They stood silently in the elevator. L occasionally glancing at Light. "He's got to be Kira… That little act he just pulled was so sudden, especially after I told him I suspected him more, how interesting." L cleared his throat, "So, Light?"
Light leaned against the elevator wall and folded his arms, "No, L, I don't want to talk about it, you made your priorities clear. Just leave me alone." Light closed his eyes and dropped his head. "That was dumb, I can't let emotions cloud my judgement… To be honest it was probably just teenage hormones… I guess I could just be a late bloomer and he was an easy target." Light shifted his shoulders. "What is he doing now?"
L stood on the handlebars of the elevator and and waved at the camera unplugging it. L dropped to the floor and hit the emergency stop button on the car. Watari's voice was immediately on the intercom, "Ryuzaki? Is everything okay?"
L pressed the intercom button, "Yes, I just need some time with my suspect." L leaned against the wall with his other hand in his pocket. "I will enter the code when we are ready. This will ensure my survival, you don't need to worry, although, when I return I would like some strawberry shortcake and some tea."
Watari responded, "I will have that for you as soon as you return." The intercom disconnected.
L turned to look at Light, "No, I think we will take about it. Right now. No one can hear or see us, I disconnected the microphones, intercom and camera, only Watari and myself have the reactivation code for the elevator, so, no one can move us." L haunched on the floor of the elevator and bit the tip of his thumb. "Have a seat, explain this to me, I'm not sure where I miscalculated."
Light stiffened his back, "It's not important to the investigation, we need to be worrying about what is outside these walls, not what's in my head." Light clenched his jaw in frustration when L did not make any attempts to free them from this trap.
L closed his eyes, "You are Kira."
Light tightened his fists, "Why would you say something like that, how would you feel if someone accused you of being a mass murder."
L stood up and took a step closer to Light, "It was the worst feeling I ever had."
Light's features softened, "Stop, you can't pin this on me. So let's just go upstairs and catch the real killer… The real Kira."
L took another step closer to Light placing his arms on either side of him loosely pinning Light against the wall. Light placed his hands on the handlebar behind him. "Not only do I think you're Kira, I think you kissed me to distract my judgement and impair my deductions. Therefore, crippling me as a detective by involving personal feelings in the case making me withdrawal entirely. Yes, Kira, you are smart, but I am Justice."
Light just laid his head against the elevator wall, "Whatever. If you're so sure lock me up and go on with your life. It wouldn't be the first time the justice system failed to protect it's people, it won't be the last, I'm sure."
L watched Light like a spider who'd caught the fly, "Perhaps, I still believe there is a small chance that you are not Kira."
Light narrowed his eyes, "I have nothing to hide and nothing to prove, you're stubborn like me, so no matter what I say you'll believe what you believe. So why?" Light turned his head in towards L. "Why bother, why are you doing this now? Why should I even care what you think? You've made you position on the matter of relationships or any other emotional contact clear. You did your best to ignore it ever happened. Has your brilliant mind deduced how normal people would react? Because, if not, let me know and I'll fucking tell you!"
L leaned in towards Light, but stopped when his eyes met a menacing stare. "Because I do like you… I want desperately to, without a doubt convince myself that you aren't Kira… Because if I believe it, no one would question it."
Light continued his dark stare, "There's an investigation going on. In case you didn't notice, we have more important things to clear up than unrequited emotions."
L dropped his arms and hung his head, "I'm sorry, Light, I guess I don't understand… I have a hard time gauging human emotions, it's always been white or black, right or wrong, truth or lies. There's never been any other grey area in my life."
"Let's just go, we'll deal with this after we catch Kira." Light crossed his arms and looked away.
L turned around and entered the code in and the elevator began to move again. L held himself up against a wall with his left arm straight gracing the wall with his whole palm. L hung his head gently resting it against the wall after bending his arm to his weight, "I am sorry."
The door opened and Light rushed out, "I don't care."
All the detectives turned around and greeted Light warmly. Watari stood outside the elevator with L's cake and tea. L looked at him, "Yes. That. Set it next to my computer, I'm going to brief everyone and I will get to it. Thank you, Watari. You're always there." Watari smiled and set the cake and tea next to L's computer.
L stood in front of the other detectives. "Okay, so we know, what exactly? Has any change in the situation arose?"
All the the detectives shook their head then Light got a text message, "Light, sweetie, turn on the news, their talking about the Kira case. Apparently Kira, the real Kira, responded to the other real Kira? What's going on? – Kiyomi."
Light tossed L his phone, "Turn on the local news… Let's see." L turned the widescreen television on they all sat and watched it, L pushed his cake around on his plate mindlessly. Light watched him and thought to himself, "Either guilt or actual emotion is eating him alive… I hope it's both."
A Japanese symbol for K came on the television, "This is current live feed, I've hacked the news stations broadcasters, I have not responded to the second Kira. I will however meet you at the mall… And no, I don't have the eyes. I am however, very interested in them. We will meet on our agree meeting location. I won't be killing anyone, I need not to prove my worth, and as for L… A valid effort. Good luck." The broadcast was instantaneously halted and the news programs frantically continued.
L smiled, "Look boys, we rilled them up, enough to get a small amount of information, a meeting location, and emotionally conflicted suspects are often caught."
Light sighed, "The mall, I will go, it wouldn't be strange to see a college student at the mall, I'll invite some friends. Ryuzaki. We can't risk you being out there, there was talk about eyes? So, Matsuda, you'll got with me as back up, you look close enough to my age to pass as a friend or a cousin. I can tell my friends that, and we'll go that way."
Matsuda hopped up, "You got it!"