Keep your enemies near

An albino man crept through the halls, a rubix cube in hand as he solved it with expert dexterity and quickly rejumbled the pieces. His eyes were on the box shaped puzzle as he navigated through the dark corridors. White two piece pajamas covered his pale body as he briefly gazed up at the approach of an attractive middle age woman in an all-black business suit.

"Near… another Kira has surfaced."

For a few minutes Near was silent as he attempted to solve the rubix cube. "They say that no matter where you are on a rubix cube it takes exactly seventeen moves to solve the puzzle." He explained. "Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen… seventeen. Dammit!" He swore throwing the toy to the ground where the cheap bonds holding it together broke, sending colorful plastic cubes spreading out.

"Perhaps we should let someone else take the case. You have already stopped enough Kira's as it is." She attempted a weak smile.

"No. I have to finish this, once and for all. Besides, do you think I would have missed another Kira after C-Kira missed my radar for the first week? I already have a list of his victims." His voice was cold, analytic, monotone even.

"Do you have any leads?" She asked, trying to seem hopeful, but her voice betrayed her concern.

"Perhaps." He admitted vaguely.

"Do you care to share them Near?" She asked impatiently.

"Of course Mrs. Lidner, the Kira related crimes seem to date back four days-"

"I realize this Near, this is public information." She sighed.

"Patience." Near scowled. "However, five days ago a news caster with no prior medical conditions died of a heart attack. Since he was the only victim we can safely assume that Kira is testing out his powers. Since that is the case we can also assume that this is in fact another Kira; after all, Light is dead, Misa has no recollection of being second Kira, Mikami is dead as well and C-kira committed suicide."

Halle Lidner was at a loss for words and simply smoothed out her skirt as she waited for Near to continue.

"Thankfully, by killing said news caster we have already narrowed down Kira's location to suburbs and cities surrounding the greater St. Louis area from both Missouri and Illinois." Near smirked. "Now all that we need to do is prepare a new SPK unit for our investigations."

"A… New SPK." Halle asked a little startled.

"Yes, in recent years our task force has… fallen short of the standards L would have expected."

"What do you wish to become of the old members?"

"I wish to keep you and Anthony Rester in my chain of command. Dismiss everyone immediately and I will send out an invitation to my personal recruits."