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Title: The Sparks of Dark within the Light-

Finally the special chapters for "Darkness within your Light" have arrived! This goes all the way back into chapter 10 and chapter 14; it has references to both chapters. I know I should have made this chapter before but I've only now just decided to really do it. Besides it gives me more time to work on chapter 20.

This will be written in three parts. It will have 3 separate character's point of views other then Raito, one in each chapter.

The first being Yagami Soichiro! Because I just love him in my story…and only in this story. I usually make him a bastard in my other stories. I wanted to give him some depth to his character, don't know why but…I like how it turned out.

Part two will be up shortly, it will be Watari's POV and his inner thoughts.

Part Three is going to be the hardest of them all…it will be… (Drum Roll) L Lawliet!!!(this one may take a while to write)

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If there was one thing that Yagami Soichiro believed with all of his heart it was that he lived a much cherished and fortunate life; he had a beautiful wondrous wife that he loved with all of his heart and who loved and understood him back.

When they had first meet she had been a young woman just out of high school and he a young rookie on the force and for the past 25 years of marriage they had been blessed with so much…a son who had been gifted with both good looks and an extraordinary intellect, a daughter who was a bright ray of sunshine that cleared even the dreariest of days when he came home from the office sick with disgust and weary of the ugliness of the world around him.

Yes, Soichiro was very happy with his life, even with all of it's up and downs. He had been content with his life up until now. He had a son who looked up to him and had dedicated his young life into following in his father foots steps in serving justice, Raito had been in his last year in high school before it had all happened.

KIRA

Damn that name and damn the person who it belonged to. That monster had single handily destroyed everything that was calm and orderly in Yagami Soichiro's life. Not only was he killing people almost without thought in the hundreds-no the thousands. He had somehow brought his son into this mess.

Despite what L and the other members on the team thought Soichiro wasn't blinded to the similarities nor the evidence that could convicted his son…that his son might really be Kira. As a police officer and a detective he saw all the facts that were presented in front of him and that part of him that wasn't bias agreed with most of L's theories.

It was the part of him that was a father that refused to believe it.

Why? That was the question that resounded in his head at night as he laid in bed unable to sleep. Why did Kira do what he did? Was his sense of justice so misguided that he had come to believe that only he could pass it?

As much as Soichiro hated to think it…if by some chance Raito was Kira…had it been his fault? Was it because he didn't spend enough time with him as a child? Soichiro had begun working a lot when Raito had been a child, he had been a lower level police officer at that time and he spent many hours at the job to bring more money to the table, he spent even more time at work when both his wife and he became aware of Raito's higher then average intelligence. They had wanted to give him the best in education wise, so…more hours at work, more money to spend on school.

Thinking about it now Soichiro realized that whenever he had spent time with Raito he hadn't played with him, he hadn't taken him to the park or to a ballgame when Raito had been a little boy, he hadn't done anything that could be called father and son bonding. Instead he had come home and drilled the child about his school work and told him stories about justice and stories in a totally black and white view of a peace officer instead of giving both sides of facts that where involved in every situation.

He had painted the image of good and evil, black and white, wrong and right…he…never really discussed or talked about the most important question…Why. Why did an upstanding father rob a bank? Was it because he was greedy, or was it because he needs the money for his wife's operation. He never talked about the details…only the outcome, never the shade of grey in between the human heart and desire.

Soichiro began to see his mistakes to late, he had created and molded Raito into who he was today, and maybe he wasn't entirely the influenceful child he had been when he had been a younger, but at least on an unconscious level some of Soichiro's teachings where still there, still influencing him, even if Raito wasn't aware of it.

Because there was something that Soichiro wouldn't tell anyone…but at times he was able to see himself in Raito, when he himself had been young and full of idealism.

Because he knew deep down in himself…when Soichiro had been Raito's age…and if he had been given the power to punish criminals like Kira was now…he would have done the same thing as Kira had.

It was one of Soichiro's darkest secrets that he kept under lock and key in the darkest part of him mind, because on some level he understood what Kira was thinking, he knew the despair of the darkest part of the human soul, the feeling that if only the dark didn't exist…if it could be erased…then the world would be a better place. A better place for his idealist son and bright daughter.

Soichiro was no longer young though, and he had out grown such thoughts, he knew the world wasn't all black and white. Darkness had to exist for the light to shine it brightest, Soichiro wasn't a religious man but he knew that at least.

