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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 5
L woke up slowly. The scene in front of him was swimming, slightly swaying. He recognized it as his bedroom at headquarters. He blinked, trying to pull himself together, and the scene settled down and became clearer.
His body felt odd and worn out. Everything was sore; everything hurt just slightly, a dull ache deep within each muscle. Part of him just wanted to go back to sleep, but then he remembered that almost everything imaginable had gone wrong the previous night, and multiple mysteries were waiting to be solved.
Gingerly, he tried to sit up. He felt shaky, but not too bad. His entire body was enormously too hot, but when he kicked off the blankets he immediately had an odd feeling of being both too hot and too cold at the same time, so he drew them back over himself. Someone had dressed him in his usual outfit. L never wore pajamas; he just wore his clothing to bed, though sometimes he removed his shirt.
L glanced around the room and saw the doctor asleep in a chair and the morning sun streaming in the windows. He had vague memories of that doctor. Most of the night was a jumbled mess.
But then, he remembered the sex. That was clear in his mind. It, or at least most of it, had happened before the point when his memory became a series of blurs and blanks. Inwardly, he wanted to kick himself. What had he been thinking, letting Light, the main Kira suspect, do that to him? It had been so raw and wild and unthinking, an act of pure instinct and lust. It didn't match L's internal picture of how he perceived himself, of how L should behave. They hadn't even used condoms!
Although, as L pondered, he realized that condoms were not an issue. L knew he'd been a virgin, and he knew Light was clean. L had already tested Light. L hadn't exactly expected Kira to have green blood or anything like that, but he hadn't wanted to miss any possible evidence, and it could be that Kira was some kind of genetic freak or medical marvel. Every medical test in existence had been done on Light Yagami within the first two weeks of his confinement and, among other things, they had learned he didn't have any sexually transmitted diseases. And, ever since then, Light had been under constant surveillance so he couldn't have picked up anything in the meantime. He hadn't even left the building after the handcuffs had been undone, until last night.
Well, the sex had been a bad idea, but it had already happened; it couldn't be undone, and there were much worse things that needed to be attended to. L checked a drawer next to his bed and found his cellphone.
He called Watari and said, "I need everyone except Light to attend a meeting in my room as soon as possible. Please prepare a suite of rooms for the doctor to stay in and do not let him leave. We need to discuss confidential topics away from him, but I'll need to interview him soon. Where is Light?"
Watari replied, "Light arrived about fifteen minutes ago. He is working with the others to try to recover any data. Are you okay? Do you remember what happened?"
L said, "I'm slightly ill but much better. We'll discuss everything in the meeting. Please put Light somewhere away from the computers, where he won't be able to leave the building or tamper with any evidence."
Watari said, "It will be done, Ryuzaki," and then the two of them took a couple minutes to discuss all the preparations that would need to be made for the meeting.
L put away his phone feeling utterly exhausted. He piled plenty of pillows behind him to prop his torso up into a half-sitting position. He still felt queasy and uncertain when sitting without support, but he did not feel like conducting a meeting while completely lying down. He glanced down at his body and noticed his skin was still fairly red. His natural tint was so pale that any flushing colored him quite dramatically.
Twenty minutes later, the doctor had been escorted away and all the task force members except Light were assembled expectantly at the foot of L's bed, whilst L had a laptop computer open next to him on the bed. The laptop showed live surveillance video of Light, who had been locked inside Misa's old suite of rooms. The audio link was one-way.
Before L could start talking, Light said, "Ryuzaki, I'm sure you're watching me right now. I will do whatever I need to in order to prove my innocence, so just tell me what to do. I wish I had some way of knowing what is going on at that secret meeting, but I understand your caution. Tell me when you're ready for my help again."
Light mostly looked at the camera during his little speech, but his eyes were too shifty. They flicked off to the side twice and looked directly at the wall. Light was up to something. What was his game? Light almost sounded as if he were trying to hint that he could hack in to the surveillance system, but that was impossible from Amane's suite, and L had also taken the precaution of unplugging all cameras that would otherwise be recording the meeting. There was no possible way for Light to eavesdrop.
Still, L felt nervous. It was just like the games Light used to play before the point when he seemed to lose his memories of being Kira. L had become quite accustomed to Light dropping hints about what he might do if he were Kira, maddening hints that held no useful information and didn't sound suspicious to anyone other than L.
