Darkness Within your Light

Warnings: Fluffy, lots of humor, slight angst, some verbal fighting, slight lime, oh look its Zaki again!!

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Mustang89,- hehe I'm glad I did so well on the lime XD yes, they were in lust but you can kind of sense the underlining feelings that they have for each other ^-^ hehe I'm glad you enjoyed the last chapter hope you enjoy this one just much. XDDD

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Aurora Moon,- hehe yes I always like to have a healthy dose of fluffy now and then in my story, along with a dash of angst =x=; it keeps things even. I'm glad you found the last chapter adorable =D

Elle,- hehe yes that was my first time ever writing anything erotic ///x/// really I'm a natural? Thanks! I try to make it as descriptive as possible, so that readers will really get into it. XDDDD =w=;*slight blush* hehe don't worry there will be plenty of exploding teddybear fatories in this story! XP I will be spreading them out a bit though, so it there will be more smaller teddybear stores exploding then the wonderful fatories XP but don't worry, there will be much Fluff in almost every chapter (expect for the one's that will be marked angst)I feel honored that you think my story is awesome! XD thank you so much for the review and I hope you enjoy this one as well ^_^

Draug,- don't worry I will continue XD I'm glad you like the smut and my story, I also love Ryu-chan so don't worry he will be in the story! XP

Linkala,- haha someone else likes my lime? Yea, I'm a natural!! that makes me so happy! hehe of course I won't judge you on your old job, I'm actually quite jelous.;p I'm glad your feeling better but I feel sorry for your son ;.; *empathy tears* don't worry if my story seemes like it's going to get a little sad or angst I will always(most of the time) have some fluff to follow. I try to keep the fluff and angst in a equal amount in my story, though at the moment it is leaning on fluff so I must add a little angst in the next chapter...don't worry though it won't be too bad...maybe. anyway thank you so much for reviewing! XD it always makes my day when I see a new review from you! CX

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It had taken about 15 minutes to make it back to the headquarters; it seemed that Watari had decided to take it extra slow, most likely to make the ride smoother for the comfort of his injured charges.

Raito let the silence that had overtaken both L and him to lure him into a light doze. He’s head was still laying on L’s shoulder and L’s head was still laying gently on top of his head, every now and then Raito heard L take a slight whiff of his hair, just like Raito did to Ryuzaki earlier, Raito wondered what he smelled like to L.

‘Most likely blood and sweat, god I want a shower so bad right now. Also I need to check my wounds alone, I would have figured that with my powers and all that I would have healed by now, although if I did or do soon it will be hard to explain it to L. Hmmm, this is getting complicated, not that it wasn’t complicated to begin with but still. Well, when we get to headquarters I will ask L if I can have a shower before anything else…though food sounds so wonderful right now, I’ll even eat one of L’s precious cakes right now if it was offered to me…wow I really must be hungry.’

Raito just sat there musing on what was going to happen tomorrow when everyone on the task force came back from there one-day vacation, he pretty much figured that it wouldn’t end prettily, especially for Ryuzaki.

Raito finally snapped out of his doze when he felt the car stop. Ryuzaki as well woke up from whatever trance he had been in and sat up some, he didn’t make Raito move away from him which Raito was glad for, he was still very tired.

Watari opened the door for them, causing Raito to let out a silent sigh of regret before he straighten up himself and followed Ryuzaki out of the car. He quickly stuffed Ryu into his pocket, well more like he stuffed half of him inside of his pants pocket, the head of the teddy panda bear was still out in the opened. It may have looked completely ridiculous but Raito didn’t really care at this point.

He almost missed Watari’s wide eye shocked expression when he saw Raito but caught it in time before it could disappear. Ryuzaki had been already turned away so he didn’t see it. Raito wondering why Watari would have such an expression decided to ask him.

“Watari-san is everything ok? What’s wrong?”

Ryuzaki had turned back around when he heard Raito speak; he looked confused but also turned to look at Watari.
Watari began to look a tad bit uncomfortable; he then put a passive expression on before giving a slight cough and addressed Raito about his question.

“Well you see Yagami-kun it’s just that…well I would advise you to wear a turtle-neck tomorrow.”

Now Raito was just baffled, why did he have to wear a turtle-neck?

