Final Chapter. Enjoy!

-Nea (PinkStar)

"F***! I can't freaking believe I'm actually standing here!"

"Me too." Panted Lester, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking left and right hastily, trying to see whether there were people who'd managed to follow them.

"I hope Mello's okay though..." Leaning against a brick wall and sinking to the ground was an exasperated and shaking red head. "Thought for sure that'd be my last smoke."

Flashback

A shot fired.

One of Takada's body guards fell to the floor grunting in pain, holding his hands over his heart, blood pooling out despite the applied pressure. Matt, and the other guards, quickly turned to look at the fallen guard.

"You piece of-"Bang. Another of the guards fell. Bang. Bang. Two more fell.

"Who the!? FIRE!" Shouted one of the guards, pointing to the area where the shots had come from. Matt quickly took the opportunity to fire a smoke bomb, and in the confusion he made his escape down the street. "There! He's getting away!" The guard shouted, pointing towards Matt. Matt inwardly cursed himself for being so noticeable, and fired another smoke bomb. The guards couldn't shoot at him because of all the innocent people around him. Suddenly an arm came out and grabbed him.

"N-no-"Matt started, but was quickly silenced by a hand.

"Come. Be quite. Friend." The voice muttered, pulling Matt into one of the nearby stores. As soon as they were in the store, and out of the view of the public, Matt quickly turned around and asked

"Who are-oh! Lester! Was it you that fired the gun at them? Thank you so much! I thought that'd be the end of me! There's so much I haven't been able to do yet! It would've stunk if I'd die now."

"You're welcome. Good thing you have us here to help." Said Lester, getting a smirk from Matt in return." Now let's go. They're bound to look in all the stores." And like a jinx, people started banging on the door of the store.

"Hey! Let us in or we're breaking the door down! We're looking for an enemy of Kira!" And with that they broke the door down. Matt and Lester quickly made a run out the back door. "Look! There they go! After them!" The guard shouted, frantically waving out the door, causing the other guards to chase after the two.

"Faster! They're gaining on us!" Lester whispered loudly as he ran down the back street behind the stores.

"Wait! Sorry! I'm not made for running!" Matt gasped, trying to speed up as he followed behind Lester. Bang. A gleam of silver went right past Matt's head, nearly slicing his hair. "F***!"

"They're firing at us! Let's go!" Lester turned a corner, and after a few more steps started feeling up the brick wall, or, at least, that's what it looked like to Matt.

"What the freak are you doing!? Just because you've never had a nice lady friend doesn't mean you have to do it with a freakin' brick wall before we die! They're gaining we should be running until the end!" Matt whisper shouted.

"I'm not feeling up the wall! Idiot! Here!" Lester whispered, pushing a brick in, causing the wall to part. "Let's go!" He shouted, grabbing the awed red-head and running inside. The wall promptly closed. They seemed to be in some kind of an alley.

End flashback

"You're to talk. I actually had most of those guards firing at me." Lester stated.

"Have you heard from Mello or Near yet?" Matt asked between tired pants and gasps for air.

"..." Lester bent his head down dolefully. Matt immediately understood.

"No! It couldn't be! Mello wouldn't!" Matt cried out, fists clenched.

"You're wrong Matt." A voice sounded from the dark depths of the ally. "Mello is dead. Mihael Keehl has been written into the death note. And the flower truck has burned to a crisp."

"Mihael?" Matt stuttered, thinking, that was his real name?

"Yes. To Takada, X-Kira, Kira, and the world, Mello is dead." The figure said, finally stepping out of the shadows and revealing himself. The figure of Nello graced the presence of Matt and Lester. "Now let's head back and get some sleep. The meeting at Yellow Box is approaching."

The 27th

"Lidner, please pass me the bleach." N-Nello commanded whilst playing with his finger puppets and eating chocolate. Lidner gave a nod and went to the closet, and pulled out the bleach.

"Why are you bleaching your hair white again?" Questioned Roger, who was now released from his cage, and was passing wrenches and other tools to Matt, who was working on the capsule machine.

