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In this, it is AU. None of the actual main characters were killed. Light has forgotten everything about being Kira and they caught the last person to have the DeathNotes passed to them. L is aware that at a point Light was definietly Kira, however, he doesn't talk about this.

Some other things are also AU but all in all, it's nothing exactly hard to read. It should be explained well enough to understand for now. If you notice anything Unexplained, please contact me by PM.

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Turnabout

L shoved his hands into his pockets and gave an almost transfixed look at the body that lie hopelessly on the ground, blood seeping out in all directions as he stared on.

It was a cold metallic vibration that chilled his body as he felt the fan blow his hair around slowly, tousling it about his face.

He could almost feel instant relief shoot through his spine as he felt the weight being lifted from his shoulders and then he turned his head to look at the task force. Staring in almost horror at the body that lie on the ground.

Cheif Yagami looked at the body with a certain expression of shock as he noticed the man across the way, holding the gun and shaking fiercly.

L turned to look at the man and his eyes went into slits as he noticed he seemed to be begging for forgivness and mercy.

"You." L commanded, breaking the silence as though it were fine china.

The disheavled looking mans breath hitched in his throat and he looked on in fear at the notrious detective, for whom he couldn't of possibly known him being which.

He pointed to gun at himself as if saying, 'Me?'

L sighed internally, slightly exasperated but not daring to let it show through as he kept his composure with the petty criminal. "Yes, you." L droned as he cocked his head slightly to the side.

"Get out of here, and you won't be charged."

The criminal gasped and nodded violently before dropping the gun where he stood and making a run for it out the door.

L looked back at the task force who now looked at the dead man, black shaggy hair hiding his once famous, proffesional face. He had been a prostegious buisness man, scrupulous no doubt until he had gotten his hand son the Death Note.

That's when he had turned evil.

Then he became the new Kira.

He had miraculosly gotten two Death Notes within his possesion somehow. Greedy enough to keep both and use only one. THe other was hidden from any other persons use and he had done a fine job up until that very point. Where Kira was finally once and for all killed.

L looked onward at the man before turning his head to the stunned task force once again. They had all been there for final finally. The original Task Force, once again present.

Aizawa, Soichiro, Light, Matsuda, and even Mogi.

L looked at them for a strong few minutes before cracking a smile and nodding his head slowly. "It's alright Matsuda, you can yell and do a victory dance or whatever you want to do..."

Matsuda gave him the look of a puppy who was about to get a great big treat. He opened his eyes wide and threw his fist in the air before giving multiple victory yells.

It wasn't before long that they were all giving each pats on the back and were all just smiling in each others presence, the harsh intesity finally gone.

"Ryuzaki!" Light yelled over at the man who stood solemnly, hands in pockets as he looked on at the dead body, eyes burning into his skull as though he would magically rise.

"Yes?" L responded as he turned around slowly, by this time the task force had quieted down some and a very excited Matsuda had only a soft smile on his face, just a fraction of what the young man was feeling at that moment.

"Why do you stand alone like that? Come over here, wether you like it or not, you were part of this team." Light reasoned with a witty smile on his face.

L's eyes turned away and he frowned slightly before sighing softly, but they got the best of him and he slowly began walking over the group who eagerly waited.

Soichiro was the first to say something to the infamous detective. "Ryuzaki-"

"You can call me L again...I don't see an issue calling me anything different at the moment. We have killed Kira, no one followed us in and we aren't exactly in public at the moment."

Soichiro smiled slightly and nodded. "L, it has been an honor to work beside you..at first, we all questioned your methods but I beliee in the end that if it had not been for your methods, we would of never caught Kira and succesfully put an end to his terror."

L looked at him for a moment before giving a half smile and cocked his head once more to the side, "I must say in return, Cheif Yagami, now looking back on the case; even though it is unusual, if it had not been for all the plenty of help I had gotten from the police and your son, I don't believe that I could of succesfully conquered Kira."

