Bocca Chiusa:

With closed mouth


Even though L had shown Light every courtesy, the elegant youth refused to give out the details that L so needed to know.

He was used to opposition however, and didn't dwell on it passed an hour. L was used to refining things, sharpening them. L thought a moment and even contemplated leaving Light/Kira/Lucious in Watari's care for a while. The older gentleman had a knack for bringing those closed off and barricaded in their minds out and into the open. He sighed and decided he would never do that to his old friend.

So instead they sat and played chess drinking coffee and talking petty philosophy. All in all it was comfortable. But for Pen it was torture, trying to keep up with their outlandish talk.

If it had been Angina Melanomas or Huntington's disease, she would have been enthralled. She excused herself and departed from the room, early in their conversation.

Light looked on after the doctor.

"Are you sure this is a good Idea?"

"Yes, she is not needed now, I can call her up if I need her."

"So you're fine being in a room with a potential assassin?"

"No Light, you are an assassin, It's just that you a reluctant one with a disassociative disorder. But I have confidence in my training."

"As long as you are aware. We've had some training too, I'm sure you know it? A hundred and one ways to kill L with a ball point pen?" Light commented, returning his focus to the chess game before him.

"Light I hate to bruise your ego beyond its already damaged state, but last time we fought, I wasn't exactly putting in my all." L commented, almost smirking.

"That's good then." Light said slowly nodding. Nonetheless L had unhinged his arms from around his knees, now positioned like a cat ready to pounce.

There was a large crash that filtered up from down stairs. Immediately, L's laptop blipped for his attention. L stabbed the key.

"Yes?"

"L, a very aggravated Lieutenant is down here, he demands to see Kira." L noticed Light's immediate reaction. He froze with the look of a child who had completely forgotten he had chores yet to be done. L did not smile, as that was almost positively the case.

"We will be down in a moment." But Light was shaking his head adamantly. L had already severed the connection.

"I'm sorry Light, but I thought that you had no major qualms with the lieutenant."

"Ah yes, but the lieutenant, as you say, has a qualm or two with me. You should be dead right now, I fear for this operation and its task force."

"Light is the best actor, I know surely he would be able to buy us some time?"

"Yes but you see, it's difficult to explain, lets just say the lieutenant has a way of wheedling the truth out of me." Light began to wring his hands.

"What way is that?"

"…" Light ignored the question for a long moment. "I'm afraid I've been a bit of a procrastinator." L looked at the young man quizzically. But Light just bit his lip in that newly girlish manner and turned away from L.

"What are you saying?"

"L? I have a huge favor... Well isn't that funny. Me asking a favor from the almighty L? But… just don't read to much into it." Suddenly there was pounding on the door. Nix's muffled voice could be heard on the other side arguing quite heatedly with Watari. Light curled up into the computer chair at the noise.

"Please don't read anything into this," he repeated "but I need you to… If I don't he is going to be really mad." Light stood once again looking fiercely at the door. "I'm being ridiculous. But please humor me. I need you to kiss me. A… good kiss." L stared at the youth with impossibly large eyes.

"Light kun, are you feeling all right?"

"Please L, You can ask me all about it later but… Damnit!" The pounding grew louder.

L gazed at the young man's trembling lips as he stared worriedly at the door, and instantly a wave of hormones took over. He grabbed the youth and kissed him.

Light did say that it had to be good.

Their lips were firm against each other's, unmoving from shock. But then L, realizing with every fiber that he was kissing the young, attractive, and highly intelligent Light Yagami began to gently caress Light's lips with his.

It seemed that the entire world had disappeared. Not only the world, but also their bodies. They were two pairs of soft pink skin touching, feeling. And L realized that the old analogy of fireworks had not been far off.

His tongue began its inevitable journey into Lights mouth past those soft petals till they reached the hard enamel barrier of white pearly teeth, which opened eagerly inviting him in.

L decided that Light tasted like bubbles. The fizzy tickle on your tongue after perhaps you had your first sip of soda after days of being denied the sugary beverage. But Light was only a little sweet. He tasted like fizz more than anything else.

When they broke apart, L realized that while their minds and lips had been in orbit, their hands had been busy down on the mortal realm. L's hand was beneath the black long sleeved shirt and caressing Light's lower back while Light had his hands in L's undeniably, more messy hair.

They stared at each other for a moment in amazement. Until Light's smile broadened across his face. It was a genuine smile, with only a hint of mischief. Light came back to himself much quicker than L had.

"Very nice L." The youth commented before scratching L behind the ear and sauntering towards the door. The inexplicably shocked L stared after him and watched as the youth opened the door to let those in the hall, spill in.

L had the suddenly uneasy feeling that he had just played right into Light, and Nix's hands.

Nix strode into the room and surveyed its occupants with cold searching eyes, lingering on Light for much longer than L liked.

