Naomi Misora

**Naomi Misora** is a rookie FBI agent assisting L with his investigation in Japan.

## Appearance

Naomi is an attractive young woman with long black hair and hazel eyes. She is often seen wearing black leather clothes.

## History

Three weeks into her job as an FBI agent Naomi was on assignment looking into a possible sighting of a fugitive in tiny town in California. She ran into problems with the local sheriff who kept hitting on her forcing her to eventually deck him when he got entirely too close and personal for her liking. The sheriff claimed she assaulted him and since it was the word of a decorated twenty year veteran against a rookie agent her director was inclined to believe him. L used this as an opportunity to force her to take a leave of absence so that she could work for him. After having her take a bunch of different flights using different aliases he met her in Japan. The two got off due to a ruff start due to her jet lag, but she calmed down after some rest. Under the aliases Maho Nakako she aided him in his investigation against Cupid.

## Plot

Maho searched the area the director met with Cupid only to come to a dead end having no idea which way he went. Luckily she came across a vendor who had seen him that day, though when she told L she was left with the feeling that he already knew and this was a test. L asked to finally meet her when she got to her apartment and he turned out to be the farthest thing from what she expected. Giving him the pie she brought, he proceeded to eat it as they got down to business.

He had collected footage from the various cameras around the bus bepot and noticed a girl who was avoiding them. While she was aware enough to never reveal her face, L had no less than 54 individuals who could potentially be the person to meet with the director. The information given to him by Maho had allowed him to cut that pool down from several thousand. They also noticed that she was wearing Furinkan High School uniform, and while that would be a bad fit for his theory she happened to be the daughter of one of the effected police officers.

Combined with Ukyo calling into one of the Cupid related television programming he was certain that cupid is somehow connected to Furinkan High School. He had sent Watari there to set up surveillance at the school admitting to Maho that it wasn’t exactly legal.

Finally Maho moved in with L, arranging for her to have an entire floor to herself he knew the time would come when he would have to confront cupid and thus reveal himself publicly, making keeping his identity secret from her pointless. It was also more convenient if they lived together.

The goings on around Nerima nearly gave Maho cause to have herself committed. Since starting the surveillance she had witnesses all manner of things that she once believed to be beyond human. It eventually reached the point where she started to become suspicious that L was drugging her with hallucinogens. What was perhaps even more unnerving than everything she was seeing day after day was that L seemed largely uninterested in the whole affair.

Given everything she had seen se was willing to accept that Cupid was using magic, but L wasn’t so sure. Magic had rules, which cupid didn’t seem to be following. This was why he took the case in the first place. L asked her for her theory, and she answered that Ukyo suspected Shampoo. She ruled out Shampoo though given that cupid then made her fall in love with Tofu, L wasn’t so sure after listening to the phone records of the nekohanten he theorized that Shampoo was faking her affection.

It was decided that Maho would go work undercover at the restaurant as a waitress, since long distance surveillance on suck skilled warriors would easily be detected. She was also determine weather or not Kasumi had feeling for Ranma, because if she did everything that happened was rather convenient.

Reluctantly went to the Nekohanten to ask about the waitress position. Being a slow part of the day, Maho entered to find the restaurant empty. She came across Mousse begging Cologne to let him back in. There conversation made it sound like Mousse at least believed Shampoo was affected legitimately. She thought Cologne might be playing along though.

When they noticed her she asked about the position. On mention of the word, Mousse immediately tensed. However, whatever argument he was about to make was quickly silenced with a look from the elder. As if defeated, Mousse’s shoulders quickly sagged, and muttering something Maho could not quite catch, he left the restaurant.

Maho asked if he would be okay, but Cologne dismissed him and went ahead with the interview. Cologne telling her that she was the first applicant made her realize why L was so confident she had a shot. Seeing that Maho had martial arts training Cologne felt that she would do. Cutting her off before she could ask how she knew she started talking about the pay leaving Maho with a bad feeling as she Cologne began detailing the job further.

