Darkness Within your Light

Warnings: Angst, Humor, Hurt and Comfort, Language, Furious-L, Fluffiness, ZAKI’S BACK! PLOT-TWISTS! Basically a lot of warnings.

Hey I need to know if you readers want me to put a lemon in this, I'm pretty sure everyone does, but just to be positive, please vote on weather L and Raito should have sex, even if Yagami-san told them to wait till they get married...which would be in the sequel...I don't want to wait that long and I suspect you don't want to either...but just to be sure. PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT! SEX OR NO SEX!

Thank you all who reviewed! Yea! I got so many reviews last chapter that I just had to update as quickly as possible! So here's an extra early chapter for you all!

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Aurora Moon,- Yep! it's my goal in life to frustrate and make my readers squrim with suspense! XD

Elle,- HAHAHAHAH! No I don't want you to die! Please don't! =w= hehe I really did leave the last chapter in a bad cliffhanger didn't I? Oh and just incase so you don't die...(Raito was bored with just sitting next to L and couldn't find anything related to Kira on the computer so he sneakly took out his lifenote and started to wrote down a name that his mistress had commanded him to write 'Elle-90 years-peaceful')...now you can't die! no matter what cliffhanger I write! XDDDD heh XD haha your boyfriend tried to see what you were laughing at? yep that's boyfriend taboo! uless he's a closet yaoifanboy...there are sadly to few of those...D; Hope you enjoy this extra early chapter!

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Part 3 of 3 of the Plot-twists that were suppose to happen in one chapter!

Takes place right after the last chapter!

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It was getting so cold…that was the one thought that kept running through Raito’s mind after he felt the bullet impacted into his chest.

As his vision started to blackout Raito was able to make out Matsuda’s horror filled face staring unblinking at him, he could hear the cries and yells of the team and his father sound around him. But the thing that most caught his attention before he passed out was…a single anguished scream…L’s scream…

…and then Raito knew no more…

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Raito felt himself drifting in a hazy of darkness…it was peaceful and as long as he was here he didn’t have to worry…no redemption…no Kira…no pain…no trouble…but…something was nagging him…


‘Raito…Raito wake up…come on Raito wake up…Raito…Yagami Raito you get your ass up right now or I’ll stick you in a Hello Kitty suit and show Lawliet!’


“What!”

Raito opened his eyes, which he only just realized were closed. He looked wildly around; he was…in his old room?


‘Well it’s about time you got up; I was really starting to think that you already kicked the bucket, which would suck for both of us you know.’


Raito started to look frantically around. Who the hell?

Raito decided to voice his question out loud, because as far as he could see he was all alone in his room.

“Who’s there? And can you tell me why the hell I’m home?”


’Awww…you mean you’ve already forgotten about me? How cruel, woe is me.’


“Ummm…”


‘Oh come and think! You’re the genius between us, though personally I think I got the better looks between us. Heh anyway, try to think…what’s the last thing you remember?’


“Well…”

Raito sat up from where he had been laying prone on his bed; he looked around as he thought. His room was just like he remembered, clean, impersonal…boring as all hell.

‘Let’s see the last thing I remember…well I think I was working…yes, I was working on a case…Ryuzaki was next to me, well chained to me more like it. Hmmm I remember crying for some reason but I can’t…Watari…why?’

And then it all suddenly came back to him.

“Oh fucking hell!”


‘My sediments exactly Raito, that was pure stupidity, what you did. You remember what the little mother said? You-will-die-if-you-get-stabbed-in-the-heart…and where do you think the bullet went numbnuts? Hmm? Take a wild guess, come on I dare you!’


“Zaki?”


‘Oh give the kid a candy! He finally figured it out; geez getting shot really short-circuits your brain doesn’t it? You’d never had taken that long to figure it out normally.’


“Am I...am I dead?”

Raito felt mostly still numb to everything around him, the question was asked in an almost uncaring manner.


‘Oh stop being such a drama queen Raito, no you’re not dead. Though it was quite the close call…you got shot in the heart, not stabbed. At least the gods are specific to a fault in that regarded. Remember how I said that we wouldn’t be able to talk unless it was a life or death situation? Well…here I am…talking to you…you’re a very boring conversationist after your been shot, you know this?’


Raito was now starting to feel something through the numbing feeling…annoyance.


‘Yea, that would be your first emotion wouldn’t it? You’re such a stick in the mud Raito.’


Raito felt his eye start to twitch a bit.

“You’re…in an interesting mood aren’t you? By the way where are we? And why can’t I see you?”


