Sayu was 10 when she found it. She was just about to leave school when she saw it. A small black notebook submerged in a puddle, there was no one around who could have dropped it after all Sayu had just got out of a detention for cheating in her maths test. It wasn't like it was her fault just maths was a subject she never good at it, she just wasn't like her brother much to her parents' disappointment. Light, her older brother had stolen all the intelligence gene from the gene pool that was for sure. So, to even get any good grades cheating was her only option unfortunately, hence the detention and finding this little black book. Sayu was tempted to just leave the book where it was, it wasn't hers but what was written on the cover caught her attention or the language did. Sayu could tell it was written in English however, like Maths – languages weren't her forte so, she couldn't read it. She also knew that it was doubtful that anyone in her school would have a notebook written in English and since they didn't have any foreign students. So instead Sayu picked up the notebook and to her surprise, it wasn't wet considering it was sat in a puddle. Her curiosity was peeked as she flipped through the book, the first couple of pages were covered with English words and then the rest was blank.
"I know I shouldn't go through someone's things but… maybe Light would translate this English for me" Sayu murmured to herself before putting the notebook in her bag for safekeeping and walked home. She had nearly forgotten about the notebook when Light got home from cram school that night until she accidentally knocked her bag over, and the contents scattered across the floor include the strange black notebook.
"What's that? A death note. A little creepy for you Sayu" Light said startling his younger sister.
"Whatever Light" Sayu muttered before trailing off… why would someone call their notebook a death note. She decided to voice her confusion.
"I found this outside school today, it's unlikely that it belongs to anyone from school because there is English written inside as well. Why would someone call it a death note?" Sayu asked passing the notebook to her brother, Light opened it and scanned the first two pages.
"It's probably a ridiculous joke someone had. According to the rules of the 'death note' if you write someone name in the notebook then that person will die but you must picture their face in your head. This is stupid. Sayu, whoever made this must have intended it for a prank" Light translated before handing the notebook back to his sister. Sayu felt a little disappointed that it was some stupid prank instead of some top-secret government information thing. Sayu dumped the disappointing notebook in her draw and promptly forgot about it.
Well until he appeared.
Ryuk was disappointed. He had dropped his second death note into the human world for some entertainment yet the person who owned his death note – Sayu Yagami had done nothing with it. She hadn't written any names at all; she had been exposed to the death note for five whole days and she wasn't lured by the death note to not try it at all. What was wrong with this girl?
The girl in question was staring at him eyes wide. Sayu wasn't sure what was going on. A horrifying monster was in her room holding the death note looking – somewhat disappointed with something or other, Sayu wasn't sure.
"I'm Ryuk the Shinigami, this use to be my death note. I have to say… I was expecting you to use it, I haven't heard anyone else not at least trying out the death note. You do realise, that when you write someone's name in it they will die. Maybe you're just a brat. This is going to be boring if you're not gonna use it. I was looking for entertainment not this" Ryuk grumbled, he wonder if it was best to convince the girl to give up the death note and drop it somewhere else.
"Light" Sayu screamed darting out her bedroom and down the hallway to her brothers. Light's head snapped up as Sayu darted through the door, he was currently studying (not that he needed to) and Sayu's eyes were wide in terror.
"Sayu what's wrong?" Light asked concern filled his voice, he had never seen his sister so scared before in his life well apart from the time he tricked her into watching a horror movie when she was seven.
"There's a monster in my room" Sayu shouted. Light scoffed.
"A monster really Sayu" Light said, he couldn't believe his sister would pull him away from his studying just to play some sort of joke on him.
"I'm not lying. It's tall and black with creepy red and yellow eyes and wings. It said it was a Shinigami and the death note that I picked up belonged to him. He said it was real Light, that the death note was real. Please believe me. I'm not going crazy. I promise" Sayu begged, Light had to believe her, he had to.
"Fine, I'll have a look in your room. But if you're just messing with me then I won't help you with your homework for the rest of the year" Light said, it wasn't like doing the extra homework was hard just teaching Sayu how to do it was. She got stuck on the simplest things and Light sometimes wondered if he was really related to anyone in his family. Where he got his intelligence from was a complete mystery since no one else in his family had anything other than average intelligence. Light brushed his thoughts aside and headed towards Sayu's bedroom. Sayu followed. Even though she didn't want to see the monster again, she rather not be left alone either.
Light pushed open Sayu's bedroom door and froze. There it stood, humanoid in appearance, the creature had light-grey skin, with spiky black hair and the thing had blue-grey lips and sharp, pointed teeth. His arms and legs were ridiculously long with large feather wings on his back, but the most distinct feature was his eyes. Just like Sayu had said, the monster had large, round yellow eyes with bright red irises.
Light was impressed with himself that he didn't scream, instead he took a deep breath and stepped further into the room.
"Hyuk. Another one, you must have touched the death note too. I'm Ryuk the Shinigami, this was my death note before I dropped it into the human world. Now tel…" Ryuk started his monologue once more until Light interrupted him.
"Why drop it in the first place?" Light said. Ryuk glared he couldn't believe the brat had interrupted him.
"I did it because I was bored. Listen brats. Just give up the death note, and I'll be on my merry way. You won't remember anything about it so it's a win-win situation for all three of us" Ryuk said.
"No Ryuk. If this notebook does kills people and as someone who wants to be a detective when I'm older. I will not let it fall into the hands of someone else" Light said, the only evidence he had that the notebook was real was the existence of the Shinigami and that wasn't evidence itself however, on the off chance it was true then he couldn't let anyone else get their hands on it.
"Hey! I'm not being stuck here with you brats until your lives are up" Ryuk complained but Light just shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't care, you'll just have to get use to it" With that Light took the Death Note from Ryuk's hand and walked out Sayu's room, closing the door behind him. He could hear the Shinigami shouting profanities after him, but he didn't care. Instead he walked back to his own room with Sayu trailing behind him and opened the death note once more. He didn't know why but he had a feeling that he needed to learn everything about the death note just in case.