Disclaimer: I don't own anything that's in this story besides my OC's. Therefore I don't own Death Note and it's plot. So no suing here~!! ^_^

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'Death Note: How to Use it I'

Oh? Yuki began skimming over the English words, taking it in.

'•The Human whose name is written in this note shall die.'

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'Huh...what an interesting notebook', Yuki thought with an amused smirk. It reminded her of when she used to be obsessed with the supernatural in middle school. She read and watched so many different stories of the paranormal and why it happened. As well as other supernatural legends and myths. It ranged from mythological gods, places, creatures, as well as the paranormal. For some odd reason however, she always felt a pull towards creatures signifying death. It stirred something within her that she could never explain, and that's what made Yuki so interested it when she was a young child. The notions are childish now, such naïveté and happiness is far from her mind.

But, a part of her wondered as keen purple eyes looked over all the writing, this book was unique. Something different. In fact, a familiar feeling in her gut stirred. Or perhaps it was the slight adrenaline going through her veins at finding something so exciting, she doesn't know as well as doesn't care enough to dwell on it.

Her mind processed all the information within the mysterious 'Death Note' slowly, reading all the detailed rules of the notebook, engraving it into her memory. Remembering all the most interesting rules, rules that perhaps have loopholes within them. Like every rule. She then thought to herself that she can just take the notebook home and look it over there, but...

'I'm lazy.'

The notebook would be extra weight in Yuki's book bag, and it's enough as it is. She can just carry it in her hand, but as she said, she's lazy. It has been one of the deadly sins she's been carrying lately, being a sloth. One can also say that she has a reputation to upkeep, wandering eyes would wonder on why the natural genius Yuki would be carrying such an odd book around with her and begin bombarding the mocha wavy haired girl with questions.

So what did she do?

Yuki ripped the last page of the notebook cleanly. She read over the rules once more, making sure she can remember all of them. As well as taking a few pics of the rules on her phone, that was given to her for free by the government. And then she put the notebook back down, and walked away with the now small crowd of students. With the page folded neatly inside the pocket of her skirt. And chocolate orbs following her retreating form curiously as she went.

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Yuki was irritated.

The result of her irritation is because despite getting released early from class, it seems she took too long with reading the interesting 'Death Note'. For she missed the bus, and now she's stuck walking to her apartment. Her apartment is about three blocks away from Gamou Prep Academy, unlike her own high school Daikoku Private Academy. The streets were busy as she walked, her average stature of five foot and five inches weaving between other blabbering students and adults alike as Yuki tried to hold back her irritation at the whole situation she found herself in due to her morbid curiosity and fascination over a black notebook that fell from the sky.

Although, she patted her pocket-checking if the folded paper was there, Yuki smirked. It doesn't seem too bad, she is still annoyed at the prospect of walking. She does enough exercise back at her school during the physical education classes.

Yuki suddenly stopped as she saw the sign of the railroad crossing lights blink and crossing bell sounds coming out of it. The orange and white gates came down, stopping anybody from crossing the tracks. Unless of course, they simply want to get run over by a train. Which she's sure no one is planning on doing, the crowd seeming like a regular bunch waiting behind the safety bars as they talked amongst whether about this or that and honestly Yuki can care less. She just wants to go home and go through these rules in her head and the few she took on her phone about the notebook.

But Yuki is stuck here, waiting for this train to just come and cross already so she can just leave. Her uninterested and annoyed gaze flitted across the other awaiting people in front of her. Her eyes then came across with a plain black book bag, a notebook inside. Yuki stared.

It was the Death Note. Someone picked it from school grounds. Someone actually picked it up? What kind of degree of idiocy you have to have to pick that up and just have it out like that in your bag for someone to see? If a person would say that Yuki called herself an idiot, Yuki would pointedly ignore them and give them a rather rude gesture.

Her amethyst eyes then stared up and down at the form, quickly realizing that neat mass of brown hair anywhere. Fine brows rose.

'Yagami Light? Well, well, well...'

