Light and Beyond followed Mello to the hall where L would arrive that morning. Beyond hadn't told Light L's real name yet as it was not important anymore so the moment the detective stepped through the door Light's eyes went to the red name floating above his messy black hair.

His eyes widened in shock. 'Wait… his name is… that. His alias is his real name?'

Beyond snickered. 'Yeah… I must admit it's pretty smart to do. No one would expect him to use his real name as an alias what makes it a good alias to use.'

Light tilted his head and stared curiously at the other half of the name. 'How do you say the other one? L-A-W-L-I-E-T, I've never heard of that name before.'

'It's an old English name I think,' Beyond replied. 'I've never heard him say that name out loud so I don't know how to say it either.'

He shrugged. 'Oh well, it's not very important. He can't hear us and we can't write his name in the Death Note.'

Beyond's eyes followed Mello, who was busy with pushing himself through the crowd that surrounded L. 'We can't, but Mello could do it.'

'L! You're finally here!' Mello's voice sounded excited through the hall. 'You were away for so long! But you caught Kira, didn't you?'

'Hm, I don't think Mello would kill his childhood super hero,' he huffed. 'I'm actually wondering if he would continue using the Death Note if he figures out it's the murder weapon Kira, we, used.'

Beyond shrugged. 'Nah, when he's used to the power of the Death Note and all the things he can do with it? I don't think he would want to let go of it even if he disappoints L.'

They waited for a while though the children talking with L weren't all that interesting. Light saw the boy completely in white and knew that was Near, first successor of L. Beyond had explained a few facts with him. Near stood first, Mello was second and hated Near for it, Matt was third and Mello's roommate and best friend. All he could hope was that if Matt would discover the Death Note he would chose Mello's side. Otherwise things would go way more complicated.

Finally L broke away from the crowd of children and made his way to a door that led to another hallway. Light only needed to share a glance with Beyond to decide to follow L for now instead of Mello. The blond boy could do perfectly without them.

When they went through the closed door L went through they were confronted with a room full of people. L sat crouched at a desk, Watari standing to the side of the room and a few mostly young people that most likely worked in the kitchen seeing their outfits.

'Thank you for coming here.' L began. 'As you probably already suspected I asked you to come here to tell about the happenings of last evening. I'd like to hear it first-hand.'

He gathered the eyewitness that saw Roger getting a heart attack. I'm sure these people must do some kitchen or clean-up work for them to be at the canteen at that time.

Light was right. As the witnesses began to tell what happened he could see L thinking hard about what was told to him. Suddenly movement caught his eye and he saw Beyond creeping closer to the detective.

Light frowned. 'What on earth are you doing?'

Beyond crept closer and slowly began to stretch his arm out. He began poking the detective in the head. Light rolled his eyes, but couldn't help but smile at the weird doings of the red eyed half Shinigami. He walked towards him and stopped staring slightly amused as Beyond continued the poking.

'You know he can't feel you, right? We're almost like ghost. Your finger can go right through him and he wouldn't suspect a thing.'

'I know. It's feels good to do it anyway… pity I can't hurt him with my own bare hands as Shinigami…' Beyond pouted childishly.

Light chuckled softly at his friend (yes, he had someone he could call a friend!) and joined him in poking the unsuspecting detective. 'You're right, this really does feel good.'

'Wait! I remember something!' the dirty blonde said all of the sudden.

The moment she mentioned Mello Beyond and Light stopped their childish game and watched how L's expression changed into disbelief by hearing that one of his successors was a potential suspect. The change was very small, but it was there.

'Thank you for lending me your time. I'll look further into this matter,' L said calmly.

Light and Beyond looked at each other and knew L already suspected Mello. One thought went through both.

Shit.

The morning was quite peaceful after L left to do his work. Mello went to his room with Matt to hang out. Of course Matt took his DS from his pocket and stared playing almost immediately so he figured he could work some more on his homework. He already finished it, but studying ahead was never wrong.
It wasn't very long after they returned to their room when the two Shinigami's flew through the wall and almost gave Mello a heart attack. Luckily Matt didn't noticed he was startled for a moment.

Mello raised his eyebrows in question and looked at them without turning his head to much so it wouldn't look too obvious.

They look pretty serious about something… what has happened?

'Mello,' Light said. 'We need to tell you something important.' His eyes glanced over to Matt. 'Now.'

He blinked in surprise by the demanding voice of Light. He closed his book, got up from behind his desk and walked casually out of the room. He kept walking until he found a spot he found out about a long time ago. There was a small dark spot hidden from view behind the staircase. There were better places to hide or to talk without others hearing, but this had to do for now.

'What's wrong?' Mello said softly. Loud talking wasn't a good idea here.

'You're fucked,' Beyond answered him.

