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Kanji	By : sashocirrione Category: Death Note > Yaoi-Male/Male > L/Light Views: 2310 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: "Kanji"
Author: Sashocirrione
Spoilers: MAJOR Spoilers for everything up to chapter 54 of the manga and episode 24 of the anime.
Warnings: Rated T. References to violence and sexual situations.
Summary: Light is bringing L home to meet his sister and mother, as L is now his boyfriend. But Light can't shake off the feeling that he was somehow tricked into the situation. Fluffy and probably somewhat OOC, not my usual style. Written for Persefone88, one of the winners of my 100th review contest, (started back when I was still running that contest).
Pairing: LxLight
Additional Notes: All canon events previous to anime episode 24 (manga chapters 53-54) have occurred as normal, with the exception of one little thing that will become clear in the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note, and I do not make any money from these writings.
CHAPTER 1
Light thought at first that he understood things. It seemed simple enough on the surface. Higuchi was Kira. Higuchi had been captured, and then he'd been killed by his own shinigami two days later, for whatever reason a shinigami would kill a person. Perhaps Rem was bored because she was stuck with Higuchi in that cell, far away from headquarters. Everyone had breathed a sigh of relief when Rem's travel limitations became clear. Rem was stuck to haunting whatever location Higuchi was kept in.
Thanks to the face-obscuring helmets and to the darkened windows of L's helicopter, she'd never seen a face of anyone on the task force. Instead, she had been ushered away to a remote holding cell right after Higuchi had given up, bound to him by some kind of invisible tether.
The act of killing Higuchi had for some reason turned the shinigami into sand, dropping another killer notebook at the same time. L wasn't sure if this was something that normally happened to shinigami and the process would reverse itself, or whether Rem was truly dead.
Coming up with ideas for why Rem might kill Higuchi wasn't hard. Explaining the shinigami turning into sand was difficult, especially if Rem knew it would happen. Didn't everything have a self-preservation instinct? Well, Rem was a non-human and they'd had little time to study her, so perhaps you couldn't apply human motivations to a shinigami. There was no way to know.
There were further problems, though, things that just didn't make sense no matter how much Light thought about them. In the days after, Light's mind kept returning to that moment in the helicopter. He couldn't shake off the feeling that something truly odd had happened. He remembered screaming. L had made a remark about how anyone would scream at seeing a shinigami for the first time, but Light remembered that he hadn't been looking at Rem during that moment. He'd been looking in her general direction, but not directly at her. Instead, his eyes had been on his father.
Light had been desperately hoping that his father was okay. After all, at that point the gunshot wound still hadn't been seen to, and the idea of his dad being so close to Higuchi was unnerving, especially after that screaming fit and the announcement that a monster was there.
Yes, Light's gaze had been on his father when he screamed, not on that shinigami, and the nonsensical nature of it kept drawing his mind, trying to figure out the puzzle. There had to be something there, he just knew it.
Light remembered opening his laptop and checking the names from the notebook against the database of Kira-related deaths the task force had developed. He remembered a bit of small talk with L. And, he remembered anxiety, his heart beating very fast. Light had the nagging feeling that touching the notebook had made him scream, and he wanted to test it by touching it again.
But it was not possible to test it. Before the helicopter took off again, L had made Light hand the notebook over to Watari, who placed it inside a locked briefcase, and Light had never seen it again.
After that, L had made sure the notebook was secretly sent far away. He said it was in a locked vault somewhere, hidden where nobody would ever find it even if everyone on the investigation team died. From the way L talked about it, Light had the feeling it was at the bottom of the ocean or buried beneath the permafrost somewhere in an unmarked stretch of miles of tundra. L was absolutely determined that nobody should know where it was or ever touch it again.
Light expected L to test the 13-day rule. He expected L to do a lot of things that L simply never did. It was all a mystery.
But, one week after Higuchi's death, Light had solved a small mystery himself, by using computers outside headquarters to look up information about Higuchi and the other members of the Yotsuba group. Every single one of their names had been spelled with the wrong kanji in all the data accessible from headquarters.
When Light confronted L about it, L had explained that it had been a simple precaution. Letting a Kira suspect know the names of other Kira suspects was a bad idea.
A simple search-and-replace function manually installed on all incoming and outgoing computer lines had done the trick. Every bit of data was altered to misspell those names on the way in, and since it was a device that sat on those lines and had no connection to the rest of the computer system, it was impossible to detect it by hacking. By going out of headquarters and investigating elsewhere, Light had done the only thing that could possibly reveal the discrepancy.
