Chapter 2:

A new book, and half a pack of cigarettes.

Steven was sitting at his desk at home now, writing like mad into the death note. He had already seen that it worked, and now he wanted to keep killing. He wanted to do something good, something amazing with his life, and he knew what it was.

Three years back, the Japanese police had confirmed the savior Kira dead. They didn’t give his identity out to the public however, which led to several rallies, petitions, and even a riot. Luckily, as time went on, the craziness stopped, and people began to remember less and less about the whole incident.

That’s where he came in. He would replace Kira, and continue his work. To build a new world where only the pure would live and the rest would die. He could do this, no, he would do this.

A few hours earlier, he had been standing out front of the movie theater, waiting for his dad to come pick him up. When he had picked up the Death Note, he had begun to watch people around him, looking for a good first target.

To his dismay, he didn’t find any thieves, rapists, or murderers that were in clear sight, so he had to make due with what he could find. He saw a woman yelling at a man, who was standing next to another young woman. Apparently he was cheating on the loud one, with the young one.

Steven had looked around quickly, and borrowed a pen from a nearby woman, who had one with her. He listened the the… ‘conversation’ from a safe distance.

“God-damn you, Jack!” The woman yelled. This was good, all he needed now was the last name, and he could test the note, “How could you go out with this girl!? Am I not good enough for you or something?! You prick!”

“This is just a misunderstanding… She’s just someone who is under me at work. She’s just a friend who invited me out, right Lisa?” He asked the young woman, getting desperate.

She decided to help him out, though it wouldn’t help for very long, “That’s right, I-I just asked Mr. Gilder if he wanted to see a movie with me, just as friends!”

“Do you think I’m stupid?! You two were making out as the movie ended!” She yelled back, but Steven had already stopped listening. He was writing down the name on the first page in the death note.

He finished, “Okay then, forty seconds….” He said, starting to count in his head. He watched on, the man trying to convince the woman that he wasn’t cheating, though it was obviously failing.

He was still counting, 35, 36, 37, 38… He counted, and watched on at forty. The man’s eyes bulged, and he clutched his chest. He was having a severe heart attack, people rushed over to him, and even the yelling woman began to panic. Steven simply dropped the pen, and hid the book under his shirt.

He began to walk back to the parking lot to wait, when he looked back just once more. The man was dead, and there was no doubt that an ambulance would arrive soon, though it would be useless. He had already shown himself that the book worked, now he just needed to know what to do with it.

This brings us back to Steven’s room a few hours later. He had decided what to do with the note already, and no one would get in his way…

Outside of his window, Ryuk watched the teen with growing intrigue, knowing now that this one may be just as entertaining as Light ever was…. Or maybe he’d be caught by the police, he never knew the real outcome of these things.

Three years earlier, a young woman in Japan had been kidnapped by a man known as Mello in an attempt to take the Death Note for his own purposes. She had been released back to her family completely safe, but in a state of shock. She stopped talking to people, including her own family. Before her father died, they had moved out into the countryside, away from the dangers of the city.

After her father died, she became even more of a recluse then she already was. Her father had been chief of police, and he had been working on the Kira case, even when the world began to criminalize those who stood against him. Her brother had continued to work on the case as well, even after her father had died.

That was before she had heard the news after Kira had been killed…

The Japanese police kept few secrets from Sayu, and her mother after that. They had told them both the truth of Kira’s identity, both Sayu and her mother didn’t want to believe it. The only thing they weren’t told was everything about the Death Note’s and the Shinigami.

Several days after that, she began to accept Kira being her brother, and even began to want to continue his dream. Though, she didn’t know how she could do that, as she didn’t know how her brother even did it!

Though she attended her brother’s funeral, knowing the truth, and promising to him that she would someday, somehow continue Kira’s goal of a perfect world. She began to speak again and even moved back into the city.

One year after her brothers death, her mother had begun to slip into depression, and soon afterwards, hanged herself.

After learning of this, Sayu began to go into depression herself. She began smoking, a habit she soon found to be near-impossible to break, and sometimes considered suicide herself. Though every time she would consider suicide, she would think of her brother, whose word as Kira all depended on her to find a way to continue his dream.

Now it’s the present, and she was finally going to get a chance to show her brother the good she could do.

As she was walking home in the rain one night, she heard something hit the ground a few feet in front of her. She ran to whatever it was, and picked it up. She looked at it for a moment, “A… Book?” She said, looking at it, reading the front cover, “Death Note?” She said, unsure of what she was really holding….

Well, thanks for the kind reviews people! Tell me what you think! Chap 3 coming… Eventually!