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Justaislinn: Oh yeah, I didn't research that one thoroughly, thanks for the correction. And about the obliviation, maybe it still depends? When Voldemort and Peter tortured Bertha Jorkins in GoF they found the obliviated memories when Barty Crouch Senior repeatedly obliviated her, also the reason why she's forgetful. Then there's Morphin Gaunt, that Tom modified his memories to frame him with the murder of Tom Riddle sr. But his years of stay in Azkaban made him remember when Dumbledore went to see him when Dumbledore is investigating and collecting memories of Tom's. Maybe it's torture or shock in canon? Thanks for the review.

Aladdinina Magi, Silvermane1 and LunaSunFlowerLily: Thanks for reading and reviewing...!

Guest 1 and 2: Thanks for reading, Light and Ryuk will definitely make an appearance.

MizuSage: Thanks for reading and leaving review, I hope this update is good enough.

Sn0wdeath: Sorry for the slow updates and thanks for reading and reviewing the story.

Icewaker22: Hah, I like to imagine that too especially Ryuk scratching his head when Harry banned the apples.

god of all: so sorry for the slow updates but thanks for the review

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Tamha: Thanks for the interest and the review, probably compare to others, this fic is new.

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Azamariasp: Thanks for the review and I'll do my best to make it even better.

Fleursuoh: Yep, definitely Luna.. Heh, I just like the idea that even if Harry is not as close to her as he did with Ron or Hermione, there's still the special bond, even in canon there are times that only Luna managed to cheer him up so.

Chapter 5:

For the longest time, Harry wanted to hate his mentor Albus Dumbledore, but he had been contemplating about it for two centuries already. He's way past the point of blaming the only grandfather figure of his life as a mortal. Because really, he understood...

Dumbledore had loved him as the grandson he never had, and he always thought it was because Lily and James had been his favoured student back in their day. He's way past the point of lashing out against Dumbledore's defenceless portrait. He grew up and he understood that twice in Dumbledore's long life, he had been given two world altering choices.

His own happiness or the good of the world...

Twice he chose the latter...

When he was in his teens he was faced with the choice of being with Gellert Grindlewald, the German Dark Lord and Dumbledore's love of his life. He left Grindlewald to do the right thing and more than 50 years later he was forced to stop him and endured the pain of bringing him to Nurmengard himself. He could've run away but he didn't. Dumbledore never found anybody to replace Grindlewald and spent the rest of his life alone in Hogwarts teaching then becoming the Headmaster.

The second time is choosing between saving the world from the most vicious Dark Lord for centuries over giving Harry a cursed existence. Of course Dumbledore choose saving the world over Harry, his grandson in all things that mattered, but it took Harry decades to finally accept that. Just like how it took two centuries to forgive Tom Riddle.

It is true that time can heal everything, because despite his immortality, people forgets and in his case, his empathy and apathy becomes mixed up and somewhere along the years, he learned to show empathy to anything and everything, because Harry came to understood that everything happens for a reason, one way or another.

Then being apathetic to anything and everything despite having a complete understanding of why's and how's. War happens for a reason, people died for a reason and life is not fair for a reason, and yet Harry couldn't care less beyond understanding these things. He's not allowed to interfere and mess with the natural order. People lived and died for a reason, he understood and he empathized but at the same time, he doesn't care or maybe he just learned not to care.

Centuries later, Harry started funding orphanages, and his best friends descendants would have everybody believed that he was doing it because he was a genuinely kind person, born with a good heart and something that not even time could ever take away from him.

He had always been a kind person, they said...

He had always been selfless, they said...

He only knows how to care about others but not himself, they said...

It is written all over his friends journal over the years, to be passed down, so that they would know how to care for him in the future, for the next decade, to the next century and maybe millenniums. They even swore unbreakable vow amongst themselves and before their inheritance, their sons, grandsons and great grandsons are forced to do the same to ensure that he'll never be alone or else they'll get disowned.

At first it made Harry guilty, and then angry, because they were partly at fault, then finally at peace and content. He will never be alone for all eternity.

