The New Addition ch7
A/N: I've decided to give you a little more character building/forshadowing and other such nonsense before the big time jump. I'll probably put some thing about exams and testing out early in here so the time jump will flow better and i can also build on the relationships a bit more so it doesn't seem like they just popped up over night~ and i might just introduce a new 'character' lol...
It was about half way through the fourth month of school and our lovely Noa was currently trying to rouse a stubborn blond from bed. She stood with her hands on her hips fingers fisting slightly (in irratation) into the silky material of her chinese style pajamas.
She glared at the blanket cacoon that was her roommate. "Mello If you don't get up your your going to make us all late!" the blond mumbled something unintelligable and rolled away from the frustrated mother hen. She scowled and her eye twitched. "Mello!" she growled out one last time before she would take drastic measures. 'three...two...on-'
Matt and Luka having heard Noa's yelling had poked their heads through the door to see what was going on, just in time to see Noa flipping Mello's mattress off his bed and onto the floor the blond still on it. Next thing they knew they were being shoved out of the way by a hysterically laughing brunett as she was chased out of the bedroom and all over the apartment by Mello who was currently cursing loudly in nearly every language he knew aside from english. The chase ended with the Mello tackling Noa onto the couch and tickling her mercilessly until she finally begged for him to stop and apologized for his rude awakening.(not really meaning the latter of course)
Matt glanced at Luka before looking back at the breathless duo sprawled on the couch and just shrugged before moving to the kitchen to start the morning coffee and Mello's cocoa... Luka just watched them for a moment longer before launching herself over the back of the sofa to flop on top of both her friends. "Noaaa! feeeed meee! I'm starving!" she moaned out piteously.
Noa sighed and ruffled the tiny girls hair and Mello did his customary eyeroll before shoving Luka playfully off of them (and onto the floor) and struted into the kitchen. Luka just layed on the floor and played dead dramatically. Noa copied Mello's eyeroll and entered the kitchen as well. "Matt go get princess rag doll and drag her royal laziness into the kitchen for breakfast" Noa ordered and Matt made a big show of sighing in false exasperation and slouching into the other room.
"yess mum~"
The First class of the day was one that they all shared. It was advanced maths and all four of them were completely bored out of there minds after fifteen minutes. Luckily for them it wasn't long after the bordom set in that the intercom came on and called all of them to the main office Noa's eyes immediatly shifted to stare acussingly at Luka, Mello and Matt. The group stood quietly ignoring the imature 'ooohhs' and snickers from their classmates and were lead out of the room by Mello. When the were seated in the empty headmasters office Noa rounded on the three troublemakers. "What did you do?" she practically hissed.
Matt was the first to cover his ass "what ever it was I didn't have any part in it!" he yelped as he cowered behind Mello and Luka. Now Matt was deffinantly not a coward but Noa absolutly terrified him. You just don't piss off Noa.
"If we get expelled... or even suspended for that matter can you just imagine L's reaction?" she stared at each of them and watched as they paled dramatically.
Headmaster Yamada entered his office shortly after hearing the tail end of the conversation. "Don't worry nobodies getting expelled or suspended or even getting detentions for that matter. I actually called you here because your gaurdian had asked me to keep an eye on your scores. At first I thought he just wanted to be personally informed of your progress but now I understand what he meant." he smiled at there confused expressions "You four are already far passed your peers in the advanced core classes. Your teachers even mentioned thent on some assignments you went into three times the amount of detail that was even asked for and were correct on all points." he watched there reactions and was confused by the fact that they didn't seem to understand why he was so surprised that their work was flawless.
Luka spoke for them all "But isn't that whats expected of us?"
The headmaster was absolutely stunned. He had never even heard of any one at this age with that kind of work ethic, deciding to go back to the origonal point of the meeting instead of dwelling on the current phenomenom smacking him in the face he continued, "the point is I believe that by the end of next month you will all be ready to test out of your core classes and focus solely on taking what ever elective classes you want to load up with." the four stared at him with vairious degrees of surprise. They'd assumed that they'd just be placed in more difficult classes.
Mello made sure to clarify "So when we test out our entire schedual will be made up of chosen electives and we can completely focus on our specialties or at least what we plan to specialise in?" the headmaster nodded and the foursome grinned at each other.
"Life just got so much easier" Luka sighed out happily.
Matt chuckeled at her and flicked her nose bringing her out of her dreamy haze. "Stay with us now Lulu~" He teased. Luka scowled causing the two boys to laugh.
