Darkness Within your Light

Warnings: Violence, angst, humor, hurt-Raito… =p

Mid-terms are this week and next so I’ve been trying to study (trying is the key word) anyway I finally stopped torturing myself and you guys and started to type out my chapter. I didn’t get all the stuff I wanted in here but…well hopefully all the things that I wanted to happen in this chapter will happen in the next.

Thank you all so much for reviewing! Here are my responses now:

Elle,- hehe I also thought Raito's family was so adorable in the last chapter XD Ryuk was a kind of a ass in my last chapter, don't worry he gets whats coming to him in this chapter ;P thanks for the positive feedback on my idea for my sequel XDD

Linkala,- Yea! more pocky with marshmallows XDDDDDD thank you! Yes Ryuk played a part in my fic, and it was a evil part yes it was!! XP awww your little boy sounds so adorable :D heh, I don't know wither to apologize or not that you can't compare my story with any other now. @-@*shifts eyes* here's a tissue. *hands crying reivewer a tissue*

Gryphonwills,- thanks XD

Aurora Moon,- I strive to make this story as unpreditable as possible XD thank you once again for setting me straight about my slight abondonment issues XP

Mustang89,- I'm so glad you loved my last chapter XD yea the scene with the family all sleeping on Raito's bed and the little flashback to when little Raito gave his baby sister his panda Ryu...it was just so AWWWW!! XDD

QD,- I've also read many stories like what you are discribing and while I love them and all, it's kind of nice to have a fic that has PLOT and stuff like that XD I wanted one so much I decided to write my own and presto 'darkness within your light' was born!I will never abondon this story so you won't have to worry about that any time soon. but updates may be spontanic in that i might update a few chapters every few days or I might take weeks off of the story writing to do life-stuff. You got me thinking again about the Little Mother charater...hmmm maybe to your question. But not until way later in the story. glad your enjoying my story so far hope you continue to be amazed! XDDD


Hope everyone enjoys this chapter! Stay tuned for the next chapter soon…hopefully 8-0

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‘I hope we’re not too late.’

That was the only thought which raced through Raito’s mind as both L and him ran through the headquarters towards the exist door, but before they left L quickly detoured to an unmarked door and ran inside closing the door when Raito made to follow him. Before Raito could open the door up and follow L inside and demand what L thought he was doing, L had already ran back out and was heading for the exist. Raito paused in confusion for maybe 3 seconds before he started running again.

L had run into the parking lot that housed all of the cars. He then quickly jumped into the driver’s seat of a black BMW, car keys out and already in the process of turning on the car. Raito didn’t waste a second and also got in the front seat next to L.

Almost before he closed the side door L had already started to tear out of the building. He started to drive wildly in the direction of the Yagami household.

Raito now that he wasn’t moving or had anything to do at the moment suddenly realized that his head felt like it was going to explode. He only just then remembered that L had given him a slight concussion when he knocked him out earlier. It felt like all that had happened to them in that white room happened a life time ago.

Raito hunched forward slightly and put his head in his hands. A low moan of pain escaped him before he could stop it.

“Are you ok Raito-kun?”

Raito winched as he turned his head a little to look at L who was driving and giving him periodic looks of worry.
“I’m ok Ryuzaki…I just started to feel the after effects to the…punch you dealt me.”

Raito made sure to empathized punch so that Ryuzaki will know that he did not want to hear that a slap had knocked him out.

“Oh, right…ummm there should be some Advil or something like that in the glove compartment if you need some…”

‘Is L? Yes he is…he’s blushing. How adorable, heh he seems to feel embarrassed by what he did to me, or is it that he’s blushing because what cause him to sla-punch me?’

Raito decided he would think about it later on when he wasn’t in such a panic about his family. He quickly shook out about 3 Advil out of its bottle and dried swallowed them.

With L driving as he was they should make it to the Yagami household in about 5 minutes max. While this greatly please Raito…he kind of felt fear for his life with the way that L cut corners and popped wheelies on two wheels more often then not, even though he was virtually immortal.

Absentmindly he wondered where L had learned to drive a car.

L started to take a really sharp corner and almost ran over an older couple who where crossing the road. L had had to swerve quickly to the right to avoid them.

He hadn’t once touched the brake.

That made him also wonder and he quickly clenched a rising ball of panic in his gut, if L ever had learned to driven before.

Thankfully L started to talk; it helped settle Raito down enough to not concentrate on his sudden fear of dying in a fiery death of shrapnel and car parts. Not that he would die, but he imagined it would still hurt like hell.

“Raito-kun…what should I expect to see and prepare for?”

Raito thought about it for a second, what should he tell L?

‘Well, it can’t hurt to tell him the truth…at least about this; I just have to be very careful on how I word it.’

“Well, around 9 o’clock tonight a man will break into my home and then proceed to torment my family till near death…look L, I promise you I will explain to you on how I know this and your name but, right now isn’t the time. Just be careful this guy, let’s just say that he’s mentally unstable and leave it at that.”

L just gave a slightly disbelieving look but thankfully dropped it…at least for now.

After another minute or so they pulled right up to the gate of the Yagami household.

Without looking at the small clock on the car dashboard to see if he had made it on time or not Raito ripped the car door opened and tore through the small distance to the door to his house. He almost tried to walk through it like he did when he was a shinigami but caught himself in time before he made a fool of himself in front of L.

