Rejuvenation

Summary: Body shaking, heavy breathing. As he stared into his parents' dead eyes, Sayu broke the silence. "Aaaah!!" He'd kill the murderer. But will he find out his name and face before he comes for Sayu and Raito? For once, Kira was helpless.

Genre: Romance/Drama/Hurt/Comfort

Pairing: L X LIGHT !

Notes: In this story, the original story goes up to the handcuffed part and L doesn't die! The investigation team arrests Mikami and L declares the case solved…I know it sounds stupid but for the sake of this story, this takes place right after Mikami was arrested, but the month is sometime a few days before Christmas.

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Rejuvenation - Chapter 1: Helpless

He took out his house key for the first time in such a long time, and pushed it through the lock. Even after he was un hand cuffed from L, he stayed there on Floor Eighteen to work with L, to find Kira, which they had. -- Teru Mikami was arrested and going to be sentenced to death. Sayu smiled from behind him. "Won't it be great to be home now?" Sayu asked excitedly. Raito smiled and nodded, as he swung the door open. Sayu ran past him to yell excitedly, "Okaa-san! Oto-san! Oni-chan and--" she stopped in her tracks, a few steps in front of Raito.

His fist was clenched. Body shaking, heavy breathing he could see, from the cold December air. Eyes widened in disbelief as he took a step back, taking his sisters hand in his own. The room smelt raw like blood. The room…was, blood.

Staring up at the Yagami children from the floor were Soichiro and Sachiko Yagami. Eyes wide, mouths hanging open, ripped apart bodies bleeding on the floor.

His sister broke the silence.

"Aaaaaaaah!!!!!"

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Sayu and Raito sat on the couch close beside each other, each with their eyes still full of shock. They were back at L's Headquarters. Sayu gripped Raito's hand with immense power, as did Raito. Sayu let silent tears fall from her eyes

L swiveled in his chair, his messy black hair moving as if it had a mind of it's own. "Raito-kun…tell me exactly what happened."

Raito sucked in a breath a swallowed. "Sayu came to pick me up, we went home. I opened the door and--" he inhaled sharply as the door slammed open. In walked Aizawa.

Sayu snapped her eyes up to Aizawa, backing away quickly into Raito's arms. She glared at the man then moved away from Raito to her previous seating.

"S-sorry," Aizawa mumbled mournfully. "I-"

"Continue, Raito-kun." L said, bringing up his thumb to his mouth to nibble on.

"and-- they were there, laying on the ground, dead." Raito said, his eyes closed.

"Is that really all?" L asked him.

Raito nodded and turned his head away to face Sayu, who looked up at her big brother blankly.

L turned in his chair and stated softly, "Sayu will share the room with Misa-san. Raito, will share with me if he wishes."

"Thank you, Ryuuzaki." Raito nodded softly, then looked at Sayu, "Sayu, go to the room with Misa. I have to talk to Ryuuzaki."

Sayu looked up at her big brother and nodded solemnly. Raito kissed her softly on the forehead and she got up and followed Aizawa to the room. He waited until he heard the metal door shut swiftly before looking to Ryuuzaki.

"Ryuuzaki, you know something. Tell me."

L got up from his chair and sat next to Raito on the green colored couch, pulling his knees up. "This has not happened to just your family," Ryuuzaki said seriously. "12 families have suffered parental murder while one or two children were left unharmed while the parents were at home while the children are out. 11 families have had the remaining children killed after exactly 30 days. All in the Kanto Region."

Raito sucked in a breath. "So there's a serial murderer out there?! AND HE'S COMING FOR ME AND SAYU?!"

L nodded solemnly. "Yes. The NPO even requested my help for this case."

"What about the Kira case?" Raito asked with sincere curiosity.

"I'm tying the two cases together. The chances of the killer being Kira is 40 percent." L said.

"Only forty?"

L looked Raito in the eye. "Although Kira is cold hearted, I believe Kira focuses in killing only criminals or people that threaten his existence. The parents of random children do not count, especially his own parents, even if his father was the chief of investigation."

"I'm not Kira, if that's what you're implying." Raito glared hard, heart pulsing.

"Don't worry, Raito-kun. Only 40 percent chance of the murderer being Kira. A 27 percent chance of Kira being you."

