I had been nervous from the moment I had my hand on the door knob and turning it. I could hear soft cheerful voices inside so I knew that my mother and father were in a good mood, it could have been detrimental to how this day was going to turn out. I had left Lawliet at home with Watari so that he could talk to him and I was going to talk to my parents about what was going on between Lawliet and myself. I swallowed hard and wiped the sweat from off my forehead with the sleeve of my jacket. I breathed deeply and slowly and opened the door, as soon as they heard the door creak my mother and father had jumped up to see who it was. I had always made myself presentable when visiting my parents, I always wore a suit and tie and always made sure my shoes were shiny, it was my way of showing them respect.

"Light? Your early, have you decided to have lunch with us instead?" My father asked taking a seat back down at the dining table

"Oh yeah I guess so, I actually came here because I needed to talk you both about something that is rather important to me" I said, I fiddled with the bottom of my red tie for a brief moment before letting it go and looking at my wide eyed parents from across the table.

"What is it son, is it the Kira case?" My father asked

"No not at all, in fact I think L—Ryuzaki is disbanding the task force"

"He doesn't want to catch Kira anymore?" my father asked in shock, I had become slightly frustrated

"No it's not that please dad I didn't come here to talk about work, well it has partly something to do with work but please hear me out" I begged

Both my mother and father simply nodded in response

"The three of us have spoken many times about my future, we have spoken about studying and work and now that I have a job, I have my own place and I finished all my studies with top marks, I had been thinking more about my social future, rather my romantic future. I know that you have both probably pictured my wife in your heads thousands of times, someone with a great education, a great job, the ability to bare grandchildren, but the truth is that isn't going to happen for me"

"Light, honey what do you mean?" My mother asked concerned

"I mean that for me there will be no wife and there will be no children born with my genes, I am not in love with a woman, nor will I ever be" I said quietly

"Light? Are you trying to tell us that your g—"

"Yes, I am gay and I am in a relationship with someone" I finished off my father's sentence

My mother was in shock and my father, my father was pissed off I could see the rage boiling inside him.

"Light have you lost your fucking mind! You cannot be serious about this, it's normal, you know it's normal to get crushes sometimes but you CAN NOT and WILL NOT have a relationship with a man" My father growled through clench teeth

"Say what you will dad but this isn't some crush, it isn't some temporary state of mind and before you accuse him of brainwashing me it was I who had made the first move, I am in love with him and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent that. I came here to tell you out of respect"

"WHO IS HE? WHO IS THIS HOMOSEXUAL YOU HAVE BEEN POISONED INTO BEING INVOLVED WITH?" he had bellowed loudly

"Ryuzaki and he has not poisoned me, I had asked him to love me not the other way round. Whether you like it or not I love him and he loves me and if you don't like it then that is your choice, but it is my choice to be with him"

"YOU ARE NO SON OF MINE, HE IS MAN, A MAD MAN AT THAT, DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE YOU CAN HAVE A FUTURE WITH HIM, DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THIS IS GOING TO WORK OUT?" he continued to yell

"Yes, I have all the faith in myself and in him that it will work out" I replied

Perhaps I had been rude or too cocky but whatever it was had made him mad enough to plant his fist into my face hard enough for something to crack. I felt the pain instantly and the blood started to run from my nose. My mother helpless walked away from the situation and my father stood above me breathing heavy and loud

"You are not welcome back here ever, do you understand? We are not interested in your betrayal to God and we are not interested in knowing your disgusting life. I don't want anything to do with you, him or the Kira case, Stay away from us Light, in fact you can strip yourself of your last name, you are not fit to be a Yagami. I never want to see you or that freak every again"

"Say what you like about me but you will not insult him, I do not plan on returning and just so you know before you kick me out of your life for good, he made me see something that you never did, he made me see that I was good enough that I didn't have to be perfect, I never will have to be again"

I felt a sharp pain in my side, I had been kicked hard. My own father had literally kicked me out of his home and demanded that I never return. Perhaps one day he would come around and learn to accept that his son wasn't perfect, I didn't know and I didn't care I just wanted to get back home to Lawliet, the only person I could trust and who truly loved me.

I was in pain, I could feel the blood trickling from my nose and leaking into my mouth. I could have defended myself but I still had too much respect for my father to lay a hand on him but if he had planned on coming in between Lawliet and I, I was not going to hold back. I had a future with Lawliet, that I was sure of. Sure we weren't the traditional couple but we had loved each other unconditionally.

I closed my eyes and pictured his lips on mine, I tried to remember what it felt like to be inside him, to cum my love inside him. I tried to smell his skin and taste his flesh just so I could take my mind off of the pain, even if for a brief second. I opened my eyes again and suddenly felt a little better.

