Reset [L x Reader] • Death Note [Hiatus]

Chapter 7 | the idea

While your 3D form was busy making small talk with your boss until he left, your 2D one was watching L gaze through the window that separated your physical body from the rest of the world. Making sure they stayed fast asleep. He couldn't really make out that the body looked like in the darkness, and the blankets wrapped around the obscuring them. But he could notice (h/c) hair, meaning the way he saw your 3D from must be somewhat close to the form of your actual host body.

"So... is that body you? Or do you just live in it?" L asked.

"Uhhh- good question actually. It's been so long I may have taken over by now. When I first came to be I was just a dream living in someones body but now..." you replied.

"You know I'm not even going to try and fully understand all this. I've gotten to the point I just accept you're on a completely different plane of existence than I am and I'll probably never fully understand it. But you have got me thinking... if waking the body up would kill you, and that's a cosmic crime then am I correct to assume anything that messes with the natural balance of the multiverse is a cosmic crime?"

You had a feeling he was going somewhere with this, he had that thinking look on his face. The one he did when he stared at his computer screen deep in thought trying to look for clues on a case.

"Basically yeah. Uh guardians have a little more leeway since we exist to fix imbalances. But anything that directly threatens or causes a universe to crack, loose balance or merge with another is a cosmic crime" you explained.

"Something like a killer with a god complex attempting to gain control of the multiverse?" l suggested.

Catching on, you stared at him in disbelief at what he was suggesting for a moment. Your empty 2D eyes staring right into his soul on shock.

"You can't be serious... tell him about the multiverse? L YOU could get in massive trouble too" you said.

"So I won't be the one that tells him. I'll lay out the clues and he'll figure it out himself. Knowing Light, he'll be too stupid to see that he's bitten off more than he can chew and would most likely attempt to find you, use his wish to become a god and because that's a crime you can report him and have him arrested. Thus removing him and the death note from my universe entirely" L explained.

While he was right, a plan like that would absolutely result in Light getting his ass arrested by your boss and tossed into the prison realm, it also could go very wrong very fast. If anyone found out that you and L were conspiring not only would it cause a total shit show amongst the taskforce and thus leaking the information that there's a multiverse to the public, but it would also get you cubed for messing with a timeline this intensely. You aren't meant to be talking with morals like this, let alone have them inside your time room. L would get himself in trouble too, for conspiring with a guardian.

The risk was great but the reward was great too...

"You said cosmic travellers exist right? If we frame it as Light being a cosmic traveler then no one will be able to trace it back to me laying the foundations for him being aware of the multiverse" L said.

He wasn't wrong, occasionally a mortal did manage to break out of the universe and into your time room. It was rare, and not entirely a bad thing either. They got their wish if it was something you could grant and if it wasn't they'd be sent back to their universe. When it's just one or two people, every few hundred years, those people keeping the information they learnt to themselves, it was never a big enough issue for any guardians to chase up on it and have them arrested for breaking out of their universe.

But if someone was breaking out with the intention to try and become a god? One that kills so casually based on corrupt morals nonetheless... that was grounds for an arrest. Light being out of L's universe meant he wouldn't be a threat, nor would the death notes. No doubt the shinigami will notice a death note user and their shinigami have vanished into thin air and put two and two together, only leaving a universe could result in that outcome. And even the shinigami don't want to fuck with the balance of the universe. Meaning no more death notes would be dropped.

It was insane, it was extreme, it was risky. But by gods it was effective in ensuring L's universe never came close to merging with another and imploding ever again.

"I mean... you're not wrong but you are insane for even considering this" you muttered.

"Just the existence of a man with a god complex and the ability to kill with a notebook is insane in of itself" L replied.

"True, although I've seen weirder universes... you know what? Fine. Try this whack ass plan, it could work. But for the love of GODS L, don't get caught"

"I won't, I've pulled many reckless stunts before and the worst I've gotten is a few scratches"

While you didn't doubt L's skill as a detective, he was considered the worlds greatest in many universes after all, you were wary. This was a matter stretching to outside his own universe after all. Being involved in cosmic matters could be dangerous, and in part you are to blame for this. You were the one that pulled from from his universe to begin with, but you had no idea it'd go this far and everything was so last second, pulling him from his universe was all you could really do at the time to make sure he didn't die and disaster unfolded.

Whatever happened, you needed to keep him alive and keep yourself out of that tiny cube your boss loved to threaten the guardians with.