"Why?" I stare into his eyes.

"Because I have a really bad feeling that something bad is going to happen. As you know from well knowing me usually my feelings are right. I don't want to see anything bad happen to one of my friends." A pleads me.

"A, I can't just quit the case. You know how dedicated to seeing something through I am." I remind him.

"I know but I'm just worried." He sighs and looks down.

I put a reassuring hand on his shoulder making him look back to me. "Don't worry. I'll be fine." I give him a smile.

He smiles back. "Okay, I'll try to not worry." He hugs me and I hug him back. "Stay safe."

"You too." I respond and we break apart.

"Now go solve this case." He grins.

I nod and rush over to where everyone is gathered.

Mello's P.O.V.

One girl killed…..

She just had time to scream before the sacks of heavy sand fell on her head.

I examine the ends of the ropes to find that this was indeed a murder.

Someone had burned these ropes so the bags fell.

I raise my head. I see L and Light wandering around looking for anymore clues.

"We will continue on schedule so please go get ready." The one running the pageant says.

I look for Near and spot him just coming over. "So A's alive?" I ask as he comes to my side.

"That's right." He nods.

"Do you think he knows anything?" I drop the rope I noticed I was still holding.

"No. If he did he would have told me." Near looks at the rope I just dropped.

"Ah." Is all I say as a response.

"We should just act normal. Nothing to lead us to the killer anywhere here. Lets go back to our rooms and just continue." Light says behind me.

I turn to face him and nod.

Near gets up and comes back to my side.

The four of us leave to our rooms.

Me and Near enter our room and head to the bedroom.

"We are going to turn off our cameras for a minuet." I let the ones watching know.

"Understandable. Just turn them back on when you're done changing." Soichiro agrees.

Both of us turn off our cameras and take off our ear pieces leaving them on the living room table.

I bring Near to our room then I turn to him. "Near. When did you and A first have your little meeting?" I demand.

"Actually it was in a dream. I don't know how but it happened." Near truthfully says.

But I can see that he's holding something back.

"Why are you hiding something?" I move to stand right in front of him.

"It's just something I want to confirm before voicing." He tells me and moves to go past me to his clothes.

I stop him putting my arm out so his waist hits my arm.

He stops and looks back to me.

"If you need help with it or anything let me know and I can help." I softly remind him.

He leans his head on the side of my chest. "I know." He mummers.

I turn him so we are facing each other and I kiss him.

He kisses me back and wraps his arms around my neck.

I pull back and notice I had wrapped my arms around his waist bringing our hips together. "Lets wait when we have time alone." I mummer, hinting at what it is I want.

He nods then gives my lips a small peck before moving out of my arms and going to change.

I go to change as well. I pull on my outfit which is a black tight fitting tank top that looks more like a sports bra on me with the fake boobs. I add black stripper high heels and black tight short shorts. All my clothing movable so I can perform my act. I guess watching my half brother once or twice really came in handy. I look over to Near to see what hes putting on.

He is putting on a white dress that looks like one of those Greek goddesses dress's but a little showier. He adds white ballet flats and a black skull hair clip. He then turns to face me. "Hows that?" He asks.

"Good. What are you going to do?" I am now curious.

"I am going to do a song on the violin." He lets me know and takes in my outfit. "Let me guess. Something to do with stripping?"

"Close. Pole dancing. My half brother sometimes practiced at home and I watched him once or twice. Learned to do some stuff before he left to become a porn star, prostitute and stripper." I shrug.

"Oh." Near raises a hand to twirl his hair but forces himself to stop and lowers his hand to his side.

I check the time. "An hour left." I say to myself.

"We need to turn the cameras back on." He says indifferently.

I grab his wrist and pull him to me so our lips meet for a few seconds. "More later." I mummer against his lips with a grin. I pull away from him and go to get my camera plus my ear piece.

Near grabs his as well and we turn them back on.

"We've got a little bit before we have to go back." I look around wondering what to do in the spare time.

No one's P.O.V.

"Are you sure it'll work?" A female asks.

"Certain." A males voice responds. "I'm absolutely sure that once you help us get her then there will be nothing standing in your way."

"Done deal. But when?" The female's voice asks.

Later…..

Everyone is back for the talent round of the pageant.

The contestants gather quietly talking excitedly with their pageant friends about what they are going to do.

