Wondernerd: Well… L does use exclamation points sometimes (I actually looked to make sure.. I'm stupid XD) glad you like so far.
Amoreblack: yeah. I can't decide what I like more XD probably Naruto, but if Death Note was an anime, then… whoa. No comment. XD
Kame: Yeah, I do xx I can't help it, don't hurt me ;;
DarkvxLight: You're just stalking me, huh? XD
I reply to almost all of my reviewers, I hate leaving them in the dark… :D
Disclaima': I'm not going to do this anymore. I mean, seriously, it's sort of obvious. (besides, if I owned them it would be on fiction press dot net. D: )
There's some RaitoxMisa in here, and not willingly either. I mean, it IS in the series, I'm not gonna make Raito punt her and be like "I HATE YOU YOU BITCH!". THAT'S for the humor fanfics. :D
Merry Christmas!
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"So, what did you get for Misa?" a particular blonde girl smiled, as she clung onto her boyfriend's arm playfully.
It was Christmas eve. Misa had asked Raito to take her on a date the previous night, and he accepted in order to get her off of his back.
Cue flashback.
"Hey Raito!" Misa said, trying to catch Raito's attention, which wasn't hard to catch because he was just watching some dumb show on TV with L (he he had happened to like) since they were taking a short break from the investigation. "You know how we got each other Christmas presents?"
"Uh-huh…" lied Raito a bit distractingly, taking a sip from L's coffee that was sitting on the coffee table (which made L twitch on the inside).
"And you know how tomorrow is Christmas eve?" she continued, already getting excited.
"Uh-huh…"
"Let's go on a special date tomorrow!" she exclaimed, clasping her fishnetted hands together as her gaze turned all infatuated-like. "How about a romantic candlelight dinner?"
"…uh." Raito didn't really want to. Most girls were a pain, especially this one… why did she like him so much, anyways? All he did was shun her off. But, he didn't get her a present, and he had to do something. Raito may have not liked Misa that much, but he absolutely hated making girls cry, and he definitely did not wanna make Misa cry by saying no and not having a present.
"Hm?" the blonde lolita smiled eagerly.
"Sure," the Kira suspect gave in. Atleast for now she was happy, but he still had to think about what to do to please her. "That'd be nice." It's okay though; this is Yagami Raito we're talking about, who's like… mega-smart.
"Yay!" she exclaimed, wrapping her arms around Raito's neck, while the dirty blonde just sat and acted like it didn't happen. "It's too bad we can't go by ourselves," she cooed. "Can't you un-cuff him, Ryuuzaki, pleeeeease? For Misa? He'll be a good boy!"
"Huh?" said Ryuuzaki, snapping out of the trance he held while watching the TV distractedly. "Oh. I'm sorry, Misa. Yagami-kun here needs strict surveillance 100 percent of the time," he stated, his wide eyes blinking.
"Aww," said Misa. "Well that's okay! I suppose I don't have a problem with you tagging along, Ryuuzaki… but Misa and Raito can't do anything personal until you un-cuff him!"
Raito winced at the thought.
End flashback.
Now, they were at a restaurant in the downtown (don't hurt me.. I forgot where they lived x.x). Some fancy-schmancy one that Misa had all arranged for her first Christmas eve with her boyfriend. Candles decorated the place; Raito hated it. He hated stuff like this. He just wanted to get this over with. And, he still hadn't figured out what to do about her non-existent Christmas present.
"Raito?" she blinked and reiterated.
"Sorry. Um, you're not gonna get your gift until the end of the date, okay?" he fake-smiled.
"Oooh… a surprise!" the lolita smiled cheerfully.
"Yeah," Raito sweated. He then gave the brunette detective next to him a glance. Sitting in the same pose as always. L with his legs folded up, his toes hanging over the edge of the seat, with a casual look on his face; his dark locks a mess as always. Ryuuzaki seems to be paying attention… But he's not saying anything. Is he trying to be polite?
"You can talk if you want, Ryuuzaki," the dirty blonde smirked at L's foolishness.
"I'd rather not," he stated blatantly. "I don't want to interrupt. All I'm here for is to observe Yagami Raito's actions."
Misa spoke and Raito sighed in annoyance. "It's okay, Ryuuzaki! We can order some food for you if you want! Right, Raito? Because you're paying?"
