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The Only Thing I'm Sure Of by UntamedValleyOfThePatriarch
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
10 Oct 2025
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Matsuda isn’t sure of a lot of things, and while he isn’t proud of that, he isn’t afraid to admit it either, like some of his colleagues are.
But he’s recently become sure of one thing.
Light had loved L.
He still loved L.Matsuda has always watched Light, and recently, he's found himself watching him more. He's noticed things about him, and one night, finds himself following Light to see what is is he's been doing.
He finds out.
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Light Yagami is tired. He tires of playing games, of chasing thrill the way he did in his youth. Now that he feels victory is closer than ever, he is impatient with running in circles– he finds himself seeking comfort in simplicity, in predictability that doesn't try to strike him at every given moment.
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In a world where omegas are rare, refined, and revered, Light Yagami is the ideal: flawless scent, perfect grades, beautiful enough to be envied- obedient enough to be praised.
But Light doesn’t want praise. He wants control.
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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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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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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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Alternate Ending: Light is victorious at the warehouse by xDreamers
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note
04 Aug 2025
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This is for those who were rooting for Light Yagami. This story will continue from the warehouse, where Light was supposed to have his perfect victory. Well, it wasn’t so perfect, but it was still a victory. Mikami did not come unprepared. No there is no institution left to oppose him-no detectives, no police.
Watch Light create and live in his perfect world. He will continue working as L solving high profile cases. I want to write a fic exploring Light's psyche; in relationships, how he responds to unhinged behaviour, drug addicts, refining who deserves to die in his utopia, etc. Also, the public can organise in unpredictable ways and Light isn't versed in the underground. How will he deal with removing *all* the rotten apples?
This is NOT MisaXLight. He will only act as her boyfriend for the time being but not indefinitely. There will be other romance subplots
Updates at least once a week :)
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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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justice befallen by s34g14ss (0zymandiass)
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note: The Musical - Wildhorn/Murphy
23 Jul 2025
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”If memories and imagery of something unholy persist in your mind, pray. It’s all you can do.”
It is common word that L was blessed by Him himself and as such it is even more common of a practice to use his holy body for your protection.
Or: L is the church’s most dutiful priest, sacrificing his very blood for the faithful, and Kira is the sinner most infatuated with him, attending mass under the disguise of Light Yagami.
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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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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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Complicated questions, Simple answers by messenger_of_stupidity
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
11 Jul 2025
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You were just a second year at To-Oh, simply trying to get your degree. You didn't ask for Kira to start killing, nor for all your classes to start talking about him.
At least now everyone is talking about is the two genius freshmen that are taking the university by storm instead of a mass murderer. Maybe you can finally escape Kira and focus on your studies."I need your observational skills."
Or not...
AKA
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Gods and Monsters Playing Chess with Human Hearts by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
15 Jun 2025
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And L—L was tired.
Not physically. But in the way that gods get tired after they realize mortals aren’t clay statues waiting to be judged, but hungry wolves with smiles like Light Yagami.
“Because I needed to know,” L said softly. “Whether it was only theory. Or if I’d already begun to want you more than I wanted the truth.”
He reached for a chocolate bar from the nightstand drawer. Bit into it like it owed him an answer.
“And?” Light asked.
L looked up.
And smiled.
“I don’t like the answer.”
Or L fell in love with the god he was supposed to unmake.
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- Part 10 of Checkmate
- Part 4 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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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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Light was sent back in time to the moment of his birth. Living life again gave him plenty of years to plan for when he had the Death Note again. Plans that were heavily influenced by Light realising that the feelings he had for L wasn't only always hate.
Light always went after what he wanted. So did Kira.
(I do not own any of the characters or the Manga or Anime)
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Light Yagami is a rising detective with conviction and ambition, but in a world where the law isn’t always enough to deliver justice, he operates outside the rules. When he receives a cryptic note from the enigmatic L, his curiosity leads to a meeting that sets off a series of events, pulling them both into a shifting web of corruption. Forced into a reluctant partnership, they begin unraveling a dangerous conspiracy with dire consequences for the justice system.
In this alternate universe where death notes don’t exist, Light has found other ways to assert control. L, drawn to Light’s intelligence and determination, has his own reasons for becoming involved. What begins as a reluctant alliance soon turns into something more complex. As they work together, the lines between right and wrong blur in unexpected ways.
Can Light outsmart L and maintain control, or will he become trapped in a web far more intricate than he anticipated? As their partnership deepens, trust grows, and their connection evolves, neither could foresee how their feelings would shift the balance in ways they can’t control. In a world where justice is elusive, their bond will be tested in ways neither predicted.
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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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idk, Light stops you from killing yourself. also this takes place before light found the death note, i might make him find it later on in the story.