Chapter six:
There is another pause as Soichiro clenches his teeth in anger at hearing that the damage is that bad.
"Ok. Don't worry about Matsuda we will handle it. You stay with L. He needs you more than ever now."
"I know." Light assures his father. "I don't plan on leaving him alone."
"That's good. I should go now." Soichiro tells Light.
"Ok see you dad." Light responds and hangs up. He puts his cell in his pocket and turns to L.
L is looking at Light in slight question.
"Matsuda is no longer free." Light says to L knowing he has to say something.
L nods. "That's nice." He says and moves closer to Light. "That means one less enemy we'll have to worry about."
Light smirks. "Yes." He agrees and swoops in stealing a kiss from L as he seals his lips over the other.
The two kiss for about ten minutes only pulling away just before they pass out from lack of air.
Light wants L but L has had enough stress for now so he's not going to make any moves further than innocent kissing.
At least not yet.
Light keeps L close with his arms around the ravens waist that he did while they were kissing. "I'm never going to let you go. You'll be mine and mine alone."
L smiles. "I can live with that." He then steals a small sweet kiss before moving away.
L and Light spent some time making a cake, Light believes it probably will be a good relaxing thing for L, then after eating some they head to bed for the night.
Light staying close to L throughout it all.
The next day….
The task force except for Matsuda enter the task force headquarters.
Light is just bringing L down as they walk side by side but just before entering L suddenly stops making Light stop only to turn to L.
L seems a little hesitant.
Light smiles in assurance and gently takes L's hand in a way that it is obvious it is meant to be comforting. He leads L into the room and the others look up as the two enter.
L follows Light to their usual working stations with his head slightly more down than normal being self-conscious of his injury being bandaged the way it is.
The team give sympathetic looks to L but none of them make any fuss about how he looks or say anything about the matter.
Instead everyone just pretends that nothing happened, that L never got hurt, and it starts to work making L more comfortable in the room.
The team and Light are glad to see this positive change.
After a little while L has become so comfortable with this it's almost as he has forgotten that he is hurt as they work on the Kira case like how they did before all that has happened.
L doesn't actually like hospitals so Light did research to be able to take care of L since it would help to try to not add any more stress on L currently.
Three days after the attack the team get the news on Matsuda.
Soichiro reads it out loud. "The evaluation has come back showing deep regret and horror but no found traces of anything psychologically wrong other than regret and horror. He will be suspended from the police force for his actions and will need to go through the law to even try to get back in. We will be keeping him in a cell for now however as he plead guilty to what he did. He will pay the price for what he has done."
"That's good." Light says while L continues on with his work.
"Yes." Soichiro agrees. "He understands that he must pay for what he has done."
Over the past month the investigation has been going in circles and L's eye seems to be healing quite well.
However the team have noticed a slight change in L.
The team are just brushing it off as L also mentally healing from the attack.
But to Light he starts to wonder if when L was attacked if something inside L changed or snapped but he doesn't mind.
Over the days Light watches as L not only heals but also seems to slowly slip further and further into the darker side.
The rest of the team appear to still not even notice that L is slipping over to the dark side and away from the light of the good side.
He is following the path of darkness.
On the path of darkness it's too dark to tell what's going to happen next in life but on the path of light it's too bright to tell what's going to happen next in life.
The difference though is that the path of darkness is evil and the path of light is good.
L has gone through some struggles especially on his blind side. He accidently hit a few walls that were on his blind side, he has had a little trouble trying to reach things on his blind side as he is not used to having to turn his head to look with his good eye at least for about the first month or two.
However the team and especially Light are doing everything they can to help out L.
Now the day has finally come, the long awaited day.
It is time to remove L's bandages.
The team were sent home for the day to rest as they have been tiring themselves out for almost a year now.
Light has L sitting on the bed in L's room. "Ok let's see how this turned out." He says and begins bandaging L.
L sits there letting Light do so.
The bandages fall to L's lap.
Light looks at L's eye as he scans the wound.
The wound has become pink but still has a small shade of red and his eye ball parts that can be seen on either side of the wound has slight become covered with a white look like a mist or fog has covered it. The scar shows that the wound was pretty nasty as it looks like a pretty nasty scar that will never close properly making it just a pink scar that is not a small scar.
Light blinks as he looks at the wound. "Well it has pretty much healed as much as possible now." He turns reaching over to the nightstand grabbing the mirror he placed earlier that day. He turns back to L. "We have done all we could do." He slowly and a little hesitantly brings up the mirror to show L what has become of him.