Author's Note: Alright. Here you go. Things are finally being set into motion! It's all up to you, the reader, to figure out who is doing what and why. I will not reveal if certain things are a part of L's plan…or perhaps Light's own agenda. That's for you to decide. I will however tell you the truth at the very end. So place your bets!

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After another couple of days, L was released from the hospital. Watari took him back to the base where he started up his work as if nothing had ever happened. Few questions were asked of him about the supposed attack at the beach. He got the sense that the team members felt sorry for him due to his rough appearance and therefore didn't want to pester him. That was fine. He was in enough discomfort as it was with his injuries and no pain medication other then Advil. His twisted ankle was the most annoying part. But having a chair with wheels made it a bit easier to get around.

Things seemed absolutely normal for another three days. Light and L were back on the force and working full time. The computers hummed, the task force shuffled and pushed papers, and the two geniuses cracked out half-hatched ideas that they both knew would lead the team nowhere.

It was Wednesday around lunchtime when Light stood up from his seat. Blinking, L paused in his work to observe the teen stretch, one arm going above his head as he stuck the other out to the side.

"It's only one o'clock Raito-kun. Would you mind waiting until two to take your break?" Light lowered his arms, seeming to relax now that he had loosened his muscles.

"We've been working non-stop Ryuuzaki. It won't kill the investigation if I leave a little early."

"That's not why I asked. I'm not quite hungry yet. But will be shortly. I was wondering if I could join you?" Light blinked, looking to L who had turned entirely away from his keyboard to face him. He wasn't even glancing back at his screen. That was a rare treat. It was so odd in fact, that it even caught the attention of their teammates. L was stopping? In the middle of research? To ask about lunch? Matsuda blinked over at the pair with sudden interest.

Light's face tensed. He was suddenly embarrassed. Damn it L! My admitting to being your friend did not give you the privilege of embarrassing me! No one has that right! He felt his usual anger boil to life. Everyone was staring. Light quickly stuck his nose into the air, turning away from the raven-haired cripple in his swivel chair.

"Sorry, I've been hungry since twelve. I'm leaving right now. Besides, I'm going to go eat with Misa. She's been wanting to see me for a while and I just haven't had the chance. I don't think the place we're going has any sugar products either." He glanced over his shoulder in an almost cocky manner. "Maybe next time?" He said with his slick smile.

L's blank face did not change. He continued to stare at Light with his unusual dark eyes.

"There's no need to be purposefully belligerent Yagami-kun. A simple 'no' would have sufficed." L then swiveled his chair right back around and faced his computer once more. His usual frantic typing picked back up and the usual almost comforting sound of rapid key fire filled all corners of the room. Was L typing a little more viciously then usual? Light watched him for a little while longer, then turned and left the room. The team averted their eyes and quickly got back to work.

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"LIIIIIGGGHHHT!" Screamed Misa. She flung herself at her love, but ended up smashing into a palm that had been held up at the last possible second. SMUSH! It was a comical sight. Light stood just outside her doorway, looking quite miffed. His hand was held out directly in front of him. Misa's face was smashed into said hand, her arms stuck out directly in front of her like planks of eager wood. Light was just out of her desperate reach.

"Misa we don't have time for all of that. We have an emergency, let me inside." Misa fell back, her face crestfallen. If anyone could perfect the look of a struck puppy, it was Misa. Her lower lip quivered, her red lipstick smeared from where her face had been pressed into light's palm.

"Not even time for a kiss?" Light's eyes almost set aflame. He glared with the fire of a thousand suns.

"No! Let me in now! What part of emergency don't you understand?" With a quick yelp, Misa stepped aside. Light marched into the room, his fury not fading. In fact, it seemed to be building. Misa closed the door behind her. "Do you have the Death Note?"

"O…of course."

"Have you been hiding it exactly where and how I told you?" Misa nodded, her eyes wide and her expression a bit numb. Light marched over to the girl's upper desk drawer. It was a very similar rig to what he had in his own room when he'd first gotten the note. He disarmed the trap immediately. Lifting up the false bottom of the drawer, he revealed a large fuzzy pink book resembling Misa's diary. He lifted it out, and then opened the pink book to the correct hollow page. He then lifted the Death Note out. He began flipping through it furiously.

"Light? What…what's this all about? What's the emergency?"

Light felt himself twitch at hearing her very voice. Her high pitched, squeaking tones grated on his nerves almost worse then L. Almost. But he would have to give Misa some credit. Her surroundings were far worse then any surroundings L had put him through. Light despised the pink walls, the white frills, the fluffy pillows and more then anything, the seemingly hundreds of furry stuffed critters stacked on every available shelf and floor space. They littered the bed, appearing almost as if they were reproducing at that very moment. There had to be more stuffed kittens and bunnies then when he first came in. There simply had to be. It was sickening.

