Chapter Two

One O'Clock in the morning and I can't seem to sleep. All I can think about is that notebook! So I sat up, walked to my desk and got the notebook out of my bag. After opening the cover, I noticed writing on the inside cover.

"Death Note, How to use it." I became curious and read on.

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

My heartrate increased. All I could think was

"Who the hell owned this before me anyway?"

I then thought of what would happen if I wrote the names of all those assholes from school. I mean, it's not gonna work anyway.

But what if it does?

I thought about what had happened earlier at school on friday and shook with uncontrollable rage. I picked up the pen, paused, and wrote down the name of my tormentor.

"Michi Hajime"

I looked at the page and smirked.

"Sweet dreams Hajime; You better hope this book's a hoax!"

I closed the note book and placed it inside the desk drawer.

"I better get some sleep"

I slothed over to my bed and got comfortable. I wondered if the note book really worked. I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep and what felt like a second later, my alarm went off.

"Half ten already? Maybe I'll stay in bed today..."

I activated snooze mode on the clock and layed back down and with a big sigh, closed my eyes. As soon as I'd managed to get confortable again, Karin burst into my room and shook me over and over again.

"Quick! Get up!" she shouted.

I panicked and shot out of bed with a look on my face as if I saw a ghost.

"What!?" I snapped.

Silence. She just stood there, staring at me. Then, with a slight giggle, she grinned.

"Happy Birthday"

"...huh?"

Wow, how could I forget my own birthday? I know I've been going through a lot of stress but this is a little extreme. I really needed a break.

With a sigh of relief, I looked back at her and smiled.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome" she replied, still smilling.

I looked over at my desk and suddenly felt a glommyness coming from that direction. Like a sence of evil surrounded that area. I remembered what I did the night before with that book.

"It couldn't posibly be for real. Could it?"

I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and walked downstairs. If you're wondering why I didn't get changed, I left my clothes on when I went to bed.

Karin turned round to my direction and asked,

"Where are you going so early?"

"Out"

I walked downstairs, grabbed my jacket and walked out the door.

As I walked out the garden, I felt like someone was watching me. Like something was following me. I turned down the road and a police car raced past, sirens blaring. I became curious so I decided to look where it was going and follow it.

Soon enough, I ended up at a house; it was Hajime's. There was a woman standing outside the house; I walked over to her and asked what happened.

"Poor kid had a heart attack" She replied.

My eyes widened. I turned down to the direction of my house;Looked back at the house.

I started breathing faster and faster.

She looked at me and asked

"Are you feeling ok?" she asked, watching me wierdly.

I turned round and began to ran home.

"I gotta go!" I called out.

Back home, I ran upstairs into my room, opened my drawer and got out the note book.

Slowly I opened the cover page and stared at the instructions.

I looked at the fourth rule.

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

"Oh god, It's actually real. It's really real!?"

"Of course it is." A voice whispered from behind me.

I shot round in shock. It was a monster.

"Who, What are you?"

"My name is Ryuk; I am a shinigami"

"Shinigami?"

"Yes. To make it easy for you, I'll translate. I am a Death God and that is my Death Note."

"Huh?" I looked down at the note book

"Shinigami huh? So it really is real. I suppose you're here to take it back."

"Yes and no. That is my death note and I dropped it into the human world. You picked it up, making you the new owner. I cannot take it back. Until you die. But I can't kill you, something else will. So for now I've just gotta stay here with you and wait. But now you know what the Death Note does, why not use it? You never know, it could be fun. All those bastards that caused you pain can all be taken care of just by writing their name down. But that's not all. You can even write the cause of death aswell. Doesn't that sound fun?" He smirked.

I gasped.

"Are you insane. No, I will not use it. I'm just a kid, not a killer."

He looked at me and smiled.

"Are you sure?"

"YES! Maybe. I don't know." I looked at the Death Note and thought of the good that could come from using it. Not only the people that hurt me, but all the bad people in Japan, In all the world.

He looked at me with his freaky eyes.

"You're going to use it."
"huh?"

"The way you are looking at it. You're thinking of using it."

I thought for a minute; maybe using it wouldn't be so bad after all. I looked at him and he looked at me back. He smiled and said,

"Well?"

I gripped onto the Death Note.

"I'll do it."

He leaned back in mid air and started laughing. I wondered what the hell he was doing. He leaned right forward, stared at me and grunted.

"Good choice kid, This is gonna be fun."

I sat down and sighed. This was the moment when it all started, My life with a Death Note. My life, as Kira.