This is the translation of my fanfic "El fin de la infancia". I'm not bilingual so please feel free to tell me any grammar/vocabulary/whatever mistake you find. Thanks for reading :)


Day 14

He saw him walking in the door, surly as he sometimes was, and leaving a big wad of bills on the table. The knot at the height of his stomach tightened, and he felt like throwing up, but what came out of his mouth were three simple words:

"You did it".

"So what?", "You didn't have to...", "Leave me alone", could have been the phrases that followed. However, Mello remained silent and locked himself in the bathroom without answering. Outside, lights going off announced the arrival of dawn. Matt had refused to sleep, and doubted he could do that for a while. He wouldn't have been able to sleep anyway. Or maybe it was the fear of seeing in his nightmares sweaty naked bodies, their arrhythmic swinging and grotesque gasps.

Mello had done it. And what for?

"Are you serious? Have you gone mad?", he had opposed desperately.

"Mad? No. Unless you intend to live off air and sleep in the street. At Wammy's House food appeared on the table but now, as you may have noticed, that's over. And money too. How much do you spend daily on cigarettes?", he had asked while taking a black piece of chocolate to his mouth.

"I'll quit smoking if necessary. And I'll get a job so you won't have to..."

"Now you're talking crap. How do you expect to get a job, feed us both, pay rent and pay for what we need to catch Kira? Besides, you're a minor".

We both are minors.

"If necessary...".

"No. You need to do what I asked. You concentrate on getting that information. There'll be no time to do what we must if we both work".

Work. The word crept from Matt's ear and perpetuated in his mind as an echo as he watched the money on the table. How much would that be? How many men...?

Soon he realized that Mello was taking a lot in the shower. When he came out, clean but no less serious, he took some bills from the wad.

"Here, buy something to eat and a pack of cigarettes, if you want. And chocolate, you know the ones I like. Oh, and I managed to get a loan, so get yourself a decent computer. It's time we begin to investigate seriously".

The thing about the loan soothed and worried him at the same time. It meant that this was not the result of a single night. But it also meant that there would be a repaid, either with money or with more work. He didn't want to imagine the type of person who gave a loan to a fifteen-year-old boy.

"What we know so far is that L was chasing Kira in Japan", began speaking the blonde as he unwrapped a chocolate bar. "He probably had the collaboration of the Japanese police. The best thing to do, in the first place, is to hack their servers to find useful information. You could also do the same with the Interpol and the FBI".

"Sure, piece of cake", he protested, but something told him that neither of them was in the mood for jokes. The truth was that his stomach discomfort gave him no rest. He noticed the slight figure of his apartment-mate silhouetted against the only window in the deplorable apartment they rented, and felt nostalgic, perhaps also somewhat guilty.

"It will take time", he warned him.

"I know".

Matt joined the eyelids for a few seconds, feeling how tiredness strained through his eyes and tantalizingly tickled his brain and every muscle of his body. But he immediately separated them again and stood up to take the money. Mello was already lying in bed, and the wet strands of his golden hair spread out over the pillow. His innocent appearance seemed a cruel irony.

"I'll be right back", he said, and left the apartment with his legs and heart heavy as lead.


So... do you like it? If so, please let me know. Translating this took me a lot of time and it's a pain so I wouldn't like to go through this again if nobody is reading xD Thanks!