With a sigh, N-Nello responded, "to make our hair white. The NPA expect to meet with Near and the SPK, not Mello and I in one body, and the chances of them accepting that we fused into one is 24%. "

"Yes, otherwise they would just think that we had sent an imposter in case Kira decided to kill everyone there. We wouldn't be holding up our end of the bargain." Lester added in.

"So," Matt started, "is bleaching why your hair is always white? I knew it wasn't natural! Mello, you owe me quite a bit of cash…"

"No." N-Nello responded, "my hair is naturally like that."

"Hah!" M-Nello shouted. "Who owes who money now? You do, Matt! Aha-" Nello's laughter was cut short, because well, Nello stopped himself midlaugh. "Mello, if we could save the victory laughter until after we have caught Kira." N-Nello calmly asked, or more like demanded. "Nnn," grunted M-Nello.

Silence followed afterwards, except for the sounds of the capsule machine being tampered with.

"Near, I've got the hair bleach, do you need my help bleaching?" Questioned Lidner, holding the bottle out towards Nello.

"No, no, I believe Mello's knowledge of haircare should be enough," N-Nello stated as he started to get up to grab the bottle. "I mean, how fab~ulous is his hair!" Nello exclaimed while flipping his hair back.

"…!" Needless to say, everyone simply gawked at Nello.

"…that was Mello, of course." N-Nello stated monotonously. As the words left his mouth, the SPK members all sighed in relief.

"I, don't know what you're talking about Near…that was all you, and I know my hair's amazing." M-Nello replied, suspiciously moving his eyes left and right. "Anyways, I know how to condition and style, not bleach."

"…"Near replied, "Lester, help us bleach our hair."

This is it. N-Nello thought, while staring into the full length mirror set across from him in the bathroom. We're only a few hours away from facing down Kira at Yellow Box.

I look stupid. Mello thought back to Near. I don't like looking into the mirror and seeing your stupid face. Or even wearing your stupid clothes, Mello thought while pulling at the soft white fabric of one of Near's traditional pajamas, a disgusted look plastered over Nello's face.

Tch. Although the leather pajamas were quite comfy, we need to look like me for the meeting. If they don't believe that we are me, then L won't come in, and the plan cannot commence, Near thought back, twirling his newly bleached hair with his fingers.

So we cut our hair, bleached it back to white, changed into your pajamas-Nello cut himself off with a shudder. Just the mere memory of the incident that occurred- having to change, and more importantly, having to take their clothes off and shower- was enough to send shivers down the spine of a clearly disturbed Mello. And um, put on a little eyeliner to make our eyes look darker. But, we're still a little too tall to be you. I mean, our face has your eyes, my eye color, but we put on contacts for that, and overall it looks like your face. But Aizawa and Mogi have seen you. We managed to get Mogi to believe that we're Near…

Yes, which you almost ruined with your outrageous outburst. Had-

It was your fau-

As I was saying, Near interrupted Mello, or more like forced Mello's mind to be silent and listen. Although Mogi believes it is me, Aizawa may not. Thankfully, the warehouse isn't the brightest place, and the shadows may help disguise us. Remember, I need to have full control, either wise they may get suspicious.

Kuh, whatever, let's just get going.

Yellow Box Warehouse

Aizawa and Matsuda had just come into the warehouse. The SPK members were all waiting anxiously, along with Mogi. The only strange sight was Nello, who was wearing a very strange mask. After Lidner, Gevanni, and Lester had made sure that there were no recording devices on the two, Nello took off his mask.

"!" Aizawa was a little startled. It looked like the Near he had met, but at the same time, something seemed off.

Near had noticed Aizawa's surprise, and promptly began to twirl his hair in the way only he could. This seemed to have worked, as Aizawa confirmed with Matsuda that it was indeed Near. They continued to examine the warehouse for electronics, and upon finding none, went outside to retrieve their comrades. It had begun.

"Near, I have won!" Light Yagami, aka Kira, had shouted at Nello.

Mikami had finished counting down, and no one had died. Taking Light's words as a confession, his ex-colleagues went in to arrest him.

"N-no! How!?"

