Manga Madness

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or any of the characters! (Except for possibly a few random thrown-in people) I don't own Halo either. Or Borders. *Wow I thought you people just assumed these things...*

Final Words: I just thought of this today... It won't make much sense, so don't complain about it. This one's Mello and Matt. I'll add an L and Light one some time soon...

-----11:30-At Home-----

It was an average day, if you were an average person. But when you are characters in a fictional series, even simple trips to the store can end up changing your life.

Mello walked out of the bedroom, yawning and looking very dazed. "Whoa," he mumbled, "What time is it?"

Matt sat on the couch, playing Halo, like every other day. He didn't even pause the game as he turned for a split-second to look at the clock. "It's 11:30 Mells, I thought you were already up."

The blond sat down at the the table, taking a sip of the hot chocolate Matt had made him earlier. "Well I wasn't." He went to the pantry, looking for something more substantial to eat. "What happened to all of my ghirardelli truffles?!" he suddenly screamed.

Not turning away from the TV, Matt replied, "You ate them all yesterday morning, remember? I said 'don't eat them all, you'll yell at me later when they are gone' but you told me to shut it. And then you said 'Matt! Matt! Matt!' And then you sneezed in my tea and you said 'don't worry, it's just allergies'. Remember?"

There was a long, awkward pause. "Oh, yeah. Now I remember." Mello looked in all of the other drawers. "But all that's left is this Hershey's crap! I'm not living on Hershey's! That's the CHEAP stuff!"

"So what do you want me to do about it?" Matt snapped, "I'm not going all the way to Wal-mart for your stupid chocolate!" He finally paused his game. He turned to face Mello, whose face was turning bright red. "Besides, I wanted to go to the bookstore today. There's a sale on manga." He smiled a cheesy smile.

"Which store?" Mello cried, "Is it Borders? They have truffles at Borders!"

Matt sighed, turning his game back on. "Sure... It's Borders." He shot and killed an alien creature. "They have those sales from time to time, and I want to see if there are any new series."

"Well what are we waiting for?!" Mello exclaimed. He started running for the door.

"You know you are wearing pajamas right?" Matt remarked. He continued killing aliens. "And the store isn't open until 1. It's Sunday."

He stopped midstride. "Fine. We'll do it your way." He went to the bedroom to change into his leather ensemble.

-----1:00-At the Store-----

"Wow! I didn't know they expanded their manga section!" Matt exclaimed. He ran over to the middle of the store, where shelves were stacked high with backwards japanese books. Plushies from different series surrounded the shelves and other japanese treats were on display. "I wonder what I will buy today..."

Mello decended upon the cash registers to empty their stock of truffles. He slapped a $100 bill on the counter. "How much will this buy?" he asked the confused cashier.

As Mello all but threatened the cashier to give him their chocolate, Matt walked along the rows of manga, money burning a hole in his pocket. His eyes focused on a series of books near the bottom of the shelf. It had pictures of creepy creatures along the top. This looks cool, he thought. He picked up the first volume. Death Note? Interesting.

He thumbed through the first chapter. It was about this guy, Light, who found a notebook that supposedly had powers. Sounds like a good story. He took out his wallet. He had no need to, after he hacked into the local bank, he had enough money to line his wallet with benjamins. There were twelve books in the series, but another book, How to Read, looked like it talked about all of the characters. I might as well buy all of them.

"For the last time, sir, you can't pre-order the chocolate! That's only for books that aren't in the store yet. You have to settle with what is here."

"But I NEED the dark chocolate truffles!" Mello cried, "Matt! He won't give me dark chocolate truffles!"

"Mello, stop being mello-dramatic," he sighed as he picked up the books one by one. He happened to glance at the cover of volume 8. It had a blond guy (or girl?) sitting in a comfy chair with a chocolate bar in his hand. He was dressed in black leather and had a menacing smile on his face. It looks like...

"OH MY GOD!" Matt shouted. All of the shoppers turned to look at him. He dropped all of the other books and ran to the registers where Mello had the cashier in an armlock. "Mello! Look at this!"

The blond turned his head, keeping to poor man in an armlock. "What the hell?! That's me!" He took the book from Matt, releasing the cashier. "What is this?"

"It's a series called Death Note," Matt replied, "It's about this guy who finds a notebook that can kill people! Doesn't that sound exactly like what's going on now? Weird."

Mello looked through the book, using his speed-reading training from Wammy's. "This is so creepy. That's me! and there's Near and-

"Where am I? Am I in the book too?" Matt butted in.

A long pause. "No."

"Awww..." What a stupid series. "So what's going on? Is it talking about stuff that's happened?"

"Yeah... It knows about my time with the Mafia."

"But... how?"

"I don't know Matt. I don't know."

They looked through the book, amazed at how much it knew about the Kira case.

"So this Light Yagami... is he Kira?" Matt asked.

"According to this book he is." Mello replied. Yes, I bet Near doesn't know about this! he thought to himself.

"Mello, if it knows about the past, does it know about the future?" Matt ran back to the manga section, gathering up all of the books. "Let's look at the last volume!"

They opened the book towards the middle. Mello read at a blinding pace, making Matt unable to read half of the words.

"Who's this Takada person?" Matt asked.

"I don't know her, but, she seems familiar."

They read more.

"Oh, look! There's me!" Matt exclaimed, pointing at the page with a big grin on his face. "I look awesome!"

Rolling his eyes, Mello turned the page.

Two pages later, the scene was a little darker.

"M-Mello? Did I really just-?" His face sank. Mello closed the book, unable to read any more. "I just appeared! How could I just...?"

"This is sick," Mello stated solemnly. He put all of the books back on the shelf. "I'm not paying for that."

The two walked out of the store, Mello with a bulging shopping bag of chocolate one hand, and his other arm over Matt's shoulders.

"Next time, let's go to Walmart," Matt sighed.

Ummm...: That actually ended on a sad note... Wasn't expecting that. I'll make a L and Light one soon, and I'll make more if it's requested, but... I can't take any more sadness! I'll end the next one on a happy note. I'm gonna go cry now. (;_;)