Journey below [L x reader] • Death Note

Chapter 58 | Hypnos' choice, L's honour

Pulling yourselves out of Styx, you were a little annoyed you wouldn't be able to see the end of Lights tantrum but relived he was arrested. All that's you had to do now was wait for Ryuk to kill him, and the taskforce can handle the rest.

You, L and Hades had a bone to pick with him when he came down here.

"Well, that's that then" you sighed.

"Finally. All we have to do is wait for him to die" L replied.

"After all this we can take a break and I can go back to my job checking in new shades. You can join me if you want, it's actually pretty entertaining seeing how people die"

L was ready for this mess to be over. The kira case can stop haunting him and he can finally Rest In Peace. The fact he was still doing this cat and mouse game after he died was rather ridiculous.

"Oh! Guys!"

You both turned to find Zagreus in the hall behind you, he was carrying a bunch of paperwork for his dad but quickly ran over to talk to you.

"Hypnos wants you. He's been looking all over for you, I figured you'd be on the surface so I'm passing on the massage" Zagreus said.

"Oh? Ok thanks. Where is he now?" You asked.

"By Lethe I think"

"We'll talk to him, thanks Zag" L replied.

"Cool, gotta go or my dad will roast my ass. Bye!"

He dashed off, you and L had a feeling all that paper work was to do with Kira. You both wondered what Hypnos wanted, but L was sure it would be a good thing. He did have that gut feeling after all.

The two of you wandered down the river Styx, and where it split off into Lethe in Elysium you turned up that path and followed it along looking for your favourite sleepy god.

"Any ideas what this is about?" You asked.

"Nope. But this is Hypnos so probably something nice" L replied.

"I'm proud of him honestly, he's healed a lot over the years"

"He has, I'm proud of him too. It's nice to have someone who cares about me for once. Of course there's you, and my dad and successors... but each relationship is different"

You got what he meant. There's many types of love after all, it's nice to experience them all.

You found the sleepy god not too far from his quarters, sitting in his field of poppies. He took good care of his poppies, they were his sacred plant. For every human that he'd helped with sleep, he planted a poppy. Over the years his field had gotten massive.

"Hey Hypnos!" You called out.

You caught his attention and he smiled, beckoning you over. You and L sat beside him among the poppies, wondering what he wanted since he was looking all over for you.

"You we're looking for us? What's up?" L asked.

"Well... it's kind of a big ask so I figured I should tell you in person. And get your beloveds input too" Hypnos began.

You and L exchanged a confused glance, and looked back at Hypnos.

"Well... you know how I told you that for years I'd considered using the power I got from my mother to make myself a child?" He began.

"Oh, yeah. You told me when we were in the cleansing pools" L replied.

"Well, now that I've grown so much. Healed and come to peace with everything that happened. And now that Olympus and the underworld and slowly making amends... I feel like I'm ready for that, I've always wanted to I just... never felt ready. Like I was still a child myself. But now... now I think it's time to pass on my power over dreams to a son"