I've been having major writer's block with The Contest of Deep Dark Secrets, so I decided to take a quick break from it and write a drabble. It totally failed.

Raito was pissed.

After weeks of almost nonstop heavy rainfall, the Kira task force HQ had acquired water damage—namely, a leaky roof, and the invasion of countless bugs. As a result, L had booked a hotel room for a few days to continue working for the duration of the repair process.

Which leads to why Raito was so incredibly pissed off.

That man…that man was apparently the greatest fucking detective alive. Possibly even the greatest detective of the entire century. The amount of wealth in which he had access was almost incomprehensible in its quantity. He could probably book an expensive hotel suite for every person in the city and still have money to spare.

The bastard booked their hotel room at a one star hotel.

You know—the kind with unclean bathrooms, a TV lacking cable, paper-thin walls, crappy internet connection, and no room service.

"What the hell possessed you to have us stay in the shittiest hotel in Japan? !" Light raged. His hand was formed in a fist. The detective's answer would be the deciding factor in whether or not Raito would sock him in the face.

"Quite simply, Raito-kun, it's the soap," L replied calmly.

Raito was taken aback. "The…soap? What?"

"Their soap," L repeated, walking over to the sink to pick up the aformentioned object. "They have wonderful bars of soap, and I love them."

Raito couldn't even begin to describe how furious this conversation was making him. "You're saying that we're being forced to stay in this dump of a hotel—this hotel that not even a hobo would want to stay in—because you like the hotel soap? !"

L smiled innocently. "It is strawberry-scented."

A little while later, Raito found himself in the awkward position of having to explain to his father why he had broken the nose of the greatest detective in history.

I'm aware that that totally sucked. It was funnier in my head…

I got the idea because I am currently in a hotel in Vegas, and the soap is totally awesome. I decided that if I ever have the money to come back to Vegas, I'd choose this hotel, just because of this awesome soap. Completely weird, eh? Oh well.

Please review! They make my day! :D

~Ratt Kazamata

8/03/2011