The Other L: Harry Potter and Death Note Crossover

Disclaimer: This story is fiction, all the characters, names and places belong to their respective owners.

I did mention (or implied) that Harry won't kill anyone until he had a chance to talk to them. He cannot just sit somewhere else and judges them without talking to them first. That would make him the same as any supernatural murderer. I do hope you enjoy this chapter as much I have. And hopefully it makes sense to how Harry does thing.

=[The Other L]=
This Mortal Coil

In a dark room with filled with skulls and bizarre ornaments with dark drape covering the window, preventing any outside light from invading the room, existed a girl. She had a heavy blanket over her head, covering most of her body. Her legs were folded in its upright position, held in place by her arms as she looked directly at the black note book that was placed on the bed in front of her. Countless dolls of various types, many adorned in gothic attire, sat around on the floor below the bed. They silently watched and waited for something to happen.

"Do you remember how a death god dies?" The questioning voice rang in her head. It was a familiar voice that can no longer speak. It had died for her as in the only way she knew how to kill a death god. Her friend was gone; taken; killed. She never realized it before, but she did miss it now. The only thing remained her of that friend was the book in front of her. Its existence told her that wasn't a dream. She did have the power to kill and now, she was afraid to use it.

"Kira," the girl muttered as a small droplet of liquid escaped from her eyes and spread its body upon the black stripe stocking, becoming a stain. She wasn't sure what to do next. She had found who she was looking for, but everything seemed pointless now. She should have sent out the next video tape today, but she didn't. Nothing matter anymore. She bowed her head down as the blanket slide over and covered more of her face.

"Rem… please tells me what to do, it isn't wrong is it?" Misa asked the empty air of the room, feeling like a lost lamb without its shepherd.

XxX

"Nobody suspicious was found during the trip to Aoyama on the 22nd or in Shibuya on the 24th," a police detective said, holding the report paper in his hand while his colleagues sat around in comfortable chair around a glass table and paying good amount of attention to him. It was the 25th of May, nothing seem changed in the past few days. Kira still killed criminal as usual.

'What is he doing… why hasn't he done anything yet?' A high school student with bright mind thought. He was sitting directly across an unruly, slim and tall young man with black hair and dark eyes, accompany with shadow below each of his eyes. That person was crouching on the chair in his preferred posture while sliding his thumb across his lips. L was thinking about something else entirely then: Second Kira.

(…)

Days had gone by while L replayed the footage from Aoyama on the 22nd to see if he had missed anything.

"It's strange, the second Kira no longer make any announcement or follow up on his threats. It's as if…" L said while Light stood behind him watching the footage as well.

'… someone got to him,' both thought simultaneously.

'That person gotten to him… my plans are falling apart. Why hasn't he done anything yet? This anticipation is killing me. Why doesn't he get it over already?' Light thought in annoyance while keeping his fabricated expression on. Inside, he was growing anxious. Ryuk was still around him. The shinigami was completely unsure what to do either, or just waiting for the end to come.

'Is it the original Kira? Had he killed the imposter?' L thought, watching the small television before freezing the picture frame and turned toward Touta. There wasn't anything out of place, but he was curious about something that he saw. He had seen it a few times before, and it felt it was odd each time.

"What did Light-kun talks to you about in Aoyama?" L asked Touta. The idiot became cheerful, rubbing the back of his head and answered. L took in the information.

'Light asked everyone to have lunch while he went to the bathroom?' L thought skeptically. It wasn't strange for a teenager to ask his friends to sit down and have lunch. No, what was strange was Light who did it. Light never talk to Touta about normal things and would never suggest such thing. He would continue wander the street of Aoyama until he finally found something… No, Light found something that was the reason why he asked them to sit down.

'9%,' L thought, turning back to the television while biting down his thumb's nail. Interrogating Light now wouldn't yield anything he hadn't already known. Light saw something or heard something, but nothing out of place was shown.