‘Well yes I’m in an interesting mood as you so nicely put it! I was rudely woken up from a nice dream of yummy ice-cream mountains and hot Baywatch chicks to see that you almost got us KILLED! Of course I would be acting a little off! You almost gave ME a heart attack! And I don’t even have a real body to have one in! You…you jerk!’


Raito was alarmed now, Zaki seemed fine before but Raito realized that him being weirdly humorous was a defense mechanism. Zaki had been really scared.

“Zaki…I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to frighten you. It’s just that…Watari would have died, and I knew or at least I thought, that I would be able to survive a gunshot wound, you know, because I have super powers of the healing sort.”

Raito tried to keep his apology somewhat humorous, to diminish the serious of the situation, in the hopes that Zaki would calm down.


‘…you know you suck at trying to be funny…thanks anyway though. I guess it’s the thought that counts or something like that. Anyway to answer your questions, we’re not really in your room, you passed out when after you got shot. Which reminds me…why the hell does Matsuda keep on shooting you? This is what? Technically the 5th time he’s shot you? From what I can gather from your memories he shot you 4 times when you were found out as Kira in your last life…and now once here, and this time it was a fatal hit…or it would have been if you’d been a normal human, heh, guess your lucky your not.’


Raito murmured at that. “Yea, lucky me…”


‘Oh buckle up party pooper, your no fun when you’re all depressed like. Anyway to answer your second question well…I’m mad at you so I don’t feel like gracing you with my divine beautiful presence right now.’


Raito smirked at that.

“You mean that you can’t right? You can’t become corporal right now, your still not rested enough.”


‘Oh gosh darn it; he’s got all smart again. Man, it was nice almost being the smart one for a second. Yes genius I can’t be anything but a mysterious voice right now. I may not be strong enough for you to see me right now…but I am strong enough to nag you to the brink of total meltdown. So you better be nice to me!’


Raito didn’t know it until he felt his face hurt, but he was smiling broadly. He didn’t stop when he realized it either, he did tone it a bit down though, otherwise his face would be hurting a lot later.

“So Zaki, can you tell me what’s been happening? You can tell what’s happening outside my mind when I’m passed out right? How long have I been out of it? Is my wound already healed? How about the others? How bad are they freaking out?”


‘Whoa, hold up! I can only answer one question at a time. To answer your first question you’ve haven’t been out that long…maybe an hour or so. And yes your wound is healed; I’m not even going to tell you how hard it was to heal that wound. Let’s see…you want to know how bad everyone on the outside is freaking as you so nicely put it? BAD. L already has your unconscious body back in an integration cell and strapped in a chair.’


Raito felt disbelief at this revelation; he didn’t get it…why would L do that after he saved Watari?

“Why…why would L do that? I just got shot! And he knew that I had unnatural healing abilities, he saw that earlier so it can’t be that…”


‘Your right it wasn’t that you miraculous survived a gunshot to the heart, though everyone was freaking out at that. No it wasn’t that…remember how you wished for the LifeNote to mesmerize into the real world? Well…when you passed out you forgot to wish it back to your shinigami form, so…oh and also added to that, you forgot that you had the Eyes for a time in your human form, and like the idiot you are you looked straight at Lawliet. What do you think he thought when he saw red demonic eyes staring back at him from you?’


Raito froze as the reality of what happened bombed him all at once.

“SHIT!”


‘I couldn’t have said it better myself.’


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“What the hell am I going to do now?!”

Raito was not freaking out, at least that’s what he kept telling himself, but Zaki’s snickering wasn’t helping though.

“Would you cut that out and help me think?! Ryuzaki, L! Has my LifeNote, our Lifenote, and to top that off he’s more then likely looked inside of it because he’s already got me strapped down. What if he thinks I was trying to kill Watari? Or worse what if he thinks I wanted to kill him? Argh…I think I’m going to be sick…he must think that I’m 100 percent Kira now and that I was trying to kill all of them suddenly…I hate my life.”


‘Now, now calm down, its really not that bad…well ok it’s bad, but it could be worse. Also there’s another factor you didn’t think of that he would think.’


“Oh and what’s that?”

You could practically taste the sarcasm that dripped from Raito.


‘God your such a negative person…the other factor your anguished emo mind couldn’t think of is…well your remember that you cut open your wrist? You know, so that you could write Watari’s name in the lifenote with your blood? Remember you did that in front of everyone, what would you think if someone you knew suddenly started to act strange and then tried to kill themselves? Or at least look like they tried to kill themselves. Lawliet is most likely thinking that you were controlled by Kira…so guess what that means?’


