Chapter 5-

It was 9pm. L and Light were both deep in sleep, if you pressed your ear to the door you could here them softly snoring. The room had such a cosy atmosphere to it, warm and fuzzy. Sweet dreams filled the air, giving the room a soft touch. It was like a fairytale in there, all that was going on was blissful, plentiful sleep. Of course, that all went out of the window when the door opened and the atmosphere was violated by 3 teenagers boys. Near lead the other two into the room, as he was easily the quietest. He was followed by A tiptoeing Matt and a very uncomfortable Mello who was wearing a ball gag (God knows where Near had got that from!) and fluffy slippers instead of his boots; Mello didn't half stomp around sometimes! He was going to kill Near for this, although it was Matt's idea. Mello used his time to start plotting his revenge against Near. Although he had to admit, the slippers were really comfy! They walked in silence across the room, Near edging his way towards the thermostat. Soon, the rooms temperature had been reduced to below freezing. The trio tensed as L stirred in his sleep, but he was just pulling the covers closer around himself. This triggered a sleepy grumble from Light, 'Dammit L stop hogging the covers!' Before tugging at the duvet and silencing again. The boys watched in amusement as a sleepy war raged between L and Light, both fighting for the covers. After a few minutes, Near came to his senses and reminded Matt and Mello of their mission. Matt was grateful for once that his jacket was so fluffy. It really came in handy when things got cold. He noticed that both Near and Mello were shivering slightly but pushed the thought away. They had to hurry up with this. He pulled a snow machine through the door and flicked the switch. The three of them watched in awe as fake snowflakes floated and tumbled to the floor in a small flurry, gathering neatly on all of the furniture. Soon the room was underneath a blanket of fake snow, at least an inch thick. To commemorate the moment they even built a snowman in the corner! The snow machine was swiftly moved and Mello ushered in some sedated penguins, which he lay down in were 3 in total, and they were scheduled to wake up at dawn. This was going to be priceless! The final part of the prank was the easiest. As it happened, the wallpaper on L's room was not in fact wallpaper, but still giant computer screen that Watari had designed himself. A simple onlooker would not notice, as the wallpaper was a wallpaper design. It was just a matter of hacking into the system and changing the wallpaper to a winter wonderland. This was ridiculously easy once Matt got past the firewall and after 5 minutes of rapid typing, the room was complete. The trio stood at the doorway, admiring their handiwork. It really did turn out well;better than they had expected. They thanked their lucky stars that tonight was one of the nights that the insomniac actually slept, perhaps it was the journey that had tired him out. Whatever the reason, the boys were thankful and exited the room. They then began to build alibis, solid ones. They'd left music playing in the room earlier to make anyone passing by think that the room was occupied. Near began working rapidly on a lego fortress, building the walls around him high and shutting him off from the world. That was, of course, until he came out through the conveniently placed door. He found Mello and Matt playing on Call of Duty, both with different intentions. Matt was hell bent on beating his highscore, his fingers passing rapidly over the controls, landing several headshots in a few seconds. Mello, on the other hand, was enjoying being violent, shooting and stabbing civilians and marvelling over the available range of guns and talking animatedly to a rather ignorant Matt. Near built a lego fortress-typical Near. Matt was beating his high score-typical Matt. Mello was being violent-typical Mello. This was their aim and they achieved it effortlessly. Finally, after a heated Call of Duty competition between the three (Matt won of course,Near coming in a close second and Mello laughing at the violence - no surprise there) they retired for the night at about 11pm. After all, they knew they'd be awake early the next morning.

At 5:10am the next morning, the penguins woke up, and immediately started squawking loudly, waking up the whole of Wammys House. Minutes later, Light's screams added to the mayhem. In the end, Roger burst into the room, dressed in a purple fluffy dressing gown, to see what was causing the commotion. He was momentarily confused, since when had L's room been a winter wonderland? Yet he soon diverted his attentions to Light, who was standing on the bed and desperately trying to get an invading penguin off of the bed. His companion, however, sat in his usual crouched position with an amused expression on his face, filming (yes, filming!) Light and his ordeal. A crowd of genii had gathered behind the confused Roger, laughing and the occasional camera flash. Out of nowhere, the trio appeared and quickly became the life of the crowd, laughing, chatting and cracking jokes. Roger arranged for the penguins to be taken into captivity as soon as possible. Matt leaned over to Mello and whispered know his ear, 'Remind me how you managed to get these penguins?'

Mello smiled and tapped his nose. 'Secret.'

After the penguins were removed, L and Light set to work on cleaning their room. Watari had offered, but the temptation overpowered the two rather childish men and they agreed to clean it themselves. They didn't say when they would clean it though. The morning passed quickly, a flurry of snowball fights, snow angel competitions and snowman making. By the time they had finished, there was hardly an prosthetic snow to clean up, it had all melted! They were both, however, chilled to the bone, a result of the frosty night and the wintery antics.

'Light-kun I don't know about you but I am freezing.' L's teeth chartered and a shiver shook his torso.

'Woah, L doesn't know!' This would have been Light's reply, if he had ever finished speaking. A playful punch landed on his shoulder, catching and cutting Light off in mid sentence.

'Sure L, I'm cold too. Where's the best place to go?'

'Hmm... How about the communal baths? Wammys House has one of its own, it saves bathrooms.' L mused, a slightly evil glint in his obsidian eyes.

'Communal baths? We don't have those in Japan, to be frank, I'm not familiar with this term.'

'Light-kun, a communal bath is basically one big bath tub, the size of a swimming pool, where everyone bathes together.' The older man sounded amused at Light's sudden innocence.

'...Oh.' Light took several moments to reply, evaluating the pros and cons in his head. 'Ok then.' He said finally, before tugging at the chain, a signal that they were departing.

L sighed know comfort as he edged his way into the depths of the bath, feeling the warmth spread through his body. He dipped down, plunging himself from head to toe in the warm water, letting the water envelope him. He resurfaced, only to find an uncomfortable Light about to discard his towel and come into the baths. 'Don't look!' he cried reproachfully, and signalled for the detective to turn away. He was glad that they didn't have to wear the chain whilst bathing, now that would be awkward. After many agonisingly slow minutes, Light was finally fully in the water and bobbed along towards L. 'I like this place, especially that we have it to ourselves.' He stated, taking in his surroundings. It was like a giant swimming pool, with different depths and even fountains spewing bubbles of different colours into the water. 'Well yes, no one is allowed to bathe in here when I'm here, you know, world class detective needs his privacy sort of thing.' He replied, before swimming over to the pink bubbles fountain. Light had no choice but to follow, this was his first time and L was his only guidance. The solemn detective was treading water, massaging pink bubbles into his unruly black hair. So he did was his hair! Could have fooled me... Light thought to himself, smiling.

'Yes Light-kun I do wash my hair. I just choose not to brush it. It's perfectly fine in it's natural shape so I don't see why I should alter it.'

'I wasn't thinking about that!' Light retorted in defiance, scooping some bubbles up and massaging them into his own hair.

'Don't deny it Light. Anyway I have something important to tell you.'

Tada that's the end of Chapter 5! I'd like to say a special thank you to Machi-pan and Eva1700 for reviewing multiple times. I love you guys :) I hope you enjoyed reading, reviews and recommendations are very much appreciated! Bye bye!

~HelixLawliet