L is trying to pick his successor, but their flaws are too much for him to pick one. So, L decides to give them each a challenging case to handle in separate parts of the world and see if their success can make them change for the better. Rating may go up in future chapters.

(Or the artist who really hates colors, but likes three boys who happen to embody a spectrum of hues).

Mello is a paradox, Matt is a puzzle. Mello/Matt. One-shot.

A conversation between Mello and Matt immediately before they leave to kidnap Takada. A short fic providing some closure for their deaths. Rated M only because the f-bomb is spoken by both parties.

"Gee Matt" Mello deadpans "this sure seems planned out for just a simple card game."

He is too young to have bones that ache. MxM vignettes, set after the explosion. Mello POV. T for vague references to violence and sexual content

Mello once told the story of a murderer who sought to make a case even L couldn't solve. Now, Near discusses the case of three others, C, D and F, who also sought to defeat him. It all started with the death of a girl, in the early days of Wammy's house..

A prequel to Bittersweet: L's Case Files as Compiled by Near. In jail for murder, Backup revisits his childhood and his feelings for the enigmatic and emotionless Fa.

A collection of prompt-based Matt/Mello drabbles: the solemn, the silly, and the "Why so serious?"

A series of snapshots into the lives of Matt and Mello, themed around the senses. Rated for language and adult themes. MattxMello, Matt-centric.

Birthdays are important, Mail. The world is self-centered, but everyone deserves to know how special they really are. That's why on someone's birthday, we tell that person just how much we love them.

Mello doesn't say what he means, but he says the opposite, which is almost as good. Matt/Mello.

The form of a line. Near-centric

Just a short little drabble about Matt. Could be Matt/Mello if you want it to be.

Mello wakes up from the best one-night stand in recorded history. The only problem is that Matt's the one lying next to him. Not quite fluff, but not quite anything else, either...

The thread held. It held onto them and they pulled and pulled and pulled through the dirt and the stench and the garbage until they could grab onto each other's hands and manage a few words to one another.

A little Mello drabbleyness as a result of ansomnia. Mentions of MxM, nothing graphic.

Through the eyes of the shinigami, he saw Mihael Keehl, 502209. But what did he see through the eyes of a parent?

Mello doesn't like it when girls get too close to Matt. One-Shot. Drabbley.

Matt had his reasons for wanting to follow Mello into oblivion, after all, and even if they were stupid, he wasn't. So he did. Matt from Wammy's onwards. Some Matt/Mello. Oneshot.

Matt makes Mello regret not telling him his real name sooner. MelloxMatty goodness wrapped up for your enjoyment in a lovely little oneshot.

Their lives were just two messes that happened to be forced together at the right place at the right time. A collection of sweet little drabbles between Matt and Mello.

I would, quite literally, kill just to see that smile. He is perfect." MattxMello. Rated M for a reason.

What makes one sin worse than another? Is killing a man worse than loving one? MelloxMatt oneshot

Matt's been playing a new game since 5 o'clock in the morning and Mello is absolutely annoyed. Unable to work with all this racket, Mello's about to show Matt exactly what happens when the blond goes ignored... yaoi, lemon...

Mello gets a bit nervous when his boyfriend in the wammy house starts trying to have sex with him...MattxMello

Waking up to you never felt so real." A songfic to Skillet's Comatose. LEMON. MattxMello.

If you could pick him up, all his quintessential facets, all his broken shards, and glue them back together with your memories, what would it be like? Mello/Matt, oneshot, some shonen-ai, non-explicit violence.

It’s a frigid winter night. As always, Matt insists on sleeping with the window open and Mello, well he can’t sleep a wink.

Matt had seen a rabid dog once. That's what Mello reminds him of, just now. A dog day afternoon, indeed. Wammy House era. Violence, some shounen-ai, and just general insanity. The bad kind.

Short and sweet, except not - Mello is a high explosive train: detonator, booster, bursting charge. Matt is just a spectator. Happy Fourth of July.

Matt has a nightmare and Mello is their to hold him through the night.

Black, white. The colors leaned against each other, wavering and dizzy, but somehow managing to stand. Neither was solid enough to be called dominant, and neither could exist alone, because then they'd cease to be stripes altogether. Matt x Mello oneshot.

Mello is always second best to everyone, and being number one for Matt is more love than he could have ever expected. Metaphorical fluff. MattxMello

Sometimes, Mello thought that Matt was going to die. vague-ish Mello x Matt, I guess.

Linda, a fixation, and the boys she'll always call by number.

It's Exams week at Wammy's and while Mello's diligently focusing on his scores, Matt seems oddly disapproving. Mello wants to be number one. Matt just wants him to be happy. Sometimes it's about more than just numbers and figures. ONESHOT Matt/Mello

A drabble about B and A from "Another Note". Won't make much sense if you haven't read the novel yet

Four drabbles featuring Mello and Matt. Rated for mentions of sex, and language.

He never knew he would feel like this. About the impact of midnight, and Mello. Non-graphic sex, poetry. Oneshot.

Kal Snyder finds something odd in Mello's backpack. Takes place sometime during the time skip.

I walked towards him, intending to pass him and waltz right on up those stairs and disappear…just another nameless, inconsequential face in his night. Perhaps that was too submissive, because it caught his attention.- An edgy one-shot with Matt and Mello.

Matt has waited four years for Mello to call him. But when that call is finally recieved, it isn't what he expects...

Mello is angered by something Matt says in one of their many telephone conversations. Oneshot. Spoilers for Volume 7 and episode 25 of Death Note and on. Reuploaded because I edited it.

The Kira case is over, and Matt and Mello make it out alive. To celebrate, they get drunk. Matt's POV. WARNING: bad language and shounenai MattxMello

Matt's life is full of artificial sunlight, but Fiji's out of reach and he's not complaining too hard anyway. MattxMello.

It was something to do, living. Matt and Mello and something that didn't happen.