A/N: Hello guys. So, I decided to continue a story from my old account, which I can't get back, due to the fact I even lost my email password.:(
I hope you enjoy, I uploaded all of the chapters, along with a new one.
"Light-kun."
No answer.
"Light-kun."
Again, nothing.
"Kira!" Light felt a very cold fist crashing with his cheek.
"Ow!"
"Finally. I was told you wouldn't go to underworld and then come back, I had started to worry that I came to the human world for nothing, or rather too early." A huge what popped up in Light's mind.
"R-Ryuzaki?" Light sat up wide eyed, and slightly moved back a bit, his back touching the wall.
"The one and only." L's voice had a mocking tone, rather insulting.
"You died." Light's voice was soft, yet a bit intense.
"And you didn't?"
Light thought about it.
And L was right.
He remembered a sharp pain at his chest.
He remembered Near's expressionless face.
Matsuda shooting him.
Dying on the stairs.
And right before dying, right before his eyes closed-
L.
Of course, L, Light thought. Who else?
"This can't be happening. I was supposed to go to nothingness. Nothingness is certainly not this place, and of course seeing you." Light emphasized you in a clearly offensive way but L showed no reaction at first.
"Don't even try to make it look as if you were an exception because of your godly powers, Light Yagami." L's voice was like freezing air blowing right into Light's cold face.
It hurt.
Light shivered a bit, as he was called Kira, for the second time, and he knew he didn't have to deny it.
"Because you're powerless, and you can't do anything! Becausee I won, L!" Light voiced the last part of his thoughts.
"I wouldn't call it a victory. A victory would be winning against all of your enemies. But in fact, you didn't even beat me. Near succeeded me. And Mello, in a way. And even if we say you beat me, as you yelled that you did at my grave..." Light gritted his teeth at the thoight L could have been watching him the whole time after he died. "You never really won. If you had won, you wouldn't be here. At least, not in such a young age, killed technically, because you lost against me and my successor."
Light jumped furiously, realizing after some time that he was at the building the investigation took place before L's death.
At the bedroom he had to share with him, while he had given his death note to Higuchi, therefore, losing his memories.
"Never compare your successors with Kira, with me. That albino, that cheater who dared to go against a god, Near. And that loser, Mello, you must be very proud that your successor ended up seeking help from the Mafia and even killed." A small 'ha' escaped L's mouth.
"He even what? He killed? Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Kira is the biggest mass murderer in the history of mankind, as Near said." Light became even more furious at the mention of the quote. "I strongly disagree with Mello's methods, but none of us has the right to judge him, I believe. And my thoughts are that Near did go against you, and partially succeeded, although he wanted to lock you up, instead of ending up with your blood on his hands." Light glared at L.
"And may I ask, why are we here again? Why am I not in nothingness?"
"Because nothingness, to the Shinigami, means neither heaven or hell. And that's what Ryuk told you, and he didn't lie to you, but this is real nothingness, Light-kun. Nothingess means your soul going to waste. And all of the human souls go to waste after death, no matter where they go. It's just that you cause a few problems, rather major ones, and that is the reason I am here as well."
"What kind of problems, and to who?"
"I want to believe that this was a rhetorical question, but judging from your expression, it's not." Much to Light's surprise, L's eye colour, from almost black, turned into red.
The red of the blood.
"Did you think, for real, that after abusing the Note, apart from the Shinigami rules that didn't mention such a thing, that you created no problems? At all? Of course, besides taking nearly two million lives, and sending them to the underworld by force."
"Underworld?" L mentioned it before as well. Underworld as in?
"Yes, Light Yagami, underworld. The place all souls go at after death."
"And you went there as well? Not that I care, I just want to see where your innoncent, superior soul ended up."
"This has nothing to do with the huge problem you created and what I am explaining, but yes I did go to underworld. And as a piece of information that will be useful for me to tell and for you to know later on, is that underworld has both parts that all alive humans call heaven and hell, although not quite alike to what they imagine them like." L explained the secret of afterlife as if it was a recipe for those horrible cakes he ate during the investigation.
Was being dead so simply to L, that was also the reason he couldn't understand how powerful Light was?
Light's thoughts made him conclude to that.
"Was heaven nice, my angel?" Light's voice was venomous.