Raito was listening with rapid attention, he came to the same conclusion as Zaki did the moment he was done talking.

“He…he would think that I was 100 percent not Kira…that I couldn’t be Kira if I was being controlled by him.”

Raito felt like he was in a dream…and technically he was but he ignored that part of his logical mind. This was way too good to be a dream.


‘Jackpot! Yes, or at least that is the most logical and not to mention positive conclusion.’


Raito felt his face spilt in an almost crazy smile and he didn’t try to stop it. This had to be one of the most best things to happen to him since he had come back…well this and the hot make-out session he had with L.

Raito felt his face start to burn slightly when he remembered that. The increased snickering of Zaki just added fuel to the fire.

“Will you stop reading my mind!”


‘Nope, no can do, you forget, we are one and the same, your mind, my mind, mono-o-mono, all that karma jazz. We share this mind Raito so I guess I have to get use to those dirty thought of yours…not to mention highly arousing, wow…do you really think L can twist that way? It seems humanly impossible.’


“Oh my god…”

Raito flopped back down and tried to suffocate himself in his pillow.


‘Now now it’s not that bad…besides look at it this way, you now have someone who could give you pointers on the best sexual positions that that dirty mind of yours comes up with…geez are you sure you’re a virgin? Wow…oh I get it; you looked up some Karma Sutra stuff didn’t you?’


“Would you please stop!!”


‘Ok, ok anyway I wanted to tell you something-’


Suddenly Zaki became quite, Raito who despite being horrendous embarrassed had been listening to him talk, so when Zaki went suddenly quite silent mid-sentence Raito became concern.

“Zaki? Are you ok? Why’d you go quite-”


‘Fuck!’


Raito was so startled by Zaki’s sudden shout that he fell off the bed.

“What the hell was that for?!”


‘God I didn’t think he had it in him…oh owie…geez if you ever had any doubt that Lawliet loved you it would be gone if you could see this…shit that’s got to hurt…’


“What!? What’s happening? You’re seeing what’s happening outside aren’t you?! Tell me!”


‘Well…it seems that L only just realized that Matsuda shot you…he was to freaked out and upset before to really think about it…and well…he’s basically kicking the shit out of Matsuda right now…oh my god I didn’t think a arm is suppose to bend that way…heh and the funny thing is your father and Watari and the others aren’t stopping him. They all seem to be upset as well…you are so fucking loved right now…hmm…I think you should be waking up soon. When you do be prepared for a seriously pissed off Lawliet, you basically scared the shit out of him and in addition to that he has read some of the rules in the LifeNote as well. The same one’s you, yourself have read, it seems that only the ones you’ve read yourself is converted to English, anything else in the Lifenote is in Shinigami script. Just try to be calm and don’t panic, let him burn out his anger at you…then you can kiss and make-up!’


Raito could practically hear the smirk that occupied that last sentence.

“Whatever…so Zaki, are you going to go back to sleep the moment I wake up? Or are you going to be talking to me from now on.”


‘Hmm, I don’t know yet, I won’t know if I’m rested enough to speak to you full time yet until you wake up. So if you don’t hear from me in a while don’t think it’s because I can’t or won’t talk to you. It might just be I’m thinking or…well ok it might mean I’m mad at you. Either that or I really am taking a nap again. But if you ever really need me, either for advice or just to talk to, just call out my name. I promise you I will respond.’


Raito was speechless, Zaki was…well he was just being very nice at the moment and while Raito appreciated it he couldn’t help but feel that it was a ploy to keep him composed enough to deal with what was happening in the outside world.

“Thank you Zaki, I appreciate that. So, when do I leave?”

It was silent again and just as Raito was going to repeat him question Zaki answered.


‘Right now.’


Raito blacked out before he could even say good-bye.

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“…urg…”

Raito felt like crap, he had woken up gradually, feeling as though he had a hangover, his head was pounding furiously and his stomach was nauseated.

He had first noticed that he was sitting in a hard metal chair, it took his a few seconds to realize that his arms where handcuffed behind his back as well. His head was hanging low and he could clearly see the bloody and ripped shirt that he was still wearing, he didn’t feel any real pain so that must mean that his wound had already healed over.

‘That’s right…I remember, the more serious the wound the faster it will heal…well that’s all good I suppose. Still…having bloody cloth dry on bare skin is not pleasant one bit. Couldn’t they have at least taken my shirt off? I can tell they already ripped it open a bit to see the wound…they should have just ripped it entirely off. It would have saved me the aggravation of dried blood.’

