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Two Months
Chapter 2: A piece of Cake...
"Mo Men, Mow mold mar mu?"
L seemingly looked up from his strawberry shortcake as he turned his attention to Mello who was currently sitting across the table from him. The young blonde was busy stuffing his mouth full of chocolate cake while he continued to ask the teen more questions, trying to determine whether or not he was L.
A chocolate bar was placed in his left hand while his right hand worked on shoveling more cake into his mouth.
L was able to translate what Mello said as, "So then, how old are you?".
The teen shifted a little in his weird sitting position, before stabbing his fork into the strawberry that was placed on the top of his cake.
"I am sixteen."
This time, Mello made sure to swallow all of the cake in his mouth before talking.
"Really?... Well to tell you the truth, I always figured that the real L was a little younger than what most people thought...so I guess... that... raises your chances... to...um... ten percent."
L nodded his head in agreement, then stuffed the sweet strawberry into his mouth as he reached for a can of whip cream that sat in the middle of the table.
Near sat beside Mello, one of his legs were pulled up to his chest as he twirled one of his vanilla frosted fingers through a lock of his white hair.
His other hand held onto a small plate covered with little crumbs from his half eaten sweets. A toy space man was seated in the center of it, behind a piece of vanilla cake.
Near used his plate like a flying saucer and flew it around in the air, before carefully landing it on the top of a tea cup.
With out looking away from his self-made space station, Near began his own little interrogation of L.
"The fact that a lot of the criminals there were targeted by Kira, is your reason for going to Japan, right?"
L once again looked up, this time from a tower of melting whip cream that he was currently building. He curiously stared at Near while he licked a dash of whip cream from his thumb.
"That is correct. You are very smart Near-kun!"
L smiled on Near's behalf, which made Mello a little jealous.
"That's stupid. You're going on very little evidence! Just because a few of the criminals were targeted in Japan, is not a good reason to investigate in just that one area. It's all a coincidence... and you're telling me, that you are going to base the whole investigation on just that?"
L stuck a spoonful of whip cream into his mouth as he turned his attention back towards Mello.
"Yes, that is also true. You're very smart too Mello-chan!"
Mello, feeling that L was being sarcastic with him, quickly lost his temper. He stood up from his seat and poked his little finger into L's face.
"That's it!... You're back at five percent!..."
"But..."
"YOU WANNA MAKE IT FOUR!"
L, confused, cutely tilted his head to the side as he licked at a swirl of whip cream on the corner of his lip.
"YO, MELLO!" A loud voice came from across the room.
The blonde looked up to see a little friend of his, running towards them.
"Aye Matt!"
Mello sat down and happily smiled as his dark haired friend walked up to the table.
"Hey Mello, I've been looking all over for...is that cake!"
Matt pushed himself into the small two person seat, sliding Mello into Near and rudely knocking the small boy out the other end. Near stood from the seat and threw a short glare at both boys before moving to sit next to L.
Matt grinned and grabbed Near's plate of half eaten cake.
Near made sure to snatch his space man toy off the plate before the boy stuck a fork into the cake.
Matt lifted a pair of sun glasses off his face and set them on his head as he began to eat.
"So Mello, why weren't you outside today? It was so fun, a group of kids got into a fight on the jungle gym and one girl fell off...I'm telling you, everyone could see right up her skirt, she was crying and everything."
L watched as Mello's little friend ate up the last of Near's cake and then began to lick up the last bit of chocolate frosting on the Mello's plate.
Mello frowned when he heard about all the fun he had missed.
"Sorry Matt. I would have LOVED, to go outside, but Watari made me stay behind for something."
He said all of this while glaring at L, whose attention was still being absorbed by the little boy who sat across from him licking away at chocolate frosting.
Things remained uncomfortably silent until Matt finally finished his task of licking Mello's plate clean. He threw the now spotless plate back onto the table and let out a deep sigh.
Looking up, Matt couldn't help but notice that Near and L were staring at him.
"What?"
When the two didn't respond, he turned to Mello for an answer but instead was caught off guard when his friend broke into laughter.
"What's so funny?"
"Yo...your FACE!"
The blonde shook his head as he pointed towards Matt's nose.
Matt, crossing his eyes, tried to get a good look at his nose. But this only made Mello laugh harder at the funny face he was making.
L continued to watch as the boy desperately tried to spot any flaws on his face.
What Matt didn't know, was that while licking the chocolate off of Mello's plate, he had managed to get more of the frosting on his nose rather than in his mouth.
Mello grabbed a silver napkin dispenser from the table and held it up so Matt could see his face.
"Oh!"
The boy smiled as he leaned in to get a better look at his face and instead of just grabbing a napkin to wipe his nose clean, he stuck out his small tongue and began to lick at his nose.
"What are you doing?" Mello asked when his friend grabbed the silver dispenser from him.
"What does it look like, I'm trying to clean my nose."
Matt continued to bend his tongue in weird shapes, trying to reach his nose, but the task proved to be a lot tougher than he thought, which really frustrated him.
"I CAN'T REACH IT!" Matt whined as he continued to try and lick his nose clean.
Mello frowned and grabbed a napkin off of the table.
"Idiot, why don't you just use THIS!"
He leaned over and tried to wipe off the boy's nose but Matt instead pushed his hand away.
"No, I want to see if I can lick my nose." He continued to try licking his nose. A few minutes passed until Mello finally became angry.
The blonde tackled Matt out of the seat, wrestling him onto the floor as he tried to wipe his nose clean with the napkin.
Matt frowned as he tried to push Mello off of him, his tongue still out trying to lick away at his nose.
"STOP MELLO, I want to do it myself."
Matt managed to roll himself on top of Mello. When he caught his balance, the boy stood up and made a run for the front door, with his tongue still aiming for his nose.
Mello stood to his feet and looked towards Matt. Then with out thinking, the blonde took off after his friend.
"YOU DUMMY, ONLY DOGS LICK THERE NOSES CLEAN!"
L watched as the door closed behind Mello.
"Mello-chan is very persistent isn't he?...that is impressive, but now I guess it's just you and me."
L grinned at Near, before once again picking up the can of whip cream. He tilted his head back attempting to spray the cream into his mouth.
Near contemplated on watching him, but then came up with a better idea.
He grabbed L's hand causing the boy to miss his target and spray whip cream all over his hair.
Near not noticing L's hair problem, pulled him out of his seat and lead him out of the room.
"Let's go to the game room."
TBC...
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