AN: Wanted to change the POV for a few chapters

THE NEXT MORNING

(Near's office)

Ungrateful and undeserving.

"Why did you take me out of class? I want to go back!"

Jacob moved around in his chair uncomfortable with the man of him. The man called Near was lying to him about who he was and why he was here. Jacob knew that much.

Near wheeled a television closer to the boy.

"Yesterday I told you why I was here. Using your given skills, what do you think about everything I said?"

The younger boy looked at his shoes.

"You were lying."

"And yesterday, you were studying my face... but now you do not look directly at me. Do you remember it?"

"Yes." He edged the chair back. A desperate attempt to get away.

"What did you see?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"What do you usually gather when studying someone?"

"Their emotions, intentions, honesty, life."

"You saw nothing..."

Undeserving.

The older man pressed a button on the television making a video play.

A police officer was asking a suspect a number of questions. The suspect kept arguing that he was innocent. When the video was over the man in white stopped it.

"This man was accused of killing three children and was found innocent of all charges. What do you think of it?"

The young boy continued to stare at the floor.

"He was lying."

Near was shocked he didn't think the boy could arrive at an answer so quickly. He had even believed the man before investigating it himself, and that took him days.

"You are dismissed."

Jacob ran out of the room as fast as possible, leaving the young man worried.

Nothing.

Ungrateful and undeserving.

Asshole.

Jacob could easily read the slightest expressions, maybe a photographic memory and had an IQ that was extremely close to his own. He was terrified of Near. He saw nothing in Near.

Zac held one of the fastest minds, greatest deduction skills and social skills Near had ever seen. He believed Near didn't deserve to be L.

Near hadn't been worried in a long time. He always knew what was next, but now he was second guessing himself.

Undeserving.

Nothing.

If there was a such as Cheap-Kira, then Near felt very much Cheap-L.

Maybe L was just a miserable bastard who held problems so severe he couldn't function in normal society, and due to those problems he used his smarts to capture criminals and put them away, selfishly choosing the "interesting" cases. Near knew all of this and still felt cheap. L was able to give dignity to the job. To make L seem like this great thing, this great thing to die and kill for.

So he was ungrateful.

And he was extremely undeserving.

For the first time he was sorry for the things he did and the things he didn't know he did: scoring better than Mello again. Showing no emotion when hit again. Knowing how to play the game and always winning.

"It should have been Mello."

He wanted it, sacrificed his own life for L's cause, Matt even helped.

Nothing.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS????