Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note, but if I did, L would DEFINITELY have won. : Neither do I own Raito's alias Rain; this was taken from Nilahxapiel.

As long as I could remember, I knew L and Raito had loved each other. They're just too chicken to admit it, even after being best friends with me since we were six. We're twenty four, and all world-renowned detectives now. But they're my best friends, so they might just not want to put me in an awkward situation where I'm a girl with a pair of homosexual individuals. Especially individuals as, well, individual as Raito and L.

L Lawliet is a top-ranking, skinny detective; an insomniac. He is like a replica of the great detective L who worked in the infamous Kira Serial Murder case over twenty years ago, where Kira, an individual murderer, killed criminals with heart attacks. Unfortunately, that L died before he could say with extreme certainty who Kira was. His hair is similar to a bird's nest, or maybe even a crow. It's dark and messy. His pupils are so diluted from lack of sleep and lack of light that it's almost impossible to discern his iris from his pupil. Every day, L wears the same thing: a white, cotton, long-sleeve shirt and jeans. His alias as a detective is L. After all, the best name and alias is a name that sounds like a pseudonym.

Yagami Raito is, in short, the exact opposite of L. Raito is a perfectionist; always keeping everything as tidy as humanely possible. Many high school girls would refer to him as "that hot dude." His auburn hair is never out of place, and is like a halo, draping angelic cloths over his light brown eyes. Raito is very fit, especially from playing tennis against L. He always wears a nice suit and tie, dry cleaned to perfection (kind of sickening, if you ask me). I bet you five thousand dollars that most of those fawning high school girls don't know that he's Rain, the world's greatest detective, second only to L. I also bet you another five thousand that they don't know he has an incredibly short fuse… if you know where to light the fire.

As for me, Sora Ryuuzaki, I'm sort of in between. I'm not a cake-loving, insomniac like L, nor am I a healthy perfectionist like Raito. To sum me up, think an average high school teenager in America. To that, add the IQ of Raito and/or L. Then, add the integrity and persistence of a hunting dog. At twenty four, I have dark brown hair that doesn't create a halo like Rain's, nor does it look like a bird, or anything of that relation, like L's. My hair flows down in long and straight (as well as subtle) waves. My eyes are a dark brown, like most people of Asian descent. My alias as a detective is Soryu, the best after Rain and L. But I definitely could beat them if I tried. I just don't want to because I'd automatically be overthrown by those two. They're extremely bad sports. I'm also a musician named "Sora Ryuuzaki."

Ever since Raito and I moved to Wammy's School for geniuses (with top scores) and met L, the number one aside from us, at the age of six, we had become good friends. Immediately I could tell Rain's disgust in the little kid so unlike him, for L was incredibly plain compared to Raito. But eventually Raito began to accept the strange six-year-old little by little, and eventually, when we were sixteen, they suddenly changed into the state that they were. It happened all together, abruptly, so much that it shocked me. He told me later, around his seventeenth birthday how he felt about L.

"Soryu," he had said on a winter morning. L was, for once, sleeping in his room, which Rain had forced him to do. "I think… I love L. Not just as a friend, but…"

I immediately understood what he meant. "So you're admitting you're a homo?" I said half-jokingly. This was a fuse I talked about earlier.

"Hell no!" He stood, his overcoat preventing any snow to get his suit wet. "It's just…" He turned red despite the cold.

I put my arm around his shoulder, laughing. "Don't worry, dude! It's going to turn out all right!" I couldn't stop my laughter and had to spit the words out with force.

He glared at me blatantly and said matter-of-factly, "That's very reassuring, Soryu."

"I know, isn't it?" I had chirped.

That was eight years ago. I'm not absolutely sure if he still feels that way, but it's completely obvious to me. If he'd just tell L, then Rain and L could be a couple. A gay couple, mind you, unless Rain gets a sex change. Which would be impossible, considering that would be admitting defeat and letting L top him…. (AN: -cough cough- Fangirl talk. I'm proud of myself for learning it.) Actually, let's stray away from this subject and head onto the now.

It was a full moon as I typed away on my computer, my coworkers Rain and L typing away as well. We were cracking open a case that involved murder with a paper clip. Of course, between the three of us, it would take us no more than two days to solve the case. Between Rain and L, only three. So yes, each of us shaves off a day. I can shave off two if I use my full intellect, which I won't.

I'm really tired of how Rain and L ignore their feelings for the other. After nineteen years, you'd think they'd finally think to tell. Rain's a bit harder to decipher since he schools his features so well, but L is like an open book to me. That's probably because I'm strange as well. That's what people tell me, anyway.

I need to do something. Otherwise, these two idiot bimbos are going to be like this for the rest of their miserable lives. But what? I could easily outwit them, given I had the chance….

That's it! I needed to create a situation where I would be "separate" from them, and then create a crime that only they could work on since I was "away," and as a result, bond. But how? Well, I could use work as an excuse… Yes, I could create another alias completely different from Sora Ryuuzaki, Sarah Ho, or any of my other aliases in different countries. Like Kagami Kyoko, from Tokyo, who requests assistance with the NPA on a different case, since it isn't public that Soryu is working on a case with Rain and L. She's working on it for fun. Perfect. Then, to create a crime interesting enough to catch the two's attention. But then again, the only crime that catches their attention is…..

Serial murders. Go figure.

But this is something I want for the both of them. This is my only wish, after L took over the previous L, a man named Near. I want them to be together. Then again, I always thought I'd be alive to see L top Raito (snicker)… But I guess I won't, because after they catch me, which I will allow, after they get together, because I'll have committed many murders and L would have to kill me. It's his vision of "justice," after all.

Now for details. The method of killing… and who to kill… Well, to spite them, I'll make it a copy of the Kira case, but modified to make it easier to track me. I'll use arrows… fine silver, hand-crafted by myself and bought under several unrelated aliases. I'll use a silver bow, in honor of the goddess of hunt, Artemis (after all, I'm placing my life on a great hunt, so who else to pay tribute to?). I'll kill unreformed criminals, those who have been let off after time in jail, but who are still continuing their sinful ways. It will be different from Kira in that Kira killed all criminals, reformed or not. But to initiate the plan, this will have to occur several days after I "leave," or else the two will track it to me before they have a chance to get together, which would completely defeat the purpose of all this.

I began to type out the request that "Kyoko" was asking me. Kyoko is a real person, after all. I had met her back in high school. She was in debt to me because I had helped her study for her test. It requested help with a serial rapist. It occurred to me that there were a lot of "serial" branded predators on the loose. The request would reach my inbox in a day. Five days after "leaving", I would buy the silver for my arrows and bow.

I froze for a minute. Why am I doing this? I could just wait and let Rain and L do this by themselves. I had always disliked L a little bit. I never understood why, and I don't completely understand why I had started planning this. Now I know.

I loved Raito.

That explained why I had always disliked L: because he was the object of Raito's affections. That explains why I always did things for Raito.

Man, this stinks. I'm helping my rival get together with my best friend and love. But it's for Raito's happiness, which I can deal with.

I clicked "send" after finishing the request. Now, it's too late to turn back.

With that established… let's get this party started.

Haha. This is the new story I wrote about in my profile. : It will be LxLight later on, trust me. No couplings with the OC, though I really do enjoy writing from her view... Well, if you like, comment, if you don't like, comment and tell me how to make it better.