Light rolled his eyes. 'What he means is that L is suspecting you for owning a Death Note already. He questioned the staff members that were present in the canteen the moment Roger got a heart attack. One of them mentioned you got in a fight with him and left the canteen before the guy collapsed.'

Mello's eyes widened in shock. 'What?! How does L know about the Death Note? I don't want him to take it away from me! I still have to search the men who killed my parents and take my revenge! Without it my chance to become the best successor will be going down!'

Light quickly sprung in. 'It doesn't matter right now how he knows about the Death Note. The important part is that you need to find a better hiding place for it. A better place than the drawer of your desk. If you deny everything about owning a Death Note and just say you were in your room doing nothing he can't catch you without proof.'

'You know, we could help blondie here too, Light.'

Blondie?!

Light turned to Beyond. 'What do you mean?'

Beyond grinned. 'I mean we could help by distracting L… If we manage to pull his attention elsewhere he won't have enough time to see everything that's going on.'

'You could do that for me?' Mello asked hopeful at the red eyed Shinigami.

Beyond nodded. 'Of course! I already have something in mind, but that's not the main problem right now. First you have to go back to your room, get the redhead out of the room and find a good place to hide the Note.'

Light stared at his companion for a moment, but didn't ask what was on his mind. 'Yes, that's what you should do now. Go hide the Death Note. Beyond and I will discuss about what to do to distract L.'

Mello nodded and carefully looked around the stairs. Nobody was in sight. He came from behind the stairs and walked back to his room while thinking of a good excuse for Matt to leave the room.

He threw the door open. 'Matt, I need you to get some chocolate for me.'

Matt blinked and paused his game to look at him. 'What?'

Mello pointed back at the door. 'Chocolate. I need it.'

The redhead stared at him for a moment before returning his attention back to his game. 'Get it yourself. You have legs, don't you?'

Mello sighed and sat next to Matt on his bed. 'Please, Mattie! I don't know for sure if my punishment still stands and I don't want to risk another week.' He started clinging onto Matt's arm what disrupted his game. 'I need it. I can't concentrate enough to study without some chocolate. It's been hours since I last had-'

Matt threw his hands in the air. 'Alright, alright! I'll get your damn chocolate! Just stop begging so much. You know I would get some if it is that important for you anyways.' He eyed Mello with slight concern. 'You're strangely clingy. Is there something wrong that I need to know of?'

'Of course not! There's nothing wrong. Maybe just edgy because I lack my normal amount of chocolate.'

Matt chuckled. 'I really can't understand what's so special about chocolate, you know? Even after knowing you for years now.'

'… What if you couldn't play any of your games for a week long?'

It took a moment before the words came through, but when they did Matt's eyes widened in pure shock. 'That's horrible!'

Mello smiled sweetly. 'Would you mind getting me some chocolate from the kitchen now then?'

Matt nodded and quickly made his way out of the room, leaving Mello all alone.

Perfect. Now I need to hurry. Matt will come back as fast as he can.

He walked over to his desk and took the Death Note out of the drawer. Now came the difficult part. If he hid the Note too well he couldn't get it for if he needed it to write in it. He frowned as he thought deeply about this problem. There wasn't much time…

'Hey, Blondie!'

Mello's eye twitched. 'Stop calling me that!' Mello snapped at the most annoying Shinigami of the two. They just came through the wall into the room it seemed.

Beyond simply snickered.

'We discussed about what to do about distracting L, but we'll tell about that later. We saw Matt running down the hallway. Do you already have a good hiding place yet?' Light said.

'Well, I know there's a loose plank beneath my bed. I can hide it there, but I can't get it easily unnoticed from there if I need it quickly…'

'You can tear pieces of the Death Note and use them to write on.'

Mello turned to Light. 'Really?' Light nodded and Mello knew what to do now.

He tore a piece out of the Death Note and placed it on his desk. First he crawled under his bed and removed the loose plank. There was just enough space to hide the Note and when the plank was on the right spot again, nobody would notice it.

Mello went next to the piece of Death Note on his desk and started to write some different mathematical calculations. Though not too much, otherwise he couldn't write no names on it anymore. After that was done, he crumpled the paper a bit and he put it behind his desk.

'If somebody would find it, they would think it's just a normal piece of paper that felt behind the desk. Seeing the dust collecting behind there it would surprise me if someone would want to make an effort to pick it up.'

Light nodded. 'It's better than the drawer. Just be careful, because if someone picks it up they are able to see us.'

'I know, I know…'

The door opened and Matt entered the room again, waving with two chocolate bars he held in his hand. 'I got it, Mels!'

Mello smiled and took the chocolate gratefully from Matt. Now I completed hiding the Death Note to a better spot and I got some chocolate. The day couldn't start any better.