A/N: A slightly cheesy/cute scene at the end. I know that it's out of character for Mello to say 'thank you', but it just seemed... right.

Update: I was just re-reading the chapters in this story, and I found a lot of typos. Also, I somehow typed "question" instead of "direction" in this particular installment. If you spot any more mistakes, I'm sorry. OTL

"Where would Matt be?" Tori wondered out loud.

"Knowing him, he'd be at an arcade." Mello made an educated guess.

They subconsciously began walking towards a particular direction.

"You know what would be funny?" she said casually.

"No. What?"

"If we'd just walk in holding hands and Matt saw us, and thinks that we're dating for real, so he'd be like 'What the fuck?'"

The blond teenager smirked. "Want to try?"

"Okay!"

He held out his hand in a princely manner, and the girl grabbed it. Then came a stampede of fangirls.

"OMGZ MELLOZZZZ I DIDNT KNOWS U R STIL DATING DAT ENGRISH GIRLZZZ."

Tori stared. "…What now?"

"Run for it!" the chocoholic instructed, pulling her behind him.

"H3Y WHERE U GOING?"

Fortunately, the squealing voices faded away soon enough as they entered a video arcade.

"The neon lights make my eyes bleed," Tori commented, squinting.

Mello continued dragging the girl around, searching for Matt.

She pointed to a random crowd. "Found him!"

As he glanced towards the direction she was pointing at, a random teenager approached Tori. "Heeeey…"

"…Uh, hi," the girl responded rather awkwardly.

"Name's Alex, what's yours?"

Mello gave him a death glare.

"…Uh. …Tori?"

"How old are ya? I'm nineteen."

"...Fifty-two, bye." She walked away from the creepy, dragging Mello.

Obnoxiously, he followed. "Playing hard 'ta get?"

Tori pointed to the teenager she was dragging. "My boyfriend. Fuck off."

"…So you're her boyfriend?" Alex frowned.

The blond male smirked, and placed one arm around the girl's shoulders. "Of course, what does it look like?"

He scoffed. "What's so interesting 'bout the blondie?"

"…Um, everything…?"

"Whatever." Rejected.

Matt suddenly burst out of the crowd, stumbling slightly. "MAXIMUM WOOTAGE! OH YEAH, WHO'S THE BOSS?"

"Hi Matt," Tori greeted.

"Heyyyyy duudeeess," he slurred back.

"...Matt?"

"Yeahhhhh?"

"Matt? Are you drunk...?"

He pointed at himself with a shocked yet drowsy expression. "ME? WHAAAAT. NO WAAAIIII!"

"...Drunks are disgusting."

"LIKE YOU. LOLOLOLOLOL."

"I'm not disgusting!"

"...Matt." Mello gave his friend a disapproving glare. "Stop saying 'LOL'. It's something you say on the Internet, not in real life."

The gamer, however, completely ignored the mafia member. "LOL, YOU DO NO-NOS WITH MELL-BELLINE."

He raised an eyebrow. "The f-?"

"…No-nos?"

"YEAH. LIKE, LIKE-" Goggle-head hiccuped in between his sentences. "LIKE... I DUNNO. LOL."

"What the fuck is a no-no?" Tori pressed on, irritated.

Matt didn't answer the question properly and began having retarded laugh-gasms.

"Matt, stop giggling. That's gay."

Mello gave the gamer a disapproving stare. "You're drunk off your ass…"

"OMG. KIRBY." The drunk male suddenly ran off, and pointed at a random passing male adolescent. "I CHALLENGE YOUUUUU TO A DUEL!"

The guy played along, thinking it was an invitation to some video game. "I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!"

"PIKACHU, I CHOOSE YOU!"

"…Huh?"

"THUNDERSHOCK!" Matt jumped up and down by himself. "AND IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!"

"U-uh…" The other person gave him an odd look, turning to leave. "I'm gonna just go over there…"

"…Um, so are we gonna leave him here or what?" Tori asked, witnessing the scene.

Mello snickered. "Actually, this is pretty funny."

Then Alex came back again. "Damn, he's still here…"

Matt proceeded to pointing at the 19-year-old approaching Tori. "NO WAIT, A WILD RANDOM DUDE HAS APPEARED! CHARIZARD, GO GET HIM!"

"…PFFT." The blond teenager burst out into laughter.

On the other hand, Alex wasn't impressed. "What the fuck? Freak."

"DUDE. DO SOMETHING. FIGHT, POKEMON, ITEMS OR FLEE?"

'Wild random dude' ignored him and pulled Tori away. "A girl like you shouldn't be hanging out with freaks like them."

"What the-" The girl began fumbling for her gun. "Where is my gun?"

Mello twitched, walking up to Alex badass-ly. "Back off, prick."

He shoved her behind him. "What are you gonna do?"

"RANDOM DUDE WAS PARALYZED FOR NO REASON!" Matt continued yelling in the background. "CHARIZARD USED FLAMETHROWER!"

The teen in leather pants smirked. "Want to find out?"

"Yeah, from some guy that looks like a fucking girl."

"Found it!" Tori exclaimed, pulling out her gun. She shot it into a random crowd. "Okay, it works!"

"HERBET! A BEE STRUNG MY LEG!" an old lady hollered, the victim of the girl's bullet.

While this was happening, Mello aimed his gun at Alex's head. "Now fuck off."

Alex sneered. "You won't shoot."

"Don't piss me off."

He kissed Tori on the cheek. "Does this piss you off?"

Her expression turned to pure disgust. "EW EW EW!"

And so Mello shot his arm.

The male yelped in pain, letting go of the girl. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?"

"BULBASAUR USED BULLET SEED ON WILD RANDOM DUDE!" Matt announced. "IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!"

Tori ran to the blond teenager's side, who smirked once again. "I warned you."

A group of people heard the gunshot and screamed. "OMGZ DATZ TEH COUPLE FRUM TEH RESTURANT!"

Mello smacked his forehead for attracting attention. "Damn it. Hey, Matt?"

He appeared not to have heard him. "WILD RANDOM DUDE IS STILL PARALYZED!"

"...Eh, screw this." He grabbed the gamer and began dragging him. "RUN!"

"OWWW, DUUUDDDEEEE."

"Wait, something's in my shirt…" Tori reached into her shirt, pulling out a piece of paper. "What the fuck?"

"UNFOLD ME PLZ" was written upon it. She followed the instruction. There was a combination of random numbers, with "ALEX'S NUMBER" written under it.

"...Why the fuck did he put it in my shirt?"

A bullet suddenly flew through the piece of paper with great precision, destroying it completely. The teenage girl sucked in air between her teeth, looking up to see Mello aiming a gun. "I WAS STILL HOLDING THAT, Y'KNOW!"

"Don't worry, I have a good aim." He put his gun away.

"BUTTERFREE USED... SLEEP... POWDERRR..." Matt mumbled before passing out.

"…Great." Mello pulled the gamer. "Let's go back to the apartment."

"Nnngngnhhn…"

"Mello, we'll try that plan again once he's sober," Tori suggested.

"Okay."

A couple of hours later, Tori was asleep while Matt finally woke up, sober. He sat up slowly, his hand on his head. "Headache…"

A leather-gloved hand smacked him on the head. "That's for all the trouble you caused."

"Ow!" The teenager in the striped shirt winced, and then looked up with surprise. "Wait… Mello?"

The said blond scoffed slightly, taking a bite out of the chocolate bar. The two sat there in awkward silence, uncertain of what to say to each other after their argument. The anonymous voice had informed Mello that Matt tried to help him (although it was over something he is not admitting to), and he had not forgotten.

"Matt."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."