AN: I can't believe this story is almost over. Next up is the epilogue. I don't know yet if there will be any more L/Karin fics, I hope that I can get more ideas for new stories because I had so much fun writing these two.

Now on with the story!

(Karins pov)

A lot has changed in the month since Light and Misa had been captured. Since I almost lost myself to Gobi.

(Flashback)

I thought it was all finished when Aizawa had turned to handcuff Light, so I hadn't noticed him grabbing the gun until he started yelling about how I was supposed to be his Queen.

I slid a kunai from inside my sleeve and threw it right at the gun with my ninja reflexes. I smirked when it flew out of his hands, hitting the ground a few feet behind him. But the smirk vanished when I became aware of a searing pain coming from my left ribs.

I instinctively grabbed at the area, realizing with horror that I had been shot. Normally I would have just healed myself, no problem. However my continuous use of chakra left me weaker than normal. Then I felt Gobis chakra flowing out of me. I closed my eyes, trying to stop the demonic chakra before I lost myself completely.

I allowed Gobi to remove the bullet and close up the wound, before trying to force the chakra back. I had entered my mind, and I stood in front of Gobi.

We were both helpless at the situation, Gobi did not really want to corrupt me or control me, but even she was unable to stop the weakening seal. I reached for the seal, using my whole weight to keep it in place, but I could feel that it was a losing battle.

I could subconsciously feel my body reacting to the demonnic energy and I was suddenly forced from my mind as I felt the chakra overwhelming me.

I opened my eyes, seeing only blurry images as I fought for control. I was vaguely aware of L reapparing and telling everything to run, before feeling a powerful rush of energy trying to swallow me whole. I could feel myself trying to scream from the horrible burning sensation that engulfed my entire body, but there was no sound. All of the air I had was forced from me, and I couldn't even think straight as I tried to get back inside my mind.

I was about to give in to the pain when I could hear Ls voice in my mind, telling me to fight for myself, just like I fought for him. I felt a surge of love for my detective fill me as I was finally able to force the dark red chakra back.

The last thing I remembered was the feeling of two familiar arms catching me as the exhaustion claimed me.

(End flashback)

I woke up several hours later, to see the wide, frightened eyes of my favorite detective. He told me about how worried he was about me while everything was happening.

I had gotten out of the hospital the next day, and we spent a few days at the summer house, finishing up the reports. L decided to stay there for a few days so that I could rest up and recover from the chakra exhaustion and Gobis demon chakra.

Just before we left we found out that Aizawa became the Deputy Director since Mr. Yagami chose not to return to the police force, not feeling worthy of the job since Light had been arrested for being Kira.

Not that he had been convicted, dying of a heart attack a few hours after his arrest, as did Misa Amane.

L had decided to give most of the future cases to Near and Mello and Matt. Instead the famous detective opted to spending a fair amount of his time with me, and working on cases that didn't require us to leave Wammys, or if we did, we wouldn't work so close to the police.

We had returned to Wammys a few days later, much to the delight of my ninja friends.

Akimi and Kiro were so happy to hear that L and I were together.

"Its about time guys! We have been waiting for you two to get your acts together." Akimi exclaimed, L put his head as I blushed.

"So anything happen while we were away?"

Kiro and Akimi had told us about a few missions that they had been on, the last of which was recovering survivors from a small ninja village that had destroyed. There had only been 10 survivors from the entire village. 9 of them were children from ninja clans, 6 of which would have been entering the ninja academy this year. The other three were 10 year olds with 2 years of schooling left. The only other survivor was a 16 year old Jonin named Hitoshi.

Apparently a group of rogue ninja had attacked the village, and a few of them had stayed behind to make sure there were no survivors. Izumo-sensei and Hitoshi fought them off as Akimi and Kiro got the children to the Hidden Leaf, where they were given check ups. Hitoshi arrived alone, telling my comrades that the rogue ninja were taken care of and that Izumo had been killed in the battle.

