The new addition
A/N:this is the first fic that I've ever posted and i'm really self consious so please don't comment to brutally but I do want your reviews
Luka and Noa both belong to me. I normally dont like OC stories and I dont blame you if you dont like like them either,(i usually only like yaoi) but i tried really hard! sooo please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own any DN characters, because if I did, they would almost all be yaoi. Takada and Misa would died a horribly painful death planned out by me.
Chapter One
She sat quietly in the hospital bed she'd just woken up in. She didn't cry like you'd expect a newly orphaned eight year old to. She just sat there staring at the blindingly white wall. A nurse walked in and sat next to the girl's bed.
"Leila…Leila dear, can you hear me honey," the girl, Leila, didn't respond, though she could clearly hear the nurse. "Leila I'm going to change the bandages on your eye now." Again, the eight year old didn't respond and the nurse sighed. She slowly began unwinding the dirtied bandages from Leila's head, carefully untangling them from the girl's hip length black hair.
The nurse gently lifted Leila's chin and let the girl's bangs fall from her face, to see her damaged right eye. It was a dull ashy gray, unlike her left eye which was a bright acidy green and yet they were equally hollow and dead.
Most of the cuts around her eye had healed fairly well, except the two deepest. One vertically over her eye, the other extending down her cheek. They still looked raw and would leave permanent scars. The nurse carefully wrapped fresh bandages around her head, stood and left the room with a sigh. Leila slowly laid back on the bed, clenching her left eye shut and trying to block out the tormenting memories of her father's bloody body, crushed in the driver's seat and her mother's wide dead eyes staring accusingly at her. They had been arguing her mother yelling at her for being rude to the clients during dinner … work always came first, No matter what. It wasn't working. But she wouldn't cry, she didn't deserve to cry.
An old man in a tan trench coat entered the hospital flanked by a dark haired boy in a long sleeved white shirt and loose blue jeans. The boy had dark circles under his black eyes, and was unusually thin.
He followed the old man closely. When they arrived at the front desk, the old man turned to the dark haired boy.
"L are you sure you want to do this in person? We can't be sure she'll even be smart enough to be taken into Whammy's, why are you risking this?"
L shrugged and smiled at his guardian. "Watari, you worry far too much."
Watari gave L a skeptical look before turning to the receptionist and asking for the room of a Miss Leila Devin. The receptionist shook her head sadly. "Nobody's allowed in to see her."
Watari glanced at L, who in turn nodded.
"Ma'am, I am afraid I must insist, we are here on official business concerning her placement after her release, which I believe is tomorrow." The woman's eyes widened and she nodded hastily, quickly giving them the information they needed and calling a doctor to explain the current situation to them.
"She won't respond to anything we say or do. She hasn't eaten since she first woke, and she is permanently blind in her right eye."
When they arrived at the door, L stunned the doctor by telling him to leave. The doctor stuttered and mumbled but consented, walking off down the hall.
L looked at Watari, "Please follow me in, but wait by the door unless I need you." Watari nodded, and they walked through the door to see a young girl with unusually long black hair, sitting up in a hospital bed staring at nothing. A tray of food seemingly from breakfast, completely untouched, was resting on the side table. There was a chair next to her bed which L crouched on. He said nothing, just watched her.
She didn't seem aware that there was anybody else in the room, let alone someone sitting within five feet of her. After about ten minutes of silence, L reached into his pocket and pulled out a lollipop and held it out to Leila.
"Your hungry aren't you Leila." It wasn't really a question, not the way he said it. Leila did not answer but something in his tone made her turn away from the wall to look at L, her visible eye left his for the briefest of seconds to look at the offered candy before snapping back up to meet L's eyes once again. The girl's hand slowly extended towards the lollipop before quite suddenly dropping back onto the bed, fingers curling into a soft fist on the white sheets. L nodded and set the candy next to her hand.
"Leila, I'm going to need to ask you some questions." The girl blinked and put her hand over the lollipop. She looked down at her hand, then back at L.
"What kind of questions?"
L smiled at the girl, the probability that this would work just rose quite a bit. He looked back at Watari who nodded. Leila watched the exchange silently.
"Watari, go check Leila out, we'll be taking her tonight." Watari nodded and left. L quietly helped the girl out of bed and handed her a package. "Change into this, I'll wait outside." About five minutes later, Leila walked out of her room in a short sleeve black cotton sun dress with purple ballet flats, and a purple ribbon tying her hair back.
She still had bandages covering half of her face. Her black bangs still fell in front of her eyes and she had the lollipop in her mouth. Her face was as expressionless as ever.
Shortly after she left her room, Watari returned, he handed her papers to L and smiled at Leila. "You look lovely Miss Leila." She didn't respond. She seemed to have taken to staring off silently again. L wordlessly took the eight year old's hand, guiding her to the elevator.
They left the building and made their way to the car. during the drive L explained whammy's and its purposes, asked her a few questions about her parents and education and discussed alias's… after a while Leila admitted that she had had a family cat named Luka who had died when she was five and she had always loved the name…
Leila gripped tighter to L's hand when she saw the closed gates. To a scared eight year old girl, they were huge and menacing. Watari punched a code into the box next to the gate, and the groups of children playing outside scattered as the gates swung open.
Watari stepped out of the car and opened the back door for L. The kids began to crowd as always, waiting to hear the new announcements and see the new kid. L stepped out of the car and Leila followed, still clinging to his hand. L looked over the gathered children until he'd picked out the few he was looking for. His top four: Near, Mello, Matt, and Noa. Linda, number eight, was standing closely behind Near.
"This is Luka, she is our newest addition." He looked around and smirked. "Linda, I would like it if you would look after her and help her if she needs it." Linda's head shot up.
(A/N: Leila will be referred to as Luka from now on)
"Of course L!" She squealed annoyingly. Luka twitched slightly, but said nothing, as Linda came to her side smiling like the dopey idiot that Mello so often referred to her as. L smiled at Luka before dropping her hand and climbing back into the car. Linda smiled a sickeningly sweet smile at her and tried to grab onto her hand like L had. Luka quickly snatched her hand away from the annoying girl; she did not want to be touched. Linda looked momentarily hurt, then that exasperating grin was back. "Come on, I'll introduce you to the important people and then I'll show you your room. Roger had it set up this morning; they got your things from your house and brought them here." She then dragged Luka off into the quickly dispersing crowd.
A/N: hahah! done and of course L knew that putting Luka with Linda would push her exactly where he wanted her to be Cuz of course hes freakin awesome!