Well, as weird as it is to read it, it's even weirder to write...
Anyway, I forgot to mention, I do own Kawasaki, her first name being Natsume. Her skin is darkish and she has vibrant red, waist length hair and violet eyes. Well, that's it for this part. And no, she is not named after the vehicle...I found it in the back of one of my manga's when I was looking for names for a personal story, I use her in most of them, though her first name is never the same...Sorry for any confusion!
Sorry ahead of time for any typo's, I couldn't get the spell check on my computer or the site to work! If it's bad, I'll take it down and edit it! But my spelling is god, so it should be okay!
Mello stared at the screen from where he was standing. He watched the images moving and the look on his face softened slightly. Kawasaki pointed out something and he made a sound that made it seem like he wanted to smile and Matt looked up at him. Mello looked, well, amazed to put it bluntly.
"Well, it's twins, definately. I can see two clearly. I thought there may have been a third, but I was wrong." she told them. She turned to speak to Matt and sighed heavily. "Are you sure you can go through with this?"
Matt looked at her blankly. "Uh, yeah?"
The woman shifted her weight and closed her eyes. "I can't garuntee their survival, you know that, right?"
The red haired boy looked away from her. "I know..."
"But I'll do what I can, now I'm going to get something and I'll be right back, alright?" she said as she cleaned the substance off his stomach. With that done, she whipped his shirt back down and turned to leave the room, closing the door behind her. Matt sat up and watched as Mello walked over to him, looking down at him, without a word. Slowly, the blonde pulled the game out of his coat pocket, holding it out to the other.
"Here, you can have this back."
Matt stared up at him through the orange the goggles tinted his world. "But, you-"
"I was just pissed, okay?! I'll eat it when you're not around. Just take it before I change my mind."
Matt reached out and took the device from him, stuffing it into a pocket in his jeans.
"So...there's two in there..." the blonde pointed out. He bent over and pulled Matt's shirt up to see his stomach. He smiled at what he saw and it soon turned into a smirk. "You're gaining weight. You're going to look nothing but pudgy soon."
Matt wanted to glare at him, but didn't, he thought it best to wait until they were at least out of the hospital. He watched Mello stare at his belly. How he wanted to punch the blonde in the head. But a dog does not bite his master and he held back the temptation even though it was hard. He could feel Mello's breath on his skin and wondered what the hell he was doing when, finally, he stood up.
"It's still cute, but you're on your own with them. I don't do baby stuff."
Matt closed his eyes. "Actually, I was thinking about sending them to the orphange too..." he sighed heavily and looked back up at the other boy. "I said I couldn't kill them, not that I could raise them."
Mello glared at him. "You want to send them to the same place that caused our hell?!" he asked loudly.
Matt bit his bottom lip. "I know, but it's better than death if you ask me...At least Watari will know what I want for them. I don't want them tangled in this war! It's the only way I could think of keeping them away! He could protect them like the others there!"
Mello sighed heavily and told him to calm down. "Look, I'm sorry, okay? I didn't know what your intentions were."
Matt shrugged. "Doesn't matter, it's not like you care anyway. And as far as I'm concerned, it's not your choice."
"What do you mean?"
The red haired boy looked up at him. "You yourself said you wanted me to abort them, then you said you didn't want anything to do with them, and just a few moments ago, you said you wouldn't have anything to do with them." he told him.
Mello was at a loss for words. He thought he had found something to say when Kawasaki walked back in the room, something in her hand.
"Alright, I want you to take two of these when you get up every morning and before you go to bed. Try not to forget, but if you do, don't worry about it. I suggest you eat with them, or it may upset your stomach." she said handing him a bottle of pills.
"What are they?"
"Vitamins." she said. "I want to speak with you, though, alone."
Mello looked at her, then nodded and walked out of the room. He stood at the door, waiting for him and smiled to himself as he leaned against the wall. He knew, there was going to be hell to pay as this went on. However, part of him didn't want to let them go to the place that hurt him. Part of him wanted to hold them, but the other part wanted to throw them to the dirt.
"So my dog really is having puppies..." he said under his breath with a forced smirk. "Looks like I'll have to be more careful when I kick it..." With that, he went out to the car to wait.
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'What did she want?" Mello asked. as he drove the car away from the hospital.
Matt was looking down at something in his hands and smiled. "She just wanted to ask me some stuff."
"About?"
"About what my body's doing, is that good enough for you?"
Mello shrugged. "I guess...Hey, what's that you've got? This whole ride, you've just been looking down at your hands."
Matt looked over at him then smiled. "I'll show you later."
