Kira Kira

Disclaimer: Don't own Death Note. If I did, I'd have the money to chase Breaking Benjamin through their tours. XD (But I went to a concert anyway.)

A/N: All of you, thanks for sticking with me throughout. I love the reviews. It also makes me smile that you read my A/Ns: Chapter Seven has a large number of hits! XD I needed some people to get it wrong, some people to come close, and some people to come REALLY close to know that I'd written it well. You're all very amusing, especially your way of thinking. Some of you would have gotten it right, but you got a little distracted by one fake clue and missed it by a little bit. That clue will be revealed in my A/N at the end.

I can't wait for your reactions! I encourage you not to skip ahead. Read it a paragraph at a time?

To clarify, perhaps we should go back a bit to Kira's death.

He had been awoken in the middle of the night by a strange thud echoing through his body. And his last thoughts were of how he shouldn't have given up his memories. Kira should not have chosen Mello as second Kira, because he should have known all along that the blonde boy would take everything over,

So predictable. He should have known something would go wrong.

Ironically, the one he had worried about most during the time he didn't have his memories had truly been his downfall. It was all Near's fault.

But we'll clarify some more later.

Mello, meanwhile, took special care to hide that particular scrap of Death Note.

And L could have laughed. He would have, actually, if he could breathe.

The second Kira had fallen right into his trap, after all. He resisted the urge to hiss, "Exactly as planned!" That was pretty easy, considering the fact that, well, he couldn't breathe.

…What an ironic way for him to end as well.

"Kira Two," he gasped, watching Mello's expression on the security monitor. "I won."

The rest of the task force was horrified to discover two bodies at their headquarters.

Aizawa called the other police, taking charge of the situation. While he was giving orders, Matsuda ran, not wanting the rest of the task force to see his nervous breakdown. That brought him to his couch, then to the phone to ask Light about the funeral.

He had assumed that they would have a joint funeral, although he wasn't sure why. In fact, he turned out to be right.

The chain of events had passed quickly for Light. He came home from his first real best friend's funeral exhausted, glancing vaguely at the computer monitor glowing brightly. So bright… The teen wanted nothing more than to collapse on the bed, but he realized that it was open to his e-mails…

Blinking tiredly, Light scanned the unread messages.

One from Misa….Two from Misa…Alright, a lot from Misa. And one from…well, Light didn't know that his computer read the gothic font.

L.

Instantly awake, Light opened the e-mail. And upon reading it, he remembered L's request.

The e-mail was made of one telephone number, an address to some place in England, and nothing more.

Matt answered the hotel phone. To his amazement, he was getting human contact. The only person he'd spoken to was L since he arrived in Japan.

And he knew it wasn't L.

The message had played on the screen of every electronic device in the house.

L is dead.

"Hello?" Matt muttered distractedly, wondering how he was supposed to get back to England with L dead.

"Hi." Light shifted uncomfortably. "I apologize for calling you so late."

"I haven't been outside in a while. Time doesn't mean anything." The gamer stretched. "Who are you?"

"I'm Light Yagami. I worked with L."

Matt sat up. "Do you have the number I'm supposed to call?"

"It's not a number. It's an address. Where are you?"

"Uh… I wish I knew."

Light sighed. "Look out the window."

Matt walked to the window, happy for the opportunity to get out of that place. "What now?"

"Do you have a cell phone?"

"Yeah…"

"Take a picture of the tallest building you see."

…Oh, did this Light guy have some virtual map of Tokyo in his head?

Matt agreed and sent it to the e-mail address Light requested.

An hour later, Matt was sitting in the lobby while Light picked up some proper food for the teen. He'd been eating sandwiches for…how long?

Light got Matt and Mello to England as soon as possible. The plane tickets were obscenely expensive, and evading Light's parents had been no easy matter, either.

And when they arrived at the address in Winchester, they were informed that the head of the strange orphanage already knew what he was about to be told.

But Roger didn't know who Kira and the second Kira were. Light and Matt filled him in, shutting Mello out of the room.

It didn't particularly matter. He hadn't brought his Death Note anyway.

The police were called immediately, and Mello's Death Note was found and confiscated. He was charged as being the first Kira, for the sake of simplicity. The public never even found out that there was a second Kira.

A week later, Light was talking cheerfully to Matsuda and Aizawa. The subject of the case surfaced somehow, and the atmosphere darkened considerably.

"Yagami-san…Are you disappointed that you were wrong?" Aizawa asked the honorary member of the NPA. Since that ceremony, the members of the task force had begun using slightly more polite speech with the Chief's son.

Light swirled his tea around in his glass, watching the ice bob up and down. "A bit. I certainly never suspected him."

"Hey, at least you were right about the second Kira!" Matsuda offered.

"Yeah. I suppose I may have even wanted Ryuzaki to be Kira." He shook his head, forcing himself to regain some of his cheerfulness. "Hey, what are we so depressed for? We won, didn't we?"

"We lost two of the greatest minds criminals have ever seen," Aizawa pointed out. "Excluding you, Yagami-san."

"You know, we never learned any of their real names?" Matsuda stared incredulously around the small table. "So even though we know Kira's face…"

"When I was at Wammy's House, they told me." Light smirked knowingly. "But I can't tell you that."

Matsuda puffed his cheeks out. "Why not?"

"How do I know you won't try to kill Matt? He was a good kid." Light chuckled. "Just refer to them by their alias in casual conversation."

"Don't refer to them at all, actually." Aizawa muttered.

"True," Matsuda agreed. "The whole world doesn't need to know that some kid called Near was the great Kira."

Aizawa and Light stared.

"Well, if they didn't know before, they certainly know now."

"Nah," Light disagreed. "They'll probably think we're crazy."

Ryuk gave a rusty chuckle.

"What is it?" Misa muttered.

"Your boyfriend's over there. Apparently, he really did know who Kira was. He helped catch him, from what I hear."

Misa choked on her drink. She waited until she was sure she could speak again before doing so. "Oh, well. I wish he could have told me. Misa-Misa would support him all the way if Misa had known it was that kid."

Ryuk started to ask her how she had met Near but decided against it. It didn't particularly make any difference to him anyway.

A/N: Near was worried about himself when he didn't have his memories. That "clue" probably threw too many people off, ne?

I hope you'll join me in my new mystery, "Dark"! And Mika-san (Darkness Veils Hidden Sorrow, check the reviews for a link to her profile) said she'd write "Eru Eru" as well.

Last chance to drop me a line! Did you flip Tamaki-style? A lot of people got one or the other right, but not a lot were dead on about both. Congrats to you all! L would be proud. (I didn't want to kill him off, you know!)

Oh, did I leave out the explanation of the clue in the seventh chapter? Ask in a review if you want to know. I'll even tell you what I thought while reading your thoughts on the last chapter, if you ask.