[Kyo and his friends are hanging out near a busy street, skipping school. They're egging him on to do something dumb, laughing.]
Friend 1:
"Come on, Kyo! Bet you can't cross the street blindfolded!"
Friend 2:
"Yeah, or are you chicken?"
Kyo:, grinning, totally unimpressed
"Oh, please, you guys are weak! I did crazier stuff in my sleep. Watch this."
He snatches a scarf, wraps it around his head, and steps out into the street with an air of indifference.
Friend 1:
"Dude, you're nuts!"
Laughs resound across the two.
[Suddenly, Kyo is sidetracked by a stray cat darting across the road. He falters, turning toward the commotion; then, a deafening horn sounds.]
Truck Driver:
"MOVE!"
Sound of screeching tires, a split second of mayhem.
Kyo (looking up at last, his eyes wide with surprise):
".Wha-?"
[The impact happens. The screen goes black. Silence.]
[Scene: Kyo finds himself in a foggy limbo, groggy. He looks around confusedly.]
Kyo (groggily, rubbing his head):
"Ugh, where… am I? Was that… a truck?"
[A figure draped in a black robe, the reaper of death, appears before him, holding a scroll.]
Reaper:
"Takahashi Kyo. You died."
Kyo (blinking, then laughing as if it were some kind of joke):
"Hah! You're funny, motions to himself, but I wont die until I have se- Wait… you're serious,, I mean, I'm standing here, talking, aren't I?"
Reaper (deadpan, completely serious):
"You are dead. But congratulations. You've been accepted into Reaper Academy."
(The reaper extends the scroll to Kyo, who stares at it blankly.)
Kyo (snatching the scroll, half-irate):
"Reaper Academy? Sounds like a bad dream. Look, I don't know what this is, but I think you've got the wrong guy. I've got, like, zero interest in school. Especially a death school or whatever."
Reaper: (unfazed, ignoring Kyo's protests)
"You have no choice. You either become a reaper-in-training, or… well, the other option is to be sent to the Abyss."
(Points ominously at a swirling dark vortex in the distance.)
Kyo: Stops, looks back at the vortex and then back at the reaper, finally catching on,
"Wait… you're serious, aren't you? I… I really died?!"
Reaper: Cold but with just a tint of a smirk in the tone:
"It happens."
Turns to leave, but stops for a brief moment.
"You'd better prepare yourself, Takahashi Kyo. Reaper Academy is… chaotic."
Kyo: To himself, mumbling,
"Chaotic? Great. Just what I needed… I can't even catch a break when I'm dead!"
Kyo unwillingly tailed the reaper to the Academy, the towering gates of which he could already perceive a long ways away.