The Last Enemy
By: PhoenixJustice
Disclaimer: Death Note is owned by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. I only own this story and make no profit from this.
Warning: M for sexual content, slash, language, violence, etc
Pairing: L/Light
Setting: Up to episode 25 of the anime, with spoilers of the anime and manga.
Summary: Light's master plan to kill L is shot down by one person's foolish decision and the result leaves Light and Kira at odds within Light.
A/N: The poem-y thing before the beginning of the chapter is mine. Let me know what you think of it. O.O
A/N2: I shall write a L/Light one shot for someone who figures out where I got this title from. I'll give you a hint; there are two other parts that go with the whole line, and those two parts are also title names of two of my other fics. Happy hunting! lol
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Part Four-
Every Beginning...
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Out of the darkness, my heart sings to me. Revenant wings spread dischord through a disharmonized world. Fire seared its back, the roar of discontent burns the world. The weakness is death; I push it away. I shall become the leader of the new world; its God, Kira the savior. I am making the world a better place, forty seconds at a time. All shall come to bow. The Reapers abide by my hand; Gods of Death follow my word for I mean good for all and I can entertain them. Follow me; take my hand and listen to my word, for redemption is near. I have sacrificed myself for you, so do not let me down; Kira awaits you-- Kira's Redemption by PhoenixJustice
Day One
He finds Light on the rooftop, the younger man absorbed in his own thoughts as he had been only a short while ago. The sounds of the bells were now silent against the backdrop of the city; he wasn't sure if that was a good omen or a bad one. He stands still, letting himself watch Light as the younger man stays lost in thought, shoulders looking tense
Light was acting a bit different than he had been not so long ago. It wasn't the fakeness that he had sometimes witnessed, nor the surprising innocence that for a time, felt believable, no...It was something else entirely.
The younger man looked so lost standing there, eyes distant, seeing but not truly seeing. It created a feeling that his mind said was sympathy, a feeling which was too dangerous to feel for the younger man, the mass-murderer known as Kira.
It didn't help that Light was beautiful.
Lawliet didn't define himself as 'gay' or 'straight' because he had never been attracted to anyone before he first gazed upon Light Yagami's too-perfect face. Light was the only person who could compete on his level, something he had given up on finding, and continued to challenge him even now. He didn't want Light to be Kira as much as he wanted him to be. He didn't want this little game between him, Kira and L, Light and Lawliet, to be over because either way, whether it was certain Light was Kira or not, he doubted that he would ever gaze upon him again and that was a thought that was tormenting to him, the thought that he would no longer have that challenge, that passion that had awakened truly for the first time within him.
He takes a few steps forward, his bare feet treading the gravelly rooftop with care. Even as he comes closer, Light takes no notice of him; his thoughts seemed to be taking hold of him rather than his ignoring L, he seemed too lost in thought to notice anything.
He was finally looking his age as he stood there, looking lost and alone.
L takes the last few steps forward to get over to him and puts a hand on Light's shoulder, finding it ironic that Light allowed him to come out of his self-imposed shell, at least in bits and pieces. When it came to touching, however, he found that it was easiest to touch Light, touching other people still made him feel a bit anxious and he could talk much more than he used to, to other people up close. (Then again, not many had ever seen him so up-close before, so he could just have been rusty because of that reason...?)
Light starts slightly under L's touch, but he doesn't turn around towards him.
"Kira uses the Death Note as his killing method." Said Light suddenly. "A Notebook that was meant for Shinigami, for Gods of Death; I wonder what the repercussions could be for him, using such a tool that was never meant for human hands."
Are you trying to say something like that as an excuse for your deeds, Light-kun? But...I find you rather sincere; not the fake act which you put on so well, so perfectly, and which only I have ever doubted. But this...you truly look sincere to me now. Either you have gotten so good at what you do that you are now able to fool everyone now, including myself (or I should say, you fooled everyone up until now and now you have ensnared me) or...you truly are being sincere because you aren't Kira or you are Kira and perhaps you are starting to feel sorry for your actions now or...maybe you have the right idea about the Death Note?
Such a tool, you said, and I do agree with that. A Reapers killing tool; a dark thing which perhaps can stain the human hand--
He scowls slightly, angry at himself for starting to believe in something almost as easily as he did. He couldn't relent. Thirteen days would show the complete truth once and for all, but he could not let himself grow soft or forget anything for one second; Light Yagami was Kira and he couldn't ever forget that, or it would be to his cost. He nearly lost his life so many times now, because he became absorbed in the being that was Light Yagami, almost to his cost. Beautiful or not, he couldn't ever forget that Light was a mass-murderer, and it would be folly to think otherwise.
It was always the beautiful ones that would get you in the end.
"Is that as good as a confession, Light-kun?" He murmurs. "For you know what I think."
He could tell Light was frowning, even without looking at him, having known him for a long time now and having had the time to see all his mannerisms and such up close.
"I'm not Kira, Ryuuzaki," said Light, just as softly. "Kira is...an evil being, a thing that should not exist in this world; whatever he used to be, I doubt there is anything left of that other part in his being; the Death Note feels--wrong. It feels harmful, and hurtful, and wrong. It feels evil. Obviously it doesn't affect Shinigami as I think it does humans, for Shinigami are Gods of Death and we humans, for all our strengths and intelligence, are inherently fragile creatures who can be stomped down with ease. I know my intelligence and the like work against me sometimes, because it makes you believe that I'm Kira but," He turns to look at L directly in the eye this time and L almost gasped aloud from the look in Light's eyes, a look that was so full of fire but yet was so far from Kira that L almost believed that Light wasn't Kira.
It made L want to believe.
"If I have been lax in any way in proving my innocence," said Light, that firey passion still blazing in his eyes. "Then no longer; I swear I will do everything I possibly can to prove to you that I am not Kira."
L widens his eyes in skepticism. "And you believe you can give me undisputable proof of your innocence in only thirteen--twelve--days?"
Light smiles. "I know that I can; I'm a positive thinker and I have an intelligence that is only matched by the world's three greatest detectives, so I know that I can." And with that, he leans in and kisses L.
L stands there dumbfounded. He feels dazed shock as he feels Light move his lips over his. Never in his life had he ever been touched as Light was doing, never had another person put their lips over his; never had he wanted that, but now...but now...He felt a want that thrilled and scared him. Before he could even think about reciprocating something so alien and new, Light pulls away. He smiles again, but this time the feeling leaves him cold. His eyes...
I see you, Kira.
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A/N: Gah, I hope everyone liked this chapter. I'm trying to get over a damn cold (I HATE YOU ALLERGIES THAT MAKE MY HEAD STUFFED UP AND THROAT SORE!! .) so I hope this came out well. Next chapter will probably be from Light's POV, for that's how it seems to be going, with their POV's every other chapter. Light and Kira have not finished having it out after all...and Misa has yet to be seen and Light has to do his damnedest to pursuade L...
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Let me know what you thought!
--PhoenixJustice