Darkness Within your Light

Wow two updates in the same day...heh well to be honest and truthful I have had these last two chapters up on FFnet for a few days...I kind of forgot AFF for a minute. Sorry!

I hope you all enjoy these two plot filled chapters! Hehehe

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‘Argh…what hit me and did anyone get the license plate?’

Raito woke up to a throbbing and pounding headache. Keeping his eyes tightly shut he tried to remember what had happened. But his head hurt too much for him to think clearly.

Suddenly a voice spoke from near his head.

“Is your head still hurting Raito?”

Raito instantly regretted opening his eyes, the light that shined in the room around him stung his eyes causing them to instantly tear up.

Ignoring the tears that ran down his face he turned his head to where he had heard the voice. Opening his eyes he was able to see a blurry outline hovering over him.

“L-kun?”

Raito heard someone sigh in obvious relief. His guess was that it was L because he had been able to feel the warm exhaled air hit him.

“Yes Raito-kun it’s me, can you see alright? You’re eyes are watering.”

“Umm kind of, the light right now is really bright.”

Raito saw the blur get up from the chair and move to the far wall. A second later blissful darkness overtook the room. His eyes stopped tearing up as they relaxed from the constant strain of trying to see in the light.

“Thanks L.”

“Your welcome, I believe the reason why you are having such a hard time seeing right now is because when you fell earlier you had banged your head on the floor quite hard. I’m sorry that I wasn’t fast enough to catch you.”

“T-that’s ok L, it wasn’t your fault…but does that mean I passed out while I was in Shinigami form?”

“Yes, after you had left your body and taken this form I can only imagine a great pain had overtaken you and it overloaded your brain causing you to faint.”

“I don’t faint L.”

“Sorry…you fell over and passed out.”

“That’s my story and I’m sticking too it.”

“Ha ha Raito-kun very funny.”

“I like to think so.”

“So I’m guessing from your sarcasm level that you are feeling better?”

Raito paused as his next sarcastic comment died on his lips, while bantering with L he had forgotten for a moment why he was even lying here. How did he feel?

“Well let’s take stock shall we? Hmm…well my head feels like it’s been battered with a steel rod until my brains became pea soup, my eyes while better in the dark still sting like a wasp has gotten aggressive on me. Let’s see…I must still be in my shinigami form because I can feel my wings getting smashed because I’m lying on top of them. Other then that…I’m feeling one hundred and ten percent like shit.”

Silence descended after Raito spoke.

Then…

“Well I’m glad you’re feeling better Raito-kun, Watari will be bringing you in some soup to eat and then we are going to commence operation: Find Raito’s Notebook.”

Raito chocked on nothing as he stared at the poker face that L was sporting, but Raito was still able to make out a glimmer of humor in his eyes.

“L…who the hell said that you can try sarcasm? And how did you know my LifeNote’s missing?”

L let out a sigh as if to say that he thought Raito must have lost some precious brain cells in his earlier fall. It somewhat disturbed Raito that he was able to tell that from just one sigh.

“It was easy Raito-kun to figure out that the notebook is missing, you had paled and fainted after touching your hip where I know your notebook is supposed to be housed. After you fainted-yes you fainted Raito get over it-I carried you back to our room while Watari carried your other body back here as well. I checked to see if the note was there and after seeing that it wasn’t I deducted that it must have gone missing or perhaps been stolen and that is the reason why you got ill and aren’t feeling good. It is plain to see that you can not be separated from your Lifenote without serious repercussions happening, there is also the possibility that you can get worse the longer you are without its presence. I’m not sure when it was taken…it must have happened right after we arrived here, but I can’t figure out how that could have happened…Raito-kun’s note is always on his shinigami form and I’m pretty sure you haven’t taken it out since we were at your house. So how could it have gone missing? That’s the only thing I can’t figure out, but that will have to wait until after we find it first.”

Raito sat there speechless, his jaw slightly hanging and his eyes slightly glazed.

