Okay! This is the end of their game. As I promised, L is NOT dead! Honestly, I'm not that confident that this is a realistic alternative for the story, but I did my best to make it good. I hope you enjoy reading it!

Also, please pardon my putting xxxxxxxxxx stuff in the middle of events. I just thought it'll make the story less boring to look at.

Anyway, this is the end of the two's fight but not the end of the story. I will release the final part as soon as possible. Please be patient with me.


"Hihi..hi…"

Light tried to stop himself from laughing but he just can't.

"Ahaha...Hahaha! I almost can't believe L will lose to Kira this easily. You said you will catch me, punish me..defeat me! But now, look at yourself. You genius fool!" He said to the seemingly dead Ryuzaki

Ecstatic red eyes glowed in the darkness of the room. The same eyes that bore tears just a minute before suddenly seemed to shout triumph.

Evil triumph.

Then he looked around. The five armed men now aimed their guns at him. But he did not bother at all.

He could hardly handle the bliss of his victory over Ryuzaki. He almost can't believe that his dream of becoming a god suddenly seemed to fall second in significance to this superb moment. He supposed that even death won't be enough to steal his happiness. Not even his father's death.

"Now, having heard my rejoicing, will you kill me? Kill the god Kira?" He said to the five men with a wicked smile

"Ah..wait, wait! I have a suggestion. Why don't you just celebrate with me? Celebrate the end of L, the beginning of Kira's perfect world! You must be proud for witnessing it. Hahaha!" He advised them.

After a while he turned serious. He'd been blurting out his happiness in having killed L continuously but none of the armed men shot at him. He suddenly became suspicious.

They're all in standby position, as if waiting for a higher-up to give signal. But, the only superior person in the room is Ryuzaki. And Light is certain, he is dead!

A moment of silence abounded. He suddenly felt intense fright. He had no idea why or where it came from, but it chilled up his spine.

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"The game is over, Yagami-kun." Ryuzaki's voice came out of the blue.

Light's eyes grew wide and turned blank in shock. He turned his head to see Ryuzaki standing up, and alive.

"A ghost...you're definitely a ghost. Tell me you're a ghost..Ryuzaki!!" He yelled in unbelief. He knew he is seeing an alive L but he cannot make himself believe that fact.

"Aaah! What's the meaning of this? Impossible!" He messed up his hair crazily with both hands.

"I promised the world that I'm gonna win against you, I just think it's about time I fulfill it. You thought you've won, but you actually have bitten on a trap. I lent you victory, that was my last move. Now, sorry but I'll take it back. I changed the game.

Checkmate...is mine." Ryuzaki disclosed while raising his right hand.

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Three men took hold of Light and handcuffed him. The other two pointed their guns at him.

"How?...how!" He shouted. "I wrote your name already in the deathnote.." He suddenly looked at the LCD screen and saw an unmoving Misa.

"Misa died. But why aren't you.." Before he finished his question Ryuzaki already said his reply

"She is not dead."

"No way. My deathnote have already killed uncountable number of people. You two cannot be an exception. Explain all this to me! What sort of trickery is this? Ryuzaki!"

"Okay, I will reveal it to you Yagami-kun." He paused a second "Misa, is in a secret base in Sydney, Australia. The time zone difference there is positive-one from Tokyo, or simply, an hour later."

"So she is not in the room where you put her before. Its really so you, Ryuzaki. But what difference did that make?" A thought suddenly came to his mind. "Don't tell me.."

"Your guess is right. This is not, the real deathnote. The deathnote from where you torn that one in your watch is in Manila, Philippines. Your technique of using a cut off page fortunately worked well for you. However, the deathnote is intended to be used as a notebook, and the wholeness of that little paper's power is still in the original deathnote from where it came from."

Light understood what he just said but he still don't get what help all those information does in saving the two's lives. He just can't put a connection between them.

Meanwhile, Ryuzaki is just about to reveal the missing piece of the puzzle.

He continued "Actually, I asked Misa to write my real name in her deathnote before she left Japan. Her flight to Manile turned the deathnote's clock counterclockwise, and gave me more time to consume. During that time you wrote my name and Misa Amane's in the torn page from Ryuuk's notebook. Your fault is, you also wrote Misa Amane's name. Having possessed the power of a death-god, you also obtained the weakness of one. A shinigami is only meant to kill, so if ever he oppose his purpose, he will die. She had written my name first, so when you wrote her name, it seemed like you did that to save my life."