It wouldn’t speak well of his mental health to L if he just started to slam into doors and walls like he believed he could walk through them.

Trying the door he found it to be locked, he gave a sigh of frustration and happiness. Frustration because a locked door was keeping him away from his family right now, happiness because if it was locked…that meant that they made it in time.

L who was getting very impatient but had decided to remain quite was standing a few feet behind him…and got quite a view when Raito bent down to get the spare key from under the plotted plant next to the door.

Raito ignored the small keening he heard from L, figuring that it was just L being his usual weird self and was hungry for cake…he wouldn’t have thought that if he turned around and saw just where L’s eyes were trailed on.

But he didn’t turn around so L was at the moment safe from Raito’s wrath if he had caught L staring at his ass.

Unlocking the door Raito swung it open and without pause raced up the stairs to his room. L having no idea what to do at this point just followed.

Raito came to a stop right outside his door and listened, after not hearing anything he slowly opened the door being very careful, it would just be his luck if he had been late and...well he didn’t want to think about it.

Raito couldn’t stop the sigh of relief from escaping his lips as he saw that his family was still in the position he had left them less then an hour ago.

Still sleeping peacefully on his bed.

L had hurriedly walked into the room right after Raito and was also staring at the peaceful family that was cuddling on his suspect’s former bed.

“If Raito-kun had just wanted to guilt trip me from separating him from his family…well it worked superbly.”

Raito just shot L an annoyed look and shook his head, he then whispered back.

“No Ryuzaki I did not take you here only to try to guilt trip you, geez, no what I said will happen really will happen…it just hasn’t happen yet, not that I will let it happen.”

Raito didn’t know what his expression showed when he said that last part but whatever it looked like caused L to look faintly alarmed.

“Rai-“

Before L could even finish what he was about to say a sudden noise caused them both to tense up.

They both turned around to look at what made the noise and were surprised and shocked to see the equally surprised and shocked face of Yagami Sayu staring at them from her position on Raito’s bed. Her eyes had widened and her mouth was opened in a silent gasp of shock. Finally she closed it, but her eyes only seemed to get bigger as she stared at the still form of L, who at the moment seemed to be feeling very uncomfortable with the gawking preteen staring at him like he was some kind of alien life-form.

What happened next was something no one could have predicted.

“Oh my god! It’s Ryu-chan come to Life!!!”

The stares that occupied this statement where totally and completely blank.

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Sayu’s squeal of excitement had apparently woken up both of Raito’s parents. After an awkward silence insured for about a few seconds Yagami-san deemed it necessary to ask the obvious.

“Raito…why are you here and Ryuzaki-san? Did something happen-”

Before he could continue the question that was not doubt burning in both elder Yagami’s minds Sayu gave another squeal.

“Oh my…your name is Ryuzaki?! Wow you really did come to life!! My wish really did come true!! Now you can protect big brother!!!”

Everyone turned bewildered eyes to the squealing girl who had just thrown herself on Ryuzaki, hugging him in a death grip.

Raito was the first one to recover over the shock everyone had fallen into after that. He quickly moved over to where his sister was crushing Ryuzaki in a hug. Ryuzaki himself looked highly uncomfortable and was looking at Raito for help.

Raito as gently as he could pried his little sister off the stunned detective. After this was accomplished he asked the question that was now on everyone’s mind.

“Sayu what are you going on about? And why did you just attack Ryuzaki?”

Sayu just gave a huff at her brother and tossed her head in what was an obvious sign of the word ‘Duh’.

“I did not attack Ryu-chan Raito, I just hugged him.”

While Raito was struck speechless with this statement, it also seemed to stun both Ryuzaki and his father; his mother seemed the only one who was not in a semi-catatonic sense of state. She wasn’t as shocked as the rest of her family was because she had no idea who Ryuzaki really was. So the idea that her daughter was calling L, the world’s greatest detective Ryu-chan, didn’t faze her that much. She just asked the question that was puzzling her.

“Sayu dear, why are you calling this man Ryu-chan? Do you know him or something?”

Sayu had turned away from the amusing sight of seeing her brother and father speechless for once in their lives, add to the point that she had caused it…well it was a great moment for her. She looked at her mother and answered in a calm rational voice.

“Mom can’t you see the resemblance? Earlier when we were praying for big brother to come home…I was kind of praying something different. That doesn’t mean I don’t want big brother to come home but…I knew that whatever he was doing was important to him and he wouldn’t be home till whatever he was doing was done and done in such as way that was only satisfactory to him. Instead of praying for him to come home soon, I was praying that Ryu-chan would protect Raito. Raito once told me that the only person he could trust with his life would be his best friend Ryu. I know Ryu is only a stuffed animal and all but…I knew that if anyone could truly be trusted with my big brother it would be the one that big brother trusted first. So…I prayed that Ryu would come to life and protect Raito…and it came true! Look at him mom, he looks just like Ryu-chan, one he has the panda eyes, two he’s scruffy just like Ryu-chan and three…well he came with Raito and Raito seems quite comfortable in his presence. That proves that he’s Ryu-chan!”

Sayu held out the old worn panda teddy bear as if to show her proof. Not fazed at all that she was holding said Ryu-chan while also saying that Ryuzaki was Ryu-chan. Sayu’s logic only made sense to Sayu it seemed.

Even Raito’s mother was speechless at the end of this.

