Death Note: The Game
Pairing: L x Raito
Rating: T
Summary: AU, L x Raito. Matt gets L and Raito to try out his new virtual world that he's created. But, wait, what? How come they can't get out of the game?!
AN: This idea has been floating around in my head for a really long time. I sorta got it from this one episode of Yu-Gi-Oh. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note.
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"Please?"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Come on, please?!"
"No means no." The famous detective shook his head lightly for emphasis, and he narrowed his eyes at the red head.
"I didn't fucking fly here all the way from England for you to say no." A teen with vibrant red hair and orange tinted goggles stated angrily.
"It's your own fault. Try using something called a phone next time, Matt." L got up from his crouched position on his computer chair and walked over to a small fridge. He pulled out a piece of cake before he returned to his computer. He sat down on the chair in his signature position. His knees were drawn up to his chest, feet on the chair, and his back hunched over.
"Come on, you have to. I've been working on it forever and I wanted you to be the first to try it, L." Matt frowned as he tried to get the raven-haired man to do this one thing for him. L turned away from the computer screen and glared at him, his obsidian, usually wide eyes narrowed, outlined with dark bags, from lack of sleep.
"I have work I must attend to." L simply said. Matt raised an eyebrow, but it went unnoticeable behind his red hair and orange goggles.
"And what would that be, exactly?" He asked as he pulled out a cigarette and brought a lighter up to light it.
"Don't smoke in here, and if you must know, I have to watch over our prime suspect at all times." Matt paused, scoffed, and lit the cigarette anyways. L suppressed a sigh and turned back to the screen. Ah, it looked like Raito was done his shower. Darn.
Matt raised an eyebrow. "You're watching porn?" He had a playful smirk on. L decided not to answer, and simply waited for the brunette he'd been watching to come out of the shower.
Soon enough, the door to the bathroom opened, steam seeping out of the door as if a witch had just conquered a demon like in those old, corny fantasy movies. Raito stepped out with only khaki pants on, and was rubbing a pink towel through his auburn hair.
"Oh shit." Matt's jaw dropped slightly. Raito moved the towel out of the way and looked at Matt through his messy, wet bangs. The brunette looked at the redhead, who was slightly gawking, and then looked back at L.
"You didn't tell me someone was here." He said in a calm voice, but his face was flustered and it was obvious he was trying hard not to run back into the bathroom in a hissy fit. L nodded, which for him was only a slight movement with his head.
"No, I didn't. He came uninvited, really." L said, emotionless as always. He took a bite out of his cake before continuing.
"This is Matt. Matt, this is Raito-kun." L said, seeming bored out of his mind. Raito blinked and nodded to the redhead. Blue jeans tucked into army boots, a vest over top of a black and white stripped sweater. Goggles. He certainly knew how to dress. Oh, that was sarcasm by the way.
Raito threw on a green sweater and took a seat on the bed. He continued running the very manly pink towel through his hair as he spoke.
"What are you doing here, Matt?" Raito asked before getting up to get his comb. L sighed. This is bad. Matt was a teenager. Raito was a teenager. They both liked video games (Matt more than Raito, but nonetheless). Which meant…
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Raito blinked.
He stood in front of a large machine, which Matt had apparently hauled over from another country with him, and two scary pods. Okay, so they weren't scary, but as Matt explained, you're supposed to step into the pod, sit in the seat and pull the helmet onto your head. Sounds freakishly like a bad sci-fi movie.
L looked bored out of his mind. Well, he was. He'd much rather be somewhere else. He's played a few video games with Matt before, but those were only experimental. L had commented on how he wasted his life away playing games, and Matt had responded with "Don't bash it without trying it!" And so he did. And he lost interest right away. He didn't know how blowing aliens heads off for hours could be so interesting.
Apparently Raito enjoyed it though.
The brunette and the redhead had gotten into a conversation earlier about video games. Raito apparently didn't have that many, but still enjoyed playing them in his free time. L remembered seeing him play only a few times while he was under surveillance.
"So… this is supposed to be a virtual game?" Raito asked to confirm. Matt nodded. "Yup, as soon as you put the helmet on it'll be like you're in the game." He grinned as he set everything up. He stood back, looking over everything one last time, and turned around.
"Okay, it's ready." His grin got wider as L and Raito nodded. The stepped forward and sat in the seat. L pulled the helmet forward, looking at it for only a second before putting it on his head. Raito hesitated, but did the same.
A sudden nauseous feeling swept over him, and suddenly, he was falling from the heavens. He looked around and saw nothing but blue skies and clouds. Raito felt dizzy, and fell unconscious.
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As soon as L put on the helmet, he had woken up. He was lying on the ground, more specifically in the middle of a grass field. He looked around before getting up. The first thing he noticed was that his clothes were different. Instead of his white cotton shirt and baggy, faded blue jeans, he wore a short sleeved, white shirt. It was made out of some type of clingy material, but it felt like cotton. There was a black scarf around his neck, and he wore baggy white pants tucked into knee-high black boots. He had long fingerless gloves on underneath some Armguards.
