Chapter 2- "A Different Kind Of Sweet"

About a week later, Itachi couldn't't believe that L was defeating all the trials he put him in with ease, he had gone four days without sheets on his bed, and he had gone a week and a half without his beloved sweets. Itachi looked at him and knew he was dealing with someone not like all the rest of his hostages, it was very obvious to him.

L looked at him, "Do you have any more trials? They're rather easy for me..."

Itachi sighed, "Not yet. Don't get so cocky, it does you no good for the next ones I plan."

'Why am I helping him?' questioned L, 'He's a bad guy like Kira but Kira is behind this and I need to stay alert...'

Itachi went into the backroom as L heard ruffling and the movement bags, he began to get excited knowing his candies were coming. If he had to go another week without sweets he would've gone crazy. Itachi got the bags and laid them out on the table as L dove for the sugar cubes and the chocolates. He really missed eating his sweets.

Itachi found the behavior odd. L was weird to begin with to Itachi. He sat crouched anytime he had to sit, he held his cell phone in odd manners, he held things like he had to be careful with them, he analyzed everything throughly, and he was pale and underweight. Itachi walked around until he had to get the question of the sweets out of his mind, L began pouring eight sugar cubes into his coffee as he spit it out.

"This is disgusting...I want a cappuccino, I hate strong coffee.." L looked at Hidan who was not amused by serving him, "...Is there no more?"

"That's all we have until Sasori goes out on Tuesday..." Itachi replied, "Anyway, I have to ask you something...How is sweets your sin?"

L grinned a little, "That seems to be the only inner child of me left...To tell the truth, I don't know how I got hooked...Why do you call it a sin?"

Itachi laughed a little, "Isn't everything a sin? I just can't imagine myself eating it all the time, it would get old quickly..."

L laughed. He almost noticed a change in Itachi from a week ago, he was being tortured but not fully. That didn't mean that he could let his guard down, he felt he had to watch Itachi more now that they were getting along. L didn't trust him yet, he couldn't't really do it because Itachi was a murderer and followed the same footsteps as Light. He still had to be careful.

L's cell phone rang as he answered it, Itachi looked at him, "I can't tell you the location of where I am...No...I...My kidnapper isn't going to allow it..."

Itachi sighed, "They're on to you already? It took them so long..."

L put his phone down, "No, we communicate through my laptop but I haven't told them that I'm in Konoha...I have to respect your privacy.."

Itachi grinned, "There you go, holding your cell phone in an odd way again..."

L's phone began to vibrate as he picked it back up and began talking. He dropped the phone right away, Kira was no longer in Tokyo. L didn't want believe the rumors but he checked the papers online and found that there wasn't any deaths for about a week, the police were also puzzled and didn't know what to do without L and that caused tension among everyone.

Itachi sensed stress and watched L being up previous cases, "What about my partner? What about the others, are you forgetting your part of the deal?"

L looked straight at him, "I'm doing everything I can, Itachi but Kira is very dangerous and we can't let him slip out..."

Itachi sighed and looked away, "Damn Kira, I hope he burns in hell!"

L got an e-mail on his laptop as he opened the file and saw that one of the investigators had sent him a threatening e-mail. L tried tracing it back to original source but the source was blocked and L slammed the table as he cursed and glared at the screen.

"Damn it!!!" he yelled, "I almost had him but I can't trace it!"

L got back to working as his phone rang off the hook and he began writing down whatever new information came his way. He got a bunch of papers and began reading everything through, he would always get a rush whenever he was close to busting Kira. He wanted to expose Light as Kira but he didn't have enough evidence to hold it against him.

L sighed and laid back in the chair as pulled his hands through his hair. Stress. He was getting very stressed out. He turned off his phone as new e-mails poured in and he began to answer them all, Itachi was actually impressed with him, something he rarely expressed but he was impressed by L's tactics and how he ruled stuff out.

Itachi looked at him as he watched his computer screen, "So, will you be going out to interview people? Am I allowed to come along?

L looked at him, "I see. I guess the effects of the deaths have stopped you and your team from doing what you would usually do. Only thing is you'll have to be in disguise..."

Itachi didn't like the sound of the idea, "...I can't hide all of me, they'll figure it out because I'm well known around here."

"Well, I had this idea but you may get in knot over it..." L gave him an unsteady look, "You will have to pose as my girlfriend..."

Itachi slammed the table, "What in the hell?!?! L you're a genius, think of something else! There is no way in hell that I'm switching sexes just to fool someone! What kind of shit are you trying to pull?!?!"

"I knew you wouldn't be up for it...but I have no choice, if you're detected then you could get screwed..."

Itachi grabbed him, "Fuck you, L! Why does my part have to be embarrassing?!?!"

"I guess I'm not doing your cases until next week then..."

Itachi stopped and growled, now he had to make a decision. He had no choice and forcefully agreed to do his part, he pushed L out of the way as he sat away from him. If the other members were to see him as girl he would be humiliated in front of everyone, he was the captain and he wanted to be viewed as it.

Itachi shuttered, "Fine, I'll act gay just this once but I don't want to be viewed as a transsexual."

L grinned to himself, "It be kind of interesting to see you as girl. You might be pretty..."

Itachi almost choked on his soup, "Don't get gay with me...You sound like you are..."

L suddenly shook his head, "...I'm sorry, it was just a random thought. I'm not interested in the same sex..."

Itachi shuttered again, 'Good, I don't know what I would do if you were...'

L got up and wondered around his cell as Itachi finished his soup, L began to pace at a crazy rate as Itachi began to snicker. L was about to be overstressed as he ran to his desk to answer another call and type on his laptop, then his cell phone rang again. Itachi knew he was doing too much work at once as his snickering grew louder.

"You must get stressed out a lot..." Itachi replied, "Look at you, you'll never get to my case if this case is popular..."

L stared, "We're going to investigate on Friday, so don't worry about it."

Itachi shuttered again, "I can't believe I have to be a girl, I know I'm going to screw up, L..."

"You'll have to call me Ryuuzaki when we do because I have to keep an alias, I don't want Kira to find out, make an alias for yourself..."

Itachi began thinking, "Tachi...I don't know if it'll be it but that's what I will go by..."

L smiled, "We should be set for Friday..."

Itachi still wasn't looking forward to doing his part but he would get over it, it would only be one time and that was it. He picked up the plates and offered L some more chocolate to easy his nerves and he accepted it right away, he still bit at his thumb but he was calming down. Itachi offered him more as he took some more, he forgot that he hadn't in a week.

L looked up at Itachi, "Thank you, Itachi...I really needed some chocolate..."

Itachi grinned a little bit, "Well, don't count on me giving it out all the time like this..."

L knew not to take anything for granted and he began to tare into his chocolate, Itachi watched carefully as L reached his last chocolate bar. Silence entered the room. Itachi walked around as he sat next to L who looked at him then he looked away. He began to laugh lightly.

Itachi looked out the window, "You know...The world can't work with or without sin..."

"It depends on what sins we can't function without, there will always be sins..."

L still eyed Itachi, something told him that he had to watch himself more carefully. Trust was still out of sight.

That's Chapter 2, Please R&R.