A/n: bigger A/N at the bottom.

Hc: L's a total mess, can't organise to save his life. One day he sees you keep track of things in journals ams decides to try it, now he's hooked.

Lately you'd noticed L has seemed to be more organised. Still a mess when it comes to sleep, but now he has somewhat of a day routine. He has a much better eating schedule, still nothing but cakes and fruit but at least it's three meals a day. And his workspace seems a bit less cluttered. You don't know what he's changed but whatever it is, it's working.

You on the other hand, were definitely a mess today. You lost your journal, so your whole schedule had been out of whack. When you were in school, they made you write down assignment and homework dates in a journal and it'd been a habit ever since to keep track of life in a journal. And it was an excuse to decorate it with stickers and glitter pens.

So here you were, not haven't eaten breakfast and it was lunch time. Going through all possible drawers for your journal. You'd asked everyone and just couldn't find it. Finally you'd made it down to the empty monitor room as everyone was off eating lunch, and rummaging through drawers.

"Come on, how can it just vanish!" You mumbled to yourself, slamming a drawer shut and moving onto the next one.

This one was filled with paperwork. The next filled with stationary and the next with empty tapes.

Then you opened one that seemed to belong to someone in particular, with an open bag of lollipops and a few pens and sticky notes it was definitely L's. Hopefully he would get mind. You rummaged around for your journal, hoping it was in there.

"What's this? Woah glasses? Not surprising. All that man does is stare at screens. Wonder why he barely ever wears them?" You said to yourself, making sure not to break the new found glasses.

You got exited for a moment when you saw a book and for a second thought it was yours. But it was a different colour. Yours was black glitter covered, this one has cats on it.

"Huh..."

You opened it, wondering what it was and was met with blue ink on the front page.

I'm a mess and (y/n) seems to have her life together with these things so let's try it I guess.
2006 journal, Ryuzaki.

Woah, he copied your idea. That's kind of cute actually. You turned the page and was met with checklists, dates and notes all written in different colours for each day and taking a page out of your book, decorated with stickers.

June 24
-eat your goddamn breakfast L
-file time line reports
-fill out chart
-get Watari to order more pastries, the vanilla ones they're good shit.
-lunch
-Don't fall asleep at your desk
-meeting
-watch Light at University
-dinner
-sleep before Watari and (y/n) come for my soul since it's been three weeks.

You snickered at little bit at some of the entries and noticed everything he got done was ticked off in green. Not everything manger to be done but still, it was progress for L.

Although what was this chart he referred to? Was it the piece of paper you could see sticking out the back? You pulled out out and unfolded it and you were right. It was one of those gold star charts but for food intake and sleep. Looking it over it seemed it was trying to gain more weight and get more sleep. That man was light as a feather, not surprising he was a bit underweight.

A fully grown adult rewarding himself with stickers was pretty cute, and it seemed to be working too, as the dates got more recent he was filling in more slots with sticker. Good for him, finally getting his shit together.

You put the chart back and flipped though the rest of the journal. He was definitely more organised as time went on. All thanks to you, he watched you journal for ages and now he was copying you and it was working in his favour.

"Care to explain why you're looking though my stuff?"

You jumped, almost dropping the book and turned to see L himself standing behind you.

"Ok first, I swear you can teleport how the hell can you just appear out of thin air without making any noise. And two, I'm looking for my journal, found yours instead. I didn't know I've inspired you" you replied.

"Well, you seemed to have it all together so I thought I'd try..."

"It helps huh? I can see an improvement with you"

"You can?" He questioned.

"Yeah, you're eating more regularly, getting a bit more sleep. You seem to have a semi-schedule now too" you explained.

"Huh... I guess it's been working then. By the way, I'm pretty sure you're journal is downstairs with the bags, I think you left it with your backpack last time you went out"

"Of course! Thanks. You know what? Let's journal together, we can set aside some time to get all the stickers and gel pens out and make our pages look all pretty"

"I mean, sure that could be fun" he said.

"Cool, tomorrow at breakfast we can journal together"

You handed him back his journal and went downstairs to go get your journal. He opened his, his detective skills could tell him what pages you'd most likely looked at. And to his relief, all the pages at the back were untouched.

He looked down at the drafts of love letters to you. Glad you didn't see the scribbles and whiteout covering the parts he thought were bad. There were tons of them, he just couldn't find the right words, and didn't want you to know until he found them. Until he was ready to tear out that perfect page and leave it on your desk with a heart sticker. Maybe journaling with you tomorrow would give him ideas, you always seemed to give him good ideas.

He really should be doing this in a separate book, honestly.

A/n: So lightning struck a street away from me a few days ago. It was so close it cut the power and the house straight up shook it was so loud. Scared the living fuck outta me. Everyone is fine and all no one got hurt. But I was gonna post this oneshot that day but then the power went out so I figured I'd just wait to the weekend like usual. It gave me a heart attack I'll tell you that, one minute it's just cloudy and calm and then BOOM massive flash and huge bang and literal sparks flying not that far away and I just about jumped outta my skin. Then the power just, went out. And after about 5 minutes of heavy rain, sunny and hot as fuck again. Gotta love Australia. Although it was funny to see people running out the front door to see what the fuck happened and try turning the fuse boxes back on.