Previously on Number 25… Previously on Number 25…

"I'm assuming what you want me to answer is Taurus PT 145 Millennium Pro.

"Only problem with this answer is the gun you are holding is a cheap knock of made by the Chinese

"For the next four months you will be training in your aim with these guns here.

"And if I don't master one in the four months?"

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Brazil, 1998

It had been eight long years since he had held his first gun, pulled his first trigger.

'His name is Jehan Claude. He is currently running for president.' 25 held his finger to his ear piece as he listened to the voice on the other end.

"I though I said I won't do political assassinations." 25 said.

'Well you do now.' 25 looked through the zoom on his gun staring at the elderly man. He shook his head. He took his hand away from his ear as the line went dead. He kneeled on a black mat on the roof of a nearby building, his gun resting on the side ledge in front of him. He had a black case next to him that had a think wire running out of it and too the gun. He watched the man through the zoom and pulled the trigger. People screamed and ran for cover as he stood up and walked away leaving his gun there.

It wasn't long after he left when the black box blew up destroying everything in the small vicinity he had been previously occupying, taking all evidence with it.

By the time the police got there, he was gone.

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"I've done a lot of bad things in my life." He said. "That's the first one I told you about. But not the first one that's happened." L sighed and leaned back on the couch, placing his feet on the floor. He stood up and walked to one of the shelves that had been placed by the wall. He pulled out a thick dark red book with a white symbol on it. It was the symbol of the ICA-HQ. He handed it to Mr. Yagami.

Mr. Yagami looked at the book confused before he opened it. Inside where, on each page, the names of people, their ages, the dates they where born and the dates they died. Next to each name was a small cross. Mr. Yagami flipped through the pages glancing over the names and ages of the people, their ages running anywhere from 13-89.

"There are four other books like that one. That is the last of them." L said sitting down next to Mr. Yagami again. Mr. Yagami got to the last page of writing about 50 pages short of the end of the book. There was a name there, but unlike the rest of the names, there was no cross beside the name and no death date.

"This one?" Mr. Yagami said pointing to the name. "Has no cross or death date." L looked at the last name in the book.

"He was not assassinated." He said.

"You mean…. All these people. They where assassinated?" Mr. Yagami asked shocked.

"Yes." He said. The next words that came out of L's mouth could have not shocked Mr. Yagami any more than had he told him he was a black albino living as an Eskimo in the middle of Germany. "By me."

"You…" Mr. Yagami paused. "All these people."

"I was trained to do it. I had no choice."

"There's so many." He said. "More than even Kira has killed."

"Please do not compare me to Kira." L said. "There are many differences."

"Like what? How does your murdering differ from his?"

"He has a choice." He said. "And has made a choice to stay with it." L paused and closed his eyes. "I had no choice. And made a choice to leave it." He said not looking at Mr. Yagami. "What I did was wrong I know that better than anyone. And it haunts me every moment I live while they do not. Every time I close my eyes I see their faces. Hear their screams. Or at least the ones that had a chance to scream." He said. "What I did was out of survival. And I'm sure if I had to go back in time and do it again I would have." He said. "Do you know what it's like to be faced with death Mr. Yagami?" He asked. "To stare death in the eye. Do you know how terrifying it is?" He asked.

Mr. Yagami looked away from L.

"I have never been placed in such a situation."

"I have." He said. "As soon as I signed that paper, every moment I lived I knew it could be my last. Every day I woke up and thought to myself is today the day I die? I have lived in fear my whole life Mr. Yagami. That I would die because I wouldn't do as I was told. As I was trained to do. I hated every moment of it. But when you're faced with the fear of death you will do anything to stay alive." He said. "Do you know how hard it is to kill someone?"

Mr. Yagami looked aghast. "Of course I don't!"

"It wasn't an implication that you have tried." He said. "It was merely a question. When a human is threatened they go into almost a state of shock and will do anything to stay alive. That's why most murder attempts fail. The person will defend themselves. Whether what they are protecting themselves from is an immediate threat or not, it still has that instinct." He said. "I'm not trying to justify to you why I did it. I'm just trying to make you understand what it was like."

Mr. Yagami nodded. "But still…. All those people. Are you 25?" Mr. Yagami asked.

L nodded. "I was." He said. "But that was a long time ago."

"How did you get out?" L smirked.

"Aw now there's a story!"

((Sorry it took so long to update I've been on a Clopin or Matrix Twins high lately….. Please R&R))