Ryuzaki had been turned towards Watari staring at him as Watari spoke, but he turned his attention back to Raito when Watari mention that Raito would be advised to wear a turtle-neck, his eyes widen in sudden understanding, a slight smirk of satisfaction crossed his face, only further baffling Raito.

“I don’t understand sir, why do I have to wear a turtle-neck?”

Watari now looked highly uncomfortable and just gave out another cough and said that Raito would figure it out when they got back inside and got cleaned up.

Raito still baffled tried to ask L what Watari meant but L just repeated what Watari said, that Raito would find out soon enough when they got cleaned up.

Raito let out a huff of annoyance at them for not telling him anything but followed them all just the same. Well he tried to anyway, about five or so steps from the car his legs finally gave out under him. He would have fallen to the granite floor if L didn’t have the reflexes of a freaking cat.

Raito was mortified that once more Ryuzaki was carrying him bridal style.

“Wait Ryuzaki put me down! I can walk, really I can, it was just a dizzy spell or something. There’s no reason for you to carry me.”

“On the contrary Raito-kun there is a big reason for me to carry you, or did you forget that you got a knife plunged into your leg not to long ago? I would think that it would be painful enough that it would be hard to forget. Besides…I enjoy holding Raito-kun.”

Ryuzaki had whispered the last part so Watari didn’t hear, whatever protest that Raito was about to come up with died in this throat. How could he protest now that Ryuzaki had just admitted that he wanted to touch him?

‘Well…I guess it’s ok, I mean my leg does hurt and no matter what I say I know I can’t walk at the moment, my leg is really hurting not to mention that I think it’s bleeding again. At least L doesn’t seem to be in total denial of what’s going on between us, that’s good. And I admit, just to myself at least, that I enjoy being held by L just as much as he seems to enjoy holding on to me.’

Raito just let out a sigh of irritation and exhaustion but didn’t protest again. L gave him a slight smile and then concentrated on getting them to their suite. After entering the building they all went straight to the elevator where Watari pushed the button that would direct them to the floor that both L and Raito now lived on.

Before they got off the elevator Watari asked him if he needed him to go get anything. Ryuzaki politely asked him to bring both him and Raito something light to eat and to also bring more bandages. Watari gave a nod of understanding and remained on the elevator as Ryuzaki disembarked from the elevator with Raito still in his arms.

“Yes sir, I will be up momentarily, as soon as I get some food and more medical supplies for the both of you.”

With that said, Watari pushed an elevator button and the doors closed.

So that just left only himself and Ryuzaki on this floor, Ryuzaki remanded oblivious to Raito’s sudden discomfort as he walked down the hallway and quite skillfully opened their door with Raito still in his grasp. L moved quickly but very carefully to their shared bedroom.

Raito gave an almost inaudible sigh of relief as L sat him down on their bed, which was still unmade from their quick dash out the door not quite an hour ago.

As Ryuzaki moved away slightly after placing him down, Raito felt a slight chill as the warmth that Ryuzaki had proved left him. He looked down at his chest, and came to a slight alarming and for some reason funny conclusion.

Raito looked up as Ryuzaki moved over to the small table that was stationed in the corner of their bedroom, he then watched as Ryuzaki reached into his pocket and removed the set of handcuffs that would soon be on both of their wrists and the key that went to it, lastly he removed the gun that he had just used to shoot at the man who had invaded Raito’s family’s home.

Raito took another look at his chest before looking back at the turned around L and said in a causal, non-caring voice.

“Hey Ryuzaki, do you want to know what I just came to realize? Well we were in such a rush to save my family that we had forgotten to take a few seconds to get clean up some, or at least change clothing, or at least for me to don a shirt and wipe all the blood that I had all over me from our fight. We were just at my parents home, with my entire family and my father and mother and sister just saw me half naked with cuts and bruises all over my body, and you know that my father knows I didn’t have them before he left so…what do you think he’s thinking about right now? Hmmm I bet it isn’t anything good.”

Ryuzaki had frozen as Raito continued to speak; his hands which had been in the middle of disabling his gun had stopped moving completely.

Before L could say anything or for Raito to continue torturing him Watari choose that moment to walk inside the room, pushing a cart filled up with food and on a lower level of the cart Raito say a few first-aid kits and medical supplies.

It seemed that Watari had heard the end of what Raito was saying because he let out a sigh of agreement to Raito’s statement that Yagami-san would not be happy tomorrow, not one bit.

