Note : I'm happy I can update frequently enough lately !
Alinacat : I think you'll like L in this chapter ^^
Thank you everyone for the reviews ! *throws marshmallows all round the place*
I've added Mello and Matt's ages next to the dates so it's easier for you to know ^^
October 31th, 2000 (they're almost 11)
"Hurry up Matt !" Mello whispered, pulling his friend by the hand along the dark corridor.
"But I'm tired Melloooo..." Matt groaned, following reluctantly. "And we're gonna get caught anyway."
"Of course, if you don't move your ass !" Mello murmured, glancing in the next corridor before running, Matt on his tracks.
Suddenly, the sound of steps.
"Shit ! Jump !" Mello ordered, pushing Matt by the window they just reached, before following his friend.
"Ouch !" Matt whimpered as he landed on the grass under the window, Mello soon landing on him.
"You're comfortable, you know ?" the blond's white teeth glowed in the dark as he grinned, helping his friend up.
"Fuck you..." Matt replied, standing up. "Now will you tell me why we're out at night ?"
"Follow me !" Mello smirked and started to run through Wammy's gardens. They both climbed the barrier and found themselves outside.
"Mello, you don't expect me to walk to who knows where in the middle of the night without telling me first ?" Matt complained.
"Do you know what date it is ?" Mello sighed.
"Hmm... It's L's birthday, but we already celebrated it in the dining room, so no, I don't see." Matt replied.
"Halloween, you fucktard ! It's Ha-llo-ween !" Mello said like he was talking to a four years old child, "And if I can get sweets for free, I won't miss the chance, understood ?"
"Oh... and of course, you thought I would be delighted to follow you around so you can fulfil your need for sweets ?" Matt mumbled.
Mello looked at him, and they both burst into laughters.
"You thought right !" the redhead grinned and, grabbing Mello's hand, he started running, pulling a happy blond behind him.
Two hours later, they were back in their room after a hard time climbing the window to get back inside of the building. Mello was sitting on his bed, Matt facing him criss crossed.
"Not that much chocolate..." Mello sighed, munching on a chocolate covered mashmallow.
"I like the jelly bears." Matt replied, mouth full.
"Don't eat too much, I don't want to deal with your hyperactive side later." Mello warned, poking Matt's forehead.
"Hey, don't poke me like this or I'll suffocate you with your sweets !" Matt poked him back in the ribs, earning a yelp.
"I hope you don't plan on tickling me and groping me after that ?" Mello smirked.
"I didn't grope you !! That was an accident !!" Matt replied, outraged.
"Yeah yeah, of course..." Mello pulled his tongue at his friend. Matt's blush was extremely funny and Mello liked to push things far, so he didn't intent to stop now. "It's not because everyone mistakes me for a girl that you have the right to do as if I was one, you know ?"
Matt opened wide eyes, but realised Mello was teasing him. "You'd be a poor excuse of a girl anyway, flat as a pancake and already so moody I don't even want to imagine what your temper would be with PMS !"
Mello glared at Matt, and suddenly standing up, he grabbed socks in the drawer and slid them under his shirt.
"And now, is it better Ma-aaat ?" he purred with a girlie voice, batting his eyelashes.
"I have to admit that you'd be the most beautiful girl here, far above May !" the redhead stated genuinely.
Mello turned around to remove the socks from under his shirt, but mainly to hide the blush on his face.
"So, you think May is cute ?" the blond changed the conversation as he sat back on the bed.
"Kinda..." Matt mumbled.
Mello wondered what Matt was finding attractive in the blue eyed, long haired blonde girl that was in the level one class.
January 14th, 2002 (Mello is 12 and Matt almost)
"Do you know where Matt is ?" Mello asked Linda as he crossed the corridor, coming from the dorm where he didn't find his best friend.
"I've seen him walking in that direction." the girl replied, gesturing toward the tiny hill at the end of the gardens.
"Outside ?" Mello groaned in surprise. He was already wondering why Matt had left the room without telling him he would, because they would never do anything without telling each other, but Matt going outside on his own free will was really weird. Matt hated the outdoors.
He ran up the hill and suddenly stopped cold, as he heard voices. He quickly hid behind a huge oak and listened as he recognized Matt's and a girl's voices.
"I was afraid you wouldn't come !" a voice exclaimed.
May... Mello thought.
"So, what do you want ? Is that so important that you have to make me come here ?" Matt replied, a bit of annoyance in his voice.
Oh Matt, you sure know how to talk to girls... Mello told himself. He then saw two heads poking from the other side of the hill.
"Well... I... I made that bet with Cassie and Linda and..." the girl stuttered and suddenly deposited a quick kiss on Matt's lips.
"Hey !!!" Matt yelped. "What are you doing ?!"
