Darkness Within your Light

Warnings: More Shinigami Raito, language, humor, lots of angst, Raito’s family, and…the special guest!

Thank you all again for reviewing my story! Here are my responses to my wonderful reviewers!

Elle,- Yea the last chapter was very fluffy huh? I like that, and you need to hold onto that fluff...this chapters kind of angsty T.T i believe that L has always been attracted to Raito since he first saw him. //o// YEA! Amazing fantasy huh? hehe I love your commplments ^/////^ they make me happy!

Linkala,- Yes Raito's shinigami powers are cool! they will also play a bigger part in the story later. heheh I can just see Raito getting stuck in a wall XD Hehehehe Near? God guess but no...hehe I would like to see that though, remember at this time Near is like 9 years old X-) I'm sooo happy that you love my story with it's unpredictable twists and turns XDDD Aww i hug you back! ^//////^
Yea positive feedback on my Mpreg sequel!! I'm not quite sure who will be the one to carry though..hmm after this story I might have a vote on it to see what the majority of my readers want to see.
Yummy marshmallows with pocky *drools* thanks for sharing, *hugs you again*

Aurora Moon,- You got it right!!! YEA!!! some people got it close but you are the only one to guess correctly to the idenity of the special apperance. hehe thanks about letting me use your idea, I wasn't quite sure if I could so...thank you *bows with respect*

Mustang89,- I know the cuddling is sooo cute!! hehe they should do it more often. True I believe if L was going to die without the influnce of the Deathnote it would have most likely been death by candy. XP
I'm soo happy you love my story so much, it just makes me feel so happy when I hear stuff like that...^//////^

Gryphonwills,- I'm glad you like my story, I hope you continue to like it as I continue with writing it. :)


Well I hope you all enjoy this long awaited chapter (it’s been less then a week O.x) sooooo…read on my faithful readers!! XDDDD

And always remember to review and tell dear aunty maya what you think. ^.^

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Raito was flying through the still air, enjoying the quietness of the moment.

It was only when Raito was halfway in the direction to his house did he even remember that he hadn’t even taken the time to looked at Watari’s name or life-span. Raito felt like he could kick himself.

‘Oh well, before I go back into my body I’ll just have to look at his name and life-span…I guess I was kind of preoccupied at the time, but still…’

After mentally hitting himself over the head for a few minutes for his glaring error, he decided not to think about it till he had to.

He almost failed to realize that he had already arrived at his destination.

‘It seems so…normal. Like nothing has changed…and in some ways nothing did, but in so many ways everything changed.’

With that oddly sad thought he decided to go in. He flew down to street level and stood outside the gate.
Even though he knew he could just fly in and walk through the walls without anyone seeing him he for some reason didn’t want that, he wanted to enter the house like he would have done as a human. Like he had done before…before everything…before…when he had just been Yagami Raito…son of Yagami Soichiro and Yagami Sachiko, big brother to Yagami Sayu…just a normal human being.

‘Hn there was a time when I hated that. A time when I wanted more, I hated the normalcy, the boring life that I lead. The normal loving family I had…I hated them didn’t I? I may not have fully realized it but…I resented them. They were so happy…content with their boring dull lives…and I hated that. I was never happy, never satisfied, even as a small child I always felt misplaced, like I didn’t belong with them…at a young age I had perfected my polite contented mask…so much that I even kind of tricked myself…I tricked myself into believing that I was happy…well more like contend with my life that I had…even if it was boring, I didn’t really believe that it needed changing. So I acted the loving dutiful son, the kind trusting brother…I tricked myself into believing that I had cared…that I loved my family…and this was even before I had touched the Deathnote…what kind of monster was I really? I wish I could answer that myself but…all I can do now is change…no…not change…I just need to really open myself to others…to not close myself anymore in the fear that no one would except me for who I really am…I just got to start to trust that my family will love me unconditional…and why wouldn’t they? When have they ever not showed me that they loved me? God…I really never knew myself at all…even less I hardly know the people around me…well that’s going to change…I can start with my father and L right now, because they are the only ones that I will be seeing for a while…but after…after I get my name cleared forever from the taint of Kira…I will spend time with Sayu and mom…I do care for them. They are the ones I wanted to save…the ones I wanted to make a better world for…yes that’s what I’ll do the moment I get out of under L’s thumb, I will get closer to my family. Heh though I won’t be entirely out of L’s watch…because by that time he will always be beside me. First though, let’s see how my family is doing.’