"Can we help you lieutenant Nix?" The one who was speaking was Light and L spun towards the youth, amazed at the fact that Light acted so comfortable around Nix, when moments before he had looked so utterly worried.

A sick feeling in L's gut told him it had been a test or some kind of step towards his downfall.

"I just… wanted to know the results to the test. I was worried." Watari scoffed but stood like a pillar on L's left. A hand in his jacket pockets, no doubt gripping a weapon.

L's vagrant mind finally returned to him, now with such a speed that it exceeded his usual thinking capacity.

"Was it necessary to cause such a commotion. Surely Watari told you that we would be down momentarily." L grabbed Light's arm and led him from the room, leaving the to older gentlemen to follow. Light smiled joyfully at the almost vice like grip on his arm.

They descended down the stairs where Pen was watching a laptop screen before her. Eyes wide with amazement, before slowly turning them to L and Light.

L frowned as he realized that she had most likely been watching the entire ordeal from the security system.

When the two reached the bottom of the stairs, they waited somewhat impatiently for Nix to follow. L led Light over to the plush couch and pushed Light's chest so that he plopped down next to Pen who watched them both, eyes still wide with wonderment.

When L turned to Nix, the man's eyes never left Light. He scratched his face before turning to L.

"I'm sorry L. I suppose that I got a little carried away." L glanced about the entrance way and saw the umbrella stand over turned. So that had been the crashing sound. Nix must have been in a hurry to get to Light. L was uneasy with the new questions that pummeled him.

"Yes well next time call for an appointment, instead of springing by for a visit. I assure you that I would be on time for it. Provided I had ample enough warning. 10 minutes should suffice." L said coldly.

"I apologize. It wont happen again."

"Can I ask the reason behind your urgency?"

"I was worried, no one called me last night with the results. I assumed that some one would."

"Something arose relevant to the case." Light giggled. L stared at the youth; he did just hear that didn't he? The Light Yagami had giggled. He had to rip his disturbed eyes away from the youth to refocus them on Nix.

"I understand." Nix suddenly looked uncomfortable. He turned to leave.

"Don't you want the results Lieutenant Nix? After all that is what you came here for isn't it?" L watched the army man. He knew plainly that this was not the reason. Nix thought that after leaving L with his Light last night, that L should have been dead. No doubt he was merely checking on the progress. And after he had found out the detective was quite safe he had become irate.

L felt suddenly weary, both with the knowledge that the American CIA wanted him dead and that they might still succeed.

"Oh yes of course, but perhaps you could have your doctor fax the information to my office? I am rather late for a meeting." Nix was jumpy as he eyed the detective strangely, like he knew something the raven-haired one did not, well ofcourse he did, still L was uneasy.

"All right, goodbye lieutenant Nix." The tall man swiftly walked into the elevator and jammed the buttons to take him from the awkward atmosphere.

"We will return to the room, Watari please be sure to lock the door after us?"

"Yes L." L swiftly walked towards Light and grabbed his arm again to return upstairs.

"Why can't we stay down here?" Light whined

"Because I don't trust you as far as I can throw you."

"So, about 8 feet?" L looked at light with a mix of exasperation and annoyance. When they reached their room, L threw the boy into the room before following him.

"… So rough." Light whimpered as he rubbed his elbow that had bumped into the desk.

"Why?"

"Why what?" Light asked toying with his hair in a way that made L immediately think of Near.

"Why did you have me kiss you?" L seethed.

"You could have said no if you were so against the idea." Light pouted. L raised his hands into a strangling motion towards Light's neck before they landed in his hair and pulled.

What had unnerved the detective so, was that he had enjoyed the kiss. Extremely so. Which would have been fine, if he had seen it coming, but he hadn't.

Light straightened and walked towards the still baffled detective until he was standing right before him. Light outstretched his hands and grasped L's own before bringing them up to his neck into the position they had mimicked before.

Light was placing the detectives hands around his throat, knowing how mad the detective had been, to show him what? His obedience? His suicidal tendencies? His trust? L didn't know, but watched Light's sad eyes unflinchingly.

"This Light is a good actor too, ne Ryuzaki?" L's eyebrow rose quizzically.

"What are you saying?" Light's hand caressed L's chest before pushing the detective away slightly.

"L, you must move those at Wammy's now. Nix left in a hurry, I believe the reasoning behind it was so he could call off the raid on the orphanage. I'm sorry."

"No, he won't achieve his goal if that is the case, all the children have been moved already. Wammy's is more of a corporation instead of an actual facility. Right now they are… safe out of harms way." L watched as Light's eyes lit up.

"Really?"

"Yes Light…" L said running an exasperated hand through his hair.

"Nuh uh. Not Light."

"What?"

"I'm not Light, I'm Raito kun. The one who gets to show you how much I love you the mostest!" L almost fainted at Lights Missa impersonation.

