--The story has already taken a turn from the original plot already, and it's only the second chapter ..;; It has a mind of its own I swear.
Anywhos, enjoy the second chapter. xD --
The Note
Chapter Two
"The human whose name is written in this note will die?" Jounouchi asked.
Yugi nodded.
"What kind of mook would believe that!" the blonde laughed.
"That's some sick joke," Tea said with a a shiver.
The weekend had gone by uneventfully. Yugi spent half the weekend helping him grandpa in the game shop, and the other half with the Death Note. He must have read over the instructions about a hundred times... It seemed pretty detailed for being 'some sick joke'. Then again... maybe that was the point.
After school, Yugi now sat with the Death Note open on his desk. Jounouchi, Honda, and Tea stood around him.
"You should write someone's name in it!"
"Jou!" Tea gasped, "We don't want to kill anyone!"
"Come on, Tea, stop over reacting," said Honda, "It's just a notebook."
"Yeah!" Jounouchi agreed, "Come on, Yug'!"
"I don't know..." Yugi said looking up at his friends.
"Hey there's Bakura, maybe he'd he'll know about it!"
Ryou Bakura was walking by the classroom when Honda waved over to him. He stopped and blinked curiously at them, it wasn't often he was actually invited to join their little group. He shuffled over to Yugi's desk.
"Hello all," he smiled, "What have we got here?"
"A Death Note," said Yugi, flipping it closed so Ryou could see the front cover.
"Death... Note?" the white haired teen asked.
"A notebook that can kill!" Jounouchi explained, "We figured you would know about it since you're into all that creepy occult shit."
"I've never heard of such a thing."
"See! That proves that it's not real," said Jounouchi, ignoring the look Ryou was giving him, "Let's write Kaiba's name in it!"
"What? how does that prove anything you idiot," Honda laughed, smacking the back of Jounouchi's head.
"Hey!" the blonde fumed, "Why I oughta!"
Yugi and Tea laughed as the two bickered, meanwhile Ryou's eyes were glued to the Death Note. He felt the same stirring in the back of his mind that Yugi had felt upon first laying eyes on the note... this stirring, however, was not a good thing.
"Can I... see the the Death Note," he found himself asking.
"Sure thing," Yugi handed the note to Ryou, "Anyone else want to see it?"
"Hell no!" Jounouchi exclaimed, jumping behind Honda, "Keep that thing away from me!"
"Two seconds ago you were egging Yugi to write a name in it," said Honda.
"It's still creepy looking!"
Ryou looked it over. Just a regular notebook... figures. Something in the furthest depths of his mind was greatly disappointed... But still...
"You should write a name in it."
"That's the spirit!" Jounouchi cheered, "Come on Yug', just for kicks and giggles."
Ryou handed the Death Note back to Yugi.
"Well..." Yugi mulled it over for a second, it was just a notebook, it couldn't hurt, "Alright, just for fun, who should we write down?"
"Kaiba!" grinned Jounouchi, "That bastard has it coming!"
"I think we should write Jou's name down," Honda said, "Then maybe we'd get some peace and quiet."
"Why you!" Jounouchi growled, grabbing the collar of Honda's shirt. Honda just laughed at him.
Yugi gripped his pencil in his hand and opened the Death Note to a random page. He took a deep breath and scribbled down two words:
Seto Kaiba.
The five of them stared at the note in silence for almost two minutes.
"... That's it?" Jounouchi finally asked.
"Idiot, it's just a notebook," Honda sighed, "What did you expect?"
"I donno," the blonde shrugged, "I almost thought something should have happened. How anticlimactic."
"Well, I've got to get going," Ryou said turning from the group and heading out of the classroom.
"Alright man, catch you later!"
"Yeah... later."
In the hallway Ryou's eyes narrowed and his features hardened.
"Ignorant fools," he spat, "What a waste of time."
--(--)--
"Grandpa, I'm home!" the short duelist announced as he stepped through the door of the game shop. He looked around and saw that Grandpa Motou was no where to be seen.
"Grandpa?" Yugi called again, heading to the back of the shop. There he saw his grandfather leaning against a counter watching a small television. A news program was on.
"Ah, my boy, come here," Grandpa Motou said, gesturing him over to the television. Yugi moved closer, the elder turned up the volume.
"This is Andrew Yani from Channel One news coming to you live from just outside Kaiba Crop.," said the newscaster, behind him was many other anchors and camera men from what seemed to be every news center in the world, "We have just received word that earlier today president of the company, Seto Kaiba, collapsed during a business meeting."
The bottom of Yugi's stomach dropped.
"Details of the incident have yet to be revealed," the camera moved to show that there were already several ambulances on the scene, "We will be here until--"
There was suddenly a commotion behind Andrew Yani. Kaiba Corp doors opened and the telecasters went wild, snapping photos and spewing out questions. Several large body guards held the masses back something came out of the building. The Channel One news camera zoomed in to see a very shaky picture of several medical technicians wheeling Seto Kaiba out on a gurney, the CEO wasn't moving at all. His younger brother followed closely, and even from the distance of the camera one could see the tears streaming down his face.
"We've just had an update," the camera zoomed back to Andrew Yani, who was listening to speaker in his ear, "Yes, it seems at 3:42 this afternoon Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corp., collapsed from a heart attack."
Yugi's mouth went instantly dry.
"It has been confirmed," Andrew Yani continued, "Seto Kaiba is dead."