The task force basked, even if for only a minute, in the graces that L was showering upon them with his compliments.

"Well L, what will you do now? Since Kira came about, the crime rate went down astronamically. It wont be a year until cases for you start popping up considering some people are going to fear the fact of another Kira popping up. I'm sure that the cases you would take on won't be around for at least eight months." Light questioned as he put his hands on his hips and stared at the bed-headed insomniac.

"Yes..but I have already gotten a case to work on, so I suppose that worked out just as well didn't it?" L replied with a hint of wit lacing his voice.

The task force looked at him with confusion, "What kind of case could you possibly have?" Aizawa asked confused by all means.

Aizawa had teamed up again once more when he came to Cheif Yagami one day, stating he had evidence that the new Kira could of possibly been just the man that was now officialy pronounced dead in the middle of the warehouse.

Aizawa also told Soichiro, on a personal note, that he had been fired anyway from the Police Station on account of his obsessing over the Kira case which they refused on a many of accounts to look into, stating L would be in charge and that was it.

In the following year or so, he had been working on the Kira case alone, trying to find any information helpful at all to the case and throughout trying to follow and track the case step by step, he was falling behind exponentially. But at one moment in time, towards the very end he had saw a suspicious entering a buisness building, he had seen him writing something in a notebook quickly, look around suspicious before stuffing it in his coat pocket, sliding the pen in his pants pocket and then retracted his steps to his steps back a few feet.

He then looked into a window which seemed to be filled with TV's. Looking down at his watch, he bounced his head softly each time a second went by.

Then all of a sudden his head snapped up just as the reporter began to yell in shock that the man she had just been reporting on since early that morning had suffered a heart attack and had just been pronounced dead.

The man looked around nervously for a moment before taking the notebook out once more and writing something else before entering the building oncemore and dissapearing from sight.

That night Aizawa hadnoticed that a great deal of criminals were being killed again, along with a few other big time buisiness men.

Aizawa then had his suspicions rise when he had looked up the buisness he saw the man was part of and noticed his picture on the website. His suspicions were almost concluded when he saw that he was the CEO of the large corporation.

When Soichiro was told this by Aizawa personally on his front door step,he delievered the information to L who had taken a look into the man himself through his infinite amount of resources.

In the end, it was obvious that L had allowed Aizawa back on the team and had actually shown through an apology for their last verbal fight with his gratitude for the information.

Aizawa accepted the apology without a problem and also thanked him for allowing him back on the team. Stating it felt good to be part of something again. To have meaning.

L at the current time and place looked at Aizawa for a moment before clearing his throat and scratching his ankle with the tip of his white Sneaker along with rubbing the back of his neck.

"It's a case I have been working on for quite some time...an investigation on myself."

The others intrests only began to heighten.

"What do you mean Ryu-..L?" Matsuda asked hastily.

"Just as I said." L replied with a shrug. "An investigation on myself."

"What's the mystery behind yourself? Why would you be investigating yourself?" Light asked with one eyebrow cocked in surprise.

"I can't leak that information to you.." L replied cooly, eyes half-closed.

It was quite for a moment as L turned to inspect the body of the individual who was dead.

"Wait." Light responded as he stepped forward. "You can't leak information to us because you consider us not on the team anymore since wehave finished the investigation. Let us be part of this investigation also."

L stopped abruptly. "It's a personal case."

"You said you've been working on it for years..by yourself. You may be the greatest detective in the world, but a case that is based around yourself? Do you really believe that you can solve the puzzle if you are the puzzle? Refrences can't get you far."

L's body tensed at the words and he bowed his head slightly as his eyes snapped closed. "Again, this case is a personal one. I can't expect you all to surrender yourselves to get into this case."

It was silent for a moment before Matsuda stepped forward to where Light stood and showed great determination in his face at L's turned back.

"You can count on me L." Matsuda said as he heard more footsteps sound from behind him.

Before L knew it, they were all behind his turned figure, determined faces as they looked onto him.

