I'm baaaaaaaaccccccccckkk! Sort of. I've only got two chapters at the moment, but since the holidays aren't over yet and this is a freak chance for internet usage, next time I upload there maybe a few more. Maybe. But thanks for being patient with me :D

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Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Death Note. Such a shame.

Tasha

The surprise and weight of L (although not so much the weight, he was quite light!) unbalanced me, and so to stop my self from falling, I leaned forwards. But this pushed

"Oh my gosh, Ryuzaki, I'm so sorry!" I gushed.

"It's fine," he muttered, and then winced as he tried to sit up. "Nice move though."

"Don't move," I warned as I bent down and slowly rolled him over. I lifted up the back of his shirt. There were a few red marks.

"Your probably going to bruise in the next few days," I smiled apologetically, although he couldn't see. Carefully, I lifted my fingers up and lightly pressed on some of the red areas.

"Does this hurt?" I asked.

"Not really," L said, but I felt him wince.

"Don't try and be brave. You don't want to end up with a permanent back injury."

"Fine, it hurts a little," he allowed. But when I went to take my fingers off his back, he reached his arm around to grab them and stop me.

"Don't," he said softly. "It… feels nice."

I was a little surprised. "Does this mean you've made up your mind?"

"I think so."

"I'm not taking anything but a definite answer, L, I don't want you having second thoughts later. I don't want to get hurt." Again, I added silently.

L nodded. "Yes. I want to be with you, Tasha." My heart leapt ten feet in the air when he said that. Screw the Special Unit. "But I do have one request," he added.

Oh dear, I thought. "What is it?"

"That we keep this a secret from the other Task Force members."

Well I could agree to that. "Alright."

L smiled. It was so adorable. "Um… can I get up now?" he asked.

"Just don't hurt yourself."

Ryuzaki tried to push him self up off the ground, and managed to get up on to his knees, but then he lost his balance. But just before he smacked on the ground, I caught him. He looked up at me with adorable eyes.

"You're so… beautiful," he said distantly. "I don't know why I haven't really noticed until now."

I smiled at this. Looking at L was enough to send my heart soaring. But hearing him say that I was beautiful, which only one person has ever called me before… it sent my heart on a one way trip to the land of the hopelessly in love.

But I knew I couldn't last like this forever before my rational side kicked in.

Don't get to indulged, Tasha. Remember your mission.

Screw the mission, I argued with myself. I haven't been in love like this for almost a decade.

Exactly. Remember what happened with Daniel.

That brought me up short. And then I was flooded with hundreds of painful memories. We had a forbidden relationship. Memories of stolen moments together. And the ultimate incident.

And although I hated to use L this way, I had to kiss him. I needed to get those memories out of my head.

And then I just lost myself. Exactly as planned.

L

Just before Tasha kissed me, I could see pain on her face. It was bad. Whatever she was thinking, it was clearly not good.

So when she kissed me, I was almost glad. Well I was glad, obviously more then glad, but I was also happy to be able to forget her contorted face. And not just her face, but everything else too.

It started soft and sweet, but I wanted more. I leaned in to deepen the kiss, but Tasha pulled away.

"Let's just take things slow. I haven't been in a relationship for a while now," she admitted.

"I've never been in a relationship," I pointed out, slowly moving my hand up and down her thigh. "Do you see me wanting to take things slow?"

"Ryuzaki…"

"When we're alone, you can call me L."

"Ryuzaki… I can't go anything but slow, okay? Just… please. If I decide I want to go faster, I promise you'll be the first to know. I just need to go at my own pace."

"Fine," I mumbled. I could hear how much pain was in her voice when she asked us to go slow. So I let it go.

The next day, we were working in the main room with Aizawa and Mogi when I had a break through.

"Tasha, could you take a look at this?"

She swivelled over.

"Check out this table. Tell me what you pick up on by looking at the data it contains."

She frowned a little, but looked none the less. Seeing her concentrating so hard, it was so…

Shut up L. Focus.

"Um, the only thing I can tell is that all of these kids have died of cot death."

"Look at the area of where these children died."

She squinted her eyes, and looked harder.

"Oh I see, your saying that all the deaths are located in Nevada, right?" She realised.

"That seems to be the latest pattern. Aizawa, can you please look at all of the deaths between September 29th and November 25th and let me know how many are located in Nevada, or it's closest states? Oh and please look at the first signs of abnormally rapid child deaths and where they were located too."

"On it," he replied.

"And Mogi please narrow down that list of shift workers to Nevada."

"But Ryuzaki," Tasha objected. "Child-Kira could just be killing off children in Nevada as a way of luring you into a trap as such."

"Hmm, I'm well aware of that possibility. So I plan to use the same sort of plan that I used to trick Light into revealing his whereabouts."

"With the news? Ryuzaki you've already used that trick once. It's not going to work a second time. Child-Kira would already know about it," Aizawa pointed out.

"Your forgetting, Mr Aizawa, that we never got past Kanto with that trick. I got it right first time around. So unless there were any leaks, Child-Kira should have no idea what to think. Perhaps they'll fall for it as Light did."

"So you're going to use another inmate?" Mogi asked.

"Probably."

"I still don't think this is going to work Ryuzaki…" Aizawa sighed.

"If you don't like my methods, you are always free to leave Mr. Aizawa."

"Of course I'm not going to leave just because I happen to disagree with you Ryuzaki. That's insane!"

"Well I was just letting you know the option was there."

Aizawa growled.

Yeah, so no big cliff-hanger for this one or anything. I really couldn't be bothered to be honest.

Sorry if it's a bit short, I was just trying to move the case forward a bit on this one as well as introduce L and Tasha as more of a couple.

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