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Author's Note- I am incredibly sorry about leaving this for so long. I apologise if this is of a lesser quality than the last few, but the goal for this chapter is to finish the damn fic. Keeping that in mind, I have tried my best to make it worth your time.

Thankyou for everyone who have waited so very long.

Peace and Love,

-XOX, Pangie

Revenge is Sweet

How it Ended

The air ducts were cramped, but damn it, there was no way Light was coming out. Scary things were outside the air duct, bad things like insomniac detectives who wanted to (twitchy eye) shove sugar-filled items down your throat at every opportunity.

Which was why Light was content in the air ducts. He was seriously considering it making it his home. But, then again, if he did that then he would always be faced with the idea that L was somewhere in the general vicinity…Lurking around the corner…Waiting…Watching for him to slip up…So he could sneak up on him and shove RANDOM SUGAR-FILLED ITEMS THAT MAY NOT EVEN BE THE SLIGHTEST BIT EDIBLE DOWN HIS THROAT!

L, the so-called genius detective (twitchy eye) didn't seem to realise (twitchy eye) that JUST BECAUSE YOU SPRINKLE SUGAR ON SOMETHING (twitchy eye twitchy eye) DOESN'T MEAN IT'S EVEN REMOTELY DIGESTABLE! (twitchy eye twitchy eye TWITCHY EYE).

Light had to get out. It was clear his sanity was in peril.

At least he had been able to escape from L's various traps. Using various parts of his watch to open the ventilation ducts had been smart, but meant that his special watch was now, effectively, dead.

Light crawled his way through the restrictive air duct, crawling towards the exit.

*****

"Haha. Ha. Hahaha. HA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!" laughed L.

Aizawa gave the detective an odd look. "Uh…Ryuzaki?"

"HA! Yes, Aizawa?" L said in a completely serious tone before promptly reassuming his mad cackling.

"Don't you, uh…I mean…Well…"

"Oh, yes the hunt is on," giggled L. "And when we catch him, my pretty sugar, we will eat him, yes, EAT him because he will be so very sweet and swee and !"

"My god, he's insane," Aizawa realised with horror. It was a fact of which he had been suspicious of for a while. "He is complete and totally bonkers."

"He's not the only one," Matsuda said, overhearing Aizawa's private but verbalised realisation. "It's just Ryuzaki that's lost it. Light's gone too. They're both barmy. But I must say, I think Light, if you placed them on an insane-O meter, would trump L."

"Light would trump L!" exclaimed L, this little wording finding it's way through the veil of barminess. "What is this blasphemy!?"

"Only in the respect that, though you're both completely and utterly bonkers, balmy, nuts, crazy, insane, whacko, have lost it, and if there are any other descriptions of the depths the both of you have sunk to, you're those as well, he's a little higher on the insane-o meter than you," Matsuda hissed.

Aizawa patted Matsuda gently. "This is a sensitive issue, isn't it?"

Matsuda began crying. "yes!" After a while he stopped. "But do you know why it's such a sensitive issue? Why Ryuzaki is only a little below Light when it comes to the levels of insanity they have reached? It's because of the small fact that while you, L, may have COMPLETELY lost all vestiges of sanity, you didn't STAB a co-worker with TRANQUILISER, tie them up and then SET THEM ON FIRE before proceeding to put out set fire by BEATING THAT PERSON UP!" Matsuda panted for a little while.

L couldn't find anything to say to that other than, "he's Kira, you know."

"I don't care!" exclaimed Matsuda. "he could be Santa for all I care and I would still shoot him with sugar-laced sedatives and dance around him humming the Mexican hat dance!"

L's mind processed this as, "so, you're on my side, then? The sugar side?"

"I don't care about sides!"

"This side is the one that's going to hunt down light Yagami."

"I'm in, where do I sign up? As long as I can pop his ass I am IN!"

"And together we shall dance over the corpse of Light Yagami!" L proclaimed, bursting into insane laughter again.

"While humming the Mexican hat dance!" proclaimed Matsuda, joining L in the scary laughter.

Aizawa stared. It was lonely being the only sane one in the room. He heard some groaning and saw that the Chief, who they'd released, was finally awake.

He crept over to him. "Chief? Are you okay?"

"HAT DANCE!"

"LIGHT, EAT THAT SUGAR!"

This, more than anything else, woke Mr Yagami. "What on Earth?"

