Hello all. Now, I don't know how primary schools in Japan work, but for the purpose of this story, they're the same as in Britain. Enjoy (:
Chapter one
13th April, 1991
At five years old, not only was Light Yagami very smart for his age, he was also modest, friendly and remarkably mature. He was loving his first year of school – everything was new; everything was exciting. The other kids in his class were nice, if a little silly, and they all loved Light. One little girl in particular. Little Misa Amane, with her sickly sweet ringlets and chubby cheeks, bounded up to Light every morning without fail to give him a big hug and tell him she 'lobes' him.
This is how the day started for Light on the 13th of April, 1991. Misa decided to side tackle him for a change, and ended up almost knocking the carton of milk right out of his hand.
"Misa! Stop being so silly!" he shouted at her.
"I'm sorry, Light! I didn't see you were holding milk…"
Light tutted and walked away to sit on the carpet, ready for Miss Sato to start the lesson, leaving poor Misa almost in tears for upsetting her 'fwend'.
Just then, however, a very tall, thin lady with cropped black hair walked in. She looked foreign – 'Englishese,' thought Misa. A small boy her own age walked behind her, clinging on to her trouser leg. Forgetting the argument already, she ran over to sit with Light.
"Light, look at the new boy. Isn't he weird? And he smells like wee-wee."
Light shrugged. "He looks okay…"
"Yeah, you're right, he's okay. Hey, he could be our fwend! Wouldn't that be great? You're so cleber, Light."
Light was relieved that Miss Sato took that moment to introduce the new boy.
"Sit down everyone. Now, we have a new member of the class joining us today, so I need you all to be on your very best behaviour and make him feel welcome here. This is Lawliet."
Lawliet didn't smile at the class; he just stood, hiding behind his mother, who then turned around to say goodbye to her son. She didn't hug him or kiss him, simply said, "Be good," and left.
"Take a seat, dear," said Miss Sato, smiling warmly at him.
Lawliet sat down on the floor behind Misa and Light, who both turned around to greet him.
"Hello," Light said, smiling politely. "Welcome to our school."
"I'm Misa, and this is Light. You can be our fwend!"
"Thank you," said Lawliet, his face an expressionless mask. "I've never had friends before. Call me L."
Misa giggled. "But Elle's a girls' name! Okay, if you want I'll call you Elle. Once Miss has done the register we do number time, but after that it's break and we can play in the sand pit!"
L soon proved to be exceptional at maths. After demonstrating capability for simple adding, he had been tested with subtraction, long division and multiplication, all of which he seemed to find easy. He was simply brilliant, even more so than Light Yagami.
"Where did you go to school last, Lawliet?" Miss Sato asked him, and when he replied that he'd been home schooled, her mouth fell open in surprise.
And it wasn't just maths. After a somewhat scary break as Misa's new toy, L had shown his brilliance extended to reading and writing too. In fact, there wasn't a subject he didn't excel in.
Light was half jealous of, and half admired his new friend. He decided after a lunchtime of quietly doing puzzles indoors that it was actually fun having someone of his intellect around. A bit of competition would be good. And so, at four o'clock, when it was time to go home, he proudly and optimistically agreed when Misa declared that the three of them would be 'best fwends forever!'