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you can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - CS Lewis

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Chapter 1 : Auburn.

Beeping noises where the first thing her brain registered, even before she opened her eyes. Her body felt warm, she realised, as if fire was surrounding her, but not disturbingly, more like a memory of sitting near a campfire, a drop of sweat rolled down her forehead, stopping at the end of her eyebrow, when she finally managed to open her eyes, her vision was blurry, she kept blinking.

"Dory ? Dory ?" She heared the voice of her friend calling her, she turned to look at the source of the voice, meeting the familiar eyes of Lysandra Thomson.

" Lys ?" She whispered, her body lacking the energy to call out louder.

She felt an acute pain at the back of her head, making her wince slightly as the pain was sharper by the second, she whimpered and then blinked again.

" Miss ? Miss ?" She heard a soft voice, not her friend's one, but nearly similar. " Miss ? Are you with me ?"

The lines got clearer as she stopped blinking, her red haired friend's face fading and being replaced by a more mature one.

The person in front of her was a young female in her twenties, she had vivid burgundy hair, and gentle brown eyes. Dorothy also noticed she was wearing a nurse's uniform.

Dorothy looked around her for the first time, she was in what seemed as a hospital room, the walls, ceiling and floor was completely white, and so was the furniture, functional and simple, there was a TV hanging at her front, next to a window, an IV and a heart monitor attached to her.

" Wh-" she started. " Where am I ?"

" You're in the Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital." The nurse replied, her voice was monotonic, but gave away a friendly feeling.

"Tokyo ?" Dorothy repeated, her eyebrows furrowing. The nurse nodded to her. " How'd. I get here ?" She whispered to herself but apparently it was loud enough for the nurse to hear it.

" You were hit by a car near Meiji Dori's District, since it's a main street, many people got around quite quickly and somebody called 119." The nurse replied, mistaking her question for as in how did she get to the hospital. " Unfortunately, no one recalls the car that hit you," she took a clipboard from the side of her bed, " Your X-Ray shows that you have two of your false ribs broken on the right side, you right arm is broken too and you seem to have severe head trauma and concussion. You have been comatose for three weeks." The nurse explained.

A car speeding towards a little boy.

Her running at him, trying to proctect him.

The unbearable pain of the car crashing her.

Crimson Eyes looking right at her.

Flashes of her memory invaded her brain, making the sharp pain come back slightly.

" Yeah... I remember now." She told.

She did remember the accident, but she also remembered that it wasn't in Tokyo, it was in Milwaukee, Wiscousin. She frowned, trying to guess how she got from Winscousin, to Tokyo.

" Now that you have awoken from your coma, the doctor will check up on you, he will then see if you have gotten better since the accident and tell you when you may be able to leave the hospital." She informed her, to which Dorothy nodded.

" If you need any assistance of any kind, hit the red button on the command of your bed, I'll come immediately after." The nurse smiled at her.

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Hours later, Dorothy was checked on by a doctor named Hijuno Mayusu, a man nearing his fifties, he asked some questions about her wellbeing and made small talk, she learned he had a wide six years his junior that was named Umiko and a son in his teenage year.

He noted that her state was back to normal, and told her she was to be kept three days in observation then she was free to leave after.

Dorothy was flipping channels on the TV, bored as there were only sport games and news, and it wasn't what she usually watched on TV, but it kept her from thinking too much, as she was still wondering how she managed to get here, in Tokyo, in Japan. How she managed to wind up in one of Tokyo's main streets.

Out of frustration, she threw the remote on the ground, making the batteries falling around, she grabbed her hand, tears welling up her eyes as she realised the situation she was in.

The room's light flickered, she raised her eyes at them, her tears only forgotten paths on her cheeks, she looked at the flickering lights, confused.

When the light finally returned to normal and their flickering stopped, she glanced at the chair in front of her bed.

A smile was sent her way as blue eyes looked into hers. She went to the remote of her bed, ready to click the red button.

" Don't do that." The childish voice said, it sounded teasing, as if he was mocking her.

Her breathing was faster, as she looked at him once more, she was wearing different clothing than the last time she saw him, he was now wearing a green dress shirt, short sleeved, with a brown velvet bowtie, brown cropped trousers that stopped at his knee and black boots with white socks.

He still held his bear, the eye was still missing, but there seemed to be stitches where the stuffing had been poking out.

" How..." She began, but she stopped as she saw his grin widden. The lights started to flicker again.

" Don't ask dumb questions Dory." The boy said, his grin wide on his face as his sweet innoncent voice made her way to her ears.

Dorothy felt shivers as she heard him, she didn't know why, but her heartbeat sped up, and she seemed to have more trouble breathing.

" We'll start with basics, my name's Seishi ! And this little guy here." He began, now holding his bear from his armpits." Is Omokatsu !"

Dorothy didn't know how to exactly react, her eyes were kept on the boy as she saw him moving his bear as he was swingging his feet.

" He's funny isn't he ?" He asked, his bear now close to his cheek.

Dorothy kept silent, watching as the boy seemed to study her.

