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Hey fanfic readers. You are now about to be graced by reading the very first fanfic by the great, and soon to be greater, Reposiric. xD jk

I compiled these ideas of mine about my favorite anime/manga series, Death Note, only as an experiment. My decision on how good I've done, and by the reviews I may or may not get, will determine whether or not I will sew a future on this site with more fanfics. The plot of this fanfic of Death Note generally takes place after the final showdown with Near, in the final episode; However, I pulled a spin on how that showdown took place. A very small portion of the beginning dialog is identical or similar to the original, but it was merely for setting the stage. Now, before I get into more details, please enjoy...Death Note - Utopia...Chapter one

Innocence

Sunlight barely trickled through the dirty windows of the abandoned building. Nine people were positioned in two groups adjacent to each other. In one group, Near, the original intended successor to the great detective known as "L", sat crouched, hunched over. His assortment of toys and puppets he used to represent players in his game of catch the bad-guy were sprawled out in front of him. His SPK detectives stood close behind him, along with Mogi, from the Kira Investigation Team.

Across from Near and his detectives, stood Light Yagami; the suspected Kira. He was accompanied by three people, who had been a part of the Kira case since the beginning. Tension ran high, as the detectives that occupied the room stared back at each other. The meeting they were attending felt like it was lasting for an eternity.

"On the other side of that door is X-Kira...Teru Mikami," Near informed the others. "I'm certain he has already written down all of our names." he added, twirling his finger in his hair. "Could you please come inside, Teru Mikami, if it's not too much trouble? It would be greatly appreciated. If you have written our names, then there's nothing to fear." The members of the Kira Investigation Team all gasped, excluding Light. "I already know you're the one with the notebook, judging criminals."

"Mikami, is it? Near's right, there's no reason to hide out there. Join us." Light agreed.

Joy swept over Mikami. "God is calling." Mikami held the notebook close to his chest as he used his other arm to pull open the huge metal sliding door. He stood in the entryway and examined the room. His eyes crept to Light, who was looking back into them. 'God...' He thought to himself, and he smiled on the inside. They gave each other a conformation with their eyes. He then stepped into the building and exchanged glances with the people occupying it.

"Mikami, could you please tell us how many seconds it's been since you wrote the names in the notebook?" asked Light.

"36...37...38!...39!...40!!!"

Everyone on the Kira Investigation Team, save Light, hunched over and put their hands over their heads. "Ahhh!!!" screamed Matsuda, who soon after peeked up in confusion. They all began to regain their composure, still confused at this outcome. "Wha-...What happened?" questioned Matsuda, who soon looked at Light and Near quizzically, noticing neither of them had flinched.

There was silence in the room, then Mikami pretended to be surprised. He stretched a terrified look across his face. "No...Shit, no, why!? What the hell!?" He quickly spun around and dashed out of the building.

"Gevanni, Rester!" shouted Near. "Right!" agreed the two detectives simultaneously, as they quickly subdued Mikami. The notebook fell from his hands and made a flap that echoed through the building as it hit the ground. They held the tall, dark haired man down and placed handcuffs on him. "No, why!?" Screamed Mikami, putting on an act as Light had instructed. He looked slightly up at Light, and their eyes met. Light gave him a "Good job" with his eyes, as he stood and watched. Mikami felt a euphoric bliss flow over him. God was pleased. 'Mikami...You've done gloriously...Your sacrifice will not be in vain.'

Near looked down at a toy on the ground. It had large glasses on, and long plastic black hair. The silver haired boy smiled, and flicked it with his index finger, causing it to fall over. "Gevanni, the notebook." he demanded. Gevanni quickly ran to Near and handed him the notebook. "And now, we expose Kira."

Light chuckled to himself just soft enough to where no one would hear him. It took everything he had to suppress his laughter.

"I will now read aloud the names written in the notebook." He reached out to grab a toy that was further away. In red ink on the toy's body read "Kira". It had short brown plastic hair, and no face. "The name of the person in this room not written in the notebook...is definitely Kira." the young detective expressed with nothing more than utter confidence, tightening his grip on the toy.

