The Little Things Give You Away
By AishiExcel
Argh, so here's the deal. This is the third time I've started writing this mo-fo'ing chapter, and I'm getting downright sick of it XD The Macs here utterly hate me, I'm not sure why, so I'm crossing my fingers and praying this doesn't mess up again. If it does… it'll probably be six months before you guys get an update XD
Hopefully, though, that's not the case. Oh, and this chapter, I feel the need to post a
WARNING!!
Here it is: In this chapter, there will be some sexual tension. Between two guys. And in case anyone hasn't figured it out, this story WILL contain shonen-ai and/or Yaoi, so don't keep on reading if a love story about two men gives you the heebie-jeebies. Okay, we got that covered? Good. I know it's a bit late to be posting warnings, buuuuuut… I forgot about it when I began this fic XD Anyways, here's my chapter, without further ado. Thanks for the patience, guys!!
Light was NOT happy.
Nobody in his or her right mind WOULD be happy after the day he'd had. Not only had he had to endure a long and tedious day, he'd watched some bratty pop star try to steal his place, he'd been harassed via phone by his psycho new roommate, and now said roommate had freaked the hell out of his most faithful maid and scared her into quitting. Oh, and he'd blown up donuts and oatmeal in the microwave. All in all, it had put the privileged youth into a mood that was, at best, murderous, and at worst… well, Ryuzaki best keep clear of him.
He THUNDERED into the condo, KICKED his shoes off and halfway across the room, SLAMMED down his stuff and practically DOVE into the couch. Lying across it with utmost contempt, he SMASHED the 'on' button on the remote and proceeded to flip through channels. After using up all his energy entering the house so dramatically, TV would be nice and numbing to his brain.
There was a small sound at the doorframe and he looked to see Ryuzaki standing awkwardly in the hallway, looking slightly afraid of his new housemate.
"Ah. Yagami-kun…"
"Nnh," Light grunted at him with as much contempt as he could muster. He didn't feel like watching House… or NCIS… oh dear god, there was an interview with Mello on MTV. He hurriedly flipped past that and settled on some ridiculous reality show on vh1. God help him if he ever became washed up and desperate enough to appear in one of those.
"How was your day?" Ryuzaki murmured, creeping cautiously into the room and sitting awkwardly on the floor close to Light's feet.
"Don't you dare ask that," Light hissed. "Especially when you're one if the ones making it so horrid."
Ryuzaki chewed on his thumb. "Oh. I, uh… I'm…" He briefly closed his eyes and then muttered, monotonously, "I'm sorry."
Light was slightly taken aback by the apology (for some reason, he'd taken the doctor-for-pretend to be the type never to apologize for anything) but begrudgingly accepted it. He might as well… after all; it was his fault more than anyone for letting the strangest of strangers take up residence with him. So he might as well try to stifle SOME of his anger towards the weirdo.
He nodded his 'apology accepted' before turning up the volume on the TV, thereby declaring that the conversation was over. He leaned back and let his attention and mind wander to the stupid reality show in front of him, until…
Something touched his bare foot. Light nearly jumped out of his skin until he looked down and saw Ryuzaki's long fingers grasping it.
"I thought I could give Light-kun a foot massage… you know, to make amends for my sins."
Light raised his eyebrow and looked down at the strange genius, but finally sighed and leaned back into the couch. "Fine. Do whatever you want." It kind of touched him that at least Ryuzaki felt bad enough to try to make it up to him… not that he'd let Ryuzaki know that. He tried to concentrate on the TV again, but… that was oddly distracting. Ryuzaki's strong fingers started at his ankle and then gently massaged his heel before smoothing over the arch in his foot. It kind of tickled. He bit down on his lip to keep from giggling and snatching his foot away.
Ryuzaki then rubbed the bottom of his foot close to his toes- Light couldn't remember what it was called, was it the ball of his foot? At any rate, it was actually rather pleasing, and Light let out a small sigh of contentment without realizing it. It was strange to have someone he barely knew touching his feet, but… it was almost like the massage he'd gotten from that Korean lady the time Misa had taken him out for a pedicure. If Light thought of it like that, without letting his mind wander to how horribly personal it could be, then he was fine.
"I can give shoulder massages, too," Ryuzaki offered, almost eagerly (if it weren't for that ever-present monotone.) "Would Light like one?"
It was tempting… the celebrity superstar shrugged and rolled his neck until he heard it pop.
"Well, I have been kind of tense… but…" If a foot massage was weird, where did shoulder massages fall? Did they cross into the category of too personal? Light vaguely remembered a discussion between two characters in Pulp Fiction about just how sexual a foot massage was. Well… what the hell. This wasn't Pulp Fiction.
"I'm actually quite good at them… or so I think," Ryuzaki murmured. "I read an entire article about how to give excellent massages. Light will have to lay on his stomach, on the floor, please."
Light complied, resting his chin on his folded hands and looking straight ahead. Just think of him as a masseuse at your favorite health spa and everything will be okay, Light mentally scolded himself. This didn't have to be awkward unless Light made it that way. If he detached himself and didn't think too much about it there would be no problem at all.
Ryuzaki moved so that he was kneeling over Light with a leg on either side of him. Wasn't that called straddling him…? Light shook his head and forced his eyes onto the screen where a woman was undertaking some kind of reality show challenge that involved mud wrestling.
Ryuzaki pushed Light's shirt up over his shoulders and began smoothing has hands over his bare skin. "Now, relax, Light-kun, and I shall rub away your stresses."
