A.N: I don't own Death Note, I only own my OCs and some of the plot.
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"Do you understand, Lolita?" I nodded, and looked down at the notebook in my hands. "I understand. I will write your name, and my name, in the Death Note. When Light tries to kill us, it won't have an effect. We will both fake being dead, and surprise him when he thinks he has the upper hand. Making his sanity almost disappear, and he will have no choice but to come out in the open about being Kira." I sighed and looked over at L.
"But I still don't understand why you only want a limited amount of days, you could live longer and solve so many other cases." He shook his head. "Twenty-three days." I nodded. "Right."
"But I do not want you to write twenty-three days for you." I raised an eyebrow. "OK." I smiled, and looked back down at the Death Note. I had tried to get him to write a longer date, even though the twenty-three day rule still applied, there was a way to get around it.
A had told me as long as I went to the shinigami realm for twenty-four hours every four days I would be able to live longer, if L had chose a longer date I could've kidnapped him and taken him to the shinigami realm with him unconscious or something. I told L that I suspected the twenty-three day was another lie like the thirteen day rule, he knew my knowledge and of course believed me, but he decided just to be on the safe side to keep with the twenty-three days.
"But, I'm doing something for your birthday and you can't object." He blinked in surprise.
"My... Birthday?"
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"It started when Misa was released." A week after Takada died Misa started 'killing' criminals again. It was also soon for the birthday celebration I had planned for L. Unfortunately, it would have to wait until after Light was caught, we would be quite busy for the rest of the day.
"Are you still on that?" Light didn't want Misa to be a suspect, but L was just too smart. "What about the thirteen day rule?" You mean, the fake rule which Light put in just to throw you off which obviously didn't work on L?
"Mr. Yagami."
"Yes?"
"Lets try something. We should test the Death Note. I'll ask the FBI to find two criminals on death row, we'll have criminal A write criminal B's name in the death note to confirm that it works..."
I was reminded of A and Beyond when he said that, A had been searching for Beyond endlessly but has reported two days ago to me that he hadn't found anything. He would continue the search later. He was standing next to me in the room, but had been hiding from Rem in case he would expose A.
"And then wait thirteen days to see if criminal A dies from not writing in the notebook." I nodded, as I leaned against the stairs. "You treat their lives as if they are nothing."
"They will already be on death row, if their deaths are more meaningful than a simple flip of the switch, they could be saving hundreds of other lives even though their life will be ended." I think I worded that quite factually.
"Is there no other way?" It was good acting. Mr. Yagami knew our plan, I knew that he was saying something different when he asked if there was no other way, and I felt bad for him that he would soon find out the truth about his son.
"There's been a large number of killings today." Mr. Yagami strode into the room, as L held a bowl of something sweet to his lips. "Ryuzaki, to stop Kira sacrifices are inevitable. But I want to be a witness to the experiment using the notebook. That is my condition."
"But, dad..." I stood behind L, and smiled at mr. Yagami. "Thank you for understanding." L said, before taking a sip. "I'll leave for America immediately." Light stood up in objection.
"By your self, dad? At least let me come with you."
"No. You wait here with Ryuzaki and Lolita, and wait for us to contact you. Don't worry, he's unreliable, but I'll be fine with Matsuda." Matsuda seemed honored with this, I wondered if L had informed them about our plan. Most likely not.
"I may be unreliable, but I'm a sharp shooter, don't forget."
"How about up here?"
"Like a vegetable." I chuckled, and shook my head. We loaded the Death Note into a sealed case, it had been my job early that morning to switch the Death Note, and make all the preparations. Everything, even the Death Note Misa held in her hands at that very moment, was apart of L's plan from the very beginning.
"First of all, you will go to the Tokyo Bay Heliport. From Yokota, a transport plane will fly you all the way to Washington. Watari has arranged everything." Mr. Yagami was nervous, obviously about lying to his son to find out if he was Kira or not, but he played it cool.
"Understood. Right, lets go." He handcuffed the briefcase to himself, and he and the others 'left'. It was just me, Light, and L now. "Now it's just us three." I commented, sipping some tea that L poured for me. "What are you up to?" L glanced over at Light, with his own teacup.
