Darkness Within your Light

Ok I know I promised people the special chapter for chapter 19, you know the one about the different point of views but I’ve been stuck on that for almost a month.

So…I’m just going to continue onward. I will be posting that special chapter however it will be its own one-shot, almost like a side-story or something like that. I will try to have it posted up soon though. But it will be under its own name and won’t be a chapter in this story.

I would like to thank everyone who had waited patiently for this chapter, I’m sorry that it’s going so slowly but real life and an MIA muse is taking up a lot of my time.

Hugs and kisses to...Mustang89, Nyves, Jennifer, Aurora Moon, Elle, Ibelen(I aplogize for my errors in my story, I will edit my story once it's all done, I want to be a beta myself so I'm praticing), Stitches(thank you for the offer but I really want to see if I can do it first...though judging by the amount of errors this story has maybe I'm just not Beta material), Kenichi, Kira's Light, Aura9969, Zerayah,

I love you guys so much! sniff...

I would also like to fix a mistake I made in the last chapter. I know I said that 50 million criminals died in America but let’s change that shall we? It will instead be the equivalent of 25 thousand. (I’m to lazy right now to go back and change it) And if you don’t think that one person can write that many names in one night well…who said it was just one person writing them down? (SPOILER!)

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Stepping outside of his house right after L, Raito turned back around and made sure that the lock on the front door was secured. After what happened to his family only a few nights before he wasn’t taking any chances especially when it involved his family.

Turning back around he saw L a few feet away down the path waiting patiently for him, he gave L a shaky smile which L returned, it helped to show that he understood what Raito was doing, but that understanding still didn’t stop him from motioning with his hand for Raito to hurry up.

Raito walked the few feet to L and then almost as one they turned away from the house and walked towards the car that they had commandeered only a few hours ago for their escape.

As Raito got in the passenger side of the car a thought came to him.

“Hey L, will Watari be picking us up then? Or will we be taking the car to some random isolated location until Watari calls us up to give us directions.”

L turned to look at him as he buckled up his seatbelt; it always amused Raito to see L sit straight like a normal person when he drove. Sometimes Raito half expected him to curl up in his preferred hunch while driving.

“Watari has already picked out a suitable hotel for us to locate to for now Raito-kun but we will be driving in the opposite direction for a while, hopefully confusing anyone who might just be following us. We will then proceed to ditch this car somewhere where no one will be able to find it for a while, then we will take the underground subway to the area of our destination.”

“I guess that makes sense, if we’re being followed or watched by this new Kira…”

Raito trailed off as the full implications of his statement filled the air. If the new Kira knew where L had been staying at he might just know who Raito was. Both L and Raito knew this and feared the consequences if such a thing were true.

A silence overtook them as L started to drive off into the night. Raito didn’t mind it that much though he had too much to think about anyway then to try to make polite conversation.

‘Right because L is the symbol of polite and pointless conversations, and I’m a platypus in the disguise of a god of death.’

Raito sneered to himself as his mind once more went off track.

‘What the hell is wrong with me? I was never like this before, even before I touched the deathnote and screwed up my psyche. Why is everything so different his time around anyway? It almost like I’ve been sent to an alternate universe then my past. That would almost make sense if I believed in alternate worlds. Why is the third Kira striking now? In the original time-line I was still in confinement, and I know that what the third Kira did to all those American prisoners isn’t something that happened either. The third Kira Kyosuke Higuchi was too stupid to do anything like that. He only killed criminals because Rem told him to, he mostly killed people to further his company and that didn’t start happening for at least a month or so. So I doubt that the third Kira right now is Higuchi…but the way all those criminals died reminds me of someone…who though?’

“Raito-kun? We’re here, wake up.”

Raito gave a start as he heard L call out to him. He didn’t even realize that he had been dozing with his eyes closed. He turned to look at L and realized that the car had stopped. Looking around them he realized that they were at a pier area near the base of a large water containment area.

“L don’t tell me we’ve abandoning the car in a shipping yard.”

