I read the name multiple times because I knew my brain had processed it wrong. There was no way that her name was there. B-but she did go into a coma, just like the Death Note says. Does that mean she's going to die in four days? There's no way that could be true; her birthday's in four days. But that guy from Sakura TV's name was in here and he died, just like the rest of the criminals. This really was the Death Note, and there was no escaping it.

I wasn't letting the Death note or Mikami out of my sight. In fact, I decided to take them both with me. I waited until Mikami came back into the locker room, and then I hit him over the head and blindfolded him.

"Teru Mikami, I am Kira." I tried to convince him into leaving willingly.

He turned frantic as if someone hit his panic button. "God? God! Am I doing everything like you asked?"

I thought I knocked him out, how the hell was he still conscious? I covered his mouth with my hand and said quietly, "Yes you are doing everything perfectly. I just need to discuss some things with you."

Luckily there was a back door at the gym and nobody else around or I don't know how I would have gotten Mikami outside. I threw him into the backseat of Matt's car and tucked the Death Note under my shirt. He seemed to be cooperating quite nicely so far. I wasn't taking Mikami back to the apartment though; I was taking him back to the Mafia headquarters. They could have their way with him after I was done questioning him.

They were more than happy to help me tie him to a pole in the basement and even happier to help me torture him. He didn't have the Death Note on him and even if he did, his hands were not only tied to the pole, but they were duct taped together so moving them would be completely impossible. Because he was under such tight restraints, I had no qualms about being in the same room as him. Plus, it's not like he knew my real name anyway.

"Mikami, you are working for Kira, is that correct?"

"God is my leader. I do whatever God tells me to do. He chose me to-"

"But just who is God? What is his name? Surely you've seen him or met him before if you're working for him." I couldn't believe how truly pathetic this guy was, following some mass murderer's every wish like he's his slave.

He was acting like a goddamn heroin addict going into withdrawal. "Y-you're not God! Who are you?"

"Why did you write Raine Jeevas's name in the notebook?" I stood directly in front of him in the basement with three of my men surrounding Mikami on all sides.

"She-she knows who I am! She'll make me betray God!" He knew exactly who I meant the minute I said her name.

I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and said, "Take her name out of the notebook dammit! She has a brother and a cousin and a life! What you're doing...you're a disgrace to God."

"I can't! Once someone's name is written in the Death Note, they can't escape death!" Mikami said confirming what I already knew.

I turned and walked away from Mikami. I stopped and said, "Kill him," to the men in the basement with me.

I knew what I had to do now I just wasn't sure if I could. How in the hell do you tell your best friend that his sister that he's known for less than a week is going to die in four days? I thought the best way was to wait until Julie was there too.

As I walked into Raine's hospital room, I saw Julie sitting in a chair beside Matt. She didn't look anything like Raine but then again, I really didn't expect her to; they weren't related. Julie rose the minute I walked into the room. "You must be Mello. I'm Julie, Raine's moth-adoptive mother."

I nodded; I wasn't one for shaking hands. Never was; never would be. "I see you've met Raine's brother?"

"Matt? Of course! I remember the day he was born." Julie said pulling something out of her purse; it was a present wrapped in colorful wrapping paper. She handed it to Matt and said, "It's a little early but I figured with everything going on..."

How was I supposed to tell them that Raine was going to die in four days? How could I tell them that? Watching Julie and Matt made my heart ache. Should I just take out the notebook and tell them? No, not here; Raine was already suffering. I watched Matt's face light up as he opened the present from Julie. It was a scrapbook of pictures of his parents and of his sister growing up. Obviously there were no family photos of Matt, Raine, and their parents; but there was one picture that I happened to glance at. It was a picture of Raine as a little girl blowing out the candles on her 9th birthday cake. That picture made me nearly lose it right then and there. She was happy as could be there and then ten years later she's dead? I had to leave the room; I felt myself fighting back tears and I, Mihael Keehl, do not cry.