Mello rolled his eyes. "Fine, whatever."
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Matt sat on the floor in front of his blank television. The candle on the floor beside him was flickering and he sighed heavily. the power had gone out and it had been for five hours. He slept for two of them, but the other three had was either sitting on the couch next to Mello, or on the floor where he is right now. He had now reached the five month mark and had started to show even more. He could hear Mello walking down the hall, but didn't even look up, let alone, move.
"Matt?" he heard him say. "C'mon, let's get reading this book...You look like a giant fly."
"Read what book?"
Mello blushed slightly when the other looked up at him. "You want to know how to take care of them, don't you...?"
Matt threw him an odd glance. "I'm sending them to Wammy's. Don't worry about it."
"No you're not! Not if I can help it!"
Matt glared at him. "Why is that?"
Mello chewed on his bottom lip a little. "I want to keep them." he finally said.
"You wha...?"
"I want to keep them." Mello repeated. "I don't want them to go through the same hell that I did. They deserve at least one parent that will take care of them like we never had."
Matt could only stare. Suddenly, he felt a pain-like sensation in his lower stomach and clamped his arms around his middle.
"What?! What happened?! Matt?" The blonde rushed over to the boy on the floor and crouched down beside him, a bit of panic laced in his actions. He then gave Matt a puzzled look when he found that the red head was smiling.
"One of them moved around. It was just a little, but it surprised me is all. I just didn't expect it. It was...weird."
Mello looked down at Matt's slightly growing stomach with curiosity. Matt noticed the look on his face and reached a hand out to pull his shirt up a little for him. Mello looked at the stretching skin and cocked an eyebrow. "How big are they now?"
Matt held up his hand the way he had before, but this time, the space between his finger and thumb was bigger by quite a bit. Mello smiled.
"Wow...And that's happening inside you..." the blonde said. "Growing bigger and bigger...And getting stronger..."
Matt laughed, but it turned into more of a giggle than he had intended, causing him to blush deeper. He took Mello's hand in his own and waited for them to move again before placing it on his stomach. "I don't know if you'll feel them yet, but here..." he said, sliding his hand down to his lower belly. "They're right here..."
He watched the look in Mello's eyes change from curiosity, to a warmer feeling, he couldn't quite tell what it was. All he knew was he never saw it unless the blonde was looking at that chocolate of his. Mello was staring at his belly intently, and that's when Matt realized, his stomach had grown quite a bit. He bit his lip and closed his eyes. The waist band of his jeans were getting tight and soon, just loosening his belt wasn't going to help. "Mmm...Mello...?"
"What is it...?"
"I'm gonna need new clothes soon."
Mello smiled. "I know. You're gonna look like a whale..." he laughed. "But a cute one." He sat up and watched as the black and red striped shirt slid back down, barely concealing the mass.
The pink in Matts cheeks grew deeper. "You think I'm gonna look like a whale? That was pretty mean, Mello."
The blonde laughed again. "Yeah, but it won't last long. I kinda like you like this, though, there's more to your bones."
Matt pointed a finger at him. "You shouldn't be one to talk! Look at you!"
"I don't care, the point of me coming in here was while you can't play those games, we could start reading that book Kawasaki gave me."
"But I don't want them to be out here, I want to send them to the orphanage so Watari can take care of them like he does the others."
"And he took great care of us, didn't he? I joined the mafia and you're an eighteen-year-old mother who is still obsessed with video games!"
Matt glared, then looked away from the blonde. "I just don't want any harm to come to them out here. With Kira they could end up dead pretty quickly."
Mello rolled his eyes. "Not if we give them allias's too. We know he can only kill if he has their name, correct?"
Matt nodded. "Yeah..."
"We'll give them names that cannot easily be found out, then give them different names for the public eye. Why do you think we answer to Matt and Mello? Those aren't our real ones. Watari gave them to us when we found out Kira needs a person's name."
Matt looked down at his hands. "Are you sure it's gonna work?"
Mello smiled. "Of course. We're not dead yet, are we? Neither is Lawliet. And he's around Kira all the time!"
"I guess so, but we don't have any money either."
"If you haven't forgotten, I make money with this job."
"Oh, yes, we'll just tell our kids that daddy shoots people for a living!" Matt said sarcasticly. Mello glared.
"Fine. I'll find something to do about it, I just don't want them going there!" Mello told him. "I don't want them going to that hell!"
Matt threw him and irritated look. "What do you have against it...? It took me in when my mother couldn't."
Mello folded his arms across his chest and looked away from him. "You mean when she wouldn't."
"What do you mean?"