With that last thought, Raito began to move. He walked ghostly through the front gate and walked up the walkway towards the door that housed his family…his home.

He stood right in front of the doorway that would take him inside. He already knew his family was home. The car was parked only a few feet away from him. That would mean that they had decided to do a family night together at home.

He remembered those, mom and Sayu had to bribe him with cookies when he was younger to get to play along with them for family night. It was a rare thing to have because his father had rarely been home. He had always been on some kind of big case, and while that had made the younger him proud it also really annoyed him. His mother and Sayu always made such a big fuss when his father came home for the night and had time to actually spend with his family. He had hated it. He didn’t like the idea of sitting around the living room with all of his family there. Sayu always tried to get them to play board games together. His mom wanted to watch a nice movie and maybe have a nice family chat.

His father had always talked to him about either his grades and or cases he had been working on and wanted his son’s intake on them. His mother always scolded his father about how that wasn’t talk they should be having when they were supposed to be talking about pleasant things. But Raito knew that she also like hearing about how well he was doing and how smart he was.

Never once had any of them ever asked about how he felt or his personal thoughts. He guessed that might have something to do with why he felt such resentment for his family then…but he could now see that it had also been his fault. He was so emotionally closed that they hadn’t even known him at all. At least they didn’t know the Raito behind the carefully made masks that he presented to the world.

He now knew that it hadn’t been either of their faults, not his family and not himself. It had just been the way things were at the time.

But no longer. Taking a deep breath Raito mentally prepared himself and then walked through the closed door.

He was home.

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Raito just stood in the entry way of his home. A strange feeling of contentment washed over him. He couldn’t stop the slightly goofy smile that crossed his face, but he didn’t mind…it wasn’t like anyone could see him anyway.

With that thought he remembered that he was in his shinigami form and didn’t really have a whole lot of time to spend here before he had to get back into his human body…he wanted to make sure he woke up before L.

When dark and slightly dirty thoughts started to invade his mind he quickly shook his head and started forward, he didn’t hear anyone in the house…which was strange…he would have thought he would hear them if they were home, the car was still here so they had to not of left so…the question was why was it so quite?

Without realizing it he had started to quicken his pace as he walked around the house, he heart was beating so fast and his breath was coming in and out in short panicked shots. He ignored all that and just started looking.
First was the kitchen, his mom hardly ever left it when she was home…but no one was there…he could vaguely smell a slight scent of something his mom made…most likely the breakfast she and Sayu had eaten this morning. But everything was cleaned up and spotless, just like his mother liked it. Nothing seemed out of place so he left.

Next was the living room, that would have to be his best bet on where everyone had to be…it was were they all went to when his father was home, family night was usual spent there. Most likely because it was were they could all relax and enjoy themselves without it being too crowed.

He practically ran towards the entrance to the living room. There was a hope in his heart that said maybe they were all in there and the reason they were all quite was because they were all occupied with something. Like his father might be reading a book in his favorite lounge chair, his mother would be sitting on the couch with her knitting and little Sayu would be sprawled on the floor trying to do her math homework she always had trouble doing, but she always went to her big brother for help with it when it got to difficult, it wasn’t even that she really had trouble with it, Raito knew it was her only excuse to spend time with him without sounding like a nagging sister. Raito felt slight guilt in that, Sayu shouldn’t have to make up excuses to see and talk to her older brother; she should be able to talk to him whenever she wanted. But because of the distance he maintained with his family he wasn’t really surprised that she would have found it difficult to approach him otherwise.
But just as he got to the doorway that opened up to the sitting room, he had a slight fear that it would be empty…

He walked into it right after that…

And found out that indeed, there was no one present in the room.

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“Were the hell could they be?!”

Raito couldn’t help but yell out in frustration and more then a little fear.

He quickly scanned the rest of the bottom of the house, but still…his family was no where to be seen.

