#21 Vacation
"Why is Amane-san wearing nothing but her underwear?"
"IT'S A BIKINI! Pervert!" Came the thunderous roar of the angered Misa.
Light, in his seat beside his girlfriend as the car roared along the road towards the beach, wondered why on earth he'd agreed to this in the first place.
All right, the idea of spending a day sunning himself and relaxing was very appealing after the months of working on the case with no breakthroughs, but the problem was that he doubted very much there would be any relaxing, given that Misa had insisted on coming, and Ryuzaki was still trying to keep them under surveillance.
"Do you two have to keep arguing?" He asked with a sigh.
Ryuzaki
bit his thumbnail, blinking his big black eyes in the manner of a
puzzled faun. "I was not arguing, Light-kun, I was just asking why
Misa is wearing so little-"
"You're such a pervert!" Misa
shrieked, "Why are you even looking at what I'm wearing!?
Light-kun is the only one who should be looking!"
Ryuzaki shrugged, "I fail to see the logic in Misa-san wearing next to nothing and then getting annoyed when men other than Light-kun notice."
Misa clenched her fists; "Ryuzaki isn't a man! He's a Worm!"
Light smirked a little; on the other hand, these two were very useful as entertainment.
The trip there was punctuated with further arguments between the people sat either side of Light, who was doing his very best to see this as free amusement rather than mind-numbingly irritating.
Still, he reasoned, once they were there things would get better. He could sunbathe in peace, while Ryuzaki doubtless stuffed himself with ice-cream and Misa played around in the water being silly, as usual.
He stretched as the car stopped beside the sand and sea and climbed out, dragging the detective with him. "Just smell that air."
"Didn't Misa-misa tell Light-kun he would like this?" The blonde squealed excitedly. "Now Light-kun can go get changed, there's some stalls over there…" she trailed off when she realised with sudden horror that both Light and Ryuzaki, in tandem, had started stripping off right there.
She gave a squeal of horror and covered her eyes.
There
came a sigh from the boys and Light grumbled, "Misa, we're
wearing our swimming trunks under our clothes…You can look,
honestly."
When she didn't move, Ryuzaki smirked wickedly,
"Perhaps Misa does not wish to see her boyfriend half-naked."
Misa's eyes flew open, face tinted pale pink, "Ryuzaki is a total perver-" She stopped speaking.
Light was so handsome, so slim and tanned, and his shorts were so cute on him, and his legs-
"Misa is staring at Light-kun like he is a cake." Ryuzaki muttered from the space beside the teenager. "Perhaps Misa is the pervert."
Misa turned to snarl out some insult or another, and found herself again, at a loss for words.
Because L was unbelievably toned, in fact, his muscles were more defined than Light's. And while he was much skinnier, it appeared that every inch of him was muscle and sinew. His skin was very pale, like a porcelain figure, tinted faintly with pale pink on his nipples, and there was a very fine line of faint black hair leading down to…
"Misa is staring at my crotch."
Light burst out laughing and Misa squealed and started incoherently denying having looked at all.
It took an hour's reassuring from her boyfriend, but she calmed eventually, and the strange-looking trio ended up sitting on a blanket on the beach, Ryuzaki lapping at an ice-cream while Misa cuddled Light's arm and the poor student himself sat between them trying to read.
He
let out a deep groan, finding it impossible to read with Misa's
face constantly snuggling into his arm, "Misa, why don't you sit
with Ryuzaki a while?"
She stuck out her tongue, "Because
he'll just be perverted and stare at me!"
"Misa stared at me
too."
Light muttered a curse under his breath. "You two make me insane." He snapped, "I thought you both loved me?"
The detective and actress both blushed and lowered their heads simultaneously, as they always did when Light brought up the subject.
Of course they both loved him. And between the three of them they had agreed to share, but somehow Light always ended up between them, because he was the one they both adored. They couldn't care less about one another.
"If you both love me as much as you claim to, why don't you let me have some peace and quiet, huh?" Light reasoned, a scheming smirk coming to his face, "It makes me sad that my boyfriend and girlfriend can't get along even a little bit." He leant back and closed his eyes, as though he were about to nod off under the sun, "In fact, what would really make me happy was if you two actually enjoyed one another a little more."
He heard the sound of sand being kicked and movement, and opened one eye slightly, smirking.
Just as planned, Misa had leapt over him and onto Ryuzaki, and the detective, in a bid to please him, was crushing the girl's lips to his own, ice-cream forgotten.
And after a moment or two, they drew apart, staring at one another.
"…Would Light-kun mind if we went for a walk?" Ryuzaki asked suddenly.
Misa nodded, "We won't go far… we promise Light-kun!"
Light pretended to sigh and roll his eyes, "Well I suppose I don't mind, go enjoy yourselves now." He waved one hand vaguely and watched the two run off together, doubtless to find a more private spot.
He picked his book back up from where he'd dropped it on the sand and grinned.
This could end up being a very good vacation.