“Of course not Raito-kun...”

Raito breathed out a sigh of relief, just as he was about to ask L why then they were at a shipping yard L continued talking.

“…we are going to push the car in the water of course.”

‘Oh you’ve got to be kidding me…’

“Come on Raito-kun.”

Seeing that L was already out of the car Raito got out as well, making sure that he didn’t leave anything important in the car Raito opened the glove box. Looking inside Raito paled slightly.

“Um L? Do you want the gun in the glove box or should we let it sink to?”

L who had been watching Raito walked around the car to the passenger side and without saying anything picked up the 9 mm browning pistol and the gun harness and strapped everything on under his shirt, just like he had done earlier when they had gone to Raito’s home to confront the deathnote influenced burglar. If L noticed Raito’s pale complexion he didn’t say anything.

“Will Raito-kun please get behind the car and push it in the direction of the water? I’m going to take off the emergency brake and steer towards the edge.”

“You’re going to turn off the car right?”

“Yes Raito-kun, we don’t want to make to much noise, I had to sneak the car inside here without headlights because the security guard here was awake at his post, luckily though he was watching a loud soccer game on his small telly.”

Raito nodded and moved towards the back of the car.

10 minutes later of pushing and careful steering the only evidence that there had been a car there in the first place was a large ripple in the water that soon settled.

Raito looked around him for the first time; he didn’t recognize the area and could only hope that L knew where they were and where the nearest subway station was.

“L where are we?”

“I’m not to sure myself Raito-kun; however I did see a subway station entrance about two blocks away from here. We should hurry to it before the train stops running for the night.”

“Right”

The walk towards the station was filled with tension. Raito and L had almost been stopped twice before they finally got there. Once from someone who wanted to sell some dope to L thinking that he was a user by the black bags that hung under his eyes, L had walked right by the dealer without even a glance and then Raito had been catcalled from a group of women who wanted to sell themselves to him. Raito just kept his head down and walked closely to L not saying anything, he just kept walking.

Once they were inside the station and waiting for the train to come they sat on one of the benches that were scattered around the dirty station. The station was unsurprisingly empty. The only ones who occupied the area other then them was a passed out homeless person who was sleeping on the other side of the station from them.

They had about 20 minutes before the next train that would take them in the direction they needed to go would arrive. L had said that the train would drop them off about 5 blocks from where they would be staying for an undetermined amount of time until a safer location was located.

Raito couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief when he heard that, at least they didn’t have to walk 10 miles or so once they got off the train. Raito was tired as it was; he didn’t want to deal with the danger of being out in the open for a long period of time, especially with a new Kira on the loose.

“Raito-kun what’s your thoughts about the new Kira?”

Raito turned his head to look at the tired looking detective next to him. He couldn’t help but feel sympathy for L, if it wasn’t one thing it was another for the poor man.

“Well…he’s obsessed with justice; he has a twisted sense of morals and is more then likely a Kira fanatic.”

“Yes that fits well with what I’m thinking of, do you think that the shinigami Rem was the one who gave this new Kira the deathnote?”

“It’s possible, I remember that I did tell Rem to find someone who would use the deathnote in my name but still this is way too much. Rem isn’t stupid, the only way I was able to destroy her in the first place was because of her emotional attachment to Misa. She has to know that this scale of killings would endanger Misa, so it could be that a different shinigami has dropped his deathnote.”

“So we might just have 3 deathnotes floating around.”

“More then likely”

“Crap I need a truck filled with sugar to even processes that.”

Raito couldn’t help but chuckled at the pout that L was sporting. Without thinking about it he leaned forward and kissed him.

L squeaked a bit at the unexpectedness of the kiss but soon took control. Raito moaned quietly as L forcefully dominated his mouth. Just as L roughly dragged his tongue across Raito’s mouth asking to be let in…

“Hey looks like we’re got ourselves a couple of fags don’t it boys?”

