Since when do we play by the rules, anyway?

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• Earth by ColdHandsandCandleWax

  Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)  

  • Explicit
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  21 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • L/Yagami Light
  • L (Death Note)
  • Yagami Light
  • Yagami Souichirou
  • Matsuda Touta
  • Aizawa Shuuichi
  • Amane Misa
  • Watari | Quillsh Wammy
  • Ryuk (Death Note)
  • L Wins (Death Note)
  • What-If
  • Eventual Smut
  • Yagami Light is Kira
  • Shinigami Yagami Light
  • mutual distrust
  • made up death note lore
  • Yotsuba Arc (Death Note)
  • Yagami Light is Bad at Feelings
  • so is L
  • solving cases together
  • Mentions of Suicide
  • and other deaths this is death note
  • no beta we die like light
  • desperate and hallucinating
  • English Is Not the Author's First Language

  Summary

  When Light first touched the Death Note, that night in the helicopter, something in him changed, L is sure of it. He doesn’t let the same happen to Misa - and this time he lives to see Kira caught.

  Years Later - L is depressed, he hasn’t felt alive since the Kira case ended.
  And then there’s the silent Shinigami that stalks his every move.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Since when do we play by the rules, anyway?

  Language:

  English

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