Mello POV:

It was dark for some time. I was just floating and somewhere in the back of my mind a voice told me it was the nothingness. It wasn´t heaven or hell. I had no feelings, completely numb and no thoughts seemed to take over my mind. Nothingness. This is what Light Yagami was sentenced to after his death.

My mind was slowly beginning to clear up, a silver fog surrounded my invisible body.

How horrible, especially if the strange being was right and that he really wasn´t that bad, only on the edge of psychotic thoughts, but what genius hasn´t been on the edge eh? I have been on the edge of insanity from time to time when life got a bit too challenging. Matt and surprisingly Near has been the ones dragging me back though. Who knows what would have happened if I picked up the Death Note?

My back prickled as well as my eyes, it soon went into a bad burn that made me scream in silence. No sound went out my throat. A whisper spoke in my ear, "I should probably warn you that to balance out your knowledge a couple of people and obstacles will be in your way." Blood seeped from my mouth and tainted my lips. Everything hurt. My head felt like it was being split open and had lemon juice poured into it. So many different types of futures flooded my brain and I doubted I would remember any of it.

A silver moon appeared beneath me lighting me up. I noticed that I all of the sudden had large wings attached to my back. They were the same color as my hair but had bright yellow highlights making the new limbs look quite dynamic. They shimmered in the moonlight as well as in the sunlight that appeared from the sun that rose up over me. It was still dark, but small stars dotted the inky black void around me, the moon and the sun. I floated over to the nearest star and noticed that it had voices coming from it. Looking closer I noticed that there was a person´s face in it, above the person´s head was the name Jasper Haglaz along with a couple of numbers, 25 04 30 written in crimson.

I had the Shinigami eyes. A strange thing I noticed was that everything else was black and white. I could see no color other than what the Shinigami eyes would allow me to see. Disappointed I floated over to another star, in it was Matt´s face, the strange thing was that he would occasionally get a burst of color. I watched him for a while (could have been ages) and noticed that whenever he made a choice his death date would change. It felt even stranger when I saw a different alternative of my life where Matt and I died two days before Kira instead of going into coma´s barely surviving. 26 01 10 had blared over Matt´s head, then it changed, and I knew I was watching a different alternative. It was stressing.

Closing my eyes, I continued to float, occasionally looking over at Matt´s star or L´s, sometimes I even looked over at Near´s. They were ever changing, I saw atleast ten different futures for them, some gave me tears in the eyes. I seriously missed L no matter how tough I tried to be.

Suck suck. I looked over my shoulder and guess what, there was L sitting in his crouch floating, sometimes going upside down still in his crouch. He was sucking on a red Lolli pop, around him were half a dozen sugar cubes floating around him like small moons to a planet. He blinked at me owlishly and slowly floated over to me, still in his crouch rolling through the air like a small ball. He never once stopped sucking. Over his shoulder Light Yagami floated over as well, rolling his eyes.

The first ever Kira waved a hand and pushed L over to me holding him by one of his feet like some sort of balloon. "He never changes does he." Light Yagami gave me a winning smile, he smirked slightly and gave a small bow, "Sorry about, ya know, killing over 46500 people" he scratched his neck and I noticed that we were all butt naked. Let me tell you, Light was like literally a kouros statue.

L had finished his Lolli pop and had taken to snatching the sugar cubes surrounding him, jumping at them like the frog he sometimes resembled. I furrowed my brows, "Why are you here and soooo… calm? And why hasn´t he said a peep?" Light Yagami let out a snort and pulled L´s foot so he would not float away, I noticed L was getting his manhood all up in Light Yagami´s face all the time. Light looked more embarrassed than angry or bothered.