Mello, Near, L and Light have all split up to keep an eye out for any signs of the killers return.

The announcer goes to her place and turns on her microphone. "It's time to start our talent competition!"

The crowd cheers then quiets down.

"Annabelle Gorge will not be continuing due to uncontrollable circumstances. But with that aside lets start this competition!" The announcer tries to bring up the mood. "First up is Alice Go with her baton act."

The crowd cheers as Alice comes on.

Alice's outfit looks like a purple cheer leading outfit except without the bow on her head but her hair is pulled back into a pony tail. She bows and begins her act.

It starts with a few quick twirls around one hand then quickly switching hands only to do the same thing again. Next is while twirling, throwing and catching the baton, with her hands and feet, Alice starts to dance at the same time.

The crowd loves it! They are cheering her on or at least half are.

Suddenly Alice stops and throws the baton high in the air.

The baton suddenly lights flames on either end of it.

The crowd just goes wild.

Alice catches the now burning baton then continues doing her act like before, only with the baton burning now. She manages to not burn anything.

The crowd loves it.

After about three minuets, the max time limit, Alice stops and bows. She blows out the flames and leaves the stage with the crowd loudly cheering.

"That was Alice Go!" the announcer says completing the finish. "Now Cadence Withermouth. She will be singing for us!"

The crowd greets Cadence with applause.

Mello's P.O.V.

I half listen to the lady announcing and ignore the ones performing while I look around for anything or anyone suspicious.

Until I hear Light being called up.

I turn to watch Light as he goes on stage.

He is wearing a black and pink stripped sleeveless top that the top looks lik a bra turned into a nice looking shirt. He also has on a pink skirt that's a few shades darker than the pink on the shirt and the skirt almost reaches his knees but isn't tight fitting it's a perfect fit. His shoes are brown, with a bit of red, boots that go to just below his knees, they almost look like moccasins. He pulled his wig hair back into a pony tail so some of it frames his face while the rest is in the pony tail.

I can't see what he's doing but the announcer said he's acting a part of Romeo and Juliet. I can hear him reciting the lines perfectly and he's playing as Juliet.

Once he's done the crowd cheers and Light obviously went off stage on the other side as the show continues.

I look for L to see if it's obvious what hes going to do. I spot him in a karate like outfit which is an obvious give away.

L's P.O.V.

"Loran Law performing a martial arts routine." The announcer calls me up.

I go on stage grabbing my wooden pole on the way. (AN: I don't know what it's called sorry.)

The crowd welcomes me with applause.

The stage is set up with two strong discs and targets, ready for my performance.

I begin my routine with hitting the targets dead center with kicks, punches and with the wooden pole swinging it around looking nice plus precise attacks. I spin the pole around my body quickly from my waist to over my head. I swiftly use the ends of the pole to send the two strong as cement discs into the air a second after the other. I then drop the pole and jump in the air.

Once I reach the height where I am in between the two discs I put my hands together like I'm praying with closing my eyes. Then I quickly do the splits smashing the discs with my feet.

I open my eyes as I feel myself start to fall. I land in a crouch with one hand on the floor my head bowed as the dust and the small pieces of the two discs fall around me.

The crowd cheers and I move off stage grabbing the wooden pole letting the cleaning crew quickly clean the stage.

The announcer finishes off my act saying. "This has been Loran Law."

Light comes over to me as soon as I get off the steps leading to the stage. "I saw your act and you did great!" He tells me.

"Thanks." I smile. "You did great as well."

"Thanks." He grins. "Wanna watch Nia and Mina?"

"Sure." I agree.

We move to a spot by the audience where we watch the others do their act's till both Near and Mello do their acts. After that we will go meet them off stage.

Finally after awhile Mello's alias is called up.

A metal pole is put on stage and Mello grabs onto the pole with one hand, starting with a spin around it.

He moves closer to the pole rubbing himself sexily against the pole. He raises a leg up and wraps it around the pole so he can lift himself a little up the pole, enough to raise himself off the ground to level with his leg wrapped around the pole. He sways his body looking at the crowd like a highly popular pole dancer would to attract the attention of veiwers.

The crowd loves it especially, without a doubt, the guys.