"L knows." Light said suddenly. Misa's eyes widened.

"Huh?"

"L knows you Barbie doll! He knows almost everything! He revealed to me a secret plan he's been forming for some time now while he was crippled in the hospital. If we don't kill him now, he'll destroy everything! Everything I've worked for!"

"O…oh no! But Light! We…we can't kill him with the Death Note! We don't know his name!" Light who had been flipping to the blank pages near the back of the book lifted his head and glanced over his shoulder with a pair of sickeningly elated eyes.

"Oh…but I do." Misa gasped.

"Wh…what? H…how did you get it? How did you possibly…"

"Easy. When the time came. I didn't kill him." Misa blinked, seemingly losing IQ points by the very second.

"Huh?"

"I played the torn friend card as well as I could. I knew he'd find out the truth eventually. But the point was leading him to that truth though very friendly 'accidents.' A little encouragement here, A little Kira cruelty there, and presto! I've created the perfect victim. Me. I'm my own victim. Poor little Light Yagami! He doesn't really want to kill, HA! Fool. He'll do anything for a little affection. He's practically in love with me now. He told me his name himself."

"You…you're kidding me."

"Nope, it's all the truth. In case you've forgotten, I'm a genius. And I am also Kira. Kira is far superior to L, who feels the need for friendship and love. These things have no place in my perfect world. And L will pay. He will pay dearly. You should have seen how hard it was for me to even get here. He practically begged to come to lunch with me. The deprived sap probably wanted more attention." Light found the blank page he was looking for. Then he reached out to Misa's desk and grabbed a sheet of blank regular paper as well. He slid it behind the real page inside of the Death Note. Then, when both pages were aligned perfectly, he ripped the corners off of them.

Now he had two identical scraps of paper in his hands.

"So…you're doing it now? You're finally going to kill him?"

"Yes." Light closed the Death Note and placed it back inside of the hollowed out pink diary. Then he placed the diary back inside of the secret compartment, and then he lowered the fake bottom of the drawer. "Do not use the Death Note at all until L is dead. I'm setting his time of death for later, so that I can be there when he dies. I want to see it. I want to see the very last beat of his wretched heart! I want to watch him suffer for having ever made me doubt that I am Kira and that Kira is God!"

"W…wait! What do you mean…he made you doubt you were Kira? I don't understand." Light glanced over his shoulder once again, his back still toward Misa and his front facing the desk. He looked darker then ever.

"I can't tell you Misa. Not because I actually care for you at all, but because if I do, you'll be far too upset to carry out your orders."

"What? Not write in the note at all until told? Gee, that's real tough Light." She quickly crossed her arms over her chest, looking very much like a pouting three-year-old. Especially with the way she was wearing her thin blonde hair today. It was up in pigtails. Pigtails for God's sake!

The room grew quiet once more. Light turned away from her and leaned over the desk. He quickly began scribbling on one of the two scraps of paper he had made. Misa eyed him carefully, but she was far too curious now to keep quiet.

"Light! As your girlfriend I demand you tell me what happened between you and L! What would make me upset?" Light continued to scribble on the tiny scrap. He flipped it over and began filling the second side. Misa's eyes widened. He was getting quite specific with L's death. Was he that angry? Was he going to make L suffer before dying, instead of having a simple heart attack?

"Are you going to make him pick his nose or something before he goes?" Misa chuckled. Light's shoulders tensed.

"Don't degrade him by saying things like that. He was the only one worthy of Kira." There was something about Light's tones that made Misa's stomach squirm. The way he had said that…voice so soft. He never spoke that way about her! He certainly didn't say anything of that nature to her face.

There was a sudden ball of heat in her chest. It rose to her cheeks. It made her face tight.

"Worthy of Kira? Aren't I worthy of Kira? I'm your girlfriend Light!" Her little fists curled up, her pedicure nails digging into her palms.

"No Misa. You never even came close to L. You're not even in the same universe as he is. L was worthy. He was more then worthy. He played me for a fool several times these past few months. He tricked me. Outwitted me. He even almost had me in the end. He almost had me…" Misa's face contorted with sudden rage. Light was writing on the second scrap of paper now, also filling up both sides. But what Misa was focused on most was the soft tones in his usually cold and hard voice.

Misa seethed behind him at his back. Her usually perfect, but now smeared lips contorted, her body shaking. If Light was daring to say what she thought he was saying…

"You better tell me right now that you do not love Ryuuzaki! You tell me right now Light Yagami! You tell me to my face that you love me! You tell me that Ryuuzaki is worth crap!" Light finished scribbling. He stood up straight and turned to face Misa, his face nearly deranged. Those were Kira's eyes. Misa recognized them well.