Raito quickly tore his lips from L’s and looked off to his right where the voice had come from.

‘Shit we so don’t need this right now…’

A gang of about 10 men were standing not 20 feet from them, and judging by their young age and what they were wearing and saying Raito could guess that they were the local hooligans that terrorized this area of the city.

One of the guys who had been leering at Raito started to walk over; leading the rest of them of the men over, Raito could tell that he was leader of the little faction.

He must of saw Raito glaring at him because he smirked and broke away from his friends and sat next to Raito on the bench. The thug threw his arm around Raito’s shoulder pushing L away from him.

Raito sat ridged and looked straight ahead, turning himself off to what was happening around him, he kept a blank uninterested face as he felt the asshole’s hands start to go under his shirt. He would have tried to throw the bastard off him and kick his ass…but the small knife that the guy had pressed to his stomach made him think twice about doing anything rash.

Raito frantically tried to think of something to make these bastards leave him and L alone but he couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t potentially suicidal.

‘If it isn’t one thing it’s another…welcome to my fucked up life…’

While the guy started to mouth off about how a pretty whore like him shouldn’t hang with fuck ups and the like, Raito peered over at L to see what he was doing; he had noticed that while the leader was messing around with him the rest of the group had pulled L away from him.

What he saw made him cringe.

L looked really, really furious.

He was standing up to his full height, the rest of the gang were circling him and making crude remarks about how their boss was going to fuck up his pretty little blow up doll.

L looked one step short of being homicidal.

Raito knew that usually L would be able to act logically and impassively but it seemed that the stress of the news about Kira had finally caused him to lose his cool.

Raito decided that he would have to take matters into his own hands before L did something that he would regret.

Besides it wasn’t like he could die now was it?

Throwing himself onto the knife that was pressed on his abdomen maybe wasn’t the best idea he could have come up with but it did the trick of shocking the man holding it enough for Raito to deck him into unconsciousness.

Even before the guy slumped onto the ground Raito was moving. Ignoring his bleeding wound he looked over at L just as the rest of the gang became aware of what was happening and tried to convert what he wanted to say by one word.

“Ryuzaki!”

…and just like that an all out battle started. Now that Raito was out of imminent danger L started to fight back. In the first 5 minutes of fighting he had already brought down 4 of the guys by his powerful kicks alone. Raito was also able to hold his own, mostly because he wasn’t worried about any damage that could befall on him. After taking down 2 of his own it seemed that the rest of the gang that was left decided to call it quits because they ran off after seeing so many of their friends on the ground knocked out.

It could also have had something to do with the gun that L had pulled out to threaten them with.

Both Raito and L just stood there and watched as the rest of the rats ran off. They were both breathing hard and panting; L was hunched over in his usually standing position and didn’t seem to want to stand straight again for some time, he quickly put the handgun back into the harness that was under his shirt, tucked away from the public eye.

After catching his breath and walking around making sure none of the hooligans where going to wake up any time soon Raito walked over to L to make sure he was ok.

Other then a few new bruises and scraps L seemed perfectly fine. Just as Raito was going to ask if he was ok though, L seemed to finally get his second wind back, he looked straight at Raito with an unreadable expression.

Before Raito knew what happened he was on the ground nursing his cheek and staring at the renewed panting L who had just slapped him.

“W-what the hell L?! What the fuck was that for?!”

L just gave him an unbelieving look.

“That Raito-kun was for scaring me out of my wits when you threw yourself on that knife. I know that you’re immortal and everything but that doesn’t mean you can do things like that without scaring me out of my mind. It may not kill you Raito-kun but you can still get hurt. You can still feel pain and agony, you may not remember so I’ll refresh your memory. You may be half shinigami but you are also half human too. I told you that I care for you Raito-kun, so it would be logically that I’d care whether you got hurt or not. I’d advise you not to do stupid stuff like that again or next time I won’t be as nice, I imagine that the humiliation of getting spanked like a three year old would advise you to be more cautious in the future.”

