"Hey Naru could you come get me?" Mai asks her boss with a sigh. She hated to call him because she knew what he would say when he found her. "Why? Where exactly are you?You said you were going for a walk how can you possibly get into trouble on a walk?"Naru asks her over the phone. "Don't ask I'm in the forest to the west of the building I walked in a pretty straight path so it shouldn't be too hard to find me." She could hear rustling of papers on his end of the line. "Only you can manage to find trouble on a short walk and then demand me to come and rescue you." He comments snidely.
Mai growled at him through her cell. "Well sorry your highness but I can't seem to get myself down and your the only one who I have the number for programmed into my cell. So my options are kind of limited." Naru paused before responding."What do you mean down?Where are you and what have you gotten yourself into this time?" He asks with a sigh at the last part. "Just shut up and come and get me please." She snaps hitting the end button and crossing her arms over her chest with a huff unable to tuck her phone back in her pocket without it falling right back out so she had to hold on to it.
She hoped Naru would hurry up and find her she was beginning to get light headed. "Guess I have to choice but to hang out here until I'm found finally." She mutters to herself snorting at her own joke her fox ears twitching as she listened to every little noise in the forest. She seriously hoped Naru found her before the spirit did. There had been reports of people getting lost or hurt in this forest so the spirit could very well be responsible for those incidents or it could have just been accidents. She hoped it was the latter.
She looked down at the ground with a sigh what she won't give to be back on it again or even up in the sky since at least then she could control where she went and could land if she wanted to. Her ankle hurt and the rope was beginning to cut into her skin. At the very least she was no longer twirling in circles anymore thankfully that hadn't been fun. Her poor sandal lay on the ground the strap broken. She wasn't sure if she could fix it or not she would hate to have to buy a new pair. She reached up adjusting her white washed shorts so they were more comfortable.
Her light blue halter top she had bought recently was a bit on the tight side around her breasts so she didn't have to worry about it exposing her bra. Another thing she was glad for, she had spent the money on a strapless bra that was like a band that went around her chest so unlike her normal bra she didn't have to worry about falling out of it. Her ears perked as she caught the sound of footsteps drawing near and she tensed praying that it was Naru and not the ghost.
She relaxed as she caught his scent finally now she could get down from here. "Naru!I'm over here!" She calls to him. He rounded a tree and stopped to stare at her for a minute. "Do I want to know how you managed to get yourself into this one?"He asks her mildly moving to stand beside her on a rock that slowly rose from the ground crossing his arms and standing there completely relaxed a smirk on his face as he took in the sight of her hanging there upside down by a rope wrapped around her ankle tied to a thick tree branch of the closest tree her broken sandal lying on the ground marking where she had stepped and gotten caught in a trap.
The trap was set off by her stepping into it and she was swung upwards by her ankle her sandal's strap letting go from the force of it and dropping to the ground leaving her tied up with no way of getting down and her only choice to hang out until help arrived. Literally! "Shut it Naru." Mai growls at him angrily crossing her arms again glaring at him with her blue eyes. "I didn't say anything." He comments still smirking at the sight of her strung up like that. "You don't have to your face says it all now hurry up and get me down already my ankle is killing me." She growls.
"Alright alright give me a minute." Naru pulls out a pocket knife and reaches up grabbing the rope that held her and began to saw at it with the knife. "Why didn't you just use your claws or your fangs to get yourself down?" He asks as he sawed away at the rope. "I tried but it was a lot harder to do that in this position then I thought it would be I couldn't get myself free that's why I called you." She says with a sigh rubbing her human ears her fox ones still out as well. Having to sets of ears seemed confusing but one set processed human sounds such as speech and the other set processed other kinds of sounds and tended to pick up on danger better then her human ears.
She gave a sudden yelp as the rope finally let go sending her crashing to the ground with a heavy thud. She groaned rubbing her head now as she tried to register that she was no longer hanging upside down in the air but now back on solid ground. Naru knelt beside her pulling the rope away from her ankle before helping her to sit up."You okay?"He asks actually sounding somewhat concerned. "Yeah I'm just waiting for the world to stop spinning." She comments slowly sitting up right shaking her head as the spinning finally stopped.
"Thanks by the way. For getting me down." She says giving him a grateful smile and then a quick kiss on the cheek in thanks. He seemed to shrug off her thanks and her kiss just commenting in return. "Come on let's get back to the base shall we?"He says turning away from her but she couldn't help but smile at seeing the red tips of his ears peeking out from his dark hair. Climbing to her feet she snatched up her broken sandal removing her other one so she had bare feet.
"Alright. Let's go."She grabbed his hand as they walked back out of the forest giving a soft giggle at the sight of his red ears. Even if she never lived this down she was glad she had gotten stuck like that it gave her a chance to see this rather cute side of Naru. "So find out anything interesting while I was hanging out in that tree?" She asks with a grin. "As a matter of fact yes I did." He says regaining his composure and launching into a description of the history of the building they were investigating laving Mai to listen with a smile as they walked hand in hand back to the base.