The Ultimate Death Note Fanfiction Archive
  Follow . 
Focus: Anime/Manga Death Note, Since: 03-31-09
Founder: Ratt9 - Stories: 407 - Followers: 2 - id: 68561
An archive of all the very best Death Note fics I've found here on Fanfiction. This community includes Death Note fanfics of any genre, any rating, any number of reviews, any characters, any completion status, and any length. Really, the only requirement here is good writing. I hope you find something you enjoy! |
Red Nocturne by Scripta Lexicona reviews
There are perfectly sound reasons why L doesn't care to sleep. Rated for potentially disturbing imagery. Spoiler for L's name.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,382 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 3 - Published: 6/17/2008 - L - Complete
Awareness by Scripta Lexicona reviews
Light has some lessons to teach L. Whether he wants to learn or not. All lessons now completed.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 6 - Words: 17,693 - Reviews: 185 - Favs: 374 - Follows: 103 - Updated: 12/7/2008 - Published: 10/23/2008 - L, Light Y. - Complete
between the idea and the reality by Vagrancy reviews
What they say about how death makes celebrities out of everyone, well, it's true. Postseries. Spoilers for entire series. Gore. Language. Implied LightMisa.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,258 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/29/2007 - Complete
The Unicorn Is Not Carnivorous by DrWorm reviews
[Death Note] L realizes that he will find no benevolent human beings on our great spaceship Earth.
Death Note - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,417 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/20/2004
Cash Cab Insanity by Hari-Aisu reviews
Had Cash Cab host Ben Bailey known that picking up two men by the names of Yagami Raito and L Lawliet would have caused him such trouble from the beginning, he was quite sure he would have kept on driving, thank you very much. Oh, God help him now...
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,098 - Reviews: 103 - Favs: 447 - Follows: 57 - Published: 8/20/2008 - L, Light Y. - Complete
Cruel and Unusual by MiaoShou reviews
Light's dreams and fantasies - what he wants, what he doesn't have. Shounen ai. Yaoi. LightxLxLight.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 13 - Words: 56,825 - Reviews: 318 - Favs: 281 - Follows: 123 - Updated: 11/9/2008 - Published: 3/4/2008 - Light Y., L - Complete
Inferiority Complex by Bialy reviews
A collection of Matsuda stories, mostly short, based off the Ficlet 50 prompts. Because the guy doesn't get enough love. Spoiler warning for pretty much everything in the series.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 50 - Words: 34,853 - Reviews: 267 - Favs: 73 - Follows: 17 - Updated: 8/28/2008 - Published: 7/21/2008 - Matsuda T. - Complete
A Different Shade of Pitch by yellowrose87 reviews
Another PITCH fic, this time for the kink meme. "'No...' said Aiber. 'The difference is that you gave him the chance to know you.'" L wonders what things might have been like, had he given Aiber that chance. AiberxL, later RaitoxL. Complete.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 8 - Words: 42,577 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 8/20/2011 - Published: 8/10/2011 - L, Aiber - Complete
The End of the Game by LaSuen reviews
Kira's caught and executed. What does L do now? One-shot.
Death Note - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,158 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 11 - Published: 7/22/2010 - Light Y., L - Complete
B r o k e n E n g l i s h by ElegantArrow 64 reviews
Because when Light pinned him against the mirror, he couldn't help but notice how long it had been since he had seen his reflection- not even the pleasure could block out B's prescence. LightL BBL BBLight LightKira FULL SUMMARY INSIDE
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 10 - Words: 56,098 - Reviews: 263 - Favs: 201 - Follows: 272 - Updated: 5/27/2010 - Published: 1/7/2008 - BB, L
End of the Line by Bloodshot Eyes reviews
A sequel of sorts to "Last Stop at the End of the World". L ponders what brought him to this place as he waits for the end, only to find that it isn't what he's imagined. "Happiness" will cost him more than time. Is this a price he's willing to pay?
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,727 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 46 - Follows: 46 - Updated: 8/16/2009 - Published: 5/4/2009 - L, Light Y.
Best Laid Plans by Lord Onisyr reviews
On Nov. 5, 2004, L saw the trap Light set and narrowly sidestepped it. What followed was a series of plans to expose Light as Kira and turn a key tool against him, though escaping the specter of death would be a difficult proposition.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Mystery/Angst - Chapters: 11 - Words: 50,173 - Reviews: 56 - Favs: 50 - Follows: 55 - Updated: 11/14/2010 - Published: 2/14/2010 - L, Misa A.