Yuki's lips quirked upwards in amusement. Her eyes filled with interest as she stared at the school's ace. He was calmly waiting for the train to pass as well, one hand clutching the bag over his shoulder, the other in his pocket. The ever so perfect golden boy, with always ironed clean clothes and kept brushed hair with no strand out of place that made every girl swoon and boy look on in a mix of envy and appraisal. The one who everyone talks about and never spoke ill of, at least to her knowledge and his face that is. With a father that is the chief of police of the National Police Agency in Tokyo, Japan, a man that is deemed righteous and kind by others along with a regular old housewife at home with a daughter ever so naive.

Who knew that such a 'perfect' well-mannered and educated student from such a privileged family will pick up such a thing? She didn't.

And this is what interested the always bored and lazy Yuki.

No matter if he was looking at the world with boredom, or was it simply the only thing that has caught his interest these past few months? Has his life flashed before his eyes, thinking how what people found trivial was never actually trivial in the first place? Did he realize in that flash when he decided to pick up that notebook, that his life so far hasn't amounted to much besides being a golden boy of a high school with a perfect little family? Did he see, did he understand, did he know or just had that wanting of knowing of what it would feel like if he did something different for once? If that was true, then that means he was caught in the same entrapping web as her. And simply wants to escape.

The thing is, so did she.

Yuki went passed the throng of people between her and her destination, succeeding, she tapped Light's shoulder. He jumped slightly and looked down, to see Yuki with a calm smile, bordering a mischievous one because of Light's surprise at someone touching him. He adjusted his school bag on his shoulder.

"Oh, Hiramaya-chan, I didn't know it was you."

'Well, I imagine I'm not 'that' hard to miss. Though to be fair, the train is rather loud."

She let out an amused chuckle. It made Light hone in the sound, gaze attentive.

"Sorry that I scared you Yagami-kun, just thought to say hello after seeing you going in the same route as me."

He hummed, but then he seem to remember something, for his brows suddenly furrowed.

"Weren't you supposed to take the bus? Don't tell me you missed it in your ill state."

Oh yeah.

She's sick.

Oh well.

"The bus left before I even got there, but thankfully I feel better."

"Ah, it seems today is your unlucky day Hirayama-chan. But, if you would allow me to, I can escort you to your house."

His tone was teasing when he spoke about her supposed 'unlucky day', but he was polite and gentlemanly enough to offer. Of course, Yuki can see it's only mock concern, and he must show that he is indeed a gentleman. He has a reputation he must uphold, always perfect. Must be perfect, everyone tells him he's perfect so one must make sure they stay so. Yuki felt something around her chest, and it caused her to frown.

It felt something along the lines of pity. She shook the thought away, quirking her lips back up again.

It really doesn't matter though, her apartment is just a few more blocks away, she can handle herself.

Yuki let out a slight laugh at his earlier statement, short and sweet.

"It seems so, but you don't have to trouble yourself Yagami-kun, my apartment is only a few blocks away. Not very far from your own house I think actually." Light looked thoughtful, then smiled. It looked real.

"Why don't you walk with me till I reach my house then? It shouldn't be any trouble and it's not good to be by yourself these days."

Yuki looked at him then, as the train still whooshed past them. The crowd around them all smiles, a father and son talking and teasing, a girl on the phone speaking about the latest gossip and an old lady that just looked like she was pondering on whether to just cross over the blockade and die right there with no need to wait. The sun was a beautiful orange, making the world look so pretty when it's always been so dark. And the golden boy is still smiling, and trying his best to hide his bag from her inspecting gaze.

Yuki gave him a small smile, lines in her twinkling dark purple eyes as they crinkled in protest.

"Sure. But only if you tell me what you're trying so hard to hide Ya~ga~mi~kun~." He jolted in surprise,  pretty amber eyes widening as they looked down at her amused ones. She knew she was blunt, but she was too lazy to care. She hates dancing around subjects, waiting for chess pieces to move on the board, and puppets to follow the commands of the strings attached to their bodies. Yuki does that enough at school, at the station, at her psychiatrist's office. For once, she didn't want to dance or be patient or string along, she wanted a straightforward attack with guns blazing and alarms going for Yuki hates waiting.