Light Yagami crossed one of his arms across his chest and huffed, "L is being childish and is giving us all the silent treatment since I didn´t give him what he wanted last night since I was tired." I hoped he wouldn´t go more into it, I don't want to know their relationship or lack thereof. "I can say I am so calm since I know I won't kill more people here. Now that I have gotten to calm down and not have a pushy death god over my shoulder at all times I have seen the damage I have done. Yes, my rein created a 70% drop in crime and a stop to many wars, but it made the world unbalanced and lots of innocents got killed. I don´t regret everything, it was after all effective, but I don't want it to hurt those I care about." He huffed again at L and turned back to me, "L and I will try to guide you. Well L will. I will be joining you back but keep in mind that it will be a large chance Fate will get me possessed by the note book to get the Kira killings to happen, because it will happen. You must just stop it from going off tracks."

The two of them faded into the night, L still focused on his sugar cubes.

An orange oval shaped portal appeared underneath me and I fell all of the sudden. The voice of the being that did all of this cackled, "Now you are thinking with portals"

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Young Mello sitting in class who is unknowing of what is going to happen POV:

I have been feeling like shit the entire day. From the moment I woke up I knew something bad was going to happen, and Nancy Near being his usual annoying self was not helping. Not helping at all.

Matt was worried when I told him I was dizzy. I of course told him it was no biggie, since it was not. Well, it had not, now I just wanted to get carried into my bed and sleep forever. What use was it to be in this class anyway today, I certainly could not concentrate and both Matt and Near´s staring was going on my nerves.

Matt with his puppy eyes looking at me from the desk to my right, he had the eyes of a worried friend. A good friend, a friend that I deeply cared about. Not that I would admit that, oh no.

I was in a daze and I began to notice that it almost felt like everything was in a tunnel. My hearing was faded, and I felt my head begin to droop down with my eyes closing. I was all of the sudden falling off my chair and onto the classroom floor.

Matt POV:

I knew it was serious when Mello hadn´t picked on Near after lunch. I had known he was ill or under the weather when he only growled a few insults at Near at breakfast. I had been ignorant when Mello slept longer than usual, curled up in a cocoon made of his own blanket. It had looked like he had a terrible headache.

My heart literally stopped when Mello dropped to the floor. It had all been like in slow motion as Mello´s head flopped down onto his chest and as his whole body seemed to have lost its bones.

The blond boy had just fallen over right next to me, causing the teacher to stop her lecture immediately about advanced college calculus.

The second he hit the ground, Mello´s head was propped up carefully in my hands and guided to rest sideways onto the floor, so he wouldn't choke. "MELLO!" I tapped his face, "MELLO MY MELON!"

Mrs. Frizzle pushed me carefully out of the way, so I could join the circle of people around Mello. Mrs. Frizzle´s green gecko, Liz, crawled around in his glass case like nothing ever happened on the teacher´s desk. I wish I was a stupid gecko that didn´t have to worry.

Our teacher Mrs. Frizzle bent down and listened for Mello´s breath. All I could do was sit crouched on the floor and stare through my goggles. Oh, how I wanted a good fresh cigarette right now, I needed to calm down.

"Hello, are you okay?" Mrs. Frizzle spoke softly but clearly to Mello who seemed to have woken up from whatever sleep spell he experienced. I noticed how Mello looked extremely tired and confused.

"Yeah Frizz," he blinked slowly and rested a hand over his forehead, "I had been feeling a bit off today and it seems like I pushed too hard."

I had the urge to say "No shit Sherlock" but had a feeling it would not be appreciated. I settled with crossing my arms and huffing instead, turning my nose up.

"You should rest until you feel better, and then a day more. Matt, would you- "I was already by Mello´s side taking him in my arms growling at him as I gathered our stuff and managed to worm our bags over my shoulders. I hated to go more than one time, so I carried everything at once. "You are supposed to be smart Mello. You are supposed to be one of those who could become the next L, and what do you do? You just throw away health even with obvious signs to stay in bed." I changed my voice into a slightly mocking one as I stalked out of the door, "Oh I´m Mello I think chocolate will solve obvious health issues, so I can go to classes." I let out a huge snort and continued to carry him in my arms, "You are now going to stay in bed and get better, no objections!"

Published the fourth of June 2019, Death Note does not belong to me since I can´t take things serious for long before I throw in some humor.