Nine Months Due

By: Kaytee Kudo

Category: Death Note

Genre: Romance, Humor

Rating: T

Summary: The Shinigami decide to take matters into their own hands and attempt to put the Kira case to a close by erasing the world's memories of Kira. But this is not without consequence…

Other Notes: Alternative ending bordering AU; LxLight, Mpreg in later chapters

Quick Recap from Previous Chapter: L knew Raito a bit more by interacting with the family, and later, on the way to England, the two of them got closer due to uncomfortable travel situations.

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note…not even in my dreams…

CHAPTER 10

Housewarming

"That's it, I've had enough!"

Raito shouted so loud that L almost choked on his cupcake. Turning around, he saw a very annoyed teenager, red and huffing from anger, glaring daggers at him.

"Raito-kun should not raise his voice so loudly or else the others would be bothered."

"We're the only people here and this room is sound proof!"

"But vibrations Raito-kun's voice caused would have been enough to rock the whole room"

"Don't mess with me", the boy warned, but that only got L more confused than he already is.

First of all, L really got jumpy on that sudden outburst, enough to make his eardrums break, but that was just him. But anyway, he wasn't really used to loud noises that this could pretty much be considered an explosion to him, anyway. And secondly, well, L really did not have any idea on what the boy was raging about.

"What is Raito-kun talking about?"

A pillow viciously darted to his direction, which, even though he easily dodged, made him more confused.

"Stop joking around!" Raito argued, genuinely pissed at the detective's clueless face. "You know very well what I'm talking about!"

"Please, Raito-kun. I am not very good at reading people's minds."

Raito's eye twitched.

"At least, not yours", the detective added.

Raito attempted to calm down by breathing deeply, seeing that he wouldn't get anywhere with this man if he didn't.

"I know that you really wouldn't understand", Raito started, "And I guess by now I should already get over the fact that no matter where you are, you would still act like the same old man I saw back in Japan."

L nodded in acknowledgement.

"I mean, I know you're very busy with all that detective work you've got in your hands, but, going straight to work the moment we set foot in this place?", Raito asked unbelievingly.

"And this place is so dark and stuffy, I can't believe you can work here all day—"

"If it's about that, then I'll ask Watari to check on the air-conditioning—"

"You don't even leave this place to eat, and this place is so messy. How many times do I have to tell you that the bed is for sleeping, not for stashing these sticky sweets you never could get enough of-"

"I understand that the bed has other purposes aside from stashing sweets, Raito-kun, but you're the one who wouldn't let me—"

"Because I don't want any of that, dumbass!", Raito shouted a little loudly, his face red up to the ears. "You really don't know what my problem is, do you? I mean, we've been here for weeks without even doing anything!"

"And I thought Raito-kun does not feel the same way", L said, surprisingly grateful at what the boy said. "But Raito-kun, we really wouldn't get anywhere if you keep on refusing me like that…"

"I don't mean about THAT, you horny bastard!", Raito's red face turned up a notch.

L bobbed his head to the side innocently.

"Then what does Raito-kun mean, exactly?"

"I mean, this is my first time in England, and yet the only thing I get to see is this dark, stuffy room! To think that I was looking forward to seeing the view of England, but then you couldn't even spare me a glance of it and just put me to sleep the moment we got off the plane. Am I only allowed to see this shithole?"

"Raito-kun should understand that it was only part of the standard procedures Watari insisted on doing. I wouldn't have allowed it if I was in charge."

"So when exactly would I be allowed to see the outside world?"

L typed something in his laptop and showed it to Raito.

"You can view all of England here", he offered.

"I don't want any of that!" Raito shouted again, clearly at the limit of his temper.

"That's enough!" Raito finally said after calming down a little. "I understand that you have to keep this headquarters of yours in absolute secret, but keeping me here under your watchful eye for almost a month is totally unacceptable! Any more of this and I would go crazy!"

The boy headed for the door, with more conviction than he had moments ago.