"Don't ask," Aizawa warned. "Please don't ask. If you do, you might be driven insane too. And then I would be all alone with three crazy people, and then I would become a crazy person."

Gingerly, Yagami patted Aizawa on the shoulder. "It's okay. I'm sure it isn't that bad…"

Then he saw the scene beyond him, which consisted of L and Matsuda dancing around each other, screaming about what they were going to do to Light when they found him. He tried to find something, anything to say to it, but eventually had to stick with, "I was wrong. It's that bad."

Aizawa nodded miserably. "I was worried you'd say that."

*****

Light crawled through the air vents, panting in his effort to get out. He was nearing the exit now, coming all the closer to that wonderful freedom-

And then he found the seal. It was nailed on, another grate which shouldn't have been there. It was L. As Light found out as he circumvented the rest of the air vents, it hadn't only been the one part of the ventilation system which had been sealed. L had fanatically sealed every. Single. One.

Light's eye twitched.

After an hour or so of finding this out many times over but continuing on in the hope that there was one L had missed, Light spent another few minutes thinking up several choice words which suited L. Many of them would have caused his teachers to give him detention, and had he dared to verbalise some of his more creative ones, it may have possibly earned him a short suspension.

Then he heard a mournful voice calling, "Ryuzaki? Are you even listening? Is anyone?"

"Mogi?" Light said, surprised.

After a pause," Light?!"

"Mogi, keep speaking, I'll follow your voice," Light called.

"Oh…Okay," Mogi replied uncertainly. "Um, can you tell me what's going on? I'm stuck in an elevator...I've been stuck here for four hours now. I've tried calling Ryuzaki, but he doesn't seem to have heard me…Or maybe he's ignoring me. I don't know why he would do that. But after being stuck here for four hours I'm willing to consider any possibility."

By this time Light had managed to make his way to the opening to the elevator. He managed to find his way inside, thankful that L hadn't been able to seal that off at least.

Mogi looked at him in complete surprise. "You…You're here. Another person. Other people actually exist. I'm not the only one in the world." He shook his head. "Sorry, I just…Was stuck here. Alone. For so long."

"I know you're pain," acknowledged Light. "We have both been wronged by the demon."

"…The what now?"

"Demon. It became clear to me while I was crawling through the ventilation shaft. Ryuzaki is a demon. That's why he's so smart. That's why he's so devilish. He is a demon."

"…Right," Mogi nodded, trying to figure out how he tactfully question Light as to whether he'd been doing any illegal substances as of late. Or maybe there was something in the ventilation shaft which drove them all crazy… which reminded him. "By the way, why were you in the ventilation shaft? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not really a normal past time. "

"Oh, yes, I'll tell you all about it," promised Light before commencing to tell Mogi all about what had happened recently, pushing his point home that L was obviously, first and foremost, a demon. Mogi watched, occasionally nodding. It was odd. Light seemed to be sane. Then you heard what he was saying…

"…which is why Ryuzaki is a demon," finished Light triumphantly.

"I…see," Mogi said carefully.

"Which is also why we should escape here now while we have the chance." Very seriously, he stood and held out a hand. "Will you come with me to escape the demon that is Ryuzaki?"

It was Mogi's only option for escape. L had proven that he didn't particularly care about Mogi, which annoyed him. So it was partly revenge for his complete abandonment and partly out of genuine concern that Light would do something to harm himself that he took Light's hand, and let the boy lead him out of the elevator.

*****

"And together," ranted L, somehow having managed to get his hands on two sheets so that he and Matsuda were able to wrap them around themselves like a toga. "We will rule the Kira free world, for all will bow before us!"

He had even straightened from his customary hunch. That was how Yagami knew something was seriously, seriously wrong.

"And everyone will do the Mexican hat dance!" Matsuda completely agreed, his toga slipping slightly. L was still wearing clothes under his, but Matsuda had, for some reason, decided that the hunt for Light required that he take off his pants. Yagami was thankful he at least kept his underwear.

"Matsuda!" barked the Chief. There was at least one thing he could do. It wasn't much, but it would make him feel a little better. "Put on some pants, man!"

"Ah, but pants will only inhibit the hunt for the evil Light, who is Kira!"

"My son is not Kira," Yagami told them.

"Yes he is," L refuted in completely reasonable tones. "I'm a sugarzillion percent sure."

"That isn't a number."