Light had his memories; L was almost completely sure of it. If only Light didn't have the ability to erase his memories, L would simply lock him up and question him relentlessly until he confessed, using slight torture to turn up the pressure if necessary. But that tactic had turned out disastrously the first time and was no longer an option. Light had to be made to trip up in such a way that merely erasing his memories wouldn't get him out of it.
Then Watari cleared his throat and said, "Ryuzaki, are you sure you're fine? Last night your behavior was extremely erratic and the doctor says your fever has only improved marginally."
L replied, "My body is still impaired but my mind isn't. The first thing we need to do is establish a timeline of every event that happened yesterday and last night, no matter how insignificant."
Watari brought out a notepad and handed it to L. It already had the rough beginnings of a timeline, with plenty of space to write in additional events. L's eyes were caught by the entry at the top of the page.
L said, "Light did not rape me on the roof. I remember that much."
Watari said, "Last night, you claimed that Light said he couldn't stop and that you'd die if you tried to move away from him. Then Dr. Yamane performed an examination and found Light's semen inside you."
L sighed. He didn't want to deal with this, but he had to. It would make him look bad, but it was part of the investigation.
L said, "What happened was consensual. I have no idea why I consented, but I did. Light's exact words were 'I don't want you to die, L. But, L, I can't stop it. It's already happening.' This is entirely ambiguous. It sounds a bit like a confession of being Kira, but it could also be a claim of wanting to protect me from Kira. The two sentences were interrupted by making out, so the second one might have been about sexual topics rather than about me supposedly dying."
All the investigators at the foot of L's bed had shocked expressions on their faces, but Soichiro's was particularly bad. It was incredibly traumatized and angry at the same time.
Soichiro said, "Ryuzaki, what did you do to my boy?"
L said, "I didn't do anything. He was the one who did things, and for some reason, I didn't resist. Nothing like this has ever happened between us before."
But, L thought, that wasn't entirely true. There had been moments of... something. Long looks in the shower, accidental touching of hands leading to an awkwardness that was quickly ignored by both men, and times when they inadvertently snuggled into each other while asleep and woke up entangled, with hard-ons practically rubbing against each other. L had put those events out of his mind and hadn't really thought about them. He was obsessed with Light because Light was the main suspect in the biggest case of his career, not because of any other reason.
Watari said, "Ryuzaki is mildly autistic, and he's never shown romantic interest in another person before. I do not think he understands his own sexuality. If anyone was taken advantage of, it was him, not Light."
L said, "There is no need for either of you to be so protective. Light and myself are both adults, and I've been educated extensively on sexual topics. Neither one of us is an innocent. The real question is whether what happened had anything to do with Kira. There is no doubt that Kira attacked this place last night and, of the many unusual events that happened, the sex was the first one."
Matsuda turned red and stammered, "Kira can control people. Maybe he's going to make all of us have sex with each other."
"That is possible," L said, "but I do not see any point to it. If Kira has all our names and faces, why not just kill us cleanly? Or, at least, why not make us do something useful for Kira as our dying actions, such as shutting down the investigation? Besides, toying with people pointlessly in a sexual way hasn't been Kira's style before now."
Aizawa said, "It could be a new Kira, with a different pattern. Didn't we say that we thought the first two Kiras must be dead by now?"
L said, "Everyone except myself did conclude that. But I do not remember why. Do any of you remember why you came to that decision?"
The investigators looked back and forth at each other, thoughtful expressions on their faces, and at last all of them admitted they had no idea why.
Then L said, "Does anyone remember why Light was cleared a few days ago? I know there was a reason, and I didn't entirely agree with it, but I remember arguing with the rest of you about it."
Once again, after a short discussion, nobody had any idea why, though all of them were sure there had been a reason, one they could no longer remember.
Mogi said, "All of us have been controlled by Kira. Does that mean we'll die soon?"
L replied, "We should not jump to that conclusion. We need to gather more data and analyze it first."
Aizawa said, "That's right. At one time, L thought Light and Misa were controlled into acting as the first and second Kira, but they are still alive. If Kira is tampering with our memories and actions, then we will not necessarily die."
Matsuda said, "Does that mean all of us are the ones who attacked Watari and destroyed the cameras?"
Watari said, "The infrared sensors at every entrance and exit record some data on paper strips that were not destroyed. As far as they show, no intruders entered, and the only people who left were Light and Mogi."
