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[shiromadoushi]

Characters: Bakura & L
Location: Death City Heights 7th floor
Rating: Well, it has L in it so... PG-13?
Time: 3/22, after Kid's class.
Description: L looks like hell. More than usual. Cue Bakura worrying and acting as L's caretaker. Because someone has to...



Bakura had barely been home long enough to take off his shoes and set down his groceries (and new assortment of first aid supplies) before going back out into the hall to knock on the door across from his.

"Ryuzaki-kun? It's me... are you in?"

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[shiromadoushi]

"Why do you think that you are...?" Bakura honestly wanted to know now. With this level of stubbornness... He knew there was no way he could change his friend's mind.

[dead_black_eyes]

"There are a lot of reasons..." L offered vaguely. "Least of which isn't the fact that I am 'a jerk', as you put it. I really do genuinely enjoy seeing people squirm."

[shiromadoushi]

"But you have good qualities too, even if you try to hide them..." Bakura pointed out softly.

[dead_black_eyes]

"Maybe you've just been fooled into seeing what's not there..."

[shiromadoushi]

"Maybe," Bakura would give him at least that. "But I don't think that's the case."

[dead_black_eyes]

"You're really that determined to see the best in everybody?"

[shiromadoushi]

"Not everybody..." Since it wasn't as if anyone would find Bakura defending his doppelganger... "I've met people far worse than you."

[dead_black_eyes]

"I am frankly surprised you have any faith in humanity at all, if that's true."

[shiromadoushi]

"Mou, Ryuzaki-kun, you really haven't done anything horrible that I've seen! The worst you've done is been an utter pest... The Ring's done worse than you even just in the time he's been here! Not to say anything of what he's done back home...."

[dead_black_eyes]

"Give it some time. Something will probably come up," L sighed.

[shiromadoushi]

...Ryuzaki's insistence was starting to really seem so odd.

"...You really want me to think of you the way I think of the Ring...? Why?"

[dead_black_eyes]

"Of course it would seem so simple and one-dimensional, to you..."

[shiromadoushi]

"That's not---!"

Bakura broke off and sighed softly. "Nothing about that jerk is simple or one dimensional..."

[dead_black_eyes]

"My desire, not 'that jerk'. Can you keep anything straight? We were talking about what I wanted."

[shiromadoushi]

When it was Ryuzaki? No, sometimes Bakura couldn't.

"Then what do you want...?"

[dead_black_eyes]

"Certainly not what you appear to think."

[shiromadoushi]

"That's why I'm asking you to tell me...."

[dead_black_eyes]

"What if I decline to? I really don't think you'd understand."

[shiromadoushi]

"If you never explain it, I doubt I would..."

[dead_black_eyes]

"I explain a lot to you, and you understand a very small portion of it; that is my impression. You ask me to repeat myself so frequently."

[shiromadoushi]

"I ask you to explain or confirm... not repeat..." Bakura pointed out in a soft voice.

[dead_black_eyes]

"You ask me to endlessly reword things, then," L sighed.

[shiromadoushi]

"I just want to be sure I know what you mean... It'd be more problematic if I had it wrong, wouldn't it...?"

[dead_black_eyes]

"It would be best if you just got it right the first time."

[shiromadoushi]

"If I always got it right the first time, I'd have to be just as smart as you, if not smarter..." Bakura pointed out. "And from your world to know everything you were talking about...."