Warnings: Misa-being-a-retard-because-she-was-born-that-way themes. Yaoi/Shounen-ai/Slashable characters: L and Light. Rated M for smut, language and boy kissing.
Summary: Kira brought Raito to L, the one person he could love. But, is love enough to concur the evil that is Kira? Or, is that love itself the true evil? L's life is at stake, and Raito is the only one who can save it, but will he? L/Light, Mello/Near. Yaoi.
Disclaimer: One day… one day.
Chibi Mikami: One day you'll what?
Me: Own Death Note.
Chibi Misa: Merry Christmas to everyone!
Chibi L: Yes.
Chibi Raito: Misa, Japanese don't celebrate Christmas.
Me: But most reviewers and readers will.
Chibi Sayu: What, even you?
Me: Bah humbug.
Chibi Mikami: Read, relax, and review!
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Today the past is a freak
Today's a time for forgiveness
You were never that good to me
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Death Note:
Redemption
By NinjaKittyx3
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Matsuda was not a happy bunny. He had said he wanted to contribute to the case, but going undercover to catch Higuchi as the Third Kira was not part of his plan. He was risking his life to do this, and Ryuzaki better be a whole lot nicer to him if he lived. He shook violently as he stood at the main door of the director's office at Sakura TV's building, knowing that once he went in there, there was no turning back.
Damn it all.
Back at Head Quarters, the investigation team was trying to figure out how they would go about catching Higuchi.
"…then we could use Yotsuba as a way of getting to Higuchi." Raito finished, crossing his arms and frowning at Soichiro. His father had separated him and L earlier for apparently getting 'too close to one another' when they were talking. Raito thought he was over-reacting; he and L weren't getting that close, but they were getting closer, he'd give him that.
"Raito-kun." L summoned Raito over to the desk, ignoring Soichiro's face, and motioned for him to sit down beside him. "You are going to have to pose as L once again."
"I am?" Raito asked, unsure.
"They'd detect a difference in voice tone even with the audio changer." L replied, stirring his coffee cup. "Call Namikawa and pose as L. Tell him…"
Higuchi sighed, placing his drink on the table and sparing a glance at Rem. He contemplated calling Misa, but what good would it do? She'd have noticed by now that the killings had stopped, so she'd marry him without a second thought, right? Sighing when his cell phone rang, he stretched and reached for it on the coffee table.
"…" He didn't even give the person on the other end a 'hello', or rather; he didn't have the decency to.
"Higuchi." Oh, it was Namikawa.
"What do you want, Namikawa?" Higuchi asked rudely.
"Turn on Sakura TV." Namikawa said lowly. "We have a problem."
"What is it now?" Higuchi complained, reaching for the remote. "I don't have time for this."
"Just turn it on." Came the bored response.
Higuchi sighed, changing the channel to Sakura TV and oddly hearing people talk about Kira.
"I know Kira's real identity, and I plan to let the world know." Came a voice from behind a screen, obviously to keep his identity a secret.
"A-ah. Let's wait until the end of the show for that, yeah?" The announcer replied from behind another screen. "Aren't you worried that Kira might kill you for revealing him on live TV?"
"No. Kira must be revealed to the world. If that costs me my life, then that's just the way it is."
"…Well, let's take a commercial break."
"If this guy truly knows who Kira is, we're done, Higuchi." Namikawa said urgently.
"U-uh… yeah." Higuchi panicked. "Call me back later." And with that, he hung up.
Aaaaaaargghhh!
If the guy actually knew Kira's identity, Higuchi was screwed. Not only would the other members of Yotsuba know who he was, but he'd probably be executed. Damnit.
No.
All he had to do was figure out that guy's name. It sounded familiar… but where?
Damnit!
"He's panicking." Soichiro noted.
Well, yah.
"I know." Raito grimaced. "What do you think he'll do?"
L pouted. "It's unlikely that Higuchi can kill by looking at someone's face. But then again, it's a high possibility that he will gain that power to defeat Matsuda."