Raito decided to address Watari about this issue, both because he was slightly worried for L’s continued health, but mostly to scare the shit out of him. For some reason unknown to Raito it seemed that L was slightly frightened by his father, Raito couldn’t help but feel a sadistic glee in Ryuzaki’s fear of his father.

“Hey Watari-san can we find Ryuzaki a bullet proof jacket or something he could wear under his shirt for a few days? Just until my father has a chance to calm down or something.”

Watari nodded his head.

“I’ve already have considered that idea Yagami-kun and had the foresight to bring up a light weight one with me.”

Ryuzaki had finally turned around and just looked on in disbelief as both Watari and Raito talked and argued about how to keep him from getting murdered tomorrow.

“What about a stab plate? Is there one in the vest? I wouldn’t put it past my father to carry a knife incase of him missing off a shot and getting his gun taken away from him.”

“Hmmm no I haven’t thought about that Yagami-kun, I will make sure to add one tonight so that it can be ready for the morning, what kind of knife do you suppose that Yagami-san will bring?”

“Well maybe just an ordinary butcher knife, it’s too late in the evening for him to go out a buy a proper blade. Besides I have the feeling my little sister will do a search on him in the morning just to make sure that dad doesn’t have anything to fatal on him.”

Watari nodded his head.

“Yes, yes that young sister of yours is quite the responsible and brilliant child.”

Raito let a small smile cross his face.

“Yes she really is smart huh? Though I can’t say the same for Ryuzaki now, saying such a thing with my father in the room, it was darn right suicidal.”

Raito finally finish his conversation with Watari as he began to feel a strange warmth start to burn around the area of his belly and his leg. He moved his arm so that it was pressing onto his stomach, right where he had just been slashed at. It wasn’t bleeding but…

Suddenly Raito felt something even weirder happen, it was a sensation of caution and warning that coursed through him…the thing was, they weren’t his emotions.

Raito decided to heed them for now, he got the feeling that whatever was happening to him right now he needed to be alone; also even though those emotions weren’t his…he felt no cause for alarm.

Raito looked up from where his head had slightly bent so he was looking downward. Watari had moved over back to the cart and was rolling out a long set of bandages and gauze. Ryuzaki had also moved over to the cart and was snacking on the strawberry cream pie that Watari had brought up for him along with some more healthier food that Raito didn’t doubt was for him.

Neither of them noticed anything out of the ordinary but still…Raito needed to get somewhere alone right now.

“Hey Ryuzaki? Is it alright if I take a shower right now? I mean…I just feel so dirty and I just want to get clean. I’ll eat when I get out and I shouldn’t bandage any of my wounds till I clean them anyway…so can I? Please?”

Raito wondered if adding the please was smart. While it would most likely get Watari on his side, it just might make Ryuzaki a bit suspicious of why he wanted to go to the bathroom so bad right now.

Luckily for Raito Ryuzaki was so tried and drain by all that that happened he didn’t really think about what Raito just said. Ryuzaki hadn’t been kidding when he had told Watari earlier that he just wasn’t up to thinking to the fullest of his capability right now. For Raito it was a very good thing. It even seemed that L had forgotten that Raito wasn’t supposed to leave his sight. Raito being the main suspect for a mass murderer case seemed to completely leave him.

“Hmm sure why not, Watari will show you to the bathroom and there are already some fresh towels in there for your use, when your done come back out, Watari has some clothing for you to sleep in, we will also get you fixed up and get you something to eat before we go to sleep. I imagine that tomorrow will…well I don’t really want to imagine what tomorrow will be like so I won’t.”

Raito let out a slightly strain snort, he then carefully got up to his feet and shuffled after Watari as he showed him to the bathroom, but before leaving he took out Ryu-chan and set him on top of table next to the handcuffs and disabled gun, it looked out of place but…well it also just seemed to fit for some odd reason. After that he continued his shuffle walk after Watari, the bathroom was only about two doors down and Raito of course knew where it was but he couldn’t say anything like that so he passively let Watari led him.

Raito made sure that he was bent down enough that his arm as covering the wound. He may not know what was going on but he did know that the heat was getting hotter and it was spreading.

He knew enough at least not to let Watari see his wounds at the moment.

After assuring Watari that he would be perfectly ok bathing by himself and that he would be sure to call out for help if he needed assistance, finally reassuring Watari that he would be fine he shut the door and was finally alone. Raito didn’t even bother looking for a lock to the door; he knew that just like last time there wouldn’t be one.

