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It’s been nearly 3 months since L caught Light and the Kira investigation was closed. During that time, Matsuda’s life had been on pause. Stuck waiting on the police force to give him his job back, he’s been rotting away at headquarters.
Until today. L needs his help with investigating a new serial killer in Tokyo.Rating change applies to the final chapter. Check the author's notes on that chapter if you want to skip the rated scene.
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Growing up alongside L hasn't been easy. But working with him is proving to be more difficult now than ever. She hates him, and he tried to be friends once again. Why is he all of a sudden trying to fix things? Why can't she forgive him? What did he do that was so bad she cannot stand him?
Detective Z is an expert on working on cases involving children and teens. Because of it, L asks for help managing a particular child that has amazing abilities. Will she forgive him for what happened? Will he realize what he did was wrong? -
draft that i dont know what to do with by rileyrealyes
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
11 Nov 2025
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uhh my first time writing a fanfiction its probably buns and i cant bring myself to finish it so im just gonna post it :P
you should give me some feedback though :DDDLight isn't entirely Kira and Kira isn't entirely Light whatever that means, like DID or something of the sort do you understand? say yes
Also L and Soichiro are alive because i missed them
and Mello and Near helped because they're great but they aren't in the midst of whatevers going on dont get excitedthis is really just food for thought if you're like me and enjoy staring at the wall imagining fanfics (or different endings to existing fics) instead of writing them because im bad with words and also im too lazy to draw comics. QUITE the conundrum here
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Y/N doesn’t believe in love anymore.
Not since her parents died, not since she took over their bakery, and definitely not since she started selling takoyaki to middle schoolers for 10 yen out of sheer emotional exhaustion.She’s sarcastic, sleep-deprived, and barely holding it together behind the register of Oishi Bakery, a tiny shop that smells like sugar, grief, and trauma-coping. But when a weird man with dark circles and worse posture starts showing up every day to buy strawberry shortcake—and gets himself banned for crimes against fruit—things begin to spiral.
That man is L.
Yes, that L.And somehow, even as he obsessively watches her through traffic cameras and sends his associates in to retrieve cake intel, he finds himself captivated—not just by the pastries, but by the woman throwing forks at him.
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Confinement by Rainbow_fairytale
Fandoms: Death Note (Live Action TV), Death Note (Anime & Manga)
31 Oct 2025
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Mikami never realized exactly how lonely his life was until he was put in solitary confinement. Luckily for him, the rest of his life won’t be spent alone…
Written for Day 29 of Deathnotetober 2025: Confinement
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- Part 2 of Deathnoteober 2025
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- 1/1
- Kudos:
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“Light Yagami. You stand convicted of Vigilantism, Terrorism, Brainwashing, Blackmail, and Mass Murder committed under the pseudonym ‘Kira’.”
One boy stood in front of the representatives of the entire world, each staring at him with boiling hatred. Kira would not die today. He will survive.
It was still enough to make a god feel small.
“However, the council has concluded that there is reasonable doubt about the supernatural influence on your mind and how much it contributed to your crimes. Therefore, you will be sentenced to a six-month rehabilitation program set and monitored by L. If he reports significant improvement by the end of your time then you will be acquitted under heavy supervision. If not, you will be executed.”
“You have one chance.”
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It had been two years since the end of the Kira case, plus another year it took Quillsh Wammy to find a suitable individual with promising qualities that could maybe one day take over the role he had in L’s life as Watari, which was to say, someone who would be a caretaker, a protector, a right hand, a human connection that grounded the detective, but more importantly a person that had no attachments in this world that could get between them and their duty to L.
Someone whose loyalty to the greatest detective in the world would be absolute.
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Taking place after the original story, where L survives.
A woman meant to one day take on Watari's role comes into the picture. The type of woman that, according to most writers and poets, can make or break men. She affects the detective in unprecedented ways.
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Ему снова снятся теннисные мячики.
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Please, Please, Let Me, Get What I Want| L x reader by cryinginacorner_00
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
18 Oct 2025
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Being a parent is an entirely selfish thing in itself. But to leave your child ontop of that, to make them responsible for your mistakes is unacceptable. That’s a question Y/N asked herself when her mother decided to leave her. Adolescence isn’t that great as is but don’t you just love having to take care of two whole other humans everyday of your life because you’re parents just decided that another nuisance needed to added to the world?
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This is actually the first fanfic I’ve ever wrote, I just posted Apple Cider on here to show that I can have variance in my writing. Anyways hope you enjoy. (VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Graphic depiction of death and suicide. Please do not read if that triggers you. Bonus disclaimer! I wrote this in like May this year and I haven’t finished it yet so please bully me into finishing it.) -
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L knows that Light Yagami is guilty. And he is forced to accept that he will never be able to prove it.
So, just this once, he decides to break his principles and go above the law. He kidnaps Light and takes him to Wammy's house.
He's sure that having the kids interact with a real-life mass murderer will be a very educational experience indeed.
Or: Light is Kira, L is sick of how easily manipulated the police are, and he secretly wants to see what will happen if he forces Light into a domestic situation with children just as intelligent as he is.
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A Death Note AU (after Kira).
