This chapter will hopefully be longer than my other two.
Yup.
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Goodbye
7pm, February 12th, 2010
It was in a private cemetery. There were only two other graves in the same row. The sky was red and orange due to the setting sun.
Aizawa was the first one there. He intentionally arrived a half hour early. He wanted to be alone. And to make sure that his… unusual… request for the grave had come through. The grave read:
Light Yagami
02/28/1986 - 10/28/04 - 01/28/10
Beloved Son, Comrade, Brother, and Friend
The Shinigami had explained to him Light's plan to regain his memories before he returned to his world. The middle date was the date of Kyosuke Higuchi's death.
Apparently that was when Light became Kira again.
To Aizawa at least, that was when Light had truly died.
He heard a car roll up. Matsuda stepped out and joined Aizawa next to the three graves.
Next came Ide. Then Sachiko and Sayu Yagami.
Finally, a limousine pulled up.
A boy wearing a mask and dressed in loose white pajamas stepped out. Gevanni, Rester, and Lidner flanked him.
The boy approached Sayu and Sachiko.
"Hello. I am Near" he said, removing his mask.
"I offer to you my sincere condolences".
The three stood in awkward silence.
Then, with a SMACK, Sayu slapped Near across the face.
He staggered back, falling over. The members of the SPK started to approach but Near waved them off.
"I deserved that. It is undoubtedly my fault that Light Yagami is dead"
Sayu started crying softly.
"No."
Near look up, surprised.
Looking at the ground with closed eyes, Sayu sniffled, "You did the right thing."
Near stood and respectfully said, "I'm sorry"
He walked over to the grave where the Task Force was waiting with the SPK members.
There was no procession. No service. The sole event of notice at the funeral was Sayu Yagami laying a single crimson rose on the grave.
The attendees dispersed over time. First went the Yagamis. Then Ide and Aizawa. Matsuda was the last member of Light Yagami's funeral to leave. But once Matsuda left, Near and the SPK members were not attending the funeral of Kira anymore.
They were paying their respects to the two grades beside his.
First Near walked to the furthest grave in the row, two graves down from Light's.
It had no name on it.
"Gevanni"
"Yes, sir"
Gevanni was always a very efficient person. He had copied the entirety of Mikami's Death Note in one night, in his exact handwriting. So it wasn't long before Gevanni finally stepped away from the grave, pocketing his chisel and hammer and admiring his handiwork.
The grave now read:
Mihael Keehl
12/13/1989 – 1/26/2010
Ally
Near briefly bowed his head. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bar of chocolate, which he then laid on the grave.
Near then walked to the grave in the middle, although Lidner stayed at Mello's grave.
"Gevanni."
Gevanni now came over to Near, unsure of what he wanted.
Near reached into his shirt and pulled out what he understood to be the original Death Note of the Shinigami Rem.
He flipped to the last used page and saw a single name.
"Please write this name and the lifespan of this person on the grave."
Gevanni nodded somberly.
When he had finished, the entire SPK was there to admire his work.
L Lawliet
10/31/1979 – 11/05/2004
Mentor, Leader, Friend
Near laid his mask on the grave.
He closed his eyes and bowed his head for a short time.
"Rester, please pass me the other notebook."
Rester pulled it out of his bag and passed it to Near.
Near took out a lighter and struck a flame.
"This is the true end of Kira" said Near.
He lit both Death Notes, and placed one on L's grave, and the other on Light's.
"We won" Near said inaudibly.
He started walking back towards the limousine. "Let's go."
They entered the limousine and drove away.
"Lidner" said Near, while picking up an action figure from the floor of the limo.
"Yes Near?" Lidner replied, looking back at him.
"Make arrangements for me to travel to London. I will need you to escort me on the flight over."
"Then I will release you all from service in the SPK".
The remaining three members of the SPK all stared at Near, shocked.
Near simply stared, surprised, back at them. "The Kira investigation is solved. There is no logical point in keeping around a Special Provision for Kira when Kira no longer exists."
They all sat for a while in stunned silence from Near's remarks.
Then, Rester spoke up, "With all due respect, Near, we aren't going anywhere."
Near looked up, surprised.
"As L, you can't just take on all the world's unsolved cases alone" remarked Gevanni.
Near looked puzzled. "The original L did. Why shouldn't I?"
"That may be so, but even you can't admit" said Lidner.
"When L was leading the task force, he was happier than he had ever been."
Near glanced around at all of the members of his team.
"Even Mello functioned better with people backing him", Lidner added.
Near pondered this in silence for quite a while.
"All right"
The SPK members all looked up at him due to his sudden response. Lidner gave a slight smile.
The limousine kept driving underneath the red sky.
Back at the cemetery, there now were two piles of smoking ashes on two graves, right next to each other.
The smoke of the ashes appeared to be intertwining.
If anyone were there, they would have compared the sight to a chain.
Man, writing actually takes effort.
I tried to make this chapter longer, but seeing as I won't in the foreseeable future be adding three chapters per day to what I plan to be a fairly short story, I feel like I made up for my laziness. REVIEW THIS!