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Prologue

On November 23rd 2006, a bored Shinigami named Ryuk dropped a Death Note from the Shinigami Realm to Kanto, Japan just to see what would happen. That same day a High School Student named Light Yagami found that Death Note when he saw it fall to the ground outside as he looked out a window at school. When Light first took a look at the Death Note, he thought it was a joke, so he left it there.

A few minutes later he took the Death Note home to see if it was real. Light then read the rules that were presented in the Death Note. Light first tried to use the Death Note on a violent criminal who at the time was holding a school hostage. Korou Otoharada was the name of the killer and Light wrote the name in the Death Note. After 40 seconds had passed, Light thought the Death Note didn't work, but then he heard the criminal had died of a heart attack immediately afterwards. He became skeptical, maybe it was just a coincidence.

To see if the Death Note really worked or not, he used it on another criminal, this time the serial rapist Takuo Shibuimaru. This time it was right at the scene of the crime. That is when he discovered the Death Note's powers were real. Traumatized, Light questioned his actions. During that time he then thought of the possibility that the notebook could be used for good. It was then that he made it his goal to clean up the scum of the earth to make a perfect world.

About five days into his goal, Light's mind started going insane as he started to fall under the influence of the Death Note. As Light's mind was breaking, it became less and less of a struggle to kill somebody to the point where it felt good. It was also around this time that Light start revised his goal to make a perfect world and be the god of it. Around this time Ryuk arrived at Light's house and made a deal with him. Light would provide entertainment to him, but when it was Light's time to die, it would be Ryuk who would write Light's name in his Death Note. Light accepted this deal.

Light continued using the Death Note, being entertainment for Ryuk. Shortly after Light started killing criminals, the police and detectives took notice of the sudden deaths of criminals. One of those police officers was Light's father, who was the police chief. Around this time, a website called The Legend of Kira the Savior came to the internet and the killer was given the name, Kira. Light accepted this name as the alias for his god.

The detectives got the world's greatest detective L to investigate these murders as L was really interested in the subject matter. He was able to lure Kira out with live bait. He gave Lind L. Taylor the job to pose as him on television. Light saw this broadcast and when Lind L. Taylor disagreed with him, Light killed him with the Death Note, bragging about it afterwards. That was when L realized that Kira's powers were real and that was when L made his broadcast to challenge Kira. Light accepted this challenge.

Light continued to kill criminals, using many experiments with his Death Note in an attempt to throw L off. These attempts only allowed L to get closer to his target. L let Raye Penbar investigate his suspects in the Kanto area. One of them was Light. After Light manipulated a bus incident to get Raye's trust, he got Raye to unknowingly kill his entire squad before Light killed Raye himself. This forced the large investigation to decrease as almost all the police detectives on the case quit.

This also got the attention of Raye's fiancé, Naomi Misora. Naomi Misora was going to L about her theories on Kira in order to avenge the death of Raye. That is when she ran into Light and when Light found out she was going to expose information that Kira could kill in other ways, theories that would lead L to him very quickly, Light manipulated her to expose her real name, so he could kill her, eliminating the threat.

L's continuing investigation of Light had him add security cameras to Light's room in an attempt to expose him. Light was able to still kill criminals without the security cameras noticing. It was then that L decided to investigate Light by getting close to him. L introduced himself to Light during Light's High School Graduation. With L close to Light, Light devised a plan to get L to trust him, so he could get his real name.

After getting to know each other during a tennis match, L asked Light Kira related questions in order to make L more suspicious of Light. After Light's father suffered a non Kira heart attack, L decided to work with his Task Force to deal with Kira.

It was then that a second Kira made its broadcast, which allowed L to recruit Light to help them investigate it. Shortly afterwards, the second Kira introduced herself to Light, her name was Misa Amane and her Shinigami was Rem. She revealed that she had Shinigami Eyes, which allow her to see people's name. She wanted to be Light's boyfriend, with Light telling her that he couldn't be her boyfriend, but he could act like he was. She would follow Light, not knowing that Light was solely just using her.

During Light and Misa's attempt to kill L, L decided to arrest Misa on the suspicion that she was the second Kira. This derailed Light's plan, where he had to change it, as Rem would kill him if he didn't save Misa. Light decided to make himself and Misa lose their memories and give the Death Note to someone who had a lust for power as part of a larger, complex plan. When they get their memories back, they can kill L as Light got Ryuk to add fake rules to throw the Task Force off.

Light turned himself in and after a week in solitary confinement, he relinquished ownership of the Death Note, losing his memories in the process. Confused, Light demanded L release him as he wasn't Kira. After 50 days in solitary confinement, L decided to release Light and Misa but not without a test.

His test was to have Light's father Soichiro Yagami give Light and Misa a mock execution where Light and Misa were made to believe that Soichiro was going to kill Light and then kill himself and then Misa would be taken to her execution. Light and Misa were able to pass it unknowingly since L would think that Kira would kill anybody, even his father, to survive.

L got Light and Misa onto his team. Misa would be watched over by L and Light would be handcuffed to L until they were relieved of suspicion. The new Kira was Higuchi, a member of the Yotsuba Group. Higuchi was told to use the Death Note to kill criminals but he started using it for personal gain. When Higuchi started to go after Misa, Rem took action. Rem got the amnesic Misa to trust her and told her that Light was Kira. Misa decided to follow what Rem wanted her to do.

Light and Misa helped the Task Force get closer to Higuchi. During this time, Light became friends with L and wanted to work with him more. They also had Aiber and Wedy help them with parts of the case as well. L made a trap for Higuchi in order to prove that he was Kira. When Higuchi fell for the trap, they went after him, resulting in a car chase. When Higuchi was caught, the Task Force got their hands of the Death Note. Light then took the Death Note from L to see what the deal was all about and got his memories back. Light was corrupt again and his friendship with L flew out the window. Light then killed Higuchi so he could permanently have his memories back.

L and the Task Force read the rules of the Death Note and discovered the fake rules. The fake rules were that if somebody didn't kill someone in 13 days after using the Death Note, that person would die. The other fake rule was that if they burned the Death Note, everybody who touched the Death Note would die. L became suspicious of these fake rules but released Light and Misa anyway.

Light got Misa to find her Death Note, which he hid and got her to kill people again. He deliberately got his and Misa's life in danger to get Rem to write L's name in her Death Note which would kill Rem in the process as Shinigami can't kill another person to prolong someone's life.

On November 5th 2007, Light got Rem to kill L and his butler Watari. With the main threat out of the way, Light could freely kill criminals again. Light took his position as the new L. He took out the remaining threats at the time by killing the remaining members of Yotsuba as well as Aiber and Wedy. Within 5 years, Kira practically became the ruler, with many places falling under his control.

L's death got the attention of Near and Mello, two orphans from the Wammy House in Winchester, England. In response Near and Mello went their own separate ways. Near became the leader of his own Kira Investigation group called the Special Provision for Kira (SPK) to investigate. Mello gained control of the LA Mafia in an attempt to get his hands on the Death Note.

Mello's Mafia kidnapped Director Takimura of the National Police Agency (NPA) in exchange for the Death Note. This was a person that Light didn't really care about so he wrote the director's name in his Death Note and made the cause of death, suicide. Mello decided to take a different approach. He decided if he was going to get the Death Note, he was going to have to kidnap someone close to Light.

It was at that moment that Mello and his Mafia kidnapped Sayu Yagami, Light's sister. Everything changed at that moment as Light was put in a stalemate, kill his sister or give Mello the Death Note. This is where our story begins.