The End Finale

"What do you mean she's gone?"Naru asks with one eyebrow raised in question as he sat at his desk; a book on different styles of warding in his hand. Monk who stood in front of the desk looked like he would much rather be anywhere else right at that moment. Naru looked the same as always short black hair with bangs that hung in his face dark indigo colored eyes that glared at Monk a scowl seemingly permanently etched on his face.

Monk scratched the back of his head giving Naru a helpless smile. "It's just as I said she's gone. I stopped by her house to see if she was sick or something and that's why she hasn't been in but no one answered the door and her landlord says she moved out two weeks ago, so I swung by her school and they said that she transferred three weeks ago but they couldn't tell me where she transferred to. None of her friends have heard from her either. She's disappeared, gone, vanished, left without a trace." He explains flinching when Naru snapped his book closed.

"She hasn't sent word that she wishes to quit so we can only assume that she has her reasons for not being in for the past month and for transferring schools and moving."Naru says with a impatient sigh. "Well yeah but what are they? I mean this isn't like her or anything."Ayako questions twisting a strand of hair around her fingers.

Before Naru could reply a loud knocking sounded at the door. Everyone looked from the door to Naru. Everyone was there despite there not being a case; Monk, Ayako, Masako, John, Yasuhara and Lin who sat in his usual place typing away at a computer. The office was supposed to be closed that day so Naru simply ignored the knocking figuring whoever it was would give up and go away.

The knocking stopped after a minute but started up again louder more insistent this time. Ayako seeing Naru was just going to ignore it gave a frustrated growl and threw up her hands, "Fine!I'll answer the stupid door!", She shouts marching over to the door and throwing it open snapping a short simply "What?!" as she did.

Everyone except Naru and Lin peered towards the door. Ayako blinked confused peering around outside "Huh that's strange theirs no one here."She murmurs. Monk catching sight of a sneaker that didn't belong to Ayako moved forward and took a look around the door itself giving a laugh at what he saw.

"No wonder there was no one here you hit the poor kid with the door when you threw it open like that, probably broke his nose while you were at it."Monk teased with a big grin on his face Ayako started to get mad but John stepped in"Perhaps someone should help him up and see what it is he wants?"He asks trying to get ahead of the argument sure to ensue.

Monk offered a hand to the kid who lay sprawled on his butt on the other side of the door rubbing his nose. The kid thanked him quietly and let himself be pulled to his feet. Everyone stared at the boy for a minute making him fidget nervously before laughter broke out.

"He looks almost like a mini Naru!" Yasuhara comments trying to quiet his laughter at the sight of the kid. Short black hair cut similarly to Naru's and dark eyes close to a dark gray in color the boy was dressed all in black much like Naru and was shifting impatiently from foot to foot looking confused, bewildered, nervous and of course impatient.

Naru sighed knowing at the rate this was going it would take a while before they got to what had brought the boy here in the first place. "So what is it?Why have you come here and by yourself?I highly doubt you have a case for us and even if you did we're not open today."Naru says getting right to the point rather impatiently.

Everyone had finally stopped laughing and was peering at the boy now."Um I have something for someone named Naru that I was told to bring here. Onee-chan said she didn't know your home address so she couldn't send it there and she didn't trust the mail to deliver it so she sent me instead." The boy says somewhat shyly pulling a envelope out of a small black satchel he wore and moving forward to hand it to Naru.

It was a simple white letter envelope with 'Naru' written in a swirly style script on the front and on the back a single blue wax snowflake sealed the envelope shut. "Um I was told to give you this message as well. 'I'm sorry and thank you for everything.' as well as these." The kid pulled out snowflakes; small metal snowflakes in various sizes and patterns, with a tiny loop at the top in which to thread a chain or string through, handing one to each person before bowing and dashing out of the office and out the door.

Everyone stared after the kid confused."What was that about?"Yasuhara wonders voicing just about everyone's thoughts. "So what's it say?"Monks asks turning to Naru who was opening the letter. Naru read the scant few words written on the page. He froze a frown on his face as he reread what it said using his psychometry to look into the letter further.

A flood of sorrow washed over him as he saw Mai sitting at a desk with a elegant style pen in her hand as she wrote out each word slowly tears in her eyes which for some reason where not their normal brown color but a bright ice blue. Finishing writing the letter and blowing softly on it so the ink would dry she placed it in the envelope and sealed it with actual wax and seal before turning it over to write his name on it a few tears dripping onto the envelope; she pressed her lips to the ink in a kiss. She turned as if she was looking right at him and gave a sad smile "I love you, Naru." She whispers.

"Naru blinked returning back to the office and everyone starring at him even Lin who had a look of concern on his face. Monk pulled the letter out of his hand and held it up so everyone could read it. Monk swore staring open mouthed at the three simple words written on it.

"Ayako gasped her eyes wide, Masako covered her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono looking down sadly. John shook his head in disbelief while Yasuhara frowned puzzling over what it said. The letter floated down onto Naru's desk showing the mostly blank page with the three short words written on it in the same script as on the envelope. "I quit -Mai"