Hi everyone! This chapter is all Matt and Mello. I am so saddened that I have to lose them soon that I just couldn't stop writing about them in this one, I wanted them to have some time to themselves as things move so quickly after they arrive in Japan. I hope you will forgive the indulgence, it just seemed the right thing to do, and you enjoy it. Hugs to everyone, and a big thank you to Ohba and Obata who gave us these characters to begin with.
Chapter 50
It was late in the afternoon when Matt's eyes opened and he looked around the room to remember where he was. Jet lag had set in pretty badly and he was a bit disoriented. One thing he knew for sure was he needed a cigarette in the worst way. He sat up and reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out his pack of cigs and a lighter. He looked over at his still sleeping partner and smiled. He had no idea when the last time Mello had honestly had a good night's sleep, a restful sleep. He knew sleeping next to him that Mello tossed and turned a lot, called out in his sleep a lot. He also knew there were nightmares of things he didn't even really want to know about. But this time, Mello was sleeping peacefully, not moving at all.
He took a deep drag and let it out slowly. Now that they were here in Japan he actually wondered just what it was they were going to do. The idea was to corner Kira so he couldn't get away, but he just wasn't sure exactly how that was going to work out. He also knew that even if he didn't want to admit it, Mello was working with Near. Halle was giving him information from their side of the investigation, and then Mello was working it on his side. A strange way to do it, but they were definitely working together. He looked down at his laptop that was still sitting on the bed and turned it back on. He pulled up L's message again and for a moment just stared at him as L stared into the camera.
"So do you know what's going on, L? Can you see all this craziness that's going on to take that asshole that killed you down? Are you still proud of us?" he asked the still face of the man he still loved so dearly. He sighed deeply and shut it down, L certainly wasn't going to answer him this way. He lit another cigarette and suddenly looked around the room. He had just had the weirdest feeling he was being watched. He got up and went to the window, sliding open the curtains. The late afternoon sun came through the window, sunlight bouncing around the room, giving a deep golden cover to everything in the room. He still couldn't shake that feeling so he just gave into it, shrugging his shoulders.
"If this is you L, hide your eyes cause I'm gonna take a shower and I wouldn't want to shock you or anything." He said grinning and looking around the room again. He walked towards the bathroom and stopped, the feeling had gone. After finding out about shinigamis and death notes, there was no way he was going to disbelieve that L could reach him if he wanted to. He smiled again, he'd gotten his answer and now he felt better about everything.
A few minutes later and he was enjoying the cascading warmth from the awesome shower head above him. It had at least six different settings and right now he had it pulsating warmth onto his jet-lagged muscles. He heard the sound of the door and saw a figure walking into the bathroom. But this was no ghost, it was blonde…and it was naked. The shower curtain suddenly slid open and Mello stood before him in all of his glory.
"Occupied!" Matt yelled and grabbed the curtain and closed it again. Mello laughed and reopened it enough to step into the shower with him, then closed it again.
"There appears to be more than enough room for two in here." He said seductively as he moved closer to Matt.
"I shall have to speak to the management about this behavior." He said as Mello moved in on him, kissing his neck and collarbone.
"Go right ahead, it's comes with the room." Mello answered in between kisses. Matt moaned as Mello's hands began to roam his wet body.
"I guess you're feeling okay then?" he asked and Mello stopped for a moment and looked into Matt's eyes.
"I'm feeling better than I have for longer than I can remember, Matt. It's like I'm. breathing for the first time. Thank you." He leaned forward and captured Matt's mouth, slowly pushing him towards the shower wall. Matt moaned into the kiss, it was hard and demanding, making Matt open his mouth and welcome Mello's tongue. He barely fought with his own as Mello's took control of his mouth. Matt's back hit the wall and Mello pushed against him, his hands on either side of Mello's head holding his weight as he ground against Matt's body.
Matt's eyes closed as he felt Mello begin to kiss down his body, stopping for a moment at his nipples long enough to nip and lick them into attention, and then continued down his body. Mello's hands trailed behind his tongue, finally resting on Matt's hips as his tongue twirled through the velvety red hair above his cock. Matt opened his eyes and looked down, watching the shower plaster Mello's blond hair to his head, the fringe hanging in his eyes as he looked back up at Matt. He grinned evilly and then took all of Matt's length into his mouth.
"Oh, Mello..god…" Matt groaned out, his head falling back against the wall. Mello's hands reached around behind Matt, holding his hips still as he began to bob back and forth, taking him deep into his throat and then pulling away, twirling his tongue around the tip, dipping into the slit and then taking him all again. He could feel Matt trembling, and he began to move faster, sucking him harder. He reached with one and began to circle the tight muscles of Matt's hole with one finger, and slowly began to work it inside. Matt cried out at the double assault on his body, all the strength going out of his legs and he struggled to continue standing. Mello smiled around Matt's cock and swallowed him down, while he added a second finger and began to increase speed moving in and out of him.
