"Pllleeeeaassseeee! Please, please, please!"

L sighed, he really didn't want to say no to her, but right now it was unfortunately what needed to be done.

"Sorry Maki, you have school. And you have literally no protection from Kiras power, I promise you can come for a day or two once we've secured the situation on the case" L replied.

Maki sighed, but she knew L was right. She really wanted to go to Osaka though, where she grew up. It'd been years since she'd last been there, having moved into Wammys in England after her parents died and she was rescued by L. She understood though, this was Kira after all, safety was of the upmost importance.

"Ok, just make it quick then! I totally have to go back to my old street and see how it's changed" she agreed.

"I'll work as fast as I can, stay out of trouble alright?" L replied.

Maki gave him a cheeky grin, trouble? That's something she knew well. She could thank Matt and Mello for that.

"No promises, but I'll make sure my grades are top notch!" She replied.

The two gave each other a tight squeeze, even though Maki was a whole teenager now L still saw her as the same cheeky 10 year old he rescued all those years ago.

"I'll have Hermes send you some snacks from Japan in the meantime" L assured.

"Ooh, get me one of those watermelon shapes ice creams. He's fast enough to deliver it before it melts, I mean he's the speedy psychopomp after all" Maki replied.

"Will do, behave yourself"

"Yeah, yeah... have fun catching Kira 2!"

L sighed, the task wasn't exactly fun but at least the investigation part of it was pretty fun for his detective mind.

"I'll come get you when there's time to wander around the city ok?" L assured.

"Thanks L" Maki smiled.

The upside to being a Kami meant no plane rides needed. You and L could simply open a rip in reality and step right through it into your destination. And that's exactly what you did. Along with Mello, Matt and Near, you and L simply grabbed some bags and stepped through the rip into a whole other country.

You needed a few days to get up a taskforce HQ, so in the meantime you contacted an old friend to stay with. And to use their backyard as a desecrate place to open that rip.

Practically the second you stepped through it, you heard a very familiar voice.

"(Y/N)!"

"ZEPH!!" You smiled.

The fellow god rushed over, practically jumping on you and pulling you into a hug.

"Ahhhh it's been so long!" She smiled.

"I know! So much to do as a Kami, and look at you! Getting engaged and everything!"

Said fiancé had practically dropped everything when she heard Zephyrs voice screaming about how their guests had arrived, and out the back door she came running. She didn't look a day over the last time you saw her, her soulmate was a goddess after all, so now she was one too.

"MISA!" You smiled.

"(Y/N)!" She replied, skipping over to join the hug.

Neither of them had their winged forms out, since they lived down here in the human realm and had to stay pretty hidden. But it was clear the two of them were Devine just from the youthful look and slight glow they had.

"Don't think you're escaping this hug, come here L!" Misa said, grabbing L around the shoulders and pulling him into the group hug.

"Woah- ok, hello. Nice to see you too" he replied, stumbling into everyone's arms.

After a moment of hugs and rambling about how long it'd been, the girls turned their attention to the now grown successors.

"Oh my gods you guys are so tall now..." Misa said.

"I remember meeting you guys when you were all tiny menaces" Zephyr laughed.

"Oh we're still menaces, just taller" Mello joked.

Notably Misa and Mello were dressed pretty similar, in all back with that punk flare to it. Looks like every family has a blonde goth in it somewhere.

"Near your hair, oh my gods. It's so pretty, I wanna do a million hair styles" Zephyr gasped, noticing the now long pure white locks.

"You look like some kind of snow god with that hair, it's gorgeous" Misa added.

"Thanks, I'm never cutting it again. I've seen the light of long hair, even though it takes some looking after it makes me look like a whimsical fairy or something" Near replied.

If there was one thing Near had come to adore about themselves over the years of self discovery, it was their hair. Natural white hair was rare in itself, but long, wavy natural white hair? That was some fantasy shit. Peak gender was looking like an elf creature to them.

The girls ushered you all inside, having you put your bags down and take a look around the house. In the time since the last Kira incident the two soulmates had gotten their own place, Misa continued modelling for a while before becoming a fashion designer, and to her surprise the reaction from the public she was dating a fellow woman was actually not that bad. It was Japan back in the 2000s after all, not super progressive in that area just yet but the reaction wasn't too bad.