Raito finally gave up his glare, his eyebrows and eyes shaking. He sucked in a breath and bit his lip until it drew blood.

"Raito-kun…" L started.

Tears fell out of Raito's open eyes. Raito swallowed and the closed his eyes, letting his pride slip away as tears fell freely. "You…you said I was your first friend. You said I was your best friend. So when my parents die, you only think about how my suspicion of being Kira ties to it?! You don't care that your 'best friends' parents just died?!" he exclaimed roughly, blindly, voice cracking.

L backed up, eyes wide and mouth open at his best friend. He closed it and blinked slowly, lowering his knees before opening his mouth to speak again. "I wasn't lying when I said you were my first, best friend. You still are, but I'm sorry…it's just how my mind works…" L said, inching towards Raito and placing his arms around him awkwardly. Raito let out a cry of anguish and cried into L's shoulder.

That night he lost all pride he had and let it go, in front of his arch rival, enemy, and best friend.

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Sayu thanked Aizawa and walked into Misa's room, the metal door shutting behind her. She turned the corner to find a blonde-haired teen sitting on a pink bed. She turned around to see Sayu. "Hello. You must be Raito-kun's sister, yeah?"

Sayu nodded. "My name is…Y-Yagami Sayu."

Misa smiled softly. "My name is Amane Misa-Misa."

Sayu nodded again and looked around the room. "Where do I sleep..?"

Misa stuck out her tongue and put her hand behind her head. "Oh, well, I guess we're supposed to share a bed?"

Sayu nodded then laid down between Misa and the wall, facing away from Misa, hiding her sobs. Misa didn't say much for about 20 minutes until Sayu's sobs were too loud to hide.

Misa turned towards Sayu and rubbed her back comfortingly. "Don't worry, Yagami-chan. The same happened to me, and Kira avenged my parents' deaths."

Sayu whispered softer than ever. "What if Kira was the killer?"

Misa's eyes widened in surprise. "That is impossible, believe me."

"How so?"

"Because…It just is."

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Raito woke up to find that he had fallen asleep crying on L. L had gently laid him back, and covered him with a blanket. L sat in front of his laptop, knees up to his chest, and eating a slice of vanilla cake with frosting and strawberries on top. He worked only a few feet away from Raito, on a chair in front of a desk. Raito's eyes felt swollen as he sat up, alerting L.

"Good morning, Raito-kun." L said to him. "Would you like some cake?"

Raito looked down and shook his head, then got up to brush his teeth. He met Sayu in the hallway. "Onii-chan," she said softly. "Do you need to use the washroom?"

"I just need to brush my teeth. You, Sayu?" he asked her.

"Same, do you mind if we brushed at the same time?" she said, looking up at her big brother.

"No, come on." he replied, opening the door and letting Sayu go in first.

As he washed his face, he watch Sayu brush her teeth with her pink toothbrush. Her eyes were also red, and face pale. Tears welled up in her eyes as she brushed, but she didn't let them fall shamelessly in front of her brother as he did to L. Even Sayu's stronger than me.

Or not.

After Sayu rinsed out her mouth, one look from her brother made her burst out in sobs, rushing into her brother's strong arms. She sobbed uncontrollably into his chest. "Why…mom….dad…why them…?!" she shook.

Raito's heart broke to hear her sister crying. He leaned down to kiss her forehead and wrap his arms around his sister's tiny frame. "I…I don't know, Sayu. But I am going to find him. L and I and the rest of the investigation team. For dad. For mom. For you. I promise. Okay?"

Sayu looked up and wiped her eyes. She nodded the ran out of the washroom. Raito shook from anger and from remorse that he hadn't gotten home sooner. I will kill you. Whoever harms my family will die. Pulling a paper of the death note from out of his watch, he opened it up, about to write down the murderers name. But that's when he realized. He didn't know the mans name. Didn't know his face. For once… Kira was helpless.

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That's the first chapter…my first ever multi-chaptered L x Light Death Note fic… I hope you enjoy it, please read and review. And I apologize if some things make no sense, I havent finished reading all the manga. - sweat drops -

Please tell me how I could improve, and I apologize for this being so short…it's sort of a teaser / prologue type thing. Enjoy!