hh_mirror | The Unpopcorning of Light Yagami. Open RP

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The Unpopcorning of Light Yagami. Open RP

Awareness was the first thing to come to Light, but it might as well not have because the only thing that came forth was nothingness. Am I dead?, crosses the mind briefly before descending back to nothing. It feels cramped in this space, but also as if it goes on forever. That doesn't make sense, but it is all there is to feel. Memories float back lazily like clouds, but of where Light Yagami is currently or what he did just before escapes him. The last thing he remembers is finding out that Yotsuba has been proffiting off of Kira's power. Then, hearing comes back with the sound of a great

POP!

Suddenly there is floor under him, and butter all over him. Light lifts his head and sight returns just before the smell and taste of butter overpowers everything momentarily. Once he get's over the fact that there is butter everywhere, Light takes a moment to check the rest of himself over. His hair is a mess, and he is wearing a green sweater with the Slytherin insignia on it that goes well with the green socks and black shoes on his feet, although the socks are covered by tan pants. On one wrist there is a waterproof (hopefully butter proof too) watch, the other has a handcuff locked on it. Light's eyes trail down the chain of the handcuffs, only to find that Ryuzaki is nowhere to be found.

"Is this another test, Ryuzaki?" Light wonders aloud as he stands up to see if the door of this room is locked. It wouldn't surprise him if this was a test, as Ryuzaki already seems to be off his rocker about certain things, but it also would be unsurprising if this wasn't L's doing. Wouldn't he be covered in something sweeter than butter if this was L's idea? Then again if not L then...?

The door is unlocked, so Light wanders into the hallway in search of a washroom or Ryuzaki, whichever is found first. The chain drags along the floor behind him, but his buttery footprints already cover the castle floor so Light doesn't bother to pick it up as he goes in a random direction.

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"I'm twenty now." He shrugs, but only slightly; he doesn't want to shake Matt's hand off.

"You are in a place called Hogwarts. Timelines, and different universes converge here. We will walk you to Slytherin. That seems to be where you are destined to stay, given your clothes. You will be able to find a shower, and things."

"I see. A shower would appreciated at this time. Do you stay at Slytherin also?" He asks this last question because the last time Light ever slept alone was while he was behind bars, although at that time it felt as if Ryuzaki was always staring at him. So maybe that doesn't count.

To Matt's statement, "So you know about the investigation? Would I have met you sometime in the future then?" It is still confusing, but after Light has time to think about it on his own things will seem different.

"No. This is the first time we've met."

He's a little stunned about L offering to walk him to Slytherin, but... since when has L ever done what he expected?

"We are in another house, actually, though Slytherin is not the worst option available. It is not far, either. Just this way."

He gestures in the right direction, and starts off, in his own slouching walk. He's still, as Light will probably remember him, barefoot. The main difference is a dark blue sweater.

"I take it you do not remember being Kira?"

Light doesn't find any problem with L showing him where do go, so he follows at L's side. Where he would be if they were still chained together.

"The last thing I remember was working with you to find the Kira at the Yotsuba corperation. We just found out about their secret meetings." He doesn't mention that it is because of Matsuda's idiocy, because they would have found out soon enough without it.

This means nothing to Matt, obviously; he remembers, vaguely, news about the death of several prominent Yotsuba employees, but that's about it.

He trails after them, feeling a little frustrated.

L is looking over his shoulder, making sure Matt is following. The look he gives him, when his head is at an angle where he's sure Light can't see, is purely pleading. Matt is to please stay?

"I know that in the end, you were found guilty of being Kira. At the present moment, you might be without memories of such a thing, but I am 100% certain that it is the case that you are him."

"Last time I saw you, you were 99% certain that I was Kira. You just had no proof then." If Ryuzaki believed that Light is Kira at 100%, then it must be true, even if Light still wants to deny it.

No one has come barging in to arrest him yet though, so unless Ryuzaki is lying about the shower, then things should be okay.

"And now I do." He inclines his head. "Too late, and in a situation where I cannot change anything, with deaths on my conscience, but the certainty is 100%, Light Yagami."

Sorry, Matt, about the death thing.

