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: T for slash, language, etc
Pairing: L/Light, Mello/Near/Matt
Setting: Up to episode 25 of the anime with spoilers from the anime and manga.
Summary: Light's master plan to kill L is shot down by one person's foolish
decision, leaving Light and Kira at odds within Light.
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Part Eleven-
The Stage Has Been Set For Death...
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No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew.
-Lulu, Final Fantasy X
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The fact that they had to wait was rather anticlimatic.
Well...they didn't have to necessarily, but Jastin the Shinigami had been quite adamant on the fact that they stay put and wait and Light was actually inclinded to believe him, seeing
how serious the Shinigami was and Light felt a truthfulness from him; Jastin
didn't seem the kind to lie, perhaps simply because he never had any reason to,
but for whatever reason, he was telling the truth and so...they stayed put.
But they weren't just sitting around doing nothing. They had both been working
on their computers, with Lawliet going over some of the Kira case files at a
rapid rate, even for him and Light was now trying to contact Aizawa and Mogi,
but was receiving no response from either of them. He tries to put down the
worry, as it was possible that they were busy dealing with what had happened to
Matsuda and were waiting on the ambulance and getting him in order.
Light still couldn't believe that the policeman was dead. Although Matsuda had not been the
brightest person on their team, he had still been a good man and didn't deserve
the death he had been given so unjustly by Kira.
Kira...
Something brought about in this world from a combination of a Shinigami's
boredom and a human boy's desire to make the world into a better thing than it
was.
It was Light's responsibility to end Kira once and for all, and he would; he
would not fail.
Though it was still quite early, he attempts to contact his father, seeing how
his attempts to contact Aizawa and Mogi had failed (and worried for his father's
well being), and is lucky in that his father picks up almost immediately.
"Light? Are you and Ryuuzaki alright?" His father's voice sounded quite frantic
and Lawliet looks over at Light in surprise, apparently surprised to hear
someone else ask about his well being. "I heard from Aizawa and Mogi about what
had happened and I'm on my way. I was getting worried because I couldn't get a
hold of them anymore and I was getting ready to contact you. I-" there was
static for a moment and the line goes dead.
The dark feeling appeared once more in the pit of his stomach and he attempts to
stand up, but gets pushed back down by Jastin.
"No." Jastin sounded quite firm this time, unlike his mild tones he had taken
previously. "You will not get up, you will not interfere or you will die. You
will wait."
As Light has a glare off with the Shinigami, L speaks up.
"That was because of Kira, wasn't it?" Though it was a question, it sounded much
more like a resigned statement. "You are ruthless, Jastin-san. This is
Light-kun's father we are talking about."
Ryuk takes this time to speak up. "It doesn't matter. Soichiro Yagami is on his
own. If Jastin is that adamant about you staying, I doubt you'll be able to
leave." Ryuk shrugs. "And even if you could, you'd probably end up dead like he
says, so it'd be a needless sacrifice and Kira wouldn't have any opposition
then." He seemed unfazed about the outcome either way.
Light breaks his gaze from Jastin's, looking down at his clenched hands on his
legs, tears falling from his eyes.
I'm sorry, dad. I'm sorry; please be okay. And if...if you can't be...please
forgive me. I made this mess by picking up the notebook and people are still
dying even after I give it up...but I promise I will stop Kira, whatever the
price, whatever the cost. I will fix my mistake. Forgive me...
He looks over at himself, smiling. It took a bit of strain to be able to take
over Amane and Aizawa both at the same time, but it had been possible thanks to
the large amounts of energy he had taken it right before. The thought of being
able to be in two bodies at once would make a human being shake their head in
disbelief, but it was absolutely possible, at least for such a higher being as
Kira.
He still retained his highest consciousness within Amane's body, but had part of
himself in Aizawa's body, ready to control him. He and his lesser self walk into
the headquarters of L and with a flick of the hand, all of the activation
controls blink and go off, the doors opening in front of him. He had a plan and
would work at it. He could try and have a go at writing their names down now,
but where would the fun in that be? He wanted to see their faces as they died,
seeing them die knowing that Kira was right there in front of them, that Kira
had been the one to kill them.
