秘密 Secrets

This was it; I'm finally here in Shibuya again. The baby girl with tasselled brown hair lay in my arms, as I pulled her tighter to her chest. The second daughter was next to her side. I yawned and managed to toggle the luggage and the child in my arms and managed to open the door. Reagan rushed through the door to declare her room, while Reira lay sleepily in her mother's arms. I raced to the back room and laid Reira in the travel bed in the very back room of the small flat and covered her with the baby pink blanket and reached down to kiss her head and Reagan looked up and her Mama as she gingerly picked her up and give her a kiss on the check and she giggled as I placed her in the other bed.

"Goodnight Reagan, Reira." I said as I closed the door behind them and set to the horrid task of unpacking everything. This was going to be one long day.

Reira woke first and I quickly made sure she had no fever and sat her on my lap and played with her. Most of the packing was done and when Reagan finally woke and sits silently and played with her spelling blocks on the floor, while her sister played with their Mama. The door bell rang and Reagan scrambled to answer and let in the Ayako. She finally sighed and collapsed on Mai's new brown coach. Reagan cuddled up next to Ayako's soaked form.

"How's Reira?" Ayako questioned quietly looking over at the two. I felt her forehead again and nodded.

"She's good." I replied as Ayako looked around the newly decorated apartment. The walls still needed painted and there were so more furniture to arrive for the kitchen but apart from a few more boxes, that was everything.

"Are you nervous for tomorrow? I'm sure everything will be fine and Naru was very opened to the idea of joining the case." Ayako allowed Reagan to climb onto her lap.

"I'm worried about leaving Reira for such a long time. But I know Reagan will be fine, she's so like here Papa." Reira squirmed to get down as I placed her gently on the floor.

"Will you ever tell them Mai? It would help if he knew about them. Reira would also benefit from it if she got sick." I shook my head violently.

"He told me to get an abortion, when he found out. And as far as he knows, they don't exist. He would never accept them. I would rather protect my girls from that."

"I suppose your right. But you have to bring them to the wedding Mai! I need my bridesmaids and flower girls." Ayako smirked at Reagan as she smiled brightly at her.

"I will, I promised I would and besides, Reagan is desperate to wear a pretty dress." She nodded in agreement and moved to sit on the floor next to her sister.

"So what's the case on anyway?" Mai suggested changing subjects as the girls played on the floor.

"Some sort of shrine that is attracted to pure virgins. A lot of crap if you ask me, but Mai at least you'll not be in danger this time." Ayako winked and I blushed as the children looked up amused.

"Virgin?" Reagan tilted her head. I patted her head.

"I'll tell you when you're older baby." I promised as Ayako snickered.

"But anyway, the owner's two daughters, Yui who is nine and Ui is only two years older have both been raped and attacked along with four others. The police fought it was a serial rapist, but nothing was found." She continued and flashed a smile at my girls.

"Well girls, you get to stay with Madoka-chan after all. Won't that be fun?" I got no replay from either of them.

"Mori-san knows?" Ayako questioned. I met her gaze and nodded.

"I went to her first and she helped me, she disagrees still about Naru not being told but she keeps my secret and loves to babysit them." Ayako nodded understandingly.

"Well girls I'm off to my fiancée before he gets worried. Be there tomorrow morning at 9." Ayako said before she left. I was sure Ayako was trying to get me jealous, trust me to get it the wrong way round. It was marriage then kids. I clapped my hands together and Reira and Reagan looked up at me with bright brown eyes.

"Shall we have a bath then?" Reira squealed in delight, but Reagan looked at me with horror and tried to make her escape, until I caught her.

"No you don't misses, its bath time." I dragged her through the bath and successfully managed to wash her hair and done it much quickly with Reira, after both were placed in bed after the long day. I relaxed myself in the bath, I wondered if Naru would accept Reira and Reagan it would be nice to have helped, especially since Reira had a weak body, trips to the hospital were normal for us. But I could never have imagined Naru being a father to the girls; I only wanted to protect them. I was nervous about meeting Naru, but at least Reagan and Reira would be safe from rejection and ghosts. I am doing this for Ayako I told myself as I slipped into bed.