Matt began almost chanting Mello's name, getting louder the closer he got to completion. Mello sucked really hard just as his fingers found Matt's sweet spot and that was all Matt needed to come. He cried out one last time as he began to fill Mello's mouth, and slid down the wall, all strength gone. Mello followed him down, determined not to release him until he was totally spent.
Mello licked him clean then kissed up Matt's chest until he was back at his mouth, he could still feel him quivering beneath him.
"Damn Mello, you almost killed me!" Matt got out between kisses and Mello laughed at him.
"And I'm not even done yet…" Mello warned and pulled Matt up, laying him over the edge of the tub. He kissed down his back, massaging the muscles down to the small of his back, and down to his ass. He positioned himself behind Matt, and began to slowly press into him, the cascading shower water more than enough lubricant. Matt pushed back against him, wanting every inch of Mello inside as quickly as possible.
Mello groaned with pleasure as he was completely encircled by Matt's tight warmth, there was no where in the world he 'd rather be right now than buried deep within the one he loved and needed so desperately. He waited for Matt to be ready and then began to move inside of him, pulling out and then filling him again at a slow steady pace, the sounds Matt was making exciting him even more.
"You can do better than that, Mello.." Matt told him, pressing back against him with each thrust. Mello growled and steadied himself putting his ands on either side of Matt's hips again, and began to thrust almost brutally. Matt cried out in pleasure, holding on to the tub edge as he was slammed against it.
Mello leaned forward and kissed Matt's back, licking the water droplets as he did, and leaving little marks with his teeth, marking him as he went. He then reached down and took Matt's new erection and began to stroke it in time with his thrusts, again reveling in the sounds of pleasure coming from Matt.
He felt Matt tremble beneath him, felt his muscles tighten around his cock and knew he was close. His own release was rapidly coming as well, his thrusts becoming erratic and even faster. He heard Matt nearly scream his name, and his muscles contracted so hard around him that he could hold back no longer and came immediately after his lover, filling him with his warmth, Matt's name on his lips.
They both slid down to the bottom of the tub, the shower raining down on both of them as lay on each other catching their breaths. Matt looked over at Mello who had his face upturned into the spray.
"Why are you trying to drown yourself now?" he asked laughing. Mello looked over at him and started laughing until he got water up his nose and had to sit up.
"No I was just enjoying the feel of it after sex. We have to do this in the shower more often, this was amazing!" He leaned over and kissed Matt again.
"Come on, let's get out of here, I'm starving!" he said standing up and picking up the soap. Matt nodded and joined him, washing quickly and jumping out grabbing a towel.
"I'll call room service, pizza sounds really good right now." He called as he ran out of the bathroom as Mello finished drying.
An hour later they were lying in bed surrounded by empty pizza boxes and empty bottles of soda. Matt was busy playing his DS as Mello watched television. He watched as Takada gave her nightly Kira speech, his nose turning up at almost every word.
"You know what we need to do, Matt." He said, receiving a noncommittal grunt from his partner.
"We need to get close to her somehow. If we could get our hands on her, we could force movement out of Kira." Matt shrugged.
"If Kira cared anything about her maybe. But you know as well as I do, he'd only kill her if he thought she was a liability. Just like he did to that other idiot with Kara's Kingdom."
Mello sighed knowing Matt was probably right. But he couldn't shake the feeling that getting to her somehow could turn the tide in their favor. He'd have to think about it more, but he was still sure that was the way to go.
"You know what we should do, though. We should call Dr. Thompson. She hasn't heard from us since she left us in LA. We should at least let her know we're alive." Matt said looking up from his game.
Mello looking at his watch, it was about 7:30 here, meaning it was probably only about 11:30 a.m. in England. He nodded and Matt threw him his cell phone without stopping the game.
"You're going to make ME do it?" Mello asked incredulously.
"Sure. You've caused her enough grief, you need to call." Matt answered smiling, not looking up from his game. Mello sighed again and dialed the number, hearing the familiar "Dr. Thompson" after only one ring.
"Is it lunch time yet?" he asked and then moved the phone from his ear as she yelled his name into the phone. Matt could hear it where he sat and he started laughing.
"Yes, Dr. Thompson it's me. But seeing as how I'm not deaf in one ear, we'll have to keep this short." He put it on speaker and lay the phone on the bed by Matt.
"You don't know how happy I am to hear from you, Mello! Is Matt there?" she asked.
"Yo!" Matt said continuing his game.
