L all over again
Disclaimer: If I did own death note, I probably wouldn't be writing a fan fic, right now...
Hi all! Wow, I'm so happy you've all been reviewing! Keep up the good work! Wow you must all think I'm pretty mean for that cliffy huh! XD Well don't worry because I'm finishing off what I started! Me? Kill little L!? NEVER!! (I cried in episode 25) Anyways here's chapter 4 and thank-you once again to all who wished me with exams!
Chapter four: Side-effects
Light quickly fished out his cell phone. He dialled 110 and hoped that the doctors and staff didn't ask for personal details, more importantly he hoped that L would be Ok. He patiently gave their whereabouts to the person on the other side and waited...less patiently.
Light hoisted the miniature L which now looked like a small child-like doll into his arms and waited for the ambulance to arrive. Light shut his eyes. Was this some sort of nightmare...? How could all this happen in one day-it was crazy! Maybe this was all a dream! After shutting his eyes and opening them a couple of times he knew it wasn't. Light touched the small child's face, it was still warm. Light swore under his breath. When would the ambulance be here!?
A few minutes later, which to Light seemed like hours; a flashing vehicle entered the premises. The doors opened and two nurses carrying a stretcher appeared.
"Are you his guardian?" they asked while taking the child from him and laying him on the stretcher.
"Uh...not until recently" He replied quickly. "As in today..."
A nurse inside the ambulance gestured Light to come in, where the small boy was lying. Light quickly hopped in as the ambulance began to speed off.
"Your name...?"
"Light Yagami" (you probably already knew, but Light's last name spelt backwards is 'Im a gay' XD sorry let's continue.)
"And the child's name...?"
Light cleared his throat. "Rue Ryuuzaki."
Light sincerely hoped that L had entered that name as an alias on the database. Otherwise, Light would be pretty screwed.
The nurse noted it down, and eyed the child then Light. Light felt uneasy, he knew in his head that the nurse was probably suspecting that Light had done something to him. Light and the young Ryuuzaki knew otherwise, so he told his head not to worry about it. It wasn't working.
"We'll be there shortly."
Light looked over at the child. He looked...dead. Light shook his head he wouldn't believe it. He was meant to look after his friend, and this would be no obstacle. He hoped.
Once arrived. Light waited outside in the waiting room. He hated hospitals. The smell. The food. The colour white all around him. Everything.
He put his head in his hands and waited for what seemed like decades. When one of the assistants asked Light to come back in the room, Light saw that he was waiting for only ten minutes. As he entered his eyes immediately darted towards the bedridden youngster. To his surprise L's eyes were wide awake staring at the ceiling above.
"Ryuuzaki, your...Ok!" Light said happily.
The child turned his head to face Light. "Oh... Hello Light-kun." He said calmly, as if nothing had happened.
"What was wrong, with him!?" Light asked anxiously.
"He was given an adult dose of a sleeping pill. He was lucky he didn't take the whole thing at the time, otherwise he might not have survived." The nurse said with accusing eyes.
"We were told that you had nothing to do with it, when we asked who had given the dose-he said he had mistaken it for one of his vitamin pills he usually took." The doctor said looking at the young detective that nodded as he spoke.
"The people at the time were asleep while I took it, it's no ones fault but my own." L said earnestly, putting on an innocent face.
"Well...next time, make sure there is some one supervising you when you do something like that." A stern nurse said to the young detective. "It's very dangerous! You could have been seriously ill, Ok?"
"Yes...I understand, clearly." The child said, his dark eyes turning into a slight glare.
"Also, young man." The doctor said, looking Light over up and down." This child is sleep deprived, quite pale and his diet isn't satisfactory at all. May I suggest you try to take care of these problems, otherwise I'm afraid-he'll have to be further bedridden."
Light nodded. He just wanted to get out of the stinkin' hospital. L hopped off the bed and grabbed Light's hand. "Let's go home, Light-kun." He said cheerfully. Light sighed as he squeezed the child's hand.
