A/N: Although you may not think so, I took my break and I'm feeling much better.

To be honest with all of you, I've been incredibly stressed for the past two weeks and I only calm down when I'm writing. When someone - like my parents or brothers - interrupts my writing, I'm back to being stressed. It's not a fun process, but it's what works best for me. I'm also very introverted, so being alone and writing helps me to recharge from being around so many people. But asking questions where I can't answer them just stresses me out beyond repair. (It comes from a lifetime of being treated like child with 'special needs' at a school that allowed bullies to wear me down on a daily basis... but that's another story.)

To Carina: Water under the bridge. I'm sorry for calling you out like that, it was incredibly childish, and I'll try not to do so to anyone else in the future. Please understand, it was 2:00 in the morning, I've had little to no sleep for a week, and some things set me off when I'm under stressful situations.

To the rest of my readers and followers, I'm so sorry you had to see all that, I get incredibly passionate when I'm angry, and thank you for the undeserved kind words. You're all amazing, and thank you for encouraging me to keep on writing. Because I do love to write, and if this were a professionally done piece that I were to write for school, you'd bet your ass I'd be finding out all I can about Japan just like I did on a short story I wrote about a kid from America. (But this is Fanfiction... I think I'm allowed to be a bit lazy here) :)

Now, let's get back to some normality here, shall we? I'll be away from fanfiction - except on my phone when I'm bored XD - all of tomorrow since I have two classes for Art school. I highly doubt they're that difficult, but let me summarize this for you all... 3 hours of nothing but drawing, and 3 more hours of art history... all while being around people I don't know and being as introverted as I am.

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Yeah... I'm gonna want to take a nap.

But I hope you enjoy this chapter for today, I may write another one, we'll see what happens because I personally think we're at a good part that shouldn't stop.

Thank you all again, and enjoy!

(L P.O.V)

I finished up the last of my paperwork involving the case I had been working on for the past few weeks, and with that I was done. I was able to leave Japan freely and go back to England to see my brothers. I'd already spoken to Mello and found that he was doing alright concerning his collarbone. I'd even spoken to Near, whom Roger had moved into Matt and Mello's room, and found he was surpassing Mello now. The poor blonde, even with a broken collarbone, he still worked as hard as he could to get his grades as perfect – if not better – as Near's. I told him not to overwork himself, but he was a determined kid.

After I finished my paperwork, I finally realized that I was able to leave Japan… for good. I was able to go back to England like I'd wanted when I first came here.

But it meant leaving Light behind.

We'd only been together for a few days, dating for a week and a half. Was I honestly just going to ditch him right away? I didn't want to, but…

I sighed to myself and it caught Wammy's attention. "Are you alright, Ryuzaki?"

I shrugged. "I have a bit of a dilemma concerning Light and my relationship. Now that everything is done concerning my case… I have no reason to stay here in Japan. But… I don't want to leave Light so soon. It's not fair to him."

Wammy hummed at this as he grabbed my pack for school. It was morning now, me having worked all night to finish my case, and today was the first day back to class. It also meant Light and I had to present our project to our teacher.

He handed me the bag. "Well, Ryuzaki, if you're that fond of him then I suppose you have three choices to make.

"Go back to England in hopes he'll stay with you during a long distance relationship,"

I shook my head at that. "It's not that ideal. I'd like to be able to be close to him."

He hummed again. "You stay here in Japan with him,"

I actually considered this, but being L and Ryuzaki at the same time would cause more problems for me if I stayed here. Trying to keep a relationship and a balance on justice was difficult to say the least.

Wammy grinned. "Or you ask him to go with you to England."

Was that really an option? No… it wasn't. Not when Light's father was being overprotective of him, plus the fact that Light's entire life was here in Japan. England would be too different for him, plus the fact that he'd have to give up his dreams and life here. Not to mention the fact I'd have to tell him I was L…

No… none of these were good options.

I stood from my seat, walking to the door. "Wammy, I don't know that any of those are what's best for us. Maybe… maybe we should just end it."

"And ruin something as beautiful as this?" He asked. "L, you know that's not the right option. Not when you're happy with him."

"Well then what do I do?" I demanded, turning to him. "I can't live here in Japan so far from the Wammy house, I can't ask Light to come with us, so what else of an option is there?"

He put a gentle hand on shoulder. "For the time being, we can live here if you want. Just until the end of the school year. If things work out between you two then you make a decision. I can't ask you to make this kind of choice so early on in your relationship."

I thought about this and decided he was right. It was better not to rush into this and start assuming things.

I slung my bag over my shoulder, thanking Wammy for the advice, then walked out of the house. It was the start of April now, so two months to decide what my course of action would be. Stay, or ask him to come with me.

But that's if we survived those two months.

Our project was flawless and our teacher was most impressed with our work. We managed to get the highest grade in the class and the rest of the students were quite impressed with what we accomplished.

