A few days ago Ijemaru had been working late and was trusted with closing up the office. When you work for a newspaper it's a big deal to be given such a task. People are often trying to sneak into newspaper offices because of it's computers and records. They has almost as much access to things as the police, and if you had the right pass codes, you could get more than the FBI. Ijemaru was double checking that the 'tips' box was locked when he found it wasn't. Somehow, and odd journal had ended up inside. That wasn't necessarily strange, what was strange was that there was nothing written in it. For some reason Ijemaru felt compelled to take it with him. So he put the journal in his bag and locked the 'tips' box.<br/><br/>When Ijemaru got home he noticed the journal was titled 'plague', and that there actually was some writing on the inside of the front cover. "All humans whose names are written in this Death Note shall die," he read. Ijemaru read through the instructions, but the one that really caught his interest was this: "If the cause of death is not specified the human will die of a heart attack in 40 seconds." A heart attack! That was how Kira killed his victims.<br/><br/>"Finally," said Ijemaru, "Things will start getting interesting around here!" Shortly after he noticed that there was writing on the back cover too: "This is the only death note that kills with the plague if the cause of death is not specified. Only the human whose name is written in this Death Note shall be infected."<br/><br/>"Well," said Ijemaru, "I guess I'll be following a slightly different path than Kira. Let's see if this thing is real."<br/><br/>For the next three days Ijemaru began killing people in the US with the plague. He new it was working because every death got addressed in their newspaper. Even though they were in Japan and the outbreaks were in America, an uprising of the plague was big news. It took only 40 seconds for the person to die, but at that moment the symptoms of plague would catch up with them as if they'd had it for weeks. It was the best entertainment Ijemaru had had in weeks.<br/><br/>Now, four days after Ijemaru found his Death Note, he meets the shinagami whom it belonged to.<br/><br/>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Ijemaru was kicked back on his bed, writing the names of American criminals in his Death Note when he was rudely interrupted. All of a sudden he saw some sort of demonic creature in his room. Ijemaru did a double take in surprise, then his expression relaxed in understanding. "I bet this is yours," he said holding up the Death Note.<br/><br/>Zans smiled, "Yup, you seem to have taken a liking to it," he said. "You do realize that people are really dying when you write their names in there, right?"<br/><br/>Ijemaru laughed lightly, "Of course I know that," he said. "I wouldn't still be writing if nothing was happening."<br/><br/>"Well I wanted someone who would kill, but I never expected someone with so little empathy for their own kind."<br/><br/>"So you must be a shinagami right?" asked Ijemaru.<br/><br/>"That's right," said Zans, "And I've gotta stay with you until you either die or relinquish your rights to the Death Note. Of course if you do that, I'd have no choice but to erase your memories of it."<br/><br/>"Well, I''m not giving it up. And I don't plan on dying any time soon." He paused to think for a moment. "During the time of the original Kira there was a second Kira who could kill with just a face. Can I have that power?"<br/><br/>Zans laughed a hollow laugh. "You're talking about the shinagami eye deal," he said. "I could give you the eyes of a shinagami, so you would know a person's name just by looking at them. But in exchange I'd have to take half your life span."<br/><br/>"Deal," Ijemaru said instantly.<br/><br/>"Wh- really? Did you even hear what I said?"<br/><br/>"Of course," said Ijemaru, "I'm still young, I'll have plenty of time to be entertained before half of my life is over. But just out of curiosity, how much longer will I live now?"<br/><br/>"Why should I tell you that?" Zans asked mockingly.<br/><br/>"Because if you don't, I just won't make the deal and you'll be stuck with me for that much longer. As well as you'd be jipping yourself out of a good 40 plus years added to your life. Am I right?"<br/><br/>"Fine," said Zans, "You'd naturally live to be 97, so I'd get forty years from you and you'd only live to be 57"<br/><br/>"I'm fine with that," said Ijemaru, "I'll just have a kid along the way and pass the Death Note on to them before I die. Lucky you, you'll have generations of fun," he said, "Now let's make the deal."