Italian Pastries

A/N: Welcome to chapter three lovelies. It's unbetaed and in the raw. Please enjoy.

Chapter Three

(-Three days later, Wednesday Evening-)

Raito glances at his phone that is resting on his desk silently, for the fifteenth time, in the past fifteen minutes. Begrudgingly he goes back to his science text book, and copies down an answer to a question. He had sent a short text to this mysterious 'L' person yesterday, and he had yet to receive one in return.

"Raito-kun, is this something wrong?"

Amber eyes shift from the text book once more to look to the boxer clad form of Teru, Mikami; his best friend who had decided to use his bed as his study area.

"No, why?" His answer holds little care, he seems tired. They have spent the past three days completing their summer homework and working at the bakery.

Pale hands mark the page in the text book in hand before closing it and setting it down on the nightstand. The owner draws himself to his knees on the plush bed.

"Ok, what is wrong? Seriously."

Raito sighs, he closes his book gently and swivels in his desk chair to face Mikami's direction. Lying to him always proved to be fruitless.

"I guess I'm just a bit stressed out and fidgety, we've been working for days, either summer work or at the bakery." 'Well, that's half of it.'

His loyal friend frowns. Raito forces himself not to smile. The way that Mikami just cared about him, made him feel…happy.

"Perhaps instead of spending our day off tomorrow doing homework, we should relax, get our memberships at the gym and take a trip to the beach. We'll get our gym sessions started on Saturday."

Smooth lips curl into a deep smile and Amber eyes sparkle.

"That sounds like a good idea. Maybe you can get a tan." He teases, he is a bit surprised when Mikami only pouts a little, instead of blushing brightly.

"Mh… I really doubt my skin could actually resist being burned, let alone retain a tan."

Raito chuckles and shakes his head; stretching his arms up high, he lets out a deep yawn, his eyes slipping closed.

Mikami's eyes glide over the shirtless form of Raito. He inwardly longs to touch him, his body lurching forward slightly, he gives in.

There is the sound of body weight being shifted, and Raito slips his eyes open when he feels another's breath on his face and long hair tickling is cheeks; he is only half surprised by the closeness of his best friend. His pale, bare arms resting on either side of him against his desk. Slowly he lowers his arms and wraps them around his neck, drawing the boy closer to him.

"Raito-kun…" Mikami breaths out quietly.

"Mh?"

"I-…" Raito waits patiently, waiting for the continue.

He plays with his long hair, gently stroking the ebony locks with care; both a soothing and comforting gesture.

"Ca-Can I kiss you, Raito-kun?"

A deep auburn eyebrow cocks itself into an arch; he was confused as to why he was even asking, but the cute blush on Mikami's delicate face is reason enough. He is nervous and embarrassed. Slowly over the past three days, he had been working with his older friend, opening him up so to speak. It seems that he is growing bolder.

"Yea."

His arms tighten around his neck, a his fingers grip his hair a bit tighter.

Slowly Mikami moves closer and gently presses his mouth to Raito's. His dark eyes slip closed, and so do the amber eyes, he tilts his head to the left for a better angle. Raito willingly allows the warm tongue to slip inside his mouth and they kiss slowly, Mikami steadies himself with his right hand, using his left to cup the back of Raito's head firmly. A soft moan is released from Raito's throat, but it is swallowed by Mikami's kiss.

Mikami's other hand comes up to hold Raito's head with both hands and he tilts his head to the right, deepening the kiss further with sudden vigor. He becomes more and more rough with kissing his love obsession, gripping the perfect auburn hair between his pale fingers. His own moan, swallowed by Raito is released when his own hair is pulled between Raito's hand in return.

They pull apart long enough to breath and make eye contact. They are both panting heavily, a heated, sexual haze over coming the both of them. The break for air is over, Mikami drags Raito out of his chair and throws him to the floor, subconsciously knowing getting him to the bed would take too long and be difficult.

