Title: Accidental Silhouettes
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Reserve
There was a certain coldness beneath Raito's warm façade that ultimately irked L to the core.
It was not so much the act that bothered him (really, L had no right to be reproachful when he hid his true self behind the aura of a selfish child and reveled in it), but the way it implemented itself at precisely the worst of times that truly made L cringe within his self-contained cage.
Sometimes, he wanted to push the boy against the wall and show him just how eager he was to shed such fakery-
But even L had his limits.
A.N: Alright, I feel I have to speak up now that more than a couple (*snort* I wish it was a couple) people have brought up this issue, and it's an issue that has been spanning across the board with all of my stories (and one that actually bothers me immensely, to tell you the truth) so I might as well make an announcement out of this.
I am glad that people enjoy my tastes in humor, and that stories such as "Discordant Harmony", "The Fundamentals of Family" and others of the like are so easily accepted in the mainstream DN fandom. Ours is a fandom of angst, mystery, backstabbing, and lots (and I mean lots) of death, and the fact that such crackiness was taken in and enjoyed made me so shocked (especially when you consider I wasn't even flamed for any of these stories, and was given con/crit, if nothing else) that I nearly pissed my pants. It seems, however, that I have been pigeon-holed into the humor genre, and I feel shamed. Stories like "One Last Goodnight", "Life Imitating Art" and "For Every Action" have been trashed for not holding the same qualities of humor, or at least disappointing people for the lack of it- I have to ask, do most of my readers expect that of every story I write now? If so, I will have to apologize, because in that case, I have only myself and my own frivolous personality to blame. I am not trying to poke at any readers or reviewers in particular (because believe it or not, it's a majority thing, not a singular thing), but please, if you go into every single one of my stories expecting a humorous foray into the chaotic, don't blame me if you're disappointed (especially if the genre isn't even humor!) or even angered at the fact.
This one-shot collection is a mixture of all genres, but it is set in canon-like settings, so I can't promise that every single one is going to be all LOL-worthy. Yes, there will be sad ones, angsty ones, introspective drabbles, POV-changes, just about everything, really! I just don't want to have people expect something of me that I don't think is fair. I don't want to sound bitchy, but considering I don't ask a lot of my readers like other author's do, I don't think of it as being mean, but more as wanting a fair chance to broaden my own writing-horizons. If you don't enjoy it, don't read it. If you do, well, cookies for you. But anyway, I really want to thank you guys for reading and reviewing, and I hope you continue to do so with love and care.
REMEMBER, HARI-CHAN LOVES YOU ALL NO MATTER IF YOU TRASH HER OR NOT! *Hug*