Darkness Within your Light

Warnings for the next three chapters: Fluffiness to the extreme, LOTS of humor, major angst (Ya, you all wonder how I’ll make that work XP), MAJOR PLOT TWISTS!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful reviews! They brighten up my days of gloominess when I’m feeling down. I only have to click a button to know that there are people out there that enjoy my work, TvT thank you…here are my replays:

Aurora Moon,- Yes the last chapter was fluffy as this one is as well CX I love your story 'The Rise and Fall of Kira' I've read it like 3 times! I do understand how your feeling though, I myself am feeling it to toward my own story...I hope that you will be able to overcome that feeling in the future because your story is a work of art! XDDD me...not so much with the overcomingness...but I'll try =w=

Draug,- hehe I just wanted to make sure that no one had forgotten Zaki, he will be in and out of this story for now, later he will play a bigger part, also I won't be mean to L and Raito unless I put something in the chapter warnings...oh look I put down major angst...hehe be warned XD don't worry it's not in this chapter, this is fluff, then I will put in angst then some more fluff to counter the angst CX

Elle,- yes the chibi strawberry pjs of doom is one of L's secret weapons! I'm sorry that life's been bitchy to you to...let's drink hot coco together and watch L and Raito cuteness! XD yes Raito will be saving L from his daddy!

Mustand89,- thank you, Im glad that you think everyone's in character, they're not so much in this chapter kind of, L faking being sulky was so him though XD I'm happy that you are happy XD

Gryphonwills,- I'm happy that you liked it XD

Linkala,- it's to bad about the pic with Ryuk in a tutu, but I would love it if you could draw romantic L and Raito pics and send them to me, also it would be cool if you can capture Raito in his shinigami form on paper also L in his chibi pjs? Please!! I'm so honored that you consider my story rates as high as Fable 2! I want that game soo bad! but I have to save up the money first *pouts* hehe Thanks for the pocky and marshmellows, I've really tried it and it's really good, i luvs you! *huggles reviewer*

Stitches,- I'm so happy you think my story is brillant! thank you!


I’M SO FREAKING SORRY!!!! I know that I haven’t updated as fast as I have in the past! But real life’s been a real bitch to me lately and I haven’t had the time lately to even think about my fic-baby!

I know I promised that you would see Raito’s daddy’s reaction in this chapter but I wanted to post the next chapter so bad(It’s been way to long since my last chapter) I PROMISE it will be in the next chapter, PROMISE, PROMISE, PROMISE! Also the plot twists will be coming in the next couple of chapters. I wanted to have them all happen in this chapter but I’m going to space them out within the next couple chapters instead, they should be coming soon.

I’m working on the next chapter right now so you won’t have to wait long to see what’s going to happen. I think that’s only fair since all of it should have been in this chapter but if I did that, then this chapter would have been at LEAST 50 to 60 pages long. That’s WAYYYYY to long, but don’t worry I will have the next part up soon!

This is like PART 1 of 3 of the plot twists that should have been all in one chapter. 0w0;

There is a French phrase in this chapter; the translation will be at the end of this chapter.

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Raito blearily opened his eyes; the first thing that he became aware of was total blackness, it took his brain about 3.4 seconds to realize that his face was stuffed into Ryuzaki’s hair.

‘And I haven’t suffocated yet how?’

Raito moved his head a bit so that his face wasn’t pressed into Ryuzaki’s hair anymore. He absently noted that it still smelled like strawberries even though he was pretty sure that Ryuzaki hadn’t bathed in a while.

He was startled to see that he was currently in a pretzel like situation. Currently most of his body was underneath Ryuzaki’s. It seemed that sometime in the night Ryuzaki had decided that Raito made a better mattress then the bed itself.

Ryuzaki was laying sideways on top of Raito, he was in his usual curled up position with his legs drawn up. Raito looked downward at the utter cute picture L made right now, he looked like a child at the moment, it helped that his thumb was once again pressed to his lips, only this time in sleep. Raito could hear the faint snores coming from L showing that he really was asleep at the moment and not faking it. Strangely enough Raito didn’t feel like he was being smothered at all, in reality the warm body that was currently on top of him felt…comfortable.

