Hey! So this is a new multi-chapter story I've been working on involving Matt, Mello, Near, and my OC, Alice. I've been working on this for forever now, but I just never knew how to get it started. Anyways, I hope you enjoy. This story was actually just suppose to be a MattxOC, but I've changed it so that it includes NearxOC and MelloxOC. It also has a bit of LxOC, but Alice won't be getting with him. Okay, so that's it. Hope you like it! I worked really hard on this and would love you reviewed, so please do! Thanks so much!

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note in any way or form! If I did own it I would've given Matt a bigger role in the manga and anime.

"It's sad isn't?"

"With her parents only just dying last year and now this."

"Oh, yes. The poor thing, losing her older brother so suddenly like that."

"I feel so bad for the girl."

The pity filled voices of adults seemed to echo in the cemetery. Somehow their sympathy made me feel angry. Did they think by saying that they felt bad would make me feel any better? How could I possibly feel any sort of happiness or comfort? My brother, the only person I had left in the world, he was murdered and right before my eyes too! The image of him being stabbed repeatedly will forever haunt me.

Oh, that's right reader; you've no idea who I am. So before I continue let me introduce myself. My name is Cecilia Hartwood. I have cream-ish blonde hair and slate colored eyes. I'm fifteen years of age and as of now I am officially an orphan. Up until a few days ago though, I had been living with my twenty-four year old brother, Demetri, who had been acting as my guardian since our parents passed away the year before. Now that he's dead I have no other relatives to turn to and thus I will be shipped off to an orphanage until I turn eighteen.

Finally, the funeral ended and everyone started to leave, well everyone except me and one particularly odd man who wasn't dressed for a funeral at all. I stood there staring at the guy who was wearing a plain white long-sleeved shirt, worn out blue jeans, and some ragged looking sneakers. He had messy ebony hair and rather pale skin. His eyes, that looked gray in color, had bags under them making his emotionless face look rather tired. The guy looked to be about the same age as my brother or maybe even younger, but it was hard to tell with him slouching over. I somehow couldn't help but wonder who exactly was he.

Turning away from him, I simply stared at my brother's tomb stone, all the while telling myself not to start crying till the weirdo was gone. A few minutes passed, and the man still didn't leave. Who is this guy? I thought, while glancing at him. Suddenly, I felt a little drop of water hit my nose. This caused me to look up towards the sky where there was now nothing but huge gray clouds. Not a single trace of the azure sky was showing, making my already colorless world seem even bleaker.

As if things couldn't get any worse, the rain started pouring down heavily. I stopped looking at the cloudy sky and just looked around. Now, no one was there. The man from earlier had disappeared. Sighing, I turned back to my big brother's grave. Although I was already practically drenched with rain, I could feel tears starting to well up in my eyes. My legs began to feel weak and finally I just fell to my knees crying. I didn't even care if I was getting muddy or that I was getting soaked to the bone!

Did it really even matter anymore? I mean there was no one who cared about me to stop me and tell me to get out of the rain before I get sick, right? The last person I had who would care about my health was now forever sleeping in a coffin buried in the ground! So would it really make a difference if I just stayed out here, got sick, and died. At least if I were dead I'd get to be with my parents and brother again.

I continued crying there in the rain for awhile. All of a sudden though, I felt the rain stop a bit. Looking up I saw an umbrella being held over me and the person holding it out was the weird guy from earlier. I stopped my crying and just stared at him in confusion.

"Why?" I finally asked.

The guy pulled me up onto my feet and roughly patted my head. Oh, and by roughly I mean it was like he was trying to slap the top of my head a bunch of times.

"Why? Well, you'll catch a cold like that, Cecilia. Now follow me."

I suddenly found myself being dragged by the man who somehow knew my name.

"How do you know who I am?" I asked while pulling my arm away from him, but instead of stopping he just kept walking. It was like he hadn't noticed he wasn't holding onto me anymore.

"Hey! How do you know me?!"

After he had walked a pretty good distance away, he stopped and turned around to look at me. I stood there getting even more wet expecting him to yell back a reply to my answer, but instead he only looked at me with a confused look.

"How do you know my name?!" I yelled.

The guy only brought up his free hand to his ear showing that he couldn't hear me over the loud rain and wind.

"I said, how do you know my name?!" I practically screamed.

He tilted his head to the right a bit, before grinning and once again bringing his hand to his ear. Feeling rather pissed off now, I stormed over to him.

"I SAID, HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?!"

"Oh, I see. Well, it's because you're the famous genius violin prodigy all over the news and it's also because I happened to know your brother. Now follow me," he said while walking away.

I hesitantly followed the guy, not knowing whether to completely trust him or not. Oh, and I'm sorry for forgetting to tell you reader that I'm a famous violinist and that I'm also a bit of a genius, it just slipped my mind is all. Anyway, I quietly followed the guy out of the cemetery. When we reached the gates there was an old man standing under an umbrella waiting. The second he saw us, he walked over.

"Sorry I took so long, Watari," The guy said to the old man, who was apparently called Watari.

"It's fine Ry-" Was the last thing I was really able to hear, for I began to feel tired. Everything went black after that.

