Before Note: This fanfic is like an alternate universe reality type fanfic. Most characters that died in the original story are, well, not dead in this story. And so to make it easier for me to write this story, I am going to have it that Light gave up the Death Note and thus, lost all of his memories and is currently his nice, cute, normal self while the Death Note is out there being used and controlled by someone else. And I believe that is all that needs to be told before the start of the fanfic. Enjoy... or something like that... (Oh, and bewared of spoilers from the anime/manga/book.) I do not own Death Note. This disclaimer should be used for the whole fanfic since I am to lazy to go back and add this in to all the chapters.

Ouverture Jour

"Come on, Mello. It's just for one week." Yume grabbed Mello's hand and squeezed it.

"You don't know whose house you're going to. What if it's that Light bastard?" Mello asked her.

"Then I'll leave. Screw the prize, I'll come right home."

"Prize?" Mello wondered. This was the first he heard of a prize since she came home with the invitation to stay at a stranger's home for a week. While she was staying at the person's house, someone from that house was going to be coming to their home. He really didn't want to play host to anyone... especially if it ended up being Near or Light. He would rather kill them than live with them for a whole week.

"Yep. I didn't tell you earlier? The prize for doing this is a life long supply of chocolate. Which would really help us save some money." Money wasn't a problem in their relationship, but more money would make her even happier so she could buy even more video games, manga and anime.

"Life long supply?" Mello imagined in his head all the chocolate he could eat. All the wonderful chocolate he wanted.

"So are you ok with me going and someone coming here?" Yume asked.

Mello stood there, thinking for a few moments. He knew that she could take care of herself, but she was so damn naive at times that it worried him greatly.

"Come on, Mello-wello." She pouted. "I bet it would be fun."

Mello growled at the nickname he disliked so very much. He looked away from her pouting since he almost always gave in when she looked like that.

"I'll be fine. And so will you. Are you worried that the person who gets sent here will think you're so pretty they will take advantage of you and rape you in your sleep?" She poked him on his cheek.

"Hell no!"

"Then what is wrong?" She asked him.

"Nothing. I don't have a problem with you going. Just be careful, all right?"

"All rightly. I will dear Mello. Do not worry about me. I shall survive for the week and win us some chocolate." She nodded happily.

"When does this little swap happen?" He asked her.

"In three days." She told him. Yume then grabbed the end of his shirt and pulled him toward her, smiling mischievously. "Why don't we go have some fun to make up for the time we are going to miss when I'm away."

Mello grinned and moved closer to her as he wrapped one arm around her and the other he placed on the side of her face as he leaned forward to kiss her.

For the next three days they had lots and lots of 'fun'...

"Free cake for the rest of our lives? Do you know how awesomely hot that is? We have to do this L." Kyoki said, jumping up and down happily.

L was sitting on the couch in his normal fashion. He raised his hand and placed the tip of his thumb on his lip like he usually did when thinking.

"Why are you hesitating, L-kun? There's going to be yummy, delicious, wonderful cake. Free cake, L-kun."

"This could be some sort of trap so Kira can get close to get our names."

Kyoki sighed. She kneeled down on the couch next to L; she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and rested her forehead on the left side of his head.

"I don't know Kira, but I don't think would try to get at us by using free cake. It doesn't seem like something he would do... even if he was desperate to get you."

He lowered his hand and turned his head toward her. "You're right. He probably wouldn't do something like this."

"Hehe. It looks like you have three eyes." She pulled her head back and poked him on his forehead where she had double vision and saw the fake eye. Kyoki then sat down on the couch normally and rested her head on his shoulder.

"If you want to go do that, I won't stop you." He told her.

"Yayness! Thank you, L. Are you going to be all right with the surprise quest coming here?"

"Yes. This could work in our favor."

"I wonder who I'll be going to visit. I wonder if it will be a stranger or someone I know..."

"Be careful with who you give your name too." He reminded her.