Finally Raito decided to set his sister straight on this Ryu-chan coming to life and protecting him business. He could tell by the way Ryuzaki was staring at him that he would also have to explain this later, and by Ryuzaki’s expression it seemed this was just as important as his explanation on how he knew L’s true name.

‘Oh joy, my life can’t get any shitter.”

Raito really needed to learn not to think stuff like that because just as he did his bedside alarm clock gave off a slightly louder tick then it’s usual ones. Looking at it he froze.

9 o’clock.

‘Fuck!’

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Raito quickly turned his head away from the clock; it seemed that his sudden change in demeanor hadn’t gone unnoticed because both his father and Ryuzaki were now wearing tense expressions while looking at him, his mother and sister just looked confused at this sudden change in atmosphere.

Not wanting to alarm them but needing to get them somewhere safe for now while he dealt with the attacker, Raito thought of a simple way of doing this.

Order them without giving them time to argue.

“Dad you have to get mom and Sayu and yourself into that small hideaway in your closet right now, don’t come out of it no matter what you hear till either I or Ryuzaki come and get you. Also get your pistol from your bedside table and take it with you, make sure it’s loaded. Make sure to be really quite and to not attract any attention to yourselves whatsoever, Move now!”

His mother and sister where already acting on his commanding tone, his father only paused for a second to look at his son’s face in uncertainty, but also choose to obey.

When Raito spoke that way to his family they knew not to question it, especially if it involved them. Raito only used that voice with his family when he was afraid. Afraid for them.

Raito only ever used that tone once before with them. It had been when Sayu had almost drowned in the tub when she had been six, Raito had had to give her CPR and used the tone with his mother to calm her down enough for her to call the ambulance and to get blankets and stuff. He had taken control of the situation to save his sisters life and his family knew that.

Raito gave a small sigh of relief when his family left the room and quietly went to his parent’s room. After hearing the door close to that room he almost sagged in relief, but not yet.

No, by now the person who was being controlled by Ryuk’s Deathnote would have gotten in the house.

Looking around him for something to defend himself with he jumped when a hand shot out of nowhere and handed him a wooden bat. He looked up at Ryuzaki who wore a grim expression. It seemed that Ryuzaki just really realized that Raito had been serious.

Truthfully Raito had almost forgotten L was even there. He chilled himself for losing sight of his surroundings and gave a nod of thanks to L while taking the bat from him. L just nodded back.

Raito looked down at the bat and remembered it was an old birthday present from his father on his eleventh birthday. He had of course shown gratitude but truthfully he had never used it. He had no use for sports except tennis and that hadn’t even lasted long. No his studies had been a much more focus point at that time. Still he was glad he hadn’t thrown it away, it would come in handy right now that was for sure. He hadn’t forgotten that the would-be-torturer would have a large kitchen knife with him when he came up the stairs expecting a slumbering family.

Raito felt a slightly malicious smirk cross his face at the thought that the criminal wouldn’t be expecting them that was for sure.

“Raito-kun needs to stop smiling like that if he doesn’t want me to believe that he’s thinking about committing murder instead of self-defense.”

Raito’s smirk froze on his face for a second before vanishing completely. Yet again he had forgotten that L was also here, either that or he was just getting to comfortable with him for his own good.

‘Not good, not good at all. Damn I need to concentrate right now. Everything else will have to wait. Malicious thoughts included.’

Raito turned to face L with an innocent expression plastered to his face.

“I don’t know what you mean Ryuzaki, but I do know that we don’t have time for this, the man who was going to hurt my family will be entering this room any minute now, he will also be armed with a knife so we need to prepare. I’ll hide behind the door and you can crouch down on the other side of the bed out of sight. After we get his subdued we will have to call the cops and get Watari here to get you out of here before anyone else could see your face.”

Ryuzaki just nodded his head in agreement but his expression showed that Raito’s earlier attempt at looking innocent had not been believed at all. When L had not moved for a few more seconds Raito got annoyed.

“Ok I promise I won’t kill him, now can we get moving?” Raito’s face showed his displeasure at this promise but nothing else.

L nodded his head again but more firmly this time, he also moved to the other side of the bed like Raito had asked him to. It was only then that Raito noticed that L had no weapon to defend himself with.

‘Well that’s stupid but we don’t have time to find him something, I’ll just have to make sure that Temino doesn’t get near him enough to hurt him. I hope that Ryuzaki’s martial art will be enough to keep that psycho away from him till I get the chance to bash him in the head, only enough to knock him unconscious unfortunately. I was hoping to avoid having this guy die from a heart attack, which he will have when he can’t fulfill what the deathnote set him out to do. Oh well, I’ll just have to deal and improvise my story when this is all over.’

Raito hurried himself quickly to the small space that would have to hide him from the attacker when he opened the door, Raito position the bat in his hands, making sure he had a good grip on it so that it wouldn’t slip out of his hands nor injure himself when he was taking a swing, he let it face downward to that it would also fit in the small space.

A few seconds passed without anything happening, Raito looked over to where he guessed L was hiding but he couldn’t see him. Which was good Raito guessed, if he couldn’t see him that would mean that the attacker wouldn’t either.

Sweat was dripping down Raito’s forehead and even though he really wanted to wipe away the disgusting stuff he couldn’t afford to move a muscle. His breathing was becoming erratic and his vision was slightly tunneling.

