This is my first Death Note Fanfic, so please be nice. It is an AU fic that basically follows the DN plot up until around L's death, more specifically the infamous rain scene. But that will all be revealed in time; for now all that matters is that Kira has been inactive for fourteen years, and everyone is alive. Also I don't own Death Note, or the occasionally mentioned Transformers.

Oh yes, the order that the names are given in depends on the last names country of origin. So the characters with Japanese last names are mentioned first name last, and the characters with Western last names are mentioned first name first.

Oh, and there is some implied previous Mpreg too.

I need to work on making these introductions more exciting…

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Yagami Hikari stood impatiently drumming his fingers against the brick wall of the middle school. Angrily he glanced down at the old watch his father had given him; it had been a full ten minutes since school had let out, and his best friend still hadn't shown up. Grumbling to himself, Hikari turned to look at his reflection in a window. Absent-mindedly he began to fuss with his unruly black hair, although he knew it was in vain. Not once, in all his thirteen years, had his hair lain flat. He began to admire his other features, but was interrupted by the sound of approaching feet.

"Where the hell have you been?" Hikari shouted to his friend, Matsuda Marius, who arrived, doubled up and panting, in front of him. It was a moment before Marius regained enough breath to raise his head and answer.

"I'm so sorry, Hikari-kun!" He began blinking big blue eyes at his black haired friend. "I got held up by some girls from my Home Ec class." Nervously Marius ran a hand through his wavy blond locks and awaited an answer.

Hikari looked at his friend and sighed; it was just too hard to stay mad at him. He was always so nervously humble, which, Hikari suspected, had something to do with the fact that his mother had felt it necessary to name her child something European and pretentious.

"What did they bother you about this time?"

"Oh, they just wanted to know the homework."

Bull shit, thought Hikari, they just wanted to talk to him. It was a known fact that the entire female population of the school thought Marius was adorable. It wasn't as though they wanted to go out with him or anything, Marius had been flamingly gay since he came out of the womb, they simply liked hearing him talk.

"Come on, Mari-chan, we have to hurry," Hikari ordered; obediently Marius followed. The two boys had known each other for their entire lives and Marius was used to following. It was simply a part of the way they interacted and he never questioned it.

"Why do we have to hurry?" He asked running to keep up with his friend's longer strides; Marius's legs, like the rest of him, were very short.

"My sister and the bratlings are coming to my house after preschool today. If we hurry we can get to my room before they arrive."

"It's going to be a full house today, isn't it?" Marius said, he started to try and tabulate the number of people on his fingers, but Hikari spared him the trouble.

"Seven people. If the bratlings count as people."

"Don't be so mean, Hikari-Kun!"

"I'm not mean, I'm honest! The two of them are obnoxious. I don't even think my sister likes either of them."

"Even your cousin?"

"Especially my cousin! Chiro-chan is the only four-year-old ass hole I've ever met! He's pissy about everything! Izzy, at least, is cheery."

The bratlings, as Hikari called them, were Izador Keehl and Soichiro River. The two little boys were totally different and equally annoying. Izador was a hyperactive, chocolate addicted, videogame fanatic who made a habit of proclaiming his undying love to Hikari's younger sister. Soichiro was the son of Hikari's Aunt Sayu and a family friend. He was a dislikable, unhappy little thing who managed to come off as vain and self-hating simultaneously. Neither of them, in Hikari's mind, deserved to spend time with the young Yagami Rem who simply seemed to humor them.

The two boys walked in silence for a while, until Marius grew uncomfortable with the quiet and tried to strike up a conversation.

"So, how about that history class?" Marius asked. History was the only class the two boys shared, and an excellent way to get Hikari talking.

"Oh My God! Every damn year! You'd think that nothing happened before twenty years ago. Would it be so damn hard to teach us anything that didn't have to do with Kira!" Hikari froze for a moment and seemed torn between a desire to stop and a desire to blow off more steam. His self control lost out and he continued to indulge his anger. "It's vanity that's what it is. They like discussing it because they lived it. It's even worse when they give you their own theories, or try to get the class to come up with a theory. It's over; give up!"

Hikari continued the animated, one-sided discussion for the rest of the walk. Marius was content to listen, so long as the silence was filled, and didn't pipe up until they neared Hikari's house.

"So, who do you think it was?"

"Who?" Hikari echoed.

"Don't play stupid, Hikari-kun! Who do you think Kira was? Our fathers were all involved; you must have given it some thought."

"Well, I don't really… What I mean is…" Hikari was saved from his floundering by a car that pulled into the driveway.

"Shit," said Hikari. "We're too late."

Yagami Light got out of the car, and sighed heavily before opening the rear doors to extract children from the back seats. From the sidewalk Hikari and Marius watched in horrified fascination.

Chiro was the first to be placed on the lawn. He stood pouting with his arms folded. He stopped pouting for only a moment so that he could brush white hair from his face and then he went back to glaring at the grass.