Raito turned to the mirror, he was curious about how he looked at the moment, not only about his new found wounds and bruises but he hadn’t really seen his appearance since…well a long time. He saw his shinigami form recently thanks to the Shinigami King when he had supplied the mirrors when they had first meet, but he hadn’t yet been able to look at his human appearance, his young teenage appearance.

But the first thing that caught his attention wasn’t his wounds or his messy, dirty hair or anything like that, no it was the large red mark that graced his neck.

“…?!”

“God damn it Ryuzaki!! You gave me a hicky!! I’m going to fucking kick your ass when I’m done!!! My father’s going to massacre you when he sees this and leave your carcass to the flesh eating buzzards!”

Raito made sure to yell this out loud enough so that Ryuzaki would be sure to hear him. He now knew why Watari had said to wear a turtle-neck. The mark was bright and huge; it wasn’t something that even a near-blind person could miss.

‘Damn it! I knew that he marked me earlier but…I didn’t expect it to be this big or this red! Geez possessive bastard much? I don’t even really know why I’m angry, but well…ah screw it! I’ll just have to make sure to give him one to even out the odds!’

Now that he had decided on how to retaliate about the hicky incident, Raito took the time to look at the rest of himself. What he saw appalled him.

He looked like he went one-on-one with a sumo wrestler and lost big time. His chest area and back were covered in black and purple bruises that he didn’t doubt would look even more horrible when they started to heal and turned into a yellow and green mess.

There were a few cuts on his body but they weren’t bleeding and even seemed to be…disappearing?

‘What the fuck-?’

Raito hurried to the shower and turned on the water till it was scolding hot, he knew even if he was alone in here L would still have a camera in here, Raito was thankful that he remembered that the camera angle hit the entire bathroom but the shower, before Ryuzaki had no need to put a camera in the shower because he was always in the room with Raito when he wanted to bath. But just this once Ryuzaki wasn’t with Raito. So Raito would have the privacy that he needed. The steam from the boiling water would also help hide him.

Raito quickly but very carefully striped his pants from his body, he took great care as he peeled off the pant leg of his wounded leg. He winched because some of the blood had dried and was clanging a bit to his skin. He endured it though and was finally free from the constriction that the pants had been putting him in. He peeled his boxers off a lot faster and stepped into the shower, it was one of those glass door showers, if he had wanted to take a bath or something there was a giant tub a few feet away, before Raito had never taken one in it because that would mean that L would have to take one with him. But he obviously didn’t mind that now and would try to encourage it this time.

After getting in the shower and closing the glass door which had already began to fog up from the steam that the hot water was giving off, the strange warm feeling that had overtaken his wounded areas was slowly fading away. Only when he was sure that he was secure enough where he wouldn’t be seen easily did he look at his two pressing wounds.

Well they had been pressing, now the wound on his stomach for instance was almost nothing but a thin scab. It looked like it had been weeks ago that it had happened. He quickly bent some to see the wound on his leg which had been a much worse wound then his belly one. He was even more shocked to see that that wound seemed to be healing even faster then his other one. It was already closed and seemed to be over the scabbing process already, it hadn’t even scarred.

‘Shit…I don’t know weather this is a good thing or a bad thing. It seems the more serious the injury is the faster it heals…’

The bruises for some reason were remaining but he could vaguely see that they were already turning a faint yellow around the edges. They were still healing at an overwhelming rate just not as fast as his leg wound or his stomach wound.

‘Well…at least I know I most likely can’t be killed in my human form as well as my shinigami form. That’s good to know at least-’

Before Raito could think anymore about his situation or about his fast healing abilities he once again felt that odd presence in the back of his mind.

‘What could that be…oh wait is that Zaki? Shit I can’t believe I almost forgot about him. I guess I thought that his nap would have been longer. It’s kind of sad that we can’t yet communicate our thoughts to each other…but I guess we can communicate our emotions…’

Raito tried to convert a feeling of understanding to Zaki, in the hope that he would realize that Raito knew that it was him. It was easier then he would have thought, right after he thought about Zaki, Raito felt a sense of peace and worry. It seemed that Zaki was happy that Raito had accepted the bond between them and was worried about him?

