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The Flaw	By : ShinigamiMailJeevas Category: Death Note > Yaoi-Male/Male > Mello/Matt Views: 2603 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-The Flaw
- 2-Part 1
- 3-Part 2
- 4-Part 3
- 5-Part 4
- 6-Part 5
- 7-Part 6
- 8-Part 7
- 9-Part 8
- 10-part 9
- 11-Part 10
- 12-Part 11
- 13-Part 12
- 14-Part 13
- 15-Part 14
- 16-Part 15
- 17-Part 16
- 18-Part 18
- 19-Part 19
- 20-Interlude: The Past
- 21-Part 20
- 22-Part 21
- 23-part 22
- 24-Part 23
- 25-Interlude
- 26-part 24
- 27-Part 25
- 28-Part 26
- 29-Part 27
- 30-Part 28
- 31-Interlude: December 25th
- 32-Part 29
- 33-part 30
- 34-epilogue
- 9
- 10
- 11
Suggested Listening: Walking Away by Smile Empty Soul; Sadly Smiling Through by One Less Reason

Part 9

~Haunt~

Contrary to Matt's belief, Mello did remember parts of that night.

The hands on him as he danced. The lips on his neck and... flashes of green eyes as he was fucked so gently in the bathtub. Mello hoped to God he was misremembering, because if he and Matt really had...and Matt was ignoring it... Mello curled his hands into the jeans he wore and took a deep breath.

The more he thought about it, the more he knew it could have only been Matt. No one else could have gotten into the building with L's security system in place never mind get back out, especially some random person he 'might' have hooked up with at the club.

And Mello was certain he hadn't been in the clubs bathroom as he remembered being laid down; and while it could have been the floor he distinctly remembered it being smooth. The clubs floor was tiled and would not have felt seamless.

There was also no way he could have been taken to another place, such as someone's apartment or hotel room, and found his way back to L's with as trashed as he had been.

So either by some extremely rare and unlikely coincidences it had been someone from the club... or it had been Matt. Who had to have been lying when he'd said he had woken up sleeping next to the bed, with all of his clothes on. Matt didn't want to remember.

All of that had led to awkwardness between them the last few days. Mello fisted his hair and hunched over his knees. He knew he couldn't expect Matt to suddenly like him, but lately it didn't even seem like he wanted their friendship either.

And though he wouldn't admit it if asked, it hurt.

"Is Mello still having cramps? I believe he is being unrealistic in his portrayal of ailments if so; everyone knows you are not on your 'period' any longer." Near's bland and yet sarcastic voice startled him.

Near had definitely changed for the worse. Mello had always wanted him to show emotion but sarcasm and the like had not been in mind. The note, how Mello hated that damn thing, had changed Near's personality. And Mello had begun to think it was becoming similar to that of Kira's towards the end, at least from what L had said of the man.

"I'm not portraying anything Near. Go fuck one of your toys or something and leave me the hell alone." he snapped. He was more than glad the period had ended, after a full seven days of hell, but the problems it left in the aftermath seemed worse than when he'd had it.

He wouldn't have gotten drunk and slept with Matt had it not been for it. He should never have touched that damnable notebook. He should have been smart like Matt had been. But his stupid need to be better than Near in everything had clouded his judgment yet again and he had rushed ahead and blindly grabbed the book, never expecting to be part of one of L's experiments.

"Perhaps Mello is the one in need of fucking something with how tense he seems." Near taunted, an odd look in his dark eyes. He was still so emotionless despite everything and his words struck Mello and he simply couldn't help himself.

Mello stood and without a second thought his fist connected with Near's cheek. He watched in satisfaction as the albino fell to the floor and gently touched his lip with a small wince. It wasn't enough for Mello but he knew he would be in enough trouble so rather than kicking Near like he'd wanted, he walked off.

His control on his emotions and impulses was worse than before and Mello wasn't certain if it were a lingering effect of the period or something else contact with the notebook had caused. Mello had made sure not to touch it again but look what just once had done? Mello had mostly memorized the contents, and honestly couldn't care if he was missing something. He wasn't going to touch it again.

It was bad enough that L had noticed that and told Mello to keep it in his room permanently as he and Matt were least likely to be tempted to use it; it had been in their room too much beforehand when he'd been constantly bringing it in there to look over, but to not want it anymore and to have it...

Mello didn't want to use it, he wanted to destroy it. Whatever pull he'd felt before had left him the second it had sunk in just how fucked his situation had become.

Though for Near, Mello might have made an exception to not using it.

He passed Watari in the hallway who gave him a disapproving look, as though he had seen what had occurred. Honestly, Mello didn't care. He could have done a lot worse to that brat so he should get a reward. Near out of anyone, for his recent behavior, should be the one getting that look.

But he wasn't.

He never did.

Because he was the little clone L.

Mello was back into their room before he had even thought about it and had slammed the door, startling Matt in the process. Mello stood there awkwardly for a few moments before stiffly moving to sit on his bed. Mello noted how the room had gone completely quiet since he'd entered, Matt not even bothering to type.

He grit his teeth and sat there stubbornly and tried to ignore just how messed up everything was.

"Mello..." Matt began but paused and stopped before he said anything else; it was also the first time Matt had said anything in days. Mello hated how a simple conversation, well perhaps not simple, was so awkward.

He glanced Matt's way but when nothing more was said easily removed his gaze. Everything was too weird...

Mello heard Matt sigh, almost sadly, and watched through the corner of his eye as the redhead stood up and walked from of the room, closing the door gently behind him as he went. Mello stared at the door for a long while afterwards. Matt was never one to be bothered or stay bothered by things for long and Mello had been almost certain that the redhead would have said something, anything, to get rid of the silence.