So it was for this reason, because he could understand on some level why Kira was doing all of this…that Soichiro aloud L to investigate his son. Raito and he were too similar and he knew…he knew…

Everything that had been happening lately, with his son being locked up into a grey empty cell and made to sit there day after day being asked to confess to being a mass murder…it was enough to break a father's heart.

And it did, it broke his heart…while also hardening his detective resolve.

He had his suspicions for quite some times…about the relationship between his son and L. They were so much alike in some ways yet they were also polar opposites, two different sides from one coin. They acted like friends one minute then suspect and detective the next, worse as mortal enemies.

Yet despite that…there was always this spark between them, Soichiro saw it, and he doubted the others missed it as well, and while he had been hoping that Raito would have settled down with a nice girl and had a few children he was grateful at least for Raito finding someone who balanced him out, even if this was the worse way to meet someone.

At first he was worried that L might just be stringing Raito along…or the other way around. Soichiro wasn't blind, he knew that his son regarded people sometimes as playthings, as something to mess around with then discard as no longer fun. But he should have known better.

You don't throw away something that might just be the best thing that had ever happened to you, and for Yagami Raito…that best thing was Ryuzaki…the great detective L.

Soichiro saw it and he was pretty sure that Raito did to, or at least Soichiro hoped he did.

When he and his wife and Sayu fell asleep on Raito's bed last night crying…wishing for the other part of there family and heart to come home, the last thing that Soichiro had expected to see as he woke up was his son in front of him. He had managed to hide his shock and surprised well enough as Sayu started to talk about pandas and weird stuff like that, it had actually been fun to see Raito and Ryuzaki embarrassed by a 14 year old girl.

But any amusement he had felt at the sight dropped away as Raito and Ryuzaki explained why they were there. He had quickly followed Ryuzaki's and his son's order to take Sachiko and Sayu into his room and hide. His family's safety came first and while it was hard to not order his son to come with them he restrained himself.

He had made sure that his wife and daughter were completely hidden before getting his side arm from his bedroom dresser and waiting by the closed door of his bedroom, trying to hear anything that might give him plausible cause to go help his son.

But he knew…even if he did hear anything he couldn't leave his wife or daughter behind unprotected. He would just have to trust in Ryuzaki in protecting his son's life.

The rest of the night passed in a blur, after hearing a gunshot go off some time later it had taken all of Soichiro's will power not to sprint out the door to see what was going on, and not long after that Ryuzaki had finally come and told him that everything was ok and that the criminal had been taken care of.

Soichiro immediately realized that that meant that the criminal had been killed. Ryuzaki had been kind enough to help him take his wife and daughter who were both terrified out of their minds down the stairs into the living room, when his wife and Sayu were both comfortable on the couch Ryuzaki gave him his phone and told him to call the police, he also informed Soichiro that he had already called Watari and he would help out with the cover story because Ryuzaki and Raito hadn't been there in the first place…couldn't be there in the first place.

Soichiro immediately understood, and agreed readily with Ryuzaki. Having Ryuzaki exposed to the police at this point and time wouldn't be beneficiary to anyone, especially to the Kira case.

When Ryuzaki left to get Raito and came back with his son in his arms it was a tossup to whether he wanted to rush over and make sure his son was ok or to burst out laughing. Luckily he didn't have time to do either, good thing too because he was sure that his son would have hurt him if he did either, not to mention that his wife would wallop him one.

After making sure that Raito was ok enough not to need immediate medical attention and that Watari would make sure that he got bandaged up Soichiro let them leave. He had seen the look that Ryuzaki was shining upon his son, he was also equally sure that only Sayu and he had seen it for what it was. It was a look of guilt mixed with affection, and if Soichiro wanted to be as optimistic like his daughter it could even be interoperated as true love.

It was only 10 minutes after they had left that the police came, and after dealing with all that and removing the body without his daughter or his wife seeing it, after everyone left they all spent a sleepless night worrying about the missing part of their family.

In the morning after that terrible night he sent both Sayu and Sachiko off with some trustful family friends that would be taking them out of the city on a mini-vacation to some spa retreat. After making sure that they made it out of the city ok he left for work. Despite all that had happened in the last 24 hours he couldn't help but walk with a slight upbeat step.

He knew what to expect. After seeing that look on Ryuzaki's face last night he expected it, hell he even timed it and was planning on making his son and future-son-in-law sweat a bit. After all this work as a officer of the law he had to get kicks somehow.

