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Needless to say it was quite strange being with not only L, but the new and improved Light Yagami. I was still wary of the boy, but it was easy to tell the differences since the last time I had been forced to deal with him. Needless to say it was he was a lot more pleasant to deal with, even if I had to put up with Misa hanging all over him. I even had a decent conversation or two with him while Misa was forced away in her room, our cameras trained on her. I still wasn't exactly thrilled over the fact that the two were handcuffed together and I found out only later that L had Light "incapacitated" while we were speaking (or in layman's terms, knocked over the head with a well-aimed kick), and unfortunately I would think Chief Yagami would be upset if I suggested this action again in order to have some alone time. So we took to speaking with one another in hushed tones around the Yagami kid while he did as he pleased. At the moment I was seated next to L, our shoulders touching as I began compiling the information I had been lacking since the lock down.
"Light!"
I cringed at the sound of the energetic blond, my eyes sliding over to meet L's to see the same perturbed look on his face that was on mine. I laughed softly, sticking my tongue out, causing him to smile only slightly.
"Oh my gosh you guys are so cute!"
Our heads jolted away from the other and I looked over at Misa who, along with everyone else, was staring at us, although she had a much more... happy? look on her face.
"Oh Misa," I said loudly in a fake happy voice that didn't make it to my face. "Light was just saying how much he MISSED you!"
Light sent me a dark look, which I returned with a grin and shrug, happy to find Misa's attention focused solely on Light now where L and I became invisible. I chuckled and L took my hand under the table, squeezing it gently.
"We should totally go on a date, Light," Misa was gushing, holding onto his arm.
"We're trying to work Misa..."
"Oh Light, you're always working!" Misa groaned, my eyes diverting down when she looked my way.
"You all should take a break!" She reprimanded which made me snort.
"A mass murderer is still on the loose and you want us to 'break'?" I questioned.
"C is right..."
"Maybe we should take a break," L interrupted Light's agreement with me which made all of us turn our heads in question.
"What?" I questioned, L not looking at me.
"I was saying that the possibility is high that Miss Amane is correct," I snorted loudly.
"You've got to be kidding me,"
"On my gosh! Yes! I totally am!" Misa looked as though she had won a pony and I wanted to kick L for allowing her to think so.
"Let's go up to my room and have, like a double date!"
"I want cake then," L said, standing from his seat, hands shoved in his pockets as he tugged Light behind him with the link they shared. Not knowing what to do, I looked at Light and shrugged, following the bouncing Misa and a slouched L up to the model's room.
When we were all settled in I was seated in a chair I pulled up just so I didn't have to sit on the same couch as Amane, L and Light forced to sit next to one another by the chain linking them. Just like L had wanted, there was a piece of cake for all of us waiting when we arrived, knowing Watari had heard and set up before we even got off the elevator. For good reason we tried to keep him hidden, trying to be as cautious as possible around the two suspected Kira's.
Unfortunately as we sat there, there wasn't much conversation going on. If I wasn't mistaken this would have been called an "awkward moment." L sat eating his cake, Light lounged back on the couch with his hands behind his head, Misa looked unhappily uncomfortable and I took up to picking at the tips of my hair, finding split ends, pulling the hair out and splitting the hair in half.
"Uhm... this doesn't feel like a date at all..." Misa piped up after a while, looking disgruntled. "We're not even sitting as couples!" She looked over at me like it was all my fault in which I simply raised my eyebrows.
"We're not here to impend on your date," L said through a bite of the strawberry from atop his piece of cake. "By the way, will you be eating that cake?"
"Sweets are fattening, no thanks..."
"If you use your head, you can eat sweets without gaining weight though," L said simply, reaching over to Amane's cake while the blond looked aghast.
"Ah! You're making fun of me again!"
I snorted, plucking the strawberry from the top of my cake by the green leaves and taking a bite.
"The blond is learning," I hummed under my breath with a smirk on my face, L sending me a look, his fork still stuck in his mouth.
"Fine, I'll give you the cake. So, can Light and I be alone?" Misa questioned, believing she was bargaining with him.
"Even if you're alone, I'll be watching on the monitors, so it won't make any difference," L said, standing on the couch and reaching for the cake Amane forfeited.
"Why are you such a pervert?" She cried out. "Stop these sick hobbies of yours!"
"You may call me whatever you wish, but I'm taking your cake."
"Fine then, when Light and I are alone, I'll close the curtains and turn off the lights." She said with a stupid grin on her face.
"They're chained together," I muttered.
"There are infrared cameras too," L added, Misa still not looking dissuaded.
"Then we'll get under the covers, right, Light?" She sent him a smarmy grin.
"Whatever," He looked away, leaving a shocked look on the model's face.
"Whatever...? Meanie...!"
"We have this great facility now, yet you don't seem very into it, Ryuzaki." Light said, looking to L and completely ignoring the female in front of him which made me smirk.
"Not really..." L said with a flat look on his face, looking tired and annoyed. "I'm actually kind of depressed."
"Depressed?" Light questioned, voicing mine as well.
"For the longest time, I thought you were Kira. I'm a little shocked that I was wrong..." L said through his fork as he stuffed cake in his mouth.
"Well, I still suspect you, thus the handcuffs, but Kira could control people's actions meaning..." He gave a sidelong glance over to Light. "...Kira controlled you to make me think that you were Kira. Everything fits in my mind if I assume that to be fact... the only thing I don't understand is why the two of you weren't killed."