"If that happens, that's bad." Mogi grunted.
Well done, brainiac.
Light sighed.
"Rem! Let's make the eye deal!"
"Huh?" L straightened quickly in his chair, stretching to hear louder.
Raito gasped and slammed the counter with his fists.
"The eye deal?!"
"My guess is…" L started, biting his thumb. "Higuchi can now kill criminals with only seeing a face."
"That would make sense." Raito nodded, glaring at the screen as they continued to watch Higuchi panic, and eventually leave his home.
Suddenly, L's phone vibrated from his pocket, and he reached in to get it. Holding it up between his thumb and forefinger, almost to examine it, he noticed that the caller ID read 'ROGER'.
Oh, goody.
He picked up. "Yes?"
"L!"
"Ah, Matt-kun..." L answered quietly. What was it this time?
"M-Mello! He..."
"What about Mello, Matt-kun?" L bit his thumb.
"He's gone! Capoot! Offsky! Bye bye! L! You gotta help!"
"He's gone?" L's eyes widened a fraction.
"Gone! G-O-N-E! He said he was going to go for a walk around the grounds last week and-"
"Last week?" L's face was not amused. "If he disappeared last week, why am I only hearing about it now?"
"Roger wouldn't give me his phone. I ended up having to steal it."
"Roger..." L sighed. "Do you have any idea where Mello might have gone, Matt-kun?"
This wasn't good. Mello was one of his successors. Not only that, but L loved that boy.
Hopefully adding '-kun' to Matt's name would calm him like usual.
"He loves you, L. I can only assume he wants to see you. You heard him on the phone yourself."
There was a shuffle. "Matt-kun?"
"L."
"Near."
"Help. I... We need to find Mello." Near sounded petrified, though he hid it very well, L still knew. The fact that the likes of Near was worried, made L worry, and he nervously bit his tumbnail.
"This isn't the time, I am in the middle of something very imp-"
"Ryuzaki! Higuchi has left his home!" Raito yelled.
"I must go, Near. Goodbye."
The line went dead.
Higuchi ran into his car, not bothering with seatbelts and all that, and drove off, leaving behind an echo and a nasty skid mark.
"Wedy." L said simply.
"I got it." Wedy replied from the computers in front of them. "I'm already trailing him. I'll send a video feed."
Within seconds, live video footage from a camera on the front of Wedy's motorbike showed Higuchi's red sports car rudely overtaking traffic a few meters ahead.
"Don't get too close." L stated, biting his thumb. "The last thing we want is Higuchi knowing he's being followed."
"Aizawa, can you show us the camera views from inside Higuchi's car?" Soichiro asked hurriedly, yet politely.
"Wait, wait."
Great.
So Higuchi was talking to himself now?
Again?
Dude...
"He could be talking to a Shinigami, Raito-kun. Please keep in mind that this is the Kira case." L was looking at Raito before he started talking and kept his eyes focused. "We've come this far, and know that it's highly possible that these killings are being done by some kind of supernatural activity."
"Oh, I know. It was just starting to bug me." Raito grinned sheepishly.
"L." Wedy's voice overtook the end of Raito's sentence. "Higuchi has been pulled over by a police vehicle. I'm going to have to pass them."
L sighed. "Very well. Aizawa, please replace all of Wedy's motorcycle camera's with copies, or if possible, different angles of the inside of Higuchi's car."
"Meh."
Now the room was flooded with videos of Higuchi from different angles.
Pah. What an idiot.
How could you not notice those many cameras?
"I'm going to have to see your license and registration, please." The policeman asked boredly, looking at Higuchi.
Higuchi turned around and glanced above the man's head, his eyes glowing red. He smirked.
"Oh, of course! Just one moment 'till I get it out my bag..." Higuchi rummaged through his briefcase until he came across the Death Note and discretely wrote down the Policeman's real name.
Wait.
Something isn't right here.