A day later, L was sitting on the wooden bench watching Seiso Takeda walking with Yagami in the envy of other bystanders. The genius detective frowning as he was unsure what to do next. Second Kira hadn't made any new appearance at all. He looked up from his literature in annoyance. There wasn't any lead left. Beside him seated a jet-black and same unruly hair man with his leg crossed watching Light with interest.

"Yagami-kun, good morning… Is that your girlfriend?" L greeted Light as usual while the boy told Takeda to meet up with him later. Light noticed the black-haired person sitting across L and refrained from saying anything out of place. Light sat down in between them and start talking about normal things to L while the man chuckled a bit.

"Kira," he muttered softy as the conversation between L and Light stopped abruptly. They didn't turn toward him but their heart rate became irregular. A smile formed on his face.

"Oh, don't mind me; I was just thinking about Kira. I still don't understand why he does the thing he do. What is his motivation?" the man lied. He had been watching Light for some time with Notice-me-not Charm, but that spying can only go so far. He needed to talk to Light directly to understand the boy thought process, and it was a mind that he was interested in.

Ryuk was acting unusual. The reaper was very quiet as he stood behind the seated trio. Harry had told the reaper to be quiet for this moment before hand as he will deal with Ryuk later.

"Where is my manner, I'm Harry Potter," Harry introduced himself while Light still have a stunned face on.

'Why did he mention Kira?' Light thought. It wasn't uncommon for people to talk about Kira, but they usually do it in a group or with someone they know, not by themselves and strangers.

"Light Yagami, nice to meet you Harry and this strange guy here is Hideki Ryuga," Light greeted since their silence was becoming awkward.

"Like the actor? It's a great name as if someone decided to give you that after watching the show," Harry said with a charming smile. He knew he had said something out of place, but that was to be expected when talking to the two geniuses. He cannot carry out his judgment from the shadow.

'Who is this guy… something felt wrong about him, but what was it?' L thought suspiciously, but his face showed none of it.

"I believe Kira wanted to create a world where no tragedy would occur," Light said and continued to give the same sob story as he gave L with some convincing arguments. Harry was amused somewhat at the deception but kept his composure on.

"What do you think of it, Hideki?" Harry asked while L rubbed a thumb across his lips, listening into every word and deciphering any hidden meaning.

'A foreigner, but he spoke fluent Japanese,' L thought and added his own opinion. Harry nodded and smiled at L's omission of various important points. L's demonizing version of Kira was that the elusive serial killer is acting like a child, playing with something he should not have.

"You have heard ours. What is your opinion on this? Harry-kun," L asked, adding the suffix to Harry name, hinting to the master of death that even though he could speak the language perfectly, it took more than that to be true Japanese. Harry got the message almost immediately and rubbed his chin while eyeing at the almost clear sky above.

"I think he wanted to rule the world as its sole judge, jury and executioner. He wanted to create a utopia, but then such a perfect world simply cannot exist. I believed his intentions, when started out were pure. Sure, everyone wants to get rid of all the scum of society, but it's only because they existed that we would not follow their example. If they were removed, who do we compare ourselves to? How do we know if we are a good person without someone who we can despise? If the world Kira envisioned comes to pass, it would just be false world. Nothing more than an illusion and the people will live in constant fear of getting judged by the false god. Is that truly living? There wouldn't be external suffering, but internally… who is to say," Harry answered while still looking at the sky. He knew what was on their faces and didn't need confirm it. He continued explaining some more things to the duo as they listened attentively.

'Who is this guy?' Light thought. This person in front of him was incredibly smart and deduced many things that shouldn't have been possible without an in-depth knowledge of how Kira's power worked. It didn't take long for Light to understand the reason why Ryuk was so obedience right now.

'So you're him. Are you saying you believed in me at first or are you hinting to me that I'm at the end of my rope?' Light thought, concluding that the person next of him had tightened his grip around his neck.

