Yes, I decided to make a sequel. Three shots should be sufficient. Much like the first chapter, this story will never happen. Just crack, gag and drama.

Morbid Curiosity

Black is okay.

Time had passed since the black chapter in Naru's short life (of course he believed that he'd live much longer than a certain idiot he could think of), and they'd accepted a rather peculiar case.

The setting was an haunted newly yet-to-be opened major women's clothing store in the Shinjuku district. The three women were all too excited about the case, as they had been promised free clothing pieces if their team solved the mystery. The men were offered free coupons for their respective girlfriends or partners, which they (sadly?) hadn't. However, Naru continued to hammer on the fact that the women shouldn't be slacking off (or sleeping in Mai's case) just because they'd get their freebies if the SPR managed to solve the case. It went smoothly so to say.

Mai thought only Lin was present who was at the very other side of the base room, as the others were busy investigating the basement of the store, and discussed the fashion sense of her friends in her mind.

"I wonder why he wears black clothes," Mai prompted sleepily, her head was buried in her arms on the table.

"What are you talking about?"

Naru was standing behind her, his cold blue eyes looking down on her. Crap, she got caught!

"N-nothing! And I didn't fall asleep, I swear!" She waved her arms around desperately.

"I see," he narrowed his eyes slightly before saying any more. "It should be obvious why I wear black."

"...because you're mourning..?" Mai said quietly.

"No, because I look good in it, Taniyama-san," there was sarcasm in his voice, but the fact was indeed that the 'mourning' had in fact stopped by the time Gene pulled that ridiculous prank on him. She didn't realize that of course.

"But that doesn't make any sense at all!" The girl said all of sudden, ignoring the sarcastic remark.

"..." He continued looking down on her, now with a 'what the hell are you talking about?!'-face.

"I, I mean," then she got up to whisper in his ear. "Gene wears exactly the same black clothes."

"..." Naru didn't know that. Well, it sort of made sense, and yet...

She continued to whisper. "He can't be mourning for himself, right?" After all, Gene didn't have such a big ego like the person standing in front of her.

"Hmm.." A contrived smirk crossed on his face. Then Naru walked away. Mai raised an eyebrow, and then went back to whatever she was doing. When the case was about to be solved, Naru ordered the SPR team to perform an exorcism and then pull out quickly. They didn't realize their boss had scooted away soon after, until they were done bringing the equipment back to Lin's van.

"Are you sure he's not with the store owner to pick up the freebies?" Matsuzaki asked Yasuhara.

"She said she hadn't seen him at all."

"How strange. Until now Naru always sticked with us until the end, but he sneaked out when the exorcism was about to begin..." Mai wondered where he could be, especially in a women's clothing store!

"Do you suppose he got lost somewhere?" Takigawa snickered.

"Who got lost?" A voice behind him said.

"Ah! Naru-bou, where have you been?"

"Picking up your deserving rewards," Naru smirked and flashed a set of coupons. The girls happily took the coupons. John kindly refused the offer, while Yasuhara gladly accepted his for Takigawa who had goosebumps all over. Lin didn't say anything of course. Needless to say, they quickly forgot about their boss's sudden absence and reappearance.

Then a week later they accepted another case, in an abandoned haunted house with no windows. On the first day Mai already fell asleep, and for once Naru didn't bash her head over it, as he had been doing ever since his highly traumatic experience of the possessed part-time worker.

Mai woke up. Screaming. Everyone was worried, but she refused to tell anyone the details, no matter how much they pushed her to spill it. All she said was 'It didn't have anything to do with the case.'. Naru knew what it was about and didn't say anything to her, he smirked to himself.

Then when they had a moment to themselves, she came up to him.

"Naru, it's about Gene," her eyes were vacant and there was sweat on her face.

"What is it," he said, glancing at her from the side.

"...I believe I told you, that he wore black just like you, last week remember."

"And?"

"When I got 'there', he didn't show up until..." She paused, her eyes began to water. "I guess, he seemed pretty embarrassed about... well, what he is wearing now."

"...you don't mean," he held his fingers to his chin, as if realizing something.

"Naru.." Mai gulped.

Then he got up, and stood in front of her. He comfortably rested his hands on her shoulders. His face was one of the most serious she'd ever seen from him.

"Mai, I hate to break this to you, but..." Then he briefly looked away, as if making sure that nobody was listening in on them. "One of Gene's secret hobbies was in fact..."

He made an overly dramatic pause.

"Cross-dressing."

"No. It can't be," her voice was weak. She shed a tear and looked down. It was drama all over.

Naru went to sit down again, and contently smirked to himself. The girl ignored him altogether from shock. "It can't be, I never imagined.. he almost seemed like the perfect guy," Mai mumbled, lost in her thoughts. A perfectly dead guy, Naru thought, the taste of victory was glorious.

"...and he was so pretty looking too," she added.

"Of course he was pretty." 'I chose the clothes!'

"He must have felt happier if he was a girl."

Naru's memory of a possessed Mai flashed through his mind, and his mood dropped dramatically. 'Yes, I bet he really enjoyed being in your body!'

"Sure enough. Now get me some tea..." He stopped smirking immediately. "...please."

Mai was too horrified at the revelation to notice the smirks, the various mood and temperature drops... and ran out to pour some tea, for the two of them.

Somewhere in the darkness, a dark-haired young man, donned in an outrageously feminine clothing, viciously watched the exchange that took place. It didn't take long until Naru came in touch with the reflection of his cup of tea that instantly recovered the set of black clothes Gene had worn before. He had been avoiding mirrors since the exorcism of the previous case and other reflective surfaces during the current case so far, which wasn't that hard due to the lack of windows and mirrors. If anything, it was too late for Gene, as he knew that facing Mai would never be the same again and the last of his ego had been shredded to pieces.

However, both twin brothers diligently hoped that Taniyama Mai would never discover what they had managed to trick her.