"I am?"
"Yes, silly!" she giggled.
"Great…" he groaned. "And sure… whatever," he sighed. "What do you want?"
"Where's the dessert menu?" L asked, looking around, while Misa laughed obliviously. Out of nowhere, she pulled out her purse and took out a small mirror, observing the make-up on her face (girls at school do this all the time :D), trying to spot any mistakes.
"Oh, no!" she cried. "Looks like Misa's eyeliner is smudged just a tad. Misa will be right back, okay?"
"Yeah," Raito excused her. She nodded in turn and stood up to walk to the bathroom, her chains around her neck clanking as she walked away.
Raito tapped his fingers on the table out of boredom. Things were silent between him and the detective again, but that wasn't really anything unusual. He gave Ryuuzaki a short but quick glance, only to have their eyes meet for a moment. Raito averted his eyes to the complete opposite side of where L was sitting at, a small blush rising to his cheeks.
Has he been staring at me the whole time? Or is he staring at the candles? I can't even tell… Why is it so intimidating? What am I even saying…? Of course he's staring at me… he only came to observe me, right? Not that I'd do anything… I can't believe he still thinks I'm Kira… God, it's like I can just feel him staring at me, like it's piercing through my back.
"Is something wrong, Yagami-kun?" the voice of the brunette came from behind him, his index finger placing a spot on his lips thoughtfully.
Nothing, only the fact that I'm blushing because I'm intimidated by you? Chill, Raito… the Kira suspect mentally told himself, while brushing his shoulders. "No," he said, turning around to meet L's gaze with a forced smile; his face appearing normal. "Nothing's wrong. Why?" Raito was always good at acting.
"Nothing, you just seemed sort of spaced out and a little flustered."
Great, Raito thought, not only am I acting like an idiot but it's noticeable, too. "Um, so what do you want to eat?" he asked, attempting to change the subject.
"That's right," Ryuuzaki said, pulling out the menu as he opened it up to point to a certain picture. "Strawberry cheesecake," he smiled.
Raito sighed (again). "Fine," he considered. "Man, how about having some normal food…" the dirty blonde asked rhetorically as the missing blonde girl returned to the table before L could say anything.
"Hey Raito!" she greeted. "Did you miss Misa?" She wrapped her arms around Raito clingingly as L's spacious eyes observed everything.
"Sure did, Misa," he lied.
"Looks like the waiter is here," said L as a man dressed in black approached them and they did what people normally do when waiters approach them at a restaurant.
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"Look, Raito! It's flurrying!" said Misa as they walked out of the restaurant with her arms locked tightly around Raito's arm; L trailing behind, slouching, chewing his thumb curiously as small flicks of snow descended from the midnight-colored sky. "Don't you just love the snow?"
"No," said Raito flatly.
"Oh…" said Misa in a dejected manner. "That food was great, huh?" she smiled, changing the subject.
"It was alright."
"I thought it was very good," said L from behind.
"Oh!" Misa laughed. "I almost forgot you were here, haha. Well, it's getting sort of late!" the blonde announced, looking at her ring that was a watch (I don't know or care if she has one, but… Those are kind of neato. XD).
"Of course it's not late," Raito cut off. He was pretty much procrastinating her gift, because he totally forgot about it until now. "Do you wanna go look at some Christmas lights?" he smiled, taking her hand. God, how did I get myself into this?
"Oh…" Misa was a little taken aback at Raito's sudden forwardness. "Okay!"
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"Woooow, how pretty!" exclaimed Misa (why does she keep being the first one to talk…?). "This was wonderful, Raito!" She then proceeded to hold Raito closer to her and smile. "Especially with the flurries!"
"Yeah," said Raito nonchalantly, shrugging her off. L just stood behind them, looking around curiously at the scenery.
You see, in the middle of town, during Christmas time, they have a ginormous Christmas tree with lots of lights and ornaments and lots of other pretty stuff in it. Didn't you know that? So that's where they were, in an attempt to procrastinate Raito having to give her something.
"Misa is going to give you her present now, okay?" said the blonde girl as she pulled out her purse and rummaged through it, searching for that small black box that was in there somewhere.