Mello climbs off the pole and acts as if the pole is a person that he is trying to seduce. He does this by running a hand up and down a part of the pole while swaying his hips gracefully and close to the pole almost grinding against it. He continues with his pole dance until the music ends. He bows as the announcer reminds the audience of his alias's name then he leaves the stage.

The crowd cheers loudly and some whistle like whenever they see a hot girl go by.

The next performance was really a little magic show that would look way better if a kid did it.

During this performance I went, got Mello and brought him back to where me and Light are watching the act's from.

After that performance it's Near's turn.

"Next is Nia Dawn! Performing a self-written song!" The announcer introduces Near's talent act.

The three of us watch and listen to Nears performance while making sure we don't see anything suspicious.

Near's P.O.V.

I stand on stage holding my violin and I raise it plus it's bow to begin playing. I wrote this song about three years ago and haven't used it until now. I have poured all of my feelings of pain, hurt and sadness into the song. I start playing.

The song is slow and perfectly shows the emotions I poured into making it.

I close my eyes to a little past half way as I continue to play. I glance at the audience and see that my emotions are getting through. I don't miss a beat even when I peeked to see if the emotions are getting through.

Mello's P.O.V.

This song… So much sadness, pain and hurt… I can feel it all making me really want to just cry right there and then even with my pride.

I don't because of my pride even though the emotions I'm getting are hard to hold in. I can see that everyone else can feel the power of emotions coming from the song.

About half possibly more of the audience is actually crying.

Once the song comes to an end the feeling still heavily hangs over everyone.

Near leaves the stage, after a bow, a few seconds after the song ended.

The announcer tries to say her next line but finds she has to clear her throat to speak. "Thank you. That was Nia Dawn."

I rush to the side the contestants that have gone up go to after and I hug Near a little ways from the steps to the stage.

Near leans into the hug still holding the violin and violin bow.

I pull away after a minuet and my eyes meet Near's. I look away before I get too lost in those eyes or I kiss him right here and now without thinking.

Alice comes over to us. "That was amazing Nia!"

"Thanks. You did really well too Alice." Near turns to Alice.

"Mina!"

Cadence…..

I look behind me and see her coming right up behind me.

"That was amazing! You with your pole dancing." She says with a huge smile.

I don't have time to respond before she grabs my hand into hers and continues.

"The others agreed to come. We'll leave at seven thirty to give people an hour and a half to get ready. Meet in the lobby. That's the plan." She explains leaning against me while looking at me with the expression that sluts do to get people to like them so they will be picked.

"Alright." I try to pull my hand away but her grip is like iron! "Can you please let go of me?"

She looks disappointed and lets go of me. "If you want to meet me earlier you can come to my room."

"Right." I nod softly.

"see you then?" She kisses my cheek then walks away.

I send a hard glare her way but she doesn't seem to notice it. I turn to look back to Near and I see him wrapping his conversation with Alice or well A.

"Okay. We can catch up at the bar. See you then." A says.

"Yeah. See you then." Near responds.

They share a quick hug then A walks away and Near turns back to me.

"Ready to go?" I ask him and he nods.

We glance to where the girl was killed but two of the team members are there and they tell us to go act normal and not to worry about the deaths unless we know something.

I take Near up to our room and tell Soichiro that we will turn the cameras off for a minute to change again.

We do that and now that the others wont see or hear us I grab Near kissing him hard.

Near kisses back melting into the kiss.

I lick his lips asking for an entrance into his mouth.

He opens his mouth allowing me to slide my tongue into his mouth.

I push him against the nearest wall, pinning him there with my hands on the wall on either side of his body and slide one of my legs between his legs. I begin to explore his mouth with my tongue.

He moans and kisses me harder.

We both grudgingly remember what we need to be doing and break our kiss.

I take a step back. "We should hurry and change before we worry the others." I clear my throat.

"Yes." Near leads the way into the bedroom so we can get changed.

A's P.O.V.

"Tomorrow my love." I tell him as I change while he sits on the bed watching me. "Tomorrow we can go after her."

"Alright A. Tomorrow it is. We will only kill one more today okay? Just as you guys get back from the bar I'll kill her. I'll be with my cell if you need me." He tells me.

"I'm sure I'll be fine." I say as I pull on a short dark purple skirt with black lily flower designs.

"I trust you." He gets up and wraps his arms around my shirtless body. "I love you." He whispers in my ear.