Slowly, I opened my eyes. My surroundings had changed. I was no longer outside in the rain, instead I was lying down in the back of a van. Sitting up, I realized I wasn't in my wet clothes anymore either. Now I was wearing a big plain white long-sleeved shirt and a pair of really loose worn out jeans. Needless to say, these clothes were a guy's and I knew whose they were.

"Oh… You're awake now. How are you feeling, Alice?"

Turning, I saw the guy from earlier sitting in a chair near me. Staring at him made me realize just how much weirder he actually was. He was sitting in a position that was rather odd. Wait, could his position even be called sitting? It was like he was crouching or something on the chair. Whatever, enough of him and his weirdness. Did he just call me Alice?

"I'm fine, but did you call me Alice? My name is Cecilia."

"I'm well aware of that, but now you will go by the name Alice."

"Why do I have to change my name? Oh, and speaking of names, I don't even know yours. How do you expect me to trust someone whose name I don't even know."

"You're not changing your name really. Alice will only be your alias while you live at Wammy's. It is required that all Wammy's House children not go by their real names. As for my own name. Well, you can just call me L."

An alias? Wammy's House? L? What was going on? I stared at L rather confused at my current situation. He, probably noticing this, began to explain. Apparently Wammy's House was the orphanage I was being sent to. It also seemed that Wammy's was a place for only gifted children, so I would fit in just fine. After explaining that, L than began to talk about other things like how he was actually a famous detective, and now that he mentioned it, I think I remembered reading something about him. Anyway, it appeared that Wammy's House was not only for housing orphans with exceptional intelligence skills, but for raising children to be the successor to L.

As I soaked in this information, my stomach began to growl. I rubbed my empty belly and frowned. Man, I'm so hungry… I thought.

"Alice, it appears that you're a bit hungry. Here," L said while handing me a little box of Pocky.

"Thank you, L!" I happily took the red box from him and began munching away at the chocolate covered biscuit sticks.

Soon we came to a stop though. The back doors of the van opened and there stood the old man from before, Watari if I remembered correctly. L got out and I followed him out. We were apparently at the airport.

"What are we doing here?" I asked while trying to keep L's baggy jeans, that I was still wearing, up.

Man, for someone practically as skinny as me, was he fat. These jeans were so loose on me. If I knew his clothes were so big, I would've just stayed wet. Wait a second, I passed out still in my wet clothes. So who changed me? I began to feel rather embarrassed and blushed.

"Alice, follow me or you'll get lost." L stated while walking away.

I snapped out of if and did as told and followed the raven haired detective. Somehow I didn't find the guy so weird anymore. In fact, he almost reminded me of my big brother.

The scenery of England rolled past the car window rather fast. I still felt a bit of jet lag from our flight from California to England, but it was slowly starting to go away. Also, I finally had gotten to change out of L's clothes, which I returned to him. Well, I actually just returned the pants. I kept his long-sleeved shirt. Anyway, L had made Watari go buy me some new clothes which I happily changed into, even if it seemed like a school uniform.

Right now reader, I was wearing a white button up collar shirt with a gray sweater vest over it, a gray plaid skirt, white knee high socks, and matching gray shoes. Oh, and a nice gray ribbon was tied in my hair. I know, I'm just like a rainbow, right? Note my sarcasm dear reader.

Finally, the car came to a halt in front of a large building in Winchester, England. Watari opened the door for me and I got out nervously. I looked up at the huge gates that led to the entrance of Wammy's House and then I turned back to L, who just sat there in the car.

"This is farewell then, L."

"Wait, you forgot my shirt," he said handing his shirt over to me, obviously putting the emphasis on my.

"Thanks for letting me keep it." I took the long-sleeve while laughing and turned away from him.

Taking a deep breath, I took one step forward before turning back and hugging him. I hate to admit it, but during this short time I grew attached to the weirdo. He was like my big brother now, and I truthfully wished I could stay with him and not live at Wammy's.

"Alice…" L patted my head again. This time it was more gently than before, but still just as awkwardly done. He then pushed me away.

"It was nice having you around, Alice, but you have to stay here. Besides, you'll make better friends here. So goodbye now." He then shut the door and locked it so I wouldn't be able to open it.

I felt my eyes tear up a bit as I tightened my grip on the white long-sleeved shirt in my hands. Turning away from the car I was now face to face with Watari. I didn't really talk to him much, but he seemed like a very kind old man. He gave me a smile and handed me a big case. Opening it, it was a brand new violin.

"What? Why?" I asked, astonished.

"It's because your gifted at the violin." Was all that he said before getting in the car and driving off.

I stood there staring off in the direction of where the car had disappeared before looking back at Wammy's House's gates. I pushed them open and walked on in. The sun was setting at this time so not many children were out, but as I walked up to the main building I noticed two boys standing under a tree, staring at me. One of them with red-ish brown hair and the other a blond with shoulder length hair. I ignored them both and walked in, wondering what kind of adventures awaited me in this orphanage.

So that's the end of chapter one! Sorry if it sucked. It's like 3 AM right now and I'm so tired... Bleh... Anyway... Also, sorry this chapter mostly just involved L, but at least Matt and Mello appear at the very end. The whole next chapter will be involving Near, but I'll to make Mello and Matt appear a bit more though! Well, hope you liked it! Review please! Ummm... and good night. I'm tired as hell right now... Later!

Chapter two coming soon! :3