Once he arrived, Lady Tsunade met with the three of them and it was decided that the survivors would live at Wammys and be taught by Kiro and Akimi, with Hitoshi being the Jonin sensei to the first new team once they graduated. Kiro and Akimi will do the same for the younger six.

Then about a week ago L proposed to me in my old room, as I graded a few essays from the ten year old ninja students, reminiscing about when Izumo had us write these same essays about proper weapon and chakra care. I of course said yes, so in a few weeks we would be getting married, right here at the orphanage before L wanted to surprise me with our honeymoon location.

A few hours later L and I sat in his room. I was sitting on his bed, leaning heavily on the wall. I had noticed that I seemed to be feeling tired all of the time lately. I smiled at the thought of what had happened just a couple days ago.

(Flashback)

I had just walked out of the bathroom, thinking that I just wanted to get over what ever was making me feel so sick. I could hear chuckling in the back of my mind.

*What is so funny Gobi?* I asked.

^You are not sick Karin.^

*What are you talking about? Of course I am. Why else would I need to go in the bathroom like that?*

*You are with child, though it is still very early so you would just now be finding out anyway.^ Was the reply that stopped me in my tracks.

(End flashback)

After making sure that the child, if I was indeed pregnant, would not be in danger from Gobis chakra, I walked to the nurses office, making sure not to run into anybody until I knew for certain.

I came out of my thoughts, looking over at L who was sitting on the floor by the bed, staring at his computer as he looked over police reports on a case that we were working on. I was going through the suspect files. It seemed that after Kira was taken care of, crime had once again risen back to the level it was before. Especially since these new criminals no longer needed to worry about Kira killing them.

The case we were dealing with this time was about someone kidnapping young children in the US. Most of the children were anywhere from ages 5 to 7, but there had also been a missing pair of 9 year old twins one boy, one girl.

"The 9 year old boy has been found, calling for help in an old train station. He was alone." L stated.

"Has he been questioned? If he saw his kidnapper he might be able to lead us to the other missing children, including his sister."

"He says that he and his sister had been playing at a park just down the street from his house. When he saw a blue minivan pull up. He apparently was playing hide and seek with his sister, and she was hiding. He as about to look for her when something hit him in the back of his head. He woke up in the trunk of a vehicle and he could see someone open the lid. His vision was blurry but he see that it was a scruffy looking man with filthy brown hair and a thick dirty beard."

"There are 5 suspects like that."

"He said that the man smelled like the alcohol his dad used to drink, and that he took them out of the trunk. The place looked like a shack sitting by a lake that his family had once been to fore a fireworks show." L continued to describe the man until I just had one suspect that I brought up to him.

I handed him the mans file and watched as he read through it, before agreeing with me. He let the police that were on the case know.

It only took them 45 minutes for them to arrive to the shack, arrest the man and locate all of the children, luckily alive.

I could tell that L was glad that none of the children had died. He doesn't show it but I know that he does feel bad when people die on cases that he has taken on, because he felt that it was his fault for not catching the criminal sooner.

I wrapped my arms around the insomniac genius, giving him a kiss on the cheek. I could feel him lean into my touch. Relaxing in a way that he would ever do around me and Watari, but never in front of anyone else.

"I have something to tell you." I spoke softly, since he was so close to me.

"Does it have anything to do with you not feeling well?" He asked. I chuckled lightly. Figures that he noticed that. Nothing ever gets passed my handsome detective.

"Yes it does." I replied as he turned to face me, waiting as patiently as he could, which was like watching a child sitting in front of the tree on Christmas morning, waiting for their parents to get in the room before they are allowed to open their presents.

"I'm pregnant." I told him, watching as the words seemed to settle in his mind.

"I'm going to be a father?" He asked, as a brief moment of shock passed before his eyes lit up and he had the biggest smile on his face. He wrapped his arms around me, kissing my forehead, and cheeks before claiming my lips with his.

"You have made me the happiest man alive my Karin. I love you Mrs. Lawliet." He whispered in my ear.

"And I love you Mr. Lawliet." I whispered back, before sealing his lips with another kiss.