A/N: I know. Mistletoe is so cliché. But heck, there isn't enough het out there in the Death Note fandom! I don't think this turned out the way I wanted it to, but I tried.

Warning: forgive me if I include OOCness. It's not intentional. And there's probably some slight AU there as well. Sorry!

Pairings: Near/Linda, Mello/Halle, Matsuda/Sayu, L/Misa. May be changed later depending on response.

30 kisses under the mistletoe.

kiss one: awkwardness

Linda frowned as she looked down at her test paper. "I don't get it...x is...but wait, that doesn't..." she frowned harder. Maths wasn't her forte, but she had vowed to get good marks in the subject by Christmas, and she needed to be able to understand this question. And they were already hanging the mistletoe! She had asked around for two hours, but apparently no one had gotten the question right. The only two people who had gotten it right was Mello and Near. And she had tried Mello. He just snarled and called her stupid.

So that just left one person.

Conveniently enough, he was just a few metres away from her, in a doorway. Staring at something. She ignored it.

"Hey, Near!"

The albino tilted his head curiously to acknowledge her. She smiled her biggest smile as she ran over to him.

"Listen, could you explain this to me? Seriously, no one knows! And Mello won't tell me. But you got 100%, right? So you probably -"

She was cut off as she realised what Near was staring at before.

Ah.

Mistletoe.

...

Well, this was awkward.

"O-oh. So...that was what you were staring at..." she blushed. Linda bit her lip, before smiling again, an idea popping into her head. "Ah...mistletoe."

He didn't respond.

Linda inhaled deeply and leaned forward, eyes fluttered shut. Near blinked several times until her lips pressed against his, where his eyes stayed wide open. It was a few seconds before she pulled away, with her blushing furiously.

Can I have some more?, a ridiculous voice in his head giggled. He fought the urge to shake his head away of it, and merely stared at Linda, eyes slightly wider than usual.

"I -"

"Sorry," she mumbled, looking down at the floor. "I overstepped myself."

Silence.

"I will explain."

Linda's head snapped up. "What?"

"I will explain the equation."

She half-smiled at him, and he felt something unfamiliar; almost dizzying. "Okay."

Hope it wasn't too fluffy for you. R&R.