Title: Startle Part 2
Rating: PG13 (to be safe)
Spoilers: Chapter 40ish or so.
Pairings: Heavy L/Light, Medium Misa/Light, Light L/Misa

Author's Note: Here is the promised L/Light. Bask in its bondage induced glory. Just a reminder, for the folks that want to see the other story that my muse gave me simultaneously with this one, go to my profile and hit "Snowballs." Same pairing, different concentrations.

Ryuuzaki head tilted as he contemplated the hallway's floors. They were really shiny from the janitor's floorwax. "So the question I need to ask is 'Why did you stop?'"

"You have to ask that," Light growled. When confronted with a far too interested Ryuuzaki, Light had called an end to the date abruptly. Misa, no doubt, was going to whine about it for days to come.

"Didn't you like it?" Light's clipped pace was the only reply to Ryuuzaki's question. Only Ryuuzaki would ask something like that, Light thought bitterly. Another question trying to add a few percentiles to the diagnosis that he was Kira. Light was a bug in a jar and he knew it. His every move watched and recorded. It was getting irritating.

Light had never realized how effective constant supervision was. He had heard it was an excellent method for brainwashing and to extract confessions but he had never understood its strength until his time in the prison and with Ryuuzaki. A moment of privacy and Ryuuzaki not worming into his head was all Light wanted. At times he could almost feel like somehow Ryuuzaki was right and he was Kira, even if he had no memory of how he would kill anyone. Mental death rays and the 'evil eye' were for paranoids and superstitious peasants.

The one time he could truly observe Ryuuzaki and be alone with his own thoughts, Misa had taken as an opportunity to pounce on him. And now, Ryuuzaki was even giving him the Third Degree on that.

"I don't want to talk about this," Light growled, finally not being able to completely ignore the long list of questions Ryuuzaki had rattled off. He didn't care about thinking ahead and whether this made him look guiltier in Ryuuzaki's eyes or not. He just wanted to get back to the investigation.

"You like girls, right?" Coming to the end of the hallway, Ryuuzaki strangely reached out with his leg to press the elevator button with his left big toe. Then again most normal people would consider it odd but it somehow was so Ryuuzaki.

Light narrowed his eyes. He had thought Ryuuzaki had dropped that old plan of him seducing Misa ages ago. He had standards above merely catching Kira. Ryuuzaki should have known this by now.

"I told you Misa's feelings are one sided. The kissing was okay, but didn't mean anything to me and I'm not going to use that against her." Light stated, stepping into the elevator.

"But surely-" Ryuuzaki began following close behind.

"I didn't feel anything," Light said simply, pushing the button to take them to the correct floor. Standing there listening to the piped in music, Light wondering why again how did Ryuuzaki get this building. Why bother to have a building with pointless details like the instrumental version of "What's new, Pussy-cat"?

Then, after some tense moments of ascension, Light witnessed another thing he thought he would never see. Straightening his crumpled frame to near to his real height, Ryuuzaki grabbed Light's face. For the second time that day, Light was startled by press of warm lips against his own. The brief taste of over-sugared saliva and the briefest contact between tongue and teeth; The resulting mental confusion continued past the beep of the elevator as they reached their floor.

Light was frozen, the faint warmth of lips still on his. The tug of the chain on his wrist, preceded by the sound of sliding elevator doors, alerted him to the fact that Ryuuzaki was once again in motion and thus he was too.

"Hm. Misa uses cherry-flavored lip balm," Ryuuzaki muttered licking the surface of his bottom lip, adding yet another bit of information to his sugar fueled brain, before musing, "I wonder if some would consider that an indirect kiss with her."

Light never felt like decking Ryuuzaki as much as that moment.

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