"Shortly, Watari will be here with Misa." Light looked a bit uncomfortable. "Is that what this is about? Why Misa?" L got up abruptly. "For some reason, the thirteen day rule didn't apply to Misa. Which means she is the second Kira, which means she has the other Death Note." L had walked around and to the couch, which he promptly jumped and perched on.
"I'm certain that this is true." I watched Light cooly, sipping my tea and mutely nodding. "If that's the case, wouldn't Misa have written both of your names in the notebook the moment she stepped out that door?" I shook my head.
"She most likely forgot both of our names during confinement, she didn't know our names were important, why should she remember them?" Light faked a chuckle.
"Well, women are good at forgetting things."
"I find that hard to believe, seeing as I still have memories from before I was eight years old." Light ignored me, and L smirked awkwardly. "We'll jog her memory... We're gonna show Misa our faces again."
"What?" Light probably thought this was his lucky break, poor fool. "But if she sees..."
"As soon as she sees us, she's going to try and write our names in that notebook. That's when we get her, we have to do this in order to get that notebook." L had jumped from the couch and was now standing in front of Light in an almost intimidating fashion.
"We don't know where or when she'll write it."
"There are cameras covering every inch of this entire building."
"She may not even bring the notebook."
"She will bring it. It's a golden opportunity, she has to kill us." Light awkwardly readjusted himself. "All right. After I grab her, we'll detain her. Then we'll ask her where the first Kira is. That's what you want?" I got up, and moved towards the two testosterone filled men.
"Yes, this time, we'll have the proof so she'll have to give up the identity of the first Kira."
"Now I see why you sent my father away to the states, if we confine Misa this time, she may really die."
"Yes, it's a shame. But we have no choice." L moved to his original position on the chair in front of the table. Rem came into the room, and L looked over at him. Poor Rem.
"What wrong, shinigami?"
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We watched as Misa entered the building, following Watari. My eyes almost watered, and I remembered when I had told him.
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"Watari."
I approached Watari as he was sitting down in front of his own computer in his room, and he looked up at me with those old owlish eyes.
"I have come here to tell you, that you will die quite soon at the hands of Kira. I want to save you, by writing your name in the notebook, like me and L shall do, but I don't know what will be the outcome of this decision. I would feel guilty not telling you this, and if you wish for me to save your life, I will do so. But I want you to know, that if you do decide to live, I cannot know for sure what will happen in the future and-"
"Lolita, when I took L in, and knew his gifts, I knew that someday his greatness would bring me to my death. It is something I accepted and knew that I would have to do, for L to succeed and solve the unsolvable mysteries us normal people could not. This is one of L's most challenging cases, and the longest as well. It doesn't surprise me in the least that I will die by Kira."
I bit my lip, and I couldn't control myself. I hugged Watari, and whispered in his ear. "You will die in an elevator, when you are bringing Misa to L. And I would like you to know, that we catch him. We catch Kira, and he is brought to justice. And after that, L solves another case that saves millions upon millions of lives. I will make sure that he is cared for until he dies, and even after that." I paused, and closed my eyes.
"You probably already know, but I love him."
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"Ryuzaki, what happens if I fail to save you before she strikes?"
"If either me or Lolita's heart's stops, a sensor will be triggered it will then alert chief Yagami he has then orders to burn the Death Note and dispose of the ashes."
There were two heart monitors, fake, when Light does make his move me and L had buttons to trigger it and make it flatline. I cannot say if I was excited or nervous of faking a heart attack. Rem came up behind Light.
"Misa's lifespan has been cut again!" L turned around, and so did I.
"Lifespan? What does that mean?"
"Ryuzaki, if you're willing to risk your life then I can do it too. If you're sure that Misa is the second Kira, then lets catch her." Light sealed the deal. Rem did not like that.
"Here she comes." Light looked over at Rem, and I glared at the two of them. Rem then moved into the confinement room, and I was nervous about him writing my name and L's name in the Death Note.
I had written it just as L told me to do, he even checked it over, but what if something happened? What if L really did die like in the anime? My eyes widened.
Watari fell.
"Watari?" L's emotionless guard was let down as he saw his adoptive father fall, as the elevator doors opened. I stood next to L, staring at the monitor. I should've saved him. Damn the consequences, I should've saved him... I should've done something.
"Checkmate." I clutched my chest, and fell to the ground ungracefully, falling on my back. I arched up, in unseen and unfelt pain.
