Disclaimer; I do not own DeathNote, any of its characters or ideals. This contains harsh language and Yoai themes. Don't like it? Don't continue.

A calm beach with white sand, being kissed by bright crystal blue water and caressed by the sea wind, sat silently waiting for the discovery of its illustrious sights. The brilliant sun rose greeting the horizon, 'good morning'. Golden rays of sun fell upon this silent and lonely beach.

The sun peered in through the window of a young man who stirred at the sun's embrace. Pulling the blankets over himself, "Not yet…" his gentle voice groaned. The cell phone on the table next to him began to buzz until it fell off the table. Honey colored eyes flew open, "Oh, shit! Ryuzaki!" A toned muscular body tore out of the covers, hopping into his pants one leg at a time towards the bathroom next to his room.

"Light! Be quiet!" His mother scolded, "Your father had a long night of work."

Light stopped, "Yes, of course, mother, please excuse my disrespectful behavior." He gave his mother a smile.

"I need to get to school before I'm to late!" He dodged his sister, "Whoa, sorry, Sayu!"

She waved, "Have fun on your date, Light!"

Light stopped dead in his tracks and turned to his sister, "I'm most certainly not going on a date!"

Sayu stopped and peered at her brother suspiciously, "Why are you going to school on your day off… You're ridiculous." She smiled, "Well, whatever you're doing," she ran up and gave Light a tight hug, "have fun."

He stood there for a moment, "Thanks Sayu, I'll need more luck than fun." Gave his sister a half hearted hug and ran out the door. Looking at his phone, "1 new message", "Oh great."

Light opened the text, "Got bored. Getting ice cream."

Ruffling his usual neat hair, "That guy and his sweets…"

Ryuzaki peered down at his watch while finishing his third bowl of ice cream. Light ran up to him out of breath. "I'm… Sorry…" Light panted a little harder, "I ran as fast as I could." Catching his breath.

The raven haired man looked up from his odd haunched position in the chair. His onyx eyes meeting Light's honey eyes. "Indeed, it would appear so. Although, why would Light-kun care?"

Light sat down exasperatedly, "Because, I want to see what you can really do on a tennis court, when you're not distracted. Well, and because I said I would be here."

Ryuzaki looked down with what looked like a small resemblance of a smile. If that could be called a smile. "But, due to your tardiness, I've eaten an exponential amount of ice cream and feel that I will not preform at my best."

Light narrowed his eyes, "Whatever, so what do you want to do?" Light sat up straight and pulled out his daily planner, "It looks like I'm free until about four pm." Lights face crinkled a little, so much as no one would have seen it unless they were watching for it.

Ryuzaki sighed, "Ah, Misa Misa…" The waitress came up to their table and offered to retrieve more sweets for him. He shook his head and paid his tab, tipped his waitress and waved her off. The blonde waitress bowed at his generous tip and hurried off.

Light analyzed the situation. "The great L doesn't want more sweets?"

L shot him a stare, "I've asked you previously to address me as Ryuzaki in public." He said in his usual emotionless tone. He bit his thumb and eyed Light.

Light was scribbling something into his planner for later in the week, "Right. Ryuzaki." He put his pen and planner away. And sat proper in his chair.

"Well, I suppose since there's nothing else to do, I'll go back a continue the investigation." L crawled out of his chair and placed his hands in his pockets and started to walk.

Light growled and stood up, "Oh sure! 'I'll just wake you up on a day you don't have to be up because the rest of the task force got to sleep and I feel like making you miserable!' Is there something you need to say or not?!"

L turned and looked at Light, "Interesting. Come with me or not. Go back to bed for all I care." He muttered as he continued.

Light glared at him, "Today could be the day… If I followed him I could end this once and for all and I would finally win." He thought to himself as his eyes momentarily flickered red. "L—Ryuzaki! Wait up, I'll help." He grabbed his bag and chased after L.

