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Light Yagami is a brilliant student with a future ahead of him—and a notebook he believes can kill.
There is no Death Note. No gods. No L.
Only the slipping grip of untreated illness, and a boy named Ryuzaki who sees the truth.
This fic is a quiet, alternate-universe retelling of Death Note, where there is no supernatural notebook—just a brilliant young man struggling with untreated mental illness, and another trying to understand him.
This fiction includes depictions of disordered eating behaviours as symptoms of untreated mental illness.Light’s experiences are rooted in symptoms of bipolar disorder with psychotic features. While this is a fictional portrayal, I tried to approach his journey with empathy and care. If you live with something similar, I hope this story respects that.
At its core, this is a story about losing control, reaching for structure, and finding grounding not in power, but in connection.
Feedback and thoughts are always welcome.
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she was a boy, he was a girl by nottodaylogic (mandaloreartist)
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
21 Jun 2025
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“You’re Yagami Light?”
Light froze for a moment, then crossed her arms. “Of course I am. Didn’t you read my book? That’s my picture right there.”
She’d been hoping for regretful stammering, but expecting a transphobic tirade she’d have to pretend to suffer through without actually paying attention. The last thing she’d have thought a possibility, though, was what occurred: they started grinning.
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- Part 1 of more than words can tell
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if I wanted bumper cars, I would've gone to the fun park by catboy_mettaton
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
17 Jun 2025
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Light is very good at backing out of parking spaces. It's not his fault that L decided to park so close.
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In which L Lawliet learns what love is three times over.
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Anak IPS itu bandel kalau kata orang, walaupun L bukan salah satu dari murid bandel yang dimaksud. Tapi, mungkin dia sebenarnya memang ‘bandel’ setelah manik cokelat anak IPS-3 balik menatap netra hitam kelamnya.
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Detective L comes to Tokyo to investigate a string of suicides.
Light Yagami disappointed his father around three years ago when he dropped out of University to pursue a new career path.
A month later, the magician Kira emerged and captivated the world, as well as one sweet-obsessed man's gaze.
Or,
L won't rest until he figures out this new case, how Kira defies death monthly, and the mystery behind Light Yagami.
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- Part 1 of My Fics!
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It's all Ryuk's fault.
Light's questionable taste in friends leads him into a mysterious place. He soon finds out that The Gilded Den is not your usual club.
Luckily, there's a certain someone willing to show him the ropes...
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Hideki Ryuga’s Serial Dating Experiments by SANSeraphim
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
05 Jun 2025
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Following your messy breakup with popular heartthrob Light Yagami, the last thing you want to do is involve yourself with someone else’s love life.
However, the reclusive and mysterious Hideki Ryuga approaches you with a favor to ask: help him snag a girlfriend. Despite your better judgement, you agree to give him advice. After all, the best way to feel better about yourself is helping someone else out. What could go wrong?
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In a world where people see in black and white until they touch their soulmate, chess is the most popular game.
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“Hey… how about we make a bet?”
Everyone leaned in.
“What kind of bet?” Misa asked, intrigued.
“We all put in money,” Matsuda said, grinning. “Whoever figures out L’s surname first, and gets him to prove it, wins the whole pot.”
Sayu immediately dropped 1,000 yen on the table. Misa gasped, then giggled, slamming down 3,000 on top of it. Matsuda added 500 yen. Light placed a modest 20 yen.
“Hey!” Sayu and Misa chorused. “You can’t put in that little!”
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L transfers to To-Oh from the UK, Misa and their group of friends befriend L and become very close in a few weeks. One day they realize they know little to nothing about L, family background, hobbies, nothing! So they make a bet to find out his surname.
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Light hits L with his car and it’s NOT his fault.
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𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 ?
2005. The world is shifting.
The internet is becoming a sanctuary for lost souls. First-generation iPods loop albums from The Used, My Chemical Romance, Evanescence, and AFI. Music forums and blogs on Skyrock and LiveJournal serve as outlets for the darkest thoughts.