He knows himself that it's another form of atonement. All of it really. Everybody would attest to his kindness and pure heart, a genuinely nice person who spent millions of galleons a year donating in countless orphanages. But really, it's nothing noble or good like being genuinely compassionate about poor orphans, though he can certainly sympathized, he was an orphan himself, raised by magic-hating relatives, but that's beside the point.

It's just a penance. He vanquished Voldemort or Tom Marvolo Riddle, his own soul brother(nothing fancy like soulmate, it's just that once in a while people found another person so in tune with them, just like James and Sirius). Tom's soul had been too broken to feel the pull when Harry was born and Harry only felt pain in their connection on his teenage years. Voldemort died on his own hand. Harry felt incomplete ever since.

So really, all those donations are for assuaging his guilt. Voldemort might have been the very epitome of evil, but he was not born that way. Tom is just another victim of the cruel world that they lived in. His mother died giving birth and he was left in an orphanage, bullied for being different with his beautiful face and acute intelligence and later, belittled in Hogwarts for being a no-name wizard despite of his brilliance.

Tom grew bitter and ambitious, and what made him different is that he was intelligent and brilliant enough to have it all and take revenge and lashed out in the world in the process. Tom just wanted to fight for something he believed in and at the same time showing his superiority, but he eventually lost himself.

When Harry met Wammy, he started contemplating about what if's. If only Tom had been born and nourished in this kind of environment, he would have been brilliant and he would've changed the world, just like all of the potentials residing on that very same orphanage right now.

Harry sighed, he tend to get maudlin from time to time. Before he could delve further into his thoughts, and psychoanalyzed every interesting human he came across, he got up form reading and decided to bake strawberry cake.

Everything happens for a reason...

Harry met his other half. Harry met L. L who's destined to die in his early twenty's...

Death warned him that he can't directly interfere when he finally found out the reason. Harry even went as far as giving L some vaccine for Diabetes invented by a muggleborn(Because magical people never get inflicted by muggle disease like Diabetes or Cancer, most magical dies early from stupidity) decades ago but it can't be marketed in the muggle world for obvious reasons (magical ingredients). The way L eat sweets, Diabetes is not that farfetched as a reason for dying early...

"Your teeth will rot if you eat that much sweet." Harry said amusedly while watching 7 years old L eating cakes after cakes.

"The orphanage have their own dentist, we could even drop by three times a day, so unlikely..." L said.

"You'll die from Diabetes, at the amount you're eating..." Harry said in hopes that L would start eating at least some healthy foods.

"Just like how vegetarians lived forever, I'm sure..." L retorted, his tone dripping with sarcasm.

Okay, I'm speechless, he got me there and he certainly had a point. "I'm serious." Harry said.

L simply rolled his eyes and said "Hah, even the most healthy person die, when they met an unfortunate accident even by simply walking down the street. The probability of me dying through natural causes is approximately around 23%, people die every day and more often than not, it's not because of disease or old age..." L said wisely.

Of course, Harry knew that very well. He IS the Master of Death after all. Life is not fair by all means but to hear it from L's 7 years old mouth is like being doused of ice cold water. L is way too mature for his age, Harry never asked, and L only implied in not so many words that his life before Wammy found him is not exactly 'ideal', and L saying the facts of life bluntly like that only drove home the fact that L already lost his childhood innocence.

"Oh, Merlin...! You're such a cynical brat...!" Harry said jokingly, his lips were upturned in amusement.

"Merlin? As in the warlock of King Arthur?" L asked with his all too eager for knowledge tone that Harry can already imagine L's face without seeing it.

Harry is lost in his thoughts in his memories of 7 years old L and he was only jolted in attention by the ward alerting him that three people apparated on his front gate. He didn't worry though, it was probably some people from the 'family', as he'd like to call them. It took around two minutes to reach him, and during the first 30 seconds he activated the sealing runes around his eyes.

As much as he was tempted to see the family he had known so well after his best friends died, he never unsealed his eyesight in front of another human being for centuries, except for L and it was out of necessity, because L is his other half and he have to know how much time ha have.

He can move around just fine without eyesight. He used his magic to sense his surrounding and it was as good as having visions except without colours. He can also perceive people's mood or if somebody is lying or nervous, it took him decades and a lot of help from Luna to get the hang of it and now, he's doing it instinctively. But the first century, he had been more clumsy than Tonks ever been and that's saying something, because Tonks always manage to stumble at her own feet in a perfectly smooth road.

