Disclaimer: I hate saying this but, I don't own Death Note
A/N
Thank you so much to those of you who answered my plea for help, I would have updated sooner but there were some unforseen... interruptions... in my schedule, including a visit from a friend, a bad thunderstorm, and a family dinner that no one told me about. The OC's form NearTheEnd and Topaz Maia are in this chapter, they were the first to submit so a special thanks to them!! Love ya both!! Oh and if you see anything that your characters do that you don't like tell me and I'll change it.
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
Flashback
"Sakura get up," Near said gently shaking her shoulder, "Roger's making an announcement and we don't want to be late."
"Oh, ok." she said sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She had never bothered to take the braid out of her hair so it was still in a now messy braid with bits and pieces of hair sticking out from it at odd angles.
Sakura looked in the mirror and gasped at her appearance. She immediately removed the ribbon from her hair letting her wavy brown hair flow freely, she brushed it into order and turned to Near.
"When is he making the announcement?" she asked quietly
"In five minutes." He answered
"W-We should go then." she said slowly making her way to the door in her pajamas, Near following suit.
Near led the way down the hall passing Mello and Matt's shared bedroom just as the two were coming out.
"Hey Sakura!" Matt said waving to her even though she was already close enough to see him
"Good morning, Matt" she said smiling sweetly.
"Kyaaa!!" they all turned to see Helen, dressed in jeans and a fitting black T-shirt accompanied by a thin black elastic bracelet with a yin yang charm dangling from it. She was halfway down the hall, two thirds, three fourths, Sakura braced herself for the inevitable, Bam! Helen tackled Sakura into a hug.
"You are so cute!!" Helen yelled "I love your Pajama's your, they're so cute!! You should wear your hair down all the time!! It's so cute!!" she spouted
"H-Helen!" sakura yelled quietly getting her attention. (A/N what can I say, she's a quiet person)
"W-We're going to be late." she said as Helen let her go.
"Oh, right! Let's go!" Helen said cheerily and grabbed Sakura's hand and running down the hall.
"That isn't normal!" Mello groaned "No one should have that much energy this early on Saturday morning!"
"Lily, Keira!" they heard Helen screech "look, look at her, isn't she so cute!?"
The boys rounded the corner to see Helen chattering away to Lily and Keira, Lily was a girl with orange and purple streaked blonde hair wearing a purple tank top along with an orange skirt with a brown belt and brown pants that were rolled up to her knee under the skirt, and orchid boots. She was happily munching on a chocolate bar that Mello was eying hungrily.
The other girl, Keira, had light grey hair and wore a light blue Pajama top that went down to her knees, and shorts with one blue pant leg and one black and boots, one boot black, the other blue on opposite sides of the blue and black pant legs. (A/N kinda think of a checkerboard)
"We are going to be late." Sakura said quietly as she backed over to Near.
"Aw c'mon, relax, we don't bite," Lily joked, "and Mello, don't even think about it, this," she said pointing to the chocolate bar, "is mine."
Mello glared at her for a while as they began to walk muttering something along the lines of "selfish," and "Never shares."
When they reached their destination, which was the cafeteria, they saw that almost all of the other children from Whammy's were already gathered there. Sakura began to feel uncomfortable and moved closer to Near hanging onto his sleeve as not to be separated. They stayed on the outskirts so they didn't have to deal with all the pushing and shoving children.
"So... I'm bored." Lily said as she tossed her empty chocolate wrapper into a nearby trash can.
"Me too." Helen agreed sitting on the ground.
"That's not sanitary." Keira pointed out as she stared at the odd girl who was now lying on the floor with her hands folded on her stomach.
"So." Helen retorted pretending to be angry and crossing her arms.
Matt squatted down next to her and poked her in the cheek.
"Stop it." Helen responded swatting at his hand.
"You have my Zelda game don't you?" He asked poking her again.
"Maybe." Helen said closing her eyes and shrugging "Maybe not. You'll never know."
"Give." he said sticking his hand out so it was right in front of her face.
Helen opened her eyes then looked emotionlessly at Matt's hand then at Matt, and back to his hand and opened her mouth then bit down on his hand.
"Ow!!" Matt yelled recoiling his hand. "She bit me, You bit me!"
"Uh huh." Helen responded smiling.
"I'm going to get Rabies and DIE!" Matt said dramatically then fell backwards.
"I'm not bored anymore." Lily said sitting down cross legged and watching the two.
"I don't have rabies." Helen pouted uncrossing and crossing her arms again.
"I'm dying." Matt said feigning a weak voice.
"Noooo!" Helen cried masking a smile, deciding to play along and cradling Matt's head in her arms.
"I need..." Matt whispered reaching up to .
"What?" Helen asked leaning closer to listen.
"Zelda." Matt finished.