"Raito-kun, you can't…"

"I'll only stay within the premises, you don't have to worry", Raito said boldly. "Besides, you keep cameras all over the place, right? then I guess you wouldn't lose sight of me after all."

Raito opened the door firmly, and for the first time, fresh air surged and penetrated the room quickly, like it had wanted to do it for the longest time.

"I'll see you later", the boy said as he shut the door again, and the room was back to its dark, normal self. Only that L wasn't.

"I asked you more than I usually would, and you really have to thank me for gracing you with such a gesture seeing that you're an idiot, but you still wouldn't give me your name."

"And I've also told you equally that I don't give my name to strangers, especially disrespectful brats who just point their gun at someone they just met."

"You're the stranger here, pal. As far as I'm concerned, I only point my gun to suspicious people, and you lurking around the corridorsin the middle of the night is suspicious."

"And you actually holding a gun when you look like you're not even out of grade school is what, a normal thing around here?"

"I'm the one asking questions here!" the blond-haired boy rebutted back. "And I'll have you know that I'm in college-level classes already. Why are you holding back something so simple as your name?"

Raito answered with a cheeky face.

"I don't give my name to brats."

"I'm not a brat!"

"Your actions show otherwise."

"You shut up with that high and mighty act, right now or I'll…"

"Or what, exactly? Tell me on your mommy? Does she know you're into spying in the middle of the night and is she aware that you stole your daddy's gun from the closet?"

"Why you…" Mello looked like he was ready to strangle someone.

"Hey, hey", came from another boy, who was hiding in another corridor all this time. Unlike the first boy, Raito was actually a little relieved to see the second boy around, since the said boy actually prevented the pissed off blond one from strangling him.

"Friend of yours?"

"Shut up!"

"I gotta tell you that you really know how to choose your friends, but you really should let your weirdness slide down a notch" Raito continued, unfazed.

"Are those goggles part of the fashion statement you're trying to make?" he asked the blond boy's friend.

"These are actually my glasses, and I opted for goggles because I get involved in sports most of the time, but yeah, I'm pretty much responsible for the rest of the get-up." The boy answered him coolly, that even with the horrible striped shirt and torn-up vest, backed up with navy pants that go awfully wrong together, Raito couldn't follow up another insult, because this kid could honestly pull it off.

"I was planning to stick around until it gets interesting, but I see that either of you would end up dead if I don't intervene, so, you should consider this a favor", the boy explained. "I'm Matt, and this is Mello, by the way."

"I'm Raito."

Mello almost gagged at how simple the whole conversation went.

"See Mello, I told you not to go overboard with the whole interrogation thing. This would honestly save us a lot of bullets." Matt reprimanded. "Anyway, Raito-san, what are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

"Nothing really." The teen hesitated, "I was just getting some fresh air. Where exactly is this place?"

The goggle-faced boy smiled.

"If you don't know it, then I probably bet you're not allowed to know anyway."

Raito glared at him for that cheeky remark, but he was finally getting answers now, so he had to be patient.

"At least tell me what this place is"

"It's our turn to ask questions now, idiot!" Mello interrupted. "Just who the hell are you?"

"I already answered that, moron!"

"That's not what I wanted to hear!" the boy pressed on. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

"Relax, Mello", Matt said, trying to calm the easily angered boy. "I'll handle this."

"You're in Whammy's House, and people are made to think that this is an orphanage, but honestly, this place is an institution for the highly gifted, and as you might know, L's headquarters." Matt explained. "So tell me Raito-san, aside from your being Japanese, what is your connection with L?"

"Hey, did you just…" Matt was so fluent that Raito didn't notice that the boy was actually talking in Japanese.

"I am not sure yet, but I did help him in his case while he was in Japan"

"You mean you're part of the team who finally put an end to that stupid murder spree?" Mello asked suddenly.

"Well, yeah. Sort of."

"And you actually got to work hands-on with L?"

"Of course."

Mello looked at him from head to foot.

"You look too old to be a candidate."

"What are you saying? A candidate for what?"

"Forget it, Mello. I don't think he's a candidate anyway."