He looked around. He was in a field, or more like a plain. He couldn't see much except for a dirt road a little away from where he was. Where was Raito? He looked around, and then up at the sky.
What the…
Something was in the sky. Falling. As he got a better look, he realized it was Raito, but he was also in different clothes. Without thinking, the raven-haired man ran forward so that he could catch him. From that height Raito would die.
L ran and reached Raito just in time, but he fell to the ground from the impact. Okay. So, L woke up on the ground, and Raito fell from the sky. Good thing L had gone in first, and was as observant as he was, or else Raito would have fallen and cracked his skull.
"Raito-kun, wake up." He called out to the limp body that was resting in his arms. Raito's eyes were closed, his facial features were soft, and he looked like an angel who has just fallen out of heaven. L smiled.
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"Raito-kun…" Who was calling him? Raito groaned and nuzzled his head into something. It was soft, whatever it was.
"Raito-kun…" The person sounded familiar. Someone he knew.
"Raito-kun." L said more sternly, causing Raito to open his eyes slowly. Oh, it was L that was calling him. He tried opening his eyes, but something was blinding him, and it was bright. He struggled to open his eyes again.
Oh, it was the sun. He sat up and turned around. He rubbed his eyes of any dried tears before he looked at L. He was wearing funny clothes. The brunette suddenly remembered something and shot up to his feet. He looked around at the grassy plains, and then at his own clothes. His outfit was almost like the detectives, only in different colours. His shirt was a dark green; his baggy pants were khaki and were tucked into knee-high brown leather boots. He had a dark brown scarf around his neck, dark brown finger-less gloves and armguards.
He looked at L, who was smiling. Raito raised an eyebrow.
"What are you smiling for?"
"Can't a guy smile once in awhile?" L retorted, his small smile turning into a creepy grin.
"Not you." Raito flashed L his own smirk before folding his arms across his chest. He would never admit it, but his clothes made him feel a lot like a super hero, or the protagonist in a fantasy game. Well, that's probably what he was at the moment.
L got up and brought his thumb to his lip.
"Now, Matt designed this game. Hopefully he made some sort of plot, because I don't want to sit here doing nothing." L said before beginning to chew lightly on his thumb. Raito looked at him and shook his head. He was going to bite that poor thumb open one day.
"Hey, you two!"
Raito and L blinked as they turned around. A man sitting in the front of a wagon on the dirt road had his hand in the air. The brunette walked forward, L trailing behind. Raito knew more about video games anyways, and since they were in a virtual world, he had to make sure L didn't say something stupid.
"What're you two doing all the way out here?" The man asked in English. Raito blinked. Why was he talking in English?
"Actually, I just awoke here, you see we're not really from—"
"Excuse us for a second!" Raito called out, interrupting L and dragging him a few feet away. L looked at him questioningly.
"What is it, Raito-kun?"
"We're in a game, L. Have you heard of role-playing? We can't just go around saying that we're actually in a game, and everyone here is an NPC." Raito explained with a finger held up into the air.
"NPC?"
"Non playing character." Raito said. L nodded, and they both turned back to the man, who was looking at them confused.
"We're travelers." Raito said to the man in fluent English. Perfect, as always. He gave himself a mental applause. L seemed to pick up, and followed along.
"Yes, we were just traveling through here." He said as he straightened his back just a little. L suppressed a sigh. As he expected, this was boring. Of course nothing has started yet, but still. He'd rather be working on the case, going through information, or watching Raito shower. Yes, L didn't deny that he was a pervert. Well, at least to himself. Troublesome people like Amane Misa were another story.
"If you're on your way to the next town, I can give you a lift." Yes, this is the plot. L thought to himself as he and Raito nodded.
"Yes, that would be very helpful, thank you." Raito flashed him one of his breath taking smiles, and climbed onto the back of the wagon. L climbed on after him and took a seat in his regular position.
"L, if you sit like that you are going to fall off." Raito pointed out as he raised a finger to point at him. L simply shrugged and remained how he was. The driver looked back at them before signaling the horses to take off.
It was a rather bumpy ride, but it was better than them walking to wherever it is they had to go. So far, this was a good game. Matt was pretty good, and had definitely made this worth the time. He had never played a virtual game like this before, where you're actually in the game. This was interesting.
As they rode, the excited brunette could eventually see the small shape of a town down the road. There weren't that many forks in the road like there were in real life. They had only just passed one. The man rode into town and people greeted the man nicely. It made Raito smile, how peaceful this little village was.
And it was quite little indeed. There were, at the max, eleven buildings that he could see, all on either side of a main road. Though there were quite a lot of people. A little group of kids chasing each other around, people working at store that were probably also their houses, and he thought he saw a bar. It all looked like something out of the medieval era. Maybe that's what time era they were in.
"Matt is from England, right?" Raito asked L in Japanese, as the man who was managing the cart stopped near the back of the village. L looked at the teen, contemplated over whether it was safe to answer (that's what Raito thought at least), and then nodded. Raito nodded back.