"L is worth more then ten million Misa's! I never said I loved you! Never! Not once! You're a delusional little girl!" He stood up tall, his form looming in the way it did so well when he was angry. The scraps of paper crumpled in his hands as fists squeezed tight. "I don't love you Misa! I never have, and I never will! You're my partner as the second Kira only! No more! L at least was able to stir something inside of me. But you! You didn't make me feel even a flitter!"

Misa stared, her eyes huge with shock. She looked almost as of Light had struck her. Indeed he could have and it would have been less painful. For a second, Misa simply stood in utter astonishment. She was completely frozen. But then, suddenly, she let out a horrible shriek! It was piercing and Light let out a cry of his own as his hands flew to his ears.

"Gay! Gay! Gaaaaaay!" She grabbed the nearest object, which happened to be a fluffy white rabbit and tossed it with as much vicious intent as she could muster at Light. He ducked, but dully wondered what the point to ducking had been.

"How can you like him? He's disgusting! He sits like a monkey! He doesn't even brush his hair! He's skinnier then me! He's gross! He…he's a freak!"

"Maybe! But at least he has a brain!" Misa screamed again. She raced to the opposite side of the room looking crazed. She grabbed more stuffed animals, throwing them viciously at Light. This time, he stood still and let them hit him. He sighed heavily. What was more humiliating for a god then being hit with fuzzy pink creatures? He withstood the abuse for a moment, and then marched forward. Misa saw him coming and shrieked again.

"Stay away from me! You…you cheater!" More animals. Light took them with as much dignity as he could muster. He moved forward steadily. He acted like a wall, ignoring the onslaught completely as if he had not just been his in the face by Fluffles the fluffy fuchsia rabbit.

He reached the girl, getting within feet of her. Misa yelped and cowered against her pink walls. She pressed her back into it, glaring with tear-filled eyes at her Light.

"Don't touch me!" She barked.

"Misa…this should make up for things." Light reached out, taking her hand. Misa did not resist. She could never resist him. He was Kira after all. He pressed one of the slips of paper into her hand. Blinking, she looked down at it. On it was L's name. His full name.

"L…Lawliet," she read slowly. "L Lawliet?" She wrinkled her nose. "It's weird. Are you sure it's real? It sounds stupid."

"Yes. That is his real name. I have no doubt that he told me the truth." Light confirmed. "I think it's fitting. A strange name for a strange man." Misa glanced at Light. "The specifics of his death are also there." Misa looked back down to the paper and read the writing on it out loud, simply to make sure it was true.

"L Lawliet. 5:15pm Wednesday April 2007. Extended heart attack. The heart attack will commence at 5:15pm and will last for several minutes until 5:20pm. The victim will suffer through a great deal of spasms and seizures before finally succumbing to death. " These few sentences had been more than enough to fill up the entire front and back of the tiny scrap of paper. Misa was surprised at the detail Light surrendered in this specific death. He must have really wanted L to suffer.

"I made it a heart attack so that L and everyone in the room would know that it was Kira who was killing him. So that L would know that it's me. That I am the one taking his life. But of course, a simple heart attack for L won't do. He deserves pain." Misa re-read L's planned death. It certainly was going to be painful according to Light's details. Misa glanced up at her Light.

"What's the fake piece of paper for?"

"The one you hold is the real piece of paper. The one I have in my hand is a fake. It'san exact copy of the one you have now. I'm going to plant the false paper it in a place where the investigation team will find it. I'm going to set it up in a specific way so that it throws them off of my trail, and yours as well. They'll be stupid, and overcome with fear after L's death to do anything other then follow my lead. After L is dead, I'll have full control of the investigation. We will never ever be caught Misa." Misa held the scrap of paper that was responsible for a person's life as if it were a treasure made of jewels. Her eyes began to mist. Then she lifted her arms and threw herself at Light.

"Oh Light! Thank you thank you! I love you so much! I can't wait until L's dead! Then we can spend as much time together as we want!" Light said nothing, and this time he let the crazed girl hug him. If it would get her to cooperate, then fine. Still, he could not keep from rolling his eyes.

"I suggest you hide that scrape of paper with the Death Note when you're not looking at it," he said. Misa nodded eagerly, like a puppy. Light sighed. "You'll have to let me go now. I should get back to base. My lunch hour will be up shortly and I need to grab a sandwich." Misa nodded again, rubbing her face into Light's chest, much like a cat.

"Ok Light! I'll see you tomorrow for sure! Since L will be dead by then!" Light shrugged out of Misa's grasp, worming his way away from her. God she was agitating.

"Yes, fine. I'll see you then." He quickly hurried to the door to get away from Misa and her army of stuffed animals as fast as possible. He wanted to get back to base, even though the set time was still hours away.

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Please please please nobody post any theories on what you think is going on in the story. I don't want it ruined for anyone if you happen to get it right. I encourage reviews on your thoughts on characters and how you feel about aspects of the story, but please no theories. Thank you so much! I want everyone to enjoy it.