"I-", Light started then sighed, giving Yuki a defeated smile. "You saw? Man that's embarrassing. I was hoping no one saw me pick it up in the courtyard." He sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, bringing out said object in his other hand, with its mysterious font on the cover that just seemed to pull Yuki.

Yuki blinked, willing to put the mask back on for a little bit. Yuki tentatively touched it as Light looked down at her.

"Huh...it's weird. But it's cool! Does it say anything? Pretty cool cover, has to say something inside yeah?" Yuki turned her eyes up at him, only to see Light appearing thoughtful as well as relieved, shoulders relaxing.

"I never thought you'd seem the type to be interested in such things Hirayama-chan. It's pretty...surprising."

Yuki shrugged and gave a little giggle, replying to him that not many know this of her so he shouldn't tell as she shook her finger at him teasingly. Light's eyes looked amused, less tight, less dead as he answered back to the short girl that he is honored to find out more about the mysterious Hirayama. Yuki wanted to laugh at the words right then and there, but she held back. Honored? Golden boy must be joking, has to be lying. But yet he wasn't, and perhaps that's what surprised Yuki the most.

Light then opened a page and leaned more over her to show it, much to her pleasure.

"It's probably an elaborate prank. Just look at the rules: '•The Human whose name is written in this note shall die. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.' It even goes more into detail about how long it takes for a person to die as well as other nonsense like Gods of Death now that I'm reading more." At Yuki's silent question of holding out her hands, he placed the notebook onto her palms. Yuki once again that day flipped and scanned through the rules as Light silently observed after a few minutes of him defending himself that he knew picking it up was illogical but he was bored.

She can care less on the reasons on why he picked it up, Yuki cares more that he actually picked it up in the first place. Was he that bored? Yuki's flicked up to him, their eyes meeting for a millisecond before Light looked away at being caught examining her, causing her lips to curl upwards secretly.

She handed back the notebook once she was able to put certain rules in the back of her mind to remember.

The gates finally came up, the train passing successfully and they started walking together to their homes. As they walked, the sun setting ever so close amongst the horizon–Yuki turned to Light once more, hair ever so bright under the sunlight.

"Are you going to test it out once you get home?" Light turned towards her, surprise evident in his face. "What? Why would you pick it up if you didn't want to try it?"

Light frowned then, looking up at the sky.

"I shouldn't." Yuki rose a brow, wondering if the perfect boy was scared of his reputation that much. At her look, Light corrected himself. "Not today. I don't feel like playing around with such a stupid thing today, I got work to do." Yuki gave a noise of acknowledgement at his answer, glad that he actually gave one to her.

"Okay then. Let's hope that it doesn't actually work."

Light tilted his head, wondering what the girl beside him with the medium length mocha color hair and unique eyes meant. Yuki tried to withhold a smirk at the boy's seemingly innocent personality, knowing there's more to him then that possible farce, but only gave a small disarming smile.

"Why, if it works Yagami-kun, you'd be labeled a murderer." Her eyes were half lidded then, still with a smile that felt sinister on her face. "And no one likes a murderer."

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Going a different route with this chapter from my original plans for it.

To be clear once more, Yuki and Light are classmates both in their regular high school as well as their cram school. They are one would call friendly acquaintances, perhaps working a few class projects together and other assignments so their genius wouldn't be used by others much.

Yuki is smart, calculative, manipulating, insincere and dark but also lazy and arrogant. A natural genius, able to study a little and still pass without doing every homework or classwork. It took hard work as a young child and middle schooler to reach it however, but make no mistake, she's smart but filled with many flaws.

No, Light and the others aren't aware of Yuki's criminal streak. Due to her condition, the station and government do their best to make her crimes as quiet as possible.

Hope to release the next chapter soon.