‘Wow I got all that with just two emotions? Well that would make things easier if we can convert what we mean to say with the emotions. Still it would have been easier to talk.’

Raito gave a mental shrug.

‘Oh well maybe someday, for now I’ve got to get use to remembering that Zaki would be sharing my mind space. I guess he was sleeping before so I wasn’t really able to feel him, but now…it’s kind of nice somehow, this feeling of completeness, the lifenote is as much a part of me as my own heart. That would mean that Zaki is in extension a part of me as well. Just like Kira and I use to be two sides of a coin now it’s Zaki and I, only neither of us is evil, or at least I hope not.’

Raito felt like he just had an epiphany. Everything was clear about what Zaki was and what that meant for Raito.

‘We just complete ourselves somehow by being together. We are I guess…the same person in a way…’

Raito felt a rush sense of happiness and approval as soon as he finished his theory. It seemed that Zaki was paying attention to Raito’s thought and emotional process and agreed to what Raito had come to a conclusion of.

‘Well ok that is very interesting I guess, hmmm well I better finish up in here soon before Ryuzaki actually takes the time to think about what he did when he let me bath by myself. I going to have to punish him somehow for the hicky though…maybe I’ll wear a T-shirt tomorrow and let dad see it…but then Ryuzaki would be nothing but a corpse…’

He sense Zaki once more, he seemed a lot weaker right know then he had been before, it would seem that Zaki still felt tired and was going back to sleep, he had just been worried about Raito and had woken himself up to see if he was ok. Raito felt a sense of gratitude for have someone worry for him like that. He knew that there were of course others that cared. L being one, but it was slightly different, Zaki was a part of him, yet not. Raito couldn’t explain it but he sent his thanks to Zaki all the same along with a feeling of -goodnight sleep tight-.

After a moment or two Raito no longer felt Zaki’s presence anymore, it showed that he had indeed gone back to sleep.

‘Well I guess I better hurry up and get clean up, who knows how much longer I have in here.’

He reached for the shampoo that was on the rack next to him, there were two choices to choose from, one of the bottles was scented vanilla and brown sugar, he liked that one so he picked it up immediately, he took a look at the other bottle that he was sure was Ryuzaki’s, he wasn’t surprised to see the scent was strawberries and cream.

Raito chuckled in amusement as he was washed his hair. He had wondered if the scent of strawberries that Ryuzaki gave off was just from eating sweets so much or if he had some shampoo that gave off the scent. He now knew that Ryuzaki had a strawberry scent shampoo, but he still believed the reason why Ryuzaki smelled so strongly like strawberries and sweets was mostly because of the sugar the guy ate.

After he was done washing his hair and body, he just stood under the hot water, letting it caress his skin, flowing down and relaxing all his tense muscles. It also seemed that the water helped out the healing process because when he finally got ready to get out he quickly checked his wounds again and was amazed to see them fully healed.

‘Well that’s good…and not so good. Shit maybe Ryuzaki will forget about bandaging me up? Ha unlikely, I have a better shot of seeing Ryuk in a pink tutu and man that image just scarred me for life, yuck!’

Raito turned off the water and slowly opened the glass door. The bathroom was all foggy and was so stuffy that Raito was tempted to open the door a little to let some of the steam out. But no, he needed the cover, if the camera showed that he was almost 100 percent better, minus the bruises, there will be a whole lot of questions directed at him, and sadly the answers weren’t that easy to give back.

Raito quickly grabbed a large fluffy white towel off the rack and wrapped it around himself, all the way up to his stomach area. It was big enough that it covered him all the way to a bit past his knees when it was wrapped so high. Raito also grabbed a small towel and put it around his neck, he would need it to dry his hair later, right now he wanted cloths.

Before leaving Raito walked back to the mirror and wiped a small spot so he could see himself. He studied his bruised, gaunt face, to many days spent in that cell had thinned out his face, his eyes were blood-shot and puffy both from the crying fits he had in the last 24 hours and also from lack of sleep. There were subtle black circles ringing his eyes, not as dark or large as Ryuzaki’s panda eyes but still they were visible enough that Raito felt distressed. To him at this moment he couldn’t remember seeing himself this ugly before.

‘God can I be anymore of a drama queen? So I’m sleep deprived and beat-up, it doesn’t make me ugly, I just need some sleep and food and a few days to heal up these bruises then I’ll be right back to my usual princely appearance and wow…should I say narcissist princess much? Geez, L was right I am narcissistic.’

