WARNING: slight SPOILERS! (this takes place after Mai and everyone finds out about Naru's true identity and his real reason for being in Japan)
Oh yea…and I don't own Ghost Hunt…dang!
"Naru I love you!" I confessed to the handsome man before me. I could feel my cheeks burning as I blushed but I didn't care…I just had to tell him; I had to stop him.
His deep blue eyes looked pained for a split second but he covered it by putting his mask of indifference on once again.
"Are you sure it's me you love and not my brother; not Gene?" he said; his tone cold.
I felt my eyes growing cloudier by the second with threatening tears. "Na--Naru…"
He turned and walked away; boarding the plane that would take him back to England…away from Japan…away from me.
He had found his dead twin brother's body. There was no need for him to stay. There was nothing he cared about here…not even me…I don't think I've ever felt such a horrible feeling in my chest before.
"NARU!!" I yelled, hands outstretched towards him but the faster I ran the further I was taken away from him as if being tugged back by an invisible force. And then he was gone.
"Mai…Mai…" another voice rang out through the darkness.
I remember that voice. I turned, expecting to be met with nothing but…
"…Mother?"
I awoke with a start; feeling a firm hand on my shoulder. Chocolate brown met porcelain blue as our eyes met.
"Mai?" his smooth voice reached my ears. It was really him this time; not a dream.
"Naru!" I cried and threw my arms around his neck, catching him by surprise. The crystal clear tears I had been holding in finally trailed down my cheeks, soaking the fabric of his coat as he just sat there.
"Mai, what's wrong? Are you alright?" he asked, the worry was evident in his voice even though he tried hard to conceal it.
"I'm fine, it was only a dream ('about when you left me,' I corrected myself in my head). I'm sorry about wetting your shirt… I'm alright though now Naru…I promise," I said after pushing away slightly and smiling my usual bright smile. But he knew…he knew it was a forced smile.
He closed his eyes briefly and nodded before he stood and walked over to a filing cabinet.
'Why did I dream about my mother?' I thought to myself.
"Mai, stop laying about and get to work. I don't pay you to sleep," the black clad narcissist teased before walking into his office, file in hand.
I fisted my hand, ready to chase after him but I calmed myself and sighed. Yup, Naru came back. I don't know why he returned but I don't care, as long as he's here again.
He was gone for a year. One horrible, tearstained year in which I was like an empty, lifeless doll. I felt so alone even though my friends Bou-san, Ayako, John and Yasuhara always kept in touch. I was incomplete without Naru here to tease me and order me to make his stupid tea for him…I had tried to abandon my feelings for him but I knew that they would never really disappear. And I especially knew it on that day…on my eighteenth birthday…
I had been walking through town and had walked right by the SPR building. I froze as something caught my eye and I turned around wide eyed. One could say I was shocked to see Naru and Lin outside the building but that would be an understatement.
The second Naru's eyes locked with mine in reunion, my heart stopped. I was so glad yet at the same time afraid. Would he remember me, I had thought. Or would he even want to see me there? For all I knew I could have just been another annoying fan-girl to him, confessing my love just like all the rest. But instead…instead he had dropped the box that had been in his hands with a 'crash' and he walked over to me.
Before I knew it I was being crushed into a strong embrace which I quickly returned. I could feel his arms shaking as he held me; as though he thought that if he were to let go then one of us would disappear. And oh I could never forget the first words he said to me…'Mai…I missed you so much.'
It may not seem like much to anyone else but to me…to me it meant the world. He had never showed such emotion to me and he had never said anything so heartbreakingly sweet. I cried that day in his arms, like I had cried myself to sleep for most of that horrible year. He had come back. He didn't hate me. Oh, and he hired me again.
I'm still eighteen, and he is nineteen going on twenty, and let me tell you; ever since that day of our reunion, he has NEVER acted that way towards me again. I don't even know in what way he sees me as. Does he see me as a friend, an assistant, a goddamned tea maker?!...or does he feel for me the way I feel for him?
"Mai, tea!" his voice barked from his office, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Oh, get it yourself you damned tea addict!" I growled under my breath.
"Mai," he warned. Had he heard me?!
"H-Hai!" I ran into the kitchenette and prepared his tea. Throughout that whole year of him being gone I still never forgot the way he liked his tea. No sugar, just a slight amount of honey.
I brought the tea cup into his room and set it down on his desk. I stood there waiting.
"Yes?" he said without looking up from the file he was reading.
I growled. "A 'thank you' would be nice."
"Yes it would be."
"…Well?!"
"'Well' what?... I'm sorry to burst your bubble if you actually thought you were going to get me to say it but you won't."
I sighed and glared at him before turning on my heal and stormed back to the main office to sit at my desk. Jeez he sure knew how to tick me off sometimes…and oh how I missed his teasing. Thank you Naru for coming back to me. Aishiteru!
TBC!
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