Naomi entered L’s apartment, nearly wincing at every movement. She was well past what could be rightfully called exhaustion, and right now wanted nothing more than to crawl into bed. However, duty demanded she report in. As usual L was in front of a set of monitors. She frowned at his lack of concern over her welfare when he asked for any news, but had already given up on any desire to complain about such over the past week. Instead she dropped herself onto the couch.

He had been running an analysis, based on her observed response time to delivery orders, the Nekohanten’s phone records and known Cupid activity and there was no correlation. Meaning that Shampoo is neither out on deliveries, nor at the restaurant with any pattern in relation to the Cupid incidents.

Naomi was upset at finding out that all she had been going through was for nothing, but L told her that they still hadn’t determined why Shampoo was faking her love for the doctor. Naomi dismissed that as just her being worried that she was the next target on Cupid’s list.

L pointed out that while Cologne was a demanding employer since she uses the work as a disguised method of training Naomi should be thanking her. He’s noticed a significant improvement in her reaction times, and physical capacities since beginning work there. Naomi was shocked having not realized this herself. They agreed that Naomi would keep working while he would take a more direct approach and confront Kasumi.

Maho was in the midst of delivering 6 bowls of hot ramen to a waiting table of customers, and because of the restaurants usual method of delivery she believed that Cologne was trying to kill her. This delicate situation was upset when Shampoo suddenly rushed in. The Amazon girl dodged by Maho, not touching her but the prospect of a sudden impact caused the agent to tense just slightly, enough to upset her load.

She then went back to telling Cologne about her listening in of Ranma and Kasumi’s conversation. The two went into the back to continue their conversation. Maho in the meantime, through considerable effort, managed to finally deliver her dishes to the applause of the customers. After dismissing herself, Maho hurried to bus a table and go to the backroom to listen in on what she could.

Cologne felt that there was little to worry about feeling that since they knew Shampoo wasn’t a Cupid she would quickly be excluded as a suspect. When she asked her about Ranma she admitted she hadn’t done it yet. A confused Maho asked what that was about and she told her about her relationship with Ranma and Tofu’s idea for her to apologize here. Shampoo began to express her frustration feeling that she hasn’t done anything wrong to warrant an apology, but Maho told her that sometimes you have to swallow your pride. Maho tried to subtly bring up L only for Cologne to tell her to get back to work.

Hours later L hardly took notice when Naomi rushed into the hotel and asked him about meeting Kasumi. She frowned when he simply told her that he did and seeing that that was all she would get asked how it went. While he couldn’t eliminate her as a suspect, the fact she seemed completely unconcerned with his presence was something he didn’t anticipate.

She told him about Shampoo learning about him and how they were right and she was faking her affection with Tofu. L warned Naomi to show more caution as Shampoo and Cologne might suspect her already, though he wasn’t that worried that they would actually harm her. As they were talking L became distracted something Kasumi brought up came back to him and he decided to look into it more. Naomi asked if she could help, but he wanted to keep her more neutrally minded. As for Shampoo he suggested she take more direct measures.

With the restaurant empty of customers Maho felt the feeling of being ready to collapse. Cologne pushed her to this point, and just when Maho thought she could take no more, the Amazon elder would ease up, although only briefly. Cologne teased Maho about getting tired so easily and when she tried to protest that the elder was being to hard on her. She told her that in actuality she was being relatively tame as she would never go so easy on Shampoo.

Maho shrugged in response when Cologne asked if Lwas up to the task of finding Cupid, though she became suspicious when she mentioned how the Amazons had, had a past encounter with Cupid. Finally Cologne revealed that she knew as there were only two reasons someone like her would continue to work at the restaurant, and Maho didn’t seem desperate for money. Seeing Maho’s shoulders sag when she told that she was suspected since she applied, Cologne told her that she was naturally suspicious of everyone. Putting it out of her mind Naomi asked about Cupid and why Shampoo was pretending to be in love with Tofu.

