Reader people:
Okay, just some pure snowy joy with our favorite Wammy kids (unless you like BB the best like me ^^) also I'd like to thank Mattie Chan for your wonderful ideas of snow fun! Without you this chapter probably wouldn't have been made.
*Matt*
I cursed the stupid frozen liquid that fell from the sky. I moved my arm so it once again covered the screen from what I liked to call 'the frozen death'. I looked up. Everyone else seemed to be enjoying their stupid snowfall. I don't understand why everyone makes such a big fuss about the snow. Especially when people say 'it makes everything magical'. What the hell is so magical about cars getting into ten percent more accidents and being snowed in at your house; not to mention all the deaths that are caused by snow-related problems.
"Matty." Then I looked up…
My game dropped from my hand. I stared up into beautiful shining blue eyes that made me forget all about my snow-rant. I didn't see anything wrong with it anymore. It fell from the sky to get caught into that shiny blonde hair that framed that unforgettable face. He honestly seemed to be glistening…or…something…
I shook my head, bringing myself out of my reverie. This had been happening quite a lot for some reason. I would be doing something and I'd be completely into that something, then he'd come by and ruin whatever it was. I looked down at my hand from where I'd once stabbed myself with scissors when Mels and I had been doing a project for class.
"Matt?" Mello spoke once again, this time I was prepared and rose to stand just slightly smaller than he was.
"Sorry, just dazed out for a second, what's up?" I spoke quickly. Trying to keep the blush on my face down; why I had a blush, I couldn't tell you because I myself don't know.
"Oh, okay…well, we're gonna start playing games! Roger's setting them up right now…" I didn't catch the evil smile that had crept its way onto Mello's face.
"What are you up to Mello?"
"Oh, I forgot that we haven't gone outside for Christmas since you've been here." It was true. Last year there was a huge snow storm, the year before half the kids hadn't woken up in time to go outside before other Christmas activates, then the first year I was here L, the reason Wammy's house exists, had come to visit so we hadn't gone outside.
"Yeah…" I prompted the blonde.
"We MUST beat Near!" He ground out through clenched teeth.
I rolled my eyes as he walked away with a prideful stomp, following behind him, putting my game in my pocket. I grimaced as I sat down next to Mello on the cold snow covered grass in the circle with the rest of the children. I looked across the circle to catch Linda's gaze. She immediately perked up and started waving frantically. I raised my hand slightly and gave an awkward smile. When I looked over to Mello I found myself caught into a glaring contest, for, Near sat directly across from him, unblinkingly staring at Mello. In turn, Mello took this as a challenge and glared the glare of a thousand glares back at the smaller child. I blinked and took myself away from the mix between rivalry and love as Roger came to stand in the middle of the rather large circle. All eyes turned up to him.
"Alright. First game is our snowball fight. Mello," He addressed the blonde personally, who looked up at him innocently "You know the rules, no throwing ice, no pushing people down into the snow, no shoving snow into others pants, no beating people up, no crushing snow over people's heads, no dirty snow violation, and NO pouting because someone else actually beat you."
I glanced at Mello with a smirk on my face. He just looked back at me with a smile and shrugged his shoulders. I waited with the others as Mello and Near were chosen as captains and took turns picking kids from the crowd. They spat out names at each other as though that too was a competition.
"Matt." Mello picked first.
"Linda." A scoff from Mello was heard as Nears innocent voice rang out and Linda and I got up to stand next to the captains.
"Arty."
"Halle."
"Piper."
"Joni."
"Quille."
"Rebecca."
"Lea"
"Heather."
"Mike."
"Joe."
When the last kids name left Nears lips, Mello's rage boiled over and he struck. While calling Names, their words speed up with each name and Mello's face began to redden every name. Now he was on top of the other male. The once white snow had begun to redden with every blow issued by Mello. The only thing Near did to defend himself was try to push Mello off and roll around some, he never actually put up a fight.
Linda and I jumped into action. I went for Mello. I struggled to pull him off because of all his kicking and screaming and how could I forget that he BIT me! I finally had to sit on Mello's stomach, put all my weight into him and pin down his wrists to get him to calm down. As soon as I got Mello settled, Linda pulled near to his feet and went straight to nursing his bleeding lip and swelling nose that also had a bit of blood coming from it.