"Isn't he taking awful long?" Raito asked, tilting his head and gazing at L for response, but one never came. L just deadpanned at the screen, chewing his thumbnail.
Without another word, Higuchi put his briefcase down and drove off, leaving the policeman standing in shock for a second, before he yelled and hopped onto his motorcycle, giving chase.
"I'd assume he's being chased now."
"Hey, Ryuzaki?" Aizawa's voice was heard.
"Yes, Mr. Aizawa? Are you all right taking over for now?" L sat back down and looked at his toes.
"Eh, yes. But, actually... I was going to ask..." Aizawa cleared his throat. "Have you been staying in here or something?"
"I'm sorry?" L looked up confusedly.
"There's chocolate wrappers everywhere..." Aizawa rustled one.
"...Chocolate..." L repeated slowly. "...wrappers...?"
"Everywhere." Aizawa finished, then laughed nervously. "Eh, well not everywhere but, they're still here. Quite frankly, they're pissing me off."
"I understand. I will try and deal with that situation as soon as the current one is resolved." L sounded uneasy, and Raito didn't like it.
He didn't like it one bit.
Why was L so worked up about chocolate wrappers?
Hell, it probably was him who'd left them there and he had forgotten.
Well, again, that was pretty un-L like; to forget things.
Hmm…
"L!" Wedy yelled. "The policeman following Higuchi has just collapsed off of his motorcycle. I'm assuming cardiac arrest."
"What the…"
"He didn't do anything!"
"He was in his bag a long time." Raito pointed out. "He must have done something. Plus, he killed without asking a name."
"We must consider the possibility that Higuchi might have already known the officer." L bit his thumb.
"Ryuzaki." Soichiro started. "We need to stop him before he kills anyone else."
L sighed, glancing at Raito, who was looking worriedly at the screen. Something wasn't right.
"Yagami-san is right." L stated, spinning around in his chair and facing the rest of the team. "We will need to stop him right away. We have more than enough evidence to convict him as the third Kira."
"But Ryuzaki…" Raito put a hand on his shoulder. L nearly leaned into his touch. "How are we going to do that?"
Ryuk huffed. What the hell was going on outside? He could sense Rem. Glaring at the window; he floated over to it and peered out and down the hotel. Why were they in such a high room again?
True enough, there was Rem, inside a red sports car with… Kyosuke Higuchi?
Hm… his life span is going to run out within fifteen minutes.
Maybe he'll crash the car.
Heh. Ryuk grinned.
I wanna see that.
"What are you looking at, Ryuk?" Misa asked, looking up from her laptop and looking over at the Shinigami.
"Rem."
Misa's eyes lit up bright red. "Rem?"
Ryuk grunted. "She's in a car with someone who's life span is about to end."
Huh.
Rem.
"I wont be able to see her."
"No."
Damn. Damn the rules of the Death Note.
I wonder when Raito will get his memories back.
"I never knew you could fly a helicopter, Ryuzaki." Raito mused into his headset, glancing at L.
"Indeed I can." L smirked at him.
"Stop the sweet talk and watch the god damn air, Ryuzaki!" Aizawa complained from the back, holding his rifle and waving it around.
Raito blushed and looked away from L momentarily.
It was like Aizawa knew…
No way. Aizawa couldn't know. He was only teasing… right?
Right, dumbass.
"Dad, he's almost at Sakura TV, are you ready?" Raito asked into his head phone.
From somewhere inside the Sakura TV building, Soichiro answered. "I really don't want my son to say things like that to me."
"Yagami-san, is Matsuda-san alright?" L asked quietly. If he hadn't known better, Raito would have said that L had a soft spot for Matsuda.
...Snicker.
"Yes, Matsuda is fine. He's not inside the building; he's far away." Soichiro replied, after some scuffling and Wedy speaking to him.
"Alright, dad." Raito said slowly.
L flew the helicopter faster, so Aizawa could maintain watching Higuchi's every move incase the time came when he'd have to use said rifle and blow him back to hell.
