Leave a Trail Chapter 2

-Arrival

The raven haired sixteen year old walked into the kitchen, paying no attention to the screaming children running past him. His feet padded against the clean wooden floor, and he reached up to one of the higher cupboards. He grabbed out a packet of candy strawberries.

He smiled down lightly at them, and made his way back to his room. On his way, he saw Watari, who stopped the sixteen year old.

"L." He started. "your new successor is here." He bowed his head lightly.

"Thank you, Watari." L said, putting a bit of strawberry candy in his mouth. L continued walking, and made his way past the lounge.

There, on a couch, he saw a small girl. She had read hair, dark green eyes, and she was soaked. She sat on the couch with her legs crossed. She had a white lollipop stick sticking out of her mouth.

My new successor...I'm not doing anything now, I could introduce myself. L thought. But, he wasn't very good with social interactions. He stood still, holding the packet of candy, his thoughts arguing with himself.

Then one side one. He walked over to the soaked girl, and sat down in an unusual way, his knees against his chest, and hands on his knee caps. The girl looked up to him. Once comfy, L looked down to her too,.

"Hello." He said simply. "I am L."

The girl looked up at him again, thinking intensely. Everyone has a nick name, I may as well give myself one...my name is from the last word my mom said, so I could use that with my dad. What was the last word he said to me again? Oh yeah.

"I'm Trail. I just arrived."

"Welcome. I hope you like it here." L murmured. There was silence for about a minute. "I take it you haven't met anyone your age yet?"

Trail shook her head.

"Would you like to? I know some people around your age." L didn't know how to hold a conversation, so he might as well get the help of a few friends.

"Okay." Trail said. She and L hopped off the couch and walked down the hall quietly. Wammy's house was large, and it took about three minutes to get to L's friends room.

The halls contained more loud, running, laughing children. Some stop and stared at L, he rarely came out of his room. Mainly for sweets or to fix the internet if it went off. Every single one of the kids were L's successor, and most of them wanted to be just like him.

There were a few large windows in the halls, and it was easy to see it was still raining heavily. It was dark outside, but it was only 4pm. The halls were illuminated by large lights on the ceiling. It was January, and it was still winter. The constant snow had stopped, and it was slowly easing into spring. Finally.

Most of the kids were fed up of staying indoors all day due to the weather, and frankly, L was fed up of them staring, pushing and screaming at him all day. It was annoying as hell. L just hoped that Trail wouldn't be as annoying as everyone else.

L looked down. Then down a little more. Trail was short, and she was still soaked. L patted her shoulder, and walked on the other side. Trail wondered why he did this, then looked at the wall on her side. She was now next to the long radiator that stretched down the hall way.

At last the two were out of the hallway. They walked into a small room with four doors, five if you counted the one L and Trail just walked in. Each of the doors had a small window. Through the first two windows, there you could see blue. These were the boys' corridors. In the next two, there was a light pink with a wooden floor. This was the girls' corridors. L lead Trail through the first door into the first boys' corridor. There were more loud children, but the vast majority were boys. There were a few girls playing happily with the boys, Trail saw two older children who looked about eleven holding hands. A petite blonde girl and a slightly taller boy with brown hair.

Finally, at the end of the corridor, there were two rooms opposite each other. Both rooms were closed, and there were no kids around this bit. L knocked on the door on the left.

Seconds after a boy answered. He was taller than Trail, but he was five, he was obviously smaller than L. His hair was bleach white, and his skin was slightly darker. Like L's, his eyes were darkly rimmed. His shirt was white, and a little too big for him. He wore very light blue trousers, also a little too big for him, and it was easy to see his white socks that seemed to fit him well.

"Hi L." The boy looked up to his mentor, then down to Trail. "Who's that?"

"This is Trail. She's new here and she doesn't know anyone." L told him. "Trail, this is Near."

"Hi." Trail smiled.

"You're soaking wet." Near pointed out.

"It was raining heavily when I arrived." Trail sighed. "And I've only been here for ten minutes."

"Oh." Near said. "Well it's nice to meet you." Near gestured to Trail and L to come in, but L refused.

"I'm going to go back to my room and do some more cases. Why don't you two...hang out..." L suggested.

"Sure."

"Sounds fun." Trail smiled, walking into Nears room. The room was rather small, it had one tidy bed, a desk with a white laptop on top of it, a swivel chair, a chest of drawers and a book case. Sprawled across the floor were many toys. Lego, robots, and transformer toys. The majority of the room was white.

Fun.

A/N: I know it was a bad way to end, but I R tired, and I really wanted the chapter to have exactly 1000 words. Yeah.

But I'll try to upload tomorrow. Warning: Rating may go up for 7 year olds Matt and Mello singing "I touch myself". I listened to the song today, and imagined them singing, and laughed.

Oh, and on the last chapter, Trail/Carlyn says "yellow car no GIT backs". It's meant to be no hit backs. But C'MON! She's 3, she's allowed to have some talking mistakes! RIGHT! RIIIIGHT! /3