L said, "There are plenty of experts who could circumvent that much security, especially when all the cameras in critical areas were malfunctioning. However, the strange events started before the cameras were taken out, although perhaps it didn't matter because nearly all our video footage was later destroyed."
Aizawa said, "Almost all?"
L replied, "Wedy still retains her own copies of all footage relating to Yotsuba. We will be watching that shortly."
Watari said, "Before I was attacked, I did notice a video loop in the main investigation room. If an intruder entered, they went there. Aizawa was the only one in the room at that time. Did you notice anything unusual, Aizawa?"
Aizawa put one hand to his chin. "Well, this almost seems too stupid to mention, but I had one of those weird moments where I forgot what I was doing for a second. My heart was beating like crazy and I felt scared, but I don't know why."
Matsuda's eyes became very wide. "That happened to me too, but I was in the bathroom at the time. I was going to wash my hands and then suddenly I was facing in the other direction, and I was just shaking. My palms were sweating and everything."
After more questioning, L determined that everyone remembered a similar moment, except that Watari and Mogi had experienced much less fear. In fact, Mogi's forgetful moment had been so mild that he wasn't sure if it even counted. L didn't remember any such moment for himself, but, then, he couldn't remember much of the night anyway, so it wasn't a surprise.
Next, they watched Wedy's Yotsuba footage, which included all the cameras she'd personally placed. Wedy hadn't been supposed to keep her own copies of the video, but she did. The recordings from the cameras Watari had placed had all been in headquarters, and they were destroyed. Wedy's footage included the meeting inside corporation headquarters, some other footage from the homes of the men who went to the meetings, and the chase footage from inside Higuchi's car. Everyone was astonished to see Higuchi talking to a hallucination or invisible presence named "Rem." Nobody remembered him doing so.
Then, there came Higuchi's discussion about "the deal" and L knew he didn't remember Higuchi talking about that deal, but he did remember warning the cops that Higuchi had the power to kill with just a face after Higuchi killed a cop just after making the deal. Higuchi reached into his bag and did something immediately before the cop died. Did that relate to how Higuchi killed? It was something you did with your fingers?
L desperately wanted to see the video footage of Higuchi looking for Matsuda's name in the file at the agency that employed Misa, but Watari had placed those cameras, so it had all been destroyed. It was certain Higuchi had attempted to kill Matsuda while in that building, because the moment Higuchi came back to his car he was relaxed, as if he didn't need to worry about Matsuda anymore, and then he was surprised when Matsuda didn't die. Higuchi had done whatever he did to kill while on camera, and it was gone.
Then, Higuchi's arrest came. The in-car cameras barely showed Higuchi stumbling outside and being roughly handcuffed as cops surrounded him, because they were angled to look inside the car, not outside it. But, the outside voices could be heard by the inside microphones. L focused hard. There was a hole in his memory just about here, he knew.
Suddenly, the video stopped playing. Watari approached to fix it, but then smoke was pouring from the machine. Mogi rushed to the wall and came back with a fire extinguisher, but when he tried to spray it wouldn't work. He dropped it and rushed for the hallway, while Watari tried to pry the machine open and remove the disk, even though flames were now coming out and L could smell a faint scent of charred flesh.
Just then, Aizawa returned from the bathroom with a cup of water and threw it on the machine. It didn't get rid of all the flames. Watari finally had to back off, and then Mogi returned with another fire extinguisher and tried to spray it. This one didn't work either.
L said, "Smother it with the blankets."
Soichiro and Matsuda grabbed the blankets off L's bed, wrapped them right around where the flames were emerging, and thumped at the fire through the blankets. At first, it seemed that the blankets might catch fire as well, but then, the smoke stopped and the flames did not reappear. Watari ended up having to take the machine entirely apart to remove the disk, and it was a completely melted lump.
L said, "Is that the only copy?"
Watari replied, "No. There is a back-up copy downstairs."
L groaned. "Wedy didn't make any more copies?"
"No. And you said we needed to see the video immediately so I only made one copy myself before bringing it upstairs."
L said, "Get that copy out of the building! It's going to be destroyed too!"
Everyone rushed downstairs, leaving L alone, and when they returned, they reported the last copy had also been burned up, and its destruction hadn't been caught on video because the cameras in that room had gone out.