"Love you too." I turn and kiss him on the cheek.

He smiles and grabs a black sleeveless top pulling it onto my body. "There. Beautiful as ever."

"Thank you handsome." I pull the necklace he gave me out to on top of my shirt. I will always wear this necklace except during bed time.

Mello's P.O.V.

We meet up with the others in the lobby then head out to the bar.

Cadence stays at my side the whole time and keeps trying to make me infatuated with her.

Alice is talking to Luna.

Luna is a girl just a little taller than Near. She has black hair with purple streaks, that go to her shoulders except for the strands around her face those go to her jaw line and she has no bangs. She has clear almost blue ice colored eyes and slightly tan skin. She is wearing a spaghetti strap dark blue dress with a somewhat light purple crescent moon on her chest. Her voice is really quiet and she is a girl of few words which kind of reminds me of Near the first time I met him.

The bar isnt far now.

Near's P.O.V.

We make it to the bar and go inside.

The music isn't blasting but still a little loud, no flashing lights, a colorful dance floor and people singing along to the song, standing, sitting, talking or dancing.

"Come on Mina!" Cadence leads Mello away, practically dragging him, to the where the drinks are being served.

I can feel someone watching me so I look around to see if I can spot who.

But no one's eyes meet mine.

I walk around for a little bit but the feeling of being watched follows me.

Who is it that's watching me?

"Excuse me young miss?" A males voice says behind me. "But did you perhaps come here alone?"

I turn so my side is facing him and look to him.

He's a really big guy, hes bald and he only has on black pants with black dress shoes.

"No I'm not." I answer him while keeping alert so I'm ready for anything he throws at me.

"Well I'm Rod Ross. And I can't stand to see someone like you abandoned by your friends." He gets this big grin on his face. "How about coming with me?"

'When pigs fly!' I want to say but I don't use it. "No thanks. Not interested." I then proceed to continue walking but two men block my way most likely with Rod.

Rod comes closer to me watching me closely.

I turn to the right and walk through the crowd away from Rod and his men.

Rod and his men don't come after me.

L's P.O.V.

I go over to the dance floor and start to dance lightly swaying my hips. I feel someone wrap their arms around my waist, press his crotch against my ass and sway his hips with me. I look back over my shoulder and see Light.

We share a smile then continue dancing not caring who saw us right now.

Besides I'm sure Light made it look like I was just some other girl.

Lights hands start to roam my body and he kisses my neck.

I lean my head back onto his shoulder and we keep up our sexual and grinding dance on the dance floor. I can feel his erection growing through the black short shorts that have a chibi panda on the thigh and I grind my ass onto his crotch earning a small moan.

He thrusts his hips forward hard into my ass and keeps up with my pace of swaying hips. His hands trail under my baggy black tank top and he moves them around on my stomach teasingly almost reaching down the front of my shorts.

I let out a quiet moan trying to not let the others know what we are doing. I turn my head to the side and our lips meet.

Instantly we go to a heated make out session and continue our act until the song ends. Once it ends we break the kiss.

I'm so aroused right now and so is he.

In his black skirt you cant tell at all. His dark purple sleeveless shirt exposes his stomach.

I pull down my shirt to cover the fact I'm aroused because my shirt can cover it well.

Me and Light move away from each other and his eyes meet mine.

His eyes ask me to have sex with him later but I send him a look saying that I'm still sore so no sex but we can still do some 'activities'. He smiles and I smile back.

Near's P.O.V.

"Hey Nia." A comes over to me.

"Hey Alice." I greet him back. I think the watching person might have been Rod because I felt like I was being watched a little bit after I walked away from him then when he was out of sight the feeling stopped.

A's P.O.V.

Near can certainly pull off the adorable look perfectly. He is wearing a dark pink tank top with a panda bear that has its arms out as if going for a hug on it that has a speech bubble saying 'Hugs?'. He also has on tight fitting black shorts that almost are short shorts and girly black sandals with some pink sparkles in the black.

"What do you say to catching up now?" I offer to him.

"Sure." He agrees and I lead him to an empty table.

Near's P.O.V.

We sit down on the brown metal chairs facing each other from across the round oak table.

"So is Whammys still the same since I left?" A starts the conversation.

"Yeah except that they did a few renovations so the upper floor finally works properly." I tell him.

