I'm using this 'disclaimer' as the cover for my work. The ideas and plot belong to me but the characters belong to their respective owners, as do any references made about brand names or other things that clearly do not belong to me. I do not own Death Note. Got it? Me no own. Now here's hoping that having this as the opening chapter is enough to keep me from getting sued.

Characters will be OOC and this fic is set in an AU place.

Prologue

For centuries, generation upon generation of families were born into bloodlines devoted to the utter decimation of the vampiric race. Of the twelve original hunter-bloodlines, only six remained. Of those six, only three were of the pure kind. Many hunters were born into a family. Some though, from ordinary bloodlines, took up the fabled stake and holy items used against the accursed dead, due to personal vendettas. Those few born within the three pure bloodlines were cursed with the knowledge of the supernatural, and due to the blood running in their veins, were unable to deny the need to eradicate the world of vampires.

One of the three remaining pure bloodlines, were known as the Yagami's. Another, was simply known as the 'lost' bloodline, the only one believed to have been turned into the very things they hunted.

Despite being carriers of such a prestigious bloodline, each member within the small four person family, lived to what one could consider 'normal' standard. Sachiko, a stay-at-home-mother, with a nasty habit of carrying hidden weapons on her person at all times. Sayu, the youngest of the small family, but no less deadly. She was already known for having a temper and already had seven kills to her name. Despite her hand in the deaths of the vampires, she was a fairly popular girl attending school and struggling with homework and grades.

Soichiro, while not only the head of the family, was also a notorious hunter and chief of the NPA. Having reached the conclusion early in life that tracking vampire kills would be easier on the other side of law enforcement, he proceeded to not only hunt the cursed creatures of the night, but the human variety also. And though the Yagami family line continuously gave life to an acclaimed hunter; be it male or female, none could boast a greater achievement then the prodigy son Light. Barely within his early teens, Light had not only gained a kill total of thirty to his name, but was also scoring high academically and within his preferred sport tennis, and solving police cases on the side.

Every month one of the Yagami's were likely to gain a kill to their name. Mostly on weekends or school holidays when Soichiro and Sachiko took both Light and Sayu out into the wilderness and left them deserted with minimal supplies and a host of captured, angry vampires.

It wasn't long before nests within became vengeful, each plotting with a sister nest in similar situations in various countries. It wasn't long before the vampires decided to fight back against the hunters and the remaining bloodlines. By the time Light had turned sixteen, the hunters and vampires were already in a state of war, with heavy casualties on both sides.

For even within the vampiric community there was a hierarchy of power. The fledglings were at the bottom of the chain, newly turned vampires a century and younger, and the only ones that turned to dust upon their final death. The vampire aristocrats had two centuries of life and the ability to walk in daylight for short amounts of time. Vampires with three centuries and higher had the ability to withstand sunlight for all hours, refrain from fresh blood for a month at the most and even had small traces of power. The remains, for there were remains, were to be destroyed by fire.

The vampire princes were those of hunter origin, regardless of age, and each and every one had a power and were difficult to kill. An average prince took two hunters to bring it down, and even then the remains were to be destroyed in the very real possibility the vampire was to arise. The older the vampire, the more difficult the kill.

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