I donot own death note ( waaahhhh)
Maya looked around herself she saw that she was in a huge kitchen with objects made mostly of dark colored wood which gave the kitchen a comfortable look, a smallish sort of a dining table at one corner with half a dozen chairs around it. The kitchen had two door one from which Maya and Matt had come in from and another set of double doors leading to probably the dining area.
Matt upon entering the kitchen busied himself with a bowl of cereal and milk ( not that he wasn't already busy with his DS), settling himself down on one of the chairs, with his feet on the table.
As Maya made to sit on one of the chairs unable to decide what to do, a middle aged lady came in through the door scolding a boy of eight.
'Seriously Frankie if I find you putting snails in somebody's bed-,' she stopped abruptly at the sight of Matt.
'Matt how many times I have warned you not to put your feet on the table,' she stormed at Matt instead, Frankie currently forgotten. 'You put your legs down right now or no video games for four hours,' she said dangerously.
Her simple threat earned such quick response from Matt that Maya had to smile.
' You must be Maya and hey Dave,' she said pinching Dave's cheek lightly,' Wammy wants you talk to you after your breakfast.'
'I must get going then.'
'No I said after breakfast, look at you how thin you look, you need me to take care of you,' she said putting a plate in front of Maya and piling it with food scooped out of the frying pan.
'Hey Dave come here,' the lady said picking up Dave from Maya's side and tried to feed him some cereal from a bowl, futilely.
'Here let me do it,' Maya said, holding her arm out for the spoon, to a flustered looking matron.
After taking the spoon from the matron Maya tried to ease the spoon full of cereal into Dave's mouth. But failed, leaving a triumph Dave smiling mischievously at his sister.
After some more tries Maya was finally able to push the spoon in Dave's mouth but her moment of success was short lived as moments later she was showered with the cereal from Dave's mouth. As the shower of cereal ceased Maya looked up to see a pouting Dave. As she was opening her mouth to scold Dave she was interrupted by a laughing Matt, who was actually looking up from his game console.
Maya ended up making a face at Matt which caused him to laugh more, then as she thought how she would be looking making a face in with her cereal spotted face she started laughing too. Then punched Matt playfully in the shoulder. Then finding matron engrossed in her breakfast preparing she made for the door, leaving behind more then half a plate of the food matron has piled up in her plate, with Dave trailing behind her. Matt and Frankie seemed to be thinking about the same lines as Maya and made to follow Maya.
'Where do you think you are going?' they stopped dead in their tracks at the sound of matron's voice.
'Aw man. I was this close to escaping breakfast,' Matt said his eyes fixed on his DS, naturally.
'Ditching matron never seems to work out for you,' a harsh and somewhat husky voice caused Maya to turn around completely.
Leaning casually at the door frame of the double doors, with a smirk plastered at his face was a blonde headed boy. But this was not all, a little then half of his face was covered by a scar although hair obscured part of his face but the scar was too big to be hidden by hair.
'Hey spotty face,' the blonde boy said, smirking at Maya, living up to his reputation of insulting everybody in sight.
'Hey scar faced,' Maya replied smoothly with out missing a beat. She then remembered that her face was still covered with the cereal spots.
'Why you,' the blonde advanced threatingly towards Maya causing Dave to grip Maya's skirt more tightly.
'No fighting in the kitchen Mello, and absolutely no fighting with ladies. She is new here so show some manners,' matron said her back to them, as she prepared breakfast.
'Who are you any ways.'
'She is the new girl, Maya,' Matt said from his perch on the counter.
Mello eyes which have been narrowed dangerously at this point widened a bit, as though suddenly remembering who Maya was.
'Well in that case, if you ever try to best me you are dead, but if you best Near in the process then I would think about sparing your life,' Mello said with a smirk, extending his hand towards Maya, as though daring herself to take the challenge.
'I don't know if I would be able to do that, but I would definitely try,' Maya said firmly grasping Mello's hand and giving it a firm shake.
In the end Maya was left to gobble down her breakfast under the watchful gaze of matron, while a nanny (who has been engaged especially for Dave) tried to feed Dave the cereal.
'Can I go now?' Maya asked, finally finishing her breakfast.