"What'd you say, L? One more case? All together?" Light replied as he gave a half-smile to the detective.

L turned around slowly to see them all in a line, waiting. L face became one of boredom to astonishment. "You all.."

L stopped suddenly, not at a loss for words but rather a loss for emotion. He couldn't tell which he was feeling. Love? Surprise? Doubt?

"L, were ready for whatever case you have to throw at us." Mogi replied deeply following the trend of the half-smile throughout the line.

L freed his hands from his pocket and began to bite his left thumb in thought before quinting his eyes at them.

"Listen, this case is a personal case, I don't know if any of you know the word Personal or not but it means that I'm the only one who is to know the information and the results at the end. It's one about myself and I'm not the type to tell everyone about who I am.."

Everyone was in a sudden shock at the ferocity of his words, they never experienced an L with such attitude and sarcasm lining his voice, but this didn't stop them yet.

"L, none of us are about to judge you on your past, nor your present. We want to help with this case, no matter where it leads to. Were all commited and ready to sacrifice our lives if we must." Light continued, his eyebrows furrowing as he went on.

Aizawa picked up for him there, "We are all loyal." Aizawa finished.

L's head lifted a bit at those words as he remembered the last time he tried to test their loyaltbut had that not been another test? When he had just used his best sarcasm? To see if they could be easily scared off easily or at least dictated what they are allowed or not allowed to do? As though they were children?

They had to all have confidence and determination, not to mention undying loyalty in this case. Much like how they had to in the Kira case. This case would gnaw at their brains as they unraveled the awkward and perculiar detective. Founding out possibly graphic and horrid truths as to who many people were that had been a big part of his life?

Well fine, it didn't seem any were going to budge soon.

"Good job Aizawa." L replied as he shrugged. "If you are all willing as Aizawa stated graciously before, then I see it would be no problem for you to all show up at the main Head Quarters once again, Eight O'clock AM sharp."

Matsuda's face for asplit second showed some agony and but all at once recovered. "T-Tomorrow?" He asked sheepishly, hoping the answer to change.

"Unless your not on the team and case, then yes. That is what I said.." L replied as he made his way to the dead body and grabbed the two deathnotes before looking at each individually and then looking up to see two Shinigami's standing before him.

Ryuk and Rem.

He sighed and nodded once in ackgnowledgment after he hesitated while the memories flooded back to him of the time they had last met. The last time they had met, Light had come close to actually killing him, only winning by a longshot when Rem couldn't bring herself to do it and Light, thoroughly angered, was almost going to write Misa's name in the book.

That's when Rem had demanded he revoke the DeathNote in exchange for L's death.

Light thought she must of thought of him stupid but Rem told him that if he did not revoke the Death Note it would be his own stupidity.

He had mused over the though for a moment and had come to a conclusion in his head that i would be thoroughly stupid, first of all, if he killed Misa, he would have nothing to wager with the Shinigami and she wouldn't care what he did after that, most likely not agreeing to anything he wagered. If he had the Death Note and gave it to her, she would be happy knwoing there would be no more pointless deaths happening because of him and she would kill L, hopefully.

Light knew he had a better chance that way then any other way. He also knew that if he were to kill Misa, suspicions would arise within L of his being there.

It was worth the shot. However, Rem had played him like a fool and had infinitly won, however, she also knew that Ryuk's DeathNote floating around could not mean good and had dropped purposefully somewhere close to a building far from where the HeadQuarters or Light Yagami's house was.

That was the end of Kira for Light. But the dawn of a new Kira had begun shortly after.

"The rest of you, leave, the police will be coming soon to dispose of these Death Notes..properly." L announced loudly as he whipped out his phone.

" But, L...wont they be suspicious as to who you are exactly?"

"I suppose they would be but I also suppose I could just equally lie." L replied as he flipped through the pages again and again.

The others quickly exited, satisfied with the results of their talk and decided it best on leaving as L had asked them to do.

