Futatsu no Tsuki

Futatsu no Tsuki

Chapter 12

The morning sun shined brightly just a short stretch from the horizon, rising slowly as clouds coasted by. Souichiro leaned back in the driver's seat of his car after pulling onto a side street and parking. He sighed then turned to Yue sitting in the passenger seat. The teen wore a short sleeve shirt with fishnet arm warmers covering the white bandages on his arms; legs clothed in deep black jeans.

"Yue." Souichiro paused, massaging his temple after taking off his glasses. Placing them back on his face he continued. "Light told me you snuck out last night and returned around 3 this morning."

"Yes, I did."

"Mind telling me what for?" Souichiro focused his eyes on the dashboard, commanding himself to not mention knowing his youngest son was investigating Kira. L did not mention informing Yue about things yesterday, and though the words burned in his throat to tell Yue not to investigate, he could not risk mentioning it first. As he waited for his second son's response, he recalled Matsuda's call from earlier that morning - about the hacking of Police headquarters and FBI headquarters. L had taken the phone from Matsuda halfway through the latter's rambling and had told Souichiro to find out if Yue had been out last night and if so, where.

Yue turned towards his father, eyebrows raised thoughtfully - his rested brain considering all possible responses. Glancing at his reflection in the side mirror, he closed his eyes briefly as he settled for the direct response.

"Didn't L already mention it? I wish to investigate Kira, which I started to last night." Yue's eyelids flickered as he witnessed his father's quick intake of breath and surprised-dressed lips and eyebrows. 'Guess this is proof Ryuga is L and not some attractive nut job.'

Souichiro felt his blood pressure and temperature rise as Yue's words and their meaning lay themselves before him.

"He told you about things? About the investigation? About him?" The police chief squeezed the steering wheel, remembering L's words from yesterday - how the socially inept detective had skirted around answering whether he told Yue or not. Succeeding in deceiving the taskforce without actually lying. "….he could've at least mentioned it to me. And he said he wouldn't pit Yue against Light….was that a lie?"

Caramel eyes darted from the dash board to the side mirror as Yue listened to his father's last sentence, realizing how irritated Souichiro had to be to forget he'd been talking to Yue. The younger Yagami twin pulled some stray strands of black hair behind his ears, providing an unhindered view of his face as he answered.

"Father. I am investigating to prove aniki innocent as I believe and hope he is. Furthermore, technically L did not tell me about himself - I figured it out during our conversation due to me by chance alone meeting him abroad two years ago for a brief encounter, as well as some things he mentioned during the conversation yesterday."

"Yue….you….what?" Souichiro's mind reeled under the onslaught of his second son's revelation. Such a direct, truthful answer after so long working with a detective intent on keeping secrets was refreshing and awkward. It took him a few seconds to process the full meaning of the words. "Yue….you….met L before? But….how…..when….I….why didn't he mention it before….?"

"It happened a short time after the Los Angeles BB murder case. It wasn't quite such a memorable encounter that one would expect a detective like him to bother remembering. It took him until just after we started talking yesterday to remember meeting me before." Yue felt the part truthful, part deceptive explanation slip from his tongue, his caramel eyes locked on his father's face.

Souichiro absorbed the information quietly, brain working unceasingly as he squeezed the steering wheel once more, then slowly released it. He almost gave into relief as the anger lightened, but once the other information was processed he realized the meaning of Yue's first sentence.

"Yue, did you suspect before that Light…."

"Father, no. I simply decided that Kira would have to be someone with a genius IQ if he could elude L's grasp for so long. That detective is known for solving most cases fairly quickly. Therefore I planned to investigate high school and college students who scored high on exams first. Investigating aniki is simply because all avenues must be considered." Yue waited, sitting up straight in the passenger seat, arms placed in relaxed positions as he studied his father's face for signs of disbelief. As the police chief's face expressed relief, Yue shifted his eyes to the dashboard.

'….oh how truthful words can deceive….though like I suspected, L must not inform the officers working with him of everything he thinks or does. Or else there would be less likelihood I could avoid being questioned too much about what I said.'

"If we're going to have that special father-son reunion breakfast you mentioned before you must drop me off at To-oh, we need to get back on the road now, father."

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Light grimaced as he left the lecture hall and took out his cell phone, brown eyes quickly noting the time - a little before 10:30. He glanced out the nearest window overlooking the University's entrance gate, immediately scoffing at the thought and turning away.

'Dad would've brought Yue in before now, so now Yue is probably speaking with the academic advisor about what classes he should take. Though….' Light strode towards the university's main building which housed the guidance center, responding politely to the various greetings of his fellow students along the way - only half paying attention to the whispers among them about his perfect score on the entrance exam. Until, that is, he heard their whispers concerning Yue - he bit his inner cheek as he absorbed their words without showing he was listening.