"I will." She told him. She suddenly gasped. "What if I end up in a house without Internet... what if they don't even have a computer? I must take precautions before leaving. I should go download those songs from that one Taiwan drama I've been watching so I don't go crazy with those songs in my head. Oh, and I need some more UVERworld music. I'll save it on my PSP and then we can all be happy. Yesu! Oh, I should take a cake with me incase they are weird and don't like cake or something like that. They should have cake there, shouldn't they? I mean, they have to have cake, or at least some kind of candy, right? Only crazy people don't have anything like that, right? What kind of people wouldn't have cake or candy? Oh, dear..." Kyoki shook as she thought about the house she was going to be visiting and how she would may have to interact with strangers, which was something she hated the most. She hated talking to strangers; it made her very uncomfortable.

"Calm down." L placed his right hand on top of her head and patted it lightly.

The moment he touched her head she got a warm feeling all over her and immediately did as he told her.

"I really want to do this since it sounds kinda fun and interesting... but I kinda don't want to do it now since I know how much I'm going to miss you."

He removed his hand from her head and rested it back on his knee. He then looked straight ahead in his normal dazed, emotionless stare. "I will miss you as well. It's going to be odd eating cake alone now."

Kyoki squealed with what appeared to be happiness as she hugged tightly onto his arm and rubbed her cheek against his arm like a happy cat would do to its owner. She then jumped up and pointed her finger at him. "I will depart from you from one week and I shall miss you so much that it will drive me crazy and the people I am staying with. And after this week is over, I shall glomp you like you have never been glomped before. So you better by prepared my dear L! Muahahahahah!"

A sudden wave of dizziness overcame here and she sat back down. She rested her head on his arm. "I think I'm tired now... Maybe I'll take a nap..." Kyoki told him. She started to fall asleep with a smile on her face.

"What is this about? Misa can't be away from Light for one week! Why would someone send something like this to me?" Misa glared at the paper in her hand. She was considering burning it, but realized that might end up being rather dangerous to do right in the middle of the living room. She decided to wait till Light came home and then she could show him what a horrible letter a bad person sent them. Misa folded the letter up and placed it back in the envelope so she wouldn't have to look at it. After that she placed it under the cushion on the sofa so that way she couldn't see it at all. After that was done, she sighed happily and went to the bathroom to get ready to go to a photo shoot that was set for later that day.

Near stared at the letter like as if it was the weirdest thing he had ever seen in his life.

"What is wrong?" Rester asked, coming over to the younger man after realizing that Near had been staring at the paper for quite a few minutes.

"This note... is very odd." Near told him. "It makes no sense. It says if I participate in going to a random person's house, and one member of that family comes here, I will be awarded a life long supply of toys of my choice. Who would fall for something like this? It must be some kind of trap. Or someone's weird, twisted sense of fun." Near began to twirl strands of his bangs around his finger as he pondered.

"It sounds like one of those reality television shows that are all over the place nowadays." Rester told him.

"Yes, it does." Near looked at the envelope. "It doesn't have a return address. Please call Gevanni, Lidner, and Aizawa and ask them if they will assist me in finding out where this letter came from and if any others were sent out."

"Yes, sir." Rester said and walked away to do what he was asked to do.

Near sat where he was and continued to examine the letter and envelope.

AfterNote: I got the idea for this story after watching Wife Swap. It is not a show that I normally watch. I was just flipping through the channels one night to see if there was anything to watch while I was waiting to watch Lost which was on an hour later and it happened to be on and it caught my eye. I'm so happy I decided to watch it so I could get the idea for this little story. I noticed that the females mainly are the ones who read the note... I didn't mean for that to happen... but it did... and it doesn't have any significance for the story... at least for now it doesn't... maybe I will work it in now or something like that. But I don't know how I will make that work since I had Near get one too... I didn't want him to be left out... so... yea... Oh well. That last little bit with Near was not planned. I was just thinking that another character should get a letter too, and then I was like, 'well, it should be someone cool like Near who gets it.' And thus he got it. But now this little thing is getting more of a plot to it. At first it was just going to be something simple, but then Near had to come along and complicate it a little bit. But that is all right. Maybe this will make things better... hopefully... And hopefully I will be able to finish this supposedly short fanfic... though knowing me... it will turn out to be way longer than anticipated. It's already starting, like that bit with Near that was not planned at all... yea... What am I getting myself into? Who knows? Well, I think I should end this little endnote now since it's getting pretty long and I'm starting to talk about nothing. Yea... until next time, don't sleep with alligators in your bed or you might wake up with a body part missing. Later. EndAfterNote