"Light!" Misa yelled in a joyful manner and ran towards Light as the brunette and L entered Misa's room. The blond girl in a black gothic lolita outfit wrapped her arms around Light and hugged him tightly.
Light bit his lip and didn't seem to be very happy about this. After all it was an early morning and Light was a bit exhausted and also confused because of L's actions in the bathroom a moment ago.
"Did you sleep well, Misa?" Light asked in a friendly way.
L was impressed. Light was capable of acting so friendly even though he seemed to have difficulties to deal with Misa. Of course Light was good at hiding his true feelings and Misa was completely fooled by him but L noticed how the things truly were.
"I would've slept better if you had been here with me, Light…" Misa purred, leaning her cheek against Light's shoulder. She giggled.
Light managed to ignore her words.
"How about you, Light?" Misa asked. "Did you miss me already? Is that why you came here?"
"Well… sort of…" Light muttered, trying to reach L's gaze to get some help from him.
But L wasn't good with ladies so he decided to let Light deal with this all by himself since he had flattered himself for having such "natural charm", as he had put it.
Misa let go of Light. She looked at his face properly for the first time this morning. She gasped and cried: "Oh my! Light, your face looks awful!"
Light bit his lip again. "I know that, Misa…" he grumbled. "You don't need to remind me of that."
Misa turned towards L whom she had been ignoring until now. "This is all your doings!" she said judgmentally. "You ruined our date yesterday and beat Light up to that condition!"
"Technically…" L replied, taking a step closer to Misa. "Light-kun punched me first. I just paid him back. He was the one who ruined the date. And he came here to make it all up to you, Misa-san."
Misa turned back to Light. "Is it true?" she asked, her eyes glistening.
"Yes…" Light replied a bit haltingly.
"Oh yay!" Misa yelled and hugged Light again.
"So… Light-kun suggested that we could have some breakfast together today", L said. "Please follow me, you two."
Watari had set the breakfast for them in another room in the headquarters. It was the same room where they had been on the date the day before.
There was proper food – like croissants, fruits, bacon and eggs – for Misa and Light. But there also were cupcakes, potato chips and strawberry-flavored Pocky sticks – and of course coffee and plenty of sugar cubes.
All three of them sat down around the table and started to eat. Misa and Light ate mostly only the proper food but of course as a dessert they ate some of L's sweeties – although Misa seemed to be avoiding them since her opinion was that eating sweet things caused weight problems.
Light's eating was suddenly interrupted by L who was poking his arm with his forefinger. Light turned his head towards L.
"What is it, Ryuzaki?" he asked.
L handed a potato chip bag towards him holding it between his forefinger and thumb from one edge. Light took the potato chip bag from him.
"Take it as an apology for kicking you so hard, Light-kun", L said turning back towards his sweet breakfast.
Light looked at the present that L had given to him. It was a bag of consommé-flavored potato chips. It was his favorite flavor.
"How did you know…?" he asked, turning his gaze towards L who was sitting next to him the same strange way that he always sat.
"Know what?" L asked, cramming a cupcake into his mouth.
"The consommé flavor…" Light replied, looking at the chips bag. "It's my favorite… I never told you that…"
"Oh, is it really?" L mumbled with his mouth full of cupcake. He turned his head towards Light. His black eyes were even wider than usually. Light didn't know if L was really surprised. Actually he supposed not.
"I must have seen you eating those…" L muttered, gnawing one of the strawberry-flavored Pocky stick. "I mean – when I was monitoring your house via surveillance cameras."
"Oh, right…" Light muttered, looking at the potato chips bag in his hands again. He didn't want to continue this conversation because the topic of this conversation was implying to that Light was Kira. And he was not. Yet L had monitored his house and discovered nothing but that he liked consommé-flavored potato chips… No, Light had wanted to the confinement himself. Back then there had been something that had really made him think himself as Kira. L had agreed to put him in confinement so… Could he actually really be Kira…? Without having consciousness of it…
"Is something the matter, Light-kun?" L asked, interrupting his thoughts.