Raito was still kind of out of it, so it took him a while to notice that he wasn’t alone in the room. The sounds of fighting and yelling were only just now starting to penetrate his murky mind.

Raito lifted his head just a bit so that he could see what was happening around him without notifying those around him that he was awake.

What he saw shocked him to the core.

L was…well he really was kicking the shit out of Matsuda.

The room that Raito was in was pretty big for an interrogation room, Raito was more towards the back of the room, and he noticed that even if he was in a uncomfortable chair and was handcuffed, the handcuffs were really loose, so much so that he could even slip them off of himself if he so desired, also his head was slightly pillowed with his father’s jacket. Raito was shocked by this. Why?

Raito looked around the room, trying to ignore what was happening in the middle of the room, his father and the others were lined up by the wall, watching solemnly as L dealt out his own version of punishment to Matsuda, none of them looked like they were going to help Matsuda out anytime soon. His father and Watari looked especially enraged and insensitive to Matsuda’s predicament. They looked like they were silently cheering L on.

Raito dragged his eyes back at the devastating scene in front of him. Even though he himself was pissed at Matsuda for being so careless and yet again shooting him, he couldn’t help but feel sorry for the guy, L was not going easy on him one bit.

In fact, he seemed to be fighting even more viciousness then when he and Raito fought. It slightly resembled the beating that Raito had gotten when he had called L a junkie in that room…but 100 times worse.

‘I don’t know if Matsuda is going to survive the beating L is giving him if no one stops him…but it doesn’t look like anyone’s going to stop L anytime soon…god damnit I hate being the good guy! It was easier to be the bad guy…oh well, might as well direct L’s anger to someone who can take it…which is me I guess…’

Raito took a deep breath and closed his eyes, he tried to compose himself, because the moment he made it clear that he was awake…and even worse, that he was sane and not under Kira’s control…all hell was going to break loose.

Raito steeled his resolve and opened his eyes, might as well get this over with as soon as possible, before they had a corpse to hide.

“Hey, L? I think you’re overdoing it a bit, why don’t you let him go? It wouldn’t do for the world’s greatest detective to be charged with murder.”

All movement in the room stopped at once.

Raito looked straight at L, ignoring everyone else. L had Matsuda’s shirt in one grasp and had been in the middle of rearranging Matsuda’s face, but the moment he heard Raito he had frozen, all that penetrated the sudden stillness was Matsuda’s whimpers of pain and fear.

L had his back turned slightly away from Raito, but he quickly dropped Matsuda to the ground and spun around. Raito flinched away when he got a good look at L.

L was a mess, his eye’s where red and puffy looking, making the black shadows around his eyes stand out more and look more darker then usual, his eye’s were also blood shot and gazed over with tears. Tear tracks flowed down his cheeks, falling down his chin in small clear rivers. His hair seemed more chaotic and feral then ever, but what really got Raito flinching was the look on his face.

Total and utter devastation, it was like his whole world had ended and he didn’t know what to do except blame himself.

Raito tried to keep a passive expressionless mask on but it was just too much, he felt his own eyes sting and tears started to slowly fill his own eyes. He couldn’t bear to see L like this…he would rather L be mad then to see his in such a state of sorrow and misery.

Raito watched as L’s face closed up; slowly the tears started to dry up and a hard expression over took his face. Raito felt his breath hitch; it seemed that L was now starting to think logically with his mind instead of with his emotions.

“Raito…you weren’t controlled by Kira…were you.”

It was more a statement then a question, still Raito felt that L deserved a real answer. Raito tired to ignore his pounding heart, which had speed up when he heard L say his name without its normal ‘kun’.

“No L…I wasn’t being controlled at all.”

L nodded his head coolly, and without moving his head or taking his eyes off Raito he talked to the rest of the team.

“Everyone…I would like it if you all left the room right now, take Matsuda and get him some medical attention, then I want you to take his badge and security card, he will not be coming back to join us, nor will he be returning to the police. He is too much of a liability. Please feel free to once again to take the day off; we will resume investigating the Kira case when you come back in to work tomorrow morning. Please Yagami-san; don’t argue with me on this.”

Raito watched as L cut off his father before he could even object. His father really had no choice but to agree to L’s terms at the moment. Without even looking once in Raito’s direction everyone left the room, Mogi and Aizawa quickly went forward and dragged Matsuda’s now unconscious body out of the room as well. His father looked like he wanted to say something to Raito but he quickly shook his head and walked out as well. Watari was the last to leave, but before he also turned away he walked to L and put his hand on his shoulder, giving it a light squeeze, he nodded his head once at Raito before also departing.