Raito just shook his head and then turned around to reach for the door knob, before leaving though he looked into the corner that he knew the camera was in and gave it a vicious smile, showing that he knew that L was watching him.

Raito opened the door and strolled out, it seemed that the shower had helped him not only with his wounds but it helped restore his more aggressive nature. Raito didn’t forget though to pretend that his leg and stomach still bothered him. It wouldn’t do for Ryuzaki to get to suspicious of why his wounds suddenly stopped hurting.

Raito returned to the bedroom and was surprised to see that Watari had already left; he didn’t think he took that long in the shower.

Ryuzaki was sitting on the bed; he was already cleaned up some and had some bandages wrapped around his head, most likely for his earlier head injury that Raito had dealt him in the white room, he also had a few gauze band-aids on his face and Raito knew that L most likely had a few more in other places, he was eating a slice of what seemed to be another strawberry cream pie and was in a whole new outfit, one that Raito had never seen before and that stuck him speechless and motionless at the same time, the outfit was… chibified strawberry pajamas.

“…”

Raito just stood there in the doorway staring; he couldn’t take his eyes off the…most endearing, adorable, sight he had ever seen.

Ryuzaki didn’t seem aware yet of his presences because he hadn’t looked up when Raito had walked through the doorway, he was just happily devouring his treat.

Raito had to take a firm grasp on his will and hormones. He wanted nothing more then to go over there and kiss Ryuzaki senseless right now. But no damn it, they needed sleep to get through tomorrow, Raito had a feeling that a lot was going to happen, and not just about his dad going psycho chainsaw massacre on Ryuzaki’s hide either, but something else was going to happen. Something that would most likely change everything all over again, and Raito couldn’t tell if it would be a good change for the better or a really terrible change that could destroy any chance he had to win over L Lawliet’s heart.

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After about five more minutes of just plain ogling Ryuzaki in his all too glorious cuteness, Raito finally decided to make his presence known.

“Wow I must say Ryuzaki…I couldn’t think of anything more fitting for you to wear for sleepwear.”

L who had just forked a mouthful of cake developed a deer in the headlights expression; it was either that or a child found with his hand in the cookie jar. It was quite endearing and funny at the same time. Especially with his cheeks puffed out some from the large cake piece that he had just stuffed into his mouth.

Raito let out a low laugh and walked over to the big sitting chair that held some black silk pajamas that he knew that Watari had left for him. His back was turned so he didn’t see Ryuzaki set down his cake on the bedside counter and get up and start to move towards him with some gauze and bandages in hand.

“Raito-kun shouldn’t we take care of your injuries first before you get dressed?”

Raito was able to not give any outward appearance of his now panicked state.

‘Shit-darn-goddamnit, how can I forget something like that so soon? Damn Ryuzaki and his cute chibi strawberries pajamas of doom. Oh well I guess I might have to be a bit harsh to him right now, but there isn’t anything else that I could think of to do. Sorry L, hope that this won’t hurt you to much.’

Raito made sure his face expressed both irritation and resentment before turning around, it broke his heart to do this, but L wasn’t ready for the truth yet, and Raito couldn’t let him see that there were no wounds to treat anymore. To be truthful it was mostly Raito that wasn’t quite ready yet, to admit that he was now something other then human.

L had frozen a few feet from Raito after seeing Raito’s face. Uncertainty crossed his face before it went back to his blank detective stare.

It hurt Raito a lot more then he was willing to admit at seeing any progress that he had made with L pushed back because of him. But what was necessary was necessary.

“Damn it L I can take care of myself, I don’t need you hovering over me like I’m fucking 3 years old! If I need to bandage myself I’ll do it myself! So stop acting like a mother hen already and leave me alone!”

Every word was like a knife to his heart and he didn’t doubt that it was the same for Ryuzaki, Raito tried to keep what he was saying from being to cruel but he doubted that it worked. Not matter what he said he was still yelling at Ryuzaki who had only wanted to help.

Ryuzaki’s expression became duller with each word. Finally after Raito was done expressing his false anger at the detective L spoke.

“I apologize Yagami-san if I gave off the impression of being a mother hen, I just wouldn’t want to have my main suspect to die or anything before I convict him. It would have taken some of my creditability away if you get what I mean.”

