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sunmoonandspoon) wrote2007-01-18 12:23 am
sunmoonandspoon) wrote2007-01-18 12:23 am
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Kids Ch. 2
I've decided to post every chapter of Kids here from now on. I've finished Chapter Two, and it's damn short, so take a look-see and give me comments, okay? (For those of you who don't recall, Kids is my Death Note fanfic, the Sachiko/L one.)
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Kids
Chapter Two - Cookies
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Sachiko shows up and Light could have predicted it down to the minute, he knows how long it takes for her to eat and clean the kitchen. He peers out from his heat-trap cocoon, coughs like he's trying to stifle it. She's worried, that's perfect, he'll have no problem pulling this off. "Hi mom," he mutters weakly, "did you want something?"
"I just wanted to see if you were feeling alright," she says. "You didn't really eat your breakfast, and you've been coughing a lot…also, you're in bed in the middle of the day, which isn't like you. Do you think you might be sick?"
Light shrugs and fakes a struggle up, says it's possible but it's not a big deal. "I'm just tired," he tells her, "I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I'm resting up now for the meeting." He coughs again and Sachi purses her lips, clearly she doesn't believe him.
"Let me feel your forehead," she demands, reaching in before he can stop her. As if he would. For a second he's scared that it isn't enough, that he should have used the lye soap trick or something. But they didn't have any, he'd had to make due.
It seems to have worked though, "you're warm," she says, "you're definitely sick. Maybe you should skip tonight's meeting. I'm sure your father will fill you in."
Light shakes his head, says it would be irresponsible of him to just skip out. Sachiko shakes hers right back at him, says what's irresponsible is not taking care of his health. "Your father would agree," she says, and when Light does not assent she says "fine. We'll see how you're feeling later on."
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Sachiko walks in on him several more times, offers food and medication. By the fifth time Light's too ticked to deal politely, if she keeps this up she'll notice something, his plan will fall through and he'll have L breathing down his neck all night. "Ma!" he yells, "could you leave me alone?! I'm fine, okay, but I'm trying to sleep! Jesus Christ…"
"S-sorry," she stammers, backing away and then stopping, this is her son. She's the authority, she's got no reason to be scared. "I'm concerned, Light, I'm your mother, and for a mother to know her child is sick is just torment. Please understand that." With that she bows out, shuts the door and Ryuk starts laughing, she doesn't hear this but she hears her son snap "WHAT?!" and she stays worried. "I love you," she says bitterly, "you know I love you all."
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Eight rolls around and the taskforce shows up, drenched from the torrential rain. It's been pouring since six and already the driveway's flooding, all the dirt outside has turned to mud. Matsuda barges in, ignore the etiquette of entering another's home. Aizawa and Mogi stay back, dry off and remove their shoes so as not to wreck up the house. Soichiro's been back for hours, he's sitting on the couch watching TV, and Sachiko thinks there was meant to be one more person but she doesn't know who, she only vaguely knows the ones here now.
"Mrs. Yagami, hey, how're you doing?" Matsuda says grinning and taking a seat by Soichiro. "And hey Chief, how are you?"
Both assert that they're okay, and they go around the room with this pointless question. Everyone's fine, they're always fine when you don't know them. They also talk about the weather, blather on 'til Soichiro asks, "where's Light?"
"He's not feeling well," Sachiko says, "he isn't thrilled about it but I thought he should miss tonight's meeting…he has a fever and he seems so exhausted…" She's expecting him to disagree, say Light should not be stopped by something small. But Soichiro nods, says that's probably for the best.
"I hope Ryuzaki shows up soon," Matsuda says. "We're pretty much lost without him and Light…I mean, the four of us together could probably equal one of them if we tried really hard…" He looks around, notices he's dripped rain on the couch and apologizes. "Eh…where is that guy?"
Discussing him doesn't summon him; it takes ages full of idle chatter for Ryuzaki to arrive. When he does he's lacking a jacket, hell he isn't even wearing shoes. He's soaked and he's shivering and not standing up straight, the part of Sachi's mind that's set to mommy-mode's gone mad. She's trying to be quiet since this person's not her son, but this is ridiculous, her own son shut her out and for God's sake he's not wearing shoes!
"Sorry I'm late," he says, scratching quick behind his ear. "It took almost twenty minutes to find a parking space, and the one we found was pretty far, so I had to walk."
"Why didn't you just have the driver drop you off here?" Soichiro asks, and Sachiko wonders if Ryuzaki is even worth questioning, if anything he says or does makes sense.
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"The car radio broke, so I thought I ought to keep him entertained," he states, shaking his head like this is obvious. "Anyway, before we get this started, can I have a towel? I don't want to dirty your beautiful home, unlike someone…" He glares at Matsuda and Matsuda laughs nervously and throws off his raincoat, says he's sorry, really sorry, he should have fixed this thing by now.
