An incident happened in Japan’s Zoo a long time ago, and Light had most probably forgotten this moment, at least until he almost had a heart attack when he first saw L. No one ever talks about the Zoo Incident. Ever. It wasn’t even scarring, or even remotely scary. But, it is to the eye of the beholder.

A nine year old Light and his class went to the zoo for a fieldtrip. Light-chan was bored.

“Okay class!” The hyperactive teacher said happily. “I want all of you to stay together, and NO wandering off.”

Of course, half the boys wandered off while they walked around the zoo. Not Light-chan of course!

“Oh my, there seems to be a commotion at the panda bear section!”

Light blinked. There really was something happening where the panda bear cage was. And... Was that his dad?

The little kids immediately ran towards the cage, mostly the girls, wanting to see the cute panda bears and their cute little babies.

“Tou-san,” Light said, slightly pulling on his dad’s sleeve.

“Huh, Light, what are you doing here?”

“...my fieldtrip tou-san.”

“It was today?”

“...”

“Erm...yes, but anyway there seems to be a teenager in the panda bear area with what seems like drugs.”

Light went closer to the cage.

“Light, don’t..!”

There was a guy sitting in a weird position on his high perch...err...really big rock. Not just that, but he was dressed up in a panda suit (thus making Light re-evaluate all the pandas to make sure he wasn’t actually looking at a real one), and was holding...

“Tou-san, that’s candy. A lot of candy.” Light said, wondering why everyone has to assume that people who look like druggies have to have drugs. This was one-hundred percent true.

“Oh, want some candy?” Panda-san (as Light was going to call the guy) asked, offering one of his lollipops to Light.

“No thank you, Panda-san,” Light politely declined, because you have to be nice to strangers, even if they are creepy looking and/or wearing a panda suit.

Panda-san didn’t seem to care of the name Light-chan gave him, and just continued to eat his candy. The other panda’s seemed to like him, and didn’t mind he was in their area.

“YOU ARE VIOLATING THE RULES AND YOU MUST GET OUT OF THE CAGE, NOW.” Light-Chan’s dad shouted on his megaphone that all chief of police seem to get.

“Hey you big meanie!” Some little girl shouted. “He’s not bothering the panda!”

“But he’s breaking the rules!” some little boy said.

“But you always break the rules, so it doesn’t matter!”

Light didn’t notice he was standing in front of the cage door, or that it was open, or that Panda-san actually jumped off the rock and went over to where Light-chan was.

“Your sooo kawaii close up!” Panda-chan...Wait when did he upgrade to chan?

So he hugged Light-chan. Everyone froze and stared. Panda-chan (why is he still chan!?) and hugging Light and was also petting the top of his head. Light did the only thing he felt like doing, something no one expected.

He started to cry. His parents never hug him like that, not since he was 3. :(

“Tell me what makes you so sad,” Panda-chan said, while still holding the poor crying boy.

-Sniff- “When I was 5, it was my birthday...-sniff- and NO ONE REMEMBERED!”

So, Light-chan told Panda-chan everything, while he listened and comforted Light-chan. Meanwhile, Light’s dad passed out from shock, and everyone stared at the cute display going ‘awww’.

So Panda-chan is the reason Light isn't as crazy as he is suppose to be until the very end o,o;