"Hey, what are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing really. Listen, do you want to go around town? We were about to leave when we saw you, and you look like you're actually going that way."

"Well, yeah", Raito was impressed. "But I bet we're not allowed, and with the cameras all over the place, they would instantly get to our case."

"Relax, we do this all the time, and we know pretty much how not to get caught. Trust us."

From the look of the two boys, Raito didn't have a hard time getting convinced.

"So, let me guess, it's your first time on a motorcycle?", Mello asked smugly as he watched the older man throw up in the sidewalk. That earned him a death glare from the teen, but it wasn't as effective as Raito would have wanted, having just made himself a fool by screaming for the duration of the ride and throwing up later on.

"Shut up", Raito said weakly. "And I would have been fine if you've been driving that thing normally. You're worst than all those bikers I've seen on TV. It's like you're on some chase or something."

"What, you haven't been chased before?", Mello asked skeptically. "I wouldn't have thought. From that mug of yours I could swear you've been to police chases since you were ten."

Raito threw up some more.

"I'm not into that kind of thing."

"Oh? So what kind of things are you into?"

Raito glared at him again.

"I'll have you know that my father works in the police force."

"Eh, really?", Mello flashed his annoying smile. "Is it really more exciting having access to both sides of the coin?"

"I'm not a criminal!"

"Don't deny it." Mello snapped. "Besides, what's the use of lying to us when you've already been caught by L?"

"What gave you that idea?" Raito's annoyance toward the boy was increasing every second.

"Hey, you're the one who showed up unconscious and carried by L himself. He probably didn't want you to have an idea on where this place is." Mello said. "And if you're just a guest as you were implying, he wouldn't have stunned you in the first place. He never did it to Aiber or Wedy, and they've been criminals once."

"Even so, I'm not a criminal", Raito said defiantly. "I may have been a suspect once but I did work with him, and I've already proven my innocence."

"And yet he still doesn't trust you…"

"Just shut up, will you? You don't know anything…" Raito said forcefully, wishing that they would just move on to a different subject. He had enough about L to last a lifetime, and being stuck with the detective for months, L was the one thing he really didn't want to hear in his break. But this boy seemed head over heels with him.

"You don't happen to be jealous that I get to be with L all the time, do you?" Raito said suspiciously.

"Shut up! It's not like that, I…."

"Okay guys, break it up. We didn't go our way to this place just to fight." Matt can easily be an ambassador of peace with this one feat. "Besides Mello, Raito-san here is our guest. We should show him our hospitality."

"Tch. Yeah right." But Mello stopped any attempt of murdering the teen, and just followed Matt's lead.

"Where do you want to go, Raito-san?"

Raito's face lit up.

"Well, can we go to the London bridge?" he asked hopefully.

"What a wuss", Mello side commented. "And we already passed that place. You were just too busy screaming your ass off to notice."

"Then, how about the Big Ben tower?"

"Would you stop acting like a tourist already?" Mello shouted. "You're attracting unnecessary attention…"

"Hey, you're the one who…"

"That's it, I'll be the one in charge of where we go!" Mello said with finality.

"Just how did that come to you deciding for me?"

"Cause you're such a clueless idiot who'll get us in trouble if you mention stupid stuff like that. You don't have any idea how to have fun around here and I think, out of my own hospitality I should show you where the real fun is" Mello explained. "And besides, we're out of alcohol and cigarettes."

"Good point", Matt commented. "So where do you suggest we go?"

"We're going to the gay bar."

"Just why is going to the gay bar your idea of a fun night?", Raito said in his now usual annoyed tone.

"Shut up, clueless one, and just watch and learn." Mello simply said as he took another swig of whisky. "Come on, pretty boy, let's dance."

He took Matt's arm a little forcefully and took him to the dance floor. The goggle-eyed boy just shrugged and followed.

"Make yourself at home, Raito-san", he said as he proceeded to dance.

"How can I…"

But at that point, the two boys were already busy dancing in the center stage for them to notice a totally out of place Raito.

"Honestly…" Raito was about to leave when he noticed that an equally weird man was staring at him all this time.