Going to Marrakesh by Edmondia Dantes Redux reviews
It's not right and it's not nice to try to kill the same thing twice. A divergence fiction.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 15 - Words: 30,322 - Reviews: 95 - Favs: 192 - Follows: 50 - Updated: 5/17/2010 - Published: 4/29/2009 - Light Y., L, Misa A. - Complete
The Scream by Nilahxapiel reviews
AU. Kira had stolen everything from him; his life, his identity, his art… Hate consumed him, motivated him, drove him…and fear was his prison. But Raito is breaking free, and his rescuer is far from a knight in shining armor…Slight Yaoi.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22,266 - Reviews: 197 - Favs: 555 - Follows: 76 - Published: 4/2/2008 - Light Y., L - Complete
This Black Lamb by ChanceXIII reviews
AU Sometimes life is the question and death is the answer. Raito never understood life until he met death. Eventual L x Raito.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 32,692 - Reviews: 241 - Favs: 418 - Follows: 453 - Updated: 7/14/2008 - Published: 3/24/2008 - Light Y., L
Mind Games by wild-filly reviews
REPOSTED! Finally back after unexpected deletion. Yagami Raito had considered many possibilities arising from using the Death Note, but being handcuffed to a certain sugar reliant insomniac, and all that this entailed, was not among them... Raito/L.
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 14 - Words: 80,067 - Reviews: 147 - Favs: 376 - Follows: 60 - Published: 9/21/2008 - L, Light Y. - Complete
Hidden Faces by FluffyGonzalez reviews
No one in Death Note is ever who they appear to be. Wasn't Light Yagami proof enough of that?
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 4 - Words: 14,333 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 9 - Updated: 6/11/2010 - Published: 6/7/2010 - Matsuda T. - Complete
Oneiromancy by Silver Pard reviews
He's not Kira, but sometimes he dreams he is, and that's L's fault too.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,340 - Reviews: 40 - Favs: 361 - Follows: 50 - Published: 3/26/2008 - Light Y., L - Complete
Apples Equals Cyanide Equals Light by Silver Pard reviews
Ryuk’s favourite equation. It means the death of boredom, the only death that actually matters. Gift fic for Computerfreak101
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 3 - Words: 9,727 - Reviews: 157 - Favs: 923 - Follows: 195 - Updated: 12/12/2009 - Published: 12/9/2008 - Ryuk, Light Y. - Complete
Walls by EclipseKlutz reviews
[post ch58] “I’m somewhat offended that you should think me the conscience of a murderer.”
Death Note - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 835 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 34 - Follows: 4 - Published: 8/4/2007 - Light Y., L - Complete
Prima Facie by Serria reviews
Light's first night handcuffed to L, haunted by the repercussions of his imprisonment and false execution. A penalty for being prima facie, a punishment for being innocent.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,446 - Reviews: 64 - Favs: 302 - Follows: 47 - Published: 9/12/2007 - Light Y., L - Complete
The Faceless by Disguise of Carnivorism reviews
In which Light Yagami is not the only fool to play with Fate's strings. /AU/
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 50 - Words: 113,214 - Reviews: 160 - Favs: 128 - Follows: 70 - Updated: 4/11/2012 - Published: 1/16/2009 - Light Y. - Complete
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Aishuu reviews
An alternate universe. L and Raito meet under different circumstances.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 23 - Words: 49,989 - Reviews: 1059 - Favs: 1,502 - Follows: 1,457 - Updated: 8/23/2009 - Published: 1/30/2005 - Light Y., L
Another Man's Treasure by Mikanis reviews
It was simple really, to hate the man that he was becoming...and deliciously easy to manipulate the fragile delusions that L justified himself with. Water can follow the finest threads of the web. L was weak... and B was not. -B and L, Mind Game X Torture
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,536 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 40 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/12/2008 - L - Complete
Of Music by Mikanis reviews
Light is at the theatre, escaping from his life as he does every performance. Fate hands him her calling card in the way of a stranger sitting across the room. Can Light maintain his life when this one man manages to slip into it like he belongs there? AU
Death Note - Rated: M - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 15 - Words: 97,027 - Reviews: 750 - Favs: 874 - Follows: 815 - Updated: 3/23/2016 - Published: 11/6/2007 - Light Y., L