‘Ok I’ve got to calm down, maybe...maybe they just went for a walk or something…or they might already be asleep in their rooms…yea that plausible…I mean it is getting rather late and they all probably had a really long day…yes I’ll just check their rooms.’

With this thought racing through his head Raito quickly left the sitting room and practically raced up the stairs.

First he checked Sayu’s room mostly because it was the first bedroom closes to the stairs. He melted through the closed door and looked around inside. The lights were off but it was clearly empty. What startled him even more then there being no Sayu in the room was its clearly messed up state. Sayu while not being obsessed with order and cleanness like her brother did always make sure her room was at least picked up and clean.

But the state of the room now could only be described as a chaotic scene. Cloths were stewed around the room, the bed was unmade and there seemed to be papers and books all over the floor and on top of the bed and the small desk that sat her prized small stuffed animal collection…or had once held her precious collection.

He walked over to the desk, where once sat cute fluffy stuffed plushiest now held books.

And not typical teenage books either, these were books on law and criminology and stuff like that. He could even see a few of his own books were here as well.

Raito was speechless.

Why would his little sister be reading this stuff? She had shown no real interest before of thinking about going into law enforcement. In actuality she had only ever shown a slight distain at her father’s and older brother’s obsession with it. She knew it was important and all and she did respect it, she just didn’t like that it always seemed to tare the family apart.

‘But if she dislikes it so…why is she reading about it? Why-I don’t get it at all. Sayu-she’s just a kid! She shouldn’t even…I don’t…I need to see her, NOW.’

Raito did an abrupt about-face and hurried out of the room.

He tried his parent’s room next, maybe they were all in there?

But he didn’t even try to hope this time, so he wasn’t disillusioned when he found yet another empty room when he fazed into his parent’s room.

‘Where are they?!?’

There was only one other place in the whole house that he had not checked.

His room.

‘But-why would they be in there!?’

Raito didn’t really believe that his family would all be in his room…so that meant that they just weren’t in the house at all.

‘Where would they go though? It’s getting really late now…maybe they are at one of their friends houses and they got picked up instead of driving themselves?’

Still…he decided he would check his room first before flying out and looking for them elsewhere.

He stood outside his own closed room. If he kept his eyes closed and blanked his mind he could even forget that he was a hybrid god of death at the moment. He could pretend that he was Raito, just Yagami Raito who was standing outside his door in his home, and that his parents and sister were here to greet him…

Raito shook his head at his own foolishness, it was useless to pretend, and reality was harsh that way. You could only pretend for so long that everything was ok when it really wasn’t.

He shook his head one more time and then looked determinedly at the closed door of the room that was-use to be his inner sanctuary.

He then fazed right through the door, for some reason unknown to himself he had closed his eyes right before his head had passed through the barrier that was his door. He waited till he was sure that his entire body was through all the way inside before he opened his eyes.

The sight that greeted him made his eyes widen in shock and disbelief. A low sound of disbelief left his lips which had opened in his shocked state, giving him a look that greatly resembled a gapping goldfish.

His family was in his room and what was more…they were all sleeping on his bed.

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‘Wh-what the-’

Raito for the first time that he could remember was at a complete loss for words. Never had he been so utterly speechless before, and that was saying something, given all that he had been through in his short life.

His father was stretched out laying with his back resting on the bed frame, so that he was almost in a sitting position, his mother was cuddling on his left side, her head resting just beneath his fathers chin, she was holding onto something in her arms…Raito took a closer look and was shocked again when he saw that it was a picture of him. It was an older picture of him when he had been a kid, somewhere in middle school maybe. His mom seemed to have a kind of death grip on it; like she was afraid someone would try to take it away from her at some point.

Raito quickly looked on his father’s other side and…yep there was Sayu. She seemed to also be cuddling up to their father but not as much as their mother was it seemed. She had her head resting on their father’s stomach and also seemed to be holding something…

Raito floated closer, he didn’t even realize that he had unconsciously started to hover with his wings out.
He took a closer look at Sayu’s hands…and he gave up being upset with being constantly shocked, it seemed he was doomed to be in a permanent state of shock for a while.

