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Fever Dreams	By : sashocirrione Category: Death Note > Yaoi-Male/Male > L/Light Views: 2733 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER 14
Waking up with L usually wasn't a big deal. L was generally willing to wait and be quiet until it was time for normal people to get up. Even working on his laptop, L could be surprisingly still and silent. But this morning, in the series of rooms that formed some kind of emergency bunker deep within the Kira task force investigation headquarters, L was determined and aggressive about the idea of both of them being up at five in the morning. Freaking five in the morning!
Today, L was a blanket-snatcher and a bed bouncer and didn't hesitate to lean entirely too close with his stinky morning breath. Ugh! L wasn't going to get any kisses until he brushed his teeth. Fleeing to other beds didn't help, and finally Light listened and heard about the time-lock mechanism and how L needed to do all these things with Light by his side, because he couldn't just watch the other rooms on the security cameras, no, that would be too sensical for L.
Still, L did kind of have a point. Kira was afraid to do much when watched directly. That trick with the potato chip bag would have never worked if L had been in the same room instead of watching it all remotely. So, Light let L drag him along, actually going to sleep at the kitchen table before being dragged off for the morning routine in the bathroom. When L stepped into the shower, or rather showers, considering how many of them there were all lined up together, Light was finally starting to wake up a bit, and the water woke him up the rest of the way.
Well, L needed to pay for what he'd done; he needed to create enough pleasure to offset the misery. Light quickly convinced L to let him wash his body, and things went from there in the expected direction. L was easy to seduce. It made it less of a challenge, but it was also very gratifying that L didn't resist or deny it, that he could be convinced without going through a lot of trouble. Very quickly, they were involved in a double hand job, and L came right away, like usual.
Light responded by pushing him down to the floor and getting on top of him, unsure whether he wanted to continue things here or in bed or perhaps against the wall or maybe on a table - did the emergency supplies stashed here include actual lube? That would make things easier. But regardless of where or how things happened, there was a desire to not stop touching L just yet, and the showers were so warm. The spray felt wonderful, and having L underneath, unresisting, it wasn't something to walk away from soon, especially with no Rem voyeur at the moment.
Was Rem calmed down by now? She had seemed to be, and she'd been rather thoroughly backed into a corner. Even if things went badly, Rem shouldn't kill anyone, since she couldn't gain anything for Misa that way. Rem knew it would be a disaster; she'd had the logic of the situation pounded into her head rather forcefully.
The only way things could go wrong now, was if they went so wrong that it was obvious there was no chance of saving Misa. And in that case, Rem would be helpless to act as long as Misa was alive, but Rem would then take her revenge after the fact. Everyone involved would die. It would be a massacre. But, no, that wouldn't happen. The plan was airtight. The entire case would stall soon, and it would stay stalled. There wouldn't be any more revelations of new information, so it had to stall.
But still, and maybe it was the sleep deprivation or some other kind of insanity, Light found himself telling L that he loved him. It was a stupid thing to say, and it wouldn't change anything, but then it never would be the right time, would it? L was just going to file it away as another ploy or a cause for suspicion. Light had a flare of hope that maybe, if L did die, it would give L a bit of comfort in his last moments, but then Light had to chide himself internally for even thinking that much.
No, it wouldn't comfort L; it would just make him more confused. L didn't want confusion, he wanted clarity, a clarity that would always be denied to him. But, still, Light couldn't help cradling L tenderly in his arms and telling him he'd never kill him, no, not even if he were Kira.
But perhaps that statement was just a kind of emotional security, so that if the unthinkable happened, it would be possible to walk away afterwards not feeling like a murderer, knowing for sure that it had been an accident and nothing else. But no, if things did go wrong, and they wouldn't, but if they did, it was just about certain they would both die. Another path was being traveled on now, and once again there was no way back. The plan would work, or death would result, probably for absolutely everyone.