Raito just sat there on the dirty ground holding his cheek and gaping at him. L just sighed and walked over and held out his hand. Raito didn’t even hesitate to take it which made L smile at him. Returning the smile abide a shaky one Raito was helped up to his feet.

They just stood there for a few moments looking at each other. L’s hand was still grasping Raito’s in a tight grip, they didn’t take their eyes off each other, it was like if they did the other would disappear into thin air.

‘I wonder if I can ask him now…he was so distressed about me, maybe I can…’

But just as Raito opened his mouth he closed it again as he heard the subway train coming.

L turned to look behind him, breaking the moment that had settled around them. Raito dropped his hand from L’s as the train rolled to a stop in front of them. Without saying anything they both picked their way around the bodies on the ground and got on the train. Because it was so late at night there wasn’t that many people on the train so they didn’t have to explain to anyone why they were covered in bits of blood and looked like they had been in a gang fight.

Which technically they had been only instead of ending up with their asses handed to them on a silver platter they had come out triumphed.

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About 45 minutes pasted as they sat on the train waiting for their stop. Neither spoke to each other, Raito because he didn’t know what to say and also because the slash to his stomach he had gotten from throwing himself onto the knife was hurting him a bit as it slowly healed itself, he estimated that by the time they got to the hotel that his wound would be closed enough that he wouldn’t require any type of medical treatment.

L didn’t speak because he was to busy thinking about the new Kira and what he was going to do about it…also because he was so tired he didn’t know if he could talk at the moment, he wasn’t usually this tired, he could go weeks without any real sleep, but that was only when he was focused on a case, he could ignore his physical need for sleep when he was working, but all the emotional trauma that he had endured in the last 24 hours was enough to make L think about fluffy pillows and Raito’s warm naked body beside him…hmmm…

Raito looked up when the train started to slow down again, there was no one left on the train except him and L now, he looked over at L as he noticed him start to stand up.

‘So this is our stop then’

Raito got up as well and followed L as the train rolled to a stop. Stepping out of the train they both walked out of the underground subway station into the clear cold air outside.

“So Ryuzaki which way do we now?”

Raito made sure to call L Ryuzaki in public; even if no one was around he knew he needed to make sure not to call L by his detective name out loud.

He saw L smile at him when he called him by his alias name, it seemed that L appreciated that Raito remembered to be cautious in the open.

“We go left now Raito-kun, I know now which way we have to head to so as long as we move quickly we should be alright.”

Raito nodded and then started to walk down the street on his left.

10 minutes later they found themselves staring at a small but clean looking building, it was squeezed in between two different types of stores. One was an antique bookstore that was of course closed at this time of night and on the other side of the hotel was a small 24 hour mini mart. There was a signed above the archway to the entrance of the building that they were about to enter.

It read the Mizuki Inn.

‘Huh nice name, the beautiful moon…kind of reminds me of L in a way, like how he glows a bit when he’s on his laptop at night, I think the reason for that might just be because of his pale complexion.’

They walked up the small stone steps to the old fashion looking doors and opened them. Stepping inside Raito looked over the place as L walked up to the sleepy looking owner behind the counter, it was an elder woman, Raito guessed she was around Watari’s age, guessing by the way she didn’t seem to be surprised to see them it would seem that they had been expected, more then likely Watari had made the owner stay awake to greet them and show them their room.

As Raito looked around it was obviously to him that this place wasn’t a chain owned hotel but rather a locally owned place. It looked like someone converted a small building of apartments into a hotel, either that or a 3 story brick house.

‘Its interesting that Watari choose this place, it makes it both easier and harder for the current Kira to find us. If we had gone to a more public hotel there would have been more of a chance of being seen, but on the other hand we would have blended in the background. In a small hotel like this it is out of the way and secluded but because there aren’t as many rooms as a larger scale hotel there are going to be less guests around so once again we will stick out. I suppose though that Watari knows what he’s doing, I’m not to sure how L though is taking this, it doesn’t look like this place has a lot of room, I doubt that L will be able to rent out an entire floor to satisfy his paranoia.’

