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''"Sometimes all it needs is a little push... OR The benefits of withholding ones anger - a rough lesson which Mello learned but never followed."''

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* {{Asexuality}}: Both Light and L [[spoiler: believed themselves to be until Mello forced the issue.]]
* AlternateUniverseFic

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* {{Asexuality}}: Both Light and L [[spoiler: believed themselves to be until Mello forced the issue.]]
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* AxeCrazy: Mello waving his gun around. Kira [[spoiler: and L]] keep these tendencies private so they seem reasonable.
* BashBrothers: [[spoiler: As soon as Mello is distracted L and Light easily take him down.]]
* BodyguardCrush: L and Light.
* ChokeHolds: [[spoiler: Light does this when taking down Mello.]]
* ClickHello: Mello does this to L and Light.

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%% * AxeCrazy: Mello waving his gun around. Kira [[spoiler: and L]] keep these tendencies private so they seem reasonable.
%% * BashBrothers: [[spoiler: As soon as Mello is distracted L and Light easily take him down.]]
%% * BodyguardCrush: L and Light.
%% * ChokeHolds: [[spoiler: Light does this when taking down Mello.]]
%% * ClickHello: Mello does this to L and Light.
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* YaoiGuys: [[spoiler: [[{{Seme}} Light]] and [[{{Uke}} L]] in the end.]]

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Bastard Boyfriend has been rehauled into Fetishized Abuser (for then the narrative portrays an abuser as sexually desirable). Otherwise, it's an example of Domestic Abuser. If both people display toxic behaviors, it's Romanticized Abuse. If the romantic partner is an unpleasant person but not outright abusive, then they are just a Jerk Ass.


* BastardBoyfriend: [[spoiler: L remarks that Light was quite merciless with him.]]



* EasilyForgiven: In this 'verse L and Light forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill their friend. [[spoiler: Also in the aftermath of Mello's stunt—Mello is grounded and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize, and Matt gets away with it as usual.]]

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* EasilyForgiven: In this 'verse verse L and Light forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill their friend. [[spoiler: Also in the aftermath of Mello's stunt—Mello is grounded and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize, and Matt gets away with it as usual.]]
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7747737/1/ A Gun To Love's Head]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1643843/Viyola Viyola]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[SlashFic Light x L]] [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]. 5 years after the end of the Kira case, L and Light are getting along perfectly, and a certain someone is worried that he'll never get to succeed L at that rate... Armed with a gun, Mello sets out on an angry rampage to 'fix' the problem, but his effort has an unexpected result...

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7747737/1/ A Gun To to Love's Head]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1643843/Viyola Viyola]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[SlashFic Light x L]] [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]. 5 years after the end of the Kira case, L and Light are getting along perfectly, and a certain someone is worried that he'll never get to succeed L at that rate... Armed with a gun, Mello sets out on an angry rampage to 'fix' the problem, but his effort has an unexpected result...



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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared that [[spoiler: Light is Kira and Higuchi is the Second Kira.]] Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared that [[spoiler: Light is Kira and Higuchi is was Kira all along, with the Second Kira.Kira, whose identity is "classified," privately executed.]] Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.

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* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near. Of varying degrees of sanity-[[CooldownHug Matt tries to stop Mello]] and [[SomebodyElsesProblem Near stays out of it.]]

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* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near. Of varying degrees of sanity-[[CooldownHug Matt tries to stop Mello]] and [[SomebodyElsesProblem [[BystanderSyndrome Near stays out of it.]]
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* AntiHero: L, Light, and Mello are all around [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type IV or V.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him. Also [[spoiler: Mello's punishment for threatening to ''murder'' them is that [[YouAreGrounded he gets grounded.]]]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him. Also [[spoiler: Mello's punishment for threatening to ''murder'' them L and Light is that [[YouAreGrounded he gets grounded.]]]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him.

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* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him. Also [[spoiler: Mello's punishment for threatening to ''murder'' them is that [[YouAreGrounded he gets grounded.]]]]
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* {{Irony}}: It doesn't even cross Mello's mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor. 2) [[spoiler: Because of Mello's actions Light and L get together.]]

