A/N; yay, almost time for the babies to come home with L and Light. There'll be a couple chapters of life with the babies and then maybe an epilogue and the story will be finished. Yay! Finally I'll have another completed story.

Disclaimer: I don't own. Don't be mad.

"Ryuuzaki, wake up," Light hissed.

L yawned hugely and rolled over on his side. "Not yet, Raito-kun. We don't have to get up until-"

"It's two in the afternoon," Light growled.

L's eyes shot open. 'What? Is it really?"

'Yeah. You've finally had a good night's rest. But I'm sure you want to get up now. You know what day it is, right?"

"My birthday?" L asked cautiously. 'Will Raito-kun bake me a cake?"

Light blinked. "Er..uhh…is it really your birthday?"

L stared at him. "Raito-kun does not know?"

"No," Light growled "How am I supposed to know? You're an enigma wrapped in a mystery coated-"

"Thank you, that will suffice," L said peevishly.

'Anyway, you haven't told me anything personal about you," Light continued. "I don't know you. You could be forty years old for all I know. Hell, you could be old enough to my dad. That's kind of creepy."

"I'm not that old," L snapped. "I'm only twenty-" Horrified, L clapped a hand over his mouth.

Light raised an eyebrow. "You're in your twenties?"

L nodded wordlessly.

Light smiled. "That's good to know. You're right, you're not that much older than me, especially if you're in your early twenties."

"I will not tell you my exact age," L said stiffly. "Besides, it is impolite to ask."

Light grinned. "Take it easy. There are millions of people in their twenties across the globe. I won't be able to track you on that alone. Your identity is still safe." He kissed L's cheek.

L flushed a light pink. "Yes, very well. Raito-kun indicated that today is a date of note?"

"Yeah, today we get to take the babies home with us."

L smiled contentedly. "Ah yes. We must finalize our decisions on their names before we are allowed to do so, correct?"

"Yeah. Candace and Ichigo? Isn't that what we picked?"

"As long as you spell her name C-a-n-d-y-c-e."

Light frowned. "Candyce?"

L smiled. "Candyce contains the word candy."

Light sighed. "Of course. You and your sugar fixation. Okay, so we're giving them my last name, right?"

L shrugged. "It would give them an official name, considering how I do not possess a last name. Well, I do have a last name, but I do not wish to make it public."

"Okay, now that we've got that settled, are we going to circumcise Ichigo?"

L blinked. "Why do I have to make the choice?"

Light scowled. 'Cause you have birth to him, that's why. You're his mother."

"And you're his father," L shot back. "You're partially responsible for him. And considering that you're the father, and this is a delicate male operation, you need to make the ultimate decision."

"Nobody's making the ultimate decision," Light growled. "Look, I just want to know your thoughts on the matter."

L pouted. "Well, I don't believe in subjecting children to cruelty."

'It's not cruelty, idiot. I'm circumcised and so are you. Did you grow up scarred for life?"

L smirked. "That depends."

"Look, he'll turn out fine whether or not we do it. It's just a matter of whether we want him to fit society's standards of how males should look."

L scowled. "Who is society that they are monitoring everyone's genitals for standardization?"

Light groaned in frustration. "You know what, forget it. We'll talk about it later. We don't need to do it now. But, we need to talk about one more thing. Were are we putting the babies?"

'In our apartment, of course."

"But where in the apartment? In the bedroom with us?"

L shook his head. "No, that would be completely uncalled for. We do not wish to traumatize our children at such and early age."

"Then where will they sleep?"

"In the kitchen?" L suggested.

"Oh great, that's a wonderful idea. And then you can wake them up every time you walk in there to have a late night snack."

L frowned at him. "I only made a suggestion."

"The living room it is then. We'll move the couch to the side and put cribs in there."

"Will Misa help us re-decorate?" L asked.

The question was asked casually, but Light immediately sense the tension in L's body. He would have to answer carefully or risk losing L again.

"No," Light said slowly. "We can do it ourselves. We're strong enough to move a couple couches."

"Are you sure you do not want Misa's expert decorating advice? After all, she is a woman and she would be aware of colors."

'We're not painting anything," Light insisted. "We don't have a house. We have an apartment. When we move out, we have to make sure it looks just like it did when we moved in."

L looked disappointed. "Our children will live in a beige living room? How dull."

"Look, I know you've got maternal hormones and al, but will you please knock it off? I care about our kids too. So how about we take them home and settle everything there."

"An excellent suggestion," L murmured. "I am tired of languishing in the hospital. Our apartment sounds great."

"Good. I'll talk to the nurse and see about getting you released."

L sat up in bed and hugged his knees to his chest. His c-section had healed into smalls scars on his pale stomach. But that was fine, no one but Light would ever see him without a shirt anyway.

Light returned with a smile. "Okay, the nurse is coming to get you. They're going to bring the wheelchair and wheel you out."

"I'm perfectly capable of walking," L said firmly.

"I know, but that's how it is."

A nurse soon returned entered the room with a wheelchair and L climbed into it awkwardly. Light held Ichigo and L allowed the nurse to place Candyce in his lap.

"She looks so much like you," Light teased. "She's got such messy hair, just like yours."

"It's just mussed," L said irritably. "And she does not look just like me. I am not female. And I do not have blue eyes."

Light raised an eyebrow. "I don't have blue eyes either. Where did those come from?"

L shrugged. "Sometimes eye color will change as a child ages. Someone I know had dark eyes as a child and as he matured, his eye color lightened. Do not worry about it, Raito-kun."

"Hey, Ryuuzaki?"

"Yes, Raito-kun?"

"I'm glad to have them. We'll give up sleep for them, and the Kira case. But they'll be worth it."

"I agree," L said quietly.