"I see—"
"Roger!" A few childish voices called out and ran up to the man in the front of the cart. Roger smiled down at them. As Raito got a better look, roger was quite old, older than his dad, and had brown-turning-slightly-gray hair, and a large nose. He wore brown pants, boots, and a baggy white shirt. Those typical ones that knights wore under their armor and stuff.
Raito got up and stepped out of the wagon.
"Raito-kun, where are you going?" L called out, making the brunette turn around and cock his head to the side.
"What do you mean, Ryuuzaki?" He questioned, making sure to call him by his alias.
"The kids look like they're about to say something. It might be important to the story line." L said as he held up a finger and smiled a bit. Raito sighed. For some reason, he had a feeling L was too focused on the story line. He was probably anxious for something to happen. Obviously he's never played video games before. It takes time for the plot to develop.
"Fine." He looked at Roger, who was smiling down at the kids. They started talking about non-interesting things, that Raito didn't really want to listen in on. He sighed when the kids ran away. He raised an eyebrow and smirked at L, as if he was saying "I told you so" even thought he didn't really say anything. L shrugged and got out of the wagon as well.
"Sorry about that. Now, how long are you guys going to be staying here?" Roger asked as he stepped out of the wagon and walked over to the two. The both blinked.
"Maybe just for the night." The insomniac answered, his eyes half lidded like he was about to fall asleep. Roger simply nodded, not seeming to notice L's apathetic attitude, or if he did, he was ignoring it. Oh well, he was an NPC anyways.
"Okay, well, that building is the inn over there. Now off you go, it's getting late." Roger smiled to them and threw them a small pouch of money. Raito looked at it, and then up to Roger. The man smiled and motioned them off. He nodded, smiled, and walked with L to the inn.
They paid for a room (Which was 20 gold) and walked up to said room. Raito opened the door with the old-fashioned key he was given, and walked in. There were two beds, a large rug, and two bedside tables. The windows had dirty old curtains hanging from them.
L sat down on one of the beds, claiming it his.
"Okay, we tested the game, it works fine, how do we get out?" L asked as Raito walked over to sit on his own bed. Raito stopped in his tracks and turned to L, blinking as if he never thought of that. Which he hadn't.
"Um…" Raito blinked. "Maybe… there's a save point." Raito brought up a finger and smiled, but his smile deflated when L gave him a look.
"I hardly doubt that."
"But…"
"No." L interrupted.
"What do you know? You don't play video games." The brunette retorted.
"Then find it."
"I will." And with that, Raito walked out of the room. It must be somewhere in the town somewhere. If there was one. He walked down the single dirt road, looking from side to side. He walked up to the front of the town, and then walked back down to the back. The town had eleven buildings, five on either side, and one right at the end.
Raito was pretty sure that Roger lived in the one at the end, for that's where he had his wagon parked. He walked around to the side of his house, where there was a small vegetable garden growing, and a well. Hm.
Raito walked over to the well and peeked down it.
Aha!
Inside the well, floating on the surface of the water was a small, slightly glowing symbol. He leaned down and touched it.
"Raito!" A familiar voice filled his head as his in game body fell to the ground.
"Matt?" He blinked. He was standing in an empty space. There was nothing but white nothingness all around him. Suddenly, a familiar redhead appeared. He was grinning.
"How do you like the game?" He said, still smirking. Raito smiled back.
"It's a new experience. Good job." The flattery made Matt grin even more. He held a thumb up to the brunette.
"Good. By the way, this is a save point. You can only get back to reality through this. There are wells like this situated throughout Akena. That's the name of this land by the way." He explained, and Raito nodded. "You're going to have to explain all this to L when you get back." Raito nodded.
"Okay, so how come I didn't come back to reality once I touched the save point?" The teen asked the redhead. Matt smiled and motioned around him.
"This is called Mu. You arrive here once you touch the save point. The game automatically saves for you, because you don't have a controller or anything. To get out, just imagine a door leading to reality." Matt turned around, closed his eyes, and sure enough, a door appeared a few meters away from him.
"Well, I'll see you later." Matt opened the door and walked through, closing it behind him. Raito nodded, and imagined a door, but only leading back to the well. He opened his eyes, and a door was situated a few meters ahead of him. He smiled and walked forward, opening the door.
Lightness engulfed him.
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"Raito-kun?" L called to the unconscious body. The brunette blinked and opened his sepia eyes to see L staring down at him with his large, black eyes.
Okay, waking up to that was just plain creepy.
Raito blinked and sat up. He looked around; he was back at the well. He got onto his feet and looked at L, who was staring at him questioningly. Raito smiled.
"I told you I'd find it! It's in the well!" He got up and pointed to the well. L blinked and peered into the well. He blinked.
"Nothing is there, Raito-kun. Are you feeling alright?" L asked. Raito looked at him and pouted.
"No, it's in there! I talked to Matt and everything!" He leaned over the well and peered down. L was right; nothing was there. But, it was there earlier. He frowned. "We can't get back if it's not there!" Raito said, and only after he said it, realizing what that meant. L's large eyes widened even more.
"So that means…" L started, trailing off. Raito finished for him.
"We're stuck here."
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AN: Don't expect this to be updated that often. Just telling you.
And um, yeah, I hope you liked it.
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