"What are you staring at?", he snapped.

"No…I was just…" the man was really suspicious, but he didn't seem like he's connected to L or anything. "I mean I….it's the first time I saw a fellow Japanese in this club."

"Well, this would probably be my last time, so…"

"Hey wait, I…" the man reflexively held Raito's arm, trying to stop the boy from leaving. "I mean, I….how about we talk first? You came all the way here anyway…"

"This is not my idea of fun, thank you", the teen refused politely, taking his arm back from the man.

"S-so sorry…I…I mean, your friends are still there, right? Do you want to dance?" the guy was being persistent.

"I told you, no."

"Then how about a drink? It's on me…"

"Listen mister, I'm not really into these kinds of things…"

"Then why are you here?"

"I just got dragged in by those two idiots." He motioned to the two boys who, incidentally, were now looking like the stars of the entire gay club. "Excuse me, I'm leaving."

"Hey, wait…" the guy followed Raito along. "How about making the most of it now that we're here anyway? I'm Teru."

"And I already told you, I'm not interested…" Raito was about to give the man a piece of his mind when the loudspeaker got his attention.

"Attention Raito Yagami. Is Raito Yagami here? Please proceed to the back stage immediately. Raito Yagami…"

"That's my cue." Raito said hurriedly, panicking at the mention of his name in the loudspeaker. "I'm leaving."

"Wait, I…" the man continued pestering him, grabbing his arm once again.

"Let go!" Raito shouted, but another voice effectively froze him from any further action.

"Raito-kun"

Teru looked at the creepy-looking man from head to foot, with disgust. "Sorry man, but this guy's taken."

"I'm the one who should say that", L answered in equal disgust. "Let go of him or face dire consequences."

"Why should I…"

That was the last three words the man said before getting kicked unconscious by L. Raito just stared helplessly as he watched the scene unfold, too embarrassed to say anything.

"Raito-kun…" the detective quickly removed the distance between his pregnant teenager and held his hand.

"Let go of me!" Raito said loudly, attracting unnecessary attraction.

"Raito-kun, I you allowed to leave the room for a while, but this is out of the question. We are going home, and we'll talk after that."

"Shut up! It's not even my idea to…" he noticed that the two boys already disappeared from the scene. "It's all your fault! I just wanted to see a bit of England and…"

"Let us go, Raito-kun. We are making a scene"

"I don't care! You don't have the right to treat me like a criminal!"

"I never treated Raito-kun like a…"

"But you have to tranquilize me on the way to your place? You don't really trust me, don't you?"

L sighed, which is the first time he did in a long while.

"I was actually planning to take Raito-kun to the Big Ben tower, but he went ahead and disappeared from my sight."

"You…wha…"

L grabbed the boy's hand and forcefully led him to the infamous black car driven by Watari.

"We are going to talk at home."

L said this with finality that Raito didn't know what to say next.

"I'm sorry", the boy said before he got on the car, which took L by surprise. Normally, the boy's pride wouldn't allow him to apologize, even if it was his fault. He was so sure about that, being his prime suspect and all. L had to look at him from head to foot, just to make sure that he had the right teenager, but the boy looked really apologetic.

"We will talk about this later on, Raito-kun." L said as he shut the door and immediately signaled for Watari to drive.

"So children, we have a new friend today, and his name is Light Yagami. He will be staying with us for a while, so why don't we give him a little hug?"

"Woaahh…" was all Raito could say when he was swarmed by an army of five year olds.

This was L's idea of a punishment, anyway. Raito could only guess that he would be stuck here for a long time, given L's temperament, and he had nothing to say against the matter. The only thing he could do was look for anything bearable to do in the room. His eyes widened when he suddenly saw something totally unexpected.

"You!..." was all he can say before the teacher patted his back.

"Now Raito-kun, why don't you sit with your new friends Mello and Matt in the back."

Raito gave a fake smile and reluctantly trudged down to his designated seat.

This was absolutely L's idea of a punishment, he was sure of that.

Chapter End