~Near's POV~

I sighed and stared down at my shoes. There was no turning back now, and the two other people in the room with me knew that. "Okay, boys, here's our plan," Gevanni said, and I held my breath. "I'm gonna dump the... fluid... down somewhere else in England. I'll add other DNA to it so that we don't get traced."

Lawliet looked as sick as I felt. His face was pale and he was sweating profusely. "And... what about us?" He managed, and I stretched my arms above my head.

"We're gonna stay here, I'll tell Roger, and we're going to live life as usual. Hikaru got exactly what he deserved." I said, "Besides, Gevanni was in the SPK and I'm L's successor. I can pull strings if I have to."

"Is Roger gonna be okay with this? I mean, it's not just a fight. We killed him."

"I killed him," I corrected, "And Roger's going to be fine. We're family, remember?"

"What's gonna happen if we are found out?"

"Like Near said," Gevanni piped in, "He's L's successor, and I'm ex-SPK. Hell, you're mafia blood, too. We're untouchable, kid."

Nice save, babe.

"Now, tomorrow, we move. I've gone ahead and dissolved the remains, so all I have left to do is dilute the acid and dump it while Near tells Roger."

"O-okay," Lawliet agreed.

"I promised your mother that I'd protect you, okay? I'm not going back on that, so don't worry. Everything's gonna be okay." I assured, hugging him.

Right? Everything's gonna be okay...

Gevanni shot me a worried look and I could feel my eyes sting, but I fought the tears, because I had to be strong. For Gevanni, for Lawliet, for myself.

Everything's gonna be okay...

~{Y/N}'s POV~

"{Y/N}," B said after a while, "If A's on his way, we need to move fast."

I looked at his face, which looked as petrified as possible, and sighed, "B, we can't go anywhere. We don't have a Shinigami."

"No,{Y/N}, you don't understand. He's going to kill us."

"We're already dead," I stressed.

"{Y/N}, we can still disappear." He exclaimed, "We can still die, again! Shinigami can die, and turn to dust. So can we!"

I looked at him in surprise, "What..?"

"I never told you because I thought we'd be safe. But... we can disappear. Right now, we're somewhat similar to the Shinigami. We're like ghosts, like souls. But just like them, we can die, too. This time... forever."

Mello and Matt, who were silent until now, chirped in. "What?!"

"Shinigami die when they save someone they love from being killed. But we're different. It's the same as on Earth. Anything goes."

"But... we can't get sick up here. We're like immortals up here!" Mello protested.

"It's similar to vampires. We can't really die form old age or sicknesses. We don't grow. But getting stabbed, for example, can turn us to dust."

"Jesus Chirst," Matt groaned, "What is this bullshit universe we live in? Who the fuck came up with this concept? It's like a fanfiction at this point!"

"Matt, this is serious!" I scolded, "If L and Light don't come back soon with Ryuk, and A gets here first, we're screwed!"

"We can fight him off," Mello suggested.

"A psychopath yandere with a huge bloodlust? No, thank you, Mello."

"You can leave me here," B tried, "I'll be okay. Save yourselves."

"No." I immediately said.

"We can't leave you behind, dumbass." Mello sighed.

"I'd rather A just get me than get all four of us. Besides, {Y/N}, you have to see Lawliet, right? If you run now and find L, you'll definitely be able to."

"Have some faith, B," Matt said, to everyone's surprise. "I know you're a pessimist, but I know L can pull this off. We're not going to leave you alone."

"Matt's right, and you're part of our family now, whether you want to be or not." Mello said, and I nodded in agreement.

B's red eyes lit up like the sun and I knew exactly what those words meant to him. Safety, willpower, and most of all... acceptance.

"So? What do we do now?" He asked.

"What we do best, B, and that's improvise and plan ahead."

"So basically, we wait?"

"Yep," I chuckled, "That's all we can do. Wait."

~Light's POV~

"So, crazy boy," I taunted, "What's your tragic backstory, huh?"

"Light Yagami," he sighed, "...Or should I say Kira?"

"...You know who I am?"

"Know you?" He laughed, "I've been watching you from the very beginning! From when the notebook fell outside your classroom window to when you died on the staircase... I've been watching you."

Stalker alert.

"I must say, kid, you're smart. To outsmart L... you ain't stupid, that's for sure."

"Thanks," I said, "Although I don't usually take compliments from psychopaths."

"You're one to talk, you know. You got so caught up in power that you completely forgot about the game you were playing."

...How much does this guy know?

"I didn't forget. I just miscalculated." I grunted.

"Misa was a miscalculation?"

"...shut up..."

"Takada was a miscalculation?"

"Shut up!"

"Oh, my... was L a miscalculation??"

"I SAID, SHUT UP!" I screamed, rushing towards A and tacking him, pinning him to the floor.

"Huh," he mused, "You're quick to lose your temper... or did I hit a sore spot?"

"You have a big mouth, you know that?"

"I wonder how your little boyfriend would react if I told him you were fucking the shit out of Misa and Takada while he suffered the pain of being killed by the person he loved most."

I pulled back and let a punch go on A's nose, trying my utmost best to stall for time and keep calm. "Keep talking, bastard, there's more where that came from."

"He didn't look down at you for months. And by then, Near was busy getting you tied up in his trap. And Misa Amane was already holding the baby."

Baby?

No... that's not...

That's impossible.

A studied my face for a moment before laughing wildly. "You didn't know? I guess not, you were dead before she could tell you."

"No," I whispered, "It's just not possible. She was on birth control. I never fucked her without..."

"Without a condom? She lied. She wasn't on the pill. And she poked holes in the condoms. She wanted that baby more than anything, even if she had to lie to get it."

"You're lying," I mumbled.

"She named him Hikaru Yagami. Women are scary, aren't they? They can be so powerful, even when you see them as game pieces."

 "...Hikaru...?"

"Yes. She delivered the baby, named him, and then left the hospital and jumped off a tower at the side of a highway. There was a note with the baby, instructing the person that found it to take Hikaru to an orphanage far from Japan."

There's no way he ended up at-...

"Wammy's House. That's where they took him."

I'm a father...?

"Hmm... what's L going to think? His precious little Light Yagami having a kid by someone else after he died? Don't think he'd take it too kindly, right?"

I grit my teeth and threw another punch at A, followed by another, and another. "You piece of shit... you don't know anything."

"Don't I?" He gasped, "You're going to lose him, all because you became too infatuated with your lust and power."

"You don't know that."

"You're right, I don't. But I really hope you enjoyed fucking Misa Amane. Was it worth it? The risk of losing the person you actually loved?"

Tears flowed down my cheeks and I screamed out, so emotionally riled up that I lost any inhibitions. Then I looked down at A's smirk, and felt the pent up anger arise in me. I continued beating him, not caring about my blood=covered knuckles or the bones I was breaking. I wanted him, dead.

He laughed and coughed between punches as I took a breath. "Welcome back, Kira," He snickered, and I completely lost it.

But in my head, a tiny voice rang out.

Good to be back.