"I can't believe it... don't tell me my best friend fell for that weird guy... what was his name again?"
A fourteen year old Anna sat with her best friend, Lisa, at the Wammy orphanage. Lisa had been Anna's best friend ever since Anna arrived here, after her parents had been killed in a fatal incident in a factory explosion when she was only 10 years old.
"Anna? Are you even there?" A few hard taps hit Anna's head, "Hellloo???"
"Wha?" Anna blinked up to see her friend, curious and trying not to burst out laughing.
"What were you doing?" she sat criss cross on the park bench outside, facing Anna.
"Nothing... I was reading" she held up her book, "See?"
"Sure... what's his name anyways?"
"I don't know..." Anna looked at the text of her book.
"Gotcha"
Anna smirked at her giggling friend. She then looked back up at the boy. He seemed to be an outcast; he almost never was hanging out with other kids, unless he was getting into trouble. However, he seemed quite outgoing; he didn't seem shy at all.
"Why don't you just go up and ask him?" Lisa poked Anna's shoulder.
"Oh, no, I couldn't..." Anna was trying her absolute hardest not to blush.
"C'mon... you're nervous, aren't you? I knew you liked him!" Lisa giggled yet again.
Anna punched her giggling friend in the head, "So what if I do? Huh?"
"Then you're as shy as a flippin' three year old... here, I'll go ask him for ya" Lisa got up, then started to head towards the blonde boy.
"No! Lisa! Please!!!" Anna yelled at her friend.
But she was too late; Lisa already had the blonde boy's attention. He looked up at her with annoyed blue eyes. Anna realized she was too late; she tried her hardest to look busy. She poked her nose in her book and tried to look like she was reading, but she was secretly watching them.
She peeked up at them; several kids were heading inside, Lisa waiting for her by where she talked to the blonde dressed in dark jeans and the black shirt... he wasn't there anymore.
"Anna... I'm sorry, but I didn't get a chance to say much" Lisa said, heading back into the hallways.
"Its fine...hold on, what is Roger doing?"
They spied Roger pulling the blonde boy along with him. Oh god, he got in trouble again...
"Mello... and Near, come to my room" He said, pulling the blonde by the arm, a different boy with strange white hair and clothing followed.
Anna watched the door close behind them. She had to see what Roger was going to say to them.
"Anna, you comin'?" Lisa asked.
Anna shook her head 'no' and pointed to the door, Lisa rolled her eyes and left her in the hall. Anna pressed her ear up to the door to hear what Roger was saying.
"What is it Roger?" she heard Mello ask, she had heard his voice before, so she knew what he sounded like.
"L... has died" she heard Roger's deep raspy voice say, he sounded sad.
Who was L? Anna wondered silently, she pondered for a moment, and then held her ear closer to the door. She could swear she heard the click of a puzzle piece for a second.
"Dead! Bu-But how?!" she heard Mello say.
Another puzzle piece clicked into place.
"Do, do you mean that he was killed by Kira?! Is that it?!" she heard hands slamming onto the desk, Mello; most likely, she noticed his emotions often got the better of him.
"Most likely, yes" said Roger.
"He was going to get Kira the death penalty and now... he's dead? Is that what you're telling me?!" Mello said, his voice was angrier and angrier.
"Mello..." said Roger.
"If we don't win the game- if we don't solve the puzzle- we're nothing more than failures" a new voice said, presumably "Near", then she heard the rattle of puzzle pieces being dumped from a box or a holder.
There was a pause, then a slight noise of a puzzle piece being out on the wood of a puzzle holder.
"So, L, between Near and me, who did he...?" Mello began again.
"I'm afraid he hadn't chosen yet, Mello, and now, he's dead, you see" said Roger.
There was another pause. Anna stretched her neck, and then quickly pressed her head up to the door again.
"Mello, Near... how about you work together..."
"Yes, agreed" Near said, clicking another piece into place.
"Impossible, Roger! You know Near and I don't get along. We've always been rivals... always." Mello paused, "Listen, Roger... Near will be the one to succeed L. Unlike me, he'll do the job calmly, without emotion, like he solves a puzzle" said Mello.
"I'm leaving! From the institute too!" Mello said, his voice coming closer to the door.
Oh shit... coming closer, that means he's coming out... shit, Anna thought, looking around for a place to hide.
"Mello!!!" Roger yelled after him.
She heard Mello turn around, "Roger, do whatever you want. I'll be 15 in no time, after all" he paused again, she heard him out his hand on the door knob, "I'll live out my own way" he opened the door to smack Anna square in the face.
"What the hell?!" Mello said, shocked.
"I'm sorry... for listening" Anna said, rubbing her face.
"Well... you heard the conversation? Interesting. Who might you be, hold on, you're the girl that one annoying chick was talkin' about, aren't you?" asked Mello.
"I guess"
"I think it was Anna... wasn't it?"
"Yes" Anna blushed.
"I have to go" Mello said, he turned in the hallway, towards the boy's corridors.
"See ya around" Anna said, shocked in the hallway.
A/N
Wells, this is my first attempt at a Death Note fanfic. I was thinking about doing a couple of these, so I might as well start now. Mello is pretty much my favorite character right now in the manga, so be prepared for some mature content in later chapters... yay.
I do not own Death Note; all characters belong to its respective owners.
If I did own Death Note, Mello and L wouldn't die, so there.