Uhm, I can take extreme flames since I know I'm really bad at writing fan fictions. (Tell me something I don't already know.) This is also my first. It's kind of a plot-less blob of nothing at first and I can see if you think it's boring, but I want to gain experience. I'm thinking of making this a pointless blob of nothing until someday, inspiration hits me, or hides in the bushes outside my house. As I'm writing this, I also realized Raito is so out of character and I made L talk too much. O.o

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What little light and warmth that shone every summer morning in Japan was starting fade again, leaving sidewalks cold and trees musty. The fog that comes through Japan every trans-winter made the few buildings lining the street a washed-out shade of grey against a delicate blue sky. But the weather didn't matter. Back-to-school day was a tradition for Sayu and Misa- and sometimes if they were lucky, some amount of coaxing, whining, and begging could get Raito and L to come along.

The ground was starting to get slick from the light snow.

"Hurry Raito, hurry L! You're going to get wet!" Sayu chanted. Raito frowned and jogged faster to catch up with Sayu only to remember that he was chained to L. L only sighed and made a lazy attempt at rolling his eyes.

"What the hell is wrong with these guys?" Raito mumbled under his breathe. Sayu was quick to jump at any malicious comments.

"Raito, what's wrong with YOU?" Sayu asked, furious.

"Sayu, school is boring. I don't see the fun in it and besides, everything is so…easy."

"You guys, shut up already." Misa groaned. Sayu glared at her and opened her mouth to say something when they heard a bell ring in the distance. Bewildered, they all walked faster.

Mrs. Kiselle, their new teacher jabbered endlessly about practically nothing. Sayu eagerly scribbled down notes while Misa was doodling on her hand and Raito and L were already half way home.

"Yagami-kun, why did I have to come?"

"…"

"Raito, are you listening?"

Raito looked at his feet for a long time. He slowly shifted his gaze over to L and mulled over the suspicious question.

"You didn't have to come you know." Raito said finally.

L chuckled slightly and rattled the chain for effect.

"No thanks. The probability of you being Kira is 40 now." Raito cringed.

"I'm up by 1 today. What did I miss?"

L glanced over at Raito and looked for some sort of reaction and got almost nothing except perhaps a slight twitch of the hand. Ryuk was giggling madly behind Raito. Suddenly, he had the urge to turn around and glare Ryuk right into the ground. L caught Raito looking behind them over and over with a look of revulsion.

"Raito-kun, are you…afraid of stalkers?"

"What? No. It's just there's an annoying noise." Raito emphasized on the noise. L frowned.

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"Sometimes, when you have someone chained to your wrist, you kind of forget. It's like having an eye patch. It's so obvious the first day, and the second you can't feel a thing." Raito complained. Matsuda smirked and sauntered off.

Raito had ran a little too fast and dragged L a foot or two on the cement. L poked curiously at the bandages on his arm. Raito sticks his head in timidly.

"L, I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it was an accident Raito-kun."

"Are you okay?" Raito inquired, hanging his head in shame. L looked peculiarly at Raito's face and for once, he saw a flash worry.

"Mhm, I'm fine, it was only a minor abrasion." L started chewing on his thumb again.

"Oh." Raito's eyes focused on the messy tangle of a chain under L's chair.

Raito turned on his heels and ran out of the room looking distraught. L cocked his head to one side and couldn't help chuckling. L also suddenly noticed the chain in a pile under his chair and had a vague idea why Raito had dashed out in a frenzy.

"Oi, you! Get back here! Matsuda, stop Raito!" After a few moments, Matsuda, of course, is clueless, and runs in flailing his arms wildly and was beyond bewildered.

"Raito isn't in the building, Ryuuzaki!" L, who was slumping before, suddenly jerked up.

"What was he thinking…?"

Raito didn't stop sprinting until he reached the bakery on the corner of the street. He stopped to survey his chaffed wrist and wondered if he did the right thing.

"I ran didn't I? I'm supposed to feel free, but I don't. Is…this guilt? What's happened to me?" Raito looked at his reflection in the shiny window of the bakery. Wary, bored, excited, worried, scared, all in one face.

"I thought I'd find you here Yagami-kun." Raito whirled around at the sound of his name.

"L, I am-"

"Kira, I am-"

"-Justice!

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I'm not going to beg for a review, but that'd be nice, thank you. Next chapter must go deeper into my plot-less plot.