What caused him to go from a devious smirk to completely expressionless, was L's red eyes stabbing him at every visible part of his body and face.
"Why are you looking at me like that, huh, L?"
"I am not an angel, Light-kun." L stood up from the bed he was sitting the whole timee, and with inhuman speed, he rushed in front of Light, their noses almost touching.
He put on a smile, which wasn't alike to L at all, it seemed rather disgusting to Light.
"I am coming straight from hell." Light winced as he felt Ryuzaki's extremely hot breath on his face. It even scared Light.
His voice did, that icy tone.
And those blood coloured eyes.
And that breath, like fire, burning him.
"How is that possible? Weren't you the good guy?" He immediately went back to calm and collected.
"That doesn't have to do with anything. The reason I went to hell is something I will keep a secret from you, for personal reasons." A small silence followed, as they both stayed still, without breaking the eye contact and the exchange of glares.
Light spoke right after L, infuriatingly much, stopped glaring, and smiled childishly.
"Oh, well, care to tell me what problems I created exactly?" Light broke the silence.
"Forcing so many souls to go to underworld changed the way universe works. You killed an astronomic number of humans. And some of them refused to accept they died. Which means that they never really entered underworld, and denied to stay there peacefully, or non-peacefully at least, for eternity. So, they came back at the world we are in right now, the path from life to afterlife. Oh, and trust me, they are not very friendly. At least with you, they aren't even close to friendly."
To Light, it all sounded like some tale Sachiko would tell him when he was young and teased Sayu.
Not quite realistic.
He decided to give L a chance, because he saw no reason for him to lie to Light, and the story seemed to fit, even a bit.
"And? Go on."
"They all seek your soul, Light. They want to rip it apart, they want to see it being vanished from all human world, underworld and the path between them. They want to send it to the utter nothingness, the destruction of the soul in afterlife." The story for some reason started to make Light shiver, a bit, and he hadn't felt afraid for quite a while.
"And you? Are you one of them? One of those souls, that wish-"
"No, Light-kun. If you were ever allowed to go to underworld, you'd go straight to hell."
Light became furious.
"Trying to offend me won't-"
"That was not my point, if you let me finish, kindly. What I am trying to say is that since the majority of people you killed went to hell, and you would go there as well, it was decided that your guardian 'angel' should be, to express it as simple as possible, a demon. Don't imagine I will boil you or anything alike to that, as I told you, hell is totally different than what humans think it is, and so are demons. To answer your question eventually, no I am not one of them, even though I'd certainly wish to see your soul ending up at the lower level a soul can end up being at."
Light took a few seconds to think again the story, and shook his head.
"Well, I don't really care, L. My work as Kira is finished, isn't it? I don't give a damn, my guardian demon."
"It is not really up to you to give a damn or not to give."
"Yes, it is. After my perfect world probably going back to the foul world it used to be before Kira, I don't give a single fuck about being ripped apart." L's fist crashed with the wall, the thud sounding incredibly loud.
"I don't give a fuck either, believe me." L hissed. And he hissed for real, rather a shocking snake imitation. "But I am here, because the universe forced me to be here. And you are here because the universe forced you as well. So, shut the fuck up and stop complaining."
Light noticed to fangs, barely visible, as well as L's tongue being black, and a bit different than the tongue a human would have.
Pretty much, similar to a snake's tongue.
"What do I have to do?" Light asked lowly, taking his eyes away from L's non human traits.
"The solution is something you will have to figure out on your own, Light-kun. I am here to provide you some guifdance and possibly some protection, as far as I can go."
"Protection?"
"Yes. Do you think I am the only monster here? I told you, your human life will always haunt you." Light simply glance at L.
"And why would you protect me, even if I asked you myself, or the universe did?"
"I am not as low as you are, Yagami Light."
"Did you just insult me?" Light's voice hid a hint of arrogance. L simply sighed, turning away from Light, and before Light could even see, L caused him to feel a sharp pain at his cheek. He touched it lightly.
There was a black liquid.
Blood.
Black blood.
And for a second, he could swear, as far he could catch up with L's newfound speed, L had claws instead of fingers.
"You are not Kira anymore, and I am not L anymore. You are Light Yagami and I am L Lawliet. We are not even alive. Deal with this, as fast as you can, because we don't have all the time in the world, and time is very important. Souls don't wait."