Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note, and this work is pure fiction.
Spoiler Margin: Chapter 108
Author's Note: Check the spoiler margin first. Anything you read below it is at your own discretion.
I had the sudden urge to write about DeathNote, as the ending of the manga is still fresh in my mind. I'm glad Fabrication got a lot more hits than I expected it to, though in reality, the quality is horrible! Hopefully the quality difference will be more evident in this one. This is a planned non-sequitur following the events of the theoretical destination after death, 'mu'. It follows the trials of deceased characters in the manga in their losses and speculations in the void of death. I have chosen to interpret the last scene of DeathNote as 'mu', and the setting will be based on that. If all goes well, this may become one of my main pieces.
Enjoy,
-RaiMidori
POV: Near
I haven't told anyone, not since the death of Light Yagami. I haven't told anyone my clandestine secrets- the fears that have lodged themselves on my heart, the losses that weigh down on my shoulders like the world on a god.
These days, instead of calling me, 'Near', or even, 'Nate', my title is, 'L'. It's just like that winter touched day, proudly bearing my mask without a clue of what to expect behind it. I haven't taken a glance in a mirror ever since, afraid –secretly- of what I might see: someone else.
Kira has left the world, and it is slowly spiraling downwards, decaying. Gevanni and I know this, and sometimes, when it's just the two of us in the room, we let ourselves be afraid of what we've done.
'Humans are all equal in death.'
Even as those words escaped his mouth, the darkness had already started closing in, by the window, spiraling demons with mouths agape.
And, yes, I am afraid. I am afraid of that place after this one, afraid that I might have to throw this mask away and see myself for who I am.
I am afraid of the people I will meet there, and the people I won't.
And the Darkness of a world without Light.