That's over with and the taskforce starts talking, Sachiko gets the towel and then heads off to the kitchen, she promised to play hostess and she doesn't want to know. There's no question that Kira must be stopped, but there's also no question that to know about him is a danger. Her ties are likely to kill her already, as wife and mother to taskforce members she could possibly be doomed. But just in case she'll stay ignorant, safe in the kitchen baking cookies like a wife and mother should.
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L's disappointed, Light's absence is an opportunity to lay out evidence against him, but with his mother there he can't even mention it, Yagami will deny it all for the sake of his wife. If Light stays sick they can meet next at the Aizawa house, talk it out there, but L doubts it. Even if Light is close to death he'll make it, he's got to know he can't afford to miss that meeting.
"Today," he says, squeezing rain from his shirt into the towel. "We are going to be reviewing the information we have so far about the second Kira and the case in general. I think it's important that we're all on the same page, and I don't think it'd be wise to introduce new information until we're sure this place is safe."
Yagami jumps up startled, snaps that of course it's safe to talk in his home, what does he think, his wife is going to gossip with her friends about it?
"It doesn't matter what I think," L says, "we have to take precautions all the same." And Yagami agrees, says he's sorry and he will not question this again. L starts talking, explaining why there's more than one Kira and what they're meant to do about it. And he's talking and talking and everyone's rapt, they wouldn't have noted Sachiko's re-entrance if not for L's mid-sentence stop. "Are those cookies?" he asks.
"Why yes," she tells him, "yes they are."
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He keeps talking while he's eating but he interrupts himself, tells Sachiko they're spectacular and dazzling, magnificent and yay. The other members take one each, Matsuda hesitating over a second one that's snatched before he can, Ryuzaki's inhaling them. He doesn't thank Sachiko more than once but he seems happy, she's happy looking as he eats. It's something to focus on, something to feel proud of since she's clearly failing as a mother to her kids. At least she's pleased this strange young man with her cookies, at least she's got something (he's still soaked and lacking shoes) to worry about besides Light in bed and Sayu god knows where.
She smiles and ducks out, lets them keep on talking murder. And no, she can't help glancing back.
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Hope you liked, please to be commenting, or I'll banish you to an asteroid with my mind powers.
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Kids
Chapter Two - Cookies
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Sachiko shows up and Light could have predicted it down to the minute, he knows how long it takes for her to eat and clean the kitchen. He peers out from his heat-trap cocoon, coughs like he's trying to stifle it. She's worried, that's perfect, he'll have no problem pulling this off. "Hi mom," he mutters weakly, "did you want something?"
"I just wanted to see if you were feeling alright," she says. "You didn't really eat your breakfast, and you've been coughing a lot…also, you're in bed in the middle of the day, which isn't like you. Do you think you might be sick?"
Light shrugs and fakes a struggle up, says it's possible but it's not a big deal. "I'm just tired," he tells her, "I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I'm resting up now for the meeting." He coughs again and Sachi purses her lips, clearly she doesn't believe him.
"Let me feel your forehead," she demands, reaching in before he can stop her. As if he would. For a second he's scared that it isn't enough, that he should have used the lye soap trick or something. But they didn't have any, he'd had to make due.
It seems to have worked though, "you're warm," she says, "you're definitely sick. Maybe you should skip tonight's meeting. I'm sure your father will fill you in."
Light shakes his head, says it would be irresponsible of him to just skip out. Sachiko shakes hers right back at him, says what's irresponsible is not taking care of his health. "Your father would agree," she says, and when Light does not assent she says "fine. We'll see how you're feeling later on."
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Sachiko walks in on him several more times, offers food and medication. By the fifth time Light's too ticked to deal politely, if she keeps this up she'll notice something, his plan will fall through and he'll have L breathing down his neck all night. "Ma!" he yells, "could you leave me alone?! I'm fine, okay, but I'm trying to sleep! Jesus Christ…"
"S-sorry," she stammers, backing away and then stopping, this is her son. She's the authority, she's got no reason to be scared. "I'm concerned, Light, I'm your mother, and for a mother to know her child is sick is just torment. Please understand that." With that she bows out, shuts the door and Ryuk starts laughing, she doesn't hear this but she hears her son snap "WHAT?!" and she stays worried. "I love you," she says bitterly, "you know I love you all."
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Eight rolls around and the taskforce shows up, drenched from the torrential rain. It's been pouring since six and already the driveway's flooding, all the dirt outside has turned to mud. Matsuda barges in, ignore the etiquette of entering another's home. Aizawa and Mogi stay back, dry off and remove their shoes so as not to wreck up the house. Soichiro's been back for hours, he's sitting on the couch watching TV, and Sachiko thinks there was meant to be one more person but she doesn't know who, she only vaguely knows the ones here now.
