Death Note: Game Over (An AU fanfiction)

L Refuses to Rest In Peace

    L hadn't become the world's greatest detective by accepting things as impossible. Impossible was the label approximately ninety percent of his cases had been given before he came along. Even if winning was said to be impossible, L won and not just because he hated to lose, but because he never gave up. So it should come as no surprise that L refused to consider a little thing like coming back from the dead impossible.

   But he was drifting in the darkness. More and more of his mind was being claimed by it and L knew that if he didn't find some way to anchor himself soon then his fight against death would be lost before it even begun. He focused on his last memory before that horrible pain had racked his chest and the darkness had swallowed him: Light Yagami, his voice sounding concerned, his arms gentle as he held L in his arms like he was a fallen comrade who mattered a great deal. The treacherous little smile that broke Light's features, sheltered from the rest of the task force and the security camera's by his hair told L the truth, however. L had been right all along. Light Yagami was Kira and had arranged for his powers to pass back to him somehow. 

L felt his mind stop drifting as the image solidified in his mind. As he concentrated a little harder on it, a small part of his mind reclaimed itself from the darkness to add sound to the image. Words that Light had whispered into L's ear as he died, too soft for the task force to hear: "I win L. Kira cannot be stopped now."

L tried to focus on another memory in order to reclaim more of his mind, but the rest were too faint. For good or for ill, that last memory of Light was all that stood between L and eternal darkness. It would have to do. So L thought about Kira. 

Kira. From the moment L had heard of him, L had known the threat he would be. A man who could kill anyone and felt that such a curse gave him the right to judge all mankind. L had felt sick after reading the files and seeing the death's Kira had caused. Kira was a danger to all that L had worked his whole life to protect.

"You pervert! Would you stop it with you creepy hobby!"

Misa Amena had spoken the words. L knew her to be the second Kira. That being said she was a complete and total airhead with a dangerous obsession with the original Kira, Light Yagami, that would get her killed some day. L had not paid her words much attention in life, but now in death they aided L in his struggle.

L felt another fragment of his mind pull free from the darkness as Misa's words unleashed a horde of memories. She had been talking about L's habit of watching on survelliance cameras. Misa Amena didn't know it, but L's "hobby" as she called it was a part of his very being. For all of his life L had watched the world. Whether through his eyes or through his surveillance cameras L  was constantly observing the world around him. It fascinated him to watch how people went about their business. They didn't know much about the world, but they didn't care. They just lived day to day no matter the tragedy, treating each discovery with horror or joy. They trusted that the world would continue spinning from day to day without needing to know the details of how it spun. The world they lived in surrounded L day in and day out. He could see it clearly and yet it was always just out of L's reach.

Memories blossomed as L remembered the reason he had sacrificed everything for his code name: L. Even though L could never exist in the same world as normal people did, he had an urge to protect it. Something as beautiful and strange as their world could not be allowed to be perverted. Most people would have felt anger or been indifferent to a world they couldn't reach. A world that called them "freaks" and yet was envious of them. Not L. L wanted to know that there was a world out there beyond the one he lived in. A place where at least someone was happy. Many people thought that "L" stood for the law that the detective protected. They didn't know that there was a second meaning to that "L". It also stood for lookout, someone who watched and protected.

A distant memory danced through L's mind. It was not an image, but a sound. A child's nursery rhyme that he didn't remember the words to. He did, however, remember the meaning. The rhyme had been about the happiness that waited in the wide wide world. The rhyme brought L back full circle to Kira.

He was almost there now. All he needed was one final push and then the darkness would be gone.

Kira had to be defeated because he would create a world of fear. Kira might kill only criminals at first, but the more he killed and the longer he did, the more afraid people would grow. The signs of it had already begun in the world L had left. The police organizations refusing to pursue Kira and the increasing support for him in the media. People would worship Kira as a god. Not because they believed what he was doing to be just, but because Kira was a crazed murderer. By the time L had gotten involved, Light Yagami killed without even a change of expression. The surveillance cameras had confirmed that much. Light had grown so drunk on that power that it wouldn't be long before he couldn't distinguish between the innocent and the guilty anymore. It was only a matter of time before innocents started dying on mass. He had already killed a great many innocents, people whose crimes had been hyped up by the media, but were really innocent. In time, people would live a world of fear. Fear that the media might one day call them a criminal. Fear that Kira could kill them at any moment. Fear would shatter the world L had watched out for all his life. That L could not allow.

L opened his eyes.

He was sitting cross legged on a surface he couldn't identify. Blackness surrounded him on all sides, leading L to realize that he was in some kind of void.

"Well, that's fantastic," A voice grumbled.

L turned to see a monster behind him. It looked like the skeleton of some bipedal creature with a triangular pterodactal head and wings of fire. Red eyes regarded L through the eye sockets of the head.

L had to focus a moment before he could place what it was: a Shinigami. He had seen one in his last day of life. It had called itself Rem. L couldn't be sure, but he thought Rem might be responsible for his current condition.

The Shinigami standing behind L took a small leather bag out of the nothingness behind him and attached it to his belt.

"Should have known better then to bet with Rubyi," It muttered then it suddenly took to the air and grabbed L's arms in its strange half claw half human.

"It is your lucky day, human," the Shinigami commented as it flew upward into the darkness. "You have been summoned by the Shinigami King."

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Authors note: Hi this is Thrudi. I hope you enjoyed the first part of the story. My intention is to remain true to the death note anime in characters and timeline up to L's death. I am counting on all you anime fans out there to help me do that. If you like this story, leave a comment and tell your friends about it. Also, don't forget to vote for me! I am going to release three parts this first time just to get the story rolling, but after that I will release one part a week. Now, proceed to the next part: Summons from the Shinigami King.

PS. Special thanks to Death note Wikia for the photo.