Half return (reader x Mello x Matt) death note

(Y/n) loses everything too early.

After being orphaned, she's sent to Wammy's House, a place that prides itself on raising geniuses but rarely pauses to ask what that does to a child. It's there that she meets the three official successors to L: Near, Mello, and Matt. Brilliant, strange, broken in different ways. She fits in not because she's exceptional, but because she understands what it's like to be left behind.

The four of them grow up tangled together. Friendship forms easily, but everything else is messier.

Wammy's isn't just a school. It's a pressure cooker. As the years pass, each of them begins to discover things about themselves they don't quite have the language for yet. Near retreats further inward, Matt hides behind games and silence, and Mello burns hot with ambition, jealousy, and feelings he refuses to name.