L sat across from Light in his usual position; knees drawn up to his chest.  He had been staring at Light for a long time now, though why the Yagami could only guess.  As usual, his emotionless eyes showed nothing.  There wasn’t even a trace of what he was thinking in his body language.  Everything was just…  Placid.

Just like L normally was…

Finally, the auburn haired young man had had enough.  “Ryuzaki, what is it?  Why do you keep staring at me like that?”

The detective gave a soft sigh.  “Light Yagami, the shinigami has told me everything.  I have to place you under arrest for being Kira.”

Light felt like a ton of ice cubes had slipped into his insides all at once.  “Wh… What?!  No!  There….  There has to be a mistake.  I’m not Kira!  Please believe me!  It was true.  He had given up his memories of the Death note and had yet to touch another, so as far as he knew he was innocent.

L shook his head and stood up, pulling out a pair of handcuffs from his pocket.  That was when Light knew the detective had to be serious.  “R…Ryuzaki…”  The Yagami whimpered, barely able to form those four simple syllables.

Just then, the other members of the Task Force, Sorichiro, Matsuda, Mogi, and Aizawa, came into the room.  Light looked between the four of them, searching desperately for an escape of some kind.  All he received were stone hard glares followed by Matsuda and Sorichiro sighing and looking away.  L proceeded to place the hand cuffs upon the Yagami’s wrists.  “Come with me please.”  The raven haired detective spoke, as if Light had a say at all in the matter.  With that, he led him out of the room.

Once they were outside of the building, Light was led into a car with Watari waiting patiently at the wheel.  The auburn haired young man quietly came into the car, keeping his head ducked down.  What could he say?  This was it…  And he was innocent.  Nothing made sense.  Why?  How could L convict him like that?  Why…

His thoughts were distracted when L slipped into the car beside him?  Why?  Was he going to come along with him?  But that meant he would be showing his face to the world… And worse, possibly to Kira himself.  Kira probably didn’t know he was L, but all the same…

“Raito-kun.”  L whispered, drawing himself close to his ear.  The Yagami looked up, seeming as miserable and dead as he felt.  L gave a soft smirk.  “Do you know what day it is?”

“I think… April first.. Why?”  The detective’s grin widened.  That was when it hit Light like a ton of bricks.  “You have GOT to be kidding me!  Ryuzaki, Kira or not..  I swear.. Ugh!”  All he heard in response were his companion’s soft chuckles.  This, quite frankly, pissed the Yagami off to no end.  “I.. Honestly could just KILL you!  This isn’t even funny in the least!”

“Really?  I think it’s quite amusing…  And I’d suggest in your position you don’t use threats like that.”

:I.. I thought I was going to jail, or worse!  I thought I was going to be executed!  How can that be anywhere near amusing?!”

The detective paused before responding.  “Taking that into consideration, I suppose it was rather underhanded of me.  How about I get you some cake as an apology?”

“It’s going to take a lot more than cake…”  The young man groaned.  “Man…  And on top of all this, I’m probably going to be handcuffed to you still, huh?”

“24/7, as we discussed earlier.

The Yagami groaned.  This was going to be a long case indeed.  “I still can’t believe you did this…  You really have no boundaries.

The detective paused before responding.  “Justice has no boundaries.”

Indeed, that was true…  The Yagami should have Known all along.

The End.