As the rain came crashing down on Naru's window, he sighed. Where an annoying, cheerful employee when you needed one? He knew that answer, because right now she was miles away, with her friends probably enjoying in door activities and smiling.
For some reason he felt envious that he was not there, after working side by side on so many cases he had almost begun to feel that she was part of him. The part that didn't understand anything, ready-to-learn and always had a smile.
Naru shook his head, "She's an employee" he thought. As he sat pondering Lin entered the room. But he didn't even notice. Luckily, Lin was far from stupid. After depositing some paperwork on Naru's desk he scuttled from the room and picked up his mobile and called Mai.
Very far away, Mai heard her cell phone ring, dropped her cards down onto the table and sighed. The holiday hadn't been nearly as fun as she had hoped, there was a tall, narcissistic person missing…that had to be it. Pressing a few buttons on her phone she lifted it to her ear and heard Lin half-talking and half-screaming. "Mai! Please come back!!! Naru is hurt and I don't know…oh no…what is happening!!" Mai hurriedly shut her phone off and ran all the way to her room, she didn't care how she got back, but she was going back tonight.
As Lin placed the phone receiver down he smiled. Now all he had to do was tell Naru that he had seen Mai with another guy. Strolling back into Naru's office he tried to hide the spring in his step. Naru was still day dreaming and Lin decided to leave him there for another hour or so to give Mai a chance to get back. Returning to his work Lin's smile faded. "I really hope this woks." He thought. "But of course, it's not like this is the first time I have done some thing like this."
Naru was just completing his final piece of work for the day when Lin came in. Looking up he watched him go to the window and stare at several passing groups of people. Then suddenly he yelled "Mai!" Jumping up Naru looked out at the pitch black darkness. No one was there. Lin continued, "I thought I saw Mai with a really tall person. It didn't look like a friend of hers, it looked like she was crying." Naru leaped out the room, threw on his coat and ran for the door. Smirking Lin knew he would be searching for Mai for hours before she caught up with him.
Mai ran up to the office and after being informed by Lin that Naru had gotten angry and then ran out in the rain she followed suit, flinging on her coat and running as fast as she could. She searched for what seemed like years before seeing him lying on the steps of the nearby library.
"Where have you been? I've been searching for hours! How dare you go off with…" He stopped her by standing up and folding her into and embrace. Mai stared at him, what in the world was he playing at. But she decided that this moment would not be wasted and put her arms around Naru.
"It's alright Naru, I'm back here." Naru's brow furrowed, Mai has here so how could she be 'back'? "Mai, what do you mean back?"
Mai smiled and snuggled her head deeper into Naru's coat. "Lin rang me and told me that you were in trouble, to I came back from my weekend with some friends. I told you remember." It was Naru's turn to smile. Breaking the hug he turned to face the window of his office, where Lin gave him a thumbs-up sign. They both laughed and headed back to the office together.
"Would you have come back if I asked you to?" Naru asked. Mai nodded and smiled, she knew that she would do any thing Naru asked. No matter how hard or stupid it might seem she would do it. It was Mai's turn to ask a question. "Naru, can I kiss you?" In reply Naru hugged Mai close and smiled like she saw him in her dreams. "Of course you can Mai."