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27th November 2003. 17:08
Lazul is walking around in a shady rundown thrift store one day in some shady neighborhood after a date gone wrong. She's scoffing and rolling her eyes around when she sees a bright pink notebook on a stack of some books and notebooks. Usually, she wouldn't care less about some notebook, but this one is like a failed DIY attempt on a Burn Book from Mean Girls. With 'Love Note' written on it in some weird font, it gives off stereotypical demonology but in bright pink like Elle Woods' walls. The notebook itself looks interesting enough that she mindlessly reaches out to open it. It had some names written on the first few pages, some pairs as well. Lazul thought that this book was in fact, not worth the 100¥ so she put it down and continued walking around the store, but she could feel something calling her out somewhere behind her, near the notebook. Honestly though, this was in the middle of the day, in the middle of a busy thrift store in the middle of the busiest city in the world. what could possibly be calling her? come on, this isn't a slasher movi-
"AHHH! WHAT THE FUCK? SOMEONE HELP!!"
She turned around to see some guy her age on the ground in a pose that just screams his next words are gonna be something along the lines of 'Please don't kill me ghostface!!' ...but he didn't say that. The boy was quite fashionable and given how old-schooled this city was, it wouldn't be surprising if he was called crazy, but he did look crazy right now; on the ground, screaming at a fucking wall. Lazul could care less about all of that but the guy is just screaming and screaming and screaming! Saying shit like "There's something in front of me! a monster!!"when there really isn't anything at all other than the countless shelves filled with random shit some retired baddies donated to this dump. But along the many rings and other jewelry was the pink notebook yet again and above it... WHAT IS THAT?
Lazul suddenly had a few questions in her head:
- Was she supposed to be taking some medication for schizophrenia?
- was she ever so gullible that she would believe something was there even though it wasn't and in broad daylight?
- genuinely, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT-
To answer your curiosity, no, she is not on any medication nor that gullible. but that 'thing' is uhh...
"A Aikami! y'know? a god of love?" The supposed love god spoke in a very happily manner. The guy on the ground however, wasn't as happy or maybe his heart was matter of fact, too happy since he seemed to have a heart attack and died on the scene. The Aikami just shrugged and turned to Lazul.
"What about you? are you scared of love?"
the way the Aikami spoke the last sentence was a bit creepy but Lazul honestly just got the ick.
"Uhh when it's like that from you then yeah-"
"WHAT?!- how dare you!" the Aikami's voice was turning more distorted by the second and Lazul felt like this may indeed be her final thrift run in her life.
"Hey girl chill uhhh..-" "I am a guy! se-ri-ousily..hh-how.. co o-oulxd you-uu.."
Okay, Lazul barely managed to hear the last few words and just did a quick bow before booking it for the exit door before people swarmed the area of the dead guy's body. She thought she got away from that delusion, but.. the Aikami was after her! He kept on talking with that distorted voice about how she can't get rid of him and shit and how he won't hurt her. She wasn't having any of it though and kept running until she got to the end of an alley.
"Fuck, I knew i should've went home after that crazy date. I don't even know this shit hole of a neighborhood so what the fuck am i even doing here??? Jakovo looking ahh neighborhood" she recalled the awkward date with some girl she recently met through a mutual friend. To be fair, she only went there to pass time and maybe have a chance at the cool belt the girl had (if they dated she could've given it to Lazul maybe who knows). She was lost in her thoughts while the Aikami slowly approached her while barely floating above the ground.
"Damn, your budget is that low that you float like only two centimeters above the ground?" Lazul felt like if she's gonna die at least she had to say it to his face.
"no-o o, i jj-uvyzst l-L-o0kK co0LL.."
(No, I just look cool..)
"Uh- sure.."
The Aikami then started yapping about how he's gonna die soon if he doesn't find a person to write people's name in that burn book copy to pair people romantically. and the person he chose to do the job was... Lazul! yay!.. Our favorite girl then went on about how she doesn't really wanna do all that and bla bla yappa yappa, but the Aikami was not having it and said that if she refused, all her memories will get mixed up and she will prob go to a psych ward or something. It seemed the d1 gaslighting worked because Lazul finally agreed and reluctantly took the notebook from the god.
