An eye for my friend

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Ughhh...Exams this week, hope I do Ok!

Another chapter's here! I hope you understood about how I ended the Kira case and it wasn't too lame for you Please keep reviewing! I'll do my best!

Chapter 2: Hypothermia

Light looked around frantically. It was snowing like crazy! He wondered if they were caught in a freak blizzard. Snow pelted on the two of them. Light felt his face going numb, as he searched his pockets for his cell phone.

Light thought about ringing 110. But he had no idea where the two of them were, as the blizzard seemed to be engulfing their surroundings quite quickly. He decided to call Watari first, L had a tracking device located in his back pocket, and so even if Light didn't know where they were, Watari could find them.

He dialled as quickly as he could; his fingers were beginning to feel numb as well.

"How may I help you?" Watari's dignified voice came muffled and crackly from the other end.

"We need help! Come back to the site to pick us up!"

"You're still out there!? I'm on my way."

Light was shivering. We're they going to die here before catching the criminal? Not if he could help it. Light looked at the freezing detective. L's shivering was wavering from mild to strong. Light suddenly became very worried 'what if he really WAS to die before help reached!?' Light shook his head. No! He would never think like that. Watari would be here soon, and L would get medical attention as soon as possible. In times like this Light had to be calm.

It seemed as though L was going in and out of consciousness. "...L-L-Light-k-kun."

Body heat was important in times like this. Light pulled the freezing detective as close as he could to himself. He wrapped his arms tightly around him, L was constantly shivering.

"Y-You're going to be O-Ok." Light said softly to him.

Light felt heat from behind him; he turned and saw it was coming from the lights of Watari's classic car. Light felt immediate relief. Light pulled the incredibly pale man to his feet and anchored him from the shoulders, as Watari stepped out of the car immediately to help.



The two of them pulled the now ghostly white Ryuuzaki, into the back seats of Watari's car. Light jumped in the back also, as Watari started the ignition. Light still held the detective during the ride. The heater felt good and the car was now very warm. L did not look any better though. A cold sweat took over Light, was he becoming sick too? He doubted it; he was too worried about Ryuuzaki. Watari must have noticed because he spoke up.

"Do not worry." Watari said "I'm sure Ryuuzaki will be alright, I'm afraid he has a rather poor immune system, though."

Light could believe that. Someone who eats nothing but sweets, hardly ever sleeps, bad posture and scrawny as hell. Cold like that will do that to a person, alright. Light didn't feel better though, even to be reassured from Watari didn't seem to help. He knew that he would never be satisfied unless he saw L-no, his friend get better right in front of his eyes.

The car stopped. They were at the hotel, L was residing in.

"I've called for a medical squad to visit Ryuuzaki's room especially." Watari declared.

Light nodded towing the shivering L into the hotel to his room, where he was greeted by a doctor and two medical practitioners. L was laid on the bed, while the doctors did tests, discuss among themselves and basically did what doctors did. Light was told to leave the room for the time being. As he closed the door behind him, he sat down on the floor next to the door like a child would wait for his mother, after a fight they had to apologise.

While all this was going on. Light was still outside waiting...more like worrying. 'The great L, out in the snow for to long and now gravely ill' he thought bitterly. Not words that would usually associate, when one would hear the words 'world's best detective'. After around 10-15 more minutes of worrying. The door was opened and Light was allowed back in the room.

A lady doctor turned to Light and said. "I'm afraid your friend has developed the first stage of hypothermia"

Light froze. Should he be happy that it's only stage one...or should he be even more worried that his friend had hypothermia!? Light knew a bit about hypothermia, but he was still unsure of how he could possibly handle the situation. This wasn't a case he was used to dealing with.

"What...can I do to help?" he asked slowly, looking over at L, who had seemed to be getting some sort of medication.

"Moving him to a hospital wouldn't be a good idea now, so may I suggest you take care of him for the time being, sir?" The lady doctor asked.

"Oh! Yes of course!" Light answered quickly."Is there anything I need to do?"

For the first time in his life, Light felt rather helpless. He couldn't possibly finish the case without his partners help and he had no idea how to take care of him. Relying on others was definitely something Light didn't like doing.



