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'Thinking'

"talking"

Flash back

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A girl with long dark brown hair stood at the gates to Whammy's House Suitcase and Teddy bear in hand fear uncertainty written all over her face. She took a deep breath in and opened the large gothic style gate. She was rather small and skinny wearing a long sleeved jet black dress with white lace trimmings on the hem, corset, collar area, and sleeves. Her hair had been braided into a long ponytail tied at the bottom with a black ribbon. She turned and watched as the black car that had dropped her off sped away from the orphanage and tears stung her eyes and dripped down her face as she attempted to show as little emotion as possible but failed horribly as she broke out in to a fit of sobs and hiccups.

"You must be the new chick, they sent me to come get you" a boy with blond hair and a chocolate bar in hand said as he approached her "stop crying for God's sake!!" he yelled taking a large bite out of the chocolate bar.

She flinched and immediately began calming down

"Good, now I have to give you a tour and show you where your classes are and where your room is so don't get separated 'cause it'll be a pain in the–"

"Mello" another boy this time with deep red hair said warningly as he walked off the porch of the large building pocketing a red Gameboy advance sp.

Mello glared at him "what ever" he said finishing the chocolate and tossing the wrapper on the ground carelessly "c'mon newbie" he said gruffly as he began walking up the steps.

She wiped her face on her sleeve and picked up her bags to follow the blond

"Don't worry about Mello he may come off mean but he's really a good guy" The red haired boy said "oh and by the way, I'm Matt"

"N-Nice to meet you Matt" she said politely "I'm ... i-is it OK for me to use my real name or should I use the name from the last people who fostered me?" she asked innocently

He looked at her shocked "how many names have you had from foster parents?!" he asked surprised

"Twenty-three exactly" she replied

Mello looked back "really?" he asked showing a little concern in his voice "not that I care" he added gruffly

"Yes, no one ever wants to keep me for longer than a few weeks and every time they call me something different" she said staring at the floor as tear pricked her eyes

The three were silent for a while until she spoke up again

"So which do you want?" she asked quietly

"Your real name of course" Mello stated slightly annoyed

"Sakura" she said smiling slightly at her long unspoken name

"Nice name" Matt said "means "Cherry Blossom" Right?"

"Yes, that's right" she said smiling gently at him

"You Japanese Newbie?" Mello asked as they turned down a long corridor with many doors.

"I don't know but I'm assuming that, based on my name, I'm maybe half Japanese do to the fact that I'm Brunette with Green eyes." she said sounding very intelligent

"You're nervous aren't you?" Matt asked seeing through the way she was acting

"Very" she said looking down at the floor once more

"This is your math room, You don't have to attend classes today because you need to get settled in" Mello said pointing to a classroom that's door was open halfway showing an assortment of people focused solely on the work from their texts except for one girl that was busy staring out the window at the doves that had gathered outside it.

The rest of the tour went uneventful until they reached a different wing that was nearly silent except for some small clacking sounds

"And this is the wing with all the playrooms which almost no one uses" Mello said as they walked past three large and almost empty playrooms but as they came to the forth they found the source of the clacking sound.

A small boy with white hair wearing all white pajamas sitting and building a lego city complete with an army of robots ready to invade. Sakura stopped at the door watching him as he finished the last building then took a robot and used it to destroy the city loudly causing her to flinch at the sudden loud noises resulting in her dropping her suitcase and bear.

The boy looked up from the destruction of his lego city and she blushed embarrassed as she picked up her things.

"Sakura c'mon" Matt called from a little ways ahead she looked at him then turned back and waved at the white clad boy who just tilted his head at her. Sakura then Ran to catch up with Matt and Mello who had pulled out another bar of chocolate while he was waiting

"Who was that?" she asked innocently

" That was Near, He's a real pain in the–" Mello was cut off by the loud ring of a bell

The bell had startled Sakura and she yet again dropped her things Matt Grabbed her suitcase

"Hurry up we gotta get you to your room before we all get trampled" Matt said as he hurried down another hallway "here it is now I suggest that you hurry up other wise all the good food'll be gone"

"Come on Matt leave the dumb–" Mello was yet again cutt off as a stream of Kids came his way all chattering noisily

Sakura Hurried into the room closing the door behind her. She saw there was already a bed made with clean white sheets next to another bed without anything on it. There was a night stand with a lamp on it in between them there were also a few puzzles under the night stand which made her smile, she had always loved puzzles.

She set her bag down next to the bed and opened it removing some dark blue sheets and matching comforter that had a large white moon on it surrounded by tiny white and pale yellow stars. She smiled and hummed to herself as she made her bed covering the pillow with a white pillow case. Then she placed the bear on the pillow and smiled. Sakura continued to hum and smile as she began unpacking her clothes and putting them in the drawers under the bed unaware of the entrance of her roommate who was now sitting on their bed watching her put her clothes away.

After she finished she picked up a puzzle from her bag that she had brought with her and turned only to see the boy from earlier in the playroom sitting on the white bed next to her own causing her to jump and eep from surprise dropping the puzzle and scattering the pieces everywhere.

"Hello" he said looking at her expressionless

"Hi" she replied nervously as she stooped down to pick up the pieces of the puzzle, Near watching her intently.

After she gathered all the pieces she dumped them out into an empty part of the room and began to assemble them. After about one minute Near came and sat next to her watching her put it together intently. In the end it would be an all black puzzle with a large white moon in the center. It didn't take her very long and after she finished she disassembled it piece by piece and put them into the box one at a time.

Then she turned back to Near "oh!" She said remembering that she had forgot to introduce herself "I'm Sakura by the way."

"Near, Nice to meet you, Sakura." Near said giving her a small polite smile earning him a warm smile from Sakura.

"I like your hair, It's so cool!" she said randomly, she couldn't help it she thought it was really cool to have white hair "I wish I had hair like yours, It'd be so pretty!"

Near Hadn't been used to a lot of socialization let alone complements, and didn't really know how to respond so he just smiled at her and said thank you.

I hope you like it this is my first time attempting to do a death note fic so please be gentle but constructive criticism is always welcomed!