Disclaimer : Death Note isn't mine. I'm sure you've known it.

Warning : Out of Character. Bad grammar and story.

PROLOGUE

"L." A voice echoed in a dark room, only illuminated by light from the monitor. L lifted his coffee cup and replied without looked at the person.

"What is it, Watari?" he asked and sipped his coffee.

Watari walked over to L, pushed a trolley filled with sweets to the detective. "Be careful."

L turned to Watari in wonder. "I'm always careful."

Watari sighed, his hands were busy swapped the empty plates on the table with plates of cake. "What I mean is that you don't get complacent. For some reason, I have a hunch that your identity will be discovered. And usually my hunch is always right."

"If it's about my name, you need not to worry. In this world, just you and I that know my name."

"It's not about your name." Watari's words made L's eyes widened. His eyes looked serious, his mouth bent downward.

"I know..." the detective muttered quietly.

"If the investigators know, that's no problem. But, who knows what will happen to you if Kira knows that you are-"

"Watari!" L cut the speech from a man that he considered his father. Watari jerked back startled to hear his 'child' snapped at him. "Sorry." L murmured.

Watari only stared at him in silence. L rose from his chair and faced Watari. "Don't worry. I know the dangers just as I decided to take this case." L Watari looked sad. "Moreover, 'it' won't make me die."

The old man could only clench his shaking hands. "I'm... I'm afraid that Kira will do a same thing as Beyond did to you if he knew." He looked down, hold grimly. "And it certainly will make you completely broke, especially if that Kira..."

Watari's eyes widened when a pair of arms wrapped around his chest. He replied to L's hug, his hand stroke the young detective's hair.

"It's okay." L said, he took off his arms. "I can't promise that to you, but ..." A smile visible on his lips. "I'll try to make sure that it will never happen to me again."

Watari sighed, he took off his glasses and pressed the middle of his eyes before wore his glasses again. "I understand." He pushed the trolley to the door.

"Watari."

The old man stopped and turned around.

"Thank you. And I'm sorry I've made you worry."

Watari sighed again and smiled before stepped out the room and walked away.

L stared at Watari with a sad look. He turned around and went back to his chair. His eyes stared at the monitor that displays a brown-haired man in the cell, and sighed.

'What really happened to them ...?'

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Sound of chain from the handcuffs that bind hands of two people that - should be - mutually hostile. Misa sat on the couch, stared at a circular iron on her boyfriend's wrist and sniffed.

"Hey... this doesn't feel like a date…" she moaned, her hand support her head on the back of the chair, and crossed her legs.

L looked bored towards the girl in front of him, his mouth was busy munching strawberries from his plate. "You don't have to mind me." He said, glanced at a cake that served at the table and point at it. "By the way, are you going eat that cake?"

"Sweets can make me fat ..."

"If you use your head, you won't get fat even if you eat sweets, you know."

Misa jolt when she realize the meaning of L's words. "Ah! There you go making fun of Misa again!"

She smiled and looked at L serious. "How about if Misa give you this cake. But, leave Light and Misa alone together, please?"

L reached out to take Misa's cake. "Though you two will be left alone here, I still can watch through the cameras. So, it's same thing."

"Pervert! Why you don't turn it off? You're hobby is sucks!" Misa snapped. L looked didn't care and ate the cake on his hand.

Misa folded her arms across her chest and turned away, feel annoyed. "Huh! Bummer!"

Silence blanketed before complaints from Misa broke the silence. "Anyway, the room is hot. Are these room doesn't use air conditioning?" she complained, waved her hand to cool her body - which of course didn't work.

L lifted his eyebrows and sipped his tea. "This room is use the AC, actually. Temperature of Japan on this day was too hot."

"Then make the temperature down again!"

"It can't." L added more sugar into the tea. "This is among the lowest."

"Eh? But-!"

"Misa!" a call from Light cut Misa's remark. "Don't be so obstinate! You should be thankful that we can still have a freedom."

