Mello walked away to hide the Death Note while Beyond and Light stayed behind. Beyond knew what Light's next question would be, the glance before said it all.

Light had an expectantly look in his eyes. 'Well? Are you going to tell me what your plan is or not? What do you exactly mean with "distracting L".'

I'm not sure if Light's gonna agree with what I have in mind… He was always so passionate about justice and making the world better. But I miss my old days as a human already… seeing people's lifespan slowly disappear as I stop the numbers myself… I guess that's forbidden now. I can only use my Death Note.

Light got impatient and snapped his fingers in front of his face. Beyond blinked out of his thoughts. 'Oh, right. My plan.'

'Are you okay? You seem nervous for some reason. Just tell me,' Light frowned with slight worry and confusing.

Beyond sighed. 'I thought it would be a fun idea to distract L by making special cases he has to solve. I know we can't kill people with our own hands, but with the Death Note we could let people do things before they die and make a string of strange cases that would take all of L's attention. Or in the very least most of his attention.'

'So,' Light began slowly. 'you want to kill a lot of people to distract L from Mello?'

Beyond nodded and lowered his head. He's going to tell me it's a horrible idea. I'm sure…

'I think it's a perfect idea.'

His head shot up. 'What? Not that I'm complaining, but why do you think it's a good idea? I thought you would think it would be awful to kill innocent people!' Beyond said incredulously.

Light shrugged. 'Honestly, I don't really care anymore. We're dead and our memories of our human lives will be gone eventually. As Shinigami we're going to kill humans anyway. As Kira I wanted to create a better world, but now that's never going to happen I want to hurt L and take my revenge as much as possible.'

Beyond was still staring at his new best friend in disbelief when Light smirked. 'Now tell me. What did you have in mind for the first case we're going to create for L?'

He couldn't help but grin. 'I have a few things in mind, but first things first. Let's go see if the blond kid has succeeded in hiding the Death Note. Safety first, right?'

They went to Mello's room to find the boy struggling to find a good hiding spot.

Somewhere in the afternoon that same day L went to the room of Mello and Matt. Watari was with him to help him search for anything like the Death Note. He truly hoped Mello wasn't using a Death Note and would be innocent. One successor already became a killer and he didn't want the blonde become one too.

'Are you okay, L?' Watari asked. Of course he could see L was troubled. It wasn't strange at all seeing he knew the detective since he was a young child. L looked up to him as a father figure.

L sighed. 'I will be okay, Watari. Let's hope there's nothing suspicious to be found in that room.'

When they finally reached the door that led to the boy's room he knocked on the door. The talking voices of his two successors stopped and footsteps came closer.

I could search the room without them being present, but this way I can look if Mello seems nervous or let's something important slip.

The door opened and a surprised but happy face looked up to him. 'L! What are you doing here?' Then he noticed Watari and his expression changed slightly. 'Am I in trouble? I can't remember doing something wrong…'

'Yet!' Matt chuckled from inside the room.

Mello turned around to shout at his friend. 'Shut up!'

L pulled the boy's attention back. 'Mello, could we come in?'

His ice blue eyes widened. 'Oh sure! Come in!'

L and Watari entered the room and began to search for the black notebook or any other kind of torn piece of paper. Mello leaned against his desk while Matt stayed where he was gaming on his bed, although his eyes shot from the screen now and then, letting see he was curious.

Mello's nervously ticking against his desk. I can see he tries to hide something…

L stopped his search while Watari went on. 'Mello, could you take a step away from the desk please?'

Hesitantly Mello shuffled away from the desk. 'Uhm, why are you searching our room?'

L moved some papers and books and began to look in the drawers. 'There's something important we are looking for. It's a high chance, about 76% actually, that the object is in this room.'

'You mean something against the rules?' Mello asked. L could see the blonde's eyes flicked unconsciously to the right drawer.

'Hmm, yes something like that.'

He took inwardly a deep breath and pulled the right drawer open. Aside from some more paper, pencils and normal harmless notebooks was a single chocolate bar laying on top.

'… A chocolate bar?' L mumbled. Is this what makes Mello nervous? A simple chocolate bar? I know he eats it all the time so there's nothing wrong with it.

Matt perked up from his bed, his game paused. 'I got it from the kitchen! Mello has done nothing wrong!'

L raised an eyebrow in confusion. Watari finally stopped searching and went to the detective. 'Ah, Roger gave Mello a chocolate prohibition right before he collapsed,' the old man informed.

That's right… one of the kitchen staff, the dirty blonde, mentioned this earlier.

L shook his head. If that's the only reason Mello acted nervously… He shared a glance with Watari and knew the man didn't find anything.

'Don't worry, Mello. I don't think it's necessary to continue your punishment. You can take chocolate anytime you want.'

Mello's eyes widened by the news. 'Really? Awesome! Thank you, L!'

L showed a slight smile at the happy boy and turned to leave the room again.

'Wait, didn't you need to look for something?' Matt asked.

He shook his head. 'No, we couldn't find it. Maybe it's somewhere else…'

Matt shrugged. 'Alright, I hope you find it eventually.' And Matt went back to his videogame.

Just before Watari closed the door behind them he could hear the snap of chocolate being eaten.

We didn't find anything and Mello was only nervous because of his chocolate bar. Until now my instinct never let me down, just as when I thought Light was Kira. Now something tells me there's something not right with Mello even after finding nothing. He sighed. This is the first time in my life I hope my instinct is wrong.

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