“I take from your lack of response that you agree with me. Good then it will save us time; I will ask that you stay in your shinigami form for now. It might prove useful for us in locating the lost note. I know that whatever ill feelings you have at the moment are amplified by being in this form but I ask you to please bare it until you can no longer. Now I believe that Watari will be here any minute with the soup, I don’t know if you can consume human substances in that form but I do recall you telling me about a shinigami that loved to eat apples so I’m guessing that it will be alright, the soup will help with your headache hopefully.”

“O-Okay”

Raito was feeling just a little bit overwhelmed, it had been a while since L had gotten all control detective on him, not that he minded, oh no it just was a little unexpected. Truthfully he shouldn’t have been so surprised, this was L he was talking about after all.

Raito turned his head to look on the other side of the bed, his unconscious body was lying beside him. Sometimes it gave him the creeps to see himself like that, he couldn’t help but feel that whenever he wasn’t in his body it began to look like a corpse.

“No you don’t Raito-kun, if anything it reminds me of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, yes a beautiful princess sleeping peacefully waiting for true loves first kiss to awaken them.”

Raito blushed as he realized that he had voiced his inner thoughts out loud, then turned even redder as what L just said processed in his head.

“Sleeping Beauty and Snow White L? If I remember correctly both of those sleeping beings were maidens and they had both been in a death like trance not sleeping.”

L shrugged.

“Is there a difference Raito-kun? Some say that sleeping is just another form of death.”

Raito let out a sigh, before he could continue the pointless debate the door of their suite opened to show Watari with a tray laded with a bowl of steaming soup and a bowl of fruit.

“Ah I’m glad you’ve awoken Raito-san, I was just starting to worry. Of course I wasn’t panicking quite yet like young L here was. You should have seen it my boy, I never thought I would see the day when L babbled like a three year old.”

“Watari!”

“Now there’s no reason to be embarrassed by it L, if it had been under different circumstances it would have been adorable, but unfortunately it did nothing but hinder me in inspecting young Raito-san. My boy I had to lock the hysterical child outside the room!”

“I was not hysterical! - nor am I a child!”

Raito was staring back and forth between the two men, a laugh was bubbling in his gut but he had the hindsight to suppress it. L looked really upset by Watari’s teasing and Raito didn’t want to upset him even more by yelling at the poor man.

After a few more minutes of listening though he couldn’t help the small chuckle that escaped from his lips.

He winched a bit as L spun around to face him with a hurt expression on his face. Watari was smart enough to put down the tray and back out of the room quickly but not before giving Raito an encouraging look that did nothing but make him feel worse. Like he needed encouragement to deal with a misunderstanding.

Well ok maybe he did if he had to go by the look that L was currently sending him.

Raising his hands in the universal sign of “I surrender” Raito hurriedly spoke before L had a chance too.

“Look L I wasn’t laughing at what you did, in fact I find it impossibly sexy and cute at the same time, I was just laughing at the situation. I mean here I am sitting on our bed with my body not two inches from me while you and Watari argue childishly in front of me. It just struck me as ironically funny that’s all.”

L stared blankly at him for a few more minutes causing Raito to start to sweat in nervousness. He wasn’t really that upset was he? Shit if he was…Raito might just be sleeping on the floor for who knows how long.

L watches me sweat for a few minutes more, by this time my face had twisted into a grimace and I had started to fidget as well. Finally L seemed to come to the conclusion that I was telling the truth and ended my suffering.

“Alright Raito-kun I believe you…this time.”

“R-Right umm…so about this plan to find my notebook?”

L seemed to ponder for a moment before shaking his head.

“Not right now Raito-kun, I can tell that your headache is still bothering you so please eat your soup first while I think on it a while more.”

Grimacing Raito did as L told him too, only because he could tell that he wouldn’t budge from his decision of waiting till Raito ate before talking to him again.

While Raito spooned up the warm creamy soup he watched L reach over to the fruit bowl that Watari had brought in and take a peach out. The fuzzy pink round fruit looked odd as L held it between two fingers.

As Raito brought the soup filled spoon to his mouth he almost dropped it as he watched L bite down into the soft flesh of the peach. Juice flowed down his chin as he ate. As he licked and nibbled at the juicy flesh, his long agile pink tongue peaked out of his mouth to gather the flowing juice that dared escape his mouth.

