Riddles {a Death Note MelloXOC and NearXOC story}

Catching Up

"So you said you'd tell me. What's his name?"

"Eli," May said, "I met him at university."

"What does he do?" the man pressed.

"Geez, Nakamura-san, nosy much?" she said, somewhat annoyed. "He's a doctor."

"That explains it," Nakamura said with a laugh. "Let me see it again."

May sighed, but nonetheless, did as he said. He stared at the ring placed on her left ring finger. It was silver and had one diamond placed in the middle, with two smaller diamonds on either side of it. It wasn't flashy. In fact, it was rather modest, yet even so, it was beautiful. It suited May perfectly.

"Wow," Nakamura said in awe, "so when's the wedding?"

"Sometime next spring, probably," she told him.

Nakamura was about to say something else but was cut off when Kinjo rushed over with the woman Nakamura had wanted to see.

"I've got her right here," Kinjo said.

Nakamura looked the woman up and down, and after about a minute, he said, "Okay, she looks good."

That was an understatement. The beautiful woman wore an elegant dress and had a barrette placed in her carefully combed hair. She didn't wear much makeup; she didn't need it. Her lips were glossed a lovely shade of red, and the mascara she wore made her beautiful eyes stand out like gems.

"Hello, Director, May-chan," she said politely.

"What?" said Nakamura, confused; he turned to look at May. "May-san, you two know each other?"

"Yeah," May said with a laugh. "We met at a café a while back."

"After that, we started hanging out with each other a lot," the woman added.

"What a coincidence," said Nakamura. "Well, May-san here is a big part of this, too. She's doing me a huge favor here; she'll be overseeing finances, among other things."

"Oh, that's great!" said the woman, clapping in delight. "May-chan, we should go out again sometime. I miss spending time with you!"

"Yes," May agreed, "we definitely should do it again. Though it looks like we're about to start soon. You and the others should probably go and finish up here."

"Okay, bye!" the woman said with a wave. Then, she ran off to finish her final preparations for the job.

"Wow," a woman's voice said. May looked over and saw Sasaki looking at the girl who May had just spoken to who was running to get ready. "Is that who I think it is? I didn't know she was going to be working with us."

"Yes," May said with a laugh, "that's her. Amane Misa."

Patience

"Lidner told me to come get you," I heard a voice say.

"Okay, I'm coming," I said. "Sorry, Birdie."

Yes, you heard right: Birdie. That sweet, innocent, adorable girl from earlier in my life was working on the Kira case, but she was no longer sweet nor adorable. Half of the time, she wasn't even innocent. I loved Birdie, but sometimes I wondered if she was evil incarnate.

Birdie had been extremely bored after Allison left and endured about three or four years of boredom until she couldn't take it anymore. Then she asked Roger if she could work on the Kira case. Roger wasn't too happy with the idea, but after Near had said yes (apparently he didn't care who joined the SPK), Roger had no choice but to let her go.