Light admitted to himself that Kira suspects should be treated that way. It was a reasonable precaution. It was unexpected, but it was exactly like something L would do.
Kira had stopped killing entirely with Higuchi's death, and never resumed. The investigation kept stretching on, the task force members spending their time going over old data to try to find clues that had been missed before, along with waiting to see if Kira would strike again.
Misa wasn't allowed in headquarters any longer, but she frequently called Light and tried to get him to go on dates. She was annoying and clingy and Light finally dumped her. She didn't react to it well, but there was nothing she could do.
There had been a distinct change in L's attitude at a certain point, several months after Higuchi's death. He didn't act as blatantly suspicious. He still concealed his name and was careful about everything. Light had the feeling that L hadn't changed his mind about his usual Kira percentages, just his attitude.
And, L's attitude had turned distinctly strange. He was friendlier in a very odd way. It was so odd that it took Light a few days to realize it was actually extremely awkward attempts at flirting.
At first Light didn't know what to think, or how to react, but the more he considered it, the more intrigued he was. L wasn't like anyone else. L was perhaps the only person worthy of respect. Light realized he missed L whenever he was gone for a little while. Ordinary people were so tiresome, but L always had something intelligent to say.
L was a puzzle, and Light wanted to explore him, to delve deep within his psyche. The awkward flirting quickly evolved into kissing. Light couldn't get enough. L was intoxicating. Soon, they were sneaking away at every available opportunity to make out in closets or kitchens or anywhere they were unlikely to be found.
By the time the investigation finally disbanded, nearly a year after Higuchi's death, Light was having sex with L. He'd never been happier. The world had always been so rotten and boring before L came along, full of people who barely deserved to live, but L was different, he made everything seem worth it. He couldn't be easily tricked or manipulated, and that made him immensely exciting.
Light was a little apprehensive, but not surprised, when L suggested admitting their secret relationship. L wanted to stay in Japan, meet Light's mother and sister, and perhaps even be a fake university student just from sheer curiosity. L was ready to take on other cases, now that the Kira case had ended, and Light wanted to help him.
The task force reacted to the announcement with surprise and some dismay. It wasn't bad, certainly nothing like Light had feared. Matsuda was full of congratulations and was almost ridiculously happy about it. Everyone else was at best neutral.
It had been a long time since L had mentioned Light's Kira percentages or openly treated him like a suspect, so besides Mogi's homophobia and Soichiro's upset about his teenage son being sexually active, there weren't really any strong objections.
Besides, the task force was in the process of dissolving and simply wrapping up the last of the paperwork for Interpol and the NPA, so it wasn't as if Mogi's opinion would mean anything.
And so, Light found himself ready to knock on the front door of his home, L trailing behind him. L would be "Hideki Ryuga" to the family. Light had wanted to put L in some better clothing for such an important meeting, but L had resisted. He was in his usual long-sleeved t-shirt, plus baggy jeans and those worn-out untied tennis shoes he always had when outdoors.
It helped that at least L was clean. He bathed regularly and wouldn't endure even a single stain on his clothing; he just looked messy since he didn't preen at all.
Light's heart was beating fast and a lump was in his throat as he knocked.
A/N (Author's Note):
Congrats to Persefone88 for winning my 100th review contest (probably the last winner, since I've closed the contest due to various reasons, see my fanfiction dot net profile page for a link to my livejournal entry that gives details on the closing).
In this fic, L has recently turned 26; Light is now 19 (though he'll be 20 in a few months) and Sayu is 16.
I've had a difficult time with this fic, I think probably because I've already written something about Light bringing home L to meet his mother and sister (in "The Sugar Cube Fort" chapters 19 through 22) and I wanted to do something completely different, not retrace my steps or reuse the same ideas, so it took me much longer than usual to think of how it would happen.
This chapter is just a kind of back-story about how they got together, and then next chapter the actual meetings will occur. I have difficulty just putting L and Light in a relationship unless there's some kind of story about how they got into it, thus this back-story.
And, in case it wasn't clear, what happened was that Light did write down Higuchi's name in the helicopter, but since it was spelled wrong (Japanese names can usually be written several different ways, with different kanji) Higuchi didn't die then. Thus, Light was forced to swallow the paper to destroy the evidence, and immediately after that the death note was taken away and Light forgot about everything, never to remember again. Shortly after Higuchi's capture, Rem killed Higuchi so he wouldn't snitch on Misa as the second Kira. Since this was a way of extending Misa's lifespan, that action killed Rem.
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