Soup now forgotten Raito continued to bluntly stare at the unintentionally erotic scene that L was presenting him.

Finally L seemed to notice that he had an audience because he turned his eyes towards the slightly drooling sight on the bed.

“Are you alright Raito-kun? You seem a bit…out of it.”

Raito awoke with a start from his erotic day-dream that he had been thinking about for the pass few minutes.

‘God…L really has no idea how utterly sexy he is when he’s eating, and added with what we did the night before…god I’m horny right now…I wonder if I can have sex in this form?’

“Um I’m fine L just thinking about things.”

“Oh? What kind of things?”

“You know…things.”

“…how eloquent put Raito-kun.”

“Shut it L or this hot soup is going to end up in your lap.”

“Touché”

Silence descended them once again for all of ten seconds.

“So…would these things you are thinking about involve a large amount of drooling? Because from what I see Raito-kun’s either lost feeling in his jaw or he was thinking naughty thoughts.”

“L Lawliet!”

“Ah so it was the naughty thoughts then.”

“Just shut up will you!”

“But Raito-kun we are a couple aren’t we? And from what I understand honesty is the best trait in a healthy couple, so isn’t it correct that we share what we are thinking about to each other? That includes all naughty thoughts.”

“L-you-are-pushing-it”

L was clearly ignoring him as he continued with his utter bullshit.

“-I mean if Raito’s having such naughty thoughts it’s only right and fair that he would share those thoughts with his significant other don’t you agree? To not do so would be considered an act of betrayal to the other member of this relationship, to hold back is a sign of an unhealthy part of our coupleization-“

“Is that even a word?”

“So in conclusion Raito-kun because you seem not to want a healthy interaction between us I am forced to take drastic measures.”

“…and those are?”

“Patience is a virtue Raito-kun one that I find I have plenty of.”

Raito huffed and decided that L was just sprouting his usual bullshit and didn’t have anything planned.

‘And what utter bullshit it is…I mean was he just pulling that speech out of his ass or something? Unhealthy relationship?! Just because I didn’t want to tell him about the darn fantasy I had?! I mean come on it’s the guy’s freaking fault in the first place! If he didn’t fucking tease me with the fruit…wait a minute that’s it! He knew what the hell he was doing! The bastard!! Oh I’ll get back at him for this-wait maybe that’s what he wants? For me to be the first to crack? Well he has another thing coming if he thinks that he can get me to bend first. We’ll see who’s made of sterner stuff now Lawliet.’

“Do you feel cold all of a sudden Raito? The room seems to have suddenly dropped several degrees in temperature.”

“No L”

“Oh then I just have to ask Watari to stop fiddling with the temperature in here.”

“Fine L”

“…is Raito-kun mad at me or something?”

“Now whatever gave you that idea?”

“You’re grinding your teeth and glaring at me behind your long bangs kind of clued me in.”

“You knew”

“Excuse me?”

“I said you knew! You knew what you were doing! Eating that fucking fruit like that!”

“Like what Raito-kun?”

“Like it was for a fucking porn video L! Licking and sucking on it like that! Do you have any decency?!”

“So…Raito’s saying that I turned him on by eating a piece of fruit?”

“If you had just been eating it I wouldn’t have had this problem, but nooo you were freaking molesting it!”

“Molesting Raito-kun? What a wonderful idea.”

“YES MOLESTING YOU-wait what-memp!”

Raito was unable to continue his ranting as a pair of lips descending onto his with brutal force.

After a few minutes of all most violent kissing, the fierce kiss began to change into more of a softer kind of exchange. Lips and tongues slip against each other slowly, savoring each touch and taste.

Finally they broke away from each other at the same time to get in much needed air.

“…so L…I’m guessing you had that all planned out didn’t you.”

“Of course Raito-kun, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have some sort of scheme in the mix, harmless though it was.”

“…you are a bastard you know that right?”

“I never pretended otherwise Raito-kun, just like I know Raito-kun’s a wiseass most of the time.”

“I am not a wiseass!!”

