Light felt like as if he was in a party organized by school rather than in an orphanage
Light felt like he was in a party organized by school rather than in an orphanage. He saw children of all ages walking around in their costumes. Here and there he would see an adult, no doubt a member of the staff. The adults would remain more together scanning the great room where almost everybody was, but L assured him and there were a couple of men that walked through the corridors to check if children weren't misbehaving.
They both stood next to the long tables at the great room. L explained that the director of the orphanage would hold a speech and open the several activities that will take place tonight. Light saw the two little boys, Mello and Matt, running around older children. By the reaction of several people, they were seriously playing tricks on everybody. At the certain point they both came running like crazy to L. They run and suddenly stopped, both looking serious but naughty at the same time.
-"Hi" Mello practically screamed. "He have a birthday present for you too!" Light noticed that however L remained impassive, a look of suspicion was to be read in his eyes.
-"Is that so? Where is the present?" The two boys giggled and Matt handled a little box to L.
-"You've been working on this at arts and crafts class didn't you?" they both nodded affirmatively. Their eyes were glinting from a mixture of happiness and mischievousness.
-"Open the box." Mello said excitedly. L instead of opening it, he picked up the box and started analyzing it. He studied it's shape and color and looked it from all different angles.
-"It's quite a pretty box, did you make it yourselves?" L spoke monotonously and kept looking at the box as if it was the most fascinating object he had even found. Ryuk was surely very curious about the box, for he couldn't keep his eyes of it too.
-"Open the box!" Mello yelled, this time more impatiently. L stared at him stupidly and started shaking the box next to his ear.
-"Is there something in this box? I wonder what it could be..." Matt was giggling and giving little jumps of excitement. But Mello was starting to get really angry.
-"Open the BOX!" He shouted at L, who looked at him surprised, like if he couldn't understand why the boy was angry. He stared at him blankly with his eyes wide
-"I don't know if I want to open the box." Then L stared at the box again. "I think the box looks really nice when it's closed." Matt looked surprised and shocked. Mello was looking now extremely mad.
-"OPEN THE BOX!"
-"Ok, ok, if you insist so much, but you ought to control your temper, little man." L mocked Mello as he waved the box on front of the boy's face. When L approached his other hand to open the box, the two boys stopped and stared hypnotized. A purple thing jumped out the box almost hitting L's face. Ryuk, who was almost glued to the object yelled out of fright. Both boy's started laughing hard, clapping their hands and jumping a bit around. L seemed to be prepared, since he didn't fright. He merely stared at the thing that had popped out of his present. It was a purple fluffy doll, with big eyes and sharp teeth. It had small hands sticking out holding a little paper that read on it Happy Halloween. "That's very nice boys."
-"There are some candies inside the box, you have to lift the lid." Matt explained L.
-"Is that so?" And indeed, under a cartoon cover were several sweets. "How delicious. Thank you very much" Both boys giggled again.
-"Did you like the doll? I saw that on TV one time" Mello proudly spoke looking at L expectantly. Light had the strong feeling that the boy wanted L's attention very much.
-"Yes, I thought it was very clever and quite scary too" Mello's face brightened completely.
-"I thought about the sweets!" Matt wanted his amount of attention too.
-"And I'm most happy with them."
-"I had the idea of the fake cover too." Mello bragged, pushing Matt a bit to the side.
-"You both came with a very good and clever present. You're quite a team" Both boys looked proud as L complimented them. "Now, you should try some of the snacks that we have here. The kitchen personnel did an amazing job." As these words were said, both boys run to the table with the biggest amount of candies and begun stuffing themselves. L carefully placed the doll inside the box, but first he took one of the sweets out and ate it immediately.
Meanwhile the old man that had accompanied Light earlier walked to a small podium and headed to a microphone. He blew twice to hear if the sound was on and captured the attention of some people, including him and L.
-"Hallo…good evening boys and girls. I hope you are enjoying Halloween." Some "yeah" were heard in the room. Now everybody was listening. "Our director, Mr. Wammy wishes to speak a couple words and after that the activities for tonight will be revealed." Light saw an elder man dressed with a black suit covered up with white powder and spider webs come to the podium. His face was rather pale, with a certain white-blue shade on it. He stood on front of the microphone and waited until the children would end the applause.