'Harry seemed to know a lot about Kira's behavior. He hadn't said anything out of place, but someone as amazing as him shouldn't be completely unknown to me,' L thought suspiciously. The strange detective had been all over the world, and someone of Harry's caliber should have been known even as a small splash. After the little chat, Harry stood up and brushed down his clothing and adorned his brown overcoat again.

"I guess I will be here for one more day. Do what I must before saying goodbye to this place," Harry said with a smile before walking off, leaving the two behind. The master of death had made his choice. Light was lost as the righteous path was no longer possible for the boy. Harry had given Light Yagami a day to say his goodbye to his immediate families and friends, and hoped he would use it wisely.

L and Light conversed with each other a bit more while Ryuk just laughed. All three headed off in their separate way afterward.

"Watari, get me everything you have on Harry Potter, I suspected him knowing Kira personally, only 5%, but he's the only lead we have right now," L told Watari after he entered the limo and locked it. The grayish-white hair and blue eyes complied.

'One day left… so it's the end, I lost,' Light thought, walking slowly in a different direction and back to his home. He entered his room after and collapsed on his bed, feeling dejected and forgetting about putting up an appearance.

"Should I tell them?" Light asked while Ryuk floating around the room. "I hadn't begun to scratch the surface of what a death note could do. I can't believe it would end like this, but one cannot fight against a true god who has no limit…" Light muttered, remembering how Harry hinted the word "false" god in a utopia society he had envisioned.

Light knew he could quell disorders as they appeared, but he could not control the mind of the people like those that spew criticisms at him in the media. Everyone has their interest now and ambition even in his utopia. Even so, he still wanted to build such a world. Was it wrong?

'Limit?' Light thought before calling out to Ryuk. "Tell me everything you know about the death note! " Light ordered as Ryuk chuckled at him. The reaper saw there is no way out of this even if he did tell Light everything he knew. Plus, it would be his last minute of defiance and hoped Light showed him something worth dying for.

XxXxX

Harry sat at the same bench the next day as Light walked slowly towards him with Ryuk floating behind. The master of death had his black notebook opened with Light Yagami's description illustrated on it. It also noted what the boy did yesterday in simplified form.

"I've given you time to do what needed to done, yet you didn't do any of that? Why? Do you think I would change my mind if you appealed to my sympathy? Or are you saying what you have done were right all along?" Harry stated flatly as Light stood in front of him. Harry didn't move his eyes from his notebook at all.

'So this is his death note. It's different from mine or Ryuk," Light thought, readying to enact the well-thought out plan to save himself.

"No, I know you will because it is in your nature," Light said without hesitation. Harry collapsed his book loudly and stood up before looking directly at Kira.

"Is that so? How the bloody hell would you know that!?" Harry asked with a slight anger. Was he wrong about Light's intellect? How could the boy be so stupid right now? There was no possible way out of this! The master of death became a little annoyed at the attempt of trying to persuade him to do otherwise. It really vexed Harry at the sight of how the boy who could kill without remorse was now trying to hold onto his own selfish existence. Harry would erase him from this world and the next. No afterlife or rebirth to those that abuse a death god's power.

Harry flipped open his book as it illustrated Light Yagami once more and ripped out the page before slamming the book closed in the other hand with agitation. "Light Yagami, I sentence you…"

"No you won't because I forfeit it!" Light interrupted as he held up the death note in his hand, and dropped it onto the ground. The boy's eyes changed as he blinked. He was confused as to why he was here.

"Who are you?" Light asked the person in front of him.

Harry's eyes narrowed and he was unsure what just had happened. It was as if Light had just lost his memory.

"Ryuk, what just happened?" Harry ordered, ignoring Light. Ryuk was laughing and explained to the master of death that Light had relinquished the ownership of his death note. Harry remembered back to Rem, who said something similar. The reaper picked the book up from the ground and smiled as the death note in his hand became invisible to all. It was a gamble as Light had speculated from Harry's personality.