' Yes you may, his study is the third door on the left in the next corridor and Matt and Mello, asked me to tell you that he needs you two and Near in the study with Maya,' she said to Matt and Mello, who like Maya were subjected to finish their breakfast in the kitchen, despite their protests.
'What does old man wants,' Mello said through a mouth full of chocolate, which he had crammed in is mouth to rid of the taste of eggs and toast.
'It is Mr. Wammy to you, he wants to tell you something, I think he has something up his sleeve,' matron said as she collected their cups and plates.
'Maya you get going these two would follow after wards.'
After a few minutes Maya found herself knocking on a huge oak door.
'Come in.'
Maya obliged, turning the knob and entered the room. The room was far more handsomely furnished then any of the rooms she had seen.
On one side of the wall was a chair facing away from the wall with an oak desk in front of it giving it a look to that similar of an office. Maya went and seated her self in front of .
' Welcome Maya to Wammy house I am sorry I couldn't welcome you officially yesterday night, a tour is usually included in the official welcome of a new pupil here but your tour would have to wait as you first have to meet L,' Mr. Wammy said warmly.
' About the L character, I want to know who is he exactly?' Maya asked voicing the question which has been bothering her for quite a long time, well ever since she came to Wammy house.
' L, he is the greatest detective in the world. Yes he is "the L",' Mr. Wammy said with a hint of pride, his voice quavering as though he was excited about something, but was trying to repress his excitement.
What, the L they all were talking about, he was the greatest detective in the world whose face and name were unknown to the world, Maya thought.
He was the same person who could solve a few cases in a matter of a few hours.
No wonder this place is so lavishly spent upon, Maya thought as she trembled slightly because of the nervousness or excited ness she herself could not tell.
It wasn't that she wasn't nervous before but knowing the fact that she was going to meet " the L " gave her all the more reason to be nervous.
Just then a knock on the door interrupted Maya from her chain of thoughts. The door flew open crashing into the wall behind before waiting for permission to enter.
Maya turned around to see Mello but instead found an apparently calm looking Matt with a vein in his forehead throbbing.
Then Maya's eyes found the centre of problem in the shape of Dave, sitting on Matt's shoulders clutching a fistful of Matt's red hair to keep him balanced on his stead and holding a slightly cracked DS in his other hand, which beeped feebly after every few seconds.
But when Dave saw his sister he held his arms forward motioning his sister to take him.
'Why are you acting more and more like Mello by the day,' asked sternly.
'But it was an EMERGENCY,' Matt protested looking at his poor DS which had been poorly discarded on the floor as Dave settled contently into his sister's lap like a kitten.
Just then Mello and a white haired boy entered the room. (Without knocking) Mello strode straight up to 's desk while the white haired boy sat down on the seat next to Maya, clutching a toy robot.
Dave looked at the toy robot, then at the white haired boy, then at the robot, then at Maya who was holding him securely, then he sighed and just watched the robot wistfully from the corner of his eyes. He could never get his way with his sister around.
'What do you want?' Mello demanded from the grandfatherly figure in front of him.
Maya winced at his harsh voice but Mr. Wammy choose to ignore him as though he has done that for most of his life.
'Maya I would like you to meet Mello, Matt and Near,' Mr. Wammy said indicating at the blonde head, the red head and the white head.
'What do you want Watari?' Mello demanded again.
' Ah yes I want all of you to listen to me and what I am going to ask you, is not a request but an order,' Mr. Wammy said firmly as though he wanted to make himself as clear as possible.
Maya stiffened at this. What is he going to ask us to do he looks like he is going to ask us to do something very demanding, Maya thought fearing the worst.
'I want all four of you to attend the local high school; all the arrangements have been made. And no questions asked,' Mr. Wammy said with such a finality that even Mello didn't protest he just stared hard at the old man and then turned away.
Maya felt herself relax; he was so serious while asking for such a little thing.
'There are going to be some new students in our class, I heard they are from Wammy house, the orphanage with the grand building,' Rae announced as she settled herself in a couch in Kay's apartment with an apple in hand.
'Isn't it the place where all the kids are geniuses?' Ian asked.
'I guess you are going to find out,' Kay said brewing a strong coffee to rid of his hangover. His team mates always thought that they were the onl geniuses around. I guess they ARE going to find out, he thought as he took a sip of the coffee, burning his tongue in the process.
A/N; Reviews are always appreciated.