Chapter2: First Day
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Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note or any of the characters. I only own this fic and the idea.
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They got out of the limo just outside the iron-gates to the university grounds.
On the short walk to the main building, stupid, annoying girls trying (but failing miserably) to look cute and appealing tried to approach Light...even a couple guys... Instead of being overjoyed and blushing at the attention, or reveling in it, Light was utterly annoyed at their hopeless (idiotic) attempts at talking to him.
But of course, he couldn't just tell them off rudely, no matter how much he wanted to. Yagami Light was nothing but in utter control of himself (and others, as he liked to think); and thus had no choice but to put on a polite, shyly smiling, mask and answering their questions briefly, hoping they'd get the hint and leave.
While Mihael was too busy fighting of guys drooling at him and trying to make conversation -and Light was thankful that the loud blonde was in no place to laught at him- not bothering to be polite at all, L and Nate walked a few feet ahead silently, slow enough that they could catch up easily.
Light made up his mind. He didn't care who got "hurt" for being "ignored". He was gonna do it!
Just as he finished answering some girls' stupid question and heard her sickeningly sweet giggles start to pour out, he called out firmly (just for show) and walked briskly out of the crowd, with long hurried strides, towards his friends, where a now-pissed-off-Mello stood, glowering at the people passing-by.
Since this was uni, they had the privilege to choose their homeroom hall.
Obviously, they'd chosen to be together; choosing the middle row, in the left-most column, which also happened to be right beside the large window overlooking the school yard.
Light slid in next to the window, followed by (and it annoyed him!) Nate, and then Mihael.
L had stood behind, letting them all get the seats they wanted so that they wouldn't fight over anything.
Just as he was about to slide in next to Mihael, Nate and Light protested simultaneously,
"Why L?! You were supposed to come in before Nate!"
"Lawli! You were supposed to come in before Mihael!"
L stared unblinkingly. Mihael glared,
"O shut the f**k up! L will sit whenever, with whoever, he wants! You cant do anything about it!"
L sighed internally.
He loved his friends. A lot. They were the only people he was close to, besides Grandpa Watari.
But they drove him insane with their constant fights. He hated to see them fight.
"Near", his voice was quiet, but they heard and instantly turned from glaring at each other to pay attention to his words.
"I'll come in now, let me slide in to your left."
Nate nodded, whilst Mihael's jaw dropped a bit.
L started sliding in, his back towards his seated friends, and tried to keep his ass away from their faces as much as possible. Nate scooted to the right as much as possible, in a slight daze, with Mihael frozen to his spot. L plopped in beside Light, who was annoyed at the show Mihael and Nate had just received, but managed to smile for his Lawliet sweetly, grateful for his understanding.
L just smiled back at him and nodded, opening his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Mihaels (loud) angry voice'
"What the fuck L?! You were gonna sit beside ME! Why the hell is Yagami gettin this special treatment?!"
Light bristled at the statement, but kept quiet; Nate just sat beck, content to be seated beside his Lawli-chan, and not at all minding how his cute butt was squashingly fit between Lights' and his own because of Mihael refusing to move farther to the right.
L was unfazed by his outburst and replied calmly,
"Mihael. I love you three equally. Please just understand that this isn't special treatment to Light-kun."
He didn't have to say more. Mihael and Nate were well aware of Light's silent personality, and how he'd had trouble making (real) friends despite being popular. While he wasn't close to Nate or Mihael like L was, or the way they were close to each other, they understood why L took special measures to make Light feel satisfied: to make him realize that with them he belonged.
But they also knew that nothing he did was out of pity: it was just L's pure love and devotion to his friends.
It wasn't that they particularly hated Yagami. They had, in their own way, become sorta fond of him over the years, especially because of how he treated L (like a precious doll). That's why they didn't try to be sweet or anything to him.
That didn't stop them each wanting to monopolize L though.
Mihael just growled in response, a bit annoyed. Nate looked completely unfazed on the outside, but L knew that he was feeling a bit intimidated by Mello's anger: sitting beside him, with his violent tendencies.
But he didn't say anything, knowing that there was less than 0.5% chance that Mihael would lash out. At any of them anyway.
After homeroom, they had double Math, and they sat in the same setting.
Mello was, of course, in a sour mood because of it. Damn that Yagami.
Since it was the first day, they just had introductions and just joked around in class. Kise-sense (he told them it was better they not call him 'Professor' "It sounds like I'm an old man!") seemed like a decent guy.
Our favourite group mostly kept to themselves, with Mihael getting into a couple arguments with some other hot-headed students.
Light alternated between staring out the window in boredom and gazing at L.
L was practically ignoring everything around him, instead reading from his tab, which he'd kept in his desk.
Nate sometimes glanced at L's screen to see what he was reading, but otherwise kept playing with his Naruto figurines under his desk.