Higuchi got into Sakura TV without a problem. The guards let him in, and he was able to get into that news room pretty easily too.
Ah, and there it was.
He was going to kill everyone here.
It had to be done. Kira's identity should never be known. He should remain as suspicious as God himself, Kira also being the God of the New World.
W-what?
"D-dummies?" Higuchi stopped walking towards the screens and gasped.
Freaking dummies! They'd replaced the original people there with dummies!
He was such an idiot! He should have saw this coming from the beginning!
"Higuchi, don't move." A voice sounded from behind him, slightly muffled. "Or we'll shoot."
'We'll' shoot? Great, there was more than one.
Slowly, Higuchi turned to see about six people in black biker helmets aiming their guns right at him. The one who spoke seemed to be the leader of some sort, and the one next to him was a woman.
"Higuchi, you are under arrest." The leader spoke again.
No.
No!
It can't be... they can't know...!
"No." Higuchi pulled a gun out of his pocket. (Don't ask how it got there. I forgot how he got out of this and was too lazy to look it up.)
He aimed straight at the woman. A pitiful man, one might say, but she was the first in sight. He shot once.
Lucky for him, he shot ride through the cover of the helmet. The woman tumbled backwards, whimpering.
Higuchi ran. He ran for his life.
"Higuchi!"
"Are you alright?!"
"Ryuzaki! Higuchi has escaped Sakura TV!"
Raito almost stood up. WHAT?
"Where is he now?" L asked quickly.
"I see him!" Aizawa exclaimed, aiming his rifle with no intention to shoot. "There's cop cars chasing him down the highway!"
"We're right behind him in police vehicles, Ryuzaki." Soichiro added.
But L had already guided the helicopter to said highway, but kept just high enough to shield themselves from Higuchi. The last thing he wanted was for Higuchi to glance up and see the helicopter.
He may have the power to blow it up or something.
...
L would have slapped himself, had Raito not been there.
Higuchi's little red sportscar took a sharp right turn, successfully dodging a traffic build up, and progressing through a seemingly traffic-ridden road.
"Dad, is everyone alright?" Raito asked suddenly. "He didn't hurt anyone, right? You guys did wear your helmets?"
"Everyone is... as fine as can be expected."
Raito scowled. "Who was hurt?"
He received no answer.
But Raito was suddenly pre-occupied.
"What is that...?" Raito gazed out the helicopter window, referring to the bright light in the distance that Higuchi was, unknowingly, heading straight for.
L's eyebrows furrowed.
He was tempted to ask Aizawa to use his rifle and zoom in, but decided against it as said detective was already grumbling about the traffic, and he didn't want to aggravate him any further.
Raito appeared to have the same thoughts as he turned back from Aizawa to the curious glow.
"It looks like..."
"Police lights." L finished.
"The ones you get on top of police vehicles." Raito nodded furiously. "I thought you asked the police to stay out of this?"
"..." L stared, wide-eyed at Raito. "I did."
"Then who-"
"Eyes on the God damn air!"
"Sorry, Aizawa-san."
Who could be responsible for this? He specifically told the police force to refrain from trying to detain Higuchi. It was too dangerous for them. Who could be so stupid-
...
L's eyes nearly popped out.
No!
"M-Mello! He..."
"What about Mello, Matt-kun?" L bit his thumb.
"He's gone! Capoot! Offsky! Bye bye! L! You gotta help!"
"He's gone?" L's eyes widened a fraction.
Mello. Mello.
Mello.
Mello, you idiot! Any one of these people could be Kira. Mello was here?! Why?!
L glanced at Raito.
Meanwhile, down below...
Higuchi swirved his car as an almost swarm of police cars blocked the rest of the road. He successfully swirved right into one of the side walls, and the driver's side window smashed and shattered.
Damnit!
No, this wasn't over!
But, there was police cars swarming him from each side, aiminig their guns right at him.
Higuchi pulled out the gun he'd used to shoot that woman in the face and put it to his own head.