"I won my bet !" May shouted as Linda and Cassie ran to them, giggling.
"May got Matt's first kiss ! May got Matt's first kiss !" they were jumping around Matt who stopped them cold as he opposed : "That was not my first kiss you bitch ! You lose !"
"What ??!" the girls' astonishment echoed with Mello's silent surprise.
"I said that was not my first kiss, now can I go back or do you have more stupid ideas like this one ?" Matt groaned, already turning his back to the girls to head toward the building while switching his Gameboy on.
"Hey, who was your first kiss then ?!" the girls asked, running after Matt.
"Mello." the redhead replied absently, absorbed in his game, walking back to Wammy's without taking his eyes from his device.
Mello's jaw dropped. What does he think he's... ah ! The new year's eve long ago ! Oh shit Matt... We're doomed.
Mello waited for everyone to be gone before he headed back too. Matt had already done too much, it was useless to show his own presence now, because that would be even more awkward.
"MATT !!!" Mello yelled as he slammed the door shut behind him.
Matt started and let his Gameboy fall from his hand as his head shot up to look at his friend.
"Mello ? What the f..."
"Why did you have to tell them that ?!" Mello hissed as he let himself fall on the bed next to the redhead.
"What are you talking about ?" Matt asked, staring at the angry blond.
"They will tell everyone we're gay, do you realise that ?!"
"Huh ? Ah, that..." Matt shrugged his shoulders. "I don't care what they say, May's a bitch anyway."
"I CARE WHAT THEY SAY !! I'm not gay !" Mello complained.
"Then you'll just have to beat the shit out of anyone calling you gay, and I doubt anyone would do that in front of you." Matt stated.
"Yeah, they'd better not... but shit ! You're so dense sometimes Matt !"
"And that's why you love me darling." Matt smirked as a pillow hit him straight in the face.
Later, in the dining room, Ike called Mello a fag. Mello finished in Roger's office and Ike in the sick bay.
And Matt got smacked behind the head when Mello could finally come back in their bedroom.
December 20th, 2003 (Mello is 14 and Matt almost)
The screen lit, and a huge L in a gothic font appeared, black on a white background. All children where gathered around the laptop, trying to get as close as possible.
L's voice raised.
"Hello children. As some of you may know, I am currently working on a case that has pushed our beliefs far beyond reality. The killer can kill with a name and a face. We were able to narrow his location, but that's all we know so far, and that proves the point of hiding our identities. In order to apprehend the murderer, I may have to reveal my face. From now on, I could die anytime while trying to solve this case, that's why I wanted to talk to you today, as I am not able to be with you physically. Please keep in mind that if such a thing should happen, one of you will be my successor. I'm expecting all of you to work hard. It's almost Christmas time, so have a merry Christmas, but don't waste too much time, and study hard. Goodbye children."
Roger pushed all the kids outside of the room once L stopped talking and the screen lit off, and sent them all in their rooms.
December 25th, 2003 (Mello is 14 and Matt almost)
"Mello ! Wake up !" Matt jumped on his friend's bed and pulled the covers. Mello groaned and tried to get the blanket back. "Get lost Matt, let me sleep !" he mumbled half asleep.
"But Mello ! I have something to show you ! And a present to give you !" Matt was excited to show to the blond teenager what he was hiding behind his back.
"What is so important that you have to wake me at I don't know what time it is in the morning you fucktard !" Mello complained, sitting in his bed, stirring and yawning.
"Remember yesterday when I sneaked out of the bus at the gas station ? I couldn't show you yesterday because Linda insisted to stay here playing cards and be the annoying bitch she always is, but look !" the redhead handed a magazine to his friend. On the cover was a big boobed platinum blonde naked in a suggestive pose.
"Wha... porn ! Matt you dumbass, since when do you read that kind of shit ?" Mello opened wide eyes.
"Well, technically, I don't really read it..." Matt smirked.
"I hope that's not my Christmas present, because it sucks !" Mello spat, half smiling, half annoyed.
"No ! Here's your present." Matt threw a small package at his friend's head, who unwrapped it eagerly.
"Leather gloves ? How could you afford that ?" the blond stared sceptically.
"That's none of your business ! Do you like them ?"
"Of course I do, they're cool ! Hey, look in my drawer, at the bottom, there's something for you." Mello gestured to the piece of furniture. Matt plunged his hand under the pile of shirts and pulled a game out of it.
"Didn't wrap it, sorry" Mello smiled sheepishly.
"I don't care, I so wanted that game ! Thank you !" the redhead shouted, giving his friend a bear hug.
"Get off me !" Mello laughed, pushing Matt away in a weak attempt. "Now, can you tell me why you got this... magazine ?"
"I thought... you know... there are girls... I mean..." Matt blushed deeply.
