"You're just jealous because its real leather." He raised a hand and smoothed it over the breast of the jacket, grinning.

He wanted to avoid talking about Yukimura though, otherwise he knew he'd just get angry and, really, Mello didn't deserve his anger. SO he said nothing on being his pet, though he wanted to say that it was actually the other way around. It made him think of how Yukimura had been bound and left to die.