Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note.
Credit: Original idea by Yami Yugi Alexander the 4th.
Chapter 2
Experimental
The second the library door closed behind me, I was sprinting back to my room, I slammed the door and crossed to my desk.
I set down the two books and exhaled in relief as I turned around...
Ryuk stood in the doorway, smirking as I jumped. I almost asked how he got in but decided against it.
I sat down in my desk chair, my messy hair and black eyes reflecting in the computer screen.
"This thing kills..." I said, mostly to myself.
Ryuk chuckled.
I opened the notebook and tapped a pen against the desk as I read the names on the pages.
I opened the KIRA case book and started comparing the names on the victims' list to the names in the notebook.
After a few minutes of matches, I looked back up at the shinigami.
"Ryuk..." my voice sounded small and afraid, I cleared my throat and tried again, "Did you meet Kira?" I asked.
"Yeah, I met him, Hyuk hyuk..." Ryuk laughed.
"What was he like?" I asked, the shinigami smirked at me, I frowned.
"Older then you. He was pretty smart too, a really interesting guy up until the end..." Ryuk faded into laughter.
I gulped at the implications.
"Are you going to use the notebook now?" he asked.
"No, I'm not a murderer, what Kira did was wrong!" I insisted, not caring about how loud I was being, I was already going to get in trouble for slamming the door in the middle of the night.
"If you hate Kira so much, then why would you take the name?" Ryuk asked.
"That's not the point, I didn't take the name because I supported Kira..." I sat back in the chair I hadn't noticed I'd left.
"What about all these other rules?" I asked to change the subject "Like writing the cause of death... and the times and stuff, is it possible to make someone live longer then they normally would?"
Ryuk chuckled as he answered. "You can't make someone live longer then they're meant to, it just doesn't work that way, besides anyone who's name gets written in the notebook dies in twenty-three days at the most. Kira figured that one out."
"What about the cause of death?" I asked.
"What makes you think I'll tell you all this for nothing?"
"You must have told Kira some of this stuff, what makes me different?"
"I didn't tell Kira anything. He figured out all the details on his own."
I didn't know how to answer that, so I looked back at the notebook. The rule was easy enough to understand; write the cause of death within forty seconds of writing the name, then write any other details within six minutes and forty seconds of writing the cause of death.
"So you can make anything you want happen to the victim within twenty-three days?" I asked, hoping that Ryuk would give me an answer.
"No. If something's not possible you'll just die of a heart attack." Ryuk corrected.
"That makes sense..." I opened the Kira case book to the page detailing the deaths of three inmates who had acted strangely, one had run from his cell to the bathroom before dying, another had drawn a pentacle on the wall of his cell using his own blood, and the third had written a suicide note. "...so the cause of death would be suicide, heart attack or accident... right?"
"There are more then that but yeah, that's the general idea."
"So you could write 'someone suicide at some time, kisses their girlfriend and jumps off a bridge.' and it would work?"
"As long as you don't put the girlfriend's name down, it should work." Ryuk answered. "Why? Are you planning to get a free kiss from one of the boys here?" he chuckled again.
I frowned. "No, I'm not, that's a really stupid idea, besides I'm not going to kill anyone anyway."
"If you don't plan on using the notebook, why all the questions?" Ryuk asked.
"Maybe I'm just curious, had you thought of that?" I glared at the shinigami.
Ryuk laughed again. "I did consider it, but I doubt you'd be the type to just ask questions and not test your answers."
"I want to meet my dad." I said, flatly.
Ryuk burst rather loudly into a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?!" I shouted, standing up again.
"Do you know who you parents were?" Ryuk asked, chuckles still interrupting the seriousness of the question.
"I know my mother died in childbirth... that's why I'm here, but my father could be anyone and I want to meet him!" I stated firmly.
"Do you know your father's name?" Ryuk asked, teasingly.
"No, but I don't plan on using his name to find him." I answered.
"But you plan on using the death note?"
"Yes, I know I can find him with it because he'll come to me." I boasted.
"And how do you plan to make that happen?"
"I'll write my name." I said.
"Oh, that's interesting..."
I didn't answer him, instead I sat back down in my chair and turned to the notebook.
I suppose I was only brave enough to write my name because some small part of me still doubted that it would work.
"So if the cause of death can't happen, I'll die of a heart attack in forty seconds?" I confirmed.
"Yeah, that's what should happen." Ryuk moved closer to read over my shoulder.
I took a deep breath and started writing.
Opal Destiny Lawliet, peaceful death
Dies in her sleep on September 23rd 2016 after meeting her long lost father.
As my pen left the paper, I sucked in a breath and held it, hoping that my father was still alive to find me, I watched the clock by my bed, waiting for the moment when I would die of a heart attack because the circumstances I wrote were impossible.
I didn't look away from the clock for two full minutes, then finally, I let out a relieved sigh and closed the notebook.
Ryuk was laughing behind me. "Looks like you weren't as confident in you plan as you looked." he chuckled.
"That gives him twenty two days to show up." I said, ignoring the laughing shinigami.
"Good luck." Ryuk's comment was almost mocking.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Nothing." Ryuk laughed as he faded into the wall.
"Creepy shinigami..." I mumbled, under my breath.
I stood up and crossed my room, laying down on my bed.
"Better get some rest... my dad could show up any day now."
Then I drifted off to sleep with a smile on my face.
Author's Note: here's the second chapter, I hope Ryuk wasn't too out of character, the plot will start getting more interesting in the next chapter, I promise.