It's been three years since Light Yagami's death. Finally putting an end to Kira, the Death Notes, all associated cults, and after insuring there were no more rogue Shinigami playing havoc with humanity, L and his people could finally come out of hiding.
Many people —important people— died but not the ones you would think. Most notably L Lawliet, Watari and even Mello were still alive and well.
L was still L, comfortably pulling the strings from behind Near and all of his well laid plans —though not going completely without a hitch— ended with the desired results, and there was nothing left for L to do but continue his career as though nothing had changed.
That is until Watari's health had started a steady decline, forcing him to hire a "companion" for his beloved adopted son. The boy was spoiled, and despite being a genius, could barely take care of himself. He was basically a huge man child and if left to his own devices, would eat nothing but sweets and probably stop brushing his teeth if not constantly given a reminder to do so.
That's where you come in, and you often wondered if Batman needed a Nanny whenever Alfred got sick, or if it was just L.
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November 8th 1997 - Part III - Moonlight Sonata by NicoRobs
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
22 Sep 2025
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K and L have just met, but they must part ways once more, trapped into the roles they have chosen for themselves. Light and Misa also play their part, so well they often can't remember where the mask ends and their true essence begins. Is there still something there, buried under all those layers of lies and false smiles?
While the Kira investigation slowly proceeds, in the US the Wammy's Homies are ready to overthrow the whole world. They are stronger when they are together, and help will come from the most unexpected of them all."Sometimes family is not the one whose blood runs through your veins. Sometimes the blood is the one you are all soaked in."
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- Part 3 of November 8th, 1997 (English)
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Misa finds out all about Light's death as he leaves her one final job...
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L laughs. “I love Light and his ass very much. I love you very much.”
Light swallows. “You’re disgusting.” Light spits. “You stole me away from the fucking world to be your little fucktoy and you say you love me. You’re fucking disgusting.”
L tilts his head. “And?”
“And…” Light’s throat tightens. Fuck. He’s going to say it, isn’t he? “I love you and your dick.”
OR (prompt):
light cockwarms L
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- Part 2 of prompt fills
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 — Paradise Lost, John Milton
Ten years have passed since Kira's reign of terror first shook the international community, his brutal ideology leaving an indelible scar on the world. It’s been three years since the Kira case was officially closed. Three years since Yagami Light’s trial at the International Criminal Court for his crimes against humanity, since his startling suicide at the stand in a final act of defiance. Three years since Detective L retired from the public eye.
Now, a series of crimes across the United States and Europe – targeting government officials, politicians, and corporate elites – has left law enforcement reeling. The world turns its gaze to L, hoping the detective might emerge to face this new threat.
Perhaps it’s time to come out of retirement.
Or: World leaders demand L take a new case. Lacking inspiration, he turns to a – very much alive – Light, whose been imprisoned at a high-security facility on L’s orders for the past three years.
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There are roads that can't be crossed.
Certain that Light Yagami is up to something, L decides to make Watari run over the prime suspects.
This fanfiction is heavily inspired by an idea suggested by the redditor Beneficial_Wave7649, who's allowed me to use said idea, in a comment thread:
"Now I'm imagining L ordering Watari to run over Light with his limo. Just to see of the killings stop."
"Imagine L in the backseat with sweets and telling Watari to run him over."
"[...] but not accidental. I'd be way funnier if he did it on purpose and disguised it as such." -
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(A Death Note AU where (Moon) later Light, grew up alongside L, Mello, Matt and Near in Wammy's House. In this story, the pressure to match or succeed L becomes too much on Moon (Light) which later spurs him to become Kira, to prove to Wammy's house and the world that he can persecute criminals better than L, the world's greatest detective, ever could.)
Moon was orphaned at a young age with not much known about his birth parents. Brought into Wammy's House thanks to his exceptionally high intellect, Moon finds himself among like minded children all set on one goal, reach L's intellectual prowess. Some children had given up this chase while a select few hadn't. As Moon meets Mihael, Mail, and Nate he soon realizes how futile this race is, the only way too truly win? Best L. No matter what he was going to find a way to win. To prove that he too could be great. No matter what.
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Freedom’s Chain by Rainbow_fairytale
Fandoms: Death Note (Live Action TV), Death Note (Anime & Manga)
17 Jul 2025
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He would never get to go to the mall again. He wouldn't be able to cook Sayu her dinner again or make sure her laundry was done. He wouldn't clock in for another shift at Yonosuke. He would never go to another concert with his friends. Light would never be able to sleep in just his soft flannel shirt and briefs again. His life was over, and he still had so much he wanted to do.
In which L catches Light, ending their game.
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if that was me, then who am i? by nottodaylogic (mandaloreartist)
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
15 Jul 2025
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Could Kurabe Tsuki even be arrested for being Kira? As far as anyone knew, Tsuki was an ordinary college girl with near-perfect grades and a date on Sunday.
But L would know. He’d figure it out.
[for day 2: amnesia/recollection]
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- Part 2 of lawlight week 2025
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It wasn’t rare for him to regret the path he chose for his investigations, at least emotionally. Rationally, he knew he only did what he had to – which had helped him keep any possible breakdowns at bay. This time however, even her words couldn’t stop him, even knowingly choosing the way they’d gone, and dying in the process of it.
He was a fool to believe he could’ve changed the outcome.