Hey guys! This one took quicker than I expected, I guess I just got writing-happy. xD Well, I hope you enjoy it.
"I'm sorry, Light-kun. Did I startle you?" L asked, sitting a few feet away from the brunette. Light was staring at him, wide-eyed, his fingers placed lightly on his lips. When he didn't reply, L frowned, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him slightly. "Light-kun? You aren't replying. If you don't soon, I will have to assume you've gone into shock."
Light gulped, bringing his gaze up to the detective's. "I'm fine." he whispered.
L smiled slightly as he released his grip on his friend's shoulders. "I'm glad. Please forgive me, I have no idea what came over me. As I said before, I seem to have developed small feelings for you, and-"
L was silenced as Light leaned in to press his lips against his in a light kiss. This time L was the one who was shocked. He shivered as Light pulled away, giving the detective a warm look. "That's enough."
L shuffled his feet in embarrassment, looking away and tightening his grip on his knees. Just a few moments before, L and Light were talking about their friendship. This had somehow led to L telling Light he had developed small feelings for him. And somehow in that conversation, L had kissed Light. It was certainly a strange experience, but he couldn't say he didn't like it, especially after Light returned the favor. But of course L, being as blunt and straightforward as he was, couldn't help but bring the topic on his mind out into the open. "So does this mean that Light-kun and I are in a more intimate relationship now?"
Light looked down, blushing slightly as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh… Maybe we should give it some time, Ryuzaki. I'm still trying to take in all of this."
L nodded, satisfied with his answer. "As you wish."
After a few moments of awkward silence, Light rolled over onto his back. "So, have you found anything on Misa?"
L blinked. Of course. How did he forget to show Light that? "Yes, Light-kun. I actually meant to show this to you. I hacked into the Headquarters' surveillance system. Unfortunately I can't get any further, since the equipment there is state of the art… But take a look."
L pressed a few buttons on the keyboard, causing an assortment of videos to come up. Light leaned over him and focused on a young man with white hair. "Is that Near? What's he doing there?"
"My guess is that the SPK and the Task Force joined together." L said, biting his thumb nail.
Light's eyes narrowed, but he didn't reply. "Where's Misa?"
L clicked on a small video square to enlarge it, showing a young blonde woman strapped painfully to a chair. Her head was hung and if you didn't watch for signs of breathing, you would think she's dead. The same thing I did to Amane… L mused in his mind. Light gasped in horror. "Is he allowed to do such a thing? This is inhumane!"
"As inhumane as it is, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about it. Near controls the police now; what he says goes." L replied blankly, watching his successor in one of the smaller squares.
Light gave him a sad look. "Do you miss being a detective, Ryuzaki?"
"Yes." L said truthfully. "But as long as I was able to save you, my actions have not gone to waste."
The insomniac felt Light place his hand on his shoulder. "Maybe after we get everything straightened out, you can go back. I'm the one in danger, not you."
L brushed his hand away. "It's fine, Light-kun."
Light reached over to the laptop and attempted to turn the volume up, only to find that it was already on. He frowned. "How come we can't hear anything?"
"Audio is saved directly to the Headquarters' data base which, unfortunately, we don't have access to yet."
"We need to hear what Near is saying to Misa, it could be important." Light told him, beginning to type on the laptop in an attempt to hack the security.
L pushed his hands off the keyboard roughly. "If you do that, we will be immediately traced. It's safer to watch and wait for now. In the meantime, I will try and look for a safe way."
L felt a tug on the chain as Light crossed his arms in a disapproving fashion. "We have no clue how long Misa has been locked up. They can throw her in prison any day now."
"Near is like I am. He won't close a case unless he has hard evidence against the suspect. That's why he has Amane strapped up like that, to press a confession. Plus this is the second Kira we're talking about, I'm sure he's wary of giving her movement of her limbs." L murmured through his finger, which he had begun chewing on again.
Light sighed. "I hope Misa doesn't have her memories then."
The detective paused, stirring a cup of sugar-loaded tea with his index finger. He brought that finger up to suck the tea off, the pulled it out to ask Light a question. "Light-kun, when we do rescue Misa, are you two going to get married?"
"I'm… not sure yet. Most likely not. Why do you ask, Ryuzaki?"
"I am just being curious." he replied as he lifted his tea to his mouth. "And considering the fact we kissed each other a few moments ago, we have some sort of a relationship established, don't you think?"
"Maybe, but like I said, I still need time to think about it." Light answered, uncertainty backing his tone.
