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As much as I loved 's story Mind Games, I thought I might be disappointed by the ending (I would still have loved and appreciated it, but I also would have been quite heartbroken). But ~wild-filly finds a way. It is now the longest and most reviewed DeathNote fanfic on fanfiction.net, with 873 reviews for 14 wonderful chapters. Not to mention the 94 reviews for the bonus chapter Chronicles of the Deceased. Which totally rocks, by the way.

I feel bad cause I hardly ever remember to review, by the time I come to the end of a chapter I'm too busy thinking about things to draw.

zomgawd. I drew a background. AND I INKED IT. get the eff out of here, what are you doing? btw I combined 2 scans so if it looks questionable in the middle, that is the reason. One of the reasons.

SPOILER FOR STORY
Here's a passage to explain the scene, but if you want to read the story, I suggest you ignore it. Cause it's the very very end. HURRY AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND THERE'S NO TIME

"He had to ask. Had to know. “L, why haven’t you given up on me? Why don’t you hate me?” he asked plaintively, eyes searching the former world-class detective’s features.

L blinked at him, lifting one hand to scratch his head, mussing up his tangled black locks even more. He pursed his lips, almost as if he didn’t know the answer to that question himself. Then he answered, speaking slowly, as if mulling the words over even as he offered them. “I suppose it’s because you are the first person that I’ve ever taken an interest in. The first person other than Watari to spend so much time at my side. I’m not used to human contact. Not used to anyone offering to feel anything for me beyond that of a comrade, and even then I seldom accepted those offers.” He stared at the grass, fingers wrapping themselves around the thin blades. “I finally met an intellectual equal in Raito-kun, and more besides. I knew that…Raito-kun might not have understood what I had said to him. There was a very low percentage of possibility for that, but I realised it when… when I was dying. I saw you… you caught me, and then the other one, the other one inside of you, he grinned at me.” He looked back up at Raito. “That was when I realised that part of you was Kira, and part of you was Raito, and that the part of you that was Raito had never abandoned me.”

Heart pounding in his head, Raito felt as if every ounce of weight had drained from his body. Mustering up the new reserves of strength slumbering in his limbs, Raito forced himself to his feet, swaying terribly. L blinked up at him, then rose to help his former rival, but was caught instead by the downfall as the younger man slipped, staggering into the detective’s arms. Embarrassed and somewhat dazed by the weight of L’s words, Raito pushed himself upwards, hands on L’s forearms for support. He could feel the detective’s skin burning beneath him, could hardly dare to believe that after all this time he was this close. It still surprised him how warm the detective truly was. Hands pawed their way clumsily up to L’s unmoving shoulders, resting there for balance. Raito leant the entirety of his weight onto the spidery L, eyes apologetic. “I’m sorr-” He was cut off as L fixed a heavy stare on him, and lifted one finger to the other youth’s lips, silencing him.

“Your apologies, Raito-kun, are no longer necessary. Kira won the battle, but I won the war. You’ll just have to acknowledge that.”

Raito opened his mouth, half of him wanting to chuckle with disbelieving relief, the other half slightly annoyed that L had downplayed his part in the case so much. He was cut off most abruptly however, as L smirked in a most unexpected fashion, and bent down, silencing Raito’s lips with his own, hands rising to cradle his face.

This was going to be a most interesting new game."

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