Night was falling, and L had limited himself to one cupcake. He'd also snuck a few bites of a sugar cookie, but it's not like Raito cared.

"How long 'til we get to the castle?" He asked, thinking about the sweets the castle would hold. Surprisingly, Raito laughed.

"I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that we wont return to my kingdom."

L stared blindly at the back of Raito's head. "What?!" he gasped.

Raito laughed nervously. "My father would send me back for the princess." He said quietly, leading the horse down a rocky hillside.

"Would he now?"

"Oh yes, he wouldn't be happy at all. So we're running away together."

"Running away? And where, do you suppose, will we end up?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but we are on a quest..."

"A quest? A quest for what?"

"There is a dragon that lives in a mountain three weeks on horse back, West from a cave up ahead. We will leave for there tomorrow morning."

"What will we get for this dragon?"

"If we bring back it's head, you and I will be able to live together as kings."

L heard him say "together", but he had no idea what he meant by it. He didn't know a thing about this prince, or his feelings for L. He'd called him "angel," so that had to mean something.

They arrived at the cave mere minutes after. Raito jumped off the horse, and turned to help L down. L rejected his assistance and jumped down beside the lighter haired boy.

"I'm no princess." L stated, walking towards the dark opening cave. Raito smiled and shook his head.

"Far from." He muttered and attempted to pull the horse after L and into the cave.

The black stallion wouldn't move.

"Screw you." the horse growled, it's voice low and scratchy.

L stopped and turned around, his wide eyes even wider.

"Ryuk..." Raito hissed, glaring at the steed.

"Find me a tasty apple and I might consider it." Ryuk said, throwing an equally evil glare back at Raito.

"Raito... why is your horse talking?"

"Because I'm not a horse!" Ryuk whinnied loudly.

"You look like a horse."

"Can horses talk?"

"You can."

"Because I'm not a horse!" Ryuk yelled, blowing air angrily through his nostrils.

"Then what are you?" L asked, chewing on his thumb, his head cocked to one side adorably.

"A shingami." Ryuk said nastily.

"A death God, hmm? But you look like a horse." L said, pointing at Ryuk.

A vein in Ryuk's forehead twitched.

"I look like a horse because some witch turned me into one!" he yelled as loud as he could.

L blinked at Ryuk, looking virtually un-fazed by the screaming. "You didn't have to yell. You could have just told me."

Ryuk reared up, kicking his front legs in a display of rage. Before the once-death-god could do any damage, Raito stuffed a shiny red apple into his mouth. Ryuk stopped, and ate the fruit contently.

Raito coaxed him to the cave. He asked L to gather some wood for a fire while he set up camp.

L wandered around the gradually darkening forest, collecting a large armful of sticks. As he walked, he worried about his sweets. He was
going to be out here for an undetermined amount of time, with only a small box of sugar to satisfy him?

This was horrible! Preposterous! Impossible!

He couldn't do it!

Very much scared of his sweetless dilemma, L made his way back to the cave where he was greeted by a sweet smile courtesy of Raito.
He relished in the softness of the smile before dropping to the floor and telling Raito, without words, that he can take over now with the fire. He heard Raito busying himself, clattering and stick-hitting and Raito readied the fire pit.

L was becoming borderline obsessive. At least three weeks. Three weeks of no sweets. It was frightening.

And to think he wasted that half of a sugar cookie! Oh, the shame!

"Hey, are you okay?" Raito asked, suddenly invading L's bubble. L looked up.

"No." he said. Raito blinked.

"Why not?" He asked.

"Because I'm going to run out of sweets." L said. Raito blinked.

"I'm sure we'll find a vendor that sells cake at some point." Raito said, hoping to give some hope to the messy haired prince. "Why do you
need sweets?"

"I become stupid without them." L announced. Raito blinked.

"That's it?"

"Not exactly, but that is the most important side effect. The others include random blackouts, nausea, dizziness, and exhaustion and fatigue.
Should these symptoms occur, supply patient with sweets immediately."

Raito blinked. "Right..." he said quietly. "I'll keep those in mind. Anyway, what do you want for supper?"

"Cake."

"Something other than cake."

"Pie."

"L..."

"What?"

"A real food."

"Cake is real food."

Raito let out an exasperated sigh.

"I'm sorry, Raito!" L said quickly. "I didn't mean to make you angry."

"I'm not angry. I'll just cook some random woodland creature, okay?"

L nodded.

After dinner, which happened to be roasted raccoon, Raito and L retired to the blankets that had been set up to resemble beds on the uncomfortable cave floor.

"Goodnight." Raito said, getting comfortable.

"I'm an insomniac."

It was quiet.

"I wont go to sleep for a long time."

Again, silence.

"I will stay up thinking and watching you sleep."

Raito rolled over and looked at the older prince. "As least try to sleep, okay?" L nodded. "I'm going to bed now. Whatever happens after I become unconscious is for you are your insomniac-like tendencies to work out." then the teen rolled back over and promptly fell asleep.

So L did exactly what he said he'd do.

He thought and watched Raito sleep.

Hours later, around 3:00 in the morning L guessed, he finally fell asleep.

Only to be woken up an hour later by evil witch laughter.

He opened his eyes to find Raito imprisoned by a snow white, giant spiders web.

"Well," the caught boy mused aloud, "This was unexpected."


Oh my god. So long to update. My utmost apologies to you all. The next one will be up soon.

I've been so preoccupied with my other fic that I completely forgot about this. Then, tonight, I was, for whatever reason, reminded of this, and finished typing this up. I hope I didn't disappoint. I think I could have done better, but I was writing it at 2:00 in the morning. I promise the next chapter will be better. I swear it.

Anyway, until we meet again!

-Hybrid