Death Note
Chapter 21
Light had taken off his socks and shoes and dried his back with a towel as L had walked around with his towel on his head.
"Well, that was certainly an unpleasant outing," he said.
"It's your own fault. I mean, what did you expect?" Light said, starting to dry his hair.
"You're right," Ryuzaki responded. "I'm sorry."
He pulled the towel off of his head and walked towards him. L bent down and grabbed Light's foot.
"What are you doing?" He questioned.
"I thought I might help you out. You were busy wiping yourself off anyway."
"Look, it's fine. You don't have to do that," Light said.
"I can give you a massage as well. It's the least I can do to atone of my sins. I'm actually pretty good at this," L insisted.
Light looked away, a little weird that the world's greatest detective has offered to rub his feet.
"Fine. Do what you want."
"Alright," he said starting to rub his foot.
The moment L touch Light's foot, he grabbed and crushed it for a second.
"Hey!"
"You'll get used to it," L said.
Light looked at him. Ryuzaki wasn't moving. He looked like that he was more lost in thought then in the mood to massage his foot.
Water from his hair was dripping onto his foot.
Light reached over to grab his own towel and began to dry L's bangs for him.
"Here. You're still soaked," he stated.
"I'm sorry," he said and began to rub his foot.
There was no conversation happening between them again, until L had broken the silence.
"It will be lonely, won't it?" He said and looked up at him. "You and I will be parting ways soon."
Light looked confused even though he knew exactly what L was talking about.
Just then a cell phone went off. Ryuzaki stood up and pulled it out of his back pocket to answer.
"Yes?" He asked into it.
...
"I understand. I'm on my way."
He closed his phone, put it back into his pocket and looked at him.
"Come on, let's go, Light. It seems that it's all worked out."
He looked clueless, but decided to go with.
They walk back to L's desk where all of his computers were set up. All of the screens were white and the middle one had a black W on it, mean that it was Wateri on a video chat with the other officers who were crowding around the desk.
As soon as L walked in, Matsuda turned to him to complain.
"Ryuzaki! What's the meaning of all this? You somehow got an approval from another country to use the notebook for an execution?"
L ignored him.
"Wateri, excellent work. Thank you," he said.
"Not at all," he said through the computer.
"First things first. Please make arrangements to transport the notebook immediately," Ryuzaki commanded.
"Right," Wateri replied.
"Ryuzaki," Light began. "What are you trying to do?"
"I'm going to try out the note book, for real."
He took a silver spoon, sitting on a small plat with a tea cup, and lightly touched the tip of it on the paper of the opened Death Note.
All of the recruits gasped to his absurd idea.
"We can't do that! And there's no point on testing it now if we all know that the notebook's power is real!" An officer exclaimed.
"And besides, who's going to write the name? If someone starts writing in the notebook, they'll have to obey the 13 day rule and keep writing names forever," another carried on, completely oblivious that the rule was a fake.
"It's already worked out. The person who will write in the book is a criminal scheduled to be executed, just over 13 days. If he's still alive 13 days after writing the name, he'll be pardoned from the execution," L explained.
"But still, to sacrifice-"
"Were very close!" Ryuzaki cut chief Yagami off. "If we work this out, the entire case will be solved!"
At that moment, a streak of Lightning hit the building and the power went out. Red, emergency lights came on. Everyone thought, at first that it was Assistant Killer coming to attack again.
On the computer, they can hear Wateri in pain, just by the sound of his voice.
"Wateri?" L asked, "Wateri!"
The next thing that had shown up on all screens was 3 words: 'All data deletion.'
"What the hell is going on!?"
"I told Wateri to make sure that he should erase all information in the event that something would happen to him," L stated.
"If something would have happened?" An officer asked.
"Could it be...?" Matsuda asked.
"Where's the shinigami?"
"Good question, I don't see it!"
They began to look around.
"He disappeared! What's going on?"
"Everyone! The shinigami mu-," L's voice immediately stopped. The spoon in his hand, dropped from his grasp like he purposely let it go.
Then he slowly started to fall, sideways, off of his chair.
Light, standing behind his work area, watched with a fake, concerned mask, covering his true emotion. Devious and more than satisfied.
He leaped from his spot to catch L before he hit the ground with full force. Then he sat up and looked directly down into L's eyes.
At the same moment, L's last thoughts were the Orphanage, the church bells and his 3 most precious kids: Nate River, Mihael Keehl and... Lexia Kylone.
Despite her bad deeds and working with kira, he still loved her.
He snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Light. His sad, concerned face grew ugly with his devilish smile and his sharp eyes.
Light won. For once, I was never able to crack a case. I'm dying... my 3 kids... What will they think? How will they stay protected and away from Light? He will know. They can't be left on their own. They were meant to take the three detectives played by me: Lexia as Rue Ryuzaki, Mihael as Eraldo Coil and Nate as Hideki Ryuga.
I was going to surprise them with this news on Christmas, but now I don't even get the chance to say good-bye.
The bell is getting louder. Everything is turning white.
This must be the end of me. Good-bye my kids. I will always watch over you 3... His thought had drifted off as his mind completely shut down.
L's eyes were slowly closing until the dark rim around his eyes would be the last thing anyone remembered of L if they had him dying in their lap.
L's eyes had completely closed.
Light took away his true mask and hid it with sorrow once again.
"Ryuzaki? Come one Ryuzaki! Wake up!" Light yelled as fake tears rolled down the side of his face.
"Ryuzaki!" He called out one last time.
L was dead.