Noa ignored them focusing in stead on the headmaster "so none of us are in trouble?" she asked and Yamada laughed.
"Unless there is anything you would like to confess to?" he asked jokingly.
The boys laughter stopped almost instantaneously and they stared at him with wide eyes. Luka laughed nervously "oh would you look at the time, we're going to be late for second period! We should go! Thanks so much for meeting with us about the tests, we'll be there, and we'll be in touch!" she quickly ushered an uneasy looking Mello and Matt from the room, Noa following behind. The headmasters laughter following them.
Noa looked at them "what did you do?"
Luka looked momentarily panicked then schooled her expression carefully blank, Mello and Matt finally finding themselves and following her example. "nothing they can prove had any thing to do with us."
Noa couldn't contain the fit of giggles that escaped her at that. "this wouldn't happen to have anything to do with a certain maple syrup based accident that befell my poor history teacher would it?" the man had given Noa a detention for very politely correcting him during class when they were reviewing for a test saying she had been a smart ass(which she wasn't). Noa had been in tears when she told the others. the next day the man had entered the classroom covered from head to toe in maple syrup and chicken feathers.
Mello smirked slightly "whatever are you talking about?" playing up the innocent blond card.
Matt chuckled and waved at them as he wandered off in the direction of his computer class. Luka grabbed Mello's arm and led him in the direction of there mixed martial arts class yelling to Noa that they'd 'see her later' as they rushed off. She smiled fondly after her best friends and walked in the opposite directon twords her medical science class.
"come on Luka we're gonna be late." Matt yelled from outside of the girls locker-room, they had stayed after for school for extra lessons and Luka was taking forever to change back into street clothes.
"Jeez Matt keep your pants on and let me put on mine!" she shouted back.
"I don't want to be the one to explain to Noa why we were late to our meeting with L. Do you?" Matt scowled at her as she walked out in purple skinny jeans and his hoodie.
"Okay mister whiny pants we can go now!" she mocked dragging him out of the school and twords the apartment. They were discussing different game systems when it happened. They were passing by the opening of an alley, there was a group of what looked like young highschool boys huddled around something. The boys where laughing and jeering at what ever it was, and Luka just froze she felt rage build up as she watched one of them kick whatever it was. She snapped when she saw one of them pull out an pocket knife. Matt was unfortunately to shocked by the scene to stop her in time,she lunged. "what the hell do you think your doing!" she yelled and ran at the boys literally dropkicking the closest one in her fury. when she saw what was going on in the middle of the circle she felt cold sweep through her. Laying curled into itself on the ground was a small red akita inu puppy with bloody fur and a mangled ear, it was hardly moving and letting out pathetic whimpering breaths. She punched the next closest boy in the jaw sending him into the alley wall. Her eyes blurred with angry tears.
Matt grabbed a boy the back of the neck, swept his legs and slammed his head into the concrete just as he moved to go after Luka and glared at the rest. "Get the fuck out before we call the cops." he said it quietly, just loud enough to be heard through the alley. The other boys gulped and scattered not wanting to get the crap beat out of them or get aressted.
Luka knelt next to the tiny frightened animal in the now empty alley, she reached out to it slowly. Only to have the puppy jerk back and snap at her fingers. She shushed him soothingly and the next time she reached out the puppy did not miss. Latching on to her fingers and growling lowly. Luka winced but otherwise did not react. Continually shushing and whispering comfortingly to the frightened puppy."It's okay little one, I'm not gonna hurt you. shhhh, your gonna be alright." Matt watched worriedly but did not intervene knowing how Luka was with animals. slowly the puppy released her hand and whimpered nosing it and licking the bite. Luka looked at Matt "we need to take him to Noa." he nodded took out his phone to call Noa simple telling her to be ready for them when they arrived. slowly and carefully Luka picked the puppy up cradling him in her jacket staining it with blood. They rushed as carefully as they could back to the apartment.
"Noa! Mello! " Matt yelled as soon as he entered the apartment, Luka trailing carefully behind.
