A/N: Sorry if this is a little long…. It will get better promise! If I got anything wrong please tell me! Thanks
The boy sighed as he knocked on the door, " Get up!" All he heard was a thump and grumbling as the girl inside got out of, or rather fell out of the bed.
"Go away Mello!" The girl shouted. The boy named Mello didn't go away though and instead knocked on the door again, " Don't make me go in there Oak!"
Still grumbling a very annoyed Oak opened the door. She had short light brown hair that was still tangled; her blue eyes had bags under them, and she was still in her pajamas. " What was so important you had to wake me up so early on my free weekend?"
Mello tapped his foot looking at her pajamas, " I will tell you once you get dressed." Oak sighed but went back into her room pulling on whatever she saw first and tried her best to untangle her hair, but after a minute gave up. Who cared? She left the room to find that Mello was pacing the hall in front of her door.
"Why do you do that?" Oak said as she leaned back on the wall.
Mello turned around with a ghost of a smile on his face, " Who knows, lets get going we need to get Matt." Oak sighed but followed after Mello, why wouldn't he just tell her what was going on? Mello's steps quickened and it made Oak, who was shorter then Mello, run to keep up with him. She was panting when they finally stopped outside Matt's door.
"You know if I wasn't awake there is no way he is Mello, what was so important that we needed to be up so early," Oak said as she got in front of Mello.
Mello however ignored her and shouted, " Matt get out here!" Matt was already dressed in his usual way although his goggles were on top of his head.
" Morning," Matt said patting Oak on the head and turning to Mello, " Thanks for calling me first, I would have hated to miss this."
Oak turned to Mello, " You mean you called him but you couldn't bother to give me a heads up! Wow for a genius your stupid, brother."
Mello narrowed his eyes and said, " He takes forever I knew you would be out in a minute, sister." Although to Matt they where undoubtedly related, their blue eyes almost matching and, despite Oak being a girl, they both had almost the same build, Mello didn't like her calling him brother. Most people even over looked how similar they looked and concluded that they just spent so much time together that somehow they looked like each other. Kind of like how the owner of a dog eventually looks like the dog. Other then Matt, Oak didn't know how many people actually knew that they were related and sometimes she even forgot. Not that they hated each other or anything like that, they did it to protect each other. Both had letters, and both where potential targets and it was in their best interest that they try to hide the fact that they where even related though it hadn't stopped them from being friends.
"Hey don't get me involved!" Matt said as Oak crossed her arms and glared at Mello. Mello stopped down the hall, expecting that Oak and Matt would follow him. Matt looked at the both of them, Mello walking down the hall irritated and Oak looking at the ground with her arms still crossed in front of her. Matt stood there for a moment trying to decide what to do but after patting Oak apologetically on the head he ran after Mello.
That's how it usually ended, Mello stopping off and Matt following after him like a little puppy. With Mello's temper and Oak's refusal to be wrong the bickering never stopped. After another moment had passed Oak sighed and ran after them, again like it usually happened, with no one saying sorry and no one admitting they where wrong.
"Mello!" Oak said as he walked down to the main level, " Wait up!" He pause letting her catch up to him and Matt and as soon as she had he started walking again.
"So as I was saying it's between me and Near," Mello said one of his hands turning into a fist, " I want to be L's successor and he has no right to it, he doesn't even care its all a game to be won to him."
Oak sighed, " Mello first of all that's years way and who says it's between you and Near, anyone with a letter could win you know that just because your second in line doesn't mean that the rest of us should be counted out." Matt tensed up; this was a sore subject for Oak who had barely gotten her letter and hated that Mello didn't think anyone but Near was important.
"Of course not," Mello said patting her on the head, " If I become L I'll still need people."
Oak looked up at him and said, " I am not your puppy! Don't concededly pat my head and act like your all high and mighty."
"You let Matt pat your head!" Matt gulped and started to back away, both of them bickered over him constantly and sometimes he felt like he was a prized toy to them.
"That is Matt's way of showing affection, you however do it to show that I am beneath you!"
"Stop trying to psychoanalyze me!" Mello shouted back, " Just because your can read people doesn't give you the right to analyze everything Matt and I do!"