Just before they left the ward, Light was stopped by a young nurse. "May I ask, If your this child's guardian now, you might want to enrol yourself as his legal-"
"I know I know..." Light said as he left the ward. He hadn't meant to be rude, but he was sick of the hospital and L seemed rather bored too.
After the two left the daunting hospital, they caught a train and eventually arrived at Light's place just before it got dark. L had fallen asleep again in Light's arms, and Light was glad to see that L was breathing while he was sleeping.
L had told Light, while they had boarded the train, that Watari had given L a sleeping pill, as he was concerned about the detective. L had snapped the pill in two with a butter knife (he had difficulty
swallowing pills.) He had taken the first with great disgust, and as Watari was not in the room at the time-he simply ditched the other half in the bin. If Ryuuzaki had told Light at the time, Light was sure he would've scolded the detective. Light was now very glad that L hadn't told him.
"I suppose that with my change of state, that dose became an adult's dose..." L had told him.
No shit.
Light opened the door, locked it after him and turned on the light. Light walked up the stairs, dragging each step as he did so and opened the door to his bedroom. He plopped the worn out detective on his bed and quietly closed the door after himself. Walking, downstairs to make the two of them dinner.
L's eyes sprang open, as soon as the door closed.
Light had started making dinner, when he heard a small thump behind him-which made him jump. Light spun around to see two big dark eyes staring right at him.
"Ryuuzaki!? Don't sneak up on me like that..." Light said putting a hand through his hair.
"I couldn't sleep."
"Why's that...?"
"I felt your absence."
Light smiled. It seemed that Ryuuzaki had already grown attached to him. Light kneeled down and poked the detective playfully. "You really like me don't you? You didn't use to act this way before." He said.
"You're to my advantage, that's all."
"Really...?"
"Indeed. Light-kun can attend to all my special needs, while I can focus on learning how to change back."
Light nodded slowly. "You have it all figured out don't you Ryuuzaki...?" he asked slowly.
L responded with a nod.
"What about this huh!?" Light said, while he suddenly began tickling the young detective. For the first time ever, Light had heard L laugh, without straining it. So, what maybe L was a kid at the time, but he doubted that L had laughed like this when he was a kid anyway. L was helpless in a laughing fit while Light tickled him. L began throwing kicks all over the place, Light dodged with relevant ease.
Tears came from the child's eyes, as he started hammering his fists on the floor. Light decided that was breaking point for the kid, so he stopped. The two sat down on the kitchen floor practically gasping for air, especially young Ryuuzaki.
"So...that's w-what it's like...to laugh..." he said, grin still clear on his face.
Light thought back to the days when the two of them were on the Kira case. Matsuda had come to work with his fly undone, and the rest of the task force started to laugh, even Light who didn't find most things like that funny laughed because of Matsuda's oblivious facial expression. L had been laughing too only it was dragged out and sounded quite fake. (Note: Think back to the scene when Misa, Light and L are holding hands, Misa is giggling, L is laughing in the background too. It sounds really forced though like "Haa...Haa...Haaa..."XD)
"You've never laughed Ryuuzaki...?" Light asked with a concerned tone.
"Not like that." Ryuuzaki continued. "I liked it though. Some how I knew Light-kun could though, Light-kun can do almost anything."
"I'm so sure about that" Light said modestly.
"You may be right, after all."
Light stared at the kid, who was now giving him, a "You heard me; I just said you suck..." facial expression. What was his problem, did he not know what modesty was and that usually a person just uses modesty not to sound cocky, when most of the time they know how good they are-oh so well.
"What...?"
"You're a lousy cook." L said blatantly. "Can't you smell that...?"
Light sniffed, his default frown then appeared on his face. The dinner!!
Light got up and quickly turned off the stove. He put on the exhaust and grimaced at what was left of the scrappy black 'substance' in the pan called 'dinner'.
"Wanna order Chinese, Ryuuzaki?"
"Sounds good to me, Light-kun." L said in approval.
As Light began dialling the home phone and ditching the 'dinner' in the sink. L began a dangerous journey-exploring the house.
