Chapter 2
Death Note: Afterlives
AN/ This is chapter Two so I have fufilled my twice monthly quota... HA. now to wait until the last week of Febuary to write or update any more. JUST KIDDING. but seriously I do have a life, as unlikely as that seems and I can't spend all of my time writing fanfics. I would if I could, other than taking a break to READ fanfics and play video games/ read manga/ watch anime, etc,etc,etc... But I digress Here you go epic fanbase.
BTW this chapter is third person following Light and L seperately. No longer First person L. he is somewhere else, and this is an important part of the plot. Anyway on with the story.
Chapter Two of Death Note: Afterlives
Light sat by himself thinking of L's proposition. He really did want out of here, but he was sure there was a catch. Probably the obvious one at that. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, he would just lie and avoid it, but any contracts made in limbo were completely and totally binding. That didn't mean that if you broke it you would die, because that would just be a cheap way out of (or back to) limbo. No, it meant you could NOT ever break it. PERIOD. No half truths, no being devious, no almost doing it, no omissions, NO EXCEPTIONS. Just like the rules of the internet.
He was sure L knew this and that was why he had offered. Even if this thing did work he wouldn't be able to go back to being the "god" he was before. His days as Kira were firmly dead and gone. Unless he could find a loophole in L's the system works both ways. It protected everything in the contract, so he would just have to make himself a way out without L realizing it. It would be just like old times... It wasn't getting any easier, and this problem wouldn't solve itself. He was going to have to think on it for a while.
Meanwhile, L was contemplating two things, how to get a Death Note in to limbo and how to keep Light from becoming Kira again. He knew that all contracts made in limbo were completely binding, and knew that Light knew as well. He also knew that, to make it fair, any loopholes that were left in the contract could be exploited, and would of he knew Light half as well as he thought he did.
L thought he had come up with an idea on how to get a Death Note into limbo. See it was true that anything any shinigami who came here dropped their Death Note as soon as they died, but what if a human were to die with a Death Note on their person? Not a whole one as Light had as that was apt to be discovered but a piece of one, hidden in a device like Light's watch? Cleverly concealed would it be able to get in? If so how big would it have to be to fit the two (or maybe three) of their names on it? And how could he convince a shinigami outside to let a human in with a piece, make sure a human died with a Death Note fragment, or ,finally, how would he get out his plan to a shinigami and human pair who would agree to a plan which not he wasn't even 100% sure would work.
Well the getting the message out wouldn't be all that hard, just because they couldn't go to the shinigami realm didn't mean that they couldn't communicate with it. He even had an idea of who to ask to help him. Ryuk. He had been interested in L and Light during their lives, and helped Light more than once. L was sure that he would be willing to help one more time. But where to find a suitable human? He would have chosen Misa Armane but she was dead too and still as ditzy as ever. He just hoped to hell that Kira, no he had to stop thinking of him as that, LIGHT wouldn't have told her about his plan. If he had L would kill him again and send him back to this hellhole to spend eternity like he was supposed to in the first place.
"Odd isn't it Light," he queried, for Light had just walked up, "We spend our lives trying to kill one another, and after we're dead we try to bring each other, along with ourselves, back to life"
"True, but what I am here to ask is about something different," He replied.
"What is it?" L shot back.
"I was thinking about two things, one is that we shouldn't bring Misa with-,"Light started
L replied, "Yes, yes, a million times yes, I mean please no for the love of god DON'T bring that bitch or better yet don't even tell her."
"Wow, I didn't know that you disliked her that much, but anyways, the second thing is I have an idea on who can help. A human. He isn't yet styiling himself as the next Kira, but he isn't far from it. We could convince him that this would reset his lifespan, and unlike I was, he is not a teenager. He is in his mid thirties so that could be a convincing argument."
"So who is his shinigami?" L asked
"Ryuk," Light grinned, "That's how I found out about him."
"Tell Ryuk about our plan, and see if he agrees, if he does we will go for it." L proceeded to tell him his thoughts on how to get the Death Note in.
"That could work, but if it doesn't?"
"Then we will just have to try again," L decided to change the subject, "Have you found a shinigami willing to go back to his job?"
Light grinned again, "That, my good compatriot, was the best part. Do you remember the shinigami that died for Misa?"
"Yes, but I thought we just agreed-"
Light cut him off, "Ah, but you see this is the beauty of it, Having lived around Misa for fifteen years, his opinion of our little starlet has rather declined. That is why I asked in the first place."
"Well that makes sense," L admitted ruefully, "Let's head over there and see him now."
An hour later
As they strolled up to the shinigami's residence L asked, "Wait, what the hell is going on here? I thought this was just a flat plane of nothingness except people and dead shinigami!"
A hollow chuckle sounded behind him, "Not exactly."
AN/ So, looks like Light and L don't know everything about Limbo after all. Who does this mysterious voice belong to (It is obvious if you paid attention)? What will he/she/it tell them? Find out next time. As you noticed this chapter is longer than the last one I will try to make the future chapters at least this long. In the meantime Read and Review please. Once again, this has been your host Ichimarugin54321