L walked towards his usual bench that he waited for Light at the university. In the shade, away from the sun, and away from other people; just the way he liked it. It was October which meant the leaves were changing color and it was beginning to get chilly; Which meant that he would be spending even more time indoors and even less time outside than he already did. He hated being cold about as much as he hated getting sun-burned.

He looked up to where his bench was and was irked to find someone already occupying it. His eye twitched in annoyance but otherwise decided to deal with it. It was after all a public area so he shouldn't have been surprised at all. Never the less, he wasn't looking forward to being stared at for the way he sat.

'Quit complaining and sit your ass down out of the sun,'his inner voice muttered. He stopped his inner monologue long enough to notice that the person invading his spot was a young woman with unusually long, dark hair.

Crap, he wasn't good with women. Well, he wasn't good with people in general but he really, really wasn't good with women. There had only been two in his life that actually meant anything to him and that was his mother and- '

NO! Quit that! We agreed that you weren't going to think ofheranymore.' He mentally slapped himself. He decided to just ignore the woman and sit as far away from her as possible.

L took off his shoes and stepped onto the bench then folded himself into his little hunched position. He heard a tiny giggle to his left but ignored it as he took out a pocket sized book and began reading. Few people knew of his third passion; Poetry. First and foremost was sweet stuff, secondly was delivering justice. Poetry was the third and would probably die if anyone ever found out. Only Watari knew of his poetry and he wouldn't tell a soul.

He heard more snickering emanate from the woman and he glanced to his left with is wide eyes. Her face was tinged red from suppressing her giggles, and her shoulders trembled beneath her black, long sleeved shirt. She glanced at him and L was shocked to find that her eyes were bright aqua blue and the color twinged something long buried in the back of his mind. He turned his head to fully face her which made her stop giggling, her eyes widen, and turn her head as well. Her face was a mask of disbelief as she whispered, "Lawliet?"

L was shocked as this blue-eyed woman whispered his real name.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?" he demanded.

He glanced around swiftly; making sure no one heard her. Then, the memories of long ago past summers in the windy hills of England stirred and engulfed his normally calm mind. '

Where in the holy hell did she come from? She abandons you then pops up outta fucking nowhere like she was here just yesterday-'

L kicked is inner self in the shin, effectively shutting him up. 'Don't even start.'

"Do you not remember me? Well that's not really surprising since it's been years but I didn't think I had changed that much. Where have you been Lawl-" He silenced her by placing his hand over her mouth.

"Shhh. Please do not call me by that name. Call me Ryuga, at least in public." He breathed slowly, trying to calm his self out of his state of partial panic. Memories played through his mind's eye of him and the only other meaningful woman in his life, after his mother.

"Ebony… what are you doing here?" he asked as he moved his hands away from her mouth and cupped her cheek with a feather-light touch, afraid she would once again disappear at the slightest motion.

She smiled warmly, her eyes dancing, "I should be asking you that. I was born here ya know. My brothers and I are visiting some family. I'm actually waiting on them right now." She closed her eyes and clutched his hand closer to her face. He noticed that she had dark green eye shadow on her lids, which amplified the natural aqua green-blue of her eyes.

"Your turn, Ryuga," she said grinning as she leaned away from him but still holding his pale hand in hers.

"I've been here for a few months now. I've been working on the Kira case ever sense the number of heart attacks first began to reach never before seen heights." He sensed her go still and looked up from their hands. Ebony's face had gone slightly white and was looking at him with worry.

"I knew there was something wrong with you. Even as kids. Why of all people, are you the one gunning for him?"

"Did you dye some of your hair blue?" L asked holding a lock of her hair in each hand; one was her natural black hair and the other was dark electric blue. He inwardly smirked when he saw her eye twitch.

"Need you ask? The answer to that is right in front of your face." She said taking hold of one of his tuffs of ratty hair.

"Well at least I won't have to bother with introductions now," a voice came, causing both L and Ebony to turn and look.

Ebony smiled, "Hey Light. What took you and where are my brothers?"

"They decided not to come. They said that they were still tired from the trip so they stayed home." Ebony rolled her eyes.

L couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You two know each other?" Ebony looked at him curiously and Light laughed.

"I thought you would have already figured out who my cousin was or at least looked like, Ryuga. This is my cousin Kokukan that I said I would let you meet last night." Light's expression turned sour. "Speaking of which, why the hell did you send Misa over? That was cruel and completely unnecessary." He grouched, glaring at L.

Kokukan laughed, "I thought she was really cute, not your type at all, but she was still very cute. I can't wait to see your kids."

"WHAT?"

Kokukan cracked up and L laughed quietly but it wasn't from Light's reaction. His laughter came from watching the young woman next to him. And, at that moment, believed that, for once in his nearly sleepless life, he was the luckiest investigator in the world.