" It seems class that we have a new transfer student named…" Light paused at the name as if was actually uncertain it was the correct one. " Ryuga Hideki, would you please come to the front of the classroom."
L heard that all too familiar voice. He knew all too well the articulate tongue that uttered those dreadful words. Those awful words contaminated by lie of yet another alias. Another false name that Light Yagami would call him by. Even when they had been lovers the matter of his actual name had been the only deception L had disgraced Light with. However, no one besides Watari and himself were allowed to know his true name. No one could ever decode the untouchable, the intangible, sleuth, who solved the world's greatest mysteries.
" Ryuga Hideki, please, come forward." Light called out.
L stood up beside his desk and as he attempted to move, but his feet remained glue to the floor. His legs hadn't the strength to move, his heart hadn't the will to hearken to his brain, which had not the mind to motivate his muscles. His stomach began to spasm and his heart-rate increased.
Light's amber eyes remained fixed upon him till the gaze burned into him like a golden flame. A shrewd glare shone brightly in those eyes and L knew that Light was looking through him. Light's eyes were defragging the inner workings of his entire being. L couldn't allow that. He couldn't allow Light to see his moment of weakness. He just simply could not give this handsome, intelligent man the privilege of breaking him down a second time. It did not matter that Light hadn't seen those tears or witnessed the strain his heart encountered. It did not matter if Light's nearly all knowing mind was somehow ignorant of the sorrow that nearly destroyed him.
All that mattered was that L had lost once to Light and he would not loose again. L was no longer a love-lorn child and he would rise to this occasion with all of his wit and arrogance.
L's confidence suddenly uplifted and he soared like some lofty swallow to the front of the class. All of his fellow peers gapped at his lackluster appearance and gangly gait. Some of the girls even eyed him warily as if he were a breathing infectious disease. How pleasant and L had feared he wouldn't be warmly accepted well by the other students. Well, he hadn't really. To be honest, he had never truly cared much for impressing others. Even if he tried his genetics failed him in the pursuit. . If he had been born a caterpillar, then he would live his life without metamorphosis. He would never become a dainty butterfly, he would never be one of those beautiful people. No one had ever called him beautiful. Not even when Light had made love to him, did he tell him he was attractive. It wouldn't have been right to lie during such an intimate moment.
L reached the front of the class, still feigning ignorance to the scrutiny his classmates were enacting upon him.
" Ryuga Hideki, welcome to my criminology class. It is my joy to teach you." Light commented with a warm smile. A smile that L saw fit to deign as a fake. Light truly felt no joy in being around him or L would have seen or heard from him previously. Nevertheless, there had been no sign of the man's existence for four years.
" Ryuga Hideki, that your name? You've got to be kidding me." someone laughed.
" Yeah, he looks nothing like the guy." someone commented.
" Their polar opposites!" another joined in.
" Duh, the other Ryuga is actually handsome." one of the students jeered.
" Student's cease your slander!" Light squelched sternly.
However, L met their unflattering words with either malice or grief, but indifference. His large onyx orbs gazed unblinkingly out at those poor-mouthing him. They could say what they wanted, and he wouldn't care. What would they ever be or even aspire to become. He was L. He was the world's greatest detective and what were they? They were nothing. They were merely another number on Japans census, barely known by their countries officials. Whereas his shadow was treasured by every government figure and any authority figure around the globe. Thus, why should he bow down before them in all their egocentric vanities and seek pardon for being so miserably unattractive. They should be thanking him for putting murderers and other psychos behind bars and thus upping the statistics of their life expectancy. Oh! How little gratitude he got for being such a judicious philanthropist.
L's confidence now beamed at its highest, but leave it to Light Yagami to be the catalyst.
" Hideki-kun, please, inform us a little about yourself." the good-looking man pressured.
" I came from England to Japan recently, I am deeply interested in law, I enjoy tennis and chess, and am quite partial to sweets." the detective commented.
" Very interesting. You are extremely unique, Ryuga." Light stated.
L smiled at the remark. After all, 'unique' was just a nice term for 'strange'.
Light ushered for L to return to his seat, which the raven did with out hesitance. The rest of the class ran smoothly for both L and Light. It seemed as if all the previous unpleasantries had dissipated, but L knew the jibes and insults were merely held captive just below the surfaces of the other pupil's minds. Once class had came to an end, L slowly rose from his seat. He longed to linger just as long as he plausibly could in the same vicinity as Light. L knew that such notions were foolish and that what had ever conspired between them was ancient history.
" Yagami-sensei…" called out the prim girl named Takada, who had lead L to class.
" Yes, Takada-chan?" Light answered as his golden eyes rested solely on the pretty young lady. Her large almond eyes looked dotingly at him and she smiled.
" Your lecture was well held today. I did not find any points to criticize once again." she chirped with a mild blush.
" I shall rue the day when you, my student, surpass your teacher." Light laughed deeply. The sound of Takada's soft laughter joined Lights and the sounds harmonized in an exquisite manner that filled L with bane. He quickly slipped from the room so as not to be left alone to watch the horrendous fraternizing a second longer. However, his effort was surely made an inconsolable second too late. As the raven turned to exit his peripheral vision allowed him quite a scene.
Takada bit nervously upon her lower lip as her slender form shot forward and closed the space between herself and Light. She clung to the handsome man desperately as she interlocked their lips in a kiss. A lengthy moment flitted by before Light tore himself away from her.
" Takada, I'm sorry, but I already have a girlfriend." Light mumbled dismissively. Unfortunately, that damnable sentence had not been murmured low enough, for L's ears had discerned it. Somehow, hearing that Light was taken by a female that was attractive enough for him to be faithful to her over the lovely, prim, intelligent Takada hurt far worse than actually seeing another's lips touch the luscious lip's that had once passionately ravished his own.
L hurried out of the doorway and continued about his day. Meanwhile, he tried to brandish the nightmarish images of that scene and those words from his mind. Who Light was with was no longer any concern of his.
Little did poor, pitiable L know that Light knew Takada's incentives before she acted upon the. In fact, Light's eyes had never shut during the kiss, but had remained open as he stared at L to gouge the younger male's reaction. Likewise, Light's attention had been focused more on L's response than Takada's when he mentioned his girlfriend.
Indeed, there was a lot that L had not discovered about Light.
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