Mr. Mom Complex // Chapter 1
Series: Death Note
Pairing: Raito(Light)/L
Status: WIP
Content: m/m (boys love), slight crack humour (?) T
Takes place sometime that L and Light were handcuffed together. 3
Disclaimer: Death Note and it's characters are (c) Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The kids are all my doing tho.. ;
Mr. Mom Complex
Light rolled over in the bed; being sure not to disturb the unwanted company that lie beside him. Trying to think over the events of that day, he closed his eyes, eyebrows knotting together.
'How did it come to this?', he thought.
His mind rewinded back to where it all had started.
Misa, his "girlfriend" of convience had bounced her way into the main control room as she usually did. Stopping at the chair Light was dilegently working in, a big smile on her face.
"What is it, Misa?" Light asked, not even bothering to look up at her from a pile of
papers.
"Goo-gah!!" A high-pitched voice broke through the slient sound of working.
L, the great detective seated next to him, quickly turned to look over, as well as Light. They found that Misa was holding something. At first glance, it appeared to be a small bundle of blankets with equally little limbs sticking out of the folds.
"Misa?" Light asked.
Misa kept her smile and turned the bundle over to face them. It was...
"A baby?!" Light jumped up out of his seat, pulling the other boy along because of the chain that connected them.
"...!" L's eyes grew wider as he looked from Misa, to the baby, to Light. "Yagami-kun...?"
"...? ..What?! Don't look at me!" Light lost his cool when he realized what L must have been thinking.
"Huh?" Misa looked confused. "What are you talking about?"
L was about to explain, but Light swiftly covered his mouth with his hand.
"N-nothing, nevermind, Misa.. Just.. Who's baby is that?" Trying to regain his composure, a vein visible on his forehead.
"Oh!" Misa hugged the small child to her chest. "This is my 'long-lost' cousin, Romi! My aunt came to visit this weekend and brought my little cousins with her. I had no idea she had had children! Isn't he so cuuute?!" Hearts floated above her as she spoke. Then, her eyes widened into stary orbs. "I want a baby as adorable as this one! Okay, Light?"
Light frowned, visibly disturbed.
"And.." Misa continued, "This is Romi-kun's big sister, Rowan." Just then, a small red-headed girl popped her head out from behind Misa, rather shyly.
The little baby started to coo and reached out for L, but Misa turned him away. "Shh.. You don't want that pervert to hold you, do you?"
The pervert in question blinked a few times. "Why must you always call me that?"
Light couldn't help but smirk at that. "In any case, why did you bring them here? We are working on the Kira case and we don't have time for this.."
"Awww!! But, Light!" She groaned in dissapointment. "That's why I came to you.. I need to ask you a favor."
Light got a very bad feeling about this, but allowed her to continue.
"I need someone to watch over Romi-kun and Rowan-chan for me today and--"
"No way." Light said without giving her a chance to finish.
"Awwww!! But, Light, it's just for today! My aunt hardly visited me after my parents were killed and--"
"I said no!" Light was getting very aggitated. "Why would you ask me, anyway? I'm working on the most important case of my life. Why can't you get someone else to do it? Like one of your friends."
Misa looked like she was on the verge of tears. "But..But, Light. I can't ask any of my friends to do this.. They are either busy with work or out of town for the weekend. There's no one else I can turn to..!"
Light rolled his eyes and caught the odd look L was giving him. It was practically screaming suspicion.
'Damn! Now it's like I have to...'
"I thought... you loved me, Light.. Please, do this for me.. Just this once, I swear!.." She was about to sob when Light gave up, not bothering to hide a sigh of frustration.
"Fine.." He practically growled under his breath. "I'll do it, but only this one time." He crossed one of his legs over the other.
The blonde girl leapted and gave Light a big hug.. er, at least, she tried to as he was sitting firmly, fumming slightly. "Thank you so much, Light! Soooo much!!"
"Alright! Just get going! I... don't want you to.. be late." He thought that was a good enough excuse to pry her off of his body.
"Yes! You're right." She giggled and handed him the baby. "Take good care of them while I'm away!"
Light was forced to endoure one last kiss before Misa skipped out, dropping a huge baby-bag on the floor next to the door. "Oh! And call me if you need anything! I love you, darling! Bye bye!"
As soon as she left, Light released an even bigger sigh than before. He then looked to the baby in his arms.