"Mrs. Yagami, hey, how're you doing?" Matsuda says grinning and taking a seat by Soichiro. "And hey Chief, how are you?"
Both assert that they're okay, and they go around the room with this pointless question. Everyone's fine, they're always fine when you don't know them. They also talk about the weather, blather on 'til Soichiro asks, "where's Light?"
"He's not feeling well," Sachiko says, "he isn't thrilled about it but I thought he should miss tonight's meeting…he has a fever and he seems so exhausted…" She's expecting him to disagree, say Light should not be stopped by something small. But Soichiro nods, says that's probably for the best.
"I hope Ryuzaki shows up soon," Matsuda says. "We're pretty much lost without him and Light…I mean, the four of us together could probably equal one of them if we tried really hard…" He looks around, notices he's dripped rain on the couch and apologizes. "Eh…where is that guy?"
Discussing him doesn't summon him; it takes ages full of idle chatter for Ryuzaki to arrive. When he does he's lacking a jacket, hell he isn't even wearing shoes. He's soaked and he's shivering and not standing up straight, the part of Sachi's mind that's set to mommy-mode's gone mad. She's trying to be quiet since this person's not her son, but this is ridiculous, her own son shut her out and for God's sake he's not wearing shoes!
"Sorry I'm late," he says, scratching quick behind his ear. "It took almost twenty minutes to find a parking space, and the one we found was pretty far, so I had to walk."
"Why didn't you just have the driver drop you off here?" Soichiro asks, and Sachiko wonders if Ryuzaki is even worth questioning, if anything he says or does makes sense.
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"The car radio broke, so I thought I ought to keep him entertained," he states, shaking his head like this is obvious. "Anyway, before we get this started, can I have a towel? I don't want to dirty your beautiful home, unlike someone…" He glares at Matsuda and Matsuda laughs nervously and throws off his raincoat, says he's sorry, really sorry, he should have fixed this thing by now.
That's over with and the taskforce starts talking, Sachiko gets the towel and then heads off to the kitchen, she promised to play hostess and she doesn't want to know. There's no question that Kira must be stopped, but there's also no question that to know about him is a danger. Her ties are likely to kill her already, as wife and mother to taskforce members she could possibly be doomed. But just in case she'll stay ignorant, safe in the kitchen baking cookies like a wife and mother should.
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L's disappointed, Light's absence is an opportunity to lay out evidence against him, but with his mother there he can't even mention it, Yagami will deny it all for the sake of his wife. If Light stays sick they can meet next at the Aizawa house, talk it out there, but L doubts it. Even if Light is close to death he'll make it, he's got to know he can't afford to miss that meeting.
"Today," he says, squeezing rain from his shirt into the towel. "We are going to be reviewing the information we have so far about the second Kira and the case in general. I think it's important that we're all on the same page, and I don't think it'd be wise to introduce new information until we're sure this place is safe."
Yagami jumps up startled, snaps that of course it's safe to talk in his home, what does he think, his wife is going to gossip with her friends about it?
"It doesn't matter what I think," L says, "we have to take precautions all the same." And Yagami agrees, says he's sorry and he will not question this again. L starts talking, explaining why there's more than one Kira and what they're meant to do about it. And he's talking and talking and everyone's rapt, they wouldn't have noted Sachiko's re-entrance if not for L's mid-sentence stop. "Are those cookies?" he asks.
"Why yes," she tells him, "yes they are."
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He keeps talking while he's eating but he interrupts himself, tells Sachiko they're spectacular and dazzling, magnificent and yay. The other members take one each, Matsuda hesitating over a second one that's snatched before he can, Ryuzaki's inhaling them. He doesn't thank Sachiko more than once but he seems happy, she's happy looking as he eats. It's something to focus on, something to feel proud of since she's clearly failing as a mother to her kids. At least she's pleased this strange young man with her cookies, at least she's got something (he's still soaked and lacking shoes) to worry about besides Light in bed and Sayu god knows where.
She smiles and ducks out, lets them keep on talking murder. And no, she can't help glancing back.
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Hope you liked, please to be commenting, or I'll banish you to an asteroid with my mind powers.
I want cookies too!!! T-T
(Anonymous) 2007-01-26 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)Can't wait for the next chapter, crack pairings shall rule the universe!!! XD
Emixpearl
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Ha! L pwned Matsuda.
Aww. Sachiko's maternal instincts... evoke my own?! Wtf? Something's wrong here. Ha... But seriously, I love it. The connection between L and Sachiko is adorable. I couldn't help but get the warm fuzzies.
I'm loving this already. Don't get me wrong--I'm still left with a slightly odd feeling, seeing as I've started reading with expectations of romance, and have seen primarily a parent-child relationship so far. Still, I suppose this is only the second chapter. Looking forward to the next! *fangirlsquee*