Author's Note

This is just how I would have imagined if Light had been the one to win at the end.

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note. If I did, this would have been the ending.

So, all of them were in the warehouse, where they had planned to meet. Mikami had written their names in the Death Note, and they were counting the seconds until they died. Light, however was playing his part perfectly. He was looking nervous just like the rest of them, and Mikami was looking somewhere up, rather than at Light.

Soon, it had been over a minute. Mikami was screaming why it didn't work, but looking upwards rather than at light.

"Detain him." Near commanded. They took the Death Note, and Near made his statement.

"We have caught Kira." Ignoring the gasps from the rest of Light's team, he continued, "Light is Kira."

Inside, Light was smiling. Still, he had to play his role. He looked a bit affronted and said,

"Look, I've already been accused of that before, but you all know it wasn't me." He looked at the rest of his team.

"No more bluffing, you organized this." Near said.

"Now, look, use your common sense." Light started to speak mainly to his team. "If I did organize this, Mikami would have recognized me."

"Really, let's look at the Death Note." Near froze for a moment. Strangely enough, Light's name was on the Death Note.

"See? He even tried to kill me. That should prove, beyond doubt that I didn't do it." He said.

"He's right." Matsuda said. There was a really awkward moment. Near's brain was running at hyper speed. It was impossible that Light wasn't Kira. He concluded that this must be some plan of his. Still, he had a slight doubt that he might have been wrong.

"So," Light began to speak, "We'll take Mikami, as we have the actual legal authority for this case."

"No-" Near started.

"He's right. We do have the authority." Matsuda said.

"Yes, but we have hard evidence that Light is Kira. We can't trust him with the suspect or the Death Note." Near said. He knew it was absolutely necessary for him to separate Kira from all the pieces of the Death Note. He didn't know Light's plan, but he had to act fast.

"I've already proven that I'm not Kira." Light said angrily. The other members of his team seemed to agree. However, some of them were in doubt.

"You know, maybe it is better if they-"

"Fine then, if people of my own team can't support me, what's there to argue?" Light said.

They put Mikami and the Death Note in a secure location, and then Light and his team returned home. Light smiled, he had memorized their names. He even wrote Mikami's name, in the Death Note pages he still had, as he didn't know where he was. He won.