It was blonde-ish, had green eyes and rosy, chubby cheeks. It actually looked rather cute, but Light was too ticked to care much at the moment. He frowned at it and, in turn, made Romi start to cry. It was a small sound at first, then quickly grew to resemble a siren going off.
"Ergh..." Light winced at the sound, turning to L, who looked just as confused as he did.
"Why is he crying?" The eccentric detective asked over the noise.
"I don't know, but it has to stop!" Light tried petting it's back, but it didn't work.
"Perhaps you should see what he wants?" L thought out loud.
"Oh, yeah.. Grand idea. Hold on and let me ask it." Came the sarcastic reply.
"I don't think--"
"Yeah, you don't think sometimes, do you?" Light snapped at him.
"..."
Getting desperate, Light bounced Romi up and down. But, nothing he did made him stop his wailing. If anything, it made the little baby more aggitated.
L saw this, but didn't know if he should point it out to the younger man or not. He didn't have the chance to comtemplate it for long as Light forced L to hold Romi instead.
As soon as L got a good grip on him, Romi stopped crying. L had remembered how Misa had held the baby before and tried to do the same; carefully holding his head up with one arm while wrapping the other around Romi gently.
Light was very surprised.
'How did he know..?' He thought to himself.
But, the important thing was that Romi had quieted down. The little boy even looked... happy. It cooed again, smiling up at L. L cracked a small, strange smile back and leaned in closer to Romi, curiously. As soon as it was within reach, the 2-foot-long bundle of joy grabbed the detective's slightly pointy hair, tugging on it. L winced a bit, but predicted that if he pulled away, the chances that Romi would begin crying again were over 80 percent.
Light was now pondering why this had to happen. Now, of all times.
'Misa is so going to--' His thoughts were cut off by a soft voice.
"Light-kun..?" L asked, still looking down at Romi.
"Yeah?"
"What do you think he is thinking right now?"
"What? The kid?" Light looked at it too.
It's face was a little screwed up, like it was concentrating hard on something.
"How would I have any clue to what it's thinking?"
There was a small grunt and the tension in Romi's face vanished swiftly.
"Huh?"
But, the two boy's soon realized what happened.
"I suppose..." L started, holding his nose with his thumb and index finger. "He just used the 'bathroom'?"
"Yeah.. I know that now.." A look of disgust graced Light's face.
"Shouldn't we..?"
"No way." There was no way he, Kira, future God of the new world, was going to change a diaper.
"Light-kun." L looked very serious. "I cannot do this by myself. I don't know how."
Light's brain clicked when he heard this. 'He can't do it because he doesn't know how... He probably knows less about children than I do..'
Feeling suddenly superior, Light took the baby bag Misa had left, dragging L along by the chain that connected them. To his surprise, the bag was very heavy.
"What the hell is in here?" He half dragged it to the nearest table and unzipped it. His eyes grew wide. There were so many things inside (some of which he couldn't even reconize). Bottles, pacifers, baby body rub, lotion, baby spray, baby vitamins, baby snacks galore, and the list goes on.
L took a peek at the contents and was even more surprised. "Do babies really need all these things?"
"I'd hope not.." Light decided to look for anything that resembled diapers.
It took a while, but finally - after removing over half the items in the bag - he found what he was looking for. "Alright. I even found wipes and baby powder."
With a nod, L gently sat the baby down and watched as Light slowly did the deed. It was almost painfully obvious that Light was trying very hard to keep his expression blank, maybe to impress L with his awesome diapers-changing skills.
Just as Light was strapping on the other side of the new diaper onto Romi, L spoke up. "Light-kun...?"
"Yeah?" Light grinned, knowing he would now hear praise from the detective.
"Didn't Misa leave two children in our care?" L glanced around, his finger finding it's way to his mouth. "Where is the other?"
Light frowned at took a look around the room. Romi's sister was nowhere to be seen. 'Shit...'
"Light-kun, don't worry. I can--"
"Oh, no you don't!" Light cut him off, "I'll go look for it. You watch the baby." He glanced over and saw that the door that leads outside of the room to the rest of the rooms was slightly ajar. "Damn.." He started quickly towards it.
"But, Light-kun, I could simply--"
"No!" Light blew off whatever L was trying to suggest, losing his usual cool. So, L just let him be. He unlocked their chain.
After Light had left to search for Rowan, L turned to one of the many screens in the room. "Watari."
Shortly, the aged man's voice replied, "Yes, Ryuzaki?"