Izador Keehl was pulled squirming from the car next, but immediately brightened up when he saw Hikari. He waved energetically and accidentally knocked the pair of over-large goggles he was wearing, causing them to slide down his face. Unperturbed he placed them back in his blond hair and pulled a headless transformer from his backpack.

"I sat on Chiro-chan's toy!" Izzy said in the same way one might announce a job promotion or a marriage.

"I don't care," Chiro interjected, although it was clear he did. Izzy, however, was too busy trying to jam a bouncy ball into the transformer's neck hollow to listen.

"That's not going to work." The reprimand came from Yagami Rem who had just been placed between the two little boys. Izzy laid off his shenanigans when he noticed her large black eyes on him. Rem's eyes had a calm intelligence that was almost disturbing in someone of her age. She continued her disapproving stare, until she was scooped up by her father again.

"Come on. All of you get inside," Light said, walking towards the house.

"I want Hikari to carry me in!" Izzy decided.

"Oh, Hikari. I didn't see you there. Are you just getting home?"

"Yeah, Marius had stuff," Hikari told his father as he plucked Izzy from the ground. He shivered inwardly as he felt sticky hands grab his hair. Izzy was just gross.

"Hello, Yagami-san," Marius said reaching for the third toddler.

"I don't need carrying!" Chiro screamed and he marched into the house leaving Marius feeling rather foolish. With a heavy sigh, Light paraded the rest of the group in.

"Take them into the family room and keep them busy, would you Hikari?"

"Because I don't have my own life…"

Light fixed his son with a terrifying glare and was met with immediate complacency. Hikari herded the group away, as Light headed up the stairs.

"This is shit," Hikari mumbled to himself, but he stopped abruptly when he realized there was somebody already in the living room. "Oh hey, Pop."

Hikari's other father, who was perching on the couch with a laptop precariously balanced on his knees turned large black eyes to the group of children who had come to disturb him. L made no immediate verbal response, but stood up and shut his laptop.

"If you are going to remain in this room. I shall continue my work elsewhere."

"Sure you don't want to watch them?" Hikari offered sarcastically.

"I am positive," L responded in all seriousness.

"Is this a hard case, Father?" Rem asked.

"I am almost certain I have discovered the culprit, however, I should like to compare my thoughts with Light-kun's." And with that L left the room.

Hikari sighed and, in a single movement, rid himself of both his backpack and Izador. He plopped down on the couch and zoned out for a moment before realizing everyone was staring at him.

"Let's do homework, Mari-chan," Hikari said patting the cushion next to him on the sofa. "You three watch TV or something."

"I should like a snack. I will be in the kitchen," Rem announced.

"Can you reach everything?" Hikari asked his sister. She nodded and left the room as Chiro and Izzy began to fight over the remote.

Once in the kitchen, Rem preceded to move chairs around so that she could climb up and reach the counter. It took her quite some time before she could reach the bowl of shiny red apples that she desired. As she was moving the chair towards the sink so that she could wash the fruit, a large creature descended from the ceiling.

"I was wondering where you were, Ryuk-san," Rem said in her usual almost-monotone. "You didn't come to school with me today."

"I'm really supposed to follow your father, and besides, watching a bunch of infants whine all day gets boring." The monster told her.

"I know; that's why I want you to come. It's more fun with you there." Rem stopped talking to scrutinize the chair, which had gotten stuck on the small rug in front of the sink. "Pick me up, please."

"I really don't scare you at all, do I," Ryuk said with a cackle.

"Why should you? You helped name me, didn't you? And you've always been there. Also there are some clown-like elements to your features that, statistically speaking, should appeal to someone in my age group. Pick me up, please."

This time Ryuk complied, chuckling all the while at the impudent behavior of the fearless child. She was so completely different from the other humans, that he was fascinated. He had never met a human who wasn't terrified when they saw him. Even Light had been shocked at Ryuk's first appearance. His daughter, however, had not uttered so much as a whimper when she saw him from her crib as an infant.

"Down please, Ryuk-san," Rem asked, and, when her request was met, she offered up an apple to the Shinigami. She smiled at him genuinely as he shoved the fruit in his mouth, and she was about to speak when she was interrupted.

"Rem-chan, what would you rather watch, Transformers or something dumb?" Izzy asked coming into the room.

"Chiro-chan doesn't want to watch Transformers?" Rem questioned after a heavy sigh.

"He said it's kid stuff. So I told him he was four an' now he's got his head buried in his arms an' he won't come out. So Hikari told me to ask you what you wanted to watch."

"Chiro-chan likes Transformers. Just watch that and eventually he'll come out."

"Yay!" Izzy shouted and he retreated into the living room.

"Always keeping the peace, aren't we Rem," Ryuk asked in amusement.

"They make it exceedingly difficult," the child said and she followed her friend into the living room.

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I hope you liked the first chapter! There will be an actual plot somewhere along the line, but I have every intention of taking my sweet time. Thanks for reading.