Chapter one:
Mello rolls over and awakens in his bed at Whammy's house. He sits up and stretches. "Man what a good night's sleep." He says to himself then he finishes stretching only to turn to his alarm clock. "Six thirty five. Not bad timing again." He smiles to himself then he throws the covers off getting up. He heads to the connected bathroom to have his morning shower throwing the clothes he slept in into the hamper in his room since the orphans have to wash their own clothes so they aren't new to it when they leave. He sigh's feeling relaxed as the warm spray falls onto his body and he washes up.
When he returns to his room and changes it is almost seven leaving him about half an hour before classes begin.
He heads out of his room and goes on down the hall to go get something to eat. He doesn't expect to see Near there since he never eats in front of others. He enters and sure enough no Near but there is some others there. He ignores them to get some breakfast.
Seems the cooks made bacon, eggs and toast today.
He gets some of each putting it on his tray then goes to sit down to eat grabbing a packet of butter as he passes by the table that holds stuff like that. He sits down and begins eating scooping the eggs first onto his fork.
After breakfast he grabs his stuff from his room then heads to his first class of the day.
His first class is Language Arts. He settles into his seat as class will begin in about two minutes.
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Near skips the first class of the day even though he knows that he shouldn't. He walks around the front area just wanting sometime to enjoy the peace and quiet that is only broken by the every now and then uncommonly happening car or two driving by. He closes his eyes for a moment.
True he may not be an outdoors person that much at least as far as the others know but he likes to go out on his own when it is quiet.
He opens his eyes hearing a car that is taking longer to drive by.
The car is moving slower than any others he's seen or heard go by but it passes and keeps going just slowly.
"Maybe it's just someone slow." He shrugs it off as he had heard from some teachers who were talking while he walked past that there are few quite slow drivers. He turns and heads around the side of the building heading to around back.
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Mello notices that Near is skipping.
It is quite a rare that he does but usually it's if he is sick or something.
Mello turns back to the lesson not letting it bother him right now.
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"Have you found him?" A man demands coming into the main room that is more lit than the room he likes to hang out in.
A man comes bursting into the building rushing up to the main room skidding to a stop panting. "Sir." He pants out trying to catch his breath.
"What?" The man who seems to be the leader snaps slightly.
The man who rushed in catches his breath. "I think I know where we can find him! Actually I am one hundred percent sure. Trust me on this one."
The boss perks up. "Where?" He questions.
"Whammy's house." The man who rushed in reports.
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Before Mello knows it his two morning classes are over just in time for lunch.
He begins walking along towards his room to put his stuff away. He passes by Near's room only to glance noticing that the door is open a small bit. He peers inside as he slows to a slow walk.
Near is laying on his stomach on his bed maybe reading a book placed on his pillow or doing some work though his back is to Mello.
Mello shrugs it off and heads for his own room. He drops off his school stuff thinking about what might be for lunch today.
Wondering what the cooks made today.
He goes over to his desk that is like the ones in every orphans room. He grabs the chocolate bar sitting there on the desk. He unwraps the top part and munches on it as he heads to leave his room. He hums in thought as he walks munching on his chocolate bar as usual.
Once again he passes by Near's room making his eyes flicker to it and he stops no longer seeing the other and the door is a little more closed than before.
He looks around himself then pushes the door open a little when he sees no one. He peers inside and doesn't see Near but there is something laying on his bed. His heart tells him to leave and his mind tells him to snoop. He hesitates then slips inside since his heart has been known by him to tell him things that he knows just can't be right. He's been skeptical of what his heart says because he doesn't want to believe what he believes to be messed up stuff it does. He looks around himself.
A few toys, one or two towers made of different things and some puzzles are on the floor but it is cleaner in Near's room than Mello thought.
He turns to the bed finding a folded piece of paper. He goes over to it and hesitates.
What if there is something really personal on it?
He has his pride still.
If it is something personal then he would be downgrading himself but if it isn't personal then is it really downgrading him?
He bites his bottom lip feeling very conflicted about this since he has no idea what could be on the folded piece of paper resting on the bed while leaning against the pillow. He looks around himself again still quite uncertain about any of this. He looks back to it almost lost in thought about this little issue he's found himself in. He wants to know what's on it but fears that it might be something personal. He lets go of his lip and begins to hesitantly reach towards the folded paper with his free hand not holding his chocolate bar.
Just before grabbing it he once again hesitates.
He grabs it picking it up staring at the blank of the back of the paper since whatever is on it is on the front part that is on the inside of the fold. "If it turns out to personal I'll put it right back." He says to himself. He brings his chocolate bar to his mouth gripping part of the actual bar only to use his other hand to hesitantly open the folded paper. His eyes flicker to the top of it.
It is written in a language Mello hasn't seen before but it looks like a profile with notes for an investigation.
There is only the name written in English.
Suddenly there is a scream coming from the front lobby making his head whip to the door.
AN:
I hope you are enjoying.
Yes there will be references/parts in this story that is parts of a story from two other things. There will be more than one parts the reference something else. If you catch it you might be a Sonic and/or Pokemon fan.
Reviews are awesome and flamers will be used to make cake!
Mello.
