A/N: Chapter 12!
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WARNINGS: LxLight/LightxL action (YAOI), L's real name, Language, and OOCness and stuff.
(Sorry, for any grammar or spelling mistakes.)
When Light got home, the first thing he did was pull a blank face and walk in to meet the sight of Sayu and his mother and father at the dinner table.
"Light? Dear, is something wrong?" his mother inquired with a worried face. She'd hardly ever seen her precious Light without his beautiful smile.
"I…I just wanted to let you guys know that," Light took a deep breath, "I invited Ryuuzaki over for dinner tomorrow." After this was said, Light tried to head for the stairs to avoid his sister and parent's reaction. But, Light had no luck as he was caught in the grasp of Sayu's surprisingly strong, girly hands.
"Are you serious? I'm so excited! I can't wait to meet my future brother-in-law!" Sayu let out a fangirl sounding squeal and started jumping up and down, clapping her hands.
"WHAT? What's this about a brother-in-law?" Soichiro demanded shoving up from his seat.
"You didn't hear, hun? Our Light has found himself a nice young lad! And don't be a Debbie Downer; I'm glad he found someone at all! I thought my-our Light would die alone and bitter! Not your fault, Light, it just seemed no one interested you or could keep up with your mind and so you didn't bother."
Light had to admit that his mother was taking him being gay wonderfully. Wait! Light meant that his mother was taking the thought of him being gay wonderfully. Not that Light was actually in love with L…right? But, going over everything in his head, Light realized…he might actually have romantic feelings for L. L always kept his interest and Light always felt happier in the older man's presence. In fact Light realized that when he kissed L's forehead at the apartment the night he stayed over, Light had originally wanted to kiss L's lips. Plus the fact that he felt nervous when asking L to hang out lately and took more time choosing the outfits for those days than any other.
I like L. I'm infatuated with him. Heck, I could be falling or already in love with him! Doesn't this just bite? He liked L and the possibility of L liking him back was slim to none. And Light was pretty sure slim left town yesterday. Why is it that I finally find a person who I actually like and they're the most asexual person on the planet!
"My son would never date someone just because of that! Besides he's had girlfriends before! Plenty of them in fact!" Light looked at his dad who was turning an interesting shade of red, now coming to stand in front of Light.
"Well, Dad, they aren't telling the truth. Ryuuzaki and I aren't dating. But I think I might actually…like him…"
SLAP!
Soichiro stood in front of Light, hand raised. Two gasps could be heard and Light stood there, head tilted slightly to his left, stunned and wide eyed. Things were silent and still as the sound from the force of the smack echoed in the air.
Then things jumped into motion and the Light's parents were yelling back and forth. Sayu ran over to the fridge and got an ice pack out quickly. Sayu ran to Light and gently pressed the pack to the side of his face. All the while, Light stood there in stunned silence. And when he finally pushed his sister's hand away gently and walked over to where his parents were, it got silent again.
"…Father. You're so disgusted you'd slap me? Your own son? The very one you raved to your friends was 'so great' and 'incredibly smart' and 'perfect'! Why can't you just be happy for me? I thought I was going to alone all my life, just as Mom said," Light had to pause to suck in a breath, "I don't care if you approve or not. I wish you would, I really do, but if you're that against it. Well then, forget coming to dinner tomorrow. Go out with some guys from the station and don't come home till 10 o'clock. I am having this man over and I will continue to see him regardless of what you say or do."
Light stopped and turned on his heel to the stairs. When Light reached his door, everyone was still watching Light, so he turned his head a little and said, "I'm sorry I'm just not perfect enough for you, Father," he opened his door and walked in closing it softly.
Soichiro lowered his head, feeling a bit guilty, but what was he supposed to do? Give him a pat on the back and congratulate him as if this is exactly what he'd always wanted for his precious first born? If Light joined the task force, he'd get one hell of a time from the other officers. Not just the officers, but the rest of society. Was he supposed to ignore this and pretend this was one of the best things to ever happen to Light? He couldn't! This wasn't what he'd pictured for his boy all this time! Light was supposed to marry some sweet girl, the perfect house wife, and get a job as the chief of police and have supply Soichiro with beautiful and intelligent grandkids!
Soichiro stomped to the closet by the front door and yanked out his coat. "I'm going out for a bit to clear my head and calm down. I won't be out too late. Night." With that, Soichiro slammed the door after him and started down the street in the cold night air.
Sayu walked over and hugged her mother who was crying, holding her face in her hands. Sachiko squeezed her daughter and told her to go to bed and that she'd talk to Light. Sayu nodded and they both went up stairs, Sayu to her room and Sachiko to Light's.
Knock Knock Knock.
"Light, sweetie? I'm coming in," she stepped in closing the door behind her. "I wanted to make sure you're not too upset. We can move the date of the dinner, so things can cool of if you want."