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* {{Irony}}: 1) It doesn't even cross Mello's mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor. 2) [[spoiler: Because of Mello's actions Light and L get together.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: Mello. He's convinced that as long as Light's around he'll never get a shot at being L's successor. (It doesn't even cross his mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor.)

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* GreenEyedMonster: Mello. He's convinced that as long as Light's Light is around he'll never get a shot at being L's successor. (It doesn't even cross his mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor.)
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* FakingTheDead: L pretended to have Light executed as Kira and then kept him as his friend and partner partner.

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* FakingTheDead: L pretended to have Light executed as Kira and then kept him as his friend and partner partner.
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* AxeCrazy: Mello waving his gun around. Kira [[spoiler: and L]] keep these tendencies private so they seem reasonable.
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and makes him drop the gun.]]
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* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Mello speaks like this.
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* BastardBoyfriend: [[spoiler: L remarks that Light was quite merciless with him.]]


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* TheMasochismTango: L and Light.


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* PreemptiveShutUp: Mello to Matt [[spoiler: after L and Light get together and Matt asks Mello if he wants to talk about it.]]

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* ChokeHolds: [[spoiler: Light does this when taking down Mello.]]



* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler: L bites Mello on the arm, making him drop the gun.]]
and makes him drop the gun.]]



* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Mello’s punishment.]]

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* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Mello’s Mello's punishment.]]
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* BashBrothers: [[spoiler: As soon as Mello is distracted L and Light easily take him down.]]


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* FakeOutMakeOut: [[spoiler: to placate Mello who is waving a gun around Light kisses L and that serves as a sufficient distraction for the Successors that allows Light and L to get the drop on Mello.]]
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* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Despite the fact that Light and L insist that they aren't lovers Mello doesn't believe them.
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* VillainsWantMercy: Light is the first to crack when Mello threatens their lives; mostly because L believes [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt Mello won’t really do it]] and Light has no such illusions.

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* VillainsWantMercy: Light is the first to crack when Mello threatens their lives; mostly because L believes [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt [[YouWouldntShootMe Mello won’t won't really do it]] and Light ([[DoesntLikeGuns with his healthy aversion to guns]]) has no such illusions.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared Light as Kira and Higuchi as the Second Kira. Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared that [[spoiler: Light as is Kira and Higuchi as is the Second Kira. Kira.]] Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Light and L's attempts to explain that ItsNotWhatItLooksLike.

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Light and L's attempts to explain that ItsNotWhatItLooksLike.its NotWhatItLooksLike.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mello feels threatened by [[TheAce Light]] and his closeness to L.

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Light and L's attempts to explain that ItsNotWhatItLooksLike.



* ExtranormalInstitute: Wammy's House



* GreenEyedMonster: Mello. He's convinced that as long as Light's around he'll never get a shot at being L's successor. (It doesn't even cross his mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor.)



* {{Irony}}: It doesn't even cross Mello's mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor. 2) [[spoiler: Because of Mello's actions Light and L get together.]]



* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near.

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* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near. Of varying degrees of sanity-[[CooldownHug Matt tries to stop Mello]] and [[SomebodyElsesProblem Near stays out of it.]]



* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: When Mello accuses L and Light of sleeping together [[DiggingYourselfInDeeper L insists that they sleep together in the same bed because it's convenient.]]

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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: When Mello accuses L and Light of sleeping together [[DiggingYourselfInDeeper [[DiggingYourselfDeeper L insists that they sleep together in the same bed because it's convenient.]]


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* TransparentCloset: Light and L.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared Light as Kira and Higuchi as the Second Kira.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared Light as Kira and Higuchi as the Second Kira. Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.
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* {{Aesexuality}}: Both Light and L [[spoiler: believed themselves to be until Mello forced the issue.]]

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* {{Aesexuality}}: {{Asexuality}}: Both Light and L [[spoiler: believed themselves to be until Mello forced the issue.]]
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''"Sometimes all it needs is a little push... OR The benefits of withholding ones anger - a rough lesson which Mello learned but never followed."''