Soon enough the only one’s left where the unmoving L and Raito who was still stuck in the chair.

A dead silence seemed to still the air around them. Raito kept his gaze on L, even though he really wanted to turn his head away, L’s face was nothing short of enraged. But what made it so much worse was how it was an almost eerie tranquil wrath.

Finally after a few minutes of staring at each other L made his move.

Raito was startled out of his stare down by the speed that L moved with; before he knew it L was standing only a few inches away from him. Raito was unprepared for what happened next.

SLAP!

L didn’t punch him, nor yell at him or accuse him. No instead he slapped Raito across the face, he did so, so hard that Raito knew that he would have a scarlet bruise hand print on his face for a while, healing powers or no healing powers.

Raito’s head had turned with the force of the strike; he slowly turned back around to see a panting L still with his hand posed in the air.

Raito knew he shouldn’t but he couldn’t help himself.

“Do you feel better now?”

It was apparently the wrong thing to say, because L exploded.

“Fuck you! Do you know what you did to me?! You fucking idiot! How the fuck was I suppose to react to you acting weird and suddenly jumping up and trying to stab yourself?! I thought…I thought it was my fault! That I caused to you react that way because…because of what’s been happening between us, and then you…and then you fucking let yourself get shot! What-the-fuck-Yagami?!? Or should I call you Kira now?”

Raito was kind of afraid right now, he had never seen L swear so much at one time. Hell he had never seen L swear period. Except when they got caught by his father, but other then that he had never seen L loose it as he did right now…it scared Raito.

Raito didn’t know what to say, on one hand he was ecstatic that L seemed to care for him enough to be really pissed off that Raito got hurt, on the other hand…he didn’t like that L accused him of being Kira once again.

Because Raito didn’t know what to say to L’s rather passionate speech he just went with his usual reply when L accused him of being Kira.

“L…I’m not Kira.”

That just seemed to piss off L even more.

“Then how do you explain what the fuck happened Yagami?! If you weren’t controlled by Kira…then that must mean that you are KIRA!”

Now Raito was getting pissed off himself; the calm, cool impassive mask that he had been trying to maintain cracked and dissolved like L’s sugar cubes that he liked to eat.

“What the hell would you know L?! You don’t know anything! Nothing!! You sit behind a fucking computer and analyze fucking data and come to conclusions based off goddamn evidence that you find convent! Never thinking outside the box! Never wondering if maybe there’s something more! You’re a fucking bloodhound and once you have a fucking theory on something you will never let it go! Never! You never think about if maybe there was something more going on…something that you’d never figure out if you don’t learn to trust people…trust me…things aren’t always as it seems L…please just…just listen to me…”

Raito started to wined down as his voice started to go out…he didn’t know he had that much anger hidden in him. It seemed that L’s continued condemning declarations of him being Kira had worn on him more then he realized. He hadn’t meant to loose his cool but…it seemed that L’s accusing him of being Kira only because he hadn’t been controlled…even after all that they had been through…it just seemed that L was trigger happy on pointing out that he was a mass murderer.

And that just pissed Raito off like nothing else.

“L listen…I’m not Kira, in fact I can guarantee 100 percent that the Kira that you’ve been hunting for…the very first Kira…is dead. He is never coming back and whoever the Kira that is out there now, which we both know is not the first Kira, he is nothing like the first Kira, that Kira is dead. I should know…”

L had backed up a bit when Raito had exploded in his own anger rant, now he just hunched there, a lost sad expression on his face. When Raito said that ‘I should know’ L’s eyes got a strange glint to them, curiosity also filled his face.

“Why Raito-kun? Why should you know?”

Raito took a deep breath and looked up into L’s unfathomable luminous dark eyes. He knew that what he was about to do was most likely suicidal but…he was so fucking tried of lying that he didn’t really care. It wasn’t like L knew how to kill him anyway, but Raito was pretty sure he wouldn’t want to after this. Kick his ass maybe or even ground him to their room for a month, but kill…no, they could no longer kill each other. They felt too much…or at least Raito did.

“The reason I know Kira is dead and never coming back L is because…I killed him. I killed with my bare hands, chocking the life out of him.”