Raito realized something at this point, something that he had been avoiding in thinking about before when he had just been concentrating on getting to his family in time. He felt fear; it had no real rationality to it, no baseline for it either, it was unexplainable to him why he would fear this man.

And then it came to him, it wasn’t the man he feared, no it was the situation. Even if-when he stopped this from happening what was to say that Ryuk wouldn’t pull something like this again right after? And that time Raito might not get an early warning like he did this time. That’s what he feared, he may have stopped Ryuk from killing his family with the Deathnote, but that didn’t stop anything else that Ryuk could do to them.

‘Looks like I’m back to buying more apples again for that freak. Fuck!’

Raito could just hear that damned shinigami laughing right now as if he could read his thoughts. It took Raito a second or two to realize that he could really hear him and that he wasn’t imagining it.

Raito looked to the other side of his room and bit back a yell of frustration, there was Ryuk, just floating around and watching the scene with an amused expression on his face. It light up when he noticed that Raito had noticed him, Ryuk actually had the nerve to wave to him in a mocking salute.

‘Oh that’s it, no matter what I’m going to find a way to kill that son-of-a-bitch.’

Raito didn’t even acknowledge him back expect for the narrowing of his eyes.

Ryuk just laughed again and then proceed to get into a more comfortable floating spot. Like he was just going to sit back and watch the interesting scene in front of him like a housewife does with her soaps.

‘I’m truly going to kill him.’

Raito didn’t waste anymore thought about the apple-freak-of-a-shinigami when he heard the stairs start to faintly creak under pressure.

Feeling himself tense up Raito tried to calm down, it wouldn’t do anyone any good if he pulled a muscle or something like that. He once again looked in the direction of where L should have been hiding but he still couldn’t see him.

Raito closed his eyes for a second to try to find some inner strength to help calm him down some, it helped that he knew that L was in the room to and would help him, it also helped that he himself knew some martial arts and he had a sturdy wooden bat to smash with.

Still his head hurt like he had gone one on one with an elephant and the elephant won by smashing his head under its feet. His whole body was stiff because of all the fighting that he and Ryuzaki had done earlier to each other. Not to mention that he hadn’t had anything whatsoever to eat or drink for almost a full day. Topped with the emotional rollercoaster that he had been riding since waking up from Mu and you have one serious tired and worn out ex-World Ender slash ex-Multi-Mass Murder.

He snapped his eyes back opened when he heard his door slowly creak back open.

This was it.

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Raito tried to flatten himself even further into the wall behind him, because it seemed that Temino was going to open the door all the way. The room was dark because Raito had the sense to turn off the light before hiding. If Temino saw that the bed was empty before they were ready…well that wouldn’t be good for them at all that was for sure.

After hearing Temino step into the room a ways Raito decided it was now or never.

Never hadn’t really been a word that Raito liked to associate with himself if he could help it.

With a wordless cry of rage Raito sprung out of his hiding place and swing, it was dark so he couldn’t really see well; he only hoped he could end this quickly with a whack to the head.

Unfortunately for Raito’s hope the bat missed Temino’s head and only clipped him in the shoulder.

Temino turned around with a roar of unspeakable rage. It was then that Raito saw his eyes. What he saw brought all the fear that he had been feeling before to almost overwhelm him.

Dead eyes, they were the eye’s of someone who was already dead inside and was just waiting for its body to follow. When Raito had been little he remembered an old American horror film had been playing on TV. His mom said he was too young to see it and had turned it off. Later when he knew his mom was busy somewhere else in the house he had snuck back in to the living room and turned the TV back on to the movie his mom said he wasn’t old enough to watch. Raito believed he was old enough for anything at this point.

He had been wrong.

It was called ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and Raito hated to admit that that movie had scarred him a bit for life. He had nightmares for months after watching it. He logically knew that it wasn’t real or anything like that but he couldn’t shake off what he saw that scared him so bad.

The zombie’s eyes, they had been so dead and dull and full of darkness that it beyond scared 6 year old Raito into sleeping with his little sister and Ryu for 2 months before he could move back into his room. He didn’t care that the zombies ate people, by that time he had already read about cannibals and how they ate human flesh, no that didn’t scare him at all. It had just been those eyes. Even now he still felt a twinge of something he couldn’t identify whenever he saw an Ad for a Zombie movie.

Temino Gin’s eyes were the eyes of the zombie. And they scared the hell out of him.

Unlucky enough for Raito while he had frozen at the sight of Temino’s eyes, Temino had recovered from the hit to his shoulder and lunged at Raito with the knife.

Raito saw it finally at the last minute and tried to dodge, the knife had also been swung in a wide arch, with Raito dodging it he managed to avoid getting hit in any vital places. Still he got a slight slash across his belly. Biting back a cry of pain Raito brought the bat up again to take another swing, he managed to hit Temino in the knee cap hard enough for Temino to fall down onto the ground, where he stayed howling out in pain.

Raito guessed he had broken the knee.

“Ryuzaki call the poli-”

Before Raito could call out anything else Temino had rolled over and plunged the knife into Raito’s leg.
Raito couldn’t stop the cry of pain from coming out this time.

Raito couldn’t stop his decent to the ground; it was like his leg just couldn’t support him anymore. Before he had a chance to get away from the crazed man and get up he was pined down. The bat was yanked from his grip and thrown towards the other side of the room where it proceeded to smash his computer screen into nothing but wires and broken glass.

