-Forbidden Fruit-
Summary: The apple must have tasted so sweet to Eve because she was told she couldn't have it…. Ryuk/Light, L/Light One-shot
He had bribed me with a whole bushel of apples to stay out of his room while the detective was there, but he never specified that I couldn't watch, which was his mistake. So now I was perched outside of his window, munching on the sweet red fruit before me, and watching him as hard as I could.
The view through my Death God's eyes was perfectly clear and took every single detail in. I knew why he wanted me gone, of course, and now I was seeing it with these own gold and red eyes of mine. I took another bite of the apple. Ah, it was sweet.
He had the detective, the one with the shadowed dark eyes and the unruly hair, pinned against the wall, kissing him, pulling off that loose white shirt he wore, throwing him down onto the bed…
Shinigami couldn't have sex, of course, you didn't have to be an idiot to figure that out. We weren't, however, foreign to the concept of love. Jealous had loved, and loved a mortal, even. So, in fact, did Rem, who loved precious Misa enough to write down Light's name in her Death Note if he hurt Misa. Such romances were taboo, because what good was it for a death god to love a human? They died, and most of the time we were responsible for those deaths. And who needed love? I sure didn't. This was one Death-God who could do without such uninteresting things. It was much more fun to involve myself in things that would hold amusement for me. What good was an emotion that would be wasted, with no means of tasting it? Now an apple…yes, apples, which were like drugs to me, those gave me satisfaction. I didn't just have to stare at an apple, I could pick it up, hold it in my hands, taste it, swallow it and it would become part of me… Really, apples were better than sex any day, or better than love for that matter. Here was all I needed.
Inside the detective let out a soft sound and threw back his head. I didn't look at him as Light draped his young, mortal body over him, sighing contently. I stared at the shiny red apple before me.
There is a mortal story, one of the ones in their famous Christian Bible, about the first man and woman. They are told by their maker that they aren't to touch apples on the Tree of Knowledge, but the stupid mortal woman eats an apple anyways and gains knowledge, so she's no longer innocent and they lose happiness forever, etc., etc. I wonder how THAT apple tasted. Was it sweeter because there was that delightful guilt in tasting it, knowing that it wasn't mean to touch those lips? Were taboo things so sweet?
Light and his detective sure looked content in their forbidden fruits.
I tossed the apple to the ground below. Maybe they weren't so great after all.
Sorry, this was an impulsive little one-shot done straight onto the PC without bothering to handwrite as I usually do…. Mostly because I would like to see more Ryuk/Light and I'd been toying with this idea now. Forgive its badness, I've had a long weekend of partying and nowhere near enough sleep. I worry this story wouldn't really suit Ryuk's "voice", his persona, but whatever. I should be working more on all the other things I need to finish…. Namely Growing (loveless) and re-writing SC, my vampires one…oh, well. R&R because reviews are as sweet as apples.