"Impossible. I used to kill criminals from different parts of the world, and they all die right after I wrote their names in the notebook."

"Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. When you wrote our name, hers appeared to have been double written because I've already set her death an hour earlier, which is 2:00pm. However, shortly before that time came in Manila, Misa has been taken via private jet plane to a place where the time is an hour ahead of Tokyo. Which also means that the time 2:00pm did not exist for her, so she lived. Also, before she had been taken abroad, I asked Misa to write my name and set my time of death at 2:30 pm. You wrote our name exactly thirty minutes ago, which just means.."

"Which just means.." he paused to look at his watch "...anytime from now, I will die.." (If it is in the anime series, this will be the part when the L is shown on a watch tower and Light is falling in defeat)

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Suddenly a thought entered his mind. A smile reemerged.

"But Ryuzaki, you have overlooked something important." He said as he suddenly looked at L with felonious eyes.

"If having written Misa's name will save you from death and lead to mine, then your name written in this piece of paper with me, will be the one to kill you! Hahaha! Then you will...die with me!"

Ryuzaki slowly turned around and sadly said

"Somewhere inside me knows that my life is in very high percentage of death in this. I knew that from the very start. Fighting an opponent like you, who is very much like me, is quite like fighting myself. I know I can never win against myself, because Ryuzaki, never wants to lose." Ryuzaki paused before continuing..

"But the way I look at it, I still won Yagami-kun. I accomplished my mission as the detective L...the mission to kill Kira! Even if the price is my life, I'd gladly gamble it in, because we're not of the same goal. I may not have such an ambitious one, but reaching it even for a few minutes before I die, is victory after all..I repeat, I still won. You lost!" He said in a raised voice while pointing at Light

Light became quiet.

He wanted to mock Ryuzaki's stupid heroism, but sensing his extreme defeat ticking nearer and nearer, he got paralyzed by fear. He wanted to say ever bad thing he can to L, but the only thing that can come out of him, are tears.

All his plans...his hard-work...everything that gave purpose and meaning to his formerly dull existence, suddenly are about to face their end. Most importantly, the rotten world that he wanted to wipe out, has won in the war against him. He felt like his few minutes left to live, is hell itself. All the realization that came to him seemed to crush his sanity. At that very moment, he wished he would die, fast.

Ryuzaki's footsteps as he walked towards Light sounded as daunting as a clock in his ears. An innocent clock, that ticks to bring death upon him. He shook at the sight of this crooked man coming closer.

"I really wish you aren't Kira, Yagami-kun." Ryuzaki whispered as he embraced the trembling Light.

"I see you as one of my few valuable friends. I really wanted to save you from this, if only I'd been given a chance. But I have an obligation to fulfill, I'm sorry." Ryuzaki said in a monotonous voice, yet Light can feel honesty in it.

He can't believe he felt comfort in Ryuzaki's words. Solace.

His anger and fear towards him suddenly disappeared.

He had a real friend after all.

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Then silence came. Silence gained intensity. Grave silence.

Kira departed. Sadness filled L's seemingly emotionless eyes.

Seeing that Light died with a serene face, he felt that his coming death won't be that painful. He sat waiting...

A minute. Two minutes. Five minutes...

He felt annoyed in impatience. He is ready to die, but why is it this delayed? He hate the fact that he seems to see a small light of hope, because he already conditioned his mind to his coming death.

"Hmmm...I'm still alive?" He said after staring at his clock for another ten minutes.

He sensed that something went wrong. He checked Light's pulse and he is really dead. Then he took the little piece of paper from his hand.

"Misa Amane" he first read while uncrumpling the paper

"L...Lauliet?" His eyes widened in surprise.

It remained a mystery to him why Light wrote his name incorrectly.


Okay, I'll reveal the trick! Actually, it is all Misa's fault. Because of the "altered day", she decided to write everything she knew on her diary, except Ryuzaki's real name. When Light came to her apartment, of course he read her diary and that's what he wrote on his deathnote paper!

So Misa Misa saves the day!!

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Hey guys please wait for the next chapter. That will be the "happy ending". Also, if you've got anything good or bad to say to me, please just do so. I really wanna hear from you!