DISCLAIMER: I wish I owned Death Note, unfortunately, I don't. I also do not own the song from which the title of this thing was taken (Close To You by The Carpenters).
"Close To You"
The famous detective was busy consuming his strawberry cheesecake when his number one suspect interrupted him.
"Ryuzaki, I need to go to the bathroom." The all-too-pleasing-to-the-eye murder suspect said as he towered behind the detective.
"Then, by all means, please do, Yagami-kun." Replied Ryuzaki, who was obviously too busy with his sinful dessert that he totally forgot about their current situation.
"Uhm… Ryuzaki, we're handcuffed."
~o~o~o~o~
For months now, Yagami Light, a brilliant student, who was as gorgeous as he was intelligent, and number one suspect on the Kira Case, has been handcuffed to Ryuzaki, also known as the world famous detective, L.
Given such circumstances, Light and L had no choice, whatsoever, but to go everywhere together, even to the most mundane of places, like the bathroom.
"Ryuzaki, I have been cleared of all suspicion as Kira, right? Why do I still have to be chained to you?" Light asked L on they're way back from the bathroom.
"Yagami-kun is cleared of all suspicion for now, but he is still not yet proven to be one hundred percent innocent."
"Guilty until proven innocent, is that it?"
"Yes."
"I still don't get why you would suspect me of being Kira! I am not Kira!"
"Whatever you say, Yagami-kun, now let's get back to work." L replied in a tone that clearly said "end of discussion".
L resumed attacking his scrumptious cake as an irritated Light slumped back to his chair. How dare he suspect me of being Kira? Between the two of us, he looks like the murderous one! I can suspect him of being Kira!
~o~o~o~o~
Their colleagues have left and the building was almost empty when L broke his silence and turned to the pretty boy seated next to him.
"Yagami-kun, do you want to get a snack?"
"No, thanks." Answered Light, clearly still pissed off by their earlier encounter.
"I want to get a snack."
"Then get one, Ryuzaki."
"Yagami-kun, we're handcuffed."
~o~o~o~o~
On the way to the kitchen, Light once again tried to talk L into removing the handcuffs.
"You do realize that this handcuff thing is not only irritating, they're also awfully inconvenient, don't you, Ryuzaki?"
"Yes, I do, Yagami-kun."
"Then why don't you just remove them? That way, I can go to the bathroom without asking you and you can get you're stupid snacks anytime you want without having to drag me around with you."
"Yagami-kun, even if this 'handcuff thing', as you refer to it, is inconvenient and irritating, letting a crazed mass murderer run loose is dangerous and if I may say so, I'd choose inconvenient and irritating over dangerous any day."
"I think you meant, suspected crazed mass murderer, Ryuzaki."
"Okay, suspected crazed mass murderer then. See, Yagami-kun? You do understand the situation."
"I never-" Before Light can finish his sentence, the sugar-crazed detective cut him off.
"Besides, even if I do find the handcuffs a bit inconvenient, unlike Yagami-kun, I am not irritated by it."
"What are you trying to tell me? That you have a bondage fetish?" Light retorted, rather sarcastically.
"No, Yagami-kun. I just kind of like being close to you." L finally said as he walked back to their workstations, cake in one hand and a very stunned Light handcuffed to the other.
~E~N~D~
NOTE: My first Death Note fanfic. How did I do? :)