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Aloof and introverted (and slightly pessimistic) Police Investigator Rinne Uehara navigated through her life mostly by winging it and grabbing any interesting opportunity that presented itself to her. Her best friend considers it good luck. Was it actually good luck when L decided to work with them to apprehend Kira, or is her fate bound for a certain downward spiral?
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God Is a Concept Invented by Lonely Boys by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
31 Aug 2025
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The chain between them shuddered.
They were bound together by more than cuffs and secrets. They were tethered by ego, intellect, obsession, and something that might—might—have been love, if either of them had ever been taught how to name it without drawing blood.
They were tethered by the tragedy of being the only two people alive who could meet the other on the battlefield of belief and not flinch.
They were gods, both of them. Incompatible, inevitable, insufferable.
And so very lonely.
Or, how they played god and fell like men.
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- Part 19 of Checkmate
- Part 13 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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The Altar Remembers What the Witnesses Forgot by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
24 Aug 2025
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Light stares at the ceiling and contemplates godhood. Again.
Because that’s what this is, isn’t it?
Not love. Not lust. Not whatever hideous tragicomic comedy of errors last night was.
It’s worship.
And L—L is a demon kneeling at the wrong altar, daring the god of death to smite him. And Light, well—
He is the altar.
The fire.
The knife.
He is the god.
And gods are not merciful, but they are very good at pretending.
Or, the god kissed the heretic, and called it penance.
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- Part 18 of Checkmate
- Part 12 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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With Misa and Light now imprisoned and monitored for the foreseeable future, L is ready to work on another case on the side. But because L is busy with the Kira case, in the world's eyes, he investigates this new killer as Eraldo Coil. The world dubbed this new killer 'The Jigsaw Killer', and L can't say he isn't at least a little intrigued.
However, things do not go according to plan at all..
Inspired by xx-r0t-dot-com-xx 's Saw AU on Tumblr! Please go check them out, their art is amazing!!
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L Lawliet x Reader: The billionaire and the Prostitute by Merula_Magpie
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note (Movies), Death Note: Another Note
19 Aug 2025
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You're a prostitute, paid incredible sums by a small handful of rich clients. L is...L. Busy. Rich. In need of your services. And for 10,000,000¥ a session, you're happy to oblige him. But...what if things get messier? What if love enters the scene?
(inspired by the opening ficlet)
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Entropy Looks Like a Kiss Between Gods by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
17 Aug 2025
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He takes L’s hand again.
Presses his lips to the wrist, the palm, the tips of his fingers like he’s cataloging something fragile. Like he’s making a study out of tenderness.
“Do you think you could love me if I wasn’t good?” Light asks.
L looks down at him with eyes like locked doors.
“I think I already do,” he says.
Light bites his lip. It almost bleeds.
He kisses L’s hand again, feverish.
And then, softly:
“I think I want you to catch me.”
L’s hand tightens around his.
“I think I already have.”
Or, no one tells you how intimacy ruins gods.
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- Part 17 of Checkmate
- Part 11 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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i don't believe in god (but i believe you're my saviour) by lawliest
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
13 Aug 2025
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Streams of glistening light filtered into the room, spilling golden rivers onto Light's silken skin. L almost worried about touching her, feared that she would taint her sacred temple with her sinner's hands, as though any grazing touch she left with her fingertips would further doom Light's soul to eternal damnation.
Light wasn't a goddess, but L wouldn't think twice about worshipping her.
or, L knows she's going to die soon, she hopes to make her last moments worthwhile.
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Light Yagami jamás estuvo interesado en las almas gemelas, nunca prestó atención al nombre marcado en su muñeca.
Para L su alma gemela fue su salvavidas... pero el sabía la verdad detrás de aquel nombre, su alma gemela le quitaría la vida.
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- Español
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- 2,277
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 12
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Kings and Queens on a Board Made of Broken Hearts by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
10 Aug 2025
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“You know,” L said, “Kant believed moral worth depended on acting out of duty rather than inclination.”
Light snorted. “That’s rich coming from the man who just sucked me off for science.”
L gave him a withering look. “And you, Light-kun, with your utopian fantasies of a perfect world built on sacrifice and control—you think that’s moral? You’re just dressing inclination up as destiny.”
“I am destiny,” Light whispered.
“No,” L said. “You’re just afraid.”
Light’s whole body went still.
L leaned in, slow, deliberate. Until their foreheads touched.
“You’re afraid,” he repeated. “That you’re not as divine as you pretend. That you’re not worthy of the crown you keep making out of corpses. That if someone loved you—truly loved you—they’d see the monster underneath and still say no.”
Light exhaled like it hurt. “And what about you?”
“I’m afraid I’ll see the monster and say yes.”
Or, a chess game is only romantic if no one wins.
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- Part 16 of Checkmate
- Part 10 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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L tangles their fingers together, slow and deliberate, like he’s testing a hypothesis about intimacy.
“I think,” he murmurs, “you’re afraid of being known.”