Temino was now on top of him and holding out the knife towards Raito’s face. Raito quickly brought his arms up and griped hold of the descending arm that was clearly hell-bent on carving his face in.

“Ryuzaki where the hell are you?! Some help would be nice!!” Raito managed to call out before only concentrating on keeping that knife away from him. He knew that his Shinigami form healed quickly and without scaring but…how well did his human form heal? Was it just like any other humans? Or did it have the recovery speed of his other form? Raito didn’t know these things yet and he didn’t really feel up to experimenting right now.

Raito could feel himself weakening from the strain of the other man’s strength, while the crazie had been fully healthy and whole, Raito was not in the best shape right now and it was clearly showing.

Just as the knife started to descend he heard a loud banging noise before the weight that was currently on him seemed to double, but the knife had stopped its terrifying descent and just hung limp.

Raito was in shock. What just happened?

He had to close his eyes as the light was suddenly turned on. His eyes had gotten use to the darkness so the sudden brightness of his over head light hurt his eyes somewhat.

He turned his head slightly to look in the direction of where his light switch was and felt his eyes widen.
There was L holding onto a 9 mm pistol which was still giving off a faint smoke trail from where it was fired.

Even though it shocked Raito to see L with a gun on hand, it was Ryuzaki-no Lawliet’s expression that shocked Raito the most.


Pure Black Wrath.


Raito was very happy to see that it was not directed at him but at the limp body that he was currently under.

Raito tried to get out from under the dead body of the late Temino Gin but it seemed that he had really lost all of his strength in fighting off the knife. He couldn’t even get the guy to twitch. Ryuzaki was still in the same position, just standing there and trying to set fire to the corpse with his eyes alone.

Raito really didn’t want to bother him right now, especially in the mood that L seemed to be in right now, but his stomach and leg were really starting to hurt. Not to mention his vision was seriously blacking in and out. He was determined not to pass out though.

“Umm Ryuzaki? A little help please?”

Ryuzaki seemed to snap out of whatever black rage he had fallen into when Raito’s voice pierced the air. He quickly clipped the safety back on the gun and stuck it into a gun-hoist that was under the back of his shirt. After that he quickly moved over to the still grounded Raito and helped heave the corpse off of him. It wasn’t quite as easy as either of them hoped. Temino Gin was a heavy set man who seemed to have worked out some in life.

After a few minutes of pulling and pushing, which had Raito trying to bit back grunts of pain whenever either of his wounds where pulled or touched, they finally got him off of Raito and laying on the ground on Raito’s floor face-up. Raito looked at the deceased form of Temino and at the gunshot wound. It seemed that L had gotten a heart shot.

‘Heh, I wonder if that can count as a heart attack?’

Raito shook his head as he realized he was starting to get a bit delusional.

Raito looked up into the worried eyes of Ryuzaki.

“Raito-kun I will call the police in a moment and fetch your family, I believe they should all go downstairs and I will also inform your father as to what happened. I’m sure they are all frantic by now. I do not wish to but you will also be going to the hospital to get checked on. Those wounds don’t look to serious but I won’t take any chances. Do you need anything before I proceed?”

It took Raito a moment to sort out all that Ryuzaki just said; when he finally did he looked up at Ryuzaki from his place on the floor and shook his head.

“No Ryuzaki I don’t believe I need anything, like you said the wounds aren’t too serious they just hurt like hell. I don’t think it would be wise for me to go to the hospital-no don’t argue just hear me out, like I said the wounds aren’t serious we could just have Watari patch me up. I just-I want to go back home please.”

Ryuzaki looked awestruck for a moment. He then wiped his entire expression into its usual expressionless mask, but Raito could still see the worry in his eyes.

Finally after another minute of silence as Ryuzaki thought it over he finally hesitantly nodded his head in consent.

“Ok Raito-kun…if that is what you think is wise. I also do agree that it would probably be the best course of action right now under this type of circumstance. I will now go fetch your family and bring them downstairs; I will also close this door some so your mother and sister won’t see this mess…do you also wish to be brought downstairs?”

Again Raito shook his head no. This time giving no explanation, he just tiredly sat up and started to check on his injures.

Raito could feel Ryuzaki stare hard at him for a few more seconds before he left the room.

Raito gave a sigh of relief before the crackling manic laughter brought him back to the reason why he had opt to stay in the room with a dead body.

“Hukukukukuukukukukuk that was great!! I’ve hadn’t had this much fun since I first gave you the Deathnote, oh man was that priceless! Well worth the loss of one apple…”

Raito paused as he heard that.

“Ryuk you mean to tell me that…that you deliberately provoked me earlier? So that I would smash the apple therefore giving you a reason for all of this madness?”

If that was so…then Raito might just need to evaluate his assumption of Ryuk being an idiot.

“Huh? Oh not really…why would I need a reason to do this? I’m just saying…I’m no longer pissed at you about the apple. This was too much fun! You still owe me another one though.”

Never mind. Raito’s first assumption of Ryuk held. He was a total idiot.

“Yea well…fine, ok you want apples? You stay the hell away from my family and anyone else I say and I’ll make sure you get your god-damned apples.”

“Yes! Sure thing Raito, I’ll stay clear from your family, though I’m not sure why you suddenly care for them now. Wasn’t it you that told me that you might even had to kill your own family if it came down to it? What changed? Also how do you have a shinigami form when you are also a human? No body can have two forms like you do expect the higher gods...Oh fudge-on-a-dog! You’re a god now aren’t you?! How the hell did that happen??!”

