A/N: Omigosh! I'm so sorry its been forever! I just seemed to lose complete motivation for this story but I think its starting to come back so hopefully quicker updates will be in order. If you're still here, thanks for sticking with me! I think there will really only be a few more chapters anyway and I have the end planned out, I just gotta actually write it up so I hope to get on with that soon. I hope you enjoy! :)

Matt's POV

If there was anything I loved in the entire year, it was Halloween. I don't know why, it just always had been. Halloween at Wammy's was always the best. All the kids dressed up and the Halloween dance and L would come for his birthday. And we would walk around the school to go trick-or-treating from the teachers. But the best part, was that Mello and I always planned the best pranks and tried to scare the hell out of all the other kids. It was so much fun!

Now, Mello and I were getting ready to go back to Wammy's with Near to see everyone and have a Halloween celebration. We were wearing costumes of course. Mello was going dressed as a reaper. I thought it suited him and he got a huge scythe. I'm going as a ghoul, with lots of real chains and enough makeup to make me look properly dead. Near is dressing up as a little ghost. To be fair, it was his idea but we did think it suited a little seven year old albino.

"Everybody ready yet?" I heard Mello call from the living room. I had just finished putting on my costume so I was. I left the room to go to Near's.

"I am. I'll just check on Near then we'll be right out." I called back as I approached the boy's room. I could hear muffled struggles coming from the bathroom so I turned and hurried in there as fast as my costume would let me. Near was in there, moving around helplessly, trying to get untangled from the sheet that was his costume.

I let out a small laugh. "You stuck?" He turned to the direction of my voice and nodded. I laughed and approached him, moving the sheet around so it wasn't tangled and it would lay properly over his body.

He looked up at me through the sheet with large, dark, happy eyes. "Thank you daddy!" He hugged me as best as the sheet would let him. I grinned and placed an arm around his waist, hoisting him up.

"You ready?" I smirked. He nodded eagerly. I laughed and carried him out of his room and down the hall. "We're good to go. You got the candy packed?" I said to Mello as he came into view.

"Yeah, it's all set." He smiled. "Don't you look cute, Near."

The albino glared at him for a moment. "Ghosts aren't cute, they're scary!" He whined. Mello and I both laughed and then we were headed out the door on our way to Wammy's.

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"Happy birthday!" Everyone shouted as L walked in the room, dressed as a... banana? It didn't take long for the entire hall to burst out laughing at his costume. Watari was dressed as Sherlock Homes; at least he had a normal costume.

After everything calmed down a little, the festivities actually began. The music was playing for any kids who wanted to dance or they were allowed to go around the school to go trick-or-treating now. Mello and I set up our own table, since we didn't have a room to use, and handed out candy there for a bit.

We eventually got to really talk with L and Watari. "So... banana, huh?" Mello asked, smirking. I bit my lip, trying to stifle a laugh. The raven just tilted his head, the whole top of the banana crumpling and moving with him. He stared at us with wide, unblinking eyes.

"Yes. I thought it was a nice costume choice so I had Watari order it for me." He replied seriously. Mello and I burst out laughing at that point, buckling over and clutching our sides. When we finally slowed and looked back up, they were both gone. We spotted them at the food table, L getting cake and Watari was getting tea.

They came back a few minutes later and offered us some goodies. We stood and talked for awhile longer, eventually Linda arrived,dressed as a princess, and came over to join us. Roger came and said hi but he was pretty busy with everything going on. Watari also left fairly quickly after his tea to assist Roger.

It promised to be a good night. A lot of the kids were really excited for L to be there and I remembered back when Mello and I were just kids. Mello got so excited for it, he would babble on for days about L after he got to see him. He was always super excited but he also got really nervous and flustered around his predecessor. It was obvious he didn't want to screw up anything around him.

After a few hours of major candy handing out, things started to slow when kids started doing more dancing and partying than trick-or-treating. We had hung out with Linda for most of the time and Near had wandered off to play and stuff. I guess he had met a friend, a little girl named Lucy, that convinced him to play with her sometimes. After I met her, she kinda reminded me of Linda though, but I was glad he was being somewhat social.

Eventually, more kids were dwindling off to go to their own rooms with friends and such. A slower song came on that I recognized, I think because of Mello listening to it. The next thing I knew, he was right beside me, no scythe in hand.

"Wanna dance?" He smirked, holding out a hand for me to take. I grinned at him and took off the chains to make the costume lighter.

"Sure. Just don't step on my toes." He glared a little and I took his hand. He pulled me onto the dance floor and wrapped one arm around my waist, the other still holding my hand. We slowly moved to the beat of the music, holding each other close. We were in our own little world and no one else could enter. I leaned into him closer, practically in the crook of his neck.

"I love you so much, Mihael." I whispered against him. His grip around my waist tightened.

"You're my forever, Mail." He whispered back.

We danced as the song played, moving intricately around the dance floor. It was amazing.

Finally the song ended and we parted. "Thank you for the dance." Mello said with a smirk. I shoved him in the chest playfully and rolled my eyes before walking back over to our table.

L showed up again and Near was at the table, playing with his teddy bear. Mello nudged my shoulder as we approached them and smirked as he nodded toward L. I nodded back with a knowing smile.

Mello walked over and swung his arm around the raven. "Hey, L! How's your birthday so far?" He asked in an odd tone. I stood slightly on the other side of L, waiting.

"Fine, thank you. I'm enjoying it, being back at Wammy's for the day is nice." He replied.

Mello just nodded and using the arm still around L's shoulders, pulled him back a little. I dipped down and grabbed L's legs, hoisting him up. He let out a sound of surprise but otherwise just looked down at me with a glare.

I shuddered a bit but we continued carrying towards the cake. Watari, Roger and Linda and even some of the students were laughing by now. Plus, L was still in his banana costume so it must look pretty weird.

L then quickly slipped his right leg out of my grip, only to kick me in the jaw. I stumbled back, dropping his legs. They landed flat on the ground, his back horizontal, with Mello still holding his arms. I landed on my ass and looked up.

I only saw Mello's eyes go wide before L got his legs sturdy beneath him and forced himself up, flipping Mello over the front of him, causing the blonde to land flat on his back in front of the raven.

I stared up at him, dumbfounded as he tossed me a little smirk and padded over to the cake, his face going blank once more. The entire room erupted into laughter.

I stood up, glaring towards L's back and offered a hand down to Mello. He took it and I lifted him up. He stood and dusted himself off.

"Well that didn't go quite as planned." I mumbled.

"You think?" He snapped. I just smiled.

"Oh well, better luck next time." I shrugged. Watari came up behind us then and wrapped an arm around each of our shoulders.

"You boys didn't really expect that to work in your favour, did you?" He asked, a slight coy smile on his lips. "No matter. Shall we get cake?"

We wandered over to the cake. Most students had already gotten a slice, now the six or us and the other teachers were all getting their slices.

We all ate our cake and then talked again for awhile. Soon enough, it was about time to leave or Near wouldn't get a good night's sleep.

Overall, it was a pretty awesome Halloween.

A/N: The next chapter should be up relatively soon so keep an eye out (although I'm sick now so hopefully that won't affect my writing). Like I said, slight lack of motivation recently but you know what helps with that? Reviews! :D *winkwinknudgenudge* haha
Thanks for reading!

-Carter