"Hey, if you wanna jerk off looking at that, it's ok, you do what you want, just... lock yourself in the bathroom ok ?" Mello burst in an uncontrollable laughter at Matt's puppy eyes.
"That was just to look at them, you know... just to know, out of curiosity ! It's not like if we had girls with big boobs here walking around naked !"
"Matt, you're a perv, you know ?"
"Don't tell me you don't like looking at that, every guy likes it !"
"I don't." Mello stated, with a glare that ended the conversation.
Matt shrugged his shoulders and threw the magazine in the nearest drawer. He thought then that he was normal. He didn't feel anything when he looked at that kind of magazines, but he didn't dare asking Mello directly, so that was the only way he had found to know if finding these girls unattractive was normal or not. At least now he knew he was not gay.
June 25th, 2004
L was crouched in front of his computer, but his eyes weren't focused on the screen. He was deeply lost in his thoughts. Matsuda had said something a little earlier, before everyone left the headquarters, that had hit something in his mind. Now he couldn't stop thinking about it, because he knew it was true but it was also changing a lot of his views on the case, and he didn't know how to handle feeling like he felt. Actually, he didn't know how to handle any feeling at all. He felt human for the first time in his life, and he was scared.
"L, you're acting like you try to protect Light, I thought he was your main and only suspect, so why ?" Matsuda had asked, when L had decreased Light's possibility of being Kira to 56%.
He had tried to convince himself he has just testing Light and his reaction to such a statement, but he knew he was only trying to convince himself that Light wasn't Kira.
He shouldn't be Kira, things would be so easier then. He didn't want Light to be Kira.
He breathed out as to exhale all feelings out as the door slammed behind him.
"L." Light's voice raised in the silence, only punctuated by the computers' sounds.
L turned to face the teenager who just came back in the room.
"L. I am Kira." Light's voice broke.
"I know." L stated, unsurprised.
"You act like you knew I would own it up to you..." Light opened wide eyes.
Light's eyes were soft, pleading, it was obvious he was about to burst in tears.
L stood up and faced the young man. Light locked his eyes with L's, and waited. L stared at the chestnut haired man, a hand in his jeans pocket, the other raised with the thumb in his mouth, his mind racing at lightning speed to sort any reason that had made Light confess he was the mass murderer.
Light answered the unspoken question : "I began thinking about killing my own father, L ! How could I go this far ?!"
He started to cry, his shoulders shaking under his sobs, when he felt arms embrace him clumsily.
"Then that's why your percentage decreased." L simply stated.
"What ?" Light asked, still crying on L's shoulder.
"I felt a change in your attitude, I couldn't put a finger on it first but... you were different. Your eyes were different. I have wished you were not Kira. But I knew you were, at the precise instant you broke down a little earlier. They didn't notice, but I did. It was just like if the Kira side left you all of a sudden to let you, Light, finally be here with us. But we have a problem... you have confessed so now, what do we do ?"
"L ? are you telling me you are not considering the fact I should be jailed right now ?"
"I am."
"Now I'm the one to be confused, L, what are you implying ? What would you have done if I was not Kira ?"
"Try to be your friend..."
Light smiled. "Then I wasn't wrong."
"Wrong about what ?" L asked.
"About trusting you." Light fell in L's arms again and cried for long minutes.
"When I told you you were my first friend, I meant it. I never had a friend before, and I never wanted one. But it's like things have been forced on me so I finally realise I'm not alone in my own world. You're the only one that could actually cope with me, well, except Watari but it's not the same. Light... you're not the only one to blame in this affair. What I'm going to do is amoral, and will have great consequences on both our lives, so I need to know if you're ready to follow me."
"What do you mean L ?"
"As much as you trust me, I can't trust you yet, I think you can understand that. If I get you away from the sentence that's awaiting you as Kira, you'll have to give yourself to me instead of justice. Don't misunderstand me, what I'm implying is that you'll have to say goodbye to your family and follow me in England, as well as burning any death note you possess, and side me in my work. There's no coming back, no second choice, and no second chance. The moment you betray me, I'll kill you with my own hand."
"Dispose of me L. Even if one day you think I finally deserve death penalty as Kira, I'll accept it. I want to be your friend, because you never judged me as a human being. You commented my actions as Kira, but you were able to see me, Light, as I really was, and you never expected anything from me. That's why I put my life in your hands. I know you'll give it a real value."
L smiled, a big, genuine smile.
Note : so here's my own version of the Kira case for this fic, I needed L alive and happier, and I didn't feel like killing Light either. But for once, they'll be only friends, no yaoi between those two !
On another topic that has nothing to do with the fic, I'm happy, I finally found a chocolate scented shampoo !! yummyyyyy ^___^