A/N: Random idea I got one day, we'll see how this attempt at making something with chapters goes... I may need someone to continously remind me though XD Also, this is un beta'ed so I apologize for errors.

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or any affiliated characters.

Matt.

Matt walked sluggishly through the aisles of the local chain store, one of those places that sells anything and everything. The ones with the slightly shady workers that are open 24 hours and are usually cheap as heck. Yeah, one of those places. But really, none of it bothered him, god only knows he wouldn't have to come back here for another month or two if he bought everything he needed in one fell swoop and rationed it… Maybe even longer if he finally found someone to share the rent with him and who was willing to shop for them both. Yeah, that would be nice.

He shuffled along, picking things off the shelves that he deemed necessary for his survival in the coming months. Like ramen. Ramen was completely and utterly important. He would need a cart soon too, his arms were starting to ache already and the semi-large pile of food was threatening to topple with the wrong move. As if just to spite him a box of crackers became dislodged and fell to the white tile floor.

"dammit" he groaned, glaring down at the offending item which remained dejectedly on the floor in front of the redhead. For a minute he contemplated attempting to bend down and get it but quickly realized that was impossible in his current state, it frustrated him greatly; he had wanted those crackers dammit! Sighing heavily he scanned the aisle he was in, looking for someone to ask for help, the only person in the aisle though appeared to be a blonde hooker, leather and all just a few feet away looking at chocolate bars.

Though nervous about asking a prostitute for any kind of help he decided he had no choice.

"U-um, excuse me?" He spoke up, silently berating himself for stuttering inside his head though he looked hopefully at the gir- scratch that- guy who turned to glare at him. Just his luck, in a huge store he just happened to pick the male prostitute to ask for help, oh yes, Matt was just a lucky bastard that way. Not.

When the guy didn't answer him at first just kept glaring matt made the decision to just keep talking anyways.

"Um, so could you hand m-me that box of crackers for me…. P-please?" he mumbled nodding to the object in question at his feet and looking a little sheepish. He shifted from one foot to the other, and remained looking at the floor, red fringe falling over his glasses. He was to preoccupied to be embarrassed by this slightly annoying action.

The blond stared at him a minute longer before smirking slightly and giving a nod as he walked to where matt stood.

Matt in question shifted again, smiling a little as the crackers were returned to him "thanks a lot" he said sincerely, flashing the blond a smile before turning to shuffle away, intent on finding a cart.

Several minutes later, now happily armed with a cart, our redhead continued his quest through the nearly empty store, taking whatever he wanted. It was nearly empty because, it was three am and very, very few people go grocery shopping at three in the morning, but that's how eager matt was to avoid as much human contact as possible. Plus, there was something calming about being in a nearly empty store, it was peaceful. No crazy soccer moms running around, no groups of teenage girls giggling in the clothes sections, it was nice.

Well, as nice as a chain store at three AM could be he figured with a shrug.

Matt made his way along until he was satisfied with the amount of food he'd managed to accumulate, along with a few games to keep him company for the next couple of days. He found a checkout counter that was actually open (what was the point of having to many checkout places if they were only going to open one or two at a time?) he smiled politely at the woman working the register, her nametag read 'Takeda' and she returned his smile with one of her own before beginning to ring up his purchase of about two tons of groceries.

Matt winced as the final sales price appeared on the screen of the cash registers monitor, he sighed dejectedly and handed 'Takeda' four fifty dollar bills, receiving only twenty cents back. Ouch. But at least this way, he wouldn't need to bother with food runs for the next month and a half, and all his money could go to paying his rent and buying more cigarettes and regular intervals. He thanked the woman quietly and then took his bags, contrary to the popular belief of the majority of matt's friends beliefs, he actually did work out so carrying fifteen bags of food out to his car wasn't a problem.

Hauling the aforementioned groceries into the trunk and backseat of his camaro, that he loved dearly, he brushed his hands off on the sides of his work out jeans before sliding into the driver's seat and starting car. It came to life, the engine making him smile with its satisfying purr, as mentioned earlier, this car was his baby. He pulled out of the parking lot and flicked on the radio, smiling again as one of his favorite songs came on, so he turned it up and began to belt the lyrics to Green Days 'Holiday' as he sped down the road, probably breaking the speed limit but it wasn't like there were cops around to stop him.

Head banging and still managing not to crash his car he made his way back to the house he lived in, it had been split to form two different apartment type places and was actually a pretty decent. He didn't live with anyone but after placing an ad in the paper he figured that wouldn't last long, hopefully the person was fairly cool… and paid their half of the rent on time.

Matt smiled a little as he pulled up to the curb, grabbing his multiple bags quickly before heading into the apartment and dropping said bags on the kitchen counter, he'd unpack them later, once he'd finished that Fallout 3 level he'd paused earlier. And with that, he plopped down on the couch and was promptly lost to the world of video games, good thing none of his groceries were in need of immediate refrigeration.

I know this chapter is pretty slow but I promise things will start happening in the next chapter! There will be more Mello and even a little Near i think ;)

thanks for reading!