Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note.

Credit: Original idea by Yami Yugi Alexander the 4th.

Chapter 10

Stalker

I wish I'd brought the book back in time with me, I had it memorized but still, it would have helped convince people that Kira wasn't a god.

It had been almost a week since Kira had started killing and the general public was starting to figure things out but they were seeing these murders as a fun distraction that would stop when they got bored with it, not as a serious life-changing wave of mass murder.

If I had the book with me it's likely that I would use it as a blunt weapon to strike down the idiots rather then a wealth of information to show that Kira was not a good thing.

Was that Kira-like? Who really cares, even a steadfast L supporter like me would get annoyed after a while, and none of these people even know who L is yet!

It's driving me crazy, I've had to stop myself from making comments like 'L catches him in the end' and 'he's not a smart as L' countless times because of the blank looks that I receive.

L doesn't officially announce his investigation to the public until tomorrow so I've spent the past week wondering around Tokyo waiting for him to show up.

I've spent quite a few days visiting places that will later be involved in the investigation like Aoyama and the site where L builds the official task force headquarters. I feel like a useless tourist but what else can I do to occupy my time?

At first I considered following Yagami Raito but decided against it after I realized that Ryuk wouldn't remember me and I'm not sure if I can still see him. It's safer to keep my distance and it isn't even a hundred percent fact that he's Kira so it may just be a waste of time.

Not like I'm doing anything else...

I passed by a toy store on my way to nowhere so I stopped and glanced through the window, in the very front of the display was a large stuffed animal collection, they had cats and dogs and snakes but the biggest out of all of them was the bear in the middle.

The bear was light brown almost blonde and had a small red heart stitched into it's left foot, it was sitting down and looked incredibly soft... it reminded me of Mello.

I dug through my pockets for the money I had saved until now, I had enough so I walked into the store, a bell over the door ringing merrily.

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Mello walked down the hall to his room carrying a large brown box, it had come in the mail this morning and he hadn't opened it yet. There was no sender listed on the outside so it had been x-rayed and shaken like a baby's rattle until he got there to collect it from Roger's office.

He was still moping over Kira's disappearance, she had said she would call but it had been a week now and he hadn't heard from her.

Matt hadn't shut up about it since he came back from the airport looking like his pet cat had been hit by a truck and now he was getting strange mail.

The box was too large to hold while he opened the door and he refused to put it down on the ground so he banged the door with his knee until Matt came to open it for him.

"What's in the box?" Matt wondered, pausing his game to follow Mello towards the bed where he put the box down for the first time since he picked it up.

"Matt, do you have a knife?"

"Why would I have something like that?"

"Hand it over."

Matt tossed him a pocket knife and sat on his bed waiting as Mello extended the blade and cut through the packing tape.

"Who sent it?" Matt asked after a few seconds.

"Dammit..." Mello swore as he looked into the box.

He made an effort to place the knife safely on the bed before swearing several more times and closing the box again.

"What? What's in it?" Matt asked, crossing the room to try and peek at the mysteries inside the box.

Mello pulled the box away from Matt's view and tried to brush it off as nothing but Matt insisted and Mello tried to hit him.

Matt ducked under his swinging arm and grabbed the box before dashing back to his side of the room.

"Matt, I'll kill you!" Mello threatened but Matt had already opened the box and was pulling out the large blonde bear, laughing like a maniac.

"Look, Mells, someone sent you a teddy-bear!" he teased, Mello leapt at him and started to choke him, shaking him violently.

In the fray the box was knocked to the floor and a piece of white paper fluttered out.

"– Kidding, I was just kidding!" Matt insisted through his laughter and Mello's choke hold.

Mello saw the paper out of the corner of his eye and released Matt to get a closer look.

Matt sat gasping and laughing on the floor as Mello read and re-read the note.

Mello,

I hope you're doing ok, I know I didn't call you but I don't have a number to call, it would be stupid to Wammy's house and ask for you so I decided to wait until I can explain why I'm calling or have someone explain for me.

I know you probably think I'm making fun of you by sending you this bear but it liked it, it reminded me a lot of how clingy you are when you're asleep so I bought it for you. I'm not wasting your money, I promise, this bear is the most expensive thing I've bought so far and I still have a ton of money left.

I promise I'll cal you before my birthday, that's on January 12th just so you know, I never asked when your's is but you said you were older then me so I guess it's before then, I hope I didn't miss it, but either way you can think of the bear as my gift. Happy Birthday, Mello.

Hopefully I can give you my gift in person next year. Good luck with your studies, I hope you can beat Near.

All my Love,

–Kira

Reading it once wasn't enough, so he read it again and again...

"She's Kira?" Matt asked from over Mello's shoulder.

"Matt!" Mello shouted, turning around and shoving Matt's head into his mattress.

"Hey, I was just curious, Mells, chill."

"Don't you say a single word." Mello hissed at him.

"Mells, I was just mentioning that she calls herself Kira, you know, like the killer in Japan that L went to catch a few days ago, remember?"

"I hope you're not trying to tell me that she's a murderer." Mello glared.

"Hey, I wasn't saying that, but isn't it weird? She went to Japan on the 27th, right? And the first murder was on the 28th, I think that's kind of obvious, Mells, she shows up in Japan and the next day the killings start, she calls herself Kira and she showed up here out of nowhere like magic or something, it adds up, doesn't it?"

"Matt, you met her, didn't you?" Mello spoke calmly now. "You talked to her and you saw how smart she was, if you were going to start killing people in another country would you start as soon as you got there or wait for a while to avoid suspicion? She's smart enough to figure that out at least, also she called herself Kira before the killings started but Kira was the name picked by the public for the killer, besides, she wouldn't have used the name she told us anyway."

"Mells, are you sure you're not just defending her because she signed the letter 'all my love?' how do you know she's not just messing with you?" Matt spoke softly but Mello wasn't angered by the question.

"Matt... thanks for worrying about me..." he smiled softly, Matt was more then a little worried by his sudden lack of temper. "I know she's not a killer, remember? You were there too, Matt, she said that she would never kill anyone when we gave her the lemon bars..."

"Mells..."

"Matt, trust me ok? She's innocent."

"I'll trust you if you don't throw out the bear." Matt smirked at his friend.

"Deal." Mello stated and grabbed the bear off the ground, placing it on his bed and moving the open box and the note over to his desk.

"I hope you're sure about this." Matt mumbled.

"I'm sure, Matt, so don't tell Roger. Or anyone else, she's not the Kira L's after and there's no reason to scare people into thinking she is."

"I won't tell, Mells, I promise, but aren't you worried about her?" Matt asked.

"Obviously, Matt. That's why I'm giving you until January 10th."

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Author's Note: I can't believe that Michael Jackson died from a heart attack yesterday! I was torn between mourning the loss of a human life and laughing at the weird coincidence, I can't stop thinking that someone has a death note! Anyway, thanks for reading and thanks for the reviews!