"Watari, could you please locate Rowan-chan?"
"Yes, Already on it."
"Thank you."
"Will that be all?"
"Yes.. No, actually.." L climbed up onto his chair, thinking. "Could you bring something sweet here? For the children, of course.. And, keep all the rest of our cameras on Light-kun, please."
Watari stifled a chuckle "Yes, of course." And, then there was a small 'click' which signaled Watari's leave from their connection.
A little while later, Watari came into the main control room, Rowan in his arms.
"Here you are, Ryuzaki." He let the little girl go and she gently slid off his arm and to her feet on the floor. "She had just wandered to one of the broom closets. No harm done."
Watari gently smiled to Rowan and she looked away quickly.
L nodded his understanding, watching intently as Watari placed some sweets onto a nearby coffee table.
"Oh.. By the way. Light-kun--"
"Yes, I know, Ryuzaki. He hasn't left the building. I can assure you that he will be back here soon."
L nodded again, vaguely wondering why even Watari was cutting off his sentences today, but then Watari's gently voice came again.
"You don't miss Light Yagami that much already, do you? He's only been gone less than thirty minutes." He couldn't keep a warm smile from curling his lips, giving his face even more wrinkles.
L made a rarely used puzzled face, but stayed silent. 'Hmm..' He didn't have much time to seriously ponder this, as Light had returned and Watari made his leave swiftly from the room.
"Ryuzaki..." Light wore the look of death upon his face, slowly making his way across the room to L and Rowan. He looked flustered, his shirt half untucked and his hair had become a bit messy. L was sure it was because he had truely been searching hurriedly for the little girl. This made a very large, yet equally awkward smile appear on his face.
"What the?! And, what's so damn funny?"
L didn't reply to him, but handcuffed them back together and slowly turned to Rowan. "There's some sweets on that table. Please, help yourself. Oh, and do you know if your brother can have sweets yet?"
Rowan thought for a moment. "Um.. well, Mommy sometimes let's Romi suck on chocolate..."
L smiled at her, happy that she had finally spoken to him, "Well, just to be careful, I'll find him something else to eat for now." He left the little girl to snack and turned to Light again, who was half angry, half confused by now.
"Light-kun. I need you to look for something for Romi to eat in the bag Misa left."
The brown-haired genius broke out of his simmer and blinked a few times. "Oh.. alright."
'Strange... Somehow I feel as though I just lost...' He searched through the bag again and found a small bag of soften animal crackers. "Here." He opened them up and tried to feed some to the little baby who was curiously watching his big sister eat away at piece of strawberry cake. But, Romi, seeing who exactly was getting closer to him, closed his mouth tightly. Light frowned, 'Come on...' He leaned in even closer and let the cracker poke at Romi's little lips. "Come on, little guy. Don't you like these?"
Romi didn't like the feeling on his mouth so he flung his arm and accidently knocked the offensive dog-shaped cracker to the ground. He was now making little grunts and L tilted his head to get a better look around Light to see what had happened. "Light-kun, what's seems to be the--"
"Oh.. Nothing, really." Light had to keep from losing his cool again. "It's just that Romi doesn't seem to want to eat these."
L got up and, avoiding the fallen animal cracker that lie on the floor, went over to them.
As soon as Romi saw L coming, he opened his mouth wide again and smiled.
"Are you sure, Light-kun?"
"Yeah, he hit the damn thing away when I tried to feed him."
L opened his hand and gestured to the bag. Light gave it to him and L took out a elephant-shaped piece, holding it to Romi, who gobbled it up rather quickly.
"See. It's alright."
Light frowned more and looked down at his hands. L glanced over at him and made another awkward smile. "Maybe you just forgot to wash your hands or something."
"..." Light gritted his teeth.
"That's not it?" L pressed on. "Want me to check for you?" Without waiting for an anwser, he took Light's hand in his, bringing it to his nose. To Light's biggest surprise, though, L let his lips brush against the other boy's fingers as he breathed in. Light was totally entranced by this.
When L finally pulled away and let Light's hand go, he had the biggest grin on his face.
"Your hand smells simply awful."
Light couldn't respond right away, but when he was finally able to he found that his brain couldn't create a word for him to express himself with at that moment.
He could only think about walking away, but as soon as he began to, there was a loud 'crunch' noise comming from his foot.
Light decided then and there that he hated animal crackers.
((End//Chpt.1))