"Oh, another strawberry cake? You've been baking every single day ever since you came to Japan. And you what? Gave only a single one to L, and feed us the rest you're not satisfied with?"Luna Artemis, already is her forties but still looked like late twenties asked amusedly.

"Yeah, it has to be perfect..." Harry said with a fond smile, and absently stroking the touch pad of the oven.

"Mate, gotta hand it to you-"

"-your diligence in pursuing L-"

"-is so awe inspiring-"

"-we're so touched."

"We've never seen you-"

"-this passionate before-"

"you're usually passive-"

"-and pretty much apathetic-"

"-most of the time, so I guess-"

"-he's good for you..."

The 18 years old twins, Gideon and Favian inherited Fred and George's way of finishing each other sentences, and sometimes, he was tempted to 'see' them, just to prove himself that they're not really his own Fred and George, but only George's grandsons.

George had never been the same when Fred died in the Final Battle of Hogwarts, but he still kept going with their Jokeshop along with Lee Jordan and unsurprisingly, Teddy Lupin. He is a son of a marauder so, he was instinctively good with pranks.

"Well, they all said that the easiest way to a man's heart is through his stomach..." Harry said defensively. If the taste didn't satisfy him again, he'll feed it to them. So great timing.

"I may not be a medical student-"

"-but the easiest way through a man's heart-"\

"-it's through the sternum-"

"-if I remember correctly..."

"It's a muggle saying." Luna said, and then enthusiastically explains what it means while Harry tuned them out.

"Why are you guys here anyway? Frank already dropped by yesterday." Harry asked curiously, it's not like they actually decide shift like aurors, but they dropped by turns and there's a pattern.

"Mate, isn't obvious? We're here to-"

"-laugh at you because Aunt Luna-"

"-Already got it in her head that-"

"-It's your first date, with a muggle no less-"

"-so she's like, deciding where you will go-"

"-what you'll wear-"

"-even tips for appropriate conversation-"

"-because quidditch team-"

"-and prank materials is a no-no-"

"-according to Aunt Luna anyway."

"Okay, shut up, both of you. I know you're planning to take L to our company studio to see Misa and I don't want to know the details. Grandma used to say when it comes to your trouble magnet tendencies, all bets are off and it's better off to be blissfully ignorant..." Luna said sternly.

"Now, let's start with clothes, first date's first impression is everything..." Harry gulped in fear, and shivered sinisterly. Harry swore that for better or worse, L will be dating him at the end of the day, just so he could avoid this torture...

xXx

L actually didn't know what to expect when he showed up on the address that Hadrian sent him. He had been restless and he can't sleep, and he didn't even do anything productive, aside from watching Light's surveillance camera when the said teen was asleep last night. There's also some weird fluttering on his stomach. He should probably visit his Doctor about that.

He tried to convince himself that the restlessness is the product of his excitement of finally getting a solid lead, and NOT from anticipation of seeing Hadrian. When that failed, he tried to convince himself that it's actually because of the delicious strawberry cake, and he might've been mildly successful in accepting that excuse.

He had Watari drive him in front of the building, and now that he's in front of it, all the self delusions about wanting lead and eating cake flew out the window, he's excited to see Hadrian. He finally admitted to himself that for the first time, in his twenty-four years of existence, he became attracted to someone, and doesn't have anything to do with the case he's currently working on.

L had always thought he was asexual...

He had never been attracted to another guy before, or another human being for that matter. He didn't know if he was happy or what with that knowledge. And he's internally freaking out because Hadrian is only 16. Does that make him a pedophile?

Legal age of consent in Japan is 13 and forbids sex under 18. L internally freaked out when his mind automatically supplied the knowledge and the implications of possible sex in the future.

But wait, Hadrian is British right?

In 2001, the law was amended to clarify the situation and confirm that the age of consent was 16 for all acts (only a person aged 18 or older can be punished for having sex with a 14-15 year old).

L stumbled on the way to the elevator in mortification. He's definitely NOT thinking of Hadrian and him in British isles doing that. L closed his eyes and tried to compose himself, he had to concentrate. Despite Wammy's connection to Hadrian, he's still a lead and probably the biggest lead he'll ever have.