"It has the word 'sugar' in it. It doesn't need to be a number."

Matsuda gasped, pointed at the Chief in horror. "He is the father of Kira!"

L gasped too. "He is against sugar"

Yagami looked at him blankly for a moment before saying, in a completely serious tone, "if you try to knock me out with horse tranquilisers again, I will shoot you."

"The father of Kira would not dare!" cried Matsuda.

"The father of Kira is trying, very hard, not to shoot you as it is…And my son isn't Kira!" He exclaimed as an afterthought.

"He admitted it," pointed out Matsuda. "Therefore his son is definitely Kira, with sugar on top!"

"It's the sugar which counts," nodded L.

"Can we just go home now?" asked a now depressed Aizawa.

"Aizawa, why are you in the corner?" asked Matsuda innocently.

"Yes, Aizawa, come out of the corner, and join with us! Become a part of the sugar revolution!" L called to Aizawa.

"Yes, Aizawa, be one of us!"

"Your afro will contribute in our effort to stamp out Kira!"

"That," Aizawa said, pointing at L and Matsuda. "Is why I am in the corner."

"Is it time, Ryuzaki?" asked Matsuda. For a moment he seemed completely sane, asking a normal question.

"Yes, I think it is," L agreed in his regular monotone, as if he weren't standing in a toga and hadn't just proclaimed the hunt for a teenage boy.

While Matsuda and L walked over to the console, Aizawa and Yagami traded uncertain glances. Neither of them knew what was happening, but a sinking feeling in the gut of both men proclaimed that it would not be a good thing.

When he reached the console L threw back his hand dramatically. "And now, I shall stomp out the scourge of Kira once and for all!"

"Once and for all!" echoed Matsuda.

L pressed a single button.

"Ryuzaki?" asked Yagami quietly. "I'm going to ask this once and I want a straight and preferably sane answer. What did you just do?"

"I may or may not have just activated a certain security measure I put in a while ago which ensures that tonnes of water will soon be rushing through the ventilation system."

*****

Light and Mogi crawled through the ventilation shaft until they reached one of the exits to the outside world. Mogi gave Light an odd look but gave it to him when light said he could use it to free them. Light began working on the screw that imprisoned them. He had gotten his abilities to make lock picks and pseudo-screwdrivers from watches form a period in his youth where he became exceptionally bored one school break and decided to see how many different ways he could pick a lock, then it grew from there until he became a relative expert and escaping any situation using nothing more than an ordinary watch.

Or, considering his watch, not so ordinary.

He had almost managed to get the seal open when a curious rushing noise reached their ears. It almost sounded like water…

*****

"You did what?!"

"We're going to flush them out!" cheered Matsuda happily.

"Exactly," agreed L simply.

"I'm not even going to point out that this would be classified as murder by anyone with half a brain," began Yagami reasonably, his tone becoming angrier and angrier. "Not am I going to point out that you trying to DROWN my son really isn't a very smart move for the world's greatest detective, if you're trying to pin him for the charges of being Kira. No, instead I am going to take this chance to point at that the ventilation shafts are meant to ventilate air and therefore lead to every room in this building which also means that any water you pump into them, you also pump through the whole building. Meaning that-"

"YOU BASTARD!" screamed Aizawa. "You're going to drown us all!"

L seemed to finally realise this. He put his thumb to his lips and said, "oh, yes…I hadn't thought of that."

They heard the rushing of water. L unblocked all the exits and they began to run.

*****

"No…" moaned Mogi. "Surely not. Ryuzaki is reasonable. He's smart. He wouldn't flood the building."

Light, however, had a far more accurate opinion. "The crazy demon is trying to drown us. I suggest we get the hell out of here." With that, he victoriously managed to kick out the seal to the ventilation shaft.

They both exited, emerging onto the staircase. They were very much surprised to be joined by L, Aizawa, Matsuda and Chief Yagami. For a moment they all looked at each other.

Then water began spilling down the stair case and Yagami screamed, "RUN!"

They did. They ran down the stair case, water cascading after them. It caught up with them as they neared the exit, pushing them out on a flood of water.

It was raining outside. The rain felt almost polite to the flood which had pushed them there.

For a long moment they all lay on the ground, half-drowned rats lying in the rain. People gave them odd looks as they passed in cars.

Surprisingly, Mogi was the one who started it. He leapt to his feet and screamed, "RYUZAKI YOU IDIOT!"

