Chapt 2: Arrival

=Sarubia's POV=

The flight to England was exuasting. I had flone alone. I couldn't forget about the letter I had received from my parent's murderer only two months ago. I wanted to forget all of this. Before I left I vowed to leave all my memories of what happened, behind me. I told myself that it didn't happen countless times. Trying to push all of those negative thoughts out of my mind I started worrying about what everyone would think of me. Will I end up being a quiet girl? Will I make any friends? How smart are these other kids? Question after question ran threw my head. I tried clearing my mind but that didn't work. I soon grew tired and I fell asleep on the plane.

Hours later I woke with a start. I appeared to be in a car. I quietly looked around, fearing my parent's murderer had taken me.

"So your finally up." My eyes widened as I heard the voice.

"Who are you?" I asked trying to shake all of the fear out of my voice.

"I'm Watari. Founder of the Wammy House. You must be Sarubia. That means Sage in English, doesn't it?"

"Hai." The rest of the ride to the Wammy house was silent.

When I got out of the car, I could tell this man wasnt lying to me. You could see the kindness in his eyes. I was taken to the main office, where I met Rodger. I was also given an alias. Lucy Shorter. I was told the rules and promised to obey them. The most important rule was to never give your real name to anyone outside this institution. After that I was given a room and was, again, escorted by Watari. I thanked him, and then he smiled and left, shutting the door quietly behind him. I quickly unpacked then fell asleep on the only bed.

=Lawliet's POV=

I heard a quiet knock on my door hoping it would be room service –I dont know if they hav it or not…but now they do! - But it was Watari.

"Lawliet, we've just acquired a new student here. She's about your age. She's very cautious. You might like her." Watari said, then left. I decided to let her get settled first. So I would walk to her room after I ate my sweets, which had just arrived. I ate my chocolate cake first, then all the strawberries. I took one last sip of my coffee then left my room to find this new girl. Once I finally found her room, I knocked. No answer. Luckily for me her door was unlocked. I silently opened the door to find a beautiful girl sleeping. This was definitely her, I knew because I would've remembered such a face. She had long and shiny black hair. Almost as dark as mine. She had ivory-colored skin; she had very soft facial features, and was very skinny. I pulled a chair next to her bed, sat down and watched her sleep.

=Sarubia's POV=

I woke up; startled, thinking I was back at my old house. But then I remembered, I was at the Wammy house. I sat upright, stretched, and looked around. That's when I realized the strange, but cute boy looking at me. He had messy jet-black hair and his skin was almost as pale mine. He had big dark brown, beautiful eyes that had dark bags under them. For he looked as if he had stayed up all night. He was sitting in an unusual way, and seemed to be crouched over. He wore a plain white shirt and baggy blue jeans, he was also barefoot. Soon realizing I was staring at him the boy spoke in a shy-toned voice, "Ummm, hello. My name is L, What's your name?"

"I'm Lucy Shorter. Pleased to meet you, L." I tried to keep my tone very casual, hoping he wouldn't notice the alias.

"You're allowed to tell me your real name, you know. Its not against the rules." He said, sounding like he was already warming up to me.

He's good. I'm usually a good liar, but he caught me. "Fine. Then I'm Sarubia, but you can call me Sage."

"Ok, Sage it is." The way he was acting, it was still very strange to me. I guess all of these kids are going to be strange, I mean I'm at an orphanage for child-geniuses.

"L, I have a question for you,"

"Ok then, go ahead."

"WHY ARE YOU IN MY ROOM?" maybe I said that a little too harsh…

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, its just I wanted to meet you, but when I knocked no one answered so I opened the door and I found you sleeping so I thought I'd just wait." After he spoke he tried to continue on apologizing but I stopped him.

"No, don't apologize, I'm the one who should be saying sorry. I didn't mean to outburst its just I was surprised, I thought geniuses would have more common sense than to intrude on a lady's room while she's sleeping. It's stalker-ish."

"Like I said before, I am very…"

"And like I said before, don't apologize to me. Besides, I kind of like the weird stalker-ish, thing. Well as long as its only you L, and no one else doing the 'stalking.'"

"Well might as well stalk you. I'm sure you'd enjoy it considering that I'm 'cute' in your opinion…"

"Wait I said that…"

"Yes you said that out loud." my eyes widened when he said that. Man I really got to stop doing that.

"Yes you should stop doing that, we wouldn't want the others to hear how you think about me." Crap I did it again. After that one, we both laughed.

=Lawliet's POV=

"I know what we can do, lets go outside, you probably want to meet some of the other kids, don't you?" I walked over to the door about to open it but Sage stopped me.

"No, not really, I'd much rather stay here."

"Come on! I'll stay with you the whole time, promise."

"Fine," she said with a sigh

"I'll let you get dressed," I said slowly as I walked out of the room to give her some privacy. I only hope no one make a scene, but that might happen, considering how pretty, no, how beautiful she is. I'm almost 90% sure that B, will be out there. That's not good. I don't want her to like B; he's almost exactly like me. Sage walked out of her room calmly.

"I'm really staring to have second thoughts about this I mean what if…"

"Don't start the what-ifs with me now," I already, subconsciously, have.

"Come on it'll be fun." I said as I gently grabbed her hand. I looked up at her at that moment, just in time to see her blush scarlet, before she tried to hide it from me. I smiled at her, and then started running down the long corridor, and out the doors. As the doors opened everyone looked at us. Some burst out in laughter, others simply ignored us. But just as I had thought earlier, B and a bunch of other students crowded us before we could go anywhere. I felt Sage squeeze my hand harder, which only made me want to face B, and kick his ass for scaring her.

"Ohhhh, come on L. You gonna keep hogging her? She's to pretty for you." B said as he stepped away from the crowd. I let go of Sage's hand and walked casually towards him. With out thinking I balled up my fist and pulled it back, he smiled. That's when I snapped. I was about to punch him but then, not realizing, Sage had grabbed my hand, and was standing in front of me.

"Don't do it, you'll only get in trouble. As you can tell by his face, that's exactly what he wants." She whispered to me. I unfolded my hand and calmed down. She took my hand and dragged me inside.

"Wait one moment, L, I'll be right back." Before I could stop her she was out the door. So I silently waited for her, hoping she wouldn't do anything reckless. I started to wonder what was taking her so long. But then she walked through the door. Her hair was messed up and she had blood on her face. But accompanied with that blood on her face there was a toothy grin. My eyes widened,

"What did you…?"

"I went out there to talk to him, well see what his problem was, and he got me angry."

"He hit you?" She burst out in laughter. Now I was confused.

"No, silly. I hit him. The blood? That's his blood. I knocked out his tooth and gave him a bloody nose."

"How did you do that? B is like well, how should I say this? Born to kill."

"So that's his name," we both laughed.

"I told you I wanted to stay inside."

"Yes you did. Now look what's happened. You better get cleaned up."

"Yes, that would help."

"You never answered my question, how did you fight him?"

"I'm a brown belt." Good to know. Never get her angry.