Raito tried to turn his head to the side to see the alarm clock on the night stand, unfortunately because his movement was hampered by L laying on top of his limbs he couldn’t move enough to see the clock that was on the stand.

But judging by the slight lighting in the room from the window he estimated it to be around 5 am, dawn was just breaking out, late by L’s standard, frequently L wanted Raito to be up by at least 4 am to begin the day even if they usually got to bed around 1 or 2 in the morning. The rest of the task force comes in around 6 am, at least his father and Aizawa did, Mogi regularly comes in around 7 am, Matsuda was always late in coming to work, not making it till 8:30 am sometimes even later then that. But since L was asleep and Raito was still tired himself he couldn’t bring himself to care.

‘He’ll probably be mad at me if he knew I was awake and didn’t wake him up, but we both need the rest…besides I like this, it makes me feel…comfortable, contented really, and those cute pjs are just too…well their just to cute! I mean really! L you may be the world’s three greatest detectives, and the smartest, most beautiful, and also the most manipulative person I have ever meet! And I love you damnit! How did you do it? I want to tell you everything, I thought it would be easy to wait, that I would have the patience to wait for you to begin to love me back before I tell you everything, but I never expected it to be this hard! When I gave you that half-truth spun tale in the car it was all I could do not to sprout out the truth! I think I need to tell you soon…even if neither of us are ready I can’t…I can’t keep anything from you anymore. Even if you hate me, despise the ground I walk on and are disgusted by me…even if you condemn me to imprisonment for all the rest of my eternity…I’ll chance it, because I just can’t lie to you L Lawliet. You are my heart, my being for living…’

Raito looked downward at the still sleeping L, he let his face relax and shine with all of the love that he held for the man. He didn’t care about the cameras or even if Watari walked in right now and saw Raito’s open expression. Raito didn’t care about anything like that; he just didn’t feel like keeping his mask on any longer…at least he didn’t feel like wearing it at this moment. He doubted that he would ever feel completely comfortable having his emotions on display 24/7. His mask was alike a security blanket really. It helped him coup and deal with the world around him.

Raito for some reason remembered when he had taken a French class as one of his languages in high school. He had to choose two languages for his required classes and he had chosen English and French, he didn’t believe that Spanish would have gotten him anywhere, but he had brushed up a little on it, he wasn’t fluent in French as he was in English but he knew enough. He had studied at least three other languages in his spare time, German, Russian, and Italian, just so that he would have a wide language range. He knew that L though knew at least 20 or more different languages. Raito wondered why he would need that many but since it was L he didn’t really think that he would need a reason to know that many, it was most likely because he could that he learned them all.

He decided even though L was asleep he would express a little on how he felt about him, he was still to unsecure to tell L to his face that he was totally and completely in love with him but…maybe he could whisper it in French while he was asleep? It was the coward’s way but Raito need time to think up a way to confess his feelings…and the fact that he was a monster.

Raito cringed at that. As much as he didn’t want to think about it or acknowledge it but the fact remained that he was almost half shinigami. A true monster in the eyes of humans, hell he was a monster in his own eyes.

Raito decided not to think about it, he just need to express a little bit on how he felt about L out loud…it was like he was going to burst with all of his pent up emotions. It did help some when L and he…made out and all but it wasn’t enough to satisfy his body, he needed to say something. Even if L couldn’t hear him it would satisfy him for now to say something out loud, and hopefully it will give him time to think on a plan of action for later.

Raito bent down so that he’s mouth was only a few centimeters away from L’s ear, his hot breath puffed out a little and it must have tickled a bit because L started to squirm a little. Realizing that L could wake up any second now Raito spoke in a hushed whisper.

“Mon aimé, je t'aime”

He moved back a ways and waited with baited breath to see if L woke up or not. He was slightly disappointed and relieved at the same time when L just shifted some and continued on snoring. He tilted his head back till he was staring at the ceiling, his free hand absentmindly started to comb through L’s hair, petting it here and there. L started to softly purr under his attentions.