Because what Sayu was holding on were in actual two things, one was an old stuffed panda bear that he had given Sayu on the day that she was born. He could remember that day clearly even though he had been only around three at the time. His father had brought his mother home from the hospital after about five days of being there. Raito himself had to stay with a family friend at the time because he couldn’t stay at the hospital like his dad could. He remembered his mother coming inside the house all exhausted looking…but she had also looked completely and utterly happy. Raito could remember looking at the small bundle of pinkness that his mother had been holding. His father had taken the bundle from his mother and helped her to the living room. He had followed from his place on the stairs; they hadn’t seen him so he wasn’t mad that they hadn’t greeted him. Even at the age of 3 he had been smart, his mask had been placed on by then, it hadn’t been perfected yet…but it had still been good enough to fool people with. Even his own parents.

He was holding onto a stuffed panda his father and mother had given him when he had first been brought home after he’d been born, he had taken quite a shine to the white and black bear and took it with him where ever he went.

He had taken the stuffed bear with him when he went to see his mother and father who he hadn’t seen for what seemed to him at the time like forever. He remembered seeing his mother and father cuddling on the couch, cooing to the pink bundle that his mother had taken back from his father.

His father had looked up the moment Raito had walked through the door, Raito remembered that he had smiled a smile that he didn’t see all that often anymore. It held such contented happiness that it had faintly shocked him at the time. His father and mother who were still on the couch had beckoned him over to also look at the pink bundle; he had been skeptical but had indulged them. He remembered walking towards them and having his father pick him up to join in the cuddling too. He had peered down into the blanket, trying to see what all the excitement that had been going on for months was all about.

His first impression had been that it was as pink as the blanket it was wrapped in. After that he had asked his father what it was. Even nowadays he was still sometimes teased in good-humor by his mother about his question. Raito remembered how they had laughed at the time and told him that the baby was his new sister, Sayu.

He had been kind of shocked, oh it wasn’t like he hadn’t heard that his mom was having another baby but…it really hadn’t processed through. He had been so busy with his own life that he kind of filtered out everything else.

He had taken another look at the pink bundle that was his new little sister, his father seeing his new interest had asked if he wanted to hold her. He had been speechless at the time. Hold her?! He didn’t even know if he liked her yet!

His father had taken his silence as agreement and had taken Sayu from his mother’s arms and placed the baby very carefully in Raito’s arms. Raito had stood shocked still, afraid that he might somehow break her and upset his parents. His father had rearranged the blanket so he could better see the baby. He had to admit…it was kind of cute.

He remembered looking at the softly sleeping baby and he had just sat there with her cradled in his arms for a long time. He couldn’t believe how…innocent seeming the little girl was...Raito felt something at that moment that he had never felt before…he felt fondness and protectiveness flow through him. He vowed then and there to always protect and look after Sayu…after all she was his baby sister.

After a while she had begun to fuss and his mother had quickly taken her back. He could remember how he had felt some kind of emotion at his mom for taking away the baby from him. He knew now that it had been resentment and jealously he had felt, but he didn’t know that then so he just sat there confused and upset.

His mother couldn’t seem to calm down little Sayu and his father couldn’t either. He could remember how tired they had been and so…he took charge.

After telling his mother that she should go to bed he had then proceed to try to take the baby back. His parents had though that he was just being cute and had laughed at him. His mother though had decided to humor him somewhat and had very carefully handed back the baby, making sure that Raito was fully supporting it.

Raito remembered feeling very helpless at that moment. What could he do to make his little sister stop crying? What would make her happy? Raito decided to take a different though process to this. What made him happy?

And then Raito knew the answer. His panda made him happy. It had always been there to listen and comfort him when he had nightmares or just needed to talk with someone, it was his best friend, his only friend. He didn’t get along with the other children his age because he felt that they were beneath him and unworthy to get to know him. But…his panda had always brought a smile to his face, even if he never really showed people that smile…maybe it will make Sayu smile too.

With that thought in mind Raito quickly grabbed his panda which had been laying on the couch next to him. Being very careful he showed his panda to his little sister.

Sayu who had been crying non-stop for what seemed to be hours suddenly went silent. She was gazing curiously at the sudden appearing bear which was taking up a lot of her sight. She then started to giggle and reached out with small cubby hands to reach out to touch the panda.

Raito gave a small sigh of sadness mixed in with satisfaction and then did something he had never done before and which he never did again.

