Hello everyone, this is the author speaking. I actually came up with this idea in church while I was thinking about guardian angels and then I got to thinking, 'hey, if you have an angel guarding you, then wouldn't be an entity trying keep him from his job?' And so I named this entity a death god. My theory is that everywhere you go, you have both of them following you, and when you get into a situation where you could have been killed (everyday) then they battle it out. And so, here it is the finished product with some random anime characters thrown in for good measure.

A Matter of Life and Death

Every time a person is born, they are assigned two things: a guardian angel and a death god. For everyday of that person's natural life, the two are fighting continually, the angel saving the individual from countless forms of death when he wins. Of course, the death god need only win once in order to kill and so they fight, sometimes for a month, sometimes for a hundred years.

7:00 a.m. Tokyo, Japan.

"I'm late! I'm late!" Yamashira races out of his apartment building with a backpack on his shoulders and a half-eaten bagel in his hands. He rushes down the crowded sidewalk, hoping beyond all hope that the bus is late. His hopes are crushed when he gets to the bus stop only to find the bus he wanted already at the next traffic light.

"Damn. I can't believe I am going to be late for the first day of school. I was going to join the Kendo club and admire Ryoko Mitsurugi's skills." he mutters under his ragged breathing. "I guess I'll just walk." he checks his pockets for change while still walking in the general direction of Daimon High. "Hmm, I have enough money for a Taxi...but if I use it, then I won't have enough to get lunch. Oh we- What's that screeching sound?" He looks up to find himself staring at the front grill of a semi moments before it hit him...literally. He dies instantly.

End chapter

I know it's short but that's how I write. I inserted the thing about Ryoko and Daimon High just to keep the random idiots from reporting my story as non-anime related. If this sounds like the start of Yuu Yuu Hakusho, don't worry: It isn't. Please RR

Ja ne!