Disclaimer: Me don't own death note!

Note: This story is weird, but nonetheless I will put it here and see if people will like it. Criticism needed. I'm also bad at spelling _. So, I'm begging you, please review.

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Character profiles: Their aliases and abilities.

L (L Lawliet) - Mind talent: Super analytical thinking and deductive reasoning, also photographic memory.

- Special ability: Calculating odds ( I.E. calculating the odds of your survival in a desert)

- Other abilities: Capoiera

B (Beyond Birthday)- Mind talent: Photographic memory, unbelievable intellegence

- Special ability: Finding out one's true name and the day a person is going too die (of course it's because of the shinigami eyes, but no one is aware of that.)

- Other abilities: Karate

Matt (Mail Jeevas)- Mind talent: Above-average intellegance, observation skills.

- Special ability: Sensing weak spots (very handy at video games, though can be used in certain circumstances, ie- your lying to him, and he needs to find out the truth. Suppose your weak spot is seeing your lover hurt, he can blackmail you and thus you'll tell him the truth.)

-Other abilities: Winning in any video game.

Mello (Mihael Keehl)- Mind talent: Superior intelligence

- Special ability: The ability to manipulate people, though some are immune to his powers like L, Near and Roger.

- Other abilities: Dressing up?!

Near (Nate River)- Mind talent: A gift of reasoning, insight, and memory equal to L.

- Special ability: Ability to sense the truth. You can't lie to him.

- Other abilities: Solving puzzles.

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Prologue: The Secrets of the Wammy's House

Everybody knows that Wammy's house is an orphanage for children with special talents, orphaned children with promising abilities. And what are these abilities?

Abilities like unbelievable intellegence, musical talents and mind readings. YES! Mind reading. Wammy's house children are more than what meets the eye.

This is a little story of the once-Wammy's house orphan-but now the greatest detective of the century L found the four of his greatest succesors, four children with different personalities, four children with different abilities.

Four children who took different paths.

It all began in a case with a missing link………