Later in her room, Lazul was reading all the rules that took a few whole pages.
'The person whose name is written in the note shall fall in love.'
'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.'
'If details are specified within 40 seconds, then it shall happen if realistically possible.'
'After the first details are written, you have 14 minutes and 2 seconds left to write as much details as you want.'
'If the details specified were not realistically possible, the people whose names were written would just fall in love.'
'The owner of the book cannot writes their own name in the note nor can they write their name in a pairing.'
'If the owner writes their own name in a pairing with only one other party the pairing shall not happen. If they write their own name in a pairing with two or more parties, then the pairing will happen while excluding any connection regarding the owner.'
'The owner can write Shinigami and Aikami's names in the note with full effects.'
'If another person picks up the note, they can write the owner's name.'
'If the owner forfeits their ownership of the note, they will lose all memories regarding it.'
'If the owner makes a deal for the Shinigami eyes, they can see people lifespan excluding their own lifespan. If they make a deal for the Aikami eyes, they see others soulmate/soulmates. And if they have both, they can see people's lifespan in red and their soulmate's in pink.'
'Doing the deal for either eyes requires one fourth of the person's lifespan.'
'Huh, that's a lot of rules..' Lazul thought to herself while reading through the semi filled first real page. It had about thirty names written in total, some in pairs, some alone.
"Do you have someone in mind?" the Aikami asked.
"No.. and what even is your name?" Lazul asked while finally looking up from the love note.
"It's Airan!" The Aikami said while floating down to Lazul's level.'
"Huh.. Airan.."
"Well.. anyways, this cannot be public information, that I have some magic notebook. I have to hide this somewhere." Lazul started thinking in her head of all the possibilities for where to hide it.
"Hey Airan, so unless somebody touches the note, they cannot see you?"
"Yeah."
"Hmm, well I suppose it is better to bring it with me than for my parents to touch it on accident.."
Thus Lazul brought it with her to school the next day, Monday, 28th November 2003. 07:36
Walking from her train station towards her school, Lazul couldn't help but check in her bag at least 4 times every minute for the note. That is, until she felt a presence behind her.
"Took you long enough, where even were you until now? I'm in this because your lazy ass doesn't wanna write names anymore. " Lazul spoke quietly and while looking forward trying to seem normal, although she failed miserably. She looked like she was some undercover rookie spy from some low budget sitcom..
"Yeah, well, I had shit to do okay?" He responded.
"Yeah like what?" She felt her annoyance spike up slowly. It was 7 in the morning and she has to deal with crap already.
"It's uhh.. I dunno if I can tell you.."
"Come on, I can keep a secret." At this point, Lazul was expecting some crazy ahh secret that could blow her bangs away just at the thought of it, and as much as she liked to act uninterested in everything, this was like perfect bait for her.
"Uhh well, there's a Shinigami here flying around.. And I think it dropped it's Death Note here." Airan's tone and attitude while explaining were evasive, and it only made Lazul even more intrigued.
"Wait is that the Death Note you've been talking about yesterday? The one that lets you kill people?" It was safe to say Lazul was intrigued by the idea of having both notes to herself but also the idea of preventing someone even more crazy than her get their hands on one, especially since it's the death one..
Without even letting Airan reply, Lazul took off running around the block to try and find it with Airan right behind her.
"You sure you can't even give me a clue? I'm doing god's work over here." The little hint of annoyance in her voice was like gold to Airan, who couldn't help but laugh at the new found hobby of pissing her off.
"Your class is starting in two minutes, you sure you wanna do this?" Airan's sarcasm obviously evident in his tone while asking Lazul. "Yeah, fuck school. I'll just call in sick and skip." She couldn't be bothered with all the chitchat when searching for such a small object on a bigass school campus.
