Death Note - Redux (closed)

[Light Yagami]

Light Yagami was watching his teacher ramble on in English, but he couldn't focus. Not on that, anyway. He lived his life like he was just going through the motions; he didn't understand why the people around him all acted like the world was okay. This world is rotten... he thought to himself I know I can't be the only one who feels this way, why doesn't anyone do anything to fix things? Whether or not he realized it, many did feel that way, and that some of them would help him achieve the change he so desired.


Suddenly, a blur of black caught his sight, as it fell to the earth from what seemed to be thin air. Light archived the thought, and decided to investigate after class.


When he did, he noticed that there was writing on it, in English. Death Note was written on the cover


Shi no mojidōri, nōtobukku* Light thought to himself


((*Literally, a notebook of death))

 

[Cecy]

Misa felt tired. Her feet hurt but she couldn't complain. As she was finishing the photoshoot, she would take breaks in order to smile and wave energetically at the people that past by her, and even walked towards a group to greet a little girl who had her poster. It was so strange to see her image on magazines, tv, billboards on the street.


"Misa, can we please keep going?" Someone asked her "Sure!" She replied, with a large genuine smile, in her usually chirpy voice

 

[Light Yagami]

Later that day


Light sat at the desk in his room, I must be crazy.... he thought, to even consider that this notebook has some supernatural power... as if. However, he couldn't help but believe that what the notebook said was true. Even further... he couldn't help but feel tempted to test the death note. He had sat there for hours, doing his homework... coming close to caving, then drifting away, only to begin the cycle again.


On the news, which was playing on the television in his room, gave a report of a man who was holding a group of preschoolers hostage, "We show you now, live images from where the dangerous criminal, Oto Harada Kurō, is holding preschoolers hostage at gunpoint. The police are waiting to hear his demands..." the reporter said, while the television flashed an image of the perpetrator. I wonder... Light thought to himself, would anyone really say that killing him would be 'bad'?" Light pulled out the death note and a pen. He wrote the name 音原田 九郎, and waited...

 

[Cecy]

"And, we're done" Misa heard, and she sighed in relief, pcking her things to go home.


As she walked down the street, she heard many sirens beeping like crazy, heading opposite from the direction that Misa wqas taking "Strange...", she thought "What could be happening?" She stopped her movements and asked a woman passing by what was wrong, and she told her the horrific story of the man that was currently threatning litle children's lives. "Oh, no!" Misa commented, feeling the shock, as she covered her mouth with her hands. What kind of monster could do it? Some cruel, heartless man, like the one who murdered her parents?


The thought cause chills to run down her spine, and Misa's entire body shivered, as she shook her head to also shake off the memories of seeing her mother and father being killed, right in front of her eyes "No, Misa", sha told herself, rocking her body back and forth softly.


And then everyone around her began to scream. They shouted words about a miracle. Misa looked at the woman and both shrugged, as they began running to the closest store that owned a tv

 

[Light Yagami]

"It seems the children are leaving the daycare, what happened inside? They're saying that the man who was holding them hostage fell down, did the police shoot him?" Light watched with a mixture of amazement and fear, as it was announced that the man had died... just as the Death Note had said he would. Light tuned out the television, Did I just kill a man?! he asked himself in thought, disgusted with himself, for caving into the curiosity he felt.


He thought for a moment, Even if I DID kill a man... I made it so that parents will see their children again... they'll live on, while that man died... isn't that a fair and just price? Even if it wasn't, Light convinced himself it was... he wouldn't have been able to live with the guilt otherwise.


I'll have to test it again... just to be sure... He thought to himself as he clicked off the light in his room, and covered himself in a blanket, trying to forget the events of that day... and the blood now on his hands

 

[Cecy]

It just feels so strange that I find it okay, Misa thought, as she reached her apartment, stopping for a couple seconds to look for her keys inside her bag. She had just returned from the shop, where she was told that the man that was holding the kids hostage simply collapsed on the floor, with a hand on his chest. Heart attack, the shop owner suggested, as they watched the children walk out of the building, running into the arms of a dozen mothers and fathers, and some of them even had older siblings waiting.


If something like this had happen that night... My Ryōshin would be on the other side of the door, waiting for me to get home.





Misa shrugged that feeling. It was the second time that hour, that she remembered. How could I forget? She thought, as she closed the door behind her, taking off her boots and placing them on the hallway "At least those parents didn't lose a child today" She added to herself, and couldn't help but smile at the thought. Karma does really exist, somehow.

 

[Light Yagami]

The next day, Light considered who he should test the Death Note on. The obvious fact was that it couldn't be on anyone innocent of crime or injustice, but also no one of high profile either, They could easily cover up the death of anyone high profile... It also can't be anyone that I know, personally... Light thought, after briefly considering a bully he knew as a candidate, not that anyone would miss someone like that.


After school, he went to a nearby liquor store, and saw a lady being harassed by a biker, who called himself Takuo Shibuimaru, or Shibutaku (Cool Taku) from inside the Liquor store, Light watched as Takuo sealed his fate, by attempting to rape the woman, right in front of the store. He hid the Death Note behind a magazine, and wrote every possible combination of characters that could form Takuo Shibuimaru, and the word accident next to it. Forty seconds later, the girl escaped from Takuo, and ran across the street. The man revved up his motorcycle, and attempted to chase her, only to be hit by a truck.


Light didn't stay to watch what happened next, he immediately began running, to where, he wasn't paying attention. All he could hear in his head was his conscience screaming at him, "YOU KILLED TWO PEOPLE!" Light didn't know what to do... his conscience was right, he couldn't deny it. All he knew was that he was just as bad as Takuo....


He didn't know what would come to pass... he didn't know the sins he would commit... he didn't know...