She answered the second question first about how Cupid attempted to affect Shampoo. Hearing how far back it was Naomi needed more detail, to which Cologne only agreed to give if she could talk to L first. Maho agreed to pass her request along and with that Cologne told her to get back to work much to her shock and frustration.

Maho had hoped that Mousse returning might ease things up on her, instead Cologne seemed to find all new work to put her too. She arrived at the hotel and no sooner had the elevator doors opened than she was called by L. Going over what Kasumi told him L realized he made a mistake in his theory about Cupid. He realized that when Cupid had more information on subjects their love didn’t last as long. By contrast, those Cupid would lack a name and face for, so far with 100 percent consistency, are still in love. He called Naomi in when she arrived home from work and told him of his findings. He and Naomi tried to figure out if this was deliberate or not as well as how Cupid was doing it.

Given what happened with a celebrity couple they also wondered what would happen if cupid used to use her power on people that are already in love. As it was similar to what happened to Akane and Ranma they figured that the targets would end up falling in love with a random person. What concerned L the most was the drastic change in cupids method. Naomi figured that all that use of her power on other people made her a lot better, but L wasn’t so sure. He explained to a confused Naomi that given the pattern nothing Cupid did initially even comes close to the complexity of the attack on the police.

He suspected that there were two cupids, although since both stopped activity at the same time, and the second appears to be protecting the first, they are somehow connected. Unfortunately that left them back at square one. They know little of the second Cupid. They couldn’t even conclude anything about the second Cupid’s gender. They know only that he or she seems protective of the first, although not the reasons why. However, L still thought Kasumi was a good suspect for their first Cupid. Most of their other information on Cupid remained intact, and Kasumi still matched it quite well. There was also many people who would potentially wish to protect her.

L felt that it was time to cast a wider net and take Ukyo’s suggestion of accepting the NWC’s help. However, he still wanted Naomi to maintain a lower profile for now. So he told her to continue her current activities. While he spoke with Ke Lun privately on the matter.

Since they all expressed a desire to aid in his investigation L invited Kuno, Kodachi, Ranma, Ryoga, Akane, Soun, Genma, Nabiki, Kasumi, Ukyo, Shampoo, Mousse, Cologne, and Tofu to a high rise building. He met with Cologne first figuring it was best to meet with her before the others. Since only Cologne was aware of who she was L wanted Naomi to remain undercover he had already pro cured her another residence.

As L met with the others Naomi went to her new apartment. While it looked modest, it was well equipped, including having the ability to monitor any feed L had access to. Activating the screen she watched for any suspicious behavior. While she didn’t see anything suspicious other then the group eyeing each other in jealousy at various times she did notices the TV feed L had left on was playing Cupid’s arrow. A few minutes after she worked her own monitors to bring up the channel directly her sense of alrm grew when they announced that Cupid was going to reveal themselves. She told L what was going on.

The others wanted to rush to put a stop to it, but L protested that it was to dangerous to intervene. The second Cupid introduced themselves as the real Cupid telling L that they would offer him a gift of their benevolence. Two days later L and Naomi were watching over news footage of the Cupid broadcast and its fallout. L also went over the videos Ranma and the others retrieved thoroughly, only to realize that they were actually made by the studio staff, and whatever original script they had for them has been destroyed.

Luckily they had several days to figure out what to do what worried Naomi was the fact that while going over the tapes of L’s meeting she noticed Nabiki seeming looking at something. While she concluded it could be nothing but L pointed out that she could be talking to something invisible to all forms of normal detection. He started to suspect that she might be the second Cupid.

Naomi hesitantly informed L that appeared that Kasumi was developing feeling for him given how she was looking at him during the meeting. With that all they could do was wait after all, they weren’t the only ones who must decide how to proceed.

