I hope you enjoy this very short story! For my first story on FanFiction, I have accepted the whimsical task of sending Light and L out grocery shopping! Please don't take this too seriously -- much deeper stuff will come later, once I acquaint myself with the website a bit more. Enjoy, and remember this was meant to be lighthearted, not serious!
The sun blared through thinly separated blinds on the window of a near-empty hotel room. The wrinkled man sat up, blinking as he looked around the room, searching for anything out of place. His eyes landed on a thin, panda-like man near the window, adjusting the blinds. The man grinned at him. "Feeling rested, Sleeping Beauty? You slept rather late this morning, Watari. It is already 7:30."
"I'm sorry, L. I lost track of time." Watari emerged from his bed, quickly realizing that he had slept in his suit and tie. "Is there anything I can get for you?" He scrambled towards the blinds, adjusting them himself and sending L to sit down near a plate of cupcakes. L, much obliged, took a cupcake and licked off all the icing, clearly savoring the sugary treat. Watari let out a small cough. His head hurt. His eyes watered. And he was just...so...exhausted.
With a thump, Watari had collapsed onto the hotel bed, and blanked out. When he woke up a few minutes later, L was already checking his pulse, making sure his dearest friend was still alive. Watari opened his mouth to speak, but L beat him to it. "There is a 77% chance that you are ill, Watari. You will stay here and recuperate. Light and I may take care of the errands for today."
Before Watari could protest, L had grabbed another cupcake and was out the door. Wincing, Watari whispered to the empty room, "I never thought this day would come. L doing the errands without me..."
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"Light-kun! I have an announcement to make!" L was sitting in a red armchair at the end of a table, sucking the cream from inside a cream puff through a slit in the bottom. He smiled at Light, sitting across the table with his girlfriend. Light had a superior intelligence, but she was distracted by shiny objects. L often wondered why they even went out. Light, intrigued by L's upcoming announcement, widened his eyes in anticipation.
"Is there another suspect for Kira? One that's not me, I hope?" He had meant for that to come off as a joke, but inside he wanted to distract the case from himself, the prime suspect for Kira. L smiled, shrugging off Light's question.
"No, we are going to go shopping!" He gulped down the empty shell of the cream puff. Misa, Light's girlfriend, stood up and clapped excitedly.
"Oh, yes! Light is finally going to go shopping for an engagement ring for me! I fully support your announcement, Ryuzaki!" She began to hum "Here Comes the Bride" to herself and flexed her left hand, as though something was missing there. Light let out an exasperated sigh and shook his head at Misa. No, not this time, he seemed to say.
"No, Light-kun and I must go out to purchase food for the week, for Watari is incapable at the moment." Misa frowned and turned away from L out of frustration. Light opened his mouth to ask about Watari, but L had already slipped away from the table and was waiting at the door, beckoning for him to come along. Light grabbed his cell phone on the way out, catching up to L, who was already halfway down the hallway and waiting at the elevator. "Come, Light-kun! Time is money!"
"Of course, Ryuzaki." As if L would ever have problems with money. Stepping into the elevator, Light pressed the lobby button. L was just staring at the buttons, waiting for something to happen. Watari had always pressed the buttons for him.
Once at the ground level, Light and L had reached the revolving door. L was grinning, excitedly anticipating his first errands alone. Light rolled his eyes. Only a child would be this excited to buy a few groceries, he thought.
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"Light-kun! Light-kun! Let's go here first!" L had reached a Dunkin Donuts and was gesturing towards the donuts in the window, his panda-like eyes glowing. Light pushed open the door, buying two donuts for the detective. L was standing beside Light, trembling with excitement - or was it trembling due to a sugar high? Grabbing a donut, L pointed across the street to a Target store.
"Shall we purchase our groceries there next, Light-kun? The store says that we should 'Expect more, pay less.' That sounds satisfactory, no?" Light laid $5.00 on the counter at the Dunkin Donuts to compensate for the third donut L had grabbed from the display. Watari's job was harder than he expected...