Everyone,

I must apologize for everything I have done. Starting with picking up the Death Note and knowingly using it for my own purposes and ultimately becoming Kira. I must apologize for all of the trouble I have caused all of you. I'm sure you don't want to hear this from me, after I have betrayed you in such a horrible way. Still, I would like to make it clear that killing anyone on the Task Force was never a possibility for me. Even when I could remember who I was. I did kill criminals, and even though it's a little less wrong than killing innocent people, it's still wrong. I realized that before, that is why I have died. I wrote my own name in the Death Note prior to Misa Amane's arrest. I, as Kira, had judged my own crimes. No, that still sounds too much like him. I realized how much more trouble I would cause past the date of November 5th, 2007 if I allowed myself to live. I would prefer that M, M, and N stay safely away from Kira and still be alive two years from now too.

Now, there are some things I wish to tell the team, if they would think of me as the Light who had no memory of being Kira and was honestly trying to catch him. If not, then they can just ignore me. I was a liar up until my last day after all. Matsuda, you were the key to catching Higuchi and for that, I will always have great respect for you. Even if the others think it was a screw-up, I believe it was the best way to go about that, screw-up or not. Aizawa, I'm sorry I slacked off enough that you started hating me. I don't think I can really say anything to you that could justify that, but if you want the truth, I use video games to escape from that pressure I've felt from everything everyone expected me to do throughout my life. For a little while, I'm not Light Yagami. Mogi, I know we didn't talk much, but you are a brilliant detective and were always a very important part to the investigation. You have nothing but my respect.

Dad, I know you must be more than just disappointed in me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't be a prefect daughter for you when you deserve one so much more than I ever realized before this happened. There's nothing I can say that will make any of this truth sound better. But, I did keep my promise. I have executed Kira. I probably don't say it enough, and I really should have said it in person one last time, but I love you. I love Mom and Sayu too. I won't ask any of you to forgive me. No, it would probably be better if all of you forgot me completely. I don't deserve to live on in anyone's memories. Even if they are hateful memories.

Please. I just want everyone to move on and be happy. Without Kira. Without Light Yagami. Because they deserve it. All of you on the Task Force deserve it.

Now, L, I've already been honest with you about everything I could, but I would like to ask just one more favour. Don't tell anyone who Kira was. Also… Could you burn everything I own? I want to disappear completely from the world. It would be best if everyone could forget about me quickly and without having reminders around. Of course, I'm including my body in this. I don't care what you do with the ashes. I just don't want there to be any proof I ever existed. It's probably better than what I deserve for doing this, but directing everyone's hate onto just one person, whether they were right or wrong, only cultivates those negative emotions that got everyone into this mess in the first place.

Lastly, I would like to apologize for not being able to bring myself to tell everyone face-to-face, but I just didn't have the time. Or rather, the guts. I was a liar and a coward right up until the end. I probably don't have to ask, but…Please make sure nothing like this happens ever again. It was nice to work with you on the case. And it was great to become friends with you, L. No one dies without some regrets, but I think I'll die peacefully. For more than just one reason.

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Sitting in front of the computer screen was a peculiar man crouched on a desk chair, sipping coffee as he stared down at a blue DS sitting closed on the desk. It was worn with use and the L button was a little sticky, due to an incident with extremely sugary coffee, but it still worked just fine. Enough to play the RPG that hadn't left the card slot since the owner last played it. It had belonged to the greatest criminal of all time. One the public had started to forget after two months with no criminals dying. There were rumours that he had been caught and the police were just keeping it a secret, or maybe he had died. The latter was the truth. The criminal, although not male, had committed suicide. Not even the police or governments knew what exactly had happened to Kira. No one but the Kira Investigation Task Force, who hadn't even spoken to each other about it very much after the incident had taken place.

The man sitting at the desk, also known as L, set down his coffee beside the game system and continued to frown at it. He had discovered the game system on the desk after the others had wrapped up at headquarters and could finally go home. Although everything else she had to her name, including her body, had been burned and disposed of, this one object that was near-constant in the last days of her life had remained untouched. Sitting in exactly the same spot she had left it after finishing the game inside.

"I'm sorry, Light. It seems I wasn't able to get rid of everything after all."

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A/N: So, this isn't the happiest story, but I hope you enjoyed reading it anyway. It's pretty much the first story I actually completed, so when I found it just laying around on my computer, I thought I'd at least post it somewhere before deleting the document. Thank you so much for the reviews and support! I'd love to read your final thoughts on this epilogue and hopefully I'll be able to complete another story at some point and be able to post it as well. Until then, I wish you all the best and hope you can forgive the tragic ending here.