"What on earth happened!?" Roger asked as he came over once again, holding tons of blankets.
"Nothing sir. I fell." Near spoke up in his quiet voice. Roger looked over to Mello. "Mello and Matt started play wrestling and Matt actually won." Near said, not making eye contact with me once but looked over at Mello tons. With a few more looks at us, roger finally left. I got off of Mello, still weary that he'd take off after the smaller male again. Instead he just rose, gave a nice spit in Nears direction and motioned for the team to follow him. Which we all did, because we know that Mello would kill us if we didn't.
"Alright, everyone listen and listen well!" Mello declared. "As you are all probably aware I HATE Near. Since you're on my team I expect two things, you kill Near and you win the fight. Do whatever it takes you need to beat him no matter what, then I won't hurt you all." He looked over to a smaller kid who seemed to be shaking, weather from the cold or from Mello I wasn't sure, "UNDERSTAND?" The kid only nodded feverishly and shook harder. "Good, then let's go kill them!"
With that lovely speech, we all took off in different directions, everyone gathering snow and forming them into sphere shapes. I was about to go off to hide behind a tree and hope that I wouldn't' have to do anything, when Mello caught my arm and pulled me along with him, right up to where Near was in a huddle with his group.
*Near*
"So, what do you want us to do, Near?" Linda asked sweetly. I could tell she was a bit disappointed not to be on the same team as Matt, for she'd grown a crush on the boy.
"What do you mean what are we going to do?! We are going to go out there and Kick their butts!" A guy yelled out, expecting me to back him up. I only said the one thing that came to mind.
"I'm going to assign you to certain people. For instance, Linda, you deal with Matthew." I ignored the smile that emitted on her sweet face. After I'd dealt with the assigning, one last question was asked.
"Who are you dealing with, Near?" Oh, sweet little, Halle…
"You leave Mello to me." I said plainly. I gasped as a hand rested on my shoulder and pulled me around to face the blonde I wanted most.
"When you and your team are done playing dress-up or whatever the hell you're doing, our team is ready to kick you're a-"
"Mello!" Matt scolded the blondes' language.
"We are ready, Mello." A glare before both teams went to their separate sides of the line that roger had drawn.
The staring, the silence, the anticipation. It all added up. There should have been dramatic music playing. Then one kid yelled charge and everything was a blur. Snow flew through the air, raining white through the sky. Soon everyone was covered with the stuff. Some of the weaker kids were already out, though both teams were still even in numbers.
I could hear Roger on the sidelines calling fouls and trying to keep our safety intact. Seriously, the man needed to get a hobby or something. I walked calmly through the snowy war to the very front where, a few seconds later, Mello met me. He held a frozen ball of snow in his hand, my own hand mirroring his own.
"Um…" Both Mello and I looked over to see Linda throw a snowball right down beside Matt's feet on purpose. Matt looked at her pitifully and threw his own down next to the sad one that was hers.
"Matt! What the fuck!" Matt's head looked to Mello.
"Well, I have no reason to hit her!" The red-head held up his hand defensively.
"Matt-"
"I can't hit a girl, Mels." My eyes widened a tiny bit. What did he just call him? So now there were pet names too?! Did this guy not realize how hard I've worked for the attention that Mello gives him, and he didn't even have to try!
So I threw the snowball.
*Mello*
Oh. No.
Matt's goggles were now splayed with cool white. His freckles that ran along his cheeks and across his nose were no longer able to be seen. That bastard! I turned and went to grab Near's Shirt collar. I avoided crossing the line between the two sides. With a sad whimper the small boy was lifted in the air. I faintly heard Linda shouting at Near and cleaning off Matt's face even though the red-head was obviously against it.
"Mello," Near spoke softly, "you're hurting me."
My mouth twitched with anger and my grip tightened around his shirt collar, I could now feel skin beneath my fingertips. Near let out another whimper. I blinked when a pale hand covered my own. Matt was looking at me with pleading eyes. So I let the small male fall to the ground.
Why was it always Matt that could calm my nerves. If it weren't for him and Roger, Near would have probably been dead by now. He fell to the ground, covering himself in snow. I looked into Matt's goggled eyes and silently asked why he always cared enough to stop me.