“Ah ah Raito-kun, didn’t we already have this speech about honesty? Do you need to have it be repeated?”

“…you suck.”

“Not yet Raito-kun, not yet.”

Luckily for L who Raito had just been about to strangle Watari decided to choose that moment to come back in to clean up their dishes.

“Ah here we go then, well I had hoped that you would have eaten a bit more Raito-san but I guess you might still be feeling a bit nauseous still so I’ll let it go for now. Now from what I gathered you have lost something precious to you?”

“Yes I lost my-“

Stopping mid sentence Raito realized something very important. So important that he wanted to hit himself for not noticing it sooner.

‘Wait a minute…I don’t remember telling Watari about myself or the lifenote…and he is able to see my shinigami form…how? This isn’t making sense unless…he touched my Lifenote?! But how?!? I only just lost it! He wouldn’t have had time to touch it unless…’

“Umm Watari? I’m guessing L told you about myself, I mean why there seems to be two of me and that one of them has wings and all that.”

Watari nodded.

“Yes it came to quite a shock for myself to come into your office to a hysterical L and two unconscious men, one of course was you-or your body at least- and the other one not quite human. But L quickly gave a brief explanation for me before we moved you here.”

“Oh okay then…umm this might seem an out of there question but…have you come in contact with a white covered notebook?”

Watari sat straight in the hard chair he had dragged over from the other side of the room so he could sit near the bed while they communicate without him having to stand the entire time.

“Why yes I have, just the other morning in fact. The morning after you boys arrived and went to work in the other room I had went out and as you can see got you a few things in preparation that we might be here a while. Because there were a few more bags then I had anticipated I had commandeered a young man’s help with carrying the bags up here. We set them down but before I could pay him the amount I had offered he had spotted this little notebook half hidden under the bed. He seemed fascinated by it and asked to have that as payment instead. Because I know how many notebooks L has and because this one seemed almost brand new I of course gave it too him.”

‘Oh fuck no’

Raito had a very bad feeling about all this…

“Watari…do you remember the man’s name by chance?”

Watari seemed to think about it for a second, he didn’t seem to notice the tense expressions on his young chargers faces.

“Now what was it…Mamoru? No…Mike? Wait no that wasn’t it either, oh I remember now! It was Mikami!”

The day which had started bad and had just keep descending suddenly seemed as dark as night.

“Shit…”

‘This day couldn’t get any worse.’

Just then a phone rang shrilly causing all of them to jump up in surprise except for Watari. It didn’t seem that Watari had realized what he had done, more then likely because L hadn’t yet told him about the LifeNote.

Raito looked over at L as the man dug into his huge pockets to try to find the still ringing cell-phone.

After a few more seconds of having to listen to the shrill noise L made a victory sound and pulled out a slim phone from his pocket. He frowned as he looked at the caller id. It was clear that he didn’t know the number but he still flipped it opened and held the phone in his weird two finger way to his head.


“Moshi Moshi”

L was silent as he listened to whatever the person on the other side of the phone had to say.
“…I understand”


L flipped the phone shut, a tense pinched look on his face as he looked into Raito’s and Watari’s concerned faces.

It seemed that L was having a hard time trying to get out what he wanted to say.

Finally he just let out a heavy sigh and closed his eyes, you could visibly see his shoulders drop.

“I just had a very insightful conversation with…Kira.”

“…Fucking shit!”

“My thoughts exactly.”

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Aww can’t I give these poor boys a break already?

I guess not, still I have to say that I’m surprised by how this is going. This was not what I had planned out. The notebook was supposed to be stolen by a street rat kid that Watari had paid to help with the luggage. It was going to be a wild goose chase and nothing bad or important was going to happen.

But noooo I just had to make it plot related!

Darn you Kira! You are screwing everything up!! ARGH!!

…ok I better now, wow who thought screaming would release so much tension?

So now I must change my plot (ONCE AGAIN!) because I hadn’t planned on Kira appearing so soon. The next few chapters like I was saying were suppose to be filler-fun chapters but it looks like we’re back to plot fun now. I’m not sure how much longer this story will be, I feel I’m getting closer to the end…oh no.

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