An eight year old Mello had flopped himself on the couch, bent rather gymnastically over the arm of the couch, his legs kicked up in the air. Upsidown in his vision, an almost-eight year old Matt stood in the doorway, looking at the blonde with curious dark green eyes.

"Hey, Mell?" the redhead whispered questioningly, shuffling his bare feet nervously.

Mello groaned. The way Matt had asked the question was definitely that way. The way that said that the question his friend wanted answered was an awkward one that he was too embarrassed to ask anyone else in the orphanage except him, since they were best friends and what not. Sometimes, Mello regretted having friends for t his reason, but it wasn't like it didn't go both ways.

Sighing, Mello flipped himself over the armrest, landing on his feet like a cat before spinning on his ankle to face his friend. For a second Matt paused to take awe in the blonde's grace - he was the farthest thing from graceful at this age, pretty much the biggest klutz ever really. Shaking this off, Matt bit his lip, looking up at Mello much like a puppy, waiting for permission to ask.

Mello sighed, rolling his blue eyes with exasperation. "What do you want, Matt?" he inquired with exasperation.

Matt shuffled his feet again before looking up at Mello with big, curious green eyes. Mello smirked inwardly - cute. "Um, well…" he began, nose wrinkling with his confusion. "I was listening to the older kids talk… and you know I wasn't meaning to…"

"Out with it, Matt," Mello snapped, crossing his dainty arms over his chest impatiently.

Matt clutched his hands behind his back, shifting from foot to foot awkwardly, keeping his gaze down on his feet. For a second, Mello smiled a little - the redhead acted so innocent at this age. Actually, they both did, in comparison to what they might be like when they were older. Finally Matt looked back up at the blonde, breathtakingly innocent green eyes wider even than usual.

"Mello, what's sodomy?" he squeaked, voice high-pitched with nervousness, blush on his cheeks, embarrassed that he truly had no idea.

The blonde literally fell backwards, slipping on the floorboards and onto his butt. Groaning, Mello rubbed the back of his head, stunned. Matt yelped, hurrying forward and reaching his hand out to help his friend up, eyes large and apologetic. Mello only slapped his hand away hopping to his feet again, spinning to look at him. His expression was bewildered. "Where did you even hear that term?"

"Veil was talking about it," Matt explained, shuffling his feet. Mello sighed.

"That's obvious," he told him with exasperation, rolling his eyes. "Clearly, sodomy is when two guys 'lay together'." Mello put air quotes around lay together, mostly because he hadn't a single idea what that actually implied. Matt blinked, frowning deeply. But all the blonde could do is shrug. "That's what the Bible says, so it must be true."

Matt shrugged. He was an atheist, but he wouldn't tell Mello this, especially since he himself had only just learned the definition of that word. "So it's just… laying around with another guy?" he inquired.

"I guess," Mello said, slowly, trying to think back to where he had learned about that. In church, maybe?

"Is it, like, fun?" Matt tired again, tilting his head just a degree to the side, a innocent little curve of a frown on his face. "Sodomy? Because Veil said it was 'enticing.'"

"Really?" Mello couldn't remember what exactly the preacher who had told him about Sodomy had said about it. "I'm pretty sure it's not allowed," the blonde told him, biting his lip.

"Since when do we follow rules?" Matt pouted, crossing his arms poutily. Mello raised an eyebrow at him.

And then he grinned. "You're right, Mattie, we don't!" he laughed, grabbing Matt and flinging him on the bed. The redhead gasped in surprise, letting out giggles as he promptly stumbled right into the bedpost like the klutz that he was. Mello wasted no time scrambling on after him, flopping down beside him and burying his face in the redhead's shoulder.

"Burr, you're feet are cold, Mel!" the redhead cried, squirming around. Mello giggled and squirmed too, pressing his cold feet on Matt's warm ones. After a while the redhead gave up, relaxing and letting Mello curl his legs around his.

Matt opened his eyes - which had squeezed shut during the squirming - only to squeak in surprise. Mello's e yes were inches from his, drowning him in sapphire blue, a giant smirk on the blonde's face. "Well hello," Mello greeted teasingly at the shocked expression on his friends face.

The redhead grinned back, rolling over slightly so that they weren't quite so close. "This is silly," he giggled, still tangled in both sheets and his friend's limbs. Mello grinned.

"It's fun though," the blonde reminded him. Then he laughed a bit mischievously, an impish grin on his face. "I feel so bad."

"I know, right?" Matt laughed, wriggling into a more comfortable position, letting his previously cramped arms wriggle underneath Mello for comfort. When the blonde didn't complain, he relaxed, smiling. "We should do sodomy more often."

"Every night," Mello agreed, laughing a little before relaxing against the redhead, a grin still present on his face.

Little did they know.

A/N: Some promises are just meant to be kept, man. I'm not sure what compelled me to do this XD little kids are just so innocent… kind of :P