L responded to these declarations of love and non-violence with arms wrapping tightly around Light's back, but L snuggled silently, with closed eyes, and he felt distant, remote. He'd been affected, but probably not in a good way.
Light felt terrible. He'd gone too far, and it had just messed things up, hadn't it? There had been quite a lot of fun, and mutual release of sexual tension, and now it was going to get weird because of some words that hadn't been thought out carefully. Or maybe it wouldn't get weird because L had been expecting something like this all along, and he'd never take it the least bit seriously.
But then, L's body language became decisively different, and, heedless of their wet bodies, he grabbed Light's hand and dragged him out of the bathroom and into bed. All at once, it was aggressive and intense. L was needy and demanding, and he even got quite uppity. Light let him. After all, it was sex they both wanted, so it wasn't losing in any way that counted, especially when L was begging to be penetrated and responding to everything with such enthusiasm. No, it was much better to have a partner like this who wanted to be on the bottom than to have arguments about it every single time and sometimes be forced to go without because no agreement could be reached.
After sex, Light tried to convince L that he needed to learn how to perform oral sex properly. Deep-throating was the only thing L lacked. Everything else about L giving oral sex was simply mind-blowing, and it was unthinkable to not teach him how to do the rest. It would only get better. It just took practice and a few small pointers.
But L was still being uppity, complaining about choking the previous time and trying to use the stereotype of the uke and the seme to argue that since he was the recipient for anal sex, he shouldn't have to give oral sex. That simply wasn't acceptable.
And then, when pressed on that point, L gave in immediately but made switching roles at least once part of the deal; he wanted to be the one to penetrate, L wanted to be the seme next time.
Well done, L, but you haven't really tricked me. This was going to happen sooner or later.
Still, it was worrying to think about what could happen. What if L decided he liked it much better that way and sex from then on turned into a true struggle? That wouldn't be fun.
But, what truly wasn't fun was what happened after the time-lock opened the doors. Watari had apparently given up on trying to stop the sex, but then he had to go and act like an over concerned parent with a child who was going through puberty. Or, rather, like an even weirder and more intrusive version of that.
Watari had ordered who knows what from adult store catalogs. Most of it was still sealed up in the plain cardboard boxes it had come shipped in, and Light was afraid of even looking. Watari made sure to draw attention to two open boxes, one full of condoms and the other full of lube.
Well, the lubricants would be useful at least, but all this was way too embarrassing. Kissing L in public and knowing that at least one person would skim through the sex videos and having Rem occasionally watch some of it was bad enough without some old geezer dishing out sex ed and probably moving the entire inventory of an adult store into their bedroom. There probably wasn't even room in the dressers and closets for the contents of those boxes.
L, that bastard, was completely unfazed by it all. He was actually reading the book for young teenagers that he'd picked up from the pile, instead of pretending to read. Light paged through his book in a huff, placing his gaze on the page but not really absorbing anything.
Then, in the middle of that, Rem drifted through the wall.
She said, "The surveillance of Misa has caught something. I don't think it matters, but it worries me. She is being followed."
Well, Rem, what do you expect me to do about it? It's probably those Yotsuba guys getting paranoid and hiring a private detective, and it won't come to anything in the end.
When they both finished their books and went downstairs, there were a whole bunch of new cameras being installed. L had an explanation for them that sounded good, but there was something amiss about the situation...
No, this was just another case of L overdoing things to a ridiculous degree. Such as installing sixty-four cameras in just one bedroom or building a skyscraper as an investigation headquarters when you had just six investigators. L thought that if you put enough effort and gadgets into a problem, it would somehow become solved. It was perhaps his biggest flaw.
Then there was a short argument where everyone was discussing the topic of whether Light had really showed evidence of being able to see around corners or not, and it sounded as if things had been suitably muddled by all the points he'd brought up the previous night.
I wonder if they stopped watching and just listened to the audio once sexual things began to happen... no, it is better if I don't think about those things at all...
Then, Aizawa and Mogi threatened to quit over the compromising sexual relationship between a suspect and the lead detective.
