To say Sayu Yagami was in a hurry to get home was an understatement, making it to her house in a quarter of the time It usually takes. Arriving sweating she rushed directly to her room and got on her computer, she was going to search for Chizou Matsumoto. Not that she had to, he was on the front page.
Yup, the guru of the most dangerous cult in the country's history died yesterday. he was found dead in his cell of a supposed heart attack. Looking at the time it isn't too far off from the moment that she wrote his name in the death note.
Some astonishment was it a coincidence. She is still on the fence, if it is for real then she would need at least one if not two more times to confirm it. so, she would want to make sure again that she would not regret killing that person. If it turns out to be true. She could kill the rest of the cult members that are being held,
No she better option, she just remembered of once hearing about a Nazi guard living in America, who seemingly escaped his crimes against humanity because they wouldn't accept his extradition. That is a punishment long overdue. A plan started forming in her mind.
Looking at the death note the rule about details of the death being written out. She thought about how specifically she needed to make it. She spent a good while on it while she was cooking dinner while talking to herself.
"Details of the death"
"If I write it, it will happen right now or forty seconds after"
"do I use my time or do I use the one in his time zone"
"The time difference it would be fourteen hours behind."
"The death would be reported either way"
"Should the cause of death be different"
"how specific do I have to be."
"How, much control would I have on a person if I made Matsumoto in his final moments declare his horrible deeds would he have done it"
She left the food read sealed and ready for her mom and brother to just heat up. She had to go to cram school tonight. she leaves this un revolved she isn't going to be able to concentrate as much as she normally would during cram school.
She thinks about it on the way and figures it out, deciding to fill it in before reaching cram school. She stopped at a park on the way to fill it out. Wanting to get something in her stomach she stopped at a side convince store. Buy herself some melty kiss chocolates to eat while browsing tabloids and fashion magazines. Hearing from the outside.
"Misa Amane sure can pull off a lot can't she" she muttered then heard a couple of motorbikes and one especially loud man. Looking out the window she saw a young woman that looks a little older than her.
"Hey baby, where you going, come have a little fun with us" Takuo told her all while his friends encircled the woman.
"That's our Takuo for you, this can spot a hottie a mile away" said by one of the tungs.
"what's up little lady The name is Takuo Shibuimaru. What do you say come hang out with us pretty lady"
"Please, I don't want any trouble"
"you hear that she doesn't want trouble, isn't that cute" one of the other thugs said in jest. Takuo then with a short metal bo staff restrained the woman by the neck.
"let's go boys strip her down right here" at that point, Sayu quickly took out the death note and little angerly wrote it down.
Takuo Shibuimaru, dies in a motorbike accident while trying to catch a woman that managed to escape from him. Sayu thought looking at the men.
"You sure" a thug said lustfully.
"No stop. please, help me" the woman actually managed to break out of his grip and she started to run away making her way across the street. Takuo tried to catch up to her on his motorbike. Only to be hit by a truck. Sayu's eyes widen.
"That settles it the death note is for real "she mentally thought as she started to heavily breathe. The driver of the truck then came out and shouted.
"Stupid kid he just came out of nowhere". Being Observed from the Shinigami laughed the same Shinigami was watching with glee.
"It's been five days I should get going," the shinigami said with glee.
"You are going somewhere Ryuk"
"hate, to tell you but our whole world looks like this"
"That's true but I dropped my death note."
"You really mess things up didn't you"
"Hold on, didn't you already trick the old man to get a second book"
"don't tell me you dropped both of them"
"You must have some idea where you drop the thing"
"Yeah, the human world" ryuk retorted as he walked down steps then jumps down into a spiraling cloud.
Sayu Yagami was home alone again, working at her desk writing names in the death note. This time though her room was filled with a bunch of newly purchased items.
A vase of roses, dart board, a couple of omamori and ofuda around her, along with a hand-held tape recorder, blows of salt, all while she was wearing a necklace of onions and a prayer beads bracelet on her nonwriting wrist.
"You have taken quite a liking to it" sayu heard someone say to her on her side. which made her immediately jump into action. She picked up the bowl of salt throwing it in that direction, then pulled out a water pistol she had hidden and shot toward the voice while simultaneously pressing play on her tape recorder. Which started playing a cleansing chant. Kicking her chair at the voices direction.
She kept on firing from her water pistol in one hand then started throwing her wooden darts with her other until. She threw three till she stopped. The figure before her then just started laughing. For none of that stuff worked.
"What was that supposed to do" it asked her, she just then let out a deep breath and said in an apathetic tone.
"Does that even matter now, waste of money and time," Sayu responded then just stared at the demon-looking figure in front of her. They stood there looking at each other for a couple of seconds.
"not, the response I'm used to, especially from girls your age, I am the Shinigami Ryuk, that used to be my notebook, and you have already figured out that is no ordinary notebook"
"Shinigami, a god of death, I'm not surprised, when I found out it actually works, I figured it had to be connected to something like you. I already prepared myself, In both ways, I tried to put up a fight and failed. I used the notebook fully knowing it belong to a Shinigami. So, this the part where you take my soul"
"Huh, what do you mean, is that some sick fantasy you humans came up with, I'm not going to do anything to you" sayu raised her eyebrows in suspicion.
