A/N: I donot own death note.

Nobody actually thought of asking L about the mistake which gave them away, they were geniuses they realized as soon as they were out of the café.

To put it short they saw Light's car parked right outside the café.

Way to go geniuses, Matt thought.

They hadn't thought about L tracking Light's car, if he hadn't already put trackers on them, that would have been eerie, but after all it was L they were talking about.

Now they were all going to discover of how L would punish them.

I didn't even get to say anything to him other then you haven't changed much, how I could say something like this to my best cousin when I saw him after a t least four years. Maya thought, as she lay on her bed at night her stomach rumbling. I wonder when I will see him again.

The next morning Maya made her way quickly to the dining hall. As she entered she quickly seated her self in a chair, grabbed a plate, piled it up with food then started shoveling it all down as quickly as she could.

Near who had followed Maya into the hall, gave Maya a slightly disgusting look before taking his seat and shoveling down his breakfast at top speed too.

'Well it turned out fine, didn't it. I mean we expected worse to happen but Watari saved us,' Matt said. Maya and Near both nodded their mouths too full to speak.

'But it's a bugger isn't it, about Mello?' Matt said piling up his plate too.

'Why is it a bugger for us? It may be annoying for Mello but that does not bug us,' Maya said swallowing the food in her mouth.

'If Mello doesn't get chocolate then it is going to be a bugger for all of us, he is going to kick hell.' Matt said while Near nodded his head again.

'But he didn't say anything in the evening,' Maya asked.

'He usually does kick up hell right that second if it is Watari or Roger who ban him from chocolate, but when L bans it then his temper starts to set in only when the effects of chocolate begin to diminish.'

Maya could only nod feebly at this.

Maya you look awful, what happened to you, said the note that was passed on to her in class.

She turned her head to look at the sender and saw Mello and Emma both looking at her, unsure of who send it she smiled at both of them. Emma smiled back and turned her head back to the teacher, while Mello kept looking with a steady gaze, almost like a glare.

Puzzled, Maya turned away. 'It must be from the lack of chocolate,' she thought.

The next day as Maya came for breakfast. Mello looked at her and frowned. Maya conveniently ignored that.

'Why do you stay awake at night?' Mello asked.

'Obviously she crams for the Wammy classes, this is all new to her,' Matt answered for her.

'It's because I draw.'

'What do you mean,' asked Matt, interested.

'I like to draw anything that strikes to me as interesting right the second I see it, here I don't have much time during the day so I draw at night.'

'Oh then what strikes you as interesting here, that you have to sacrifice your sleep for,' Mello now sounded sarcastic.

'It's . . . umm. . .I. . ., ' Maya hesitated.

'What?' Mello snapped impatiently.

'It is you .'

'Right. . . What?'

'Mello seems interesting to you,' Matt asked.

'Well, come on he IS interesting, I was going to draw you next with your game boy, but I just finished Mello.'

'Will you show it to us,' Near said for the first time, having listened intently to the conversation but pretending not to.

'Here,' Maya said having run up to her room to get the drawing.

'Oh!' Was all an awestruck Mello could say while Matt whistled slowly. Near however simply stared his eyes widening in awe, then he quickly regained his former posture.

The drawing was made simply with a pencil without any colors but it was beautiful, with every line curved out with accuracy and every line blended perfectly into another. Every detail was given fair attention. The only thing that differentiated that drawing from the original one was that, in the picture Mello was smiling.

'So how is it?' Maya asked feeling a bit red in the face at their reaction. She was also feeling happy that she had wriggled out a response even from Near, although a very minute one.

'Awesome,' Mello whispered quietly but didn't go unheard. He was feeling weird, it felt as though his stomach was tying itself in knots by itself and surprisingly those knots were not really uncomfortable they brought brightness and warmness inside him. And Mello found himself unceremoniously turning red.

'A-ah we are going to be late for school,' he said hesitantly getting away.

'But Mello never smiles,' Matt said, watching Mello hurry out of the dining hall.

'Yes that part was just my imagination,' Maya said still blushing.

Part of the reason for making the drawing was to keep her mind off Kay. Maya knew that if L knew that being grounded was actually giving Maya grief he could easily prolong that duration.

It wouldn't have been any trouble for her before because she was not someone who liked to go out a lot. She preferred staying at home. But now going out meant meeting Kay, and she was becoming really restless.

'You people are still grounded for that,' Emma asked them in the cafeteria.

