Shinigami

Never go to the other side of the bridge, she'd said.Never trust a shinigami, she'd said.Never take a kuro yun from a shinigami, she'd said. I'd already done two of those things, and eight years later, I'm to be sent to Mount Naku-san, for a day and night, unless I want to be left for dead in a rose garden somewhere. This story has some mature subject matter. Approximately 4500 words.