‘Oh well at least I said it out loud, now I guess I should really wake him up and start on the Kira case…hmmm I wonder if things will be different concerning the case this time? Everything else seems to be changing from the original time-line so maybe the third Kira won’t be Higuchi from the Yotsuba, if that’s the case…shit! That really means that I’ll be flying blind, it doesn’t matter that I’ve lived all this once already, things are different this time and constantly changing. So I guess I’ll just have to wing it through like I don’t know anything, at least it seems the same people are here…hmmm if the third Kira isn’t Higuchi I wonder who it will be? They are already killing criminals apparently according to what L said earlier, so they are either playing being the first Kira to hid their own personal killings like the Yotsuba group did or they really do believe all that perfect world crap that I-Kira had preached about.’

Raito let out a slight sigh of frustration and decided it was time to wake L up, he didn’t want to continue this trail of thought, at least not until he had more information to work with.

He looked back down and couldn’t stop from jumping slightly in surprise when he saw unfathomable grey eyes staring back at him with an unreadable emotion swirling in them.

“O-oh L good morning I was just going to wake you…how long have you been up?”

L just stared at him unblinkingly for what seemed to be forever, when in reality was only about 30 seconds, but it was 29 seconds longer then it should have been.

Finally L slowly blinked once, twice then seemed to come to life.

“Good morning Raito-kun, I haven’t been up long…just enough.”

With that cryptic statement that left Raito completely baffled, L finally started to get up. Raito let his hand fall from L’s hair to lay beside him.

L leaning up by planting his hands on Raito’s chest, Raito was only just becoming aware of the awkwardness of their position.

When L started to move and squirm on top of him Raito became aware of something that was both humiliating and embarrassing.

Morning wood.

What L said next did not help one bit.

“It would seem that my close approximation with Raito-kun has made him, how do I say this? Stand up to attention.”

L tilted his head to the side with a fake thoughtful expression.

“It would seem that I was wrong with what I said yesterday about Raito-kun’s ability to get it up, it would seem that Raito-kun actually likes to get up a lot, how many times now has Raito-kun gotten hard because of me? Two? Three? Are there anymore times that this has happen previously because of me that I’m not aware of Raito-kun? Please tell me, I’m all ears.”

Raito gaped at L’s smirking face above him in disbelief.

‘T-that jerk!’

Raito suddenly pushed L off of him completely. Even though he was kind of pissed off at the moment at L he still made sure not to push L to hard, only so that he fell back onto the bed instead of falling off and hitting the floor, which he would have if Raito had pushed harder.

L who had fallen on his back on the bed stared wide eyed at Raito for a second before he started to laugh at Raito’s mortified and red face.

“Shut up L it’s not funny!”

Raito didn’t let it show but his anger had melted away the moment he heard L start to laugh freely, he didn’t even care that it was at his expense right now.

“I a-apologize Raito-kun, your right it’s not funny.”

L was able to finally stop laughing and let a serious expression over take his face, it lasted maybe 10 seconds before they both looked at each other then simultaneously looked back down at Raito’s current problem.
They both broke out in hysterical laughter not a second later.

Raito didn’t know why he was laughing, but it seemed like the laughter was to infectionous not to break out giggling.

After a few minutes of laughing they both were able to calm down enough to just lay there on the bed panting for breath.

Raito found to his profound relief that while he had been laughing his erection had gone away.

‘Not that getting turned on by L is a bad thing but we really don’t need that kind of distraction right now. First we need to deal with the matter of my father, then the Kira case. I need to go over the figures and evidence that has piled up in while I was incarcerated, and doesn’t that make me sound like a common criminal. Well anyway I need to see what’s different with this current Kira’s killing pattern if anything has changed at all. Also I really hope Sayu striped father this morning of any sharp objects at least, I remember what happened the last time a guy showed interest in me, we had to use some of my collage fund to pay the guy’s hospital bill after he sued dad for trying to light him on fire. And that guy only told me that I was very sexy and would have liked to have my phone number, which I guess wasn’t that bad but he did it within my father’s hearing distance. And Ryuzaki said that Sayu would be his future sister-in-law…he was basically saying that he was going to marry me…not that I would object, in fact I might just faint with happiness if that happened…either that or laugh myself silly if Ryuzaki got down on his knees and asked me to marry him…oh god that would be hilarious and so utterly cute and sexy...I need to stop this trail of thought now. ’

Raito let out a sigh and looked at the still panting Ryuzaki.

