death note fic i'll never finish where light makes the sensible decision to pretend to read gay porn instead of straight porn to embarrass his dad and make him stop looking so closely
“Ah,” Ryuk says, “you’re breaking out the gay porn?” Light feels himself smirk, but doesn’t look up. Or respond.
“Oh yeah,” Ryuk says, “we’re being surveilled. You’re not gonna say a goddamn thing to me.” Light doesn’t even bother nodding this time.
It’s not even porn, is the thing. It’s lovey dovey cutesy boys holding hands and softly kissing. He thinks that might make it harder for his dad to watch him read.
He reads all of them. The next day he has to get more.
“You’re buying more volumes of that manga?” Ryuk asks. Light feels himself blush.
“It’s a fun story,” Light says, “and it’ll look weird if I go back and reread what I’ve already finished instead of going on.”
“You really think they’ll notice that?” Ryuk asks.
“L notices everything,” Light says.
It’s a Western style fairy tale romance with a soft-hearted, blond prince playing the ingenue. The man who is clearly set up to be the love interest is a dark-haired man playing a Robin Hood role… with murder.
Light hadn’t paid a lot of thought to his choice of reading material beyond “yaoi”. He didn’t think he would need it to do much more than sit in his drawer and justify his level of secrecy if someone ever did go snooping.
He’s not exactly going to say that this premise doesn’t entice him, either. So, yes. He decides that he’s just going to buy the rest of it. He’s going to need a bit more fodder for that cover story with whoever’s viewing him through the cameras, and if that means finding out what happens to Ichigo and Robin…. Who’s he to complain about it?