"Nate River (Near)...Anthony Carter (Anthony Rester)...Stephen Loud (Stephen Gevanni)...Halle Bullook (Halle Lidner)...Shuichi Aizawa...Touta Matsuda..." He stoped, eyes widened, and the Kira toy he was holding fell and made a small clack as it landed. "...Yag...Yagami Light..." He said, in a very confused manner. 'I was wrong?' He asked himself. 'No...There's no mistaking it...Light is Kira...It just appears that he saw through my plan...I'm not the least bit surprised, now that I think about it. Light has managed to avoid capture for years now...But I was so sure I had him.'

"Very clever, Light." Said Ryuuk, who had been standing behind light. "I understand now. Hehe."

Light was now being overwhelmed by his wanting to laugh, but he knew not to, or he'd ruin it. He bit down hard on the inside of his cheeks to replace joy with pain. 'I knew all along you had tampered with the notebook, you idiot. I instructed Mikami to create a forgery notebook, for just this occasion. He kept the forgery in his safe, where you tampered with it. Takeda had pieces of the real notebook, to do the killings for Mikami. And the real one was hidden elsewhere. When I realized something like this may happen, I had Mikami send me the real notebook, and had him continue to write names in the fake notebook. He agreed to pretend he didn't know he had a fake, and write my name in the fake notebook at this arrangement, to keep me in grace.

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Light had arranged a meeting with Mikami, in person, a few days earlier. "I'm almost certain someone has been following you, so take a confusing criss-cross route, so they can't trail you here." Something imperative needed to be done.

"Mikami, I have something very important for you to do," light said, walking over to the long haired man, and placing his hand on his shoulder.

"Yes, God, anything."

"Mikami, you have been a wonderful help to my cause, thus far. I see that you truly do want the world to be a wonderful peaceful place for all of the good, hardworking people."

"Yes, God, of course! I want nothing else!" the devoted man exclaimed.

"Would you go to the lengths of sacrificing yourself for me and my cause? For this world to be the perfect Utopia?"

Mikami fell to his knees. He reached up and took Light's hand into his own, looked up, and stared deep into Light's fearsome eyes. "...God...For you...And for the better of this world...I am your pawn, ready and willing to see through with whatever you see fit to make this world a Utopia."

Light grinned and stood Mikami up. "Thank you, Mikami...I have a task for you that is of the utmost importance." Light said softly.

Mikami started shaking and waited for his ever so important task from Light, his God. He was overwhelmed with excitement. Something this important will please God, and that's all he needed to be content and happy.

"Near has scheduled a time where we will meet, face to face. It will be me and the Kira Investigation Team, along with the SPK." Light informed Mikami, as he walked to the window and looked outside. "I need you to come there and peek into the room and write down the names of everyone in the room into the forged notebook, using the Shinigami Eyes.. Including me. Soon after, you will be caught. But in this process, I will be lowered from my suspicion as Kira, at least from my team."

Mikami's mouth gaped at the first thought of being caught.

Light turned back towards his devoted follower. "This will help me tremendously, Teru Mikami."

"But God, won't this bring about confusion as to how I knew about the meeting?" Mikami questioned, and stepped towards Light.

"Very smart, Mikami. Of course it will, but the members of the SPK and the KIT will just assume someone has access to our information and actions, or there was never an X-Kira to begin with, and you were the original. And they won't assume someone else there is Kira, because everyone there's name will be on the fake Death Note...But one more thing..."

Mikami closed his mouth and cleared his mind. "Do not worry, God...I would never expose anything about you when I am caught. And if they happen to ask me who informed me about the meeting, I'll simply claim that I was Kira...Thank you God, for trusting me with such importance. I will not fail you."

A demented grin crept across Light's face. 'Near...I will win, no doubt about that. This little stunt you're going to try to pull is not only going to make you look like a stupid ass, but also add to clear my name.' Light thought to himself. He then threw his head back and let out a loud maniacal laughter that sent shivers up Makimi's spine.

'God is happy. After this...God will be pleased with me.' Mikami thought, as he began to laugh alongside his God.

"Hahahaha...Humans are so fun.