His expression turned into a pout, he hugged his bear closer to him.

" Seems like I scared yah ? Didn't I ?" He asks, laughing as if all her reactions were a comedy show. " Well the council did tell me to expect this, they said most Ryoukoshas weren't aware of how the KS worked exactly."

Dorothy frowned. " Ryoukoshas ?" She repeated, confused.

The boy nodded, not really giving her any answer.

Dorothy, understanding that the boy would not explain further, choosed to ask the question that was on her mind since she saw him again.

" Why am I here ? " she asked. The boy suddenly stopped his legs. She watched as his blue eyes turned crimson as the smile he was wearing vanished.

" I told you not to ask dumb questions, Dory." His voice also changed, it used to be soft, childlike, teasing and slightly high piched but now, it was dead and low. His legs went back to their swinging, at a soft rythmn. His crimson eyes still burning into her. " Ask the right ones."

Dorothy gulped. Seems like this boy is not an easy one... She thought to herself. But what are the right questions ? I mean it's not like this is a science class or anything... And from I know there are no ri-

A laugh startled her as she was thinking it over, and she watched as the boy crackled in laughter, she kept her eyes on him.

Is this boy mad ? Man, he really is freaking me out... She thought, teeth bitting her lower lip slightly as she started becoming nervous.

" I really gotcha there." He said, stil laughing. " Man I forgot how the new ones are so gulliable and fun, that expression was unique. " He let out another loud laugh before interupting himself.

" Tell me, have you seen the date yet ?" He asked, his eyes twinkling with mischief.

The date ? She repeated in her mind, she shook her head, realising that even if she did watch the TV, or spoke regurlarly to some of the nurses, they never mentioned to date, or she never noticed.

" N-no, I haven't." She answered.

Seishi smiled as he teared Omokatsu's head in a quick movement, he put his hand in the bear's stuffing, taking out a roll of paper that she recognised as a newspaper. He stood up from his chair, appearing on the side of her hospital bed in a mere second, before he handed the paper to her, once it was in her hand, she saw the blond boy reaching into his trousers's pocket, taking out a small sewing kit, he took out a kneedle and thread, as he started to stitch back Omokatsu's head back to its body.

She unrolled the newspaper, looking around the front page, it was written in full japanese kanji, some pictures and publicity and huge headtitles on it.

" Seishi I don't understand kanji..." She starts, he doesn't even glance her way as he holds up a finger, signaling her to wait, he then kept stitching back his toy.

When she looked back into the paper, she dropped it in shock as she saw the lines that composed the kanji, move around and take the shape of romanian letters, making the writing go from japanese kanji to english writing in a short time period.

" What the.." she started.

" Your brain takes time to translate the languages, speach patterns are like a second nature but written texts takes some time for a beginner." Seishi explained, still focused on his task at hand.

" But I don't know Japanese." The boy let out an annoyed groan.

" Do you wax in your ear or somethin' ?" He asks quite harshly. " I just told you languages are like a second nature to Ryoukoshas. Geez."

No you didn't, you didn't even tell me what a bloody Ryoukosha was,she says in her mind.

She ignores him as she looks for where the date was supposed to be mentionned in the page. She dropped the paper as she saw it.

July 4th of 2003 ?! What the hell ?! Last time I checked it was two thousand frickin nineteen ! Not three !

" What does that mean ?!" She demands, her tone loud as she looks at the boy, requesting answers.

" It means that we only have five months and fourteen day to getcha ready." He says.

" Ready for what ?" She asks again. He looks at her, his face expressing excitement.

" For the game of course." He answers. When she asked him about what game he was speaking about, he made another pouting face. " Can't tell yah yet, but you're gonna have to get ready."

" What should I get ready for ?"

" To mess some things up."

Again with the answers that only cause more questions.

She rolls her eyes at him, annoyance clear on her face. The boy laughs when he notices it.

" You're out in three to four days right ?" He asks, when she nods at him, he hands her twelve books. " Try to finish as much of this as you can."

She takes the books from him, as she looks at the front of it, she realised that it was actually 12 volumes of a manga series.

" Why the he-" she starts but stops when she notices that Seishi wasn't in the room anymore.

Okay, that was creepy.

She looks back at the first volume of the series, the front of the manga showed a young man, browned haired an tall, wearing what she guessed was a school uniform as he held a death scythe, behind him, a supernatural looking creature with spiky hair and gothic clothes, its body was bones only and its eyes were yellow globes with red irises, on the upper part of the page, was the manga's title.

She traced the title with her fingertips, before flipping the first page.

Death Note : volume 1.

Now where had she heard that before ?

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AND THAT'S IT FOR THE FIRST CHAPTER ! PEOPLE !

So, whadda ya think ? I'm pretty sure more is explained in this chapter, as for most of the questions you might be having right now, it will all be answered in the future chapters, but now I have some question for where this story needs to go.

Now it s just two or three chapters until we move in the actual Death Note plot and when that happends, do you wish to see multiple points of view or just Dorothy's ?

BTW, the date represents something in the actual Death Note timeline, whadda ya think it is ?

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