"Huh?" replied L.

"Huh?" said Matsuda at the same time, confused that Ryuzaki's name was where, surely, his should have been. "Do you mean me, Mogi?"

"NO, I do not mean you. I mean him!" Mogi yelled, pointing at L. "You complete moron. You almost drowned us all! And for what? To make sure a bratty teenage boy eats his damn sugar? THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!"

While Light considered whether to be offended or not by this, L looked at Mogi blandly. "Ah, I see Kira has influenced you. Fear not, Mogi, we will rid your mind of his sour influence!"

"NO! I don't want you near my mind. In fact, I think Light is right! Screw sanity, you're a demon! A demon, I say!"

"I did tell you," smiled Light smugly.

"Kira has spread his influence!" yelled L. "Come, Matsuda! We must defeat them!"

"Yes, Ryuzaki, let's stomp them to the dust," agreed Matsuda.

Aizawa and Chief Yagami stared as the fight of the century began there in the rain, before the flooded building. L and Light went at each other, L with his advanced fighting techniques and Light with bare physical prowess. Matsuda and Mogi began kind of slapping at each other futilely, neither of them really making any headway.

"Didn't they both go through police training?" questioned Aizawa, staring.

"Yes," replied the Chief, also staring. "It seems they forgotten."

"Take this, demon," light cried as he punched L.

"Eat sugar!" yelled L as he dodged it and tried to feed Light sugar. But he had forgotten about the rain. It had dissolved his secret stash of sugar. He glared at Light. "You did this!"

"It was the rain, and that flood you caused."

"YOU DID THIS, SUGAR-HATER!"

"What in the name of god is going on here?" cried a voice.

All four fighters and two spectators looked around to observe Watari looking at them with an expression of complete and total disbelief.

"Sanity!" cried Aizawa, immediately rushing to Watari's side.

"Watari, it is good to see you," Chief Yagami vastly, vastly understated. "Where have you been?"

"The hospital summoned me. It seems there was another mistake."

Suddenly everyone froze and stared at Watari differently than they had been staring at him a moment ago. Six stares were completely and utterly expressionless as they looked at Watari.

"Go on, Watari," said L reasonably. Watari wondered why he was wearing a toga.

"Yes, Watari, go on," agreed Matsuda, also wearing a toga.

"I am interested to hear what they said," Light nodded.

"As am I," Mogi told the older man.

"What did they say?" asked Aizawa.

"You say they made a mistake?" inquired Chief Yagami.

Watari was suddenly very unnerved by the six faces looking at him expectantly. It didn't matter that they all seemed reasonable, there was something simmering beneath the surface. But he had to tell them what the hospital had said.

"It seems that there was a mistake. Not only did L never had a problem with his blood sugar levels, neither did Light. In fact, everyone was perfectly healthy. They send their…apologies." Watari began the falter. Everyone was in complete silence as they processed this.

The silence persisted. Watari was getting edgier.

Then it exploded. They all opened their mouths to say something, but before they could, something interrupted them.

Behind them was a huge cracking noise.

Slowly they all turned around to see the building come down behind them, somehow not managing to take down any of the buildings around it down at the same time. The whole thing, weighted down and damaged by the water, folded in on itself, leaving nothing but a huge pile of rubble and seven very surprised men staring at what had previously been their headquarters.

"Hm. It seems our headquarters have just come down," L commented after a pause.

"It does seem that way," agreed Light.

"Luckily, I have another few buildings which will serve us, just in case something like this happened."

"You're very organised," complimented Light. "What's this? Oh dear, my watch is broken."

"And so is mine," said Mogi lightly.

"I think the funds I have stored away will replace them," Light offered.

"How generous of you," Mogi commented.

"Yes, very," agreed Light.

"It's a pity. I liked the old headquarters," Matsuda mourned lightly.

"Yes, but all things come to an end," reasoned Aizawa.

"Even when it seems permanent," agreed Chief Yagami.

They all simultaneously looked at Watari, who could say nothing but, "yes, quite."

After that they moved to a new headquarters and never mentioned the incident again. It was a time they couldn't speak of, and the one time Watari had tried to breach the topic he had received nothing but cold glares and denials that such a thing had ever taken place.

Light and Mogi got new watches soon after. Light modified his in private.

Which was how the sugar famine and L's sweet revenge ended.

Author's Note- in regards to that last line THANK F***ING GOD!