Untold; Into The Dark Of…
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Warning: M for later sexual content, slash, kisses, language, etc
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Pairing: future Light/L, Light/Ryuk
Setting: Right after L dies ;:, spoilers for at least the first 10 ep's as well as other spoilers such as the death of Chief Yagami and other stuff, I don't know…
Summary: "…he's the only person who will ever be able to put you away, so why would you want to bring him back when he can potentially get you killed?"
Pt 1- A Deal with the Devil, or at least a God of Death
The past is gone…
The present is frozen in time…
The future looks bleak and unforgiving…
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What had he done?
There had not been a worse moment for him, not even when he knew that everyone else knew that he was Kira. None of that mattered now…
L…he…
L…Lawliet…the top three detectives in the world…
Those dark eyes, the never fading shadows underneath them, looking at him as the light faded slowly from his eyes and Light, also Kira, felt his heart shatter into a thousand fragments that would never be able to mend back together again.
It had seemed right before; he had to stop L, the only person who would ever, could ever, be the one to catch him. There was no one else. No one else had the skill, the genius or the insight. The man was his equal in all things and that was what made him so very dangerous.
But this…it had all been planned, weeks and weeks and weeks and…everything had went on as he had planned…until Ryuuzaki was in his arms, looking up at him as the last breath left his body and those dark eyes became permanently extinguished.
He didn't even notice the tears falling down his own face until they fell onto L's face, rolling down his face in a morbid display of tears, as if L was crying out after the fact.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Ryuuzaki. I shouldn't be sorry, I should be sorry. I am sorry. Please. Please don't go away. Please stay. Please stay, Ryuuzaki. Stay, please…
"…Please stay." His voice was quiet and hoarse.
He looks up and ignores the sounds of the detectives around him and L, unable to hear their words; he sees Ryuk standing there.
"You!" Had the detectives heard his outburst? It didn't matter; he didn't care. He felt empty inside now. "Change this!"
Ryuk shakes his head and walks past the detectives who seemed to be frozen in time, or merely moving slower than usual, he couldn't tell and didn't care.
"I am a God of Death, Light. I don't bring back people; I kill them. The same as you kill. Just like you killed him," pointing to L's limp and unseeing form cradled in his arms, voice mocking him in his next sentence. "Kira, God of a new age. Bringing righteous justice down on—"
"Shut up! Shut up!"
The shinagami crosses his arms and looks down at him, his expression unreadable.
"You feel sorry now? A little late to have second thoughts, Light."
"Just shut up and help me!" Humility did not come, even when he begged Ryuk. "Please."
Ryuk uncrosses his arms and looks at him rather boredly, though it was hard to tell if that was what he actually felt.
"Why should I do that? What do you expect me to do? I have no obligation to bring back someone you killed just because you feel sorry that you killed him—"
"You said obligation, you didn't say that you couldn't do it! So you're a God of Death, but you can bring back someone can't you? Just like all Shinagami—you just don't. What would be the point after all? You have to kill people to gain their remaining years and bringing them back wouldn't give you anymore years unless you could kill them again and you wouldn't be able to…would you?"
"No," said Ryuk with a clipped voice. "All shinagami have the ability, but once we do—you can't kill them with a Death Note again, not even another's Death Note and another shinagami can't kill them either. Or anyone with a Death Note, for that matter. It serves no purpose so we've never done it before."
"But you can," he said almost desperately. "You can do it. Just do it."
Ryuk shakes his head. "I don't understand why you would want me to. You've wanted him out of the way for so long now; he's the only person who will ever be able to put you away, so why would you want to bring him back when he can potentially get you killed?"
"I know, but…" He looks down at L again and feels that indescribable emotion fill him again and make itself known. "I…care about him." It came as much a revelation to him as it did to the shinagami. "I…I think that I love him."
He gazes into L's face. Did he truly love him? And if so…how could he never have realized? The time spent with L…the looks…everything…He had focused on his own goals of a paradise that he never truly looked at his emotions, for what good would they serve him?
