In the Meantime. (MattXOC Death Note Fanfic)

A Trace

      Three years flew past, they felt like they were inching closer every day but still had no sign of him in Japan. That was until the 14th of October 2009.
     Guess gasped, "There..." she whispered under her breath. Matt and Guess were both sat back to back, using each other for support, on their bed as she came across something.
     "You found something?" Matt asked, lacking enthusiasm - during their search they'd had a lot of false alarms.
     Guess jumped up, causing Matt to fall back slightly before regaining his balance and looking at the screen she placed beside him. "Look," she pointed at a man, "that looks like the director of the NPA, Soichiro Yagami, doesn't it?"
      Matt analysed the blurry image before typing something into his computer. Some data popped up about Soichiro Yagami along with an image - he put his computer beside Guess's for them both to compare. "Definitely," Matt said after a moment.
      "Date: 13th of October. Location: airport in Japan." Whilst she spoke, Matt scrolled down on the page about Mr Yagami.
      "It seems like he's far too dedicated to his work to take a holiday, especially in this case, so something from the Kira-case must have forced him to leave Japan..." They were both silent for a moment before looking at each other and both crying out.
       "Mello!"
       "Where the fuck is he going?!" Guess began smashing her keyboard desperately, trying to find where he was going, switching cameras and following his every step that he took the day before. Matt practically held his breath, watching her flick from camera to camera.
       "There! Zoom in!" Matt pointed to a corner of the screen as Guess quickly paused the video and zoomed into the screen on the screen.
       They could just about read the heavily pixelated text, "L... Los- Los Angeles! They're going to L.A!" Suddenly, Matt tackled her, pushing her over and nearly letting them both fall off the bed.
       "Guess, you did it! You found him! This is the first clue we've actually gotten in the past 5 years!" he cried with joy as he hugged her tight.
       She laughed breathlessly, "Matt- can't- breathe!" she still giggled.
       He let go of her, looking down at her beaming, "Sorry."
       "Come on, come on, come on!" she laughed, pushing him over, "I'm going to pack, you look for flight tickets and a hotel for us to stay while we find an apartment there."
       Matt still lay on the bed, smiling up at the ceiling, completely beside himself.
      Guess looked over her shoulder to see if he was doing anything whilst she searched through draws, "Matt!" she laughed, snapping him out of his daze.
      "R-right! Yeah! On it!" He shot up, changing tabs and looking for flights on the 15th of October 2009. After a few minutes, he found a direct flight to Los Angeles. "Tomorrow, 3:30pm, sound good?"
      "Perfect!" Guess cried from the other room as she packed some more things from the living room. Matt bought the tickets as Guess rushed into the room, "Quiz me!"
      "What?" Matt laughed as he inputted their details.
      "Quiz me on the things I've packed!" She jumped from side to side in the doorway.
      "Umm, tops!"
      "Done!"
      "Jeans?"
      "Done!"
      "My body warmer and your hoodies?"
      "Done and done!"
      "Shoes?"
      "Doone!"
      "Toiletries?"
      "No space, we shall get them at the airport or something, too many consoles!"
      Matt gasped, "MY GAMEZ!" he joked, they were both so hyper.
       "A-din-don-done!"
       "Well, I guess we get the rest there, right? We don't need to take anything else with us," he concluded as he sent the tickets to print.
       "Mm-hum!" she hummed, "all that's left are the laptops, there's no way I'm fitting the printer into the suitcase."
       "What are we doing about food? Like, if we leave everything here, it's going to rot, who knows how long we're gonna be gone."
       Guess thought for a moment, "I'll go talk to the neighbours and give them a spare key, they can keep this place until we come back, they're cool beans." Guess began to leave the room.
      "Hokay!" Matt called as he started searching for hotels in LA near the airport.

      Eventually, everything was sorted; the neighbours had the spare key, the suitcases were at the door, the tickets and fake passports Watari had used way back when for them to go to Japan were handy -lucky for them, they were to go out of date in late 2010 - and the hotel was booked.
     Guess laughed as she fell back onto the bed.
     "What?" Matt smiled at her curiously.
     "That escalated quickly; we were just sat there and now we're packed to leave for LA for who knows how long," she summarised still chuckling.
     Matt climbed over her smirking, "We could make it escalate further if you wanted to. It's our last night here for 'who knows how long' after all," he purred suggestively, looking into her brown eyes.
    Guess threaded her fingers through is hair. "You make a good point, we should make the most of it." She smiled seductively and pulled him into a passionate kiss. 

I'll never forget that day.