Maybe he had put Matt into too much of an awkward situation…

He swallowed the sharp feeling of sadness that threatened to overwhelm him and instead moved to get his laptop; he needed something to occupy his mind and thoughts, something that was neither Near nor Matt. He froze at what Matt's abandoned laptop screen showed. It was the Kira case files. Mello couldn't help but be drawn to them, more than curious, and sat down.

Mello had hardly thought about the case in the past few days. Too many things going on for him to spare an extra thought for the things outside of the immediate. But Matt had. Probably...probably for him. Matt never really showed much interest in those things himself, so Mello doubted it was for fun, not when he could have been gaming or at the very least smoking.

His grip tightened on the mouse unconsciously and he felt even worse for the weirdness between them caused by his stupid idea to go out for the night...

But it couldn't be remedied with Matt having gone God knows where and Mello didn't want to go after him; at least not until Matt had had time to himself in case he were angry... though it was probably more like disappointed. And Mello wouldn't blame him for that.

Mello pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind and instead concentrated on what Matt had left up. While there was stuff on the rest of the case Matt's main focus on that document had been L's previous team and how he had found it extremely odd that they had just up and disappeared.

There was a stream of Matt's thoughts, put in parenthesis, that noted that the only reason he'd looked into the matter further was that something had nagged at his thoughts until he'd had no choice but to look into it again rather then simply let it stay as a passing mystery to the larger Kira case.

Matt had been bothered by how much some of the detectives had left behind; it didn't make sense for some of them to leave, and Mello agreed completely with the statement.

Soichiro Yagami, the Kira 'suspects' father, also had left behind a wife and daughter; the latter who had been placed a mental hospital due to an unrelated issue. Perhaps family life had simply been too much, or he had found out his son was Kira, and had up and left, but the other man Shuichi Aizawa didn't have the same potential stress issues.

He had a wife and young daughter, a boringly happy life from the looks of it. There was no logical reason for him to have left. None at all.

Matt had left additional notes on the side on the likelihood that either the men had been forced, for some reason, to go into hiding, were killed or had been affected by the Death Note. Matt had began a list of possible scenarios connected with the notebook theory but had seemingly stopped in the middle; it had to have been when he had walked in the room.

A lot of it was things Mello had thought of as well and partly what Matt had previously touched upon in another document, but there was the new information about their families which made their disappearance ever more suspicious.

Their background information had been hidden as well, according to Matt, and probably by L. but the 'why' was the real question. For what reason had it all been kept from them? There wasn't any great gain by erasing their information.

Unless, it wasn't only the investigation team that had gone missing but their families as well. Just what the hell had Matt found?

And why the hell hadn't Mello thought to look into it more thoroughly before? ...that might have been around the time his problems had started and when he had stupidly let the notebook take a hold on him.

It shouldn't be difficult to get info on the missing detective's families and if it were then there was a strong likelihood that something had happened to them. Something that required it to be covered up.

He had to go find Matt. Even if he was hurt about Matt's lie it wasn't entirely his fault. He didn't know Matt's reasons for it; though the more Mello thought on it the easier it was for him to see why Matt might want to hide it. Sleeping with your best friend and telling him what had happened when he supposedly didn't remember couldn't be easy but neither was it easy to know the other was lying.

Mello shoved himself away from the computer before he could convince himself not to go. He needed to, whether he wanted to or not. There was a creeping feeling inside him, that if he didn't talk to Matt soon things would become unfixable between them. And Mello knew he wouldn't be able to live with himself if that happened.

No matter what had happened, Matt was still his friend and always would be.

He wasn't sure where Matt would be and hoped that he found him before they were summoned by Watari or L to eat or he wouldn't have time to actually talk to him; assuming he knew what to say when he got there. Mello doubted Matt would be anywhere around the medical wing, though he could be wrong, so instead Mello decided to head to the more 'residential' portions that were fairly close by.

They mainly consisted of rooms built for the previous team, where they stayed and the kitchens along with one or two special rooms. One was a library, though how anyone would have had the time to use it during the case was anyone's guess. And the other was where Mello eventually found Matt in what could be called a common room, with a large flat screen TV in the middle and a black leather couch in front of it where Matt sat with his back to the door.

Mello approached the redhead quietly and watched him game for a few minutes. The brunette haired character on screen kept dying, their shouts as they were mauled by zombies echoing through the room. Matt never died. Ever.

"Matt." he called softly and watched as Matt's fingers froze over the controls and the Game Over sign stayed floating on screen, asking in giant flashy letting if he wanted to continue. Mello sucked in a large breath and released it before placing himself between Matt and his sight of the TV.

"Matt I'm... I'm..." he sighed in defeat. "Look, I don't know who started it but I hate the silence that's settled between us." he mumbled the last part hesitantly. It sounded strange to him, the words that he spoke, but it was what he felt.

"You're an idiot."

Mello gaped. "I'm trying to apologize and you say some crap like that? What the hell Matt!" he snarled but paused as Matt's lips twitched. He understood then, that Matt had already forgiven him.

"Yeah... I guess I am an idiot." he mumbled softly.

"Glad you figured that out. Want to play?" Matt grinned tiredly at him and Mello just couldn't say no, despite wanting to discuss the case. Kira could wait, Mello decided, as he sat down next to Matt.

Because Matt would always be more important.

-End 9-

AN: yay an update… great because the next two weeks are going to be hard and I might not get an update in. yesterday my right hand started to swell up and got worse over the course of my work night to the point where my fingers were double to that of my left, not even my brace was helping *my left is just starting that now* I'm taking meds to get rid of the inflammation in my joints but well see how that goes, typing kinda hurts right now so…..

And next week I have to work a full week as the other cashier goes on vacation, I wont be writing at all and I doubt ill get to editing either, sorry :P
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