He gave up his panda, his comfort, the only thing that he had cared about. He gave it up for someone else. For his little sister he had selfish-less given up something which he had deemed important.

He gave up his one true friend…Ryu.

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Raito shook his head as the memories seemed to overcome his thoughts, he had thought that his mom had thrown away that old stuffed animal. It was really worn and one of its button eyes were missing, also its right arm was in danger of falling off completely, it had already lost most of it stuffing years ago from Sayu’s rough hugging. But there it was, right in front of him, Ryu…his old stuffed toy which had once been his best friend…

Raito quickly looked at the other object that his sister was holding, wanting to get off the subject of his old bear…for some reason just looking at it made him feel really sad and happy all at once.

He looked at the book that Sayu was cradling to her chest just as softly as she was doing with the bear and his mom was doing with the old photo of him.

On closer inspection he was shocked to see it was his old beginners guide to criminal law. It had been the first book that his father had given him when Raito had expressed the desire to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Raito couldn’t have been more confused…why? Why is Sayu studying law…especially criminal law?

He just shook his head for what felt like the hundredth time in the last hour. He took in the whole picture of what his family looked like and he felt a warmth course through him that he had never quite felt before.

They were all sleeping peacefully on his bed…like they were trying to be close to him in sleep when they couldn’t while they were awake. Raito then noticed the tear tracks on all their faces and couldn’t help but feel guilt.

They really did love him…truthfully more then he felt he deserved. He didn’t know how he could pay them back for all that they had done for him…but he knew one thing…he would try his hardest to make sure his family knew that he loved them back just as much as they loved him…and he would make sure to insure their happiness.

Raito gave a small smile as that thought crossed him mind, it disappeared as he remembered why he was there is the first place.

‘Right their life-spans…well let’s see now…’

With that thought coursing through his brain Raito looked up above his family’s heads to look at their name and remaining time.

His mind went blank as he stared at the glowing red numbers.

He couldn’t comprehend what he was seeing…no it wasn’t like he couldn’t comprehend it…it was that he didn’t want to comprehend it.

All of his family…his mother, his father, and little Sayu…all of their life-spans matched completely…they all had the same death-day…and that day was…

Today…

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Or to be more specific they were scheduled to die in about 4 hours…

‘How-why…they can’t die! I don’t remember them being this close to death in my other life…I know the King had said that things will be different in this time-line then the other one…but…this is too much!!’

Raito was only now trying to figure out how they were suppose to die…

‘Gas leak? No…how about armed robbery? Hmmm possible…I doubt they take their own lives…what the hell happens in 4 hours? And even if I give them extra years on their life-span…whatever happens will still happen…what can I do?!’

Raito was getting very frustrated over the situation, he couldn’t seem to come up with a good enough plan…how was he suppose to stop something when he didn’t know what he had to stop!?!

Even though Raito didn’t know what was going to happen he still pulled out his Lifenote and opened it up to the page that he had wrote L’s name. After just staring at that for a moment or two he quickly picked up the sharp tool that he used as a pen and jammed it again into his wrist. Only this time he didn’t calculate the force that he had put into the slashing like last time, the result of this was he had the metal sticking out of the other side of his hand.

‘ok…owie.’

After carefully pulling the blood drenched pen out of his arm he dismissed his bleeding wound and started to write his family’s name in the lifenote, first his father’s then his mother’s then finally Sayu’s.

Yagami Soichiro- 30 years-peaceful

Yagami Sachiko- 30 years-peaceful

Yagami Sayu- 50 years-peaceful

Raito just stared at the blood drenched page; his blood had run a bit but not enough for the words to smudge unreadable. He had made it so that his mother and father would die around the same time. He knew how much they loved each other and no matter what they would have wanted to die peacefully together.

As for Sayu…she was still so young…he wanted her to live life to the fullest so he had given her half a century to enjoy to do just that. He had wanted his family to life rich lives and goddamnit he would make sure that happen. Also if they had to die in the future he wanted to make it a painless one as possible.

Still…he didn’t like the fact that his family had been going to die in a few hours…Raito decided then and there that he would stay here till that damned time came and he saw for himself what was going to happen.