"Matt, your mother didn't want you! She gave you to some lab! That's why this happened! They did all sorts of things until Kawasaki was called in to fix you! I know because I was listening to them talk about it...I shouldn't have been, but I heard them say it."
The red haired boy smiled and looked away. "I know...I was simply trying to forget it." He turned to look back at the other boy and smirked. "You want them to have the parents we never did? Okay, but I have no idea what to do with children, in fact, you and Near were the only other children I was ever around, and lets face it, I have no idea how to raise a family."
Mello smiled as the power flickered back on. "That's why we have that book. Now are you gonna play your games or read with me? I swear, I won't be eating any chocoilate while you're there. By the way..." he said. "Are you gonna tell me what you had on the way back yesterday...?"
Matt smiled and reached into his pocket. Mello watched as he pulled out a small piece of paper. Taking it from him, he realized it was a picture of the ultrasound. And very clearly, there was two little babies.
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"Mello!" Matt said from the kitchen. He shut the cupboard he was raiding and walked over to the fridge.
"What is it?" the blonde said, not looking up from his gun. He continued to clean it and made a grunting noise at it's filth.
"I'm hungry. And I can't find anything to eat."
"We have a lot to eat for a change."
"Yeah, but nothing that I want..."
Mello moved on the couch so that he could see him from the living room. "What do you want then?"
"I'm not sure...Something sweet..." Matt said absently as he opened the fridge. He examined the contents of it and pulled out a jar of pickles. "Actually, I want this."
Mello stared from his place on the couch as the other boy opened the lid. "You really are pregnant...You don't even like pickles..."
Matt shrugged. "Obviously. I guess it doesn't matter now, though...Are you sure, you want to keep them...?"
The blonde looked up at him. He had been asking him this constantly over the past month. That's right, a month had passed since Mello decided this and he hadn't yet changed his mind. Matt was beginning to think there was something wrong with him. Mello would never have done this for anyone else, he was changing, growing up a little maybe? Matt shook his head and continued to eat the green vegetable. He doubted Mello would ever grow up.
"Yeah, I want them to have what I never did, I want what's best for them. I only had a parent until I was six, and you never really had any. That's the least we can do, seeing as we know what it's like to go through that."
Matt nodded and looked down. "Hm..." he said quietly, wanting to change the topic. "Its obvious now..."
Mello snorted. "It was obvious the day you refused to pick up that game. I don't know why it didn't hit me when you started throwing up. You never did anything like that before." He noticed the look on the red head's face and smiled. "But, you're alright, it's just a little...odd. You're passed that cute, glowing stage now. In fact, you're getting downright fat."
"What do you mean...?!"
"Well, it's-"
"I DON'T CARE!" the other shouted. The blonde sat, dumbfounded at his random outburst and blinked a few times as if trying to see if it was really Matt. "Are you-are you okay...?"
Matt glared at him and set the jar on the counter before walking away from him yelling about how much he didn't care. Mello stood up and was about to follow him, when a glass came hurtling towards him, barely missing his face. It smashed on the wall behind him, and he did not find this amusing by any means.
"Matt, what the fuck is wrong?!" he demanded as he followed the other boy to his room. "What's going on?!"
Matt waited until he was at his bedroom door before slamming it in his face, pissing the blonde off further. "Matt, I-"
"IT DOESN'T MATTER TO YOU! I'M JUST SOME DOG THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!" he shouted angrily from the other side of the door. "YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT ME AND YOU NEVER WILL! I'M NOTHING TO YOU! THE ONLY REASON YOU WANT THEM IS BECAUSE THEY'RE YOURS!"
Mello sighed heavily. He couldn't remember saying anything like that. But maybe it was another hormone thing. God only knows now. He thought for a moment and bit his lip at what he was about to say. "...Matt...?" he said quietly.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?!"
"I-I have something I want to say to you..."
"I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT! YOU'RE PROBABLY JUST GONNA TELL ME I'M FAT AGAIN OR SOMETHING! IT'S THE ONLY THING YOU EVER SAY ANYMORE!"
Mello froze. Was that it...? Did he really say it all the time now...? Well, he had been fairly rude recently, so yeah, he probably had quite a few times. He took in a breath and bit his lip. "Matt...?" he hesitated. "I-I-..."
"YOU WHAT?!"
"...I-I love you..."
"..."
"Matt...?"
"You what...?"
Sorry this is so long and pointless, I was trying to write this between home, school, and through guy problems...God boys are dumb...Anyway, I hope you like it! Please, review! Flames will be deleted! Well, the quality could have been better, but I thought I'd post it anyway!
