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1. What do you do when The New World feels worse than The Old One? by NearlyProfessional

   Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   15 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • L/Yagami Light
   • Amane Misa/Yagami Light
   • Yagami Light
   • L (Death Note)
   • Amane Misa
   • Ryuk (Death Note)
   • Rem (Death Note)
   • Matsuda Touta
   • Dubious Consent
   • lawlight
   • Angst
   • Yagami Light is Kira
   • Bottom Yagami Light
   • L is a Little Shit (Death Note)
   • One-Sided Amane Misa/Yagami Light
   • Yagami Light is a Little Shit
   • Yagami Light Needs a Hug
   • Yagami Light is Not Okay
   • Put Yagami Light in an asylum
   • I'm Bad At Tagging
   • Author hates Yagami Light but can somehow write for him
   • Trans Male Yagami Light
   • Top L (Death Note)
   • Amane Misa Deserves Better
   • Regretful Yagami Light
   • Eventual L/Yagami Light
   • Light Yagami hates and loves L simultaneously
   • Yagami Light Misses L
   • L Loves Yagami Light
   • not chronological
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • i think
   • Autistic L (Death Note)

   Summary

   Light Yagami has always believed control is everything.

   But ever since L stepped into his life, fully stepped into it, control has become something fragile. Control to Light is beginning to feel fractured. What begins as a battle of justice and deception slowly fractures into something more insidious: a constant psychological war where every look, every word, and every silence is a risk. And it's all L's fault.

   As Kira’s plans tighten and Light’s resolve strains under L’s unrelenting presence, the line between hatred, rivalry, and something far more dangerous begins to blur. After all, when the person most capable of destroying you is also the only one who truly understands you… how long can pretending last?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,203

   Chapters:

   5/11

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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