L responded by saying, "I understand. When there was a disagreement about how to catch the Yotsuba Kira, we decided I'd be given one month to do it my way. If Light is Kira, I think I can catch him that quickly. Will you allow me to keep my reasoning secret until then and do things my own way?"
That had to be a bluff. Light allowed himself a brief glance at Rem and saw that she was looking worried, but not as much as the previous times when she'd gotten so jumpy at new information coming out. Good. She was beginning to accept the situation and settle into her proper role. The more false alarms that happened without actually changing the status quo, the more she would come to see that the plan was flawless and would work out just as planned, unless a shinigami did something incredibly stupid to mess it up.
Matsuda said, "Ryuzaki, you still think Light could be Kira?"
Before L could answer, Aizawa said, "Matsuda! After everything we've seen, you should know it is possible. Light might be Kira."
Aiber said, "Light has the traits of a top-notch con man. If he's lying to us, it wouldn't be easy to detect it."
Soichiro said, "Ryuzaki, if a month goes by without more evidence against my son, will he be cleared?"
L looked almost sad as he said, "No. A lack of proof for one theory doesn't mean the opposing theory must be true. But if Light is Kira and I cannot prove it within that time period, it is likely we'll all be dead. Kira is nervous about the possibility of us catching him, or there would not have been an attack on headquarters. I do not think Kira can afford to play a waiting game with us, waiting for suspicion to die out over time."
Is that what you really think, L? You think I can't wait you out? Or is this a trick of some kind? Well, I'll do nothing, and you'll slowly lose, day by day, until I've completely defeated you. It doesn't matter what scheme you try, you'll still lose.
Aizawa said, "One month, huh?"
"Yes," L said, "I believe that is all the time I require. I would like all of you to stay and help. If you quit the investigation and go home, it will not make you any safer if Light is Kira. He would still want to kill you for what you already know. And, if Light isn't Kira, then what I am doing with him is a private issue with no effect on the investigation."
Aizawa looked at Mogi.
Mogi said, "Yes, I'll stay that long."
All around the room, there were general mumbles of agreement. Even Wedy removed her cigarette from her mouth long enough to mumble a quick, "I'll give you that much of a chance."
With nervous glances from side to side, Matsuda said, "But, but, even if Light were Kira, how could we investigate? I mean, if he can supposedly hear and see everything we do, no matter where we go, then we can't make any progress, right? So, wouldn't it be pointless?"
L said, "I am investigating him in some ways that I'm keeping secret from everyone. Also, if we find critical evidence against Light, then he would be forced to act whether he wanted to or not, and that action would prove his identity as Kira."
L was looking quite smug. Light wanted to smash that look right off his face, but that wouldn't accomplish anything. No, it was important to be charming, not violent. Suspicion had gotten a little too high lately. Docility, along with the passing of more time, would dull that suspicion. It was all Rem's fault for going into a sudden panic about the deductions L typed on his computer screen, but it could be fixed. Nobody could resist the trademark Light Yagami charm for too long. In the end, everyone gave in. Even L wasn't immune, though he was the hardest one to fool about anything.
Watari said, "Since everyone is staying for now, why don't we get to work? Ryuzaki, the cameras outside Misa's apartment and at her workplace have revealed two men following her. They were behind her when she went out of camera range in the street outside her apartment, and they were still behind her when she arrived at work, though they did not try to enter her modeling studio. They are staking out her workplace in an unmarked van and probably intend to follow her home."
Matsuda said, "Maybe we can follow them back to the second Kira, the one who tricked Misa-Misa into sending those videos!"
L said, "It is more likely that the Yotsuba group became overly frightened and decided to hire a private detective to investigate Misa on their own."
Watari said, "Ryuzaki, I could compare those men's faces to every known employee of private detectives in Japan, and I can also trace all the Yotsuba money to the recipients."
L said, "I'll probably have you do that in a few moments. There is a faster way to resolve the situation. I'll call Namikawa and ask."
