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Chapter Twelve: Truths and Lies

Pale fingers fumbled with the buttons on Raito's shirt, slowly getting them all undone as they pulled away to breath before diving back into the kiss again, the teenager's own hands sliding up the baggy white shirt of the other.

Tongues fought for dominance, both males wanting to be in charge, to be the dominant one.

They were far too interested in each other, trapped in their own little world so when someone knocked on they didn't notice.

They weren't aware as someone opened the door, it wasn't until a phone was dropped to the floor and a gasp left the intruder's throat that they noticed.

They pulled away, turning to stare incredulously back at the person.

"R...Raito," the name fell out of Soichiro's mouth as he gaped at the position his son was in with the world's greatest detective. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, surely there was a perfectly good explanation for it, his son would never be caught kissing...another man.

No, there had to be a reason for it...

A cry of "Chief" from behind him caused Soichiro to return to his senses and as he moved to block the doorway and turned to answer at the same time, Matsuda managed to peek over his shoulder to see Raito and L moving apart from each other as Raito attempted to fix his appearance once again.

A blush promptly grew on the young policeman's face,

"Errr sorry...was I interrupting something?" he squeaked, seeming extremely embarrassed when he'd hardly witnessed anything. Really, Matsuda was such an idiot.

Raito cleared his throat as if to speak but L beat him to it,

"It was nothing for either of the two of you to worry about," he commented as Raito turned to glare at him for a second or two before he turned his amber gaze on the two unwanted guests.

"It's just as Ryuzaki says."

The Chief felt anger flare up inside of him, he had caught his son lip locked with another male, a man that he had butted heads with on more then one occasion and that Soichiro himself had respected yet they both claimed that it wasn't anything as if it was perfectly normal!

Surely Raito should be angry, disgusted with Ryuzaki who had obviously forced himself upon the brunet.

"Nothing! Raito if Ryuzaki here is taking advantage of you then it is something!"

Raito had to resist a snort at his Father's accusation, sure Ryuzaki had kissed him but it had only been because of the brunet's teasing. He was too socially awkward to even think about using someone in that way.

"Oto-san, Ryuzaki didn't take advantage of me and as I've said, it was nothing," he attempted to explain but it was useless, Soichiro just bristled in anger and stormed further into the room and grabbed a hold of his son's wrist.

"Enough talking, you obviously don't know what you're talking about Raito. You're going home," he snapped, his voice insistent and his expression was hard. If Raito had honestly been a willing participant in that kiss then he couldn't have his son anywhere near Ryuzaki any more. He wasn't going to allow his precious son-his pride and joy-to be corrupted by the man but at the same time he understood that he couldn't let his feelings get in the way of solving the case. He needed to get Raito out of the way so he wouldn't have to worry about any such events repeating themselves.

Keeping a tight grip on his son, he led him out of the room, Raito had bowed his head. The brunet knew that he shouldn't push the matter any further, it would be a sign of disrespect and it would only make the man angrier. Matsuda didn't seem to share this sentiment though as he spoke up,

"Chief, if Raito-kun and Ryuzaki both say nothing happened then obviously it..." but the words died in his throat at the harsh glare his commanding officer shot him as they passed.

Everyone in the room remained silent as Soichiro led Raito out of the room, intent on having a long talk with him about it before returning to work.

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The drive home was a quiet one, neither male had anything to say to the other as they both tried to work out what to say. Finally the car was parked in the driveway of their house, the street seemingly empty apart from them.

Eventually Soichiro coughed and turned his tired eyes upon his eldest child,

"What was that all about Raito? It's not like you to do something so...amoral?" he questioned. He was calm now yet his whole demeanour seemed to be begging Raito to lie to him, to tell him what he wanted to hear. The teenager didn't want to upset his Father and lieing had become second habit to him. It was so easy just to let people hear what they wanted to hear, to let them believe what they wish and to mould their understanding of what was going on around them to a situation that the liar could control.

This was his Father though and he'd lied to him so often in the past but...to tell the truth would mess things up and he would never be able to bring Takada to justice-if she was the murderer as he suspected-and to get close to L again. He had to make up his mind about what he wished to do and he had to make it now.

Sighing quietly and moving his lips into a sorry smile he shrugged his shoulders slightly at his Father,

"It just happened Oto-san...it was sort of a spur of the moment thing and I wasn't exactly comfortable...I just didn't want to insult Ryuzaki any more then I already had. I want to help you solve the case after all, so I just gave in." The answer seemed earnest enough and Soichiro wanted to believe Raito, he had always been such a good and honest boy after all. So he took Raito's word for it with a nod,

"Alright then but I want you to stay home today, see if you can find anything about your friend Takada that may help us from what you know about it and you can return to the case tomorrow."

With a nod, Raito undid his seat belt and climbed out of the car, muttering a "see you later" to his father. The brunet headed indoors and straight upstairs to him where a grinning shinigami was waiting for him. The cameras had been removed a few days prior so once again it was safe for them to speak.

"Hey Raito, have a nice chat with your old man," he greeted as he followed the brunet to his desk where he sat down with a snort.

"A nice chat? If you were listening you'd know the answer to that." A gurgle of laughter followed before the annoying shinigami spoke up again.

"What was it that you and L did that got him so steamed?"

The boy just ignored the question and instead asked one of his own,

"The spirit never mentioned whether people would retain their memories from my past life so should they be able to?" He turned his irritated golden gaze on the death god as he opened one of the desk drawers and pulled out the apple he'd placed there to get answers from Ryuk in such situations. Tossing it up and down in his hand, he watched Ryuk stare at the apple with greedy eyes as he awaited the answer.

"Well let's see...yup, it was to see how you'd react and behave so it didn't bother informing you so you wouldn't be prepared. Now, can I have the apple...please?" the shinigami answered before he caught the apple that was thrown at him and happily tucked into it.

The spirit really seemed to have it in for him, it wasn't going to be easy to solve the case with L breathing down his throat about how he was the murderer constantly...even if it did sometimes lead to more intimate encounters. No, he should be concentrating on how he could fix things to go his way once again. His hormones would just have to take a reign check for now.

"So even though people will remember things anyway, I'm not permitted to speed the memory process up?"

Ryuk bit into the core of the apple thoughtfully,

"I guess you could speed the process up but you're just not allowed to tell anyone anything." Raito nodded and furrowed his brown in thought, he needed to plan things out carefully.

He would get his way in the end, he always did.

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Okay, not my best chapter as I was kind of stuck with writing this but I hoped you enjoyed it all the same. Even with the lack of L and Raito interaction. You'll get more next chapter, I promise.

Oh and about the prize fics, I need to PM people about what I'm doing about those.

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