Nine Months Due
By: Kaytee Kudo
Category: Death Note
Genre: Romance, Humor
Rating: T as a general rating, with the exception of Chapter 3 and 4, which will be rated M
Summary: The Shinigami decide to take matters into their own hands and attempt to put the Kira case to a close by erasing the world's memories of Kira. But this is not without consequence…
Other Notes: Alternative ending bordering AU; LxLight, Mpreg in later chapters, Lots of OOCness in this fic. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Quick Recap of Prologue: We see Ryuuk being called forth to the Shinigami World. It seems that there is something troubling the Shinigami King...what is that, I wonder?
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note…not even in my dreams…
Chapter One
First Comes Love
L, of all people, could not believe himself. He was a detective by nature, and he had devoted his entire life in pursuing justice, which in time earned him the title of best detective. Three of the best, to be precise, as he took it in himself to beat his rivals.
That, all the more would be a good reason for him to not act like that given his situation. He would have acted more…professional, like a detective should. It's not like he does this all the time. In fact, this had been a first for him.
Normally, he would have acted like he always did—in the most professional way he could. He was a detective after all. He was most likely born one, as he can't remember not acting like one.
As weird looking as he may be, and no matter how many quirks he had, L has, in fact, a certain rule that he never failed to follow—a code of conduct, so to speak, his way of living. It has never once failed him, and it constantly guides every decision he undertakes, it was a very simple rule, but following it required a tremendous amount of discipline, dedication and sacrifice.
L, as a rule, does not get involved with his suspects.
It was a very simple rule, and for all these years on his career as a detective, it was never breached. In fact, he usually stayed at least a thousand meters away from his suspects, which led him on a sub-rule that he also followed religiously.
L does not put his emotions on a case.
These two rules had never failed him once, and always led him to the successful closure of the cases he faced. He was supposed to apply these two rules on every case he ever had, and this should have been what he had done on such a crucial case as the Kira case.
Ironically, the same two rules were easily forgotten when he took up the Kira case. He got involved. His prime suspect saw his face, talked to him, and even shared coffee with him. Eventually, things happened so fast that L couldn't even believe that he was the one doing it.
The moment he saw Raito, he couldn't stop looking at him. At first it was—a general interest, a curiosity, a possibility that that person could be Kira. He set up bugs on the boy's house to sate that curiosity, and watched his every move through the screen, and he just couldn't help himself. He wanted to know more.
He dismissed it as a natural tendency of a person, when he was nearing on discovering the criminal behind the heinous crime, a thought that excites him. Surely, he wanted to know about this boy in order to pin him even further into the crime. It was all for self-jusification, for him to know that he was right.
Then, a point came to his life when watching live videos of his suspect was not enough for him. He wanted to get closer, to see him off-camera. L explained to himself that it was all for the sake of catching Kira, and so he did.
He entered the school Raito took, sharing in the boy's moment of glory by tieing with him in the exams, became his classmate, played tennis with him, hung out with him. He was even there when the boy's father got into an accident. He spent so much time with Raito that he memorized even his speech patterns, his idiosyncrasies, his attitude. He was obsessed with him. It was definitely all because of the growing possibility of Raito being Kira, and not for anything else. L told himself that he was observing every action of Raito to find if it would increase the possibility of the boy being Kira, nothing more, it was all in a day's work.
When Misa came to the picture, his suspicions increased even more, and he looked for any evidence that would point to her being second Kira. His interest was only centered on this one Kira, any others would be just a hindrance, and should be taken cared of immediately.
Raito voluntarily surrendered after that, and he kept him on a cell to monitor him at all times. He watched him non-stop that he saw every breath the boy took, watched him sleep fitfully at night, watched him everyday, that he can tell how many times the boy breathed in a day. It was an obsession, but a healthy one, he noted. This was Kira, after all, and any detective was bound to be obsessed with the criminal they were catching.
He was enjoying himself; the boy was enough to keep him occupied for the day, ignoring all people around him that even Matsuda's clumsiness did not bother him at all.
But these arrangements were bound to have complications, somehow. He predicted that Chief Yagami, as Raito's father would defend his son and side with him in a biased way, as fathers were bound to do in order to protect their children. What he didn't anticipate was how much Souichiro really loved his son, that he did the most extreme action he could possibly do. And although it was L who suggested it, he never expected the police chief to actually do it.
It was a slight miscalculation that went a long way, since, majority of the task force still places their loyalty to the chief over L, and when they started confronting him of his ways, he got very disappointed, and annoyed that they would oppose him. That was, when he racked his brain for a solution to all of this—desperation. Not because of anything else, it was, just that he was desperate in catching Kira. He fights for justice, after all, and he will not let this chance slip away.
He would not admit it but, when he saw Yagami Raito struggle like that, he got excited, and he enjoyed the show of both father and son: the helplessness, the desperate reasoning, the desire to escape. It thrilled him, in every part of his body. He wanted to see more, he wanted to know more, about his suspect, about Kira. Everything the Yagami boy did awakened his senses, and he couldn't help himself.
So he chained Raito to him. Of course, there were arguments about it, but L wouldn't have it. They would just have to accept it, and as L, he always got what he wanted.
Raito also found this arrangement uncomfortable, but he had to live with it. After all, his desire to be found innocent was just stronger than anything else in the world to him, and that was how L got what he wanted. And then, he realized that the real thing was better than the one he watched on the screen, and was pleased that his decision was right.
That was when things started to change, and his interest in Raito increased tenfold, that it went haywire. He memorized everything about Raito—his wardrobe, his train of thought, his emotions and his mannerisms, his sleeping pattern. L never sleeps so he watched Raito sleep at night, watches him 24/7, watches him in his thoughts, and in the extremely rare case that he falls asleep, watches him in his dream. He'd never let go of Raito, and guards whoever he converses with, guards him even from his father. He doesn't even allow him to date Misa, as he had promised, save for that one time, and that was because everyone pressured him to do so. They fought that time, enough reason for it never to be repeated again.
Raito was so…interesting. Everything about him was worth knowing. L especially loves it when he sleeps. The boy sleeps so peacefully, so quietly, and his face shifts from serious to innocent, to angelic, to the most beautiful sleeper. However, those quiet moments never lasted long, as when in deep sleep, in the wee hours of the morning, when he assumed the boy to be dreaming, he would start to cry.
It was soft sobbing at first, which would develop into violent tears and moans, filled with sadness. Usually, it would stop when L gently touched his face, and it would calm him down and resume to the quiet, angelic, sleep L enjoyed watching.
But one day, it was different. The boy was screaming in his sleep, and he was shivering cold, that even L's touch could not stop him. He was crying and thrashing violently. And without thinking, L embraced him and comforted him.
"Shhh…it's okay…it's all right…"
"Dad…"
L heard that one word, that was almost choked up with the boy's crying, and knew immediately what had caused this. Ignoring his own guilty feelings, he patted the boy's shoulder, and held him tighter.
"I'm here…it's okay…"
Gradually, the boy stopped crying, and fell asleep again. However, nothing was the same ever again.
When Raito woke up to find L staring at him, everything changed. L began to see him in a different light, and saw him for what he is, saw his insecurities, his sadness, his nightmares, his emotions.
Before he knew it, he was in love. He would not call it anything else. He could not find any other explanation. There was no other word that would perfectly describe what he felt. He was in love, and that in it sounded logical to him. He was in love with Yagami Raito, his prime suspect, who he knew one hundred percent to be Kira.
He was in love, and he knew, he was trapped.