Epilogue

After Light's funeral, both of the Death Note's were burned by Near the following day and Misa finally lost her memories again. After losing her memories, Misa continued with Light's hope that she move on with life and enjoy it to the fullest. It took her several years to fully recover. She found a man who loved her unconditionally and she had children, one of them she named Light.

A month after Light's funeral, Aizawa retired from the Task Force to be with his family more often and to find a more relaxing job. It was said that he quit because he didn't want to work on another investigation after this one went too far. He still regularly hangs out with members of the Task Force and doesn't mind joining them every once in a while.

Two months after Light's death, Ryuk committed suicide. The reason was that he was tormented in the Shinigami realm. Light's deal with Sidou was that when he died and Ryuk returned to the Shinigami realm, Ryuk would be tormented with constant punishments for being involved with ruining the life of a human on Earth. The deal was that if this was done, Sidou would never have any of his things stolen from Ryuk again. Sidou made this deal with the Shinigami King as the Shinigami King wasn't fond of Ryuk in the first place and wanted the order in the Shinigami realm to change. After two months of torment, Ryuk saved the life of a kid who was about to be killed to end his own misery. In his final thoughts Ryuk remembered Light but looked back at him in disgusted knowing that what he was feeling for that minute is the same thing Light felt as well.

Light rebuilt his pedestal with Sayu and L in Mu. Even though he wasn't alive, he was happy to be with these two again. Light looked back at his actions with nothing but regret and sorrow but he felt that being these two in death was enough of a happy ending for him.

Sudou's family never completely recovered from his death as they became activists against the police system for the unfair treatment they had on Kira followers even after Near shut down his involvement and let the followers all go. To date, they have never been successful in changing the police state in Japan.

Yuri was less affected from Light's death, knowing that if she got involved she might have ended up like Sudou. Yuri kept having mixed feelings about Light as a whole, she knew he was Kira but she never cared about Kira. She only really liked Light because he was a great person to be around. Yuri later got married and had kids but even then she thought about Light and how Light said he didn't deserve to be her girlfriend.

A year after Light's death, Light's father Soichiro finally retired from the Task Force to live with his wife and rebuild his family. He never completely forgave Light but he looked back on what Light wanted out of life and what he felt would make him happy. Light would have never wanted another Yagami to end up like him, so when the day to have new children came, they hoped they would not be corrupted by anything.

Mello became a very successful detective as the new L and he and Matt partnered together to take on criminals. The credit for finding Kira went to Near when he won the chess game, best two out of three. Mello knew that he had to pass his job down to another Wammy kid when it was his turn to retire but he finally got his dream to live up to L as a whole and he was eventually considered one of the greatest detectives who ever lived.

The money for the Kira case was given to the families of Kira victims as Light wanted. Matsuda and Mogi helped create the Yagami act which followed what Project Requiem was. The crime rate in Japan went down by 50% thanks to this act and Matsuda and Mogi are trying to introduce this act in other countries as well.

Takada and Mikami had a hard time going on when they heard Light had died. Mikami later quit the justice system to rebuild his life after being tormented for so long as a child. Takada was actually able to talk Mikami down from committing suicide. Takada continued as a news anchor as it was her dream job and later had a husband as well as a child. Mikami became more reclusive as the years went on and later disappeared from media in general.

Five years after Light's death, Sachiko gave birth to two new , Rockuro and Hikari Yagami. Every year, the Task Force as well as the Yagami family visits the graves of Sayu and Light. Rockuro and Hikari would never find out that Light was Kira at all. Rockuro went in the same direction as his father and worked to become a police detective while Hikari became a pretty well known Mangaka as well as a Seiyuu.

Near became an ambassador for peace after several years of teaching kids at the Wammy House. He also decided to start living his life to the fullest as it would be something Light would have wanted him to do. The SPK disbanded as soon as Near quit the job to teach the Wammy kids. Giovanni became a hardworking business man and later married Halle. Rester retired after working with the detectives for a few more years.

Ide later left Japan to live in America. Ide still took detective work seriously and chose to become his own private detective. He became very competitive in the field to the point where Mello started to take notice.

After several years Rockuro Yagami and Hikari Yagami both married and had children. Hikari gave birth to Mashiro Yagami while Rockuro's wife gave birth to Akito Yagami. It was here that Soichiro Yagami the greatest happiness, becoming a grandfather after all these years.

Nearly 33 years after Light's death, Soichiro went to the graveyard yet again. His hair completely white and he had a fully grown beard after all these years. He walked slowly as his lack of strength, thanks to his age, made it difficult to walk.

He searched the graveyard until he found Light and Sayu's graves. He just stood there for a few seconds looking at the grave. He brought flowers. His son had wanted him to move and he had done it successfully. He had found happiness again after so many years.

It was then that Soichiro saw a figure in the distance and it was walking closer to him. He looked exactly like Light, in fact it was Light. He looked the same age he was when he died but instead of wearing a business suit he was wearing a regular shirt and cargo pants. After all these years Soichiro was seeing Light again and Sayu was right behind him.

It was then that Soichiro felt Light's touch as he was on the ground and then a hug. "Thank You" Light said to Soichiro.

Soichiro felt the comfort of both Light's and Sayu's hugs as he smiled and then he closed his eyes.

So did Light make contact with his father from Mu. Was Soichiro just hallucinating or did Soichiro die at the end of the final scene. That I am going to leave up to you to decide. In fact that is the only ambiguous part of this story, that and whether Sudou's photos were found.

This story has been a huge project for me and I am very happy that it has finally come to an end but like all fanfic writers I can't wait to return to Microsoft Word to write more stories. The High End Of Low also might get some spinoff stories as well, whether they involve Mello or the new Yagami kids.