That, and the fact that he was slightly worried about writing Light Yagami's
name down, as they might potentially still have spiritual ties, though he had
inhabited another person's body. He needed more energy, if he could have say...a
Shinigami's energy, then he should be able to shut down any leftover ties to
Light Yagami, should they exist.
He turns around as he hears sudden footsteps and is greeted with Soichiro
Yagami.
He smiles.
"Aizawa! I'm glad I caught up with you! I've been trying to get a hold of you.
Where's Mogi?" He looks around, brow furrowed. "And why is Amane here?"
"She came to see Light, of course," said Kira-Aizawa.
He walks in front of Soichiro and smiles at him, watching the man's eyes widen
slightly.
"Say hello to Matsuda and Mogi in hell would you?" He said, his grin widens.
"Oh, wait, that doesn't exist. Guess you'll just have to deal with the
nothingness instead."
"You-!" Is all Soichiro is able to exclaim before clutching his chest and
falling over. Kira watches his lesser self walk over to Soichiro, after making a
notebook and pen in his hands disappear, and put his hand on his body, taking in
the energy and the entity closes his eyes, absorbing the energy through his main
body by way of his lesser one.
He lets out a breath, opening his eyes and nodding to his lesser self who
stands. He smiles.
"That was refreshing and it might be enough-"
They walk onward.
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He stands up, feeling unease and unable to keep still. He watches his lover
stand up as well and smiles at him. No matter the outcome, good or bad, at least
he would be here with the person he loved most. The man who had changed so many
things for him, the man who he had accepted in everyway, his body, his mind, his
soul, all of those cliched things, but they were true, all so true...
He takes a step forward, closing the distance between them, before grabbing onto
his lover's face and kissing him deeply, pulling back so he could look him in
the eyes.
"I love you, Lawliet." He murmurs.
Lawliet kisses him in return. "I love you too, Light-kun." He squeezes his hand.
"Try not to think of only the bad outcomes, there are good ones that could
happen as well."
"Trying to be the comforter, Lawliet?" Light smiles slightly. "And where do we
fare in your percentages?"
Lawliet pulls back a little, slightly slouched in the shoulders, seeming to have
taken on his usual personality that he put on in front of others as a kind of
defensive mechanism, or at least that was how it looked to Light.
"I would say that we have a 2 percent chance of coming out of this alive and
victorious." Lawliet said blandly.
Shit.
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He had been worried, so he had done the only thing he could think of...he had
brought them in.
Unable to get ahold of L, he had been very worried, as L had never been so lax
in a response before. Only the counter that kept running on his cellphone kept
him from losing it completely, knowing that the man still lived, but he could be
in serious danger, or more so rather, as he was dealing with Kira.
So he called in the best people equipped to deal with such a situation.
He watches them all come in the room, one sitting on the floor in a strange
position, one leaning up against the wall, and one playing a video game,
apparently not even paying attention to his surroundings or the people in it.
"Mello, Near, Matt. I'm glad to see you all are doing well and-"
"Cut the shit, Roger," Mello said, blunt as he always was. "And tell us why
we're here."
He smiles at Mello, but it doesn't stay on his face long.
"It's about L." That got all of their attention, even Matt's and they all turn
to him, looking at him intently, so much so it was almost unnerving. But he
couldn't deny that they all cared about L. They all wanted to succeed him, sure
(although Matt didn't care about succeeding as much as Mello and Near did), but
they also truly cared for the man, Mello especially seemed shocked.
Mello reaches over and grabs onto Roger's lapel, pulling him forward.
"What about L? Is he okay? He promised me he would see Kira defeated! He
promised me!" He was getting hysterical and gets pulled back by Matt. "He
fucking told me he would see Kira defeated!"
"Mello, calm down!" Matt, always the calm voice of reason to try and tame the
passionate Mello.
"L is still alive!" Roger was quick to reassure them all. Though Near had been
silent the whole time, he was watching the whole situation intently. "But I fear
he is in danger. He has been much too silent, especially since he had me take
over some duties and I am getting worried. I trust that you three can handle
everything?"
Mello seemed to have calmed down mostly at hearing that L was still alive and
pulls away from Matt.