I had walked the seventeen blocks back to Lawliet's home, our home now I guess. It was a struggle to fish out for my key card that would let myself back in and climb the huge flight of stairs before reaching the front door. I never quiet understood why he felt he needed such a large building for both the headquarters and his home but never the less, this was home. My small one bedroom apartment would make a great place for storing items so I would still keep it. I could smell cake wafting through the air, it had been freshly baked. I knew that Lawliet would be in there eating his cake even though it would be far too hot, I smiled at the thought. I loved him so much. I pushed open the door, the sound of the door creaking made Lawliet turn his head towards me, as soon as he saw me he threw down the plate of cake and rushed to my side. He wrapped his arms around me and I collapsed into him. I tried to steady my breathing and I tried not to cry, I never cried and I couldn't start now, I didn't want him to think I was weak.

"Watari, could you please get me some iced water and a towel" I heard Lawliet cry out to his caregiver.

I wasn't exactly sure where the strength had come from, perhaps adrenaline but I felt him scoop me up in his arms and carry me to the couch, my body flopped over his stretched out arms. He laid me down on the couch and lifted up my head to rest on his lap. Watari had rushed back with the ice water and the towel, my eyes rolled open to watch Lawliet dampen the towel and placed it over my nose where I had been hit with a great force. He stroked my hair with gentle thin fingers. I could see his eyes, he was completely mortified, heartbroken he had felt guilty. He had nothing to feel guilty for, this was not his doing.

"Are you with me, Light? Can you hear me?" He said to me gently. I softly nodded against his legs.

"Should I call for a doctor?" Watari asked Lawliet

"Yes please I think he may have a broken nose" Lawliet replied

Watari disappeared out of the room

A broken nose? I suppose the punch had been backed up with such force and I did hear that crack.

"I only have you left now, please don't break my heart Lawliet" I managed to say with a coarse, crackled voice. I had fallen asleep there and then.

X

I had woken up to the sounds of voices in the room, the only one I could pick out was Lawliet's. His voice was different though, it was stronger, his pitch wasn't the usual monotone but with a lot of anger and sadness pushing it out of him. The words had all sounded muffled but his tone was of complete concern, I wasn't sure who he was speaking with but I had prayed it wasn't my father, I would hate for what happened to me to happen to him, in fact if this had happened to him at any time in the future I would not hesitate to go to the extreme.

I placed my palms on the mattress and pushed myself up. I placed my hand against my face as I sat up, it had hurt like hell. Lawliet rushed to my side. I couldn't think, I couldn't do anything except just kiss him. I focused on his face and pressed my lips against his, as much as it hurt I didn't care I needed to taste him just so I knew he was really still there. His mouth kissed me back. He pulled away and rested his palm against my cheek.

"I am so sorry Light, This is unforgivable what he has done to you, if it weren't for me then—"

"If it weren't for you I wouldn't have realized today how much I really need you and how much I want you in my life. I don't want to live my life without you sweetheart, I love you" I replied

I had felt bad for what I had said to him before I had passed out, I had sounded as if I was sure that he was going to break my heart but it was impossible, he was the one who had always mended it from the very first day we met, every time I had a doubt, every time I was frustrated or pissed off, every time I needed advice or just needed someone to hear me out, he was always there. He had never left my side when I needed him , he had given me a friendship and a love that I was not worthy of, and even now feeling sorry for myself he was there even after I said something that wasn't exactly very nice before I had passed out and he had welcomed me back with a warm and loving kiss, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Lawliet blushed, and brushed his lips against mine again.

"I love you too Light, I will always love you" he replied sweetly

"Light the is Doctor Hiromisha, he is going to look at your nose and your ribs and see what kind of damage has been done and then whatever you want to do after that we will do ok, if there is anywhere you want to go or anyone you want to see we will go ok. I won't let you do anything alone again"

I lied back down again so I was flat on my back.

The doctor had come close to my face and looked at my nose thoroughly. He smelt like moth balls and I was sure that he had one or two teeth missing. He pressed my nose with a finger on his glove covered hand, I winced in pain and he nodded his head and looked up to Lawliet.

"His nose is most defiantly broken"

"Mr. Yagami, I am going to lower the quilt and then lift up your shirt so I can check out the damage to your torso"

I shook my head

"Here let me" Lawliet replied, his hands grabbed the quilt and pulled it down past my waist and he rested in just above my crotch. His hands ran up my shirt and he pushed it up so that my bare torso was exposed. The doctor looked over me again and pressed the same finger into my flesh. It hadn't hurt as much as my nose but it was still tender.

"His ribs are severely bruised but none seem to be broken. Keep some ice on his nose for at least the next hour, and don't let him to do any heavy lifting. His ribs will heal soon, his nose however will be permanently broken unless cosmetic surgery is an option, he will need to take two of these to help with the pain"

He handed Lawliet a small white bottle of what I assumed were pain killers. He opened the cap and took two of the small round white tablets out and rested them on his palm

"Thank you doctor, Watari will show you out" Lawliet replied and turned his attention back to me, he lowered my shirt back down and folded the quilt back up to my neck.