Light looked up from his spot on the bed. He set his phone down, "Mom, its fine. Ryuuzaki's coming over tomorrow or else he's going show up anyways on his own accord, making Dad even angrier. It doesn't matter. I didn't see it, but I do like him, Mom. Is that so wrong? For me to finally find someone I can actually picture myself being with? Someone who'll make me happy and won't irk me? Well, scratch that, someone who won't irk me with their ignorance. Ryuuzaki is quite annoying when he wants to be," Light let out a small chuckle, thinking about all of Ryuuzaki's 'quirks'.
"Light, it's not a bad thing! I'm so happy; you have no idea how happy I am. You should hear how you sound right now. You sound so happy and in love!"
"Love?" Light almost fell over, "Mom! It's too early for that! Yes, I like him! Yes, I find him attractive, but I'm not in love!"
It was Sachiko's turn to laugh, "Oh honey, don't fight it. Just go with it. I can't wait to meet him. Though the fact you picked him must mean he's going to be all prim and proper, so I'll have to whip out some of my best recipes to please him, right?"
"Prim? …Proper?" Light fell into a full blown laughing fit, "Ryuuzaki? Dear Lord, that's hilarious! Mom, don't worry. Just make a lot of sweets and a lot of desert. Don't worry about it; he'll be pleased with just that. And don't be offended by the way he dresses or sits. It's just a quirk. And please, please, don't bring up any baby pictures or stories!"
"This one time. Got it? This one time, I'll leave the embarrassing things out. And I guess I'll have to start looking for some desert recipes. But the way you're describing him, he sounds nothing of your type. Sweets, possibly offensive style, quirks, you hate sweets, your obsessed with your looks, and well…the word quirks scares me," Sachiko hoped Light wasn't bringing home a psycho.
"You'll love him, I swear. I'm going to bed now since tomorrow is probably going to be the longest, most stressful, day of my life," Light gave a wry smile to his mom.
She bent down and kissed the top of his head, "Ok, goodnight, Light. See you in the morning."
"Night."
Light watched her leave and when he heard her bedroom door close, he pulled out his phone and replied to his text from L. L was asking what time to come down and checking to see that his parents were ok on having him over on such short notice. Light told him to come over around 6 in the evening that his mom and sister were ok. He then added that it wasn't like L cared if they were ok with it, he'd show up anyways. L noticed he said nothing about his dad, but let it go. If Light wanted to tell him, he would on his own and L would wait for him to. They finally said their goodbyes around 11 o'clock and Light went to bed while L pondered over the possible outcomes of tomorrow's dinner.
"No! I refuse! Get away from me Watari!" L jumped over the couch and made a mad dash for his room.
"L! Please be reasonable! It's just a few hours I swear!" Watari followed his ward and froze when L slammed the door in his face.
"Please understand, Watari; that as much as I care about you and Light-kun, I will never go through that kind of torture!" Watari sighed; he really needed to hurry seeing as how they were expected at the Yagami's house in less than an hour.
"L, if you do this, I'll make you anything you want to the next three days and won't say a word about your habits and I'll stop trying to sneak in vegetables in your meals like before."
The door cracked open a bit, much to Watari's relief, "Really? When you put it that way…Fine! Give it here!" L's pale hand whipped out and tore the cloth from Watari's hands before the door slammed shut again. Watari could then hear some fumbling and cursing from behind the door. He shook his head and continued to prepare himself for the dinner he'd so kindly informed he'd also be attending. L on the other hand was now regretted his decision on having dinner with Light's family.
No, no , NO! Things are not going right! Light thought as he scrambled around and straightened all the plates and rearranged the silverware again. After he was pleased with the way they looked, he ran back up to his room and checked off his list again. Dinner's nearly done, table's set, I'm showered, Dad's still gone, and everything is clean and in place. What else is there? I still feel like something's going to go wrong! Sayu's excited and so is Mom, but I can't really do anything about that. Now I just have to wait I guess.
Light sighed as he smoothed the front from of his black dress pants. His mother insisted this was an extremely important dinner and that Light needed to be appropriately dressed. Not that Light would argue too much, his only problem would be that L was probably going to show up in jeans and his usual white shirt. Not only would it be awkward for L, but his family as well, for they'd feel over dressed. He looked at himself in the mirror, his black dress pants and black button up shirt, giving him the sexy bad boy look. His hair blow-dried to perfection, swooping over his forehead attractively. He sighed and wished L would just get here so they could get things over with.
As if some god heard Light's suffering, the door bell rang. Light nearly ran down to the door, but caught himself and walked casually over to open it. Shooting one last look at his mom and sister to behave, Light pulled open the door. And what he saw made him freeze and suck in his breath.
There was L, standing in ironed black slacks and a white button up shirt with a blazer over it. Granted the shirt was untucked and it looked a bit loose, but to Light, L had never looked better. It was amazing what clean clothes could do to a guy.
Meanwhile, L was also taking this time to take in Light's appearance. Usually Light always looked like perfection, but tonight Light look positively delectable. And as L looked around, he was glad Watari had gotten him to wear this. If he hadn't he would've been seriously out of place, and though he usually didn't mind it, L wanted to make a good impression on Light's parents. And upon further investigation of the room behind Light, L only saw the two women of the house, no father.