"Fine." Mello said, abruptly. And without another glance at any of them, he
quickly leaves the room.
Near takes this time to finally speak up. "We better go and catch up with him, I
doubt he would slow down long enough to wait for us. Not when L is involved."
Matt nods at him and he and Near quickly leave the room as well.
Roger sits back in his chair with a sigh.
"Let us all see the end of Kira..."
Goddamnit L! You fucking promised me! You promised me!
He barely noticed the approaching footsteps of Matt and Near, instead he was
hastily picking up his bag and hurrying towards the door.
"Mel! Hey, Mello!" Exclaimed Matt. "Wait up! You're going to need the back-up if
Kira is behind this!"
Near glances at his goggle wearing friend.
"They say love blinds people," said Near, mildly. "Or crushes do. I suppose they're right..."
Matt stares at Near, Mello forgotten for a moment. "Huh? What are you talking
about? Love? Love L? None of us have even seen L, he could be like, really old
or something-"
"I've seen L-and so has, Mello," He shakes his head at Matt's gawping visage.
"But we need to catch up with Mello. I can tell you on the plane there if you
like..." He shrugs apathetically.
They had made it to the hastily equipped jet in time, as Mello himself had to
wait for the pilot to get ready, though they heard Mello curse more than once
impatiently, him sitting up near the front, with them in the back.
Matt hurriedly gets his seatbelt done, waiting impatiently for Near to hurry up
and do the same. When the pale haired teen finally gets settled, he turns to
Matt.
"He showed up a few months ago. I knew it was him as soon as I saw him, though
he never announced himself to everyone; he had the same look in his eyes that we
have, you, Mello, and I, though the look he showed was a deeper one, filled with
more to it as he is older and has time to see and do more things than us." Said
Near. He smiles suddenly. "L is...amazing. And nothing like anyone else would
expect. Crazy raven hair, wide black eyes that go right through a body slouched
from the weight of carrying the world's sins and deeds on its shoulders."
Matt stares at him.
"You sound like you like him." He said faintly.
Near blinks slowly before smiling widely.
"Of course I do. He's L. You'd like him too. And I know Mello does. And you know how often it is that he actually likes someone."
Matt looks at him blankly for a moment before his eyes widen in surprise and he
gawps at his friend.
"You're not telling me that Mello has a crush on him." he says, as if forgetting what Near had told him before they had gotten on the plane.
"Absolutely."
He lets his eyes close, leaning his weight slightly against the closed window.
His thoughts were running around in circles and his emotions were starting to
overwhelm him, he knew it. But he couldn't help himself; when it came to L,
everything got thrown out the window and all was left was his feelings for the man,
and making sure that nothing happened to L.
He realized that he had a schoolboy infatuation with the man and rather didn't care. He knew nothing would come of it; the man seemed practically a-sexual, but that didn't stop him from liking him. And besides...there was someone he liked that was much more approachable anyway. Well...two of them really. Even if one of the two seemed as coldly dispassionate as L did.
He hadn't forgotten the time he met L, so many months ago; it was something that
he would never forget; the man was a force all on his own, one which was overwhelming to everyone around him, though the teen suspected that few had ever been around him at all. The lengths he went to ensure his privacy was proof enough.
Mello lets out a low sigh of relief as they finally take off, knowing that every
minute, every second he wasn't there, something could happen to the world's
greatest detective. L may have been the top three detectives in the world, but
that didn't change the fact that underneath it all, underneath the facts and
myths of L, there was the humanity that was all L, the man.
He had a wonderful glimpse at that humanity, if only briefly, and he didn't want to ever lose
that. It was terrible that he had to be allowed to see L again under such
circumstances as the evil known as Kira, but he would take whatever came along
in order to see the man again.
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Light takes it all in quietly.
He felt he had to tell him about them, his potential successors. He had already told him about Near and Matt and was just getting to talk to him about Mello. It was possible that they would die, and he did not want to leave any secrets behind; should Light survive and he did not, and his successors came around, he wanted Light to know who they were, and what they stood to replace.
He loved Light, so Light deserved to know.
"You sound like you like them, like you've seen or met them before." Light said.
