Author's Reply: Just a little help for everyone

"Hello, my name's Neko. This is 'Twelve Gifts For My Beloved' and I'm here to recap some of the events so far!" Neko walked along a hall that resembled a gallery. Behind her in an ornate frame was a picture of a kitten. Or rather, THE kitten, Nanashi.

"This first gift was a kitten named Nanashi. Nanashi means 'Nameless' in Japanese, so I can only assume that Tsuzuki was meant to rename it but is too stupid to figure it out," Neko pressed a button and a picture of likely suspects appeared next to the picture.

"The primary suspect for this kitten was Hisoka, due to the clue in the note, the comment about being 'lost'. However, it could also be Tatsumi as the note mentions simply being lost. Well, Tatsumi is lost, being an emotionless, guilt-ridden, stingy... and very nice man. I do love you Tatsumi, but you need to stop the whole Tsuzuki obsession. You had your chance..." Neko sighed and moved onto the next picture.

"Gift two," Suspects list appeared. "One million white roses. Now the gift was slightly controversial. Originally intended to only be a single bouquet of twelve roses, cost about £50 or about $90, one million were bought and sent." Neko showed a picture of the room where the roses are being stored and Tatsumi trying to keep the door shut to prevent an avalanche of roses.

"It is beyond the average shinigami's funds to pay for such an expensive gift. The total price in yen is 846916667 ($7,887,098.78). Tatsumi could use the funding he'd get from the Judgement Bureau's treasury, however the most popular suspect for this gift is Muraki-sensei," Neko gave a little shudder.

"Muraki-sensei-" shudder "-once said he'd give Tsuzuki one million roses. It would not be unthinkable to suggest that Muraki has enough money to buy the roses," Neko pressed a button and a picture of Muraki appeared. After scribbling a moustache and a pair of devil's horns and scrawling "Porn Star" across the top, took the picture off the wall and sent it express post to Hisoka. She was sure that the picture would make the young shinigami chuckle.She moved onto the next gift.

"Ah, in this chapter the character Yuzuriha was introduced. Yuzuriha is a character from CLAMP's X1999. She's a hyperactive kind of kid..." Neko scribbled on the picture, black eyes, missing teeth etc and sent the picture to Tsuzuki. Perhaps he'd feel less jealous then?

"The gift is a games console. It's not beyond a shinigami's pay to get hold of one. It could be anyone who had the audacity to sneak into Tsuzuki's apartment. Like I said, it could have been anyone."

"The fourth gift, cake, was by far one of Tsuzuki-san's favourites. The cake was perfect for him, and due to the fact he can't physically change, he can't get fat from the general badness of the food. Or get tooth rot. Therefore he can gorge himself on his favourite thing... Or maybe second favourite thing... I'm sure he'd like to devour Hisoka some time..."

"The suspects for this one are Wakaba, who knows where to get Tsuzuki's favourite sweets, and Hisoka, who knows just about everything about the man. We, Tsuzuki and I, suspect Wakaba, in a patisserie with Terazuma's money." Neko smiles and waves at Terazuma, who actually doesn't have much of a role in this fic at all.

"The next gift is not like the others, as it's more subtle. The paperwork must have been done by a shinigami; furthermore, it had to be done by a shinigami who knew what reports Tsuzuki needed to be writing. Hisoka is an obvious chose, however, Yuzuriha left the office with him."

"Therefore, Tsuzuki-san and I suspect Tatsumi-san for this one. He has the knowledge and was in the position to do the paperwork. Perhaps poor Tsuzuki will end up partnering up with Tatsumi in a less formal way soon?" Neko then proceeded to dodge three different shoes. One belonged to Hisoka, one to Tatsumi and one to Tsuzuki himself.

"Just stating the truth boys! Geez!"

"Anyhow, the next gift was just cute if I say so myself. Tsuzuki no longer smells of BO-" Neko dodged another shoe. "-but of cookies instead. Which means the person had to know how bad Tsuzuki smelled before-" Another shoe.

"HOW MANY FEET DO YOU HAVE!" Neko yelled, then called security to have the

Yami no Matsuei cast removed from the room.

"It could be anyone. My guess is Watari, who'd be able to concoct the potions if he needed to. Or Hisoka and Yuzuriha who'd have to put up with the smell-" It started to rain shoes from somewhere.

"Tsuzuki! I'm trying to help you!" Neko swam to the end of the pile of shoes and onto the next picture.

"Ah, gift seven. Tsuzuki received this gift from Watari, so I can only assume that either Watari was telling the truth and he found it or the admirer is him. The teddy is still cute either way. Look!" Neko pulled out the teddy bunny and made it wave. "It's Kumagoro-sama from Gravitation! Everyone wave to Kumagoro!" Neko then regained her composure and walked to the end of the room.

"Well, that's it so far. Thanks for reading and look out for chapter eight coming soon. Or basically, this is Neko dragging out the story for longer than need be in order to post more than one chapter at a time."

"This is Kotori Neko, logging out from the British Judgement Bureau's Archives. Ja ne!"

Points:

Tsuzuki 0

Hisoka 2

Muraki 1

Watari 2

Tatsumi 3

Hijiri 0

Wakaba 1

Terazuma 0

Gushoshin 0 (Why?)

The Earl (Who knows?)

Neko! 0

Yuzuriha 2

The above is a tally system for who has the most number of accusations. So far, Tatsumi-san is in the lead