Author's Note: I have made a huge mistake. At the end of the first chapter they hear Light laugh. They shouldn't have seen or heard him until they had touched the Death Note. Whoops! Yeah, sorry about that I only realised this when I went to bed after finishing the second chapter. I might bother to fix it up later but until then just…um…ignore it. This first bit is a flashback. I'll try and make sure this one isn't full of such obvious errors.

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note but neither do you so I feel better.

28th January 2011: Shinigami World

"Yagami Light, you have been granted your Death Note. Now you are a true shinigami. You may choose to change your name if you like."

Light paused. "Change my name?"

"Well, as a shinigami you may not think your name suits your new form. Or you might just stick to your old name, like Ryuuk."

Light thought for a moment. "My new name is Kira."

Kira smiled. Today was the day Mikami was to receive his Death Note. Or was it? Kyomi Takada had not received hers and she had been a shinigami for longer than him. But he knew for a fact that today Nate Rivers would be reborn. Everyone wondered why he had killed him. Why not just kill all criminals and laugh at Nate while he tried to stop it? The answer was simple. As mortals Nate had won. As shinigami Kira would get his revenge. And when he was done with Nate he would kill Ryuuk. Kira stared at his Death Note. It was easy to kill humans but how could he kill shinigami? For a year he had tried to find that out. He had to come up with something before Nate.

"Nate Rivers, welcome."

Nate opened his eyes. "Is this the afterlife?" he wondered. Then he saw Ryuuk in front of him. "What's going on?"

"You must have gone through so much in the past week." Ryuuk laughed. "Kira's pretty evil."

He looked down at himself. "What the hell?"

"Those who kill with the Death Note don't go to either heaven or hell. They become shinigami."

"So then there are no repercussions for using the Death Note after all."

"Speak for yourself. Being a shinigami is worse than hell."

Nate smiled. "Not when you have something to do. I can get back at Light after all."

Ryuuk smiled. "Looks like I have some more entertainment after all. And I was thinking of dropping the Death Note again to see what happened."

"Join me and I'll give you more fun than you can imagine."

"Well, Kira has been ignoring me lately."

"I need something from you though."

"My Death Note. I know."

"Light said that he had to wait a year to get his. I can't afford to wait that long."

"The Death Note doesn't work on Shinigami."

"Then how do you kill shinigami?"

"They must either use the Death Note with the intention of saving a human's life or they must use up their lifespan."

"Then it looks like I can't kill him after all."

"Kira has over hundred years in his lifespan after killing you and I doubt he'll try and save anyone. Cheer up, these are the only known ways. You can find out other ways yourself."

"Oh? Then I suppose Light will be too."

"Exactly."

"Will you help me?"

"What do I get?"
"You'll find out a way to kill shinigami. You can challenge the king."

Ryuuk laughed. "I don't care about being king."

"As king you can bring the shinigami and human worlds together. You can invade the human world. It's much better than this place."

Ryuuk laughed again. "I could just drop my Death Note."

"But you only have one now."

Ryuuk paused. "Good point. Maybe I will. Don't expect me to follow you around everywhere though."

Nate grinned. "It's time to get back at Kira."

Death Note

How to Use It

The note will not take effect unless the writer

has the person's face in their mind when writing

his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the

same name will not be affected.

"Mikami Teru, you have been granted your Death Note. Now you are a true shinigami. You may choose to change your name if you like."

Mikami paused. "My name is Kira."

The Shinigami king laughed. "There is already one other named Kira."

"Can't Shinigami share the same name?"

"Not unless one of them is dead."

Mikami paused. "Then until the other is dead my name remains Mikami."

He walked out. "Yagami Light. You are not god. Why did I spend my life fawning over you like that? You cheated me!"

Watari felt his eyes getting heavy. He placed a cloth over Nate's body. "Lester." He spoke into the phone. "L is dead."

On the other end Lester paused. "There's no point in going back to the orphanage is there?"

"What do you mean?"

"No one can stop Kira now that he is a death god."

"That doesn't mean that there aren't any crimes that we still have to solve."

"Very well. Go back to the orphanage if you must."

"Lester."

"Yes?"

"None of the children have shown any signs of living up to the title of L."

"None of them?"

"They don't seem to have the deductive reasoning skills that the formers have shown."

"Maybe they just don't show it."

"Maybe…I don't know."

"We'll hold Near's funeral in a few days while you go back to the orphanage."

"Very well then."

Watari hung up. "There's no one else left?" said Aizawa. Watari sighed. "No, and there won't be anyone who can stop Kira either."

Aizawa sighed. "If only there was another way."

"There isn't. How can anyone kill a shinigami?"

"I suppose there is no other way then. We will all have to follow Kira."

Watari nodded. "The new L will probably end up being a servant of Kira."

"What do you mean?"

"He finds the criminals while Kira disposes of them."

"Will you bother choosing a new L then?"

"Yes. As a follower of Kira at least I won't die."

Author's Note: Yeah I can see that nothing's been happening so far. It's probably because I'm still a little slow on the coming up with a plot part. I had no idea I was going to introduce another L until I wrote that bit. Hopefully this guy won't be a clone of Near or the first L (whose name, I think, is L Lawliet).