Helen gave Matt a you've-got-to-be kidding-me look then dropped him standing up and rummaged through her pocket producing the gameboy game.
"Want it?" she asked holding it up.
"Yes." Matt answered standing up.
"Too bad." Helen smiled turning around and running Matt chasing close behind.
Helen, not realizing that Matt was right behind her, turned to stick her tung out at him just as he was about to yell for her to stop. They collided face first instantly freezing.
The whole cafeteria seemed to go quiet, then the two fell to the ground facing opposite directions. Matt was holding his throat like he was choking and coughing and Helen was blushing bright red and covering her mouth with both hands.
"Oh my god I'm going to die! Poison!!" Matt yelled wiping his tung on his sleeve.
Helen jumped up and ran out into the hall yelling back "I have to go brush my mouth, and gargle, and brush my mouth!"
"Brush...her mouth?" Sakura said tilting her head to the side "That sounds a bit awkward if you think about it."
"I don't blame her," Mello spoke up looking down at his friend who was still licking his sleeve, "Stupid didn't brush last night."
"Ew!" Lily and Sakura said in unison then turned to look at each other Lily bursting out laughing and Sakura giggled.
"Ahem," roger cleared his throat loudly standing on a chair so everyone could see him. Every one went silent, "We will be going on a camping trip, You are all to pack your things, enough for a week, and report to the busses at 8:00 pm. We will be driving all night and there will be facilities in the back of the bus. Sleeping bags will be provided if you do not have one. That is all."
"Camping!" Lily yelled excitedly "Keira, you and I are going to be tent-mates!!"
"We're already roommates," Keira pointed out, "it won't be much different."
"Yes it will!" Lily exclaimed as she ran back to her room to start to pack.
"Bye." Keira said turning to the group with a smile then walking after her roommate and friend.
"Bye Sakura." Mello said dragging Matt behind him and completely ignoring Near.
" 'ye 'akuwa." Matt said tung practically attached to his sleeve.
"Bye everybody." Sakura said smiling happily.
"Let's go pack too, Near." she said smiling brightly at him.
"Ok, let's go." Near responded walking towards the doors where everyone was filtering out.
Sakura happily followed her friend into the line as they walked out at a rather slow pace. Sakura looked around at all the different people feeling a little bit more confident due to how many people she'd already befriended. She looked forward and smiled only to find that she'd been separated from Near. Sakura started to panic and her heart rate increased.
"Near?" she called out timidly.
No answer. "Near? Where are you? Near?!" she called again louder and more frantically.
Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder and she jumped, then turned to see a girl with medium length platinum blonde hair tied in a low ponytail by a white ribbon wearing a black tank top and white pajama bottoms. "Angel, nice to meet you."
"I-I'm S-Sakura, n-nice to meet you t-too." Sakura said giving her a small smile.
"Keep walking." Angel ordered steering Sakura forwards. "Don't look behind you, one boy one girl, not nice people." Angel informed Sakura.
Sakura's back stiffened but she kept walking like Angel had told her.
"How old are you, ten, eleven, thirteen?" Angel asked taking a sharp turn as they exited the doors so that they were now standing against a wall on the outside of the cafeteria next to the doors that they had just come out of.
"Sakura." a voice said from nearby. They turned to see Near looking over at them from the hallway that Sakura and Near had come from earlier.
"Near!" Sakura said happily smiling again.
"You guys like thirteen?" Angel asked again.
"Fifteen." Near stated as Sakura padded over to him.
"Oh, sorry." Angel apologized then walked away.
"She was nice." Sakura said honestly as she reached him.
"Let's go pack." Near said walking towards their room.
"What about Helen, she doesn't know we're leaving." Sakura asked genuinely concerned.
"That was her roommate, she'll tell her." Near explained.
"Who? Angel? She's Helen's roommate?" Sakura asked tilting her head to the side.
"Yes, Helen's roommate and the only person that Helen doesn't know." Near said in his usual monotone.
"That doesn't make any sense Near." Sakura said shaking her head.
"Does it have to?" he responded.
"I guess not." Sakura said hesitating thinking that she'd made him angry.
"I'm not angry with you Sakura." Near said as though he'd read her mind.
She smiled at him as confirmation and continued walking. When they got back Sakura packed her clothes, ribbons, brushes, toiletries, and a black blanket with a white moon on it was crammed into her pillow, everything except her tooth brush and toothpaste so she could brush later. She turned to look over at near who had already finished and had a white sleeping bag on top of his light grey bag.
"Wanna do a puzzle?" Sakura asked
"Sure." Near answered and picked a 300 piece puzzle from under the night stand.
Thank you so much for helping me out guys, You can still send me requests to put your character(s) into the story, the more the merrier. The idea for the camping trip is courtesy of Topaz Maia, you rock! Zomg My cat's name is Topaz! Now everyone, go check out NearTheEnd's stories, They are awesomness!!