"Simple," replied Nello, "since it's you, if I say Mello, you should understand." Matsuda and the others stared at Light and Near in confusion. Suddenly a pained look of shock crossed Light's face as he stared daggers at Mikami. Near continued to speak, explaining how Mello's interference and Takada's death had caused Mikami to unearth the real Death Note.

"If Mello hadn't intervened, we would be dead. Neither of us could surpass L alone, but together we were able to defeat Kira, who had defeated L. L knew this, and that was why he wanted us both to be his successor…Now, you have said 'Near, I have won,' that is basically the same as a confession." Near stated, staring at Light

"YES. I AM KIRA. I AM GOD." Light exclaimed, laughing maniacally. "This world is filled with scum! And I am this world's savior! AHAHAHAHA." Matsuda looked like he was ready to puke. Light started walking away from the group.

*click*

Light was suddenly scribbling something furiously.

*BANG* The sound echoed across the empty, desolate room, and the pen in Light's hand bounced out of his reach.

"M-matsuda! Don't shoot me! Shoot Near! Or anyone else! Idiot!" Light shouted towards Matsuda, who had tears streaming down his cheeks. Suddenly Light's bloodied hand was moving in furious strokes across his watch. BANG. BANG. BANG.

"ARGHHHHH." Matsuda let out a furious cry as he shot at Light. "YOU NEED TO DIE."

"RAAAGHHHAHAHAHAHA." Light's maniacal laughing chilled the room as Aizawa restrained and the others restrained Matsuda, and Lester acquired the hidden piece of paper from Light's watch.

"Oh no!" Exclaimed Lester, a look of panic struck across his face.

"I DID IT. I'VE WRITTEN NATE RIVER. IN MY OWN BLOOD TOO! WHAT A FITTING END FOR YOU. AHAHAHA." Light continued to laugh as the party was shocked and inable to move. "I WON'T LET YOU WIN SO EASILY." Behind Light, Ryuk smirked at this new turn of events.

"N-Near!" Lidner shouted, looking at the white haired boy, who looked as shocked as everyone else.

"I-I wasn't fast enough?!" Stated Matsuda, at a lost at how quickly Light had managed to scribble Near's name. Lester merely stared at the scrap, "Nate r" had been written in pen, and "iver" in blood.

"THIRTY THREE. THIRTY FOUR…." Light began counting off. His eyes, filled with insanity stared straight at Near's shocked face. All eyes were then on Near.

Near's face went calm, and suddenly his body lurched forward and and his eyes peeled wide open. His head slumped downwards. Lidner and Gevanni were knelt at Near's side, trying to support him. The others merely stared in shock. They had lost the great genius L, the brilliant Light had turned out to be Kira, and now they were losing Near too?

"HAHAHA I DID IT. I KILLED NEAR!" Light laughed maniacally.

"Oh shut the f* up." Stated Near. Head still lowered.

"W-what? Shouldn't he be dead from a heart attack?" Aizawa questioned. Everyone was staring at Near. Suddenly Near's head shot up, and everyone stepped back in shock at the twisted grin that adorned the typically calm Near.

"Looks like neither of us are good at keeping our words not to meddle eh? But good thing I did or you'd be a heaping pile of flesh! Ahahaha" laughed Near. The faces on the SPK's members suddenly became calm as they released sighs of relief. The others were still in shock at Near's survival. How did he manage to live!?

"W-what's going on!? I wrote his name! YOU SHOULD BE DEAD!" Exclaimed Light. "There's no way you could've switched out the paper in my watch! You're a monster!" Light suddenly became frantic and began clawing at the shutters in an attempt to get out.

"Yup. That's probably a real piece of the death note you got there. But I'm not Near anymore." Nello stated, standing up to his full height.

"You said that was Near, Mogi!" Matsuda shouted. Shock written on his face,

"I-it is! Although he is a bit taller than before…" Mogi replied.

"Who are you!?" Light and Matsuda exclaimed unanimously.

"Damn, it feels pretty good to hear the sheep admit out loud that he needed me to beat Kira." Nello smirked to himself.

"M-mello? Is Near okay?" Asked Lester, worried about the effects of having his name written in the death note would have on Near.

"Yeah yeah. He's ok, right twerp?" M-Nello snarkily grinned. "Y-yeah…" N-Nello responded quietly.

