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Love is Just Another Kind of Linkage by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
08 Jun 2025
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“…Did you mean it?” Light asks.
L doesn’t look over. “Mean what?”
“When you said you wanted me.”
L is quiet for a while. “I don’t know. Want is a slippery word. Sometimes I want you the way a drowning man wants air. Sometimes I want you the way fire wants oxygen—just to burn brighter.”
Light’s breath catches.
“And sometimes,” L says, blinking slowly, “I think I just want to understand what it means to feel, and you’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems real enough to make me feel anything at all.”
“Oh,” Light says faintly. “That’s—awful.”
“Yes,” L says, expression unreadable. “It’s very inconvenient.”
Or, the space between "I think you're Kira" and "I think I love you" is exactly the length of a chain.
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- Part 9 of Checkmate
- Part 3 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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(ORIGINAL CHARACTERS INVOLVED!)
In a alternative world where Light or anyone isn’t Kira, It instead seems that a successor of L and a dear friend and idol was Kira.
Airi had gotten caught and now she has to deal with the repercussions and backlash of it all.
She wonders if she can ever atone for those sins.
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Spitting Image, Grace Looks Good On You by Lunartic_s
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note (Live Action TV)
05 May 2025
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Humans move in packs. They are social creatures, with the exception of the few loners who roam the world with no ties. No home to return to, no one to call family, no sense of belonging, but that’s the way L likes it. There were people he considered allies, but L soon discovered that no matter what happened, the only person he could ever truly trust was himself. Even one so uniquely devoted to him, and only him, could not fulfil the needs of the world’s greatest detective.
The first time Kira killed, something fell just shy of him. A bitterly familiar sensation; far enough from him that he couldn’t reach it, but close enough that if he shifted just the right way, his fingers would brush its rough exterior.
Light Yagami is certainly something, alright.
// L and Light, victims of circumstance, fall for one another. Unsatisfied, the chill of winter seeps between them.
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In the Garden of God, Handcuffed to a Corpse by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
20 Apr 2025
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It was terrifying, how easy it was to slip into it. How their bodies remembered the war and danced through it like a language. Light gripped L’s shirt like it was evidence. L bit Light’s lip like it was a thesis. Somewhere in the chaos, Light was laughing into the kiss—laughing through it—and L whispered, “See? You’re beautiful when you lose.”
“Fuck you.”
“You’re trying.”
“I hate you—”
“I believe you.”
“Then why—why do you—” Light’s voice cracked. “Why do you keep pushing me like this?”
L’s reply was too soft. Too cruel. Too kind.
“Because you’re only honest when you’re falling apart.”
Or, the exquisite agony of being seen.
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- Part 6 of Checkmate
- Part 1 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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The vanishing light of the world by philip_freaky_hamilton
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
22 Feb 2025
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More tears welled up, almost choking on a sob. Someone had actually found them. They didn’t have to be here.. All alone. Didn’t have to bare these torturing last moments alone.
A figure appeared in their sight, black unkempt hair covered with snow, wide dark eyes boring into theirs.
They recognized who it was.. They could never forget who it was. Their lips parted, and they finally spoke.
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OR: Author decides to write an angst-filled fic in a dark snowy night with our two popular characters L and Light.
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18-year-old Light Yagami comes into possession of the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill anyone who's name is written in it. Driven by his sense of justice, he becomes Kira, the god of the new world.
With criminals dying en masse, the NPA calls in the world-famous detective L to help stop a mysterious serial killer known as Kira. But, there's just one little snag. L already knows who Kira is- himself. However, when L realizes there may be another Death Note out there somewhere, and that someone else is pulling the strings, he accepts the case, hoping to stop the other Kira and hide his little secret.
But when he finally comes into contact with the other Kira, he suddenly has to choose between leaving him for dead or teaming up with him to remake the world.
Why, oh why, does that boy with the beautiful hazel eyes make his heart melt?
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Light gets the Death Note a little later, L was Kira first, and Rem... Rem needs a therapist.Series
- Part 1 of Kira: Change The World
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In Love with a Familiar Face, That Could Just Kill You by my_weird_fandom
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
19 Jan 2025
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A seven-year-old Light Yagami has been chosen to be a part of the Wammy's successor program due to his unique intelligence and is raised alongside a strange boy that he begins to form a soft spot for. But what happens when Light decides he needs to leave this program to see his family ten years later, when he finds out just how corrupt Wammy's house is? And what will happen when he gets ahold of a mysterious black notebook in his home country?
Or- Light is a Wammy's kid, and for ten years has to be roommates with the mysterious L, that he may or may not be in love with...
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now they whisper it by mikeytheghost
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
09 Jan 2025
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On the worst day of his life, Light Yagami’s sister’s name is called in the reaping. Without thinking, he volunteers for her, and is thrown into the world of the Capitol in preparation for the Hunger Games. His district partner L is strange, and it’s safe to say they don’t get along.
But in the arena, they will be each other’s best chance at victory.
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- Part 2 of yellow flicker beat
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monsters who suck blood (and monsters who always tell lies) by fleshlyte
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
04 Dec 2024
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Seeing Light bent over a body, scooping ludicrous amounts of blood into his mouth and missing almost entirely sent L reeling. His first thought was that he was right; Light Yagami was clearly a vampire.
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L probably shouldn't keep staying up everynight. Being sleep deprived is gonna cause him some serious (unserious) trouble.
OR: L falls asleep for a micro second and loses his IQ
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L, usually reasonable and sharp, takes a stupid risk on a rainy day, and ends up soaked and sick. Light, who is chained to L, has nothing better to do with his weekend than to nurse L back to health, and nurse the budding feelings between the two of them, helping something other than suspicion and hatred bloom between them.
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When I Told You To Take Me To Bed by ImaginaryMiseries
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
25 Oct 2024
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“Get off the floor, L,” Watari commands. “Get off the floor and get back to your room. You will work on this case.”
“No,” L says again. He pulls his knees to his chest and hugs them dearly.
“You will get back on your computer and you will work, if it is the last thing I make you do,” Watari snarls. He bangs his fist down on his desk. Papers flinch. So does L. “This will not be difficult, L, you are making more problems for yourself by refusing.”
“Too bad,” L drops his cheek to his patellas. He stares at the junction of the wooden floor and the old beige plaster wall. “I do not care.”
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L doesn't feel well. Watari pushes him to work anyway.
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As Light jumped in to catch L before he fell, L allowed himself to be selfish. He gripped onto Light's shoulder as much as he could and looked into his eyes. For the last time, he gazed into the eyes of a killer. Even now, he couldn't truly understand him.
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L's feelings about his death and Light
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When the Smoke Clears, You Still Own My Heart by 247FandomBrain
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note & Related Fandoms
06 Apr 2023
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Yagami Light was sure he'd won. L, his worst enemy and greatest competition, was dead. Light was leading the investigation into his own capture. The world was bowing before Kira. Everything was going perfectly.
Except for one thing.
Yagami Light is in love with L Lawliet.
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Updates every Sunday and Wednesday!
(I'm not super familiar with Japanese culture, so please correct me if I get something wrong!) -
The Shadows Have Teeth by 247FandomBrain
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note & Related Fandoms
27 Dec 2022
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Even without his memories, Light is plagued by nightmares of the Death Note. And, when chained to L 24/7, it's a bit hard to hide those memories. Luckily, L knows what it's like to not have control of your dreams.
TW: Discussions and references to suicide.