October 7th, 2011

Buttoning up her shirt again, Naoto gazed into the mirror. With each button closing on the way up, she put away Naoto Shirogane and brought forth the Detective prince once more. While her carefully guarded secret had escaped, she had since discovered that she had a number of very adamant fans who refused to "believe in rumour", as they put it. The white noise between these two conflicting signals put enough of Inaba off-balance and granted her an extension to her desperate struggle to find a new identity.

Her eyes rested on her own gaze while she made the well-known motions as she tightened her neck tie. Aside from that, she saw no change in her. Her firm, calm gaze held her own eyes focused. Her posture was tall and straight. Her attire was perfect, as ever. As much as she had chided her … her new friends for not understanding that she struggled with the identity of the Detective Prince, she still needed him. She was naked without his influence on the world and she could not yet surrender him fully.

A knock on the door brought her back.

"Yes, enter." She turned to face the doctor walk in with a folder in his hands, giving her a small nod. When he indicated for her to be seated, she hopped on the low examination bed and crossed her arms.

Okay, last update here for a while. I'll be around on FFN, watching what happens with the White Knights. Till that's resolved, no more DF updates here, but the full versions of The Distance Formula; Just a Couple of Drinks and the new "Enough" series will be over at Archive of Our Own, if you rather not wait.

You guys hang in there. ^^