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Aftermath

By Sabaku no lotus

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Had to get chapter two out; I had ideas
for it when I made part one, but was tired and exhausted ^^ Also to
make it so much better, I had major writer's block! ARG!

Still, usually I don't write death note
stuff. Why? Because the series is so complicated that I don't want to
ruin the characters by making them OOC or the story just completely
out of context and stupid -_-

But I am trying to finish this, and
after this part would probably be only two to three more parts before
it's done.

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Rain; it was always raining in Tokyo.

The silver haired teen should had grown
accustom to the dreary weather; in the United States, many areas
would drip droplets of water, cleansing the land.

Thoughts of Kira entered Near's mind,
but he shook it off; he was in the lobby of the hotel, sitting in his
usual position, back to the window from the sight of the downpour.

He didn't know what motivated him to
come downstairs and research here, but he accepted wholeheartedly
without nonresistance on his part. Nate scanned files and documents
of the killer and his victims, ignoring the looks of curious people
staring at a young man in pajamas with one knee in a chair, balancing
a folder.

'May 11, 2010; a woman name Sadako
Shichiro, disabled, was found murdered; her body disfigured. Her head
was in the television in her apartment and her body was...'

'Black hair?' A sight of something
familiar caught Near's eye. 'No I am just imagining things...' He
tried to glance back at the information but instead slowly looked in
the corner of his eye at the figure.

The man's head was turned, raven hair
messy and wild, but he was slouched; munching on a stick of...

'Pocky; no that cannot be!' Nate
dropped the folders carelessly and for the first time in years, went
into a frantic state. He jumped up and ran towards the sight of the
person to only find...open space.

'I seen him! I seen him right here!'
The silver haired man thought he was going insane; it's been over six
year and he was imagining a ghost...

Nate
hurriedly glanced around; nothing that even remotely looked like him
was here. The teen dared to step outside to the elements, ignoring
stares and quashing the nagging feeling of his socks getting soaked.

He searched the
grounds and finally found the person under the shower facilities in
the tennis court; shielding from the rain.

'L...' Near's voice
died in his throat as he started at the man; L appeared practically
the same as he did years ago. His hair was actually flat for once;
framing his face in wisps that Nate craved to touch. Bags under his
eyes were darker this time, as he stared into the open sky filled
with grey hues.

'L...oh L...' The
silver haired man shook and quaked; he couldn't motion his body to
embrace the former famous detective.

L slowly lowered
his head downward and met the teen's eyes; Near let out a sobbed and
ran to hug his mentor. The man under him only smiled sadly and rubbed
his back; soothing out six years of pain, confusion, and anguish.

“Come on,
let's get you out those wet clothes.”

Nate grumbled and
unbuttoned his top; he hated the rain. His socks were wet to the bone
and the squelching noises were getting on his nerves. After a
heartful reunion, they managed to get back to Near's room, but
without suffering from the consequences.

He blew out a
strain of sliver sopping hair and tried to part his shirt; he turned
to say something to the other man, but stopped in the middle of his
actions.

Ryuuzaki, L, was
lifting up his clinging white shirt painfully slow. The raven haired
man sighed and said in a low voice, “I detest when my shirt
gets like this; it sticks worse than chocolate.”

Near swallowed
hard; the sugar addict's body was slim but harden with muscles. His
strange diet didn't leave an ounce of fat on him. Pale skin had
droplets of water skimming down, tracing his body lower and lower,
till it reached the hem of his jeans.

'No...he's still my
mentor and my friend.' He tried to squash his desire to ravish the
man; he dropped his top to the floor. “Maybe you should take a
shower to warm up and then we can talk; I want to know how you
escaped Lig-...Kira's sentence upon you.”

Ryuuzaki lifted his
shirt and let it fall down with a quiet plop. “Yes that would
be reasonable Nate, since you would want answers on why your
processor is standing here alive and well.” He put his thumb in
the usual place in his mouth.

Near waited until
he heard the door closed and sighed; he knew that even his
intellectual mind wasn't prepared for the mental psyche of confusion
that was upon him shortly.

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Nate was kind
enough to give the raven haired man a pair of his bigger pants and
shirt, as well as order him a good amount of sweets. So when Ryuuzaki
was toweling his hair wildly, he was delighted to see a cart of
delicious cakes, fruits, and candies.

“So...”
Near sat in his usually one knee up position in the chair; he sweat
dropped at the former detective eating a slice of strawberry
cheesecake, pushing the strawberry to the side.

“Mmmm...”
Ryuuzaki closed his eyes and hummed in complete bliss; a small smile
seem to trace his features that only brought sweet blood to the other
pale one's cheeks.

'He must know what
he is doing to me...'

“Yes, about
what happen over six years ago...” Ryuuzaki had the fork in his
mouth. “After the Yotsuba incident, the investigation team was
convinced that we finally caught Kira and we only had to tie the
loose ends regarding the Note.” The former detective shifted
the cutlery in his mouth. “But I knew that it wasn't that easy
to catch a killer such as Kira; Kira is smart, egotistical, and quite
childish.”

“So
when I was looking at the rules, I carefully observed everything
regarding the events up to this point; Raito-kun's confinement, the
second Kira's killings, everything.”
Ryuuzaki paused to reach over for a bunch of fresh grapes; popping a
piece of juicy purple fruit as he talked. “The way Kira killed
doesn't make sense with the thirteen day rule, so I concluded that
this rule as well as the other ones were false.”

