Chapter 6

"Hey, Matt! Where are we going?" Mello shouted at his friend as he sprinted full throttle down the corridor.

"To find L and B's room!" the redhead shouted back to him.

"Why?"

"To check out that bookshelf," he replied once more as they arrived outside the room they believed to have previously been L and B's.

"You're still going on about that," Mello sighed exasperatedly.

Matt ignored him and opened the door, he snuck into Rodger's office the day before to check whether it was occupied by anyone but luckily for them it wasn't. He was going to bring Near along with them but the small white haired boy had informed him that he wanted to find out something himself.

Once the two boys walked in they were greeted with an unfamiliar sight. The room had changed a lot since L and B shared the room, it had come to look somewhat like Near's room; it was bland with an aura of emptiness making it look and feel lonely. Approaching the bookcase, Matt inspected it enthusiastically before finding a small hole in the side just big enough to fit your fingers inside it. He then pulled it towards him, as he stepped inside with a dazed Mello behind him he could see what appeared to be a secret passage leading down.

"I think we should get Near before we look down here," Matt turned back to Mello and closed the entrance.

"Good idea, where did he say he was going again?"

"Rodger's office I think. We should wait for him outside, he tolerates Near a lot more than us... Well, you," Matt grinned.

Mello rolled his eyes and they made their way towards Rodger's office to a wait Near but kept out of site as to not run into the grumpy man. A few moments later the two boys saw Near step out of the office after checking to see if the coast was clear.

"So Near, what were you looking for in there?" Mello spoke up.

"I wanted to find out who this 'Kenna' girl was," he answered, holding up a collection of books for him to see. They appeared to be past records of staff members and students.

"We found something really interesting ourselves Near!" Matt exclaimed.

"Oh? And what was that?"

"You know how you and Mello were making fun of me for being interested in that bookcase?" he started, "Turns out there's a secret passageway behind it!"

"Really? That's very intriguing," Near credited the redhead.

"Yeah fascinating, but we should get going before Rodger catches us with those records," Mello instructed.

They went back to Near's room as it was closer than Matt and Mello's. Going through the students of Wammy House they found nothing about a student being there by the alias of 'Kenna' or who matched any photos in the year L arrived at Wammy's so they went to searching the members of staff instead.

Near spotted the file first "Look at this," he said, catching the other prodigies' attention "It says she went missing one day."

"That's a bit strange don't you think? It looks like she went missing on (insert date here)," Matt continued.

"What do you suppose happened to her?" Mello wondered aloud.

Near closed the book, "Not sure, maybe we'll find out later on in the album; why don't we have a look at this date."

"Sure," Matt and Mello agreed.

Retrieving the album and flipping to the correct date and looking for all the pictures with Kenna in until she stopped appearing. Going to the one just before the last one of her in it, it seemed to be one of B with a playful, mischievous look gracing his features.

"What did you want to show us B?" Kenna asked the child.

"This!" B exclaimed happily.

"What?" L replied, thoroughly confused.

"The bookcase."

"What about it B?" Kenna questioned.

"Take a picture before I show you!"

Kenna sighed fondly, "Okay then B."

CLICK!

"Nothing," Mello complained.

"Let's just continue onto the next one," Matt suggested without properly looking at it.

B then pulled the bookshelf away from the wall revealing the passageway. "Tada!"

"What is this?" Kenna breathed in awe.

"How did you find out about it B?" L asked.

"I tripped and fell," he replied, too excited about his discovery to care about the pain he felt.

Kenna smiled with enthusiasm "Let's get a photo; it looks like something out of a mystery novel or a thriller of some sort."

"I'll take a photo of you in front of it if you want?" B offered.

"Yes please, thank you B," she passed the camera over to the raven.

She skipped over to the staircase and smiled as wide as she could as B took the picture.

"Hang on, it's a bit blurry. Can I take another?"

"Sure you can."

"I don't know how yours are so good all the time," B pouted.

"Here, I'll show you some tricks," just as she was about to walk over to them her foot slipped and her usually smiling face contorted into one of pure horror as she felt her weight falling backwards.

CLICK!