“We should get ready and get downstairs. It’s already late and I’m sure the rest of the task force will be here shortly.”

Ryuzaki slowly sat up and got of the bed, standing beside the bed that Raito was still in, he nodded his head in agreement.

“Raito-kun is right, it is quite a lot later then I would have liked it to be, I wonder why Watari didn’t wake us up? He knows that I don’t like oversleeping.”

“Oversleeping? How about sleeping in general you insomniac panda bear.”

Ryuzaki just shot him a dirty look before shuffling over to the small table he had placed his disabled gun and the handcuffs the night before. Raito saw that a smirk crossed Ryuzaki’s face as he caught sight of his stuffed bear counter part, which Raito had nestled right in between L’s rather sadistic toys.

Raito shook his head in bemusement and got out of bed himself. He gave a slightly lazy stretch but froze with his arms stretch out when Ryuzaki’s voice shattered the silence.

“Oh yes Raito-kun how are your injures? You seem to be feeling ok…if I didn’t know that you were attacked or see you bleeding yesterday I would say that you were perfectly in good health. What with all those bruises seemingly to vanishing overnight. ”

‘Shit, shit, shit! I can’t believe I forgot about that! Gods how stupid can I really be?! How the hell do I explain my moving around like I’m in prefect health? Which I am, I can feel that my body is all healed up…damn I don’t need this right now!’

Raito hid his snarled at his stupidly shown through. He would have to try to deflect Ryuzaki’s questions and accusations right now and for as long as he could. At least until Ryuzaki got too pissed off at him and forced the issue…actually he would prefer it that way. To have the choice taken away from him by L, it would make things easier for him, internally at least. It may have seemed like the cowards way out but he couldn’t help that.

Raito carefully made sure to place a mask of confusion and surprise on before turning back around to face Ryuzaki. He expected to see accusation and betrayal and suspicion and all sorts of negative emotions on Ryuzaki’s face, what he did not expect was to see simple curiosity shine on L’s face. That was it, nothing else.

Raito almost lost his mask right then and there. It seemed that whatever Ryuzaki was thinking about, Raito lying and plotting something sinister was not it.

“Umm…”

Raito looked down at himself to see exactly what Ryuzaki meant about his bruises being gone. He couldn’t snuff the gasp of shock as he saw that Ryuzaki was indeed right.

Any wound that he had be it cut or bruise, was gone.

He knew in his head that he had been healed, he had felt it. But it was an entirely different experience to see it with his own eyes.

Raito looked back up to see Ryuzaki still looking at him, waiting for something, anything, waiting for Raito to either lie, or tell the truth.

Raito decided to continue with his half-truths for now. In reality it really was the truth, kind of.

“I don’t know how my bruises are gone Ryuzaki…”

Ryuzaki had an unreadable expression on his face. He gave a half nod and asked.

“How about Raito-kun’s other injuries? Have they also healed as well?”

Raito decided to keep going, it seemed that Ryuzaki wasn’t mad at him or anything at the moment, besides Ryuzaki will have to sooner or later know about Raito’s recovery abilities, even if he didn’t need to know about the rest of it yet.

“Well let’s take a look see…”

With that Raito started to untwine the bandages around his stomach, very much aware of L’s heavy gaze on him.

When he finally let the last of the gauze fall from his hand to the floor, he really took a look at where he had been slashed at not 12 hours ago, there was no crusted blood anywhere thanks to the shower he had earlier. He lifted his hand, vaguely noting that it was trembling slightly, too where unblemished skin showed on his stomach. Except for a faint white line of new skin, you would have never known that he was injured.