Light said, "These are the guys who once talked about finding L's location and dropping a missile on it. We need to protect Misa."
L gave him a strange look.
Light said, "Hey, just because I don't like Misa, that doesn't mean I want anything bad to happen to her. What if the Yotsuba guys decided to have her killed on the slight chance she might be the second Kira? You need to make it clear that they'll be arrested if anything like that happens to Misa."
Matsuda said, "Poor Misa-Misa! She's been through so much!"
L dryly said, "Don't worry, I'm sure they won't do anything to her. The only issue is that we need to keep them from interfering with our own investigation."
In the next few moments, L had pulled out his cellphone and was talking to Namikawa. From L's side of the conversation, it was clear that Namikawa had confirmed that there had been a secret meeting in a new location and that the six Yotsuba survivors had voted to have Misa investigated.
As soon as Namikawa had finished explaining all the details, L said, "Please do not have private meetings about these issues. If there is a Kira among you who wishes to manipulate you for his own purposes, meetings I don't know about could be an opportunity. You could end up as slaves of Kira again. Also, in regards to Misa Amane, I did not wish to tell you this before, but now I have no choice. She once had contact with the second Kira, and she has been under almost constant surveillance since that time in hopes that the second Kira will try to contact her again. Putting her with Higuchi was part of a plan to flush out the second Kira. It is extremely unlikely that Misa Amane is the second Kira, but if you continue to investigate her, it will interfere with what I am doing and it could lead to the second Kira getting away. Also, since I am aware of your actions, if any members of your group panic and try to do something illegal to Misa, such as hiring a hit man, you will be caught immediately and fully prosecuted."
Rem looked pleased to hear L's cover story, and L seemed to be satisfied by whatever Namikawa was saying to him in return. When L slipped his cellphone back into his pocket, he said, "This won't be a problem any more. Watari, will you follow up on this and if Misa's followers are not removed within a few hours, make sure nothing else is going on with the situation? I believe Namikawa has no motive to lie, but we need to be sure."
Watari said, "Of course, Ryuzaki. I will trace all their recent phone calls and exchanges of money as well."
L said, "Thank you, Watari."
Then he turned to Aizawa and Mogi, who by now had scaled the opposing wall with their ladders and were installing another panel of mini-cameras.
L said, "When you two are done with the cameras, I would like both of you to accompany Chief Yagami to his house and oversee the dismantling of the structure and the moving of all those possessions. Everyone will need to be in biohazard suits to fit with the hoax we're using. Wedy, I have a small warehouse reserved for storing and documenting everything, and for taking apart each object and item of furniture to search inside it. I would like you to be the one to perform those searches."
Matsuda said, "What can I do to help?"
L replied, "As soon as the new cameras and software are working to edit all our videos, I would like you and Aiber to perform extensive spot-checking on the edited versions, searching for any face that hasn't been erased. There are so many cameras that it would be impossible to check every moment of all of the video, but I think you can manage checking the footage at intervals of five minutes. If you find any intact faces other than Light's face, notify me immediately so we can examine the problem and adjust the software."
Then L walked, tugging Light along on the end of the chain, and settled into his computer chair. With a few keystrokes, he had video playing on the large monitors of Misa's modeling studio, showing multiple views of her posing while the photographer took her picture. As the hours passed, everyone headed off to their assigned tasks and L continued to watch Misa change into and out of various outfits, until finally she was done for the day and headed home. Her followers were gone by then.
L continued to watch Misa at her apartment as she fixed a small meal, and then ate, relaxed and watched some television. An hour and a half after Misa got home, it happened. Misa picked up her phone and called Nobuko Sato. L was immediately at attention.
Nobuko was the girl Misa had tricked into helping her make "occult videos" to send to Sakura TV, the former friend she hadn't had any contact with for months. Nobuko Sato's fingerprints were all over the Kira videos, but none of Misa's fingerprints were. L had long ago thoroughly investigated Nobuko with no results, considering her to be nothing other than Misa's pawn. All the physical evidence on the Kira tapes and envelopes apart from Nobuko's fingerprints had been linked decisively to Misa's room, not to Nobuko.