Misa went silent. She then puffed her cheeks, pouted. "If there is a swimming pool in here…"

"Mi-!"

"Yes, is there."

Misa and Light stared at L who was busy ate cake. He licked his fingers covered with cream. "If a pool, there is in this building too."

Misa's eyes beamed to hear it. "Really?"

L nodded. "Yes. On twenty-second floor."

"Wait, Ryuuzaki." Light ignored squeal from his girlfriend. "Why is there a swimming pool in this building?"

L glanced at the man beside him. "Just for fun."

"Huh?"

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"I'M COMIIIIING!"

SLOSH!

"SHIT! MATSUDA! YOU WET MY JACKET!"

"Ehehehe... Gomen..." Matsuda said laughed nervously, scratched the back of his head. Aizawa just shook his head and turned away from the edge of the pool.

Misa laughed. "Ahahaha! Matsui-san, spurted everywhere!"

Matsuda chuckled, he then leaned against the wall of the pool and relaxed his body, his eyes closed. "Aaaaah... I'm in paradise..."

Misa's laughter grew louder. "Matsui-san like grandparents in a hot spring!" She then turned to Light that sat next to L, and waved. "Light-kuuuuuuuuun! Come swim with Misa!"

Light replied her wave with his hands that cuffed, indicated that he couldn't swim with his hands chained - that he doubted that Misa understand what's his mean.

"If Light-kun wanted to swim, please do it." L's voice got his attention. "Not good if Light-kun refused his girlfriend." L continued, his fingers busy typed on his laptop and took a chocolate from the table.

Light snorted. "How can I swim if you don't want to release the handcuffs." he said as he held up his cuffed hands.

L was not deterred and remained focused on his laptop. "But, I can't remove the handcuffs because Light-kun is Kira."

"For a fucking hundred times, I'm not Kira! After all you've confirmed when you handcuff me, right?"

L's expression didn't change. "Indeed I say it, but until the percentage Light-kun as Kira down to zero, Light-kun will still handcuffed." L lifted his cup of tea, put some blocks of sugar, and stirred it. "Especially at this time we have to start the investigation from the beginning, and without a suspect."

"Hm... Well then why just don't you come to swim?" Light said, smiled.

"I don't see any reason why I should do that."

The brown-haired man stared searchingly. "You can't swim?"

"If I can't swim, why there is a swimming pool in here."

Light stared at the man beside him and sighed. "Honestly Ryuuzaki, I've been noticed this, we moved to a headquarters that has the complete equipment, but you don't seem to have any kind of motivation."

L glanced at the man beside him. "Motivation?" He saw Light nodded, and stick the fork on the cake. "I don't have any..." He chewed his cake and swallowed before speak. "Actually, I'm depressed."

Light's eyes widened in surprise. "Depressed?"

"Yes." L took the cake and ate it again. "It was so long I kept thinking that Light-kun is Kira. When know that my guess is wrong, I'm so shocked..." He raised his cup and drank the - extremely – sweet tea. "However, Kira was able to control people's actions, which means..." He glanced at the Light again. "There's a possibility that Light-kun is controlled in a way that I'd suspect Light-kun as Kira."

Light still listen L's hypothesis.

"But, what puzzles me is, why you two are still alive after controlled by Kira. According to data, the criminals were controlled and killed without any awareness, they would've just been victims." L sighed. "If Kira found that Light-kun was capable to steal the information from police database, then he controlled Light-kun so I'd suspect Light-kun... Then even I'd be bitter... really shocked..."

The brunette man silent for a moment. "Ryuuzaki... with that theory, though Misa and I have been controlled, that means we still are Kira, right?"

L glanced Light from under his bangs. "Yes, I believe so. There'd be no question about that. You are both Kira." He paused to remember Light and Misa's confinement. "According to my thinking, when you were detained, you were Kira. Then, after being detained the criminals stopped dying. And two weeks later, the criminals started dying again after I strongly believe that Light-kun is Kira. After that, I have an assumption again…

"...Kira's 'power' passed on from person to others. In a video which sent by the second Kira also mentioned 'will share the power'..."

