I think the story's going to be on a slow pace since there's so much to write about it. Anyway, I think I might go OOC on Naru since he's kind a pretty difficult to write.

I forgot on the first chapter that I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT.

Anyway enjoy!

Chapter 2: The So-Called Apartment

After Mai was done cleaning the house and washing the dishes she was now ready to take a shower, but there was a problem. Her clothes were inside the room and she was too shy, no not shy, she was too scared to enter. 'I'll have to face him sooner or later' she thought. Gathering all her courage, she took a deep breath and knocked. "Yes?" she heard. She opened the door and found him reading her.. "That's my journal!" she announced. "Yes, I can see that. Your writing skills are far behind for your age, do you even go to school?" he told her. She was insulted but she kept it inside. "For your information, I do go to school everyday" she argued.

"It doesn't show"

'He's lucky he's injured!' she thought angrily.

"Why are you here anyway?" he asked again.

"Oh, I just need to get some clothes for work" she told him as she took out some clothes in the small cabinet. He just looked at her which made her feel so annoyed.

"I'll be back around lunch" she said and left.

When he heard the door outside closed, he tried getting up but found it difficult since both of his legs were injured. He sucked up all the pain and went outside the room. Outside the bedroom was a small room, maybe 2 or 3 feet wider than the bedroom. The kitchen was right next to the main door, and on the left was a small shelf and small tv with an old couch in front of it. On the right wall was a door that leads to the bathroom, and a small table for eating. 'How can people live in a place like this?' he thought. He made his way to do kitchen to look for food but found everything was empty except for a ketchup and mustard. 'She doesn't even have food.'

He made his way to the living room and opened the tv. It was blurry and he can't even make out the people. He looked at the shelf and found a book titled French for Beginners. 'So she's trying to learn French?' he thought again. After a couple of hours surveying the apartment, he found himself bored. He wanted to go out but he found that the apartment was on the sixth floor and there was no elevator. "I thought I was lucky enough" he muttered. He looked down at a small window and found her carrying a plastic bag. 'Food, probably.'

He waited for her to get up and cook whatever she brought at the old couch. When she entered he saw her sweaty and tired. "I'm sorry, I'm late. How's your legs?" she asked him. She went to the kitchen and boiled water for the food and tea. "I only got us a cup of ramen, if you don't mind" she warned him. She lived off of ramen, that was the only food that she can afford. After preparing the food, she helped him towards the small kotatsu and served it to him with a cup of tea on the side. "That's yellow gold tea buds" she told him. "I get that for free from the café where I work" she added. He only nodded in reply.

"So, what's your name?" she asked him before taking a chopstick full of noodles.

"Shibuya Kazuya" he plainly answered and took another sip of tea.

"Nice to meet you then" she smiled but she got ignored, 'What a narcissistic jerk!' she thought.

Kazuya went back to the room since it was far more interesting than the main room and he was pretty much annoyed by the girl. Mai kept on talking and talking and talking. She also kept asking questions. 'Idiot' he thought. But he did find out something about her. How she works 3 jobs almost everyday and about what happened to her adoptive parents. Mai knocked on the door, interrupting his peace of silence. "What!" he annoyingly answered. She opened the door and retorted, "you could be a little bit nicer, you know. Anyway, I'm going out to get food for dinner" she told him and left. 'Great! More ramen!' he thought. He decided to take a nap and pass the time since there was nothing much he could do.

After staying in Mai's so-called apartment for almost a month, his legs were now almost healed and ready to go. But he for some unknown reason, he didn't want to leave the brown haired girl alone. She had even given him a nickname based on his personality. 'Naru' was what she called him based on his narcissistic side. He tried helping out around the house but she was just too kind to let him. She kept telling him that he shouldn't move around too much for his legs or something along those lines. But he does clean the house on some occasions. He even met some her friends, one was a monk named Takigawa Hosho but Mai calls him Bou-san, the other was a so-called miko named Matsuzaki Ayako. He found them very annoying but entertaining sometimes. They even offered him a job to work as a janitor at a hospital but he plainly answered, "People like me are not fit for those kind of job." He earned a little hit on the head for that from Mai.

The apartment annoyed him the most, everything was so old, maybe older than he was. He then decided to buy some furniture and appliances with his money. When Mai found out, she was utterly mad at him for spending a great amount of money on useless things. She didn't even talk to him for almost a week for that. Slowly but progressively, he was enjoying her presence but being him, he never showed it.

One day, someone knocked on the door while Mai was at school. He wanted to ignore it but the knocking became louder and louder. So he opened the door and he was about to shout at whoever was doing it when he saw the landlady.

"Tell Taniyama Mai that she's 2 months late on her rent. If she doesn't pay by today, start packing up!" the old black haired woman warned him. He closed the door and thought about. 'Mai's been working almost everyday, and I know that she has enough money to pay for the rent' he thought. He went to the living room and sat down, he decided to ask Mai later when she gets home. Getting bored, he took the French book from the shelf, but something fell. There was a thick envelope hidden behind it. He opened it and found most of the money that she gets from her work. He turned the envelope and found her handwriting. It said "money for France." 'She's saving money to go France? But why?' he thought. He then heard a gasp coming from the door, when he turned he saw Mai staring at him and the envelope.

So what do you think? What will Mai say to him? Is there going to be a fight? What will happen?

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Chapter 3: Mai's Family History and a Boy Named Gene