"Isn't that transfer student even smarter though? He got a perfect score on the test given to transfer students, which is much harder than the regular entrance exam and has a higher cut off score."

"Yeah, that's amazing. More incredible - did you hear the transfer student's name? It's Yue Yagami - and is written with the exact same kanji as Light Yagami's."

"What? No way! How?"

"I thought it peculiar too, especially since they look similar, so I checked out the high school and junior high school written in Light Yagami's student profile - Yue's only provided the name of the university he transferred over from abroad."

"You were able to look that up, how?"

"My dad's an advisor here, anyway, guess what I found out. Light Yagami and Yue Yagami are brothers - twins actually since they were in the same class during junior high. For some reason however, Yue Yagami went to school abroad for high school…."

"What? Are they from a family of geniuses or something?"

Light reached the door to a nearby lavatory as another student joined the first two in gossip; this student had a mischievous glint in her eyes as she opened her mouth. With a jolt, Light froze, he'd recognized her from junior high - she'd been one of the most prolific gossipers in the school.

"Oooh, you want to know about the Yagami brothers? Well, I went to the same junior high and guess what? Yue Yagami got expelled for punching a teacher. And he also skipped out on high school entrance exams. After that he got sent to some relative abroad or something."

"Oh, so he's a genius delinquent? Wow, sounds cool. You think he'd go out with me?"

"Haha, you'll have to ask him, who knows? Anyway, here's something even juicier - the teacher Yue assaulted was recently arrested for having sex with his students."

"Whoa. Do you think Yue….."

Light quickly entered the men's lavatory and locked himself in one of the stalls, heart pounding as the idea of what that homeroom teacher did to Yue returned to his thoughts. Inside him, the jealousy he felt when hearing that Yue received a perfect score on a harder test drowned under the guilt mixed with anger at not realizing what Hirose had done.

"I'm the older brother. Damn it. I should've protected him. I should've known something was wrong. Fuck!" Light struck his fist against the stall wall, surprising Ryuk as the shinigami hovered around the sinks. The human habits of bathing and using restrooms being things he found uninteresting and gross, Ryuk generally waited out of sight whenever Light bathed or used the rest room. Now however, Light's uncharacteristic outburst attracted him to peek in on the teen.

"Whatcha doing, Light?"

"Ryuk. Shut up." The brunette growled, low enough for only the shinigami to hear, his fist still pressed against the wall. The expression on his face chilled and stopped Ryuk cold - slowly however, Light regained composure and exhaled. "I can't believe how much Yue's return has affected me. But I need to set priority to Ryuga instead. Once L is dealt with I can do the worst to Hirose. His actions nearly killed Yue 5 years ago…."

'Though wouldn't things be simpler if Yue had died?' The thought crept up before Light could prevent it. He showed no outward signs as it raced through his mind. 'I wouldn't be faced with the possibility of having to write his name in the death note, thus endangering myself, if he'd already died.'

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Yue stretched as he exited the academic advisor's office, courses set for the first semester; the advance courses held off until the second semester. He yawned and stepped through the door leading outside, sleep soft eyes gazing at the sapphire sky littered with clouds above. It struck him that the expanse of sky seemed like an ocean dotted with fluffy pillows, and his body yearned for more sleep.

'I should've skipped yesterday. Jetlag is a pain.' Once more he stretched, tired eyes searching the campus grounds from the entrance. 'If I remember correctly, the building housing the independent study classrooms is on the east side of campus. Now that would be passed that group of trees and benches to the left.'

Legs set on their purpose it took only a handful of minutes to get there, and he opened the door prior to glancing around. His heart thumped gleefully when he heard a familiar voice greet him from a few feet away.

"Yue-san, I need to speak with you privately." L approached the teen, motioning Yue to follow him toward an emptied but public clearing. Yesterday's kissing bout revealed how dangerous private areas were with the teen. It took only point three seconds however for Yue to pull L into one of the empty self-study classrooms; the teen locking the door with his left hand while his right arm hooked the detective against his chest. His hungry lips taking L's mouth into a bruising kiss, Yue forced the detective back against one of the room's study tables. The tiredness of his body vanished as the eighteen year old felt the older man responding to his ministrations.

L trembled as he felt Yue's right hand snake under his pristine white shirt, lithe fingers trailing up his spine. The 18 year old's left hand trailed up his front, stopping at the detective's right nipple. Gasp cut off by warm, thin lips crashing down on his, L moaned as a hot tongue slipped inside his mouth.

"Ah." Yue breathed as he felt the detective's body respond to his onslaught; the heat spread from between his legs as he pushed L onto one of the tables. Hungry lips moving to L's neck, Yue leaned closer against the older man, pressing their bodies together. L's skin and hair smelled sweet, as though he bathed himself in sugar, and so too was the taste of the paper white skin.