Raito felt like laughing at Ryuk’s suddenly frighten expression. It seemed even Ryuk knew not to mess with gods, and while Raito knew that he himself wasn’t quite a god…why shouldn’t he use this sudden fear of Ryuk’s to his advantage?

“Yes Ryuk, I am a god now I will not bother trying to explain the reason why I am what I am now to someone who is as simple minded as you…just know this, don’t you dare piss me off like you just did right now. I’m feeling generous enough to still consider feeding you apples, if you dare to even think about doing something like this again…well let’s just say that it wouldn’t be pretty. Do you know that there are certain viruses and chemistry theories that could destroy a single type of fruit or vegetable forever? It wouldn’t be that hard for me to create one and wipe out every single apple on the face of this earth, and I will make sure that they will never be re-grown ever again if you anger me again. Do we have an understanding now Ryuk?”

The expression that Ryuk now wore can only be described as pure unadulterated terror.

“Y-yes Raito I-I’ll just be g-going back to t-the shinigami realm. C-call me if y-you need m-me.”

With that Ryuk flew out of there like a bat out of hell.

Raito was kind of surprised that that threat had worked so well. He knew that Ryuk thinking of him as some type of god had installed some fear in the apple-freak shinigami but it seemed the threat to the apples had truly installed horror in him enough so that he would obey Raito from now on.

‘Huh, I guess that went well.’

With that thought Raito again started to feel faint. He looked at his wound on his leg which was still bleeding sluggishly, the wound on his belly was no longer bleeding but it hurt like hell to even move.

Raito started to hear faint sirens off in the distance. It seemed the police were now coming, that meant that L had called them. Which also meant what?

‘Right, Watari should be here soon to pick both L and myself up. I wonder what L told dad to tell the cops. Most likely that dad heard someone break and had rushed his family to hide while he dealt with the attacker, hmmm I guess it could work if L gave my father his gun and pulled some strings later to get rid of any evidence that we were ever here this night.’

Before Raito had a chance to ponder anymore Ryuzaki had back and told him that Watari was waiting downstairs for them to leave, they also had to hurry somewhat the cops would be there in approximately 18.5 minutes.

Raito rolled his eyes as he heard L rant off numbers; he could swear L just pulled out of thin air or most likely his ass.

Giving a faint snort of amusement he allowed L to help him to his feet and half-carry him downstairs. Still that seemed almost too much for Raito because both his wounds started to bleed again. He tried not to call attention to them but something in his body language must have alerted L to his distress. Either that or L suddenly got a case of empathic abilities.

“Are you ok Raito-kun? Would you like me to carry you the rest of the way?”

Raito just gave him a look that said ‘Are you freaking kidding me?’

Unfortunately for Raito took the silence as a sign of consent or something because the next thing Raito knew he was suddenly lifted up into L’s arms.

Bridal style.

‘Oh hell no!’

“Ryuzaki put me down right now!”

Ryuzaki didn’t even look at him as he continued down the stairs towards the living room where Raito’s entire family was in.

“Raito-kun is injured and it wouldn’t be right of me as Raito-kun’s friend if I let him suffer now would it?”

Raito could practically feel the self-smugness that was pouring out of Ryuzaki right now. That seriously pissed Raito off. Where did L get the idea that it was ok to do this to him? And not only was it humiliating to be carried this way by L like he was helpless…it was also quite embarrassingly arousing as well.

Raito tried to stop the blush that was threatening to over take his face. That sadly wasn’t the only thing he had to stop from rising though.

‘Come on Raito get a hold of yourself! How could you get an erection with being humiliated like this? I-I can’t be that submissive?! I mean yes it’s kind of hot when L takes control like this and I have to admit I got kind of stiff when I saw him standing there earlier with the gun in his hand and the serious expression on his face was sexy…geez I think I need some time to rethink my sexual preferences sometime soon if I’m getting these kind of thoughts.’

Raito had to stop thinking about all of that when Ryuzaki walked towards the doorway into the living room. He had a frantic family to console. Raito whispered to L quickly before they got into the room where everyone was.

“Ryuzaki put me down for now please, I don’t really want my family freaking out seeing me injured enough to have to be carried around.”

But L just shook his head and whispered back.

“You are bleeding again Raito-kun, not only would you not be able to stand up you are also covered in blood right now. If I were to try to stand you up right now your whole family would see all the blood on you. At least this way I can kind of shield them from the full view of it.”

Raito was kind of ashamed he hadn’t thought of that himself. So he just flushed again and nodded his consent.

Ryuzaki nodded back and then walked the rest of the way into the living room.

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After the small yelling and crying session that had insured after Raito’s family had first caught sign of him, everyone was now somewhat calm down when Ryuzaki had made sure to inform them that Raito’s injures were not fatal and that he was going to go take care of Raito right now. Raito’s mom was upset when she heard that her son was not going to be going to a hospital and tried to her best to get them to change their minds. But when Raito’s father had started agree with them she finally stopped trying and just held onto Sayu in a loose hug.

Raito gave his family an edited version on what just happened because he knew that L had already given his father the full version. So he edited it for his mother’s and sister’s sake. They didn’t need to know all the gruesome details anyway. It would only have unsettled them more.