Misa exchanged greetings with a surprised Nobuko and then, once the pleasantries were done, Misa said, "Nobuko, I wanted to ask you about poltergeists."
The audio of Nobuko from the bugged phone came over the speakers loud and clear, the tone incredulous, "Poltergeists? I thought you didn't believe in that stuff."
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! This is about Ryuk's stupid pranks, isn't it?
Well, Ryuk had promised not to do it any more, and he'd cleared out of Misa's place as soon as he'd seen Wedy arrive and start installing hidden cameras, so there wasn't any evidence it had actually happened, and from Ryuk's description, Misa hadn't actually seen anything directly, so it shouldn't mean anything. It would be just another pointless distraction to occupy L, and maybe Rem would get slightly worked up, but then she'd settle down soon enough. Maybe, if things went very well, it would actually throw some suspicion on Nobuko again and waste even more of L's time and energy.
Misa said, "This is going to sound crazy, but I think I'm cursed. Ever since I sent those prank videos in, really awful things have happened to me, just ridiculous kinds of bad luck, like some vengeful spirit is out to get me, and lately, I think objects have been moving around my apartment by themselves."
Nobuko said, "Really? That's so cool, that's classic poltergeist behavior. Are you sure you're not joking? Will you say it's a joke and then laugh at me?"
"No," Misa said, "it's really serious. For a while, I kept turning around and finding things in the middle of the kitchen table when I knew I had just put them away in the cupboard, and it was happening like dozens of times a day. I was really scared."
"Was happening?"
"Yeah, it hasn't happened for about, I don't know, a day and a half maybe. But before that it was happening constantly for a few days. And the bad luck has been with me for six months, ever since I sent in those videos."
L placed one spindly finger to his lower lip and said, "It hasn't happened since Wedy installed the cameras. How convenient."
Light risked a very small glance at Rem, nothing more than a flicker of his eyes. Good. She wasn't looking particularly worried, just her normal level of worry. Nothing would happen.
Nobuko said, "Everyone has bad luck, Misa."
Misa almost shouted into the phone, "Not like this! It was really creepy."
She paused and grabbed a tissue to dab at her makeup, which had begun to run from the corners of her eyes.
Misa continued, "You can't tell this to anyone, because I'm supposed to keep it a secret, but when I disappeared for almost two months, it was because I got arrested. It was completely ridiculous charges, too, and they wouldn't believe me no matter how much I told them the truth. They finally let me go when they realized how stupid it was, but the police still kept harassing me for a long time afterwards, for no reason at all. And then, I also got the most wonderful boyfriend imaginable right after I sent in the videos-"
Nobuko interrupted, "Well, that sounds good."
Misa said, "It should be, but really ridiculous horrible things kept happening to him too, one thing after another, and then I keep throwing myself at him, over and over, but the only thing he wants to do is kiss. It's been half a year! And he hardly ever dates me, and when he does he has to drag along one of his stupid friends and he barely even talks to me. I think the poltergeists must have gotten mad at me for making the hoax videos and mailing them to Sakura TV, so now I'm cursed and my apartment is haunted."
There was a silence over the phone line, and then Nobuko said, "But you haven't actually seen anything? Like objects floating in the air or stacking themselves up?"
"No, no, it's like the poltergeist doesn't want me to see it. Well, maybe I was going crazy and just imagining I was putting things away in the cupboard, but the bad luck is real. There were so many bad events it can't all be a coincidence, and it started right after I sent in the videos."