He traced the area, feeling for himself the utter smoothness of his skin. He didn’t even really have to look to know that the injury on his leg was completely healed as well, most likely it was even further in the healed process then his stomach wound. He remembered seeing that it had healed faster because it was the more serious wound.

“Fascinating, very fascinating Raito-kun, did you know you would heal like this? Or are you really as surprised as your face suggests? ”

Raito froze, in his wonder at seeing his healed body he had forgotten completely that L was also seeing what he was seeing.

Raito looked up from his stomach and looked at L. He bit back a yell of surprise as he came almost nose to nose with L. It seemed that while he had preoccupied Ryuzaki had moved back to Raito, most likely to get a better look at the wounds, or what was left of them anyway, which wasn’t much.

Raito took a deep breath and imminently regretted it as the scent of strawberries assaulted his senses.

Raito managed to control himself from jumping L and kissing him senseless right then, it seemed that he had found his bane; the scent of L was enough for him to want to forget everything else. Forget his responsibilities, forget his plans, and forget his convictions. Forget about the Kira and his redemption and everything else. So that it would just be L and him, nothing else would matter but them.

It was dangerous.

‘I can’t…not yet, I have too much to do and deal with…but god this is so hard. How L? How did you get someone like me to love you so much? I was such a selfish and terrible person, but yet you are the most important person in my life…’

Raito let his thoughts trail off, it was better not to focus too much on the how and whys of L. It would just give him a headache and make him run around in circles like a dog chasing after its own tail. He would never catch it just like Raito will never know everything about his love.

“I am surprised Ryuzaki…last night I thought that my wounds looked a lot better then I thought they would be but…I just summed it up as me over exaggerating my wounds to myself, that’s why I didn’t say anything to you and why I may have been a little hesitant, ok a lot hesitant of you seeing my wounds last night. That’s also partially why I kind of blew up at you. I would like to apologize for that again even though you have forgiven me…still I can’t help but feel like a real bastard for what I said to you.”

Ryuzaki was looking straight at Raito’s face, his eye’s large and unblinking. When Raito finished speaking, L finally blinked and let a small smile cross his face.

“I understand why Raito-kun would be hesitant at confiding in me about his phenomenon healing. Especially added with his current visions…you were afraid that I would see it as proof of you being Kira right?”

Raito didn’t know it then, but that was how he had been feeling. At least on a subconsciously level, he had been afraid that L would start to accuse him of being Kira. He didn’t want to lose the sudden intimacy that they now had between them.

Raito nodded carefulness, showing that he was agreeing with Ryuzaki’s theory.

Ryuzaki moved slightly back, sighing in expiration and closing his eyes. He then opened them back up and moved his gaze from Raito’s confused and slightly frightened expression to Raito’s stomach where his hand was still resting lightly on top of where he had once been wounded.

Raito was shocked when he saw Ryuzaki lifted his own hand and placed it on top of Raito’s own hand, so that both of them were covering Raito’s stomach, he then twirled both of their hands together, clasping Raito’s hand tightly into his own.

Raito lifted his gaze which had fallen onto their clasped hands, he felt shocked, no not shocked he was down right perplexed by the silent message that L Lawliet had just conversed to him right now with that diminutive yet colossal gesture.

Raito looked into Ryuzaki’s face which shown with patience and understanding. There were still questions, and a lot of unanswered answers that needed to be addressed, there were a lot of unknowns and dangers on the path that lay before them. But none of that mattered right now, Raito couldn’t have felt more grateful right now, Ryuzaki was projecting all of the feelings he was feeling without letting the unnecessary words cloud between them up right now. It wasn’t fair to Ryuzaki or Raito but it was enough for now. Ryuzaki was saying that he would wait, wait till Raito felt he was ready to tell L everything. Be it something terrible as Raito being Kira or something wonderful…

L Lawliet would wait for Yagami Raito.