"That place was so bad no one would room up there." A laughs.

I smile and nod. "Yeah. Some are still scared to room there while others hav moved to some of the rooms up there."

"Haha. They still got some cowards." A chuckles. "Has horny Chris broken any more things with his humping? He was pretty famous for the lamp and vase incidents."

"He broke a door a little while ago. Broke it pretty much in half and off its hinges." I remember how much trouble he was in. "No idea how he did it but he did and I didn't think he could run that fast as Rodger came storming over."

We both laugh.

Mello's P.O.V.

I almost went to help Near when I heard Rod going after Near but it seems like Rod has left him alone. I listen to Near and A talking through the ear piece. I remember the time one of the room doors was broken by Chris and man was Rodger pissed!

"Mina. Why are you spacing out?" Cadence whines.

"Sorry Cadence but I'm just thinking." I take a sip of my alcoholic drink in its small glass.

"About what?" She leans against me and shifts to rub her boobs against my arm.

"About something that doesn't concern you." I put my drink, which I'm almost done, down with a small sigh.

"aww come one. You can tell me anything." She leans up and whispers seductively in my ear while pressing her boobs against my arm. "You know we can always go and get rid of that frustration."

"Cadence, no I'm good." I sigh again and chug down the rest of my drink. I put the glass down for the bar tender to take and I leave the bar counter. I look around for Near. I ignore Cadence calling to me and I spot Near and A sitting at a table just a little ways off.

Cadence is following me but I pay no mind to it as I head towards Near.

Near's P.O.V.

"I'm sorry that happened." I respond as A finishes telling me how he lost his job a month ago because the boss didn't like him for being a really good employee and replaced him with someone else.

"It's alright. I'll find a new one but me and my lover were thinking about adopting sometime." A's voice turns soft. "A kid would be nice but we think we should wait. He agrees that right now a kid wouldn't be raised the way we would want to. We have a little too much going on at the moment and not enough money to support a child as well as ourselves. So we are going to wait till we can properly take care of one."

"How thoughtful, not that it surprises me. Whenever you have someone like family to you two you guys are always thoughtful and caring to them." I say.

"Yeah. It'll be like having you with us again but different. You'll always be like a son to us though. We've got you so I wouldn't lose sleep if we can't get another one." A smiles warmly at me.

"You two will always be a part of my family even with no blood ties." I tell him.

"Same to you." He agrees. "So how are you and your partner getting along? He's been treating you well right?" He asks.

"We are getting along really well and he is treating me well." I respond to him.

"That's good. Remember the time you, me, Mello and BB got put on a case together?" He looks me in the eyes instead of looking at my face. "Even though me and BB weren't and still aren't interested in solving cases."

"Yes. I still think if we hadn't come the thief might have won." I think back to that case.

"That mysterious ball turned you pretty evil." A says thoughtfully. "That was sure something."

"Yes. I'm still thankful you guys found a way to free me from the dark energies grip." I give him a grateful smile.

Flashback.

No one's P.O.V.

The thief who acted as a detective also on the case when the four of us arrived was trying to point blame to others and lead us in circles.

"If you count the time the lights were out and how many spaces the thief could have gone from his spot to the pedestal then to move away from it. Then only one person is close enough to do that." BB observes, doing the calculations in his head. "All the others would have been easily caught if they did it."

A goes to the man acting as a detective and pulls out the stolen ball out from under his really baggy shirt.

The ball is a sand colored ball with black vine carvings around the middle of it and a purple rectangle jem on what can be considered the front.

The thief growls and snatches the ball out of A's hands only to try to escape towards the door. He shoves one of the other people there out of the way but ends up tripping over their feet as they fall onto their butt. He falls to the ground throwing the ball into the air.

"Catch it!" The miner who found it yells in panic.

Near rushes over and reaches his hands up in time to catch it before it falls anymore towards the ground. "Got it!" He says.

Suddenly the ball starts to glow and lifts a few centimetres up out of Near's hands. It glows so bright everyone shields their eyes from the light until the glow dies down. The ball goes back to normal and everyone looks to see what happened. The ball drops to the floor not breaking and floating above Near is this cloud of black with purple splotches that seems to be able to form on its own and control itself as it acts like its glancing around.

"What is that?" The miner who found it asks.

"That's a dark energy that normally is within an evil human being." A explains.