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7747737/1/ A Gun To Love's Head]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1643843/Viyola Viyola]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[SlashFic Light x L]] [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]. 5 years after the end of the Kira case, L and Light are getting along perfectly, and a certain someone is worried that he'll never get to succeed L at that rate... Armed with a gun, Mello sets out on an angry rampage to 'fix' the problem, but his effort has an unexpected result...

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!! ''A Gun To Love's Head'' provides examples of:
* {{Aesexuality}}: Both Light and L [[spoiler: believed themselves to be until Mello forced the issue.]]
* AlternateUniverseFic
* AntiHero: L, Light, and Mello are all around [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type IV or V.]]
* BodyguardCrush: L and Light.
* ClickHello: Mello does this to L and Light.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared Light as Kira and Higuchi as the Second Kira.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: [[YouAreGrounded Mello is grounded]] and forced to go a week without chocolate and Near is forced to socialize.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Misa is right of course but because she's TheDitz no one pays attention.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Light has had a phobia of guns ever since [[spoiler: L had Light's father pretend to shoot him in a mock execution.]]
* EasilyForgiven: In this 'verse L and Light forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill their friend. [[spoiler: Also in the aftermath of Mello's stunt—Mello is grounded and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize, and Matt gets away with it as usual.]]
* FakingTheDead: L pretended to have Light executed as Kira and then kept him as his friend and partner partner.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: L and Light
* FixFic: The story is [[FandomSpecificPlot divergent from the Yotsuba arc.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: Light and L at first.
* HairTriggerTemper: Mello
* HazyFeelTurn: [[AntiHero L and Light]] don't really change that much—they’ve just become allied with each other. They work together, they solve cases together, [[spoiler: and sometimes they write in the notebook and kill together.]]
* IgnoredEnemy: L and Light get to bickering and for a moment almost forget that Mello has a gun on them. Later [[spoiler: when Light and L are making out Mello, Matt, and Near get to arguing and Light and L use that distraction to disarm Mello.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Mello notices this about L and Light.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero [=/=] NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Light and L ''weren't'' together before Mello pulled this stunt. They are now.]]
* NotThatKindOfPartner: L and Light are partners but [[spoiler: until Mello forced the issue]] they were completely platonic.
* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Light and L [[spoiler: until the end.]]
* PowerOfTrust: Light and L draw on it to get through their ordeal.
* RightThroughTheWall: [[spoiler: Light and L's room is above Mello's and while Mello is grounded he can hear them going at it through the ceiling.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Mello demands that L and Light screw each other or he shoots them dead.
* SecurityCling: Light and L unconsciously cling to each other when Mello pulls a gun on them.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mello becomes convinced that L and Light are screwing each other because if he's right then that means Light is out of the running to be L's successor.
* SlashFic: [[spoiler: Light/L]]
* SubordinateExcuse: Mello assumes that Light is this, [[TheVamp that Light is sleeping with L to become L's successor!]]
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: When Mello accuses L and Light of sleeping together [[DiggingYourselfInDeeper L insists that they sleep together in the same bed because it's convenient.]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[VillainousBreakdown Light panics]] when Mello is about to shoot him and convinces L that after everything they've been through together they can't let it end like this.
* UndyingLoyalty: L and Light to each other after [[FireForgedFriends all they've been through together]].
* TheVamp: [[spoiler: Light is willing to seduce L (and L is willing to let himself be seduced) in order to save themselves.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Light has a mild one when he's ''sure'' that Mello is going to kill him.
* VillainsWantMercy: Light is the first to crack when Mello threatens their lives; mostly because L believes [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt Mello won’t really do it]] and Light has no such illusions.
* YaoiGuys: [[spoiler: [[{{Seme}} Light]] and [[{{Uke}} L]] in the end.]]
* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Mello’s punishment.]]
* YouWouldntShootMe: L is ''sure'' Mello won't pull the trigger...

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