"The notebook becomes part of the human realm, from the very moment it touches the earth, in other words, the notebook is now yours."
"This is mine"
"If you don't want it then pass it on to someone else, or better yet I will, but if you give it away, I would have no choice but to erase your memories of the notebook"
"you're not seriously telling me that I'm not going to face any consequences for using this notebook, no I don't believe that for a second"
"Fine I will ease your doubts, you feel the fear and pain known only to humans that have used the notebook and when it is your time to die it will fall to me to write your name in my death note. Also. any human that has used a notebook can neither go to heaven or hell for eternity, how are those for consequences."
"Now you will have something to look forward to when you die"
"I really don't have anything to worry about then, if that's really how it is and has to be…. It's acceptable, still have no regrets then for what I have or will do"
"oh, well I certainly wasn't expecting this, several death notes have made their way into the human world before in the past, but you are the first to have written this many, look at how many people you have killed in five days, most are reluctant to write this much."
"Is that why I was chosen to get this notebook"
"I didn't choose you. don't you see this was all accident? You actually think you were chosen because you are so smart or pretty, don't be so vain. It just happens to fall around here and you just happened to pick it up. That's all there is to it. that's why I wrote the instructions in English, the most popular language in the human world"
"That's a relief if it is true. but then why did you drop it in the first place, you even wrote down instructions, so don't pretend like it was an accident"
"You want to know why. I did it because I was bored"
"bored" sayu said in a questioning tone all while wondering what this could mean her.
"the truth is Shinigami haven't gotten much to do these days, most of the time we are taking naps or gambling, if you take the time to write names in your death note the others just laugh at you for working so hard, even if you wrote the name of another Shinigami it would be pointless because they wouldn't die and since we live in the Shinigami realm it brings us no amusement to kill those in the human world either. So I figure I would have more fun if I came down here myself"
"Anyway, I'm surprised by how many you have killed, but why are you using heart attacks for all of them and why are you making them die at eight o clock? Other than the guy who was hit by the truck,"
"provocation"
"what"
"Making right a couple of injustices, while I'm trying to get him, its synergy. I have been exhausting it with the names of the worse criminals out there, so it will only be a matter of time before people and my target start to catch on to what is happening, making it seem like there is someone out passing judgment on the wicked"
"why even bother, what are you trying to achieve by passing judgment"
"The death note was filled with names before I got it, it's easy to tell that whoever had it used to settle some scores, I am no different, there is someone out there that I want dead,"
"Most would probably not agree, like or understand, but for some people, there is someone they would want to kill or hurt as much as they possibly can."
Thinking back about yesterday just after she killed Takuo. She was in a side alley feeling a little queasy and leaning against a wall.
"No doubting it now I killed them and the Nazi I set up for tomorrow he most likely will too, I crossed the line."
"no, I thought that was the case even before I was going to write Asahara's name. If I already crossed it, sacrificing my soul then I have to make it worth it," thinking to herself as she sat at cram school.
"yes, I am doomed, but I can do some good with this. if don't i then who else could, who else wouldn't just use this for themselves, that's right I am the only one who can." sayu is now at home watching on her computer a live feed of times square New York in America.
The old Nazi criminal was yelling about his crimes before he died of a heart attack. Sayu stared at the death note while she had a pen in hand.
"Using this death note. I'm going to bring a reckoning they have yet seen "
Ryuk himself is now remembered seeing all the deaths and when she was writing names for these last couple of days. Such flare and anger when writing names.
Woosh, one died in prison at 8 o clock.
Woosh, another former nazi confessing of her crimes before dying of a heart attack at 8 o clock.
Woosh, another that is near the edge of a bridge gets a heart attack and falls.
Woosh, a cartel boss screaming in pain as he was being eaten by his dogs.
Woosh, a European human trafficker notified the police of their operation and then while in police custody of dying of a heart attack when the clock read 8 o clock.
A really violent Woosh, goes to the middle east and shows an extremist shooting his fellow extremist comrades before being gunned down himself.
Woosh, a ceo is yelling violently at his doctor after he was told he has cancer.
"at first I wrote the names of people who have been a part of the worst atrocities, making extra sure that none of them escaped their crimes, then I moved on the worst criminals I could think and while the truly guilty ones who deserve to be punished for their crime die of heart attacks, the people who are less guilty but still cause trouble will die of diseases and some accidental deaths."
"Letting a path be cleared for the kind, honest and hardworking and create a better world"
"But if you did that it would make you the only bad person left." Sayu just laughed.
"I am under no illusions that what I am doing is bad, if not downright evil. So if I die it's not much of a loss is it then? That's why even if you were to kill me right now, I would still consider it a victory, not the best victory or the one I really wanted. but still one" still one as she started rocking herself up and down on her tippy toes.
"why"
"…Why don't you just stick around to find out and witness my one-woman crusade against it all" causing ryuk to smile with amusement.
"It is just as I thought, you humans are so interesting"