So while he was shuffling paperwork along with the others on the team waiting for L and Raito to come down from their room, Soichiro was planning and plotting on the best way to break it to his son that he didn't care that he loved a man. He did have a few concerns that needed to be addressed though.

Soichiro looked at the clock next to him and decided that it was about the time he had estimated that Ryuzaki and Raito would be down. So he got up and walked to the door. If he had to guess, he betted the others thought he was going out to go drag the two young men out of bed, Soichiro had been quite the whole morning and usually when he was this quiet he was angry, he wasn't right now but still, for anyone else that was the impression that he was leaving.

After walking to the door he paused.

Was he really ok with this?

Soichiro thought about it and could only come up with one answer.

Yes he was ok with what was happening between his son and his employer. He might have a few doubts but he knew love when he saw it, he felt it every time he looked at his wife.

With his resolve harden he grasped the handle of the door and pulled it open. The sight that greeted his eyes made him start a bit, but he quickly snuffed the chuckle that wanted to escape him when the two young men noticed that they were caught lip locking in front of the door by everyone in the room.

Deciding to have fun he put on his angry father face and made them sit in hard chairs in the middle of the room. He was having a lot of fun when he saw the scared expressions on their faces. He did feel a little guilty but not enough to ease their minds off their supposedly doomed future. After all the hell he had gone though as a father in this case he had to get his shit and giggles somewhere and messing around with is son's and his son's boyfriends heads was on the top of the list.

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He never saw any of it coming.

One minute he was working, trying to track down the killer that had ruined so many lives…the next he is watching in shock as his son suddenly starts yelling at L about it being all his fault or something like that. Soichiro wasn't quite paying attention to what Raito was saying…his attention was focused on the emotion in his son voice. It was filled with pain and anger….and sadness.

'Why would Raito be sad? Maybe he's just still in pain from last night. Yes that's more then likely. I'll have to ask Watari to give him some pain killers.'

Soichiro knew better then to ask L or even his son to take it easy. Both of those young men were dedicated to their work, almost to the point of being obsessive…ok they were obsessive but they still needed to rest every once in a while and Soichiro would make sure of that.

After Raito's out burst the room became very quite, Soichiro could feel that his son was very embarrassed at being caught being emotional.

So Soichiro let it go, he took his eyes off his son's tense back and turned back to his work and his discussion with Mogi and Aizawa.

A few minutes passed as everyone went back to work…until Raito's voice swore stridently out loud.

Just as Soichiro turned back around to see what had upset his son he could have sworn he had seen some white object fall from the ceiling…but before he could think further on it Raito did something that shocked and horrified him enough to forget anything else.

Raito stabbing himself with some sort of sharp object…harshly right through his wrist, causing blood to spill all over the counter and down his arm.

Soichiro didn't even hear himself scream his son's name. He could only stare in disbelief at what his son had done to himself. Quickly though he shook off his shock and jumped to his feet to try to get to his son before he did something else to himself. He was aware that Aizawa and Mogi and L were trying to catch Raito as well.

Somehow though…even with all their efforts Raito easily managed to evade them. The way that Raito moved…it was almost unnatural.

Finally though after a few seconds of evading them Raito mercifully stood still. Soichiro didn't waste any time, he quickly applied pressure to his son's bleeding wrist. He could hear himself screaming but he wasn't aware of what he was saying. All he could think about was if Raito had injured himself beyond repair.

'No! I don't have time to be thinking such thoughts! Raito will be fine…we just need to get him patched up, that's all…oh god why? Was it Kira? If it was…oh son…'

Soichiro noticed somewhat absentmindly that L had wrapped his arms around his son. As if he was trying to warm him up…Soichiro noticed that his son seemed unusually cold to the touch but it could just be contributed to blood loss and shock.

Just as Soichiro was going to call over Watari to get a blanket and bandages Raito suddenly ripped from both him and L's hands.

"No Raito! Son No!!"

Soichiro screamed as his son ran across the room. He was confused and scared…what was his son doing?

Suddenly though it became all to clear…especially when his son got in between Watari and Matsuda, facing Matsuda…who was absentmindly pointing the gun that L had entrusted him with towards Watari…only now Raito was in its path.

Yes suddenly Soichiro understood all to well. He screamed and heard L scream as well…

…then the only sound that filled the room was the sound of a gun going off.

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Soo…what do you think?

I'm not sure this is all what you thought I would do, truthfully it wasn't what I had planned either but…I can't really remember what I had planned in the first place so I guess its ok.

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