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Raito didn’t know how long they stood like that, with both of them still in their pajamas, Raito with his chest bare and them standing so close with their hands clasped and resting on Raito’s stomach. Just standing there staring into each others eyes and enjoying the moment of comfortable silence that had descended between them. But the moment was broken when they both heard a polite cough sound by the door.

They moved away from each other automatically as soon as they heard it, they both turned towards the door where Watari stood trying to keep the amusement from his face and failing.

“Well boys it’s about 6:30 and Yagami-san is already downstairs, if you want to get the enviable explosion done with you should probably get downstairs soon. If you let Yagami-san stew too much by himself and give him time to wonder why you are both late I can’t even begin to imagine the fireworks.”

With that said Watari walked inside and started too ruffled through the drawers pulling out clothing for both of his frozen chargers.

Raito shook himself out of his dazed state. It would seem that Watari was very adaptable; he seemed to no longer be surprised or upset with L’s and Raito’s new found intimacy. If Raito didn’t know any better he would say that Watari approved of it and was having fun embarrassing them.

“It would seem that Yagami-kun would no longer require any sort of medical assistance.”

‘Shit.’

Raito had forgotten that his chest was still bare and that his wounds were gone, showing everyone who saw him that he was now healed. Unnaturally so.

“Umm…yes I no longer seem to need anything…Watari-san…”

Watari shook his head as Raito tried to explain himself, Raito didn’t know what he would say to him, if he couldn’t explain himself to Ryuzaki it was even harder to explain to Watari.

But it seemed that Watari didn’t require any sort of explanation.

“If Ryuzaki seems to have no cause for alarm then neither do I Yagami-kun.”

Raito was once again shocked into silence, it would seem that Watari was a lot more loyal then he had first expected. Ryuzaki who had moved towards the dresser nodded his head at Watari, who silently nodded back. It was like a private conversation was going on between them and Raito kind of felt like he was intruding a bit.

The feeling left when Ryuzaki suddenly started to strip off his bed cloths.

Raito blushed and quickly inverted his eyes. He didn’t know why but he felt like it was rude to stare at Ryuzaki was he was undressing, even if they had kissed.

Raito gave a start as Watari suddenly appeared in his vision and handed him some cloths to wear. Raito was glad to see that they were his own cloths too, it would have felt weird to wear some of Ryuzaki’s clothing, especially if his father was downstairs gunning down for Ryuzaki’s blood, he didn’t want to add ammunition for his father to use.

Raito gave a grateful smile to Watari who just nodded back and moved back to help Ryuzaki with whatever he was doing at the moment.

Raito felt kind of weird undressing and dressing in front of both Ryuzaki and Watari but he knew he had to get use to doing it, he knew that before they both left, Ryuzaki and him will have to apply the handcuffs, and this time there will be no taking them off until Ryuzaki was certain that Raito was not Kira. 100 percent certain.

Raito took off the bandages around his leg also, there was no need to have it anymore, the two people that he would have wanted to hid his healed wounds from already knew about them, so he no longer had to conceal them anymore. It didn’t last long, but truthfully he didn’t really try to hid it, he knew that if he had really been determined to hid his healed wounds he would have found a way and Ryuzaki and Watari wouldn’t have found out until he showed them himself. But that was it, he hadn’t been determined, he was being careless on purpose, maybe it was that he was tired of hiding everything, maybe it was because he was weary and just wanted to show a bit of the truth of himself. He was changed he knew that, he wasn’t Kira, but he wasn’t the old Raito either, he was almost like a whole new person, someone who felt emotions and felt remorse, he was no longer a sociopath in any sense. Even with his shinigami powers and form, he was now more human then he had ever been before.

After he had finished putting on his cloths, which consisted of a red dress shirt and black slacks he turned back around to look back at Ryuzaki and Watari.

He gave a sigh of annoyance, as he saw that they both were having a silent stand-off, in Watari’s arms was the light weight bullet proof vest, but Ryuzaki had his arms crossed and an expression that screamed ‘no fucking way’.

Ryuzaki was dressed in his usual attire, a white long sleeved shirt and baggy jeans and of course no shoes of any kind.

