Me: Lin, would you do the honors?
Lin: No.
Me: Naru?
Tea loving jerk: if I must…clockworkrose does not own any of us, if she did the story would have ended happier. Now where is my tea?
Mai: Right here. Also, This is a songfic done to "Here Without You" by 3 doors down, which she doesn't own either.
Me: thank you all, and my lovely readers to!
Chapter one: here without you.
100 days had passed since Naru left to bury Gene. Though the time was short it had aged he more than he would have thought possible, not physically-though the time with his parents had been difficult- but emotionally. He missed japan, he missed SPR, and he even missed his friends there. Never in a million years would Naru have guessed he would have people like them, it had always been just his and gene, maybe Lin would fall in to the category of friend.
He certainly did now- but most of all Naru missed Mai.
He missed the petite girl he had come to think of as pretty. He missed her brown eyes, the same color as the tea she begrudgingly brought him.
Only after the funeral did Naru realize she probably would have like to be there. She knew Gene from her dreams, she knew the smiling boy that was her brother. Yet she said she loved him. Naru the narcissist, Oliver Davis, Kazuya Shibuya. Not Gene.
She must be stupider than I originally though- that had been Naru's first though, but now he wasn't so sure.
Lin figured the same thing but Naru denied him. he lied every time the assistant brought it up. All the lies had left him cold. He didn't think he could ever look at things the same.
Naru sat alone in his room, all the blackness confining him, making him feel very small. He fell asleep with Mai's face in mind. He dreamed he returned to Shibuya and she was there waiting for him, he admitted he was wrong and she still said she still loved him.
Naru woke up alone, still in London without her. He thought about her all day, by lunch he had already booked the plain tickets. Two- Lin had noticed the moment he started packing. The dream weighing heavy in Naru's mind, he thought of calling ahead but decided against it.
Naru knew it would take nearly thirteen hours to get to Tokyo. With him and Lin laving at noon that same day, he would not get there till 1 in the morning. He couldn't wait to see the surprise on Mai's face when she came in to work tomorrow.
The airport was anything, the tea was horrible and Lin couldn't wait to get back. He was glad Naru finally stopped mopping. He grieved in his own way for a while then fell into a slump. The onmeogji (A/N idk the actual spelling) watched as Naru sorted through his memories of gene and the year at SPR with 'the usual's'. His Shiggi (A/N again, I don't know how to spell it) constantly keeping track of his emotional state just in case the narcissist decided to use his qigong again.
They boarded the plane, preparing for the countless hours of silence before the two men, Lin was utterly shocked when Naru spoke just before takeoff.
"Thank you," he mumbled, "for coming with me.
"No problem, Naru."
Lin hadn't called him that the who time they were in the UK, he called him Oliver for his parent's sake. The familiar name put Naru in a similar state of shock as Lin.
The miles just kept rolling, Naru wanted to be home so badly. He hardly noticed the people in the airport, all the staff felling the need to say 'hello'. It was all over rated, the normal little lives of all the normal little people they passed.
Naru kept thinking of home, of Tokyo and of Mai. The other's faces creeping in occasionally. He wondered if he would have to compete with Yasu now, he liked Mai a lot.
Because he was on a plane without her, she was on his lonely mind. The few moments of sleep he got where full of her, for the life of him, he didn't know why.
Naru knew so much and when so many places. Life was hard and it hardened him, but what he felt he felt something like it towards gene, but not quite the same, never quite the same.
Naru fell into a dream, a field of people he knew but he couldn't identify. He was cold, the bitter air stung his lungs and froze him in place. The world was completely silent, the roar of the plane was gone even the breathing of the people around him- all gone. His ears began to ring. A blur of faces, names and voices. One by one they fell, to the last one. It looked like gene but just as easily been himself.
And when the last one falls
When it's all said and done
I'm here without you, baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you, baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you, baby
Naru woke up long enough to check his watch then fell asleep again. His dreams where much happier this time. He walked into Shibuya; Mai was asleep at her desk in this dream. Her soft brown hair fallen into her face she looked like she did when he first met her well over a year ago. Young and full of life.
Naru told her before he left that he had hired her out of empathy. Her principle had told him after the first case that she was an orphan, that she lived alone. He had felt for her but that alone still wouldn't have gotten her the job. He hired her because he knew she was different, he didn't know how different until her latent physic abilities began to show, like crakes of light in stone.
Naru knew that soon, no tonight or the next night, but he would hold Mai. He knew because he finally hand the word for what he was felling. The same word gene used, though not in the same context. The same word Mai used and the one he had denied.
Love
A/N: I know it's kind of OOC but I think that there is a lot to Naru we don't see in the mange or the anime. Same goes for Lin, who I realize is not as much of a tea snob and Naru but he still likes it. Right? Next chapter is Mai, and will be done to "Six Degrees Of Separation" by the script.
Kiss kiss.