"Yes." L said, looking at Light. "They are all remarkable, in their way. In some ways they remind me of you, Light-kun."
Light blinks at that. "Really?"
L smiles at him. "Yes, you would like them. Even if your personalities clashed at
first, I know that you would. But-" His smile quickly disappates and he goes on
full alert once more, if he hadn't already been before. A beeping at the
computer sounds once.
"Someone is coming..."
The plane lands and they all scurry off, with Matt and Near both walking quickly
with Mello. The sky was just starting to lighten, just so, and Mello was in the
lead, them all having gotten directions from Roger before they arrived. But no
matter how fast they went, it didn't seem fast enough for Mello, even after hailing a taxi and there being little traffic. Mello was impatient in general, but when it came to something that he cared about, it became another issue entirely.
Matt knew his friend well enough to know that no matter how fast they went, it would never be fast enough for him. He had known Mello for such a long time now that knowing things about Mello was almost second nature by now. He cared about him, very much so. They were friends and they were more, and he would die before he let anything happen to Mello. Or Near for that matter; the white haired teen might have been quiet a lot of the time and generally scorned company, but when he did want your company, he became a much different person, at least to Matt anyway. He liked him.
He glances at Near who was sitting in his usual postion.
Near wasn't so bad looking himself.
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It had been silent as they rode up the elevator up to where L and Light were
staying at, but he didn't mind. He would have that pleasant sound of screams
soon enough. When he and his lesser self step out of the elevator, he turns to
Aizawa-Kira and his lesser self nods.
It was when they started up the hallway that he started to shriek and shout.
"Aizawa-san! No! What are you doing! Let me go! I just wanted to see Light-!"
Aizawa-Kira's eyes glint for a brief instant and they share a smile, before
Aizawa-Kira takes the gun out of its holster and puts it to Kira's head.
"Just get in there!" Barked Aizawa-Kira.
He gets pushed into the room, gun against his head and watches L and Light stand
up in surprise.
Gotcha.
"Aizawa!"
"Aizawa-san!"
"What are you doing?" yelled Light.
Aizawa grabs onto Misa's arm hard, gun still pointed at the side of her face
with his other hand. He grins maniacally at them, a sickening sight on his face
and they both knew that that wasn't Aizawa anymore.
"Damn you Kira! Let Amane-san go!"
Aizawa-Kira's grin widens. "Or what? You'll kill me? Or rather, this body? I
will just find another to take over, so it would not matter."
He sounded confident, overly so, but he could have been telling the truth. As
they both try to calculate what they could try to do, Aizawa pushes Amane to the
side hard, with her tumbling out of sight behind a sofa. He comes stalking
forward, gun still held up and pointing at them this time. He glances to the
side to see Ryuk and Jastin standing there, both still eerily silent.
"Ah, so you thought that this jeweled idiot would help you? He does nothing,
never says anything, or helps anyone. He's useless, just like Ryuk is."
Ryuk's eyes flash in the light momentarily. "You can talk your big talk all you
like, Kira, but you can't touch me, even if you are something not purely human
or Shinigami. I'm just here to watch the show."
"Then I'm sure you'll enjoy this show! Amusement shall be ha-" He whips around
quick as lightning and shoots at L as he attempts to tackle him; it grazes the
detectives shoulder and he falls back, blood dripping to the ground.
"L-kun!" Light rushes over and grabs onto L, looking to his face before glaring
at Kira.
"Don't think I'm not willing to use human methods to do what must be done."
Aizawa-Kira says coldly. "Because I am more than willing to."
"You bastard!" rasped Light.
Aizawa-Kira grins. "Yes, quite. Because of you picking up the Notebook no less,
the reason I was able to free myself from the confines of the Notebook and
become something better than human, better than Shinigami!"
"Soon."
Aizawa-Kira and Light both whip their heads around as the jeweled skeleton
finally speaks in his raspy voice.
"The end is soon." Jastin smiles.
Before any response could be had, Misa shrieks from behind the couch, quite
loudly.
"No! This can't be! Why is it not working?"
She stands up hurridly and a notebook and pen was clearly in her hands.
"I took the liberty of switching your Note, Kira, with that of a regular human
one, when you got thrown to the floor." Jastin said, looking at Misa. Misa's
eyes widen, as do that of Light's as he realizes what is happening.
