《REINCARNATED AS A SHINNIGAMI 𓊆ྀི Death Note fan-fiction 𓊇ྀི》


 DEATH - 1

    ¡°Damn you Eva!¡± I gritted out with my remaining strength, I knew it then- I was really going to die.


    And it was all her fault, even though I hadn¡¯t actually seen it with my eyes. Deep in my gut, the feeling she was gonna write my name in the death-note was lingering for weeks. She had been acting weird lately.It¡¯s hard to explain, and right now I don¡¯t have the time!


    Despite my last efforts being to air my spite about her, my body automatically twitched and writhed on the floor. A growing pool of blood surrounded me but I had no idea where the blood was coming from. I didn¡¯t feel painful anymore, my body felt numb. I could only feel the beating of my heart, dreading the moment I heard the last. If I was conscious enough to even process that, that is!


    Something that didn¡¯t take any effort, however, was moving my eyes. I glanced up at the staircase that I had fallen from. There were small blood marks on the occasional stair, proof of my trip down.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    I can picture it now: ¡®Lucy Penrose will die by tripping down the stairs at 1:30 pm today.¡¯ That¡¯s how it would be written.


    Dying so brutally at school¡­ it would definitely be a PR problem. Do schools have PR teams? See! I¡¯m just a kid and I have a lot to learn. This is just too brutal. There has to be some sort of justice?


    I picked up on a small gasp nearby, then heard a following scream.


    ¡°SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE!¡± The feminine voice shouted, quivering. I couldn¡¯t turn my head to see. It was probably a teacher.


    It was way too late for me, but I appreciated the concern anyway.


    What I was thinking about now was the fact that in the death-note there was a rule that stated whoever used it went to neither heaven nor hell. I don¡¯t know if it was true, or simply a shinnigami playing a trick, but I couldn¡¯t afford to dissect the implications. And yes, that means I did use the death-note myself. But not out of malicious intent! Not like Eva had done! That backstabber. If that rule is fake, and new lives exist, I will come back and haunt her.


    I suddenly felt sleepy, but I knew I wasn¡¯t going to sleep (at-least not in the conventional way). Oh well, this is it. I had lost all sense in my limp body, as I mentioned before, so there was no pain.


    At-least¡­


    At-least I have that.


    But soon I discovered, that even in death I couldn¡¯t rest.

 REBIRTH (I BEAT A SHINNIGAMI) - 2

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    My eyes opened and the world around me was a dull ashy grey. Even the sky, which had a strange light behind the ¡®clouds¡¯.


    It was a barren desert scenery, with small caves for sand dunes and bones for tumbleweeds. A lot of chains, for some reason. I was out in the open, near no structure, noting all this in my slowly waking mind.


    I had no idea how much time had passed. Just the same as when you are born you don¡¯t recall all the millennia before you, it had been the same after I died and awoke again. This was unlike a nothingness, like the rules had promised- and unlike a heaven or hell, with no God in sight to judge me.


    Last I remember, I had died- struggling to even speak. But now, a feeling of restlessness rose within me.


    I was sitting when I opened my eyes, and I moved to stand up. I was tall. So tall. Much more than my memory recalls. I glanced down at myself to see spindly, bony black legs holding me up.


    My eyes widened.


    Without thinking, I reached down an arm to touch it, only to see that my arm was a similar design.


    I screamed. My voice was different. I screamed louder.


    ¡°Shut up!¡± A raspy voice came from behind me. My head snapped over in the direction of the voice and I went silent.


    A group of 3 demons sitting in a circle were looking at me (or at-least, what appeared to be demons).


    ¡­


    So I AM in hell after all!


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    ¡°You¡¯re being so noisy¡­¡± A smaller one, that looked almost like a blob muttered.


    ¡°Can¡¯t a shinnigami play some cards in peace?¡± A tall one with ahunched back added. It was then I noticed they had some sort of game going on.


    But that was the least of my concerns. Did he just say SHINNIGAMI?


    ¡°Shinnigami?¡± If a jaw was present on my current anatomy, it was definitely dropped. Some of them let out cackles of laughter at, assumedly, what I said.


    Shinnigami. As in, ¡®Shinnigami That Brings Death-notes To Earth And Brought One To Me And Led To Traumatic Events And My Eventual Death Due To The Betrayal Of My Friend Eva¡¯. No¡­ this can¡¯t be possible. I remember the shinnigami (whose name she told me was Kor) from back then, and now that I was really looking- everybody here held similar appearance characteristics.


    Suddenly a memory hit me. Me and Kor¡¯s conversation about where she came from. A place which was simply called ¡®The shinnigami realm¡¯. I glanced around like it would change my conclusion, but I¡¯m pretty sure that aforementioned location is where I am right now.


    This can¡¯t be happening. After all I¡¯ve been put through, there¡¯s still MORE?!? CAN¡¯T I REST??


    While I was having my dramatic inner monologue one of them tried to speak. Couldn¡¯t they tell I was having an important self reflection moment?


    As the absurdity of the situation calmed; all the anger, betrayal, and hatred that collected from what happened in my past life (which very recently used to be called ¡®my current life¡¯) bubbled up inside of me. Without even realising it, I lunged forward in a fit of anger, tackling the blob-like shinnigami and throwing punches left and right. It was easy to overpower them and I realised how much stronger I was. The other two shinnigamis were stunned and watched me, frozen.


    The shinnigami seemed to not do anything in response, so then I grabbed the death-note next to it and got up and started running. It was then I realised I had a murder notebook of my own, attached to a case on my hip (it kept making a sound as I ran). Kor had said that to go to the human world (literally just Earth) shinnigamis needed two death-notes.


    Well I¡¯ve got two. But how do I go to Earth? I had no idea and I was NOT going back to ask.


    I saw a cave a short distance away, not at all distinct from any other cave in this landscape- making it a perfect place to hide. I stumbled into the entrance and was immediately blinded by an ethereal light, I had to squint to keep my eyes open at all. A vortex of some sort seemed to fill the cavern. For a moment, I thought it was beautiful. Then I remembered where I was, and in lieu of a sense of beauty I felt curiosity.


    It may have been dangerous, but oh well. Why should I care? I have nothing anymore. I threw caution to the wind again.


    Cheers to my new life.


    I stepped forward into the light.