I am mad. MAD!!! This will be a rant. Feel free to skip it. Ok, so we're playing a game in gym called handball. Basically, you have two teams and the idea is to throw a kickball into the other team's goal. The goal is so big you get two goalies. I paly goalie. Well, we should have stopped playing this last week. Why? The effing stupid people are throwing the ball at the goal hard enough to break fingers. How do I know this? Patrick played goalie with me. He tried to block a ball. His finger got broken. THAT right there should have been the end of it. But NO. We had to play AGAIN today. I still play goalie. I blocked a ball. I now have a bone buise on the hand I write/type with. I am pissed off. Ok, enough. I'm done. For now. My gym teacher has not heard the last of it, though, let me tell you.
Light nearly had a heart attack when he opened his eyes and found himself staring into Ryuuzaki's endless onyx ones. "Kami!" He yelled, leaping up. "What the hell are you doing, Ryuuzaki? How did you get in here?"
Ryuuzaki was perched at the end of Light's bed, chewing gently on his thumb. "I asked the dean where your dorm was. He supplied both the information and a key. Does Raito-kun always sleep in his boxers?"
Light rapidly realized that he was in nothing but his favorite boxers, which were white with gothic black L's all over them. They hadn't been easy to find. Not many authors get their names on boxers.
Ryuuzaki's eyes were the only thing that gave away his amusement at the situation. "I rather like those boxers, Raito-kun."
Light, however, was not quite as amused. "The dean just GAVE you a key to my room? This whole place is psychotic."
"Calm down, Raito-kun. The dean is fully aware that I am usually harmless."
"Usually. Great. Ryuuzaki, get out of here."
"No. I want to talk to Raito-kun. I actually want to show him something."
"Ryuuzaki, we ate dinner last night. You never so much as breached the subject of wanting to show me something. Is it that important that you needed to be here, on my bed, staring at me, when I woke up?"
"No. I just wanted to see Raito-kun's reaction."
Light punched him. And he was surprised when Ryuuzaki kicked him back. Hard. Hard enough to send him stumbling into the wall. Strong legs. Light pulled his arm back and let another punch fly. The fight continued for 15 minutes and only ended when Ryuuzaki pinned Light down on the floor.
"I win, Raito-kun. Now please go get ready so I can show you what I wanted to." Light, grumbling, picked himself up off the floor and grudgingly obeyed, taking a quick shower and dressing hurriedly. Ryuuzaki was just lucky he didn't have classes today. Which probably meant that Ryuuzaki actually knew his schedule. Oh, joy.
SSS
L waited patiently for Light to get ready to go. He wanted to show him his house. It wasn't where he actually lived, because he lived on campus to be closer to the library, and much of it wasn't furnished, but he had felt compelled to show it to Light nevertheless.
L was extremely glad that Light wasn't aware that said compulsion has struck him in the middle of the night and that he had actually been in Light's room since three in the morning. That was something he planned to keep to himself.
SSS
Light followed Ryuuzaki to a waiting...limo? Light shrugged and lightly jumped into the vehicle, Ryuuzaki right behind him. "Where are we going, Ryuuzaki?"
"I wanted to show you my house. Currently I do not dwell there, as I live at the university, but I felt like showing it to him."
Light should have figured that the guy would stalk him in his sleep, get in a knock down drag out fight with him, and arrange a limo, all to show him his house. As the silence in the limo dragged on, Light decided to try to start a conversation. "Where'd you get the limo?"
"What does Raito-kun mean? I own the limo."
"You OWN the limo?" Ryuuzaki simply nodded. Before Light could ask any more question, Ryuuzaki spoke.
"The house is not all that far from the university. In fact, we are approaching the drive now." Light looked out the window. Ok, wow. The 'drive' was, from the looks of it, at least a mile long. It was lined by, of all things, cherry trees, which were currently in full bloom. The effect was spectacular. As Light continued to watch out the window, an immaculate green lawn flashed by the windows, and, of course, there was a lake on the property. It was picturesque, and a family of Canadian geese were skating across the surface, the goslings sandwiched safely between their parents. If this was just the property leading up to it, what would the house be like?
Light was not disappointed. It was a towering, immense building. A long balcony ran along the outside of the entire second floor. It was styled in the old Gothic fashion of years gone by. It was, in a word, breathtaking.
"Ryuuzaki...how much money do you HAVE?!"
"Enough. Would Raito-kun like to go in? I'm afraid it is mostly empty, accept for the library. The one at the university is slightly more impressive than mine, though, I'm afraid."
"Yeah, sure." Light was curious as to what the inside would be like. Getting out of the car, he waited for Ryuuzaki to take the lead and followed behind.