The master of death didn't kill him in those days after Aoyama because he wanted to understand Kira better, and tried to see any possible chance of redeeming the man. Light, by erasing his memory and anything related to death note would effectively save himself since the alternative would not have been far worst.

"YOU!" The enraged Harry shouted in rage as he crumbled the torn out page in his hand. He couldn't kill Light now since the boy had no idea what he just did. Was it justice to kill an ignorance criminal, who had no memory of his own crime? Harry let out a deep breath at the still confused face of Light, trying to calm himself. Harry had never met someone who did such a risky gamble, but he knew Light was right. He would not kill an ignorance criminal, and Light had saved himself from the judgment.

"Ah sorry, Light Yagami, I must have run into you by accident," Harry apologized after swallowing his rage. He walked away from the still confused person, keeping his wrath bottled up. Ryuk followed behind the master of death as they headed into a secluded area, surrounding by trees.

"What just happened?" A radio nearby called out while several men waited at their spots.

"Shssh! He hadn't done anything yet, we need concrete evidence."

"What happen to Light-kun though?" One of them asked on the radio as the rest wasn't sure.

"Stick with our plan, we will ask Light-kun later," L replied on the radio. They'd run a check on Harry Potter, which sounded like an English name. No such person existed; facial recognition came up empty as well. While it wasn't a problem of someone using an alias, but the way Harry described Kira, it seemed too personal. Light-kun felt the same way, and wanted to rattle the cages while L had people on standby. They couldn't overhear what the two said since that would tip off their target if they got too close.

"Ryuk, I hereby return you to nothing. Because of you, Light's destiny was changed. He would have graduated from high school as a great person. Join the police force and keep peace and order. His intellect would go far, but because of you, he had become something he's not. I think these death-notes twisted a morally good person and bring out the worst in them," Harry said holding a torn page in his hand as green flames erupted. Ryuk's body engulfed in the same flames as the reaper couldn't hold in his laughter. Light did show him something worth dying for in the end. A human could outsmart an actual God.

"Then what does that makes you?" Ryuk said before his ashes rode the wind into the unknown. Harry winced a little at that question as the shinigami had twisted his own words. The master of death then exhaled to clear his conscience.

'What that supposed to mean?' Harry thought before readying himself.

"Is that enough evidence?"

"Definitely," another man said with tinted riot helmet, blocking his face entirely from view. Harry smirked a little. He knew he had been watched for some time, but he had allowed it. He still needed to give L. Lawliet a good answer before leaving this realm behind. There was no use letting L chasing after a dead man, and getting capture was part of that plan as it would bring him face to face with L in a 'controlled' condition.

The master of death had completed his task and would leave this realm soon regardless if he was tied up somewhere. His notebook was useless to anyone as only he could use it. It was demonstrated again and again when he had allowed other children to place their hand on it so he could change their fate. They couldn't use the book power without Harry handling it personally.

'My task has completed,' Harry thought as the side of his face was pressed against the dirt. It was done by dozens of police officers, whom then put a masked over his face and bounded his hands quite forcibly. Little did the master of death know; his task was not over yet. There were still two death-notes existed in the human world. One was in a hand of a girl, who was currently lost in her own sorrow, and the other was within the confined of Light's home; hidden in the secret spot under his drawer.

Author Note:

Hope you enjoy the chapter. Ryuk is gone. Only Misa and Light left. Light's gamble paid off right? The ending still clouded in my mind. I'm not sure whether to kill of Misa and Light since there is a path of salvation for them.

Next chapter will be clash of minds between L and Harry. Generally Harry knew more things than L, but it would be good to see how the two intellectual people fight a battle of wit. Being bounded up in a room doesn't concern Harry. He could just apparate out of it. The reason for why Harry allowed L to capture him is so L thinks he's in control. But L is currently dancing to Harry's tune, while Harry to Light's tune. I really enjoy writing this chapter and I hope you enjoy reading it. Give me your thought!

Comment, criticisms and reviews are welcome!
Flaming and insults will be ignored!