-"Good evening my little creepy creatures of the night. Are we having fun?" He spoke with a calm and kind voice and his eyes remained closed at all time. An enthusiastic "Yeah" of many voices was heard. "In our yearly tradition we celebrate tonight the night of the death: Halloween. Tomorrow will be the 1st of November and that is the day…" He waited and heard unison All Saint's Day. "Very well. And it's from this name that the word Halloween came. Does perhaps anybody here know how that happened?" Some voices were heard in the crowd. "I heard All-hallow-even. Very well said, because this is the older name for All Day's Saints. Did you know that Halloween is a very, very ancient tradition?" Light heard the voice of a small child speak from the in crowd. Mr. Wammy laughed a bit. "Yes, my child, very much older than myself. Very long time ago, before the time of England, even before our Lord Christ came to Earth, a group of people lived in our island. They were the Gaelic, a Celtic clan. The Gaelic people believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the alive and the dead would merge and the dead would become dangerous for the living. They would bring sickness and damaged their crops so they people wouldn't have food in the winter and starve. They begun with the Halloween tradition and made a festival to keep the dead away: they made bonfires and threw their food and bones to satisfy the hunger of the dead. They also would scare the evil spirits by wearing costumes and masks, just like we are wearing tonight." The room was silent and everybody listened the story that Mr. Wammy had to tell. "Now, my little creatures, for the activities of this horror night. We will start with the performance of our well-know band The twisted truth." Lots of kids started to applaud, specially the older ones. "We will have night activities among which: watching movies, a mystery to be solved and games at the attic. To know better the program and times you can go to our lovely fairies Miss Morris and Mrs. Carrier who have further all the information that you need. Meanwhile please do enjoy the delicious food that we offer you tonight. I wish you all a very enjoyable and horrifying Halloween." As he finished his speech, everybody applauded and Light saw people spread themselves through the great room.
-"Is there any activity that you want to do?" Light asked.
-"Not really, the mystery is fun until you're 13 or something. I not really very found of games, although some of them are ok. The films are usually fun, but I've seen most of them and I can guarantee you that most of them are quite low of quality. You had something in mind?"
-"Well, I do want to see the band, but further I'm not really interested in these activities either. Any ideas for later?"
-"I could show you around. The whole orphanage is decorated."
They were chatting and waiting for the band to perform, when the director walked to their direction. Light watched as the old man came closer. He thought it was a very surreal experience to see Watari alive. He didn't really see many changes in the man; he didn't really get a day older as the years passed by.
-"Happy birthday Ryuzaki" Watari reached his hand to the boy. They formally shacked their hands.
-"Thank you very much Mr. Wammy."
-"And who is this fine fellow?" He turned towards Light, his eyes closed as always.
-"He's Raito Yagami. He's an interchange student from Japan."
-"Really. How did you meet him?"
-"It was when I hurt my ankle at the library. He helped me to get at the hospital."
-"And you became immediately friends?
-"No, Mr. Wammy. I met him the following day at the library and we kind of got along."
-"Interesting story. Tell me Mr. Yagami, which study are you following?" Light had the bad feeling that Watari was suspicious and maybe even upset about their friendship.
-"I'm in my second year of Criminology."
-"I see. And what are your interests in having the company of a 16 year old boy?" The man posed the question in a very kind and fatherly way, but Light felt the threat in his words.
-"We have really great discussions. Ryuzaki is a very sharp person. He perceives details that most of my college colleagues don't even notice." Watari nodded smiling kindly.
-"Congratulations Ryuzaki. It seems that you finally found someone that speaks the same language as you do." L smiled gently. He was clearly nervous. "Well, you must be very happy to become 16. Now you can do all kinds of things you couldn't do before." Light saw L's eyes widen. "For instance, you don't need to sneak out anymore at Friday evenings" Light looked from one to the other. L was paler than normal. His face was blank but he could see worry in his eyes.
-"I-I'm sorry sir" L looked at his feet.
-"Not at all. It's quite nice to know that you are finally coming out off your shell." Watari smiled at the surprised boy. "You must excuse me now, I must go and see how things are going in general." Then he came closer and whispered to L "Make sure you have a lot of fun tonight." The old man left them behind. L was smiling again and Light would swear he saw a slight flicker in his eyes for a moment of a second.
The boys were enjoying the music of the twisted truth. Two girls somewhere around 17, dressed as dark witches were singing pop-rock songs, most of them written by themselves. The rest of the band members were boys in which the youngest was probably around 14.