Raito is hardly aware of the movements until his back hits his partially carpeted floor hard, and his mouth is covered again by Mikami's. They kiss intensely, Raito nearly suffocating from the wind being knocked out of him. The older of the pair grinds his pelvis into the younger's, supporting his weight with one hand, the other pulling at the auburn locks harshly, once more.

Meanwhile Raito is struggling for air, his body screaming with pleasure as he grips Mikami's shoulders. He thrusts him back, gasping in the sweet oxygen and then struggles to quiet a pleasurable moan when Mikami's hot mouth latches onto the junction between his neck and collarbone.

"Oh God, Mikami!" He exclaims in a low voice, his rock hard erection being stimulated through their thin boxers by the violent grinding of his friend. His neck is feasted upon by the same attacker; he wraps his legs around the older male's hips, grinding along with him as he tried to catch his breath and quiet his moans at the same time.

Mikami's mind is clouded by lust and want. Raito's kiss had excited him thoroughly, and he wanted more. He had waited ten years to have Raito in anyway possible, and he wanted to get more than a kiss tonight; now that he'd found his inner courage, he'd pursue it.

Plus Raito's moans helped a lot.

"Sochi!" (Son!)

Then the door to Raito's bed room flings open and both boys freeze in there movements.

Sachiko, Raito's mother walks in and drops a basket of folded laundry on his bed.

"Wrestling again? Thought I heard something…" She seems to not notice what they are doing, they relax slightly. "I did your whites for you both and accidentally left in your sister's red sweater in there and now everything is pink. I-"

She looks down at both of them and gasps, the boys pull apart and only get as far as Mikami straddling Raito with his legs still wrapped around his hips. Raito's hands now rest on Mikami's forearms. They both stare up at her in fear.

"Teru, Mikami! Why did you bite Raito!? Look at that nasty bruise you just gave him, shame!"

Raito's eye twitches; either his mom was thick in the head, or she didn't want to believe what she was seeing.

"S-sorry Yagami-san, he pulled my hair and then I-I decided…decided to bite him for it…"

The black haired boy looks down in embarrassment, Raito's eyes focused on his mother, so he could not look to him for comfort.

"Well… Try not to get carried away like that again. What would people think? It looks like a hickey, you wouldn't want rumors to spread." Sachiko laughs lightly and then points to the laundry on Raito's bed.

"Well, I'm afraid that a couple of your nice shirts have been ruined boys, if you don't think you can handle wearing pink, give them to charity or something." She goes to leave and pauses in the doorway. "Oh, and it's almost ten, so please keep it down, your father is relaxing in the living room and will be going to bed soon. Good night."

"Good night." Raito calls quietly. Mikami gives a small wave, still embarrassed.

Neither move until they hear Sachiko's footsteps fade down the stairway.

Then Mikami stands up off of Raito, who's legs fall away from his hips. Both still sporting half asked erections, that are quickly becoming limp. Raito looks up to Mikami, his mouth open as he goes to ask him a question but stops, only watching Mikami go through the motions of moving the laundry basket and putting it in a corner and then crawling onto the bed. He looks depressed.

Raito stands and kneels at the edge of the bed, prepared to climb onto it as well.

"Mika?"

Mikami looks over at Raito and offers a pouting smile.

"You haven't called me that since you were twelve…"

"Well you haven't looked so guilt ridden or depressed since then. What's wrong?"

Mikami hugs his knees, like he tends to do when he is upset about something.

"I got carried away and your mother would have been angry if she'd realized what we were doing; It's my fault, I'm sorry. You would have been angry at me and I wouldn't be able to see you again."

Raito laughs lightly, shaking his head.

"I first of all would never be angry at you for my familie's prejudices and I would never leave you - you're my best friend, Mika."

Mikami smiles a bit brighter and then looks back at the bed.

"Thank you…and I'm sorry I never told you about me."

Raito's favored eyebrow arches into a questioning look once more.

"Excuse me? What are you talking about?"