"But Light said…"

"Light is stupid. He thought if he kept me as a wild card he could hold one over on you. He isn't the one who pleases Nix, it's me. Raito kun. But Raito hates Nix. I love L." L felt that at any moment his head would explode. He plopped down into the desk chair and pulled his knees up under him. Running his hands over his face.

Was it too much to ask that something be easy for once? No, L didn't like easy, but Light's split personalities, and the prospect that there was even more, made L want to attempt crying for the first time in years.

"So that's why Light asked me to kiss him." L asked his monotonous drone sounding even more lifeless and robotic.

"Yep, It's because angsty Kira feels he doesn't deserve L's affections, so he created me."

"I'm… confused." L stated plainly into the air as if in confession, his mind was completely boggled and he didn't like it one bit. Raito approached the chair and began messaging L's neck.

"It's ok to be confused once in a while. Its what makes you human, right? Ask me questions I will try to help L understand."

"Are you a girl?" The hands quickly retreated.

"No." Raito said a bit incensed. "Sorry to disappoint." Light's tone darkened. Light turned from the detective and made his way towards the table to get another cigarette from the pack.

"Why were you created? I mean how did you come to the conclusion that I might even be attracted to you?" L wondered if his careful mask had somehow slipped during those days of his and Light's bondage.

"Oh that was an accident. Nix used to trick us into believing that he was you. And sometimes, he was very kind when he played L. Kira felt he didn't deserve what he thought was your kindness, so his mind branched off again. Isn't he so weak?" L winced as he realized each of the faces of Kira had criticized him. Did Light really think so lowly of himself? Then he winced again at the implications of what Nix and Kira had been up to.

"So then that means…"

"Yes, Nix as L would sometimes have sex with us." The boy pulled his left leg under him and brang his right knee to his chest. He had a faraway look in his eyes.

There was a long pause where L felt his brain falter and then putter down to a less than acceptable processing speed. He almost banged his head against the table to get it restarted, but then Raito spoke.

"L?"

"Yes Raito kun."

"You do like me don't you?"

"I don't know? I just met you." L said trying to be half hearted, but at the same time needing to avoid the answer.

"That's stupid, I'm just a separate part of the Light you knew in Japan. Answer the damned question. Was that kiss as great as I thought it was?"

"…Yes."

The boy pushed his mouth into his knee to smother the contagious grin.

"Good, then you can fix us."

"Fix you?"

"Put us back together. You are the smartest detective in the world after all."

"Raito kun… I'm afraid that, that might not be entirely possible. You may never again have a single mind." L was almost pissed at the criminal for putting that kind of weight on his shoulders.

"You'll figure it out. I trust you, we all do. Except maybe luscious. Well I'll see you later L kun." The pale hand smashed the cigarette out.

"Wait! Are there any more of you I should know about?" L spouted quickly, but just like that Light was back in the room.

"…"

"…I apologize for my behavior earlier."

"Really? What did I do to deserve this fate? One Light Yagami was quite enough now I have to contend with four. Maybe more!" L needed to get away from the boy soon. His blood was practically boiling, but first he had questions.

"Please shed some light on what went on between you… Raito and Nix?"

"In short, there were supposed to be two out comes after he had triggered the other personalities to reveal themselves. One: last night, you'd have died. Two: was that you would turn out to be a selfish person and wanted us for yourself, and there for Raito would emerge. That is why a kiss from you caused him to come out. Everyone was banking on number one. In the event that you did choose to become intimate with us, plans would be halted, because there is the possibility to gain more information on you and your operation. And perhaps learn enough from you so that we could become America's generic version of 'L'. That is the one that Nix's superiors wanted." Light chuckled.

"If he has indeed made a move on Wammy's, Lieutenant Nix will have hell to pay." At that moment L's laptop blipped again. This time the rat popped up and waved at the two of them.

-What's all the excitement? -

-Not now Fitz- L typed furiously.

-Fine, but I just wanted to tell you how truly awesome I am. I have just cracked the CIA's mainframe. No need for applause. I have what you asked me for- L was overjoyed that he now had an excuse to leave the room.

-Thank you Fitz, I'll be right down.- L closed the message screen and contacted Watari to unlock the door.

"I take it I'm staying here?" Light asked, amused at L's eagerness to leave the youth's presence.

"Yes, Watari will be bringing up meals, if you need anything he will provide it." L snatched up his laptop and stood by the exit. Waiting for Watari.

"This isn't Like you L. Running away." Light said as he walked back over to the bed and pulled the blankets and sheets back. It may be mid morning, but Light would be damned if he were going to wait up here like a forlorn puppy all day.

L said nothing as the door was unlocked and opened.

"I will see you tonight Light kun. Have a good rest, and be sure to eat every thing on your plate." L said not even turning his head.

"Whatever." Said Light as he flopped over onto the mattress and settled in for a long sleep.