When the elevator ding's to fourth floor, L opened his eyes. He's back to being his calm and collected self, and effectively tuning out his personal interest in Hadrian, his goal today is to get leads, not get distracted by a potential criminal, no matter how minuscule that may be, with the information that L suspected Hadrian possessed, it's hard to tone down suspicion.

Even if Hadrian is giving away information and riddles as clues, it's still highly suspicious and even if he's not really one of the Kira, L can't help but think that there's got to be a catch somewhere. Like L is being manipulated or and he can't see the person behind them yet. If Hadrian is part of the supposed manipulation, then L is definitely willing to dived head–on the trap.

At first, L suspected that this is one of Light's complicated ploys, but discovered that Light and Hadrian never met, not even minimal contact. Then L started analyzing the probability that this might be a waste of time, because L is already a hundred percent convinced that Light is Kira, he just need the evidence and the method of murder to stick to the court.

As L' mind analyzed all the facts of the Kira case, he arrived on the studio with crates and other equipments for photoshoot. Misa-Misa is doing solo shots, posing in different ways to highlight the clothes she's wearing.

L can't help but think that this sweet and naive teen could have the stomach of the second Kira, but he learned earlier on in this career that appearance can be deceiving, and if what Hadrian implied that Misa and Light is actually dating, maybe Misa is actually getting manipulated? So many possibilities, so little evidence, and theories with only minimal credibility, like the fact that Misa actually went to see Light in his university a week ago but the meeting is very brief and Misa left immediately according to eye witnesses.

"OK, that's a wrap..! Hari-san, it's your turn..." Somebody shouted and it took a few seconds to realize that Hari-san is Hadrian, Japanese people probably can't pronounce Hadrian properly.

As always, Hadrian is so breathtaking. Even some minor studio helper stopped what they were doing to watch Hadrian's shoot and almost everybody is silent except the photographer, clearly used to shoot with Hadrian, describing every minuscule detail of the pose, the parts of his body that he had to expose and all.

Everybody is mesmerized, and they can't help but think that even if those eyes are unseeing, it's still unbelievably beautiful, like chrome diopside not emeralds like he first thought. Emeralds pale in comparison.

L didn't notice that he was as mesmerized as everybody else. He only snapped out of it when the photographer yelled "That's a wrap...!"

Somebody gave Hadrian's white cane back and he started walking slowly towards L, and he wonders how Hadrian knew or if it's a coincidence. "Hadrian..." L called out and Hadrian smiled.

Hadrian tugged at his long sleeved. "Let's go to my dressing room." And he started walking away, while using his white cane as guide.

L instinctively grabbed Hadrian's elbow and said "I'll walk you." He had never been nice to elderly or disable, and never went out of his way to help them but to the detective, helping Hadrian out comes to him naturally, and he just read the sign on the doors they passed through.

The found a door with a sign of Male Dressing Room and promptly entered. The model immediately sat on the comfortable sofa and indicated L to do the same. "I'll ask my assistant to get some tea and cake..." for some reason it seems like Hadrian knew the magic word cake to peak his interest, and his lips twitched in amusement.

L perched in his usual position and got straight to the point. "Tell me everything you know, Hadrian."

"That's quite a broad question. I know lot of things, like baking cake and cooking..." Hadrian said.

"Don't play with me, you know what I mean and you know what I want..." L said sternly, not even dropping a hint that all he wanted today is spend time with Hadrian eating cake and drinking tea, work have to come first. It sucks...

"Okay... you're so uptight..." Then Hadrian seemed to be contemplating something... "I'll tell you Kira's method of killing, on one condition..." Hadrian's tone suddenly became serious.

This is it. L thought.

"What condition?" L tried not to fidget and sound nervous, because he had a weird feeling that Hadrian can actually sense it. Money is not a problem, depends on the price, L can pull through and pay, but based on Matt's information, Hadrian definitely don't need the money. So when Hadrian finally stated his condition, L was not so sure he heard properly because it's the last thing on his mind.

"Go out with me..."

A/N:

MERRY X-MAS and thanks for reading...! Reviews and constructive criticisms is the best gift I'll ever receive this holiday season...!