Nate watched as his
mentor turned his head to the ceiling as he continued to eat his
snack. “I thought my friend was strange after he touched the
note; his aura as well as the way he acted didn't make sense so I had
to...hire a double.”

“A double?”

“Yes a
double; I always knew I was going to die soon, but I wanted to finish
some loose ends first before I passed on. So I hired a body double
and told him what to do through a mini microphone.” L bowed his
head down again and munched on a piece longer than necessary. “As
my suspensions confirmed, he was killed as well as...”

Near could barely
hear the last part over the rain. “As well as Watari....”

“Yes Wammy;
Light had something to do with that.” He twisted a strain of
sliver hair in frustration; Wammy was like a father to all of them,
but he was especially close to L, since he was the man mostly
responsible for finding him and raising him. “I learned from
Tota as well as the others that a shinigami was behind the killing of
Watari and L...”

It was silent for a
moment. “May I have some tea?”

“Huh?”

“Nate-kun may
I have some tea?”

Near blushed at the
'kun' title. “H....H....Yes!” The teen tried to scurry
out of his seat as the older man watched in amusement as Nate River
ungracefully tumbled to the carpet.

He sighed and
brushed himself off as he tried to regain some of his pride; he went
into the kitchen and started to boil the water.

Near tried to sit
back in his usual position without issues this time. “L...Ryuuzaki,
where have you been for all these years then if the person that died
was a body double?”

L shrugged. “I
ended up staying with Wedy and Aiber...you know those two became
close didn't you?”

Nate blinked. “Both
of them?”

“Yes;
after I was informed of my so called demise, I made sure he was
buried and that the team suspected me dead, including the so called
“Kira suspect,” Raito-kun.” The teen blinked as
Ryuuzaki worked on his third snack,
a large slice of German chocolate cake. “I still kept an eye on
the police as well as my “new successors,” under a few of
my old alias.”

Near twisted a
strain of his hair; that's right, Light was so caught up in his
“victory” over L that he didn't even back up his own
stupid plan, or think of any disarray. It would make sense that he
would be more interested in his power trip than backtracking and
cleaning his steps.

L ceased eating and
put his thumb in his mouth. “I disliked Light-kun's involvement
in those two demise; I was really starting to get used to the married
couple's spats.”

That's Ryuuzaki for
you to point out the arbitrary.

“So you
watched Mello and me from a distance...”

“Correct,
although Matt knew of my involvement. I was the one that assisted him
and Mello during the final parts; I am quiet sad that Mail and Miheal
had to pay for it as the result.”

So...they didn't
succeed L at the end after all; L succeeded them.

The sound of the
kettle was a breather for Nate; his brain was jumbled with facts and
ideas; how L would have been embroiled in this and that...why he
didn't hear from Mello for so long after the gun skirmish...

'L's alive; he's in
my room, here and now.' He pour them both cups, and reaching for the
sugar bowel, tried to figure out how many cubes the former detective
would want. After trying various ratios for two minutes, he gave up
and just brought the whole thing.

Nate watched in
amazement as his crush put about four to six cubes in the tea before
finally taking a sip; He only placed two in himself. “What
brings you here to see me today?”

“Oh well I
wanted to visit an old friend and say, “congratulations;”
even with both of your stubbornness, you two was able to solve the
Kira case after eight years.”

“Yes...”
Near sat his cup down and started to pour out years of hidden
confession. “L...”

“Call me
Lawliet.”

“Huh?”
The teen blinked at the non sequitur.

“Since Kira
is no longer here and the Death notes are gone, you may call me
Lawliet.” A smile graced the man's features. “I wanted to
inform you of my own real name, since I know yours.”

Lawliet...so his
real name had a thing to do with his alias after all; he wondered if
Mello knew?

“I believe we
should retire now; I can tell you more in the morning once we are
refreshed.”

The sliver haired
man blinked and looked up to the far kitchen wall; it said almost 1
am....wait almost 1am?!

'It
hasn't been that long has it?' He glanced over at the tray and
realized that his crush successfully ate every plate
on it. '...Maybe it has.'

Near
got up and stretched; he wiggled his toes in his dry
socks. “You may have the bed, I'll crash on the couch.”

“Oh...well I believe I am better off on the couch; I have been
used to sleeping in odd places to say the least.”

Nate remembered once incident in Wammy house; he saw his mentor
asleep in a chair in his usual position with the computer still on.
“No I think it would be best if you sleep on the bed.”

L put his thumb in it's common place; his mouth. “Well if you
insist...”

The teen pulled the spare blankets from the drawers and set up the
couch; he sighed and curled himself around the sheets. “Goodnight
Lawliet; there is a spare tooth brush in the bathroom and my laptop
is on the table next to the window.”

He didn't hear anything for a while; bored, he peeked up and stared
as Ryuuzaki started to type on his laptop.

'Wait is he playing....a puzzle game online?' Near watched as L lined
little blobs in columns. Shaking his head at the eccentric man, he
laid down and tried to control his nerves as well as his hormones.

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Can anyone guess what game L is playing?

Sorry
it took a while; next two chapters are lemony and that should be it,
so I can work on other stuff I NEVER
finished ^_^

Random note: Kira case was hard to pinpoint; I know L died around
2004, but I couldn't determine how many years he was actually
INVOLVED with it and not just under cover....or did that count as
well? Since Raito had the death note in 2002, I just...rounded and
said L did the investigation for two years before his demise @_@ so
confusing!

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