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The hours flew by quickly enough…Raito entertained himself by floating around the house and thinking of all the wicked stuff he could do to L when he got back…or have wicked stuff done to him by said detective.

Flushing a deep royal red at the thoughts that quickly flew through his head at that thought he moved over to the nearest wall and quite loudly started to bang his head on it, in the hope that it would knock out all those kinky thoughts.

‘My god! What the hell is wrong with me? Is this just recently that I’ve developed such a dirty mind or has it always been like this and I just never noticed? Geez…I can now safety say that I can never call L a true pervert anymore…I’m the one with the more perverted mindset.’

After knocking his head a few more times in the wall and only succeeding in giving himself a really bad headache and not doing a thing about the naughty thoughts that were running rampaged around his mind, he moved over to the clock that sat on his desktop in his room. His family was still slumbering on his bed and had yet to wake up.

The clock showed that he had only about 10 minutes left until the event that would have ended his family’s life if he hadn’t come home and given them the extended years on their life-force.

Raito’s face became hard, stone coldness filled his expression. It was what he usually looked like as Kira, and while he didn’t really like that it was so similar to his Kira expressions, he knew that even though he himself was no longer Kira…the darkness will still always be apart of him for the rest of his life, it was a part of him as the lifenote now was, like his wings were, like any other part of him. It was what helped shape Raito into Raito.

He quietly and quickly moved over to hover over his sleeping family that was still on his bed. He spread out his wings so that they spanned over them, seemly to offer their protection to his family.

Raito looked around, his cold façade still plastered on, right when his clock ticked to the destined time Raito felt a cold shiver go down his spine.

But still…looking around he saw that nothing was out of place…everything was still peaceful and his family looked ok…so…what the hell happened?

After a few more minutes in which nothing happened Raito even started to let his guard down a little. Surely if something was suppose to happen it would have happened by now?

Just as Raito was almost completely relaxed a sudden noise caused him to tense once again, though not in preparation this time but in…fear.

“Hukukukuku I did not expect this at all.”

Raito felt his head move up to one of the corners of his bedroom where a sudden shadow had appeared.

Raito felt frozen both inside and out. He had certainly not expected to see him here.

“Aww aren’t you going to say anything to your long lost…friend? Hukukuk…so Raito why don’t you tell me what I’ve missed while I was gone…like…why are you now a shinigami?”

Raito stared into the cold-dead-fishlike eyes of the monster that had truly started it all. He was in a way more to blame for the birth of Kira then anyone else.

Raito pushed down any fear that he may have been feeling and made sure his mask was on…well he guess the game was back on…

“Hello to you to…Ryuk.”

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(should I end it here?....)

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(Nawww u all will kill me) x.x

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Raito’s mind was racing a mile a minute, trying to come up with some explanation on why Ryuk was here…now…in his house…just when his family was suppose to die…GODDAMNIT!!

Raito turned a hard unpleasant glare at the floating shinigami beside him. After Raito had greeted Ryuk he had asked him, well more like demanded that they talk outside.

So here they were, floating about 6 or so feet above his childhood home.

“Ryuk…just why are you here? I thought I told you to stay in the Shinigami Realm till I got back your notebook, not to mention its only been a few hours since I gave up ownership of it…so yet again I ask you, why where you at my family’s home?!”

Ryuk just gave out another one of his dry sounding chuckles. Raito really really wanted to kill him right now, especially if his theory of why Ryuk was here was true.

Finally after a few minutes of only listening to Ryuk’s ugly chuckle Raito got tired of it and flew back into his house, he quickly went to the kitchen and picked up a red juicy apple and flew back out before Ryuk could even think of questioning him on where he went, not that he really would especially not when he just saw what Raito had brought back with him.

“Apple!!”

“Yes Ryuk it’s an apple…now…will you please tell me why you are here?”

Raito thank god that he could manipulate Ryuk with such an easy object…now if Ryuk had been obsessed with caviar...well that would have been harder to obtain.

“huh…oh that well I was really starting to get bored and all again and I really didn’t like how you assumed that you could boss me around so I decided to kill your family. In fact I wrote there names in my Deathnote a few minutes ago…but they didn’t die, why’s that anyway?”