He had forgotten how to feel and because of that, he never realized what had formulated itself into his mind and his heart.
He jerks his head up at the suddenly laughter coming from the shinagami. Ryuk was holding his sides for a moment until he could pull himself together.
"What!?" he barked at the God of Death.
Ryuk wipes tears of laughter from his face, looking amused still.
"You in love; how the mighty Kira has fallen." mocked Ryuk.
The tears had dried from his eyes and he looks at Ryuk with a steady gaze, refusing to grab onto the piece of bait that Ryuk had laid out for whatever reason.
"Ryuk!"
"Fine, fine," the shinagami finally said, waving a hand at Light dismissively. "But I won't be doing this for nothing you know. If I'm going to bring back your precious Lawliet, then I want something in return."
Of course he did, Light didn't expect anything different.
If he wanted apples then Light would get him apples, would get a goddamned million apples if that was what it took. He could get them by the barrels if he wanted to; he would find a way.
But he didn't expect Ryuk to kneel down at look at him as intently as he did.
Or for the shinagami to lean in and kiss him.
He had felt surprise, but not disgust. He didn't expect that; it had not been part of his calculations or equations.
When Ryuk pulls back, his eyes were no longer the yellow with red that he had been used to seeing on the shinagami, but blue instead, completely blue.
"I'll take what I want another time, you won't know when." At this he grins, his eyes a deep blue that darkened slowly. "So you can just feel the anticipation until I decide when I want it…but for now…"
His gaze turns to L in Light's arms, the detectives forgotten, before turning back to the teenager.
"None of the shinagami has ever done something like this before, so I don't know what else will come of it; if anything. So try not to look too surprised."
At that Ryuk's eyes start to glow very brightly and at the same time, L's name in the Death Note starts to burn blue fire and burn off of the page, leaving the rest of the pages and book intact.
The whole of the room around them grows blindingly white for a long moment and Light could see nothing, not even the older man in his arms. Finally, the light dims down and Light blinks his eyes rapidly for a few moments.
When he could see clearly again, he noticed that Ryuk wasn't there any longer and the detectives were shaking their heads in confusion.
His head jerks down when he hears a quiet, but sharp, breath and sees L taking in a breath. He felt overwhelmed suddenly and filled with emotions that were so strong that they hurt. Unable to contain himself, he wraps his arms around the man and hugs him.
He felt L stiffen in surprise, but the man's hands start to tentatively hold onto him when a noise from one of the detectives causes L to pull away before he completes the motion and Light pulls away also.
Light didn't know what would happen now; L surely still remembered everything, but there had been no other alternative for Light; he had to have Ryuuzaki back, L, Lawliet, whatever…
"Are you alright, Ryuuzaki-san?" asked Matsuda.
L starts to stand, his posture as slouched as always and Light quickly stands as well, uncertainty warring within him.
"I am fine," said L in his usual monotonic voice. He turns to glance at Light. "I must have been quite tired if I passed out. And you caught me, Light-kun. I must thank you for that."
Light felt his eyes widen and almost thought he heard Ryuk laughing somewhere.
End Part One
A Deal with the Devil, or at least a God of Death
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A/N: OO
…OMG
is dead from own story xx
I can't even begin to put into words…
I have no earthly clue where the hell this came from.
I was/am in the middle of reading a Light/L fic called Desideratum, but even so… O.o
Not that I am saying that this is a bad thing! No, no, no!
But I am completely shocked at myself!
This is…
I don't know what people will think of this, but I am completely shocked.
In a very good way, but...
Not to mention that I managed to incorporate ideas for a DN fic I wanted to do without even realizing it until after I was done, seriously.
Writing like that was…wow.
Make sure to read and review though…because like I said, I'm very happy but surprised and…geez.
Read and Review! (And since I managed to get this out, I can move on with the next chapter, since I got what I had wanted to write down, without even realizing at first.)