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"Don't be so surprised, Near." Light said, walking over towards him. "I know evidence has pointed to me being Kira, but as I've said before...I'm simply not Kira." The brown haired man bent over and reached his hand out to the bewildered boy. "Come on. I know if you can stop being so focused on me being Kira, we can find a way to catch him, working together."

The silver haired boy looked up at Lights gesture, dumbfounded. "Yagami Light..." Near, although still perplexed, decided there was nothing more but to do as Light suggested. "Light...I cannot agree to the terms as specified. I cannot work directly with you...However, I will lower my suspicions of you, for now. And even though we may not be working with you directly, we will help each other out without argument, if asked."

"I understand." Light said, still bent over, waiting for Near's hand.

Near reached up and clasped Light's hand, pulling himself up in a lightning flash to Light's ear, causing him to gasp. "But Light, if you are Kira, I will find evidence to prove it, and you will be put to death." The boy quickly whispered, and then pulled himself away.

Still holding Near's hand, Light smiled. "Well, thank goodness I'm not Kira." He joked, and laughed.

"Indeed." Near added, faking a smile.

"Just make make sure from now on, make the attempt to call me "L". I don't want any accidents." demanded Light.

"Of course." the silver haired boy agreed.

"Now all we need to do is determine whether or not Mikami is actually Kira, or if he's working for Kira." Stated Aizawa, from across the room.

"Yeah, this really is all very confusing." Replied Matsuda, who began rubbing his temples.

Light turned to his team and ran his fingers all the way back through his hair. "Today's been very stressful on all of us. Everyone head home and get some rest...We'll continue the investigation tomorrow."

Light began walking towards the door with his team and looked over at Mikami who was sitting with his head held down, in deep thought. As Light passed him, he looked up and smiled deviously. 'I have served my purpose, God."

Near glared at Light with a suspicious look as he exited the warehouse. 'Yagami Light...L...Kira?..."

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"So, Light. Close call." stated Ryuuk as he floated, upside down.

"Not really, Ryuuk, I had it all under control from the very beginning." Light argued, as he fell back onto his bed and looked up at the ceiling.

Ryuuk floated down and sat on the ground. "Not that I care, or anything, but you know you could have killed them all then and there with Mikami's Shinigami Eyes."

"Ryuuk, are you serious? That would have been entirely irresponsible on my part, if I had done that." Light said, looking at Ryuuk in confusion.

"Oh?"

"Think about it...All but one on the Kira Investigation team disappears? Everyone, including Near, from the SPK vanishes?" Light said, sitting up. "Not many people know about our two groups, but some do, including the President of the U.S. It definitely wouldn't have gone unnoticed." He got up and began walking towards the kitchen. "Don't worry, Ryuuk, I'll Kill Near when the best chance presents itself." He grabbed an apple from a basket on the counter.

"I'm not worried. I've told you before...I don't care, as long as I'm entertained. And you do a great job at that. Hehehe...You gonna give me that apple?"

Light leaned against the counter and looked into his reflection in the shiny apple. "I am sort of upset about the loss of Mikami, but his role tonight was a vital necessity...It was unavoidable...There is no sacrifice too great for my cause." He threw the apple he was holding in the air and Ryuuk caught it.

'Near...Soon, you will be out of the picture...Because of your stupidity, and calling out the names Mikami wrote in the fake notebook, I have yours and the SPK's names...When the time comes, I'll kill you...'

"...Nate River..." Light looked down and placed his hand over his face. He could only see through the cracks between his fingers. "Hehehe." He chuckled. The crazed man stood up straight and flung his head back and burst into a maniacal laughter.

"Hehehe...Humans are so...interesting."

Okay, fanfic readers. That's the end of my very first chapter...I hope it was definitely worth reading down to the end. I tried my best to give it that intelligent, suspenseful, and psychologically thrilling feel. Please, no angry reviews. Just honest and constructive criticism, please, or just tell me how you liked it. If I messed up on anything by contradicting what happened earlier in the original Death Note storyline, tell me so I can decide if I want to edit it. Regardless if anyone reviews or not, I'll probably continue to write newer chapters, anyway. It was fun, and I'll eventually get some fans. x3

Next time - Light learns a few new very helpful things about the Death Note. And Mikami's fate is sealed IN...Death Note - Utopia...Chapter 2

Enlightenment