"So he's Mello disguised as Near!?" Exclaimed Light. "Takada should have killed him with the scrap she had on her! What's going on?"

"Hahaha, interesting." Stated Ryuk passively.

"Ryuk!? What's going on!?" Light exclaimed.

"Calm down losers, since we've already won, I'll tell you." Stated Nello haughtily, straightening his back and standing with an air of confidence around him. "Let's just say… thanks to the real L, Near and I were able to survive and defeat you, Kira." Nello grinned widely."

"W-what!?" Matsuda and the others asked, perplexed.

Nello grinned even wider. "Thanks to our old caretaker's negligence, we found a machinery created by L to fuse Near and I, Mello, together in order to take over as his successor. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work as planned, nor did we know that our fusion would be the outcome. We both still retained our minds in a single body. I can't say that I'm happy to be in this freak of a body, but it's what saved me, so can't really complain now can I?" Lester, Gevanni, and Lidner merely nodded in agreement.

"S-so you're both Near and Mello?" Asked Aizawa. "And why the death note had no effect on you?"

"Bingo~! This body is not Nate Rivers nor Mihael Keehl. Does it even have a name? Who knows? But I would assume the name shown by the Shinigami eyes is the name of whoever is currently in control of the body, hence why Mikami had written Near's name only. Hate to say it, but it's cuz of Near that I was able to survive this time. Looks like L knew that neither of us were singly fit to take over as the next L. Near wasn't dynamic enough, and I was too hot-headed. But we did it. Together we were able to surpass L!" Nello exclaimed, his voice echoing as a tone in between Near and Mello's typical voices. The crowd of people inside Yellow Box were silent in awe. "You've utterly lost, Kira." At those words, everyone put aside their confusion about Nello, and knew they had to deal with Kira first. All eyes were on Kira.

"Mikami! Misa! Takada! Do something! Save me! I don't want to die! Ryuk! You must be able to kill that person right!? You're a shinigami after all!" Pleaded Light, groveling against the wall.

"Yeah, I could kill him. Even if there's two people in one body, they're still a single person." Ryuk responded blankly.

"K-KILL THEM! AHAHAHA!" Everyone started shooting at Ryuk as he began to write on his Death Note, but the shots merely flew through him.

"It's YOUR name that I'm writing, Light. I told you that I'd be the one to kill you in the end didn't I? I wanted to see how you'd overcome this obstacle, but ultimately you turned to me. You helped me kill a lot of time, but now yours is over." Ryuk grinned maliciously, showing the contents of the Death Note to Light, with Light Yagami written across the page.

"N-NOOOOO!" Shouted Light. He gripped his chest as he had a heart attack and died.

"I-it's over…" Matsuda said sullenly, tears streaming down his face. It was all finally over. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw Near, Mello? Nello talking to Ryuk, asking him questions. The 13 day rule was fake? The rule about destroying the book was fake too? Lester pulled out a lighter, and Nello began to set the books ablaze, so that they would never fall into the wrong hands again. Everyone stood in silence.

Back from Yellow Box

The SPK, or former SPK, since Kira was no longer a threat, were standing around the capsule machine and Matt, who was making last minute adjustments to the machine, which was now about ready to reverse what it had done to Near and Mello. They had just finished filling Matt and Roger in with what had happened.

"That was a pretty cool speech you gave to Kira back there, in the end, Mello." Stated Lidner grinning solemnly. The Kira case was finally over. What would happen now?

"Yeah, I guess it was. But…it wasn't just me talking…it was…Near too…" whispered Nello.

"Eh?" Lidner questioned.

"As annoying as it is, Near and I synced back there. So we were kinda talking at the same time. As much as I hate letting our minds blend together, at that point we kinda had to. Or else we'd look like a deranged psycho who can't say a single sentence right. Tch." Mello stated, scratching at and turning his head away from Lidner to hide his embarrassment.

"Haha, you two make an exquisite team." Lester commented.

"E-erm, I guess we are…" Nello whispered, trying to turn his head further away from everyone to hide the blush creeping onto his face.