Where is Ryuk? He hasn't been here for a while, and it was great not having him hang around for the sex, but what is he doing since he can't bother Misa and he isn't here? There was a rule Ryuk mentioned once about shinigami not spending too much time in the human world unless their death note was owned by a human. Still, periodic short visits to the shinigami realm should fulfill that requirement, and Ryuk is one for bending or breaking rules anyway. In theory, he shouldn't even have two death notes, he should have given the extra one to the shinigami king, but he didn't care about that rule.
Nobuko said, "You got your new boyfriend at the same time the bad luck started?"
"Yes."
"Did he have anything to do with you getting arrested or the other bad things?"
Misa's answer was a slow, hesitant, "Yes."
"Well, you shouldn't jump to conclusions about the supernatural if you haven't seen anything that looks supernatural. Perhaps you've just got a boyfriend who is involved in awful things. Maybe his family is part of the Yakuza or something like that."
In an angry tone, Misa said, "No, no, Light is good and perfect. Don't you dare say anything bad about him! And his dad is a cop, so there couldn't be anything with organized crime. Everything should be wonderful with us, but the bad luck keeps getting in the way. Don't you know anything that can help?"
"If you're got a poltergeist in your apartment, you could move out or get an exorcism. Use a Buddhist exorcist; the Shinto ones aren't as good. And, you can always fill up your apartment with good luck charms. Though I've known plenty of people who've done that without having anything better than average luck afterwards."
There was an awkward silence over the phone line, and then Nobuko said, "Are you sure you don't have a boyfriend who is trouble? That would probably explain everything more easily."
Misa let out a choked sound, and then suddenly hung up. She gripped the phone tightly, her knuckles white, and then got the tissues to dab at her eyes again.
To no one in particular, she whispered, "Light, you do love me, don't you?"
Misa stared at the floor for a little while, then shook off her foul mood and skipped off to the bathroom to spend a long time re-applying her makeup.
L was thinking, Light could tell. L's dark eyes had that inscrutable look in them, he hunched into himself more than usual, and he consumed a constant supply of sweets, really gulping them down in great quantities, not wasting so much time playing with them as he usually did. His brain had to be buzzing. L had that contemplative look the entire rest of the day.
L must have noticed the similarities between what Misa had described and Rem's attack on headquarters. He must be trying to decide whether Misa was another victim, or if the entire incident was a false clue meant to confuse the trail, or if Misa actually was the second Kira. It shouldn't ever become possible for him to test any of his ideas, so they would remain just that, ideas and nothing more.
Still, there was something frightening about L. He just grabbed onto things and kept going, pushing his advantage wherever he could, making unexpected moves. He'd made more progress than he should have. It was easy to imagine that perhaps...
No, no, it couldn't be that way. L would lose for sure. It was the only possible outcome.
Yet, it was unsettling to note that L didn't look as confused as he once had. Was he serious about not only being able to obtain proof, but to do it within a month? No, that had to be a bluff. L didn't really have anything, so he was pretending he had something. L was a liar, and this was an old, worn-out classic L tactic, to pretend things in an attempt to scare.
And then, at the end of the day L wanted to go to bed early. Light had a feeling he knew what it was about, and he followed along on the end of the chain with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. L was already getting very uppity. Would this change things? And, it was going to hurt to be on the bottom, and then there were all those devices, those unknown sex toys, in the sealed boxes. Would L want to use any of those, and how adventurous would he get? L had no idea what he was doing, so anything could happen. It could be painful, or embarrassing.
Sure enough, as soon as they entered their bedroom, L went directly over to the boxes and started ripping them open and emptying them on the floor. How many things did he think they needed? It wasn't going to be an orgy.
Rem was still following along, so Light gave her a quick glare and she acknowledged it by sliding through a wall.
Then Light approached closely, the chain pooling on the floor between them, and said, "What are you looking for?"
L was in his eighth box already, and he didn't seem interested in any of the objects he'd extracted.
L said, "Since Watari ordered nearly everything from several adult store catalogs, there should be padded restraints in here somewhere. Of course I have things like chains and handcuffs and rope in the equipment lockers downstairs, but I was hoping to restrain you with something more comfortable."
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