L pressed his hand to his forehead when he heard the news. His head was starting to pound again, and he did not want to deal with so many things all at once, but it was also exciting, exhilarating. He was getting clues at a rapid rate after a long drought. He was on Kira's trail once again, doing what he loved best, being a detective. His eyes wandered over to the laptop, still displaying Light lounging around in Misa's old rooms. Light looked incredibly smug. Were things going just the way he wanted?
L said, "I need all remaining evidence to be moved to another location, except the new video that hasn't been erased because it started recording after the computer system wipe. I need to wait for a very secure place for the video, since if a Kira who can kill with a face alone ever accesses it, we will likely die. Everything else can be moved immediately. Watari will arrange a location. All the new physical evidence, including the malfunctioning cameras, the burned video disks and the broken chain that used to connect me to Light, needs to be moved to that new location and should undergo forensic tests there. Please be careful to not leave your fingerprints on the broken cameras when removing them from the walls. If people on the investigation team were controlled into destroying them, we need to know who destroyed which cameras."
Then L spent hours interviewing everyone about the events of the previous day and night, building up a highly detailed timeline and trying to make them describe every last little thing, no matter how trivial. He took photocopies of his notes at regular intervals in case they were about to mysteriously burst into fire, and he sent those physical copies over to the new location where physical evidence was being stored. L wanted to see if any mysterious acts of destruction would occur there as well.
L was particularly interested to hear Dr. Yamane's claim that he had been raving about a monster named "Rem" during his fever, and that the other investigators had talked to him about Rem as if they took the subject seriously, especially Matsuda, and yet not a single one of the investigators remembered anything about it. Higuchi had talked to Rem, and L had claimed to see the same creature lurking in a corner of the room.
Had the other investigators simply been humoring a delirious L? If so, why didn't any of them remember about it? The Higuchi video suggested that Kira's power had something to do with making deals with monsters. Could shinigami possibly be real? Maybe you could only see such things if you had Kira's power or if you weren't in your right mind. L considered the idea of taking drugs that would create a delirious state, and find out if he started seeing Rem again.
Both the first and second Kira had mentioned the idea that shinigami were somehow connected with their powers. The first, through coded messages written by criminals he'd killed, and the second, through a video sent to Sakura TV. All of that evidence still existed, because it was part of police files and/or it was publicly available, but L had forgotten about those mentions of shinigami. He'd remembered that Kira had made prisoners write things, but he hadn't remembered the message, "L, do you know, gods of death love apples." He surely would have noticed that. And, somehow, he'd forgotten about the second Kira's video mentioning, "show our shinigami to each other."
Those were pointless things to erase from his memory, particularly the video since it was widely available everywhere, including over the Internet. Was Kira trying to create a false trail? Trying to draw L's attention to things that were ultimately meaningless? That was Kira's style, to attempt to waste his time with taunting clues that contained no usable information. It made sense that Kira would try to enmesh L in useless speculations about magical creatures. If Kira had controlled and then killed Higuchi, as L suspected, then Kira could have made Higuchi talk to thin air as if he were conversing with a shinigami.
The Higuchi video had another highly disturbing element, other than the apparent existence of Rem. It was obvious Higuchi hadn't had the power to kill with just a face at the beginning of the chase, or he would have simply killed Matsuda without any trouble. Then, after making the deal, he'd apparently gained the power to kill with a face. Yet, even though he had already seen Matsuda's face, he tried to see it again after that. He went so far as to look for videos of Matsuda back at Yotsuba headquarters, and he was angry when he couldn't find it. If you had the power to kill with just a face, did you need to be looking at your victim at the actual moment you killed? Could that type of Kira not control the time of death?
There were many unknowns about "the deal" but it sounded very threatening regardless of how it operated. It seemed that any Kira who needed a name and a face could upgrade to merely needing a face at any time. If Light really were Kira, why hadn't he done that? For that matter, why had Higuchi waited until his life was in danger to do it? It only made sense if there was a horrible drawback to it. But, if that were the case, then it meant Light would make "the deal" if he were ever cornered badly, unless L made sure to create a situation where Light knew he couldn't get himself out of trouble by simply killing people.
Then, more information came in. The broken chain had a type of stress fracture that could only be caused by pulling, not cutting, and the required strength was far more than any human could manage. Some kind of machine was required, but there were no vice-marks, as would be expected. Besides, according to the doctor's testimony, the chain had broken in the bed while nobody was touching it. The destroyed cameras all had wires pulled out inside them, but their cases had not been unscrewed to access those wires. The paint across the screws had not been broken.