Mikami squeezes his eyes shut and takes a deep breath.

"I never told you that… I like men."

Raito's face falls into a pathetically annoyed scowl.

"Mika, I knew you were gay since we were five and seven. I knew I was into guys at the same time."

Mikami looks up at him with shock written all over his face.

"Y-y-you like men? I-I and how did you know?"

Raito climbs on to the bed and sis cross legged beside his best friend nudges him a bit.

"Because we like the same things, we have similar personalities and we share a lot of background. It's not a surprise. You're into men and so am I. Not really hard to figure out."

Mikami flushes bright red and looks at his knees. "I thought you were just teasing me all the time. All those times you - you kissed me, I thought you were just trying to embarrass me. Sometimes I thought you knew that I -…"

"I knew what?"

"I thought you knew about my feelings for you."

Raito's heart leaps in his chest, hearing the words from Mikami's mouth was much different than simply figuring it out. It was almost as if he was glad that Mikami liked him, did he like Mikami? He fights off the smile, since he feels guilty because he always did know, and didn't want to think about that little fact. He looks at Mikami's knuckle white fingers and takes them into his tanned hands carefully.

"I always knew that you had feelings for me…and, I enjoyed teasing and flirting with you and kissing you. You were just too adorable that way. I guess I just have a fetish for… well you."

Mikami's face flushes a humiliating bright red.

"You have a fetish for me?"

Raito takes his well earned turn to flush a bright red.

"Well…yea. For one, I always - er, always wanted you to treat me like your toy I guess."

The auburn haired boy looks at the hands he is holding and rubs them. He couldn't believe the words coming from his mouth. He couldn't mean that he felt deeply for Mikami - did he? He couldn't! But the words slipped out so easily...

Mikami clutches Raito's hands firmly.

"Do you have feelings for me Raito?"

Amber meets onyx slowly. The amber eyed one nods and looks at their entwined hands.

"I - I guess I do, but, I don't know… I don't want to screw things up between us. I just wanted to have a friends with benefits things with you and that be it. It would be easier to hide."

Mikami stares at him, feeling a bit hurt.

"So… you don't want to be with me?"

Raito shrugs; he doesn't know the answer to that himself.

"Raito - I've - Well… I don't know what to say."

His hands loosen their grip on his love interests and they are grabbed from slipping away.

Raito looks him directly in the eye.

"Mika, you're my best friend. You're the one person who has always been there for me. You're the one who I've always been able to stand being with. I'd do anything for you; I care about you too much."

Mikami looks at him from the corner of his eyes.

"Then love me."

Raito remains silent, as they look each other directly in the eyes.

"You're all I really have Raito, you've given me a family."

Guilt wells up inside of him; there was so much inside him that he was feeling. He just kept pushing away those feelings inside of him. He did not want to have a partner relationship with Mikami, if they ever separated, he'd loose that one person in his life that cared, and never stopped. But Mikami cared now and he was more than positively willing to care forever. So he forces himself to nod, ignoring his ideas in his head.

"I-I'll try to love you; I care about you so much."

Mikami smiles weakly and leans in, kissing him gently.

"I love you so much Raito; it hurts how much I love you."

He embraces his stricken friend and feeds his fingers into his hair.

Raito pushes his feelings down once more and embraces Mikami tightly in return.

His cell phone - that is on silent glows momentarily as it receives a text message and he allows a smile to grace his lips then.

Maybe going to meet L would help him learn some things he wanted to figure out. For now, he'd hold Mikami and at least try to show how much he cared.

A few minutes later finds the two curled up under the covers of Raito's bed, Mikami holding Raito close to him. Raito doesn't bother fighting off the content smile he gets from their bodies being so comfortably entwined.

-TBC-

A/N: I didn't want to end this chapter so soon, but I really wanted you all to have something after waiting a few months for a friggen update.

I'm really stressed lately and school is over but Christmas is near. You might get a Christmas update; I'm not sure.

Please review with nice comments. -Niko