L slowly walked up each stair, one by one until he reached the top. There were four rooms, he guessed the one that he awoke in was Light's room, and so he turned on the light and began a closer examination. The room was quite spacious and was filled with books, of an intellectual level. L was rather impressed. L looked the now, massive book shelf and saw a few books in English. English being the young detective's mother language, made L curious as to what it was about. L made a grab for it-he failed miserably. He fell back down on his but knocking a small box off the shelf. It had three magazines inside.
L picked up the first one. It was in German. L flipped through it reading a couple of pages, flight didn't appeal to him so he put it back. The second magazine was a little more interesting, something called 'shounen jump' magazine. The detective looked at the cover and was amazed at how to young
men in the bottom corner looked a-hell-of-a-lot like Light and himself. He shrugged it off and put it back in the box with the other one.
The third magazine...Oh-ho L thought Light had already disposed of this...
A goofy grin appeared on the little detective's face, as he picked up the naughty magazine. He flipped through the first few pages depicting various...acts. L closed it quickly and made a face showing distaste. "I don't know what Light see's in any of that stuff..." L thought to himself. He quickly put it back in the box, hearing footsteps ascending up the stairs. L put the box away, as a creepy smile crept up on his face. The word 'blackmail' now wafted pleasantly around in his head. He shook it off and logged it to memory, that he would use this weapon if Light ever tried to do anything that was remotely displeasing to the miniature investigator.
Light appeared at the door with a, some-what suspicious expression on his face. "Whatcha up to Ryuuzaki?" he said.
"Nothing for you to worry about, Light-kun." L said innocently. "I was merely getting used to my surroundings, I hope you don't mind."
Light nodded. "Well the food's here...so..."
L nodded and followed his comrade out the bedroom door.
"Will I be sleeping with you, Light-kun?"
Light jumped. "Well...yeah I guess, unless you want me to sleep on the couch." He said cautiously. "Whatever's best for you."
"I won't sleep without Light-kun's presence."
In other words, 'yes please sleep with me.'
Light turned and poked the child's cheek. "Admit it, Ryuuzaki your lost without me." He said slyly.
L bit Light's finger.
"Ah!?" Light pulled back his finger. "Vicious, Ryuuzaki!" he said blowing his finger.
"You're lost without me, Light-kun."
The two ate dinner in relevant silence, they were both very hungry. Light was about to be surprised that Ryuuzaki wasn't eating a dessert related food item. Then he realized the only food L was eating was the honey chicken. Light sighed, he should have known.
After they had finished eating and freshening up, L and Light sat oddly close in front of the Tv watching a movie that L had chosen. How could any kid watch this and not get mentally scarred. Well the child still had the mentality of a 25 year old so he let it go.
After the movie it was way past the two investigators bed times. Light yawned, messing up the child's hair as he stood up. "Bed time, Ryuuzaki." He said.
L frowned. "You can sleep Light-kun." He said slowly.
Light picked up the detective. "You heard what the doctor said!" he said. "Maybe you can lose the eye bags too, if you start sleeping well."
"I kinda like them."
"Yeah me too."
L jumped out of Light's arms and into the bed, burrowing under the covers. Light tucked him in. "I'll be back in a couple of minutes, Ryuuzaki" Light said. "Can I trust you to sleep without me till then?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, Goodnight"
"yawn Goodnight, Light-kun."
L shut his eyes. Light leant over and kissed the small child's forehead. L remained sleeping. Light automatically went deep scarlet. "What the HELL was that!?" He thought, turning the light in the room off and walking out. He stopped and put a hand through his hair. "I-I don't understand..."
L heard Light's footsteps fad away. His eyes once again sprang open. His small hand reached and touched his forehead.
"There might be good things about changing into this state..." he said slowly to himself, going a slight shade of pink.
Did you like the chapter!? Happy I didn't kill L!? (I'd never do that!!) I wrote like 6 six pages, I hope it's enough for all of you! XD Keep on reviewing, I'ma keep updating!! Thank-you to all of you 3 L loves you!
