A big thanks to Treelow955 who helped me with this story, if I could, I would make you a cake, don't worry, you wouldn't get poisoned :D
Ghost Hunt: Love's Surprises
Chapter 1: Introducing Mai
As Mai strolled into the office late Saturday morning, she was met with an extremely pissed off narcissist, 'And where have you been?' he spat, glaring. Mai glared back at him, 'Walking to work Naru, you now some people don't have cars and don't feel the need to be constantly and ridiculously early to work.' She countered. Naru's glare intensified; 'you don't need to be early to work, just on time!' he was very annoyed, she had been late to work every day that week without a decent excuse, Naru was getting suspicious. 'I had an important meeting with someone…' Mai trailed off nervously, if Naru found out that she had been talking to Gene there would be hell to pay… Gene was supposed to be dead.
'Mai, tell me the real reason that you have been late or else I'm cutting your pay and…' Naru cut himself off, mentally reasoning that he would just get even more of a headache if he had to listen to Mai come up with another lame yet detailed excuse. 'Never mind, just get me tea.' He sighed, pressing his fingers to his temples. Mai was happy to oblige, after all, anything that got him off her case was a good thing, 'Hai, coming right up narcissistic Naru-chan!' she trilled. Naru got even more suspicious at her obvious relief, so he silently followed her to the kitchen and watched as she pulled out the kettle and tea-bags and got to preparing his much needed tea.
Almost as soon as she put the kettle on to boil, her mobile rang, she picked it up, checked the caller ID, saw that it was Gene and greeted him in Spanish. Naru felt agitated, he had never learnt how to speak Spanish, Gene had, but Naru hadn't been interested. Meanwhile, Mai was jabbering away maddeningly to the much more open and happy twin, setting up a time for… dinner?
You see, Gene had been living with Mai for about a year, Mai had found him nearly 5 months before Naru had returned from England with Lin and Madoka (now married). No-one knew that Mai had a housemate, let alone that it was Naru's supposedly dead twin brother, who he had been searching for for 2 years. Mai had found Gene on one of her many trips to the hospital. He had been in a coma, she had stumbled into his room completely by accident and due to their spiritual connection (he's still her spirit guide) had woken him up. The doctors had kept him at the hospital for almost a week for observation, and then had sent him home with Mai.
Gene had survived simply by a miracle, he had been walking across a deserted road, when suddenly he had been blinded by piercing bright lights then suddenly an unknown figure driving a 4 wheeled drive crashed into him, smashing him into the bitumen road, the figure drove off, only to turn back around and run over him again, by then he was in excruciating pain, the figure then got out of the car, picked him up and threw him in the boot. Gene kept losing consciousness over the next 10 minutes, when finally, the figure opened the boot and hauled him out, only to throw him into a small lake. As he sunk, he saw a light, much like the headlights on the car and at first he shied away from them, but when his eyes adjusted, he saw 2 people, a man and a woman, 'Konninchiwa Eugene Davis, my name is Haruhi, and this is my partner Hikaru, we are the spirits in charge of the Spirit Guides, and we are here with a proposition for you.' Said the woman in a soft yet serious tone, she looked to her partner and nodded, 'We need you to guide one special young medium, Mai Taniyama, our daughter,' said the man, 'she has yet to realise her powers and needs both yours and your brothers help to become the woman she is destined to be. Will you do as we bid?' Gene was a medium himself, so he knew the risks involved with taking such a task, he could potentially turn into an Earth-bound spirit, and that would be exceptionally hazardous, he had met many spirits who had turned into such monsters as they could not even remember the reason they had remained in the physical realm. And yet, for some odd reason, he trusted that these two, powerful and caring spirits would not allow that sort of thing to happen to him, so he accepted. 'Yes, I will do as you bid.' He replied. 'Excellent,' whispered the woman, Haruhi, 'we will notify you as soon as the time comes when you are needed for guidance, until then… enjoy.' Gene drifted away into a white abyss.
2 and a half years and many cases later, Gene heard an odd beeping sound, then felt an uncomfortable pull in his navel, then he was once again surrounded by white, but it wasn't the peaceful white that he had grown used to, it was an uncomfortable, offending, blaring sort of white. But there in front of him was a familiar face, Mai Taniyama, with a very pregnant body 7 months along and still slipping on random items of clothing. Mai helped him as soon as he was released from hospital, she urged him to move in with her and helped him gain his feet. As it turned out, he had a lot of money saved into an account and when he turned 21 he was eligible to access it. He paid the rent, Mai paid the bills and her tuition and they split the food and other basic necessities.
When Naru returned, he turned up on her doorstep, luckily when Gene wasn't home, to ask Mai to rejoin SPR. Mai accepted, then made him some tea and shooed him out. When Gene got back with the twins she told him everything and asked him if he wanted to tell Naru about him. Gene had refused; he was quite unhappy with Noll, who had stupidly gotten drunk and slept with an equally drunk Mai, then left, leaving behind an unknowingly pregnant Mai. Uncle Gene, as the twins called him, did not really want to talk to Noll after that, even though Noll didn't even know about the twins.
Anyway, back to present, Mai organised with Gene to pick up the groceries and get some more basic necessities. She smiled lovingly when she heard her babies cooing at her; Ella and George were little devils, they only respected Mai and Gene, even though they were barely 1 and a half years old, they were complete troublemakers, too smart for their own good, absolute geniuses; they had started to crawl at 6 months and were taking their first steps now. They both had little tufts of black hair and George had blue eyes (a mini Naru) and Ella had brown eyes. They were absolutely adorable and could wrap anyone around their little fingers.
Mai placed the tea on the tray and turned to find Naru staring at her with a mixture of amazement (that she could speak Spanish) and frustration (that she could speak Spanish). 'What was that about?' he demanded. 'And where did you learn how to speak Spanish?' 'My friend, Kiyo, asked me to pick up a couple of top secret things for school and I learnt English, French, Russian, Latin and Spanish in both middle school and high school, I use all languages frequently and am fluent in all, both writing and talking.' Mai said. Naru frowned, she almost knew more languages than him, and that was unacceptable, he decided that he would learn Spanish, if only to what Mai was saying when she spoke it.