Rin was a light sleeper. When she heard movement next door she rubbed her eyes but didn't move from her bed. She saw a small shadow move across her room. Soren didn't stay there long. When she heard the familiar creak of floorboards from the next room, she carefully slide out of her bed and padded across the floor to where Soren had been. She peered at the books, whatever he'd hidden was either here or it wouldn't be found again. She started pulling out books and replacing them. Soren was smart, if he wanted her to find it would be here somewhere, if he wanted it hidden forever he had his own way to hide things just like she did. They were probably smart enough to get away with murder but had the morals not to do it.
After searching three shelves of books, Rin found a small gap between two of the books on the bottom shelf. Her heart nearly skipped a beat. She wasn't sure why; she was finding thing her brother had hidden in her room all the time. He'd wanted her to find it though, even after ages, she'd find it and he knew that. He'd come in the middle of the night to hide it, why was he so urgent to hide it, what couldn't have waited until morning? She realised her heart was beating hard against her chest as she knelt down to the bottom shelf. The dark shadow in the miniscule gap seemed foreboding to her. She hesitated as she reached towards the book that concealed the unknown object. She couldn't think what had come over her, what was hidden in the book that made her like this? She was always calm and logical but there was no logical reason for her to be afraid. She shook her head and pulled out the book; the dark shadow slid to the floor. Rin replaced the book she had pulled out without moving her eyes from the book that had fell open on the floor.
She leant down and picked it up, to find it was rather flimsy; a notebook? There wasn't enough light to tell. She pushed herself up off the floor and wandered over to her bed where she flicked through the book. Turning the light by her bed on she noticed the cover had English writing on. She read it carefully, determining that it read Deathnote. A strange thing to have on the front of a book and her English was quite good, she was sure that was what was written.
Bearing the legend on the front in mind she turned to look at the inside. All of it was hand written Japanese; just the first few pages. She held the book closer to the light so she could read the scruffy writing she recognised as her brother's. The first line read:
Anyone's name written in this book will die
Rin wondered why her brother would write this if he didn't mean it and why would he leave it for her? She kept reading.
The writer must have the face of that person on their mind at the time for the Deathnote to work
If a cause of death is not specified then the person will die of a heart attack 40 seconds after their name is written
The note went on like this for two more pages. You could control people's actions before their death, you couldn't misspell the name 6 times, there can be 6 active Deathnotes in the human world at any one time. Rin took in all of the information before deciding to rip the pages out and shred them, she didn't want anyone else knowing the rules and methods of the notebook. She looked at the next page in the book. At the top was written: Shinigami: Casis and beneath was a note.
Rin,
Shinigami are frightening creatures but don't make a scene when you first see Casis, as no one else will be able to see or hear her, anyone nearby will think you're insane. You'll soon learn she's no threat at all, unless you count her stupidity (please don't say I wrote that, it would hurt her and I think of her as a good friend now). I hope you find a good use for the Deathnote and my instructions were useful for when you use it.
I love you
Soren