DISCLAIMER!! DEATH NOTE AND ITS CHARACTERS DO NOT BELONG TO ME AND (most likely...) NEVER WILL! So there...

If ya dun like yaoi, then don't read...

First Chapter!! 8D

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It was quiet, and dark.

Matt was sprawled across the couch. For once he wasn't playing a game, or on his laptop. He hadn't felt good all day. Maybe it was the macaroni he ate that morning. After all it had sat out from the night before.

Matt had decided on taking a shower, and jumped over the back of the couch. On his way he threw the remaining macaroni away, knowing him he'd probably get warped into a game later on and forget the macaroni was old and eat it.

No one else was home so he didn't bother shutting the door. Swiftly, he had this shirt and pants in a pile on the floor. He pulled off his goggles and placed them on the counter, then lent over to turn the water on. Once it was at a comfortable temperature, he stepped in and shut the curtain.

For a while he just stood under the water, mind blank. But eventually he started wondering what Mello was up to.

They hadn't seen each other for a while, though Matt was helping him from the sidelines, monotoning his location, health, and giving him information to help the case. They were currently both in Japan, but for safety reasons they avoided physical contact with each other. Matt admitted to himself that he missed Mello.

Matt turned the water hotter, trying to drown his thoughts of Mello before they morphed into fantasy's.

Just as he began to relax, Matt heard a beeping from the hall. He shut off the water, and wrapped a towel around his waist loosely. Once in the main room where his computers were, he checked the screens.

"Oh fuck..."

Matt began typing and clicking viciously at the computer. He had tracers and life monitors implanted in Mello to monitor him and make sure he was alright.

Mello's life signal was gone.

Matt picked up mic and held down a button. "Mello?? Mello this is Matt, can you hear me?? Please respond!!" No answer.

"FUCK!"

Matt began to panic and brought up a screen with Mello's last location before the signal was cut off. He jotted it down on a piece of paper, and ran to get his clothes.

Once clothed, Matt ran out the door, and down the stairs of the apartment and out the doors. He started the engine of his motorcycle and was off like lighting. He kept repeating to himself, that Mello was okay.

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The first thing Matt noticed when he arrived, was the large building in flames, and the helmeted men retreating away from it. Matt didn't recognize the people, plus they had POLICE on their backs. So he avoided them. He did a loop around the structure, and called out to Mello. Still no answer.

3 hours later Matt still hadn't found Mello. He was to the point of giving up, almost in tears. Matt concluded that Mello must have burned inside of the building.

"Goddamn it!" Matt slammed his fist down on the seat of his bike. Tears fogging up his goggles, he pulled them up onto his forehead.

Matt started down the road whence he came, driving slowly. He didn't know what to do. Emotions were at war inside his mind. He stopped the motorcycle, and began to sob.

A cough. Matt heard a cough. He looked up, and around at his surroundings.

It was Mello.

Matt jumped off his bike, and let it topple over not bothering to put up the kickstand. He ran over to Mello, who was on the ground.

Matt felt his nausea returning when he saw Mello. He was mangled, half his body and clothes severely burnt and bleeding, pure raw skin exposed and gathering dirt from the ground. He had a gas mask hanging off the side of his face, and blood ran out of his mouth. Matt almost felt sick when Mello threw up some blood. He was almost a mile from the building, how could he have walked that far in his condition?!

Matt lent down next to him. "Mello!! Listen to me!! I'm here, its Matt!!" He shuttered when Mello's one un-injured eye glanced up at him. Mello coughed more, wincing at the pain in his side. Matt had never seen anything like this in his life, hell most people hadn't.

"Mello, p-please hold on. I'll try to be careful." Matt stuttered as he tried to gather Mello up in his arms. In response Mello screamed in agony, almost like a vicious sob.

"..I-I'm sorry Mello!!" Matt could barely stand it, hurting Mello like that. Matt stood the bike up and lent against it. Mello cried more as he was hoisted onto the bike. Matt took off his shirt and vest, and covered Mello with them to shelter him from the wind.

'...Damn, I can't take him to a hospital...he doesn't have any ID or even an identity...damnnit...'

Matt held Mello closely, and sped off towards the apartment that was about 10 miles away.

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End Chapter One!! w00sh.

Sorry to cut it off, but if I had kept going it would have been a LOONG chapter then the next one would be short. I'll update asap! Thank you for reading!! 8D

-ReiRei-