Chapter fifteen:

The room almost seems to be holding its breath to wait and see if things will turn out alright in the end.

Rodger lets out a rather loud yelp of pain as his hand is hit causing the knife to be knocked away from him falling to the ground. He snarls in rage and pain reeling back away from Near mostly out of instinct. He tries to make a quick recovery while cradling his injured hand carefully. He hasn't even noticed that his back away from Near he had kicked his knife even further away as it slides on the floor.

Near uses this moment of distraction to grab a hold of the older man to take advantage in order to restrain him. He grabs his arms slamming his body against the nearby wall. He forces the others arms behind him enough to finally be able to slap some handcuffs onto his wrists. He almost wants to let out a sigh of relief that it is finally all over but he holds it back.

Mello slightly lowers his gun with a heavy sigh of relief at the sight.

With Rodger restrained it appears that it truly finally is all over.

The two have momentarily forgotten about the orphans watching them do all of this. They turn to the doorway as someone walks inside heading over towards them. They wait in silence in respect to the woman who had just walked into the room.

"That was a very good job." The woman informs them. "Agents."

"Wait!"

The woman, Mello and Near turn when Linda speaks up.

"What in the world is going on!? Agents? They're orphans of Whammys house!" Linda slightly protests as she is trying to wrap her head around all of this.

"Well you're partially right." The woman begins. "They are orphans which help to keep their real identities untraceable. However they are agents and were sent here when we got wind of a possible evil plan happening here. They came to investigate and plan to take down the group that is in charge of this operation."

"So… They're really agents…?" Linda slightly glances down at this.

"Yes. They are."

Matt finds himself suddenly realizing why Mello and Near couldn't have him go to all of the meetings. He finally understands that they had to keep their true reasons for getting involved a secret to him. He can't believe that he never realized what was really going on right under his nose.

"But two things why are you telling us all of this and the two are rivals. How can they work together?" One of the other orphans in the room inquires to the lady.

The lady smiles. "Well there is no way you'll be able to find out anything because they were never rivals. They are actually partners who work together on missions. We do this with agents to help to make things go faster and to help the safety of our agents. For why I am telling you all this is because you wouldn't be able to track them. They as agents are required to change themselves for each mission. This includes names that they use, backgrounds, way of acting, way they dress and anything else that they decide is needed. Who knows perhaps one day some of might join the agency. With some training if you are chosen. From martial arts, weapon training and other needed such training." The lady gives a smile then turns away. "Well it is time for us to get going." She tells them as all of the adults that had been involved with the plan are taken away. "I will make sure that all those involved will be replaced with good people."

"You can leave that to me."

Everyone turns their attention to the doorway to find a slightly hunched over figure there.

Those that recognize him, the orphans, smile and gasp in surprise at seeing the man who had just entered the room.

"You all did good jobs." The man moves further into the room.

Those in the room that know who this man is smile at him in greeting.

"We can leave such a task to him." Mello informs the lady who turned to him when he had spoken, nods believing him.

"Alright." The lady turns back to the man who had just walked into the room nods to him as well. "Then we shall leave this up to you."

"Thank you for your help in all of this. I only regret not having arriving sooner to help."

"We all understand that you can get quite busy with all the work that just piles on." Mello informs the man trying to not say that the man standing before them is really L himself.

L smiles and nods softly placing one of his thumbs to rest on his bottom lip. "Well I'm glad that it's over."

"We'll leave you to cleaning everything up." Near speaks up in which L nods softly.

"Yes. And you have good luck out there." L tells the two making them feel proud.

"Thank you." Both Mello and Near express their gratitude before following the lady, who appears to be their boss, out of the rom. The two share a nod with Watari who is standing just outside of the room. They continue following their boss knowing that they will be able to get their stuff. They know that a van is likely waiting with people to help them get their stuff packed and taken out as fast as possible.

As expected it took no time at all to clean out their rooms to make it seem like they were never there in the first place. All done before the orphans were freed from what had protected them during the fight.

The next day Matt is in his room typing away at his laptop. He's actually been trying to do this for the past while since nighttime. He stops after a few moments and slams his fist down on the table. "God damn it!" He curses to himself. "It really is true. No matter how much I search I can't find anything on them. It truly is as if they appeared out of nowhere at Whammy's house. I can't even find anything with these backstories they apparently have so they really must have made them up." He finds himself frowning for a good long moment realizing that he may have never truly known the two of them in the first place. He isn't sure how much of their personalities were an act and how much was the real them shining through. He turns away deciding to give it a rest for now. He knows that he really probably won't be able to find anything anyways. He moves away from his laptop deciding to try to play some games to get his mind off of things for a bit.

It works as the sounds of the game he is currently playing rings throughout his room; making him even momentarily forgetting that he should be in class right about now.

The red head came to believe that he would never see the two ever again.

Five years later….

Matt has already left Whammy's having turned into an adult. He chose to leave to work as a free-lance hacker rather than take the opportunity to become the next L.

L is currently training the next successor, as when Matt left he heard of the person who was behind him in ranks say that he would be delighted to be the next L.

Matt is typing away on his laptop doing some personal investigation in his currently dim lighted apartment he uses as his main base. He is looking into a possibly rather rich drug dealer. He had hacked into a laptop that had added that a man in severe debt owed a lot of money to the drug dealer. He had done this as the customer had hoped that there'd be too many to remember so if it was erased he'd be free from that. He wonders if he could figure out a way to take some money that the drug dealer is making. He has been hacking into accounts and stealing money ever since he had left Whammys. He did this mainly to help support himself on top of being a free-lance hacker. He is about halfway done when a little message pops up on his screen. His eyes flickering over the words on the pop up that seem important.

You have been chosen to become an agent of a top secret agency. We have been watching your abilities for a little while once we have found you after you left Whammy's house orphanage. You have great potential and skills. So we would like to offer you a job in our agency.

Matt pushes his goggles up onto his forehead and he finds himself smiling softly. He can tell pretty well what group has actually sent this to him. He, without a moments hesitation, clicks the agree button. He is then given information on where a van will pick him up to come to the main office. He goes there and sees the described van that opens its doors to him. He climbs in and lets them take him to the main office. He notices that it looks like a regular office building. He is taken inside and he almost grins as he sees the two figures waiting for him inside in front of the main desk.

"Long time no see. Matt."

The end.