Raito snorted to himself in amusement and walked over to where L was talking to the owner.

He stood a few feet behind him and listened as L gave the woman some pseudonym names for both himself and Raito.
His good humor though took a nose dive as he heard L’s fake story for the both of them.

“Hello my name is Minoru Kiyoshi, my grandfather Yori Takeshi booked the entire upper floor a few hours ago, I apologize if there is any inconvenience but you see I have a valid reason for that…my husband here-”

Raito was startled as L suddenly spun around and grabbed his arm pulling him to stand beside him, it was so sudden that Raito stumble a little as he tried to regain his balance after being mishandled like that.

“- you see my husband Hikaru Akira here has Agoraphobia.”

As the woman behind the desk just looked at L with a blank uncomprehending stare L explained what he meant in a voice that was clearly patronizing, but the elder woman didn’t seem to hear it, she was blushing now as she finally comprehended what L said about them being married.

Raito after hearing what kind of cover story L was going for immediately made himself look scared and uncertain, cuddling up into L’s embrace, as the arm that had dragged him to the counter wrapped itself around his shoulders. He wished L had told him what he was going to do before, but he had the sneaking suspicion that L was making it up as he went along.

Raito listen as L told the woman what Agoraphobia meant and why they needed a whole floor for themselves.

“You see…Hanako-san was it? Agoraphobia is a very serious condition, my beloved here hates being outside our home, the poor dear can’t even step outside the house without having a panic attack. But you see, our house burn down just last night…yes it was tragic, I’m just grateful no one was hurt. My poor Hikaru here had to be dosed with a mild sedative so he wouldn’t panic when we had to look around for somewhere we can stay temporary.”

The old woman fell for it hook, line and sinker. Her pitying and sympathetic gaze almost made Raito squirm but he managed to stay still by pushing his face into L’s chest to give her a better show of being a meek, scared, phobic young man.

‘Oh L you are so going to pay for this…’

Finally the woman snapped out of her stupor and started to herd the both of them up a flight of stairs.

“Oh you poor dears, don’t you worry about it. Aunty Hoshi understands, your grandfather already paid so there isn’t anything to worry about. I don’t get many guests anyway so feel free to take up the third floor; there are a total of 4 rooms up there. 2 are just bedrooms, one’s a commons bathroom, and the last is a suit with a bedroom and bathroom, the suit also has a small kitchen area.”

L just kept nodding his head as the woman drone on and on about her hotel and the neighborhood. It seemed that the woman was now totally awake and perky.

Something that made Raito almost feel a acute dislike at her for but was to tired to really feel.

As they finally got to the third floor landing L finally interrupted her as she started talking about her grandchildren.

“Thank you Hanako-san for all of your help, I’m sorry if we inconvenienced you at this time. We will of course respect any rules you have and because of my husband’s condition we will of course be keeping to ourselves. You will be paid quite handsomely every week for your discretion. You see…my grandfather and I am not to sure if our house fire was an accident or not so I would of course appreciate it very much if you’d keep our location and stay here a secret.”

Hanako nodded her head to show she understood. Her pitying gaze never left her face as she spoke.

“Of course sweetie, your grandfather has already informed me about it…something about a jealous ex-boyfriend? Or was it girlfriend? Oh my old age just doesn’t agree with my mind these days.”

After biding the woman a polite goodbye L dragged the still acting Raito to the door at the end of the corridor.

As soon as the door was closed behind them Raito wrenched himself from L’s side. He may have been comfortable there but he was slightly mad at L for making him seem like the village idiot.

“Next time some kind of warning would be appreciated Ryuzaki!”

“I apologize Raito-kun, but I wasn’t quite sure what kind of cover story that Watari had set up for us or even if he did set up one, so I improvised. Besides we need privacy and this way you won’t have to leave the hotel so there won’t be a chance that you’d be recognized if Kira somehow tracks us down. Also by claiming that we’re married to each other no one would question our relationship. We don’t look alike so the family gimmick was out.”