"Yes, of course." L said quietly.
The two worked in silence for a while after that. There was an uncomfortable tension in the air, the feeling that if one of them opened their mouths, the room would explode. L was continuing to work on gaining access to his old investigation center, but it was extremely difficult. He had installed only the best and most secure security settings, many of these using a counter-hacking mechanism that hacks the hacker back. If that happened, then the task force would have access to L and Light's location and all their work so far would be a waste.
Though a question still hung in L's mind. They had been waiting nearly two weeks for a new Kira to surface, but nothing has appeared. It confused him deeply, considering he was now ninety-five percent certain Light was not Kira. Yet this so-called new Kira that was supposed to appear hasn't surfaced yet. Light did say his Shinigami wasn't easy to reason with, but Light had seemed certain he had gotten through to it. It was true that L did not really care for a new Kira showing up, and that the only reason he got Light to surrender his death note is to get rid of Kira. But the way it's looking a this point, they were in a need of a distraction if he had any hopes of getting into the headquarters. L didn't realize just how powerless he was without the police backing him.
"Any luck, Ryuzaki?" Light asked, breaking the tense silence.
L shook his head. "I'm afraid not. Misa seems to be upset though." He observed the blonde as she raised her head, her mouth wide as it screamed muted words.
Light glanced over at the detective's laptop and sighed. "Any normal human would get upset if they were restrained like that. At least when I went into confinement you only handcuffed me."
"Yes, it must be a huge stress on the psychological part in your brain." L agreed. Then, when Light's only reply was guilty look, he sighed. "Light-kun, don't worry, we'll get Amane out. I'm L, I can get through a mere security system."
Light nodded slowly, but didn't look too convinced. Sighing again, L reached out and grabbed Light's chin and pulled him into a brief kiss. Light looked into L's eyes as they broke away, stunned. L smiled slightly. "Trust me, Light-kun."
"And this death notebook… It's Kira's method of killing, right?" Raven sat at the edge of her bed, staring up at the Shinigami with interest.
Ryuk stared blankly down at her. "You ask a lot of questions. I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to answer some of these."
She held up a ripe apple in her hand, rolling it around to tease the Shinigami. "Come on, Ryukuuu..."
The black Shinigami caved. "Fine, yeah, Kira used the death note to kill. Now gimme the apple, will ya?"
Raven tossed it into the air. Ryuk swooped down, grabbing it with his teeth and chewing on it gratefully. "Oh, yeah," he said messily in between chews. "Don't call me Ryuku. It's girly. And I'm a guy."
Raven waved her hand dismissively before moving to think of more questions. A small pile of apples, that she had snuck out of the cafeteria, sat beside her. She rolled the one closest to her around on the surface of her bed. "So you said that Kira's method of killing is the death note, correct?"
"Yeah, why?" Ryuk asked, munching the core hungrily until it was gone.
"You just seem to know a lot about Kira, going by the answers you've given me…" Raven said thoughtfully, picking up a new apple and twisting it in her fingers. "It makes me wonder. …Do you know Kira, Ryuk?"
The Shinigami cackled softly, his face still twisted permanently in the same sinister, toothy grin. Mix it with the darkness of her room and the faint glow of the TV, Ryuk looked like a demon of sorts. "That's a question I'm not too sure I can answer. I'm not allowed to tell other humans who I've possessed."
Raven's face twisted in a fake pout. "But Ryukuu… Kira won't figure it out, will he? After all, you said it yourself. After you give up the death note, you lose all memories. So Kira probably doesn't even remember you."
"You called me Ryuku again." Ryuk stated blankly, ignoring the rest of her sentence.
Raven's pout faded as her face took on somewhat of a smirk. "Fine, Ryuk. Y'know, now that you mention it, the cafeteria is probably missing these apples." She began to put them back in a small backpack beside her. "It's my mistake for thinking you would actually earn them."
"Aww, come on Raven!" Ryuk begged. "I answered all your questions."
"This one question is the most important though." Raven answered simply, slowly dropping the apples in the backpack just to tease the Shinigami.
"Yes, I do know who Kira is." Ryuk admitted. "Now quit dropping the apples like that, you're gonna bruise them."
Raven grinned widely, tossing an apple on her bed towards Ryuk. The Shinigami caught it in his black claws before raising it up to his mouth to bite it with his sharp teeth. "What're you gonna do with this information, Raven?"
The brunette shrugged. "Nothing yet." She fell back on her bed, her dark brown locks falling messily around her head. "But it will be useful at some point. I bet even Near doesn't know some of the stuff you've told me."
