Sorry for the wait on this too, I forgot that I had this actually! Death Note belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Comments are very welcome.
Chapter 4: First Time
Finals were next week, and because I'm in all advanced classes my tests would all be more difficult and challenging, but I certainly didn't need to worry about that. I don't know were all my knowledge came from but, it was bone dry on each side of my family. My family isn't big either, I had my mother, grandmother, and my aunt who is married to some Task Force person. They also have a kid, but, I never met him. Then again, there was a lot of people I haven't met, because they all died before me. If there is a heaven, I could see them in my next life or something like that. My grandfather, my own father, whom I don;t know anything about, and also my mother's parents, who were murdered.. i could see them when I die.
I sat at my desk writing this list, of people I wanted to meet. There was also on man I wanted to meet, Yamagami-san's brilliant father. Sadly, he hasn't seen both of his parents in many years because of a difficult case in America. he doesn't have parents to look after him, to console him, or to tell him they love him. That makes two of us.
Nibbling on the edge of my pen I folded the list up and opened my drawer up to throw it in. The death journal was sitting flat at the bottom. It felt as if it was staring at me, urging me to pick it up, so I did. The human's whose name is written in the note shall die.Why say human, why not use person, we're all human aren't we? Another thing that puzzled me was that the directions were written all in English. would the person write it in English to confuse the person or was it dropped by a foreigner?
"It seems you found my death note." A deep voice said behind me. My heart stopped. I locked the front door, I know I did! Who's behind me, if he wants his notebook he can have it! Slowly I reached down into my pant-leg and opened a secret pouch, which held a secret pocket knife. I opened the blade, and jumped out of my chair to face the intruder.
All of the adrenaline left my body as I stood frozen at what was in front of me. I couldn't scream, or move and the knife fell to the floor. I didn't look human, could it be a man in a costume? It had spiky brown hair and wore a tie as a headband and was wearing a trench coat. On its back was a very large sythe, which was real. It's glowing red eyes stared at me.
"Who-what are you!?" I screamed.
"A shinigami, and you picked up the notebook that I dropped." It said. * A grim reaper was in my room. No, those things don't exist, no! I turned my body slightly and clenched the notebook.
"Here it's yours! I don't want it you can have it back!" I screamed as I threw the notebook at the reaper. The notebook went threw the reaper and smacked against the wall. He really is the girm reaper. For the first time in my life, I was scared to death, so scared I peed in my pants.
"No it's yours." the reaper said.
"You said that you dropped it, so it's yours!" I screamed as I knelt to the ground. "If you're the grim reaper then why haven't you killed me yet!?"
"Grim reaper?" It chuckled. "No, I am a god of death." It said as it picked up the notebook and placed it in front of me.
"You can't be real!" I screamed. Mustering up all of my courage I looked at it, dead in it's glowing, red eyes.
"I am very real." The shinigami said.
"No! There isn't any logic!"
"I understand how it doesn't make sense to you little boy, but, because you picked up the notebook that I dropped, I'm stuck with you."
"What do you mean, stuck with me?" I asked as I held the notebook in my hands.
"When it's time for you to die, I get to write your name in my notebook, Tsuki Amane."
"Wait, you mean it actually works!" I yelled, shocked, not because he told me the notebook could kill someone by simply writing their name down, but that he knew my name.
"Yes."
I opened up the cover and looked at the front page;
The humans whose name is written in this note shall die.
This note will not take affect unless the writer has the person's name and face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore people sharing the same name will not be affected.
If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the persons name, it will happen.
If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minuets and 40 seconds.
"So you're telling me if I write someones name in the notebook they will die?" I asked the shinigami.
"Yes." he said.
"There is a catch right? If I write someones name, what will happen to me?"
"When you die, you won't go to Heaven or Hell, you will go to nothingness." the shinigami said, there goes my chance to meet my deceased family members.
"Do you have a name? or should I just call you Shinigami-dono*?" I asked as I sat back in my computer chair.
"I do have a name." he said.
"How do you know mine?" I asked, it was really making me paranoid.
"I can see your name and lifespan above your head. I can see any-ones name and life span but I'm not obliged to tell you." He said.
"Oh ok." I said taking a deep breath. "Will you answer my question then?"
He smiled a gruesome smile and said, "Light."
Translation Note: (*) Shinigami- the word has two different meanings, Grim reaper or God of death depending on the kanji.
-dono means mister.