Chapter fourrrrrrrr yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!!!! Same disclaimer blah blah blah…

"How's that?" asked the seamstress.

"Uh…" I twisted around. "Much better, thank you."

"That's good. We do need you to be able to breathe after all," she replied, chortling.

"Thanks again," I said.

"You look so pretty!!!" squealed Headmaster Cross.

The Headmaster paid for my uniform and ran out the door. I followed behind, smiling.

Every time he saw a person, he said, "Isn't she so pretty?!!"

"Headmaster Cross, thank you very much for letting me come to school. It was very kind of you to buy my uniform as well."

"Oh, no problem at all," he sang.

The rest of the way back to the school—my new home, I reminded myself—I walked in silence, holding back laughter as Ryuk danced around behind Headmaster Cross, singing, "OOOOOOOOOOOH she's so very pretty!!! Look at herrrrr, don't her eyes sparkle? And the colour of the uniform makes her hair look shiny!!! OH my…"

I chortled once under my breath, and Headmaster Cross said, "Bless you!!!" as if I had sneezed.

When we got back to school, Headmaster had to dance off to his office to do some paperwork for me to attend the school, and I was left wandering again. Of course, in the past week, I had learned my way around school well enough. I wandered my way to the moon dorm and into my room, which I shared with a girl named Rima Toya. She wasn't in the room.

"Well, he's a bit…excited," said Ryuk. "Humans are so interesting. Hee hee hee hee…"

I reached into my little bag (a gift from Headmaster) and pulled out two apples, one of which I tossed to Ryuk. He started shaking it over his head and jumping from foot to foot before eating it. I laughed. His apple dance always made me laugh. I bit into my own apple.

Suddenly Rima came in. "Did you know class starts soon?" she asked. "You better be ready!"

I sighed. I wasn't used to the nocturnal thing yet, but I couldn't sleep at night either. No sleeping during day + no sleeping during night = VERY tired Lilith.

Rima had already gone, having taken my sigh as an okay. But neither I, nor apparently Ryuk, had any intention of me going to class.

"Skip class," he said. "I…uh…have to tell you something…"

"Ryuk," I said with false astonishment, "You're being…serious?!?!"

"Yes, I am. Skip class. Come with me, and be invisible."

I did as he said and he flew out the window. I easily kept pace with him.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"You'll see," he said. Finally, he perched on the roof of the day class people's dorm.

"Why are we here?" I asked. "Ryuk, what's wrong?"

"I wasn't going to tell you…" he said, "But I guess you have a right to know. Your mother had a Deathnote because she…was a Shinigami."

I laughed. "Sure, pull the other leg."

He looked up wearily. My smile faded. "You're…serious."

"I am," he continued. "She fell in love with your father and let him touch her Deathnote so he could see her. Then she had you. That's why you're a bit of a…special case. You're half Shinigami, and now vampire as well. She…left you the Note so you would be able to see her."

"How did she die? Can a God of Death die?!" I asked.

"There is only one way to kill a Shinigami. They must write the name of a human in the Note to save another human's life."

"So…my mother…"

"Wrote the name of a murderer who was about to shoot your father at a supermarket. She therefore extended his life beyond when he was supposed to die. After your mother died, your father turned to alcohol to forget the troubles and…well you know the rest."

I sat wide-eyed for a moment before whispering, "Wow…"

"Anyway…" Ryuk said, more happily, "Whaddaya want to do now? You have all night after all."

"Um…I…want to fly around a bit. Want to come?"

"Sure," he said. We spent the rest of the night racing around in the sky.