And of course there was Naja, who last you saw her was at your wedding and she had just entered year 8. This year was her graduating year, she was 17 now and it was wild to think it'd been 17 whole years since the day you helped deliver her mid-Kira case. Misa called her down from her room where she'd been studying for exams all morning, and when you saw her walk down the stairs you almost got whiplash.

She REALLY grew up. She towered over Misa, her own mother. She'd grown into herself and had clearly raided her mums closet from the modelling days with the 2000s gothic harajuku look.

"Oh my GODS, look at you! You're taller than your own mother!" You laughed.

"Ugh don't remind me" Misa said.

Naja just laughed and rested her arm on Misas head to rub the height difference in.

"Grown up and dying in exam season" she said.

"You're a smart kid. You got two goddesses for mums, you'll be fine" L assured.

"Two goddesses who won't let me use memory magic for the exam"

"That'd be cheating" Zephyr said.

"But the human exam supervisors won't know that will they?"

"You're not using memory magic"

Naja sighed, playfully annoyed at the denial. She knew she'd make it through tough, as much as she hated the man that was her birth dad, she could admit his family was incredibly smart people. She got those genes for sure, she'd been going really well in school. For the first few years of her life, the Yagami family helped Misa out with raising a baby and the fallout of Light's actions. Even though Misa hated Light for what he did to her, she wanted Naja to have grandparents in her life. So the Yagami family were still around throughout her life. More so when she was a kid, now she was older she did still see them but less often as school, friends and her part time job filled her schedule. But there was always a spot for her at the dinner table at Christmas.

Since the initial Kira, the Yagami family had largely managed to pick up the pieces. It was hard, but with time and a lot of therapy they managed to live a normal life again. Sayu was an adult with a good career now, her dad would be able to retire soon and her mum had started an organisation for families affected by crime after the situation with her own son.

Light was kind of a no-no topic with them now, they preferred to ignore it. They'd spoken to him that last time before he was thrown into Tartarus, and they had the closure they needed. It may not be pleasant closure but it was closure nonetheless. At the very least they could say the best parts of their son lived on through Naja.

You regretted to say it, but you could see some resemblance. Naja didn't like when people pointed that out... she even dyed her hair to get rid of the brown tinge in it so seperate herself from that shitbag as much as possible. She never knew him, and she didn't want to. She knew what he did to her mums and the world in general and she hated it. The blonde suited her though, it made her look even more like Misa's daughter.

"Man... I remember literally delivering you..." you said.

"Spare me the details" Naja laughed.

"I remember that day too... fuck was I freaking out when I went into labour with zero medical aid" Misa said.

"Hey, you both lived didn't you? My fertility magic got you through it. And (y/n) help cutting the chord" Zephyr added.

It was one hectic day that one, but it ended well and they were both alive and healthy all these years later so it's was alright.

"Speaking of kids, Misa you remember Maki?" L asked.

"Yep, our families knew each other how can I forget?" She replied.

"She's 16 now"

"OH MY- why is literally everyone growing up! 16?! Fuck that makes me feel old..."

You snickered, there definitely was a point where all the kids around you hit milestones like their sweet 16, turning legal, learning to drive and having their first drink of alcohol that made you feel extra old. Even though you were quite literally centuries old now...

"I promised her she can come for a visit when there's a lull in the case and it's safe, I'm sure she'll want to see you" L said.

"Absolutely! I haven't seen her since she was like 8... I bet she's just as pretty as her mum was. That woman had the most beautiful naturally silky hair"

"She definitely does, and she's super into the whole harajuku Kogal fashion too. You inspired her into that as a kid"

Everyone was growing up around you, it was nice to see everyone grow into wonderful people but sometimes you did miss the curious kids that'd come to you for snuggles when they had a nightmare. At least babysitting Morpheus could give you a taste of that again.

"So... a death note huh?" Zephyr sighed.

"Yep, we know the guys somewhere here. We just need to figure out exactly where..." L said.

"Once we've set up a HQ I'll get on all the local networks and see if I can find any trace of Kira like behaviour in the local area. If they're dumb enough to leave some kind of digital footprint we could find them that way" Matt replied.

It was going to be one hell of a task, but so was the original Kira and you managed that. You didn't doubt that with the successors all working together with L, they'd be able to stop this mass killing just like the first time.