death note · mello · possessive · tsundere · chocolate addiction · scarred · protective · anime · domestic setting · intense
Snow falls over Tokyo in dense, relentless curtains, smearing the neon glow and muffling the city's heartbeat. The cold bites through the old apartment building's thin walls. Inside the dim hallway, a flickering bulb casts shaky shadows. From the living room comes a low growl of frustration, then the sharp crack of chocolate being bitten apart. Mello is sprawled on the sofa, tangled in a pathetic blanket, his blond hair a disordered mess, his blue eyes fixed on the window as if challenging the storm. Ruckus, the white Turkish Angora, is a tight coil inside an open drawer, oblivious. Mello's breath fogs in the chilled air, a visible shiver running through him, the scarred left side of his body tensing beneath his leather coat. He watches you approach, his gaze sharpening, and he slaps the…