Mogi had checked police records of all the forensic tests he'd asked his friends to do for him, without them knowing it was for the Kira case. There were the tests all the investigators remembered, of the envelopes, video tapes and other materials sent into Sakura TV by the second Kira, but there had also been a recent test none of the investigators remembered. A miniscule fragment of paper with ink had been sent for testing, and the result had been that the ink didn't match anything known.
L pondered. It was extremely difficult to produce an ink that didn't match anything known. Even handmade inks had various proportions of previously known ink ingredients. The test result would most likely seem to be an error, but it was highly intriguing. Kira's power was also like nothing known. Was there a way Kira's power could be related to ink? The test had been ordered immediately after Higuchi's capture.
Unfortunately, no more tests could be done on the fragment of material, because it was a destructive test. It was a shame. L would really like to get his hands on that sample. But, it was also possible that this was a false trail. Kira would know L would want to latch onto a clue like that. Perhaps Kira had set it up somehow.
A further mystery concerned the tests involving criminals. Watari remembered starting to make arrangements to secure two prisoners who had been sentenced to death exactly thirteen days apart from each other. He didn't remember why, but some checking with his contacts confirmed that he had actually made such inquiries. Unfortunately, his contacts didn't know why either.
Everything about it was odd. Except for the thirteen-day requirement and using two criminals instead of just one, it was exactly the sort of thing L would try if he had a Kira in custody and wanted to test the killing power. However, Watari hadn't started making the arrangements until some time after Higuchi's death. They couldn't have been planning to test Higuchi's killing power. Also, if they had been planning to test Light or Misa, then why had those two been freed? They should have been brought into custody again if that were the case.
By evening, L's temperature had dropped some more, though the fever wasn't completely gone, Light had been locked in Misa's old suite all day and had acted in a way that was completely unsuspicious to everyone except for L, the physical evidence had all been moved to the new place, a condominium, without any incidents of destruction, and L had completed all the interviews, including in-person interviews with Aiber and Wedy and a phone interview with Mrs. Yagami.
He had a very detailed timeline plotted out and was buzzing with speculation and questions, infected with the thrill of the hunt. So many clues had been dumped in his lap all at once, but there were so few answers. L was familiar with this situation. It often happened on cases, and big breakthroughs frequently followed soon after. It was just a matter of time until he started figuring out what had really happened.
One thing was clear. Light had gotten away and remained completely unobserved for seven hours, except for Mogi watching the outside of his house for part of that time. The attack had begun before Light left, while Light was still safe in bed. Light hadn't really done anything noticeable. With all the things that had happened, it was impossible to link Light to any of it definitively, at least, not without more evidence. But it was incredibly suspicious; the idea that the first time Light escaped surveillance in months, Kira should attack. It was a clear indication that Light should not be left unwatched.
Light feared surveillance. If Light was Kira then he could kill while being watched, but it was difficult for him. If that wasn't true, then why had the FBI agents been killed? And why had Kira's pattern of killing changed during the five days that cameras were installed in Light's house? For the first time, incredibly minor criminals such as purse-snatchers had died of heart failure the moment the media announced them. Furthermore, being watched personally by L seemed to hamper Kira's activities much more than cameras alone. The moment L became too sick to pay attention to Light, Kira had acted. That fact must be significant.
Light was also hampered in another way by L. Until L got sick, Light hadn't left the investigation building at all, even though he'd been cleared to go home. That meant there was something L could do that might hurt Kira, and Light was determined to watch L in order to prevent it. L knew he must be very close to solving the case. Why else would Light want to hover nearby constantly, if not to know what L was doing?
So, if Light was around L all the time, he might be able to somehow thwart the investigation but, in the process of trying to stop L, he might also create some evidence that L could pounce on and use. So, in that sense, keeping Light within arm's reach was both a liability and an advantage. In another sense, keeping Light close by and under constant watch was a distinct advantage. Light wanted to watch L, but he feared being watched. Kira's power was difficult to operate while being watched. The more L thought about it, the more he became convinced that Light needed to be back on the end of that chain.
