L silently awoke, the sun was trying to get through the closed blinds, birds were singing nosily. It leads L to guess that the sun had to be close to being half up in the sky. He was still on Raito's chest from last night; Raito's arms were rapped gently around him. L, with a small and quiet yelp, he quickly moved as far as Raito as he could get, though gently so he didn't wake him up. L hated himself because of last night. Over some stupid memories of the past he had cried on Raito's chest. Though the more L thought about it, the more he took it in a friend like way. Raito as a friend was probably just trying to comfort him in his time of need. L shook his head at himself, quickly deciding about how he should go about the day.

"Raito-kun?" L whispered softly, not really wanting to get him up at all. "Raito-kun?" He said a little bit louder, giving Raito a small shake. Raito slowly opened his eyes, staring dazedly up at him. "Ryuuzaki?" L nodded. "Come on, we have to get up, there is a…." he stopped and listened for only a few seconds. "Eight-five percent chance that the others are here. Besides. I must go to the bathroom." Raito stood and followed L quietly still sleepy. "Ryuuzaki? Are you feeling ok?" Raito suddenly asked before L entered the bathroom. "Of course I am." L stated a little precatiously. "Why?" Raito thought about weather he was supposed to tell him about last night or not, but eventually thought against it. "No reason, you just look a little tired."
"Don't I always?"

Soon after L had got through using the bathroom along with Raito, they had both also decided to get in the shower. As usual Raito went first. "Raito-kun, you yourself seem tired" L pointed out softly, looking away from Raito. "Hard to sleep is all." Raito only answered, and then the only sound was the running of the water. This gave Raito time to think about what had happened last night. After L had fallen asleep from crying an hour straight, over Kira-knows-what, he began to toss and turn in his dreams. This happened after Raito had softly taken him off his chest. Raito had ignored his whimpers and cries. L had kept him up all night until finally Raito pulled him back into his arms and chest, and instantly the detective hushed and did nothing more. Thus letting Raito sleep, but also felt happy since he knew he brought L peace in his sleep, and wondered himself if this was going to happen every night. Though even if it did he wouldn't mind.

L looked more on guard then usual, and felt that way too. He remembered crying. Crying on Raito-kun's chest! L thought bitterly as Raito got out of the shower. It was worse since he had cried on Raito's chest. Though Raito hadn't mentioned anything about it today, it worried him a bit. He couldn't tell anything Raito was thinking, and couldn't guess his emotions. L stripped and stepping into the shower himself, paying no attention to Raito. Does he feel ashamed? Is he mad at me? What did I do in my sleep to keep him up all night? Is he not saying anything because he doesn't want me to be upset, or does he not know about it? Yeah, I'll assume that, so, better not say anything until he says something to me about it.

Eventually L also got out of the shower and got dressed. Raito was sound asleep, leaning against the bathroom wall. He looked so tired, and L hated to wake him fir the second time this morning. He sighed. "Raito-kun?" Raito jumped by the sound of his name being called. Apparently he was half asleep, and half awake. "Y-yes Ryuuzaki?" L didn't know what else to say besides, "You're tired Raito-kun." Raito shrugged. "Its fine, I can manage." With that he leaned off the wall, stretched, and yawned. "If you want too…." L stated slowly his thumb nail in his mouth from deep thought. "I can unchain us so you can go back to sleep." Raito was shocked by the offer; he had never seen it coming. "No, it's fine. Really." Raito eventually said after a long period of thought. L only shrugged and left the bathroom dressed of course, Raito at his heels. "Are you positive Raito-kun?" L continued to push him. "What's gotten into you, Ryuuzaki?!" Raito asked bitterly. "You aren't acting like yourself…" L said nothing, entering the room with the rest of the Task force. Today's going to be a long day. Raito thought, sitting in his seat next to L.

Later that day, L watched Raito as he slept in his chair. L had seen thus coming, so he turned around and faced the other members. "I know this is kind of early but… you can all go home, as you can plainly see, Raito-kun is tired." He said with a small gesture toward the sleeping teen. "Thus leading me to think you are all tired as well, go home." He repeated. He got no other words from the Task fore members as they left one by one, but a look of disapproval from Soichiro Yagami. Also known as Raito's father. L glanced back toward Raito after he had left and debated on what he should do. Suddenly an idea slid through his mind, and L quickly unchained them both. A glimmer of amusement in his night black eyes, And soon he got to work on his bright idea. Moving furniture here and there to different places, making it look like a big fight scene. He did this carefully and slowly so he wouldn't wake the sleeping Raito. After the whole place looked like a wreck, he took ketchup and poured it everywhere. L knew he would have to clean it all up later, but seemed worth it all just to see the look on Raito's face. The remainder of the ketchup he poured all over himself then lay down on the floor, a knife with ketchup covering the blade lat right next to him, and he shut his eyes and Raito just began to slowly wake up.

Raito opened his blurry eyes, but to his horror, he saw blood everywhere. Covering everything, and glanced down to see L's unmoving, limp body. Raito let out a startled cry and began to panic. His thoughts turned to the worst, seeing the furniture torn apart, and everywhere. He knelt down besides L. "L! Please wake up! What happened?! Oh L!" Raito was so jumbled up in thought he forgot to even call the older detective Ryuuzaki. Yet still he got no reply, the detective was dead. Though strangely enough he couldn't find his father, nor anyone else's corpses. They must have taken them as hostages. Raito now thought, in mock horror now. He felt really bad for falling asleep, though he was too scared to even think about why he hadn't been killed like the others. Raito sprinted for the door only to slip on some ketchup and land on the ground. Cold ketchup splattered all over him and some even landed in his mouth. Raito was just about to spit it out until he tasted it. "Ketchup?!" Suddenly he heard a laugh,

A quiet but noticeable laugh that came from behind him. The laugh of the surprisingly, 'dead' detective. Anger flared in Raito's amber, now dark brown eyes as he stood up and saw L standing there with his ruffled black hair and his unusually light eyes gleaming with his joy, and his 'blood' covered shirt that was actually ketchup. "Why you little-!" he was cut short by another laugh from him. 'You're really going to be dead once I get hold of you!" he stormed toward L glaring at him, when he just thought it all more the funny. "Why the hell did you do that Ryuuzaki?!" Raito spit through clenched teeth. Once L was able to get a deep breath and speak e answered. "Because I wanted to see your reaction, and it was much more funnier then what I thought and-"

SMACK!