Matt ran after me into the elevator. "What Mels? What is it? Are you...crying?"

I pulled the notebook out from under my shirt, opened to the last page, and handed it to Matt. I slid down the wall of the elevator until I was on the floor with my knees pulled to my chest, which is particularly hard to do in leather pants by the way. I couldn't bear to see Matt's face when he read his sister's name in the death note.

"No...no, no! Th-that's not true. What is this Mello?" Matt's eyes, that looked especially green today, glimmered with tears. That was when I broke down.

Matt sat on the floor across from me with a look of total disbelief strewn on his face. "I finally have blood relatives and now...this just isn't right! She can't even wake up!"

I scooted beside Matt and hugged him. I'd only see my best friend cry a handful of times; this was the first time I'd cried with him. He cried on my shoulder for a while before sniffling and leaning his head back against the elevator wall. "Don't let Julie see that Mello." He called me Mello...he always calls me Mels...

"I'm on my way to burn it right now. You should stay here with Julie." I wiped tears off of Matt's cheeks and tried to give him whatever smile I could find the strength to give him.

He quickly said, "I can't! You expect me to go back in there and sit with Julie and Raine and act like everything's fine? I'm coming with you."

I knew there was no way he would listen to me so I just nodded and held back more of my own tears. The elevator stopped in the lobby and I had to help Matt walk outside. Everyone that gave us weird looks received words from me. I was in no mood to deal with ignorant assholes tonight. I knew Matt wouldn't be coherent enough to drive tonight so I drove us back to our apartment.

I stood in front of the fireplace with the Death Note in my hand and one-by-one began tearing out the pages and throwing them into the fire. I started from the back, which seemed to be never-ending, until I reached the page with Raine's name on it. I held the page in my hand and just before I tore it, Matt stopped me.

"What the hell is that in the fire?" Matt asked pointing to a weird reddish substance that began forming with each page that I burned.

I turned the fireplace off and used the fire iron to retrieve the strange object. It looked like...an eraser? Matt and I looked at each other and I'm sure we were thinking the same thing. I took it off of the fire iron and turned it over in my hands. The words Death Eraser were printed in bold black print across the back of it.

"It's mocking us now?" Matt asked observing the eraser.

It had to be. There was no way you could erase someone's name from the notebook. Was it even worth trying?

I walked over to the kitchen table and placed what was left of the notebook on it. The eraser seemed like just an ordinary eraser in my hands, but when I rubbed it across Raine's name, that was written in Sharpie by the way, it erased her name and the details of her impending death. The spot where her name once was was now bare without even the indentation in the page.

"It couldn't work. Could it Mels?" Glad we were back to 'Mels.' Both of us knew deep down that it couldn't work but there was still a thread of hope that we were both holding on to.

As if on cue, Matt's cell phone played that annoying ass ringtone he had. He saw that it was from Julie and put it on speakerphone.

"Julie? What's going on?"

"Matt! Raine came out of her coma! She's still groggy but she's awake now!" Julie was crying now but they were tears of happiness.

"We'll be right over!" Matt said before hanging up his cell phone and nearly yanking my arm off dragging me outside into his car.

The Death Eraser actually...worked? Raine wasn't going to die? While in the passenger seat of Matt's car, which was practically going 80 miles an hour, I was on the verge of breaking down again. The whole time I thought that I wouldn't be able to tell her how I really felt about her but now I could.

We were up to Raine's room so quickly I barely even remember leaving Matt's car or taking the elevator. Raine was propped up in her bed with Julie right by her side. Raine's long strawberry-blonde hair draped around her pillow; she looked like an angel. Did I just think that? Oh god, chocolate withdrawal again...

I couldn't take my eyes off of Raine. Her blue eyes sparkled in the –wait a minute...blue eyes? Both she and Matt had the same color eyes, so why the hell were hers pure blue now? I glanced over at Matt who had his goggles pushed up into his hair revealing his...green eyes. They both had blue-green eyes a few days ago. What the hell?