She paused, her face full of thought before she opened her mouth again to speak again. "So I can see anyone's name a lifespan? And I can't see the life span of those who own a death note?"
"Yeah, that's how it goes." Ryuk answered, standing over her bed and staring at the bag of apples longingly.
"Interesting…" Raven mumbled. "That will come in handy."
"Really? You don't regret not choosing the death note?" the Shinigami asked.
Raven shook her head. "No, that would make me like Kira."
"Not a fan of Kira?"
Her face darkened. "Of course not. He's a mass murderer." She paused. "And he's probably close to being captured, considering he gave up the death notebook. He wants to look innocent."
"I never said that death note belonged to Kira." Ryuk told her.
Raven smiled. "You know too much about him. Quite obvious, if I do say so myself. And I remember L talking to us about the Kira case a while ago… He asked us if we think some sentence had any meaning. What was it..." She frowned, then brightened up as she remembered. " 'L, did you know that gods of death love apples.'" Raven smirked at her pile of apples. "And I think I know a certain Shinigami that does have a weak spot for them."
"You are pretty smart, aren't you." Ryuk commented, recalling Light's wish to find an intelligent owner. He cackled softly to himself. Sorry, Light. Things aren't going to go your way this time.
Near glared at the model on the screen as she panted slightly. She had just screamed at him after he accused her of lying. "Is that all?" Misa growled. "Gonna ask me anything else? Not like I have anything else to do, you pervert."
"That is all." he said into the microphone, which the blonde responded to by thrashing violently in her chair before continuing.
"Light is innocent, and so is Misa! I don't want to go through 50 days of being strapped to a chair again! Would you like it if I did this to you? Huh?"
"When I say death note, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?" Near asked, ignoring her question.
"Kira." she answered immediately, before yelling, "I thought you said you weren't asking anything else!"
"I lied." he said bluntly. "When you think of Kira, who is the first person you think of?"
"What the- I don't know Kira!" Misa protested. "You're even more annoying than L was! Perverted and annoying. You've got it going for you, don't you?"
"Amane, your childish insults aren't getting to me." Near said flatly, even though he knew it was just going to by synthetic over the speaker.
Misa smirked. "Obviously they are since you brought them up!"
"You don't seem like Light's type…" Near thought out loud which resulted in an angry outburst from Misa. He ignored her. "How did you two meet again?"
"I saw him in Aoyama, it was love at first sight~" Her tone seemed to lighten a bit, before it lowered. "Why?"
"Love at first sight... No, it was more than that." Near stared blankly at the Kira and Misa finger puppets on his fingers. "You had the Shinigami eyes and figured out Light was Kira that way, and then arranged to meet him. Sadly, this is nothing new..." Near trailed off, twirling his white hair in his fingers that didn't have the puppets on them.
"Please let me go..." Misa pleaded suddenly. "I have to see Light."
"Right now even we don't know where Light is. So I highly doubt you would find him." Near said, still staring at his finger puppets.
Misa hung her head. "This is exhausting. I've been in here for over a week and I've only been allowed one shower. Which is odd, since you like watching me strapped up like this. Watching me shower would be a lot more fun I would think. Right?"
"I'll allow you to take a shower if you can answer another question." Near said monotonously, bringing his gaze up to the screen.
Misa groaned. "Sure, what is it?"
"What was Light's relationship with L?"
"They were friends, I guess. I don't know." Misa shrugged. "Light seemed pretty upset when he died. I felt sorry for him. What does that have to do with anything?"
"I'll send someone in there to remove the restraints." Near said stiffly, turning his microphone off.
He continued to twirl his hair. Why does it bother me that they were friends? Honestly it isn't that unusual; they wanted to get to know each other more since they were enemies, so they became friends. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Near frowned. I should focus on finding Light. It's too late to worry about L.
Trying to keep up with three locations at once! Ahh! I hope you guys liked the little LxLight thing I threw in there. (sorry any people who don't like yaoi, I love that couple too much.) Anyway, as always, thanks for reading! Review if you deem it worthy. C:
More info on Raven: She has long, straight dark brown hair that stops almost halfway down her back. Her eyes are a deep blue. Her skin is pale, not quite as pale as L's, but still pale. She is 16, turning 17 very soon and she lives at Whammy's. She wears a purple and black striped shirt, a black jacket, and a pair of faded blue jeans. She also wears a black cross necklace and purple gem earrings. (Just felt like I needed to clarify this, since she's an OC)