"Yue . . . . We shouldn't really . . . ." L panted, his sex-starved body unused to the onslaught of hands, mouth, and the groin rubbing against his. He closed his dark eyes, grabbing onto Yue as the 18 year old licked his left nipple, teasing the rosy nub before engulfing it with warm lips. "Ah."

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Light glared at the clock on the left side wall of the lecture hall as he sat down, the short break before the next class hour wasted searching for Yue around the school advisor's office. He pursed his lips and composed himself as a student once the class began, though he only half paid attention to the lecture - most of what the professor was teaching he already knew.

'What a waste, this guy is just repeating verbatim what is in the book. If I didn't need to keep up appearances, I could be searching for Yue and finding out if he knows anything. It would be simpler if Yue had to attend class right now, but the professor for his 11am class today is out until next week. That makes this the perfect time for L to meet with him if he hasn't already.'

The brown-haired eighteen year old flipped open his cell phone away from the professor's eye and found the number and email of Yue's cell. Prior to Yue waking that morning, he'd used the cell in Yue's pocket to send himself a message, thus providing him with the younger Yagami's number. Further he had scanned through the call history of the caramel eyed teen's cell phone and found most of it deleted. He did, however read a strange message from someone named Tenichi, that simply stated that Yue was correct about some man being a stalker and that Tenichi would call him later. The strangeness of the message, Light figured, mostly came from not knowing what it referred to - it could be something from abroad that Yue had gotten involved in, and thus unrelated to Kira. Yet there was the way Tenichi referred to Yue in the message - 7123 - just that four digit number, that piqued Light's curiosity.

'What does 7123 mean? Some code referring to Yue's name? But why would he need a code? And how does a four digit number refer to Yue which is written with one kanji, or two kana characters. Even if written in romaji it's still only three letters….our family name doesn't fit either….so maybe it refers to an alias Yue used while a runaway?'

Light stared ahead, seeming like he was interested in the professor's speech, while he thought about the message and its meaning - even if had nothing to do with his brother's investigation on Kira, he had to be sure.

'I'll send him a text to meet me for lunch by the independent-study classrooms. Then I'll ask him about the message and if Ryuga told him anything. I also have to seek out a meeting with Ryuga again, though I figure Ryuga will seek me out some time later today himself.'

After Light finished and sent his text, he closed his phone and placed it back in his pocket - the ringer on silent. Once class was over he'd check it for Yue's response.

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Yue lay next to L on the table, winding down from his ecstasy - shirt and arm warmers discarded somewhere on the floor, pants unbuttoned and unzipped. His caramel eyes studied the detective's rising and falling chest, then shifted to the pale face - those onyx black irises hidden behind half-closed lids made the otherwise unexpressive man seem human.

Pleasure gradually left the raven haired man's face, his breaths slowed to their normal pace. Slowly his eyelids fluttered completely open, the capacity of his brain to think returning as the thick fog of pleasure melted away. Sharp shivers ran along his spine as he felt gentle hands wiping off his stomach with tissues. His eyes widened then narrowed.

"Yue. This cannot happen again. It isn't right to have such a questionable relationship - you are my suspect's brother after all. As well as the son of an officer working on the Taskforce..."

The gentle hands paused, resuming their cleanup after Yue's lips became a thin line with a slight upwards curve. The 18 year old tossed the tissue into a nearby wastebasket, then zipped and buttoned up his jeans, noting L doing the same in his peripheral vision. Quietly he stopped the detective from picking up the long sleeve white shirt hanging on one of the chairs.

"Why? I could be an ally."

"..." L glanced briefly at the white bandages wrapped tightly around Yue's arms, eyes unreadable. "... Yue, when I find evidence to convict your brother, he will be executed. It will be problematic to have you as an ally. You're trying to prove he's innocent..."

"And you don't want it to become like Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, huh?"

L missed the slight bitterness in Yue's voice and simply nodded, moving out of the teen's reach.

"Then you understand." The detective swiftly put his shirt back on, back turned to Yue who leaned against the edge of the table. He dug into his pocket and took out his cell phone, holding it with his finger and thumb. 'It's close to when Watari will be here to pick me up. I didn't get to talk with Light at all today.'

The detective gasped as Yue suddenly wrapped his thin, bandaged arms around L's shoulders; his heart thumped in his chest as thin lips whispered in his ear.

"What if I don't want to understand?"

"Yue, I'll use force if necessary. Let go." L replied, voice carrying a harsh tone that froze Yue.

The teen swallowed and lowered his arms to his sides, turning away with his gentle eyes covered by his dyed black hair. He bit down on his bottom lip as he heard L's footsteps approach the door, the sound of it opening pulled his next words from his throat.

"It's likely someone else I knew was killed by Kira." Yue picked up his shirt and arm-warmers, schooling his face into an emotionless mask worthy of any of his brother's. "...and I will not forgive the ones responsible for his death."

L fought the whim to linger at the door or glance back at Yue, only superficially listening to the teen's parting words.