Raito was speechless as he listened to Ryuk causally tell him that he tried to kill his family like it was nothing. He felt a black rage take over him at Ryuk’s dismissal of the importance of his family.

“They are alive Ryuk because I wrote their names in my LifeNote, and No I’m not going to tell you what that is nor will I tell you why I’m a shinigami right now. In fact…”

Raito turned around so he was fully facing the still drooling moron of a shinigami who was so fixed on looking at the apple in his hand when he should have been looking at the black rage that was gathering in Raito’s expression. If he had he would have guessed what Raito was about to do. But alas he did not so Ryuk was totally unprepared for what Raito was going to do within the next few seconds.

“In fact Ryuk…I don’t think you really deserve this apple…yes and if you don’t deserve it…well I might as well get rid of it.”

With that said Raito held the shiny red apple that Ryuk was staring at right under Ryuk’s nose and…crushed it into pulp.

“AHHH NOOOO MY APPLE!!!!”

Raito’s ears were slightly ringing from Ryuk’s scream of anguish at seeing the lovely apple destroyed right in front of him.

Raito started to laugh in a malicious way but was cut off as Ryuk screamed in anger this time.

“You fucking apple hating freak!! I may not be able to kill you that much I can tell, and for some fucked up reason I can no longer kill your pathetic family…but I can make it so that they suffer painfully.”

Raito was confused about what Ryuk meant, he watched as the Ryuk pulled out his deathnote and start to look down at the street, apparently looking for something. Apparently he found what he was searching for since he started to write in his notebook, an even darker malevolent chuckle came out of his mouth then Raito’s own.

Raito was more then confused and quite frankly freaked out and not a little scared. What is Ryuk doing? Raito knew that Ryuk could be very ingenious and cruel when it suited him and quite frankly it worried Raito. Maybe he shouldn’t have crushed the apple?

Ryuk seemed down with whatever he was doing, he gave another chuckle over what ever he had written down and then faced the worried Raito.

“Well Raito...hukukuk, I think you would have even been impressed with me if this didn’t involve you…hukukuku why don’t you take a look for yourself, I would love to see how you try to stop this from happening…HUKUKUKUKUKUKUKUUKUKUKKUUK!!!”

…Ok now Raito wasn’t just worried he was downright terrified.

He flew over the small distance that separated the two of them and took the held out deathnote from Ryuk; he couldn’t stop his shiver of disgust at holding the evil thing.

He looked at the page that Ryuk had written down in not a minute ago. What he saw caused him to freeze with so much horror he almost threw up. Because what was written on the page was something that he had to stop at all costs.


At 9 pm Temino Gin will leave his house making sure that no one saw him, going down the street till he reached the Yagami household, he decides that he hated the family and so he broke in the house as silently as possible not alerting anyone inside, the then proceeds to go into the kitchen and takes a huge kitchen knife, he also takes some duck tape from the material drawer and a then proceeds to go up the stairs being very quite and goes to the third door on the right. He will see three members of the Yagami household sleeping, he then takes the youngest Yagami and tapes her mouth shut, making sure to threaten her with the knife if she screams, he also tapes her hands and feet up to make sure she doesn’t move. He then wakes up the rest of the family and also tapes them up, threatening to kill their daughter if they don’t cooperate. After that is done he starts to torture them with the knife, using non-lethal but painful methods. He rapes both women and scares them heavily, cutting out their eyes and tongues, he then starts to torture the male Yagami by cutting off both his hands and feet, he then proceeds to tell him how he will also enjoy playing with his son as soon as he was done with them. After about 5 more hours of torture he leaves them broken and bleeding but alive in the room. He then walks out of the house and walks to the nearest intersection and flings himself in front of a car. Dies instantly at 2 am.


‘No…no…NO!!’

Raito heard Ryuk’s dry laughs as he read what was in front of him…Ryuk knew that he couldn’t kill the Yagami family…but he could make them suffer a fate worse then death could ever be.

“I won’t let this happen!!!” Raito roared out in pure black rage.

“Well then you better hurry…it’s now 8 o’clock, you got one hour to save them before what I wrote in the deathnote comes true. Hukukuku how will you do this Raito when you’re nothing but a ghost right now? HUKUKUKUKUKUKU…”

Raito felt like ice water had been thrown on his back. He had forgotten that no one could see him right now…but…

“You’ll see Ryuk! I won’t let this happen! You’d better watch out from now on…you will PAY for this!”