‘Oh major ouch.’

Raito couldn’t help the flinch he gave off when L spoke. Raito decided to try to salvage what he could; he didn’t want things to get that bad between them.

“I’m sorry Ryuzaki; I’m just tired and also very stressed over what could have happened to my family tonight, I was taking my frustration out on you when you don’t deserve it. I’m truly sorry.”

Raito became scared that it wasn’t enough to apologize, because L’s expression didn’t change from the dull expression it had taken. L just nodded his head at Raito, who didn’t know if that meant that L had accepted his apology and forgave him or just acknowledged that Raito had apologized.

L lightly tossed the roll of bandages at Raito who caught them unsteady before he moved back to the bed and sat in his usual curled up position, only it seemed to be even more defensive then usual. What worried Raito most of all was L was now ignoring the strawberry cake right next to him like it wasn’t even there. Now Raito really felt like a bastard.

L had turned his head to the side so Raito quickly turned around again and rolled some gauze around were his leg wound had once been, it was best to keep up appearances at least, after that he took off his large towel and put on the bottom part of his pajamas on, marveling at how nice the silk felt on his skin. He then quickly wrapped some more gauze around his stomach area, not as much as he had put on his leg but still enough to cover the now healed skin. He quickly toweled off his hair so it was no longer dripping wet, and set the smaller towel right on top of the bigger one. His hair was still damp but he didn’t feel like blow drying it right now. Fuzzy morning hair be damned.

Raito looked at the pajama top and made a decision. He turned back around without putting it on and walked over to the bed. He threw the top back on the chair. Before getting into bed though he made a quick detour to the food cart and grabbed a banana from the fruit bowel and quickly devoured it, after he was done with that, he decided that he would just have a large breakfast in the morning to satisfy his hungry, he was too tired to eat anything else. He then got into bed half-naked.

Ryuzaki still had his head turned around the opposite way so he didn’t see what Raito was doing at all.

Raito gave a sigh as he watched L sulk for a while longer, Watari must have earlier turned off the overhead light and switched the lamp on right beside L’s side of the bed. It gave the room a slight low light feeling, it was also kind of comfortable, Raito could remember when they had been handcuffed before that he had to learn to sleep with that light on because Ryuzaki had almost always stayed up on his laptop into the earlier hours of the morning. After a while Raito had even come to enjoy the slight light that lured him to sleep along with the sound of tapping keys.

Raito got under the covers but left his chest bare, he was sitting up with his back to the headrest and just sat there staring at the sulking L.

‘What can I do to fix this? I don’t know, he’s even ignoring cake! Strawberry cake to! I must have really upset him, he must be so confused right now, with all that is happening and then the thing between us…we are both hot and cold all over, we fight and yell and then we end up having a passionate make-out session…hmmm you know that might just work. But damn I feel like I’m going to pass out soon…oh well I might as well try it.’

Raito stealthy moved over towards the sulking L and when he was only a few inches away did he speak in a low sultry voice.

“I really am sorry Lawliet, I didn’t mean to say those cruel things to you and I know that you really just wanted to help me. If there is anything I could do to make you forgive me…please tell me, I would be all to willing to do it, anything at all Lawliet.”

Raito briefly wondered if L’s head got wiped lashed after he swiftly turned his head to look at Raito with a look of shock and disbelief. Raito was shocked to see that L’s eyes were faintly wet, like he could cry but didn’t, Raito didn’t give him a chance to turn back around and sulk again, or even to get mad at Raito for some reason or another.

The second that Raito saw Ryuzaki’s eyes he knew what to do. Before L could protest or do anything Raito pounce on top of him and kissed him as hard as he could.

Raito was trying to convert how sorry he was for what he had said and done, he let his tongue and teeth nip and lick at the closed lips begging for entrance. After a few seconds in which Ryuzaki did nothing at all, Raito let out a low whine of distress. It seemed that he was to late…

Right when Raito started to pull away he was stopped by a sudden hand that grabbed the back of his head and pushed him back down, Raito gave a muffled cry of surprise, but also of delight, it seemed that Ryuzaki had forgiven him, either that or he just wanted to kiss Raito. Raito at that moment didn’t really care which one it was either.

