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His name was Takuo Minagawa. He was about 19 years of age when the story starts. Still in his Junior year of college, he was starting to think that it would never end. Wake up, go to class, lunch, get out of class, hang out with his friends, go partying, go to bed, wake up with a hangover, regret it. Well, rest assured, Takuo behaved well the day before. He walked with quick strides towards the Dean's office. Even he forgot what the Dean wanted with him, but he ran into her on that day. Compared to his plain Japanese appearence, she could be compared to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Her name was Sakura. She had flaming red hair and shining emerald eyes. She was so breath-taking that it took a slap to bring him back.
"Are you ok?" she said in a beautiful soprano voice. "Y-yeah." Takuo said quickly with a swift nod. "Oh, thank goodness." Sakura giggled. "Sorry for hitting you." "N-no, I needed it." Takuo chuckled. Sakura stood and shook his hand. For now, they parted ways and thought that it was just a random encounter. Oh how wrong they were.

Years went by. The two fell in love and graduated together. Eventually, Takuo proposed to her and Sakura tearfully accepted. The two were married in spring. In their honeymoon suite, Sakura noticed that her stomach bulged slightly. Later, the two found out she was pregnant and were overjoyed. But fate took a turn for the worst. When she gave birth to a daughter, Naomi, Sakura died of an anuerism. "There was nothing we could do." was all the doctor could tell the heartbroken....no, heartshattered new father. Takuo leaned against the wall, his fist clenched as he tried to fight back his tears. There was no way he could live without Sakura by his side. He slid to the floor and sobbed bitterly. He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up. His eyes widened and glanced to his other hand.....the doctor shoved a small black tome into his hand bearing the words........"Death Note."

Takuo could hardly speak. What he was staring at now....wasn't even human. It was a...a monster. "Don't fear me." it said. Don't fear it!? How could Takuo not fear it? "Who.....wh-what are you?" Takuo asked fearfully. The monster just smiled. "I am called the Shinigami King." it said. "Sh-shinigami!?" Takuo gasped. "I felt your pain." the Shinigami King told him. "If you'd like, I can offer you a way out." Takuo gazed at this monster intently. "Tell me." he said. The Shinigami King lifted the Death Note up and said, "The person who's name is written in this notebook will die. But when I write the name, I can choose if the person in question will just die......or become a half-breed Shinigami." Become a Shinigami? "Really?" Takuo said, now absolutely intrested. "This is what I'll do." the Shinigami King said. "I'm able to manipulate the details of the death as well." He flipped the Death Note open and scribbled into it. "You will go in, tell your wife goodbye for the last time, give the child to it's godparent if you happen to have one and........I'll choose your death." At the end of this last sentence, the Shinigami King smiled wickedly.
Takuo breathed fearfully, still somewhat afraid to die. The Shinigami King stroked Takuo's hair affectionately. "Don't be afraid." He said. Compared to his appearence, the Shinigami King's voice was soothing and unbeleivably kind. "O-ok." Takuo said fearfully as he stood and walked into the room where his wife's corpse lay.

Later, Daisuke and Manami Misora's doorbell went off. Daisuke opened it to reveal Takuo holding poor Naomi. "Takuo?" Daisuke said, surprised to see his friend so late at night. Takuo handed Daisuke his goddaughter and tearfully said, "I'm sorry." Turning on his heel, Takuo started to walk away. "Takuo!!!" Daisuke said, handing Naomi to his wife and following after him. Takuo glanced at the sky, wondering where the Shinigami King could be and what he had planned. He ignored Daisuke's pleads to have him return and turned to cross the street. Suddenly, he heard the sound of a horn. He turned just in time to see a bus ram straight into him. Daisuke watched his friend get killed in a daze. "......oh, God no." Daisuke whispered before he ran over to Takuo. A crowd gathered to see if Takuo was ok. Daisuke checked his friend's pulse, trying to fight back tears...........Takuo was dead.

Suddenly, his eyes fluttered open. "Wh-where am I?" he groaned. Suddenly, he heard a brand new voice: "Get the hell off me!!!!" Takuo shot up and glanced back down. "What happened?" he asked the Shinigami that he accidently landed on. "You fell on me." the Shinigami groaned, rubbing his sore head. "I'm really sorry, Mr......."

"Ryuk." Takuo tilted his head. "Ryuk?" he repeated. "It's nice to meet you. I'm-" Ryuk just shook his head. "He must not have told you, but you can't be Takuo Minagawa anymore. You'd be known under a new name." Takuo's eyes widened. "Why?" he asked. "Ask the Shinigami King, not me." Ryuk shrugged. "Nekonarra." A familiar voice said. Nekonarra turned to see the Shinigami King come up behind him with Rem and Kindarra following further behind. "Me?" Nekonarra asked, pointing to himself. The Shinigami King nodded.

Nekonarra stared at the ground, finally noticing one of his new features: a black panther's tail. He felt the top of his head and felt a pair of panther's ears. His eyes widened in shock. "Don't worry." Rem said, soothingly putting an arm on Nekonarra's shoulder. "Think of it this way: You didn't end up like Ryuk." "Hey!"

Nekonarra smiled. "So, this is what death is like?" he chuckled. Rem and Ryuk laughed too. "Then you're probably gonna need this." Ryuk said, handing him a dried gourd. Nekonarra stared at it for a while. "Um, what is it?" he asked.

"Sake."
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Ah, I know this was just plain sucky. For some reason, I was just lazy about it.
Anyways, that's just a theroy. I think there are Pure Shinigami's, possibly like Ryuk, and there are Half-Breeds, like poor Nekonarra. Pure ones are Shinigami that were there from the start.
Half-breeds, I think, used to be human but made a deal with the Shinigami King, which I beleive is the head honcho in the Shinigami realm(right?) and became a Shinigami.

But that's just theroy. sweatdrop

P.S. Yeah, I purposely did that Naomi Misora thing. Just to add some drama when Naomi commits suicide and Nekonarra probably would be there. Poor Nekonarra. crying