With that Raito started to fly as fast as he could back to the Kira investigation headquarters. Ryuk’s dry infuriating chuckles followed him but soon died out as he got farther and farther away.

‘I may not be able to do much…but…L can!’

Raito didn’t even think about what he was going to tell L, all he knew was that his family was in danger and he had to save them. But if he couldn’t…he knew that L could.

‘Please…please believe me Lawliet.”

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Raito could have cried in relief as he saw the headquarters right ahead of him, too much time had passed as far as he was concerned, it may have been only about 15 minutes but still…that was 15 minutes wasted in getting back to make sure his family was safe.

Raito flew through the window which opened up to his and L’s bedroom. Not much had changed since he had left. Ryuzaki was still cuddled in Raito’s arms, if he had the time he would have been surprised that his body seemed to have moved even without him in it, it was like his body knew that it should be cuddling and comforting Ryuzaki. But since Raito didn’t have the time it was only dimly noted in the back of his mind.

Raito quickly moved over to the bed and hovered over his body, he wasn’t quite sure what he had to do but decided that he just had to will himself back into his human shell.

After taking a second to do just that Raito felt a tingling sensation spread through his body before he blacked out.

Not a minute later he woke back up. Only this time he was staring at the ceiling, and in his arms was a softly snoring L.

He was back. And he didn’t have much time left.

Quickly sitting up he started to shake the sleeping detective.

“Wake up Ryuzaki! Please wake up! My family’s in danger! L get up!...LAWLIET GET YOUR SUGARY ASS UP RIGHT NOW!!!”

That woke L up.

“Wh-what is it Raito-kun?? Why are you shaking me…and why…”

Before L could ask anymore questions Raito was already out of bed and heading for the door.

“Where are you going?! Raito-kun-“

Raito quickly turned around and exclaimed.

“We have to go now L! My family’s about to be tortured in about half an hour! We need to get to my house imminently!”

L had yet to get out of bed; he just kind of stared at Raito with a quizzed look on his face.

“I’m sure that you just had a nightmare Raito-kun, it’s not that unthinkable given your situation, now why don’t we go back to be-“

“No it was not a nightmare! I know my parents and sister are about to be tortured! Just like…just like how I know your real name…L Lawliet.”

L had frozen after that, an unreadable expression had over taken his face. After a minute or two of tense silence which had Raito fidgeting, they were taking why to much time, L gave a tense nod.

Raito gave a sigh of relief and started again for the door, but L’s voice had him pause.

“Ok Raito-kun…we will go to your home, and we will even bring protection just incase we are in danger…but the moment we get back…we are going to sit down and you are going to tell me what you know and how you know it, is that clear Yagami-kun.”

It wasn’t a question but then neither of them expected it to be, Raito knew he would of have to sooner or later give L an explanation of his knowledge…he just wished that he didn’t have to tell L in this kind of circumstance.

“Of course…L.”

With that being said they both left the room, one in nervous anticipation over the safety of his family and his upcoming talk with the man who he cared for but somewhat feared, the other is confused but also determination to get his answers to his questions…no matter the cost.

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OK…now how was that for predictability? Hahaha I bet none of you saw this coming now did you? Well…nether did I 0.o

Aw Ryuk was so mean! I just felt like torturing someone at the moment…poor Yagami family…will Raito and L make it in time?? Your guess is as good as mine…@_@

Heh sorry that this took so long…real life intruded, also…I had no ideas to what was going to happen, TT_TT my idle hands had left me…But they have possessed me yet again, if this chapter is anything to go by :P

The big explanation will be in the next chapter, maybe…at the end or something…it depends on how long it will take to rescue the Yagami family from the poor guy who is being kind of forced to torture a nice family then commit suicide…wow I must being feeling very angsty right now O.O

Awww who likes the panda bear named Ryu? Heheh I thought it would be a very cute coincidence, tehehe aww toddler Raito was soo cute!!

Anyway my updates might just be spaced out a little more, school is taking up a lot more of my time now so…

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