Hey guys! Welcome to my new Death Note fanfiction. I've had this in my head for awhile and finally decided to write it since I have two weeks off for Christmas Break. Hope you guys enjoy.
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Prologue
"Hey Mello, did we have any homework?" Matt asked as he looked up from his DS to see his best friend Mello walking into the room they shared.
"It's not like you would do it anyway." Mello grumbled and stomped his way over to his bed. Matt turn off his DS and sat up on his bed with his legs crissed-crossed.
"What's up with you?" Matt asked. Mello was lying down on his back but ad his arms covering his face. Matt knew that he only did that when something was bothering him.
"It's nothing, just that damn sheep." Mello said and rolled around to face the wall. Matt got up and sat on the edge of Mello's bed.
"Come on its more than that. You don't get this mad for nothing." Matt said and rolled him over.
"He always gets a better score than me on everything. Near is always number one I study all night, he doesn't even study one bit and he aces everything! It's not fair!" Mello yelled and threw his pillow across the room. It was originally aimed at Matt, but living with Mello for the years made him get the reflexes to avoid flying objects when Mello had a tantrum. Matt got up and went into one of Mello's drawers and pulled out a chocolate bar. He walked back over to Mello and opened it, tearing off a little piece and dropping it next to his head. Mello picked it up almost immediately and ate it. He looked up at Matt and tried to take the rest of the bar but Matt moved back.
"No more for you until you calm down." Matt said and Mello said up in his bed.
"God Matt, you treat me like I'm a damn animal half the time." Mello said and inhaled slowly. He did this a few more times then looked up at Matt. Matt smiled and threw the rest of the bar at him. Mello started eating it immediately.
"So, they're going to play a movie in the theater room tonight, I heard it's a new horror movie, you going to come?" Matt asked and Mello shook his head.
"No, we have a test tomorrow, I need to study you should be too." Mello said and Matt just rolled his eyes.
"God with you it's all about work isn't it?" Matt said.
"Go watch your movie before I throw something at you." Mello said and started to get his text books out.
"Alright fine, see you in a little bit." Matt said and walked out of their room.
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"This is the most boring movie I have ever seen in my life." Matt said as he leaned back in his seat. The horror movie they were playing was Saw: The Final Chapter. All of the other orphans were scared because of the goriness of the movie, but years of playing video games had made Matt accustomed to graphic blood and gore.
He sat through the movie for another twenty minutes before leaving the theater room and walking up to the second story back to his and Mello's room.
When he opened the door it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.
"Mello are you sleeping?" Matt said since he was surprised. Usually the day before a test Mello would pull an all nighter and would have the light on all night.
Matt flicked the light switched and screamed.
He felt his legs buckle and he crawled back toward the door until he had his back on it and couldn't go any further. He was in too much shock to actually open the door and leave.
What was in front of him chilled him to the bone and left him screaming even though he didn't even register that he was screaming.
Mello…had hung himself.
Roger came into the room to see what had happened.
"Matt what us g- oh dear god." Roger said and covered his mouth with his hand. Matt was still shaking even an hour later when the ambulance had come to get the body down.
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Mello's funeral was two days after the suicide. Not many people came, Mello wasn't too liked considering he was a bully to the kids at Whammys.
Near came, even Whammy himself came. L didn't come though and that was what bothered Matt the most. The one kid who looked up to L like he was a god, that tried his hardest just to take his role, and the bastard wouldn't even show up for his damn funeral.
There was a preacher there, even though he didn't show it much, Mello followed his religion strictly, always keeping his golden rosary on the inside of his shirt so that no one tried to steal it and pawn it.
After the preacher was done with his service people from the orphanage began to leave. Whammy walked up to Matt.
"Matt, I've heard from Roger that Mello was your best friend and roommate. Im terribly sorry about this incident. L wanted to come but couldn't make it under certain cir-"
"That's so much bull, you're lying to me straight to my face." Matt interrupted and snapped.
"Mello would pull all nighters just to try and get good scores on his test, he would never slack off, he always did his work, he talked about L like he was a god, he was the one thing that made Mello get his inspiration because he wanted to be just like him, he wanted to be the greatest detective in the world and L knew that from all the times that he has come here. Do you remember when Mello first met L? Huh? Do you? I do I remember a nine year old boy who had the biggest smile on his face and was jumping around like it was out of style. L was the first person he thought of when he had a problem, and now the bastard won't show up to his damn funeral, hah whatever. Next time you see L, you tell him that I said he can burn in hell." Matt said and walked away from Whammy. He went right in front of Mello's grave.
"Of all the things that I thought you would die from, I never thought it would be this." Matt said and pulled a chocolate bar out of his suit pocket, putting it down on Mello's grave. Near was the next person to try and talk to him.
"Matt I'm so sorry for your lost. Even though Mello hated me I did not feel the same about hi,, I thought he could be a great accomplice, but the feeling wasn't mutual." Near said.
"Save it Near. Mello hated you and that was that. He's dead, nothing we can do about it now." Matt said as him and Near still stood side by side in front of Mello's grave. Near noticed Matt's shoulders begin to shake and he could tell that he was crying but made no moves to comfort him. He knew that the only person that could ever make him feel better was Mello and he wasn't there anymore.
"I'm so sorry." Near said and walked away.
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Two months later
Matt was on his computer, working on hacking into the Whammys house mainframe. Over the last two months his computer hacking skills had grown and his final test was to be able to hack Whammys house and not be caught. No one had managed to achieve that since L had put his best security system on it, if Matt could accomplish that, then he could call himself a world class hacker.
Someone knocked on his door and Matt didn't answer, he didn't even hear it he was so deep in concentration. The door opened and Roger came in.
"Matt you haven't been to any of your classes for the past three days, when are you planning on going?" Roger said.
"I'll go when I want to go." Matt said and returned back to his hacking.
"Look Matt I know that Mello's death has affected you but that is over and done with. This is not a reason to go out and fall behind in your classes." Roger said and got no response out of Matt. He tried to go around the desk to see what the boy was working on but Matt tilted his laptop away from him and went back to work.
"Hmm I will expect you in class tomorrow, if not I will confiscate all of your electronics." Roger said and walked out, closing the door behind him.
As soon as Roger shut the door, Matt jumped out of his seat and cheered. He had managed to get into the mainframe, now he just had to get out…..
But Matt wasn't going to just get out of the mainframe like that. He wanted to see if there was any useful in there and then get out. After searching for about ten minutes he found something that looked useful.
It was a file titled Project M-07-34.
Matt clicked on it and started reading.
"Updated on May 4th. Subject of project M-07-34, is showing no signs of increased intelligence. Everything seems to be the same, subject is still being held in headquarters, isolated. Subject had to be restrained with a tranquilizer when woken up, refused to take daily doses or M-07-34. Subject still has no trust for anyone in the headquarters. Refuses to cooperate with anyone. Still mentions people from past. Subject tried to escape from holding cell two days ago, managed to knock out three soldiers before restrained and brought back to cell. "
"What is this?' Matt said and copy and pasted this text into a document so that if he got kicked off the server he would still have the information. Matt kept on reading more stuff but was kicked off the server in a matter of minutes and erased his history so that no one could trace his computer.
He read over what he had put in a document over and over, making sure he didn't miss out on anything.
"What the hell is L hiding?" Matt said.