The sound of flesh striking flesh could be heard. Raito had punched L right in the jaw, a disgusted look on his face. "Ow, Raito-kun, Damn it, Why be so mean?"
"You know you deserved that Ryuuzaki!" Raito bellowed at him and raised his fist to strike again. "Now Raito-kun, let's not be so… RASH!" L's last word was extended with a grunt as he kicked Raito away from him. Raito took the blow but gave one of his own in turn, nailing L in the stomach. "Look, who woke up on the wrong side o the chair this morning." Came L's disoriented grunt as Raito struck him. He bent down low and swept his feet underneath Raito's knocking him down and off his feet. Then he quickly pinned Raito below him. "Now Raito-kun, Will you please calm down?" Suddenly Soichiro walked back in to the room to retrieve something he had left only moments ago. When he saw what had happened he stopped dead in his tracks, shocked. Raito used this moment to his advantage and pushed L off. "Dad!" Raito cried, then ran over to him and hugged him. "L, What did you do to my son?"
"Mr. Yagami…" L stated slowly, ignoring the throbbing of his cheek, "It's not as it seems-"
"Not as it seems?" Soichiro stated harshly. "I come in and-"Raito sighed knowing he would regret this later. It's not sad, the 'blood' your seeing is merely ketchup, L pinned me down because we were throwing licks at each other." Soichiro said nothing, eyeing L bitterly. Ah, if looks could kill, I would be dead right about now. L thought half amused by suck. He was a little bit surprised that Raito had defended him. "He shouldn't of-"

"No, no father, it was completely my fault." Raito said, knowing exactly what Soichiro was going to say. With one last glare Soichiro left without another word to either of them. The door slammed shut. "Three, two, one." L counted down, and as soon as he said one the door opened again and Soichiro grabbed his things and left. Again Raito looked back over toward L with his own glare.

"What?"

"You have a lot of stuff to clean you know."

"I'll get right on that."

"I'll help." Raito murmured and with that, they each went into the kitchen, grabbed a wet rag, and began to work on cleaning up the mess.

"Hey, Raito-kun…" Raito looked up only to get struck in the face with a wet, soapy, rag. "What the hell-?" L chuckled quietly, as Raito wiped his face and shot him a playful glare. He has tried to give L the cold shoulder for that little trick from earlier today, but had failed miserably. L had gotten him to talk even before an hour was up. He had noticed that L had been acting very childishly today a said that no one had ever seen before. The room was almost cleaned up completely now. The furniture was already back in place, and most of the 'blood' was cleaned up. "What was that for?" L was still chuckling softly. "Will you please put that in the garbage for me?" He asked once he stopped chuckling for only a bit. "What do I look like? Your rag boy?" Raito threw the rag back at L playfully. L knew Raito was going to do that, so, with the rags he had been saving up, the ones that he had already used to clean the mess, he took all of them and called out. "Raito-kun! Think fast" Raito turned around once more expecting to catch yet another wet rag but instead he was bombarded with all the dirty wet rags he had used already. "Ryuuzaki!" Raito twisted the rag and then snapped it at L making L jump from the sudden strike. L quickly shot around and did the same thing and soon, they were laughing and playing around, snapping rags at each other.

Later on after all the playfulness was out of them, and after rags were thrown all over the room, they began to collect them up, casually glancing at each other. L had looked at Raito the most though, still curious about today, and why Raito hadn't mentioned anything about him crying. "Hey, Raito-kun.?" Raito shot around his hands thrown up in his face like L was going to throw something else at him, earning a small laugh from L. "What is it, Ryuuzaki?" L sighed quietly. "Why did you fend for me with your dad?"

"Because you really didn't deserve that, because technically, it was both our faults."

"I see. Well, thank you."

"Your welcome." The room then went silent for the longest time, making both of them shift around uncomfortably. "Hey Raito-"

"Hey Ryuuzaki-"They both said this at the same time, the words were suddenly jumbled. "You go first." L finally said. "Last night…. Why were you crying?" Raito didn't want to talk about this subject, though he knew it was going to come up. "I was just about to ask you something very close to that." Responded L who looked sad once more. "Just painful memories are all. I am sorry that I did, you probably thought it was annoying to have a grown male cry on you huh?" Raito shook his head. "No, No! Not at all Ryuuzaki! It was fine, I could understand…" L said nothing more then turned around and began to proceed to throw away the rags that would never be cleaned. "Come on. I'm hungry; it's been quiet awhile since I have eaten any sweets!"

"Aren't you always hungry?"

"Hey, you stole my line!"


Aw, so sweet! Any way, give me about another week and the third chapter will be out. Sorry it took me so long, some things happened and well.. You know, I really didn't have the time to write it all up. I know L seeemd a little out of character in this chapter, and he was meant to be, in fact I wrote all this at school when I was suppose to be studing. ( Still got an A on the test though. :3) Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this short, yet funny chapter! Again, I hope you send a review.


Thanks to some things going a little wrong in my family, It might be a litte bit before I get the next chapter in... So please be aware of this...