I blinked, not believing a word he was saying.
"If you were being controlled and killed people without being conscious of it, then you are nothing more than a victim, I have to start the investigation over from scratch... we're back to the beginning.
"If Kira took interest in Light because he had access to police information and then controlled him to make you a suspect in my eyes... that's a pretty big shock to me... very frustrating..."
"Ryuzaki," Light began, his arms crossed over his chest and back straight, the complete opposite of the hunched over L. "With that line of thinking, it means that while we were being controlled, Misa and I were Kira's."
"Yes, I don't think there's any mistake there, you're both Kira's."
The two of them looked at L and then to me. I showed no sign of waning as I gazed back at them with an unwavering glance, it was true, both L and I believed they were Kira's, even if they had no memories of this occurring.
"The way I see it," His eyes flickered to me in a silent understanding that he was speaking for me as well. "When you went into confinement, you were Kira. And then the killings stopped. Up until then, it makes sense that you were Kira, but after two weeks the killings resumed, based on that, my thinking is that...
"Kira's power passes from person to person. The second Kira's video even mentioned that the power could be shared."
"That's an interesting theory," Light commented, leaning forward on the couch. "But if that is the case, then catching Kira will be difficult."
"Yes, that's why I'm depressed," L said simply. "You control someone and use them to kill the criminals, then when that person is aught, you transfer the power to someone else, and the first person loses all their memories, this would make capture impossible."
I looked at L, not voicing the piece of conversation we had about this while we were together, speaking only to ourselves in hushed tones. We had this same talk (without the talk of L claiming to be depressed), but I had offered an idea that would make both Light and Misa guilty even without their knowledge. That the holder of this power has the ability to forfeit it, but the punishment would be to lose the memories of holding such a power. L had looked at me with such light in his eyes I thought he would kiss me right there while everyone was in the room.
I wasn't quite sure how it happened, but the smacking sound drew me back to the present time, my eyes focusing on a body flying at me while Misa screamed. Without thinking it, my arm went up, contacting the fleshy side of the flying detective enough to allow me to topple the chair I was on and fling me to the floor, out of the way, but breathing heavily from the scare. Light followed soon after the flying L, my glare fixed on the younger male.
"Ouch," L grumbled after righting himself against the wall. I wasn't quite sure what words L said that went too far to warrant this, but from the angry spew Light was throwing at L, it wasn't something he liked. Suddenly L's foot came around and contacted with Light's face, throwing the two of them back across the room.
"It's not just that my reasoning was wrong it's the fact that the case can't be solved as "Light Yagami is Kira and Misa Amane is the second Kira." So I'm a little disappointed. I'm human – that's not allowed?" L questioned in a crouched position on the ground.
"No it's not," Light said as he went to rise from the floor. "The way you talk, it's like you won't be satisfied unless I'm Kira."
"Yes, that may be true... I have just realized something, I wanted you to be Kira,"
With that Light's fist contacted L's face once again, throwing him back a few steps until he turned and threw another powerful kick that threw Light back again. I looked over at Misa who was crouched on the floor behind a fallen couch, looking terrified as the two of them wound up again. My eyes narrowed, knowing if L contacted Light again he would go flying into the girl, and even though I wouldn't be happier to see this happen, I knew that these two needed to stop. I rose quickly and just as they were throwing their limbs, my hands held fast to Light's fist and L's foot.
"Stop," I growled darkly, glaring at them both in turn.
All of us stopped when the phone rang. L loped over, picking it up and saying little to the loud voice that came through the little speaker. He hung up with little enthusiasm.
"What was it?" Light questioned as I righted the chair I was sitting in originally, making it one of the few articles of furniture upright in the room.
"Nothing, just Matsuda being an idiot again," L said flatly.
"Well, he is a little slow,"
I snorted, looking to where I knew a camera was hidden and smirked, sending the feed a shrug.
Author's Note: I'm really sorry for the hiatus guys :( unfortunately my time is becoming something of a marvel if I'm allowed any of it to be by myself. The one thing I do want to do is finish this story. So no worries, it will be finished one way or another, even if I'm not able to update once a week for a little while and every other. I will try to still update once a week, but it might not happen as regularly as before.
So! Next is the start of the 2 month gap! Then Yotsuba Arc! How exciting :D. Also, who else loved the faces L made through most of this scene. I don't know why, but I loved the looks he was given, they were too cute :3.
xxyangxx2006: Precisely what I was thinking, shame on you L. Honestly if it was me and in that situation I would leave also instead of getting overly upset and doing something irrational. Of course C's irrational involved peanuts XD.
sincethelastday: I don't mind the questions at all! To be honest I wasn't quite sure if her sickness would effect their relationship so much that it would change in any way since I always thought L believed he would die in the end as well, so it's almost as if they've both resigned themselves to their own fates. And to her going out and partying, it just reinforces her thoughts of running away when feelings start to become too much. Not having to think would be peace for the time being. And thank you for your questions, I enjoyed them immensely! I hope you enjoy this chapter as well :).
Moondance90: I never really thought that she would go to a club either, so it did surprise me when it popped up, but it worked lol. And honestly after thinking it over, I think I might twist a little maturity in here ;D.
YaoiLoverDeathNote1: I did too :)
MikaUchiha666: Most machines don't against C XD.