"You're Kira too! But how-?" Light quickly stands.
"Fine, then." Aizawa-Kira says. L starts to stir behind Light with a moan. "I'll
just do it the fucking old fashioned way then-!" The gun in his hand points very
quickly at Light and he starts to fire, but groans in pain as a sudden shot
rings out and hits his hand, knocking the gun out of it. More shots fire in
quick succession and Aizawa-Kira falls to the ground, Misa-Kira shrieks and runs
forward, but gets shot down as well.
Out of the darkened corridor comes a pale haired teenager, wearing white pajamas
and looking, glaring, at the bodies on the floor, a red haired teenager who held
a gun in his left hand and looking grim and finally, a yellow haired teenager,
the oldest of the three, gun outstretched in his right hand and looking very,
very, angry.
"How dare you, you stupid fuck? How dare you lay a hand on L!" The yellow haired
teen yelled at the prone bodies on the ground. He points his gun down at
Aizawa-Kira's body.
"No! That's enough Mello, they're down!" exclaimed the red haired teen.
So the yellow haired teen was Mello then? And from the almost indifferent expression on the white haired teen, Light could guess that he was Near and the redhead was Matt.
"Damn you," rasped Kira, the one from Amane's body, as the one in Aizawa was
silent...dead? "You truly think this will make a difference? I have killed
Soichiro, Matsuda, Mogi, Ide and Aizawa; I have taken their energies. Kill this
body and I will merely find another!"
"No. You will not, abomination." said Jastin. Apparently Jastin could be seen by
all, because they all turn to the Shinigami, apparently Ryuk could be seen by
the teens as well (from the way their eyes moved to look at them), maybe because
he was in such close proximity to Jastin? "You do not possess your Note. If it
burns away, then you will die in that body." He glances at L.
"Kira will end here." said L, groaning as he sat up. The Note appears in L's
hands, apparently Jastin could move it to who he wished. A couple of matches on
the table in front of them, leftover from Ide's smoking habits, served its
purpose and the bloody end of Kira was watched by all.
Mello thrusts his gun at Matt who takes it in surprise and rushes over. He comes to a halt in front of Light and L, thoughtful, before shrugging as if to say 'the hell with it' and hugs Light, then L.
"Fuck, I thought you were dead, or were in danger," moaned Mello. All his
bravado from mere moments earlier seemed to disappate, though that hard look in
his eyes still lingered, something that Light noticed in the other two teens as
well; it was a look he recognizes well as he had seen it on Lawliet's face many
times.
He watches as Lawliet's hands hesitate for a moment before hugging Mello back. L was so unsure of intimacy of any sort, even the innocent sort, as he was so unused to it; the expression on his face was rather cute.
"I'm fine, but ow!" He exclaims dramatically. "You should know to be more
careful than to hug onto someone so tightly who had been grazed by a bullet!"
"Hmph." Mello snorts. "I don't give a flying fuck. Who came up
with that shit anyway?"
My...Mello was certainly a dirty mouth.
Light didn't feel jealous as he looked at the sight-he knew of L's feelings for him all too clearly, though that wasn't to say that he wasn't jealous at all; his hands itched to hug his lover. Lawliet glances up and the smile on his face deepens.
"I love you, Light-kun." L said. Mello glances at Light.
"Light Yagami?" He heard murmured by Mello and the other two teens.
"I love you too." Light said faintly.
Mello's eyes narrow as he looks at Light, but after a moment, he finally nods,
acceptingly, moving back, blinking in surprise and looking down as both Near and Matt take one of his hands in their own, though Near was looking away, one hand twirled in his hair and Matt was taking in Light and L.
Jastin disappears suddenly, though none of them noticed, and when he does, the
bodies of Amane-Kira and Aizawa-Kira and the mess around them, also disappear.
Ryuk emerges from the kitchen, where he had apparently went in the confusion and
was munching on a few apples, looking quite content.
Light supposed he would have to share L now with these three, at least on cases. But otherwise the detective was all his; he loved him and reveled in the fact that L loved him too.
Things looked like they were about to keep getting interesting.
The End
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