"Uh, sure…" sweated the Kira suspect. Shit.
"Oh, here it is!" laughed Misa as she pulled out the little black box and shoved it in her boyfriend's face. "Merry Christmas!" she smiled cheerfully.
Raito took it and sweated. "You didn't have to." In fact, you shouldn't have. He pulled out a small, gold key chain with half of a heart that said, "I LOV".
"It's not much, but…" Misa pulled out the other half of the heart, from her pocket; a golden key chain that looked exactly the same, but the half a heart was the opposite side of the one Raito had, that said, "E YOU". "I thought it was perfect! It'll never be completed unless Misa is with Raito!" she giggled.
"Wow… how thoughtful!" Raito forced a smile. Why do girls like this kind of stuff?
"That's a very nice gift, Misa," Ryuuzaki cut in from behind.
"Haha, thanks!" giggled the blonde lolita. "Well…?" she said, in Raito's direction.
"Well, what?" asked the dirty blonde.
"You know!"
"No, I don't." Well, he did, but… I'm not going to explain this again.
"My gift…?" she hinted.
"Oh, that," Raito laughed. "I'm so stupid."
"Haha, you're so silly, Raito!"
Shit… what now?
Raito stood silent for a minute.
"Raito…?"
Even Ryuuzaki was puzzled at what Raito was gonna do; he knew what the other man was planning all along: to procrastinate. It's not like he forgot about Raito not getting Misa something.
Raito shut his eyes tightly, then smirked. That's it. "Misa…" he said.
"Hm?"
At that moment, he bent down and planted a simple, chaste kiss on Misa's gloss-covered lips.
Ryuuzaki saw all of this. So that's what Yagami-kun was planning last-minute. I thought so. L couldn't remember the last time he kissed someone. He thought it was back in elementary school, he had stolen a kiss from one of his female classmates after he saw people kissing in a movie. "Your taste is sweet," is what the movie had said, and kissing definitely didn't taste sweet to L. Sweet is like candy. It felt sort of weird and unsanitary, and he wasn't sure why all the grown-ups did it. Of course, now he understood. He was a young adult, of course. With the occupation as a detective since his younger years, he had been much too occupied with cases to worry about kissing people. He was sure kissing at this age was a lot different than kissing people when you're 5.
The two parted slowly. Raito hoped that she was satisfied or else he was still in hot water.
"Uh… Merry Christmas," said Raito. "See you later…?" he sweated.
Misa was completely dizzy and infatuated. Raito never did that. Ever.
"Yeah," she said in a daze. "Merry Christmas," she said as she turned and walked away love-struck, her fishnetted hands trying to cover the blush that adorned her cheeks. Raito sighed in relief at her exit.
"Thank God…" he murmured.
"That was nice of you," said an aware Ryuuzaki, his wide eyes blinking curiously.
"Well, it worked, didn't it? I need to brush my teeth when I get home…" stated the dirty blonde, while the detective wore a slight smile of amusement.
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"Say, Ryuuzaki," said Raito, who was laying back on the couch of the small hotel room that was used for the Kira investigation. "We're working tomorrow, huh?"
"That's correct, Yagami-kun," replied the brunette detective who was standing up in front of the coffee table, a mug of a hot drink in his hand (tea? Coffee?). The coffee table had a very small, fake Christmas tree on it.
"Why do we have to work on the case on Christmas?"
L gave Raito a curious look.
"What?"
"Nothing." My suspicions of Yagami Raito being Kira has raised by one percent.
There was that uncomfortable silence again. The chain clanked a little bit from Raito's shifting movement.
It was then, that Raito had remembered something from a few days ago.
"Didn't you say you were getting something for me for Christmas?" he asked. How the heck could he do that with me right next to him all the time, anyways?
"Of course I remember, Yagami-kun."
"Well? What is it, then?" Raito asked, aggravated.
L took a seat next to Raito, and stared at him for a second. Or two. Or five.
"What? Is there something on my face?"
"No," said Ryuuzaki, as he put the handcuffed hand on Raito's cheek, and laid a soft kiss on the Kira suspect's lips.
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Argh… the ending was sort of rushed because I have to go soon. X.x We'll see what happens, though. Don't worry, I hate cliffhangers myself so I won't leave you in the dark for too long.