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Eventually, Lazul decided to stop and went into a cafe nearby. It was in a relatively tall building for this neighborhood, sitting on the 3rd floor, she could comfortably look over the entire of the school campus. Why didn't she think of this before? It's wayyy more efficient than just running around. She also had her suspicions that if the love note is pink, then the Death Note should be black if it followed the aesthetic, and considering the school building was mostly beige, it should be easy to find it.
She was taking a break from looking around while sipping her drink when she saw something fall from the clouds. It was really small and she barely registered it. It seemed like.. a black notebook..!!
"Holy crap! That's it!"
She rushed out the cafe and towards the elevator. Fortunately, she already paid so she didn't have to wait in line. Unfortunately, the elevator was nowhere to be seen so her only option were the stairs. She was running down the stairs and just praying her atheist ass off to anything at this point to not trip in her new shoes and make it in time. Of course, some cars just happened to get their green light turn on and Lazul was forced to wait on the crosswalk, biting her nails. She felt the little bits of her black nail polish on her teeth and tongue. It wasn't the first time she'd tasted it, of course, she never tried it in liquid form, even she isn't that crazy.
Finally, she made it to the school's inner garden where the notebook fell in the corner. She swore the notebook should be a few meters somewhere in front of her, but as she got closer slowly, she saw a group of third year students standing in the exact area where it fell. But... no one had the notebook, and the notebook was nowhere to be seen on the ground. At last, she took a risk;
She opened her bag and walked towards the third years. "Uh.. sorry, my bag was open and I lost my blue pencil case and a black notebook. Have you seen anything here?" Her breathing was intentionally labored and heavy as to make it seem like she was really in a hurry and just stopped running around to find her lost things.
She carefully planned the wording. If one of them found the notebook and later learned it's powers, they could possibly kill her to keep their secret well.. a secret for real.
The students were all confused and didn't seem to know anything about what she was talking about, but one student, to be precise the popular guy with perfect grades seemed like he was hiding something..
Light's p.o.v.:
"This girl.. she seemed to be the one who made this joke of a notebook. But her attitude seems like she's really embarrassed for people to find it or there's some truth to what is said in this notebook.. I should keep quiet for now and give it back if it's really just a prank."
"Sorry, none of us saw anything of yours here. Maybe you left it in your classroom? You should check there." He answered with an almost perfect demeanor while blatantly lying to this poor girl.
Back to normal pov
"This guy.. he's lying for sure. But I can't just be like 'Oh gimme your bag and let me take a look' to him. Fuck, he definitely has it. I could maybe steal it later? But school is already done, it's too late and he's for sure gonna keep it somewhere as far away from me before fucking killing me!.. Crap.
...
A few days later in Lazul's room
"Hey Lazul, have you wondered who's your soulmate?" Airan spoke.
"Not really, why are you even asking me this? It's not like you're gonna tell me who it is." Lazul replied while drawing something.
"True but, c'mon, you at least gotta have a type.."
"Hmm I guess I do have a type," At that, Airan's interest was piqued as he floated closer to her. "..blonde, just a bit taller than me, blue or brown eyes but preferably light blue, kinda longer hair y'know? Kinda like yours.. (Airan's hair is til his shoulders.) Oh yeah, I like them smart. No, I love them smart..
As Lazul was listing off her type that sounded a bit too much like a certain someone who also happened to be her soulmate.. Airan was reasonably shocked to say the least.
"Oh yeah, born in December so it's exactly half a year from my birthday, and I dunno, I just kinda wanna celebrate their birthday with snow. Like it's not necessary but like..." Yeah, that nailed it in the ground.
At the same time, two teenagers are making fun of some kids in an orphanage in Winchester.
"Yea shut up! Who even cares about that shit?" The blonde one asked while yelling at some kid.
"For real, just get better." The other one, brunette, that was behind the blonde continued, his goggles almost falling off while doing so.
Airan was looming through the hallways in search of that certain blonde. He stops in his floats when he sees the fight, his eyes focusing above the blonde boy's head.
'Hmm.. Who would've thought..' He thought to himself...