I'm so excited abou this chpater! It is so awe-some! The beggining is funny, the middle is scary, and the end is awkward-adorable-fluff!
On another note, I'd like to thank my reviewers, especialy Midnight Hikari and my anonymous reviewer. Thanks!
So here it is, my favorite chapter so far!

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note.

That night, Mello slept, and he dreamt. He dreamed that he was...

Walking confusedly through a field, grass made of pixie sticks and needles, raining blueberries, and polar bears and rubber duckies wandering around, grazing, with a path meandering around, paved with little green rubies like in the Zelda games. Presently, he saw a mouse scurry across his path, and then stop to look at him. It was red with zebra stripes on its arms and legs, and had a yellow little ribbon tied around its tail.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Hurry, there's not much time left!" it warned in a high pitched voice, then ran off to a smokestack nearby that was spewing sparkly rainbow-colored smoke.

Mello continued down the path, not sure why he needed to hurry, but he did anyway, and he sense of urgency began to pervade in the dream, and the clouds of scraps of paper turned ink sodden, of all colors, a wind whistled through the pixie sticks and the rubber duckies began to squeak a different pitch.

Mello saw a door in the distance, just a regular door, but just standing there alone without a wall. He started to run, and heard the rubber duckies squeaking him on, and the polar bears stood up as one and unzipped their suits to become sheep.

The bleating and squeaks froze as he came within range of the door, and they all went back to their business as Mello approached the door.

When he touched the handle, he felt happy, secure, like all his dreams had come true at once, like he had never felt before. But this feeling didn't last long, because when he turned the handle and stepped through, he was back in The Mafia Hideout. He was in the hallway somewhere, near the exit, near the main room, near his room, near Matt's room, near the kitchen, near Sayu's room. Sayu's room. He heard screaming, coming from it. And he ran like he never had before, and his gun materialized in the air as he ran, and he grabbed it. The screaming grew louder as he neared and he reached the door as he flicked the safety off.

Mello reached the door and it flew open before him. He raced in, gun raised, ready to shoot and kill the idiot minion who was attacking her, and saw a silhouette, before...

Waking up. Mello sat up, sweating and breathing rapidly, trying to suppress the illogical panic he felt. He heard the echoes of Sayu's screams, and decided that maybe he should just check. If nothing happened, then she wouldn't know.

He jumped out of bed and threw on some clothes, making sure he had his gun.

As Mello lightly jogged through the hallway, he wondered what had possessed him to make him do this, and what had prompted those dreams.

He reached the hallway outside Sayu's room, about ten feet away, and was berating himself for his stupidity and impulsiveness when he heard a scream. Not stopping to think, he burst into the room.

To be greeted by Sayu sitting up in bed, obviously having just woken up from a nightmare.

She looked over at him, eyes obscured by bangs.

"Are you okay?" he asked, slowly walking in and closing the door.

She took a shaky breath. "I guess." She shivered. "Nightmare. Why are you here?"

"I, uhhhh. " Mello was horrified to feel himself blushing, and hoped that the darkness would cover it. "I had a nightmare too, I got this weird feeling, and was just making sure..."

She smiled sadly. "That's nice of you. What was the nightmare?"

"Uhhhh, someone... was attacking... you... What was yours?" he walked closer, and sat on the bed.

"Same. Someone attacking me."

Here was a pause.

"That's weird, " they said together. Mello decided to take a chance.

"You know, we're both a lot alike."

"How? To tell you the truth, when I first met you, I kinda felt a connection. Does this mean you felt it too?"

"...I did. And we are very similar. We both are struggling to fight out of the shadow of someone better than us, and we both figure that hard work will make a difference." he sighed "We both know that it won't, but we won't stop trying. I suspect that we both have genius IQs." She raised her eyebrows. "We both hate Kira and want him to fall. We both hate that person, who is just inexplicably better than us, but are still so tied to them that we can never escape..." his voice turned to a whisper, "...both just... second best..."

Sayu sat still. "I never imagined...... You feel that way too? That... corrosive hollowness eating away at your being, like you'll never be good enough?" She shivered, from what, he didn't know.

"Yeah." He paused. "I never would have thought anyone else felt that way, but like I said, we're very similar... Yeah."

"You know, I don't hate you. I hope you don't think that. I really like you; we could be friends. This kidnapping... it's kind of weird. I should hate, there's no doubt about that, but I can't help liking you."

Mello smiled his first genuine smile in over three months. "I'm glad," he stated simply, then she surprised him by hugging him, but it was a different hug than earlier, much more at ease and content. Mello closed his eyes.

With a mental jolt almost a minute later, he realized that Sayu had fallen asleep in his arms. He gently laid her back on the bed, and then pulled the covers over her. Mello kissed her forehead, before quietly leaving the room.

He slept soundly that night.

So how was it? Did you like it? I know I made Mello a ittle OOC, but I think that he's a textbook tsundere.

If you noticed any typos, please please tell me, they are my archnemeses.

Thanks for reading; I'll update soon!

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