When Raito and L and Watari made to finally go because the cops where going to be there any minute now, Sayu ran up to Raito who was still being carried in Ryuzaki’s arms. It kind of made Raito wonder if he wasn’t getting tired yet.

“Raito? I have something I want to give you.”

Raito looked at his little sister, she was so strong. Even though he could tell that what just happened had scared her she didn’t let it show expected for a few tear lines that were drying on her face.

“What is it Sayu?”

Sayu looked down for a moment and then looked up with determination.

“I know now that you have Ryu-chan in human form to help you so you probably don’t really need this…but I want you to have it not for protection or anything but…as a way to remember me by.”

With that said she held out the worn panda bear that Raito had given her so long ago.

Raito was speechless yet again. He just reached out carefully and gently took a hold of it and looked at his old teddy bear.

He couldn’t stop the small smile from forming on his face.

He looked back at Sayu as she looked back at him. As if in unspoken agreement both of them broke out in huge smiles and giggles.

“Thank you little sister, I promise the moment I get down with the what I’m doing right now you and me are going to Spaceland or something. Maybe even Disneyland in America if I’m in a good enough in the money department.”

“Yeah that would be great! Go patch yourself up big brother and do what you love to do…solve cases. Kira won’t stand a chance with you on the job.”

At everyone’s shocked expressions Sayu just rolled her eyes upward.

“Oh come on guys you really didn’t think I wouldn’t figure it out? Of course your on the Kira case big brother, you would only be this obsessed with something if it was worth your time, and I know how much Kira pisses you off, so duh of course your trying to catch Kira, and I hope you catch that son-of-a-pig soon because he is also starting to piss me off to. If anyone could get him it would be you Raito.”

Raito almost felt that he could start crying. His sister was a lot smarter then people gave her credit for; it was just that everyone compared her to him so they all thought just because he was smarter that made her dumb. Not so, Sayu was only about a dozen or so I.Q. points lower from his, and his being around 200 or so that was saying something. He couldn’t help but be really proud of her.

He wanted to ask about the law books he saw in her room but knew that now was not the time, soon though he would have a talk with his little sister to see what she was up to.

Again before they were able to leave Sayu stopped them again. But this time it was Ryuzaki she was addressing instead of her brother.

Sayu stared at Ryuzaki again, clearly making Ryuzaki uncomfortable once more.

Finally Sayu spoke.

“You’d better take really good care of Raito Ryu-chan, he might not seem it with his holier-then-thou attitude but my brother is actually very fragile. Don’t play with his heart or you will be very sorry you ever meet me. Also…Raito is injured right now so I better not hear about you molesting my brother till he’s all better ok?”

Dead Silence.

“What!? Sayu what the hell are you say-“

Raito was cut off as Ryuzaki said in a dead serious voice.

“I promise to obey my future sister-in-law’s words.”

Now Raito’s voice had entered new levels of shrillness.

“W-what the hell are you saying Ryuzaki! Will you stop messing around with Sayu; we have to get out of here before the cops come! I freaking surrounded by idiots-”

Before Raito could say anymore Ryuzaki finally took his leave from Raito’s family home. Raito decided to just drop the subject altogether, his face wouldn’t survive the blush that was threatening it if the conversation was continued.

Raito saw that only the black BMW that they had come in was outside, it made Raito wonder how Watari had gotten there in the first place.

Ryuzaki as gently as he could sat Raito down inside the car, he then proceed to climb in the back with him. Most likely to make sure Raito didn’t slide to the floor or something like that.

Watari got inside the driver’s seat and started to pull away from the crime scene that was Raito’s house.

Ryuzaki surprised Raito yet again. Raito had been leaning on the car door on the opposite side of Ryuzaki when a soft pair of hands gently pulled him down until his head was once again laying in Ryuzaki’s lap, he didn’t protest mostly because he was to tired and hurt to really care one way or another. He was facing upward so he could see all of Ryuzaki’s face.

At the moment though Ryuzaki wasn’t looking at him, instead he was talking to Watari.

“Watari could you please roll-down the special glass? I’ll inform you when I’m done.”

Without saying anything or looking back Watari just nodded his head slightly and pushed a button that seemed to be almost invisible till you pressed it.

Raito was shocked to see a sound-proof piece of glass fold out from the top of the roof somehow and curve in a way glass was not suppose to, well only if it was super heated but Raito knew that this glass would be cool to the touch. It slid all the way down till it touched the ground.

Watari would not be able to hear a word that they were saying now or see them at all for that matter.

‘Well this can’t be good.’

“You don’t have to worry too much Raito-kun, I figured that we could have that conversation now, Watari will circle the area for a while till I tap a code on the glass to signal that we should get back to headquarters. I know that your wounds need to be taken care of but we can’t stale anymore, when we are all done I’ll make sure all of your wounds are taken care of and that you get plenty of food and rest for the next day or two. So Raito-kun…how do you know my real name is L Lawliet and how did you know that your family was in danger tonight?”

Now Raito felt very uncomfortable and he was still in a lot of pain, unable to come up with a nice plausible believable excuse. He was also somewhat surprised. Even though L knew that Raito knew that Lawliet was his real name he had never actually acknowledge the fact that his name was Lawliet.

Raito knew that it was now or never, the time to talk. He himself actually had a few questions for Ryuzaki that he wanted answered. So he took a deep breath and tightened his grip on his panda Ryu who he was now unconsciously cuddling.