He handed me the pills, I shook my hand and instead just opened my mouth slightly. He placed the tablets on my tongue and I swallowed them without water

"When you passed out on my lap I had thought I had lost you, I didn't even get to tell you that I would never break your heart" He said with sadness caught in his throat. He sounded so different, his voice was just so full of emotion and love.

"I am not a Yagami anymore" I whispered to him

"When the doctor called me Mr. Yagami that is why I shook my head, not because I didn't want him to lift up my shirt, though I am glad that's how it was read, that guy smelt like mothballs"

Lawliet smiled

"Hmm I see, this must be one of those situations called stroke of coincidence" He said

I had to admit, I was confused I had no idea what he was talking about

"Whilst you were gone I had spoken with Watari and it seems our relationship is not an issue for him, he has accepted us as a couple, and while I was speaking with him I had made a decision. I had two scenarios in my head, one was your parents would be just as accepting and you would return at some point unscathed, the other was that they wouldn't accept it, although I hadn't anticipated you coming home with a broken nose and bruised ribs, I had made a decision that I hope you will agree with, in the case they didn't accept the fact you were in a relationship with a man and not just a man but a mad one like me then I had planned on us becoming a family"

"Family?" I questioned him and I eased myself up, resting my back against the head board again, the truth was I had been much badly beaten than this before, Even when I had got into the brutal fight with Lawliet not that long ago, he had done more damage. But a lot to do with my injuries were emotional and Lawliet was doing everything to try and ease some of that pain.

"Light were you aware that they now recognize same sex couples as equals and they are able to do the same things heterosexual couples can do?" he asked me

"I had heard about some time ago, I mean at least an a year and a half ago, a while before I met you but I didn't exactly know what it entailed" I replied

"If you are serious when you say that you don't ever want to be without me as much as I am serious when I say I will love you forever then I had hoped that you would become my family by participating in a civil ceremony alongside me in which we would be categorized as legally being a part of each others lives" he said

I smiled at him and shook my head

"Lawliet, is this your peculiar way of asking me to marry you?" I asked him

He looked at me and just nodded, he was worried what I was going to say which is why he had dragged what he was trying to say out for as long as possible, after what had happened to me today there was only one way I could answer him, in a way that he could easily understand

"So would that make me Light Lawliet or is there another name I am not aware of yet?" I asked

"Well you could for name sakes be Light Lawliet, if the thought of sharing my name doesn't bother you or you could change your name to something else, in which case I have a joke about"

"A joke?" I raised an eyebrow up at him, I had never in the entire time heard Lawliet make a joke, he had only ever laughed once and his sense of humor was so dry it was hard to distinguish what was a joke and what was seriousness

"Mm, you could change your last name to switch, it would suit you because I can turn you on as easily as a real light switch"

It was possibly the lamest yet somehow cutest thing I had ever heard him say, he didn't smile he didn't make any facial expressions he just sat there looking at me.

"Your awfully cocky for someone who plans on torturing yourself by taking me to be your partner for the rest of our lives"

"Why would it be torture? If I can put up with you for a year and still love you with no second guessing I am sure I will have no problems putting up with you for the next fifty or so years. Just please do me a favor for me" he said

"You already know I won't say no"

"Please don't get hit anymore because of me, your face is much to pretty to be bloody and beaten"

"Hey this wasn't your fault Law' I wanted to do this myself, a part me already knew they wouldn't accept us and like I told them, It's my choice to love you and be with you and anyone who has a problem with my choice can take it up with me but it's never going to change how I feel about you, I would rather it be me bloody and beaten then you end up like this"

"Why wouldn't you let me share some of the hurt with you?"

"Because you don't deserve hurt Lawliet, you have been putting up with it your entire life, let me suffer for you for a little while, let me take on some of your pain so you don't have to carry the entire lot on your shoulders, I haven't had to deal with what you have growing up and your still hurting because I know there is three little people out there that you care a lot about who are probably going through exactly what you went through, so the least I could is take a beating because you're worth it, I could get beaten up a million more times and you will still be worth it"

"Your my family now Light and I won't take you getting hurt so easily, I will protect you. I had told you that I would kill for you and I meant it, if I knew that's what you truly wanted, nothing would stop me from doing what I had to do to protect my family. I know I am not much but I am the family you deserve"

"I think the boys should come stay with us for a while" I suddenly said without thinking.

"Do you really mean that?" he asked me with almost puppy dog eyes

"Yes I really mean that, they need family too Law' they can't grow up without knowing there are people that love them, they drive me up the fucking wall but they are part of our family too, it will be good for all of us"

Lawliet smiled a large happy grin at me. He moved closer to me and rested his arm over me creating a bridge over my torso and the other hand caressed my cheek. He leaned in and pressed his lips against mine. No matter how much my body was hurting my heart had felt like it was mending, I knew I had made him happy. I had secretly hoped the happiness would last at least a few days so that when I didn't feel like I had been hit by a bus he would make love to me.