"Right, Light-kun."
"Are you ready? Here I come."
"Ah! Light-kun, it hurts."
"Oh come on, Ryuzaki. It's because your position is wrong! Bend your legs. There, lower them."
"You mean like this? I don't think I can hold much longer with this position."
"You will have to if you want to play with me. Hey! What are you doing?"
"Can't we take a rest? We're soaked in our own sweat."
"Okay, okay." Light grinned and wiped a towel across his face. It's been three days after they started the 'date rehearsals' for L. And for Light it was the hardest part of being with the monkey. It was a good thing they began to play tennis. Light then was told that L had a little knowledge in tennis the first time they played at school. "Here, Ryuzaki." The brunette handed L a bottle of water and sat on the grass of the Yagami garden. L however, didn't look tired at all. He was simply staring at whatever he desired with an expressionless face.
"Arigatou, Light-kun. I'm really happy, you know." L gazed at Light and noticed that somehow he was blushing. "Are you happy, Light-kun?"
It made Light think. They've been together day and night for several days yet he was so neutral about it. Just then he remembered about the Kira case. "Aren't you suspecting me of being Kira?"
"Hmm…" L wondered as he took out a bar of chocolate from inside his back pocket. "I'm not in the mood now, Light-kun. I know you're Kira but I don't know how to put it into words for the police and everyone else."
Light made a very vexed face. Like how many damned times did he have to deny it. But somehow he managed to put up a smile and it felt a lot more realistic than whenever L tried to convince his father that he's Kira. "If only I could prove you wrong, Ryuzaki, I'd be happier. "
"When was the time you felt the happiest?" L bolted a question out of the blue which made Light say "what". Light gazed at the detective and murmured, "eh?"
"It's okay, you didn't have to answer that." L flashed a weird smile. It was kind of hard to figure out. It was like Mona Lisa's smile.
"Well," Light gazed upon the blue sky. It had been a while since he was asked such an easy and opinionated question. All that he got since he entered kindergarten were questions that needed factual answers. "When asked such a question, one would answer when he was born. But that's unintelligent. For me, the happiest time was... well, never mind me. How about you?"
"Hmm... Light-kun, now that you've asked me about that. Everytime I feel happy, I consider that the happiest."
'Why are you suddenly blabbering about happiness, Ryuzaki?' Light thought. Light felt a bit awkward about the situation. The famous monkey detective L and his target 'Kira' were starting to get good relations. It was just damn crazy. Not to mention the fights they had back in the headquarters and his crazy ideas like the handcuffs.
"Light-kun," suddenly Light noticed the detective's pallid face close into his with wondering yet almost blank expression on his face.
"Wh-what is it, Ryuzaki?" Light backed away from the leaning detective. Perhaps he had something on his face - a drip of icing from the cake? But he well remember that he didn't touch the cake himself.
"Nothing." L blurted out as he returned to his previous position on the grass, staring up at the blue sky. But Light was sure there was something. Whether it was good or not, he felt something back there.
'Would you like to kiss?' Holy... It made his hairs stand on the back of his neck. He was just so happy that he didn't say that out loud or he could've died of heart attack.
"What?" L murmured as if he heard what Light said in his mind. "I don't mind if you put it like that." L shifted his look on Light's hands which were, without the brunette's knowledge, shaking.
'What the -!' Light was definitely panicking. 'Was he some damn mind reader?!' He had to do something in this situation before it worsens but everyone's a fool about love. Geez...
"You don't look fine, Light-kun. I shall leave." And with that, L rose from his seat and went inside the house.
It felt like a thorn was pulled out of his chest; that was exactly how Light felt. A few minutes after L left he was still shaking and he couldn't control the drops of sweat on his face. He couldn't believe what he was thinking. He couldn't just sleep in the same room as L. No, he couldn't.
For the next two days, Light saw himself as a maniac. He couldn't come closer to L for less than 3 meters. He even began growing eye bags just like L because he couldn't sleep at night. L didn't want to be separated from him as he faked a reason that he was scared of the dark. At least L's eye bags were still four times thicker than his.
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"Ne, Ryuga-kun, I'm having a hard time studying these." Light overlooked at L who was mingling with some girls in the class. He had been reading the same sentence about twenty times but every time he was close to getting the thought of it, another girl would push in a question for L and L would answer fairly. He would just be lost.
"Acids and bases. Hmm... isn't this topic tackled in elementary level?" L, who sat on his usual position, remarked. Obviously, it was just something to get his attention. "BRA, and BRB."
"Eeh?" The girl said in a Misa-like manner but more annoying. "Were you peeking in on my underwear, Ryuga!?" It almost made Light throw up on his book.
"No," L said plainly. "BRB. Bases turn Red litmus paper to Blue. And BRA. If it's Blue to Red, it's acidic. It's like everyone thinks I'm a perverted monkey here."
"No, no!" The girl waved her hands on the air to disprove L since the talk was just to flirt. "Thank you, Ryuga-kun. Say, how would you like it if you and I go to the cinema after class, huh?"
"Sorry... my schedule's a bit hectic. Plus, I have some on-going sessions with Yagami-kun."
"Whaaaaaat!?" The girl jumped in surprise. "But..."
"Bye bye." L rose from the chair and waved carelessly on the girl and headed off.
'Just what the heck was that monkey thinking?' Light thought as he shut his book close. Then he heard L's voice again in his mind, echoing what he just said to the girl.
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