Light, 20 years old, is the charismatic frontman of a gothic rock band. He juggles his life as a student with performing in underground clubs, where he spits poetic lyrics into the mic. He looks untouchable—cold, confident—but beneath his piercing gaze, he hides a loneliness he refuses to acknowledge.
Ryuzaki, 23, is a socially detached genius who spends his nights on MSN chats, hacker forums, and in dimly lit libraries, filling notebooks with philosophical musings. He has an obsession with analyzing people, and Light is a mystery he desperately wants to unravel.
A message left on Skyblog.
And so begins a haunting exchange...
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the gods of death that live in the castle by kissthenova
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note (Movies), Death Note (Live Action TV)
31 May 2025
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Sayu Yagami was eighteen years old. Every week she went out and did the errands, despite the stares, the whispers, the laughs, and the jeers. She hated them all, but she had to be brave.
Only she could do this. Her brother could not. And her parents were dead. There was no room for anyone else.
Yet a certain someone stopped by anyway.
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L feels neutral about the act of being alive. He enjoys solving mysteries, but his job is simply a way to keep his mind occupied—more of a need than a passion. His life is a monochrome canvas, save for a single burst of color: Misa Amane. Misa Misa is L’s beloved bias from the J-pop girl group LOVE♪NOTE.
He has posters of Misa Misa all over his walls. He has no mirrors.
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Light and L getting together while solving the Kira case. Honestly, not really focused on the case, a lot of fluff and getting together. Some mentions of violence and death, but not the focus.
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On The Edge by DeadScorpio
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
20 May 2025
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Light Yagami started off as an employee of the Arasaka corporation, until a certain task was about to change his life for good.
Or for worse.Becoming one of the most powerful netrunners in the whole Night City comes with a cost.
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tell me, light. has there ever been a time when you’ve actually told the truth?
Light Yagami is 20 years old. There was no notebook. He stopped being angry. He is pursuing his detective career, like he had always planned on doing.
He is still trying to be good.
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excerpt from Chapter 5; ARMS LENGTH:L keeps staring at him.
Which… is fine.Light Yagami is: walking superstar enigma detective L, and who must be Watari unmasked, to one of the places he’s assigned to check in regularly; and L is in Japan, and to be fair based on everything Light has seen of him (5 seconds on the train when he was stepping off—Are you being serious right now, Light?, and Ukita and Ide will laugh and no he’s not being serious, he’s not being anything and what the hell is he doing?) it makes sense that he would pick Japan as a vacation place because if you’re rich Japan is the nicest place on earth which Light Yagami can attest to because his family is fairly okay-off and he can only imagine L is—
L is so, so—
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- Part 8 of THE PROPHET
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Light, an eighteen year old high schooler with undiagnosed OCD and his whole life ahead of him, doesn't know of a reality in which he doesn't suffer. He only knows all the ways this one might kill him in varyingly gruesome scenarios. He sooths the cracks in his hands with aloe vera moisturizer and the cracks in his mind with constant meaningless distractions, a host of worthless rituals. He would wear disposable gloves, but he doesn't want to look like a freak.
A bored and disturbed detective finds this interesting enough to steal Light from his life, and show him what real fear feels like.
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- Part 3 of she deserves a perfect life.
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King Thrushbeard by Rainbow_fairytale
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note (Live Action TV), Death Note: Another Note
09 May 2025
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Yagami Light had a wonderful life ahead of himself, until a simple mistake caused him to be married to a foreign commoner. But Ryuzaki wasn’t exactly honest about himself…
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Doctor!L Lawliet x Reader: Checkup by Merula_Magpie
Fandoms: Death Note: Another Note, Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note (Movies), Death Note (Live Action TV), Death Note: The Musical - Wildhorn/Murphy
08 May 2025
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Reader gets a checkup at her local clinic