A/N: Grim angst, youthful death, romantic amours, murder and alarm...these are the intriguing ingredients of our latest foray into the land of Death Note fiction.

They are also the words that make the acronym 'gay drama.'

Prologue

Two detectives, both alike in wit and skill,

In bustling Tokyo, where we lay our scene

From newfound grudge break a wish to each other kill,

Where civil blood makes megalomaniac hands unclean.

From forth the fatal minds of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers strive to take the other's life;

Whole misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with the victor's kill bury their ideal's strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their questionable glory,

Which, but a lover's end, nought could remove,

Is now the next two-chapter's content of our story;

The which if you with patient eyes attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.