I left my children with Madoka at 8:30am and had a teary goodbye from them. I hated to leave them, but there safer with Madoka than with me. I wish she had knew where I was going, I have learned over the past few years to lie better and had told her I just needed a break for a while and luckily Madoka expected that at one point, with me being a single mother and all, and it happened to be luck she was on holiday when she came to Japan to see her nieces. I worried about Reira the most, throughout the train journey to Naru's office. Madoka had assured me that she would call if anything happened to her, but somehow that didn't seem to help. I sighed and took the last coroner around to Shibuya and stopped fixing my appearance, I wondered if they would all recognise the stranger with long brown hair and long boots and a brown skirt. I took a deep breath and walked around as Bou-san attacked me with a hug, that's when I knew everything was normal.

"Mai-chan, I missed you! I hear your bringing guests to our wedding. A boyfriend perhaps?" He wiggled his eyebrows as I brushed.

"It's a good surprise." I promised and looked around and saw my old family. My ex-boyfriend stood by the van, in deep conversation with the usually tall Lin-san. It was like the old times.

"Where's John and Masako?" I questioned the two.

"John's on his way and Masako is somewhere in America." I nodded and flinched when I saw Naru make his way towards me.

Ayako whispered "stay calm." I nodded to her as he approached me with Lin in toe.

"Naru, you haven't changed at all and Lin-san neither have you. I heard you had started a relationship with Mad-Mori-san." I said quickly correcting my mistake. Lin nodded and Naru was about to open his mouth, then John appeared. I went to hug him as he blushed.

"If we are all done with greetings, shall we get going?" Naru questioned icily, glaring at me. I followed everyone inside the van. I would have risked a phone call to Madoka, had Naru not been constantly watching me. My mobile rang and I hurriedly picked it up.

"It's Madoka, Reira went for her nap and Reagan has just destroyed my kitchen." I chuckled and spoke softly.

"Tell them I love them. Please contact me if anything happens." I said politely before hanging up. Before Bou-san would say anything I turned my head away.

"Boyfriend" I mumbled for him to hear. Bou-san smirked and Ayako looked at me concerned as I flashed her a smile and nodded. We sat in silence the rest of the way to the short trip that was a good sign, if Reira needed me, I could get to her quickly. The shrine was beautifully kept, decorated in bright reds and whites and newly cleaned. The house was an average size and we were given the daughter's room Yui and Ui's bedrooms to sleep in, because they were staying somewhere else. I hopped out the van and took a deep breath of air in my lungs and looked around the place.

"Tanyamia-san, the equipment" He said so sincerely, I thought he was trying to annoy me. If he wanted to pretend that everything was all right that was fine then.

"Yes sir." I took my turn in pulling the heavy monitors into the medium-sized room and was luckily give the chance to do room temperatures with Ayako.

"Do they miss you?" Ayako questioned as I wrote one of the temperatures down. I smiled at her.

"Nope, Reira is sleeping and Reagan has burned down Madoka's kitchen." Ayako chuckled as we continued our round.

"He's trying to act like nothing happened between us." I said as we want through the hallway.

"Let him, Mai it will all come out eventually and he'll have to accept he made a mistake with you."

"I highly doubt it." We returned to base to hear Lin-san and Naru arguing. I settled myself on the coach.

"Ma-Tanyami-san tea." I stared at him dumb-struck and stared at Naru for moments and he started back.

"You're kidding right?" I managed to choke out.

"What part did you think I was kidding about Mai? I am paying you to do so." I walked to the kitchenette around the corner. I missed my daughters.

Hey Guys, I noticed there were now quite a few fanfics with Mai's children and I realized they were either all boys or boy and girl so I decided to do twin girls. The reason there names are so different will come out later.