The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer. Even the darkness seems deeper than usual. Ryuk has been been taking advantage of the shadows to lurk and watch people going about their business, but there are two people in particular he's been wanting to see, the snarky lady who finds him amusing and the disheveled detective whom he ( Read more... )

It isn't often that Ryuk finds books that he likes that don't have a lot of pictures, but he's found some cute-freaky young adult novels that he thinks Misa would like ( Read more... )

He should have known that being a spy would involve some strange stuff, but he didn't expect the discovery he'd hit upon ( Read more... )

Maledisant might come upon a book with a colorful cover... hovering several inches off the top of a random table in the main room. It might lower a bit, as if whatever is holding it has looked up ( Read more... )

We're not sure how it happened. Maybe it's the Mansion playing hob with Ryuk's looks. Maybe it's some unconscious wish come true....

But one morning, Ryuk realizes he's been sleeping, something he hasn't ever done before. But there's more to it: when he looks down at himself, he looks different. At first, he wonders if he's switched bodies with ( Read more... )

There's a new spy in the Mansion, though he's done a little work before, ala a film noir detective looking for a guy's missing girlfriend. This time, however, Ryuk is trying to be discreet as he sneaks around the Mansion, looking for a guy who answers to a name he's stolen off one of Tsuzuki's (not always organized) files ( Read more... )

Light has given Ryuk his blessing to court Misa's attentions and keep her busy. Ryuk, curious about this whole romance-lovey-dovey stuff is happy to have this permission ( Read more... )

- The notebook shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world.

- The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner, i.e. a god of death/shinigami.

- The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.

It takes a while for Ryuk to go over every room in the Mansion: it's a big place and there are a lot of rooms. That and for chuckles, Ryuk has been toting a small magnifying glass -- don't detectives carry them? -- which naturally does not go through walls with him (thus, he's dropped it more than a few times and lost it on occasion before finally ( Read more... )

Ryuk has been puzzling over yet another conundrum: this whole mushy thing called love. He knows Misa is hoopey over Light, even though Light seems only half interested in her. And he, Ryuk, knows there's something he likes about getting hugs from Misa, he's just not sure what it is ( Read more... )