"Candice!" L called out my real name, and then he too, fell from his chair and the chair slid out from under him, hitting the table next to me. I went limp, and closed my eyes. Breathing only shallow breathes, not to cause any notice to Light. I pushed the button, and my heartbeat flatlined.
"So you used the shinigami..."
"Rem was a gentle shinigami."
"It was you, Light... You were Kira all along."
L was truly a great actor, the strain in his voice sounded real and I almost jumped up to make sure he was not in any actual pain. "I never did get your name, though I know now that her's was Candice. Pity."
A single tear escaped through the grasp I had on my waterworks, me and L may have been acting, but Watari wasn't. He was gone, and he wasn't coming back as a shinigami.
"I've made... A mistake..."
Me and L waited, and then got up. I couldn't control myself, and quickly hugged L.
"I'm so sorry. Lets catch this bastard." L nodded, with a small smile, and we left to find Light.
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"Where's the Death Note?" Light questioned, after his speech to his father, and mr. Yagami revealed that there was no Death Note in his compartment.
"Light. They showed me everything. The video footage, your conversations."
"What?" I wondered when Light would know, would know that he lost. The men ran above in the balcony and pointed their guns at Light. Sanami rushed over, and handcuffed Misa, holding her down.
"Light!"
Light watched as his world around him came crashing down. And I watched him. "Light." His head snapped back to his father.
"You are under arrest." I was next to L, on the stairs. "I'm so sorry. We could've been friends, Light." Light looked at the believed to be dead man and woman in shock.
"Ryuzaki, Candice... You're still... B-but how?" He came to the realization of our plan, and looked at the Death Note on the table, the one Misa brought.
"The notebook's fake. You've betrayed me!"
"That's not true! Why would I ever betray you? I don't care what you are, because I... I'll always love you." Misa pleaded, seeking forgiveness. I walked down the stairs next to L.
"Misa Amane never betrayed you, Light. I just never expected you to use the shinigami." L held up the real Death Note, and I smirked. "This is the real Death Note. This is the Death Note Misa dug up."
He opened it, to reveal both my real name and L's real name, and causes of death. L died peacefully of heart failure twenty-three days later, and I died in my sleep a year later by heart failure.
"And this is my real name, and Candice's, the one you've been looking for all this time." Light couldn't say anything, shock was taking care of his body. "One cannot change what's been written in a Death Note, the rules say. So Candice wrote it in first to lock in our own deaths."
He closed it. "And now I only have twenty more days to live which means you can no longer kill me with this."
"When did you switch them?"
"All the criminals I wrote in there really did die!" I forced myself not to smile very openly, it might offend the criminals. "Only on the first day. That's when we confirmed finally that you were the second Kira." I followed L down the stairs.
"And that the thirteen day rule was a fake. Candice had them switched from the second day on, we watched her very carefully, and had the deaths covered on the news channels as if Kira had indeed returned and resumed killing." I leaned against the railing, not following L as he walked closer to Light.
"The problem was we still had no evidence proving that you were Kira. Bravo, Light, you never gave us an inch. And that is why, Candice and I had to give up our own lives." I looked over at mr. Yagami, his eyes hardly blinked and never left his son.
"In order to carry out my plan I needed chief Yagami's help. At first, he was against it, because he is a just man with a good heart. But then when I showed him the Death Note and how we had already written our own names in it... He recognized my determination and decided to go along with my plan." L turned to Light.
"You know what, Light? Up until the last second, he refused to believe you were Kira. Despite all the proof. Instead of going to the heliport... Your father and his men stayed here and watched everything." L looked down now, and I could see the pain on his expression. Perhaps no one else could, but I knew.
"I do regret... Watari... I honestly didn't think the shinigami would write his name down. The last mistake I'll ever make." Another tear, I couldn't hold it back. "Light. You were saying that I'd understand, that you're trying to create a new world here for us. But I'm sorry. I don't understand, this isn't justice at all!" It was simple, really. A father, scolding his son. But nothing was simple about this.
"Before I found the notebook, the world was rotten with criminals who laughed at the legal system. It was a world of hypocrisy. But I changed that, with Kira around the crime rate dropped by seventy percent. Isn't that the kind of world you wanted, dad? A world of peace and harmony?"