An entranced individual delivered to L a copy of a letter written by the second cupid. It stated that the Cupid from Cupid’s Arrow was an imposture. They offered their cooperation in capturing this new cupid as well as proof of the destruction of their power once that is accomplished. All they wanted was for L to end his investigation into them. Cupid left instructions on how to contact them as well as threats for what they would do if L tried to double cross them.

After looking into checking into the person who delivered the letter determining that he was simply a random victim from the neighborhood L once more gathered with the various residents of Nerima to tell them what had happened. Throughout their discussion he had Naomi monitor Nabiki. While Nabiki remained quiet throughout the discussion there wasn’t much to work with. Kasumi being so calm was more confirmation that if she was the first cupid she no longer remembered which just left him with even more questions. After everyone left he told Naomi to focus on Doctor Tofu who he believed Cupid was tried to hide something about him given that he was targeted after everyone else. He also confirmed to her that he had no plans of stopping his investigation into the original Cupid.

As Maho was preparing to head out, assigned to monitor the situation from the outside L told her about some capable allies he had picked up over the course of his investigations would be in the vicinity. Though for the moment he had to withhold their identities. She asked L what his plan was, realizing that there was more to it then just ticking off the new Cupid. After complimenting her on her perceptiveness L informed her that he wanted to put his suspects under a great deal of stress and see how they respond. Since his suspects for the second Cupid were now Ranma and Nabiki he wanted to see kow they would react to his interactions with Kasumi. This caused Naomi to call L out for trying to lead Kasumi on, but seeing L’s puzzled look on screen she just told him not to take it to far.

When the Cupid worshipers attacked the building causing a blackout Maho was left trapped in the hidden room where her computer was. The computer, while locally operational, was largely useless as the network connection was dead leaving her to do little more then wait. However, just as Maho was starting to plot out her own contingency plan, the computer sprung to life at last.

L apologized for the long wait and told her about the intrusion to which she replied to sarcastically. He informed her about the attempt to hack into their system, like him she doubted that Cupid could pick up a hacker on such short notice, never mind getting high grade explosives. L told her that he suspected a third party though he left out how he believed it was BB and just told her that for the moment it wasn’t important.

L sent Maho the video footage of the NWC’s time at the building, but nothing really seemed suspicious. The only thing of note she saw was the fact that Nabiki stayed in the the main room practically the whole time. L briefed Maho on his discussion with Cologne telling her about Joketsuzoku’s history with a potential Cupid. Maho wondered how that knowledge was helpful and L reminded her that the curse is able to block the effect. He and Maho also wondered if the fact that the effects continued after they killed Cupid meant that they got the wrong guy, or his power was just that strong.

L theorized that there was another being involved which would also explain the few occasions when Nabiki personally regarded the monitors. This also means that Nabiki might have away to identify the other Cupid. L was able to use the time that the Tendo and Saotome’s were away to place listening device in the dojo. He hadn’t told Maho because he expected Happosai to stop it. Even with just this was a big step so began the race to see who can capitalize on their advantage before the other. With that L had Maho return to her task of review the video feed, while he reviewed the outside feed and Watari reviewed the audio.

After running into dead end on confirming weather or not Kasumi was the first Cupid L decided to focus on their other angle which was bearing fruit. He warned Naomi that he would have to put himself at risk. L surprised Naomi by asking her what her long term goals were. While the thought of recruiting her had crossed his mind their current endeavor remains unfinished and any thoughts past that are but flights of fancy.

Naomi and L were in one of their daily briefings, while nothing of particular interest happened, they did discuss the fact that Nabiki was a firm front runner for the second Cupid as well as how they would contain the Cupid’s when they did catch them. All that was left was discovering who the 3rd Cupid was, while L had made progress, and eliminated most my suspect pool. There were still many left. Naomi was annoyed that L hadn’t elaborated on this with her but let it slide. Before signing off Naomi asked L if he was still thinking about the future. He admitted that he had been giving their last conversation a great deal of thought but didn’t elaborate just saying that he had made arrangements. As Naomi closed up the computer room and donned her jacket to head out, she wondered what L meant by arrangements.