The doctor nodded, handing him a note of paper."I need you to get him as warm as you can to bring his internal temperature back to normal. Cover him with plenty of blankets and if possible a transfer of body heat would do him good." She then added. "Please refrain from rubbing his back or anywhere else, however. "

Light nodded, taking things into consideration. "I will thank-you"

"Let us know if anything turns up."

And with that they left the room. Watari had asked Light if he needed help. Light replied shaking his head and Watari too, left the room.

It was now only Light and the bedridden Ryuuzaki.

L was loaded with blankets. Light wondered if Ryuuzaki could move at all under there. He looked at the note that the doctor had given him. It was instructions, of what she had said previously before. The words 'your own body heat' rang around in his head.

Light sighed, took off his slippers and approached the bed. He moved some of the blankets so he could get in. After getting in he topped the blankets back up again and wrapped his arms around Ryuuzaki's chest and pulled the detective in as close as he could.

Light went bright red."This...feels kinda wrong..." he thought. He then shook his head to get rid of the thoughts flooding his already stressed head. He shut his eyes and tried to sleep.

Well...he almost went to sleep.

L started to get rather restless in his sleep. This began to get increasingly hard as Light felt he was trying to hold down a struggling child. L began subconsciously whining as Light wouldn't let go. Light sighed heavily and let go of the restless detective. L turned and once again the two of their faces were millimetres apart.

"I'm cold Light-kun."

Light's eyes snapped open to meet a much larger pair of deep dark eyes staring at him. Light flinched. He felt stupid for doing so however-this was L after all. He should've been used to this by now.

"I'm hungry too, Light-kun." L's voice was a whisper now.

"I'll get you something hot right away!" Light said quickly.

He slipped out of the mountain of blankets and ordered some chicken and corn soup over room service. He hung up, not really satisfied that they would take fifteen minutes for a small bowl of soup.

He entered the bedroom once again to see, the flax haired man shivering. He looked up at the tired Light sitting on the bed. Light picked up the fallen blankets off the floor and covered the other man. L sniffed and looked at Light with his big round eyes.



"Light-kun." He spoke up softly.

Light turned towards him, wondering if it was another request for him to do something.

"What is it, Ryuuzaki?"

"I'd like to apologise" He said. "You m-must want to continue with the case, yet you are stuck attending to my needs. I-I'm sorry."

"I'm fine, Ryuuzaki." Light said smiling at him. "That's what friends are for."

Still shaking slightly, L lowered his gaze to the floor and attempted to put a finger to his mouth. His hand shook as he bit his nail.

"Friends..." L murmured to himself. "I'm glad Light-kun is my friend, even if he is the only one I have."

Light chuckled softly. "Why's that Ryuuzaki?" he asked.

"Because...having friends makes living life worth while...I know that now." L said, still not looking at Light in the eye. "Light-kun makes living life worth while."

Light was taken back. He then smiled at L, who in turn gave Light quite a goofy grin.

There was a light knocking at the door. Light got up and opened the door, received the hot bowl of soup and what seemed like a small slip of paper with the receipt.

Light handed the bowl of soup to L. There was a look of distaste on the detective's face. Light put the bowl of soup down on the bedside table next to him, now realizing the only way to get the soup in the detective was to forcefully feed the detective. He wasn't particularly looking forward to the struggle of feeding him either.

Light checked the receipt. 1200 yen, rip off.

He then checked what the other slip of paper was. He expected it to be some kind of discount voucher that usually came with receipts and such. Light was shocked to see it was a note of some sort. He read it slowly and stopped.

His eyes widened and he felt a sick feeling in his stomach. The note read:

'L, now that you are ill it will be of a great advantage to me. I won't stop until you look worse then my last victim.

Signed S.S'

Light thought of the corpse of the mangled victim. He felt sicker still. And how did the criminal know that L was sick? Then it came clear to him. The Silent Shinigami was there! Light kept thinking "If he was there...how long was he watching!? If he had been there the whole time...why weren't we attacked...?" Light sighed heavily.



L coughed heavily, and then asked. "Is something the matter, Light-kun?"

Did you like the chapter Ok? Sorry if it was a bit long (I got pretty into it) XD 'Translucent Darkness' I'm glad you like the story so far and thank-you for the fav 'lemoni'! Please keep reviewing everyone! I'll try to update as fast as I can, if you review I'll update bahahaha!