"Don't yell at me!" Oak said, at this point Matt was in-between them trying to keep the peace, and placing a hand on both of their shoulders he said, " Knock it off."
Oak looked at Matt, backed away and said, " Why did you wake me up Mello?"
"I need you and Matt for support, I'm going up against Near in a chess game," Mello said his face getting slightly red.
Oak smiled at the blush and said, " Does big bad Near scare you?" Matt sighed and rubbed his forehead; just once he wished they would both shut up.
" Oak please! I'm kind of nervous about this okay," Mello fidgeted. Oak looked up to see what his face said and found out he was serious.
" I'm sorry and your going to do fine, just don't let him get to you okay?" Mello was slightly taken aback at the sorry, but gave her a smile and ruffled her hair.
"I never thought I'd see you get all soft, must my lucky day come on," he said walking down the last bit of the corridor into the Parlor room or at least it would have been if this was an actual house. In reality though it was the game room. When Oak went into the room she saw that instead of the usual scattered board games there was a square table in the middle with neatly lined chess pieces and two timers. The rest of the room was filled with chairs that circled the table. Mello looked back at Matt and Oak, pointing to the chairs near him. Oak's eyes narrowed, she didn't like it when he bossed Matt and her around but she followed Matt and sat in the seat beside him.
She looked around at the other seats to discover that Matt was the only other kid here. The rest of the people that sat in the room where at least sixteen if not older. This reminded Oak of a zoo, with all of the people watching Mello because Near hadn't entered the room yet. She wished they would stop staring it was making her uncomfortable and she wasn't even playing the chess game. Why did these people insist on looking at Wammy kids like they where just there to gawk at, Oak thought to herself. 'They were once us!' Oak thought looking at the young people, ' but now that they left they think there different somehow.'
" Oak unclench your hands," Matt whispered to her breaking her out of her trance. She looked down to see that both of her hands where like fists and after a moment she let them relax to see that her fingernails where now indented into her palms.
"Thanks," Oak said, she zoned out a lot when she was trying to figure something out and it was normally Matt who got her out of the trance, " It's just they treat us like we're playthings and I'm sick of it. We could beat most of these 'adults' in anything they care to play." She had rolled her eyes as she said adults, they where barely older then them but they seemed worlds different.
Matt shrugged, " We're still kids to them, and strange kids at that so just deal with it."
Oak sighed but said nothing back as she saw Near come in. For some reason Near always made her nervous, maybe it was because of her brother? He did hate Near, but Oak didn't think that was why she got nervous around him. No, it was because she could never figure him out. He was just so emotionless! He didn't even seem to hate Mello, who hated him, which was odd to her. He acted like he was more robot then an actual human and for Oak, who profiling people was one of the few good things in her life, freaked her out more then if he was a serial killer because at least they had tells. Oak shook her head and let this train of thought leave her mind. The game was about to start, and she didn't want to miss anything.
Mello glanced at Oak and Matt. 'Oak eyes aren't glazed over so she had to be watching the game' he reasoned to himself 'maybe this time she would actually watch the whole thing without getting distracted.' He also noticed happily that Matt didn't have a video game in his hands, maybe this was really his lucky day. Near cleared his voice and said quietly, " Your turn Mello."
Mello jumped inside, though he was grateful he didn't show it he somehow knew that Near knew how nervous he was. 'No he couldn't' Mello thought to himself ' there's no way'. Mello's eyes narrowed and he moved his black pawn forward and by his next move it was taken away. 'Wait is that even possible? How did he do that' Mello thought, getting flustered and for every move that he made Near matched perfectly. It was like Near could read his mind, and this thought made Mello even more nervous especially since his king was about to be attacked.
"Mello don't let him in your head!" Oak shouted as she got to her feet. Matt quickly pulled her back down and covered her mouth as she tried to shout more. She struggled for a moment but gave up seeing that it did her no good and people were now staring at her instead of her brother.
Mello looked at her startled but saw what she was trying to do. 'How could I be so stupid,' Mello thought, ' I was playing into his palm, thinking that he could read my mind gave him a huge advantage.'
Near looked at Oak and then back at the chess game, she had figured it out – but too late to stop him from winning. Moving his knight he took the king and said with conviction, " Game over Mello, you lose."