Disclaimer: I don't own death note. (This story does not follow the Death Note story line either and is purely a fun fantasy story. There are some parts where the characters are a bit out of character. This is just a friendly warning about the story so you don't have to complain about what I already know, although you're still more than welcome to complain.)

Prologue

Long ago there was a young couple that desperately wanted a child of their own. They tried so hard to conceive, but to no avail.

Finally, they gave up. There was no use in trying what couldn't be done.

About a year later, the couple went to a party at a friend's house. The husband, Kazuma, peered over into a nearby fountain. He glanced at his wife, holding out a penny to her.

She looked saddened. "Kazuma no!" she called.

"Come on Ai," Kazuma whined. "It won't hurt anything to try."

"I don't know…." Ai trailed off.

Kazuma held his wife's hand in comfort.

"You don't need to be afraid, Ai. We've tried and failed already. There's nothing to lose," he cooed softly into her ear.

"Well, okay," Ai sighed.

Kazuma wrapped his hand with Ai's, penny in between.

"Now," Kazuma told his love. Their hands outstretched over the fountain, "close your eyes and wish for something you want most in the world. Softly whisper it to me, then let go."

To Ai, Kazuma was an angel from heaven. She felt she could do anything with him around.

"Okay," she roughly whispered shutting her eyes.

She thought of what she wished for more than anything in the world.

"Kazuma," she whispered to him hoarsely. "I wish for a child, to love and care for. That is truly what I want more than anything in the world?"

Kazuma let go his grasp of Ai's hand. The penny plummeted into the fountain waters.

"There," Kazuma said. "That wasn't so bad was it?"

He cloaked his arm around the back of her shoulder.

"No," Ai laughed.

Kazuma bent over to peck her cheek. He smiled as he did so.

"I love you Ai," he mumbled romantically.

"I know. I do too," Ai stroked her lover's head, gratefully.

Suddenly a sensually seductive female voice called from the shadows of the fountain, "Who just wished in my fountain?"

"Who's there?!" Kazuma exclaimed, standing out protectively in front of his wife.

The owner of the voice revealed herself from her shadowy hiding place.

" 'Tis only I, Tsubaki. A humble water witch," her intentionally erotic voice bellowed like bells at night; beautiful, but hauntingly eerie.

Her skin was pale; almost green in color, dark, blue locks of hair, orange eyes, and a figure no human woman could dare to ever match.

The couple stared at her in awe. They had never seen such a terrifying beauty before.

" Did the two of you make a wish in my fountain?" She asked, wistfully.

"Um, yes," Kazuma answered cautiously.

Tsubaki did a broad, almost cruel grin.

"How desperate are you for a child?" She asked, sitting in the shallow waters.

"We'd do anything to have a baby!" Ai exclaimed desperately.

"Would you really?" Tsubaki giggled, tauntingly, "If you so desperately wish for a child, then perhaps I might be able to make a deal with you?"

Ai and Kazuma stared at each other. They were deciding if they should or not. They turned back to Tsubaki.

"What kind of deal?" Kazuma demanded.

"Well," the witch started, "would you give up your lives after an extended period of time. Probably of my choosing?"

Kazuma looked back at Ai, gazing deeply into her eyes.

"Should we make the deal?" He asked.

"It depends on how long we get to live," Ai stared at Tsubaki in wonder.

"I promise you that the time you have with the child is long enough for you to get to know each other. Lets say any time after the child turns four and your fair game," Tsubaki inquired.

"So that's all?" Kazuma questioned, almost blankly.

"Basically. Although, when the child turns eighteen I can take he or she for my own and do whatever I wish with them. Of course, no murder would be involved, though," She laughed.

Kazuma and Ai were now deciding.

"Well Ai?" He cooed.

" I'm desperate Kazuma!" Ai exclaimed, "I just want a child!"

He nodded, turning back to the water witch.

"Water witch Tsubaki," he said boldly, "We agree on you r terms, just as long as you make sure our child is protected from any harm until he or she can completely take care of themselves!"

Tsubaki nodded and looked at Ai, "It shall be done. Within three weeks you will be pregnant. After your years are up I shall watch over your child until it is eighteen when I decide to use he or she for my purposes," Tsubaki mysteriously disappeared back into the shadowy waters, awaiting to make more deals with people just as desperate as Kazuma and Ai.

As the couple walked home, Ai started bawling her head off.

"I can't believe what I just did! What if she lied to us? What if she was just fooling around?!"

Kazuma stroked the back of her head, trying to give her comfort, "Shh. It'll be alright. I'm pretty sure she didn't lie to us. Plus, we need to wait for those three weeks to pass for us to know for sure," he reassured.

"I hope you're right darling," she sighed.

Over the next three weeks the couple continued their day-to-day activities. Never speaking one word about the deal they made with Tsubaki to anyone.

Ai had become a nervous wreck over those past three weeks. She had it so set into her mind that she wasn't going to get pregnant and that Tsubaki had lied to them.

Kazuma on the other hand was overwhelming with excitement. He believed in Tsubaki more than his wife did, and just knew they'd get their child in within the next three weeks.

Finally it was exactly three weeks from the day they met Tsubaki. The couple was nervous.

Ai wasn't feeling any different from before. She wasn't feeling ill or anything. In solitude she took her pregnancy test. Unfortunately it showed up negative. She wasn't pregnant.

Suddenly she screamed, "I knew it! I knew that water witch lied to us!"

Kazuma burst in and embraced her, " calm down Ai! Just give it another day."

Ai sighed. She couldn't say 'no' to that face. She agreed and waited for the next day to come.

She didn't have to wait long for the next day though, because in the morning she abruptly awoke and raced to the bathroom. She barely had enough time to close the door. She was throwing up immensely.