Ryuzaki stopped and waited for him. Light caught up with him and they walked speaking rarely. "I'm glad you decided to come, Light-kun."

"Why?" Light dully answered.

L stopped and watched a couple young boys run around in a sprinkler. "I haven't had any friends before. So, I am unsure how one entertains another. Investigations are my life, so to try and introduce something new was absurd. I am sorry for boring you." He looked down and continued walking.

"Most of my life is pretty boring anyway." He laughed a little. "Er- not that you're boring. Actually, I have more fun talking and competing with you than anything else recently." Light furrowed his eyebrows, was this actually true? Did he consider L to be a close enough friend to enjoy his eccentric company? "L, please be honest, have you seriously never had friends?"

"Light-kun, we've been through this, you're my first friend." L never stopped walking.

They reached the tall building where the investigation was taking place. L entered a code in, scanned his thumb and retinal. The door opened and Light followed him in. Scanning the lobby area, "Not even the guard today?"

L stood in front of the elevator and studied Light for a moment, "Of course, you would notice that first."

Light gave L an angry glare, "Oh, we're going back to that now, are we?"

The elevator door opened behind L, "Of course, Light, You're the only probable suspect, I'm in fact, 94% certain that, you, are in fact, Kira."

Light detested when he insinuated that he was Kira. "How many times do I-"

"If you were not Kira, why would you still be here. I've insulted you, embarrassed you, handcuffed you to me, and yet… Here you are, I would imagine any normal person would reject that sort of behavior of any potential friend. But because of who I am… Here you are." L stood silently after his comments in the elevator doorway.

Light looked down at the realization of how obvious he had been, "Maybe everything isn't about pride… Or maybe something runs deeper than superficial feelings."

L stood in the doorway scratching his chin then biting his thumb, getting hit by the elevator for the second time before the door retracted. "Like what? What could be more important than-"

Light pushed past L, "Just shut up and let's get to work. I only have until four, remember?"

The ride up the the floor felt like it went on for hours. They both stood there in silent thought.

"Something deeper… Could Light-Kun be admitting he likes me as a person… No. Deeper." A bright red blush spread across L's face and he turned away hoping Light wouldn't notice. "No. No way. He's the perfect wonder boy student/son/athlete/lady's man…" L shook his head, "Stop this, he'll surely notice my distraction and use it to his advantage. He did this on purpose… What do I care if he likes me or not, I am L. The greatest detective of my time. I've never harbored emotions such as that, sure, I like people well enough, but… That."

Light watched L turn away, "Caught you… Like a fly in a spiders web. And all it took was proper manipulation of the words, now he's twisting and turning this is his head, he'll be distracted for days… Maybe even weeks."

The elevator made a pleasant beep noise as they reached their floor and stepped out.

Light walked over to his usual computer and sat down entering his password and logging on, beginning his scanning of Kira supporting webpages, as futile as it was.

L took a couple steps from the elevator and stopped. "I'm about 65% sure that you have manipulated your own feelings to distract me."

"65? That's it? That's pretty low next to your other deductions." Light muttered emotionlessly.

L blinked a couple times, "You don't deny it?"

Light turned around in his chair frustratedly, "What do you want, L? You're my friend too, and dare I say the only one whose ever matched my intellect, so I like talking to you? Big deal. The only one I actually want to spend time with, you fascinate me, who cares? The only person that I know, to date, who hasn't utterly bored me with their very existence…" Light turned around facing his computer once more and rested his cheek on his hand. "Do I actually feel that way? Or has my hatred of him consumed me so much that, it's turned to obsession which in turn has mimicked positive feelings?" Light rubbed his temples in frustration.

L sat down in his usual haunched manner. Studied the frustrated Light, "I'm sorry…" L muttered almost under his breath.

Light rolled his eyes, "What? I hate it when you mutter."

L shook his head, "Never mind… We should continue." Turning around to face his computer as well.