"One day I'm not going to be around, the Mels will really kill you." Matt said sarcastically to Near, offering him a hand to get up. With a soft scoff the albino refused and almost ran away.
I looked around to find that everyone else was staring at us. Some were still in their throwing positions. All eyes wide, wondering what we were doing now since I'd stopped the game. Snow once again began to fall lightly from the sky.
"Mels," I looked back to Matt, "We can go to the next game. You should….go check on Near." My eyes widened. Before I could say anything, Matt had started to walk away and the rest of the kids followed. I growled lowly and marched off to find the little bastard.
I almost ran past him. He was sitting on the front steps of Wammy's house, his head down and a finger twirling around in his sugar white hair. At first I thought I was going crazy, but Near was indeed crying. It was a silent and shake-less cry, but it was a cry. I just stared at him for a second before finally deciding to sit next to him. He stiffened when I sat next to him but made no other sign to say that he knew I was there. I just sat with my hands clasped in my lap, staring straight ahead.
Without warning, his head came to rest on my shoulder, a few of his fallen tears soaking into the fabric of my coat. I stiffened and refused to move. It wasn't that I had even found it disturbing. It just felt shocking. Near was laying his head on my shoulder! I felt like I should push him off and do the normal Mello thing, beat him up. I couldn't get my body to move, though. I just sat there, shocked.
"Mello….Do you know that when penguins mate they stay together for life?" Now I unfroze. I turned to look at him with a look of confusion and you're-obviously-crazy. His eyes just looked up into mine and I swore the little bastard smiled. What came out of his mouth next was the most shocking thing I'd heard in my life and if having pasts lives is actually possible, then it was the most shocking thing I'd heard in those lives too.
"Mello, be my penguin?"
Readers:
UGH! I'm SOOOO sorry about the MelloXNear. It sucks and I don't like writing it! (no offense if you like MelloXNear but I'm a total MelloXMatt person)
Just know that Near is a vital part of this story and without him we would never get to the MelloXMatt stuffies.
Actually, I think Near is kinda cute. He loves Mello so much! He's even become jealous. Plus he has the sweetest things to say. If you thought the penguin line was really cheesy, but you liked it, then fret not! There will be lots more cheese! :D
Okay, so as a fun twist I decided to do a few special thingies, mostly because I'm bored and have nothing better to do with my life at this time.
Fun Fic fact:
The part where Near leans on Mello's shoulder was inspired by a CMV I watched. It was a really small part and I thought it was really cute! I also got other ideas from it too, so those will be in there too!
The names of the other kids when they were calling names were the first names I could think of off the top of my head. I know there are WAY more kids at Wammy's house but let's just pretend shall we?
The part where Matt got angry about snow getting on his game screen (the very beginning in case you already forgot) was inspired my friend who is very OCD about anything getting on the screen of her games
Preview for next chapter:
Mello's answer and reaction to Near's question
The rest of the snow games
Matt finding out about what Near asked
OOC Mello
Angry Matt
More Jealous Near (cause he's so darn cute)
A visit form everyone's favorite person in the whole world! (no, not the ice cream man XD)
Question:
Do you like the jealous Near (because I think he's absolutely adorable)
SUPER SPECIAL ASK DN!
L: Here is your chance to ask any characters from the show or manga your questions!
Light: Cause Inu is bored right now and has no better way to spend her time
Mello: That's right! Let us know what your question is and for what character!
Matt: Or just hand over your chocolate and video games to us
Near: Don't forget toys!
BB: Why am I even Here?
Me: Because most people don't know who you are and I want more and more people to know 'because you're made of awesome sauce and I love you the best of all DN characters! BXL forever
Light: -_-
Me: Get over it light-o!
Misa: Yeah you have me!
BB: If you don't know who I am then be sure to ask in your review so Inu can set you straight!
L: Yeah, cause he's the best!
BB: Really? Even after all I did to you?!
L: (Nods)
Me: AWWWWWWWWWWW! BXL FOREVER!
Yes, yes I am weird, thank you for noticing!
Seriously though, I will have the DN cast answer your questions. Just remember that this isn't what the real answer would be because it's coming from me!
IF YOU DON"T KNOW WHO BB IS THEN YOU OFFICALLY FAIL AT LIFE!!!!!
I love you all though! Review (twitch) REVIEW!......did I mention it was 12:57 in the morning right now?