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Light Yagami gives a death note to Rem and asks Rem to give it to Ryuk. Then
Ryuk drops the book according to Light's order. Light then takes back Misa's
book while doing something similar with his own book.

Why did he do this?

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Why does Light Yagami shuffle the two death notes?


If I recall correctly it was a part of Light's grand scheme to fully exonerate
him as being Kira in the eyes of the task force and to kill L.

Only Light's Death Note had the rules written in English (see comments) and he
added the fake rules in the back about needing to write a name very 13 days
and if you destroy the Death note all those who touched it will die.

> The Fake Death Note Rules are two rules that Light Yagami persuades the
> Shinigami Ryuk to write into the Death Note as part of a plan to clear him
> of suspicion. These rules ultimately lead to his downfall.
>
>   1. If the user of the Death Note fails to consecutively write names within
> 13 days of each other, then the user will die.
>
>   2. If a person makes this notebook unusable by tearing it up or burning
> it, all the humans who have touched the Death Note will die.
>
>

Source: [Fake Death Note
Rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Fake_Death_Note_Rules)

Ownership of this Death Note had to go to one of the Shinigami to then go to
one of the Yotsuba Group (or any big company) and trusting L's detective work
he would find the new Kira and recover the Death Note.

To do this Light had to have a second Death Note on him as he gives up
ownership of his in order to retain his memories and claim ownership of the
new Death Note when it's ownership is given up by one of the Shinigami. his
new one he can give up ownership when he wanted to "get rid of this pride"
while in imprisoned (ie. get rid of ownership and erasing his memories).

Now it was important for Rem to be the Shinigami of this Death Note that L
recovered because if Rem didn't play along Misa's life would be in danger as
such the fake rules wouldn't be exposed. Of course Light knew L well enough
that L would still pursue Misa and seeking her execution by proving she was
the Second Kira, forcing Rem's hand to then kill L. L would then be killed by
the Shinigami everyone knew about and not by Kira and it would also kill Rem
having intervened in Misa's death.


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This actually changed the Shinigami attached to the notebook. Rem left with
Light's original notebook. And Light buried Misa's notebook that Ryuk became
attached to.

Why he needed Rem to be attached to his notebook really wasn't clear. Ryuk
would have never given up the fake rules, and since Misa went and got her
notebook back as well she had Ryuk following her.

The only thing that really made the difference I think, is that when Rem wrote
down L's name in her death note, everyone saw that Rem was dead. (Maybe that
was the point.) Light needed his notebook to be the one that was recovered so
he could write someone's name quickly and get his memories restored fully.


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Light Yagami shuffles the death notes between himself, Rem, and Ryuk so that
when he and Misa regain their death notes and their memories they will have
swapped shinigami, leaving himself with Rem and Misa with Ryuk, so he can have
Rem with him in the investigation room so Rem will discover that Misa is in
danger and kill L, dying in the process. Rem plays right into his hands, even
surpassing Light's expectations and killing not only L, but also Watari before
crumbling to a pile of dust. Light then takes over the positions of L and
Watari (as planned) and gains control over the investigation squad. He then
has his father hide the death note that was used to kill L, knowing he won't
need it because he has the other death note, and he and Misa move in together.


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