Near's P.O.V.

I grab Mello's bag and sling it over my shoulder. "I'm so happy. Mother would never take me anywhere out of this tower!"

Sweetie climbs up onto my shoulder.

Mello comes up into my room. "So. Ready to go?" He leans against the door way and looks around at all my paintings. "Wow. Are all these yours?"

I nod. "They are one of the only ways I can pass by time. I've never been allowed human contact except for my mother. She tells me the people outside only want my hair." I explain to him.

Mello looks to me. "I don't get that. It's just hair."

I shake my head. "It's different. I'll explain later, lets get going." I rush down stairs and to the window.

Putting some of my hair onto a hook I throw the rest out the window and to the ground below.

I turn back to Mello as he comes down the stairs.

"Come here."

He does as I tell him and I gesture for him to go onto the window sill. He does with some hesitance.

"Now you use my hair and lower to the ground." I explain to him.

He raises an eyebrow at me but does as I told him.

Once he's on the ground, I prepare to climb through the window. Hesitant because it'll be the first time I have ever taken a step outside.

I use my hair to swing down towards the ground. I hang just above the ground not quite touching the grass. "Eep." I squeak.

Mello impatiently glares at me and rolls his eyes at my actions.

I slowly lower myself to the ground and feel the grass gently poke my feet. The grass poking itself even to between my toes. "Oh." I tug my hair to the ground completely. "This is amazing!" I dance around a little bit and laugh.

Some birds circle around me and I smile. They fly away.

I can feel Mello's eyes follow me as I continue to dance on the grass with the birds and Sweetie.

I stop dancing and look up at the sky. Mother is going to be so mad at me.

I sit down on the grass and look down at the ground. "Mother is going to be so mad." I feel the grass between my fingers. "Who cares….. I am free from the tower when she kept telling I'll never get out." This went on for a little bit. I keep having an internal battle about not caring if mother is mad or caring.

Mello comes over and sits next to me. "You seem to have a small problem with this mother character. But seriously what mother would keep their own kid inside because they think people want your hair. So fuck her."

"No….. Look my hair has special healing power and can keep anyone young. It glows when a certain song is sung and when its cut…." I move my hair to show Mello the part of white hair that is normal length and under the rest of my hair. "It turns white and loses its power."

"Oh." Mello reaches over and gently touches my hair that is white in wonder. "I've only heard of that kind of power from a flower but in a human, that is rare."

"I know. I've heard about the flower too." I look at my hands on my lap. "We probably should get started to head to get to where we are going."

"Yeah." Mello stands up and I follow.

We head into the forest, our journey has begun.

AN:

Sorry about taking a while to update anything.

I have been starting more and more stories :/ I won't be posting them until I either finish one of these or complete the story I started….. Yeah a little confusing but you get the idea.

So I will keep working and hopefully update sooner.

Oh and from now on if it's a Death note story I will be signing off as Mello at the end of an authors note. But if it's an ouran story I will sign off as Kaoru. They are my nicknames so why not.

Reviews are the best and flames will be used to cook hotdogs!

Mello.