Light let out a small 'nnh' at the skin-on-skin contact but closed his eyes and attempted to relax. Ryuzaki worked slowly over his shoulders and upper back before slowly moving down to his lower back. Ryuzaki let out a breathy sigh and leaned forward as he worked Light's shoulders. His chest touched Light's back.
"Um… Ryuzaki? Where exactly did you read this massage article?"
"Cosmopolitan." Ryuzaki announced almost cheerfully, in his monotonous way.
Light felt his face redden almost instantly. "Um… then, this is-"
Ryuzaki peered down at him, confused. "What?"
"I mean, isn't EVERYTHING in that magazine rather sexual? So isn't this massage technique… intended for a woman to use on her lover?"
Ryuzaki, tracing small circles on Light's lower back with one hand as the other traced down his side, shrugged. "I don't know. I didn't read the entire article. I simply read the section pertaining to back massage."
A shiver ran up the teen star's spine that he had to convince himself was entirely because of the cold air on his bare skin. "Gah! Can you stop that? It tickles!"
Ryuzaki ceased the current motions of his hands and moved on to rub circles on his lower spine, working out tension that had built up there. "I don't understand, Light-kun, is this embarrassing somehow?"
Light ground his teeth together, squirming to try to get out from under the creepy pretend-doctor. "Yes! This is crossing the personal bubble boundaries quite a bit!"
"But it's therapeutic," Ryuzaki murmured, tilting his head to one side and refusing to release his massage-captive. "It releases tensions built up throughout the day in the back muscles, which we usually tense in stressful situations. I would think you would most definitely need release from this tightness of muscle, Light-kun."
The way he had phrased that last sentence was HORRIBLY disturbing, and it only made Light fidget more. "Look, it's just not cool for me to be shirtless and have another guy on top of me. It's kind of… suggestive."
Ryuzaki removed one hand from Light's back to chew on his thumbnail. "If I have no sexual intentions, and am doing this as a friend, what is the problem?"
Light could have died of exasperation. "Because. Don't you have any concept of what is and isn't socially acceptable?"
"Not particularly," Ryuzaki announced again in his cheerful monotone. Light would have sworn he was getting some sick pleasure from tormenting a poor, helpless celebrity. "I was never really social as a child, and I have spent too much time in the hospital."
Light was ALMOST too flustered to file away that hint at some of Ryuzaki's story- almost. But after making a mental note of it, he sighed and resigned himself to his fate of being forced into an extraordinarily awkward massage by an extraordinarily irritating new housemate.
'Whatever, just hurry up and torture me. I need to get to sleep so I don't die of sleep deprivation."
'What about you, Light-kun? Does Light remember any childhood friends?"
"Um… some." Light squirmed a little more as L's hands worked down to the sensitive small of his back. "I really only ever had one friend before 5th grade."
"Oh?" Ryuzaki paused for a moment, and his voice actually rose out of its usual low mumble. "Does Light remember him?"
"Not really," Light muttered, "so can you let me go?"
"Why is this so awkward to Light?"
"It's kind of SEXUAL in case you hadn't noticed!" snapped the helpless teen star.
Ryuzaki rested his hands in Light's back but still didn't get up. What the hell was his problem?
"why is sexual such a bad thing? I understand Light-kun is not sexually attracted to me... nor I him, I should add to reassure you, but isn't Light comfortable to do things such as this with Misa-san?"
"No!" Light snarled. "I don't want ANYBODY hanging off of me like this."
The faux-physician was quiet once more, and then his quiet voice sounded almost smug.
"Is Light-kun a virgin?"
Light didn't know it was possible to get any redder, but he did. "Ah- what- why is that any of your-"
"It may surprise you to know that I, too, am a virgin, Light-kun."
Actually, it was only surprising that Ryuzaki thought that would be surprising. Light hadn't even considered the possibility that Ryuzaki could have ever had any kind of sexual contact with anyone. Ever. He was just so… just, no. Whoever went there must have some kind of 'weird' fetish.
Light buried his face in the floor to avoid looking at the oddball straddling him. "Yes. I'm a virgin. Okay? I'm a virgin, I've never slept with Misa, so just stay out of it and mind your own business."
"Why not?"
"What?"
"Why haven't you slept with Misa? For that matter, has Light-kun done ANYTHING, or is he entirely virginal?"
"WHY IS THAT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS?" shrieked the flustered youth trapped under the other. "I'm not completely naïve! I'm just not a man-whore who'd go out and screw anything that moves!"
"So what would 'not completely naïve' mean? Is Light-kun discussing the use of hands? Mouths?"
He had enough. He sat up, throwing the oh-so-awkward doctor off of him and leaping to his feet.
"You are SO ANNOYING! You don't know ANYTHING about how NORMAL people live life! Were you born under a freaking bridge and raised by trolls? You're such a ridiculous freak! I can't believe how utterly backwards you are! I can't believe you don't know what is wrong with your behavior! I can't believe I'm letting you LIVE with me! What was I thinking? Look, I won't kick you out because I feel so damn bad for you, but that doesn't mean I want to talk to you or have anything to do with you! So leave me alone!"
He stormed out, leaving the stunned doctor sitting on the floor wondering what to say in response.
Kay, I don't have much to say this author's note, except… has anyone heard of L File No. 15? I just heard about it and OMG. I really, really badly want them to bring it to the US. From what I know, it's a photobook of the sexiest of all sexy, Mr. Kenichi Matsuyama himself, as L in different places, etc. I also heard it contained a mini-manga about L, which REALLLLY excites me. If anyone has any info I'd glomp them forever and ever. I love y'all! I'm so glad this chap is finally done! -- Thanks for the patience everyone. Hope this proved worth it!