"It seems strange to me that I would ever want you dead, but that, naturally, isn't the same for Kira. Even though I am Kira."

Kira wants L dead, Light wants L to win, Light is Kira, and this can get confusing fast.

Of course Matt'll stay. He reaches to squeeze L's shoulder again, briefly. (The backrub had worked wonders at making Matt more comfortable with casual touches like these.)

"Give it a rest," he mutters. That's directed at Light.

"Well," L smiles, "you succeed in your objective, whether you understand it or not. I suppose congratulations are in order."

He can make that joke, since he lost the battle, but not the war.

"You shouldn't congratulate your murderer," Light frowns at this added with Matt's apprehenshion.

Light almost feels like apologizing, but that would be hypocritical, so he stays silent.

"You don't win," Matt says. That last comment came dangerously close to making Matt punch Light across the face, but okay.

"No, win, you did not. Or else I would not be inclined to help you to your new lodgings, but rather, would be making sure the school authorities did not find the body."

But everything turns out alright (ish) in the end, so.

"Perhaps you will consent, as I did, to submit yourself to a memory charm when you leave this place? So your knowledge of the future does not change the way events play out? In the interest of justice."

"I don't know how I loose yet, but a memory charm sounds like a brillant idea," there is no malicious intent in what he says, and being able to forget this place and time would probably be best.

"Why would you want to put yourself under the charm, wouldn't it be better for you to know? Or perhaps the situation could not be helped even if you knew?" Ryuzaki always knew, it was just a matter of proof. The knowledge Ryuzaki gained here must have given him some form of proof he could use when they go back.

Matt... agrees with Light, on this one. He's not exactly versed in the intricacies of the Death Note, having come into the case at the very end, but the innocent 'act' is pissing him off.

"He's got a point," he admits. A little reluctantly. There will be extra glaring to make up for it.

"Because the only thing that matters is that Kira's reign not be continued. It is a threat to the fundamental principles of justice. It will create an unprecedented rule of terror. It is totalitarian, it is violent, and it is wrong. More than that; when the laws of any society are too rigid for any sort of deviance to be permitted, then they lose their ability to create social change. It would literally mean the stagnation of culture and the end of freedom."

L thumbs his bottom lip.

"We know that we defeat him. The slightest thing cannot be altered. Even a risk margin of less than one percent is unacceptable. This goal is paramount."

"So you fear that if you change one thing the resule will flip the perverbeal coin, and that Kira would win in out the end. Even though you'd have something over me that I did not know, as I had something over you."

It makes sense, and is very brave of L to accept death than chance the end result.

"I wouldn't want to change our time together; for the most part it was fun. Although my end isn't something I can be happy about," when L got depressed over not being able to prove Light as Kira pissed him off though.

"Dude," Matt says, ignoring Light for now, "you've got more information this way. Surely that's enough to..."

Because it's nice winning the war, obviously, but having the battles in the bag would be good too.

He doesn't want L to die.

"It was fun?" Matt asks Light, incredulous. "... you're fucking shameless, you know that?"

"We played tennis, and worked together on the case that was fun," plotting murder and creating a new world doesn't sound as enjoyable to Light, but Kira most likely saw it differently.

"I do like tennis."

L is sort of with Matt on that one. The 'it's fun' comment, not the information thing. Although he is 98% convinced that it's necessary (with 1.5% of regret for Matt's death, and 0.5% worth of regret for Mello's) he's fairly sure that it isn't going to be fun.

"He might honestly not remember, Matt." Still, as they walk, he's veering closer to his friend. The one who isn't also an enemy.

Matt needs to bite down on his tongue at that. Because exclaiming that he doesn't care what Light remembers, he still kills L, still kills Mello, and still almost kills Near probably isn't a great way to keep L's composure.

So he stays silent. He's only there for L anyway.

"You actually made tennis a challange for me to win, Ryuzaki," he quit his school team because it was boring. "And I don't remember being Kira at all."

Light had just ignored those memory gaps as he had work to do on the investigation.

"I used to play competitively."

He's told Matt this, he thinks. It was something he enjoyed.

"It must have been an interesting game, Light."

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