A/N Hello, welcome to the cesspool of piss that is my fanfic. I hope you enjoy, but then again, you probably won't

Marshall Zhou hated Kira.

He was 11 when the first wave of criminals dropped dead. One of criminals Kira killed was his grandmother, who he would later learn was charged with sexual abuse with a minor. Marshall didn't care that his grandma had done something bad. She was still Marshall's grandma, who had done nothing but shower him with love.

It didn't help that Marshall's grandpa had Alzheimer's. Almost every day, he would have the crushing realization that his wife of almost forty years had died and take it like hell had opened up to Earth.

From then on, his mental picture of Kira - an unkempt, overweight man in a police uniform, with a ritual dagger strapped in his waistband - was quickly pinned onto the center of his mental dartboard. Whenever he was angry or mad, he would imagine a dart piercing through the picture, destroying Kira forever. This happened until his dartboard became a porcupinine pincushion full of darts conjured from his inner turmoil.

So, when a Japanese man named Kyosuke Higuchi was caught on suspicion of being Kira a year later, Marshall was relieved. He was the happiest he had been in his life. That happiness quickly died, however, when Kira started killing again.

Enough was enough, he had decided.

He pretended to be eighteen and joined one of the only forums dedicated to eradicate Kira. The forum was hella hard to find, too; at this point, the world knows that Kira would kill anyone who would stand in his way, and people generally didn't want to die. Nothing ever came of that. Members slowly succumbed to Kira's newfound popularity and left. The forum was deleted on 2007 when the owners sold the domain to an online dating website.

After that, Marshall was referred to a blog of someone who claimed to have access to information by a private group of Japanese ex-police members investigating Kira, who were working with L, the supposed best detective in the world who had made that one broadcast three years ago. He learned that L had died, killed by Kira. And that the current L was the one who everyone had suspected to be Kira for a year.

At that point, his will broke. If someone like L had tried to tackle the Kira case and lost to Kira, what chances would a random person have? Plus, at this point, he had practically no one who shared his beliefs about Kira. Marshall didn't need to know advanced college level probablilty to know that he was one hundred percent screwed. Maybe not one hundred percent, but he was smart enough to stay out of this from then on.

He forced himself (but never succeeding) to see in Kira's perspective. Maybe the world was rotten. Maybe after everything is over, society would become a good place. And then he can lie on his knees praying to Kira like all the other stupid retards in the world.

Then, in when he was 17, Light Yagami, who was apparently the current L, was arrested in suspicion of being Kira. Again, he was happier then he had ever been in his life.

His happiness, was, again, short lived. Though, it lasted longer than the last time. Almost three weeks later, the Kira killings started again.

A/N Imma be honest here - I only said the author's note in the intro for the sweet reviews that would tell me my story isn't actually a cesspool of piss.

Also cliffhanger. Fuck cliffhangers, I know.

But tbh tho, I'm not sure I'm intelligent enough to write something like a Death Note fanfic. I guess I've been thinking on the story for a long time. That said, hope you guys enjoy.

This is just a prologue - more stuff coming, hopefully the day after tomorrow.