They headed their own ways after Math, but not before deciding on a meeting place for break after their third periods:
Light and Nate to Literature hall, Mello to Music, and L to Physics hall (Poor L!).
[Break]
They met behind a small hill in one of the yards.
Mihael was in a somewhat better mood by then. It only made his day when Lawlipop sat in the middle of his legs and leaned his head back onto his chest, not moving even when Light scolded him for bringing only cake for lunch.
He was sure he'd gone to Heaven when L allowed him to be the first to feed him a few bites from his not-so-healthy-but-still-healthier-than-L's lunch, followed by Light and Nate.
They joked amongst each other, and discussed their topics of interests till bell rang. Mihael begrudgingly watched L pick himself up and start picking his stuff up.
"Mello, get up. You have class right now."
"Lawlipaawwwppp. It's the first day! Lemme bunk."
L glared silently.
Light probably felt it wasn't his place to speak up (yet), so he waited silently for L, already holding his belongings.
Nate nudged Mihael slightly,
"So what do you have now Mello?"
Mello pouted slightly,
"Geography"
"Hmm.", hummed Nate. "What a coincidence. I have Geography too. Let's go"
With one, guilty look a L, Mihael tried to give a smile (which came off as guilty too), he waved at them,
"See ya guys. What do you have now?"
L smiled at this, and he and Light replied in unision,
"Double free"
Nate almost pouted. Mihael managed a chuckle,
"Ok. I have free after Geography. Meet you two in the library?"
Light nodded,
"Yea, we'll be there."
L opened his mouth to say something, but Nate was glomping him before he even uttered a word.
"... I'll miss you too Near", he looped his arms around the albino loosely for a few moments. "Ok guys. Be good"
Light and L decided that they rather liked the library. It was huge, with ceiling-high shelves stacked with books on every subject and genre. This, for them, was the best part of the Uni.
They borrowed 2 or 3 books that caught their interest, and proceeded to the Video Room, and decided to browse through movies while talking.
They'd decided on a horror movie, and were at an extremely intense scene, where they had stopped talking for a minute, when Mihael suddenly burst into the room with a loud bang, making them jump.
"Mello!" They almost yelled in unision.
"What?"
"...Nothing. Just...Do not bang doors open."
"Sheesh. Whatever", he replied, taking a seat with them. "So, what are we watching?"
L came out of English grumbling and sulking, with an annoyed Light, who was trying to console him.
It had been a nightmare for Lawliet.
Since it was their first day, and nothing was going to be done in any classes besides introductions, the professor made them all take part in somemeaningless discussion about some celebrity scandal and their views on it.
L didn't care about celebrities or their lives, plus he wasn't good with expressing his feelings openly. The teacher noticed his silence (he was reading again) and things had just gotten from bad to worse with L being in constant (unwanted) spotlight.
What a bitch! Light thought angrily as he followed L to History.*
Since Nate had another free (and both of Mihael's frees had just ended), he decided to just walk Mihael to his next class.
"By the way Mello, why Home Science class?... I never took you to be the type" Nate stated, with an almost-teasing smirk.
Tch. Trying to keep the anger out of his voice (and face) Mihael replied,
"I got one word for ya Near: Chocolate"
Blinking after a second, Nate tried not to shake his head,
"Of course. I should've known"
Stopping outside the Home Science room, Nate was going to bid him farewell for the moment, but Mihael surprised him by asking him to stay,
"It's the first day; we're not gonna be doing anything besides introductions. How about you just attend with us, instead of being bored alone?"
Nate smiled softly at his friends' words and nodded, deciding to not ruin the mood by calling Mihael out on the (pleasant) change in attitude. After all, it was rare for him to show any thoughtfulness to anything other than L or chocolate.
A/N: Hey guys. Sorry if this wasn't upto your liking. I wanna thank everybody who reviewd/faved/followed or did a combination of any of them.
Also, I wanna tell you that yes, I'm planning on adding Matt, but I won't make promises :) Thank you for reading. Hope you enjoyed; if you did, please drop a word ;)OH! And btw! Forgive mee: I have no idea what happens in uni (I'm in college)! So..yea.. I didn't have time to research, so I'm sorry if anybody is annoyed by the details!..
To people whom I can't reply via PM:
A Reader: Dawh! Thankyou for your sweet review! :D I'm not gonna reveal much, but I will try to put Matt in (like I mentioned). Yes! Jealous!Light is quite amusing, ne? I hope you continue enjoying :*
crazyreader: Hello! X3 I'm so glad you liked this! I know right! I love when L has attention and love! He deserves it! Hmm..i suck at humour, so I'm not sure if i'll satisfy that point..but I will try my best! As for the things you mentioned: damn you! I was planning on doing something like that! :D ...But no promises just yet.
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BY THE WAY GUYS, notice what I did here: *
Hehe! He "followed L to History" ROFL! I didn't realize the double meaning till after I wrote the sentence!