“Ok…Lawliet, the truth is…I learned your name from a dream.”

If L had eyebrows they would have risen in disbelief, luckily his eyes at the moment were readable enough.

“I’m not kidding L I’m serious, after I had that panic induced attack in my cell and passed out I started to have this amazing vivid dream. I was in complete and utter darkness…and I felt fear, mind numbing shaking fear. I felt like something was coming after me, something monstrous and something so utterly evil that I was afraid for my soul. I turned around at last and what I saw…well I saw you Lawliet. I couldn’t believe it in my dream, how could such evil dark energy be coming from you? And that’s when I saw it, it was behind you. Trying to hide itself in your shadow, trying to merge with your shadow. It was a pure blackness itself, after it saw that I could now see it…i-it started to torture you, doing horrible things, things that I never want to see happen again, not while I still draw breath. I-I tried to run towards you, I didn’t know what I could do-do to save you but I knew that I had to at least try.”

By this point Raito was faintly sobbing. Not enough to stop him from talking but enough for him to stumble now and again when he couldn’t take it anymore. It wasn’t a show either, what he had seen in that dream…it had truly scared him, not just for himself but for Ryuzaki…who he now knew as Zaki his Lifenote partner. Still, seeing that happen and not being able to do anything about it…well it had almost been enough for him to want to cry at the time. Now that he was retelling it he just let those tears he had been holding back spill forth.

The Little Mother had told him that he needed to show his true self to his intended and he knew that she didn’t just mean his physically shinigami appearance either. No he had to show Lawliet everything about himself. Not holding himself back at all, and if that meant that L got to see him in a fragile state then so be it.

“I couldn’t move at all, it was like I was paralyzed in place. Unable to do anything but watch…it was horrible. The worse kind of torture you could imagine. To have to watch as someone you c-care about was being h-hurt right in front of you and you are powerless to s-stop it.”

The sobbing was picking up some; Raito had to hurry through before he became unable to talk.

“I was able to distract it though, it may have p-paralyzed my body but it did nothing to my voice. I insulted it crudely enough so it lost interest in you and moved on to me. At the same t-time I became aware that I could now move. You had fallen onto the ground where the monster shadow had thrown you and you weren’t moving. I wanted to check on you so b-bad…but I couldn’t draw its attention back to you. I managed to insult it enough for it to attack me, I know that it was kind of a stupid move but I didn’t care at the time still don’t in fact, I managed to s-surprise it with my new mobility and we fought…and if you think our fights are bad Lawliet you should have seen this one. It was a true life and death battle, it was still in an s-shadowy form, but it did have a faint human shape to it, anyway it started to taunt me about what it was going to do to y-you…and I snapped. I managed to kill it somehow, I can’t quite remember how I did it but…anyway I ran over to your b-bleeding body and tried to revive you-and no pervert I did not do CPR or anything like t-that. You came to after a moment and we t-talked.”


Raito took a deep breath to stave off any more sobbing and continued.

You didn’t seem to recognize me at all. You told me your name was L Lawliet and that you were a d-detective and…well stuff. Anyway after all that you told me that I kind of now have this new ability. It was strange…I can’t control it or anything but sometimes when I dream…I will be able to tell a bit about what’s about to happen, especially if it involves people close to me. I can’t tell the future or anything like that but…well like you saw. I dreamed that my family was in d-danger, I knew that it was going to be at 9 o’clock and that’s it. It is the first time it’s happened…I didn’t know if it would be true or anything like that but I couldn’t take that kind of chance, especially if it involved my f-family. So that’s it, it doesn’t really matter if you believe me or not…all that matters is that I told you.”

Ryuzaki had been silent through the entire thing. No emotion showed on his face or in his eyes. Finally after Raito finished his story and just started to sob quietly did Ryuzaki speak.

“I get the feeling that you might not be telling me the whole truth but…for the most part I have a feeling that you’re telling me the truth. No matter how weird it sounds I know that Raito-kun’s pride would not let him spill such a fanciful tale without it being true. So all I have to say is this. Thank you Raito, thank you so much for telling me the truth.”

And with that being said L bent down over the surprised Raito and started to lightly lap up with his tongue the tears that had spilled from Raito’s eyes, he then moved up a bit to stare at Raito’s disbelieving wide eyes. L seemed to be searching for something in them.

He must have found it because the next thing Raito knew was he was being kissed gently but firmly on the lips.

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Ok I’m going to end it here but in the next chapter it will pick up right back up from here. They still have a lot more talking and…Kissing(along with other stuff, ‘pervert grin’) that needs to be done but I’m very tired and just wrote most of this chapter in one-go ;.; I hurt. Sorry no real lime here but it will be in the next damned chapter (I PROMISE YOU!)

Another reason I’m posting this up without finishing the scene is that this is getting to long again(I did not expect it to take 25 pages in the rescue scene, should have expected it though) another is that its been almost 5 or so days since my last update and I know some people are dying for another chapter.

I will try to have the next chapter up by this weekend (no promises) so you can see more of Raito’s and L’s talk. They have so much more to discussion before heading back to headquarters. For L…well he will want to know about this Ryu-chan business XD and Raito has a few questions of his own that needs to be answered.

PLEASE REVIEW!! I GOT SO MANY FOR MY LAST CHAPTER! I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU REIVEW LIKE THAT AGAIN =D