Just in between her fits of puking, she managed to take the test again. She was alarmed by the results this time. Positive. She was pregnant.

When she was stable enough, she merrily hopped from the bathroom and onto her husband.

"Kazuma! Oh Kazuma! Wake up!" She exclaimed giddily.

"Hm?" he mumbled, yawning.

"Kazuma! You were right! I'm pregnant!" Ai squealed.

"What?!" Kazuma shot up like a rocket, "Are you serious? The wish actually came true?"

"Yes!" Ai burst into tears of joy, "We're going to have a baby!"

"Oh that's great honey!" Kazuma embraced his wife, so happy for her, that she could finally have a baby of her very own.

Nine month later Ai gave birth to a little baby boy. She and her husband decided to name the little black haired child Ryouzaki. More or less though he was nicknamed L.

Ryouzaki was an extremely quiet child. He'd always hide behind his mother, staring with his wide, round eyes from behind her legs.

At the age of two, little Ryouzaki discovered sweets. Oh how he loved sweets. His parents were surprised that he hadn't gotten fat from all the sweets he constantly smuggled every day.

When the child learned to talk he became even cuter than before.

Every day he'd say to his parents, "I wuv you mama," or "I wuv you daddy." He was such a little sweetheart.

Kazuma and Ai cherished every moment they could get with their pride and joy. They never knew when Tsubaki would decide to end their lives.

About three month after Ryouzaki's third birthday Ai had a bad nightmare about her little running away from her. She awoke in tears and bombarded into her son's room.

"L?" She questioned.

Ryouzaki was fast asleep in bed.

Ai let out a sigh of relief. She bent over her child and kissed his forehead lightly. Then, she went back to bed.

The morning of the next day Kazuma left for work. He called to them as he left, "Goodbye honey! Goodbye L!"

"Goodbye dear!" Ai handed him his car keys.

"Buh-bye daddy," Ryouzaki waved from the kitchen table.

Kazuma rubbed through his son's wild mess of black hair. His son laughed cutely.

Then, he left.

Later that evening the doorbell rang. Ai answered to see two police officers looking at her with grim faces.

"Are you the wife of inspector Ichinawa?" one asked.

"Yes," Ai said slowly.

"We are sorry to inform you… that… your husband has died in the line of duty ma'am," the other one sighed. "He was shot to death by a criminal he was chasing.

"No!" Ai started to bawl her eyes out.

"We're truly sorry. We'll take our leave now," the first officer said, turning away.

Ai slammed the door.

"Mommy?" Ryouzaki called tugging on his mother's pants, "Mommy? When's daddy coming home?"

"He isn't," Ai replied coldly.

She set the TV on and put Ryouzaki in front of it.

"L, mommy's going to bed. Sit here and be a good boy, alright," she said.

"Awight mommy," Ryouzaki was already glued to the television set to even really notice.

Ai plopped down onto her bed, crying hard.

"Kazuma!" She screamed into her pillow.

She cried herself to sleep.

In the morning Ryouzaki stealthily snuck into his parent's room. His mother was still asleep. He shook her shoulder.

"Mommy. Mama. Wake up," he peeped.

She was motionless. Ryouzaki shook her even harder.

"Come on mama! Get up!" Ryouzaki whined.

Still no movement.

"Mama!" He cried, " Mama! You need to get up!"

His mother only moved when he shook her. She was dead. She died of a broken heart. Tsubaki's promise had not been made at the correct time.

"L," a soft yet seductive voice called to the young child.

Ryouzaki turned around to see who it was.

A woman with pale green skin and blue locks of hair stood before him.

"Who awe you?" he asked, scared.

"Don't worry L," she smiled. "I'm here to make sure you stay alive."

The woman picked up the small frightened child and carried him off to live at an orphanage. She watched him from that day until he would turn eighteen by Kazuma and Ai's wishes.

Soichiro and Sachiko Yagami were constantly worried about their sick three-year-old son, Light. The doctors said he had a very rare but deadly disease and he only had a few months to live.

Besides their troubles with Light, the Yagami's also had a little baby girl to care for. They were in quite a bind.

One day Soichiro stepped outside for some fresh air. He walked until he reached a fountain. He never believed in wishes, but he was slightly bored, so he took out a penny and said, "I wish my son, Light, was healthy again!" He tossed the coin into the shimmering, murky waters of the fountain

Immediately after the coin touched the water a sensually seductive voice rang.

"Did you wish in my fountain Soichiro Yagami?" A woman with pale green skin and blue hair emerged from the seemingly shallow depths of the fountain.

"What the hell?" Mr. Yagami exclaimed.

"I am the water witch Tsubaki. And I'm pretty sure you wished in my fountain," the woman grinned.

"What?!"

"You wished for you son, Light, to be healthy again. I will grant your wish only if I get to turn him into a shinigami when he becomes eighteen," she announced.

"How do I know you're not messing with me?!" Soichiro growled.

"I will not lie to you Soichiro Yagami. If you truly are desperate to save your son's life then you will agree," Tsubaki said.

"Fine!" he whined, "I agree. Grant my wish."

"Good. Soichiro," she started to fade into the water, "Within three weeks Light will become better. His illness will be completely gone."

Soichiro Yagami ran home to his wife and kids.

"Did you have a nice walk dear?" Sachiko asked her husband.

"Yeah," Mr. Yagami didn't dare peep a word about his deal with the water witch. He just had to patiently wait and see if she was true to her deal.

On the day that so anticipated, Light came out of his room saying he wasn't in pain anymore. He looked quite well too.

The Yagamis took Light to the Doctors to see what had happened. Immediately they noticed the sickness was completely gone. Disappeared. It was a miracle.

knew what it really was though. Tsubaki had kept true to her word. He and Sachiko were so relieved that their son, Light would make it through to live a long and fruitful life.