A cough broke both of them from their observations and they both looked behind L at Watari. That snapped Light out of it, "Oh! Come on in! You look great tonight, Ryuuzaki. I see you do own something besides blue jeans and white shirts."
"Pretty presumptuous for Light-kun to think that's all my wardrobe consists of." L said as he walked past Light and into full view of the women of the house. Said girls could barely contain their squeals at the sight of the adorable man in front of their eyes.
"And welcome, Watari. And remember, you're the guest, which means no cleaning or helping. Tonight you're Ryuuzaki's guardian, not butler. And most of all," Light grinned at the old man, "please enjoy yourself."
Watari smiled at Light and nodded before stepping in the room and removing his hat and trench coat, handing the items to Light to hang up. "As you say, Light. I'll relax tonight, but my instincts might kick in and I might try to help." Light's mother then rushed over to greet them, followed by a skipping and beaming Sayu. Watari was flattered by their warm greeting, L seemed kind of stiff and had his shy smile pulled out, and Light wanted to hurry and get food in Sayu's mouth before she could talk.
"So, you're the one Light-nii's been spending his time with, huh? Well…I totally approve!" Sayu threw her arms around L, making him stumble a bit. "You're so cute! I couldn't picture a better brother-in-law if I tried!"
L's eyes widened, "…Brother-in-law?"
"No! Sayu I told you to stop with your weird fantasies! Ryuuzaki and I are just friends! Geez!" Light's face was heating up in embarrassment. "Can we please just eat now?"
Light's mother calmed Sayu a bit and led them into the kitchen and sat across from Light, beside Watari. Sayu sat at the end of the table swinging her legs back and forth, staring at L, who sat by Light. Sachiko passed out the food and they said a quick prayer before eating.
L was trying his hardest to not stare at the food in repulsion. There was rice and curry laid out before him. He looked at his portion skeptically before Light leaned over and whispered for him to try it. Light said he'd be very pleased with the taste, so he hesitantly took a small bit into his mouth. He was surprised by the taste; it was sweet! From everything he'd heard, curry was usually spicy, but this had a warm, sweet taste. He looked at Light for the answer.
"Mom, put in chocolate, claiming coco was also a spice. It gave it a sweet taste, huh? I suggested a sweeter tasting meal, and this is what she whipped up. Plus there's a strawberry short cake in the fridge for desert."
After that, dinner went off without a hitch, conversation flowed and everyone ate, no one said a word about how L sat in his chair. They talked mostly about L, asking him questions from occupation (Mom) to if he was currently seeing anyone (Sayu) and how he enjoyed the dinner (Light). Then Sachiko questioned Watari, and complimented him on his raising L single-handedly. Watari couldn't remember the last time he smiled and felt so happy.
When they pulled out desert, L took the biggest slice, complimenting Sachiko on her culinary skills. Sachiko called him a doll and sat down; thinking the only thing that could've made this better was if Soichiro would get over himself and eat with them at home. She hadn't seen her husband since he left last night. She knew he came in to sleep because she saw his dirty clothes on the floor, but he got up and left before she did. Sachiko brushed it off though, might as well enjoy this for the time being. She saw that Light was now in deep conversation with his new friend, Ryuuzaki.
She studied the way they interacted, the way they both sat, angled towards one another. She watched as they'd share smiles and secret looks about inside jokes and secrets meant only for their ears. But she noticed the way they looked at each the most. They both stared at the other as if they didn't want to ever leave their counterparts side. She the look of love in their eyes. Sachiko saw a deep longing and wanting, something that brought back memories of her younger years. Back when she was pregnant with Light and they loved each other more than air.
At the thought of her husband, Sachiko sighed wistfully. She understood how he felt, she knew all the plans he had for his beautiful baby boy. She knew how much a shock and heartbreak this would come for him. All those plans, out the window because of one boy. Ryuuzaki.
Sachiko shook her head to rid herself of these distracting thoughts and resumed to her conversation with Watari, Ryuuzaki's grandfather.
Light and L were talking, almost as if no one else were there. Almost. They still made sure to watch the topics they talked about and Light avoided calling Ryuuzaki L. Otherwise, they carried on, talking about law, government, movies, foods, and each other. So far they've only had one argument, a record for them. They just couldn't agree over what was better: cake or potato chips.
Kinda obvious who's on what side, no?
CREEEK!
They all paused and heard the stomping of feet, followed by the door slamming shut.
They all watched as Soichiro Yagami entered the kitchen and watched his face contort with looks of rage, disappointment, and sorrow. Soichiro scanned the table, his eyes resting on L's only a split longer than the rest, before his gaze landed on Light. And Light could've sworn there was a flash of disgust in his father's eyes and he saw the two boys sitting side-by-side and both turned to the other, knees nearly touching.
Soichiro then put all his focus on L and calmly commanded, "Get out of my house."
A/N: Sorry about the updating, my muse is kicked off, but at least I got this chapter up, right Uhhhh...sure let's go with that. And sorry, no Kira in this one, later though! ...I hope. x
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