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Part 115
B's eyes went wide as saucers, more so at suddenly having his friend's face in between his legs than their father who suddenly went rather pale.
The dark eyed raven lapped up the tiny creature and munched away at it, looking up to see both of the room's other occupants looking at him with rather unusual expressions. This was the second time in one day that Watari had found his boys in a compromising position and with their body's side on it was hard to see what exactly occurred.
The elderly male was at a complete loss for words. Surely there was an explanation for this. B involuntarily blushed, but his shock didn't go away.
"Lawli... why did you do that?"
"The panda escaped," was the innocent reply, followed quickly by a return to his treats.
That answer should have brought relief, but Watari was still shocked and at a loss for words. So effective was the sight before him that he completely forgot why he came in here in the first place.
"You have your hands Lawli. You don't have to use your mouth all the time." That didn't make it any better.
"But then I wouldn't get to taste it," the elder explained, biting one of the little animals in half absent mindedly.
"You'll still taste it, just lick it from your hand, you don't have to be in a hurry all the time. Patience is rewarded." He took in a pocky stick and as an afterthought looked at their father who looked rather odd.
"Watari, you look pale. Did something bad happen?"
"N-no... I forgot something. I will return with it." With that, he retreated to get his bearings straight.
L leaned over and took a bite from the stick before B could get it to his mouth. It was a small tease and L already knew how the blood eyed boy would react.
The younger raven grinned and leaned in to lick the crumbs from the older raven's lips.
"No fair Lawli," he murmured playfully.
"Life isn't fair Beyond," he stated back, moving to try and attack what remained of the stick only to have it pulled away playfully.
"You can't have any more," he teased, sucking the stick into his mouth and chewing. He pulled out another an stuck it into his mouth.
"I dare you to try get another from me."
L leaned over, pushing his friend back and taking the stick straight from his mouth with his tongue, ending the action in a rough and playful kiss.
"Too fa... Nnh..." Unknown to either raven, the action L took to get the treat had caused his thigh to grind against him.
"Too fast.." he repeated, somewhat shocked, but anticipating a little that his friend's boldness would somehow end that way.
The dark eyed raven moved back into his crouch with a victorious grin, bugging his assault on the panda shaped snacks anew.
"You think you can get away with it that easily? We'll see about that!" He reached out an snatched the panda treats and hopped off the bed, taking a couple and popping them into his mouth, flashing them briefly before chewing on them.
"No!" the elder whimpered and reached out hopelessly for his lost treats before actually getting to his feet and chasing after his friend.
B crouched low and used the height to allow him to be evasive, taking another treat when he could and holding it out of reach.
"I know your moves Lawli, try get your pandas back." He mock cackled and dodged.
L ran at him again, his moves almost being mirrored by the younger. It was like being fought by himself and was nothing short of frustrating.
"Pandas!" He called out to them as if he was expecting them to respond.
"Come back!"
"Come on Lawli, you can do better than that." He taunted him with another panda treat and put it into his mouth and held it between teeth with a grin.
L finally managed to tackle his friend, once again removing the treat from his friends mouth with his own.
B fell backwards and onto the floor, his head landing in the direction of the door that opened, revealing their father who's expression once again went in shock.
"My panda." L stated bluntly, chewing the treat in his mouth victoriously.
"Do I really want to know what's going on here?" Their exasperated father finally managed to ask.
"He took my pandas Watari!" the elder boy almost whines, pointing to the remaining treats in his friends hand.
"He started it! I am finishing it." He kept the treats out of reach.
"This is not behavior I was expecting from two busy boys. I thought you both knew better."
"We're not adults Watari, you can't expect that just because we're intelligent, we're also not capable of rough play."
"It would be most foolish to assume that we can work and work and work and not have the need to play," the dark eyed raven mumbled, pinning his friends arm to the ground so that he could crawl along it and devour the treats, licking his friends fingers at the same time.
The younger raven wiggled to get free futilely.
"What brings you here the 3rd time in a row, Watari?" He had his eyes locked onto the older raven and tried keeping the treats out of reach and failing.
"Only to let you both know that preparations for the sting are good for tomorrow evening when the doll arrives."
L continued to lick at his friends fingers, tickling them with his tongue and trying to get every last crumb.
"Ood!" he mumbled, Words muffled by his friends fingers "I uspect it wool go wewll"
B felt tingles and tried harder to free himself, being more unsuccessful than the last time. Another light blush appeared involuntarily and he pulled his arm back as hard as he could.
"Yes, I suspect it will be successful."
L finished what he set out to do and climbed off his friend to head back to the pile of treats victoriously, completely ignoring his adopted father's stare.
"This is not over yet Watson. I will have my revenge on you sooner or later, you can count on that." He rolled over so he could stand and returned to his pocky sticks and popped one into his mouth.
"If that's all Watari... Lawli and I know what to expect for tomorrow." He wiped his hand onto his friend's shirt and gave it a quick shake to dry.
"Yes. In fact, we are just about to get some rest," the elder stated and looked out the window. "Within a week he should be in custody as long as the police here do not make any foolish mistakes."
"Indeed. One slip-up and it's back to basics." Watari only let out a long and slow breath before turning and leaving the pair alone. B looked at his friend and then stuck another stick in and sucked on it happily.
"I'm pretty sure Watari was the very same as us too. He was not always so serious."
"No one was born as serious as Watari is now..." the elder mumbled and opened his little sponge cake.
"It is something he has learned with age..."
"More reason for him to be a little lenient. We're nowhere near him, but we do have common sense. I know this already. When we get to his age, then we can better appreciate the little chastisements." It was wishful thinking at least according to B. He could not shake the feeling that both of them may never reach their intended ages. He distracted himself with chewing on his stick slowly.
"Perhaps..." In L's mind it was hard to believe that his mental age would ever change much. He knew for a fact that he was stunted in many ways and his maturity was one of them, though he was mature enough to admit it.