The Case of the Killer: A Series of DN Drabbles

by ObsidianEmbers

A collection of drabbles dealing with Death Note based mostly on the anime . A greater portion of the drabbles will focus on the characters of L and Light Yagami, but other characters may also be periodically included and/or focused on.

Title: The Case of the Killer: A Series of DN Drabbles (1/?): A Reduction of the Odds
Author: ObsidianEmbers
Rating: PG (nothing racy here)
Pairings: LxLight (but you can take it as just friends)
Summary: A collection of drabbles dealing with Death Note based mostly on the anime . A greater portion of the drabbles will focus on the characters of L and Light Yagami, but other characters may also be periodically included and/or focused on.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything you might recognize here and I'm making no money from this. And just so you lawyer types know, it's not cool to sue poor people anyway.

Warnings: None

A/N: This drabble is set in the innocent!Ratio/ handcuffed!LandRatio time frame. For this particular drabble the two chain-ies are waiting for Watari to bring the car around in order to go somewhere (I didn't really have anywhere in mind, so imagine away). Hope you enjoy it.

Drabble 1: A Reduction of the Odds

"Ryuzaki! It's cold out here. Can't we wait inside?"

The detective turned to Light Yagami and sighed for the fourth time.

"It's perfectly fine out, Light-kun, and if you stopped complaining, I'm sure it would seem 76 percent warmer."

"No, it wouldn't, you psychopath. My hands are numb, my nose is frozen, and this handcuff is like a block of ice around my wrist!" Light thrust his manacled wrist in L's face and jiggled it around for emphasis. L sighed, again, rolled his eyes and promptly began analyzing how much hell it would raise if he added a gag to Light's ensemble. Current estimate at 97.2 percent.

"Come ON, Ryuzaki! Please, can we wa... huh?"

L turned to Light just in time to see a pinpoint of white disappear on the man's nose.

"It's snowing" Light breathed with an air of wonder, uncrossing his eyes from where they'd tried to focus on the landing snowflake.

L stared into Light's wide eyes for precisely 3 and a half second before stating in a monotone voice "54 percent, Light-kun."

Light blinked. "Why did you just lower the percentage by 23 percent?"

"Because Kira wouldn't be simple-minded enough to state the obvious every two minutes."

Light glared at L for a moment before sticking his tongue out and leaning forward to catch a particularly large snowflake drifting down between them.

Catching the look L gave him, Light turned away, slightly abashed, to look at the snowfall tumbling into the path of moving vehicles in the street. L put a finger against his (admittedly frozen) lips and glanced upward as if to confirm his thoughts with the falling snow.

"Make that 43 percent. "

A/N the second: I wrote this in 5 minutes or so and posted it as part of a meme for my deviant art account, the link to which is: TheFinalChoice (dot) deviantart (dot) com (slash) art (slash) Fanfiction-Meme-94590051

I may continue with this and post more drabbles as subsequent chapters, which is why the title of the story doesn't seem to connect to the story; I wanted to leave it open for unconnected drabbles in the Death Note universe. Leave a comment if you liked (or didn't like) this drabble and/or if you want (or don't want) me to post more drabbles.