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Chapter 3

"There you are, Jade! It's about time!"

Yuki was sitting at the table, reading a book. His silver glasses were shining in the light he had set up for reading.

"Sorry…Yuki…I got…held up…" Jade gasped, panting. She had run all the way home, the Death Note tucked away in her lime-green bag.

"What, did you run a marathon?"

"No, I…" She paused, not knowing what to say next. Yuki eyed her suspiciously.

"You what?"

"I guess I can tell you…you see, I was walking home, and a creepy man with a knife jumped out at me. He told me he loved me…and that he was going to kill me…"

"W...what? Did you call the police?!" Yuki was panicking, his eyes wide.

"Yuki! Calm Down! It's no big deal…you see, right when he was about to stab me…he fell over, dead…he had a heart attack. Then I found," she pulled out the Death Note, "This black notebook. It just appeared by his head…"

"I…I guess there is nothing to worry about since he died, but…it just seems so eerie…the guy just dropping dead like that…and then the notebook…" he looked at her fondly, "you sure you're okay?" He placed his hand on her shoulder reassuringly.

"Yeah…I guess. Well, I'm gonna go do my homework." She grabbed her dinner plate off the table and hurried upstairs to her room.

Alright…Death Note? What could it be…

Jade set the black notebook on her desk and sat down. She flipped the odd-textured pages open, and saw a section titled, 'How to Use'. She gasped as she read on, her eyes flying across the page.

1.The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

2. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.

3. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject's name, it will happen.

4. If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.

5. After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

She quickly shut the book, crushing her purple lollipop as she thought.

This has to be some kind of sick joke…yeah, it has to be fake. But how did it just appear like that?

She shook her head in attempt to forget about it, and opened her drawer to put it away, when a cool voice said, "Done already?"

She screamed and almost fell out of her chair; the voice wasn't familiar. She looked behind her and saw a large, white skeletal demon staring at her, emotionless. It resembled a female; it was wearing golden hoop earrings and had female characteristics. It's hair was white but purple at the tips, and a yellow eye stared down at her, the other concealed by a bandage.

"W…who…what are you?"

"My name is Rem. I am a Shinigami."
"Shinigami? That's…God of Death…"

"It is, yes. Why am I here?" she pointed a bony finger at the drawer, "because of that notebook. The second you touched it, it became yours. And since I was the previous owner, I must follow you until you die."

"You used to own it?" Jade was beginning to calm down, she seemed to mean no harm.

"Well, for a little while I did. Before me, it was owned by another Shinigami, Jealous. He was in love with you, and watched you every day. Shinigami cannot die unless they do one thing."

"What's that?"

"I see you didn't really read the rules. Shinigami kill humans to gain life, no other reason. If a Shinigami kills a human to protect another human, they give their life and all the years they accumulated. Unfortunately for you, Jealous had never used his notebook before he killed your stalker."
So that was Jealous…

"Before he killed the man," she continued, "he asked me to watch over you if anything were to happen to him. So instead of sitting in front of the crystal, I gave you the notebook and I will follow you, protecting you."

"That's…Jealous must have been very kind."

"He was very nice, unlike most Shinigami. The others are cruel and lazy; all they do is gamble and sleep. The Shinigami realm is a very bleak place…it is slowly rotting."

"As is this world…" Jade muttered.

xDNx

"She did WHAT?" roared the Shinigami king.

"I didn't see it…Ryuk told me!" The smaller Shinigami cowered in fear of the angry king.

"I can't believe Rem would do something so rash…but I trust her. Hopefully she has a good reason for going to the human world.

"Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk"

"What do you want, Ryuk?" asked the king, annoyed.