"As far as anyone is concerned, we are a nice, normal, loving family." The exasperated old man named Watari whispered under his breath. Being stressed while driving would most likely increase the chances in him getting a heart attack, and god knows what would happen to the six kids in the car if he were to accidentally crash it. They weren't even his children, but it wouldn't be nice to leave them to the orphanage where his friend was struggling to handle younger children ranging from toddlers to ten year old brats. The kids in his car were much, much, older, and thus, more troublesome. It wouldn't be a nice present to leave some random kids in front of an already-full orphanage.
He had them all ever since the eldest one was given to him and he didn't even regret it. It was part of his job, taking care of them all and taking in children who were deemed to be future geniuses. That didn't mean they weren't troublesome in the slightest though. The eldest was a brunette boy with yellow eyes named Allen, currently twenty-five years old. Sarcastic and dry-humored, also causes a lot of fights without batting an eye. The second eldest, a twenty-three old, was a raven-haired boy with piercing red eyes named Beyond. A bit like Allen, but more quiet and even a bit sadistic. Beyond had a biological little brother, currently twenty years old, named Lawliet. He looked like his brother, except his eyes were deep black and had bags underneath. He was the least troublesome of the group, but his habits and his obsession for sweets were as annoying as their antics. The next one was Mihael and Mail, the same age, currently eighteen years old. Mihael was a blonde with blue eyes, while Mail was a brunette with dark blue eyes. While Mihael usually did the troubles of stealing chocolate in the middle of the night and causing trouble, Mail barely cared for anything unless it affected his beloved game boy. And the last one was the youngest, an eleven year old albino boy named Nate. As quiet and as innocent he looked, Nate was the one causing Mihael's usual tantrums.
In short, he didn't mind watching over them at all. Beside him was Allen, often making snarky remarks about the other cars passing by, fiddling with his phone's bear keychain. On the middle was the three kids, Mihael, Mail, and Nate. He decided to put Mail in the middle to avoid Mihael from ripping off Nate's face, and to avoid Nate from pissing off Mihael. Mihael was given three chocolate bars by Watari in order to keep him behaved. Likewise, Mail was given extra batteries to refrain him from kicking the chair in front of him, which was Watari's. And last, Nate was given a rubik's cube to prevent him from starting a fight. On the very back was Beyond and Lawliet, sitting in their usual position; crouched like frogs. Beyond held a jar of jam in his left hand, and used the fingers of his right hand to lick the jam off. Lawliet's left hand was occupied by a small box that had a cake inside, and his right hand's index finger and thumb attempted to hold the plastic spoon.
However, the peaceful silence only lasted for a few minutes, as Nate grunted on how unsanitary Mihael was eating his chocolate. "The foil is all over the seat, Mello." Nate referred to Mihael with his "fake" name. They needed fake names if they wanted to start a new life in Japan after all. "It's hard to focus on a colored cube when you can see a glimpse of silver on your side." He grumbled, fiddling with the cube. Mihael smirked and picked up the foil, curling it into a ball. He then flicked it with his fingers, expecting to hit Nate. Instead, it flicked straight at Mail's eye. Unfortunately, the brunette wasn't wearing his goggles, and his eye got flicked at directly.
"Ah, fucking hell Mello!" Mail cursed. The foil had forced him to wince, and as such, he had made a wrong move in his important game of Pokémon Emerald. Against the Champion too. "Steven's got the upper hand now! Thanks a fucking lot!" He growled.
"Hey! Language, you damn brat!" Allen turned his head a bit to give a supposedly-intimidating glare at Mail, who simply ignored it and pulled his goggles down, mumbling something about Allen being a prick. "And you don't face Steven with a low-leveled Swellow on your team! You were training your Swampert too much! Are you an amateur or something?" He scoffed. Mail made a glare, before kicking Allen's chair, which caused him to drop his phone on the car's floor, ultimately causing the battery to pop out from the impact. "What the?! You brat!"
Nate made a teasing smile, ignoring Mail and Allen, and focusing on his rival. Yet another day of bickering for poor Watari. "Mello. Are you so stupid that you can't even hit me with a foil ball? I thought you were smarter than that, though. Ah, no matter." He fiddled with the cube again. "I guess that's the reason you didn't get first place at the science fair last year. You couldn't even flick a ball properly at me. How sad." He stuck his tongue out childishly, reminding everyone of how much a bratty child he can be when he wanted to.
Mihael seemed to be offended, because he immediately stuffed his chocolate in his bag and glared daggers at Nate, leaning forward which irritated the already angry Mail. "Excuse me, Near?! You freaking arrogant sheep!" He hissed.
Watari sighed, rubbing his temples. Why couldn't the four boys get along like the two brothers at the back? Beyond and Lawliet were biologically related, so that was a reason they were extremely close and had a special bond compared to the other boys in the car. Allen and Beyond were close due to their age, but they usually chatted on morbid topics. As for the three, they adored Lawliet. But when Lawliet wasn't interested in joining them for games, the three would hang out with each other, which caused the main problem; bickering. "Beyond, Lawliet. Can you two break their fight for me? We're nearly there."
Lawliet only cocked his head in response, and slightly pulled the plastic spoon away from his lips, biting it. He didn't blink while doing so, which seemed to cause Allen to cringe. The three in the middle only looked at him, interested. "Mmhm. Not in the car everyone. Maybe later. Or tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow. We don't want to give Watari a hard time, especially after he gave us something to keep us occupied." He looked at his brother when the four only continued their bickering, hoping that Beyond would be able to shut them up.
"Can you guys, like, keep it down? Honestly, you can't last at least one day without arguing over something so small." Beyond snapped, as he stopped on licking his jam-covered fingers. "You can rip each other's throats later, I don't want to waste my time when I could be eating my jam. Aaaaand.. it's empty. Perfect." He grumbled, crossing his arms as he dropped the empty jar on the floor. Lawliet stared at him for a while, before pulling a tissue out of his side and offered it to Beyond. However, his brother didn't see him offering the tissue, so with an internal sigh, he pulled his brother's right arm and wiped his fingers. Beyond looked at him, and with a small yet sincere smile, he chuckled. "..Thanks, Lawli."
Seeing the affectionate gesture going on the back, Watari felt a small smile creeping. After Beyond snapped, the three younger kids calmed down, seeing as they were somehow terrified of Beyond. However, Allen held in a laugh and burst out laughing, causing confusion from everyone. With a smirk, he glanced at Beyond from the back. "Wow, Beyond. I know we only arrived in japan, but you've gotten used to the place already?"
Beyond blinked. "The hell are you talking about now?"
Allen ran his finger through his phone's locked screen. "In japan, there's this trend among the ladies called 'brother complex'. Or in our terms, incest-"
His crude joke was halted upon hearing Beyond shriek at him and attempt to throw the empty jar at him, Lawliet holding him back. Mihael, Mail, and Nate ducked to avoid being smacked by Beyond, who was now attempting to jump onto the middle to be able to punch Allen.
Allen is a Death Note character that I made to be "A". Since we don't really know much about him, I decided to make him snarky, a bit blunt, and has a fascination of collecting keychains. Also, since Mello and Near are basically arch-enemies while BB and L are really friendly to one another (in this fic only), I made A and Matt have a weird relationship; sometimes they fight, sometimes they don't.
I apologize if some of the characters are OOC.