Light was going to write a name with the Death Note paper in his watch, but Matsuda shot and the watch went flying across the room. Light made a move towards it but Matsuda shot his right leg, blood splattered on the marble floor.
"Light! No!" L noticed the piece of paper on the floor, with Takada's name on it in blood. "That's a piece of the Death Note, isn't it? You had it hidden on you. That's how Takada was killed. That's it then, this case is solved." I sat down on the stairs, tired of standing, and I watched as Light started to break down. He looked at L, then me.
"That's right, I really am Kira. I am the god of this new world."
"No you're not, you're just a pathetic murderer."
L picked up the real Death Note.
"And this notebook here, is the deadliest weapon on the whole planet."
"L, you have no idea, you never even leave your room. Reality is an innocent person dying because some evil bastard is on the loose. Worthless scum, who don't deserve the precious gift of life! That's the kind of reality in which the law is powerless!"
Mr. Yagami jumped into the conversation. "You're right. The law is not perfect. And those who make laws aren't perfect either, which just makes it worse. But, it's a never ending effort with the purpose and intention of serving justice. What you've done is selfish. No matter what, killing people is not an answer to anything!"
"This is nothing but a waste of time." He turned his attention from us to his surrounding area. "Ryuk? Ryuk, where are you?!" Ryuk landed next to him.
"I'm right here."
"Another shinigami." L brought his thumb to his lips in curiosity. "Can everyone who touched the notebook see him?" I nodded, and so did everyone else. I was still holding my attention at the two, the two who started it all.
"Ryuk. I can still keep you entertained. But you've got to kill them first."
I raised an eyebrow, did he understand that me and L could not be killed by any Death Note? "Kill all of them right now, Ryuk!" Mr. Yagami was shocked, and the pain was expressed on his face. "Oh, Light." Light was unresponsive to his father's pain, the bastard.
"What's taking you so long? Just write a name down in your Death Note." Ryuk brought out his notebook. "Just write a name down, huh?" He opened it. "Drop it!"
"Stop him!" They tried shooting at Ryuk but of course it went straight through him. Light and Ryuk laughed like maniacs. Light turned his attention back towards us. "It's no use." Then back to Ryuk. "Ryuk, have you finished?" Ryuk chuckled, and nodded.
"Uh huh."
"Let me see."
"OK."
Ryuk showed Light the Death Note, with Light's name in it. "I'm sorry, kid. You might as well be dead, if you're relying on me." Light was in disbelief. "No, wait a second. I told you, I'm gonna keep you entertained!" Light fell forward through Ryuk. "No, I think I've had enough fun. Haven't you?" Light sat there, pathetic and weak.
"What do you mean? The fun's just started!"
"I've forgot to tell you. Humans who use Death Notes don't make their way to heaven, or to hell. What awaits them after death... Nothing." But I knew that wasn't true, for me, I would turn into a shinigami.
Which, in a way, I guess wasn't hell nor heaven. Light convulsed, and fell to the floor. Misa tried to get to him but was held back by Sanami.
"Light!" Mr. Yagami cried out for his son. "How could you, Ryuk? I can't afford to die now!" Mr. Yagami brought Light up into his lap. "Light, no!" Even though Light was Kira, he was still his son.
"How could this happen? All I ever wanted was real justice. The kind of justice you taught me about. You can't let me die like some damn criminal!" He had a seizure, and writhed in agony while screaming. His father desperately tried to grab a hold of him. He managed to, after some struggle.
"Kira was real justice. Oh, dad. You've got to understand." Light died, and Kira died with him. Misa cried, dropping to her knees. And I brought my legs up to my chest, hugging them tightly. "I'll round up the Death Notes, and dispose of them." Ryuk came up behind L.
"Aren't you even going to use it? Well that's just boring." Ryuk spread his wings, and retreated to the shinigami realm. A appeared next to me, trying to lay a comforting hand on my back, but I could only just barely feel it. He was a pure shinigami after all, and I was not yet one.
"I have found Beyond, and he wants to speak with you in private." I nodded, and left the room, going to my own room in the headquarters.
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A.N: Wow, this was a long chapter. It'll probably take a while to get the next one up, and it'll most likely be the last chapter until the next trilogy installment. LETS SEE HOW MANY REVIEWS I CAN GET!
Thank you for reading!