Over the following days the surveillance proved to be futile turning up no new evidence. Light came into his room wearing nothing but his towel still wet from his shower, the infrared camera revealed his skin was still radiating an exponential amount of heat. L tried not to watch his suspect, although, he was giving into his curiosity more. "Watari? When are the entrance exams?"
Watari opened a webpage, "Tomorrow."
"We'll remove the surveillance instruments from the households, they're not proving useful. They are just absorbing more of my time than I would prefer. It's time that I move closer, get closer to both of them, if possible they themselves would tell me that they are indeed Kira." L watched closely as Kiyomi dressed herself, "That, and I believe my morals are becoming twisted." He turned the monitors off. "We should construct a new headquarters. One that won't be compromised easily."
Watari bowed, "I'll see to both of these tasks."
L nodded and wondered to get a bowl of ice cream before retiring to his bed, where he would lay with no sleep to be found.
The following morning the bells to the university chimed and the teacher spoke, "And, begin!" The test administrator scanned the room and walked towards the back of the room, right past Light. "You there, student number 162. Sit properly in your seat."
Light looked back over his shoulder and eyed the student up, he was crouched on the chair, wearing no shoes or socks. The mysterious student, with messy black hair, looked up and made direct eye contact with Light. Light looked back to his test and began. "How odd."
An hour into the timed test both Light and the mysterious student turned their tests in and left respectively. Light left ahead of the eccentric young man who trailed behind him watching his every move through his bangs as he looked down.
Light arrived home with his sister and mother greeting him at the door, " How'd you do?!" His mother excitedly asked.
Sayu leaned in, "Was it hard?"
Light laughed, "I think I did very well, and no, I didn't think it was hard, Kiyomi was still taking it when I left though. She looked like she was most of the way through the test, most likely on the last page."
L arrived in his empty hotel room and crouched on the couch not turning anything on. "Maybe I'm lonely… Perhaps, I don't want either of them to be Kira, so, I could have intelligent conversations." L sighed and grabbed more files and sat in front of his laptop and began typing. Before he had realized it it was already 0100.
The following day Light arrived at the entrance of Toho University. "I guess I'm giving the speech with one other student, I thought for sure it would be you, Kiyomi." He stopped as she stepped in front of him.
"It's okay, I would rather not be representative." She adjusted Light's tie, "You look handsome."
Light looked away, "Thanks."
Inside the auditorium Light sat next to the mysterious student once more. Occasionally glancing over at him as their names were called, the both stood up and walked to the podium, "I remember him from the test, he got in trouble for sitting oddly at his desk." Light reminisced to himself.
Light began saying the speech that had been prepared, addressing his new classmates. As he finished the mysterious student began addressing the classmates, the auditorium was full of whispers comparing the two high scorers. They were as different as night and day.
As they were returning to their seats, the student spoke to Light, "You're planning to join the police force after school, and you already have experience, you've already helped in a number of cases, and now you're interested in the Kira case. I'm very impressed with your sense of justice and your abilities. If you promise not to tell anyone, I have important information about the Kira case that I would like to share with you."
Light just looked at him from the corner of his eyes, "Who the Hell is this guy, where is this coming from, how does he know so much about me?" Light smiled, "I won't tell anyone, what is it?"
The mysterious student turned his head towards Light quickly and spoke just as quick, "I want to tell you, that I am L."
With no hesitation Light looked over at L, "If you are who you say you are, you have nothing but my respect and admiration."
L stared at him, "Thank you, the reason I chose to tell you is I think you could be of some help to us on the Kira investigation." L hugged his knees, "I don't think I'm wrong to suspect you, you're just too damned perfect." He thought to himself.
Light stood up and bowed to the freshman class as the ceremony was finishing, Light reached up behind L's head and forced him into a bow. "You'll have an easier time if they think you respect them."
L held the bow, "I see."
Light and L exited the auditorium before anyone could further speak with them.
Light smiled to L, "Well. This will be interesting, making friends with the great L himself."
L looked him over suspiciously, "Friends?"
Light stopped smiling, "You don't want to be friends?"
L shook his head and waved his hands, "No, no, no! That's not it! I'd like to be friends. I don't have any so, it would work."
Light tilted his head, "You don't have any friends?"
L bit his thumb, "No, you would be the first, so, forgive me if I'm a little suspicious… I'm sorry if I suspect you're only my friend because of who I am."
Light sighed, "Well that's exactly it. I want to be your friend because, you're L. An extremely renowned detective. Law enforcement is kind of the career path of my choice. But it isn't the only reason, for a long time I've been looking for someone who could match my intellect. I'm sorry if that was brash."
L watched Light stunned, "No, I understand, that's why I don't have any friends, it's hard to be friends with someone who is inferior to your intelligence."
They continued walking away from the main building conversing and occasionally laughing amongst each other, Kiyomi walked up to the two, "Hi, I'm Kiyomi, I'd like to think I'm Light's girlfriend, but it's not official." She said looking Light up and down. A car honked from the gates, "That's my dad, later, boys!" She ran off to her ride.
Light rolled his eyes, "At least she smart and pretty. But I have no intention of being distracted with relationships while I'm in school."
L smiled, "None?"
Light laughed, "Friendships are different. Those aren't really all that distracting, especially if we can study together, dating causes a world of trouble and distraction from your studies."
L put his finger on his bottom lip, "Well, I've never had a relationship or a friendship… So, I guess this is new territory for me."
Light smiled at L, "Well, I'm glad I can be your friend, Ryuga."
L smiled shallowly, "You play tennis?"
Light nodded, "Yeah."
L grinned, "Let's get to know each other a little more over a game?"
Light laughed, "You do know how good I am, right?"
L shrugged, "I'll be fine, it's been a while but I was the British junior tennis champion."
Light stopped, "We're you raised in the U.K?"
"That's really not all that important. It won't help you confirm L's true identity." L said emotionlessly.
Light scrunched his face a little, "Why would I want to know about L's true identity?" L returned the confused look. "How about we go for a drink afterwards to my favorite coffee shop?" Light shook his head. L nodded and they began the game.