When we were all done presenting, Light and I took our seats beside each other. Of course, only the two of us knew the real reason why we still sat together, but we still got looks from everyone. More so the female populace. Misa and Takada looked less pleased than the rest.

For the rest of the class we watched a documentary involving microbial life. We hadn't paid attention though because as soon as the film started, having the room darkened to see the screen better, Light took my hand under the desk when he knew no one would see us. We sat at the back of the room anyway so it was highly unlikely people could see him holding my hand. I had to admit though, even if it was cheesy, I loved every moment of it.

Of course, we couldn't talk during the film or we'd get caught by the teacher, so Light slid a few written notes my way when he could and I sent a few back. They were small nothings, but they meant more than he could have imagined.

After my relationship with Derek, if you could even call it that, I was left feeling alone and useless. I always hated bringing them up, but I knew it was my parents fault for making me feel desperate enough to fall for a man that hit me and degraded me on a daily basis. And when I'd met Light, a man who treated me right and helped me to find out how much more important I was to this world, I felt better about myself. I had courage again, and a backbone to match. It was one of the many reasons why I didn't want to let go of Light and what we started together.

I felt a pair of lips on my cheek and I jolted out of my thoughts. "Light!" I whispered. "I thought you…"

"We're at the back of the class," he whispered back, "as long as we don't make any noise we shouldn't be caught."

He kissed my cheek again and moved to my jawline. When he wouldn't give up I finally caved and kissed him back. I thanked god it was darkest where we were and we could stay like this until the bell rang for lunch. During then I had no idea what he had planned. He probably knew a place where we could be alone though.

The very moment the bell rang we separated, keeping our hands to ourselves as we began packing. Thankfully, no one had noticed us, but the thought of being caught was quite exciting.

We got out of there as soon as we could, not caring if our friends were left behind. I couldn't help but smile as we walked down the halls though.

"Do you get off on dangerous situations like that, Yagami?" I chuckled out, making sure to keep my voice low. "Because you know we could have been caught easily."

He just smiled at me. "Maybe. We'll have to try again tomorrow, see how that goes."

I rolled my eyes at him but before I could argue there came a familiar female voice behind us.

"You know, you two really are cute together."

We stopped in our tracks, turning ever so slowly to find Teri standing behind us, smiling cheekily. Behind her was her brother Tamlen, who was also smiling coyly, and Mikami who was just stunned.

I narrowed my eyes a bit, and without even looking at Light I hit him in the stomach.

"You're terrible at hiding us, Yagami." I stated.

Teri snickered. "Really guys? You make out in the back of the classroom and expect to get away with it?"

"He came onto me." I defended.

The brunette crossed his arms. "Like you were so against it."

"Relax, boys, we aren't going to tell anyone." She reassured. "Not even Misa and Takada. Let's face it, Misa would blab to everyone, and Takada would just stop talking to you."

I blinked. "I say we tell Takada."

"I second that!" Mikami agreed.

We all looked at him incredulously.

He merely folded his arms. "I thought I made it clear that I like Takada. Her not talking to you two would boost my chances with her."

Light sighed to himself. "Look, thanks for not telling anyone, but be especially careful when we're at my house. My dad doesn't know about this and he'd have a heart attack from yelling at me for it. Please, promise me you won't say a word."

"You got it, man!" Tamlen said happily. "Dude, you got me a turtle! A GIANT TURTLE! You are my bro!"

"I wouldn't go that far." The brunette muttered to himself. "But thank you. You're all very good friends for helping us out."

"No problem." Teri shrugged off. "But one last question… who's the top?"

We both paled at what she asked before Light coughed nervously and answered. "We… uh… we haven't really… you know…"

Teri giggled. "You guys are adorable. Come on, let's go eat lunch while we can. We have drama with Miss Psycho Tycho afterwards and I hear she's giving us love scenes to do."

I growled at this. "Was the dancing not enough for her?"

"Oh please," Light replied, "like you hated dancing with me."

"With you? I love it! In general? I'd sooner die."

He rolled his eyes at me. "If there is a love scene, I'll think of you the entire time. Does that make you feel better?"

"While you're kissing another person? Not really."

"Correction…" Teri added, "You two are perfect together."

I grinned a bit at that. "Well, Light isn't as pig-headed as I thought to believe when we first met."

"And you aren't a complete child." He admitted. "In fact, I think you're more mature than all of us put together."

"Rude." Tamlen commented. "But very true."

After sharing in a small laugh we all went to the cafeteria to enjoy our lunches. Thankfully, Misa and Takada had extra-curricular activities at lunch so Light and I got to enjoy each other's company in the safety among our friends. The rest of the day was smooth sailing and once school was over for us, we went back to Light's place knowing his father wasn't home to spoil it for us.

Of course, though, Sayu was more than giggly about us being together having asked multiple times for Light to tell her about when he first realized he was gay. I found it funny, but maybe it was because she reminded me of Matt.

I still hadn't told them about Light yet. So maybe I should get to that as soon as I can.