It was not long before other Police Officers came walking through and L told them a lie of his indetity, stating he was another one of L's handlers and that L had sent him to properly assist them in desposing the Books.

Ryuk fumbled around nervouslyin the car as he sat next to Rem in the back of the Police Cruiser, L sitting in front, both books stacked within his hands.

"Come on!" Ryuk tried to reason with the human who only stayed quiet and quite emotionless.

"You really don't want to burn those things! I mean seriously you'll...like...die and blow up! Ka blam!" Ryuk yelled as he waved his arms dramatically around.

"Why are you so agitated? Destroying the Death Note does not destroy you, Ryuk. Did you even read the Shinigami handbook? Ever?"

Ryuk gave her a dirty look as he gritted his rather sharp teeth together. "I know that, but we'll still have to be sent back to the Shinigami Realm!"

Rem gave him a curious look before he continued.

"Listen, I know you get a new one and all but I don't want to be there for any amount of time at all, their apples are disgusting and the only entertainment we have is betting."

L's ears perked at that and turned around quickly. "So..you are saying that if we destroy these..you'll get new ones? Which you'll drop on earth again so you may stay?"

Ryuk laughed hoarsley and nodded as he kicked his feet ontop of the drivers head who had been at least informed of the fact that L was able to see the Shinigami for as long as he had the two books, which he had only taken with a grain of salt.

Now the driver looked curiously over but for a moment, he actually believed in what he had been told.

"..."

L turned around and sat in silence for a few minutes before slouching over and squeezing his eyes shut. "Fine.." L replied slowly and sighed deeply.

"Let me out here." L said slowly.

"What?" The driver questioned.

"Let me out. I was told by the Shinigami that I must destroy these in a specific way, otherwise. All those who have touched it will die, and I must do it in private." L replied slowly, lying through his very teeth.

The driver stared in shock before swerving over slowly and allowing him to exit the vehicle. "Tell the other officers and such what I said." L said quickly before exiting the vehicle, the two Death Notes beneath his arm as he breathed in relief once the driver tipped his hat and he pulled away.

He shook his head and reached into his pocket for his phone. He grabbed it quickly and dialed Watari's phone number.

It rang only twice before he picked up and with a curious voice he asked, "Ryuzaki? Is it you?"

"Yes, it is me, Watari. I will need for you to pick me up, can you tracemy call."

"Of course,"

"Alright, I will explain once you have gotten to me."

"Right."

"Thank You, Watari."

"Oh, L, one more thing.."

"Yes?"

"Did you.."

"Yes."

It was silent on the phone, the awkwardness making L question if his old guardian had..died.

"Watari?"

"Congratulations Lawliet, I knew you could do it."

L smiled at his name and sighed deeply. "It has been a long time since I've heard my own name, Quilish.."

Watari laughed accordingly on the other line and though invisible to L's eyes he nodded. "Yes, well, what shall I call you? L or Ryuzaki?"

"Either of which you like, the others will call me L from here on out when we are in private at Qead Quarters and Ryuzaki in public."

"Well, then, I shall do the same. But, why will the others being at Head Quarters again?"

"Once you arrive, Watari."

"Alright then."

ANd with that in mind L simply allowed himself to smile even if only for a second as he hung up the phone and once again let the straight face rest upon his features.

He thought of the exposure he would feel in the due morning. The exposure and the shame he would feel as to what he would have to reveal. He had been very good at not showing through his past while they had all worked together. People rarely questioned his past within the Task Force, only Matsuda being so naive to ask if he and Watari were related once.

Of course, L had not answered asking him to simply get back to his work after a few uneasy quiet seconds.

He didn't know how to respond of course. What would he say? He hated facing the reality that Watari could not possibly live for more than at most fifteen more years.

It was the one person who he knew he wouldn't be able to bare their death if such thing were to say happen.

L let the wind pick up his hair in the breeze as he watched the black old-styled car come pulling in front of himself.

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