"No… I'm fine", Light replied. He opened the potato chip bag and took out one chip and ate it. The flavor was the same as always, the one he really liked. It made him feel better. "Would you like to have some, Ryuzaki? How about you, Misa?" he asked.
"No thanks, Light", Misa replied. "They're pretty unhealthy…"
Light handed the bag towards L who shook his head. "I don't like the consommé flavor that much…" he said, eating another strawberry-flavored Pocky stick.
Light put the potato chip bag away so that he could eat the chips later. "Are those really that good, Ryuzaki?" he asked L who ate yet another Pocky stick.
"C'mon, Light", Misa said. "You know that Ryuzaki loves sweets. He never eats anything proper food…"
"Sugar keeps your brain going", L said, taking the whole strawberry Pocky packet from the table. "And yes, these are really good. You should try them, Light-kun. You too, Misa-san."
"No thanks", Misa replied dryly.
Light leaned his back against the back of the couch he was sitting on. He had thought about asking from Misa if the girl could help him to cover the ugly bruise on his cheek with make-up. But now that he thought about it again, he decided to not to ask. Almost inadvertently he took one Pocky stick out of the packet that L was handing towards him. He guessed that there would be no harm in eating one. He idly put the stick into his mouth.
"Oh, by the way, Light", Misa said suddenly, looking at Light, her eyes glistening again. "My manager Matsui told me that I'll be starring in director Nishinaka's next movie. Isn't that just great?"
"Yes, I heard about that", Light said, crossing his legs. "Congratulations."
Misa smiled at him and her eyes glistened even more. "But you're still the most important person in my entire life", she said. "So don't worry. We shall go on dates again. I'll arrange some time even though I'll have plenty of shootings."
Light wasn't worried a slightest bit about that would she have enough time to go on dates with him in future. He was more interested in the Kira investigation. Therefore it was a pity that Ryuzaki seemed to have a lack of motivation… But his appetite was clearly unchanged.
Light looked at L who had already eaten all of the strawberry Pocky sticks. He was now holding the empty packet upside-down in between his fingers and shaking it to see if there was any left. But there wasn't.
Light suddenly became aware of the Pocky stick in between his own lips. And so seemed L also remember that he had given one to Light, too. He turned towards him.
"You want this, Ryuzaki…?" Light asked with the stick still in his mouth. He didn't think that Ryuzaki would like to have a stick that had already been in his mouth. But he was wrong.
"Can I really have it?" L asked, leaning closer to Light on the couch.
Light nodded. He froze to stare at L's face. Honestly – anyone couldn't really possibly desire sweets that much as L did.
"Yuck, Ryuzaki, you're icky", Misa said, pouting her nose.
L leaned even closer to Light. He took a bit of the stick that Light was still having in between his lips. Light totally froze. L put his hand on the back of Light's head to hold him still as he ate the strawberry Pocky stick from Light's mouth with a focused expression on his face.
Light felt the blood rushing to his face. L really didn't seem to understand what made other people feel themselves embarrassed. This situation was awkward but it became far more awkward as L had pretty quickly eaten the stick so far that his lips almost touched Light's lips. At that point Light leaned backwards. But L's hand was holding him still. Light gulped. L licked his lips. His wide, black eyes stared at Light's brown ones and the distance between their faces was just about a centimeter. Then L let go of Light and returned to his own seat seeming to be content.
Light blinked his eyes. He was almost completely paralyzed. Misa glared at L with a jealous face. She would have wanted to eat the Pocky stick from Light's mouth. For that she would have risked her ideal weight. L ignored Misa and started to drink coffee with a large amount of sugar. Light was moving restlessly. He was trying to hide his face from both L and Misa.
"Are you feeling all right, Light-kun?" L asked, turning his head towards Light.
Light was still avoiding L's gaze as he replied with a tense tone: "Yes, I'm perfectly fine."
I had to write something like this to happen between Light and L since this is a fic containing pairing L x Light. And I really don't know how I came up with the idea for this... But since I enjoy writing awkward situations, I wrote this. ;D Hopefully I'll come up with new ideas for other awkward situations - and suggestions are naturally very welcome. (:
Hope you liked this. :3
~ CherrySugarCube