"What? Don't be embarrassed about it! I wished you looked less like Near right now, so I can say that I've seen Mello blush!" Exclaimed Lidner, grinning. Nello still had his hair bleached, and was wearing Near's clothes.

"S-Shut up! I can't wait to get back into my own body! WITHOUT NEAR." M-Nello said.

"It's ready!" Matt exclaimed. "I tested it on inanimate objects and it worked, so it should work on you two, now get into the middle capsule."

"Great! Sharing a body with Near is so useless and bothersome!" M-Nello responded as he began to get into the capsule.

"I don't mind being one with you Mello," N-Nello stated, inside the capsule. "Sharing a mind with you has shown me how to think more…dynamically. It's also given me insight on how impulsive criminals think."

"F* you Near! Hit it Matt! I NEED to get out of here!" Nello suddenly grinned, as the doors to the middle capsule closed shut. The machine glowed. And minutes passed.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Asked Lidner, glancing towards the other four men in the room.

"They'd better be, or else we'll never hear the end of it from Mello!" Lester chuckled.

Suddenly, the two capsules at each end of the machine opened up, and smoke poured out of each. A hand appeared out of the smoke of the left capsule, and a head of curly white hair poked out as well. As the smoke cleared, Near could be seen!

"Near!" Exclaimed Lester, who ran towards the boy to support him if needed. "W-why aren't you wearing a shirt?" He questioned, giving the young boy a once over. What looked to be Near, and hopefully was, had only his typical pair of pajama bottoms on. "You are Near, right?" Near only nodded his head and glanced down at his bare, young chest. After being fused with Mello for so long, no longer having a six pack was a strange sensation. Maybe I should start working out… Thought Near.

"No other voice in my head." Stated Near.

"Ack!" Coughed Mello from the right capsule. "Am I finally in my own body!?" Mello questioned towards Matt.

"Umm well, you look like you, but you're wearing Near's shirt…" Matt said, rubbing his chin with his hand. "W-wait, if you're wearing his shirt and Near's wearing the pants…" Matt's eyes widened as the smoke began clearing from the bottom half of the right capsule.

"Oh my!" Cried Lidner, covering her eyes and turning away.

"Huh? What? What's wrong?" Mello asked the blushing Lidner.

"You're kind of pantsless, Mello." Matt laughed. Mello looked down, to find himself not wearing any pants indeed. The only thing covering his manhood was the tighty-whities he had to wear when dressed as Near. Near was a little younger and smaller than Mello overall, so his clothes were fairly tight on Mello's typical body. This included the now too small undies that adorned his bottom half, leaving fairly nothing to the imagination. A blush crept across Mello's face as he tried to cover himself up. "I'll find you some pants!" Matt said as he ran off to the upper rooms to find clothes.

"Grrr…So am I me or what?" Inquired Mello towards Lester.

"Yeah, you're you. But your hair is still white, hopefully from the bleach." Lester replied, relieved that the machine had worked.

"Gah! It better be the bleach! Arghh that's so bad for my hair! Though it was still burned from the fire anyways…But it better not permanently be white! I'll look like an old man!" Shouted Mello. Matt returned with clothes, and the two boys changed into it.

"Ahem, now that this…dilemma is over with…is Near going to be the next L after all?" Asked Roger glancing around the room.

"I would be happy if Mello were to join me in being L, as L had originally wanted." Stated Near monotonously, once again twirling his hair-his OWN hair, to his relief.

"Well obviously that sheep is nothing without me, so I guess I have no choice but to take part in being L." Mello responded haughtily.

"Haha." Near chuckled. Everyone turned and stared.

Did Near just laugh!? Thought everyone.

"Alright, we should get started on some new cases now." Said Near calmly.

Must've been our ears. And with that, everyone went to search through piles of cases that had piled up during the Kira case for something interesting.

Ha. When our minds were being split apart, I'm sure I heard him mutter it. 'Thanks.' –Near

THE END.

The ending was a little...hmm. Cuz I got discouraged by lack of reviews. :( But I tried my best to make it interesting and cannon. If you think there's anything to fix or improve upon just let me know! I appreciate any type of review :D

Thanks for reading!