"Is everything okay? You're not hurt or anything?" she asked and Matt laughed.
"No, we're both fine. We've actually just took a mental health day." He said.
"Yea, that's Matt speaks for being lazy." Mello said and Dr. Thompson laughed.
"Under the circumstances guys I don't think that's a bad thing. Where are you now?"
"We just got to Japan. We're getting the party started now." Mello answered and the doctor was quiet for a moment.
"So, you're in Japan. I know near is there as well. I don't suppose…"
"Don't even go there," Mello stopped her, "The answer is no." They heard her sigh.
"I thought as much, but I had to ask. How close do you think you are?"
"I think we're close enough to almost choke the bastard, but we have a little more work to do. You'll be the first person we call when it's over." She laughed.
"Oh I expect to hear it the minute his body hits the floor." They both looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"Dr. Thompson that's pretty blood thirsty for a good doctor." Mello said laughing.
"When it comes to Kira, all bets are off." She said, then they heard the phone muffle as she said something they didn't understand to someone else.
" I think we missed that." Matt said to the phone.
"I'm sorry, I was telling Mr. Donovan I'd be ready for lunch when I was finished with my conversation." Matt stared at the phone and then stared at Mello whose head had swiveled around at an alarming rate.
"Mr. Donovan?" he asked almost dangerously.
"Yes, Geoffrey Donovan, he's a teacher here. We have lunch or dinner together occasionally." Mello marched to the phone before Matt could stop him.
"You can't do that!" he said as he picked up the phone.
"I can't do what?" she asked totally confused.
"Start having a relationship with someone else, you just can't do that to L!" Matt tried to grab the phone out of his hands but Mello pulled away. There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few moments and then she began to speak, slowly.
"Mello, I understand how you feel, but believe me it certainly isn't that kind of relationship. I'm not interested in him that way, but even if I were, you don't have the right to tell me that."
"You know how much L cared about you, you can't move on to someone else as if that didn't matter."
"Mello, stop it you can't tell her something like that. I've already had this conversation with her, it's wrong." Matt tried to tell him but Mello wouldn't hear it.
"But Mello, I'm not moving on to someone else like that. Geoffrey is a friend, someone to take the bore out of the day; he could never be what L was to me. And Mello, L is gone and has been for quite a while. I don't think he'd want me to stop living because he isn't here. It does not mean I don't care for him just as much as I always did, but my life has to go on."
Mello listened and tried to understand, but all he could think was that someone L cared so much about was behaving as if he didn't matter any more. He knew it wasn't logical, but he couldn't help his feelings. He stopped himself from saying anything more as Matt stared up at him in warning.
"Okay, okay I guess he wouldn't want that. I'm sorry." He said quietly and he heard her sigh.
"It's alright Mello. Matt will tell you we had a similar conversation before he left, I know how hard it is on you boys, we were a family of sorts. No one else allowed within our world, and you feel it should stay the same. Don't worry; no one would ever be able to replace L in any way. Okay?" Mello nodded and then realized she couldn't see it.
"Yes. I understand. And I will make sure the person that brought an end to our world pays for it, Dr. Thompson, I promise you if it takes every breath in my body he will pay."
"I know you will, Mello I have no doubt. And then you can come back here and figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life." Mello started at that, it was something he had never thought about. What to do when this was finally over.
"Well, I don't know about that, Dr. Thompson. I'll have to think about what I want to do, but I don't think Whammy's is in the picture. Near will be L, there will be no need for us."
"But Mello…."
"You have lunch to get to, " Mello said dismissing the topic, "We don't want to hold you from it. We just wanted to let you know we were alive and well and things were progressing. We'll call again when we've killed him. Good-bye, Dr. Thompson." He said and handed Matt the phone as he lay back on the bed. Matt made his good-byes as well and then hung up.
"That wasn't a good thing to do, Mello. She is allowed a life." He admonished and Mello shrugged.
"I guess. It just doesn't seem right to me, that's all. It's like that Donovan is walking all over L and I just don't like it." Matt smiled and leaned over to kiss Mello.
"I know how you feel, it bothered me at first too. No actually, it still bothers me, but it's not right. Besides, she said he's just a friend." Mello snorted.
"Yea, that's what she used to tell us about L."
"Yea but we knew it was a lie. I don't get that same feeling from her on this one."
"Maybe I will make a trip back to Whammy's when this is over, if only to blow his balls off to make sure it stays that way." Matt laughed and turned off his game.
"I think we need to call it a night, we've got a lot of work to do tomorrow. Our day of rest will be over." Mello nodded and pulled off his towel.
"Not yet it hasn't!" he whispered and pulled Matt's towel off as well and pulled Matt to him as he shut off the light on the side of the bed.
