The Curse of Light Yagami

Take Two - Chapter 6

"I have to return to America," Raye said when he walked out his bedroom after receiving a call from his boss at the FBI. Light nodded, he had expected that much. With the removal of the FBI support with the Kira investigation, they would want to bring back their agents to try and protect them. For what the FBI knew Kira was in Japan so if their agents weren't in Japan there would be no chance that their identities could be leaked and for them to get killed by Kira.

"Understandable, I expected so, will you return with him Naomi," Light asked looking over at the former FBI agent.

"No, I'm staying here. You asked us to assist you on the Kira Case and I will. The FBI only wants their agents back, they can't order those who came with their agents to return to America, they have no power over civilians. You need help and I'm going to help you. So, what's our next move" Naomi stated and Light smiled. She was definitely the right person for this.

"What would be helpful is if we knew more about the death note? Like the rules, if we knew them then we can figure out how to stop Kira or reduce the number of people he's killing" Raye suggested.

"So far all we know is that Mikami had a piece of the death note but it didn't affect his lifespan so he can't be Kira. Kira needs a name and face to kill. And when using the death note you must picture that person's face in your mind so people with the same names aren't affected. That's all about the death note we know about. We can theorise that because Kira has a Shinigami, if a death note falls into the human world then that Shinigami is stuck here but we can't know that for sure" Light said, it wasn't like he could question the Shinigami King the first time around since a lot had been happening that day.

Naomi opened her mouth and started talking but for some reason, Light couldn't hear anything she was saying, then his vision went black.

When his vision returned to him, Light was no longer in Naomi and Raye's apartment. He was back in the Shinigami Realm in front of the Shinigami King. Physically the King didn't look any different, but Light could just tell that this King wasn't the same one he met originally.

"What the... this should be impossible. I've changed the timeline; you shouldn't be able to drag me back here or at least know who I am" Light said. If he was living in the past, then shouldn't that mean the Shinigami King didn't know who Light was. Unless the King had been following him since the beginning of Kira's reign of terror but that wouldn't make sense because Light wasn't Kira so how could the Shinigami King know that Light would be killed in Kira's place before Light was even arrested.

"I'm the Shinigami King, the memories of my future can be accessed by myself in the past if I so desire. Due to our deal, you shall forever be connected to me until the day you die again. Your original timeline shall continue until you have defeated Kira, and if you don't then the original timeline will be reinstated, and all your changes shall be for nothing. Don't forget you're more susceptible to this world now being only half-living, you shall be haunted by visions of your future until you die or Kira dies" The Shinigami King said, Light didn't know why he was shocked. It was clear the last time he was here that all this was some entertainment to the king, something to pass the time but to actually hear that his potential second chance of life wasn't because he deserves it but because some godly being was bored and wanted someone to amuse him.

"Have you been watching me?" Light asked.

"Of course, I wouldn't want to miss such entertainment but nevertheless, I will diverge you. As you know - to use the death note you need to have someone name and to picture their face in your mind when writing their name. When a death note is dropped into the human world and touches its soil then the death note becomes apart of your world which binds the human and the Shinigami together until either the death note is destroyed or the human who possesses the notebook dies. The cause of death must be written within the next forty seconds of writing the person's name and the death will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next six minutes and forty seconds. However, the conditions of death will not be realised unless they are physically possible for the human or could be reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human" The Shinigami started listing the first few rules he could think of. Light felt sick to his stomach, he never truly realised how much power the user got when they gained ownership of the death note.