Ryuzaki quickly took over the kiss and plundered Raito’s mouth with his tongue, moving it in and out in a parody of something much more intimate, using his tongue and teeth to pull Raito’s tongue into his own mouth, sucking on it with ferocity…there was nothing gently or kind about this kiss. It was rough and hard and exactly what both Ryuzaki and Raito needed.

After a few minutes of scorching wet open-mouth kisses which had both of them squirming around in arousal and begging for oxygen, Raito was finally released from the unyielding hand that had been holding him down. Raito sat up and took a deep breath of air, he had not been expecting that at all, he had thought that maybe a small sweet kiss would have been enough to make Ryuzaki forgive him, he had defiantly not been expecting to be pulled into another one of Ryuzaki’s searing kisses, especially with Ryuzaki being mad at him and all.

Raito finally took stock of his surroundings, he was now sprawled right on top of Ryuzaki, who had moved from his usual crouched and was spread out on the bed, Ryuzaki seemed comfortable with having Raito on top of him so Raito wasn’t going to complain, not one bit.

“So I guess…that means that I’m forgiven?”

Raito was more then slightly out of breath, so he had to pant out his question.

Ryuzaki just have him a heated look before suddenly smirking.

“I had already forgiven Raito-kun the first time he apologize, I was just curious on how you would react to me sulking and pretending to be mad at you. I’ve got to say if that is the apology that I will be expecting from now on for every time I get mad at you, I’ll just have to get pissed at you more often.”

Raito was speechless.

‘Tha-that manipulative little-argh I really had thought that he had been angry at me, and he was just playing? That little shit, I’m just going to have to spank him or something for that little display! Even though those kisses were hot…ok they were more then hot, I feel like I need to take a cold shower or something to cool down. Geez, only you Lawliet can get away with something like this and not have me throttle you in your sleep.’

Raito just let out a sigh of fondness and weariness.

“Only you L would come up with something that devious and still make it seem like your nothing but an innocent victim.”

“I don’t know what you mean Raito-kun, and as much as I would love to continue we really do need to get some sleep, tomorrow promises to be quite the big day.”

Raito gave a snort and rolled over off of Ryuzaki, he imminently missed the warmth.

“More like Doom’s Day Ryuzaki.”

Ryuzaki just waved his hand in a dismissing manner; he then reached up to turn off the lamp light, plunging the room into darkness.

“You are such a positive thinker Raito-kun, now I know how tired you are so go to sleep.”

“Real funny Ryuzaki and sweet dreams to you to.”

Raito settled down into the bed, he could feel the bed shifting as L also moved around to get into a comfortable position to sleep.

After a few minutes of tossing and turning Raito was about to give up on sleeping altogether, for some reason he just couldn’t get comfortable enough to fall asleep, also he was cold. He suddenly wished that he had put on his pajama top on instead of leaving it on the chair.

Raito was startled out of his thoughts when he suddenly felt a warm pair of arms wrap around him. He was suddenly spooned against Ryuzaki; his whole bare back was pressing into Ryuzaki’s chest.

He was cocooned into Ryuzaki’s warm embrace.

“Shhh Raito-kun, please relax and try to get some sleep, I’m right here and will be here in the morning.”

Raito knew that that sentence held a lot more meaning in it then just that Ryuzaki would still be in bed in the morning, that sentence said that no matter what happened tomorrow that he would stand by Raito.

Raito didn’t care if that meant that Ryuzaki was admitting that he cared about Raito or if he had meant that he would be hiding behind Raito when Raito’s father came charging for his blood. All Raito knew was that Ryuzaki was holding him and he had never felt safer then he did at this moment.

Without even realizing it Raito fell into the first dreamless peaceful sleep that he had in a long time.

What would come tomorrow would come and Raito would face it head-on and he could only pray that Ryuzaki would be willing to stand beside him.

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Soo…I know I said that the Kira case would start again on this chapter but…darn it! D; oh well it will start on the next chapter (if I have anything to say about it!) I’m not to sure what to think about this chapter…hmmm I know I will love the next one at least. A lot of plot twists will be in that chapter HOPEFULLY!

So please review and tell me what you think about this chapter…was it ok? Was it to OOC? What do you think about Raito’s and L’s attitudes and actions in this chapter and how about Zaki’s quick hello and goodbye? He will be back into the story again soon enough, not sure when though, I just wanted to him to do a quick peek in and out so that none of you forget about him! XD

Please review and if you have any questions please ask me! I will try to answer them as best as I can!

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