A/N: These are just some things I think you guys should know before actually reading the fanfiction.

-Pairings in this fanfiction include: L Lawliet x Light Yagami, one-sided Misa Amane x Light Yagami, one-sided Touta Matsuda x Light Yagami, one-sided Teru Mikami x Light Yagami, one-sided Kiyomi Takada x Light Yagami, Mello x Matt, and Near x Mello. The last two occur at the same time, but it's not Near x Mello x Matt or anything like that because, though Mello is with both Near and Matt, Near and Matt themselves are not together. Pairings may be added or removed from this list of notes.

-This AU is still supposed to take place in Japan. However, despite the fact that the royalty system in Japan revolves around emperors and such, the royalty system used in this AU revolves around kings, queens, princesses, etc. It's...kind of weird, but I'm trying to stick to what I know. And don't expect any depictions of the royalty system to be particularly accurate or loyal to a particular real-life royalty system.

-In this AU, the Death Note does not exist, and thus, Light is not a serial killer. Though this may be a turnoff for a lot of people (and normally would be for myself), I'm sure you'll find Light is still a rather deviant (for lack of a better word) character here. As is to be expected, there are several changes within characters here in order to fit in with the AU, but it's nothing unspeakable that would make the characters unrecognizable.

-I probably should say this later, but since it isn't really a spoiler, I'm going to explain it now. In regular Death Note, Light accepts "Ryuzaki" and "Hideki Ryuga" as L's aliases because he already knows who L is. Here, Light doesn't already know who L is. Since "Ryuzaki" is the alias L most commonly used in canon but "Hideki Ryuga" supplies an additional last name, I kind of...combined them. Although Light immediately knows L is lying about his name anyway, I still figured L should give more than just one name. 

That's all for now. I may or may not add more in the future. Enjoy!