"No one come any closer or I'll shoot!" His attempt to commit suicide did not go unheard, and may officers stopped moving.
If it wasn't for that damn helicopter.
...wait.
Helicopter?
The thing flew above him, and something came shooting out of it and successfully landed on his hand, causing him to lose his gun.
Bastards!
"Rem! What do I do?!" Higuchi cried.
Rem sighed. "Who knows?"
The Shinigami's eyes fixed upon Raito, who was now visible that L had successfully landed the helicopter without killing anyone.
"It's over." Raito whispered, more to himself, but L answered.
"Indeed it is." He said quietly as Soichiro searched through Higuchi's bag, where he'd spent quite a long time looking for his ID when that poor policeman had pulled him over.
Behind him, Higuchi was apprehended and blindfolded, and everyone was able to take off their helmets.
One of the police cars opened from the far side that was blocking the road and Raito's eyes fixated on it.
Someone stepped out, holding what looked to be a chocolate bar, but Raito wasn't close enough to make sure.
Blonde hair -very girly blonde hair at that-, thin face, extremely thin hips-
Raito didn't miss L's sudden intake of breath as he looked at the figure.
"I've found something!"
They were both brought back to the real world when Soichiro's voice rang out, and he was waving a small book in his hands.
"A notebook?" Asked the man with the blonde hair and chocolate bar. Raito wasn't really sure what to compare him to yet.
"Inside are all the criminals names that died three days ago." Soichiro replied, before raising an eyebrow at the man as if to say 'Who the fuck are you and why'd I answer your question?'.
"I see." He had an accent. British, maybe?
"Yagami-san. Please bring the notebook over here." L said through the loudspeaker. He couldn't go out there and expose himself, especially to Mello.
Soichiro brought the whole bag over and handed it to L inside the helicopter. Aizawa scoffed.
"All we got is a note book?" he complained.
L held it at it's edges and examined it.
Death Note.
Death Note?
As in... a Notebook of Death?
"Death Note." L said aloud.
Raito froze as images from that dreaded dream he had came back to him. Death Note? Why did that sound so familiar?
"Hey, Ryuzaki..." Raito spoke quietly, eyeing the book as L turned, wide-eyed, and stared at him. "Can I see it?"
L looked torn for a moment, but slowly handed it to Raito anyway.
The notebook touched Raito's hands and he held it for a split second, and then the world came crashing down on him.
He lifted his head, and screamed.
A/N: Well, hey there. It's been about three weeks since my last updated. Here is my sob story: I have been on hiatus for two weeks and this story is boring me intensly. I really need some reviewers opinions on it, whether they like it, or whether they have advice on how to make it better. Feel free to review this info or send me a message; either way. And, I am the Godess of cliff-hangers. This has gotta be the longest chapter of my life. ;~; And, no one saw Rem, so where is she? o.o This chapter is just like back and forth constantly, and I'm sorry about that.
Me: Right. So this year, Christmas came and kicked my ass so hard I can taste its shoe.
Chibi Mello: …Did she just say what I think she did?
Chibi Mikami: Asses have shoes?
Chibi Cookie: Asses can text.
Chibi Mello: Who the fuck are you? And what?!
Chibi Cookie: I'm Ninja's friend Kaien Cross x3.
Me: Right, so bye now! –kicks-
Chibi Cookie: -goes flying through the air-
Me: I've already got Chappy to talk to.
Chibi Sayu: Where is she anyway?
Chibi Chappy: Wait!
Me: On what?
Chibi Mikami: Where is God?
Chibi Misa: I haven't seen Raito since an hour ago.
Chibi Mello: I bet'cha they're busy.
Me: -took the perverted side of that-
Chibi Mello: That was the point.
Chibi Chappy: Hi!
Chibi Misa: So, read and review!
Chibi Chappy: Hey, wai-
Chibi Mikami: DELETE!
Chibi Cookie: -lands in dumpster-