Inside, the building retained its Gothic style. It was really a beautiful structure. Light couldn't imagine why Ryuuzaki didn't live here instead of at the university. He followed him up the stairs to the second floor and down a winding hallway to an intricate set of double doors carved with delicate designs.
Ryuuzaki pushed them open and Light gasped. The room was immense and lined with shelves that had the same kind of designs as the doors. The shelves contained a variety of books. This was very, very impressive for a private collection. A small shelf over on the side caught his attention. It was lined with all the books L had ever written. Walking over to it, he gently removed Ryuuzaki's copy of Poison Apple and leafed through the pages.
"You like to read L's work too?"
Ryuuzaki's lips pulled up at the corners in a small smile. "You could say that, Raito-kun. All his work, though...only one main character. In the book he's writing now, I hear there are two...it is intriguing."
Light turned to him. "You know this how?"
A mask settled firmly over Ryuuzaki's face. "A leak online, Raito-kun." With the mask in place, there was no way to tell if L was telling the truth. Light decided it didn't matter how he knew, anyway. It was possible that he could just be lying.
Light replaced the book and realized that he hadn't eaten yet. As if on cue, his stomach rumbled. Ryuuzaki took note and quickly offered to get Raito something to eat. Light agreed, and it soon became a plan to eat down at the lake.
SSS
Eating lunch with Light was pleasant, L decided. Sitting down by his lake eating layer cake and watching Light watch the geese was certainly relaxing. Still, L thought as the calls of the geese rang out over the water, he had to be more careful. He had slipped up. He had wanted to try to find out why he had added a new character to his book, and he wanted to bounce it off of someone. Light was the only one he really had any contact with, and, well, he had slipped up. He, L, had made a mistake. He firmly resolved that it would not happen again under any circumstances. Light was not to know who he really was until L deemed him completely trustworthy.
After all, he was the 'mysterious' and 'enigmatic' L, and he wanted to be sure Light would keep the secret before he revealed it. L valued his privacy, and if people knew his identity, that would all be lost in an instant. He was not willing to take that chance. No matter how interesting he found Light, he was not yet worth that huge risk to him.
Even if the character in his book was beginning to become suspiciously reminiscent of Light.
SSS
Light relaxed on his bed, doing nothing other than thinking. Sometimes, just thinking was relaxing. It gave him a chance to try to break into his subconscious and see what was lurking. That was if he was ambitious. Today he was just trying to chill out. So he was just concentrating on whatever drifted to the forefront of his mind of its own accord. Not much to think about today. Except, of course, his day at Ryuuzaki's.
After their impromptu lunch, Ryuuzaki and his limo had escorted Light back to campus, and Ryuuzaki had disappeared off to wherever it was Ryuuzaki disappeared to on a regular basis. Light had concluded that he was completely loaded. He was richer than anyone else he knew, that was for sure.
Light realized that he knew nothing about Ryuuzaki other than that he was told to call him Ryuuzaki and that he was a bit of a sugar addict (and that was just a guess from what he had observed of him so far). He didn't know what Ryuuzaki did, what his hobbies were, or even where he lived.
Light, making a note to learn more about the raven-haired man, drifted off to sleep.
SSS
L was watching his story unfold in front of him. His insomniac tendencies really helped him finish books before deadlines, and, with Light serving as an added distraction, it was absolutely necessary to write at night. Still, this new character was a bit of an enigma to him.
Now, the main character of his books was always him. Except in Poison Apple, in which he was the detective. He wasn't literally the character, but part of him ended up in each and every one of his creations. With the exception of this new character. He was surprised to find that, as he wrote, his main character and the secondary character were developing a friendship. His main characters tended to remain unattached to anyone, rather like the way he himself avoided people. He was beginning to wonder if this book was becoming a portal into his own mind.
Chapter done, he clicked his laptop shut. A glance at the clock told him it was 2:15. He felt like a shower. And company. The silence was strangely getting to him tonight. A small smirk spread over his face. He knew just what to do.
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Light shot awake. Something was not right here. He NEVER woke up in the middle of the night for no reason. Something was off. He glanced around quickly. Nothing obviously wrong. The sound of running water reached his ears. THAT was off. He studied his room more closely. Something on the edge of his bed caught his eye.
"Oh, fuck no. No, no, no, no!" He stormed over to his bathroom and began beating on the door. "Ryuuzaki! You are NOT in my dorm at three thirty in the morning taking a shower! Ryuuzaki! RYUUZAKI!!!"
At the end of Light's bed, neatly folded, was a pair of baggy blue jeans and a white shirt, awaiting a clean author.
Two chapters in one day. Getting progressively longer! Yay! I almost have 20 reviews! Ok, this time the question is not-so-random: Who should be seme in this one? I'm leaning towards L. Let's put it up to a public vote. Vote away!