Slowly but surely a plan began to form in Mello's head. He was still standing in de middle of his room with the Death Note clutched in his hands. The shock of killing someone, Roger, had faded away. Leaving the desire to do it again and again until every single person he hated was destroyed. He didn't know himself, but something had changed within him. A dark shadow that slowly crept up and darkened his soul, gradually corrupting him.

If I can figure out the names of who killed my parents I can get rid of them…

'Hey, kid.'

Mello jerked around and couldn't help but let out a shriek when he saw two figures with him in the room. One with red glowing eyes, the other with burgundy coloured hair. Both had wings, although they were different of shape. They had freaky features, but they looked pretty human. Although it was clear this weren't normal humans.

The one who had called him kid gave a creepy grin. 'Yeah, I'm talking to you. I'm Beyond.'

'He- hello…' he stammered.

'I'm Light,' the one with the burgundy hair said and he pointed at the notebook in his hands. 'You got our Death Note.'

Mello's eyes widened. 'You want it back?' All his plans that went through his head earlier would be useless without the Note. 'I don't want to give it back! It's mine now!' he snarled, forgetting he was scared the moment before.

He expected the creatures to get angry at him, but instead all they did was laugh. They were laughing at him as if he said something funny!

'We don't want it back,' Light said. 'We purposely dropped the Death Note so that you would find it.' They shared a glance. 'Well… Beyond dropped it so you would find it. He knew about you first.'

They know me? How?

'How on earth do you know about me?' He felt wary. Nobody should know about him. As one of the successors of L his existence was erased from the world.

'I know you are the second successor of L for now,' Beyond smirked when Mello's eye twitched at the recall of being second. 'I was a successor too long ago, you know?'

'Miheal Keehl.' Light spoke the name extra clear.

They know my real name? How do they know my real name?!

'H-how do you-'

Light held up his hand to shut him up. 'Let me explain. We are what you can call Shinigami or Death Gods. We can see your real name and lifespan, the time you have left to live, above your head. If you die because of the Death Note your lifespan will be cut off no matter how much it says you still have to live.
There's not much more to tell… the rules of the Death Note are already included with the Note.'

'Something's not right…' Mello narrowed his eyes and glared suspicious at the two Shinigami. 'Why would you pick me out to have the Death Note? Why me and not someone else? What do you want from me?'

'Ah, so clever, aren't ya?' Beyond grinned. 'We picked you because you seemed like the perfect candidate for being a Death Note user.'

'The perfect candidate? What makes me that?' he asked confused.

'You're ambitious, not afraid to go far for your goals and you have a purpose in life to reach,' Light replied. 'You want to be the best successors L has ever had and the Death Note will be a great help with that.'

Mello wasn't very convinced yet. A Shinigami that wanted to help him to reach his dreams. Life wasn't a fairy tale so there must be something behind it.

'What's the catch?'

Light raised his eyebrow. 'Catch? We're only bored and want some entertainment…'

The other guy, Beyond, snickered. 'You sound like Ryuk.'

Light shot him a glare, but continued. '… and you, Mello, seems like you will use the Death Note and not give it up. That makes it interesting for us.'

'If you have questions about the Death Note you can always ask us,' Beyond grinned his creepy grin. 'But if we'll answer is to us.'

You can always ask us… wait does that mean…

'Does that mean you two are going to stay here with me all the time?'

They both nodded. 'Yes,' said Light. 'I'm afraid we have to follow where the Death Note goes. We can go away for a while out of sight, but not for long.'

'Besides…' Beyond stepped forward so that Mello had to take a step backwards as the glowing red eyes looked like they were staring right through his soul. '… we wouldn't want to miss the entertainment, ne?'

Mello gulped and felt very uneasy. He knew already that the Shinigami Beyond was the creepiest of the two. The other one looked way more calm and normal. But he had to deal with them both, there was no other way. The Death Note would give him so much more options than he had dared to dream.

Suddenly the door swung open and Matt walked into the room. Mello cursed himself for not watching the time. It was time for everyone to go to their rooms and get ready for bed.

'I'm back!' Matt entered the room and closed the door behind him. He frowned slightly when he saw Mello standing in the middle of the room. 'Didn't you stand there when I went away?'

He glanced nervously at Beyond and Light. What will Matt do if he sees them?! I have no idea how to explain him why there are two Shinigami's in our room! It's not a good idea to tell him about the Death Note… despite that he's my best friend, it's better to hide it from him to be sure.

'Don't worry,' Light said reassuringly. 'Nobody can see us unless they've touched the Death Note. You better hide it from his and any other's sight.'

Thank god….

He noticed Matt was still waiting for an answer. 'Of course I'm not standing here all that time doing nothing!' he huffed irritated. 'I was… just tidying up my desk before going to bed.'

It wasn't a real lie as there was some truth in it. His desk was still a chaos because of the books he had tossed onto his desk after swiping it all off in his rage. It also was a perfect excuse to get the black notebook out of Matt's sight.

Not that a notebook would be strange since I always make notes in our lessons… Matt won't pay much attention to it.

Mello turned around and began to reorganize his desk. The Death Note was put under many papers and other normal notebooks in one of the two drawers in his desk. Matt simply shrugged when he got his answer, not noticing anything weird, and plopped on his bed. His DS appeared out of nowhere and he focused his attention on his game.

No, it won't be too difficult to hide it from Matt.

'Oh!' Matt exclaimed. 'I forgot to inform you about something! I heard that L is arriving tomorrow morning already. He's rushing more because of what happened to Roger.'

Mello's eyes widened. 'Really?! He's coming tomorrow already? That's awesome! I haven't seen him in so long!'

He heard the Shinigami's softly snicker, but he didn't turn around to watch what was so funny. That would be odd for Matt to see him looking at nothing.

'You know,' Light began. 'I wouldn't let L know about the Death Note. What if he thinks it's too dangerous and you can't handle it? He would destroy it most likely and ruin your plans.'

Hmm… I can't let that happen… so many more roads to my dreams has opened. I can't let L find out about the Death Note and let him destroy it.