Raito nodded tiredly to show that he understood, and he did really, he just didn’t like that he was going to be labeled as an invalid.

“Ok fine I get it…so now what?”

L looked over at the clock that was placed on the wall. It showed that it was 4 in the morning.

“Now Raito-kun we are going to bed and getting some sleep, Watari is more then likely out gathering the equipment that we will need to continue our investigation. We will commandeer this suit while Watari will have one of the bedrooms on this floor, the other bedroom will be converted into a room for us to work in.”

“Can we even do that? I mean we may be renting this space but I don’t think we will be aloud to change and rearrange things like that.”

“Its fine, that woman’s husband who is the actual owner of this hotel is an old veteran friend of Watari’s, he is trust worthy and knows the truth, the story I made up is for his wife’s benefit and anyone else, she doesn’t know anything about me or who her husband really is. He is also involved in our organization.”

“Huh?”

L sighed as he sat on the bed that was in the far corner of the room; Raito walked over from the door and sat beside him, giving L a confused questioning look.

L had a look of deep consideration on his face, it was if he was deciding whether or not to say anything more. After a minute though of deep consideration he nodded to himself and turned to Raito.

“You see Raito-kun…I may be L and the three greatest detectives in the world but…I am only a recent part of an association. There has been a group of people before me who have been involved in bettering the world for years now. Watari is one of the descendents of the founders of this group; I believe it was founded almost eight hundred years ago. It is just by chance that my real name is L when it is also my code name. There are other people out there with letter code names. Scientists, politicians, generals, professors, teachers, archeologists, senators, kings, presidents, we are all over the world. Most of us were chosen at a young age and were groomed for success in our chosen fields. Others are found later on in life either by excelling in their fields or by some other means.”

Raito was listening in silence as L confessed all of this. He was slightly shocked by all that L was telling him…but it all made sense in a way.

“Which were you?”

“I was one of the ones they were able to find at an early age. Watari was the one to find me when I was a child, he’s the one who groomed me into a detective really. I had no patience for any of the other occupations that were available to me.”

Raito nodded as his mind processed all of the new information that was given to him.

“I’m guessing that Hanako-san’s husband is also a letter member?”

“Yes he is M, he is one of last 3 older members that we have left…we usually don’t have a long life expediency. When we die new members are given our letters. I’m not to sure how many L’s there have been before me. But I do know that I’m one of the very few to ever use my code name is association with my job.”

“Now Raito-kun I know that you may have a lot of questions but that will have to wait till later, we need to get some rest because in the morning or more acutely later today we will be tracking this new Kira down…I also have an idea I want to run by you but that can wait till later, we will also be watching that tape that the new Kira has sent us, after watching that we can decided our next course of action.”

Raito could have sighed in relief, he was feeling very fatigued by all that had happened. Taking off his shirt he inspected the knife wound, he was happy to see that it was already healed up.

Stripping out of the rest of there clothes and throwing them on the ground they both curled under the blankets on the bed Raito curled up into L’s arms, gradually the both fell into slumber as the weight of the day took it’s toll on them.


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Holy shit what have I done now?! I didn’t mean for L to have his own organization…or be a part of one. I just watched the new spin-off movie ‘L Change the World’ which is GREAT!! They had a woman named K in it along with I believe a guy named J…also it kind of showed that there were more letter people out there so…the idea was just so cool I had to use it.

Oh for all those L fans out there you must watch that movie! You either love it to death or hate it! I personally loved it, and cried when the credits rolled showing that it was over…I want more damn it! The letter organization doesn’t play that big of a part in this story but the sequel on the other hand…

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW! I NEED THOSE REVIEWS LIKE FISH NEED WATER, LIKE MONKEYS NEED BANNANS, LIKE L NEEDS SUGAR AND LIKE RAITO NEEDS TO KILL! PLEASE REVIEW!