"Whats wrong? What happen-" Noa gasped when she laid eyes on the pitiful furry creature bleeding out onto Luka's jacket. "Mello go get the first aid kit! hurry!" Mello nodded and rushed to the bathroom and returned in moments with the enourmous medical case and a towel. Noa spread the towel over the table and had Luka put the puppy on it. She then began to gently poke and prod wounded animal. "Luka go boil me some water." Luka mearly shook her head out right refusing to leave the pups side. Noa sighed "Mello?" Mello nodded and moved to the stove. Noa looked to Luka and Matt who were watching the puppy. "I'm not a vet but I'll do my best. as far as I can tell it doesn't seem like there's any internal bleeding, he does likely have some fractured ribs, and the end of his left ear is totally shredded it looks like an older dog got a hold of him at some point. He has lacerations all over his chest and front legs and he's very emaciated."
Matt frowned "I'm gonna go look into puppy and dog nutrition and see if I cant find him a good, balanced, fresh diet." Luka nodded and Matt went in serch of his laptop.
Mello brought the water and went off to help Matt while Luka and Noa cleaned the puppy and began disenfecting and bandaging process.
It was a half and hour later when L arrived with Watari in tow. When he entered the apartment the last thing he expected to see was Noa and Luka nearly mummifying what seemed to be a brutalizied akita puppy on the kitchen table and Mello pureeing a combination of raw meats and vegetables at the kitchen counter with Matt instructing the process from behind his laptop. Luka noticed him first but did not go to greet him, simpley motioned him into the room and offered him a seat at the table, which he took. "what exactly is going on here?"
"Matt and I beat the crap out of some kids in an alley today. They were hurting him. They were gonna kill him. One of them pulled a knife, and I-I just snapped..." Luka spoke softly and carefully pet the little red akita. L watched her quietly for a moment before nodding not nessicarily in approval but in understanding. Mello and Matt decided to join the party at that point. Mello handing Luka the completed dogfood she gently coaxed the puppy into eating. It was slow going, but eventualy she got the puppy to eat some, not alot, but enough. After that she took him and put him on her bed to sleep leaving the door open so she could hear him. Upon returning to the kitchen she found everything cleaned up and put away. So she sat back down and joined the conversation. "So, Where's Near?" Mello scowled.
"He stayed home as he had work to do, and he did not want to upset Mello in his own home." L responded, Mello had the decency to blush and look slightly sheepish. "I heard about your scores from the Headmaster Yamada. Do you intend to take the tests?"
Mello nodded "we all want to be able to focus on what we plan to specialize in, if we test out of our core classes then we will have that much more time to spend on the classes we need." L nodded at Mello's logic.
"I am sure you all will do very well."
Matt groaned as he sat back in his chair. He hated exams. and he was deffinantly glad they were over. he had finished a little early and checked his answers. He quietly got up and handed his papers to the teacher and left the room to join Mello in the library. Luka and Noa were not far behind. "so were done? that was the last exam right?" Luka looked hopeful.
"yeah that was the last one..."Mello replied as he collapsed into a library chair. "and its friday too so we have the weekend now to do what ever we want."
"Oh crap we gotta get home Rollo's gonna pee all over the house!" Luka shouted into the quiet library getting shushed by multiple persons as she rushed out. The other three laughed after her.
"Rollo! We're home!" Luka yelled as they walked into the apartment. There was a rapid clicking of claws on the floor and then a ginger blur launched at Luka. She stumbled back and laughed holding the yipping 4 month old akita licking at her face. "I missed you too Rollo! You ready to go for a walk?" another yip. "does any one else wanna come?" she asked as she slipped the leather harness and leash on the puppy and ajusted his spiked collar so it could be seen.
"I'll go." Mello responded boardly.
Matt shook head muttering about a computer programing test and wandered twords the bedroom.
"No sorry I gotta start dinner. You want me to Make Rollo's too?" Noa asked ruffling his uneven ears.
Luka smiled " please do. Do you need any thing while I'm out?"
Noa nodded "Eggs, milk, detergent and your almost out of candy and Mello needs chocolate." Luka nodded and left with Mello who was biting into one of his last chocolate bars and Rollo bouncing around there legs excitedly.
tbc~
A/N: I didn't really know how to wrap this one up so its kinda at wierd place I know but I just kinda ran out of ideas for this chapter. I realized that I hardley have Mello talk and he hasnt been a very active character lately im gonna try to work on that, soo please bare with me! also the next chapter is my time jump itll probably only be about a year so luka and noa will be 15ish and mello will be 16 and matt will almost be 16 rollo will be a semi important character from know on he is a freakishly smart dog and will get quite large. the kira case will start soon i still havent decided what im gonna do with light... so anyway thanks for reading, see you next time~