Raito heard a sharp breath sound out. It seemed that whatever L had expected him to say, it hadn’t been that. But Raito wasn’t finished, he knew if he left it at that, sometime in the future the questions would rise about the truth, and also, he knew that if he wanted L to be beside him for all eternity he would need to tell L the truth about him. He didn’t plan on telling L everything right now but…

“That’s not all L…the only reason I was able to kill him was…because he…”

‘Wow this is harder then I thought it would be, I don’t…I don’t want him to hate me, I don’t want to lose him.’

Raito took one last deep breath and closed his eyes, bracing himself for the assault that he was more then halfway expecting.

“…because he was me…because I use to be Kira L.”

Silence.

“I know Raito-kun…I know.”

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Raito looked up in shock, his eyes widen as he saw L standing there a few inches away with a small sad smile on his face.

“Wha-what did you say?”

L just shook his head in weary amusement; he then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small key and walked around out of Raito’s eye sight. Raito felt his hands pulling a bit as L unlocked the handcuffs from his wrists. As Raito felt the cold metal fall from his slightly sore wrists he moved them to examine them. Slight bruising was shown on his pale skin. It seemed that someone had tightened them before they had realized what they were doing and loosened them.

Raito saw a shadow and looked up, he was shocked to see L on his knees in front of him, he seemed to be also examining Raito’s hands. A slight frown was on his face as he caught sight of the bruising.

“L…what did you mean you know? What do you know? How…how can you act so calm? I…I confessed.”

Raito looked at L intently but it seemed that L was determined to ignore him right then. L reached out and gently took Raito’s hands into his own, gently holding them and stroking them with his long fingers. Raito tried to contain the shiver he felt but he was sure that L felt it anyway.

Raito waited for L to answer his question, but as the seconds pasted by it became apparent that L had no intention of answering him.

“L...Lawliet? Please…”

The fingers stopped caressing his hands; Raito felt them start to tremble ever so slightly.

Finally L looked up and stared at Raito with such intensity that Raito felt like he would burn alive.

“Before I tell Raito-kun what I know…I have something I’d like to say first to him.”

Raito just sat there confused, but it seemed that L wasn’t mad at him anymore, also he seemed to take Raito’s confession better then Raito could have ever hoped for, Raito decided to just go with whatever L said at this point, maybe if he did that L would tell him what the hell was going on. One moment he’s being accused of Kira 100 percent and the next he’s confessing that it was true and L’s acting like it doesn’t matter.

He was fucking beyond confused at this point.

“Ok L…what is it you want to tell me?”

Raito sat there waiting. He was looking at L, who had ducked his head again as soon as Raito spoke.

But not quick enough…Raito could see that L was blushing.

‘What? Why would he be blushing?’

L finally seemed to realize that he wouldn’t be able to control his red face and stood up, Raito who’s hands which were still locked with L, was also pulled to his feet. He wobbled a bit as he regained his footing. L stood there patiently in front of him, still holding Raito’s hands in a gentle but very firm grip.

Raito after a minute or two finally got his balance under control; he looked at L’s pinkish face. He couldn’t help but think that it was utterly adorable the way he blushed a light cherry red.

They stood there, not three inches apart. So close that when they breathed their chest brushed each others ever so slightly.

Raito noticed that their faces seemed to be getting closer and closer but he didn’t stop it.

Finally just as their lips where about to touch L whispered something.

“Raito…my beautiful Raito…Je t'aime aussi”

Then L leaned forward and kissed the stunned Raito.

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Je t'aime aussi – I love you too

Awww…heh wow this was certainly an interesting chapter, the next chapter will have the big important conversation, it was going to be in this chapter…but since I updated almost a whole week early (I usually update once a week, but my last update was only 3 days ago) I decided to put it in the next chapter, it will give me more time to iron it out.

L is a very devious and sly person…he tricked Raito into confessing, if anyone was kind of confused by his 180 degree change of emotion, you know like how he was pissed off and mad and accusing Raito of being Kira again at one moment and then Raito confessed to being Kira and L seemed ok with it? Well he will explain why that is in the next chapter.

He was genuinely angry but…it was because he was scared that Raito had really died, and was mad at himself, Matsuda and Raito for making him experience and display that much emotion. I’ll explain it more in the next chapter.

YEA! Zaki’s back! Well kind of, he’ll be popping in and out from now on, like whenever Raito does something stupid again or thinking dirty thoughts (smile) hehe

Oh, it seems we know have an answer as to weather L was awake or not when Raito had confessed his love earlier…XD hehe, he was apparently awake.

Happy All Hallows Eve! & Happy Birthday L Lawliet!