While Matt was busy hugging his sister, I asked Julie about Raine's eyes.

She answered as if she was expecting me to ask that question. "I didn't ever tell Raine about this but her Aunt and Uncle were both psychics. Kira killed them because of that, not because of some petty theft story. The eye color is the psychic indication trait. Aleks and Sara both had blue eyes. Their son Sebastian had blue-green eyes until he turned 15, then they turned green. When Raine's eyes stayed blue-green past the age of fifteen, I worried. I see now that she received the psychic trait while her brother did not." Julie pulled out a photo of a man and a woman, Aunt Sara and Uncle Aleks.

Why was it that whenever Raine was involved in something I always end up feeling like we were in a movie? In this case, a sci-fi film. Matt dragged his chair beside Raine's bed and sat down.

"Mels saved your life again you know. He erased your name from Teru Mikami's Death Note. Mikami's dead by the way." Matt said.

She smiled at me and said, "Thank you Mello! I'd kiss you if I had enough strength to move!"

I felt my face get hotter; I took the stuffed animal out from behind my back and tossed it to Raine. "I got this for you. There's a note in the heart but don't read it now."

She looked at the teddy bear and smiled. It was holding a plush heart that said 'Get Well Soon' on it. On the back of the heart was a little pocket that housed the note I placed in there for her to read later. She hugged the teddy bear before placing it beside her on her hospital bed.

-Later than night—(Raine's Point of View)

The doctor made me stay overnight at the hospital in order for them to run more tests on me; but at least I could leave tomorrow morning. Matt went back to the apartment and Julie went back to her hotel room. Mello was the only one that decided to stay with me.

He had just fallen asleep when I remembered the note in the back of the heart. I took it out, unfolded it, and read it silently.

Raine, I wrote you this when I thought you weren't going to wake up. I was going to read this to you, whether you could hear me or not.

Raine, when I first saw you stumble out of Club Metrocyde, I wanted nothing to do with you. I thought you were just a stupid teenage girl that got drunk as a skunk and decided to wander around outside at two in the morning. When we brought you back to our apartment, what struck me most about you was your beauty. Even though you were drunk, incoherent, bloody, and unconscious, you were the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. I hope this isn't sounding morbid or weird. Anyway, we put you in my clothes because we thought you would have preferred them to Matt's. You looked incredible in my clothes by the way, even though you nearly killed me and Matt when you woke up in them. Speaking of Matt, he's so much happier now that he has living relatives.

I don't know what it was about you. Was it when you got rid of my clothes? Was it when you threw out my chocolate? Or was it when you made Matt and I go through every item of food in the house for something you could eat? I'm not sure exactly what it was but sometime between when we rescued your drunken ass from outside that club, until now, I grew...tolerant of you. No, tolerant isn't the right word to use. But what am I supposed to say? That I, Mihael Keehl, actually cared about someone? No, care still isn't the right word either. Screw it. I'm just going to come out and say it however it comes out. Raine, I...I love you."

I smiled and put the note back into the pocket on the heart. Mello looked quite uncomfortable sleeping in that chair like that so I got off of the bed and gave him one of my pillows. He didn't wake up but he moaned slightly in his sleep. I leaned closer to him and lightly pressed my lips to his giving him a quick but soft kiss. I whispered, "I love you too Mels."

A/N: You didn't think I would really kill off Raine did you? This could possibly be the longest chapter I've ever written for a fanfic by the way. I have a bit of an idea as to where this story is going next: Raine and Mello's relationship strengthening and everything seems fine until Kiyomi Takada comes and replaces Demegawa on Sakura TV. Remember Raine's vision about Matt's incident with the smoke gun?

If you read Volume 13 of Death Note, the How to Read one, you would understand where I got the idea for the Death Eraser XD I couldn't think of any other way to save Raine from the Death Note.

Thank you to everyone who reviewed this or added it to your lists! Thank you to cliquefan11 and miikaachan, you guys are like my regular reviewers. =]

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