Suddenly the dark energy flies down to Near making rings around Nears wrists, ankles and neck that don't touch the skin.

"Ah." Near gasps quietly in pain closing his eyes.

The rings of the dark energy go into Near's skin and disappear into him.

He falls to the ground on his hands and knees.

"Near!" Mello approaches his partner and crouches beside Near. "Near are you okay? Say something!"

Near suddenly has this black and purple fire like glow around him. His voice has completely changed into an unrecognizable voice as he laughs and gets up. He looks around with evil narrowed eyes. "You stupid humans. Now I will rule this land."

"It's the evil king!" The miner yells. "He locked some of his evilness and hatred in that ball. That evilness and hatred has taken over your friend!"

Near who is taken over by the evil king grins wickedly. "Well said my subject. You have the makings of a good warrior for me."

Mello grabs Nears shoulders and forces him to face him. "Let go of Near you stupid fucker!" He yells. "Give Near back to us this instant!"

"You are even more stupid than I thought if you think im just going to do as you say. It is you who should be doing as I say." Near possessed by the evil king tries to shove Mellos arms off but finds he cant. "Let go of me this instant!" He snarls then mummers to himself. "This one is a little weaker than I thought or this child in front of me is much stronger than me."

"I will not. Now give me back my partner." Mello growls leaning close to Nears face as if to intimidate the one possessing Near.

The king possessing Near glares. "You are so foolish and give up because you will never see him again!"

Mello's eyes fill with anger and determination. He pulls his face away and raises a fist. But he stops. Mello can't hit his partner no matter how hard he wants to punch the evil king, he cant do it cause it'll be Near he's really hitting. He lowers his fist and comes up with another plan. He will get his partner back to normal!

(AN: When I get the motivation to I will continue this story on a different story. It'll be called the fight within. So watch for it. I'll write it when I can.)

End of flashback.

Mello's P.O.V.

I pause myself from going to Near and A's table only to turn and go towards the dance floor before either of the cross dressing males see me. I think I lost Cadence in the crowd I am just leaving.

Cadence's P.O.V.

I try to find Mina and I spot Nia with Alice. I glare at Nia and smirk after remembering soon she will be out of the picture. I go back to trying to find Mina and I spot on her dance floor.

A's P.O.V.

One of my favorite songs come on.

I think I should get a smile from Near by acting weird like old times. So I bob my head to the beat and stand up to start dancing like a complete idiot.

Near laughs as I continue my idiotic dance.

I stop and laugh as well.

Near's P.O.V.

With A and his lover I always let myself show my emotions, it's become a natural thing now.

A stops laughing and gives me a grin. "Say lets go to the dance floor." He suggests.

"Sure." I get up.

"Race you!" A says then takes off towards the dance floor.

"You're not going to win!" I call after him as I run to the dance floor as well.

He still manages to beat me there but we had fun so it doesn't matter.

Now that we are on the dance floor we start to dance and not like idiots.

Mellos P.O.V.

I turn and I have a clear view of Near dancing. I can't take my eyes off of him as he sensually sways his hips and he moves his body so arousingly well to the beat that I wonder who wouldn't be aroused by this. I can just see his half lidded eyes that I can't tell if they have spotted me or not.

Near's P.O.V.

I see Mello watching me not too far off.

He completely ignores Cadence who is tugging on his black dress that shows off a lot of his fake cleavage, is like silk and goes down to only mid-thigh.

I smirk as I see Cadence send me a glare. I move my hips more sensually and I pretend to not have seen Mello.

The song ends before I know it and I look to the time.

The clock reads 10:13 so which means the killer's striking time isnt over till 10:30.

"Lets go back to the hotel." Alice suggests.

I nod and we go around finding the others to ask if they're ready to go.

All of them are so as a group we head back to the hotel silent and pretty tuckered out.

We make it into the hotel and a girl from the pageant comes rushing down from the hall, that leads to the main floor bedrooms, into the lobby.

"SHES DEAD! TAKADA IS DEAD!" She screams in terror.

"The killer as struck again." A says.

"Yes." I agree then follow Mello to the girl to get the story while L and Light go to her and get the room number from the hysterical girl.

AN:

Whew! Longest chapter I have written so far for sure!

I'm sorry about not updating sooner.

Hope you like so far!

Mello.