Light closes his eyes.
“I think you’re obsessed with the idea that someone might look at you and not flinch.”
L’s breath brushes his cheek.
“And you hate me because I did. And I stayed.”
Light opens his eyes. “That’s not true.”
“It is.”
“No. I hate you because you see everything—everything I am, everything I could be—and you still want me. That’s what makes you sick.”
L doesn’t flinch.
“Maybe,” he says, “I’m just the only one honest enough to admit what wanting you really means.”
Or, they were always going to ruin each other beautifully.
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- Part 15 of Checkmate
- Part 9 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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What Survives the War Between Mirrors by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
27 Jul 2025
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“You want to be good,” L says, voice low. “But only if it means being right.”
Light says nothing.
“You want to be loved,” L continues, “but only if it means being obeyed.”
Light grips the sink so tightly his knuckles go white.
“You want to be God,” L murmurs, stepping closer, “but only if no one knows you’re terrified of dying.”
Light turns.
His voice is cracked glass. “You don’t know me.”
L places a hand over Light’s chest. Right over his heart. Right over the evidence.
“I do,” he says.
Or, they both mistook hatred for something else entirely—and that was the problem.
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- Part 14 of Checkmate
- Part 8 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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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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Love Is a Death Sentence, Tenderly Served by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
20 Jul 2025
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“Do you regret it?” Light whispers.
L doesn’t answer immediately.
Then: “No.”
“Even if I’m Kira?”
“I think,” L says, voice steady, “that loving someone doesn’t mean forgiving them. It means knowing what they are, and staying anyway.”
“That’s dangerous.”
“That’s why it’s love.”
Light swallows. His mouth is dry.
“You’re insane.”
“Yes.”
“I think I’m starting to fall in love with you.”
L turns to face him.
“I think,” he says, “that’s why I’m afraid.”
Or, what happens when gods fall in love with their own executioners.
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- Part 13 of Checkmate
- Part 7 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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Y/n finds out they will get to spend more time with L on the Kira case.
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- Part 1 of L Lawliet/Reader oneshots
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Light and his most trusted angels have been hunting a demon for months. However, there was something Light didn’t know about the demon he’s been hunting…
Written for Lawlight Week 2025 Day 4: God/Devil
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Two Monsters Learning to Bleed by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
13 Jul 2025
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“You think I’m Kira,” Light says, voice tight.
“I know you’re Kira,” L replies calmly. “I just haven’t proven it yet.”
“So why haven’t you turned me in?”
L’s voice is barely above a whisper. “Because that would mean losing you.”
Light freezes.
“...That’s not how this works,” he says, too quickly. “We’re not—this isn’t a relationship.”
“No,” L agrees. “It’s an investigation. Into intimacy. Complicity. Divinity. Madness.”
“You’re quoting Kierkegaard at me.”
“You’re quoting your bedroom eyes at me.”
Or, how justice handcuffed itself to a tragedy and called it intimacy.
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- Part 12 of Checkmate
- Part 6 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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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.
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Gift of Steiner by Mara_Rivernight
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note: Another Note, Death Note (Movies)
07 Jul 2025
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Even though I feel weak–even if he is unreachable–I still cannot resist trying. Reaching, drawing, hoping to be where he is. This place… beyond the edge of the void… cannot be touched by death, and yet, the light is becoming dimmer.
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He looked up as he saw her; reaching out to take his hand. He had stood in a ray of fading sunlight, falling into the abyss as she ran faster, only to see the surface expanding. This was it… this was how Kira successfully took a life. The next Kira was the abyss…She caught him over a cliff. He looked up, in total shock. She looked around in desperation. She needed to save him. Every time loop, every event of Steiner, every death… She can’t reverse it. The only thing she could do, she realized, was to swing him back up, at the expense of her own weight
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,810
- Chapters:
- 10/?
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The Shape of a God in a Mirror by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
06 Jul 2025
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L placed the cup on the table. “And what should I be looking for?”
Light smiled.
“A god.”
Ritsuko was upside down on the ceiling, idly braiding strands of stormlight into her hair. She didn't comment, but the air thickened like a closing book.
“You’re not a god,” L said.
“No,” Light agreed. “But I’m what happens when a man tries to become one. That’s the same thing, in the end.”
L’s fingers tapped the porcelain in rhythm. “And what am I, in this myth?”
Light stepped closer. Their faces were mirror-close. Twin blades.
“You’re the only thing that made me doubt.”
Or, the one where Light Yagami forgets how to lie and L forgets how to stop watching.
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- Part 11 of Checkmate
- Part 5 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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“Ryuzaki!” Light cried, cradling L’s body. He’d done it! He’d outsmarted the World’s Greatest Detective! Now he was free to create his new world, deemed fit for a God.
Then he heard something that made him blink in disbelief.
L, against all odds, was still breathing.
Or, an unexpected factor throws Light's plans into disarray, threatening everything he'd ever worked for.