I wake up in the morning and I see L staring at me from the living room chair

Two Weeks Later

"This is so interesting." I say as I turn away from the computer monitor and face Rem, another Shinigami. "You were with that guy from Yotsuba… and now you're with us?"

"I wouldn't go that far." Rem says to me. She looks away from me and over at Light, you is sneering into the computer screen. Light has been acting different since I came back, and so has Misa. I look back over at Rem who is still staring at Light.

"Rem." I say to her. She looks at me. "Did Misa ever have control over your Death Note?"

"Why would I tell you?" Rem asks me. The others all look at me, they have all asked this question before.

"Why not?" I say back to her. "We are already almost positive that she was the second Kira, why not just tell us the truth?"

Rem doesn't say anything to me. She looks at me in the computer screen. Her eyes are burning into the screen, nothing can break her stare. Then she looks at Light.

She is silent.

"Rem." I say to her. Suddenly Misa wines loudly. We all look over at the computer and I roll my eyes.

"Rowen, put a smile on." L says to me. He sits in his chair the way he always does and looks into the computer screen.

"Let's go over the new evidence." Light says. L nods his head and Light opens the folder, then the computer screen goes black, and a small message appears on the screen.

"All Data Corrupted."

"Watari?!" L screams into the microphone connecting him to Watari. There is no response. L looks from the microphone to the screen then he freezes. He moans quietly and begins to fall from his chair.

"L!" I scream. I grab him and we both crash to the floor together and I grab his shoulder and pull him to up me.

"L!" I scream again. He blinks slowly and looks up at me. He smiles and blows me a kiss, and then he looks at Light. His eyes widen and he looks back at me.

"L, don't die on us! We need you!" I scream. He smiles at me and his eyes close. His dead weight burdens my arms.

I begin to quiver.

"L…" I mumble quietly. I turn and face Light; he is looking at L… in disbelief? It doesn't matter.

"It was you!" I scream at him. "I don't care if you were in the room with us, you did something to make this happen!" I look around the room at everyone's shocked faces.

"Rowen, I didn't…"

I slap Light across the face.

"I know it was you, you are Kira." I hiss at him. I look down at L and tears stream down my face. I stand up and leave the room. I hear Matsuda calling my name but I keep on walking.

Two days later I attend L's burial, alone.

Alone.

The years go by, Kira is life, Kira is God. The world has come to worship Kira. Anyone who wants to stop him is considered evil, and will be killed.

I turn sixteen; I get my first tattoo, an 'L' on my forearm, not out of love, out of respect. Respect for the man whom I know is right.

The years continue to slump by. Where am I hiding? No one knows. I run away after L and Watari were killed. I deleted all of my data that the force had on me. No more pictures of me, accept one picture that I always have on me, one picture that L actually let me take. It is of us eating ice cream together. He is smiling, a rare sight to have seen, unless you were me.

L always smiled when we were together, always.

Always… almost never with the task force, unless someone did something amazing or I said something 'funny' or 'cute'.

I continue to follow up on the Kira case. If Light can hack into the computers, than so can I.

I can.

I am eighteen years old. I'm legal now, but for whom? No one, for no one.

No one.