'That person, whoever that was, your guardian or something he is crazy, grounding just because you didn't go to him when he called, he is a jerk,' Mark said picking at his lunch with a fork.

'Actually once you sort of start to know him he is not so bad, he doesn't know how to act around other people that's all,' Maya said.

'Then considering all that, he let you off without supper and you being grounded for two weeks, then I guess its fine,' Emma said.

'It is not fine, he banned chocolate for me, and that is the worst that can happen to me,' Mello interjected.

'But why such a harsh punishment for you? But not for the others.'

'I guess its because he trusted me not to go out with them or he thought that I would try to stop them if they arrange a rebellion against him.'

'Mello sure is grumpy today,' Maya whispered to Matt in one of their "special classes"

'I would appreciate if you refrain from talking Miss Maya,' the professor called, his back turned towards them, while he wrote on the board.

'It sucks to have less students in our class,' Maya said gazing around at the other three students.

'Yeah,' vibrated a message on Maya's phone.

'No text messaging either.'

'Where are you going Maya?' Matt asked as he saw Maya put on a long coat.

'Nah just some shopping,' she said hesitantly.

There came a knock on Mello's door.

'Who the hell is it,' Mello asked harshly.

'It's me Maya,' at this Mello's frown diluted a little.

'What do you want,' he called still with the same harsh tone.

'I just want to talk to you.'

'Alright.'

The door opened and Maya came in, her pocket bulging out a bit, Mello noticed that but decided not to comment on it considering the various abject he had seen her pull out of it, for instant once she had pulled out Dave's milk bottle and some of his clothes or Dave's shoes and the like.

'If you came here to take pity on me-'

'Why would I do that?It seems like you are having fun getting mad at anyone you like while you have a pretty convincing excuse too,' Maya said loking out at the window which showed the moon lit grounds of Wammy house.

'What?' Mello said turning towards her but stopped as he saw her holding out a box of chocolates for him, still looking outside.

'You are taking my excuse away,' Mello said punching her lightly on the arm, nevertheless taking the box.

'I am afraid I had to do that.'

'Was I that irritating,' Mello said joining her in front of the bay window.

'You think,' Maya said jokingly.

'Oh,' Mello said noticing her light mood.

Maya heard him take off the wrapper of one of the chocolates. And waited to hear the traditional crunch of his munching the chocolate. But it never came.

'Here,' Mello said holding out the half bare chocolate.

Wordlessly, Maya took it while he unwrapped another for himself.

They munched on their chocolates in silence.

'Better keep it a secret,' Maya said before closing his door softly. And turned around to see both Matt and Near standing in the corridor. Although both of them seemed mesmerized in their own tasks but Maya knew better.

'What are both of you doing here?'

'In case you didn't notice our rooms are in this corridor so we have every right to be here,' Matt said while Near didn't even bother for an explanation.

'But both of you must be in bed by now.'

'And you should be in your bedroom-,' Matt was saying but was cut off by Near.

'Did you give him the chocolate?'

'W-what, chocolate?' Matt spluttered while Maya nodded not in the least bit surprised that Near knew about it.

'You both had it planned,' Matt said recovering.

'No it was only Maya's idea and she gave it to him on her own account. I just assumed that she had gone to buy chocolate for Mello this eveni-.'

'You saw the receipt in my long coat's pocket didn't you.'

'Yes I did,' Near looking a bit flustered.

'I knew that at least you would look at it, so if I had to hide it from you I wouldn't have had left it there. The only person I had reason to hide it from is from L but I guess that you discarded that.'

'Yes of course I did, but didn't you think that Watari could also have taken a hold of that receipt.'

'First Watari wouldn't have thought to look in my coat pocket because I told him that I had gone to buy diapers for Dave secondly even if he had I could easily convince him that I bought them for myself. I like chocolate too.'

'So why did you assume that I would be the one to take a look at it first.'

'Because in case you haven't noticed L isn't downstairs very frequently, so I assumed that you would be the one to look at it.'

'Wait, you mean that Near got into your closet to look at just a receipt,' Matt said.

'No it was on my long coat which is usually hung in the cloak room,' Maya said while Near muttered, 'you sure could catch on fast.'

'Anyways good night,' Maya said entering her room to see a sleeping Dave instead she saw fully awake looking expectantly towars the door.

'Oh man,' Maya said preparing herself for quite a long time of singing to him until her throat felt parched. But that was a bit of an exaggeration as Dave fell asleep within a few minutes and Maya threw herself on her bed, fully dressed.