-"I used to have a crush on her" L pointed at the black-purple haired witch. Light was truly amazed with L's revelation.
-"Really? How did it go?"
-"I think I had a crush on her since my 13th. Never dared to say anything about it. She's the most popular and beautiful girl of the whole place."
-"So nothing ever happened." Light was a bit disappointed. L looked thoughtful for a moment.
-"I thought I could impress her with my talent at tennis. Winning the championship and all. She laughed at my face when I told her I liked her."
-"Hart broken?" L looked blankly at Light.
-"No, I realized then that she's a bitch." Light had to laugh. He could see why a teenager would fall for such a girl. She was pretty and had a great voice.
-"So you like girls." Light asked.
-"Yes. I never felt attracted for a guy before. You're the first one."
-"So I suppose your bisexual."
-"I guess that would be correct. And you?"
-"I am a gay" L looked at Light confused.
-"But your girlfriend…"
-"I always dated the prettiest and most popular girls as a cover up. It's only a façade to trick society about my true nature." L nodded in understanding and looked a bit impressed. They stood there the rest of the time listening the music. Light noticed that often kids would continue staring at the two of them, mainly the older ones. At a certain point the old man with the knife on his back approached them.
-"Ryuzaki!" L turned around and so did Light.
-"You had asked for Mr. Davidson to take Raito back home when the party would finish, didn't you?"
-"That is correct."
-"I'm afraid it will not be possible. Mr. Davidson had to leave early today because he going to visit his family in Scotland tomorrow and has to leave early in the morning."
-"Then somebody else can take Raito with the orphanage's car, right?"
-"No, you see my boy, I had to take it to the garage this morning and it will stay there until Monday. I'm afraid your friend cannot go home like this. It's too dangerous to walk in the streets at night. I'm very sorry Ryuzaki, but he'll have to stay the night over in your room." L looked thoughtful and then stared questionably at Light.
-"I don't think that will be a problem." Light spoke for the relieve of the old man.
-" Do we have an extra mattress and sheets?" L asked
-"Yes, yes. I can arrange you everything. He will have to sleep on a mattress on the floor."
-"Oh, that's ok. In Japan we often sleep like that too." The man smiled again relieved.
-"Jolly good! I'll make sure everything will be prepared for your guest."
-"Thank you, Roger" L smiled briefly. As the old man went away, Light stared at L. There as a pause in which none of them spoke. L's eyes were again concentrated on the band.
-"You had all this planned, didn't you?" Light finally popped out the question. L stared at him blankly.
-"What do you mean?"
-"You knew that Mr. Davidson wouldn't be able to bring me home, didn't you?"
-"I can assure you I was not aware of this situation." He spoke calmly, expressionlessly.
-"I'm guessing that you sabotaged the car this morning too."
-"Nonsense, you're assumptions are unsubstantiated."
-"Really? Well, Ryuzaki, I can see through you and your little plan." Light spoke defiantly. L looked strait into the older man's eyes.
-"And that would be" His voice was composed and his eyes as self-assured as ever.
-"You want me to spend the night with you."
A/N
Ah yeah, things are getting interesting. Of course L had it all planned! (duh!) Actually it was quite simple. He needed to know how many people would be with a car that evening. Most of the staff lives in the orphanage, so they use a car occasionally that belongs to the place. Who had a car and was present this evening? No one else than Mr. Davidson. L, in a neutral conversation on Friday evening, asked if the man was going to stay the whole night with them (he lives outside the orphanage). The man told him joyfully that he would leave at around 11 o' clock for the next morning he would drive to his home village with his wife and children.
One down. One to go. L took a book from the orphanage's library about the mechanics of a car. Early in the morning, when everybody was still sleeping, he indeed sabotaged the car. Roger had to bring it to the garage and since it was a complicated problem (Yeah, L is not stupid) it had to stay the weekend in the garage, because they were closing earlier. As last, he asked Roger at around mid-night (the last bus departed form 11.45 p.m) if Mr. Davidson could take Light home when the party ended. Roger was unaware of Mr. Davidson's schedule and that is why he felt so responsible when he realized that the Japanese guest had no transportation.
Light says: I am a gay – could not resist, I just had to use the very most famous Death Note Joke – YAGAMI reads backwards IAMAGAY (I-AM-A-GAY)