The Kira case seemed so simple, bu in reality it was a web, woven from lies and deceit. Whenever someone played a card they would be caught in its sticky embrace.
The only way out, death.
You have played well Kira, but the game is over now.
...
Kira was a ghost, every time we had a lead on him he would disappear as if he had walked through a wall into someplace where we could not follow. Melting away and leaving no trace of his arrival.
I was determined to solve the case, though, even if it was at the cost of my own life. Justice would prevail.
But there was an anomaly, something that didn't fit my cleverly crafted plan.
Something, I, L, did not count on.
There always was.
That thing was Light Yagami.
Maybe it was the long days of being chained to each other, growing closer that did it, maybe it was that I had finally found an equal, someone with intelligence to rival my own.
Whatever the reason, I had fallen for both my closest friend and my worst enemy.
Yes. Me. L.
As we played the game, constantly dancing around each other, trying not to get to close, the mask I had worn my whole life began to crumble. Emotions that I never knew existed ran through me like sparks, igniting an entire new outlook on the world, and the people in it, one person in particular.
Light Yagami knew those feelings too.
From the moment I knew that I had lost at my own game.
If someone had asked me to put a percentage on Light Yagami being my soul mate I wouldn't have been able to do it. It seems that there are questions that even the world's greatest detective doesn't know the answer too.
So it is after much observation I have been able to conclude that on the day I died, Light Yagami did also.
As I lay, contemplating my death in his arms, I gazed up into the eyes of my beloved and I saw the last rays of light flicker hopelessly as Kira consumed him.
For a moment he had won.
L Lawliet was no more.
Light Yagami was no more.
It was my fault. I had known all along that Kira resided within him; I was blinded by my love. I had never wanted him to be Kira, not for a moment.
I did not regret one day of it.
Not one minute.
It seems my emotions destroyed me in the end, the very ones I had fought so hard to disconnect myself from my entire life.
I did not overcome them, I was weak.
It didn't matter though. Light was all that mattered.
He was less than a shell now, devoid and unfeeling, held hostage by Kira.
Hollow.
I would always be grateful for the time spent together.
I knew that we would have forever soon and I am never wrong.
Knowing this I gladly let my eyes slide shut for the last time, never leaving his face that was twisted into a maniacal victory grin.
Did you think I would give up that easily, Kira, after all that happened?
...
Kira was dying. I had won after all.
Only I bore witness to his downfall, watching as his eyes became less clouded. Kira was leaving him, he was remembering.
I knew he saw me there, and as he too drew his final breath, he smiled weakly. It was over.
I felt his embrace.
Now Light could be free.
Now we could both be free.
This is far from my best work but after re watching Death Note my inner LLight fangirl was just begging for something to be written so here it is.
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