The other possibility was that Light was merely trying to trick L into that kind of action. Locking up Light had not been a very good strategy so far. If L couldn't get evidence, he'd just get further discredited and eventually forced to let Light go, as had happened twice already; first with letting him out of the cell, second with letting him off the chain. Perhaps the entire stay-close-to-me strategy was a trick on Light's part in order to grind the investigation to a halt and continue to cast doubt on L's theories.
But, the chances of it being entirely a trick were low. Kira feared surveillance and watched to watch L, those things were fairly clear. Even if discrediting L was part of the strategy, it was likely only a part.
L watched Light on the screen of his laptop. Yes, he needed to get himself chained to Light again, and Light would probably cooperate because he also wanted to watch L. However, it was best to try to convince the others, just in case Light balked now or decided to do so in the future. L decided to call another meeting.
Once everyone was assembled, the first thing L said was, "There is no doubt in my mind that the many strange events that recently happened are all connected, and that they are an attack by Kira."
Aizawa said, "If we've been found and controlled by Kira, then what use is it to continue the case? How can we make any progress? We can't make the right decisions if Kira keeps erasing specific things from our memories. We could be tricked into believing anything with that method. Maybe Kira's plan is to gain control of this investigation and force us to draw the wrong conclusions."
L said, "There must be a way to defeat Kira. He would not have destroyed evidence unless it could hurt him. And, there is a reason why all of us are still alive, even though we don't know that reason. I think we will continue to live, for now."
Watari said, "Do you have the same conclusion as this morning?"
L replied, "Yes. I'm almost completely certain that Light is the original Kira and that his power has returned to him along with his memories."
Soichiro said, "Ryuzaki, it doesn't make sense. Light was cleared before all this happened. If Light were Kira, why would he destroy evidence that cleared him? We let Light go because of evidence that we all know existed, but none of us can remember what it was."
"You do have a point," L agreed, "but nearly everything about this case has always been connected to Light in some way. When Light was imprisoned, the killings stopped for two weeks and then restarted in the new pattern we now recognize as belonging to Higuchi. Until Misa entered the picture, every clue we had pointed to Light alone. There were not enough clues for proof but too many to be easily accepted as a coincidence. Then, Light was the one who figured out that a Kira was at Yotsuba, and at the moment Higuchi died Light knew Higuchi's name and face and was one of the few people who knew Higuchi had just been arrested. Wouldn't it make sense for the first Kira to kill the third Kira to prevent him from talking? Then, on the same night that Light stopped being under surveillance for the first time in months, this building gets attacked by Kira. Additionally, not a single newly-announced criminal has died from heart failure since Light left this building last night. Doesn't it all seem quite suspicious?"
"Well," Matsuda said, "it could still be a set-up, right? All of us were manipulated. Besides, doesn't this at least prove Misa can't be the second Kira? I mean, if Misa might tell us something bad, wouldn't Kira kill her?"
L put a finger to his bottom lip. "It is a mystery why she is still alive. It always has been."
Aizawa said, "This entire case stinks. Very little of it makes any sense. I'll agree with you that Light hasn't been cleared of suspicion. But you can't keep him on the end of a chain forever just because you're unable to clear him. That's not how the law works."
"You are correct," L said, "which is why I need to close this case quickly. Let's ask Light what he thinks."
L pushed a button next to a microphone and said, "Light, I would like to chain you to myself, while we continue to work on the Kira case. It could be some time until we solve it. Is this acceptable?"
Light blinked up at the camera, with a look on his face as if he were pretending to decide.
How is it that nobody else ever notices how much acting Light does. Isn't it obvious?
Then Light said, "Yes, Ryuzaki. I will do anything to prove my innocence, and I'm determined to see this case to the end. It is an honor to work with the greatest detective in the world. I'm sure there are many people out there who would be willing to endure far more than a chain in order to get a career opportunity like this."
L said, "If he's willing, then we don't even have to bother with legal concerns."
Soichiro's face flushed, and he said, "Are you sure you're not just trying to satisfy your sexual urges?"
With a completely unconcerned look on his face, L replied, "I will create a schedule of at least one investigator watching us in person at all times to make sure neither of us takes advantage of the other. This is a professional arrangement, purely for solving the case."
With that, the investigators reluctantly agreed, and within an hour, Light was handcuffed to L, using a thicker chain than before but exactly the same six-foot length, and the two of them were in bed. L was incredibly drained. He was better, but the remainder of his illness just didn't seem to want to go away. The exhaustion quickly overtook him, and he drifted off to sleep.
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