Chapter 2: ANNOUCEMENT!

The SPR Gang was busy chatting with each other when Mai came out of Naru's office shutting the door with a loud BAM! Well, it's not new to them. It happens every day. Houshou chuckled and asked Mai. "Still hasn't said that two words, ne?"

"He is an absolute idiot!" she blurted out. As she sat on the couch next to Houshou, she continued her rants about his boss/boyfriend. "His highness wants tea all the time and still don't know how to say thank you! In my own opinion, he will not be a good king. If ever he would be a king having that kind of manners!" she huffed and pouted her lips in annoyance.

Houshou pulled Mai into a bear hug. "Ah Jou-chan! Don't worry about Naru, I am still here!"

Whack!

"You pervert monk!" Ayako said angrily while still clutching her purse, readying itself to make another attack.

John put his left hand on his forehead. "Here it goes." he said with an amused tone. Masako chuckled at his boyfriend's expression.

"Hey old hag, don't break that purse using my head!" Houshou shouted. "That's my engagement gift to you!"

Mai's eyes widened. John smiled and Masako giggled. Lin hurriedly went out of his room to join the "mob" and Naru opened the door to his cave. Upon realizing his statement, Houshou grinned while Ayako' s face gave a ten shades of red.

"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Mai reacted. "Engaged? The two of you?"

Ayako nodded. "Just this morning."

Mai's jaw dropped to the floor. She looked at Ayako's left hand. There was no ring. "Where's the ring?" she whispered when she regained her jaw from the floor.

Houshou scratched his head. "Hehe. I still don't have the money to buy an engagement ring. So I just bought a purse first. She liked it though."

Whack!

"Stop assuming you pervert monk! I didn't say that I like it baka!" she said while smiling.

"But you are using it right now." the monk said innocently.

And before things can get worse (before Bou-san died of internal bleeding), Mai spoke and said happily, "Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!" John said, his eyes twinkling. So did Masako and Lin who leaned on the door frame of his office. Someone cleared his throat. They all turned to see Naru looking at Bou-san with a glare.

Everyone hushed. Then Naru spoke. "Congratulations Bou-san, Ayako."

Mai smiled and stood up to go to her boyfriend. She hugged him and said, "Very nice, Naru."

"Shut up, Mai." He retorted back. Mai giggled. She stopped hugging Naru and turned to go back to the sit she just vacated when Naru wrapped his arms on his waist and hugged her from behind. She smiled and her face suddenly turned into a tomato.

Bou-san smile widen and he turned to kiss Ayako' s right cheek.

Whack!

John and Lin laughed at this scene. Ayako was blushing heavily. Masako grinned and said naughtily, "You two are getting married yet still acting like kids." then she covered her mouth with the sleeves of her kimono to hide her smirk.

Ayako was about to retort back when Naru cleared his throat. "May I remind you again that this is an office and not a coffee shop?"

Everyone just giggled. Just then, the bell rang and door to the main office was opened by Yasuhara and Madoka.

"Surprise!" the new comers said jubilantly.

Naru, who was still hugging Mai, huffed angrily. "Crap."

Madoka looked at Naru and Mai. "Still got that attitude towards ME Naru?" she asked teasingly.

"Yes. You are annoying." he said as a matter-of-fact.

Mai giggled. Madoka rolled her eyes. She chose not to argue with Naru anymore because she was too curious on the noise that came from the room before they entered. Yasuhara sat beside Bou-san and Madoka turned to Lin to give him a smile. Lin nodded in acknowledgement. Everyone saw this and tried to suppress their giggles aside from, of course, Naru.

Madoka turned back to the group. She went to Mai's desk to lean on it. "SO… what was that noise before we entered? Did we miss something?" she asked, eyes twinkling.

Yasuhara adjusted his eye glasses. "Something fishy."

No one spoke for a minute. After a while, Mai took the "responsibility" of letting the cat out of the bag. "Well, you see, before you came, Bou-san and Ayako were just arguing when at the middle of it, they revealed that they are going to get married."

Madoka and Yasuhara just stared at the couple for a while. Naru tried to hide his smirk. "What is so surprising about it?" he thought.

Bou-san sat there, smiling happily while Ayako was emitting that "red" aura. Madoka broke the silence by saying an ear piercing "CONGRATULATIONS!"

Yasuhara smiled but suddenly went serious. He put his hand to his heart as if he was hurt. "Why Bou-san? You prefer her than me?" He said dramatically.

"Ugh. Stop it Osamu! It's really creepy." Bou-san replied with a stop-it-because-it-is-yucky voice.

Yasuhara continued with his drama. "But why Bou-san? Why? I gave you everything I had. My money, my cell phone, even my… you know… Still… Why?"

Everyone laughed except for Naru. Even Lin is laughing now. After those all the years that they had spent together, surely these people changed him, especially this girl with an auburn hair called Mori Madoka.

Everyone was still laughing when the bell rang. The laughing abruptly stopped when the bell rang the second time. "Well. I guess I have to get it." She looked at Naru and reluctantly, he released her. Everyone watched her as she goes to the door. Naru leaned at the door frame while watching Mai. "She's lovely." he thought while smiling to his self. But Yasuhara was very quick; he saw it and turned to tease Naru.

"Hey Big boss," he called out, "So in love with Mai-chan, ne?" he teased Naru.

Naru glared at him. The whole gang froze.

"That wasn't a good thing to say Yasuhara." Bou-san said nervously.

With Mai

She went to the door to open it up. As she opens it, she said the usual greeting. "Good morning! How may I-" she stopped abruptly when she saw who the potential client is.

"Mai-chan?" the client asked. The client was a boy around twenty years old, brown haired, who has a "baby face" (like John) and he has a bewildered expression.

"To- Toranuseke?" she stuttered.