A/N: OK. L WAS AN ORPHAN. I FUCKING GET IT ALREADY. STOP TELLING ME.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the plot for the fanfiction... which I shall cling to jealously, as it is all I have. -Commences with jealous clinging-
Summary: AU In which Higuchi's car crashed and the deathnote was destroyed in the resulting explosion. So Kira is no more, but Raito and L still exist... As their relationship deepens, and L's trust is finally earned fully by Raito, an unexpected scenario suddenly presents itself. LxRaito Crack!ish
Title: Meet the Lawliets
Chapter 1: Say What!?
It had been three months since Higuchi's car had rammed into the divider on the freeway and exploded into flames. By the time the firefighters had arrived and managed to stem the fire, all that was left was the twisted metal skeleton of the car and the blackened, barely-recognizable remains of one Kyosuke Higuchi.
Not even when his theory of Raito as Kira and Misa as the Second Kira had been 'proven' incorrect had L been so frustrated. Because he had the proof this time... and yet it had still gotten away. He still didn't know what Kira's method of killing was. For a long while, L had suspected that Higuchi had yet another Kira in the chain, and that his death had been caused by the original Kira... but as days, weeks, and finally months passed with not a peep from the empowered mass-murderer, even L's suspicions became tainted with doubt.
Had the crash really been just an accident? Had Higuchi truly been the one and only Kira?
L's mind, and plenty of the evidence, stated otherwise. There had at some point been two Kiras, that was a fact. So what had happened to the second one? And if Higuchi had not known that Misa wasn't the second Kira, he couldn't have been the first, since the first and second Kiras had teamed up... Or had they? Had that final message from the second Kira been true?
This whole situation seemed to be forcing him to question everything he thought he'd known about the case.
Including, somehow, his feelings towards Yagami Raito.
Raito, oddly enough, seemed just as angered and frustrated as L. Though the rest of the investigation had begun to relax, even the ones who believed L subconsciously filing the case as 'closed', L and Raito seemed to be on the same page when it came to disbelief that the battle was over. This gave the two an escalated feeling of companionship that hadn't been present before, despite having been chained together. An absolute understanding and agreement ran between the two minds, ran deeper than friendship. And it was beginning to surface.
It didn't help L's inhibitions any when Misa left. The girl had been suspiciously heartbroken, her love for Raito obviously endured, but she seemed to have finally accepted that the relationship wasn't going to happen. Her departure had been allowed only because the proof L needed to keep her had run out. That and Kira really did seem to be gone... And if he was... if he was...
Raito wasn't Kira.
L had wanted Raito to be Kira, because he had wanted to be correct. He had wanted Raito to be Kira because it made sense.
He had wanted Raito not to be Kira, because he cared for Raito. He had wanted Raito not to be Kira, because in Raito, he felt he had finally found an equal.
Now, Raito wasn't Kira, and L was glad. Because he loved Raito.
And Raito loved him.
It was another two months before L officially declared the Kira case solved with Higuchi as Kira, and the second Kira as a mere fabrication by the first. (Since there appeared to be no other option.) Four days later, he and Raito moved away together. Soichiro was alarmed, and shocked, but in the end decided that there were worse fates for his son than a permanent career as an investigator and a homosexual relationship with the greatest detective in the world.
Besides, they still came to visit for the holidays. And Sayu was certainly amused by the whole thing.
On the Christmas two years after the end of the Kira Investigation, L told Raito his real name. Which actually had been the one he'd used to begin with. L. L Lawliet.
The Valentine's Day after this Christmas, Raito proposed.
And that's when things all went downhill.
"Raito... Of course I say yes... but... you're really going to have to meet my parents first." L smiled, maintaining his composure despite the happiness he was feeling. If only Raito could have claimed the same.
"Your... what!?"
TBC...
A/N: His what!? xD
lololololol ya! That's the twist! Woooooooo! See I've read a whole buncha fics that at some point discuss, sometimes briefly sometimes lengthily, L's past... and EVERY SINGLE ONE has had him as an orphan. So I thought... why is that assumption made? It never said that in the books... OMG what if his parents are alive! And just don't like to get involved in criminal investigations!? That would be awesome! And so this story was born... ok actually first the whole idea went throught the Yaoi-ification Program in my brain, and then the story was born.