say is that while you do not understand my words intentions, you can still understand them for they are being spoken in your tongue."

"Woah," I commented, completely ignoring his explanation. I slowly raised a finger towards him. "So um, does that mean, you're like the Cheshire cat or something like from Alice in Wonderland?" The cat just chuckled.

"What do you mean by like Alice in Wonderland?" he questioned while curling his tail. "I'm the same cat that you've read about, heard about, seen on your television screen. I take on many different appearances so as to fool the viewers or readers about my true existence and purpose. In fact, I'm not really a cat; it's just my favourite face to wear. More to the point, I could be anything you wanted me to be but my true form for technically my true is actually nothing and everything; something no one understands and yet they do." The cat before me continued grinning. I sighed.

"You're not gonna tell me the same spiel that that "truth" entity told the Elric brothers from Full Metal Alchemist are you because that's not really original."

"Aww," moaned the cat sarcastically. "And I thought I did such a good job with that too. I guess I'll have to come up with something different then."

"Wait," I said snapping to attention. "You mean you're truth from that storyline too?" I asked incredulously. The cat grinned wider.

"You could say that," he replied. "After all I just told you I have many different forms and that little guy is one of them. I simply become a reflection of anyone dumb enough to open the portal of truth and seek out the forbidden knowledge. I mean couldn't you tell from looking. Our smiles are the same." He grinned again and I could see the resemblance.

"Yeah, can't argue there," I replied. "But wait, does this mean you watch over more than one world at a time?"

"Indeed. I watched over yours before your untimely death. Then your body was sent to me when those men threw you down that hole and I decided to bring you back and throw you into a new world."

"So does that mean that you're responsible for sending me to the world of death note?" I asked. Then a realization hit me. "Wait if that's true then doesn't that mean that you're the one sending me those notes telling me I should become Kira?! It is true isn't it?" The cat just continued grinning.

"That's right," he replied. "I'm the one who put you in this new world. I'm the one who told you to become Kira in order to save Kira and the world from Kira. Now let me guess, you want to know why?" I remained silent as I glared at the darn thing in front of me. "Hell yeah I want to know why!" My inner thoughts screamed. "I'm not comfortable with being a mass murder!"

"My, my; such a temper," the cat chided. "I'd be careful of that if I were you. Also, I believe you misunderstand. See, I brought you into this world for a reason and whether or not you're comfortable being a mass murderer is not my concern. I just gave you a job and you should be thrilled to be able to do it. You're saving this world after all."

"By killing people in cold blood!" I screamed. I was angry at this damned cat already and a little bit sick to the stomach. In a flash the cat was gone from my sight and I could feel myself being squeezed with my arms being stuck by my sides and my midsection being tight. The Cheshire had transformed some and although he maintained his cat like appearance, his entire body was now coiled around mine like a snake's. His face came into my field of vision and he continued grinning slyly at me.

"Now didn't I say you'd better watch your temper?" he sneered. I tried struggling to get free but every time I tried, I felt like my energy was plummeting and I got tired and even more tired. Finally it was all I could do to keep my head up and my eyes open.

"You see, this is another reason why I like working with humans," the cat jeered. "Their energy tastes delicious and when they're not in their bodies they taste even more so. However, I can't simply drain you all the way, you're too important to me for that my pretty. Now, you're going to listen carefully to what I'm about to say." He paused to make sure I was paying attention. Even though I wanted to be, I couldn't bother to feel angry at the cat because of how drained I was. Had he said something about eating some of my energy? Who cared? I just decided to sit tight and listen to what he had to say.

"Good, now that you're not fighting me, I believe I shall tell you why I chose you to become Kira instead of Mr. Yagami," he continued. "First of all, you do know how the story of "Death Note", as you call it in your world ends don't you?" I gave a weak nod. "Good. Now here's the deal. I have seen the outcome of that scenario and it's not really pleasant. You see, a few years after Mr. Yagami's death, there is going to arise an organization of scientists bent on finding the gateway into the realm of the Shinigami. You might not know this but once a live human passes into that realm one of two things happens. A, they either become Shinigami themselves or B…they become necromancers; beings even greater than Shinigami.

"What do mean by necromancer?" I asked tiredly.

"Well, I know for a fact that you've seen a certain anime in your world called "Is it a Zombie", a show about a cross dressing zombie who takes up three different girls in his home. One of those girls was a necromancer and she had power over others and reality with just her words. Well here, it's the same basic principal only more controlled. Now can you imagine what would happen if a power like that was let loose upon any other world?"

"I guess it would be pretty disastrous," I commented. The Cheshire nodded.

"Right. That's why I've brought you here. You're character and personality is enough to keep you from going overboard with being Kira. You know what it's like to die and you know what it's like to be trapped in the abyss afterwards and so you won't let your killing get out of hand. In order to save this world from Kira, to save Kira from himself, I had to throw in a pebble that would become the new Kira and shake things up a bit. Also, your knowledge of how this world is supposed to turn out might help guide you along the way. That's why I put you in about a year ago."

"So basically, you want me to stop this organization from becoming necromancers after they make it into the Shinigami world by playing the role of Kira?" I inquired. The cat nodded, still holding me in its vice grip. "But if I'm Kira and these so called scientists build off of the Kira event and learn of the death note…then how will I change anything if Kira's the one who starts all of this? Wouldn't it make more sense to just stop Kira completely?"

"My dear pet," the cat purred. "You cannot simply throw a stone into a pool of calm water and expect it to make big enough ripples to become waves. Only ripples will come from the point of impact and naturally flow outward. In other I cannot stop the actions of everyone who would therefore bring about Kira's existence for it's always been evident that sooner or later at least one Shinigami would drop a death note upon the world and someone like yourself or Light Yagami would pick it up. I cannot stop that change.

"So in order to make it work, I need to make someone else Kira, someone who knows death, someone who can kill with a conscious, someone who can think things through and make the appropriate changes necessary to make change in the world. Plus now that I've thrown you in at that certain point, I cannot simply remove you, you've already been fused with this world; already have become one with the pond. I'd do more damage." He paused for a few moments waiting for my response. However, since he'd sapped me of most of my energy, I couldn't even open my eyes anymore.

"Oh sorry," he said suddenly realized. "I guess I took more of your energy than I'd originally thought but don't worry, you'll get it back. Anyways, if you understand what I'm trying to say here then good for you, if not well…good luck with that. Initially, since you're the one who's being Kira, I believe that Light Yagami will be forged in a different way as he goes through his next few years. The main idea behind this is to keep him alive in the end and keep him humble at heart. I'm sure your knowledge of this world will allow you to achieve that.

"There then, that's all I can say to you for now my pet," he remarked. He uncurled me and allowed me to float peacefully away from him. I was feeling the fatigue now and I could barely move. "I'll be seeing you shortly to let you know how you're doing. Oh and remember this…you are Kira now and so…what happens next is entirely up to you although I doubt that you'll go against what I've already told you." He chuckled as I floated away and then his chuckles became fits of laughter combined with wheezing. I thought to myself then decided that he was probably right.

Some part of me knew that I'd try to save the world from calamity now that I had a good excuse. The other part was wondering if I had completely lost my mind. With everything that'd happened so far…why not?