I was just minding my own business, playing a game, but then a familiar scent hit my nose. I knew that scent well, but I don't know where it's coming from. I haven't showered today, so it couldn't have been from me. That only leaves…

"Hey, Ryuzaki," I said, scooting my chair over to lean closer and sniff at him. It was definitely coming from him. The scent of my minty shampoo. "Did you use my shampoo?"

"Is that a problem?" He asked, looking at me out of the corner of his eye.

"Well, no, but…It's kind of weird." I replied, feeling slightly awkward bringing up our hygiene situation. At least Mogi was the only one around and he hardly ever said anything about what we talked about.

"How so?"

"I don't know. It just put me off that you smelled minty today."

"I don't see any problem with me using the same hygiene products as you do. We are roommates." He replied in his usual monotone.

"Well, I guess." I muttered, going back to my game and just wanting to stop talking about it.

See, due to the chain not being long enough, L and I both had to be in the bathroom when either of us were showering. Of course, I made a big deal of telling him not to look in the beginning, even though he pointed out that he's already seen everything and there's nothing to be embarrassed about, but I also insisted on not looking when he was in the shower either, so he agreed to the condition. Even though I'm pretty sure he still watched the curtain while I was in the shower. Although, it had gotten considerably less awkward the longer I was stuck with him because of the handcuffs. Anyway, our usual routine is that I shower almost every second day, if I get the chance, and he showers pretty much at random times that can very from every day to almost once a week. I guess it kind of depends how busy we are or whether you really want to drag the other one away from work for ten minutes to go take a quick shower. It wasn't any less weird by this point, but at least I had started to get used to it. Mostly because I continuously forget to hang my towels on the bar beside the shower and instead leave them on the counter where I had placed them while preparing to take a shower, so I end up asking him to hand me a towel nearly every time. At least he hasn't said anything about that particular bad habit of mine yet. Still, he never used my shampoo before. I wonder why he suddenly decided to? Oh well. I'll leave that mystery for when I actually have time to spare. Right now, we have to prepare Misa. Well, once she wakes up anyway. It was still only five in the morning right now.

. . .

"Alright. Let's try again, from the top!" L said through his damn director's cone. I'm sure part of the reason he had that was just for the fun of getting to use one.

"Tell me, Misa, is it true you once said you came to Tokyo in order to meet Kira?" Aiber was standing in as one of the Yotsuba guys so Misa could rehearse the audition that had been set up.

"What?!" Misa over exaggerated. Despite the fact I was sitting cross-legged on the floor with my back against the back of the couch she was on, I could imagine her flailing limbs as I rapidly tapped buttons on my game.

L smacked Misa's head with the cone and gave a sigh before holding it up to his mouth. "Misa, please stop overacting. It looks too cheesy. Not to mention fake."

"Huh? But I thought that was a realistic performance." By her tone, she was probably pouting at him.

"Just do it again."

"Whatever you say, oh so great Director." She said in a childish way as L lowered the cone to speak normally.

"If you don't get serious about this, I'll kick you." He threatened in the usual dull tone.

"Hmph!" Misa responded.

I just sighed and continued on with my turn-based RPG while they continued to rehearse.

"Light, could you please make Misa take this seriously?" L seemed to be whining at me after three more failed takes.

"Misa, don't screw up next time." I said absently, caught up in my game.

"Don't you have something more productive to do?" Now he was turning on my lack of help.

"I'm caught up in the middle of a very intense boss battle. Whatever productive stuff you want me to do while we're stuck here can wait twenty minutes." I replied.

And so, before long, Misa was off to go to the audition with the Yotsuba Group and L stopped being a director. Of course, that means he started dragging me down to the main room to wait for her to come back. I'm just glad I didn't screw up my battle as I was trying to walk down the stairs and play at the same time. Knowing him, he could have found something to do, but he seemed pretty intent to loom over my shoulder to watch me playing while the four of us left at headquarters just waited around.

"Oh man. I wonder if Misa-Misa's alright." Matsuda said. "Maybe we should've wired her or used something to track her movements."

I ignored him, instead biting my lip as my mind wandered a bit from the battle. I know this Kira is killing criminals that don't match the original's known criteria, but for some reason, I think I can relate to the original Kira in a way. There must be something wrong with me to relate myself to a murderer. I'm not Kira…Right?

"Agh! No!" I hissed, snapping back into game-mode as I noticed my zoning out had almost costed me three allies now. I started doing my best to save them, but it seems my level wasn't high enough to warrant absentminded tactics. I lost every one of my party members and got the game over screen. "Dammit!" I yelled angrily, hitting the "Start" button rapidly, doing my best not to do it too hard. I let out an irritated sigh as I loaded my last save. "I guess I have to free battle some more." I muttered bitterly.