Raito gave let out another sigh and walked over to try to help Watari fight L’s eternal stubbornness. Why did they want to help him again?

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It took almost half and hour for Watari and Raito to convince L to wear the damned vest, they also had to counter promise, L could take his gun, but it had to be empty of any ammunition. He could only use it to scare Yagami-san if he felt that he was threatened enough to justify using it.

Raito gave a near silent sigh of relief, he forgotten how completely stubborn L could be when he wanted to be.

“Ok then Watari if you can go downstairs, I believe the rest of the team should be there by now. Please inform them that we will be down momentarily and that I expect them to be working when I get down there.”

Watari gave a nod and turned around and left the room. Watari wouldn’t quite tell the team what L said, at least not exactly like that, but he will inform them of the arrival of both Yagami-kun and L, to at least prepare the other members of the investigation at least of the impending explosion.

Raito and Ryuzaki both watched as Watari left the room and then looked at each other in almost a synced moment. Raito couldn’t help but look away in slight embarrassment. What now?

“Well Raito-kun if you would give me your hand for a moment we can leave.”

Raito looked back at Ryuzaki who was now dangling the handcuff chain in front of him.

Raito walked over to Ryuzaki and stretched his hand out in front of him.

He felt himself shiver as he felt the cold metal close over his wrist. He heard the clip as Ryuzaki also locked his own wrist with the other end of the handcuff.

Raito looked at the metal ring on his own wrist then looked followed the chain towards where it ended to the other end, at L’s own wrist.

They were once more connected, for the first time for Ryuzaki but it was the second time for Raito, and even if Raito had already experienced all this once, he couldn’t help but feel unsecure with the closeness that the handcuffs now forced upon them.

Raito moved his gaze from Ryuzaki’s cuffed hand to his face. What he saw made all the uncertainty vanish, Ryuzaki was trying to give him an encouraging smile, it wasn’t the best out there, because he could tell that Ryuzaki was himself uncertain about either comforting Raito or uncertain about the situation itself, but that was what calmed Raito, Ryuzaki was showing that he also was uncertain himself but he still was trying to make Raito feel more comfortable with the situation, and that showed once again how much Ryuzaki cared.

Raito felt a smile spilt his face; he saw an answering smile speed on Ryuzaki’s face in return.

“Well Ryuzaki I guess there’s nothing left but to go downstairs and face whatever we need to.”

Raito wasn’t just talking about his father, but he felt that Ryuzaki knew that when he nodded his consent.

“Yes Raito-kun, we are quite late as it is, I believe that today will be quite the eye-opener, in more ways then one.”

Raito was a little confused as to what Ryuzaki meant but let it go. Let Ryuzaki be cryptic if he wanted to be.
As long as no one got shot today or died he felt that nothing could go wrong.

Raito should have known better then to chance fate by thinking that.

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Mon aimé, je t'aime – My beloved, I love you

Aww how sweet, Raito said he loved L…even though L was unconscious for it…or was he? XD

I will try to have the next chapter up as soon as possible! I PROMISE!!!! If not you have my permission to sic Misa on me… (Shudders in fear)


I’m also working on a one-shot AU Halloween fic called ‘A Cemetery Romance’; it should be up within the next few days along with the next part of this chapter! It’s kind of a cute story really…a bit ooc maybe but it’s a complete AU so it’s aloud to be. XD

So what do you all think? I know it’s short and there isn’t as much as I promised there would be but oh well. How about Ryuzaki’s reaction to seeing Raito’s unnatural healing? I was going to make him angry and have the chapter angsty but…I liked this better, he’s acting a lot more mature then he would have been but I like mature yet childish L, he’s much more fun to write, though he will be getting quite angry at Raito soon…XD

He is suspicious people; he’s just hiding it, Cunning L! But he does care for Raito and is willing to wait till Raito’s ready…for now…hehe

Please Review! I will try to have the next chapter up soon so you don’t have to worry about that…still I would like to see what you all think about what’s happening…please?