Light touched his chin thoughtfully. "It's an interesting notion. If true Kira was able to do that, it would be difficult to catch him again."

"Yes... that's why I'm stuck..." L sighed again. "Especially, after "Kira's power" transfer to other people, people who previously have, had their memories of his power disappear... there would be useless if we just catching them..."

"But that hasn't been officially decided yet, has it? We still don't know enough about Kira." Light reached out to pat L's shoulder. "Bring out some motivation."

"Motivation?" L's biting his finger. "It's better not to try too hard."

Light stared at him in silence.

"Too seriously to chase him will only put our lives at risk... as serious as we tried to catch him, will only make danger to us. Yagami-kun also thinks so, right? And... to be honest, how many times I thought I was going to die..."

L stared at Light when Light stood close to L before closed the laptop and put L's cup on the table. And he was bewilderment when Light's fist punched his cheek until he fell down backwards, made Light follow him because the handcuffs that tied their wrists.

Everyone's quiet surprised to see that 'friend's affection blow'.

L's body curled up, and coughed before rose to sit. "That hurts."

Light glared at L. "Don't be ridiculous! Just because your theory was wrong, because I'm not the real Kira, then you have no motivation anymore? You really get sulky...?"

L wiped blood on the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. "Maybe what I said wrong... but, let's not make a move because the situation might just get worse."

Light's eyes widened when heard L's statement. "What are you talking about? If we don't move, he wouldn't be caught, right? Who's the one that used to boast on TV and told that he want to catch him and will bring him to execution?" He grabbed the collar of the black-haired man and lifted him up. "You think how many FBI, police, announcers, and other innocent people who got involved, huh? My and Misa's detain become useless!"

L's bangs covered his eyes "I know... but, no matter what..." He spun around and kicked Light right on the chin. "One time is one time."

Light bounced down to the back, L fall too because pulled from the handcuffs. Make all gaped to see them both.

Light and L still busy with their fight. Matsuda – which's still float in the pool – stared at them in a panic. "I have to stop them, commander?"

Soichiro - that sat next to Aizawa - just shook his head and sighed. "Just… let them be…"

"And to be honest..." L glared sharply toward Light. "I was really like that Light-kun is Kira."

L's words were got Light's punch, made them both bounced and...

SLOSH!

...fell into the pool.

Light's head came to surface, he's panted. He looked right and left searched for the dark-haired detective. Then, he felt something pull his hand, his eyes fell toward the black hair which in the water. He grinned before pulled his hand and caught the body of the black-haired person who handcuffed with him.

"Gotcha!" he shouted, made L gasped in surprise. But then his eyes widened as his hand grabbed something soft on the person's chest.

Light transfixed stared at the back of the person – who's hugged himself. His eyes moved toward the cuffs that bound his and L's hands, before he gulped and opened his mouth. "Ryuuzaki, you..."

L just stood still and didn't answer. He then tried to escape, but an arm grabbed his shirt and turned around by Light to face him, with wide-eyed.

"You're..." Light swallowed hard after saw a large bulge at the top of the L's shirt that made his suspicions confirmed. "...a woman…?"

And at that moment, L made a mental note to no underestimate the instincts of the old man that have cared hi- err… her, Watari.

TBC… [Not a tuberculosis]

A/N :

Author : (bows) Welcome to my fic. Please don't flame about the language because English not my native, and I'm just a beginner (^_^)\.

Devil Kira : (rolled his eyes) Yeah, right. If so, why do you write this fic?

Author : (^_^) Because… (glare at Kira) that's not your business.

Devil Kira : (~_o)

Author : And, I need a beta reader for the language and grammar, can anyone please help me? (bows) And last…

Angel Light : (^o^) (with a banner) PLEASE REVIEW IF DON'T MIND!

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With crimson camellia,

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Scarlet Natsume.