Summary: Misa had always thought that death was beautiful, and sacred, but looking in this empty world made her uneasy, and just a tad frightened for her own death.
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note, I wish I did, but sadly, no.
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more."
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
Misa awoke with a start, the room around her began spinning and she made an ungraceful fall to the floor. The dream which she'd awoken from still left those vivid images in her mind.
She could still feel those pleading wide eyes boring into her soul, and those words echoing in her ears, sending shivers down her spine.
There was no light, no form, it was complete nothingness, but out of the depths of the shadows came a familiar figure.
'Misa-san, you must hurry, we haven't much time.'
'Ryuzaki?' she had asked dumbly, her voice cracking in fear and wonder. His skin was paler than she remembered, creating a stark contrast to his black eyes.
He didn't answer her. 'Innocent people will die if you do not hurry, travel to the Shinigami's Realm, there is an object there that can right the wrongs that have been and are being done. Please, as fast as you can, I-'
He was enveloped in black, his voice completely faded out into the darkness, and she was left standing alone in the murky blackness of this empty world.
'Ryuzaki!' she called, 'Come back! Please...'
'Nonsense.' she thought definitively. 'Ryuzaki is dead.'
'But still, why did I have this dream now? Does it have something to do with this new owner of a Death Note?'
Her phone rang and it made her jump. She snatched it from the table, and answered in a sickeningly sweet voice,
"Hello? Misa-Misa here!" the voice on the other end asked her to come in for a photoshoot. Her manager.
"An opening? Of course I'll take it!" she answered enthusiastically.
"Thanks so much, Bye-Bye!" she chirped and then hung up the little phone.
She sighed heavily and layed back on the petite sofa she had been sleeping on earlier.
'What am I supposed to do? she said, now believing her dream to be meaningful.
'How do I even get to the Realm of the Shinigami?' she closed her eyes and took a couple of calming breaths.
'The Death Note!' she thought.
She ran to her bedroom and began rummaging through her dressers, eventually she found the item she was looking for under a stack of jeans that she never wore, in the bottom drawer of said dresser.
It was Rem's notebook. The second shinigami to have died for her. Misa had went back and retrieved this Death Note after L's death, assuming she would need it someday to help Light become the God he wished to be.
Back when she was still madly in love with him. Kira. She shook herself to stop this train of thought. She opened it to the last page with writing on it, there were two names: L Lawliet, and that poor soul Watari.
She felt tears well up in her eyes, but she didn't allow them to fall. She flipped back to the first pages, the rules of using the Death Note, she searched for an answer to her dilemma, there was none. She lifted her hand to throw it, but she stopped dead in her tracks when a shinigami appeared before her. She looked up at it's face and realized that she knew the being.
"Ryuk!" she exclaimed, clearly suprised. " Why are you here?" she asked, bewildered.
" To collect that Death Note." he said in that raspy voice of his.
"You can't have it, atleast, not yet." she said, "You have to help me first, and then you can take it." she continued.
He grumbled but finally agreed. "Fine." he said. "Whad'ya want?"
" I need to get to the Shinigami's world, and then you need to help me find something."
"What is it?" he asked.
"I'm not sure." she admitted, "But...L...h-he told me to find it, he said it was really important." she choked out, "So, I have to find it!"
He gave her an incredulous look. "Sure." he said. "I can get you there, but I don't know if I can get you out." there was a look of interest in those strange eyes as he pondered the situation.
"Thank you, this means a lot to me." she told him honestly.
He grabbed her roughly by the arm and transported her to the Realm of Shinigami. The world was mostly empty except for features such as hills and valleys. There was an overpowering aroma of death and decay that almost made her choke when she breathed it in. The black landscape stretched on for what seemed like forever.
"Ryuk?" she called. "Are you still there?"
She could hardly see two feet in front of her, so his distant reply frightened her.
"Over here!" he yelled to her.
She stumbled towards the voice in the hope that she could find what she was looking for. She thought about what could possibly have so much power that it could, as L had said "right the wrongs that have been done."
'It must have something to do with the Death Note.' she bowed her head in mock prayer, 'Please, let me find it.
"Do you know anything about what you're looking for? he asked earnestly. "Because I can't very well help you in finding something that doesn't exist."
She lowered her eyes to the floor, clearly embarrassed. "All I know is that it is an object of grave importance, something that can protect innocent lives, L said that it could fix some bad things that happened." she answered.
"There are only two things that I can think of that fit that description." he said " The Raifuenjeru, and the Death eraser."
" What are the Raifuenjeru?" she asked.
"The Angels of Life." he answered. "They can give life back to any body, complete with their original soul and memories." he finished conclusively.
"And the Death Eraser?" she inquired.
"It's pretty much the same thing, but it's used only by Shinigami, say they regret killing someone, then they can literally erase the name from the Death Note and the person will come back to life, also with their soul and memories."
"Do you find the Raifuenjeru in this realm?" she questioned quietly.
"Nope." he said. "You usually only see them on Earth right after someone has died, normal people can't see them, but a select few people, now I'm talking about true mediums, can see them. They are normally mistaken for Ghosts."
"Since the Raifuenjeru do not appear in this world, he must have been talking about the eraser." she concluded. "Do you have any idea where it is?"
"The Shinigami King has one, it shouldn't be so hard to persuade him to give it to you, just a lot of apples and an IOU." he laughed.
"Stop fooling around!" she said angrily.
"Ok, ok. He'll need some kind of collateral, such as a chunk of your lifespan, but on the contigency that you return it to him, you get it back, so no worries."
"Take me to him!" she demanded. And he did.
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A/N: Okay, I'm trying to progress this story realistically, you have no idea how bad that I want to skip to the main storyline already!
I've found that it's very fun to write Ryuk's character.
If you're wondering where the whole "Death Eraser" thing came from, it was originally included in the pilot of Death Note, in which Ryuk gave the main charrie an eraser along with the Death Note so that he could take back deaths that were unintentional.
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