Chapter One

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…I only did it to stop him crying…to shut him up… I didn't mean for it to turn out like this…

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I was reading one of my most favorite books, The Lion King. For a 9-year-old The Lion King would be a pretty advanced book to read for my age but that's normal for me, since I am going to be L someday. I was peacefully turning the pages on my bed when out of nowhere there was a loud cry.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

I shot my gaze up, a little startled and annoyed by it. It sounded like some kid was crying again, I say again because it's normal to hear in the orphanage. But this cry wasn't your average wah! It felt like your eardrum were about to explode. I tried to block it out with a pillow but it but it did nothing and only got worse. It eventually got the point where I felt like grabbing the pillow and smothering myself to save my ears from bleeding out.

" DAMN I CAN'T TAKE THIS NO MORE!" I growled, shutting my book and placing it down beside me. Quickly hopping off my bed and heading out into the hall.

"WWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAA!"

It sounded worse in the hallway as the cry bounce off the walls and the wooden floors and reverberated back to me. I had to cover my ears to actually focus and find where it was actually coming from.

The crying led me to the stairs oddly enough, where there. I saw the culprit. Him.

At first he struck me as strange; He just didn't look right. His hair was white and his clothes were white also, everything about him was white except for his eyes. They where dark and colorless like coal.

I saw he was clutching a small dirtied-up toy rabbit which look like it was ready to fall apart at any second. I pulled my hands from my ears before drawing in some air to bellow out, "WOULD YOU STOP IT!''

His attention was taken and the crying stopped almost instantly where his soaking wet eye fell onto me., "I can't finish my book cos' ya crying so much!''

"I-I'm s-sorry b-but", He stuttered as his bottom lip wobbling as he choked the toy rabbit in his arms. "I-I just want my Mommy!"

Before I knew it the tears began to flow again. I sighed deeply, "yeah I want my mommy too, but do you see me crying over it!"

"Whaaaa!"

"STOP IT!"

That Ordering him to stop didn't help my case as it just made things worse. He cried almost a much as Matt does but the difference was when I yelled at him he;d get the idea and shush up.

His shrieks were drilling into my tender ears, it felt that they were about to burst from the inside and I couldn't stand this torture anymore! I had to do something, anything to shut him up.

And that was when it happened, when I did something unforgivably stupid. I grabbed on to the kids arm and quickly placed my lips over his, immediately soothing his crying and returning everything to silence. He began to struggle and kick but I just pushed our lips together even harder, holding that position for what if seemed like hours. I only did it to shut him up, he was being so loud and annoying it was killing me. Anyone would have done the same thing...would they?

He shuttered and shivered until I pulled my face from out of his where I was met by a blank stare. I stared at him and he stared at me, both of us puffing and panting. I hastily lifted my hand up, scrunching the end of my sleeve and whipped it across my mouth.

"Yuk!"

He squeezed his toy tightly looking as if he was about to say something but before he could speak a word both our attentions were taken by a voice.

"NEAR!" a voice called, it sounded like Rogers.

"Oh thank goodness! There you are Near!'', He puffed catching his breath as he walked up to the both of us, "I was so SO worried, don't just run off like that"

I glared at him, obviously confused.

"I see you met Mello "

I didn't like Roger. Full stop.

The old fart always blamed me whenever something went missing or when there are drawings on the wall, that kind of stuff. I mean sure, sometimes it is me but that just sometimes. Not all the time, just some.

"Mello this is Near he's going to succeed L", The old man gleamed as he picked the boy up carefully.

"Wait b-but I'm the one who's going to succeed L!"

"Well I guess you've got competition than", he snickered as he walked away with the boy in hand. My mouth dropped. Literally just flopped open, I can't believe this.

…What? Him competition?, I thought trying to wrap my mind around what he had just said but as I thought I began to think, then worry.

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A/N: Hi everyone/reader ^-^ Just tidied this story up a bit and split it into three chapters. I hope it's okay and makes better sense now that it's been edited a bit better. If not, please don't hesitate to correct me 3