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Colder Than Fire… Hotter Than Ice:

-The Human Element-

Shiori left the notebook open on the table and logged onto the Internet. She wanted his picture. She couldn't exactly remember what Derek looked like, but she thought this was the perfect opportunity to face him, so to speak, now that she had the means to destroy him.

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Hirka had never before seen a human use the Death Note so quickly before. He hadn't even heard of it. However, since it was his book, if she wrote down even one name he would have to stay with her until the end of her or the notebook.

He wasn't about to let that happen though.

"So that's the guy you wish to kill?" Hirka said from behind Shiori's back. "Doesn't seem so evil to me…"

Shiori turned around to face him, not with surprise, but rather anger. "He's evil, no matter how you look at him, Hirka!"

His eyes opened with surprise. "How do you know my name?" He took a minute to reclaim his composure. "How dare you speak-"

"-to a Shingami like that?" Shiori stood up and faced him whole bodied. "Don't give me that lecture, I already got it from Ryuk, the moment I was born. I don't have to respect you, because you cannot kill me strictly on bias, besides…. I have your Death Note."

'Well, doesn't she have a bit of spunk…' Hirka thought to himself. "Yes, but-"

"As for how I know your name, I have the eyes of Ryuk, the Death God whose Death note my father ended up possessing." Shiori's eyes narrowed, "but you don't look a thing like Ryuk, or seem to be a death god at all…"

Hirka didn't look like the average Death God. He had very pale skin, and silver eyes. Black hair shadowed his muscular, human looking face, and it also dangled all the way to the floor. His body was adorning black armor lined with silver. If he hadn't just appeared, she would think he was some crazy Goth boy who was lost. That, and the fact he had Shingami eyes.

Deadly eyes…

"Look, I would like my Death Note back." Hirka held out his hand.

"Sorry… But, it's mine now." She held up the notebook, and pointed to the rules. "once it lands in the human world, it belongs to the human world, and to any human who picks it up. Besides," she flipped the page, "I've already used it."

Derek Williams name was written, along with cause of death, 'burned alive' and it said he was alive for the whole 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Hirka sighed, "well… I guess I have no choice." He floated, and plopped down onto her bed. "You wouldn't have anything to eat, would you?" He said, closing his eyes and resting back onto her pillows.

"Well, how fortunate for me, you seemed to be so normal." Shiori sat back down at her computer and closed the Death Note. She put it up with her textbooks next to the monitor.

"You call that fortunate…" Hirka smiled, "I call it bad luck. You're a girl, what would you know about death?" She worked on her schoolwork and acted like he wasn't there. "Are you even listening to me?"

"I don't have any other choice, since I'm the only one that can." She didn't even bother to look at him as she spoke, "trust me, I'm not planning to go crazy and use the Death note like crazy, as my father did, but I will use it, and as long as it's safe with me, you're stuck here. Deal with it."

"You know, you don't seem to have a lot of color…"

Shiori's pencil snapped, "So?"

Hirka smiled, "and you're kind of round in the midsection… I take it you don't have many friends."

Shiori stood up, "What do my looks have to do with how many friendships I have?" She clenched her hand into a fist.

He just smirked. "Don't worry about it."

But she was gone.