AN: I would have posted this yesterday, but the internet was being incredibly dumb at my house because it kept raining and therefore didn't get a signal. D:

Virtual cookie to anyone that knows where the name of the newest Kira comes from! (And DON'T CHEAT BY LOOKING IT UP!! No guessing if you're going to go around Googling it!!)

May 17, 2011
8:38 PM

"Name?" L asked. He popped a bear-shaped animal cracker into his mouth.

"Mamoru Miyano," Matsuda replied, reading off the computer screen.

A tiger. "Age?"

"Turning thirty in July."

An elephant. "Occupation?"

"Banker."

"Points of interest?" This is a... hmm... L couldn't tell what odd animal the cracker was supposed to be.

"Apparently he stalked Misa-Misa at some point."

L paused in chewing his mystery animal when Matsuda said that.

"He did... What?" Near asked, with just a hint of some obscure emotion in his normally monotone voice.

"He did! But she filed a court restraining order against him, so he had to stop..." Matsuda trailed off.

L smirked slightly. "Which partially explains why he lives in that apartment... Interesting..." Mmm, bison.

"Oh, and get this," Matsuda continued, "He has severe paranoia, and has been hospitalized in the past for believing and doing... crazy things."

L paused again with the cracker halfway to his mouth. "...'Crazy things.'"

"Yeah..."

"I'm afraid," Near said, frowning, "that you'll have to be a bit more specific than that."

"Oh... Well, apparently he has a phobia of getting... what the hell? He's afraid of getting mauled by traveling salesmen--hey, that explains why he almost killed me! Oh, sorry... he's a serious hypochondriac that seems to overreact when faced with a stressful situation... he's been known to abuse alcohol in a few situations... and he has a serious fear of being stalked... for starters. The list gets quite long..."

L raised an eyebrow as he ate a lion-shaped cracker. "He fears stalkers, yet he stalked Amane."

Matsuda frowned. "...Pretty much..."

Hypocrite.

"So this is our major Kira suspect," Near murmured.

L nodded. In went a giraffe. "Is there a photograph of Miyano in that file, Matsuda-san?"

"Yeah, from one of his 'check-ins' into the local psychiatric ward... He's definitely the guy that assaulted me."

"May I...?" L ate a cat-shaped cracker.

"Oh! Sure!" Matsuda instantly scooted his chair over, giving L enough room to comfortably look at the screen.

L glanced at the photo and was instantly reminded of Light. Mamoru Miyano and Light Yagami were physically alike in several ways: they were both tall, relatively built, thin, brunette, and shared similar bone structure in their faces. After three-eighths of a second, however, L could clearly tell that it was indeed not a picture of Light. Mentally he began to compile a list of physical differences between the two.

"...He looks kind of like Light, doesn't he?" Matsuda muttered.

Slowly L shook his head. "Not to me he doesn't."

"...Oh..."

L turned away and ate another mystery animal. "But regardless, he is almost definitely Kira, judging by this profile."

Out of the corner of his eye, L noticed Matsuda doing a small victory dance.

"What should we do to find proof?" Near asked. "Should we just search his apartment for the Death Note or find some way for him to confess to being Kira?"

"Getting a confession out of him is extremely unlikely," L observed as he ate a rhinoceros. He paused as an idea crossed his mind. "Matsuda-san, you should go home now; Near and I will come up with a plan to corner Miyano tonight."

"Oh, okay." Matsuda looked slightly disappointed, but he hurried out of the room and presumably left the building.

Near turned to L. "You already have an idea, don't you?"

L shrugged and ate a panda cracker. "Only a very vague one."

Near only looked at him with blank eyes. "...What sort of idea?"

"We stalk him."

Near didn't let it show on his face, but it was obvious to L that what he'd just said wasn't making sense to his successor.

"...We stalk him...?" It sounded almost like a question the way Near repeated it.

L picked out a mystery animal cracker and eyed it carefully. "Exactly. We use his apparent phobias to our advantage and catch him in the act. We send someone to follow him; he might not notice, in which case we would be able to watch him closely, but if he does notice, it would cause him to panic and act without rationally thinking. If we do it right, he would never even know that he was tricked into revealing that he was Kira to us."

Near thought it over and slowly nodded. "I understand what you're saying... You used a similar method to catch Higuchi as the third Kira and reveal his Death Note, correct?"

"Yes."

L snapped the mystery cracker in half.

Mamoru Miyano, it doesn't look as though it will be long until your judgement day arrives.

"There's just one potential problem I can think of," Near said. "If any of us follow Miyano, the shinigami Ryuk could recognize us and might reveal that a member of the team responsible for catching Kira is watching his every move."

L briefly considered this as he munched on a cracker. "True. He met all the members of the SPK in the Yellowbox Warehouse and lived with the task force while he was attached to the Death Note at their headquarters... And it would be foolish of me to assume that he doesn't know my identity..."

Which left one person that was officially on the investigation team.

Near apparently reached the same conclusion L did at about the same time. They both glanced at each other with mildly grim expressions.

L hoped that Yamamoto hadn't picked up any of Matsuda's unpredictability.

AN: Hooray for Yamamoto!! Finally he has a decent/kinda-important role in the story!!

LOL, the whole animal crackers thing was inspired by an afternoon of hanging out with Nikki. We were both eating them out of the box, and we kept going,
"Ooh, a kitty!"
"Looks more like a horse..."
"Whatever it is, I'm eating it. Is that a hippo?"
"I think so."
"Oops, I just broke it's foot off..."
"What kind of animal is THIS supposed to be?"
"Duh, Nikki, it's a frigging plottypus!"
*pause*
"You stole that from Quiet, didn't you??"
"...Maybe."

Okay, a good portion of you guys hate Light, right? Last night I posted a one-shot involving him, an apple, a mirror, and a lot of screaming. (Muahaha...) Check it out? (*puppy eyes*)

Review, pwetty pwease? Even if it's only to guess where I got the new Kira's name from...