Luella stared at the scene before her.

Her son, Noll, was holding a baby with his skin and hair in one arm, a bottle with the other. Standing slightly in front of him with an arm extended to block the two behind her and an expression that was colder than her sons's famous glare was a girl with short brown hair and brown eyes that matches the eyes in the baby's head.

"Naru do you know these people?" Her voice was light and hard and she was so perfect!

"Mai it's okay! These are really good friends of mine!" And with those words the protective woman was gone and in her place stood the perfect woman.

"Oh well then I guess I should make some tea then huh? Would you like some more Naru?" Her son nodded.

"Mai I need you to take Oliver as well." Mai walked over to her boos and took her son from him, smiling as Oliver screwed his face up and reached for the bottle.

"Now now Oliver there's no more left! Why don't we go play drums in the kitchen?" And with that the two were gone. Oliver Davis stared at his parents.

"Why don't we take this to the office? Madoka stay with Mai. Tell her we were called to the case."

~x-X-x~

"Oh Noll he is absolutely beautiful!" Luella squealed as they left the hotel room. "Why did you name him Oliver though? And why did that nice girl look like she was about to cut us apart? Speaking of nice girl why didn't you tell us you got a girl pregnant?!"

Naru sighed and squeezed the bridge of his nose.

"I have not inseminated Mai mother. He is not my son and I did not name him. We are working a very dangerous case and Mai was preparing to use the nine cuts on you." He answered the questions in order before turning to face Lin and glare at him.

"Well then why did you hire a pregnant assistant? I taught you better than that Noll. And how do you explain the fact that you two are living together?" Martin was quick to fire the questions at his son, trying to figure out what was going on. After all, a good investigator needed facts.

"Oliver is not Mai's son either. Her school is doing a hands on project called the Baby Project. Oliver was the child she was assigned. The same day her apartment building was burned down. I couldn't let her and a six month old live on the street." And with that there was no more questions.

~x-X-x~

"Madoka-san? Where did everyone go?" Mai was so confused. She had just made a full pot of tea. Oliver banged on his pot as the two woman settled down at the table.

"Oh well Naru and Lin were called back to the case and went to drop the others off at the office to look over the files for the case." Mai nodded slowly, reaching for the notebook she had begun to fill with thoughts last night.

"I have feeling that you're not telling me everything. I really think that those two have more in common with Naru than you. That woman kept staring at him and barely glanced at you. Also that man looked like he had never seen a baby before." The pink haired woman stared at her. Why did her student keep insulting this girls intelligence? She was very observational.

"Damn those are some good instincts. Tell you what Mai, if you can figure it out before they tell you then I'll convince Naru to give you a pay raise and a weekend off so we can go shopping for stuff okay?" And as the girls face lite up Madoka couldn't help but think that soon Noll's lies were going to catch up with him.

"Thank you very mu-" Mai let out a gasp before she began to fall sideways out of her chair. Her vision began to go black and as she made contact with the floor a familiar face popped into view.

~x-X-x~

Masako was annoyed. Naru had been spending most of the case ignoring her. She had thought that with Mai occupied with the baby on this case that she would finally have a chance to figure out why she felt a sense of dread coming from Naru.

"What does he see in her an-" She was cut off by a hand roughly grabbing her upper arm. It was then that her senses kicked into over drive. A blinding cold raced through her nerve endings a voice after voice screamed for her to run. The smell of blood, fresh blood was strong in her nose and she could taste death on her tongue. Her fears were confirmed however when she looked down to see a rotten hand clamped on her arm.

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

And here's the next chapter! The next one is already written and will be posted shortly!