"This thing is really dangerous." I muttered aloud. The wind seemed to be making my room colder than usual, so I walked over to the curtains and opened them to close the window. My eyes widened and I nearly screamed at what I saw.
"Yo, human. Is that my Death Note you're holding?"
I couldn't believe it. Right in front of me was an actual shinigami. He had pale, almost blue skin, dark green eyes with red pupils, and shoulder-length black hair. He looked like he was wearing dark red and light lavender, loose-fitting clothes and bloody bandages wrapped around his ankles and feet. He had a huge toothed grin on his face, which was obviously directed at me.
"Sh...Shinigami." I muttered. It started laughing horribly.
"So you know? How amusing." It crackled. Seeing a shinigami in person was a lot different then in the anime, manga, or movie. This time it actually looked terrifying.
"Yes...I know." I tried to build up some confidence. Maybe acting like Light would get my somewhere? "Actually...I've been waiting for you, shinigami." I got up slowly and looked at it straight in the eyes. They looked very void and dark. I forced myself not to shiver.
"Hahaha! Expecting me? Very interesting!" it cackled. I kept a straight face and looked at the Death Note in my hands.
"This notebook...it's your's, right?" I asked, holding it out with two hands. It stopped laughing and looked at me, slightly smiling.
"What? You wanna give it back or something?" I hate it when people avoid answering my questions..
"Didn't you drop this because, I don't know, you were bored and wanted to see who would pick it up?" I asked, almost impatiently. It looked at me curiously and then grinned.
"That's a pretty elaborate idea there. I should try it sometime!" I felt a vein pop in my forehead.
"Are you saying you just happened to have a second Death Note and just happened to have dropped it and I just happened to have picked it up?" I shouted. It then looked confused.
"You humans are strange. You always seem to think that there's a hidden story behind everything." It scratched its head. "No wonder you get into wars all the time."
I sighed and closed my eyes. "So then what are you going to do now?" I felt it shuffle a bit, almost as if it was lost for words.
"Well, I don't know I guess. I really have been bored lately so maybe I can go with your idea and just see how you deal with it. Besides, it's not like I can just take it from you. Ever since I dropped it, it became the property of the human world." I opened my eyes and saw it observing a poster with Light, L, and Ryuk on it. I watched it look closely at it, then it seemed to realize something.
"Is that Ryuk?" I was a bit startled. I nodded without thinking and it grinned again.
"Well well. It looks like he did it after all. I was starting to wonder why that plan of your's seemed so familiar." I was confused. Was there a Kira before? Maybe this shinigami was from a parallel universe where Ryuk dropped the notebook and a real Kira case appeared.
"You look lost, so i'll explain." It said. "There's this shinigami, named Ryuk. He was bored one day so he decided to steal a notebook from the Shinigami King and drop it in the human world. When he came back, he had some apples with him and said he couldn't find the notebook. Also, he said something about a manga..." My eyes widened. Could this mean the author of Death Note found a real notebook and Ryuk told him the rules which he put into the manga?
"You look surprised. I was surprised too when Ryuk told me about it. Said that the humans were starting to like him when he left. I don't know why though." I raised my hand to stop him.
"I think that Ryuk may have inspired the series that I learned about the Death Note from." the shinigami tilted its head to the side in curiosity.
"Oh really? And how much does this series tell you?"
"A lot"
"How much?"
"It had a lot of rules put down and everything. It was very specific." The shinigami scratched its head again.
"Hmm. Looks like Ryuk probably did it then. It would explain why you know so much." I looked at the Death Note in my hands again and began to think. Shinigami were real. This Death Note is real. Would that mean there's an L somewhere in the world, secret helping crimes internationally? No, this only proves the supernatural aspect of Death Note. It doesn't mean everything in Death Note is true. Well..unless Rem gives Lady Gaga a Death Note or something.
"So then," my attention shifted back to the shinigami. "what do you plan on doing with the notebook now?" I was silent for a second. What exactly could I do? I had the power to kill anyone in any part of the world. I could do almost anything to influence the world. Anything...
"Tell me shinigami, what's your name?" I asked quietly, my hair covering my eyes. I heard it shift, as if the question was unexpected.
"Akashine. What's your's?" I saw it point at me with it's long finger. I turned and walked towards the window. It was almost sunset. The birds were still chirping, and some cars could be heard in the background.
"My name is Matt Lewis." I stated. "And you ask what i'll do with the Death Note?" I closed my eyes and took a slow, deep breath. "I'm going to.." I slowly opened my eyes. "Fix this rotten world."
"Huh? Fix it? How?" Akashine sounded very confused. I turned to him and held up the Death Note in the light, causing the white letters to shine a bit.
"You see Akashine, this world is rotten. This world is filled with corrupt, evil people. It will only be a matter of time before we end up destroying ourselves." I held the Death Note at eye level and let it hang open, allowing the pages to slowly flip down. "However, if I use this notebook to kill those rotten people, I can begin to purify this world. I can kill off criminals, and manipulate the deaths of important figures to stir the world in the right direction."
Akashine seemed very intrigued. "So then, once everyone bad is gone you'll be the only evil person left." I chuckled a bit.
"Justice and hypocrisy aren't the same thing. People throughout history thought that natural disasters were the act of God, punishing them for doing wrong. Because of this, they repented and tried to do right." Akashine tilted his head a bit, his smile turning into a slight frown.
"Where exactly are you going with this?" He asked. The wind started to blow in through the window, causing the pages of the Death Note to flip faster.
"Well, Akashine...I guess you could say that.." the last page of the notebook flipped, and I let the Death Note fall onto the floor. "I will become the God of that New World."
The shinigami's eyebrows were raised, and his frown shifted into a large grin. "Just as I suspected." he muttered happily, his eyes seeming to sparkle. "Humans are really interesting."