Disclaimer: Yulan does not own Death Note (although it would be great to own one) . Yulan only wants to express her ideas about the whole piece, and to write about her favourites.
Chapter 1: Rain
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The resurrected one might not remember the things before death.
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It was at midnight when she turned on her computer and started to work. She went to the file where all the previous cases L had interfered when the system demanded for her password.
"Account: Near, password: Lawliet."
Password correct, accessing to search engine.
"Search for: Kira."
She sighed with relief as the search engine started to work. On the table, there was a black notebook placing next to the keyboard. She picked it up and stared at the words under the dim table light: Another Note, written by Mihael Kheel. Owner: Rain.
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No one can never know what lies beyong the future.
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Rain was a sixteen years old girl who entered the Wammy's House at the age of 5, in the year when the Kira case ended. She was remarkably smart among the children at her age, and was also remarkably strange even among the children, who often took after some habits of L. She had always kept her right eye covered with bandages, and there were rumors that she used dyes on her hair.
She found the black notebook when she was tidying and cleaning her room, hiding between a bunch of books in one of the shelves. It was old, perhaps had been there for ten years or more. She intended to throw it away, but in the end, she removed the dust from the notebook and started to read.
The words inside were written by a man named Mihael Kheel, a former orphan with the name Mello in Wammy's House. Rain remembered that L had told them about him, but she had never heard much about him. What Mello wrote in the notebook was about a case that the previous L had solved, the Los Angeles BB Serial Kill case. She quickly finished reading and disappointingly, had not found anything that interested her. "At least now I know that L's previous alias was Near..." She murmured to herself.
Suddenly, a word named "Kira" caught her attention. Every orphan in Wammy's House knew that the Kira case was the first case solved by the L, who was always with strange toys. However, not a single of them actually knew the details about the case. Rain knew that if she had to find out what happened at that time, she had to search in the central file system of L's computer.
She made it at last, and the search engine started to show the results.
"People whose names being written on the Death Note will die... something like that actually exists?" She blinked. Without thinking much, she quickly memorized the information found and then, without hesitation, destroyed her computer with a virus she invented. She sighed with satisfactory as smoke appeared.
"Now I should write it down..."
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One genius detective can never be replaced by his successors.
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After going through every detail in the information she read, Rain felt a little strange. According to what she knew, Near, the one they referred as L, had burnt the two notes without checking one of them. He used one of them to kill Teru Mikami, but that note was the one he had obtained before meeting Kira in Yellow Box. "Could Yagami take the note and hide it from his partners?" She thought as she placed the papers in one of her drawers.
From that time onwards, Rain started to stay away from the other orphans and concentrated on her study. She had a feeling that when she left, she would have to deal with the possibly-missing Death Note, although she did not know why. When the others asked with curiosity, she blamed it to the competition with another child in Wammy's House. "George is way too close to gain the seat of L's successor," She told the others. "That's why I am to compete with him."
George was not just a competitor for L's seat, he was half an enemy and half a friend to Rain. He was the first who approached her when she first arrived at Wammy's House, and he was the first who declared a battle between them. By using this excuse, the others would not disturb her except for...
"Rain!" It was the carmine redhead again. "I thought I have said that the battle should stop for a while, haven't I?" He looked at the piles of book and asked curiously.
"George, if you really want to have it stop, be less smart." She almost hissed the words. "Get away from me."
"No, Rain, L is asking all of us to go," George started biting his sleeves again. "Major will not be happy if you refuse to go."
"Stop biting or else you will need a new one again." She frowned. "Perhaps a sleeveless one will do better." His choice was to ignore her words and continued his business with the sleeves. "Fine, I'm going, just stop making that sound with your sleeves!"
"Ok, then we are going," He let go of his sleeve and started walking away on bare foot. "And you'll get drown in the books if you keep on reading those. Do you still remember how to use a computer?"
"George!" She could not hold back yelling.
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Sometimes fate can be a death reaper.
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Major was the keeper of the orphanage after Watari had gone. To the children, he was an old man with shaking hands all the time. "Everyone's here?" he asked. As usual, there was no response. He then took out a laptop computer, with the screen white and an "L" written in Old English letter.
"I was informed that there was an escape two months ago," L's voice arose from the computer. "Tell me anything you know about the one who escaped."
"It was Trap who escaped," A blonde girl spoke first. "She told us that there was a mission reserved for her a few weeks before she left."
"Trap? No wonder," Another girl continued. "She has always been acting strange for these few years."
"Have I met this child before, Major?" L suddenly asked.
"Once when you visited here." The old man replied.
"That's why..."
And then, L spoke no more. Kira had returned once more.
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Sometimes people who had met in their previous lives will meet again in their current lives.
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Rain left the orphanage after confirming L was gone forever. She only carried a few things with her when she left, to prevent thinking about this place again. As she was walking alongside the pathway, her eyes seemed to have seen something abnormal lying on the grass nearby. She went towards it; it was a notebook, black with no writings on.
"It can't be..." She said to herself as if she was convincing herself that it was not a death note. She picked it up and opened the notebok: No words were found in the whole notebook.
"What...huh?" As Rain was to made a conclusion about the note, something suddenly descended from the sky, bringing up strong wind. She covered her eyes for protection immediately.
"Girl, I am to do no harm to you, please look at me." A low female voice arose. Rain uncovered her eyes with her arms, and opened her left eye. She shrieked and sat onto the ground as she saw a tall monster, with blonde hair and a pair of red eyes.
From that time onwards, shinigami Misa had started her times on the human world with a youngster named Rain.
To Be Continued...